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Electronics, Volume 13, Issue 21

2024 November-1 - 190 articles

Cover Story: With regard to Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), our study addresses challenges related to the capture of node information and complex relationships within speech data. Our proposed model, the Skip Graph Convolutional and Graph Attention Network (SkipGCNGAT), combines Skip Graph Convolutional Networks (SkipGCNs) with Graph Attention Networks (GATs). The skip connections of SkipGCN enhance information flow and enable deeper learning, while GAT assigns attention weights to nodes in the graph, allowing SkipGCNGAT to focus on key local and global interactions. This method captures intricate dependencies across speech segments, thus improving emotion recognition. When tested on IEMOCAP and MSP-IMPROV datasets, SkipGCNGAT achieved state-of-the-art results, confirming its effectiveness for use in future SER research. View this paper
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Articles (190)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,792 Views
19 Pages

Text Command Intelligent Understanding for Cybersecurity Testing

  • Junkai Yi,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Zhongbai Jiang and
  • Zhen Liu

4 November 2024

Research on named entity recognition (NER) and command-line generation for network security evaluation tools is relatively scarce, and no mature models for recognition or generation have been developed thus far. Therefore, in this study, the aim is t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence: New Methods for Data Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,870 Views
32 Pages

4 November 2024

In today’s digital era, the abundance of online services presents users with a daunting array of choices, spanning from streaming platforms to e-commerce websites, leading to decision fatigue. Recommendation algorithms play a pivotal role in ai...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,746 Views
18 Pages

A Unified Model for Chinese Cyber Threat Intelligence Flat Entity and Nested Entity Recognition

  • Jiayi Yu,
  • Yuliang Lu,
  • Yongheng Zhang,
  • Yi Xie,
  • Mingjie Cheng and
  • Guozheng Yang

4 November 2024

In recent years, as cybersecurity threats have become increasingly severe and cyberattacks have occurred frequently, higher requirements have been put forward for cybersecurity protection. Therefore, the Named Entity Recognition (NER) technique, whic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,768 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2024

There are conflicts between the increasingly complex operational requirements and the slow rate of system platform upgrading, especially in the industry of railway transit-signaling systems. We attempted to address this problem by establishing a mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,761 Views
21 Pages

An Energy Management System for Distributed Energy Storage System Considering Time-Varying Linear Resistance

  • Yuanliang Fan,
  • Zewen Li,
  • Xinghua Huang,
  • Dongtao Luo,
  • Jianli Lin,
  • Weiming Chen,
  • Lingfei Li and
  • Ling Yang

4 November 2024

As the proportion of renewable energy in energy use continues to increase, to solve the problem of line impedance mismatch leading to the difference in the state of charge (SOC) of each distributed energy storage unit (DESU) and the DC bus voltage dr...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,576 Views
18 Pages

4 November 2024

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for chronic kidney disease (CKD) diagnostics and characterization has the potential to improve the standard of patient care through accurate and early detection, as well as providing a more d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,339 Views
35 Pages

4 November 2024

This research paper presents a detailed analysis of a lightweight block cipher’s (LWBC) power consumption and security features, specifically designed for IoT applications. To accurately measure energy consumption during the execution of the LW...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,631 Views
37 Pages

Evolving Transparent Credit Risk Models: A Symbolic Regression Approach Using Genetic Programming

  • Dionisios N. Sotiropoulos,
  • Gregory Koronakos and
  • Spyridon V. Solanakis

4 November 2024

Credit scoring is a cornerstone of financial risk management, enabling financial institutions to assess the likelihood of loan default. However, widely recognized contemporary credit risk metrics, like FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) or Vantage scores,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainability in AI and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,240 Views
22 Pages

BTIP: Branch Triggered Instruction Prefetcher Ensuring Timeliness

  • Wenhai Lin,
  • Yiquan Lin,
  • Yiquan Chen,
  • Shishun Cai,
  • Zhen Jin,
  • Jiexiong Xu,
  • Yuzhong Zhang and
  • Wenzhi Chen

4 November 2024

In CPU microarchitecture, caches store frequently accessed instructions and data by exploiting their locality, reducing memory access latency and improving application performance. However, contemporary applications with large code footprints often e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Architecture & Parallel and Distributed Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,035 Views
17 Pages

Fake Review Detection Model Based on Comment Content and Review Behavior

  • Pengfei Sun,
  • Weihong Bi,
  • Yifan Zhang,
  • Qiuyu Wang,
  • Feifei Kou,
  • Tongwei Lu and
  • Jinpeng Chen

