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Big Data and Cognitive Computing, Volume 8, Issue 3

2024 March - 15 articles

Cover Story: This study delves into the temporal dynamics of citizen-reported urban challenges using comprehensive time series analysis. The research identifies recurring patterns and forecasts future trends by scrutinizing interactions with a problem-mapping platform in Patras, Greece. This work offers valuable insights for city stakeholders, aiding decision-making and predicting future urban challenges. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,720 Views
24 Pages

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in cancer development, but not all miRNAs are equally significant in cancer detection. Traditional methods face challenges in effectively identifying cancer-associated miRNAs due to data complexity and volume. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,169 Views
26 Pages

The effectiveness of existing AI detectors is notably hampered when processing Arabic texts. This study introduces a novel AI text classifier designed specifically for Arabic, tackling the distinct challenges inherent in processing this language. A p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,179 Views
28 Pages

Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease among University Students

  • Dhiaa Musleh,
  • Ali Alkhwaja,
  • Ibrahim Alkhwaja,
  • Mohammed Alghamdi,
  • Hussam Abahussain,
  • Mohammed Albugami,
  • Faisal Alfawaz,
  • Said El-Ashker and
  • Mohammed Al-Hariri

Obesity is increasingly becoming a prevalent health concern among adolescents, leading to significant risks like cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs). The early discovery and diagnosis of CMD is essential for better outcomes. This study aims to build a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,395 Views
13 Pages

The volume of the asset investment and trading market can be expanded through the issuance and management of blockchain-based security tokens that logically divide the value of assets and guarantee ownership. This paper proposes a service model to so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,005 Views
13 Pages

The Distribution and Accessibility of Elements of Tourism in Historic and Cultural Cities

  • Wei-Ling Hsu,
  • Yi-Jheng Chang,
  • Lin Mou,
  • Juan-Wen Huang and
  • Hsin-Lung Liu

Historic urban areas are the foundations of urban development. Due to rapid urbanization, the sustainable development of historic urban areas has become challenging for many cities. Elements of tourism and tourism service facilities play an important...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,288 Views
22 Pages

Enhancing Supervised Model Performance in Credit Risk Classification Using Sampling Strategies and Feature Ranking

  • Niwan Wattanakitrungroj,
  • Pimchanok Wijitkajee,
  • Saichon Jaiyen,
  • Sunisa Sathapornvajana and
  • Sasiporn Tongman

For the financial health of lenders and institutions, one important risk assessment called credit risk is about correctly deciding whether or not a borrower will fail to repay a loan. It not only helps in the approval or denial of loan applications b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,126 Views
22 Pages

Temporal Dynamics of Citizen-Reported Urban Challenges: A Comprehensive Time Series Analysis

  • Andreas F. Gkontzis,
  • Sotiris Kotsiantis,
  • Georgios Feretzakis and
  • Vassilios S. Verykios

In an epoch characterized by the swift pace of digitalization and urbanization, the essence of community well-being hinges on the efficacy of urban management. As cities burgeon and transform, the need for astute strategies to navigate the complexiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,549 Views
21 Pages

This article investigates the intricate dynamics of data monopolies, referred to as “data-opolies”, and their implications for democratic erosion. Data-opolies, typically embodied by large technology corporations, accumulate extensive dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,978 Views
17 Pages

Sign-to-Text Translation from Panamanian Sign Language to Spanish in Continuous Capture Mode with Deep Neural Networks

  • Alvaro A. Teran-Quezada,
  • Victor Lopez-Cabrera,
  • Jose Carlos Rangel and
  • Javier E. Sanchez-Galan

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have provided great advances for the task of sign language recognition (SLR). However, recurrent neural networks (RNN) in the form of long–short-term memory (LSTM) have become a means for providing solutions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,168 Views
12 Pages

Experimental Evaluation: Can Humans Recognise Social Media Bots?

  • Maxim Kolomeets,
  • Olga Tushkanova,
  • Vasily Desnitsky,
  • Lidia Vitkova and
  • Andrey Chechulin

This paper aims to test the hypothesis that the quality of social media bot detection systems based on supervised machine learning may not be as accurate as researchers claim, given that bots have become increasingly sophisticated, making it difficul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,505 Views
16 Pages

Solar and Wind Data Recognition: Fourier Regression for Robust Recovery

  • Abdullah F. Al-Aboosi,
  • Aldo Jonathan Muñoz Vazquez,
  • Fadhil Y. Al-Aboosi,
  • Mahmoud El-Halwagi and
  • Wei Zhan

Accurate prediction of renewable energy output is essential for integrating sustainable energy sources into the grid, facilitating a transition towards a more resilient energy infrastructure. Novel applications of machine learning and artificial inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,889 Views
17 Pages

Comparison of Bagging and Sparcity Methods for Connectivity Reduction in Spiking Neural Networks with Memristive Plasticity

  • Roman Rybka,
  • Yury Davydov,
  • Danila Vlasov,
  • Alexey Serenko,
  • Alexander Sboev and
  • Vyacheslav Ilyin

Developing a spiking neural network architecture that could prospectively be trained on energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware to solve various data analysis tasks requires satisfying the limitations of prospective analog or digital hardware, i.e., l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,636 Views
15 Pages

The swift proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart city infrastructures has created an urgent demand for robust cybersecurity measures. These devices are susceptible to various cyberattacks that can jeopardize the security and f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,356 Views
24 Pages

A Machine Learning-Based Pipeline for the Extraction of Insights from Customer Reviews

  • Róbert Lakatos,
  • Gergő Bogacsovics,
  • Balázs Harangi,
  • István Lakatos,
  • Attila Tiba,
  • János Tóth,
  • Marianna Szabó and
  • András Hajdu

The efficiency of natural language processing has improved dramatically with the advent of machine learning models, particularly neural network-based solutions. However, some tasks are still challenging, especially when considering specific domains....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,048 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Algorithm for Multi-Criteria Ontology Merging through Iterative Update of RDF Graph

  • Mohammed Suleiman Mohammed Rudwan and
  • Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu

Ontology merging is an important task in ontology engineering to date. However, despite the efforts devoted to ontology merging, the incorporation of relevant features of ontologies such as axioms, individuals and annotations in the output ontologies...

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