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Information, Volume 15, Issue 11

2024 November - 81 articles

Cover Story: Super-resolution is a technique for generating a high-resolution image or video from a low-resolution counterpart by predicting natural and realistic texture information. However, traditional single-image super-resolution methods can lead to a blurry visual effect. Reference-based super-resolution methods have been proposed to recover detailed information accurately, where a high-resolution image is also used as a reference in addition to the input image. However, it requires texture alignment between low-resolution and reference images, which generally involves a lot of time and memory. This paper proposes a lightweight reference-based video super-resolution method using deformable convolution. The proposed method enables reference-based super-resolution techniques even in environments with limited computational resources. View this paper
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Articles (81)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,463 Views
27 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Methodologies for Cyber-Attacks and Network Traffic Monitoring: A Review and Insights

  • Filippo Genuario,
  • Giuseppe Santoro,
  • Michele Giliberti,
  • Stefania Bello,
  • Elvira Zazzera and
  • Donato Impedovo

20 November 2024

The number of connected IoT devices is increasing significantly due to their many benefits, including automation, improved efficiency and quality of life, and reducing waste. However, these devices have several vulnerabilities that have led to the ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,346 Views
18 Pages

20 November 2024

Despite considerable advancements in integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) within the industrial maintenance framework, the increasing reliance on these innovative technologies introduces significant vulnerabilitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,923 Views
23 Pages

PLC-Fusion: Perspective-Based Hierarchical and Deep LiDAR Camera Fusion for 3D Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles

  • Husnain Mushtaq,
  • Xiaoheng Deng,
  • Fizza Azhar,
  • Mubashir Ali and
  • Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi

19 November 2024

Accurate 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving, yet traditional LiDAR models often struggle with sparse point clouds. We propose perspective-aware hierarchical vision transformer-based LiDAR-camera fusion (PLC-Fusion) for 3D object...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,512 Views
33 Pages

SoK: The Impact of Educational Data Mining on Organisational Administration

  • Hamad Almaghrabi,
  • Ben Soh,
  • Alice Li and
  • Idrees Alsolbi

19 November 2024

Educational Data Mining (EDM) applies advanced data mining techniques to analyse data from educational settings, traditionally aimed at improving student performance. However, EDM’s potential extends to enhancing administrative functions in edu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,277 Views
22 Pages

Fractional Intuitionistic Fuzzy Support Vector Machine: Diabetes Tweet Classification

  • Hassan Badi,
  • Alina-Mihaela Patriciu and
  • Karim El Moutaouakil

19 November 2024

Support vector machine (SVM) models apply the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT-OC) optimality conditions in the ordinary derivative to the primal optimisation problem, which has a major influence on the weights associated with the dissimilarity be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,611 Views
21 Pages

Benchmarking for a New Railway Accident Classification Methodology and Its Database: A Case Study in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and the European Union

  • Tania Elizabeth Sandoval-Valencia,
  • Adriana del Carmen Téllez-Anguiano,
  • Dante Ruiz-Robles,
  • Ivon Alanis-Fuerte,
  • Alexis Vaed Vázquez-Esquivel and
  • Juan C. Jáuregui-Correa

18 November 2024

Rail accidents have decreased in recent years, although not significantly if measured by train accidents recorded in the last six years. Therefore, it is essential to identify weaknesses in the implementation of security and prevention systems. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,811 Views
13 Pages

18 November 2024

Transferring the extensive and varied knowledge contained within multiple complex models into a more compact student model poses significant challenges in multi-teacher knowledge distillation. Traditional distillation approaches often fall short in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
15,734 Views
25 Pages

Zero Trust VPN (ZT-VPN): A Systematic Literature Review and Cybersecurity Framework for Hybrid and Remote Work

  • Syed Muhammad Zohaib,
  • Syed Muhammad Sajjad,
  • Zafar Iqbal,
  • Muhammad Yousaf,
  • Muhammad Haseeb and
  • Zia Muhammad

17 November 2024

Modern organizations have migrated from localized physical offices to work-from-home environments. This surge in remote work culture has exponentially increased the demand for and usage of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which permit remote employee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,557 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2024

