Social Return on Investment (SROI) is a methodology used to measure the social, environmental, and economic value of an investment, a program, or a project. It is destined to evaluate the social impact of a […]
In every insurance contract negotiation, there are two main concerns for the involved parties. The insurance provider worries about making an accurate risk assessment, while the customer needs to justify to himself that he’s paying […]
In Pledger, a dedicated and deployed core component, the SLASC Bridge, is connecting and representing the SLA contractual terms on blockchain equivalents. Through the use of smart contracts, which are mainly software modules that are […]
The complexity and heterogeneity of distributed computing infrastructures pose significant challenges for management and service deployment. Heading to more complex environments, the development of intelligent and self-managed orchestration mechanisms is key to optimizing resource utilization […]
We are witnessing a wave of emerging cloud computing technologies and services that empower advanced applications from different vertical sectors, with diverse requirements. Also, there is a movement from top-down designed architectures, applying centralized resource […]
The default method for a user to interact with specific data on the ledger is determined by blockchain wallets. Wallets, in theory, provide a layer of well-defined data access based on the appropriate features that […]
In recent years, financial and insurance organization are producing large volumes of digital data from a variety of sources including traditional enterprise systems, e-banking and mobile-banking transaction processing systems, social media platforms, as well as […]
One of the key features of the PHYSICS platform will be the ability to serve a FaaS application in various infrastructures in a distributed manner. For instance, in the agriculture sector, IoT-based applications leverage data from sensors […]
In the era of globalization, the finance sector comprises some of the most critical infrastructures that underpin our societies and the global economy. In recent years, the critical infrastructures of the financial sector have become […]