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An Adaptive Rule-Based Engine for Application-Layer Security

  • Mihai-Cătălin Cujbă,
  • Costin-Gabriel Chiru,
  • Ion Bica and
  • Iulian Tiţă

22 May 2026

We present a composable, pipeline-based rules engine for detecting application-level intrusions in HTTP traffic with adaptive rule generation capabilities. Rules are expressed in JSON chain multi-step decoders (Base64, hex, XOR, zlib, gzip) with matc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches for Cybersecurity and Cyber Defense)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,221 Views
20 Pages

Health State Prediction of Aero-Engine Gas Path System Considering Multiple Working Conditions Based on Time Domain Analysis and Belief Rule Base

  • Xiaojing Yin,
  • Guangxu Shi,
  • Shouxin Peng,
  • Yu Zhang and ,
  • Bangcheng Zhang and
  • Wei Su
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2021

The gas path system is an important part of an aero-engine, whose health states can affect the security of the airplane. During the process of aircraft operation, the gas path system will have different working conditions over time, owing to the chan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Applications in Data-Driven Process Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis and Control)
  • Review
  • Open Access
608 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2026

Precise dimensional conformity of precast concrete members is critical for structural performance and on-site assembly accuracy, yet conventional manual inspection remains labor-intensive and unable to scale with modern production-line throughput. Ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,405 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2025

To address the challenges surrounding information sharing and low efficiency during the engineering quality risk management process, this paper constructs a digital process for engineering quality risk management. Engineering quality risk factors wer...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,239 Views
11 Pages

A Fermentation State Marker Rule Design Task in Metabolic Engineering

  • Egils Stalidzans,
  • Reinis Muiznieks,
  • Konstantins Dubencovs,
  • Elina Sile and ,
  • Kristaps Berzins,
  • Arturs Suleiko and
  • Juris Vanags
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

There are several ways in which mathematical modeling is used in fermentation control, but mechanistic mathematical genome-scale models of metabolism within the cell have not been applied or implemented so far. As part of the metabolic engineering ta...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,850 Views
12 Pages

29 March 2025

Existing research shows that students struggle to understand and use the chain rule appropriately. Other research suggests instructors use more contextually rich problems in their teaching to allow the students to experience calculus through meaningf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics in Engineering Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,649 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Inference Approach Based on Rules Engine in Intelligent Edge Computing for Building Environment Control

  • Wenquan Jin,
  • Rongxu Xu,
  • Sunhwan Lim,
  • Dong-Hwan Park and ,
  • Chanwon Park and
  • Dohyeun Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 January 2021

Computation offloading enables intensive computational tasks in edge computing to be separated into multiple computing resources of the server to overcome hardware limitations. Deep learning derives the inference approach based on the learning approa...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,936 Views
26 Pages

16 August 2025

Diesel engines serve as critical power sources across transportation and industrial fields, and their fault diagnosis is essential for ensuring operational safety and system reliability. However, acquiring sufficient and effective operational data re...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,573 Views
15 Pages

A Rule-Based Heuristic Methodology for Su-Field Analysis in Industrial Engineering Design

  • Wei Yan,
  • Cecilia Zanni-Merk,
  • Denis Cavallucci,
  • Qiushi Cao and ,
  • Liang Zhang and
  • Zengyan Ji
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 March 2022

Industrial engineering design is a crucial issue in manufacturing. To meet the competitive global market, manufacturers are continuously seeking solutions to design industrial products and systems inventively. Su-Field analysis, which is one of the T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,393 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 and ,
  • Natalya Mutovina,
  • Kirill Shtefan and
  • Dinara Zhumagulova
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,208 Views
21 Pages

31 January 2023

An emerging reality is the development of smart buildings and cities, which improve residents’ comfort. These environments employ multiple sensor networks, whose data must be acquired and processed in real time by multiple rule engines, which t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things, Sensing and Cloud Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,113 Views
17 Pages

Condition Monitoring of Internal Combustion Engines in Thermal Power Plants Based on Control Charts and Adapted Nelson Rules

  • Fernanda Mitchelly Vilas Boas,
  • Luiz Eduardo Borges-da-Silva,
  • Helcio Francisco Villa-Nova,
  • Erik Leandro Bonaldi and ,
  • Levy Ely Lacerda Oliveira,
  • Germano Lambert-Torres,
  • Frederico de Oliveira Assuncao,
  • Claudio Inacio de Almeida Costa,
  • Mateus Mendes Campos and
  • Edenio Gomes da Silva
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

