Journal Article

A Novel Method for Food Market Regulation by Emotional Tendencies Predictions from Food Reviews Based on Blockchain and SAEs

Wang, Guancheng, Li, Haisheng, Zuo, Min, Zhang, Bob, Hao, Zhihao, Mao, Dianhui, Zhao, Zhihua, Yen, Jerome

2021

Overview

As a part of food safety research, researches on food transactions safety has attracted increasing attention recently. Food choice is an important factor affecting food transactions safety: It can reflect consumer preferences and provide a basis for market regulation. Therefore, this paper proposes a food market regulation method based on blockchain and a deep learning model: Stacked autoencoders (SAEs). Blockchain is used to ensure the fairness of transactions and achieve transparency within the transaction process, thereby reducing the complexity of the trading environment. In order to enhance the usability, relevant Web pages have been developed to make it more friendly and conduct a security analysis for using blockchain. Consumers’ reviews after the transactions are finished can be used to train SAEs in order to perform emotional tendencies predictions. Compared with different advanced models for predictions, the test results show that SAEs have a better performance. Furthermore, in order to provide a basis for the formulation of regulation strategies and its related policies, case studies of different traders and commodities have also been conducted, proving the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Publisher: MDPI AG,MDPI
• Subject: Artificial intelligence / Blockchain / Classification / Consumers / Cryptography / Data analysis / Deep learning / Emotions / Food / food choices / food market / Food quality / Food safety / Food science / Food supply / Machine learning / markets / Methods / Neural networks / Predictions / Regulation / Safety / Safety research / Sentiment analysis / Supply chains / Traffic flow / Websites