The blockchain technology provides integrity and reliability of the information, thus offering a suitable solution to guarantee trustability in a multi-stakeholder scenario that involves actors defining business agreements. The Ride2Rail project investigated the use of the blockchain to record as smart contracts the agreements between different stakeholders defined in a multimodal transportation domain. Modelling an ontology to represent the smart contracts enables the possibility of having a machine-readable and interoperable representation of the agreements. On one hand, the underlying blockchain ensures trust in the execution of the contracts, on the other hand, their ontological representation facilitates the retrieval of information within the ecosystem.||The paper describes the development of the Ride2Rail Ontology for Agreements to showcase how the concept of an ontological smart contract, defined in the OASIS ontology, can be applied to a specific domain. The usage of the designed ontology is discussed by describing the modelling as ontological smart contracts of business agreements defined in a ride-sharing scenario.
PhD
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Marco Comerio (www.linkedin.com/in/marcocomerio) obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) in 2010. Currently, he is a researcher and project manager at Cefriel (www.cefriel.com).
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Mario Scrocca (www.linkedin.com/in/marioscrocca) is a researcher at Cefriel in the Knowledge Technologies group. His research focuses on the design and implementation of solutions to build and exploit knowledge graphs.
