In modern times, smart cities are using advanced technology to control and coordinate business, physical, social and commercial systems to deliver quality services to their residents while ensuring the efficient use of available resources. Many large corporations, as well as government agencies,...

The aim of this paper is to propose a portfolio selection methodology capable to take into account asset tail co-movements, frequent among crypto assets. To achieve this aim we consider both systemic and tail risks as additional constraints in Markowitz model. We apply the methodology to the...

Meeting on the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement signing in 2017, the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat founded the Climate Chain Coalition (CCC). Backed by a number of multi-stakeholder groups like the Blockchain for Climate Foundation, the Ottawa-based CCC promotes the...

Since its launch in 2009 much has been written about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains. While the discussions initially took place mostly on blogs and other popular media, we now are witnessing the emergence of a growing body of rigorous academic research on these topics. By the nature...

The task of this study is the comparative analysis of the diffusion process of Blockchain into the national higher education systems as well as analysis of best-practice examples. It is part of the EU Erasmus+ project "BlockWASTE", which has as its overall objective to promote the application of...

This chapter studies the emergence of blockchain technology as an effective tool for providing transparency in supply chains. We first discuss how supply chain applications of this technology differ from cryptocurrency networks, and identify why this technology is useful in supply chains. We...

Modern period of trend setting innovation where online framework supports work speed, lessens botches and advances the age of exact outcomes, having manual political decision framework turns into a mishap. An open political decision framework establishes the foundation of a vote based system...

The founding of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009, led to the development and establishment of more crypto assets and blockchains. At the time of writing this working paper, the conservative market capitalisation of the crypto asset industry stood at US$ 2.5 trillion; consisting of approximately 12 900...