2024

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• Hong Kang, Minghao Li, Lehao Lin, Sizheng Fan, and Wei Cai, “Bridging Incentives and Dependencies: An Iterative Combinatorial Auction Approach to Dependency-Aware Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing“, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024. [bib]

• Yuanfang Chi, Qiyue Zhang, Jiaxiang Sun, Wei Cai, Z. Jane Wang, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Incentivizing Socio-Ethical Integrity in Decentralized Machine Learning Ecosystems for Collaborative Knowledge Sharing“, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wei Cai, “Incentive Mechanism Design Toward a Win-Win Situation for Generative Art Trainers and Artists“, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024. [bib]

• Jiaxiang Sun, Rong Zhao, Haoran Yin, and Wei Cai, “Incentive Mechanism for Redactable Blockchain Governance: An Evolutionary Game Approach“, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024. [bib]

• Haoran Yin, Jiaxiang Sun, and Wei Cai, “Honest or Dishonest? Promoting Integrity in Loot Box Games through Evolutionary Game Theory“, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024. [bib]

• Jinghan Sun, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wei Cai, “Smart Contract as a Service: A Paradigm of Reusing Smart Contract in Web3 Ecosystem“, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2024. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Junhua Liao, Lehao Lin, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wei Cai, “Meetor: A Human-Centered Automatic Video Editing System for Meeting Recordings“, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2024. [bib]

• Lehao Lin, Hong Kang, Xinyao Sun, and Wei Cai, “SemNFT: A Semantically Enhanced Decentralized Middleware for Digital Asset Immortality“, In 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’24), Melbourne, Australia, October 28-November 1, 2024. [bib]

• Jinghan Sun, Hongbo Zhang, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wei Cai, “Duopoly Competition in Blockchain Game with Interoperability“, In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC’24), Sarawak, Malaysia, Oct 6 – 10, 2024. [bib]

• Yuanfang Chi, Qiyue Zhang, Jiaxiang Sun, Wei Cai, Z. Jane Wang, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Maximizing the Social Welfare of Decentralized Knowledge Inference through Evolutionary Game“, In 2024 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM’24 WKSHPS), Vancouver, Canada, May 20-23, 2024. [bib]

• Jintao Huang, Pengcheng Xia, Jiefeng Li, Kai Ma, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Wei Cai, and Haoyu Wang, “Unveiling the Paradox of NFT Prosperity“, In The ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW’24), Singapore, May 13 – 17, 2024. [bib]

• Chenyu Zhou, Hongzhou Chen, Hao Wu, Junyu Zhang, and Wei Cai, “ARTEMIS: Detecting Airdrop Hunters in NFT Markets with a Graph Learning System“, In The ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW’24), Singapore, May 13 – 17, 2024. [bib]

2023

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• Lin Wang, Hongzhou Chen, and Wei Cai, “Education in Metaverse: The Status Quo and the Innovation“, Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2023. [bib]

• Chenyu Zhou, Hongzhou Chen, Shiman Wang, Xinyao Sun, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wei Cai, “Harnessing Web3 on Carbon Offset Market for Sustainability: Framework and A Case Study“, IEEE Wireless Communications, 2023. [bib]

• Yuanfang Chi, Haihan Duan, Wei Cai, Z. Jane Wang, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Knowledge Inference over Web 3.0 for Intelligent Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Internet of Things“, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2023. [bib]

• Hongzhou Chen, and Wei Cai, “A Comparative Analysis of Centralized and Decentralized Developer Autonomous Organizations Managing Conflicts in Discussing External Crises“, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2023. [bib]

• Hongzhou Chen, and Wei Cai, “How Information Manipulation on Social Media Influences the NFT Investors’ Behavior: A Case Study of Goblintown.Wtf“, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2023. [bib]

• Yuanfang Chi, Haihan Duan, Wei Cai, Z. Jane Wang, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Networking Parallel Web3 Metaverses for Interoperability“, IEEE Network Magazine, 2023. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Zhonghao Lin, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “MetaCube: A Crypto-Based Unique User-Generated Content Editor for Web3 Metaverse“, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023. [bib]

• Yunshu Liu, Zhixuan Fang, Man Hon Cheung, Wei Cai, and Jianwei Huang, “Mechanisms Design for Blockchain Storage Sustainability“, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023. [bib]

• Hongzhou Chen, Haihan Duan, Maha Abdallah, Yufeng Zhu, Yonggang Wen, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wei Cai, “Web3 Metaverse: State-of-the-Art and Vision“, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2023. [bib]

• Feijie Wu, Ho Yin Yuen, Henry C.B. Chan, Victor C.M. Leung, and Wei Cai, “Facilitating Serverless Match-Based Online Games with Novel Blockchain Technologies“, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Association for Computing Machinery, Feb, 2023. [bib]

