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Albumentations: Fast and Flexible Image Augmentations

  • Alexander Buslaev,
  • Vladimir I. Iglovikov,
  • Eugene Khvedchenya,
  • Alex Parinov and ,
  • Mikhail Druzhinin and
  • Alexandr A. Kalinin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 February 2020

Data augmentation is a commonly used technique for increasing both the size and the diversity of labeled training sets by leveraging input transformations that preserve corresponding output labels. In computer vision, image augmentations have become...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning with Python)
  • Review
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  • Best Paper Award
1,504 Citations
126,561 Views
68 Pages

Text Classification Algorithms: A Survey

  • Kamran Kowsari,
  • Kiana Jafari Meimandi,
  • Mojtaba Heidarysafa,
  • Sanjana Mendu and ,
  • Laura Barnes and
  • Donald Brown
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 April 2019

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of complex documents and texts that require a deeper understanding of machine learning methods to be able to accurately classify texts in many applications. Many machine learning app...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning on Scientific Data and Information)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,202 Citations
64,470 Views
26 Pages

A Review on UAV-Based Applications for Precision Agriculture

  • Dimosthenis C. Tsouros,
  • Stamatia Bibi and
  • Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis

11 November 2019

Emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) can provide significant potential in Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture applications, enabling the acquisition of real-time environmental data. IoT devices such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Applications and Industry 4.0)
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  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
908 Citations
92,620 Views
26 Pages

Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

  • Jeremy Howard and
  • Sylvain Gugger

16 February 2020

fastai is a deep learning library which provides practitioners with high-level components that can quickly and easily provide state-of-the-art results in standard deep learning domains, and provides researchers with low-level components that can be m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning with Python)
  • Review
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
851 Citations
83,316 Views
34 Pages

25 August 2024

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have significantly advanced the field of machine learning (ML) by enabling the effective processing of sequential data. This paper provides a comprehensive review of RNNs and their applications, highlighting advanceme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks)
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  • Open Access
665 Citations
68,728 Views
36 Pages

Choosing Mutation and Crossover Ratios for Genetic Algorithms—A Review with a New Dynamic Approach

  • Ahmad Hassanat,
  • Khalid Almohammadi,
  • Esra’a Alkafaween,
  • Eman Abunawas and ,
  • Awni Hammouri and
  • V. B. Surya Prasath
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 December 2019

Genetic algorithm (GA) is an artificial intelligence search method that uses the process of evolution and natural selection theory and is under the umbrella of evolutionary computing algorithm. It is an efficient tool for solving optimization problem...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
591 Citations
116,205 Views
44 Pages

4 April 2020

Smarter applications are making better use of the insights gleaned from data, having an impact on every industry and research discipline. At the core of this revolution lies the tools and the methods that are driving it, from processing the massive p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning with Python)
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  • Open Access
548 Citations
32,768 Views
16 Pages

BBDS: Blockchain-Based Data Sharing for Electronic Medical Records in Cloud Environments

  • Qi Xia,
  • Emmanuel Boateng Sifah,
  • Abla Smahi,
  • Sandro Amofa and
  • Xiaosong Zhang

17 April 2017

Disseminating medical data beyond the protected cloud of institutions poses severe risks to patients’ privacy, as breaches push them to the point where they abstain from full disclosure of their condition. This situation negatively impacts the patien...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
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  • Open Access
525 Citations
58,785 Views
23 Pages

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Intelligent Assistant for Personalized and Adaptive Learning in Higher Education

  • Ramteja Sajja,
  • Yusuf Sermet,
  • Muhammed Cikmaz,
  • David Cwiertny and
  • Ibrahim Demir

30 September 2024

This paper presents a novel framework, artificial intelligence-enabled intelligent assistant (AIIA), for personalized and adaptive learning in higher education. The AIIA system leverages advanced AI and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Games Science in Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
518 Citations
68,378 Views
35 Pages

A Survey of Deep Learning Methods for Cyber Security

  • Daniel S. Berman,
  • Anna L. Buczak,
  • Jeffrey S. Chavis and
  • Cherita L. Corbett

2 April 2019

This survey paper describes a literature review of deep learning (DL) methods for cyber security applications. A short tutorial-style description of each DL method is provided, including deep autoencoders, restricted Boltzmann machines, recurrent neu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Cyber-Security)
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  • Open Access
493 Citations
33,354 Views
24 Pages