There has been extensive research on the partial differential equations governing the theory of gas flow in coal mines. However, the traditional Proper Orthogonal Decomposition–Radial Basis Function (POD-RBF) reduced-order algorithm requires si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,295 Views
39 Pages

Design Strategies to Minimize Mobile Usability Issues in Navigation Design Patterns

  • Muhammad Umar,
  • Ibrar Hussain,
  • Toqeer Mahmood,
  • Hamid Turab Mirza and
  • C. M. Nadeem Faisal

15 November 2024

Recent development in mobile technology has significantly improved the quality of life. Everyday life is increasingly becoming dependent on mobile devices as mobile applications are targeting the needs of the end users. However, many end users strugg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,602 Views
10 Pages

Accurately Identifying Sound vs. Rotten Cranberries Using Convolutional Neural Network

  • Sayed Mehedi Azim,
  • Austin Spadaro,
  • Joseph Kawash,
  • James Polashock and
  • Iman Dehzangi

15 November 2024

Cranberries, native to North America, are known for their nutritional value and human health benefits. One hurdle to commercial production is losses due to fruit rot. Cranberry fruit rot results from a complex of more than ten filamentous fungi, chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,216 Views
19 Pages

Innovative Transitions: Exploring Demand for Smart City Development in Novi Sad as a European Capital of Culture

  • Minja Bolesnikov,
  • Mario Silić,
  • Dario Silić,
  • Boris Dumnić,
  • Jelena Ćulibrk,
  • Maja Petrović and
  • Tamara Gajić

15 November 2024

This study investigates the factors influencing the acceptance and implementation of smart city solutions, with a particular focus on smart mobility and digital services in Novi Sad, one of the leading urban centers in Serbia. Employing a quantitativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,650 Views
19 Pages

15 November 2024

The aging population, combined with the scarcity of healthcare resources, presents significant challenges for our society. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics offers a potential solution to these challenges. However, such technologie...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,013 Views
42 Pages

Collaborative Intelligence for Safety-Critical Industries: A Literature Review

  • Inês F. Ramos,
  • Gabriele Gianini,
  • Maria Chiara Leva and
  • Ernesto Damiani

12 November 2024

While AI-driven automation can increase the performance and safety of systems, humans should not be replaced in safety-critical systems but should be integrated to collaborate and mitigate each other’s limitations. The current trend in Industry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,534 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2024

This study investigates the integration of quantum computing, classical methods, and deep learning techniques for enhanced image processing in dynamic 6G networks, while also addressing essential aspects of copyright technology and detection. Our fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,148 Views
13 Pages

Sprint Management in Agile Approach: Progress and Velocity Evaluation Applying Machine Learning

  • Yadira Jazmín Pérez Castillo,
  • Sandra Dinora Orantes Jiménez and
  • Patricio Orlando Letelier Torres

12 November 2024

Nowadays, technology plays a fundamental role in data collection and analysis, which are essential for decision-making in various fields. Agile methodologies have transformed project management by focusing on continuous delivery and adaptation to cha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
25,479 Views
42 Pages

11 November 2024

This study seeks to understand the key success factors that underpin efficiency, transparency, and user trust in automated decision support systems (DSS) that leverage AI technologies across industries. The aim of this study is to facilitate more acc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,426 Views
18 Pages

11 November 2024

This study explores the application of the BPM lifecycle to optimize the market analysis process within the market intelligence department of a major energy company. The semi-structured, virtual nature of the process necessitated careful adaptation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,941 Views
14 Pages

11 November 2024

We propose an enhanced privacy-preserving method for image classification using ConvMixer, which is an extremely simple model that is similar in spirit to the Vision Transformer (ViT). Most privacy-preserving methods using encrypted images cause the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,805 Views
22 Pages

Malware Classification Using Few-Shot Learning Approach

  • Khalid Alfarsi,
  • Saim Rasheed and
  • Iftikhar Ahmad

11 November 2024

Malware detection, targeting the microarchitecture of processors, has recently come to light as a potentially effective way to improve computer system security. Hardware Performance Counter data are used by machine learning algorithms in security mec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,942 Views
20 Pages

Advances and Challenges in Automated Drowning Detection and Prevention Systems

  • Maad Shatnawi,
  • Frdoos Albreiki,
  • Ashwaq Alkhoori,
  • Mariam Alhebshi and
  • Anas Shatnawi

