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  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,481 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2023

Audits are an essential component of every organization, particularly those involving software development. In addition to several testing cycles, software auditing has become an essential software development milestone. Software auditing is a contin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
15,025 Views
48 Pages

24 August 2022

The key objective of this paper is to investigate the evolution of hybrid software development methods and highlight the main difficulties that arise with regard to information systems (IS) auditing. While technology firms today are under constant pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
13,730 Views
22 Pages

Purpose—This paper investigates the role of forensic accounting skills in enhancing auditor self-efficacy towards fraud detection in Indonesia. It also examines the moderating effect of the implementation of Generalized Audit Software (GAS) and...

(This article belongs to the Section Business and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,063 Views
16 Pages

A National Audit of Mammography Systems Settings That May Affect the Output of Artificial Intelligence Software

  • Alistair Mackenzie,
  • John Loveland,
  • Leila Farshadi,
  • Carlijn Roozemond and
  • Ruben E. van Engen

Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) software in mammography is trained on a set of processed images and may be less effective when applied to images acquired on different systems or systems with different processing and/or acquisition settings....

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,219 Views
24 Pages

A Machine Learning Python-Based Search Engine Optimization Audit Software

  • Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis and
  • Nikolaos D. Tselikas

In the present-day digital landscape, websites have increasingly relied on digital marketing practices, notably search engine optimization (SEO), as a vital component in promoting sustainable growth. The traffic a website receives directly determines...

(This article belongs to the Topic Software Engineering and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
613 Views
19 Pages

Generative AI enables both software engineers and non-programmer domain experts to easily generate executable code. However, software engineers often lack domain-specific nuance to detect subtle AI logic errors, while domain experts typically lack th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,499 Views
15 Pages

4SpecID: Reference DNA Libraries Auditing and Annotation System for Forensic Applications

  • Luís Neto,
  • Nádia Pinto,
  • Alberto Proença,
  • António Amorim and
  • Eduardo Conde-Sousa

2 January 2021

Forensic genetics is a fast-growing field that frequently requires DNA-based taxonomy, namely, when evidence are parts of specimens, often highly processed in food, potions, or ointments. Reference DNA-sequences libraries, such as BOLD or GenBank, ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Technologies and Resources for Genetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
630 Views
25 Pages

19 May 2026

Intrusion detection system (IDS) research relies on accurately labeled network traffic datasets; however, label quality in IDS datasets is seldom audited prior to modeling. Many publicly available IDS datasets assign ground-truth labels based on capt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Secure Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,165 Views
53 Pages

Towards Software Architecture as an Auditable Practice

  • Pablo Cruz,
  • Mauricio Solar and
  • Hernán Astudillo

20 March 2026

A system’s architectural design plays a vital role in its quality, since quality attributes are system-wide and impacted by the architecture. The evaluation of a software architecture aims to assess its suitability for the purpose of the system...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Architecture, Design and Optimization of the Software Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
167 Views
47 Pages

28 October 2026

This study presents an auditable decision-governance procedure for converting existing malware-suspicion scores into additional-review referrals at software supply-chain gates under limits on false-positive rate (FPR), review capacity, and minimum re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity: Novel Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
183 Views
20 Pages

Ordered categorical sequence analysis is distributed across specialist methods and software, making preparation decisions, method settings, diagnostics, and provenance difficult to inspect consistently across an end-to-end workflow. This paper presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,385 Views
20 Pages

2 July 2021

Building energy consumption is still one of the main contributions to global carbon emissions. With the overall digitalization in the building sector, building automation and control systems (BACS) are to play a more important and key role in improvi...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,794 Views
26 Pages

A Survey on Large Language Models in Software Security: Opportunities and Threats

  • Md Bajlur Rashid,
  • Mohammad Shafayet Jamil Hossain,
  • Mohammad Ishtiaque Khan,
  • Sharaban Tahora and ,
  • Aiasha Siddika,
  • Mahmudul Islam Prakash,
  • Sharmin Yeasmin and
  • Hossain Shahriar
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The rise of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, Codex, Code Llama, Claude 3, CodeGemma and DeepSeek, etc., is changing the way software development is approached. These models provide strong support for tasks like writing codes, analyzing bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using New Technologies in Cyber Security Solutions (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,479 Views
22 Pages

Prompt specifications for multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems carry data contracts and integration logic across interdependent files but are rarely subjected to structured-inspection rigor. We report a single-system case study of iterative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software Reliability, Security and Quality Assurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,488 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2016

In the cloud computing information technology environment, cloud computing has some advantages such as lower cost, immediate access to hardware resources, lower IT barriers to innovation, higher scalability, etc., but for the financial audit informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,611 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of the Energy Performance of a Retrofitted Low-Rise Residential Building after an Energy Audit

