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publications/avital2016jumping.json

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+{
+    "id": "avital2016jumping",
+    "title": "Jumping On The Blockchain Bandwagon",
+    "year": 2016,
+    "type": "article",
+    "sortkey": 20161210,
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Copenhagen Business School",
+            "name": "Michel Avital"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "IT-Universitetet i København",
+            "name": "Roman Back"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University of Michigan",
+            "name": "John Leslie King"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Aalto University",
+            "name": "Matti Rossi"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Handelshögskolan i Stockholm",
+            "name": "Robin Teigland"
+        }
+    ],
+    "url": "http://www.forskningsdatabasen.dk/en/catalog/2349367887",
+    "venue": "Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)",
+    "peer-reviewed": true,
+    "abstract": "The panel focuses on blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. The topic has drawn much attention recently in both business and academic circles. The blockchain is a distributed, immutable digital record system that is shared among many independent parties and can be updated only by their consensus. If unbiased and incorruptible blockchain-based information systems become prevalent repositories of our records, trusting other humans with constructing and maintaining key records to define the resources at our disposal could become unnecessary. In principle, blockchain could provide a decentralized information infrastructure that no one fully controls, thereby no one has absolute power and no one can distort past or current records. The full potential let alone implications of blockchain is still unknown. The panel explores blockchain challenges and opportunities from the IS research perspective. "
+}

publications/beck2016gateway.json

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+{
+    "id": "beck2016gateway",
+    "title": "Blockchain – The Gateway To Trust-Free Cryptographic Transactions",
+    "authors": [
+	{"name": "Roman Beck", "affiliation": "IT University of Copenhagen"},
+	{"name": "Jacob Stenum Czepluch", "affiliation": "IT University of Copenhagen"},
+	{"name": "Nikolay Lollike", "affiliation": "IT University of Copenhagen"},
+	{"name": "Simone Malone", "affiliation": "IT University of Copenhagen"}
+    ],
+    "year": 2016,
+    "peer-reviewed": true,
+    "venue": "European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)",
+    "url": "http://inpluslab.sysu.edu.cn/files/Paper/Summary/Blockchain_The_Gateway_To_Trust_Free_Cryptographic_Transactions.pdf",
+    "abstract": "Recently, the Bitcoin-underlying blockchain technology gained prominence as a solution that offers the realization of distributed trust-free systems, where economic transactions are guaranteed by the underlying blockchain. We are still at an early stage and thus require a deeper understanding of how the blockchain potentials can be realized, and what are the opportunities and challenges in so doing. Following a design science approach, we developed a proof of concept prototype that has the potential to replace a trust-based coffee shop payment solution that is based on an analogue, pre-paid punch card solution. The demonstrator provides a starting point to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the blockchain technology when replacing a trust-based by a trust-free transaction system. We conclude that the secure and trust-free blockchain-based transaction has the potential to change many existing trust-based transaction systems, but that scalability issues, costs, and volatility in the transaction currency are hindrances.",
+    "type": "inproceedings",
+    "sort-key": 20161210
+}

publications/fadhillocality.json

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+{
+    "id": "fadhillocality",
+    "title": "Locality Based Approach To Improve Propagation Delay On The Bitcoin Peer-To-Peer Network",
+    "year": 2016,
+    "type": "article",
+    "sortkey": 20161210,
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University of Portsmouth",
+            "name": "Muntadher Fadhil"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University of Portsmouth",
+            "name": "Gareth Owenson"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University of Portsmouth",
+            "name": "Mo Adda"
+        }
+    ],
+    "url": "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muntadher_Fadhil/publication/310060336_Locality_Based_Approach_to_Improve_Propagation_Delay_on_the_Bitcoin_Peer-to-Peer_Network/links/5828768f08ae254c50862cea.pdf",
+    "peer-reviewed": false,
+    "abstract": "Scalability in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a complicated issue which prevents the Bitcoin from gaining increasing popularity nowadays. In this paper, we propose a new approach, that is based on how the clusters are formulated and the nodes define their membership, to improve the transaction propagation delay in the Bitcoin network. In this approach, the locality of connectivity in the Bitcoin network is increased by grouping Bitcoin nodes based on their geographical location. Our simulations show that location based-distance better defines clustering structures that optimize the performance of the transaction propagation delay. A key reason for this improvement is mainly due to the reduction of the communication link cost measured by the distance between nodes. Compared to the existing clustering protocol (BCBSN) that we proposed in our previous work, location based clustering is more effective at reducing the transaction propagation delay."
+}

publications/kim2016study.json

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+{
+    "id": "kim2016study",
+    "title": "Study On Rule-Based Data Protection System Using Blockchain In P2P Distributed Networks",
+    "year": 2016,
+    "type": "article",
+    "sortkey": 20161210,
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Sungshin Women’s University",
+            "name": "Kyong Jin Kim"
+        },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Sungshin Women’s University",
+            "name": "Seng Phil Hong"
+        }
+    ],
+    "url": "http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJSIA/vol10_no11_2016/18.pdf",
+    "peer-reviewed": false,
+    "abstract": "The blockchain is new revolutionary paradigm for the world, but the privacy and confidentiality are still issues. This study is focused on the technical securities to provide a blockchain service on a foundation of trust. We suggested the rule-based data protection system that is to provide authorize rules used in mechanism, to control an access users without intermediaries on the blockchain. We have developed a scenario of an application a smart contract based on the suggested system and simulated it."
+}

