2023 May - 47 articles
The multi-objective optimization (MOO) of complex systems remains a challenging task in engineering domains. The methodological approach of applying MOO algorithms to simulation-enabled models has established itself as a standard. Despite increasing...
Parallel sentences play a crucial role in various NLP tasks, particularly for cross-lingual tasks such as machine translation. However, due to the time-consuming and laborious nature of manual construction, many low-resource languages still suffer fr...
Heart rate measurement employing photoplethysmography (PPG) is a prevalent technique for wearable devices. However, the acquired PPG signal is often contaminated with motion artifacts, which need to be accurately removed. In cases where the PPG and a...
Blind image super-resolution (Blind-SR) is the process of leveraging a low-resolution (LR) image, with unknown degradation, to generate its high-resolution (HR) version. Most of the existing blind SR techniques use a degradation estimator network to...
Blockchain is the foundation of all cryptocurrencies, while machine learning (ML) is one of the most popular technologies with a wide range of possibilities. Blockchain may be improved and made more effective by using ML. Even though blockchain techn...
The aim of this work is to highlight the possibilities of using VR applications in the informal learning process. This is attempted through the development of virtual reality cultural applications for historical monuments. For this purpose, the theor...
Advancements in text representation have produced many deep language models (LMs), such as Word2Vec and recurrent-based LMs. However, there are scarce works that focus on detecting implicit sentiments with a small amount of labelled data because ther...
The development of big data has generated data-intensive tasks that are usually time-consuming, with a high demand on cloud data centers for hosting big data applications. It becomes necessary to consider both data and task management to find the opt...
Evaluation and selection of a third-party reverse logistics provider (3PRLP) is an important tool for enterprises to improve the level of reverse logistics management. The identification of critical indicators plays a crucial role in the evaluation p...
Advancements in artificial intelligence are leading researchers to find use cases that were not as straightforward to solve in the past. The use case of simulated autonomous driving has been known as a notoriously difficult task to automate, but adva...
This research explored the influence of interoception and social frame on the coherence of inter-brain electrophysiological (EEG) and hemodynamic (collected by functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, fNIRS) functional connectivity during a motor synch...
Intent classification is an essential task for goal-oriented dialogue systems for automatically identifying customers’ goals. Although intent classification performs well in general settings, domain-specific user goals can still present a chall...
Design skills are considered important in software engineering, and formative feedback may facilitate the learning process and help students master those skills. However, little is known about student usage of and reaction to the feedback and its imp...
In this paper, we propose a new method of optimization based on genetic algorithms using the MATLAB toolbox “Global Optimization”. The algorithm finds layers moduli of a flexible pavement through the measurement of pavement surface deflec...
In the realm of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems, the selection of a weighting method holds a critical role. Researchers from diverse fields have consistently employed MCDM techniques, utilizing both traditional and novel methods to enh...
Medical service providers generate many healthcare records containing sensitive and private information about a patient’s health. The patient can allow healthcare service providers to generate healthcare data, which can be stored with healthcar...
In this study, based on a morpheme segmentation framework, we researched a text keyword extraction method for Uyghur, Kazakh and Kirghiz languages, which have similar grammatical and lexical structures. In these languages, affixes and a stem are join...
The brain is the organ most studied using Magnetic Resonance (MR). The emergence of 7T scanners has increased MR imaging resolution to a sub-millimeter level. However, there is a lack of automatic segmentation techniques for 7T MR volumes. This resea...
When choosing a third-party cloud storage platform, the confidentiality of data should be the primary concern. To address the issue of one-to-many access control during data sharing, it is important to encrypt data with an access policy that enables...
The advancements in communication speeds have enabled the centralized financial market to be faster and more complex than ever. The speed of the order execution has become exponentially faster when compared to the early days of electronic markets. Th...
What is the effect of focusing auditory attention on an upcoming signal tone? Weak signal tones, 40 ms in duration, were presented in 50 dB continuous white noise and were either uncued or cued 82 ms beforehand by a 12 dB SL cue tone of the same freq...
According to the American Humane Association, millions of cats and dogs are lost yearly. Only a few thousand of them are found and returned home. In this work, we use deep learning to help expedite the procedure of finding lost cats and dogs, for whi...
This paper reviews the research on adaptive serious games for programming regarding the implementation of their support systems. Serious games are designed to educate players in an entertaining and engaging manner. A key element in terms of meeting t...
