Infochain: A Decentralized, Trustless and Transparent Oracle on Blockchain
Authors: Naman Goel, Cyril van Schreven, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Boi Faltings
IJCAI 2020 | Conference PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details
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| Research Type | Experimental | We now discuss the results of some experiments performed on Infochain. The performance measure of interest in this discussion will be the total amount of gas used. Gas is a unit measuring the computational work of running transactions or smart contracts in the Ethereum network and is a good proxy for the cost in USD. Infochain has been deployed and tested on the Ropsten Test Network, one of the commonly used public testing framework for Ethereum smart contracts. To have no limitations in terms of gas, the results reported in this paper have been generated on a local instance of Ethereum. Dataset Description. For this experiment, we used a public dataset [Zheng et al., 2014] containing real-world quality of service evaluation from 339 trusted agents for 5,825 web services. In Figure 2a, we show the reduction in writing cost due to the proposed optimization discussed in Section 2.2 as compared to the baseline implementation (without any proposed optimizations). |
| Researcher Affiliation | Academia | Naman Goel1 , Cyril van Schreven1 , Aris Filos-Ratsikas2 and Boi Faltings1 1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) 2University of Liverpool, UK |
| Pseudocode | No | The paper describes procedures, such as the 'Commit-Reveal Protocol' in Section 2.1, using numbered lists in paragraph form rather than structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks. |
| Open Source Code | No | The paper does not provide an explicit statement about the release of its source code or a link to a code repository for the Infochain system or the experimental setup. |
| Open Datasets | Yes | For this experiment, we used a public dataset [Zheng et al., 2014] containing real-world quality of service evaluation from 339 trusted agents for 5,825 web services. |
| Dataset Splits | No | The paper uses a public dataset and simulates agent behavior, but it does not specify any training, validation, or test dataset splits (e.g., percentages or sample counts) for the experiments. |
| Hardware Specification | No | The paper mentions that 'the results reported in this paper have been generated on a local instance of Ethereum' and that Infochain was 'deployed and tested on the Ropsten Test Network', but it does not provide specific hardware details like CPU/GPU models or memory. |
| Software Dependencies | No | The paper mentions 'Solidity (Ethereum s programming language)' but does not provide specific version numbers for it or any other software dependencies used in the experiments. |
| Experiment Setup | No | The paper describes the dataset and agent behavior simulation in Section 3, but it does not provide specific experimental setup details such as hyperparameters, optimizer settings, or training configurations. |