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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,581 Views
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Development and Experimental Validation of an Educational Robotic Platform with Machine Vision and Web-Based Monitoring for Automation Teaching

  • Elizabeth Salazar-Jácome,
  • Jean Ruiz-Espinoza,
  • Wilson Sánchez-Ocaña,
  • Javier De la Torre-Guzmán and ,
  • Félix Chávez-Jácome and
  • Mario Pérez-Cargua
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The development of accessible and experimentally validated robotic systems for engineering education is a challenge, especially in academic environments where industrial manipulators are economically inaccessible. This paper presents the design, mech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robotics and Autonomous System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,712 Views
29 Pages

26 October 2023

Automated code generation and process flow management are central to web-based application development today. This database-centric approach targets the form and process management challenges faced by corporate companies. It minimizes the time losses...

(This article belongs to the Topic Software Engineering and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,731 Views
16 Pages

4 November 2024

In this study, we compare the performance of five chatbots using large language models (LLMs) in handling web development tasks. Three human testers asked each chatbot nine predefined questions related to creating a simple website with a dynamic form...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
893 Views
43 Pages

11 June 2026

The volume of academic and scientific publications grows rapidly, increasing the need for efficient mechanisms for accessing, obtaining and managing large collections of Open Access (OA) journal articles. For the purposes of an ongoing project requir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies Applied in Digital Media Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,774 Views
22 Pages

Intelligent Platform for Automating Vulnerability Detection in Web Applications

  • Diogo Moreira,
  • João Pedro Seara,
  • João Pedro Pavia and
  • Carlos Serrão

In a world increasingly dependent on technology and in an era where connectivity is omnipresent, Web applications have become an essential part of our everyday life. The evolution of these applications, combined with the exponential increase in the n...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,235 Views
31 Pages

A Python Framework for Crop Yield Estimation Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Data

  • Konstantinos Ntouros,
  • Konstantinos Papatheodorou,
  • Georgios Gkologkinas and
  • Vasileios Drimzakas-Papadopoulos

6 March 2025

Remote sensing technologies are essential for monitoring crop development and improving agricultural management. This study investigates the automation of Sentinel-2 satellite data processing to enhance wheat growth monitoring and provide actionable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
15,526 Views
18 Pages

31 March 2009

This paper describes the development of a sensor web based approach which combines earth observation and in situ sensor data to derive typical information offered by a dynamic web mapping service (WMS). A prototype has been developed which provides d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Workshop Sensing A Changing World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,666 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2024

Excavator–truck operations, characterized by their repetitive excavation and loading tasks, present a prime candidate for automation. While numerous studies have aimed to automate the earthworks, practical implementations remain scarce. This re...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,250 Views
16 Pages

BALSAM—An Interactive Online Platform for Breath Analysis, Visualization and Classification

  • Philipp Weber,
  • Josch Konstantin Pauling,
  • Markus List and
  • Jan Baumbach

2 October 2020

The field of breath analysis lacks a fully automated analysis platform that enforces machine learning good practice and enables clinicians and clinical researchers to rapidly and reproducibly discover metabolite patterns in diseases. We present BALSA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Strategies in Metabolite Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,517 Views
29 Pages

31 July 2022

This article discusses the need to transform real estate valuation methods. It is associated with the problems of obtaining unreliable results affecting the subsequent adoption of management decisions. As an important element of land plots assessment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,963 Views
36 Pages

Generating Accessible Webpages from Models

  • Karla Ordoñez-Briceño,
  • José R. Hilera,
  • Luis De-Marcos and
  • Rodrigo Saraguro-Bravo

Despite significant efforts to promote web accessibility through the adoption of various standards and tools, the web remains inaccessible to many users. One of the main barriers is the limited knowledge of accessibility issues among website designer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,228 Views
32 Pages

1 February 2026

The main purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scientific knowledge and trends in modern finance. To this end, the analysis was based on the keywords: “finance”, “automation”, and “ESG”. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,867 Views
9 Pages

16 January 2024

Automation seems widespread today, yet it is not implemented in daily life. However, most home automation systems are expensive, object-dependent, and lacking in crucial features. The Internet of Things was enabled by this paper’s low-cost home...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, RAiSE-2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
18,098 Views
17 Pages

A Framework for More Effective Dark Web Marketplace Investigations

  • Darren R. Hayes,
  • Francesco Cappa and
  • James Cardon

26 July 2018

The success of the Silk Road has prompted the growth of many Dark Web marketplaces. This exponential growth has provided criminal enterprises with new outlets to sell illicit items. Thus, the Dark Web has generated great interest from academics and g...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,654 Views
17 Pages

Towards the Integration of Emerging Technologies as Support for the Teaching and Learning Model in Higher Education

