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Informatics2026, 13(11), 195;https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics13110195 
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15 November 2026

This review develops a mathematically structured account of topological data analysis (TDA), focusing on persistent homology and its applications to machine learning and large language model (LLM) analysis. It systematically introduces the fundamenta...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data Mining and Analytics)
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An Explainable AI-Enabled Clinical Decision-Support Framework for Urticaria Identification Using Structured Anamnesis Data: A Pilot Study

  • Stefano Palazzo,
  • Esra Hazar,
  • Giovanni Zambetta,
  • Roberto Caldelli and ,
  • Daniela D’Auria and
  • Claudio Loconsole
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13 November 2026

Although artificial intelligence has shown promising results in medical diagnosis, limited attention has been devoted to explainable frameworks for clinical decision support using structured anamnesis data whose potential clinical applications requir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Digital Health Technologies for Patient-Centered Care and Sustainable Systems)
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12 November 2026

Audit trails in clinical-trial electronic data capture (EDC) systems record who created or changed trial data; when; and, where applicable, why. Process-mining methods could use these time-stamped records to reconstruct data-management workflows. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical and Clinical Informatics)
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Digital Standardization and Interoperability in BRICS Digital Ecosystems

  • Svetlana Ratner,
  • Aracelly Núñez-Naranjo,
  • Robert Sarinyan and
  • Yevgenya Hakobyan

12 November 2026

This study examines the role of digital standardization in developing functional interoperability within the BRICS digital ecosystem. A mixed-methods design combines qualitative analysis of national standardization repositories with comparative stati...

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Artificial Intelligence for Detecting and Predicting Suicide-Related Outcomes on Social Media: A Systematic Review

  • Félix Díaz,
  • Joseph H. Moscol-Rodriguez,
  • Kosseth Otero-Krugger,
  • Nhell Cerna and
  • Anibal Alviz-Meza

11 November 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to detect and predict suicide-related outcomes from social-media data, but the methodological basis and generalizability of this research remain heterogeneous. We conducted a systematic review combini...

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11 November 2026

Multimodal AI-driven 3D modelling has become an important production tool, yet it remains unclear which automatic retopology and remeshing strategies best balance geometric, topological and perceptual consistency. Prior studies of AI-integrated workf...

(This article belongs to the Section Generative AI)
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Public Negotiation of AI-Mediated Cognition in Reddit Discourse

  • Lersak Phothong,
  • Anupong Sukprasert,
  • Palan Jantarajaturapath,
  • Sirilak Kaiwinit and
  • Pawornprat Hongsakon

8 November 2026

We examine how acceptable AI assistance is related to continuing human responsibility in public discussion. Our analysis covers 208,252 comments from selected Reddit communities using nonexclusive lexical indicators, BERTopic on a fixed 50,000-commen...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Informatics and Digital Humanities)
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6 November 2026

Generative AI outputs often contain hallucinated content, yet little is known about why employees adopt such content at work. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 33 employees across multiple industries and procedural grounded theory, this stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Human-Computer Interaction)
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Keyword-Constrained Community Search over Bipartite Networks

  • Junyi Jiang,
  • Xiaoxu Song and
  • Guofeng Jin

5 November 2026

Bipartite networks are widely used to model interactions between two types of entities in many real-world applications, such as recommendation systems, social networks, and academic networks. Community search aims to identify cohesive groups containi...

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5 November 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems for biomedical diagnostics are usually evaluated on predictive performance, yet clinical adoption also depends on reliability under distribution shift, interpretability, safety behaviour, equity across subgroups,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Digital Health Technologies for Patient-Centered Care and Sustainable Systems)
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3 November 2026

Physical fitness assessment is an essential component of school-based physical education, yet in many schools it still relies on manual recording that is time-consuming and prone to error. This study aimed to (1) develop a web-based application, acce...

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2 November 2026

Large-scale comparative genomics and antimicrobial resistance surveillance depend on structured, machine-readable sample metadata, yet NCBI BioSample, the primary repository for microbial genomic provenance, contains heterogeneous submitter-supplied...

