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A Multi-Agent System Blockchain for a Smart City

Authors:
André Diogo
Bruno Fernandes
António Silva
José Carlos Faria
José Neves
Cesar Analide

Keywords: blockchain; smart city; sensor data; multi-agent systems.

Abstract:
In a Smart City context, and specifically targeting public collection of sensor data from arbitrary sources by arbitrary actors, accuracy, reliability and frequency of data may be highly variable. The Blockchain technology allows the management of public immutable ledgers that track the activities of these actors closely and, as such, provides a possible solution to incentivize and empower good actors (those who supply accurate, reliable and frequent data). This paper focuses on mechanisms to provide such incentives, what we call a Proof-of-Confidence (POC), using a view of these actors as intelligent agents, capable of autonomous interaction with the Blockchain. While it is concluded that full security guarantees can not be provided without additional restrictions at the agents’ behavior level, our model is used to prove the feasibility of supplying a gamified environment for such agents, with optimizable metrics which favor accurate, reliable and frequent data.

Pages: 68 to 73

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: November 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8599

ISBN: 978-1-61208-683-5

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from November 18, 2018 to November 22, 2018