In a blockchain-based system, the lack of centralized control requires active participation
and cooperative behaviors of system entities to ensure system security and sustainability …

Humanitarian operations management (HOM) defines the broad domain that deals with the
management of crisis events and human suffering, and a plethora of research has …

The blockchain technology is currently penetrating different areas of the modern Information
and Communications Technology community. Most of the devices involved in blockchain …

As the complexity of emergencies continues to increase, responding to them often exceeds
the capabilities of any single public agency, multi-agent collaborative participation is an …

Opportunistic networks (OppNets) are usually a set of smart, wearable, and portable devices
or entities with mobility that connect wirelessly without requiring infrastructure. Such a …

Since several Internet of Things (IoT) applications have been widely deployed on unstable
wireless networks, such as the Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), data communication …

Recently, blockchain trustless properties started to be investigated to design cooperation
enforcement mechanisms in many systems. This paper presents a comprehensive and …

Research background: The existence of new technologies and increase in the extensive
usage of the internet by individuals, forces governments, local authorities and practitioners …

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 enable interconnection among various
devices. An opportunistic IoT network is an ad hoc network that is formed by the nodes (eg …

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) constitute an emerging technology in the field of
health care that makes health monitoring possible from one's home itself. WBANs open …