11 November 2024

Drowning is among the most common reasons for children’s death aged one to fourteen around the globe, ranking as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death. With rising populations and the growing popularity of swimming pools in hote...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,206 Views
30 Pages

From Data to Diagnosis: Machine Learning Revolutionizes Epidemiological Predictions

  • Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman,
  • Gowri Rajasekaran,
  • Rathipriya Ramalingam,
  • Abdelrhman Meero and
  • Dhamodharavadhani Seetharaman

8 November 2024

The outbreak of epidemiological diseases creates a major impact on humanity as well as on the world’s economy. The consequence of such infectious diseases affects the survival of mankind. The government has to stand up to the negative influence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,347 Views
13 Pages

8 November 2024

Super-resolution is a technique for generating a high-resolution image or video from a low-resolution counterpart by predicting natural and realistic texture information. It has various applications such as medical image analysis, surveillance, remot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,608 Views
20 Pages

7 November 2024

Text CAPTCHAs are crucial security measures deployed on global websites to deter unauthorized intrusions. The presence of anti-attack features incorporated into text CAPTCHAs limits the effectiveness of evaluating them, despite CAPTCHA recognition be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,093 Views
17 Pages

Enabling Parallel Performance and Portability of Solid Mechanics Simulations Across CPU and GPU Architectures

  • Nathaniel Morgan,
  • Caleb Yenusah,
  • Adrian Diaz,
  • Daniel Dunning,
  • Jacob Moore,
  • Erin Heilman,
  • Evan Lieberman,
  • Steven Walton,
  • Sarah Brown and
  • Marko Knezevic
  • + 3 authors

7 November 2024

Efficiently simulating solid mechanics is vital across various engineering applications. As constitutive models grow more complex and simulations scale up in size, harnessing the capabilities of modern computer architectures has become essential for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,865 Views
14 Pages

Two-Stage Combined Model for Short-Term Electricity Forecasting in Ports

  • Wentao Song,
  • Xiaohua Cao,
  • Hanrui Jiang,
  • Zejun Li and
  • Ruobin Gao

7 November 2024

With an increasing emphasis on energy conservation, emission reduction, and power consumption management, port enterprises are focusing on enhancing their electricity load forecasting capabilities. Accurate electricity load forecasting is crucial for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,121 Views
26 Pages

Maternal Nutritional Factors Enhance Birthweight Prediction: A Super Learner Ensemble Approach

  • Muhammad Mursil,
  • Hatem A. Rashwan,
  • Pere Cavallé-Busquets,
  • Luis A. Santos-Calderón,
  • Michelle M. Murphy and
  • Domenec Puig

6 November 2024

Birthweight (BW) is a widely used indicator of neonatal health, with low birthweight (LBW) being linked to higher risks of morbidity and mortality. Timely and precise prediction of LBW is crucial for ensuring newborn health and well-being. Despite re...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,051 Views
4 Pages

6 November 2024

Database engineered applications cover a broad range of topics including various design and maintenance methods, as well as data analytics and data mining algorithms and learning strategies for enterprise, distributed, or federated data stores [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,156 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2024

Industrial product e-commerce refers to the specific application of the e-commerce concept in industrial product transactions. It enables industrial enterprises to conduct transactions via Internet platforms and reduce circulation and operating costs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,541 Views
23 Pages

Discrete Fourier Transform in Unmasking Deepfake Images: A Comparative Study of StyleGAN Creations

  • Vito Nicola Convertini,
  • Donato Impedovo,
  • Ugo Lopez,
  • Giuseppe Pirlo and
  • Gioacchino Sterlicchio

6 November 2024

This study proposes a novel forgery detection method based on the analysis of frequency components of images using the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). In recent years, face manipulation technologies, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,485 Views
27 Pages

Cybersecurity at Sea: A Literature Review of Cyber-Attack Impacts and Defenses in Maritime Supply Chains

  • Maria Valentina Clavijo Mesa,
  • Carmen Elena Patino-Rodriguez and
  • Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas

6 November 2024

The maritime industry is constantly evolving and posing new challenges, especially with increasing digitalization, which has raised concerns about cyber-attacks on maritime supply chain agents. Although scholars have proposed various methods and clas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,586 Views
23 Pages