11 August 2021

In thermal power plants, the internal combustion engines are constantly subjected to stresses, requiring a continuous monitoring system in order to check their operating conditions. However, most of the time, these monitoring systems only indicate if...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Monitoring Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,554 Views
18 Pages

Development of Tools for Coastal Management in Google Earth Engine: Uncertainty Bathtub Model and Bruun Rule

  • Lucas Terres de Lima,
  • Sandra Fernández-Fernández,
  • João Francisco Gonçalves,
  • Luiz Magalhães Filho and
  • Cristina Bernardes

7 April 2021

Sea-level rise is a problem increasingly affecting coastal areas worldwide. The existence of free and open-source models to estimate the sea-level impact can contribute to improve coastal management. This study aims to develop and validate two differ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Google Earth Engine: Cloud-Based Platform for Earth Observation Data and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
612 Views
36 Pages

10 April 2026

As the core power unit of complex electromechanical systems, accurate health assessment of diesel engines is essential for safe operation. The Interval Belief Rule Base (IBRB) method integrates observed data with expert knowledge to support system as...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,542 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2018

Customer-oriented management of manufacturing systems is crucial in service-oriented production and product service systems. This paper develops the selection of dispatching rules in combination with alternative process flow designs and demand mix, f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society (MES))
  • Article
  • Open Access
353 Views
22 Pages

Research on Fault Identification and Decision for UHV Bushing Based on Knowledge Graph Rule Reasoning and Inductive Graph Convolutional Network

  • Longgang Guo,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Qi Chai,
  • Tianbao Zhou and ,
  • Weimin Liu,
  • Shuxin Li and
  • Zefeng Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

To address the challenges of integrating multi-source heterogeneous data, fragmented fault knowledge, and the limited capability of traditional rule engines in recognizing edge cases for ultra-high voltage (UHV) bushing fault diagnosis, this paper pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanics of Composite Materials: Strength, Deformation, and Failure Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,665 Views
31 Pages

Soil liquefaction remains a critical geotechnical hazard during earthquakes, posing significant risks to infrastructure and urban resilience. Traditional empirical methods, while practical, often fall short in capturing complex parameter interactions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,254 Views
22 Pages

1 November 2018

Engineering education and, particularly, control engineering, has shown growth in research and development activities during last years. Currently, proportional–integral (PI) and proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controllers ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,336 Views
17 Pages

Context-Based Tourism Information Filtering with a Semantic Rule Engine

  • Carlos Lamsfus,
  • David Martín,
  • Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal,
  • Diego López-de-Ipiña and
  • Emilio Torres-Manzanera

26 April 2012

This paper presents the CONCERT framework, a push/filter information consumption paradigm, based on a rule-based semantic contextual information system for tourism. CONCERT suggests a specific insight of the notion of context from a human mobility pe...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,522 Views
29 Pages

Towards Automated Structural Stability Design of Buildings—A BIM-Based Solution

  • Satinder Kaur Khattra,
  • Hardeep Singh Rai and
  • Jagbir Singh

Building information modelling (BIM) is a revolution in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. In the AEC industry, several interesting innovations are being introduced every day. Most of the code compliance work, which is t...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,827 Views
34 Pages

18 January 2023

In this paper, we study swarm intelligence computation for constrained optimization problems and propose a new hybrid PSO-DE algorithm based on feasibility rules. Establishing individual feasibility rules as a way to determine whether the position of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,669 Views
27 Pages

12 August 2022

Maintenance activities to replace, repair, and revamp equipment in the industrial plant sector are gradually needed for sustainability during the plant’s life cycle. In order to carry out these revamping activities, the plant owners exchange ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
493 Views
30 Pages

Mobile networks have become targets of sophisticated cyber attacks. Critical vulnerabilities persist in the General Packet Radio Service Tunneling Protocol (GTP). Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are inadequate against zero day explo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Detecting Cybersecurity Attacks in Internet of Things Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,486 Views
34 Pages

5 March 2021

Welding is a consolidated technology used to manufacture/assemble large products and structures. Currently, welding design issues are tackled downstream of the 3D modeling, lacking concurrent development of design and manufacturing engineering activi...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,322 Views
26 Pages

16 August 2020

In the modern shipboard power system, there is a growing concern about reduced fuel economy, efficiency improvement, and minimized emission in recent years. Besides, considering the islanded nature of the shipboard power system, ensuring the system r...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,911 Views
19 Pages

