Research Area: Blockchain Technology
Blockchain as the trust‐enabling technology has supported and transformed cyber-physical systems in recent years. Therefore, many organizations have adopted blockchain-based technology to develop industrial software-product-service systems. However, the implementation of blockchain at the organizational levels can be related with several technical, organizational, legal, financial, and environmental challenges (intra-organizational and inter-organizational). Analysis of these challenges will play a significant role in organizational performance. This study has investigated an extensive list of challenges of software blockchain-based implementation in cyber-physical systems. The proposed comprehensive model is applied to the software development industry in Iran as a case study. Based on the experts’ opinions, challenge identification was conducted via the two-phase fuzzy Delphi method for medium and large organizations. Extensive quantitative and qualitative challenges are evaluated via the efficient best-worst fuzzy method. Obtained results indicate that smart contracts vulnerabilities and deterministic execution of the technical challenge group have the most critical importance and governance of the legal challenge group has the least vital importance. It is mentionable that most technical challenges have higher priority than other considered challenges.
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Author(s) Name: Fatemeh Esmaeilnezhad Tanha, Aliakbar Hasani, Saqib Hakak, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu
Journal name: Computers and Electrical Engineering
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Publisher name: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2022.108347
Volume Information: Volume 103, October 2022, 108347
