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Information, Volume 17, Issue 2

2026 February - 106 articles

Cover Story: Technical diagrams are the “silent” language of engineering. Today’s AI models still stumble over arrows, boxes, and timing traces. This survey peels back the black box of diagram comprehension, tracking the shift from classic OCR to CNN/RNN/transformer-era multimodal models across five families of technical diagrams (flowcharts, block diagrams, UML, schematics, and timing), revealing surprising gaps: most models still hallucinate or miss structural intent, and a lack of shared benchmarks makes progress difficult to measure. What will it take for AI to read the diagrams that run our world or to power trustworthy RAG and agentic systems? View this paper
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Articles (106)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,372 Views
19 Pages

6 February 2026

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) offers significant potential to support requirements engineering (RE) education; however, its integration poses challenges regarding accuracy and student engagement. While Gen AI cannot independently specif...

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

6 February 2026

This article presents the general method of QR decomposition of r-qubit operations, r≥ 3, by means of quantum signal-induced heap transformations (QsiHT). These are quantum analogues of discrete signal-induced heap transformations, which are...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,420 Views
42 Pages

6 February 2026

With artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly increasing in popularity and presence in everyday life, new applications utilizing AI are being explored across virtually all domains, from banking and healthcare to cybersecurity to generative AI for images,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Image Processing by Deep Learning, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,213 Views
21 Pages

Evaluating Augmented Reality Activities Designed Within the 5E Model in Biology Education

  • Christina Volioti,
  • Christos Orovas,
  • Sophia Rapti,
  • Paschalina Gkiosi,
  • Theodosios Sapounidis and
  • Euclid Keramopoulos

6 February 2026

The 5E model (1. Engagement; 2. Exploration; 3. Explanation; 4. Elaboration; 5. Evaluation) is a well-known instructional framework for promoting active learning. Augmented reality (AR) has been integrated into the educational process to support inte...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,651 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease via Vision Transformer Machine Learning Architecture Using MRI Images

  • Wided Hechkel,
  • Marco Leo,
  • Pierluigi Carcagnì,
  • Marco Del-Coco and
  • Abdelhamid Helali

6 February 2026

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems based on deep learning have shown significant potential for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) stage classification from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Nevertheless, challenges such as class imbalance, small samp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning in Italy—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,198 Views
21 Pages

Computational and Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Legislative Networks: New Zealand’s Mental Health Act as a Case Study

  • Iman Ardekani,
  • Maryam Ildoromi,
  • Neda Sakhaee,
  • Sewmini Gunawardhana and
  • Parmida Raeis

5 February 2026

This paper presents a computational framework for constructing and analysing a focal legislative citation network. A depth-limited expansion strategy generates subgraphs of the network that capture the local structural environment of a seed Act while...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,985 Views
18 Pages

5 February 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) now occupy a prominent role in science, engineering, and higher education. Their capacity to generate step-wise solutions, conceptual explanations, and problem-solving pathways creates new opportunities—but also new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Digital Learning Processes: Innovation, Ethics and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
900 Views
22 Pages

5 February 2026

The present study analyzes the possibilities for diversification in the iGaming sector through the integration of concepts derived from financial derivatives theory. The main idea is the development of a model introducing a mechanism for buying and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,701 Views
19 Pages

A Spanish Language Proficiency Dataset for AI Evaluation

  • Anselmo Peñas,
  • Álvaro Rodrigo,
  • Javier Fruns-Jiménez,
  • Inés Soria-Pastor,
  • Sergio Moreno-Álvarez,
  • Alberto Pérez and
  • Julio Reyes-Montesinos

5 February 2026

Benchmarking Spanish reading comprehension remains challenging due to the scarcity of proficiency-calibrated resources grounded in authentic human assessments. We introduce IC-UNED-RC-ES, a benchmark comprising more than 6000 items derived from Insti...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,254 Views
17 Pages

5 February 2026

The foundation of an automatic sign language training (ASLT) system lies in word-level sign language recognition (WSLR), which refers to the translation of captured sign language signals into sign words. However, two key issues need to be addressed i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing AI Applications in Education and Engineering: A Multidisciplinary Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,440 Views
20 Pages

5 February 2026

Recent research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) tools allow EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners to exert greater control over their language-learning process. Furthermore, these tools enhance their language skills by providing the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Digital Learning Processes: Innovation, Ethics and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,288 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2026

As social media becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, understanding the psychological mechanisms that shape users’ digital experiences is essential for promoting healthy, sustainable digital behavior. This study examines two motivational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Behaviors: Social Media Challenges and Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,963 Views
25 Pages

Comparative Benchmarking of Deep Learning Architectures for Detecting Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models

  • Oleksandr Kushnerov,
  • Ruslan Shevchuk,
  • Serhii Yevseiev and
  • Mikołaj Karpiński