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Integrating Causal Inference and Transfer Learning for Spatially Heterogeneous Automobile Sales Analysis

  • Xun Zuo,
  • Yi Han,
  • Keyue Zhang,
  • Tianren Ming and ,
  • Junzhe Wang,
  • Yanqing Huang,
  • Xiaojun Huang,
  • Zhuo Li,
  • Yi Zhong and
  • Guoxian Yan
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2 November 2026

Automobile sales analysis provides an important basis for production planning, procurement, supply-chain coordination, inventory management, and dealership resource allocation. However, dealership sales are jointly influenced by operational practices...

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2 November 2026

Online assessment of music ear training requires the coordinated delivery of auditory stimuli, musical response formats, and examination records. In this study, a web-based assessment system for higher education was designed, developed, and initially...

(This article belongs to the Section Human-Computer Interaction)
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29 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Survival models can retain their ability to rank patients while their absolute-risk predictions become less accurate over time. We compared temporal calibration drift and updating across statistical and machine-learning models...

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GOBLIN: Prototype Architecture and Prospective Validation Roadmap for Clinician-Supervised Management of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

  • Zaki Milhem,
  • Rareș-Codrin Lache,
  • Maria-Luiza Vlădărean,
  • Ioan-Andrei Bârsan and ,
  • Radu-George Bolborici,
  • Alexandru-Florin Ene,
  • Ana-Antonia Nicolae,
  • Mara-Simina Olinic,
  • Alexandru-George Stan and
  • Roland Stretea
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27 October 2026

Auditory verbal hallucinations are one of the most common symptoms in schizophrenia, contributing substantially to distress, functional impairment, and relapse risk. Existing therapeutic approaches, including pharmacological treatment and structured...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Digital Health Technologies for Patient-Centered Care and Sustainable Systems)
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A Criteria-Governed Human-in-the-Loop Information System Architecture for Explainable AI-Assisted Learning and Preliminary Assessment

  • Syrym Zhakypbekov,
  • Artem Bykov,
  • Vera Yermakova,
  • Aliya Zhuginissova and
  • Marco Angelo Vasquez

27 October 2026

This paper presents a criteria-governed, human-in-the-loop information system architecture integrating formative AI-assisted learning with preliminary assessment of spoken and written responses. It supports two modes: a retrieval-augmented assistant...

(This article belongs to the Section Generative AI)
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A Structured Mixed-Methods Workflow for User-Centred Digital Mental Health Platform Design

  • Harold Ngabo-Woods,
  • Isabel Seguí Verdú,
  • Larisa Dunai and
  • Eva María Burguera Sierra

27 October 2026

Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) frequently experience low user engagement and high attrition, highlighting the importance of incorporating user-centred design approaches during early-stage development. This study presents a structured mix...

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23 October 2026

Cooling-tower noncompliance can weaken controls intended to limit Legionella-related public-health risks. We examined whether longitudinal inspection histories could predict at least one violation at a system’s next inspection and support capac...

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The Impact of the Metaverse on the Programming Learning Motivation of University Students

  • Juan Gabriel López Solórzano,
  • Laura Alicia Hernández Moreno and
  • Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas

22 October 2026

Currently, educators are looking for new techniques in the teaching–learning process. Previous research has presented various teaching strategies designed to motivate students to learn. Existing research has focused on the use of spatial world...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-World Applications and Prototyping of Information Systems for Extended Reality (VR, AR, and MR))
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21 October 2026

With advances in digital technology, augmented reality (AR) can play a substantial role in project development and sustainable growth in engineering and construction. Utilising AR technology with digital overlays offers a three-dimensional (3D) setti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Platform Analytics for Societal Development Across Sectors)
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16 October 2026

Large language model (LLM)-based creative AI systems tend to produce plausible rather than novel research ideas. This study compares two ways of generating research hypotheses: a genetic algorithm (GA) that recombines Method, Problem, and Goal elemen...

