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Evidence Based Decision Making in Blockchain Economic Systems: From Theory to Practice
Marek Laskowski, Michael Zargham, Hjalmar Turesson +3
We present a methodology for evidence based design of cryptoeconomic systems, and elucidate a real-world example of how this methodology was used in the design of a blockchain netw…
Token Economics in Real-Life: Cryptocurrency and Incentives Design for Insolar Blockchain Network
Henry M. Kim, Marek Laskowski, Michael Zargham +3
The study of how to set up cryptocurrency incentive mechanisms and to operationalize governance is token economics. Given the $250 billion market cap for cryptocurrencies, there is…
A State-Space Modeling Framework for Engineering Blockchain-Enabled Economic Systems
Michael Zargham, Zixuan Zhang, Victor Preciado
Decentralized Ledger Technology, popularized by the Bitcoin network, aims to keep track of a ledger of valid transactions between agents of a virtual economy without a central inst…
Bio-Inspired Framework for Allocation of Protection Resources in Cyber-Physical Networks
Victor M. Preciado, Michael Zargham, Chinwendu Enyioha +5
In this chapter, we consider the problem of designing protection strategies to contain spreading processes in complex cyber-physical networks. We illustrate our ideas using a famil…
Worst-Case Scenarios for Greedy, Centrality-Based Network Protection Strategies
Michael Zargham, Victor M. Preciado
The task of allocating preventative resources to a computer network in order to protect against the spread of viruses is addressed. Virus spreading dynamics are described by a line…
Traffic Control for Network Protection Against Spreading Processes
Victor M. Preciado, Michael Zargham, David Sun
Epidemic outbreaks in human populations are facilitated by the underlying transportation network. We consider strategies for containing a viral spreading process by optimally alloc…