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Intelligent Agents in a Blockchain-Based Electronic Voting System

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Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2018 (IDEAL 2018)

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There exist many approaches to electronic voting. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, most of them suffer from lack of transparency and auditability. Recently developed blockchain technology may provide a solution to these issues. This paper presents a use of multi-agent system idea and intelligent agents in Auditable Blockchain Voting System (ABVS), which is a blockchain-based supervised and non-remote internet voting system intended to be end-to-end verifiable and auditable.

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  1. Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Michał Pawlak, Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda & Jakub Guziur

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  2. Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    David Camacho

  3. Campus of Gualtar, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  4. University of Seville, Seville, Spain

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Pawlak, M., Poniszewska-Marańda, A., Guziur, J. (2018). Intelligent Agents in a Blockchain-Based Electronic Voting System. In: Yin, H., Camacho, D., Novais, P., Tallón-Ballesteros, A. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2018. IDEAL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11314. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03493-1_61

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