Guest Editorial Special Issue on Blockchain and Economic Knowledge Automation
Yong Yuan, Fei–Yue Wang, Chunming Rong, Angelos Stavrou, Jun Zhang, Qiang Tang, Foteini Baldimtsi, Laurence Yang, Desheng Dash Wu, Shouyang Wang, David L. Olson, James H. Lambert · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems · 2019
Blockchain, as an emerging decentralized architecture and distributed computing paradigm underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has attracted intensive attention in both research and applications recently. Blockchain, especially powered by chain-coded smart contracts, has the full potential of revolutionizing increasingly centralized cyber-physical-social systems (CPSSs) for constructions and applications, and reshaping traditional knowledge automation workflows. The key advantage of blockchain technology lies in the fact that it can enable the establishment of secured, trusted, and decentralized autonomous ecosystems for various scenarios, especially for better usage of the legacy devices, infrastructure, and resources.