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Narrative Knowledge Representation and Blockchain: A Symbiotic Relationship

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2020)

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Notwithstanding that the Semantic Web improves the information interoperability, however, the spatio-temporal knowledge representation, the description of relatively complex events – like those that can involve within smart contracts – security, reliability and trust are still difficult to achieve. In addition, Blockchain technology promotes information sharing and is supplying secure communication architecture for distributed systems. Therefore, intertwine an ontology language with Blockchain allows information interoperability and provides message-integrity checking and resolve the trust in all kinds of applications (IoT, robotic, industry 4.0, health record, etc.). In fact, ontologies facilitate the understanding and sharing of intrinsic components –smart contracts, transaction, knowledge- and relationship within a Blockchain. The main goal of this approach is to promote common data exchange, the design of decentralized, and the chronological semantic relationships on the Blockchain and Ethereum Smart Contracts making use of the narrative semantic representation foundations allowing therefore the web to survive and Blockchain technology to prosper.

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  1. LISSI - The Laboratory of Images, Signals and Intelligent Systems, University Paris-Est, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

    Lyazid Sabri

  2. Maths and Informatics Faculty, University Mohamed El Bachir Ibrahimi, Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria

    Lyazid Sabri & Abdelhak Boubetra

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy

    Flora Amato

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy

    Francesco Moscato

  4. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  5. Department of Advanced Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Sabri, L., Boubetra, A. (2020). Narrative Knowledge Representation and Blockchain: A Symbiotic Relationship. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44041-1_30

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