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Information, Volume 17, Issue 10

2026 October - 121 articles

Cover Story: As artificial intelligence becomes deeply embedded in healthcare architectures, managing cyber risks requires going beyond technical controls to evaluate human readiness and oversight. This study introduces trustSense, a privacy-preserving socio-technical tool designed to evaluate organisational cybersecurity capability across ethical, technical, and governance dimensions. Applied across two contrasting AI-enabled healthcare deployments, a mobile IoT medical device ecosystem and a clinical data warehouse running predictive risk models, the assessment exposes key disparities in technical proficiency, cross-team collaboration, and operational resilience. By surfacing actionable readiness gaps, trustSense provides a practical pathway for healthcare institutions to meet EU AI Act human oversight standards and build resilient, trustworthy AI operations. View this paper
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Articles (121)

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2026

Multi-hop RAG requires complementary facts from multiple documents to form a complete evidence chain. Relevance-based passage selection can miss bridging evidence, while adding more passages can introduce redundancy and distractors. Context compressi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems Based on Large Language Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
162 Views
41 Pages

21 October 2026

Chaos-based image encryption schemes are often motivated by the apparent randomness of chaotic sequences and by the nonlinear processing capability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, these properties alone do not guarantee cryptographi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Privacy and Security, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
170 Views
33 Pages

21 October 2026

This paper presents Relational Narrative Historiography (RNH) as a framework paper and testable research hypothesis, not as an empirical study. Historical accounts of the same event frequently diverge across archives, languages, and interpretive comm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Interaction in Cultural Heritage—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
153 Views
23 Pages

Thermal-Aware Generative Adversarial Augmentation for Small-Sample Induction-Motor Fault Detection Using Infrared Thermography

  • Xu Gui,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Wei Ding and ,
  • Yibo Tang,
  • Shuai Mao and
  • Pan Hu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 October 2026

Fault diagnosis in induction motors is challenging when only a limited number of labeled infrared thermal images are available for training. Effective small-sample augmentation requires generated images to preserve class-related appearance patterns a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Neural Networks for Visual Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Views
30 Pages

Adapting Whisper to Karakalpak: Full, Layer-Selective, and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

  • Niyetbay Uteuliev,
  • Jabbar Kudaybergenov,
  • Tangirbergen Kudaybergenov,
  • Avazjon Marakhimov and
  • Kabul Khudaybergenov

20 October 2026

Building dependable automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Karakalpak is hindered by the scarcity of transcribed speech. Whisper handles many languages well, but without adaptation its Karakalpak transcripts remain unreliable, largely because the lan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
187 Views
24 Pages

20 October 2026

Zero-inflated sparse count data are common in text analytics, where keyword frequencies contain many zeros and highly skewed positive values. This study proposes a systematic model-specific framework that treats predictor transformation and scaling a...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
170 Views
23 Pages

20 October 2026

Designers may use learner personas to plan different content, feedback, or support for groups of students, but a clustering result alone does not establish that these groups represent distinct learner types. Whether such a categorical structure exist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Systems in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
194 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in critical care, yet predictive artificial intelligence studies often differ in outcome definitions, validation, calibration, and interpretability. We developed and internally validated mach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Neural Architectures for Multimodal Understanding and Generation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
293 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2026

Chinese short-form dramas (duanju) drive a growing demand for automated Japanese dubbing that preserves each character’s voice. The decisive component is zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning: synthesising Japanese speech from a short Chinese r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
241 Views
37 Pages

X-SLR: A Hexagonal Architecture Framework for Reporting Systematic Literature Reviews

  • Marco Aguirre,
  • Carlos Ayala-Tipan,
  • Andres Andrade-Cabrera,
  • Diana Martinez-Mosquera and ,
  • Lorena Recalde and
  • Gabriela Suntaxi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 October 2026

Systematic literature reviews are essential for synthesizing scientific evidence but remain complex and resource-intensive processes that demand significant time and human effort. To reduce bias, they are usually conducted collaboratively and accordi...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Views
30 Pages

A Dated Corpus and a Seven-Layer Benchmark for Kazakhstani Legal Question Answering

  • Nurbol Beisov,
  • Nurlykhan Kalzhanov,
  • Arman Yeleussinov,
  • Maxatbek Satymbekov and ,
  • Zholdas Buribayev,
  • Yerbol Alimkulov,
  • Ualikhan Akhatov and
  • Yernur Oxikbayev
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 October 2026

Legal question answering is usually evaluated as if the law were static. In Kazakhstan, it changed twice within one year: a new Constitution replaced the 1995 text on 1 July 2026, and a new Tax Code replaced its predecessor on 1 January 2026, both re...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Views
31 Pages

