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A blockchain-based decentralized booking system

Part of: Distributed Ledger Technologies: Papers Arising from Three Australian Symposia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2020

Naipeng Dong Open the ORCID record for Naipeng Dong [Opens in a new window] ,
Guangdong Bai ,
Lung-Chen Huang ,
Edmund Kok Heng Lim  and
Jin Song Dong
Naipeng Dong
Affiliation:
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, General Purpose South Building (Building 78), St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, 4072, Australia e-mails: n.dong@uq.edu.au, g.bai@uq.edu.au School of Computing, National University of Singapore, COM1, 13 Computing Drive, 117417, Singapore e-mails: lungchenhuang@u.nus.edu, e0335737@u.nus.edu
Guangdong Bai
Affiliation:
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, General Purpose South Building (Building 78), St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, 4072, Australia e-mails: n.dong@uq.edu.au, g.bai@uq.edu.au
Lung-Chen Huang
Affiliation:
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, COM1, 13 Computing Drive, 117417, Singapore e-mails: lungchenhuang@u.nus.edu, e0335737@u.nus.edu
Edmund Kok Heng Lim
Affiliation:
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, COM1, 13 Computing Drive, 117417, Singapore e-mails: lungchenhuang@u.nus.edu, e0335737@u.nus.edu
Jin Song Dong
Affiliation:
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, COM1, 13 Computing Drive, 117417, Singapore e-mails: lungchenhuang@u.nus.edu, e0335737@u.nus.edu School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, N44 2.28, 170 Kessels Road Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia e-mail: dcsdjs@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

Blockchain technology has rapidly emerged as a decentralized trusted network to replace the traditional centralized intermediator. Especially, the smart contracts that are based on blockchain allow users to define the agreed behaviour among them, the execution of which will be enforced by the smart contracts. Based on this, we propose a decentralized booking system that uses the blockchain as the intermediator between hoteliers and travellers. The system enjoys the trustworthiness of blockchain, improves efficiency and reduces the cost of the traditional booking agencies. The design of the system has been formally modelled using the CSP# language and verified using the model checker Process Analysis Toolkit. We have implemented a prototype decentralized booking system based on the Ethereum ecosystem.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 35 , 2020 , e17
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