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9 Citations
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A Web-Based Tool for Simulating Molecular Dynamics in Cloud Environments

  • Gonzalo Nicolas-Barreales,
  • Aaron Sujar and
  • Alberto Sanchez

Molecular dynamics simulations take advantage of supercomputing environments, e.g., to solve molecular systems composed of millions of atoms. Supercomputers are increasing their computing and memory power while they are becoming more complex with the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Computer Architectures and Applications)
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  • Open Access
358 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2026

Keyword-based remote integrity auditing schemes effectively address the integrity of electronic medical records (EMRs) stored in the cloud. In practice, users expect to be able to perform flexible dynamic data updates while also protecting data priva...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Privacy-Preserving Data Analytics and Secure Computation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,085 Views
20 Pages

5 February 2026

Efficient retrieval of mathematical and structural similarities in System Dynamics models remains a significant challenge for traditional lexical systems, which often fail to capture the contextual dependencies of simulation processes. This paper pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Agents and Their Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,535 Views
18 Pages

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling and Analysis of Hydrocarbon Vapor Cloud Explosions (VCEs) in Amuay Refinery and Jaipur Plant Using FLACS

  • Zaman Sajid,
  • Muhammad Kashif Khan,
  • Alireza Rahnama,
  • Farzan Sahari Moghaddam and ,
  • Kirti Vardhan and
  • Reema Kalani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 May 2021

Process safety helps prevent the unexpected and unplanned release of flammable and toxic chemicals, leading to poisonous gas clouds, fires, and explosions. Vapor cloud explosions (VCEs) are among the most severe hazards to humans and the environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,526 Views
20 Pages

DNet: Dynamic Neighborhood Feature Learning in Point Cloud

  • Fujing Tian,
  • Zhidi Jiang and
  • Gangyi Jiang

26 March 2021

Neighborhood selection is very important for local region feature learning in point cloud learning networks. Different neighborhood selection schemes may lead to quite different results for point cloud processing tasks. The existing point cloud learn...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Deep-Learning-Based Sensing, Imaging, and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,805 Views
16 Pages

23 May 2023

This research explores how the cloud’s technological capability helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adapt to challenging business environments, providing long-term sustainability and strategic agility. The article uses a theoretical and q...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Small Business Development and Digital Transformation)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,739 Views
15 Pages

7 April 2025

This paper introduces a method that can enhance the accuracy and efficiency of point cloud data registration. This method selects the centroid of the point cloud as the feature point and uses the projected distance of this feature point within the dy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Control for Robots and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
14,294 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Downsampling Algorithm for 3D Point Cloud Map Based on Voxel Filtering

  • Wenqi Lyu,
  • Wei Ke,
  • Hao Sheng,
  • Xiao Ma and
  • Huayun Zhang

9 April 2024

In response to the challenge of handling large-scale 3D point cloud data, downsampling is a common approach, yet it often leads to the problem of feature loss. We present a dynamic downsampling algorithm for 3D point cloud maps based on an improved v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Recognition and Processing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,624 Views
22 Pages

15 May 2024

The substantial data volume within dynamic point clouds representing three-dimensional moving entities necessitates advancements in compression techniques. Motion estimation (ME) is crucial for reducing point cloud temporal redundancy. Standard block...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,491 Views
20 Pages

10 March 2025

Point cloud completion reconstructs incomplete, sparse inputs into complete 3D shapes. However, in the current 3D completion task, it is difficult to effectively extract the local details of an incomplete one, resulting in poor restoration of local d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,792 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2022

As a kind of information-intensive 3D representation, point cloud rapidly develops in immersive applications, which has also sparked new attention in point cloud compression. The most popular dynamic methods ignore the characteristics of point clouds...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,796 Views
17 Pages

Assistive bathing robots have become a popular point due to their metrics, such as a humanoid working approach in the solution of elder care. However, the abilities of dynamic recognition and path planning are the key to obtain the advantages. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,412 Views
17 Pages

19 May 2022

The MapReduce architecture can reliably distribute massive datasets to cloud worker nodes for processing. When each worker node processes the input data, the Map program generates intermediate data that are used by the Reduce program for integration....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Computing in Industry Applications)
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  • Open Access
4,120 Views
22 Pages

