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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,836 Views
12 Pages

29 April 2024

In the specific application scenario of pepper product supply chain traceability, with the advancement of pepper product production, the expansion of links, and the increase of nodes, the quantity of data will become more and more enormous. The singl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,701 Views
11 Pages

Traceability in Model-Based Testing

  • Mathew George,
  • Klaus-Peter Fischer-Hellmann,
  • Martin Knahl,
  • Udo Bleimann and
  • Shirley Atkinson

26 November 2012

The growing complexities of software and the demand for shorter time to market are two important challenges that face today’s IT industry. These challenges demand the increase of both productivity and quality of software. Model-based testing is a pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,805 Views
23 Pages

A Business Process Reference Model for the Development of a Wine Traceability System

  • Sotiris P. Gayialis,
  • Evripidis P. Kechagias,
  • Georgios A. Papadopoulos and
  • Nikolaos A. Panayiotou

17 September 2022

Traceability is among the most significant challenges in supply chains, where multiple stakeholders and activities are involved in the production and distribution of products. No supply chain can become sustainable without effectively addressing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,412 Views
11 Pages

Wine Traceability: A Data Model and Prototype in Albanian Context

  • Kreshnik Vukatana,
  • Kozeta Sevrani and
  • Elira Hoxha

17 February 2016

Vine traceability is a critical issue that has gained interest internationally. Quality control programs and schemes are mandatory in many countries including EU members and the USA. Albania has transformed most of the EU regulations on food into law...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,099 Views
20 Pages

18 November 2024

In recent years, the rapid development of the Taishan tea industry has become a business card of local specialty agriculture. However, as consumers’ demands for Taishan tea product quality and safety continue to improve, the centralized databas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
773 Views
30 Pages

Logistics transports of various resources such as production materials, foods, and products support the operation of smart cities. The ability to trace the states of logistics transports requires an efficient storage and retrieval of the states of lo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,316 Views
19 Pages

2 August 2022

Traceability information as a solution option becomes an important task for the industry in providing products, preparing sustainable raw materials, and ensuring adequate safety quality. The emergence of these demands makes the industry perform track...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,451 Views
21 Pages

The grain and oil food supply chain has a complex structure, long turnover cycles, and many stakeholders, so it is challenging to maintain the security of this supply chain. A reliable traceability system for the whole grain and oil food supply chain...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,320 Views
50 Pages

Research and implementation efforts and investment in the circular economy are rising sharply. With the high stakes associated with achievements in the field, an increasing emphasis on evaluation, transparency and accountability are to be expected. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,914 Views
31 Pages

X-RMTV: An Integrated Approach for Requirement Modeling, Traceability Management, and Verification in MBSE

  • Pengfei Gu,
  • Yuteng Zhang,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Chun Zhao,
  • Kunyu Xie,
  • Zhuoyi Wu and
  • Lin Zhang

20 October 2024

Formal requirements modeling and traceability management are essential for effectively implementing Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). However, few studies have explored the integration of requirement modeling, traceability management, and verif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,506 Views
25 Pages

15 April 2023

Despite great technical capabilities, the theory of non-contact temperature measurement is usually not fully applicable to the use of measuring instruments in practice. While black body calibrations and black body radiation thermometry (BBRT) are in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,065 Views
35 Pages

30 March 2023

Socio-cyber-physical systems (SCPSs) have emerged as networked heterogeneous systems that incorporate social components (e.g., business processes and social networks) along with physical (e.g., Internet-of-Things devices) and software components. Mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,212 Views
20 Pages

Scientists believed the outbreak of COVID-19 could be linked to the consumption of wild animals, so food safety and hygiene have become the top concerns of the public. An agri-food traceability system becomes very important in this context because it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
2,792 Views
18 Pages

9 November 2022

Medicinal plants have incredibly high economic value, and a practical evaluation of their quality is the key to promoting industry development. The deep learning model based on residual convolutional neural network (ResNet) has the advantage of autom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,280 Views
27 Pages

A Reliable Traceability Model for Grain and Oil Quality Safety Based on Blockchain and Industrial Internet

  • Jiping Xu,
  • Jiaqi Han,
  • Zhibo Qi,
  • Zixuan Jiang,
  • Ke Xu,
  • Minzhang Zheng and
  • Xin Zhang

