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Fabric-GC: A Blockchain-based Gantt Chart System for Cross-organizational Project Management

Dun Li¹, Dezhi Han¹, Benhui Xia¹, Tien-Hsiung Weng², Arcangelo Castiglione³ and and Kuan-Ching Li²

1. College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University
   201306, Shanghai, China
   {lidunshmtu@outlook.com
2. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engr. (CSIE), Providence University
   43301, Taichung, Taiwan
   kuancli@pu.edu.tw
3. Department of Computer Science University of Salerno, Fisciano
   84084, SA, Italy
   arcastiglione@unisa.it

Abstract

Large-scale production is always associated with more and more development and interaction among peers, and many fields achieve higher economic benefits through project cooperation. However, project managers in the traditional centralized approach cannot rearrange their activities to cross-organizational project management. Thanks to its characteristics, the Blockchain can represent a valid solution to the problems mentioned above. In this article, we propose Fabric-GC, a Blockchain-based Gantt chart system. Fabric-GC enables to realize secure and effective cross-organizational cooperation for project management, providing access control to multiple parties for project visualization. Compared with other solutions, the proposed system is versatile, as it can be applied to project management in different fields and achieve effective and agile scheduling. Experimental results show that Fabric-GC achieves stable performance in large-scale request and processing distributed environments, where the data synchronization speed of the consortium chain reached four times faster than a public chain, achieving faster data consistency.

Key words

Cross-organizational secure cooperation, Blockchain, Gantt chart, Project management, Hyperledger fabric, Data sharing

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS211105024L

Publication information

Volume 19, Issue 3 (September 2022)
Year of Publication: 2022
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Li, D., Han, D., Xia, B., Weng, T., Castiglione, A., Li, a. K.: Fabric-GC: A Blockchain-based Gantt Chart System for Cross-organizational Project Management. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1213-1240. (2022), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS211105024L