To address a business need, most organizations allow employees to use their own devices to enhance productivity and job satisfaction. For this purpose, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy provides controllable access for employees to organize dat...
Optimization using genetic algorithms (GA) is a well-known strategy in several scientific disciplines. The crossover is an essential operator of the genetic algorithm. It has been an active area of research to develop sustainable forms for this opera...
Recent developments in the mobile and intelligence industry have led to an explosion in the use of multiple smart devices such as smartphones, tablets, smart bracelets, etc. To achieve lasting security after initial authentication, many studies have...
The frame field distributed inside the model region characterizes the singular structure features inside the model. These singular structures can be used to decompose the model region into multiple quadrilateral structures, thereby generating a block...
This research proposes a new approach to improve information retrieval systems based on a multinomial naive Bayes classifier (MNBC), Bayesian networks (BNs), and a multi-terminology which includes MeSH thesaurus (Medical Subject Headings) and SNOMED...
Quantifying the dissimilarity of two texts is an important aspect of a number of natural language processing tasks, including semantic information retrieval, topic classification, and document clustering. In this paper, we compared the properties and...
Requirement traceability links are an essential part of requirement management software and are a basic prerequisite for software artifact changes. The manual establishment of requirement traceability links is time-consuming. When faced with large pr...
Indicators of expected quality of service in public contracts are often based on some kind of “punctuality”, usually defined in terms of the percentage of trains arriving at the final destination (and/or at intermediate significant stops)...
IoT devices collect time-series traffic data, which is stochastic and complex in nature. Traffic flow prediction is a thorny task using this kind of data. A smart traffic congestion prediction system is a need of sustainable and economical smart citi...
This study describes the development of an image-based insect trap diverging from the plug-in camera insect trap paradigm in that (a) it does not require manual annotation of images to learn how to count targeted pests, and (b) it self-disposes the c...
During the deployment of practical applications, reservoir computing (RC) is highly susceptible to radiation effects, temperature changes, and other factors. Normal reservoirs are difficult to vouch for. To solve this problem, this paper proposed a r...
The accurate forecasting of energy consumption is essential for companies, primarily for planning energy procurement. An overestimated or underestimated forecasting value may lead to inefficient energy usage. Inefficient energy usage could also lead...
Within the framework of the mathematical theory of conflicts, we consider a multi-criterial conflict situation using the example of a child–parent conflict. A general method for constructing a conflict diagram is described and possible ways of...
In today’s hyperconnected world, the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing complement each other in several areas. Cloud Computing provides IoT systems with an efficient and flexible environment that supports application requirements such as r...
Named entity recognition (NER) in a few-shot setting is an extremely challenging task, and most existing methods fail to account for the gap between NER tasks and pre-trained language models. Although prompt learning has been successfully applied in...
Agile methods have gained wide popularity recently due to their characteristics in software development. Despite the success of agile methods in the software maintenance process, several challenges have been reported. In this study, we investigate th...
The aim of this study was to compare the success of two different Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) in attracting drivers’ attention when they were engaged in a Non-Driving-Related Task (NDRT) during SAE Level 3 driving. We also assessed the valu...
The problem of nonlinear substitution generation (S-boxes) is investigated in many related works in symmetric key cryptography. In particular, the strength of symmetric ciphers to linear cryptanalysis is directly related to the nonlinearity of substi...
With the increasing complexity of building structures and interior materials, the danger of indoor fires has become more severe. It is effective to improve the accuracy and timeliness of fire-sensing devices in order to reduce the harm caused by fire...
The increasing complexity of vehicle design, the use of new engine types and fuels, and the increasing intelligence of automobiles are making it increasingly difficult to ensure trouble-free operation. Finding faulty parts quickly and accurately is b...
The aim of predictive maintenance, within the field of prognostics and health management (PHM), is to identify and anticipate potential issues in the equipment before these become serious. The main challenge to be addressed is to assess the amount of...
Single-task models (STMs) struggle to learn sophisticated representations from a finite set of annotated data. Multitask learning approaches overcome these constraints by simultaneously training various associated tasks, thereby learning generic repr...
In this paper, we analyzed a dataset of over 2000 crypto-assets to assess their credit risk by computing their probability of death using the daily range. Unlike conventional low-frequency volatility models that only utilize close-to-close prices, th...
In recent years, digital audio tampering detection methods by extracting audio electrical network frequency (ENF) features have been widely applied. However, most digital audio tampering detection methods based on ENF have the problems of focusing on...
