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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,288 Views
27 Pages

The Santurbán paramo is a sensitive high-mountain ecosystem exposed to pressures from extractive and agricultural activities, as well as increasing tourism. In response, this study presents a context-aware recommendation system designed to sup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,807 Views
14 Pages

Upgrading BRICKS—The Context-Aware Semantic Rule-Based System for Intelligent Building Energy and Security Management

  • Gabriel Santos,
  • Tiago Pinto,
  • Zita Vale,
  • Rui Carvalho,
  • Brígida Teixeira and
  • Carlos Ramos

27 July 2021

Building management systems (BMSs) are being implemented broadly by industries in recent decades. However, BMSs focus on specific domains, and when installed on the same building, they lack interoperability to work on a centralized user interface. On...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,789 Views
33 Pages

A User-Centric Knowledge Creation Model in a Web of Object-Enabled Internet of Things Environment

  • Muhammad Golam Kibria,
  • Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah,
  • Kwanghyeon Jeong,
  • Ilyoung Chong and
  • Youn-Kwae Jeong

18 September 2015

User-centric service features in a Web of Object-enabled Internet of Things environment can be provided by using a semantic ontology that classifies and integrates objects on the World Wide Web as well as shares and merges context-aware information a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,460 Views
10 Pages

19 October 2021

Expert systems, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), are typically designed to solve many real-world problems by reasoning through knowledge, which is primarily represented as IF–THEN rules, with the information acquired from humans or domain expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,254 Views
16 Pages

Large Language Models as Recommendation Systems in Museums

  • Georgios Trichopoulos,
  • Markos Konstantakis,
  • Georgios Alexandridis and
  • George Caridakis

10 September 2023

This paper proposes the utilization of large language models as recommendation systems for museum visitors. Since the aforementioned models lack the notion of context, they cannot work with temporal information that is often present in recommendation...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
209 Views
28 Pages

23 December 2025

This study conducts a systematic bibliometric review of artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches to tacit knowledge extraction and management. Drawing on data retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science, this study analyzes 126 publications publish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,915 Views
21 Pages

Knowledge Graph Based Hard Drive Failure Prediction

  • Tek Raj Chhetri,
  • Anelia Kurteva,
  • Jubril Gbolahan Adigun and
  • Anna Fensel

27 January 2022

The hard drive is one of the important components of a computing system, and its failure can lead to both system failure and data loss. Therefore, the reliability of a hard drive is very important. Realising this importance, a number of studies have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,842 Views
26 Pages

22 April 2021

The problems of developing online decision support systems concern the complexity of the transportation management processes, the multi-dimensionality of data warehouses (DWs), and the multi-criteria of decision making. Such issues arise in the manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,989 Views
21 Pages

A UoI-Optimal Policy for Timely Status Updates with Resource Constraint

  • Lehan Wang,
  • Jingzhou Sun,
  • Yuxuan Sun,
  • Sheng Zhou and
  • Zhisheng Niu

20 August 2021

Timely status updates are critical in remote control systems such as autonomous driving and the industrial Internet of Things, where timeliness requirements are usually context dependent. Accordingly, the Urgency of Information (UoI) has been propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,728 Views
26 Pages

8 February 2025

To meet the 2050 targets about climate change and decarbonization, accomplishing thermal comfort, Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems are key enabling technologies to move the Built Environment (BE) towards Smart Built Environment (SBE). The first co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,486 Views
24 Pages

A Hybrid Semantic Knowledge Integration and Sharing Approach for Distributed Smart Environments

  • Furkh Zeshan,
  • Adnan Ahmad,
  • Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty,
  • Fahad Algarni,
  • Emad E. Mahmoud and
  • Ashfaq Ahmad

20 October 2020

Distributed systems provide smart functionality to everyday objects with the help of wireless sensors using the internet. Since the last decade, the industry is struggling to develop efficient and intelligent protocols to integrate a huge number of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,526 Views
18 Pages

Conditional Knowledge Extraction Using Contextual Information Enhancement

  • Zhangbiao Xu,
  • Botao Zhang,
  • Jinguang Gu and
  • Feng Gao

14 April 2023

Conditional phrases provide fine-grained domain knowledge in various industries, including medicine, manufacturing, and others. Most existing knowledge extraction research focuses on mining triplets with entities and relations and treats that triplet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,035 Views
15 Pages

CARA: Connectivity-Aware Relay Algorithm for Multi-Robot Expeditions

  • Razanne Abu-Aisheh,
  • Francesco Bronzino,
  • Lou Salaün and
  • Thomas Watteyne

