Alharby, Maher and van Moorsel, Aad (2017) Blockchain-based Smart Contracts: A Systematic Mapping Study. Computing Reserach Repository.
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Abstract
An appealing feature of blockchain technology is smart contracts. A smart contract is executable code that runs on top of the blockchain to facilitate, execute and enforce an agreement between untrusted parties without the involvement of a trusted third party. In this paper, we conduct a systematic mapping study to collect all research that is relevant to smart contracts from a technical perspective. The aim of doing so is to identify current research topics and open challenges for future studies in smart contract research. We extract 24 papers from different scientific databases. The results show that about two thirds of the papers focus on identifying and tackling smart contract issues. Four key issues are identified, namely, codifying, security, privacy and performance issues. The rest of the papers focuses on smart contract applications or other smart contract related topics. Research gaps that need to be addressed in future studies are provided.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Main Topics > Blockchain Projects > BloSSom 2019 Main Topics > Smart Contracts |
| Divisions: | Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email richard.dabels@uni-rostock.de |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2019 16:33 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2019 16:33 |
| URI: | http://blossom.informatik.uni-rostock.de/id/eprint/64 |
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