Design a Blockchain-based Service Level Agreement Smart Model by Using Grounded Theory

Service level agreement is an obligation between the service provider and the customer in which specific aspects of service, quality, availability and responsibilities are agreed between the service provider and the service user. A smart contract is a computer transaction protocol that enforces the terms of a contract. The purpose of this study is to design a model of blockchain-based agreed service level intelligence using data foundation theory. This research was conducted based on the data theory of the Cholera Foundation with a qualitative-quantitative approach. The method of data collection in the qualitative section is in-depth interview and the interview texts were analyzed in three stages of open, axial and selective coding. Atlas software was used to analyze the data. The sampling method is snowball. 13 interviews were conducted with experts in the field of information and communication saturation technology. In the quantitative part of the statistical population, knowledge-based companies active in the field of information and communication technology were determined and based on the structural equation model method, a sample size of 160 people was selected. For quantitative validation of the model, structural equation modeling method was used. In the qualitative section, determining causal, context, strategy, intervention and consequences of designing the service level agreement model was performed and in the quantitative part, the effect of causal conditions on the main phenomenon was 0.618, the effect of the main phenomenon on the strategy was equal to 0.589 0. The effect of underlying conditions on strategy was 0.543, the effect of interventional conditions on strategy was equal to 0.413 and the effect of strategy on outcome was calculated equal to 0.676. In the qualitative part, the resulting research was based on the design of a new model of service level agreement based on data theory and in the quantitative part, the standard coefficient of the components of the model was confirmed.