Structured Knowledge Extraction from Wheat Variety Approval Texts via Relation-Aware In-Context Learning and Progressive Knowledge Calibration

  • Minmin Xiong,
  • Shun Wang,
  • Yinchao Che,
  • Xinming Ma and ,
  • Chenyu Xie,
  • Xiangning Jia,
  • Shaohan Zhang,
  • Shuping Xiong and
  • Lei Xi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 October 2026

Knowledge extraction serves as a critical technique for constructing domain-specific knowledge graphs and enabling intelligent text parsing. In the vertical agricultural domain, wheat variety approval texts contain abundant agronomic trait entities a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Views
23 Pages

A Textile Standardization Large Language Model Integrating LoRA Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  • Kaili Wu,
  • Xiaosi Lv,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Bin Lin and ,
  • Jinfei Ye,
  • Jianping Jiang and
  • Guyue Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 October 2026

Intelligent question answering for textile standards requires accurate domain understanding, clause retrieval, and evidence-grounded generation, yet general-purpose large language models often lack sufficient domain adaptation and factual support. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Standards Digitisation and Digital Standardisation)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
162 Views
38 Pages

19 October 2026

Algorithmic systems increasingly shape how distributed software teams monitor work and evaluate performance, but their relationship with shared team understanding remains unclear. This study examined perceived algorithmic monitoring and evaluation (A...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Correction
  • Open Access
144 Views
1 Page

Correction: Zhang et al. Interpretable Smart Meter Anomaly Detection Based on Bayesian-Optimized XGBoost and SHAP. Information 2026, 17, 810

  • Bolin Zhang,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Ke Yang and ,
  • Haopeng Shi,
  • Hongjing Hao and
  • Xiaolin Gui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 October 2026

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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative AI Solutions for Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
201 Views
28 Pages

18 October 2026

Progressive mural inpainting requires structural guidance to reconstruct missing textures while maintaining color consistency. Existing methods only introduce line constraints at the input stage, resulting in distorted structures and color mismatch f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Image Processing by Deep Learning, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
152 Views
24 Pages

18 October 2026

In federated cross-domain recommendation, the existing research has widely focused on scenarios where at least some users or items overlap. How to enable cross-domain recommendation over non-overlapping users and items has emerged as a challenging re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Graph Neural Networks and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
181 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in scientific research and artistic practice, yet its publication patterns vary across research contexts. This study presents a comparative bibliometric analysis of 655 publications retrieved from fiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
182 Views
37 Pages

Greedy and Stepwise Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection: A Systematic Review and Decision Workflow

  • Galymzada Alin,
  • Binara Imankulova,
  • Talgat Nurlybayev,
  • Damelya Yeskendirova and ,
  • Aliya Zhunis,
  • Ayaulym Batyrkhanova and
  • Aruzhan Narikbayeva
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 October 2026

Feature selection is widely used in machine-learning-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs/NIDSs) to reduce dimensionality and computational burden, yet its benefits are difficult to attribute when feature evaluation, subset search, preprocessing,...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2026

Research on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) integration into instructional design practice has been expanding rapidly; however, its effects on the instructional design profession remain underexplored. To this end, this study examines instr...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
196 Views
20 Pages

A Leakage-Aware Evaluation Framework and Benchmark for Edge-Based Multi-Sensor Fire and Smoke Detection

  • Bekmurod Khujamuratov,
  • Kamola Abdurashidova,
  • Alpamis Kutlimuratov and
  • Timur Khudaybergenov

16 October 2026

Low-cost multi-sensor nodes are increasingly used to detect fire and smoke inside buildings, where separating flame from smouldering emission determines the response. Such detectors are usually validated on densely sampled logs whose consecutive read...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Intelligent Algorithms for Smart Industry and Sustainable Systems: Trends, Challenges, and Innovations)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
209 Views
21 Pages

16 October 2026

Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) provide robust mechanisms for integrating structured data and supporting multidimensional analysis. Still, they offer limited support for semantic access to unstructured textu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue International Database Engineered Applications Symposium, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
201 Views
15 Pages

DyGRAV: Dynamic Grounding and Relational Reasoning for Vision–Language Navigation

  • Zain Chaudhary,
  • Zohaib Chaudhary,
  • Hammad Ahmed,
  • Prabin Bajgai and ,
  • Rabab Abdelfattah and
  • Ahmed Sherif
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 October 2026

Vision–Language Navigation (VLN) requires embodied agents to interpret natural-language instructions in 3D environments. While significant progress has been made, state-of-the-art agents often struggle with instructions that demand fine-grained...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Navigation and Intelligent Unmanned Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
25 Pages