Effective Intrusion Detection System Using XGBoost

  • Sukhpreet Singh Dhaliwal,
  • Abdullah-Al Nahid and
  • Robert Abbas

21 June 2018

As the world is on the verge of venturing into fifth-generation communication technology and embracing concepts such as virtualization and cloudification, the most crucial aspect remains “security”, as more and more data get attached to t...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
432 Citations
99,466 Views
22 Pages

A Literature Survey of Recent Advances in Chatbots

  • Guendalina Caldarini,
  • Sardar Jaf and
  • Kenneth McGarry

15 January 2022

Chatbots are intelligent conversational computer systems designed to mimic human conversation to enable automated online guidance and support. The increased benefits of chatbots led to their wide adoption by many industries in order to provide virtua...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
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  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
413 Citations
51,344 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2023

Educational data mining is capable of producing useful data-driven applications (e.g., early warning systems in schools or the prediction of students’ academic achievement) based on predictive models. However, the class imbalance problem in edu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Predictive Analytics and Data Science)
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  • Open Access
405 Citations
46,796 Views
36 Pages

19 April 2024

Support vector machines (SVMs) are well-known machine learning algorithms for classification and regression applications. In the healthcare domain, they have been used for a variety of tasks including diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of disease o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning in Italy)
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  • Open Access
395 Citations
66,838 Views
20 Pages

Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

  • Dorota Kamińska,
  • Tomasz Sapiński,
  • Sławomir Wiak,
  • Toomas Tikk and ,
  • Rain Eric Haamer,
  • Egils Avots,
  • Ahmed Helmi,
  • Cagri Ozcinar and
  • Gholamreza Anbarjafari
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

16 October 2019

In the education process, students face problems with understanding due to the complexity, necessity of abstract thinking and concepts. More and more educational centres around the world have started to introduce powerful new technology-based tools t...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
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  • Open Access
364 Citations
29,565 Views
22 Pages

COVID-19 Public Sentiment Insights and Machine Learning for Tweets Classification

  • Jim Samuel,
  • G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali,
  • Md. Mokhlesur Rahman,
  • Ek Esawi and
  • Yana Samuel

11 June 2020

Along with the Coronavirus pandemic, another crisis has manifested itself in the form of mass fear and panic phenomena, fueled by incomplete and often inaccurate information. There is therefore a tremendous need to address and better understand COVID...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
349 Citations
256,702 Views
42 Pages

2 February 2023

For organizations, the development of new business models and competitive advantages through the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in business and IT strategies holds considerable promise. The majority of businesses are finding it difficult...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
345 Citations
75,761 Views
19 Pages

13 February 2023

By utilizing smart contracts, which are essentially scripts that are anchored in a decentralized manner on blockchains or other similar infrastructures, it is possible to make the execution of predetermined procedures visible to the outside world. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Industrial Applications: Orchestration of Machine Learning, the IoT, and Blockchain)
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  • Open Access
343 Citations
81,489 Views
45 Pages

27 November 2024

Deep learning (DL) has become a core component of modern artificial intelligence (AI), driving significant advancements across diverse fields by facilitating the analysis of complex systems, from protein folding in biology to molecular discovery in c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024)
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  • Open Access
338 Citations
67,656 Views
15 Pages

Often the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a single problem domain, with proposed solutions intended to be applied across a wide range of applications. However, the privacy and security needs of critical engineering infrastructure or sensiti...

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310 Citations
29,683 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2020

In the modern business environment, characterized by rapid technological advancements and globalization, abetted by IoT and Industry 5.0 phenomenon, innovation is indispensable for competitive advantage and economic growth. However, many organization...

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296 Citations
65,571 Views
38 Pages

Digital Image Watermarking Techniques: A Review

  • Mahbuba Begum and
  • Mohammad Shorif Uddin

17 February 2020

Digital image authentication is an extremely significant concern for the digital revolution, as it is easy to tamper with any image. In the last few decades, it has been an urgent concern for researchers to ensure the authenticity of digital images....

