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DOI	10.3233/AO-230010
	Towards a semantic blockchain: A behaviouristic approach to modelling Ethereum
	Bella, Giampaolo; Cantone, Domenico; Asmundo, Marianna Nicolosi; Santamaria, Daniele Francesco
通讯作者	Santamaria, DF
来源期刊	APPLIED ONTOLOGY
ISSN	1570-5838
EISSN	1875-8533
出版年	2024
卷号	19 期号:2 页码:143-180
英文摘要	Decentralised ledgers are gaining momentum following the interest of industries and people in smart contracts. Major attention is paid to blockchain applications intended for trading assets that exploit digital cryptographic certificates called tokens. Particularly relevant tokens are the non-fungible tokens (NFTs), namely, unique and non-replicable tokens used to represent the cryptographic counterpart of assets ranging from pieces of art through to licenses and certifications. A relevant consequence of the hard-coded nature of blockchains is the hardness of probing, in particular when advanced searchers involving the capabilities of the smart contracts or the assets digitised by NFTs are required. For this purpose, a formal representation for the operational semantics of smart contracts and of tokens has become particularly urgent, especially in economy and finance, where blockchains become increasingly relevant. Hence, we feel the need to tailor SemanticWeb technologies to achieve that semantic representation at least for NFTS. This article reports on an ontology that leverages the Ontology for Agents, Systems, and Integration of Services (OASIS) towards the semantic representation of smart contracts responsible for managing ERC721-compliant NFTs and running on the Ethereum blockchain. Called ETHER-OASIS, the proposed ontology adopts OASIS and tailors its behaviouristic approach to the Ethereum blockchain by conceiving smart contracts as agents running on the blockchain and, consequently, smart contract interactions as agent commitments. Smart contracts are represented in terms of their actions, purposes and tokens that they manage, thus realising a blockchain that is more usable both by users and automated applications. The ontology is evaluated using standard ontological metrics and applied on a case study concerning the minting and transferring of NFTs that digitise batches of wheat.
英文关键词	Ontology Semantic Web Agent Blockchain Ethereum OWL
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:001261936600002
WOS关键词	SMART CONTRACTS
WOS类目	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science, Information Systems ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/402865
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bella, Giampaolo,Cantone, Domenico,Asmundo, Marianna Nicolosi,et al. Towards a semantic blockchain: A behaviouristic approach to modelling Ethereum[J],2024,19(2):143-180.
APA	Bella, Giampaolo,Cantone, Domenico,Asmundo, Marianna Nicolosi,&Santamaria, Daniele Francesco.(2024).Towards a semantic blockchain: A behaviouristic approach to modelling Ethereum.APPLIED ONTOLOGY,19(2),143-180.
MLA	Bella, Giampaolo,et al."Towards a semantic blockchain: A behaviouristic approach to modelling Ethereum".APPLIED ONTOLOGY 19.2(2024):143-180.