15 November 2022

Gain and oil are important compounds in global food supplies, and ensuring the quality and safety of grains and oil is a critical issue in the food supply chain security. Data traceability is the key factor in quality and safety management. Currently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,894 Views
24 Pages

APTM: A Model for Pervasive Traceability of Agrochemicals

  • Emiliano Soares Monteiro,
  • Rodrigo da Rosa Righi,
  • Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa and
  • Antônio Marcos Alberti

2 September 2021

As the world population increases and the need for food monoculture farms are using more and more agrochemicals, there is also an increase in the possibility of theft, misuse, environmental damage, piracy of products, and health problems. This articl...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,389 Views
36 Pages

A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis for the Design of a Traceable and Sustainable Model for WEEE Information Management in Ecuador Based on the Circular Economy

  • Marlon Copara,
  • Angel Pilamunga,
  • Fernando Ibarra,
  • Silvia-Melinda Oyaque-Mora,
  • Diana Morales-Urrutia and
  • Patricio Córdova

12 July 2025

The rapid increase in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) creates major environmental and governance issues in developing countries like Ecuador struggle because they with minimal formal collection and recycling rates. This research pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,554 Views
16 Pages

A Blockchain-Based Traceability Model for Grain and Oil Food Supply Chain

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Xuyang Wu,
  • Hongyi Ge,
  • Yuying Jiang,
  • Zhenyu Sun,
  • Xiaodi Ji,
  • Zhiyuan Jia and
  • Guangyuan Cui

28 August 2023

The structure of the grain-and-oil-food-supply chain has the characteristics of complexity, cross-regionality, a long cycle, and numerous participants, making it difficult to maintain the safety of supply. In recent years, some phenomena have emerged...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,432 Views
18 Pages

26 September 2023

Heavy metal pollution of groundwater will not only destroy the ecological environment but also negatively affect the functioning of the human liver. Tracing the source of groundwater pollution is an important way to protect groundwater resources. Flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,327 Views
21 Pages

3 September 2021

Background: Traceability systems and carbon emissions are two important factors involved in production and distribution activities. The involvement of these two factors in production and distribution activities along the supply chain will ensure the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,414 Views
15 Pages

Research on Flexible Traceability System of Agaricus bisporus Supply Chain

  • Xingguo Zhang,
  • Pingzeng Liu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Feihu Sun,
  • Ao Gong and
  • Chao Zhang

14 October 2023

The supply chain of Agaricus bisporus constitutes a complex, multi-layered production and distribution network, encompassing various stages. Challenges in information transmission and process integration between these stages often lead to reduced que...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,482 Views
22 Pages

30 January 2025

Deep learning-based remote sensing object detection (RSOD) models have been widely deployed and commercialized. The commercialization of RSOD models requires the ability to protect their intellectual property (IP) across different platforms and sales...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,590 Views
21 Pages

In the field of model-based design of Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS), seamless traceability of the process, from requirements to models to simulation results, is becoming increasingly important. It can be used to support several activities such as vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,643 Views
20 Pages

Blockchain-Based Information Security Protection Mechanism for the Traceability of Intellectual Property Transactions

  • Zheng Wang,
  • Wenlong Feng,
  • Mengxing Huang,
  • Siling Feng,
  • Shilong Mo and
  • Yunhong Li

13 May 2025

Traditional intellectual property transaction traceability has problems such as information asymmetry, traceability information storage methods relying on centralized databases, and easy tampering of transaction information, etc. A blockchain-based i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,493 Views
21 Pages

11 October 2024

This study aims to address the gap in understanding of the impact of the sample quantity, traceability range, and shelf life on the accuracy of mung bean origin traceability models based on near-infrared spectroscopy. Mung beans from Baicheng City, J...