22 November 2022

The exploration of unknown environments is an essential application of multi-robot systems, particularly in critical missions, such as hazard detection and search and rescue. These missions share the need to reach full coverage of the explorable spac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,704 Views
20 Pages

Construction contract review demands specialized expertise, requiring comprehensive understanding of both technical and legal aspects. While AI advancements offer potential solutions, two problems exist: LLMs lack sufficient domain-specific knowledge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,002 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2023

This study proposes a framework for a systems engineering-based approach to context-aware personalization, which is applied to e-commerce through the understanding and modeling of user behavior from their interactions with sales channels and media. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,974 Views
29 Pages

3 August 2016

Research on smart homes (SHs) has increased significantly in recent years because of the convenience provided by having an assisted living environment. The functions of SHs as mentioned in previous studies, particularly safety services, are seldom di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,183 Views
21 Pages

Framework for Integrating Large Language Models with a Robotic Health Attendant for Adaptive Task Execution in Patient Care

  • Kyungki Kim,
  • John Windle,
  • Melissa Christian,
  • Tom Windle,
  • Erica Ryherd,
  • Pei-Chi Huang,
  • Anthony Robinson and
  • Reid Chapman

30 October 2024

The development of intelligent medical service robots for patient care presents significant challenges, particularly in integrating diverse knowledge sources and enabling robots to autonomously perform tasks in dynamic and unpredictable healthcare en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,462 Views
26 Pages

PALOT: Profiling and Authenticating Users Leveraging Internet of Things

  • Pantaleone Nespoli,
  • Mattia Zago,
  • Alberto Huertas Celdrán,
  • Manuel Gil Pérez,
  • Félix Gómez Mármol and
  • Félix J. García Clemente

25 June 2019

Continuous authentication was introduced to propose novel mechanisms to validate users’ identity and address the problems and limitations exposed by traditional techniques. However, this methodology poses several challenges that remain unsolved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
832 Views
22 Pages

Expert System for Stability Assessment of Underground Excavations Based on Numerical Modeling and Engineering Rules

  • Aleksandr Tomilov,
  • Alexey Kalinin,
  • Nadezhda Tomilova,
  • Margulan Nurtay,
  • Natalya Mutovina,
  • Kirill Shtefan and
  • Dinara Zhumagulova

13 August 2025

This study presents an expert system for assessing the stability of underground mine workings and automatically selecting rock bolt support schemes. The system integrates physically based calculations of roof compressive strength (Rc) and expected ma...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,513 Views
34 Pages

26 May 2025

This preliminary study covers the construction and application of a Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) system integrating a multimodal LLM, Large Language and Vision Assistant (LLaVA) with graph database software (Neo4j) to enhance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,067 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the landscape of intelligent educational systems; however, existing solutions often suffer from unstructured resource organization, limited interpretability, and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,715 Views
25 Pages

Prototyping a Software Defined Utility

  • Ramon Martín de Pozuelo,
  • Agustín Zaballos,
  • Joan Navarro and
  • Guiomar Corral

16 June 2017

The smart grid can be seen as a hybrid system composed by many systems. From a large scale point of view, it combines the electric power system itself and a heterogeneous information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. Additionally, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
26 Pages

Design and Implementation of an Ontology-Driven Cyber–Physical Prosthesis Service System for Personalised and Adaptive Care

  • Nicholas Patiniott,
  • Jonathan Borg,
  • Philip Farrugia,
  • Adrian Mercieca,
  • Alfred Gatt and
  • Owen Casha

28 November 2025

As prosthetic technologies become increasingly data-rich and embedded in care systems, traditional human-centred approaches often fall short of addressing evolving use realities. This paper contributes an applied computing framework that enables sema...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,986 Views
36 Pages

2 September 2025

This paper presents a novel ontology-driven digital twin framework specifically designed for aviation maintenance and operations that addresses these challenges through semantic reasoning and explainable decision support. The proposed framework integ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,319 Views
27 Pages

25 December 2018

To be able to provide appropriate services in social and human application contexts, smart cyber-physical systems (S-CPSs) need ampliative reasoning and decision-making (ARDM) mechanisms. As one option, procedural abduction (PA) is suggested for self...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,948 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2019

Excessive information significantly increases the mental burden on operators of critical monitoring services such as maritime and air traffic control. In these fields, vessels and aircraft have sensors that transmit data to a control center. Because...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,403 Views
33 Pages

