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Engineering Trust-Aware Decentralized Applications with Distributed Ledgers

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Decentralized Applications (dApps) are software applications where different parties interact over the Internet to achieve a common business goal. In contrast to centralized applications, not a singular entity has control over the whole system. The different parties interact in a peer-to-peer fashion. Without a centralized intermediary with the power to resolve conflicts or counteract malicious behavior by its users, dApps often lack trust-building mechanisms for their users. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies promise to solve trust issues in dApps. This chapter explores in a three-step approach systematically how to build trust-aware dApps by design with distributed ledger technologies. Therefore, business process models with a trust layer are used as a tool to visualize and analyze trust issues of the dApps underlying process systematically as a first step. Secondly, different distributed ledger trust patterns are selected and used to mitigate these trust issues. Finally, the trust-enhanced dApp can be implemented. This chapter helps system engineers systematically to create trust-aware dApps with distributed ledgers.

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    Marcel Müller, Sandro Rodriguez Garzon & Axel Küpper

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Müller, M., Ostern, N., Garzon, S.R., Küpper, A. (2021). Engineering Trust-Aware Decentralized Applications with Distributed Ledgers. In: Rehman, M.H.u., Svetinovic, D., Salah, K., Damiani, E. (eds) Trust Models for Next-Generation Blockchain Ecosystems. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75107-4_1

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