4 November 2024

With the development of the Internet, services such as catering, beauty, accommodation, and entertainment can be reserved or consumed online. Therefore, consumers increasingly rely on online information to choose merchants, products, and services, wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining Applied in Natural Language Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,704 Views
17 Pages

Conditional Community Search Based on Weight Information

  • Mengxiang Wang,
  • Dong Ma,
  • Qiang Fu and
  • Chuanyu Zong

4 November 2024

Community search aims to identify cohesive subgraphs containing user-given query nodes in social networks. As information technology develops, user demands for community search have become increasingly sophisticated. The searched communities must not...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,833 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Weighted Particle Swarm Optimization for Controlling Multiple Switched Reluctance Motors with Enhanced Deviatoric Coupling Control

  • Tianyu Zhang,
  • Xianglian Xu,
  • Fangqing Zhang,
  • Yifeng Gu,
  • Kaitian Deng,
  • Yuli Xu,
  • Tunzhen Xie and
  • Yuanqing Song

3 November 2024

Switched reluctance motors (SRMs) are widely used in industrial applications due to their advantages. Multi-motor synchronous control systems are crucial in modern industry, as their control strategies significantly impact synchronization performance...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,859 Views
13 Pages

3 November 2024

In this study, we address the challenge of noise reduction in environments characterized by impulsive noise and missing input data in active noise control (ANC) systems, where existing algorithms often fail to deliver satisfactory results. Background...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,648 Views
15 Pages

2 November 2024

Drones integrated with 5G New Radio (NR) base stations have emerged as a promising solution for efficient victim search and localization in emergency zones where cellular networks are disrupted by natural disasters. Traditional approaches relying sol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parallel, Distributed, Edge Computing in UAV Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,505 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2024

With the increasing proportion of power electronic equipment in the power system, improving the inertia and damping characteristics of the system through virtual synchronous generator (VSG) control technology has become a hot research topic. In terms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,865 Views
34 Pages

2 November 2024

Online reviews play a crucial role in influencing seller–customer dynamics. This research evaluates the credibility and consistency of reviews based on volume, length, and content to understand the impacts of incentives on customer review behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,500 Views
23 Pages

2 November 2024

A two-layer optimization model and an improved snake optimization algorithm (ISOA) are proposed to solve the capacity optimization problem of wind–solar–storage multi-power microgrids in the whole life cycle. In the upper optimization mod...

(This article belongs to the Topic Control and Optimization of Networked Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,878 Views
16 Pages

Textile Fabric Defect Detection Using Enhanced Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Safe Human–Robot Collaborative Interaction

  • Syed Ali Hassan,
  • Michail J. Beliatis,
  • Agnieszka Radziwon,
  • Arianna Menciassi and
  • Calogero Maria Oddo

2 November 2024

The emergence of modern robotic technology and artificial intelligence (AI) enables a transformation in the textile sector. Manual fabric defect inspection is time-consuming, error-prone, and labor-intensive. This offers a great possibility for apply...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computer Vision, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,621 Views
16 Pages

2 November 2024

This study experimentally analyzed the impact of air gaps between a magnetic sheet and a test board with a microstrip line, which is used to measure the near-field magnetic shielding effectiveness (NSE) of magnetic sheets made of metallic powder. To...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radiation Effects of Advanced Electronic Devices and Circuits, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,170 Views
27 Pages

2 November 2024

Large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems are being widely deployed to meet global environmental goals and renewable energy targets. Advances in PV technology have driven investment in the electric sector. However, as the size of PV arrays grows, more ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,173 Views
22 Pages

An Automated Penetration Testing Framework Based on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  • Hongri Liu,
  • Chuhan Liu,
  • Xiansheng Wu,
  • Yun Qu and
  • Hongmei Liu

2 November 2024

Given the large action space and state space involved in penetration testing, reinforcement learning is widely applied to enhance testing efficiency. This paper proposes an automatic penetration testing scheme based on hierarchical reinforcement lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,984 Views
21 Pages

2 November 2024

Traditional identity recognition methods are facing significant security challenges due to their vulnerability to leakage and forgery. Brainprint recognition, a novel biometric identification technology leveraging EEG signals, has emerged as a promis...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,869 Views
21 Pages

2 November 2024

The object tracking algorithm TransT, based on Transformer, achieves significant improvements in accuracy and success rate by fusing the extracted features of convolutional neural networks with the structure of Transformer. However, when dealing with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,554 Views
15 Pages

