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Blockchain-based collaborative business process data sharing and access control

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To solve the problems of large-scale data storage and reliable access control in blockchain-based collaborative business process executions with multiple participants and internet of things (IoT) devices, an innovative framework is proposed. It introduces inter-planetary file system (i.e., IPFS) to achieve off-chain storage to alleviate the cost of data storage on the chain. Meanwhile, it combines task-attribute-based access control models with smart contract technology (i.e., TABAC-SC) to support traceable, fine-grained, and dynamic data access control. A real case from hearing aid company verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of the framework in data sharing and access control during the execution of collaborative business processes.

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The work is financially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61472112), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China (No. LQ20F020017) and Key Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province of China (No. 2020C01165).

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Sun, X., Wei, Y. & Shen, H. Blockchain-based collaborative business process data sharing and access control. J Reliable Intell Environ 10, 3–17 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-023-00212-w

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