In recent years, blockchain has gained widespread attention as an emerging technology for decentralization, transparency, and immutability in advancing online activities over public networks. As an essential market process, auctions have been well studied and applied in many business fields due to their efficiency and contributions to fair trade. Complementary features between blockchain and auction models trigger a great potential for research and innovation. On the one hand, the decentralized nature of blockchain can provide a trustworthy, secure, and cost-effective mechanism to manage the auction process; on the other hand, auction models can be utilized to design incentive and consensus protocols in blockchain architectures. These opportunities have attracted enormous research and innovation activities in both academia and industry; however, there is a lack of an in-depth review of existing solutions and achievements. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of these two research topics. We review the existing solutions for integrating blockchain and auction models, with some application-oriented taxonomies generated. Additionally, we highlight some open research challenges and future directions towards integrated blockchain-auction models.
翻译:近年来,作为在公共网络上推进在线活动的一种新兴的权力下放、透明度和不可移动性技术,供应链已获得广泛关注。作为一种重要的市场进程,拍卖因其效率和对公平贸易的贡献,在许多商业领域得到了很好的研究和应用。供应链和拍卖模式之间的互补特征为研究和创新带来了巨大的潜力。一方面,供应链的分散性质可以为管理拍卖过程提供一个可靠、可靠和具有成本效益的机制;另一方面,拍卖模式可用于在供应链结构中设计激励和共识协议。这些机会吸引了学术界和工业界的大量研究和创新活动;然而,缺乏对现有解决方案和成就的深入审查。在本文件中,我们对这两个研究专题进行了全面的最新调查。我们审查了将块链和拍卖模式整合起来的现有解决办法,并产生了一些面向应用的分类。此外,我们强调了一些公开的研究挑战以及面向综合供应链模式的未来方向。