3 July 2018

Cloud detection using downwelling radiation measured by infrared thermometer (IRT) has been utilized for many applications. The current study investigates the effects of disparate IRT specifications, including the dynamic range and sampling rates on...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,683 Views
22 Pages

15 December 2023

Cloud storage services have become indispensable in resolving the constraints of local storage and ensuring data accessibility from anywhere at any time. Data deduplication technology is utilized to decrease storage space and bandwidth requirements....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptography and Information Security)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,281 Views
27 Pages

Dynamic 3D Point-Cloud-Driven Autonomous Hierarchical Path Planning for Quadruped Robots

  • Qi Zhang,
  • Ruiya Li,
  • Jubiao Sun,
  • Li Wei and ,
  • Jun Huang and
  • Yuegang Tan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Aiming at effectively generating safe and reliable motion paths for quadruped robots, a hierarchical path planning approach driven by dynamic 3D point clouds is proposed in this article. The developed path planning model is essentially constituted of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimicry for Optimization, Control, and Automation: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,994 Views
18 Pages

An Online Algorithm for Dynamic NFV Placement in Cloud-Based Autonomous Response Networks

  • Leonardo Ochoa-Aday,
  • Cristina Cervelló-Pastor,
  • Adriana Fernández-Fernández and
  • Paola Grosso

15 May 2018

Autonomous response networks are becoming a reality thanks to recent advances in cloud computing, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies. These enhanced networks fully enable autonomous real-time mana...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,150 Views
28 Pages

21 April 2022

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud classification methods based on deep learning have good classification performance; however, they adapt poorly to diverse datasets and their classification accuracy must be improved. Therefore, FSDCNet, a neural net...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,051 Views
18 Pages

DGPolarNet: Dynamic Graph Convolution Network for LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation on Polar BEV

  • Wei Song,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Su Sun and ,
  • Guidong Zu and
  • Maozhen Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 August 2022

Semantic segmentation in LiDAR point clouds has become an important research topic for autonomous driving systems. This paper proposes a dynamic graph convolution neural network for LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation using a polar bird’s-e...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
13,913 Views
23 Pages

4 March 2024

Dynamic load balancing in cloud computing is crucial for efficiently distributing workloads across available resources, ensuring optimal performance. This research introduces a novel dynamic load-balancing approach that leverages a deep learning mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis, Design and Industrial Application of Intelligent Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,070 Views
13 Pages

The dynamic evolution behavior of submerged water jet cavitation clouds was studied by combining experiments and simulation. The formation, development, shedding, and collapsing process of a void cloud was analyzed by high-speed camera technology, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,001 Views
16 Pages

10 November 2025

Efficient locomotion in autonomous driving and robotics requires clearer visualization and more precise map. This paper presents a high accuracy online mapping including weight matching LiDAR-IMU-GNSS odometry and an object-level highly dynamic point...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of LiDAR Remote Sensing and Mapping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
13,650 Views
28 Pages

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered one of the future disruptive technologies and has attracted lots of research attention in the recent past. IoT devices are tiny sensing or actuating devices attached to daily life objects, capable of sending sen...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,637 Views
18 Pages

A Cloud Detection Approach Based on Hybrid Multispectral Features with Dynamic Thresholds for GF-1 Remote Sensing Images

  • Quan Xiong,
  • Yuan Wang,
  • Diyou Liu,
  • Sijing Ye and ,
  • Zhenbo Du,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Jianxi Huang,
  • Wei Su,
  • Dehai Zhu and
  • Xiaodong Zhang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

1 February 2020

Nowadays, GF-1 (GF is the acronym for GaoFen which means high-resolution in Chinese) remote sensing images are widely utilized in agriculture because of their high spatio-temporal resolution and free availability. However, due to the transferrable ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerosol and Cloud Properties Retrieval by Satellite Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,477 Views
26 Pages

Dynamic Slicing and Reconstruction Algorithm for Precise Canopy Volume Estimation in 3D Citrus Tree Point Clouds

  • Wenjie Li,
  • Biyu Tang,
  • Zhen Hou,
  • Hongbo Wang and ,
  • Zongyu Bing,
  • Qiong Yang and
  • Yongqiang Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 June 2024

Crop phenotyping data collection is the basis for precision agriculture and smart decision-making applications. Accurately obtaining the canopy volume of citrus trees is crucial for yield prediction, precise fertilization and cultivation management....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Precision Farming and Crop Phenology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,328 Views
19 Pages

