Blockchain and smart contracts: transforming digital entrepreneurial finance and venture funding

CS Robusti, ABA Avelar, MC Farina… - Journal of Small …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose This study conducts a systematic review to analyze the impact of blockchain
technology and smart contracts on digital entrepreneurial finance and venture funding. It …

[HTML][HTML] Blockchain-based crowdsourced deep reinforcement learning as a service

A Alagha, H Otrok, S Singh, R Mizouni, J Bentahar - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for
solving complex problems. However, its full potential remains inaccessible to a broader …

Blockchain-assisted demonstration cloning for multiagent deep reinforcement learning

A Alagha, J Bentahar, H Otrok, S Singh… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent deep reinforcement learning (MDRL) is a promising research area in which
agents learn complex behaviors in cooperative or competitive environments. However …

Crowdsourced auction-based framework for time-critical and budget-constrained last mile delivery

E Odeh, S Singh, R Mizouni, H Otrok - Information Processing & …, 2025 - Elsevier
This work addresses the problem of Last Mile Delivery (LMD) under time-critical and budget-
constrained environments. Given the rapid growth of e-commerce worldwide, LMD has …

BlockCharge: A blockchain-based auction framework for EV charging via mobile stations

Z Husain, THM El-Fouly, S Singh, R Mizouni, H Otrok… - Applied Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The number of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on the road has steadily grown in the past
decade in response to an urgent call to reduce carbon emissions. This growth must be …

[HTML][HTML] UAV-assisted Internet of vehicles: A framework empowered by reinforcement learning and Blockchain

A Alagha, M Kadadha, R Mizouni, S Singh… - Vehicular …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the challenges of selecting relay nodes and coordinating among them
in UAV-assisted Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV). Recently, UAVs have gained popularity as relay …

Towards efficient and deposit-free blockchain-based spatial crowdsourcing

M Li, W Wang, J Zhang - ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Spatial crowdsourcing leverages the widespread use of mobile devices to outsource tasks to
a crowd of users based on their geographical location. Despite its growing popularity …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Crowdsourcing in management research: a new tool for scientific inquiry

R Lenart-Gansiniec - 2024 - library.oapen.org
Crowdsourcing in Management Research explores the evolving landscape of academic
research in the context of contemporary legal, social, cultural, and technological shifts. The …

SPBVPST: Towards Scalable and Private Blockchain Architectures by Integrating Verifiable Computation, Privacy-Preserving Sharding, and Trusted Execution …

JN Dehankar, VK Sharma - … of the 5th International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The burgeoning importance of blockchain technology is hampered by significant challenges
in scalability and privacy, limiting its broader application and efficacy in today's data …