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14 papers
A Taxonomy of Real-World Asset Tokenization for Blockchain-Based Financial Infrastructure
Giorgio Vella, Luca Pennella, Mark C. Ballandies
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization has emerged as a prominent application of blockchain technology, enabling off-chain financial and non-financial assets to be represented through…
DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI: A new paradigm for human-machine collaboration
Mark C. Ballandies, Florian Spychiger, Uwe Serdült +1
We propose DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI (DePAI), a democratic architecture for coordinating humans and autonomous machines in the operation and governance of physical-digi…
Calibrating Attribution Proxies for Reward Allocation in Participatory Weather Sensing
Mark C. Ballandies, Michael T. C. Chiu, Claudio J. Tessone
Large-scale IoT weather sensing networks require incentive mechanisms to sustain participation, yet determining how much value individual data contributions bring to the network re…
Bitcoin, a DAO?
Mark C. Ballandies, Guangyao Li, Claudio J. Tessone
This paper investigates whether Bitcoin can be regarded as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), what insights it may offer for the broader DAO ecosystem, and how Bitcoin…
Are you a DePIN? A Decision Tree to Classify Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks
Michael S. Andrew, Mark C. Ballandies
Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) are an emerging vertical within "Web3" replacing the traditional method that physical infrastructures are constructed. Yet,…
DAOs of Collective Intelligence? Unraveling the Complexity of Blockchain Governance in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Mark C. Ballandies, Dino Carpentras, Evangelos Pournaras
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have transformed organizational structures by shifting from traditional hierarchical control to decentralized approaches, leveraging b…
DePIN: A Framework for Token-Incentivized Participatory Sensing
Michael T. C. Chiu, Sachit Mahajan, Mark C. Ballandies +1
There is always demand for integrating data into microeconomic decision making. Participatory sensing deals with how real-world data may be extracted with stakeholder participation…
A Taxonomy for Blockchain-based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)
Mark C. Ballandies, Hongyang Wang, Andrew Chung Chee Law +3
As digitalization and technological advancements continue to shape the infrastructure landscape, the emergence of blockchain-based decentralized physical infrastructure networks (D…
Collective Privacy Recovery: Data-sharing Coordination via Decentralized Artificial Intelligence
Evangelos Pournaras, Mark Christopher Ballandies, Stefano Bennati +1
Collective privacy loss becomes a colossal problem, an emergency for personal freedoms and democracy. But, are we prepared to handle personal data as scarce resource and collective…
To incentivize or not: Impact of blockchain-based cryptoeconomic tokens on human information sharing behavior
Mark Christopher Ballandies
Cryptoeconomic incentives in the form of blockchain-based tokens are seen as an enabler of the sharing economy that could shift society towards greater sustainability. Nevertheless…
Constructing Effective Customer Feedback Systems -- A Design Science Study Leveraging Blockchain Technology
Mark C. Ballandies, Valentin Holzwarth, Barry Sunderland +2
Organizations have to adjust to changes in the ecosystem, and customer feedback systems (CFS) provide important information to adapt products and services to changing customer pref…
Finance 4.0: Design principles for a value-sensitive cryptoecnomic system to address sustainability
Mark C. Ballandies, Marcus M. Dapp, Benjamin A. Degenhart +1
Cryptoeconomic systems derive their power but can not be controlled by the underlying software systems and the rules they enshrine. This adds a level of complexity to the software…
Mobile Link Prediction: Automated Creation and Crowd-sourced Validation of Knowledge Graphs
Mark Christopher Ballandies, Evangelos Pournaras
Building trustworthy knowledge graphs for cyber-physical social systems (CPSS) is a challenge. In particular, current approaches relying on human experts have limited scalability,…
Decrypting Distributed Ledger Design -- Taxonomy, Classification and Blockchain Community Evaluation
Mark C. Ballandies, Marcus M. Dapp, Evangelos Pournaras
More than 1000 distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems raising $600 billion in investment in 2016 feature the unprecedented and disruptive potential of blockchain technology. A…