• Hao Wu, Yueyao Li, Yan Zhuang, Xinyao Sun, and Wei Cai, “BranchClash: A Fully On-Chain Tower Defense Blockchain Game with New Collaboration Mechanism“, In 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Demos and Videos Track (MM‘23 Demo), Ottawa, Canada, October 29-November 3, 2023. [bib]

• Zhonghao Lin, Haihan Duan, Jiaye Li, Xinyao Sun, and Wei Cai, “MetaCast: A Self-Driven Metaverse Announcer Architecture Based on Quality of Experience Evaluation Model“, In 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’23), Ottawa, Canada, October 29-November 3, 2023. [bib]

• Yiming Lai, Sizheng Fan, and Wei Cai, “Quantitative Analysis of Play-to-Earn Blockchain Games: A Case Study of Axie Infinity“, In IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom’23), Kyoto, Japan June 26-28, 2023. [bib]

• Lehao Lin, Haihan Duan, and Wei Cai, “Web3DP: A Crowdsourcing Platform for 3D Models Based on Web3 Infrastructure“, In 14th Conference on ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys’23), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023. [bib]

• Sizheng Fan, Tian Min, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “Altruistic and Profit-Oriented: Making Sense of Roles in Web3 Community from Airdrop Perspective“, In The 2023 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’23), Hamburg, Germany, 2023. [bib]

• Hong Kang, Minghao Li, Sizheng Fan, and Wei Cai, “Combinatorial Auction-enabled Dependency-Aware Offloading Strategy in Mobile Edge Computing“, In 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’23), 2023. [bib]

• Hao Wu, Jinghan Sun, Haihan Duan, and Wei Cai, “Newbie at CUHKSZ: A Voxel Art Puzzle Game for Campus Orientation“, In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE’23) Demo, 2023. [bib]

2022

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• Sizheng Fan, Tian Min, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “Towards Understanding Governance Tokens in Liquidity Mining: A Case Study of Decentralized Exchanges“, World Wide Web, Springer, 2022. [bib]

• Yunshu Liu, Zhixuan Fang, Man Hon Cheung, Wei Cai, and Jianwei Huang, “An Incentive Mechanism for Sustainable Blockchain Storage“, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022. [bib]

• Sizheng Fan, Hongbo Zhang, Zehua Wang, and Wei Cai, “Mobile Devices Strategies in Blockchain-based Federated Learning: A Dynamic Game Perspective“, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2022. [bib]

• Sizheng Fan, Juntao Zhao, Rong Zhao, Zehua Wang, and Wei Cai, “CryptoArcade: A Cloud Gaming System with Blockchain-based Token Economy“, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2022. [bib]

• Yunshu Liu, Shulin Ke, Zhixuan Fang, Man Hon Cheung, Wei Cai, and Jianwei Huang, “A Storage Sustainability Mechanism With Heterogeneous Miners in Blockchain“, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022. [bib]

• Tian Min, and Wei Cai, “Portrait of Decentralized Application Users: An Overview Based on Large-scale Ethereum Data“, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 2022. [bib]

• Chenhuizi Wang, and Wei Cai, “Digital Economics in Metaverse: State-of-the-Art, Characteristics, and Vision“, Big Data Research, 2022. [bib]

• Yimin Shi, Haihan Duan, Lei Yang, and Wei Cai, “An Energy-efficient and Privacy-aware Decomposition Framework for Edge-assisted Federated Learning“, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2022. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “Crypto-Dropout: To Create Unique User-Generated Content Using Crypto Information in Metaverse“, In 2022 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2022. [bib]

• Jiaye Li, Minghao Li, Zikai Wen, and Wei Cai, “Understanding the Challenges of Team-Based Live Streaming for First-Person Shooter Games“, In The IEEE CTSoc International Conference on Games Entertainment & Media 2022 (GEM’22), Barbados, Nov 27-30, 2022. [bib]

• Hao He, Yulin Zhu, and Wei Cai, “An Adaptive Hint System for Puzzle Games: A Multimodal-Based Approach“, In The IEEE CTSoc International Conference on Games Entertainment & Media 2022 (GEM’22), Barbados, Nov 27-30, 2022. [bib]

• Zhonghao Lin, Haihan Duan, Zikai Wen, and Wei Cai, “What Features Influence Impact Feel? A Study of Impact Feedback in Action Games“, In The IEEE CTSoc International Conference on Games Entertainment & Media 2022 (GEM’22), Barbados, Nov 27-30, 2022. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Yiwei Huang, Yifan Zhao, Zhen Huang, and Wei Cai, “User-Generated Content and Editors in Video Games: Survey and Vision“, In 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG’22), 2022. [bib]

