A blockchain sharding scheme in edge computing by Jun WANG, Jianwei MA, Jinxi LUO

“…The low security and poor privacy of the data in edge computing restrict the development of edge computing.Block chains can provide security for data in edge computing using their own tamper resistance, while protecting privacy by use of traceability.But the bottleneck of blockchain's scalability has become a barrier to their application in the field of edge computing.To solve the problem that blockchain can not meet the needs of a large number of nodes to process data at the same time when applied to edge computing, a two-layer sharding scheme was presented, which meets the needs of edge computing scenarios.Geographic location-based partitioning of nodes was implemented using the improved K-means algorithm, and a local blockchain network consensus (LBNC) algorithm was designed based on the idea of delegated proof of stake (DPoS) and practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT).Simulation results show that the proposed scheme has less delay and higher throughput than those of PBFT, and the total throughput increases with the number of shards.…”
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Trust management scheme for driver-vehicle separation on dual-layer blockchain by ZHANG Haibo, HUANG Honglong, LI Fangwei, XU Yongjun

“…Additionally, the adaptive size-practical Byzantine fault tolerance (AS-PBFT) consensus algorithm was designed to optimize the consensus scale and reduce consensus time. …”
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Design of knowledge transaction protection mechanism in the open innovation community based on blockchain technology by Dongshan Yang, Ling Zhao, Feng Leng, Zujun Shi

“…In this study, the participants in an OIC and three types of infringement problems were analyzed. The Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) algorithm was applied to design the logic of smart contracts and the coupling between idea platforms and the blockchain. …”
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State Control and Commercial Influence in Provisioning Constantinople by Hüseyin Erkan Bedirhanoğlu

“…It traces the evolution of Byzantine economic structures, focusing on the transition from state-controlled supply under the Roman model to a more decentralized system influenced by foreign merchants, particularly Italians. …”
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3D reconstruction based on archival materials: the case of the Genoese castle on the Panea rock (XV century, Crimea) by Denisenko N.D., Vodolazhskaya L.N., Akhunov E.O., Burlin G.A., Korolev K.A., Pipa O.V.

“…In some cases (for example, in the case of the Byzantine fortress Gaspra-Isar (XII-XIII centuries, Crimea) - the monuments may have been destroyed during large construction projects. …”
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The Case of Hagia Sophia's Opening to Worship As an Example of Political “Anamnesis” by Deniz Ülke Arıbogan

“…It has been used as a church for nearly 1000 years and has become a crucial symbol of the power of the Byzantine Empire as well as being a center of worshipping for Christians. …”
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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

“…Marik Lerner’s science fiction novel “Practical Ufology” fits within the subliterary genre of “accidental travel”, and any background information from the Roman-Byzantine life is not very appropriate in the adventure text. …”
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A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT “MONEY” by Y. S. Denisenkova

“…As part of the study it has been found out that the historical development of the concept “money” in the Russian and English linguacultures has a number of common features: the cores of the concepts, the lexical items «деньги» and “money”are borrowings that entered the vocabularies of the corresponding languages at the same time; the usage of foreign monetary units, in the first place, Byzantine coins, before the introduction of national currencies, influenced “money” terminology, breeding numerous words of foreign origin, as well as the design of money. …”
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A survey of security threats in federated learning by Yunhao Feng, Yanming Guo, Yinjian Hou, Yulun Wu, Mingrui Lao, Tianyuan Yu, Gang Liu

“…Like traditional machine learning, federated learning is threatened by multiple attacks, such as backdoor attacks, Byzantine attacks, and adversarial attacks. The weaknesses are exacerbated by the inaccessibility of data in federated learning, which makes it more difficult to defend against these threats. …”
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The first steps of carpology in Kosova: the example of Ulpiana's Roman town by Florian Jedrusiak

“…The excavation of sectors 1300/1300, 1300/1500, and 1400/1400, led by Milot Berisha (IAK), Christophe Goddard (CNRS PSL), and Arben Hajdari (University of Prishtina), uncovered structures from the Roman period and Byzantine periods. Anthropogenic levels revealed, including functional stratigraphic units or carbonized deposits, were the subject of spot sampling of sediments. …”
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Traceability permissioned chain consensus mechanism based on double-layer architecture by Qingyang DING, Jianming ZHU, Jin ZHANG, Biao SONG, Yanjing XU, Chuanchang JIA, Zheng GAO