1 November 2024

This paper deals with the non-contact measurement of heartbeat and respiration using a millimeter-wave multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FM-CW) radar. Monitoring heartbeat and respiration is useful for detecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in "Microwave and Wireless Communications" Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,733 Views
20 Pages

SafeMD: Ownership-Based Safe Memory Deallocation for C Programs

  • Xiaohua Yin,
  • Zhiqiu Huang,
  • Shuanglong Kan and
  • Guohua Shen

1 November 2024

Rust is a relatively new programming language that aims to provide memory safety at compile time. It introduces a novel ownership system that enforces the automatic deallocation of unused resources without using a garbage collector. In light of Rust&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,843 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2024

Heterogeneous federated learning, as an innovative variant of federated learning, aims to break through the constraints of vanilla federated learning on the consistency of model architectures to better accommodate the heterogeneity in mobile computin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,870 Views
9 Pages

1 November 2024

In the quest to improve overall semiconductor system performance as scaling down continues, reducing resistance in interconnects and bonding interfaces has become a critical focus. This study explores the use of graphene, a highly conductive 2D mater...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Semiconductor Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,896 Views
22 Pages

A Multidimensional Financial Data Model for User Interface with Process Mining Systems

  • Audrius Lopata,
  • Daina Gudonienė,
  • Rimantas Butleris,
  • Ilona Veitaitė,
  • Vytautas Rudžionis and
  • Saulius Gudas

1 November 2024

Multidimensional enterprise performance characteristics (enterprise operational data, financial transactions records) are stored in the company’s database (warehouse), and their volume and variety are huge. Financial transaction data are direct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Digital Technologies in Sustainability Accounting and Reporting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,669 Views
16 Pages

1 November 2024

Developing a high-quality scenario library is crucial for evaluating more reliable autonomous driving systems. A fundamental prerequisite for constructing such a library is the generation of safety-critical scenarios. In this paper, we propose a nest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,719 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2024

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) focuses on transferring knowledge from the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain, reducing the costs of manual data labeling. The main challenge in UDA is bridging the substantial feature distributi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Signal and Image Processing for Multimedia Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,828 Views
22 Pages

Simplified Modelling Techniques for Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer

  • Krzysztof Jakubiak,
  • Jun Liang,
  • Liana Cipcigan,
  • Chuanyue Li and
  • Jingzhe Wu

31 October 2024

Recent advancements in Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) have highlighted the need for further research, particularly in the area of modelling and simulation techniques. As the power transferred between charging pads depends on vehicle position,...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,556 Views
15 Pages

Adaptive Transmission of Cognitive Radio- and Segmented zeRIS-Aided Symbiotic Radio

  • Wenjing Zhao,
  • Nanxi Li,
  • Yi Gu,
  • Jing Guo,
  • Jianchi Zhu,
  • Gongpu Wang and
  • Chintha Tellambura

31 October 2024

This paper presents a cognitive radio (CR)-enabled symbiotic ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) system with the help of a zero-energy reconfigurable intelligent surface (zeRIS). An adaptive transmission (AT) strategy for the zeRIS is devised ba...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,520 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2024

DC distribution systems have garnered interest in recent years due to their advantages over AC distribution systems, such as their high power conversion efficiency and lack of harmonic issues. An isolated DC-DC converter with low-input noise, high ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,006 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Ground Slot-Based Dual-Band Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Antenna for n47 and n48 Smartphone Applications

  • Muhammad Zahid,
  • Muhammad Uzair Akbar,
  • Nirman Bhowmike,
  • Devi Prasanth Bolla,
  • Asad Ullah Talib,
  • Sultan Shoaib,
  • Yasar Amin and
  • Saleem Shahid

31 October 2024

A novel ground slot-based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with 14 elements for dual-band application of next-generation smartphones is developed. Every single antenna in the array is placed on the borders of a smartphone’s...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,510 Views
21 Pages

31 October 2024

With the increasing need for real-time crowd evaluation in military surveillance, public safety, and event crowd management, crowd counting using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) captured images has emerged as an essential research topic. While conventi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing Based on Convolution Neural Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,180 Views
19 Pages

Random-Coupled Neural Network

  • Haoran Liu,
  • Mingrong Xiang,
  • Mingzhe Liu,
  • Peng Li,
  • Xue Zuo,
  • Xin Jiang and
  • Zhuo Zuo

31 October 2024

Improving the efficiency of current neural networks and modeling them on biological neural systems have become prominent research directions in recent years. The pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) is widely used to mimic the computational characteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,072 Views
17 Pages

On-Chip Data Reduction and Object Detection for a Feature-Extractable CMOS Image Sensor

