Code search uses natural language queries to retrieve code snippets from a vast database, identifying those that are semantically similar to the query. This enables developers to reuse code and enhance software development efficiency. Most existing c...
The recently-emerging compressed sensing (CS) theory makes GNSS signal processing at a sub-Nyquist rate possible if it has a sparse representation in certain domain. The previously proposed code-domain compression acquisition algorithms have high com...
In this paper, the optimal control theory is applied to a temperature optimization problem by coupling finite element and finite volume codes. The optimality system is split into the state and adjoint system. The direct problem is solved by the widel...
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In 2019, an urban ambulance system was deployed in the city of Beira, Mozambique to refer patients from peripheral health centres (HCs) to the only hospital of the city (Beira Central Hospital—HCB). Initially, the system worked following a firs...
Background: The authors previously developed deep-learning models for the prediction of colorectal polyp histology (advanced colorectal cancer, early cancer/high-grade dysplasia, tubular adenoma with or without low-grade dysplasia, or non-neoplasm) f...
The primary objective of a liquid propellant supply system is to supply propellant to the engine, enabling stable mission performance. Therefore, the system design must aim at minimizing factors that may contribute to instability while satisfying the...
With the advent of artificial intelligence, the research paradigm in natural language processing has been transitioned from statistical methods to machine learning-based approaches. One application is to develop a deep learning-based language model t...
Code generation is a critical task in software engineering, enabling the automation of transforming natural language descriptions into executable code. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential to significa...
While large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on free-text questions, their reliability on tabular question answering (Tabular QA) is constrained, especially for multi-step reasoning and numerical aggregation. These challenges...
The accurate identification of channel-coding types plays a crucial role in wireless communication systems. The recognition of convolutional codes presents challenges, primarily due to their strong temporal dependencies, varying constraint lengths, a...
SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) technology incorporating QR code navigation has been widely used in the mobile robotics industry. However, the particle kidnapping problem, positioning accuracy, and navigation time are still urgent issues...
Semantic communication is emerging as a promising communication paradigm, where semantic coding plays an essential role by explicitly extracting task-critical information. Prior efforts toward semantic coding often rely on learning-based feature extr...
Design codes provide the necessary tools to check the torsional strength of reinforced concrete (RC) members. However, some researchers have pointed out that code equations still need improvement. This study presents a review and a comparative analys...
Vibrotactile (vibratory tactile) displays have been reported as effective in enhancing awareness of flight attitude for pilots and releasing other heavily loaded sensory channels. Although some work has been done on vibrotactile coding of flight atti...
Smart contracts enable autonomous execution between contracting parties without a centralized authority, thereby reducing contract management costs and enhancing the transparency and reliability of contracts. However, the absence of such a certificat...
In recent times, large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in generating computer code, blurring the lines between code created by humans and code produced by artificial intelligence (AI). As these technologies evolve rapidly, it is...
The rate of software development has increased dramatically. Conventional compilers cannot assess and detect all source code errors. Software may thus contain errors, negatively affecting end-users. It is also difficult to assess and detect source co...
In recent years, the number of similar software products with many common parts has been increasing due to the reuse and plagiarism of source code in the software development process. Pattern matching, which is an existing method for detecting simila...
Spatial structured light (SL) can achieve three-dimensional measurements with a single shot. As an important branch in the field of dynamic reconstruction, its accuracy, robustness, and density are of vital importance. Currently, there is a wide perf...
Code smells are the result of not following software engineering principles during software development, especially in the design and coding phase. It leads to low maintainability. To evaluate the quality of software and its maintainability, code sme...
In response to the engineering, miniaturization, and high measurement accuracy requirements of encoders, this paper proposes a new type of absolute photoelectric encoder based on a position-sensitive detector (PSD). It breaks the traditional encoder&...
It is critical to detect malicious code for the security of the Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, this work proposes a malicious code detection algorithm based on the novel feature fusion–malware image convolutional neural network (FF-MICNN)...
Maintaining code quality during software maintenance is a persistent challenge because bug-fix activities frequently introduce new code smells, accelerating long-term technical debt. Although bug-report classification has been applied to severity pre...
Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) plays an important role in software security. Recent deep learning-based methods have made great progress. Existing methods based on a single feature, such as semantics or graph structure, struggle to handle ch...
Background: International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes are used in healthcare for documenting disease and billing, but also for research in epidemiological and translational studies for cohort identification and specimen selection. Periodic...
