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State of the Art in Open Platforms for Collaborative Urban Design and Sharing of Resources in Districts and Cities
2021
Sustainability
The case of peer-to-peer trading platforms applied in the energy sector is then used to illustrate how sharing economy concepts and their enabling technologies can accelerate efforts towards more sustainable ...
Scaling these sharing economy platforms up to the city scale and beyond has the potential to provide a number of positive environment impacts. ...
Many have envisioned a future with prosumer-based, decentralised electricity markets, where there is a requirement for a system that that can manage and settle prosumer transactions from thousands, or ...
doi:10.3390/su13094875
doaj:4b10e8c41d7d45d384a86b143220a88f
fatcat:bycfbtglmjehzbwgswyzjnqhkm
Support for virtual organisation creation – partners' profiles and competency management
2009
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
The contributions of the work are the definition of competency and profile-related terms, the description of competency structures and an architecture of a competency and profiles management system, as ...
A promising way to cooperate and keep their independence is the formation of semipermanent collaborative networks, which facilitate Virtual Organisation (VO) creation and management. ...
The Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. ...
doi:10.1504/ijaose.2009.023638
fatcat:mkzss7kcdfcqjk7vdaouqyitha
Privacy architectures in social networks' state-of-the-art survey
2015
International Journal of Information Privacy Security and Integrity
Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. ...
P2P architecture is used in the Matryoshka structure, and cloud-based P2P architecture is used in Contrail. ...
', 'managing employees or suppliers' or managing other stakeholders interact with the system. ...
doi:10.1504/ijipsi.2015.075438
fatcat:fzmqfac2jffqxc7t75onb6puiq
Blockchain, health disparities and global health
2021
BMJ Innovations
Blockchain technology is a novel, distributed peer-to-peer ledger technology that uses unique, immutable and time-stamped blocks of records or sets of data that are linked as chains through cryptography ...
Health disparities remain vast around the world and are perpetuated by error-prone information technology systems, administrative inefficiencies and wasteful global health spending. ...
It uses a decentralised, distributed ledger to establish peer-to-peer Review (P2P) or business-to-business networks with endto-end encryption (figure 1). ...
doi:10.1136/bmjinnov-2021-000667
fatcat:gqftlpmp4nac5beysud7m5zbhq
Social and Economic Value in Emerging Decentralized Energy Business Models: A Critical Review
2021
Energies
Firstly, it offers a synthesis of research on the social and economic value of P2P, CSC and TE systems, concluding that there is evidence for a variety of sources of social value (including energy independence ...
In recent years, numerous studies have explored the opportunities and challenges for emerging decentralized energy systems and business models. ...
management challenges. ...
doi:10.3390/en14237864
fatcat:jnxevdgabref5ijxmqbwvoamcm
Digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions in Africa: assessing the impact of policy and regulatory environments on the energy sector in Nigeria and South Africa
2021
Energy, Sustainability and Society
The current applications as exemplified in the use cases by the three companies covered in this study indicates that Africa's sustainable energy transition is in a rudimentary or early adoption stage, ...
A qualitative methodological approach was done in three stages—a document analysis that reviewed relevant literature on the energy sector policies in Nigeria and South Africa; the next step involved a ...
Acknowledgements The researcher acknowledges the revision and feedback from Dr. Christina Phillips of Liverpool John Moores University. ...
doi:10.1186/s13705-021-00325-1
fatcat:bc4vwxscnrdplc7ft3sucyce3y
The key role of aggregators in the energy transition under the latest European regulatory framework
2022
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
A B S T R A C T Future energy systems are reliant on the expansion and management of low-carbon technologies in order to reach climate goals. ...
The latest European framework assigns aggregators a fundamental role in energy market liberalisation and DER integration towards carbon-neutral energy systems. ...
Therefore, aggregators will likely play a part in future energy system operation. (2) The distributed communication control scheme for DER management is advantageous over mere centralised or decentralised ...
doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107361
fatcat:fn5tysc6rbekxcyyco2b553ct4
A Framework for Web Science
2006
Foundations and Trends® in Web Science
These questions and approaches together set out an agenda for Web Science, the science of decentralised information systems. ...