  • Article
  • Open Access
741 Views
37 Pages

24 October 2025

Recent frequent food safety incidents have heightened consumer concern about agricultural product traceability, driving companies to build more robust supply chain traceability systems. However, enhancing traceability level is not only driven by cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,932 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2025

Hymenopellis raphanipes is a high-value edible fungus with a short shelf life and high perishability, which poses significant challenges for quality control and safety assurance throughout its supply chain. Ensuring effective traceability is essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,548 Views
25 Pages

Food Supply Chain: A Framework for the Governance of Digital Traceability

  • Maria Bonaria Lai,
  • Daniele Vergamini and
  • Gianluca Brunori

9 June 2025

Under the context of increasing demand for transparency, efficiency, and trust in food systems, digital traceability is emerging as a key strategy for improving value creation across agri-food supply chains. This study investigates how different gove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,601 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2024

To adopt the blockchain-based automobile traceability system (BCATS) and increase the transparency of the Chinese auto market, this study constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model of manufacturers, regulators, and consumers, discusses the evolu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,404 Views
22 Pages

15 March 2022

There is currently interest in the digitalisation of metrology because technologies that can measure, analyse, and make critical decisions autonomously are beginning to emerge. The notions of metrological traceability and measurement uncertainty shou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,532 Views
19 Pages

Consumers’ Preferences for Apple Production Attributes: Results of a Choice Experiment

  • Ruopin Qu,
  • Jing Chen,
  • Wenjing Li,
  • Shan Jin,
  • Glyn D. Jones and
  • Lynn J. Frewer

8 May 2023

Various food safety and environmental problems in China have raised consumer awareness of food safety issues and negative environmental impacts in various supply chains. This research assessed consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for foo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
11,846 Views
26 Pages

Implementing Traceability Systems in Specific Supply Chain Management (SCM) through Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

  • Shahbaz Khan,
  • Abid Haleem,
  • Mohd Imran Khan,
  • Mustufa Haider Abidi and
  • Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari

22 January 2018

Traceability plays a vital role in the success of Halal Supply Chain (HSC). HSC revolve around the essential dimension of Halal Integrity (HI), whereas traceability is seemed to be medium to assure integrity. Thus, a need is felt to identify the fact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
510 Views
28 Pages

16 October 2025

To enable effective change impact management in business applications, robust requirements traceability is essential. However, manual approaches are inefficient and prone to errors. While the prior Model-Driven Engineering (MDE)-based research, inclu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
547 Views
15 Pages

VNA Tools—A Metrology Software Supporting the Digital Traceability Chain

  • Markus Zeier,
  • Michael Wollensack,
  • Johannes Hoffmann,
  • Peter Morrissey,
  • Juerg Ruefenacht and
  • Daniel Stalder

1 December 2025

This paper presents METAS VNA Tools Version 2.9.0, a metrology software suite designed to support the digital traceability chain in vector network analyzer measurements. Built on the METAS UncLib Version 2.9.0 uncertainty engine, the software enables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
12,709 Views
19 Pages

Consumers’ Intention to Adopt Blockchain Food Traceability Technology towards Organic Food Products

  • Xin Lin,
  • Shu-Chen Chang,
  • Tung-Hsiang Chou,
  • Shih-Chih Chen and
  • Athapol Ruangkanjanases

Establishing a blockchain food traceability system (BFTS) is increasingly important and urgent to resolve the contradiction between consumers’ intention regarding safe food selections and the spread of polluted foods. Using the advantages of blockcha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,004 Views
16 Pages

Beef Traceability Between China and Argentina Based on Various Machine Learning Models

  • Xiaomeng Xiang,
  • Chaomin Zhao,
  • Runhe Zhang,
  • Jing Zeng,
  • Liangzi Wang,
  • Shuran Zhang,
  • Diego Cristos,
  • Bing Liu,
  • Siyan Xu and
  • Xionghai Yi

14 February 2025

Beef, as a nutrient-rich food, is widely favored by consumers. The production region significantly influences the nutritional value and quality of beef. However, current methods for tracing the origin of beef are still under development, necessitatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,974 Views
27 Pages

Methodology for Certification-Compliant Effect-Chain Modeling

  • Iris Gräßler,
  • Dominik Wiechel,
  • Anna-Sophie Koch,
  • Tim Sturm and
  • Thomas Markfelder

17 March 2023

The success of engineering complex technical systems is determined by meeting customer requirements and institutional regulations. One example relevant to the automobile industry is the United Nations Economic Commission of Europe (UN ECE), which spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,442 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2022

