Due to the open and dynamic nature of blockchain systems, the participants (users and miners) have to take into accounts uncertain constraints (e.g., the transaction confirmation times, the delays in the network, and the topology of the network) …
Bitcoin-like blockchains do not envisage any specific mechanism to avoid unfairness for the users. Hence, unfair situations, like impossibility of cancellation of transactions explicitly or having unconfirmed transactions, reduce the satisfaction of …
While current Bitcoin literature mainly focuses on miner behaviors, little has been done to analyze user participation. Because Bitcoins users do not benefit from any incentive, their participation in the system is conditional upon system ability to …
Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is one of the safety analysis methods recommended by most of the international standards. The classical FMECA is made in a form of a table filled in either manually or by using safety analysis …
Correct knowledge of the effective connectivity at the synaptic level in humans is a key prerequisite for increasing our understanding of the operation of the human central nervous system. Unfortunately, none of the current ambitious collaborative …