Activating self-scheduling workers on on-demand platforms when services are most needed is challenging because of a lack of cooperation between workers. To align workers' interests with the platform's profit-driven goals, various ride-sharing and food delivery platforms have recently embraced...

Based on Ethereum blockchain, Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) provides a possible solution to decentralized governance, and many Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications adopt the novel governance mechanism. However, by analyzing governance in Maker protocol, we find that...

Though blockchain aims to alleviate bribing attacks, users can collude with miners by directly sending bribes. This paper focuses on empirical evidence of bribes to miners, and the detected behaviour implies that mining power could be exploited. By scanning transactions on Ethereum, transactions...

Cooperative vehicle platooning enabled by connected automated vehicle (CAV) technology has been identified to bring energy savings and driving-effort reduction. However, the intrinsic difference of gained benefits between the leading vehicle and the following vehicles hampers the spontaneous...

Benefiting from blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) can replicate most financial activities in traditional financial markets. Among various DeFi, Lending Protocols (LPs) allow users to borrow and lend tokens, which resembles banks in DeFi. In this paper, we investigate illiquidity risks of...