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ParkChain: An IoT Parking Service Based on Blockchain
(IEEE, 2019-08-19)
The IoT ecosystem is evolving quickly, developing several applications in different sectors. The majority of these applications use centralized infrastructures something that poses several challenges especially related to ...
"Educational Robotics: Platforms, Competitions and Expected Learning Outcomes"
(IEEE, 2020-12-04)
Motivated by the recent explosion of interest around Educational Robotics (ER), this paper attempts to re-approach this area by suggesting new ways of thinking and exploring the related concepts. The contribution of the ...
Known Unknowns in an Era of Technological and ViralDisruptions—Implications for Theory,Policy, and Practice
(Springer Verlag, 2021-02-10)
Technology is composed of the words “Techne” and “Logos” that refer to the artistic/
creative and the logical/scientific aspects of its dualism. And so inherent this Promethean
concept lie the concepts of the Schumpeterian ...
Randomblocks: A transparent, verifiable blockchain-based system for random numbers
(Old City Publishing, Inc, 2019)
Games-of-chance require high-levels of trust between participants that is often uncertain and difficult to enforce. The unique characteristics introduced by the blockchain technology can be leveraged to inform a verifiable ...
“IoT Device Firmware Update over LoRa: The Blockchain Solution”
(IEEE, 2020-06-17)
More and more Internet of Things (IoT) devicesare deployed around the world, due to the convenience andextra functionality they enable. This growth, while great forthe industry as a whole, has ...
A distributed, plug-n-play algorithm formulti-robot applications with a priorinon-computable objective functions
(Sage, 2019-05)
This paper presents a distributed algorithm applicable to a wide range of practical multi-robot applications. In such multi-robot applications, the user-defined objectives of the mission can be cast as a general optimization ...
Health Information Exchange with Blockchain amid Covid-19-like Pandemics
(ΙΕΕΕ, 2020-06-17)
The COVID-19 pandemic is stress-testing existing health information exchange systems. There exists an increasing demand for sharing patient information and efficiently responding to patient medial data requests. Current ...
A Decentralized Voting Mechanism: Engaging ERC-20 token holders in decision-making
(IEEE, 2020-07-20)
This paper presents a Blockchain-based voting mechanism that has the potential to disrupt current voting systems and fuel the development of decentralized governance. More specifically, the paper presents a study on the ...
Social Robots in Special Education: Creating Dynamic Interactions for Optimal Experience
(IEEE, 2020-04-02)
Recent research has proved the positive therapeutic impacts of robot interaction with children diagnosed with the autism spectrum condition. Until now, most of the evaluated treatment methods apply one-to-one sessions ...
A fuzzy rule based control system for fast line following robots.
(IEEE, 2020-06-17)
This paper focuses on the optimization of the line-tracking and following control technique used in high speed autonomous movable IoT devices such as line-following robotic vehicles. A fusion of a new pro-active / feed-forward ...