2024 January - 31 articles
In response to the rapid advancements in facial manipulation technologies, particularly facilitated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Stable Diffusion-based methods, this paper explores the critical issue of deepfake content creation. The...
This study introduces a novel approach to address challenges in workpiece surface defect identification. It presents an enhanced Single Shot MultiBox Detector model, incorporating attention mechanisms and multi-feature fusion. The research methodolog...
Electromyography-based wearable biosensors are used for prosthetic control. Machine learning prosthetic controllers are based on classification and regression models. The advantage of the regression approach is that it permits us to obtain a smoother...
The requirement to develop a smart education system is critical in the era of ubiquitous technology. In the smart education environment, intelligent pedagogies are constructed to take advantage of technological devices and foster learners’ comp...
The Internet’s expansion has changed how the services accessed and businesses operate. Blockchain is an innovative technology that emerged after the rise of the Internet. In addition, it maintains transactions on encrypted databases that are distribu...
The distinguishing feature of hash-based algorithms is their high confidence in security. When designing electronic signature schemes, proofs of security reduction to certain properties of cryptographic hash functions are used. This means that if the...
In recent years, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has revolutionized the landscape of the telecommunication industry by offering low-latency, high-bandwidth, and real-time processing. With this advancement comes a broad range of security challenges, the m...
A significant volume of literature has extensively reported on and presented the benefits of employing escape classroom games (ECGs), on one hand, and on augmented reality (AR) in English language learning, on the other. However, there is little evid...
We have designed a real-world smart building energy fault detection (SBFD) system on a cloud-based Databricks workspace, a high-performance computing (HPC) environment for big-data-intensive applications powered by Apache Spark. By avoiding a Smart B...
With the evolution of software systems, their size and complexity are rising rapidly. Identifying vulnerabilities as early as possible is crucial for ensuring high software quality and security. Just-in-time (JIT) vulnerability prediction, which aims...
In the dynamic landscape of vehicular communication systems, connected vehicles (CVs) present unprecedented capabilities in perception, cooperation, and, notably, probability of collision management. This paper’s main concern is the collision p...
Liquidity is the ease of converting an asset (physical/digital) into cash or another asset without loss and is shown by the relationship between the time scale and the price scale of an investment. This article examines the illiquidity of Bitcoin (BT...
With the evolution of technologies, virtual reality allows us to dive into cyberspace through different devices and have immersive experiences in different contexts, which, in a simple way, we call virtual worlds or multiverse (integrating Metaverse...
Many data mining studies have focused on mining positive associations among frequent and regular item sets. However, none have considered time and regularity bearing in mind such associations. The frequent and regular item sets will be huge, even whe...
In a continuously evolving environment, organizations, including public administrations, need to quickly adapt to change and make decisions in real-time. This requires having a real-time understanding of their context that can be achieved by adopting...
When working with the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) protocol stack, the multi-channel operation mechanism of the IEEE 1609.4 protocol may impact the overall network performance, especially when using video streaming applications. In...
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The advancement and acceptance of new technologies often hinges on the level of understanding and trust among potential users. Blockchain technology, despite its broad applications across diverse sectors, is often met with skepticism due to a general...
Automatic data fusion is an important field of machine learning that has been increasingly studied. The objective is to improve the classification performance from several individual classifiers in terms of accuracy and stability of the results. This...
In recent years, Long-Term Evolution Vehicle-to-Everything (LTE-V2X) communication technology has received extensive attention. Timing synchronization is a crucial step in the receiving process, addressing Timing Offsets (TOs) resulting from random p...
In the face of numerous challenges in supply chain management, new technologies are being implemented to overcome obstacles and improve overall performance. Among these technologies, blockchain, a part of the distributed ledger family, offers several...
Augmentative and alternative communication techniques (AAC) are essential to assist individuals facing communication difficulties. (1) Background: It is acknowledged that dynamic solutions that adjust to the changing needs of patients are necessary i...
The growth of digital communications has driven the development of numerous cryptographic methods for secure data transfer and storage. The SHA-256 algorithm is a cryptographic hash function widely used for validating data authenticity, identity, and...
We present a hardware data structure specifically designed for FPGAs that enables the execution of the hard real-time database CRUD operations using a hybrid data structure that combines trees and rings. While the number of rows and columns has to be...
Wearing masks in indoor and outdoor public places has been mandatory in a number of countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Correctly wearing a face mask can reduce the transmission of the virus through respiratory droplets. In this paper, a novel tw...
The domain of Multi-Network Latency Prediction for IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) confronts significant challenges. However, continuous research efforts and progress in areas such as machine learning, edge computing, security technologies, a...
Transparency in financial reporting is crucial for maintaining trust in financial markets, yet fraudulent financial statements remain challenging to detect and prevent. This study introduces a novel approach to detecting financial statement fraud by...
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations have recently gained tremendous attention in the navigational field due to their larger constellation size, faster geometry variations, and higher signal power levels than Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS...
Social media has become an almost unlimited resource for studying social processes. Seasonality is a phenomenon that significantly affects many physical and mental states. Modeling collective emotional seasonal changes is a challenging task for the t...
Data science and machine learning (ML) techniques are employed to shed light into the molecular mechanisms that affect fluid-transport properties at the nanoscale. Viscosity and thermal conductivity values of four basic monoatomic elements, namely, a...
Nowadays, in the pursuit of personalized health and well-being, dietary choices are critical. This paper introduces a novel recommendation system designed to provide users with personalized meal plans, consisting of breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinne...