24 November 2025

In 2024, a total of 361 billion emails were sent and received by businesses and consumers each day. Email remains the preferred method of communication for work-related matters, with knowledge workers spending two to five hours a day managing their i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2025

The rapid expansion and interdisciplinary nature of Physical Internet (PI) research have resulted in fragmented knowledge, limiting the ability of stakeholders to identify emerging trends, actionable insights and genuine research gaps. This study int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
861 Views
29 Pages

A Semantic Energy-Aware Ontological Framework for Adaptive Task Planning and Allocation in Intelligent Mobile Systems

  • Jun-Hyeon Choi,
  • Dong-Su Seo,
  • Sang-Hyeon Bae,
  • Ye-Chan An,
  • Eun-Jin Kim,
  • Jeong-Won Pyo and
  • Tae-Yong Kuc

15 September 2025

Intelligent robotic systems frequently operate under stringent energy limitations, especially in complex and dynamic environments. To enhance both adaptability and reliability, this study introduces a semantic planning framework that integrates ontol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
382 Views
26 Pages

A Context-Aware Lightweight Framework for Source Code Vulnerability Detection

  • Yousef Sanjalawe,
  • Budoor Allehyani and
  • Salam Al-E’mari

3 December 2025

As software systems grow increasingly complex and interconnected, detecting vulnerabilities in source code has become a critical and challenging task. Traditional static analysis methods often fall short in capturing deep, context-dependent vulnerabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,959 Views
36 Pages

Hybrid Multi-Agent GraphRAG for E-Government: Towards a Trustworthy AI Assistant

  • George Papageorgiou,
  • Vangelis Sarlis,
  • Manolis Maragoudakis and
  • Christos Tjortjis

4 June 2025

As public institutions increasingly adopt AI-driven virtual assistants to support transparency and citizen engagement, the need for explainable, accurate, and context-aware language systems becomes vital. While traditional retrieval-augmented generat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,133 Views
25 Pages

Path reasoning in knowledge graphs is a pivotal task for uncovering complex relational patterns and facilitating advanced inference processes. It also holds significant potential in domains such as power electronics, where real-time reasoning over dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,909 Views
20 Pages

In the era of information explosion, recommendation systems play a crucial role in filtering vast amounts of content for users. Traditional recommendation models leverage knowledge graphs, sentiment analysis, social capital, and generative AI to enha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,120 Views
35 Pages

Software Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing Systems

  • Abdulrahman Alreshidi,
  • Aakash Ahmad,
  • Ahmed B. Altamimi,
  • Khalid Sultan and
  • Rashid Mehmood

13 November 2019

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) has recently emerged as a state-of-the-art technology for mobile systems. MCC enables portable and context-aware computation via mobile devices by exploiting virtually unlimited hardware and software resources offered by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,306 Views
29 Pages

Interpretable Fuzzy Control for Energy Management in Smart Buildings Using JFML-IoT and IEEE Std 1855-2016

  • María Martínez-Rojas,
  • Carlos Cano,
  • Jesús Alcalá-Fdez and
  • José Manuel Soto-Hidalgo

23 July 2025

This paper presents an interpretable and modular framework for energy management in smart buildings based on fuzzy logic and the IEEE Std 1855-2016. The proposed system builds upon the JFML-IoT library, enabling the integration and execution of fuzzy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,055 Views
21 Pages

Context-Aware Explainable Recommendation Based on Domain Knowledge Graph

  • Muzamil Hussain Syed,
  • Tran Quoc Bao Huy and
  • Sun-Tae Chung

With the rapid growth of internet data, knowledge graphs (KGs) are considered as efficient form of knowledge representation that captures the semantics of web objects. In recent years, reasoning over KG for various artificial intelligence tasks have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,630 Views
15 Pages

A Survey on Blockchain-Based Search Engines

  • Esmaeel Rezaee,
  • Ali Mohammad Saghiri and
  • Agostino Forestiero

30 July 2021

With the increasing growth of different types of data, search engines have become an essential tool on the Internet. Every day, billions of queries are run through few search engines with several privacy violations and monopoly problems. The blockcha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,722 Views
30 Pages

Multimodal Large Language Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Context of Industry 4.0

  • Khalid M. Alsaif,
  • Aiiad A. Albeshri,
  • Maher A. Khemakhem and
  • Fathy E. Eassa

12 December 2024

In this paper, a novel multimodal large language model-based fault detection and diagnosis framework that addresses the limitations of traditional fault detection and diagnosis approaches is proposed. The proposed framework leverages the Generative P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,891 Views
20 Pages