DGCB-Net: Dynamic Graph Convolutional Broad Network for 3D Object Recognition in Point Cloud

  • Yifei Tian,
  • Long Chen,
  • Wei Song,
  • Yunsick Sung and
  • Sangchul Woo

26 December 2020

3D (3-Dimensional) object recognition is a hot research topic that benefits environment perception, disease diagnosis, and the mobile robot industry. Point clouds collected by range sensors are a popular data structure to represent a 3D object model....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Dynamic Object/Scenes Using Data Fusion)
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  • Open Access
60 Citations
12,715 Views
22 Pages

Smart Parking System with Dynamic Pricing, Edge-Cloud Computing and LoRa

  • Victor Kathan Sarker,
  • Tuan Nguyen Gia,
  • Imed Ben Dhaou and
  • Tomi Westerlund

19 August 2020

A rapidly growing number of vehicles in recent years cause long traffic jams and difficulty in the management of traffic in cities. One of the most significant reasons for increased traffic jams on the road is random parking in unauthorized and non-p...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,764 Views
18 Pages

26 June 2025

Cloud computing has witnessed widespread adoption across numerous sectors, primarily due to its substantial storage capacity and powerful computational resources. In this context, secure data sharing in cloud environments is critically important. Ide...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
387 Views
35 Pages

GSR-PointNet++ with Dynamic Suppression for Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation in Multi-Tier Caged-Pigeon Houses

  • Kangya Luo,
  • Yitong Zheng,
  • Hongru Chen,
  • Yuxiang Bao and ,
  • Jiatong Liu,
  • Weikang Han,
  • Xuan Yang,
  • Yu Deng,
  • Yubin Lan and
  • Yali Zhang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

15 August 2026

Accurate 3D semantic perception is essential for robotic operations in multi-tier caged-pigeon houses, where dense cage-mounted facilities, repetitive layouts, local geometric similarity, and dynamic objects make static-facility segmentation difficul...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,921 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2025

Current cloud–edge collaboration collaboration architectures face challenges in security resource scheduling due to their mostly static nature, which cannot keep up with real-time attack patterns and dynamic security needs. To address this, thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Application of Network and System Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,767 Views
31 Pages

OptiDJS+: A Next-Generation Enhanced Dynamic Johnson Sequencing Algorithm for Efficient Resource Scheduling in Distributed Overloading within Cloud Computing Environment

  • Pallab Banerjee,
  • Sharmistha Roy,
  • Umar Muhammad Modibbo,
  • Saroj Kumar Pandey and ,
  • Parul Chaudhary,
  • Anurag Sinha and
  • Narendra Kumar Singh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 October 2023

The continuously evolving world of cloud computing presents new challenges in resource allocation as dispersed systems struggle with overloaded conditions. In this regard, we introduce OptiDJS+, a cutting-edge enhanced dynamic Johnson sequencing algo...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,888 Views
30 Pages

21 August 2025

Driven by technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, smart buildings have developed rapidly, and the demand for processing massive amounts of data has risen sharply. Traditional cloud computing is confronted with challen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,920 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2024

Secure group communication in Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) over open channels remains a challenging task. To enable secure group communications with conditional privacy, it is necessary to establish a secure session using Authenticated Key Agreem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,198 Views
18 Pages

With the rapid development of cloud computing, the demand for infrastructure resources in cloud data centers has further increased, which has already led to enormous amounts of energy costs. Virtual machine (VM) consolidation as one of the important...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,197 Views
32 Pages

A Zero-Trust Access Control Model Based on Attribute and Dynamic Trust Evaluation for Cloud Environments

  • Yihuan Mao,
  • Wei Fu,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Zhimin Yuan and ,
  • Zhihong Sun and
  • Yang Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 December 2025

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) has become the most suitable access control method for cloud environments due to its flexibility and fine-grained advantages. However, it suffers from issues such as insufficient dynamic adaptability and a lack o...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,349 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2025

The irregular and highly non-uniform spatial distribution inherent to dynamic three-dimensional (3D) point clouds (DPCs) severely hampers the extraction of reliable temporal context, rendering inter-frame compression a formidable challenge. Inspired...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Image Processing: Progress and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
627 Views
37 Pages

28 June 2026

Point cloud segmentation constitutes a core task in 3D computer vision. However, prevailing models suffer from inherent limitations, including the absence of polarity correlation (i.e., spatial attribute-containing features derived from the separatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,560 Views
15 Pages

