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16 April 2020

The widespread use of smartphones is boosting the market take-up of dedicated applications and among them, barcode scanning applications. Several barcodes scanners are available but show security and privacy weaknesses. In this paper, we provide a co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyberspace Security, Privacy & Forensics)
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336 Citations
255,025 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)
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133 Citations
132,029 Views
19 Pages

3 March 2022

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are an integral part of our environment, and their uses vary across generations and among individuals. Today’s student population is made up of “digital natives” who have grown up un...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
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1,486 Citations
125,399 Views
68 Pages

Text Classification Algorithms: A Survey

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

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)
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574 Citations
114,339 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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417 Citations
98,473 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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886 Citations
91,849 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)
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5 Citations
87,279 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2024

The more path conflicts between multiple robots, the more time it takes to avoid each other, and the more navigation time it takes for the robots to complete all tasks. This study designs a multi-robot navigation system based on deep reinforcement le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Topics on Robotic Vehicles)
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48 Citations
81,376 Views
32 Pages

Social Media Influencers: Customer Attitudes and Impact on Purchase Behaviour

  • Galina Ilieva,
  • Tania Yankova,
  • Margarita Ruseva,
  • Yulia Dzhabarova,
  • Stanislava Klisarova-Belcheva and
  • Marin Bratkov

18 June 2024

Social media marketing has become a crucial component of contemporary business strategies, significantly influencing brand visibility, customer engagement, and sales growth. The aim of this study is to investigate and determine the key factors guidin...

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774 Citations
81,244 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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13 Citations
80,354 Views
19 Pages

Addiction and Spending in Gacha Games

  • Nikola Lakić,
  • Andrija Bernik and
  • Andrej Čep

13 July 2023

Gacha games are the most dominant games on the mobile market. These are free-to-play games with a lottery-like system, where the user pays with in-game currency to enter a draw in order to obtain the character or item they want. If a player does not...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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306 Citations
79,551 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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212 Citations
78,980 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)
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234 Citations
77,118 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)
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2,320 Citations
77,101 Views
20 Pages

Albumentations: Fast and Flexible Image Augmentations

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

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)
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153 Citations
76,006 Views
30 Pages

17 December 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in multiple sectors, with digital marketing being a prominent beneficiary. As AI technologies continue to advance, their potential to reshape the digital marketing landscape b...

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224 Citations
75,181 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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325 Citations
74,736 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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191 Citations
74,479 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)
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169 Citations
73,338 Views
20 Pages

A Comparative Study of the ADDIE Instructional Design Model in Distance Education

  • Adamantia G. Spatioti,
  • Ioannis Kazanidis and
  • Jenny Pange

23 August 2022

Distance education is now a reality introducing a “specific methodology of flexible and interactive multiform learning”. Due to its characteristics, different instructional design models apply to distance education as guidelines of the de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Games Science in Education)
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236 Citations
71,742 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)
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647 Citations
68,126 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,
  • Awni Hammouri and
  • V. B. Surya Prasath

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)
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507 Citations
67,755 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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336 Citations
67,234 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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387 Citations
66,333 Views
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Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

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

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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115 Citations
64,829 Views
22 Pages

Cyber-Security Challenges in Aviation Industry: A Review of Current and Future Trends

  • Elochukwu Ukwandu,
  • Mohamed Amine Ben-Farah,
  • Hanan Hindy,
  • Miroslav Bures,
  • Robert Atkinson,
  • Christos Tachtatzis,
  • Ivan Andonovic and
  • Xavier Bellekens

10 March 2022

The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools into mechanical devices in routine use within the aviation industry has heightened cyber-security concerns. The extent of the inherent vulnerabilities in the software tools that...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
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291 Citations
64,801 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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177 Citations
63,637 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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1,145 Citations
63,457 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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468 Citations
57,178 Views
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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)
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212 Citations
55,330 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)
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198 Citations
51,641 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)
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119 Citations
50,848 Views
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AI in the Financial Sector: The Line between Innovation, Regulation and Ethical Responsibility

  • Nurhadhinah Nadiah Ridzuan,
  • Masairol Masri,
  • Muhammad Anshari,
  • Norma Latif Fitriyani and
  • Muhammad Syafrudin