“…The blocks in the blockchain are arranged in chronological and historical order,and the blockchain is incapable of modification through data encryption technology and consensus mechanism,which makes product trace ability to be an important application scenario of blockchain.To choose product information traceability technology,not only the feasibility of the technology but also the market attributes of the product and the producer should be considered,which makes the permissioned chain replace the public chain as an important deployment method of product information traceability.In the existing research results,the research on the traceability license chain mainly focuses on mechanism design and framework construction,and the consensus algorithm applicable to product information traceability is rarely studied.In the process of technology of engineering practice,practical byzantine fault tolerance was chosen more in league chain as the consensus of traceability chain mechanism (such as Hyperledger),but with the increasing number of participating nodes of the traceability chain efficiency will be significantly reduced,and the delay time will be significantly improved,resulting in most of the project is still in the stage of experiment.Based on this,a traceability license chain consensus mechanism based on double-layer architecture (DLPCM) is proposed,and its security is analyzed.Participants are divided into two layers on the vertical dimension,and different consensus mechanisms are adopted at different levels according to different deployment modes of blockchain.Finally,the traceability information query mechanism under the consensus mechanism is introduced,an important reference for the development and design of traceability system based on license chain is provided.…”
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Literatura populară în lumina tiparului. Bibliofilie românească în colecţiile Bibliotecii Naţionale a României by Andreea Răsboiu

“…Representing successive vernacular translations and abridgments in many cases of intermediary slavic versions and not very often of the Byzantine, Italian or German original, these writings have blended in with the cultural mentality, folklore and local spirit, achieving authenticity and resemblance to the Romanian real life from that time. …”
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Secure Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for the Cognitive Radio Network Using Nonuniform Reliability by Muhammad Usman, Insoo Koo

“…We consider a link layer attack similar to the Byzantine attack, which falsifies the spectrum sensing data. …”
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Robust Schnorr-based subgroup multi-signature scheme by ZHANG Zhenqi, ZHU Qiuchi, WANG Zhiwei

“…The unpredictability of the subgroups effectively avoided the occurrence of Byzantine traitors, thus enhancing security and solving the problems of low reliability, security, and high computational complexity in consensus mechanisms. …”
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Mycenaean Pefkakia Excavation Project: preliminary report on archaeological research conducted in 2023 by Bartłomiej Lis, Anthi Batziou, Łukasz Miechowicz, Piotr Zeman, Dominika Kofel-Lubczyńska, Vasiliki Tzevelekidi, Rena Veropoulidou, Dimitris Agnousiotis

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RWA-BFT: Reputation-Weighted Asynchronous BFT for Large-Scale IoT by Guanwei Jia, Zhaoyu Shen, Hongye Sun, Jingbo Xin, Dongyu Wang

“…This paper introduces RWA-BFT, a reputation-weighted asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus algorithm designed to address the scalability and performance challenges of blockchain systems in large-scale IoT scenarios. …”
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The Russian Orthodox Church and Moscow-the Third Rome Concept by Ş. Muhammed Duali

“…However, the increasing Ottoman pressure on Constantinople from the 1400s onwards created several historical opportunities for the Russians. In particular, the Byzantine agreement with the Pope of Rome in Florence in 1439 mobilized the Russian Church. …”
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Chemical and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Roman and Late Antique Glass from Northern Greece by Alberta Silvestri, Elissavet Dotsika, Antonio Longinelli, Enricomaria Selmo, Sophia Doukata-Demertzi

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THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS by A. V. Halapsis

“…The Roman trend continued to be realized by the anti-Roman religion, which took Roman forms and Roman name. Iconoclasm was a Byzantine version of the Reformation, promoted by the Isaurian emperors and failed due to the strong Hellenistic naturalistic lobby. …”
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Les Grecs pontiques, du Pont au Caucase, à la Grèce et à la diaspora by Michel Bruneau

“…Les Grecs pontiques, de la mer Noire, ont vécu depuis la période byzantine dans le milieu montagneux des Alpes pontiques où ils ont pu jusqu’au début du XXe siècle préserver leur langue et/ou leur religion orthodoxe, aux frontières orientales de l’empire byzantin puis ottoman. …”
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