Following COVID-19, new accreditation standards include digitization, entrepreneurship, social inclusion and the circular economy. Blockchain can help to simplify difficult accreditation processes that ensure worldwide teaching, learning, practice and business communication excellence. The paper proposes a Collaborative Learning and Student Work Evaluation (CLSWE) model based on blockchain technologies (BCTs) encompassing selected concepts from the scientific research peer-review process. BCTs are used to develop a safe platform for storing and exchanging data about students’ projects and evaluations. The CLSWE model offers the possibility of improving cooperation between higher-education institutions and companies that seek the “employable skills” of proactive students. Before implementing the CLSWE model, a questionnaire was conducted to survey lecturers about their attitudes related to the potential application of BCTs. The results of the surveys are encouraging and reveal a desire and willingness to introduce BCTs in education. A project scheme with the main functionalities of the model and a description of the roles of the prominent participants was designed. A platform with a database created in the MySQL language for the testing model was built. This research also contributes to higher education literature in terms of the sustainability of the education process and collaborative learning with BCTs.

Dynamicity of the cloud computing system, complexity of real-world decision-making problems, and nontransparent market imply numerous difficulties in finding the corresponding solution for cloud supplier evaluation and selection. Due to that reason, there is a need to develop a model that can contribute to increase of reliability of evaluation and reduction of subjectivity of the decision-maker. Having in mind the aforementioned, the authors proposed a new concept to model a cloud supplier evaluation based on technology perspective. Here, we developed a model that combined fuzzy techniques with implemented simulation of model parameters. The proposed method for cloud supplier evaluation is flexible with an objective evaluation and ensures more precise numerical value. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and pragmatism of the proposed approach.

In this paper, we introduce the structure of extended cone b-metric-like spaces over Banach algebra as a generalization of cone b-metric-like spaces over Banach algebra. In this generalized space we define the notion of generalized Lipschitz mappings in the setup of extended cone b-metric-like spaces over Banach algebra and investigated some fixed point results. We also provide examples to illustrate the results presented herein. Finally, as an application of our main result, we examine the existence and uniqueness of solution for a Fredholm integral equation.

In this article, some new generalizations of Darbo’s fixed-point theorem are given and the solvability of an infinite system of weighted fractional integral equations of a function with respect to another function is studied. Also, with the help of a proper example, we illustrate our findings.

In this paper, the problem of removing the image noise in color (RGB) images is addressed as well as the problem of the image segmentation. A new filter is created on the basis of the new fuzzy metric composed of two other fuzzy metrics...