15 October 2026

The digital transformation of engineering education has created new opportunities to support laboratory learning through continuous formative assessment. However, digital technologies are frequently implemented as isolated tools rather than as compon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Systems in Higher Education)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
782 Views
24 Pages

15 October 2026

This meta-analysis systematically examined the effects of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on students’ self-regulated learning (SRL), including its overall effectiveness and its impact on the cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI Technologies: Shaping the Future of Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
135 Views
22 Pages

15 October 2026

Privacy preservation techniques for event logs prevent sensitive information leakage by injecting noise into log data, thus mitigating privacy risks in business process management. While ensuring privacy, this approach often reduces data utility and...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
52 Pages

15 October 2026

Large language model (LLM) agents translate software interfaces at scale, yet production evidence on what breaks—and which safeguards catch it—is nearly absent: a 2026 mapping study of localization testing retained 24 primary studies, tho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Generative Artificial Intelligence Within Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
162 Views
28 Pages

15 October 2026

Forecasting high-dimensional multivariate time series requires models to represent dependencies across variables without making variable interactions prohibitively expensive. Full attention over variable-level tokens has a pairwise cost quadratic in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Approach for Time Series Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
232 Views
32 Pages

A Mobile-Centric Approach to Improving the Performance of Decentralized Wireless Networks

  • Oscar Arana-Hernández,
  • Javier Gomez,
  • Carlos Tlapa and
  • Luis Orozco-Barbosa

15 October 2026

The proliferation of wireless devices and intelligent environments has led to increasingly dense, interference-prone Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) deployments. Recent amendments, such as IEEE 802.11ax/be, aim to enhance spatial reuse (SR) by opt...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
238 Views
19 Pages

A Conversational AI Framework for Teacher Training

  • Sergio Miranda and
  • Antonio Calvani

15 October 2026

This paper introduces ETQ-AI (Effective Teaching Questionnaire—Artificial Intelligence), a conversational AI framework designed to support teacher professional development by identifying pedagogical misconceptions and fostering critical reflect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ICT-Based Modelling and Simulation for Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
58 Pages

14 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Machine translation increasingly prepares multilingual product information for EU marketing authorisation, yet no established process exists to adapt or validate a system for the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC), whose...

(This article belongs to the Collection Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
206 Views
42 Pages

14 October 2026

Illustrated stories support children’s learning. They also aid digital publishing and preserve regional narratives. However, manual illustration is costly and difficult to scale. Diffusion models offer an alternative. Yet, they often omit narra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing for Online Social Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Views
20 Pages

Benchmarking Local Large Language Models for Structured Knowledge Extraction in Conversational Commerce

  • Ratomir Karlović,
  • Luka Sever,
  • Marijela Miličević,
  • Sandi Baressi Šegota and ,
  • Vedran Mrzljak and
  • Ivan Lorencin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 October 2026

The integration of natural language understanding into conversational commerce requires robustly extracting structured intents from idiomatic text. While cloud-based models are highly capable, their latency, privacy risks, and operational costs neces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Applications and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
229 Views
35 Pages

14 October 2026

Pest and disease detection in natural pear orchard environments is often affected by branch and leaf occlusion, non-uniform illumination, and complex background textures. In addition, substantial variations exist in the morphology and scale of lesion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Detection of Biological Information, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2026

Social media (SM) platforms are widely used for corporate communication, yet quantitative evidence from specialized agri-food sectors remains limited. This study evaluates the SM adoption, activity, audience growth, interaction efficiency, and intera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments and Implications in Web Analysis, 2nd Edition)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
180 Views
23 Pages

13 October 2026

Decision-making is one of the most fundamental activities in many human, organizational, scientific, and societal contexts [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Views
37 Pages

Leakage-Controlled and Calibrated Deep Ensemble Learning for Reliable COVID-19 Classification from Chest X-Ray and CT Images

  • Chaima Bensebihi,
  • Nawel Zemmal,
  • Nacer Eddine Benzebouchi,
  • Riyadh Bouddou and
  • Jun-Jiat Tiang

13 October 2026

Reliable evaluation of artificial intelligence models for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imaging remains challenging because patient-level dependencies, source-related biases, and differences between imaging modalities can lead to overly optimis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stitching, Alignment and Segmentation Applications in Biomedical Images, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
307 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2026

Digital technologies can change organizational work without changing the dependencies through which work is coordinated. This article examines the cases in which those dependencies do change. The analysis separates changes in activities from changes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Technologies for Communication in the Age of AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
285 Views
23 Pages

13 October 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in education, but evidence on their performance comes mainly from high-resource languages. We evaluated five commercial LLMs in Kazakh in a zero-shot setting: sentiment classification on 300 class-ba...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
182 Views
53 Pages

A Survey of Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Based on Tree Representation