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
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  • Open Access
284 Citations
42,293 Views
17 Pages

Measurement of Text Similarity: A Survey

  • Jiapeng Wang and
  • Yihong Dong

31 August 2020

Text similarity measurement is the basis of natural language processing tasks, which play an important role in information retrieval, automatic question answering, machine translation, dialogue systems, and document matching. This paper systematicall...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Review
  • Open Access
275 Citations
39,677 Views
31 Pages

Serious Games and Gamification in Healthcare: A Meta-Review

  • Robertas Damaševičius,
  • Rytis Maskeliūnas and
  • Tomas Blažauskas

7 February 2023

A serious game is a type of game that is designed for a primary purpose other than entertainment. Instead, serious games are intended to achieve specific goals, such as education, training, or health promotion. The goal of serious games is to engage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Gamification 2021 & 2022)
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  • Open Access
273 Citations
41,843 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2021

In recent years, the growing number of devices connected to the internet has increased significantly. These devices can interact with the external environment and with human beings through a wide range of sensors that, perceiving reality through the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless IoT Network Protocols)
  • Review
  • Open Access
268 Citations
33,614 Views
28 Pages

In the realm of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems, the selection of a weighting method holds a critical role. Researchers from diverse fields have consistently employed MCDM techniques, utilizing both traditional and novel methods to enh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
268 Citations
43,301 Views
28 Pages

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Medical Image Analysis: A Review

  • Ibomoiye Domor Mienye,
  • Theo G. Swart,
  • George Obaido,
  • Matt Jordan and
  • Philip Ilono

3 March 2025

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized medical image analysis by enabling the automated learning of hierarchical features from complex medical imaging datasets. This review provides a focused analysis of CNN evolution and archi...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
264 Citations
83,357 Views
15 Pages

8 April 2025

This systematic literature review rigorously evaluates the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on academic integrity within higher education settings. The primary objective is to synthesize how GenAI technologies influence student behavior and academic h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Educational Innovation with Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
252 Citations
78,310 Views
27 Pages

28 October 2024

(1) Background: The development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is transforming higher education. This systematic literature review synthesizes recent empirical studies on the use of GAI, focusing on its impact on teaching, learning, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI Technologies: Shaping the Future of Higher Education)
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  • Open Access
250 Citations
74,191 Views
17 Pages

Live streaming commerce, which evolved from social commerce, has continued to flourish rapidly over the past few years in China. It is a new business model that allows vendors to directly face and interact with consumers. This study focuses on the im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Consumer Behavior: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
250 Citations
36,045 Views
39 Pages

A Survey on Text Classification Algorithms: From Text to Predictions

  • Andrea Gasparetto,
  • Matteo Marcuzzo,
  • Alessandro Zangari and
  • Andrea Albarelli

11 February 2022

In recent years, the exponential growth of digital documents has been met by rapid progress in text classification techniques. Newly proposed machine learning algorithms leverage the latest advancements in deep learning methods, allowing for the auto...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
243 Citations
77,734 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2020

Digital transformation creates challenges in all industries and business sectors. The development of digital transformation has also clearly triggered the emergence of fintech (financial technology) initiatives, which are recognized as some of the mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitalized Economy, Society and Information Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
240 Citations
25,902 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2017

By now, personal life has been invaded by online social networks (OSNs) everywhere. They intend to move more and more offline lives to online social networks. Therefore, online social networks can reflect the structure of offline human society. A pie...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Review
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
237 Citations
35,863 Views
17 Pages

Transformers in the Real World: A Survey on NLP Applications

  • Narendra Patwardhan,
  • Stefano Marrone and
  • Carlo Sansone

17 April 2023

The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant transformation with the introduction of Transformers. From the first introduction of this technology in 2017, the use of transformers has become widespread and has had a profo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Review
  • Open Access
231 Citations
41,975 Views
38 Pages

29 December 2021

This exploratory review attempted to gather evidence from the literature by shedding light on the emerging phenomenon of conceptualising the impact of artificial intelligence in education. The review utilised the PRISMA framework to review the analys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Games Science in Education)
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  • Open Access
221 Citations
35,049 Views
30 Pages

13 April 2021

Today, the practice of making digital replicas of artworks and restoring and recontextualizing them within artificial simulations is widespread in the virtual heritage domain. Virtual reconstructions have achieved results of great realistic and aesth...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
219 Citations
56,045 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2020