25 July 2024

This study examines the applications, benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of artificial intelligence (AI) in the banking and finance sectors. It reviews current AI regulation and governance frameworks to provide insights for stakeholders...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024)
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387 Citations
50,683 Views
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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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121 Citations
50,580 Views
61 Pages

Advances in Facial Expression Recognition: A Survey of Methods, Benchmarks, Models, and Datasets

  • Thomas Kopalidis,
  • Vassilios Solachidis,
  • Nicholas Vretos and
  • Petros Daras

28 February 2024

Recent technological developments have enabled computers to identify and categorize facial expressions to determine a person’s emotional state in an image or a video. This process, called “Facial Expression Recognition (FER)”, has b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Image, Video and Signal Processing)
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81 Citations
47,248 Views
13 Pages

5 February 2021

This paper aims to examine a theoretical framework of digital society and the ramifications of the digital revolution. The paper proposes that more attention has to be paid to cultural studies as a means for the understanding of digital society. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Studies of Digital Society)
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138 Citations
46,442 Views
32 Pages

The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain: The State of Play and the Road Ahead

  • Dhanasak Bhumichai,
  • Christos Smiliotopoulos,
  • Ryan Benton,
  • Georgios Kambourakis and
  • Dimitrios Damopoulos

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology have emerged as increasingly prevalent and influential elements shaping global trends in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Namely, the synergistic combination of blockchain and AI...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Information in 2023)
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366 Citations
45,602 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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134 Citations
44,110 Views
43 Pages

This study delves into the dual nature of artificial intelligence (AI), illuminating its transformative potential that has the power to revolutionize various aspects of our lives. We delve into critical issues such as AI hallucinations, misinformatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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133 Citations
42,731 Views
33 Pages

Cyber Security in the Maritime Industry: A Systematic Survey of Recent Advances and Future Trends

  • Mohamed Amine Ben Farah,
  • Elochukwu Ukwandu,
  • Hanan Hindy,
  • David Brosset,
  • Miroslav Bures,
  • Ivan Andonovic and
  • Xavier Bellekens

6 January 2022

The paper presents a classification of cyber attacks within the context of the state of the art in the maritime industry. A systematic categorization of vessel components has been conducted, complemented by an analysis of key services delivered withi...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
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30 Citations
42,269 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2021

This paper designs and implements an energy management system based on the Spring Boot framework. The system mainly includes three layers, which are the data collection layer, the business logic layer, and the display interface layer from bottom to t...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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223 Citations
41,875 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...

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278 Citations
41,725 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)
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56 Citations
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19 Pages

16 July 2022

Storytelling content is where the facts are conveyed by emotion and that make people more engaged and want to take action or change their surroundings. Stories fascinate people and can easily be remembered compared to the facts alone. The much-hyped...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management and Digital Humanities)
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221 Citations
41,242 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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115 Citations
41,122 Views
25 Pages

AI Chatbots in Education: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Narius Farhad Davar,
  • M. Ali Akber Dewan and
  • Xiaokun Zhang

17 March 2025

With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), machine-learning (ML), and chatbot technologies, the field of education has been transformed drastically. The latest advancements in AI chatbots (such as ChatGPT) have proven to offer several benefi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accessibility and Inclusion in Education: Enabling Digital Technologies)
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267 Citations
41,001 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)
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41 Citations
40,289 Views
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Developing Integrated Performance Dashboards Visualisations Using Power BI as a Platform

  • Célia Talma Gonçalves,
  • Maria José Angélico Gonçalves and
  • Maria Inês Campante

15 November 2023

The rapid advance of business technologies in recent years has made knowledge an essential and strategic asset that determines the success or failure of an organisation. Access to the right information in real time and with high selectivity can be a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Economics and Business Management)
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30 Citations
40,087 Views
21 Pages

Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students’ Learning

  • Galina Ilieva,
  • Tania Yankova,
  • Stanislava Klisarova-Belcheva and
  • Svetlana Ivanova

11 April 2021

The risk of COVID-19 in higher education has affected all its degrees and forms of training. To assess the impact of the pandemic on the learning of university students, a new reference framework for educational data processing was proposed. The fram...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
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