• Yu Jiang, Tian Min, Sizheng Fan, Rongqi Tao, and Wei Cai, “Towards Understanding Player Behavior in Blockchain Games: A Case Study of Aavegotchi“, In The 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG’22), Athens, Greece, 2022. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Junhua Liao, Lehao Lin, and Wei Cai, “FLAD: A Human-centered Video Content Flaw Detection System for Meeting Recordings“, In The 32nd Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV’22), Athlone, Ireland, June 14-17, 2022. [bib]

• Hao He, Yingying She, Yu Jiang, and Wei Cai, “See Through Them: A Framework for Inferring The Cognitive States of Puzzle Game Players via Eye Gaze“, In The 2nd ACM Workshop on Game Systems (GameSys’22), Athlone, Ireland, June 14-17, 2022. [bib]

• Yu Chen, Tian Min, and Wei Cai, “Synchronization in Games Sound: An Audiovisual Study on Player Experience and Performance“, In The 2nd ACM Workshop on Game Systems (GameSys’22), Athlone, Ireland, June 14-17, 2022. [bib]

• Minghao Li, and Wei Cai, “A Blockchain-based Profiling System for Exploring Human Factors in Cloud-Edge-End Orchestration“, In 2022 Workshop on Block6G: Intelligent, Scalable, and Efficient Blockchain for 6G Networking and Communications (Block6G’22), ICDCS Workshops, 2022. [bib]

• Yu Jiang, Sizheng Fan, and Wei Cai, “Economics Analysis of Loot Box Market in Blockchain Games“, In 2022 ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI’22), Nagasaki, Japan, May 30, 2022. [bib]

• Hongbo Zhang, Sizheng Fan, Zhixuan Fang, and Wei Cai, “Economic Analysis of Decentralized Exchange Market with Transaction Fee Mining“, In 2022 ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI’22), Nagasaki, Japan, May 30, 2022. [bib]

• Kun Xin, Sizheng Fan, and Wei Cai, “Psychological Game Analysis for Crowdsourcing with Reciprocity“, In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’22), Seoul, South Korea, May 16-20, 2022. [bib]

2021

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• Yuanfang Chi, Wei Dai, Yuan Fan, Jun Ruan, Kai Hwang, and Wei Cai, “Total Cost Ownership Optimization of Private Clouds: A Rack Minimization Perspective“, Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), 2021. [bib]

• Shaoshuai Ding, Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Wei Cai, Mingkui Tan, and Zhenyu Wang, “Partitioning Stateful Data Stream Applications in Dynamic Edge Cloud Environments“, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 2021. [bib]

• Sizheng Fan, Hongbo Zhang, Yuchen Zeng, and Wei Cai, “Hybrid Blockchain-Based Resource Trading System for Federated Learning in Edge Computing“, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. [bib]

• Haihan Duan, Jiaye Li, Sizheng Fan, Zhonghao Lin, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “Metaverse for Social Good: A University Campus Prototype“, In 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’21), Chengdu, China, October 20-24, 2021. [bib]

• Lin Wang, Zhonghao Lin, and Wei Cai, “Heraclitus’s Forest: An Interactive Artwork for Oral History“, In 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’21) Interactive Artworks Track, Chengdu, China, October 20-24, 2021. [bib]

• Hanfeng Liu, Zeyi Wen, and Wei Cai, “FastPSO: Towards Efficient Swarm Intelligence Algorithm on GPUs“, In The 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2021), Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 9-12, 2021. [bib]

• Yu Chen, Haihan Duan, and Wei Cai, “The Advertising in Free-to-play Games: A Game Theory Analysis“, In The ACM Workshop on Game Systems (GameSys’21), Istanbul, Turkey, September 28- October 1, 2021. [bib]

2020

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• Li-e Wang, Yan Bai, Quan Jiang, Victor C.M. Leung, Wei Cai, and Xianxian Li, “Beh-Raft-Chain: A Behavior-based Fast Blockchain Protocol for Complex Networks“, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020. [bib]

• Yiwen Han, Dongyu Guo, Wei Cai, Xiaofei Wang, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Virtual Machine Placement Optimization in Mobile Cloud Gaming through QoE-Oriented Resource Competition“, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2020. [bib]

• Xuan Luo, Zehua Wang, Wei Cai, Xiuhua Li, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Application and Evaluation of Payment Channel in Hybrid Decentralized Ethereum Token Exchange “, Blockchain: Research and Applications, 2020. [bib]

• Junhua Liao, Haihan Duan, Xin Li, Haoran Xu, Yanbing Yang, Wei Cai, Yanru Chen, and Liangyin Chen, “Occlusion Detection for Automatic Video Editing“, In 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’20), Seattle, United States, October 12-16, 2020. [bib]

• Feijie Wu, Ho Yin Yuen, Henry C.B. Chan, Victor C.M. Leung, and Wei Cai, “Infinity Battle: A Glance of how Blockchain Techniques Serve for Serverless Gaming System“, In 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’20) Demo, Seattle, United States, October 12-16, 2020. [bib]

