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In recent years, the commodities industry has grown rapidly under the stimulus of domestic demand and the expansion of cross-border trade. It has also been combined with the rapid development of e-commerce technology in the same period to form a flexible and efficient e-commerce system for bulk commodities. However, the hasty combination of both has inspired a lack of effective regulatory measures in the bulk industry, leading to constant industry chaos. Among them, the problem of lagging evidence in regulatory platforms is particularly prominent. Based on this, we design a blockchain-based evidential and secure bulk-commodity supervisory system (abbr. BeBus). Setting different privacy protection policies for each participant in the system, the solution ensures effective forensics and tamper-proof evidence to meet the needs of the bulk business scenario.

The deployment of datasets in the heterogeneous edge-cloud computing paradigm has received increasing attention in state-of-the-art research. However, due to their large sizes and the existence of private scientific datasets, finding an optimal data placement strategy that can minimize data transmission as well as improve performance, remains a persistent problem. In this study, the advantages of both edge and cloud computing are combined to construct a data placement model that works for multiple scientific workflows. Apparently, the most difficult research challenge is to provide a data placement strategy to consider shared datasets, both within individual and among multiple workflows, across various geographically distributed environments. According to the constructed model, not only the storage capacity of edge micro-datacenters, but also the data transfer between multiple clouds across regions must be considered. To address this issue, we considered the characteristics of this model and identified the factors that are causing the transmission delay. The authors propose using a discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm with differential evolution (DE-DPSO) to distribute dataset during workflow execution. Based on this, a new data placement strategy named DE-DPSO-DPS is proposed. DE-DPSO-DPS is evaluated using several experiments designed in simulated heterogeneous edge-cloud computing environments. The results demonstrate that our data placement strategy can effectively reduce the data transmission time and achieve superior performance as compared to traditional strategies for data-sharing scientific workflows.