  • Santiago Criollo-C,
  • Jaime Govea,
  • Washington Játiva,
  • Jose Pierrottet and ,
  • Andrea Guerrero-Arias,
  • Ángel Jaramillo-Alcázar and
  • Sergio Luján-Mora
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 March 2023

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 impacted the entire world, but the significant challenges to be faced during this crisis opened an opportunity for organizations to evolve toward a digital transformation. Educational institutions were a concrete examp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Education in the New Agenda 2030)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
17,870 Views
17 Pages

15 November 2023

Penetration testers have increasingly adopted multiple penetration testing scanners to ensure the robustness of web applications. However, a notable limitation of many scanning techniques is their susceptibility to producing false positives. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using New Technologies on Cyber Security Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,104 Views
23 Pages

Scaling Automated Programming Assessment Systems

  • Igor Mekterović,
  • Ljiljana Brkić and
  • Marko Horvat

13 February 2023

The first automated assessment of student programs was reported more than 60 years ago, but this topic remains relevant and highly topical among computer science researchers and teachers. In the last decade, several factors have contributed to the po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Web Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
52,879 Views
17 Pages

Understanding Technological Unemployment: A Review of Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

  • Yuri Lima,
  • Carlos Eduardo Barbosa,
  • Herbert Salazar dos Santos and
  • Jano Moreira de Souza

21 May 2021

Many studies have focused on estimating the impact of automation on work around the world with results ranging widely. Despite the disagreement about the level of impact that automation will have, experts agree that new technologies tend to be applie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Socio-technical Dimensions of Automation of Work - Future Visions Matter)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,040 Views
5 Pages

The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) monitors and measures land displacement on a European scale using Sentinel-1 data, providing reliable and consistent data on natural ground motion phenomena. The Geomatics Research Unit of the Center Tecnol&o...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of IV Conference on Geomatics Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,923 Views
35 Pages

FarmSync: Ecosystem for Environmental Monitoring of Barns in Agribusiness

  • Guilherme Pulizzi Costa,
  • Geovane Yuji Aparecido Sakata,
  • Luiz Fernando Pinto de Oliveira,
  • Michel E. D. Chaves and ,
  • Luis F. C. Duarte,
  • Mariana Matulovic,
  • Ricardo Fonseca Buzo and
  • Flávio J. O. Morais
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

In the current era of agricultural management practices, known as agricultural 5.0, optimal indoor environments are associated with comfortable temperatures, regulated humidity, and good air quality—essential variables to improve yields. Given...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Applications and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,365 Views
34 Pages

Microdrills are specific cutting tools widely used to drill microholes and microvias. For certain microdrill manufacturers, a conventional sampling inspection procedure is still manually operated for carrying out the destructive and visual measuremen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Process Improvement by Automation and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,304 Views
19 Pages

Supporting Smart Home Scenarios Using OWL and SWRL Rules

  • Roberto Reda,
  • Antonella Carbonaro,
  • Victor de Boer,
  • Ronald Siebes and ,
  • Roderick van der Weerdt,
  • Barry Nouwt and
  • Laura Daniele
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 May 2022

Despite the pervasiveness of IoT domotic devices in the home automation landscape, their potential is still quite under-exploited due to the high heterogeneity and the scarce expressivity of the most commonly adopted scenario programming paradigms. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Role and Challenges of Healthcare Cognitive Computing: From Extraction to Data Analysis Techniques)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,777 Views
12 Pages

The summarized content of one or more extensive text documents helps users extract only the most important key information, instead of reviewing and reading hundreds of pages of text. This study uses extractive and abstractive mechanisms to automatic...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 14th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2025—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,561 Views
24 Pages

Prototype for Multi-UAV Monitoring–Control System Using WebRTC

  • Fatih Kilic,
  • Mainul Hassan and
  • Wolfram Hardt

5 October 2024

Most unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground control station (GCS) solutions today are either web-based or native applications, primarily designed to support a single UAV. In this paper, our research aims to provide an open, universal framework intended...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones-II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
36 Pages

A Hybrid Multi-Level BIM–MCDM Data Fusion Approach for Early-Stage Sustainable Building Design

  • Tatjana Vilutienė,
  • Diana Kalibatienė,
  • Vaidotas Šarka,
  • Arvydas Kiaulakis and ,
  • Artur Rogoža,
  • Darius Kalibatas and
  • Edita Šarkienė
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 September 2026

Decisions made at the early stage of the design process have a substantial influence on the environmental, socio-economic, and technical performance of a building throughout its life cycle. Although an early-stage sustainability assessment is essenti...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,713 Views
20 Pages

Alignment: A Hybrid, Interactive and Collaborative Ontology and Entity Matching Service

  • Sotirios Karampatakis,
  • Charalampos Bratsas,
  • Ondřej Zamazal,
  • Panagiotis Marios Filippidis and
  • Ioannis Antoniou