publications/liu2016medical.json

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+{
+    "id": "liu2016medical",
+    "title": "Medical Record System Using Blockchain, Big Data And Tokenization",
+    "year": 2016,
+    "type": "incollection",
+    "sortkey": 20161210,
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Maximus Consulting Ltd",
+            "name": "Paul Tak Shing Liu"
+        }
+    ],
+    "url": "http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-50011-9_20",
+    "venue": "Information and Communications Security",
+    "peer-reviewed": true,
+    "abstract": "This paper will discuss the major aspects of medical records, blockchain and big data. In turn, it will discuss the advantage and disadvantage of using blockchain on medical records storage and retrieval. It will also discuss the alternatives of using blockchain and big data techniques. Different aspects of medical records will be investigated briefly: (1) integrity, (2) viewing control, (3) viewing approval, (4) western medicine and chinese medicine practice, (5) storage size and duration, (6) deletion and purge, (7) file format conversion, (8) data migration, (9) report interpretation, etc. Characteristics of blockchain and big data analytics will be explored briefly with description. A conclusion will summarize the approaches. References will be provided for further research and investigation."
+}

publications/mercer2016privacy.json

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+{
+    "id": "mercer2016privacy",
+    "title": "Privacy On The Blockchain: Unique Ring Signatures",
+    "year": 2016,
+    "type": "masterthesis",
+    "sortkey": 20161210,
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University College London",
+            "name": "Rebekah Mercer"
+        }
+    ],
+    "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.01188",
+    "peer-reviewed": false,
+    "abstract": "Ring signatures are cryptographic protocols designed to allow any member of a group to produce a signature on behalf of the group, without revealing the individual signer’s identity. This offers group members a level of anonymity not attainable through generic digital signature schemes. We call this property ‘plausible deniability’, or anonymity with respect to an anonymity set. We concentrate in particular on implementing privacy on the blockchain, introducing a unique ring signature scheme that works with existing blockchain systems. We implement a unique ring signature (URS) scheme using secp256k1, creating the first implementation compatible with blockchain libraries in this way, so as for easy implementation as an Ethereum smart contract. We implement a version of Foque and Tibouchi’s Indifferentiable Hashing to Barreto-Naehrig Curves algorithm, in order to fulfil the hashing requirements in the URS scheme. This is the first known time this scheme has been suggested for use in hashing to secp256k1, for use within an URS scheme, or implemented at all. We also produce an implementation of Euler’s Criterion for use within the hashing algorithm. We review the privacy and security properties offered by the scheme we have constructed, and compare its efficiency with other commonly suggested approaches to privacy on the blockchain."
+}

publications/tsilidoufurther.json

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+{
+    "id": "tsilidoufurther",
+    "title": "Further Applications of the Blockchain",
+    "authors": [
+	{"name": "Anna Lali Tsilidou", "affiliation": "University of Macedoni"},
+	{"name": "Gergios Goroglou", "affiliation": "University of Macedonia"}
+    ],
+    "year": 2016,
+    "peer-reviewed": false,
+    "url": "http://inpluslab.sysu.edu.cn/files/Paper/Summary/Blockchain_Technology__Opportunities_And_Risks.pdf",
+    "abstract": "In this research we investigate into the blockchain technology; its current use and explore other possible implementations of this protocol. In the first part a thorough explanation of the technology and the problems it is trying to tackle is attempted. At the same time a background on Bitcoin (the first application of the technology) is provided. In the second part it is examined whether the technology could be leveraged to solve problems in different fields, while some specific recommendations for the Greek economy are also made.",
+    "type": "online",
+    "sort-key": 20161210
+}

publications/zeilinger2016digital.json

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+{
+    "id": "zeilinger2016digital",
+    "title": "Digital Art As \u2018Monetised Graphics\u2019: Enforcing Intellectual Property On The Blockchain",
+    "year": 2016,
+    "type": "article",
+    "sortkey": 20161210,
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Anglia Ruskin University",
+            "name": "Martin Zeilinger"
+        }
+    ],
+    "url": "http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-016-0243-1",
+    "venue": "Philosophy & Technology",
+    "peer-reviewed": true,
+    "abstract": "In a global economic landscape of hyper-commodification and financialisation, efforts to assimilate digital art into the high-stakes commercial art market have so far been rather unsuccessful, presumably because digital artworks cannot easily assume the status of precious object worthy of collection. This essay explores the use of blockchain technologies in attempts to create proprietary digital art markets in which uncommodifiable digital artworks are financialised as artificially scarce commodities. Using the decentralisation techniques and distributed database protocols underlying current cryptocurrency technologies, such efforts, exemplified here by the platform Monegraph, tend to be presented as concerns with the interest of digital artists and with shifting ontologies of the contemporary work of art. I challenge this characterisation, and argue, in a discussion that combines aesthetic theory, legal and philosophical theories of intellectual property, rhetorical analysis and research in the political economy of new media, that the formation of proprietary digital art markets by emerging commercial platforms such as Monegraph constitutes a worrisome amplification of long-established, on-going efforts to fence in creative expression as private property. As I argue, the combination of blockchain-based protocols with established ambitions of intellectual property policy yields hybrid conceptual-computational financial technologies (such as self-enforcing smart contracts attached to digital artefacts) that are unlikely to empower artists but which serve to financialise digital creative practices as a whole, curtailing the critical potential of the digital as an inherently dynamic and potentially uncommodifiable mode of production and artistic expression."
+}