4 February 2026

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in corporate and governmental systems has raised critical security concerns, particularly prompt injection attacks exploiting LLMs’ inability to differentiate control instructions from untruste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Key Cryptography and Privacy Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,715 Views
24 Pages

3 February 2026

Continuous vegetation monitoring is essential for predicting crop varieties and yields; however, optical satellite data are frequently unavailable due to cloud cover. To overcome this limitation, this study proposes a method for generating pseudo-NDV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Vision Systems in Agriculture—Toward Explainable and Trustworthy AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,484 Views
21 Pages

Predicting Cybersecurity Behaviours in Higher Education Institutions: A Data-Driven Analysis of Policy, Culture, and Motivation in the UAE Context

  • Said Badreddine,
  • Hamsa Al Ammari,
  • Tariq Alwada’n,
  • Azmi AlAzzam,
  • Asem Omari,
  • Abdullah Almogahed,
  • Ghassan Malkawi and
  • AbdulQuddus Mohammed

3 February 2026

This study examines the determinants of cybersecurity behaviour among employees in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through an integrated framework combining the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), the Theory of...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,743 Views
39 Pages

3 February 2026

Condition monitoring has come to the forefront of intelligent manufacturing and is particularly important in Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining processes, where reliability, precision, and productivity are crucial. The traditional methods of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,297 Views
19 Pages

A Conceptual Framework for AI- and Blockchain-Enabled Research Project Evaluation Systems

  • Saule Amanzholova,
  • Galimkair Mutanov,
  • Olga Ussatova,
  • Laura Aldasheva,
  • Akzhibek Amirova and
  • Vitaliy Naumenko

3 February 2026

The evaluation of research and development (R&D) project proposals plays a critical role in shaping national scientific and technological priorities. However, existing expert review systems are often characterized by fragmented digital workflows,...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,937 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2026

This paper presents a human-centered, AI-driven framework for font design that reimagines typography generation as a collaborative process between humans and large language models (LLMs). Unlike conventional pixel- or vector-based approaches, our met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Creativity and Human-Centered Design for Enhanced User Experience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,024 Views
21 Pages

Template-Based Evaluation of Stable Diffusion via Attention Maps

  • Haruno Fusa,
  • Chonho Lee,
  • Sakuei Onishi,
  • Kanshin Fusa and
  • Hiromitsu Shiina

2 February 2026

Text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion (SD) require comprehensive, fine-grained, and high-precision methods for evaluating text–image alignment. A prior method, the text–image alignment metric (TIAM), employs a template-based appro...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,153 Views
43 Pages

2 February 2026

The rapid expansion of health big data, encompassing genomic profiles and wearable device telemetry, has significantly escalated personal privacy risks. This systematic literature review (SLR) synthesizes 86 peer-reviewed studies (2014–2025) th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Privacy and Security, 3rd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,139 Views
35 Pages

Ontology Learning in Educational Systems

  • Tatyana Ivanova and
  • Valentina Terzieva

2 February 2026

E-learning content and participants in the learning process are usually annotated with metadata. Complicated metadata models are necessary for organizing personalized learning, so an ontological metadata representation is used. Since ontologies repre...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,205 Views
20 Pages

FedRazor: Two-Stage Federated Unlearning via Representation Divergence and Gradient Conflict Trimming

  • Yanxin Hu,
  • Xiaoman Liu,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Junjie Pang,
  • Chao Cheng and
  • Gang Liu

2 February 2026

Federated unlearning removes a client’s influence from a trained federated model without full retraining, which is required by data deletion regulations but remains difficult due to gradient coupling and recovery instability. Existing methods o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Key Cryptography and Privacy Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,375 Views
17 Pages

On Segment-Aware Monocular Depth Estimation Using Vision Transformers

  • Vasileios Arampatzakis,
  • George Pavlidis,
  • Nikolaos Mitianoudis and
  • Nikos Papamarkos

2 February 2026

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) infers per-pixel scene geometry from a single RGB image. Despite recent progress, global MDE models often blur depth discontinuities at object boundaries and fail to capture object-level structure. Segment-aware depth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,958 Views
14 Pages

2 February 2026

The integration of eye-tracking into consumer-grade virtual reality (VR) headsets presents a transformative opportunity for assessing user mental states within simulated, immersive environments. However, the validity of this built-in technology must...

