Blockchain Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Decentralized Decision-Making

Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Governance: Is the State Still Necessary?

The Italian version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2731132 The core technology of Bitcoin, the blockchain, has recently emerged as a disruptive innovation with a wide range of applications, potentially able to redesign our interactions in business, politics and society at large. Although scholarly interest in this subject is growing, a comprehensive analysis of blockchai...

Decision Making under Stress in Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities

Decentralized Decision Making for Multiagent Systems

Decision making in large distributed multiagent systems is a difficult problem. In general, for an agent to make a good decision, it must consider the decisions of all the other agents in the system. This coupling among decision makers has two main causes: (i) the agents share a common objective function (e.g., in a team), or (ii) the agents share constraints (e.g., they must cooperate in shari...

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Violable Contracts and Governance for Blockchain Applications

We examine blockchain technologies, especially smart contracts, as a platform for decentralized applications. By providing a basis for consensus, blockchain promises to upend business models that presuppose a central authority. However, blockchain suffers from major shortcomings arising from an over-regimented way of organizing computation that limits its prospects. We propose a sociotechnical,...