“…Simulation was the prevalent technique, followed by AM, BDA, and the IoT. From one perspective, simulation (in the form of blockchain) was exploited for (i) auditing cooperative CE networks (Alexandris et al 2018), (ii) assessing the impact of business model changes (Simons 2017), for example, through agent-based or multi-method approaches , and (iii) assessing redistributed manufacturing or service-based design (Panarotto, Wall, and Larsson 2017) (French, Benakis, and Marin-Reyes 2017) x (Ge and Jackson 2014) x (Karastoyanov and Karastanev 2018) x (Kuik, Kaihara, and Fujii 2016) x (Lahrour and Brissaud 2018) x (Le, Paris, and Mandil 2017a) x (Le, Paris, and Mandil 2017b) x (Leino, Pekkarinen, and Soukka 2016) x (Liu et al 2016) x (Ruggeri et al 2017) x (Shanshan Yang et al 2018) x (Siddiqi et al 2017) x (Stark et al 2014) x (Tolio et al 2017) x (X. V. x (B. Xu 2016)…”