Aligning Stakeholder Interests Governance Requirements and Blockchain Design in Business and Government Information Sharing

A Methodological Approach for Development and Deployment of Data Sharing in Complex Organizational Supply and Logistics Networks with Blockchain Technology

Each manufacturer, supplier, and retailer has its own chain of collaborating stakeholders to meet their customer demands. Many perspectives can be taken like food safety, security, and sustainability, which may each lead to separate solutions that are not necessarily interoperable with each other. Data can only be shared within the context of...

Applying blockchain technology for situational awareness in logistics: An example from rail

Improved situational awareness, also known as supply chain visibility, contributes to better decisions with the ability to synchronize processes and reduce costs. It requires data sharing of for instance positions and Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) of transport means. Blockchain technology could be a means to support data sharing, due to its...

The Applicability of Blockchain Technology in the Mobility and Logistics Domain

Blockchain technology in the last 3–4 years has attracted a great deal of attention due to its potential for the disruption various sectors of the economy including the financial sector, and more recently the mobility and logistics domain. The technology, which was developed as the foundation for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, has developed much...

ICN4blockchain: efficient blockchain acces via information-centric networking

Blockchains or blockchain technology (BCT) are technologies based on peer-to-peer cryptographic functions in a fully distributed architecture. The scalability of blockchains is threatened by the suboptimality of its data exchange model, due to the fact that most data is exchanged redundantly many times. Blockchain scalability is a widely...

Applying blockchain technology for hyperconnected logistics

Blockchain technology receives a lot of interest and investments the last three years. It promises a trusted environment for (un)permissioned data sharing. With respect to logistics, enterprises and authorities can (near) real time share state information. Whenever a stakeholder changes the state of one or more objects like discharging a...