In cloud computing, documents can be outsourced to the cloud server to achieve flexible access control and efficient sharing among multiple users. The outsourced documents can be intelligently searched according to some keywords with the help of clou...
Frequent data sharing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) necessitates a robust foundation of secure access control to ensure data security. Existing ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption schemes are constrained by the performance bottleneck...
Addressing the challenges of privacy leakage, fragmented data silos, and high computational overhead in traditional ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) for medical data sharing, this paper proposes an improved CP-ABE framework with...
With the development of the Internet of Things, smart grids have become indispensable in our daily life and can provide people with reliable electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control. Therefore, how to design a privacy-preserving...
IoT-based data outsourcing services in clouds could be regarded as a new trend in recent years, as they could reduce the hardware and software cost for enterprises and obtain higher flexibility. To securely transfer an encrypted message in the cloud,...
A complex problem when outsourcing personal data for public use is balancing privacy protection with utility, and anonymization is a viable solution to address this issue. However, conventional anonymization methods often overlook global information...
Location-based services (LBSs) facilitate people’s lives; location-based service providers (LBSPs) usually outsource services to third parties to provide better services. However, the third party is a dishonest entity that might return incorrec...
Over the last few decades, we witnessed a revolution in acquiring very high resolution and accurate geo-information. One of the reasons was the advances in photonics and LiDAR, which had a remarkable impact in applications requiring information with...
With the successful proliferation of data outsourcing services, security and privacy issues have drawn significant attention. Data authentication in particular plays an essential role in the storage of outsourced digital content and keeping it safe f...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized various industries by enabling seamless connectivity and data exchange among devices. However, the security and privacy of outsourced IoT data remain critical challenges, especially given the resource c...
This study investigates the difference in service efficiency based on establishing entity and outsourcing in 847 public libraries in Korea. The public libraries were categorized into three types based on establishing entity and outsourcing, where Typ...
The Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) is critical in improving electronic device precision, dependability, and productivity. Researchers are driving the development of digital healthcare systems by connecting available medical resources and healthcar...
As medical data become increasingly important in healthcare, it is crucial to have proper access control mechanisms, ensuring that sensitive data are only accessible to authorized users while maintaining privacy and security. Ciphertext-Policy Attrib...
Secure and efficient spatial range query over encrypted outsourced vector data remains a challenging issue, particularly for polyline and polygon data. Existing schemes primarily focus on point data and have not been properly extended to more complex...
This paper aims to present a benchmarking framework for short- and long-term risk of enterprises in emerging markets that seek integration in global value chains. The benchmark instrument aims in particular to assess short- and long-term risk based o...
In mobile social networks, users can easily communicate with others through smart devices. Therefore, the protection of user privacy in social networks is becoming a significant subject. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a fine-grained data...
With the development of body sensor networks and the pervasiveness of smart phones, different types of personal data can be collected in real time by body sensors, and the potential value of massive personal data has attracted considerable interest r...
The security and privacy of electronic health records (EHRs) have received considerable attention from healthcare workers and researchers. To ensure security, various encryption and decryption schemes as well as key management protocols have been dev...
Reinforcement learning is a machine learning framework that relies on a lot of trial-and-error processes to learn the best policy to maximize the cumulative reward through the interaction between the agent and the environment. In the actual use of th...
Recent developments in cloud computing allow data to be securely shared between users. This can be used to improve the quality of life of patients and medical staff in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) environment. However, in the IoMT cloud envi...
This article examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into qualitative psychological research, focusing specifically on AI-assisted data analysis and its epistemological and ethical implications. While recent publications highlight AI...
Nowadays, fog computing provides computation, storage, and application services to end users in the Internet of Things. One of the major concerns in fog computing systems is how fine-grained access control can be imposed. As a logical combination of...
In a multimedia cloud computing system, suppose all cloud users outsource their own data sets to the cloud in the encrypted form. Each outsourced set is associated with an access structure such that a valid data user, Bob, with the credentials satisf...
Outsourcing is one of the major challenges for production firms in the current supply chain management (SCM) due to limited skilled workers and technology resources. There are too many parameters involved in the strategic decisions of the outsourcing...
With the rapid development of geo-positioning technologies, location-based services have become increasingly widespread. In the field of location-based services, range queries on geographical data have emerged as an important research topic, attracti...