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

A New Chaotic Interval-Based Multi-Objective Honey Badger Algorithm for Real-Time Fire Localization

  • Khedija Arour,
  • Hadhami Kaabi,
  • Mohamed Ben Farah and
  • Raouf Abozariba

2 February 2026

Real-time fire localization in urban environments remains a significant challenge due to sparse IoT sensor deployments, measurement uncertainties, and the computational uses of AI-based estimation techniques. To address these limitations, this paper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Data Analysis in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
634 Views
21 Pages

On-Demand All-Red Interval (ODAR): Evaluation and Implementation in Software-in-the-Loop Simulation

  • Ismet Goksad Erdagi,
  • Slavica Gavric,
  • Marko Vukojevic and
  • Aleksandar Stevanovic

1 February 2026

This study evaluates the On-Demand All-Red Interval (ODAR) at signalized intersections to address red-light running (RLR) issues. Traditional fixed all-red intervals fail to adapt to dynamic traffic conditions, leading to potential safety risks and u...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
620 Views
23 Pages

ECA-RepNet: A Lightweight Coal–Rock Recognition Network Using Recurrence Plot Transformation

  • Jianping Zhou,
  • Zhixin Jin,
  • Hongwei Wang,
  • Wenyan Cao,
  • Xipeng Gu,
  • Qingyu Kong,
  • Jianzhong Li and
  • Zeping Liu

1 February 2026

Coal and rock recognition is one of the key technologies in mining production, but traditional methods have limitations such as single-feature representation dimension, insufficient robustness, and unbalanced performance in lightweight design under n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,478 Views
32 Pages

1 February 2026

Global food security faces escalating threats from climate variability and resource constraints. Accurate crop yield forecasting is essential; however, existing methods frequently overlook complex spatial dependencies driven by climate teleconnection...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics: Models, Applications, and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,922 Views
25 Pages

1 February 2026

Elderly patients often experience multimorbidity and long-term polypharmacy, making medication safety a critical challenge in disease management. In China, the concurrent use of Western medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines (PCMs) further compl...

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

1 February 2026

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the many regional dialects differ substantially in vocabulary, morphology, and pragmatic usage. Most available annotated resources are in MSA, and zero-shot transfer from MSA to dialectal tasks suffers a large perform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Applications and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,344 Views
29 Pages

Library Systems and Digital-Rights Management: Towards a Blockchain-Based Solution for Enhanced Privacy and Security

  • Patrick Laboso,
  • Martin Aruldoss,
  • P. Thiyagarajan,
  • T. Miranda Lakshmi and
  • Martin Wynn

1 February 2026

The rapid digitization of library resources has intensified the need for robust digital-rights management (DRM) mechanisms to safeguard copyright, control access, and preserve user privacy. Conventional DRM approaches are often centralized, prone to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,502 Views
22 Pages

The Ten Minutes That Shocked the World—Teaching Generative AI to Analyze the Trump–Zelensky Multimodal Debate

  • Isabella Poggi,
  • Tommaso Scaramella,
  • Sissy Violini,
  • Simona Careri,
  • Maria Désirée Epure and
  • Daniele Dragoni

1 February 2026

Today, foundation models simulate humans’ skills in translation, literature review, fact checking, fake-news detection, novel and poetry production. However, generative AI can also be applied to discourse analysis. This study instructed the Gem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interactive Learning: Human in the Loop System Design for Active Human–Computer Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,446 Views
13 Pages

EHR Sampling Interval Bias Detection and Burden of Blood Pressure Excursions: Implications for Clinical Decision Support and Model Validity in Pediatric ECMO

  • Neel Shah,
  • Ethan Sanford,
  • David R. Busch,
  • Ranveer Singh,
  • Saurabh Mathur,
  • Jayesh Sharma,
  • Philip Reeder,
  • Sriraam Natarajan and
  • Lakshmi Raman

1 February 2026

Routine Electronic Health Record (EHR) blood pressure charting under-samples dynamic physiology, risking missed hemodynamic instability. This study quantifies how EHR-like down-sampling changes the detection and burden of hypo- and hypertension versu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative Technologies in Healthcare: Harnessing Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Large Language Models in Health Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,743 Views
15 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Smart Meter Time-Series Data

  • Gulshat Amirkhanova,
  • Azim Aidynuly,
  • Saltanat Adilzhanova,
  • Yanwei Fu,
  • Baizhanova Dina and
  • Onggarbek Alipbeki

1 February 2026

The integration of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) provides high-resolution electrical data, essential for enhancing industrial efficiency and monitoring equipment health. However, the utility of this data is frequently compromised by anomalie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,990 Views
32 Pages

1 February 2026

The main purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scientific knowledge and trends in modern finance. To this end, the analysis was based on the keywords: “finance”, “automation”, and “ESG”. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,360 Views
24 Pages

1 February 2026

This study investigates the evolution of public sentiment and discourse surrounding artificial intelligence through a comprehensive multi-method analysis of 28,819 Reddit comments spanning March 2015 to May 2024. Addressing three research questions&m...