(This article belongs to the Section Generative AI)
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16 October 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) use and online information checking may be socially patterned in different ways. This cross-sectional study analysed the 2025 Turkish Statistical Institute ICT survey of 22,502 internet users aged 16–74 u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Innovations Transforming Our Lives and Society)
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AI-Driven Fit Confidence in Fashion E-Commerce: How Personalization, Transparency, and Privacy Concerns Shape Consumer Experience and Purchase Intention

  • Alexander Sánchez-Rodríguez,
  • Jesús Alberto Rodríguez-Flores,
  • Andrés Fernando Morocho-Caiza,
  • Alexis Cordovés-García and ,
  • Gelmar García-Vidal and
  • Reyner Pérez-Campdesuñer
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15 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming fashion e-commerce through personalized recommendations, virtual try-on, size suggestions, and algorithmic decision support. This study examines AI-driven fit confidence as a fashion-specific mechanism lin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fashion in the Digital Marketplace: Innovation and Consumer Experience in E-Commerce)
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Usability of Two Clinical Registry Data-Entry Interfaces: A Randomized Crossover Study

  • Keisuke Nakamura,
  • Yuto Kasahara,
  • Goro Miura,
  • Aimi Kinoshita and
  • Takayuki Asao

14 October 2026

Efficient and accurate data entry is essential for ensuring high-quality clinical registries; however, conventional electronic data-capture (EDC) interfaces impose a substantial workload on healthcare professionals. This study compared a wizard-style...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Informatics)
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14 October 2026

Avatar-mediated streaming has become a distinctive mode of content creation; however, we still lack empirical insight into how novice performers experience avatar embodiment upon their first exposure to VTubing. This study examined whether four conti...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Informatics and Digital Humanities)
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10 October 2026

The widespread use of social media has led to a rise in online bullying and abusive language. Huge amounts of content are created on social media daily, creating a challenge for platforms to manually detect and remove offensive posts, making automate...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
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10 October 2026

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) are key enabling technology for the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), supporting environmental monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster warning and surveillance. Existing routing approaches include de...

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Distributed trace anomaly scoring must distinguish unusual service-path latency behavior from structural differences among traces. However, raw Service Trace Vector (STV) scores may increase with trace size and feature occupancy, potentially prioriti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Control)
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Sleep disorders are prevalent across the population and, in older adults, are associated with cognitive decline, reduced functional capacity, and diminished quality of life. While polysomnography (PSG) provides detailed neurophysiological information...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
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A Generative Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction Approach Using Fine-Tuned LLMs

  • Arseniy Bapanov,
  • Aslanbek Murzakhmetov,
  • Nurbol Beisov,
  • Maxatbek Satymbekov and
  • Mukhan Murotboyev

Fine-grained analysis of guest satisfaction in the hospitality sector requires moving beyond document-level sentiment classification. It calls for structured extraction of attribute-specific evaluations from multilingual user-generated content. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Section Generative AI)
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Modern deepfakes leave forensic traces across audio, visual, and cross-modal channels, yet contemporary detectors are monolithic transformer-based architectures whose post hoc explanations struggle to isolate modality-specific artefacts. We propose a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Learning to Live with Gen-AI)
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Controllable Orthogonalization for Stabilizing Neural Network Training in Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Jia Yu,
  • Dun Su,
  • Hua Cui,
  • Hai Wang and ,
  • Lei Huang and
  • Tengwei Song
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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) relies on neural networks trained under temporally correlated experience, evolving replay distributions, and bootstrapped targets, conditions that can destabilize neural function approximation. This study investigate...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
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University psychology clinics represent complex coordination environments in which pedagogical requirements, supervision constraints, and institutional governance mechanisms intersect. Traditional coordination practices based on spreadsheets often fa...

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An Agentic AI-Aided Review of Large Language Model Applications in Literature Reviews: A Seven-Layer Architecture

  • Emmanuel A. Merchán-Cruz,
  • Ioseb Gabelaia,
  • Shwe Soe,
  • Irina Yatskiv and
  • Dmitry Pavlyuk

The growing volume of scientific output and the pace of AI advancement create a dual challenge: traditional systematic reviews take twelve to eighteen months to complete, risking obsolescence before publication, while the technology needed to acceler...

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Performance Evaluation of Single and Ensemble Models for Customer Churn Prediction Analysis

  • Fatima Labake Ajani,
  • Oyeniyi Akeem Alimi,
  • Smangele Pretty Moyane and
  • Oludayo O. Olugbara

30 September 2026

Customer churn remains one of the most consequential problems facing business enterprises globally. Compared with the enticement and acquisition costs associated with acquiring new customers, retaining an existing subscriber is substantially cheaper....