The profile of the globoidal indexing cam is a spatially undevelopable surface. It needs a special computer numerical control (CNC) machine tool to finish batch production, and its machining quality will be affected by the motion error of each part o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
20,371 Views
14 Pages

Traceability for Trustworthy AI: A Review of Models and Tools

  • Marçal Mora-Cantallops,
  • Salvador Sánchez-Alonso,
  • Elena García-Barriocanal and
  • Miguel-Angel Sicilia

Traceability is considered a key requirement for trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI), related to the need to maintain a complete account of the provenance of data, processes, and artifacts involved in the production of an AI model. Traceability...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,853 Views
9 Pages

Traceability of pH to the Mole

  • Maria Filomena Camões and
  • Bárbara Anes

3 August 2015

Free acidity of aqueous solutions was initially defined in 1909 by Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen as pH = −lgcH+ (c/mol·dm−3 or m/mol·kg−1 of the free hydrogen ions in solution, H+) soon (1910) was changed to pH = paH+ = −lgaH+, integrating the new co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
298 Views
27 Pages

19 December 2025

The intelligent transformation in the manufacturing industry poses challenges to traditional quality control methods, particularly in handling redundant data and ensuring model interpretability within high-dimensional, multivariate assembly processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
847 Views
23 Pages

3 November 2025

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen) is widely used in modern medicine, but the market faces challenges from counterfeit and mislabeled geographical indication products. To address this, we propose a novel framework combining Two-trace Two-dimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,328 Views
17 Pages

A Comparative UAV Forensic Analysis: Static and Live Digital Evidence Traceability Challenges

  • Fahad E. Salamh,
  • Umit Karabiyik,
  • Marcus K. Rogers and
  • Eric T. Matson

21 May 2021

The raising accessibility of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, is rapidly increasing. Recent studies have discussed challenges that may come in tow with the growing use of this technology. These studies note that in-depth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,376 Views
16 Pages

In the digital age, spreading false information has a far-reaching impact on various areas, such as society, politics, and the economy. With the popularization of applications of text generation models, the cost of producing false information has sig...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,380 Views
4 Pages

24 November 2021

In this paper, the traceability of heparin medicine will be studied. Currently, the registration of traceability data is conducted in a decentralized manner. With blockchain implementation, the traceability systems that use this data could become sem...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
857 Views
32 Pages

A Data-Driven Topic Modeling Analysis of Blockchain in Food Supply Chain Traceability

  • Abderahman Rejeb,
  • Karim Rejeb,
  • Homa Molavi and
  • John G. Keogh

10 December 2025

Blockchain technology plays a critical role in strengthening traceability in food supply chains (FSCs), particularly in relation to transparency, authenticity, food safety, and sustainability. This study conducts a systematic review of 518 journal ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,058 Views
32 Pages

A Distributed Mix-Context-Based Method for Location Privacy in Road Networks

  • Ikram Ullah,
  • Munam Ali Shah,
  • Abid Khan,
  • Carsten Maple,
  • Abdul Waheed and
  • Gwnaggil Jeon

12 November 2021

Preserving location privacy is increasingly an essential concern in Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs). Vehicles broadcast beacon messages in an open form that contains information including vehicle identity, speed, location, and other headings. An ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,356 Views
28 Pages

Real-Time Functional Stratification of Tumor Cell Lines Using a Non-Cytotoxic Phospholipoproteomic Platform: A Label-Free Ex Vivo Model

  • Ramón Gutiérrez-Sandoval,
  • Francisco Gutiérrez-Castro,
  • Natalia Muñoz-Godoy,
  • Ider Rivadeneira,
  • Adolay Sobarzo,
  • Jordan Iturra,
  • Ignacio Muñoz,
  • Cristián Peña-Vargas,
  • Matías Vidal and
  • Francisco Krakowiak

28 July 2025

The development of scalable, non-invasive tools to assess tumor responsiveness to structurally active immunoformulations remains a critical unmet need in solid tumor immunotherapy. Here, we introduce a real-time, ex vivo functional system to classify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,473 Views
39 Pages

15 September 2025

This study investigates the structural and cyclical determinants of tropical hardwood exports among member countries of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) over the period 1995–2022—a sector historically characterized by...

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