Software development stands out as one of the most rapidly expanding markets due to its pivotal role in crafting applications across diverse sectors like healthcare, transportation, and finance. Nevertheless, the sphere of cybersecurity has also unde...
Despite the frequent changes in household composition in Sub-Saharan Africa, the literature on the household division process is sparse, with no evidence of its effect on food security. This paper addresses the topic in Malawi, where the fission proc...
A grave concern to an organization’s information security is employees’ behavior when they do not value information security policy compliance (ISPC). Most ISPC studies evaluate compliance and noncompliance behaviors separately. However, the literatu...
Integrating process safety and process security risk management is increasingly essential for enhancing resilience in the chemical process industry. This study addresses how practitioners perceive the integration of these two domains, identifying key...
Despite the attractive benefits of cloud-based business processes, security issues, cloud attacks, and privacy are some of the challenges that prevent many organizations from using this technology. This review seeks to know the level of integration o...
The rapid development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in recent years has provided many new opportunities and challenges for human social production. However, recent evaluation methods have some problems with regard to consistency, subjectiv...
Synthetical eco-environmental problems’ treatment is a new stage for certain pollutant control or ecological restoration. Traditional urban planners have focused more on social–economic development but less on eco-environmental considerat...
Food security and climate change are multidimensional issues. Therefore, a lack of knowledge about the most essential variables made these concepts more complex for decision-making and highlighted the need for credible decision support methods. Here,...
This article presents selected issues related to the reliability of the power supply for electronic security systems (ESSs) used in smart buildings (SBs). ESSs operate in diverse environmental conditions and are responsible for the safety of lives, p...
Quantum key distribution (QKD) has been researched for almost four decades and is currently making its way to commercial applications. However, deployment of the technology at scale is challenging because of the very particular nature of QKD and its...
Bayesian nonparametric methods, particularly the Dirichlet process (DP), have gained increasing popularity in both theoretical and applied research, driven by advances in computing power. Traditional Bayesian estimation, which often relies on Gaussia...
Recently, studies on secure database outsourcing have been highlighted for the cloud computing environment. A few secure Top-k query processing algorithms have been proposed in the encrypted database. However, the previous algorithms can support eith...
This research aims to explain the role of food processing in improving the sustainability of food security under the framework of ‘Goal 2’ associated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research methodology relied on descri...
The goal of this review paper is to highlight the image processing techniques’ role in the Internet of Things (IoT), aiming to attain an energy-efficient and secure IoT. IoT-dependent systems (IoTSs) cause heavy usage of energy. This is one of the bi...
This study aimed to strengthen the security of autonomous vehicles by analyzing the current status of autonomous vehicle security, such as autonomous vehicle features, security threats, and compliance, and deriving security-level check items. Based o...
Current mobile devices need to run applications with high computational demands and critical response times. The mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm was developed to improve the performance of these devices. This new computation architecture allows...
Embedded systems are increasingly applied in numerous security-sensitive applications, such as industrial controls, railway transports, intelligent vehicles, avionics and aerospace. However, embedded systems are compromised in the execution of untrus...
According to the IPCC, global temperatures are expected to increase between 1.1 and 6.4 °C during the 21st century and precipitation patterns will be altered. Soils are intricately linked to the atmospheric/climate system through the carbon, nitrogen...
Achieving long-term stable optimization in complex industrial processes (CIPs) is notoriously challenging due to their unclear physical/chemical reaction mechanisms, fluctuating operating conditions, and stringent regulatory constraints. A significan...
Robotic process automation (RPA)* based on the use of software robots has proven to be one of the most demanded technologies to emerge in recent years used for automating daily IT routines in many sectors, such as banking and finance. As with any new...
In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, the surge in Machine-Type Devices (MTDs) has introduced Massive IoT (MIoT), opening new horizons in the world of connected devices. However, such proliferation presents challenges, especially in storing and analyz...
In the requirement engineering phase, the team members work to get the user requirements, comprehend them and specify them for the next process. There are many models for the requirement engineering phase. There is a need to select the best Requireme...
The developments of reduced manning on offshore facilities and increased information transfer from offshore to land continue and may also be a prerequisite for the future survival of the oil and gas industry. A general requirement from the operators...
The article focuses on the study of the impact of the level of training of security control operators (SCOs) at airports on the energy consumption of the passenger baggage control process. With the constant growing emphasis on security at airports, t...
As the signaling processing center of 5G, the security and stability of the 5G Core Network (5GC) are of great importance for 5G. The current 5GC consists of multiple mutually independent Network Functions (NFs). However, the NF service access proced...
