Ryosuke Abe, project research associate, won the Best Paper Award at the Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2023.

We are pleased to announce that Ryosuke Abe, a project research associate in our group, presented a paper at the Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2023 and won the Best Paper Award.

In this study, they measured the parties' attitudes in the order transaction on the blockchain-based escrow service by visualizing transaction history. Moreover, they design an incentive mechanism to make the parties behave honestly.

This research was conducted as a joint research with the Mercari, Inc.

The paper is available at the following URL:

• R. Abe, S. Kurita, M. Kobayashi, and S. Suzuki, "Mitigation of Seller and Buyer's Dilemma with Transaction History and Escrow," in Proceedings of the 18th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC '23). New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Dec. 2023, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.1145/3630590.3630591.

We will continue to make every effort to advance our research activities, and we look forward to your continued warm support.