  • Gongming Wang,
  • Junsong Zhou,
  • Bingsen Li and
  • Haiying Li

12 October 2026

Smart contracts, characterized by automation, transparency, and decentralization, can establish efficient, secure, and reliable blockchain fund management and data processing mechanisms, playing a crucial supporting role in blockchain application sce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Smart Contract and Blockchain Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
160 Views
18 Pages

12 October 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model repositories expose versioned information artifacts, but public platform records rarely provide complete adoption histories. This study develops a reproducible architecture for measuring temporal relat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Information Systems Through Artificial Intelligence: Innovative Approaches and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
31 Pages

Understanding Student Adoption of Gamified Learning Tools in Jordanian Higher Education: Integrating the Big Five Personality Traits and the Technology Acceptance Model

  • Salwa Al Majali,
  • Mohammed Alzyoudi,
  • Mohd Nouh Maabdeh,
  • Jehad Mustafa Saleem and ,
  • Dmaithan Almajali and
  • Ra’ed Masa’deh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2026

This study examined the relationships involving the Big Five personality traits, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, behavioral intention, and continued usage intention in gamified learning technologies in Jordanian higher education. This st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Management and Decision-Making)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
400 Views
23 Pages

12 October 2026

In recent years, digital technology has brought major changes to financial services. These rapid changes have created both new opportunities and challenges for digital banking. This has encouraged researchers to study and investigate this phenomenon....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Smart Living)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
524 Views
53 Pages

11 October 2026

Architectural heritage restoration has expanded rapidly, yet its knowledge base remains fragmented across materials, structural assessment, digital technologies, and conservation management. This study maps the field’s historical evolution and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Techniques and Data Analysis in Cultural Heritage, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
192 Views
37 Pages

11 October 2026

Item facility and item discrimination are two frequently used indices in Classical Test Theory (CTT) for evaluating examination quality. This study evaluates four state-of-the-art LLMs—ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, and Doubao—by compa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Educational Innovation with Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Views
33 Pages

11 October 2026

Weekly cycles in cyber-threat activity are well documented, but how their timing varies with national weekends is not. Across 384 series from 192 countries, the weekly cycle is nearly universal. In the 43 countries whose weekend we individually sourc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in AI-Driven Cyber Security and Digital Forensics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
426 Views
25 Pages

Real-Time Markerless Motion Capture for Interactive Applications and Game Engines: Pipelines, Spatio-Temporal Refinement, and Latency Budgets

  • Panagiotis Georganakis,
  • Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos,
  • Konstantinos Panitsidis,
  • Dimitrios Parris and
  • Vasiliki Gerodimou

10 October 2026

The rapid evolution of deep learning and computer vision has transformed markerless motion capture (MoCap) from specialized biomechanical tools into a key technology for real-time interactive systems, video game engines, and virtual production. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Motion Perception for Intelligent Systems Awareness and Robotic Control)
  • Review
  • Open Access
480 Views
28 Pages

Appropriate Reliance on AI Decision Support Systems: A Sociotechnical Narrative Review

  • Amirhossein Jabbari,
  • Seyedehmandana Ashrafzadeh,
  • Saba Sarikhani and
  • Seyedmajid Minayhashemi

10 October 2026

Artificial intelligence increasingly supports human decision making, but effective use depends on whether users assign AI advice the decision weight it warrants. This theory-oriented narrative review synthesizes 29 core studies, together with recent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Decision Support Systems: AI, ML and Generative Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
348 Views
45 Pages

Distributed Authorization and Reliability-Aware Hardware Security for Photovoltaic Monitoring

  • Wei Guo,
  • Jingcheng Wang,
  • Guoze Xu,
  • Wanhao Hu and ,
  • Yanzhi Li,
  • Zeyu Li,
  • Jintao Xue and
  • Zhao Huang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2026

Unattended photovoltaic monitoring nodes must maintain authenticated operation under physical access, intermittent connectivity, and environmentally induced key-reconstruction errors. We present a distributed adaptive hardware security framework (DAH...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Secure Networks for Future Internet: AI, IoT, Blockchain and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
260 Views
28 Pages

Calibrated Prediction of Students’ Next Responses in Digital Mathematics Learning: A Completion-Ordered and Cold-Start-Aware Framework

  • Alma Zakirova,
  • Guldana Taganova,
  • Bakhyt Nurbekov,
  • Zhanar Akhayeva and ,
  • Saniya Nariman,
  • Sagynysh Kalmen,
  • Riza Akhitova and
  • Aidana Alibay
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2026

Digital mathematics platforms support probabilistic prediction of subsequent student responses, but temporal ordering, score comparability and calibration affect the validity of evaluation. We evaluated AdaptiveMath-AI on a deterministic cohort of 38...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

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