Future Internet, Volume 17, Issue 12

Health insurance fraud (HIF) places a substantial economic burden on global health systems. While supervised machine learning (SML) offers a promising solution for its detection, most approaches are ad hoc and lack a systematic methodological framewo...

Efficient resource allocation is a central challenge in multi-tenant cloud, fog, and edge environments, where heterogeneous tenants compete for shared resources under dynamic and uncertain workloads. Static or purely heuristic methods often fail to c...

The rise in social media has transformed Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) into platforms where users actively share their experiences and opinions. However, conventional opinion mining approaches often fail to capture nuanced emotional expressions or co...

This study examines the role of different factors in supporting the sustainable use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in higher education, particularly in the context of student interactions with intelligent and human-centered learning too...

Cloud-native microservice architectures offer scalability and resilience but introduce complex interdependencies and new attack surfaces, making them vulnerable to resource-exhaustion Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks propag...

Accurate weather classification plays a vital role in disaster management and minimizing economic losses. However, satellite-based weather classification remains challenging due to high inter-class similarity; the computational complexity of existing...

Concurrency bugs originate from complex and improper synchronization of shared resources, presenting a significant challenge for detection. Traditional static analysis relies heavily on expert knowledge and frequently fails when code is non-compilabl...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of distributed nodes to monitor various physical and environmental parameters. The sensor nodes (SNs) are usually resource constrained such as power source, communication, and computation capacity. In WSN, ener...

This paper presents the development and validation of an IoT-enabled temperature-sensing device for real-time monitoring of the thermal insulation properties of glass windows. The system integrates contact and non-contact temperature sensors into a c...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly becoming vulnerable to cyberattacks as they adopt digital technologies to support their administrative, research and academic activities. These institutions, which typically operate in open and de...

This paper presents an edge-to-cloud orchestrator capable of supporting services running at the edge on heterogeneous nodes based on general-purpose processing units and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform (i.e., AMD Kria K26 SoM) in an urb...

Research on deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-dimensional data visualization has thoroughly explored cross-modal hash retrieval (CMHR) systems, yet their vulnerability to malicious adversarial examples remains evident. Recent work improves the ro...

Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly used to support real-time decision making in connected mobility systems, where network latency and uncertainty limit the effectiveness of conventional control strategies. This paper proposes a conceptual model for...

Continuous and personalized monitoring are beneficial for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. However, such levels of monitoring are seldom ensured by...

Many countries around the world repeatedly suffer from natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes due to geographical factors, including plate boundaries, tropical cyclone zones, and coastal regions. Representative exampl...

This paper explores the application of mobile sensor networks in cow herds, focusing on the challenge of achieving local communication under minimal computational constraints such as restricted locality, limited memory, and implicit coordination. To...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have become essential mobile sensing nodes in Internet of Things ecosystems, with applications ranging from disaster monitoring to traffic surveillance. However, wireless bandwidth is severely strained when sending enormous a...

Smart farming relies heavily on IoT automation and data-driven decision making, but this growing connectivity also increases exposure to cyberattacks. Flow-based unsupervised intrusion detection is a privacy-preserving alternative to signature and pa...

“GenAI” assistants are gradually being integrated into daily tasks and learning, but their uptake is no less contingent on perceptions of credibility or safety than on their capabilities per se. The current study hypothesizes and tests it...

This paper proposes a transmission-path selection algorithm with joint computation and communication resource allocation for sixth-generation (6G) mobile edge computing (MEC) networks enhanced by helper-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communication a...

The Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism is increasingly used in blockchain systems; however, resource allocation for PoS-based mobile blockchain networks remains underexplored, particularly given the constraints of mobile devices. This work intr...

Most adaptive learning systems personalize around content sequencing and difficulty adjustment rather than transforming instructional material within the lesson itself. This paper presents the STREAM (Semantic Transformation and Real-Time Educational...

The limited availability and imbalance of labeled malicious network traffic data remain major obstacles in developing effective AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. To mitigate these challenges, this study investigates the use of deep generative models...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays an important role in driving innovation in smart healthcare by providing accurate, scalable, and privacy-preserving diagnostic options. Pneumonia is still a major global health issue, and early detection is key to i...

This study evaluates the performance of a hybrid passive optical network–radio over fiber (PON–RoF) architecture for long-term evolution (LTE)-based video transmission, focusing on the analysis of the block error rate (BLER) with and with...