15 November 2018

Ontology matching is an essential problem in the world of Semantic Web and other distributed, open world applications. Heterogeneity occurs as a result of diversity in tools, knowledge, habits, language, interests and usually the level of detail. Aut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,915 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2021

Smart factories have made great progress with the development of various ICT technologies, such as IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence. The recent development of smart factory technology has shown results in automation and data acquisition and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Design and Manufacturing in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,452 Views
18 Pages

Multiscale Visualization of Surface Motion Point Measurements Associated with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

  • Panagiotis Kalaitzis,
  • Michael Foumelis,
  • Antonios Mouratidis,
  • Dimitris Kavroudakis and
  • Nikolaos Soulakellis

Persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) has been proven to be a robust method for studying complex and dynamic phenomena such as ground displacement over time. Proper visualization of PSI measurements is both crucial and challenging from a cartogra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,539 Views
22 Pages

A Generative AI-Enhanced Robotic Desktop Automation Framework for Multi-System Nephrology Data Entry in Government Healthcare Platforms

  • Sumalee Sangamuang,
  • Perasuk Worragin,
  • Kitti Puritat,
  • Phichete Julrode and
  • Kannikar Intawong

This study introduces a Generative AI-Enhanced Robotic Data Automation (AI-ERDA) framework designed to improve accuracy, efficiency, and adaptability in healthcare data workflows. Conducted over a two-month, real-world experiment across three governm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Smart Healthcare Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
854 Views
20 Pages

27 January 2026

Seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures is crucial in earthquake-prone regions to mitigate risks to life and property. This study proposes a systematic three-phase framework for enhanced seismic risk assessment: (1) Au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,001 Views
13 Pages

7 April 2021

The need for automated data extraction is continuously growing due to the constant addition of information to the worldwide web. Researchers are developing new data extraction methods to achieve increased performance compared to existing methods. Com...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,064 Views
7 Pages

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Tilapia Industry Roadmap (2022–2025) emphasizes the need for technological innovation in Philippine aquaculture. We developed an automated IoT-based monitoring and control system for Oreochromis nil...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2025 (ECICE 2025))
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
718 Views
45 Pages

Geoparks and the Development of Ecotourism: A Systematic Synthesis of Research Using Bibliometrix and PRISMA Approaches

  • Ștefan Dezsi,
  • Judith Nyulas,
  • Adrian Niță,
  • Alpár Horváth and ,
  • Ciprian-Sandu Moldovan and
  • Cristina Bolog
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 September 2026

This study presents a systematic literature review combined with a bibliometric analysis of ecotourism within geoparks. A dataset of 194 scientific publications was retrieved from seven academic databases: Web of Science, Scopus, Dimensions, Nature J...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecological, Socio-Economic, and Management Aspects of Tourism in Forests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,239 Views
19 Pages

RoboDeploy: A Metamodel-Driven Framework for Automated Multi-Host Docker Deployment of ROS 2 Systems in IoRT Environments

  • Miguel Ángel Barcelona,
  • Laura García-Borgoñón,
  • Pablo Torner and
  • Ariadna Belén Ruiz

19 December 2025

Robotic systems increasingly operate in complex and distributed environments, where software deployment and orchestration pose major challenges. This paper presents a model-driven approach that automates the containerized deployment of robotic system...

(This article belongs to the Topic Software Engineering and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,230 Views
32 Pages

Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in the Semantic Web and Interoperability

  • Abderahman Rejeb,
  • John G. Keogh,
  • Wayne Martindale,
  • Damion Dooley and ,
  • Edward Smart,
  • Steven Simske,
  • Samuel Fosso Wamba,
  • John G. Breslin,
  • Kosala Yapa Bandara and
  • Horia Bradau
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

Huge advances in peer-to-peer systems and attempts to develop the semantic web have revealed a critical issue in information systems across multiple domains: the absence of semantic interoperability. Today, businesses operating in a digital environme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,635 Views
16 Pages

The automated development of spatial analysis workflows is one of the envisioned benefits of Web services that provide geoprocessing functionality. Automated workflow development requires the means to translate a user objective into a series of geogr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,266 Views
20 Pages

Effects of a Web-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Physical Fitness and Health in Physically Inactive Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Judith Brame,
  • Jan Kohl,
  • Christoph Centner,
  • Ramona Wurst and ,
  • Reinhard Fuchs,
  • Iris Tinsel,
  • Phillip Maiwald,
  • Urs A. Fichtner,
  • Matthias Sehlbrede and
  • Daniel König
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

29 October 2023

Web-based lifestyle interventions are a new area of health research. This randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of an interactive web-based health program on physical fitness and health. N = 189 healthy adults participated in a 12-w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,402 Views
23 Pages

