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A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science and Symmetry/Asymmetry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023 | Viewed by 4847

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Prof. Dr. Lianyong Qi

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College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: big data; AI; recommender systems
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Dr. Wajid Rafiq

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Department of Computer Sciences, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
Interests: internet of things; blockchain; wireless networks

Dr. Wenwen Gong

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School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Dr. Maqbool Khan

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Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria
Interests: big data analytics; cloud computing; predictive maintenance; explainable AI; knowledge graphs; data science and machine learning

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Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, the trajectory of daily human activities has become closely intertwined with cyberspace, resulting in a vast amount of human-centric digital information on an unprecedented scale. Human-Centric Collaborative Computing (HCCC) has emerged as a cross-disciplinary cutting-edge research domain enabling the effective integration of these various human-related computational elements, thus significantly benefiting the interactions and collaborations among the physical devices, cyberspace and human activity. The unprecedented volume of human-centric data generated by HCCC requires the support of powerful computing, raising a serious challenge in this field.

Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Deep Learning (DL), has emerged as a key technologies in realizing intelligent digital information processing. Through AI-based HCCC techniques, end users’ sophisticated functional and nonfunctional requirements can be satisfied. However, since the proportion of data with different labels is often uneven, some researchers have incorporated symmetries into deep learning models and architectures to solve this issue while reducing the model’s complexity. Symmetry and asymmetry, as key structural properties of human-centric data, are often ignored by state-of-the-art HCCC studies. Furthermore, studies have found that learning is most efficient when these symmetries are compatible with those of the data distribution.

Therefore, the symmetry and asymmetry issues in AI-based methods deserve more attention, calling for efforts aimed at guaranteeing computing quality and achieving their full potential in HCCC applications. We invite both original research and reviews presenting recent results in a unified and systematic way.

Prof. Dr. Lianyong Qi
Dr. Wajid Rafiq
Dr. Wenwen Gong
Dr. Maqbool Khan
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Keywords

symmetric learning frameworks
deep learning for symmetry
human-centric data management and balance/imbalance analysis
information diffusion and modelling in HCCC
deep learning for intelligent human computer interaction
symmetry/asymmetry network structure and community evolution analysis
human–cyber–physical interactions with symmetry/asymmetry
knowledge-driven human–computer interaction in cloud/edge
smart service quality optimization in HCCC
AI-enabled multi-agent systems in HCCC
AI-powered smart applications in HCCC

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A Levenberg-Marquardt Method for Tensor Approximation

Jinyao Zhao

Xuejuan Zhang

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Jinling Zhao

Symmetry 2023, 15(3), 694; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15030694 - 10 Mar 2023

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This paper presents a tensor approximation algorithm, based on the Levenberg–Marquardt method for the nonlinear least square problem, to decompose large-scale tensors into the sum of the products of vector groups of a given scale, or to obtain a low-rank tensor approximation without losing too much accuracy. An Armijo-like rule of inexact line search is also introduced into this algorithm. The result of the tensor decomposition is adjustable, which implies that the decomposition can be specified according to the users’ requirements. The convergence is proved, and numerical experiments show that it has some advantages over the classical Levenberg–Marquardt method. This algorithm is applicable to both symmetric and asymmetric tensors, and it is expected to play a role in the field of large-scale data compression storage and large-scale tensor approximation operations. Full article

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Collaborative Energy Price Computing Based on Sarima-Ann and Asymmetric Stackelberg Games

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Symmetry 2023, 15(2), 443; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15020443 - 07 Feb 2023

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The energy trading problem in smart grids has been of great interest. In this paper, we focus on two problems: 1. Energy sellers’ inaccurate grasp of users’ real needs causes information asymmetry in transactions, making it difficult for energy sellers to develop more satisfactory pricing strategies for users based on those real needs. 2. The uneven variation of user demand causes the grid costs to increase. In this paper, we design a collaborative pricing strategy based on the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average-artificial neural network (Sarima-Ann) and an asymmetric Stackelberg game. Specifically, we propose a dissatisfaction function for users and an incentive function for grid companies to construct a utility function for both parties, which introduces an incentive amount to achieve better results in equilibrating user demand while optimizing the transaction utility. In addition, we constructed a demand fluctuation function based on user demand data and introduced it into the game model to predict the demand by Sarima-Ann, which achieves better prediction accuracy. Finally, through simulation experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our scheme in balancing demand and improving utility, and the superiority of our Sarima-Ann model in terms of forecasting accuracy. Specifically, the peak reduction can reach 94.1% and the total transaction utility increase can reach 4.6 × 10⁷, and better results can be achieved by adjusting the incentive rate. Our Sarima-Ann model improves accuracy by 64.95% over Arima and 64.47% over Sarima under MAE metric evaluation, and also shows superior accuracy under other metrics evaluation. Full article