In the 21st century, green consumption has risen into a global trend, which inclines cosmetic companies to be more environmental-friendly and to have a larger green product portfolio to satisfy these new consumers’ needs. Social media contribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Marketing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
219 Citations
79,469 Views
23 Pages

16 August 2023

This paper presents an in-depth study of ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model that is revolutionizing generative text. We provide a comprehensive analysis of its architecture, training data, and evaluation metrics and explore its advancements a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Cybersecurity and Reliability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
212 Citations
12,240 Views
11 Pages

25 October 2021

A recurrent neural network (RNN) combines variable-length input data with a hidden state that depends on previous time steps to generate output data. RNNs have been widely used in time-series data analysis, and various RNN algorithms have been propos...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Citations
18,548 Views
21 Pages

22 January 2021

An accurate short-term load forecasting (STLF) is one of the most critical inputs for power plant units’ planning commitment. STLF reduces the overall planning uncertainty added by the intermittent production of renewable sources; thus, it help...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
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  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
203 Citations
19,176 Views
17 Pages

From HMI to HMIs: Towards an HMI Framework for Automated Driving

  • Klaus Bengler,
  • Michael Rettenmaier,
  • Nicole Fritz and
  • Alexander Feierle

25 January 2020

During automated driving, there is a need for interaction between the automated vehicle (AV) and the passengers inside the vehicle and between the AV and the surrounding road users outside of the car. For this purpose, different types of human machin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive User Interfaces and Interactions in Automated Driving)
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  • Open Access
202 Citations
17,106 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2020

Forecasting the direction and trend of stock price is an important task which helps investors to make prudent financial decisions in the stock market. Investment in the stock market has a big risk associated with it. Minimizing prediction error reduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning on Scientific Data and Information)
  • Review
  • Open Access
202 Citations
52,134 Views
32 Pages

Strategies for Successful Information Technology Adoption in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

  • Morteza Ghobakhloo,
  • Tang Sai Hong,
  • Mohammad Sadegh Sabouri and
  • Norzima Zulkifli

13 February 2012

Information Technology (IT) adoption is an important field of study in a number of areas, which include small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Due to the numerous advantages of IT, SMEs are trying to adopt IT applications to support their busines...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
202 Citations
17,751 Views
18 Pages

A Distributed Ledger for Supply Chain Physical Distribution Visibility

  • Haoyan Wu,
  • Zhijie Li,
  • Brian King,
  • Zina Ben Miled and ,
  • John Wassick and
  • Jeffrey Tazelaar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2017

Supply chains (SC) span many geographies, modes and industries and involve several phases where data flows in both directions from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, to customers. This data flow is necessary to support critical busine...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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  • Open Access
199 Citations
13,899 Views
19 Pages

A Specification-Based IDS for Detecting Attacks on RPL-Based Network Topology

  • Anhtuan Le,
  • Jonathan Loo,
  • Kok Keong Chai and
  • Mahdi Aiash

Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy network (RPL) topology attacks can downgrade the network performance significantly by disrupting the optimal protocol structure. To detect such threats, we propose a RPL-specification, obtained by a semi-auto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
196 Citations
17,926 Views
11 Pages

The internet has become an inseparable part of human life, and the number of devices connected to the internet is increasing sharply. In particular, Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become a part of everyday human life. However, some challenges...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
195 Citations
25,525 Views
19 Pages

29 October 2020

Scarce and niche in the literature just a few years ago, the blockchain topic is now the main subject in conference papers and books. However, the hype generated by the technology and its potential implications for real-world applications is flawed b...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Review
  • Open Access
192 Citations
36,826 Views
22 Pages

Online toxic discourses could result in conflicts between groups or harm to online communities. Hate speech is complex and multifaceted harmful or offensive content targeting individuals or groups. Existing literature reviews have generally focused o...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Review
  • Open Access
192 Citations
64,215 Views
35 Pages

Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting: Advances and Open Problems

  • Angelo Casolaro,
  • Vincenzo Capone,
  • Gennaro Iannuzzo and
  • Francesco Camastra

4 November 2023

A time series is a sequence of time-ordered data, and it is generally used to describe how a phenomenon evolves over time. Time series forecasting, estimating future values of time series, allows the implementation of decision-making strategies. Deep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Deep Learning Approach for Time Series Forecasting)
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