Finally, the Web as a technology is essentially socially embedded; therefore various issues and requirements for Web use and governance are also reviewed. ...
We also thank the US National Science Foundation for their support of work in the Policy Aware Web and Transparent Accountable Datamining Initiative. ...
doi:10.1561/1800000001
fatcat:ref26ejozzhsxbaw32xckem2ca
Observing the clouds: a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring
2014
Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications
Monitoring is an important aspect of designing and maintaining large-scale systems. ...
There are a wide range of monitoring tools originating from cluster and high-performance computing, grid computing and enterprise computing, as well as a series of newer bespoke tools, which have been ...
A new and diverse class of monitoring system makes use of peer to peer concepts to perform fully decentralised data collection. ...
doi:10.1186/s13677-014-0024-2
fatcat:r3uio2ucbzdu7ikl5ahtzbv7hy
The Relation between Tokens and Blockchain Networks: The Case of Medical Tourism in the Republic of Moldova
2020
The Journal of British Blockchain Association
We find that non-monetary and non-financial use cases perform better than cryptocurrencies, and online coverage is a poor predictor of success. ...
The relation between blockchain tokens and the underlying networks as a determinant of success of use cases in the blockchain space is an insuffciently explored issue in the literature. ...
MedRec is a decentralised EHR management system [69] . EHRs are signed digitally, thereby ensuring the existence of an unaltered copy. ...
doi:10.31585/jbba-4-1-(2)2021
fatcat:2crbgg5c3vh5rmu3lgf3oqglma
Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution
2017
Social Science Research Network
In a P2P network, each computer or user is called a "node" and collectively they comprise a P2P network of nodes. ...
Interplanetary File System is a protocol designed to create a permanent and decentralised method of storing and sharing files. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2939127
fatcat:7jvxzzixazf77hpevogzuuwtn4
Storage Tradeoffs in a Collaborative Backup Service for Mobile Devices
2006
2006 Sixth European Dependable Computing Conference
b) P2P file system A generation of P2P applications uses the promising DHT-based overlay networks. ...
Of course, similar techniques are used by revision control systems [26] or network file systems [29] . ...
par rapport à k [12] . ...
doi:10.1109/edcc.2006.26
dblp:conf/edcc/CourtesKP06
fatcat:tcpc3n54zfblpi6pcflna7dgfy
Access control for local personal smart spaces
2015
2015 Information Security for South Africa (ISSA)
Access control is dependent on a number of system factors for its operation and is enforced in both centralised and decentralised system. ...
Each node is responsible for managing its own interactions with other nodes. In a p2p environment a node is therefore both a server and client when needed (Pandurangan et al., 2003) . ...
doi:10.1109/issa.2015.7335056
dblp:conf/issa/GreavesC15
fatcat:hdyghge7djhnxp2wr4ukcqi2ri
Innovative Business Models to Foster Transition
2018
Zenodo
The objective being to facilitate stakeholders (whether suppliers or consumers of energy) to shape and progressively interact with the energy system to effectively deliver a low-carbon system. ...
., 2018) and public-private partnerships as a means of addressing issues such as public acceptance, split incentives, risk sharing, etc. ...
a meaningful and proactive way. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3479235
fatcat:wyb77rhdvvainivzofidvv2g4m
Teaching Resilience: Enabling Factors for Effective Responses to COVID-19
2021
Student Success
Aside from offering a testing ground for innovative teaching strategies, the pandemic has also provided an opportunity to better understand the pre-existing conditions that enable higher education systems ...
These results show that resilience frameworks developed by previous scholars are relevant to university teaching systems and offer guidance on which system features require protection and strengthening ...
regular fashion Leadership Leaders who recognise barriers and enablers to resilience and seek to manage these proactively
Trust Trust enables people to collaborate effectively in the presence of uncertainty ...
doi:10.5204/ssj.1773
fatcat:pbmviohvuvavbnrshpusqw6pum
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