Intellectualizing internet data becomes much easier when anyone can find basic information about his/her identity straightforwardly upon search. This paper values the information related to academic contributions in this cyberspace, and tries to construct an Online Academic Identity (OAI) structure. The OAI represents the academic persona and the academic contributions that have been added to this cyberspace. The paper also values the influential impact of this OAI and encourages the academic contributions to be compensated digitally using the Bitcoin concept. Academic Rewards Coin (ARC) is a quantification of rewarding the academic contributions by means of a customized mining process based on the bitcoin concept. The paper proposes a system of classifying academic contributions and creating missions to be accomplished and then rewarded amounts of ARC. Mission examples include reviewing a book or submitting a paper to a scientific conference. The ARCs earned upon completing a mission can be used as partial payments for conference registrations or other similar paid services.
1st International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Technologies (ElectriTek 2020)
Congress
International Congress on Engineering Technologies (EngiTek 2020), 16-18 June 2020, Irbid, Jordan
Pages
19-27
Topics
Knowledge-Based Systems Management Information Systems
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{1097EngiTek2020,
title={Academic Rewards Coin (ARC) Concept: Mining Academic Contribution Into Bitcoin},
author={Mohammad M. Banat, and Haifaa Elayyan},
booktitle={International Congress on Engineering Technologies (EngiTek 2020)},
year={2020},
pages={19-27},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