A Mamdani Type Fuzzy Inference System to Calculate Employee Susceptibility to Phishing Attacks

  • Yahya Lambat,
  • Nick Ayres,
  • Leandros Maglaras and
  • Mohamed Amine Ferrag

29 September 2021

It is a well known fact that the weakest link in a cyber secure system is the people who configure, manage or use it. Security breaches are persistently being attributed to human error. Social engineered based attacks are becoming more sophisticated...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,354 Views
20 Pages

SensoMan: Social Management of Context Sensors and Actuators for IoT

  • Georgia M. Kapitsaki,
  • Achilleas P. Achilleos,
  • Philippos Aziz and
  • Athina C. Paphitou

Sensor networks that collect data from the environment can be utilized in the development of context-aware applications, bringing into sight the need for data collection, management, and distribution. Boards with microcontrollers, such as Arduino and...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Services and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,764 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Precision in Staging Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease on Treatment Outcomes: An Observational Study

  • Olga Endrich,
  • Christos T. Nakas,
  • Karen Triep,
  • Georg M. Fiedler and ,
  • Jaime J. Caro and
  • Alistair McGuire
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 November 2024

(1) Background: “Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes” (KDIGO) provides guidelines for identifying the stages of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). A data-driven rule-based engine was developed to determine K...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnosis and Treatment of Kidney Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
10,565 Views
34 Pages

22 September 2021

The emergence of ground-breaking technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data powered by the Internet, and its highly valued real-world applications consisting of symmetric and asymmetric data distributions, has significant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technologies and Electronics Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,438 Views
17 Pages

Mixing Rules for an Exact Determination of the Dielectric Properties of Engine Soot Using the Microwave Cavity Perturbation Method and Its Application in Gasoline Particulate Filters

  • Stefanie Walter,
  • Peter Schwanzer,
  • Carsten Steiner,
  • Gunter Hagen and ,
  • Hans-Peter Rabl,
  • Markus Dietrich and
  • Ralf Moos
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 April 2022

In recent years, particulate filters have become mandatory in almost all gasoline-powered vehicles to comply with emission standards regarding particulate number. In contrast to diesel applications, monitoring gasoline particulate filters (GPFs) by d...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Views
25 Pages

8 October 2026

Neonatal intensive care requires continuous vital-sign monitoring and structured notification workflows. This study presents a layered, simulation-based Cloud–IoT engineering proof of concept linking controlled physiological inputs to rule-base...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,598 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Dimensional Control Rules and Assessment Methods for Surface Engineering Data Quality in Oil and Gas Field

  • Taiwu Xia,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Zhan Huang,
  • Wei Zhang and ,
  • Gangping Chen,
  • Jun Zhou and
  • Cui Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2025

The current digital delivery of surface engineering in oil and gas fields faces challenges such as difficulty in integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources, low efficiency in quality reviews, and a lack of unified evaluation standards, which ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,366 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2025

Construction accidents continue to threaten worker safety despite advances in management systems. Existing research catalogs accident attributes but rarely explains how triggers like human error, equipment failure, or procedural lapses interact with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Safety in Construction: Innovations and Best Practices for a Safer Site of Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,084 Views
13 Pages

One of the practical obstacles limiting the use of cloud-based gamification applications is the lack of an Internet connection of adequate quality. In this paper, we describe a practical solution to this problem by the implementation of client-side g...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
20 Pages

17 June 2026

To address challenges such as complex background interference, limited long-range modeling capabilities of CNNs, and poor generalization in steel-concrete cross-material scenarios, this study proposes an enhanced detection framework. This framework i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Building Structure Analysis and Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
719 Views
26 Pages

The transition to a hydrogen-based energy economy emphasizes the potential of hydrogen as a fuel for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The performance of a hydrogen engine within a PHEV depends on the choice of its operating modes, which infl...