  • Abdulhameed Babatunde Owolabi,
  • Abdullahi Yahaya,
  • Hong Xian Li and
  • Dongjun Suh

8 August 2023

The main reason for this research is to support the Korean government building retrofitting program initiated to evaluate energy usage trends, propose energy-saving technologies, and focus on reducing the energy demand in residential buildings throug...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prospective Pathways to Architectural and Urban Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,249 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2025

Distributed permutation flowshop scheduling is an NP-hard problem that has become a hot research topic in the fields of optimization and manufacturing in recent years. Multimodal optimization finds multiple global and local optimal solutions of a fun...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
20,765 Views
14 Pages

This study investigated four factors affecting internal audit effectiveness in Vietnam, namely, independence of internal audit, the competence of internal auditors, management support for internal audit, and quality of internal audit work. Quantitati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,023 Views
17 Pages

22 December 2022

This study aims to analyze the influence of audit committee characteristics and intellectual capital performance on intellectual capital disclosure. Characteristics of the audit used in this research are the size of the audit committee, the Number of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,152 Views
13 Pages

Quantitative Approach to Quality Review of Prenatal Ultrasound Examinations: Fetal Biometry

  • C. Andrew Combs,
  • Sushma Amara,
  • Carolyn Kline,
  • Olaide Ashimi Balogun and
  • Zachary S. Bowman

17 August 2024

Background/Objectives: To evaluate the quality of an ultrasound practice, both large-scale and focused audits are recommended by professional organizations, but such audits can be time-consuming, inefficient, and expensive. Our objective was to devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Patient Safety and Quality in Maternal–Fetal Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,348 Views
15 Pages

Assessing the Feasibility of Retrospective and Prospective Clinical Audit in Farm Animal Veterinary Practice

  • Katie Waine,
  • Constance White,
  • Rachel S. Dean,
  • Chris Hudson and ,
  • Jonathan N. Huxley and
  • Marnie L. Brennan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 April 2021

As a quality improvement tool, clinical audit has been extensively described in the medical literature. There is scant literature on the use of clinical audit in the farm animal veterinary setting. This study describes the process and feasibility of...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Education, Veterinary Communication and Animal Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,095 Views
13 Pages

GR-GNN: Gated Recursion-Based Graph Neural Network Algorithm

  • Kao Ge,
  • Jian-Qiang Zhao and
  • Yan-Yong Zhao

4 April 2022

Under an internet background involving artificial intelligence and big data—unstructured, materialized, network graph-structured data, such as social networks, knowledge graphs, and compound molecules, have gradually entered into various specif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Modeling for Analyzing Data with Complex Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,209 Views
22 Pages

The management of prefabricated component staging and turnover lacks the effective integration of informatization and complexity, as relevant information is stored in the heterogeneous systems of various stakeholders. BIM and its underlying data sche...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Construction and Infrastructure Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,089 Views
30 Pages

Fraud Audit Based on Visual Analysis: A Process Mining Approach

  • Jorge-Félix Rodríguez-Quintero,
  • Alexander Sánchez-Díaz,
  • Leonel Iriarte-Navarro,
  • Alejandro Maté and ,
  • Manuel Marco-Such and
  • Juan Trujillo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 May 2021

Among the knowledge areas in which process mining has had an impact, the audit domain is particularly striking. Traditionally, audits seek evidence in a data sample that allows making inferences about a population. Mistakes are usually committed when...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,312 Views
19 Pages

Implementation of Poliovirus Containment in Poliovirus Designated Facilities—United States, 2017–2024

  • Christy Ottendorfer,
  • Patrick Vander Kelen,
  • Cecelia A. Sanders,
  • Emily Watson and ,
  • Suganthi Suppiah,
  • William Hoffman,
  • Colby Sinclair,
  • Abena Marfo and
  • Lia Haynes Smith
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 December 2025

As the world approaches wild poliovirus eradication, effective containment measures are essential to minimize the risk of a facility-associated reintroduction into a polio-free community. Between 2017 and 2024, the United States established a nationa...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
522 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2026

Multimodal Gazepoint Biometrics exports may combine eye-tracking, pupil, electrodermal, cardiovascular, engagement dial, TTL/event, and AOI information, but they are rarely analysis-ready. gpbiometrics provides a Gazepoint-aware R workflow v7.2.0 for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,064 Views
22 Pages

The Role of Technological Readiness in Enhancing the Quality of Audit Work: Evidence from an Emerging Market

  • Mohamed Ali Shabeeb Ali,
  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Abdelhameed A. Montash and
  • Abdelmoneim Bahyeldin Mohamed Metwally