Reconfiguring Vehicles for Drivers with Disability: A Knowledge-Based Decision Support System

  • Daniele Spoladore,
  • Atieh Mahroo,
  • Angelo Davalli and
  • Marco Sacco

22 October 2024

Driving a car is pivotal to supporting Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) independence and quality of life. The problem of reconfiguring a vehicle to meet both the PwD’s needs and the (local or supranational) regulations is far from trivial since...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
525 Views
26 Pages

From Forecasting to Foresight: Building an Autonomous O&M Brain for the New Power System Based on a Cognitive Digital Twin

  • Xufeng Wu,
  • Zuowei Chen,
  • Hefang Jiang,
  • Shoukang Luo,
  • Yi Zhao,
  • Dongwei Zhao,
  • Peiyao Dang,
  • Jiajun Gao,
  • Lin Lin and
  • Hao Wang

20 November 2025

Despite notable advances in load forecasting and fault detection, current power system operation and maintenance (O&M) technologies remain fragmented into independent and primarily reactive modules. Load forecasting estimates future demand, where...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,598 Views
22 Pages

A QoS-Aware IoT Edge Network for Mobile Telemedicine Enabling In-Transit Monitoring of Emergency Patients

  • Adwitiya Mukhopadhyay,
  • Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas,
  • Venkat P. Rangan and
  • Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh

6 February 2024

Addressing the inadequacy of medical facilities in rural communities and the high number of patients affected by ailments that need to be treated immediately is of prime importance for all countries. The various recent healthcare emergency situations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,849 Views
12 Pages

In this Internet age, recommender systems (RS) have become popular, offering new opportunities and challenges to the business world. With a continuous increase in global competition, e-businesses, information portals, social networks and more, websit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
824 Views
30 Pages

Case-Based Data Quality Management for IoT Logs: A Case Study Focusing on Detection of Data Quality Issues

  • Alexander Schultheis,
  • Yannis Bertrand,
  • Joscha Grüger,
  • Lukas Malburg,
  • Ralph Bergmann and
  • Estefanía Serral Asensio

23 October 2025

Smart manufacturing applications increasingly rely on time-series data from Industrial IoT sensors, yet these data streams often contain data quality issues (DQIs) that affect analysis and disrupt production. While traditional Machine Learning method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,152 Views
35 Pages

19 June 2025

The rise of knowledge-based economies has positioned higher education institutions as key actors in human capital development, requiring them to engage more actively with labor markets through strategic partnerships. Within this context, university-a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Views
31 Pages

29 December 2025

Financial institutions face data quality (DQ) challenges in regulatory reporting due to complex architectures where data flows through multiple systems. Data consumers struggle to assess quality because traditional DQ tools operate on data snapshots...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
761 Views
31 Pages

TSA-GRU: A Novel Hybrid Deep Learning Module for Learner Behavior Analytics in MOOCs

  • Soundes Oumaima Boufaida,
  • Abdelmadjid Benmachiche,
  • Makhlouf Derdour,
  • Majda Maatallah,
  • Moustafa Sadek Kahil and
  • Mohamed Chahine Ghanem

5 August 2025

E-Learning is an emerging dominant phenomenon in education, making the development of robust models that can accurately represent the dynamic behavior of learners in MOOCs even more critical. In this article, we propose the Temporal Sparse Attention-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
566 Views
12 Pages

Simple Baseline has become a dominant benchmark in human pose estimation (HPE) due to its excellent performance and simple design. However, its “strong encoder + simple decoder” architectural paradigm suffers from two core limitations: (1...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,395 Views
34 Pages

2 October 2021

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) encompasses technological infrastructures capable of sensing data from environments and extracting high-level knowledge to detect or recognize users’ features and actions, as well as entities or events in their surroundings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,240 Views
14 Pages

Evaluating Three-Pillar Sustainability Modelling Approaches for Dairy Cattle Production Systems

  • Xabier Díaz de Otálora,
  • Agustín del Prado,
  • Federico Dragoni,
  • Fernando Estellés and
  • Barbara Amon

3 June 2021

Milk production in Europe is facing major challenges to ensure its economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is essential that holistic concepts are developed to ensure the future sustainability of the sector and to assist farmers and st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,299 Views
20 Pages

Entity alignment in knowledge graphs plays a crucial role in ensuring the consistency and integration of data across different domains. For example, in power topology, accurate entity matching is essential for optimizing system design and control. Ho...

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