@Article{Saurabh2021, author = {Nishant Saurabh and Carlos Rubia and Anandakumar Palanisamy and Spiros Koulouzis and Mirsat Sefidanoski and Antorweep Chakravorty and Zhiming Zhao and Aleksandar Karadimce and Radu Prodan}, journal = {Blockchain: Research and Applications}, title = {{The ARTICONF Approach to Decentralized Car-Sharing}}, year = {2021}, issn = {2096-7209}, month = {may}, pages = {1--37}, abstract = {Social media applications are essential for next generation connectivity. Today, social media are centralized platforms with a single proprietary organization controlling the network and posing critical trust and governance issues over the created and propagated content. The ARTICONF project [1] funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program researches a decentralized social media platform based on a novel set of trustworthy, resilient and globally sustainable tools that address privacy, robustness and autonomy-related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far. This paper presents the ARTICONF approach to a car-sharing decentralized application (DApp) use case, as a new collaborative peer-to-peer model providing an alternative solution to private car ownership. We describe a prototype implementation of the car-sharing social media DApp and illustrate through real snapshots how the different ARTICONF tools support it in a simulated scenario.}, doi = {10.1016/j.bcra.2021.100013}, keywords = {Social media, car-sharing, decentralization, blockchain}, publisher = {Elsevier BV}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720921000087?via=ihub} }