(This article belongs to the Collection Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2026

This article describes the methodology for adjusting and comparing eleven variants of Transformer architectures for the classification of skin lesions using images: five variants of Google’s Vision Transformer (ViT) and six variants of Microsof...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Healthcare Data Science: Innovations, Challenges and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,200 Views
23 Pages

1 February 2026

Given the knowledge-intensive and rapidly expanding nature of medical field, accurately synthesizing and interpreting findings remain a major challenge for clinicians and medical students. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced automated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems Based on Large Language Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,129 Views
24 Pages

Vision Transformer-Based Identification for Early Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

  • Yang Li,
  • Biao Xu,
  • Qiang Bai,
  • Zhenghong Liu,
  • Junfeng Zhu and
  • Qipeng Chen

30 January 2026

Distinguishing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is challenging due to their subtle morphological similarities in MRI, yet distinct therapeutic strategies are required. To assist junior clinicians with limited diagno...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Human–Robot Interactions and Assistive Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,113 Views
23 Pages

29 January 2026

The main challenge of resource-poor languages—namely, the lack of sufficiently large and linguistically informed datasets for training neural models—is addressed in this paper by developing a dataset generation technology based on a Compl...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
880 Views
23 Pages

29 January 2026

Distribution shifts commonly arise in real-world machine learning scenarios in which the fundamental assumption that training and test data are drawn from independent and identically distributed samples is violated. In the case of medical data, such...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Weakly Supervised Learning: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
479 Views
13 Pages

Permutation-Based Trellis Optimization for a Large-Kernel Polar Code Decoding Algorithm

  • Chunjuan Diao,
  • Zhenling Wang,
  • Ying Xiao,
  • Feifei Zhang and
  • Zhiliang Huang

29 January 2026

Compared to Arikan’s G2 kernel, large-kernel polar codes exhibit higher polarization rates and superior error correction performance. The critical steps of exact successive cancellation (SC) decoding for such codes can be implemented via trelli...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,839 Views
36 Pages

AI-Enabled System-of-Systems Decision Support: BIM-Integrated AI-LCA for Resilient and Sustainable Fiber-Reinforced Façade Design

  • Mohammad Q. Al-Jamal,
  • Ayoub Alsarhan,
  • Qasim Aljamal,
  • Mahmoud AlJamal,
  • Bashar S. Khassawneh,
  • Ahmed Al Nuaim and
  • Abdullah Al Nuaim

29 January 2026

Sustainable and resilient communities increasingly rely on interdependent, data-driven building systems where material choices, energy performance, and lifecycle impacts must be optimized jointly. This study presents a digital-twin-ready, system-of-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,165 Views
11 Pages

Revisiting a Proof of Security for the SM2 Key Exchange Protocol

  • Qianying Zhang,
  • Yuting Wang and
  • Shijun Zhao

28 January 2026

The SM2 key exchange protocol, proposed by the Chinese State Cryptography Administration and adopted as a national standard, is extensively deployed in commercial applications across China. It has also been incorporated by global industrial organizat...

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

28 January 2026

Research into conversationally explainable artificial intelligence (CXAI) aims to emulate the interactive and co-constructive nature of explanations. From the perspective of human-centredness, previous work has shown that AI users prefer conversation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
903 Views
21 Pages

Defect Generation and Detection Strategy for Tempered Glass in Sample-Scarce Scenarios

  • Kai Hou,
  • Jing-Fang Yang,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Guang-Chun Xiao,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Run-Ze Fan and
  • Xiang-Feng Liu

28 January 2026

To address the challenge of defect detection in tempered glass panel production rising from sample scarcity, this paper proposes a few-shot detection methodology that integrates an enhanced Stable Diffusion model with Mask R-CNN. Specifically, the ap...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
726 Views
23 Pages

Long-Term Air Quality Data Filling Based on Contrastive Learning

  • Zihe Liu,
  • Keyong Hu,
  • Jingxuan Zhang,
  • Xingchen Ren and
  • Xi Wang

27 January 2026

Continuous missing data is a prevalent challenge in long-term air quality monitoring, undermining the reliability of public health protection and sustainable urban development. In this paper, we propose ConFill, a novel contrastive learning-based fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,440 Views
30 Pages

27 January 2026

The article reports on a bilingual and interpretable book recommendation platform for schoolchildren. This platform uses a lightweight K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm combined with gamification and learning analytics. This application has been designed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in Artificial Intelligence-Supported E-Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,513 Views
32 Pages

26 January 2026

In the field of Natural Language Inference (NLI), model interpretability remains an urgent and unresolved challenge. Existing interpretability-oriented annotated datasets are highly limited, and manually constructing natural language explanations is...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
29 Pages

26 January 2026

Encryption-then-compression (EtC) based on block scrambling enables privacy-preserving image sharing while maintaining compatibility with standard image codecs, yet it disrupts the spatial correlations and synchronization cues required by conventiona...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)

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