In the era of rapidly evolving Internet technologies, influencer marketing has emerged as a transformative force in digital tourism, reshaping how travelers discover, evaluate, and choose destinations and accommodations. This study investigates the r...

Extracting 3D skeletons from point clouds is a challenging task in computer vision. Most existing deep learning methods rely heavily on supervised data requiring extensive manual annotation. Consequently, re-labeling is often necessary for cross-cate...

As software systems grow increasingly complex and interconnected, detecting vulnerabilities in source code has become a critical and challenging task. Traditional static analysis methods often fall short in capturing deep, context-dependent vulnerabi...

Big players in information and communication technologies are investing in the metaverse for their businesses. Meta, as the main player in social media worldwide, is massively developing its “social” metaverse as a new paradigm by depicti...

The rising demand for long-range, low-power wireless communication in applications such as monitoring, smart metering, and wide-area sensor networks has emphasized the critical need for efficient spectrum utilization in LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area...

The Internet has been progressively more integrated into daily life through its evolutionary stages, ranging from web1.0 to the current development of web3.0. These continued integrations broaden the attack surface that cybercriminals aim to exploit....

Iron ore image classification is essential for achieving high production efficiency and classification precision in mineral processing. However, real industrial environments face classification challenges due to small samples, inter-class similarity,...

The increasing inclusion of robots in social areas requires continuous improvement of behavioral strategies that robots must follow. Although behavioral strategies mainly focus on operational efficiency, other aspects should be considered to provide...

The rapid advancement of social media and the exponential increase in online information have made open-source intelligence an essential component of modern criminal investigations. However, existing digital forensics standards mainly focus on eviden...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly positioned as a transformative force in healthcare. The translation of AI from technical validation to real-world clinical impact remains a critical challenge. This systematic review aims to synthesize the...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has influenced the healthcare industry by enabling real-time monitoring, data-driven decision-making, and automation of medical activities. IoT in healthcare comprises a network of interconnected medical devices, sensors,...

The rapid implementation of multi-cloud architectures, such as the integration of services from multiple cloud providers, gives organizations enhanced flexibility, resilience, and vendor independence. However, the multi-cloud model presents complicat...

Permissionless blockchains have evolved beyond cryptocurrency into foundations for Web3 applications, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital asset ownership, yet this rapid expansion has intensified privacy vulnerabilities. This study provides a c...

The proliferation of disinformation on social media platforms poses a significant challenge to the reliability of online information ecosystems and the protection of public discourse. This study investigates the role of emotional sequences in detecti...

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising way to train machine learning models collaboratively on decentralized edge devices, addressing key privacy, communication, and regulatory challenges in smart city environments. This survey adopts a narrative...

Post-5G and 6G telecommunication infrastructures face critical information security challenges due to increasing network complexity and sophisticated cyberattacks. Traditional intrusion detection systems based on statistical traffic analysis struggle...

Effective web service selection and recommendation are critical for ensuring high-quality performance in distributed and service-oriented systems. Recent research has increasingly explored the use of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from T...

The sixth-generation (6G) system has been attracting increasing attention from both industry and academia, with the space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) identified as one of its key applications. This study investigates a SAGIN fra...

Facial expression analysis using artificial intelligence (AI) represents an emerging approach for assessing mental health, particularly in neurocognitive disorders. This study encompassed observational investigations that assessed facial expressions...

Among indoor positioning technologies, Wi-Fi fingerprinting using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is the most convenient and cost-effective method for indoor positioning. Instability and interference in wireless signal transmission caus...

To address the issues of privacy-utility imbalance, insufficient incentives, and lack of verifiable computation in current medical data sharing, this paper proposes a blockchain-based fair verification and adaptive differential privacy mechanism. The...

To enable remote and automatic monitoring of the farmland soil information, this paper has developed a soil monitoring system based on the Internet of Things (IoT), which mainly involves the development of a gateway server node, wireless sensor nodes...

Nowadays, driven by the exponential growth of parameters and training data of AI applications and Large Language Models, a single GPU is no longer sufficient in terms of computing power and storage capacity. Building high-performance multi-GPU system...

In 2024, a total of 361 billion emails were sent and received by businesses and consumers each day. Email remains the preferred method of communication for work-related matters, with knowledge workers spending two to five hours a day managing their i...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enriches prompts with external knowledge, but it often relies on additional infrastructure that may be impractical in resource-constrained or offline settings. In addition, updating the internal knowledge of a lan...