• Zhengjia Cao, Bowen Xiao, Haihan Duan, Lei Yang, and Wei Cai, “A Dynamic Partitioning Framework for Edge-assisted Cloud Computing“, In 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP’20), Oct. 2-4, 2020. [bib]

• Yimin Shi, Haihan Duan, Yuanfang Chi, Keke Gai, and Wei Cai, “Edge-assisted Federated Learning: An Empirical Study from Software Decomposition Perspective“, In 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP’20), Oct. 2-4, 2020. [bib]

• Fulin Wen, Lei Yang, Wei Cai, and Pan Zhou, “DP-Hybrid: A Two-Layer Consensus Protocol for High Scalability in Permissioned Blockchain“, In 2020 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys’20), Aug. 6-7, 2020. [bib]

• Juntao Zhao, Yuanfang Chi, Zehua Wang, Victor C.M. Leung, and Wei Cai, “CloudArcade: A Blockchain Empowered Cloud Gaming System“, In 2020 ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, June 1-5, 2020. [bib]

• Xiao Wu, Han Qiu, Shuyi Zhang, Gerard Memmi, Keke Gai, and Wei Cai, “ChainIDE 2.0: Facilitating Smart Contract Development for Consortium Blockchain“, In 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM’20 WKSHPS), Toronto, Canada, July 6-9, 2020. [bib]

• Yunshu Liu, Zhixuan Fang, Man Hon Cheung, Wei Cai, and Jianwei Huang, “Economics of Blockchain Storage“, In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’20), Dublin, Ireland, June 7-11, 2020. [bib]

• Kun Xin, Shuyi Zhang, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “Reciprocal Crowdsourcing: Building Cooperative Game Worlds on Blockchain“, In 38th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE’20), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 4-6, 2020. [bib]

2019

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• Sheng Gao, Tianyu Yu, Jianming Zhu, and Wei Cai, “T-PBFT: An EigenTrust-based practical Byzantine fault tolerance consensus algorithm“, China Communications, 2019. [bib]

• Han Qiu, Xiao Wu, Shuyi Zhang, Victor C.M. Leung, and Wei Cai, “ChainIDE: A Cloud-based Integrated Development Environment for Cross-blockchain Smart Contracts“, In 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom’19) POSTER, Sydney, Australia, December 11 – December 13, 2019. [bib]

• Guiyan Wang, Hongbo Zhang, Bowen Xiao, Yeh-Ching Chung, and Wei Cai, “EduBloud: A Blockchain-based Education Cloud“, In The Computing, Communications and IoT Applications Conference (ComComAp’19), Shenzhen, China, October 26-28, 2019. [bib]

• Tengfei Wang, Shuyi Zhang, Xiao Wu, and Wei Cai, “Rhythm Dungeon: A Blockchain-Based Music Roguelike Game“, In The 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG’19), San Luis Obispo, California, USA, 2019. [bib]

• Tian Min, Hanyi Wang, Yaoze Guo, and Wei Cai, “Blockchain Games: A Survey“, In IEEE Conference on Games (CoG’19), London, United Kingdom, Aug 20-23, 2019. [bib]

• Tian Min, and Wei Cai, “A Security Case Study for Blockchain Games“, In IEEE Games Entertainment & Media Conference 2019 (GEM’19), New Haven, Connecticut, United States, June 19-22, 2019. [bib]

• Ho Yin Yuen, Feijie Wu, Wei Cai, Henry C.B. Chan, Qiao Yan, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Proof-of-Play: A Novel Consensus Model for Blockchain-based Peer-to-Peer Gaming System“, In 2019 ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI’19), Auckland, New Zealand, 2019. [bib]

• Wei Cai, and Xiao Wu, “Demo Abstract: An Interoperable Avatar Framework Across Multiple Games and Blockchains“, In 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Demos (INFOCOM’19 DEMO), Paris, France, April 29-May 2, Paris, France, 2019. [bib]

• Bowen Xiao, Xiaoyi Fan, Sheng Gao, and Wei Cai, “EdgeToll: A Blockchain-based Toll Collection System for Public Sharing of Heterogeneous Edges“, In 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM’19 WKSHPS), Paris, France, April 29-May 2, Paris, France, 2019. [bib]

• Xuan Luo, Wei Cai, Zehua Wang, Xiuhua Li, and Victor C.M. Leung, “A Payment Channel Based Hybrid Decentralized Ethereum Token Exchange“, In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC’19), May, 2019. [bib]

• Dongyu Guo, Yiwen Han, Wei Cai, Xiaofei Wang, and Victor C.M. Leung, “QoE-Oriented Resource Optimization for Mobile Cloud Gaming: A Potential Game Approach“, In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’19), Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019. [bib]