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30 September 2026

The entertainment industry covers numerous fields of business, such as telecommunication, television, music, video games, and event management. Out of these markets, the gaming industry has been growing significantly due to its high revenues, a subst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Data-Driven Decision Support)
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30 September 2026

Since X-Twitter suppressed public access to engagement metrics in February 2023, classical models for detecting coordinated operations lost viability. Astroturfing is one modality among several, alongside narrative saturation and targeted amplificati...

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A Preliminary Study Investigating How Voice Pitch and Speech Style Influence Driver Performance and Emotion Reflections in In-Vehicle Assistance Systems

  • Zhao Zou,
  • Aila Khan,
  • Fady Alnajjar,
  • Michael Lwin and ,
  • Abdullah Al Mahmud and
  • Omar Mubin
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29 September 2026

As the adoption of autonomous vehicles continues to grow, understanding the impact of auditory features in driving assistance systems becomes increasingly crucial. This study investigates the effectiveness of different voice pitches (alto and bass) a...

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A Scientometric Study of Usability and User Experience Evaluation: Evolution, Context and Trends

  • María Camila Samper Meza,
  • Alexander Armando Bustamante Martínez,
  • Ernesto Amaru Galvis Lista and
  • Mayda Patricia González Zabala

23 September 2026

Usability and user experience (UX) evaluation frameworks are well established within human–computer interaction and human factors research, yet they are typically applied as general-purpose models that do not fully capture the specific cognitiv...

(This article belongs to the Section Human-Computer Interaction)
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21 September 2026

Childhood obesity has become a major public health concern worldwide, highlighting the need for innovative educational interventions that promote healthier dietary behaviors from an early age. Virtual reality (VR) serious games have emerged as a prom...

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17 September 2026

Hard exudates (HEs) are among the earliest clinical manifestations of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and serve as important indicators for disease diagnosis and progression assessment. Accurate segmentation of HEs is therefore essential for early interven...

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Inappropriate Content Classification Model for Digital Violence Detection Using Hybrid Data

  • Patricio Xavier Zambrano Rodríguez,
  • Marco Polo Sánchez Aguayo,
  • Carlos Eduardo Anchundia Valencia,
  • Johan Sebastian Illicachi Manzano and ,
  • Andrea Damarys Oña Calahorrano,
  • Adrian Esteban Paguay Montenegro and
  • Juan Sebastián León Espinosa
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16 September 2026

This study presents an inappropriate-content classification framework for digital-violence detection in Ecuadorian Spanish, addressing extreme class imbalance and dialectal variation. Data were collected in a post-API setting through a Selenium-based...

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15 September 2026

In social media contexts, recommendation systems are significant for enhancing the delivery of personalized content. More traditional recommendation systems aim primarily for recommendation accuracy, but do little on the topic related to the explaina...

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RubricAdapt-LLM: Measuring Criterion-Level Adaptation and Score Shifts Under Alternative Grading Rubrics

  • Catalin Anghel,
  • Andreea Alexandra Anghel,
  • Adina Cocu,
  • Marian Viorel Craciun and ,
  • Simona Moldovanu,
  • Mihai Vlase and
  • Cristian Sandu
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10 September 2026

Background: Large language models are increasingly used for rubric-based grading, but it remains unclear whether they adapt selectively when criterion weights change while the response, criterion definitions, and total score remain fixed. This study...

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8 September 2026

The inherent uncertainty of concrete dam systems, together with the complex influence of environmental loads and measurement noise, makes it difficult for traditional deterministic point prediction models to provide reliable deformation forecasts. In...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
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Visual Analytics in Pharmacovigilance: A Scoping Review

  • Ali Sharifi Kia,
  • Mahta Mohammadzadeh and
  • Kamran Sedig

8 September 2026

Visual analytics combines computational analysis with interactive visual representations and may strengthen pharmacovigilance, but its use in drug safety research has not been systematically characterized. This scoping review mapped the extent, chara...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Informatics)
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8 September 2026

Agentic AI is changing enterprise cybersecurity as AI systems move beyond passive content generation toward autonomous planning, tool use, delegated execution, and operational action. As agents connect to email, code repositories, security operations...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
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