The real world is bounded by people, hospitals, industries, buildings, businesses, vehicles, cognitive cities, and billions of devices that offer various services and interact with the world. Recent technologies, including AR, VR, XR, and the digital...
The Internet of Things environment (e.g., smart phones, smart televisions, and smart watches) ensures that the end user experience is easy, by connecting lives on web services via the internet. Integrating Internet of Things devices poses ethical ris...
Brazil was one of the largest cocoa producers in the world, mainly supported by the South of Bahia region. After the 1980s, the witch-broom disease demolished plantations, and farmers were forced into bankruptcy. The worldwide search for gourmet coco...
Ecological security is fundamental to human survival and sustainable development. However, current assessment frameworks often lack regional adaptability. They also frequently overlook the security risks associated with landscape patterns. To address...
Identity management ensures that users have appropriate access to resources, such as ICT services and data. Thereby, identity management does not only identify, authenticate, and authorize individuals, but also the hardware devices and software appli...
With recent advancements of technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing, security of information systems has emerged as a critical issue. This has created a need for elicitation and analysis of the security requirements at an early st...
In the era of global social media, Internet users’ privacy rights have been weakened, and the insight and alertness of individuals for privacy disclosure are decreasing. The security and flexibility of the system are usually the two ends of the...
The Vu Gia–Thu Bon (VG–TB) river basin is facing numerous challenges to water security, particularly in light of the increasing impacts of climate change. These challenges, including salinity intrusion, shifts in rainfall patterns, and re...
The various ecosystem services related to water form a complex structure that impacts on human well-being so it is necessary to know the relationships between their attributes to support decision making for water security. Our work investigates indiv...
The security and integrity of election systems represent fundamental pillars of democratic governance in the 21st century. As electoral processes increasingly rely on networked technologies and digital infrastructures, the vulnerability of these syst...
In the information era, information security monitoring tools would be helpful for enterprises/organizations to monitor employees’ computer usage behaviors and improve their information security protection. The Windows-based operating systems have th...
There is an increasing demand for processing large volumes of unstructured data for a wide variety of applications. However, protection measures for these big data sets are still in their infancy, which could lead to significant security and privacy...
Water security is a major concern for water-scarce cities that face dynamic water challenges due to limited water supply, climate change and increasing water demand. Framing urban water security is challenging due to the complexity and uncertainties...
With the advent of cloud computing and wireless sensor networks, the number of cyberattacks has rapidly increased. Therefore, the proportionate security of networks has become a challenge for organizations. Information security advisors of organizati...
The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has found a unique and prominent role in Industry 4.0 and is rapidly gaining popularity in the manufacturing industry. 3D printing offers many advantages over conventional manufacturing methods, making it...
This study explores the application of federated learning (FL) in security camera surveillance systems to overcome the structural limitations inherent in traditional centralized artificial intelligence (AI) training approaches, while simultaneously e...
Process algebra can be considered one of the most practical formal methods for modeling Smart IoT Systems in Digital Twin, since each IoT device in the systems can be considered as a process. Further, some of the algebras are applied to predict the b...
With the rise of Industry 4.0, control systems have taken on increasing importance in industrial processes, and ensuring their security has become a pressing issue. While recent research has focused on cybersecurity threats, the security risks inhere...
Today’s IoT deployments are highly complex, heterogeneous and constantly changing. This poses severe security challenges such as limited end-to-end security support, lack of cross-platform cross-vertical security interoperability as well as the lack...
Modern vehicles are no longer merely mechanical systems but are monitored and controlled by various electronic systems. Safety-critical systems of connected vehicles become vulnerable to cyberattacks because of increasing interconnection. At present,...
We study a portfolio selection problem in a continuous-time Itô–Markov additive market with prices of financial assets described by Markov additive processes that combine Lévy processes and regime switching models. Thus, the model...
Industry 4.0 adoption demands integrability, interoperability, composability, and security. Currently, integrability, interoperability and composability are addressed by next-generation approaches for enterprise systems integration such as model-base...
This paper introduces an Enhanced-Dueling Deep Q-Network (EDDQN) specifically designed to bolster the physical security of electric power substations. We model the intricate substation security challenge as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), segmenting...
In order to improve grid security while pursuing a grid operation economy and new energy consumption rates, this paper proposes a short-term optimal scheduling method based on security quantification for the grid containing a pumped-storage power pla...
Prevailing trends in the automotive and medical device industry, such as life cycle overarching configurability, connectivity, and automation, require an adaption of development processes, especially regarding the security and safety thereof. The cha...
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