Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Blockchain-Based Services Computing
Zibin Zheng, Andreas Kind, Peter Chen · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · 2020
The papers in this special section focus on blockchain-based computing services. Blockchain has become a hot research area in academia and industry. A blockchain is a continuously growing list of records of value-transferred transactions maintained by a peer-to-peer network through a distributed consensus mechanism. Blockchain technology has promising characteristics regarding decentralization, persistency, anonymity and auditability that could greatly improve the cost-effectiveness of inter-organization business processes. Blockchain can be applied to many fields of services computing, e.g., big data, cloud computing, digital economy, intelligent contracts, Internet-of-Things, securities, etc.Non-functional innovations in blockchain-based services computing are essential to improving the efficacy of blockchain. These paper focus on presenting novel approaches to integrate blockchain with services computing techniques as well as factual insights on new rising challenges and requirements in achieving this goal.