This study examines the impact of remote audit quality (RAQ) on the quality of audit work (QAW). Further, it explores the moderating effect of both client technological readiness (CLTR) and auditor technology readiness (ADTR) on the link between RAQ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Accounting & Auditing Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,737 Views
22 Pages

Environmental audit is inevitably linked to climate change, one immediate target of the auditors is likely to be climate control, and the warming of the Earth and the consequent climatic changes affect us all. What is the link between environmental a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Development and Carbon Neutralization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,630 Views
22 Pages

17 May 2022

Governments worldwide cannot collect the required tax revenue for their planned activities. This study aims to assess how inefficient VAT audit function and related factors affect tax revenue performance in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The study used pri...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
22,254 Views
28 Pages

A Review of IoT Firmware Vulnerabilities and Auditing Techniques

  • Taimur Bakhshi,
  • Bogdan Ghita and
  • Ievgeniia Kuzminykh

22 January 2024

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has been widely applied across a variety of industrial and consumer areas to facilitate greater automation and increase productivity. Higher dependability on connected devices led to a growing ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Cybersecurity)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,597 Views
4 Pages

11 September 2023

Due to the augmented engrossment of technology in security, everything moves towards a cohesive system. Smart cyber-lock technology is one of the eminent concepts with the potential to solve emerging safety and security issues. This work aims to esta...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME-2023))
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,712 Views
14 Pages

Disasters pose a real threat to the lives and property of citizens; therefore, it is necessary to reduce their impact to the minimum possible. In order to achieve this goal, a framework for enhancing the current disaster management system was propose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disasters Preparedness and Emergency Response: Prevention, Surveillance and Mitigation Planning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
28,055 Views
26 Pages

Navigating the Future: Blockchain’s Impact on Accounting and Auditing Practices

  • Sundarasen Sheela,
  • Ahnaf Ali Alsmady,
  • K. Tanaraj and
  • Ibrahim Izani

15 December 2023

This study seeks to meticulously analyze the scholarly discussion on the integration of blockchain technology into accounting and auditing. Based on a total of 67 articles from the Web of Science (WoS) database, this study adopts a bibliometrics and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accounting, Corporate Policies and Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
26 Views
10 Pages

28 October 2026

We developed and evaluated a decoupled, three-layer AI architecture to audit and optimize corporate sustainability. On the basis of a layered documentary protocol, we established 15 computational determinants in the data, predictive, and governance l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
17,917 Views
16 Pages

Auditing the Risk of Financial Fraud Using the Red Flags Technique

  • Victor Munteanu,
  • Marilena-Roxana Zuca,
  • Adriana Horaicu,
  • Laura-Andreea Florea and ,
  • Cristina-Elena Poenaru and
  • Gabriela Anghel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 January 2024

Major financial irregularities have contributed significantly to the destabilization of the world economy and the financial environment, by short circuiting investment flows and discrediting financial markets, with significant financial, social, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,906 Views
16 Pages

Physical activity (PA), associated with all-cause mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs, improves vitamin D absorption, immune response, and stress when completed outdoors. Rural communities, which experience PA inequities, rely on trails to mee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity Promotion for Reducing Health Disparities in Rural Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,832 Views
16 Pages

The Role of Internal Audit to Reduce the Effects of Creative Accounting on the Reliability of Financial Statements in the Jordanian Islamic Banks

  • Baker Akram Falah Jarah,
  • Mufleh Amin AL Jarrah,
  • Murad Ali Ahmad Al-Zaqeba and
  • Mefleh Faisal Mefleh Al-Jarrah

The purpose of this study is to look into the role of internal audit (IA) in reducing the effects of creative accounting (CA) on financial statement reliability in Jordanian Islamic Banks. The research study used the survey methodology to examine the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,113 Views
24 Pages

10 February 2026

Modern DevSecOps environments face a persistent tension between accelerating deployment velocity and maintaining verifiable compliance with regulatory, security, and internal governance standards. Traditional snapshot-in-time audits and fragmented co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software Reliability, Security and Quality Assurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,846 Views
21 Pages

VGGNet and Attention Mechanism-Based Image Quality Assessment Algorithm in Symmetry Edge Intelligence Systems

  • Fanfan Shen,
  • Haipeng Liu,
  • Chao Xu,
  • Lei Ouyang and ,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Yong Chen and
  • Yanxiang He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 February 2025

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the number of devices connected to the network is exploding. How to improve the performance of edge devices has become an important challenge. Research on quality evaluation algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Embedded Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
872 Views
28 Pages

Software Architecture for a Transparency Assessment Platform in E-Government Systems