The rapid growth of heterogeneous web sources has created significant challenges for the automated extraction and structuring of critical domain-specific information, particularly in real-time seismic monitoring scenarios. Despite the existence of of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trustworthy and Efficient Large Language Models: Methods, Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
15,097 Views
20 Pages

21 March 2011

Web-based applications that integrate geospatial information, or the geoweb, offer exciting opportunities for remote sensing science. One such application is a Web‑based system for automating the collection of reference data for producing and verifyi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,066 Views
21 Pages

Integration of Drone-Based 3D Scanning and BIM for Automated Construction Progress Control

  • Nerea Tárrago Garay,
  • Jose Carlos Jimenez Fernandez,
  • Rosa San Mateos Carreton,
  • Marco Antonio Montes Grova and ,
  • Oskari Kruth and
  • Peru Elguezabal
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 September 2025

The work progress control is a key aspect for correcting deviations in construction, but currently is a task still carried out very manually by personnel moved to the execution place. This work proposes to digitize and automate the procedure through...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotics, Automation and Digitization in Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
19,714 Views
23 Pages

This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on digital, automated, and AI-assisted accounting systems. The data include documents listed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The analysis identifies the main authors...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies and Financial Innovation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,544 Views
19 Pages

Advanced Continuous Monitoring System—Tools for Water Resource Management and Decision Support System in Salt Affected Delta

  • Marko Reljić,
  • Marija Romić,
  • Davor Romić,
  • Gordon Gilja and ,
  • Vedran Mornar,
  • Gabrijel Ondrasek,
  • Marina Bubalo Kovačić and
  • Monika Zovko
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The greatest environmental problem facing the world today is climate change, with a rise in sea level being one of the most important consequences, especially in low-lying coastal areas, such as river deltas where changes are exacerbated by human imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Water Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
590 Citations
61,408 Views
28 Pages

14 May 2020

Automation and digitalization, as long-term evolutionary processes, cause significant effects, such as the transformation of occupations and job profiles, changes to employment forms, and a more significant role for the platform economy, generating c...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Economic Development: Challenges, Policies, and Reforms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
13,812 Views
29 Pages

A Survey of the Selenium Ecosystem

  • Boni García,
  • Micael Gallego,
  • Francisco Gortázar and
  • Mario Munoz-Organero

Selenium is often considered the de-facto standard framework for end-to-end web testing nowadays. It allows practitioners to drive web browsers (such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Opera) in an automated fashion using different language bindings (such...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,233 Views
25 Pages

25 July 2025

In the architectural design phase, the inspection of design deliverables is critical, yet traditional manual checking methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient, with numerous drawbacks. With the development of BIM technology, autom...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,094 Views
25 Pages

An Innovative Tool for Monitoring Mangrove Forest Dynamics in Cuba Using Remote Sensing and WebGIS Technologies: SIGMEM

  • Alexey Valero-Jorge,
  • Raúl González-Lozano,
  • Roberto González-De Zayas,
  • Felipe Matos-Pupo and ,
  • Rogert Sorí and
  • Milica Stojanovic
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2024

The main objective of this work was to develop a viewer with web output, through which the changes experienced by the mangroves of the Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Avila (GHNCA) can be evaluated from remote sensors, contributing to the understa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing: 15th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
556 Views
23 Pages

The use of DevSecOps seeks to ensure that the functionality of securing software is incorporated throughout the software development life cycle, but the difference between the theoretical model and the empirically proven version, specifically for mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Cloud Service Orchestration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,568 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing Cloud Security—Proactive Threat Monitoring and Detection Using a SIEM-Based Approach

  • Emmanuel Tuyishime,
  • Titus C. Balan,
  • Petru A. Cotfas,
  • Daniel T. Cotfas and
  • Alexandre Rekeraho

15 November 2023

With the escalating frequency of cybersecurity threats in public cloud computing environments, there is a pressing need for robust security measures to safeguard sensitive data and applications. This research addresses growing security concerns in th...

(This article belongs to the Topic Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructures, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,523 Views
21 Pages

Automated Multi-Sensor 3D Reconstruction for the Web

  • Arttu Julin,
  • Kaisa Jaalama,
  • Juho-Pekka Virtanen,
  • Mikko Maksimainen and ,
  • Matti Kurkela,
  • Juha Hyyppä and
  • Hannu Hyyppä
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The Internet has become a major dissemination and sharing platform for 3D content. The utilization of 3D measurement methods can drastically increase the production efficiency of 3D content in an increasing number of use cases where 3D documentation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,487 Views
14 Pages

30 April 2020

The fast and precise fabrication of three-dimensional (3-D) structures made of nanofibers is an important development trend in the electrospinning technique. This paper describes a new and facile method of electrospinning to fabricate nanofibrous 3-D...

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