(1) Background: Generally, firms are reluctant to report outsourcing failures, no matter what industry they operate within. To eliminate poor performance of outsourced service providers, it is necessary to establish a specific outsourcing relationshi...
Production process outsourcing not only enhances farmers’ operation capability but also contributes to income growth. Utilizing field survey data from five provinces—Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Henan, and Shaanxi—this study empl...
Sustainability awareness across various economic sectors requires firms to use logistics outsourcing to reduce logistics-related emissions with compliant logistics service providers (LSPs). LSPs apply advanced information technologies to help achieve...
Smart grids generate an immense volume of load data. When analyzed using intelligent technologies, these data can significantly improve power load management, optimize energy distribution, and support green energy conservation and emissions reduction...
Along with the increasingly prominent contradiction between agricultural development and a healthy ecological environment, the adoption of agriculture green production (AGP) methods has become an important measure to reduce excessive pesticide applic...
Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a popular cryptographic technology to protect the security of users’ data in cloud computing. In order to reduce its decryption cost, outsourcing the decryption of ciphertexts is an available method, which enables...
Agricultural production outsourcing services encourage a shift in the way crops are grown in developing countries and make it easier for small farmers to join the social division of labor in agriculture. This makes production more efficient and has a...
China’s agriculture is increasingly becoming more specialized. However, specialized production has disrupted traditional farming culture and may threaten sustainable mental health. This study takes Chinese farmers’ subjective happiness an...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an innovative and effective solution to transform the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector, offering advantages that extend across the entire lifecycle of project management. Nonetheless, sev...
It is a common practice for enterprises to use outsourcing strategies to reduce operating costs and improve product competitiveness. Outsourcing providers or operators need to be aware of environmental protection and make products comply with the res...
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In Norway, swimming and lifesaving education (swimming education) is an obligatory part of physical education, with explicit learning aims after grade four. After recent reports of Norwegian pupils achieving low scores in swimming abilities, the Gove...
The purchase of agricultural machinery outsourcing services creates a principal–agent relationship between farmers and service providers, where farmers are principals, and service providers are agents. Inconsistent goals and information asymmet...
As increasing clients tend to outsource massive multimedia data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud, data auditing is becoming crucial, as it enables clients to verify the integrity of their outsourcing data. However, most exis...
Outsourcing, as a productive service, has been widely adopted in industrial production and international trade but less applied in agricultural management. With the advancement of agricultural labor division and specialization, outsourcing is becomin...
With the growing popularity of cloud computing, it is convenient for data owners to outsource their data to a cloud server. By utilizing the massive storage and computational resources in cloud, data owners can also provide a platform for users to ma...
Although cloud storage provides convenient data outsourcing services, an untrusted cloud server frequently threatens the integrity and security of the outsourced data. Therefore, it is extremely urgent to design security schemes allowing the users to...
Pesticide application has significantly aided global agriculture, but the overuse of pesticides also poses a threat to sustainable agriculture development in the future. The application of outsourcing services in the pesticide application process is...
The apparel and textile industry are known as a key sector in the structure of many economies around the world. In particular, the influence of foreign outsourcing manufacturers on textile supply chains has been recognized for decades. The outsourcin...
Using farm machinery plays a significant role in easing the issue of slowing growth of operating income among farm households in China. Drawing data from CFPS2018, this study adopts a multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) to analyze the...
This research focused on modeling and optimizing production and outsourcing operations in a supply chain (SC) while considering environmental challenges. The proposed mathematical model was nonlinear, implying outsourcing, and took into account rewor...
Cloud computing has become popular in data sharing mainly because it has huge storage capacity and computing power. Securing the privacy of sensitive data for cloud-based data sharing is vital. Currently, there are various conditional proxy re-encryp...
Unmanned aerial vehicle networks (UAVNs) are widely used to collect various location-related data, with applications ranging from military reconnaissance to the low-altitude economy. Data security and privacy are critical concerns when outsourcing lo...
Agricultural socialized service has expanded rapidly within China’s smallholder farming system, yet evidence on their relationship with land productivity remains limited. Using three waves of data from the China Land Economic Survey between 202...
Despite its remarkable capability in handling arbitrary cluster shapes, support vector clustering (SVC) suffers from pricey storage of kernel matrix and costly computations. Outsourcing data or function on demand is intuitively expected, yet it raise...
In recent years, many companies have chosen to outsource data and other data computation tasks to cloud service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiency. However, there are risks of security and privacy breaches when users outsource data to...
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