14 August 2023

This paper proposes an algorithm for transmitting and reconstructing the estimated point cloud by temporally estimating a dynamic point cloud sequence. When a non-rigid 3D point cloud sequence (PCS) is input, the sequence is divided into groups of po...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
957 Views
33 Pages

17 December 2025

Efficient resource allocation is a central challenge in multi-tenant cloud, fog, and edge environments, where heterogeneous tenants compete for shared resources under dynamic and uncertain workloads. Static or purely heuristic methods often fail to c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,689 Views
22 Pages

17 September 2023

The fire risk of cables constantly changes over time and is affected by the materials and working conditions of cables. To address its internal timing property, it is essential to use a dynamic analysis method to assess cable fire risk. Meanwhile, da...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,057 Views
26 Pages

TGR-T: Truncated-Gaussian-Weighted Reliability for Adaptive Dynamic Thresholding in Weakly Supervised Indoor 3D Point Cloud Segmentation

  • Ziwei Luo,
  • Xinyue Liu,
  • Jun Jiang,
  • Hanyu Qi and ,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Zhong Xie and
  • Tao Zeng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Indoor 3D point cloud semantic segmentation is a fundamental task for fine-grained scene understanding and intelligent perception. Due to the prohibitive cost of dense point-wise annotations, weakly supervised learning has emerged as a promising alte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor Mobile Mapping and Location-Based Knowledge Services)
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  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,594 Views
15 Pages

1 May 2017

Energy efficiency is a significant topic in cloud computing. Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) with live migration is an important method to reduce energy consumption. However, frequent VM live migration may cause a downtime of service....

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,064 Views
29 Pages

Investigating Vapour Cloud Explosion Dynamic Fatality Risk on Offshore Platforms by Using a Grid-Based Framework

  • Usama Muhammad Niazi,
  • Mohammad Shakir Nasif,
  • Masdi Muhammad and
  • Faisal Khan

11 June 2020

The reliability of petroleum offshore platform systems affects human safety and well-being; hence, it should be considered in plant design and operation in order to determine its effect on human fatality risk. Methane Vapour Cloud Explosions (VCE) in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Paper from ICPER-2020 (7th International Conference on Production, Energy and Reliability))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,927 Views
26 Pages

30 August 2023

Reliability and safety are crucial for the operation of a dynamically tuned passive power filter (DTPPF). Safe performance of DTTPFs implies complete normal filtering without failure within a specified period. To prevent potential disaster or economi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security and Cryptography)
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  • Open Access
200 Views
32 Pages

12 October 2026

Rapid aerodynamic drag prediction is an important surrogate-modeling task in simulation-based vehicle design because high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics is often too expensive for screening large numbers of candidate geometries. We investigate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,947 Views
24 Pages

25 December 2024

Ground-based cloud image features high-spatiotemporal resolution, presenting detailed local cloud structures and valuable weather information, which are crucial for meteorological forecasting. However, the inherent fuzziness and dynamism of ground-ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision in Remote Sensing (Third Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,701 Views
28 Pages

Venus Atmospheric Dynamics at Two Altitudes: Akatsuki and Venus Express Cloud Tracking, Ground-Based Doppler Observations and Comparison with Modelling

  • Pedro Machado,
  • Thomas Widemann,
  • Javier Peralta,
  • Gabriella Gilli and ,
  • Daniela Espadinha,
  • José E. Silva,
  • Francisco Brasil,
  • José Ribeiro and
  • Ruben Gonçalves
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

17 April 2021

We present new results of our studies of zonal and meridional winds in both hemispheres of Venus, using ground- and space-based coordinated observations. The results obtained from telescope observations were retrieved with a Doppler velocimetry metho...

(This article belongs to the Section Planetary Atmospheres)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,897 Views
48 Pages

19 March 2019

It is expected that the pervasive deployment of multi-tier 5G-supported Mobile-Fog-Cloudtechnological computing platforms will constitute an effective means to support the real-time execution of future Internet applications by resource- and energy-li...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,491 Views
32 Pages

14 March 2024

Security assessment of ironmaking plants is one of the crucial means to promote their sustainable development. However, the disparate nature of subsystems within these plants, along with network inconsistencies and isolated data, obstruct a thorough...

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