(This article belongs to the Section Powertrain and Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,852 Views
28 Pages

12 November 2018

A significant integration of energy storage systems is taking place to offer flexibility to electrical networks and to mitigate side effects of a high penetration of distributed energy resources. To accommodate this, new processes are needed for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Energy Management for Smart Grids)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,601 Views
22 Pages

In Situ Assessment of Intrinsic Strength of X-I⋯OA-Type Halogen Bonds in Molecular Crystals with Periodic Local Vibrational Mode Theory

  • Yunwen Tao,
  • Yue Qiu,
  • Wenli Zou,
  • Sadisha Nanayakkara and ,
  • Seth Yannacone and
  • Elfi Kraka
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 March 2020

Periodic local vibrational modes were calculated with the rev-vdW-DF2 density functional to quantify the intrinsic strength of the X-I⋯OA-type halogen bonding (X = I or Cl; OA: carbonyl, ether and N-oxide groups) in 32 model systems originating from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Halogen Bonding: Insights from Computational Tools)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,525 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2018

The aim of the study is to develop an original, methodical, and practical approach to the early stages of parametric design of roof shells formed by repetitive modules of Catalan surfaces. It is presented on the example of designing the roof shells c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Civil Engineering and Symmetry)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,120 Views
18 Pages

8 February 2023

Rule-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) systems operate autonomous and dynamic service scenarios through real-time events and actions based on deployed rules. For handling the increasing events and actions in the IoT networks, the computational ability...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,104 Views
23 Pages

Classification of Task Types in Software Development Projects

  • Włodzimierz Wysocki,
  • Ireneusz Miciuła and
  • Marcin Mastalerz

21 November 2022

Managing software development processes is still a serious challenge and offers the possibility of introducing improvements that will reduce the resources needed to successfully complete projects. The article presents the original concept of classifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,473 Views
16 Pages

Development of an Ontology-Based Solution to Reduce the Spread of Viruses

  • Djamel Saba,
  • Abdelkader Hadidi,
  • Omar Cheikhrouhou,
  • Monia Hamdi and
  • Habib Hamam

21 November 2022

With the sudden emergence of many dangerous viruses in recent years and with their rapid transmission and danger to individuals, most countries have adopted several strategies, such as closure and social distancing, to control the spread of the virus...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,361 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2020

Maintaining traceability links of software systems is a crucial task for software management and development. Unfortunately, dealing with traceability links are typically taken as afterthought due to time pressure. Some studies attempt to use informa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,297 Views
23 Pages

To enhance the safety of pedestrians crossing the street, a series of new regulations regarding pedestrian yield has been proposed and widely implemented across cities. In this study, we first made some improvements to the social force model, in whic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2nd Edition: Promotion of Big Data and Intelligent Transportation to Traffic Safety and the Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,469 Views
12 Pages

Personalization of Rule-based Web Services

  • Okkyung Choi and
  • Sang Yong Han

4 April 2008

Nowadays Web users have clearly expressed their wishes to receive personalized services directly. Personalization is the way to tailor services directly to the immediate requirements of the user. However, the current Web Services System does not prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,932 Views
26 Pages

In this paper, we present a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) -empowered system that enhances large language models and other machine learning tools with rules to provide primary care diagnostic advice to patients. Specifically, we introduce a novel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI and Its Transformative Potential)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,155 Views
23 Pages

Transparent Rule Enablement Based on Commonization Approach in Heterogeneous IoT Edge Networks

  • Wenquan Jin,
  • Yong-Geun Hong,
  • Jaeseung Song,
  • Jaeho Kim and
  • Dohyeun Kim

6 October 2023

The paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing brings a number of heterogeneous devices to the network edge for monitoring and controlling the environment. For reacting to events dynamically and automatically in the environment, rule...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,031 Views
16 Pages

Implementing Tensor-Organized Memory for Message Retrieval Purposes in Neuromorphic Chips

  • Arash Khajooei Nejad,
  • Mohammad (Behdad) Jamshidi and
  • Shahriar B. Shokouhi

22 September 2023

This paper introduces Tensor-Organized Memory (TOM), a novel neuromorphic architecture inspired by the human brain’s structural and functional principles. Utilizing spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) and Hebbian rules, TOM exhibits cognit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,273 Views
15 Pages

Fuzzy Broad Learning System Combined with Feature-Engineering-Based Fault Diagnosis for Bearings

  • Jianmin Zhou,
  • Xiaotong Yang,
  • Lulu Liu,
  • Yunqing Wang and ,
  • Junjie Wang and
  • Guanghao Hou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 December 2022

Bearings are essential components of rotating machinery used in mechanical systems, and fault diagnosis of bearings is of great significance to the operation and maintenance of mechanical equipment. Deep learning is a popular method for bearing fault...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bearing Modeling, Fault Diagnosis, RUL Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
457 Views
33 Pages

4 September 2026

Effective engineering management of railway disruptions requires a transparent framework that links operating-cost optimisation, detour feasibility and service continuity constraints under uncertain repair durations. This paper presents IAAK (Intelli...

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