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Comparative Analysis of Blockchain Technologies Under a Coordination Perspective

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Many research works apply blockchain technologies to several different application domains ranging from supply chain and logistics to healthcare and real-estate. There, nevertheless, the blockchain performs the same two core tasks: identity management and asset tracking. In this paper we analyse how the blockchain can be exploited beyond these traditional tasks, towards coordination of distributed processes. To this end, we design and develop proof-of-concept implementations of the Linda model on top of different blockchains, and compare their strengths and shortcomings.

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  1. Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Giovanni Ciatto, Michael Bosello & Andrea Omicini

  2. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Stefano Mariani

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Ciatto, G., Bosello, M., Mariani, S., Omicini, A. (2019). Comparative Analysis of Blockchain Technologies Under a Coordination Perspective. In: De La Prieta, F., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1047. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24299-2_7

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