  • Yudai Morikaku,
  • Ryuichi Ujiie,
  • Daisuke Morikawa,
  • Hideki Shima,
  • Kota Yoshida and
  • Shunsuke Okura

31 October 2024

In order to improve image recognition technologies in an IoT environment, we propose a data reduction scheme for a feature-extractable CMOS image sensor and present simulation results for object recognition using feature data. We evaluated the accura...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,219 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2024

In computer vision, eliminating the effects of adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow, and fog on images is a key research challenge. Existing studies primarily focus on image restoration for single weather types, while methods addressing imag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,407 Views
23 Pages

Generalized NTRU Algorithms on Algebraic Rings

  • Qinghao Wu,
  • Juan Zhang and
  • Zichen Li

31 October 2024

The NTRU (Number Theory Research Unit) is a prominent post-quantum public key cryptography algorithm and a current focus of research. Although many NTRU variants have been proposed, a comprehensive generalization of these variants is still lacking. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,146 Views
14 Pages

The Algorithm for Determining the TCP Point of a 2D Scanner Using a Conical Element

  • Andrzej Burghardt,
  • Krzysztof Kurc,
  • Dariusz Szybicki,
  • Magdalena Muszyńska and
  • Jacek Tutak

31 October 2024

In the engineering practice of performing robotic measurements with a 2D scanner, a major difficulty is to accurately determine the tool center point (TCP) quickly and easily since it does not exist as a physical object. The article proposes an algor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation, Operation and Maintenance of Control and Communication Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,725 Views
13 Pages

31 October 2024

Accurate and efficient modeling and simulation of spacecraft electrical systems are crucial because of their complexity. However, existing models often struggle to balance simulation efficiency and accuracy. This paper introduces a model reduction me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,365 Views
14 Pages

A 5 mW 28 nm CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier with Transformer-Based Electrostatic Discharge Protection for 60 GHz Applications

  • Minoo Eghtesadi,
  • Gianluca Giustolisi,
  • Andrea Ballo,
  • Salvatore Pennisi and
  • Egidio Ragonese

31 October 2024

This paper presents a low-power 60 GHz low-noise amplifier (LNA) designed for Gbit/s applications using 28 nm CMOS technology. The LNA exploits a single-stage pseudo-differential architecture with integrated input transformer for both electrostatic d...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,527 Views
20 Pages

31 October 2024

The past 40 years have seen automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs) move from being purely mechanical controlled to being primarily digital controlled. While the safety of passengers and efficiency of vehicles has seen significant improvements, ri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement on Smart Vehicles and Smart Travel)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,496 Views
19 Pages

A Picture May Be Worth a Hundred Words for Visual Question Answering

  • Yusuke Hirota,
  • Noa Garcia,
  • Mayu Otani,
  • Chenhui Chu and
  • Yuta Nakashima

31 October 2024

How far can textual representations go in understanding images? In image understanding, effective representations are essential. Deep visual features from object recognition models currently dominate various tasks, especially Visual Question Answerin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Advances and Applications on Natural Language Processing (NLP))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,746 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2024

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly being integrated into various fields, significantly impacting and facilitating many aspects of human life. However, the increasingly prominent security issues associated with WSNs have become a significant...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,740 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2024

Tsunamis are devastating natural phenomena that cause extensive damage to both human life and infrastructure. To mitigate such impacts, tsunami early warning systems have been deployed globally. South Korea has also initiated a project to install a t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Underwater Communication Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
18,109 Views
27 Pages

A Review of Advanced Thermal Interface Materials with Oriented Structures for Electronic Devices

  • Yuqian Tu,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Guanghong Yao,
  • Hongjie Luo,
  • Xiao Jia,
  • Jun Du and
  • Cui Xu

31 October 2024

In high-power electronic devices, the rapid accumulation of heat presents significant thermal management challenges that necessitate the development of advanced thermal interface materials (TIMs) to ensure the performance and reliability of electroni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Review Papers in Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,572 Views
25 Pages

31 October 2024

Property-driven hardware verification provides a promising way to uncover design vulnerabilities. However, developing security properties that check for highly concealed security vulnerabilities remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we prop...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,687 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2024

This paper discusses a new issue named domain generalization of fast motion planning in 3D environments, which benefits agility-required robot applications such as autonomous driving and uncrewed aerial vehicle obstacle avoidance flight. The existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,494 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2024

We consider the wideband spectrum sensing within a multi-path propagation environment, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) is tasked with identifying the frequency positions of multiple narrowband transmissions distributed across a broad range of...

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