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A Secure and Lightweight Multi-Party Private Intersection-Sum Scheme over a Symmetric Cryptosystem

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Symmetry 2023, 15(2), 319; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15020319 - 23 Jan 2023

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A private intersection-sum (PIS) scheme considers the private computing problem of how parties jointly compute the sum of associated values in the set intersection. In scenarios such as electronic voting, corporate credit investigation, and ad conversions, private data are held by different parties. However, despite two-party PIS being well-developed in many previous works, its extended version, multi-party PIS, has rarely been discussed thus far. This is because, depending on the existing works, directly initiating multiple two-party PIS instances is considered to be a straightforward way to achieve multi-party PIS; however, by using this approach, the intersection-sum results of the two parties and the data only belonging to the two-party intersection will be leaked. Therefore, achieving secure multi-party PIS is still a challenge. In this paper, we propose a secure and lightweight multi-party private intersection-sum scheme called SLMP-PIS. We maintain data privacy based on zero sharing and oblivious pseudorandom functions to compute the multi-party intersection and consider the privacy of associated values using arithmetic sharing and symmetric encryption. The security analysis results show that our protocol is proven to be secure in the standard semi-honest security model. In addition, the experiment results demonstrate that our scheme is efficient and feasible in practice. Specifically, when the number of participants is five, the efficiency can be increased by 22.98%. Full article

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Extinction and Ergodic Stationary Distribution of COVID-19 Epidemic Model with Vaccination Effects

Humera Batool

Weiyu Li

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Zhonggui Sun

Symmetry 2023, 15(2), 285; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15020285 - 19 Jan 2023

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Human society always wants a safe environment from pollution and infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, etc. To control COVID-19, we have started the big effort for the discovery of a vaccination of COVID-19. Several biological problems have the aspects of symmetry, and this theory has many applications in explaining the dynamics of biological models. In this research article, we developed the stochastic COVID-19 mathematical model, along with the inclusion of a vaccination term, and studied the dynamics of the disease through the theory of symmetric dynamics and ergodic stationary distribution. The basic reproduction number is evaluated using the equilibrium points of the proposed model. For well-posedness, we also test the given problem for the existence and uniqueness of a non-negative solution. The necessary conditions for eradicating the disease are also analyzed along with the stationary distribution of the proposed model. For the verification of the obtained result, simulations of the model are performed. Full article

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Edge Computing-Based VANETs’ Anonymous Message Authentication

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Symmetry 2022, 14(12), 2662; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14122662 - 16 Dec 2022

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Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have high requirements for real-time data processing and security of message authentication. In order to solve the computing power asymmetry between vehicles and road side units (RSUs) in VANETs under high-density traffic, accelerate the processing speed of message authentication, and solve the problems of high computational overhead and long message authentication time caused by the use of bilinear pairing encryption technology in similar message-batch-authentication schemes, we propose introducing the concept of edge computing (EC) into VANETs and using idle nodes’ resources to assist the RSU in quickly authenticating messages to achieve computing power load balancing under multiple traffic flows. We propose introducing the idea of edge computing (EC) into VANETs and using idle nodes’ resources to assist RSUs in quickly authenticating messages. This scheme performs two identity-based message authentications based on the identity signature constructed by elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). One of them is the batch authentication of the vehicle sending messages by the RSU-authenticated vehicles with free resources, as temporary edge computing nodes (TENs), and the other is the authentication of the temporary TEN messages by the fixed-edge-node RSUs. The resources of the TEN are used to reduce the computational burden of RSUs and message authentication time, thereby improving the efficiency of system authentication of messages. We performed a security analysis of the scheme to prove its security properties and compared it with other schemes in terms of performance. The experimental results show that our scheme has a transmission overhead of 2400 bytes when there are four TENs, and the number of verification message requests reaches 20, which outperforms other methods. The gap will be more evident as the numbers of TEN and message verification requests increase. Full article

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