  • Jorge Hochstetter-Diez,
  • Marlene Negrier-Seguel,
  • Fernanda Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez,
  • Juan Lagos-Obando and ,
  • Claudio Espinoza-Navas and
  • Yuliana Puerta-Cruz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 July 2026

One of the factors that has steadily eroded the legitimacy of public institutions is the recurrence of corruption and irregularities in state management, especially in procurement processes, budget allocation, and public appointments. These phenomena...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,089 Views
24 Pages

Performance Auditing to Assess the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Indonesia

  • Dwi Amalia Sari,
  • Chris Margules,
  • Han She Lim,
  • Jeffrey A. Sayer and ,
  • Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono,
  • Colin J. Macgregor,
  • Allan P. Dale and
  • Elizabeth Poon
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 October 2022

Regular assessment of progress on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is crucial for achieving the goals by 2030 yet such assessments often require extensive resources and data. Here, we describe a method using performance audi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
309 Views
29 Pages

Auditing Scoring Architecture in Financial Capability Surveys: Monte Carlo Evidence and a Peruvian Workplace Case on Perceived Financial Freedom

  • Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez,
  • José Francisco Vía y Rada-Vittes,
  • Nataly Gabriela Solis-Tapia,
  • José Antonio Cuadros-Espinoza and ,
  • Elizabeth Beatriz Barzola-Capcha,
  • Manuel Silva-Infantes,
  • Mercedes Rosario Canchan-Casas,
  • Vicente González-Prida and
  • Sara Ricardina Zacarías-Vallejos
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Self-report financial surveys require auditable scoring as well as evidence that their items measure the intended constructs. This study combines a Peruvian workplace archive of 50 records with an independently reconstructed Monte Carlo experiment. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Literacy and Behavioral Finance: Mechanisms, Contexts, and Emerging Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
18,414 Views
35 Pages

Data Protection by Design Tool for Automated GDPR Compliance Verification Based on Semantically Modeled Informed Consent

  • Tek Raj Chhetri,
  • Anelia Kurteva,
  • Rance J. DeLong,
  • Rainer Hilscher and ,
  • Kai Korte and
  • Anna Fensel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 April 2022

The enforcement of the GDPR in May 2018 has led to a paradigm shift in data protection. Organizations face significant challenges, such as demonstrating compliance (or auditability) and automated compliance verification due to the complex and dynamic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy, Security, and Trust in New Technological Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,822 Views
18 Pages

A Secure Auditable Remote Registry Pattern for IoT Systems

  • Antonio Maña,
  • Francisco J. Jaime and
  • Lucía Gutiérrez

4 November 2024

In software engineering, pattern papers serve the purpose of providing a description of a generalized, reusable solution to recurring design problems, based on practical experience and established best practices. This paper presents an architectural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity in the IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,121 Views
21 Pages

Advancing Applications of Robot Audition Systems: Efficient HARK Deployment with GPU and FPGA Implementations

  • Zirui Lin,
  • Hideharu Amano,
  • Masayuki Takigahira,
  • Naoya Terakado and ,
  • Katsutoshi Itoyama,
  • Haris Gulzar and
  • Kazuhiro Nakadai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 December 2024

This paper proposes efficient implementations of robot audition systems, specifically focusing on deployments using HARK, an open-source software (OSS) platform designed for robot audition. Although robot audition systems are versatile and suitable f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Views
21 Pages

Towards a Software Architecture Description for Tax Compliance

  • Michael Dorner,
  • Oliver Treidler,
  • Tom-Eric Kunz,
  • Ehsan Zabardast and ,
  • Daniel Mendez,
  • Darja Šmite,
  • Maximilian Capraro and
  • Krzysztof Wnuk
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 October 2026

The internal reuse of software components owned by organizational units in different countries constitutes an implicit form of licensing that may be taxable under international regulations, making tax authorities an often overlooked stakeholder in so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,272 Views
24 Pages

Software is behind the technological solutions that deliver many services to our society, which means that software security should not be considered a desirable feature anymore but more of a necessity. Protection of software is an endless labor that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Cybersecurity Threats and Increasing Organizational Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,529 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2024

Automatic static analysis tools (ASATs), also known as static analyzers, have demonstrated their significance and practicability in detecting software defects. ASATs assist developers to identify potential vulnerabilities, errors, and security hazard...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
15,812 Views
18 Pages

One of the main reasons governments of developing countries, including Vietnam, face many difficulties in tax collection is taxpayers’ non-compliance with taxes. Therefore, the question for the governments of these countries is how to encourage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,374 Views
32 Pages

2 December 2025

This study examines the readiness of the accounting and auditing profession to adopt disruptive innovations, with a particular focus on sustainable digital transformation. It investigates the factors influencing auditors’ and accountants’...

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