We present quad-constellation (namely, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo) time group delay (TGD) and differential code bias (DCB) correction models to fully exploit the code observations of all the four global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) for...
Context: Code recommendation plays an important role in improving programming efficiency and software quality. Existing approaches mainly focus on method- or API-level recommendations, which limits their effectiveness to local code contexts. From a m...
Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a frequent source of health complication for patients of all ages, including for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (PCTU)...
We present a novel methodology for classifying code obfuscation techniques in LLVM IR program embeddings. We apply isolated and layered code obfuscations to C source code using the Tigress obfuscator, compile them to LLVM IR, and convert each IR code...
Maritime transport plays a pivotal role in global trade, where efficiency and accuracy in port operations are crucial. Among the various tasks carried out in ports, container code recognition is essential for tracking and handling cargo. Manual inspe...
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have been widely deployed on intelligent systems such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform localization, obstacle detection, and navigation tasks. Thus, research...
Large language models (LLMs) now generate fluent natural language and source code, creating challenges for authorship attribution, academic integrity, and software supply-chain security. Most existing detectors for AI-generated content are evaluated...
Under the high dynamic conditions, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals produce great Doppler frequency shifts, which hinders the fast acquisition of signals. Inertial Navigation System (INS)-aided acquisition can improve the acquisition...
Bug localization is the process through which the buggy source code files are located regarding a certain bug report. Bug localization is an overwhelming and time-consuming process. Automating bug localization is the key to help developers and increa...
To enhance positioning capability and reliability within existing Communication Navigation Fusion Systems (CNFSs), this paper proposes an Asymmetric Double-Sideband Composite Localization Signal (ADCLS) and a dual-carrier aggregation dual-code loop t...
Video coding standards, such as high-efficiency video coding (HEVC), versatile video coding (VVC), and AOMedia video 2 (AV2), achieve an optimal encoding performance by traversing all possible combinations of coding unit (CU) partition and selecting...
Medical-image retrieval systems must balance semantic relevance with storage and search cost while remaining robust to errors introduced by hierarchical routing. This work presents an anatomy-aware hierarchical contrastive hashing framework for radio...
The standard genetic code (SGC) plays a fundamental role in encoding biological information, but its evolutionary origins remain unresolved and widely debated. Thus, we used a methodology based on the evolutionary algorithm to investigate the emergen...
Code authorship attribution is an important research area for uncovering the source, affiliation, and purpose of software and malware. It encompasses a wide range of techniques for identifying code authorship based on the analysis of authors’ c...
Background/Objectives: Several studies have reported cognitive decline and alterations in neural substrates among non-cognitively impaired direct descendants of Alzheimer’s disease patients. Visuospatial incidental memory declines early in adul...
In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet and information technology, video websites, shopping websites, and other portals have grown rapidly. However, malicious webpages can disguise themselves as benign websites and steal users&rs...
This paper proposes an estimation scheme of the number iterations for optimal Gauss–Seidel (GS) pre-coding in the downlink massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems for the first time. The number of iterations in GS pre-coding is on...
Code vulnerability detection is a crucial approach to ensuring software security, aiming to automatically identify potential security vulnerabilities in source code. However, existing static vulnerability detection methods often face challenges such...
The Multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite System (Multi-GNSS) has become the standard implementation of high accuracy positioning and navigation applications. It is well known that the noise of code and phase measurements depend on GNSS con...
To investigate turbulent reacting flows, a low-Mach number large-eddy simulation (LES) code called ‘LESsCoal’ has been developed in our group. This code employs the Germano dynamic sub-grid scale (SGS) model and the steady flamelet/progress variable...
With the increase in computational resources, parallel computation in neutron transport codes is inherent since it allows simulations with high spatial-angular resolution. Among the different methodologies available for the solution of the neutron tr...
The increasing interest in automated code conversion and transcompilation—driven by the need to support multiple platforms efficiently—has raised new challenges in verifying that translated codes preserve the intended behaviors of the ori...
Many spectroscopic diagnostics are routinely used as techniques to infer the plasma parameters from line emission spectra, but their accuracy depends on the numerical model or code used for the fitting process. However, the validation of a line shape...
The rapid evolution of video programming tutorials as a key educational resource has highlighted the need for effective code extraction methods. These tutorials, varying widely in video quality, present a challenge for accurately transcribing the emb...
QR codes (short for Quick Response codes) were originally developed for use in the automotive industry to track factory inventories and logistics, but their popularity has expanded significantly in the past few years due to the widespread application...
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