Pressure and Temperature Prediction of Oil Pipeline Networks Based on a Mechanism-Data Hybrid Driven Method

  • Faming Gong,
  • Xingfang Zhao,
  • Chengze Du,
  • Kaiwen Zheng,
  • Zhuang Shi and
  • Hao Wang

5 November 2024

To ensure the operational safety of oil transportation stations, it is crucial to predict the impact of pressure and temperature before crude oil enters the pipeline network. Accurate predictions enable the assessment of the pipeline’s load-bea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,425 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2024

The accuracy of traditional topic models may be compromised due to the sparsity of co-occurring vocabulary in the corpus, whereas conventional word embedding models tend to excessively prioritize contextual semantic information and inadequately captu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,631 Views
25 Pages

5 November 2024

Social media platforms play a significant role in facilitating business decision making, especially in the context of emerging technologies. Such platforms offer a rich source of data from a global audience, which can provide organisations with insig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,132 Views
33 Pages

5 November 2024

Presidential elections are an important political event that often trigger intense debate. With more than 139 million users, YouTube serves as a significant platform for understanding public opinion through sentiment analysis. This study aimed to imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,843 Views
17 Pages

5 November 2024

The use of decision trees for obtaining and representing clustering solutions is advantageous, due to their interpretability property. We propose a method called Decision Trees for Axis Unimodal Clustering (DTAUC), which constructs unsupervised binar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,646 Views
44 Pages

4 November 2024

Background/Objectives: The healthcare sector is rapidly growing, aiming to promote health, provide treatment, and enhance well-being. This paper focuses on the organ donation and transplantation system, a vital aspect of healthcare. It offers a compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,258 Views
27 Pages

Enhancing Real-Time Cursor Control with Motor Imagery and Deep Neural Networks for Brain–Computer Interfaces

  • Srinath Akuthota,
  • Ravi Chander Janapati,
  • K. Raj Kumar,
  • Vassilis C. Gerogiannis,
  • Andreas Kanavos,
  • Biswaranjan Acharya,
  • Foteini Grivokostopoulou and
  • Usha Desai

4 November 2024

This paper advances real-time cursor control for individuals with motor impairments through a novel brain–computer interface (BCI) system based solely on motor imagery. We introduce an enhanced deep neural network (DNN) classifier integrated wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,265 Views
17 Pages

An Efficient Deep Learning Framework for Optimized Event Forecasting

  • Emad Ul Haq Qazi,
  • Muhammad Hamza Faheem,
  • Tanveer Zia,
  • Muhammad Imran and
  • Iftikhar Ahmad

4 November 2024

There have been several catastrophic events that have impacted multiple economies and resulted in thousands of fatalities, and violence has generated a severe political and financial crisis. Multiple studies have been centered around the artificial i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
17,606 Views
22 Pages

AI Impact on Hotel Guest Satisfaction via Tailor-Made Services: A Case Study of Serbia and Hungary

  • Ranko Makivić,
  • Dragan Vukolić,
  • Sonja Veljović,
  • Minja Bolesnikov,
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid,
  • Andrea Ivanišević,
  • Mario Silić and
  • Tamara Gajić

4 November 2024

This study examines the level of implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the personalization of hotel services and its impact on guest satisfaction through an analysis of tourists’ attitudes and behaviors The focus of the research is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,443 Views
18 Pages

Domain Adaptive Urban Garbage Detection Based on Attention and Confidence Fusion

  • Tianlong Yuan,
  • Jietao Lin,
  • Keyong Hu,
  • Wenqian Chen and
  • Yifan Hu

4 November 2024

To overcome the challenges posed by limited garbage datasets and the laborious nature of data labeling in urban garbage object detection, we propose an innovative unsupervised domain adaptation approach to detecting garbage objects in urban aerial im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,161 Views
14 Pages

Correlations and Fractality in Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis Based on VADER for Literary Texts

  • Ricardo Hernández-Pérez,
  • Pablo Lara-Martínez,
  • Bibiana Obregón-Quintana,
  • Larry S. Liebovitch and
  • Lev Guzmán-Vargas

4 November 2024

We perform a sentence-level sentiment analysis study of different literary texts in English language. Each text is converted into a series in which the data points are the sentiment value of each sentence obtained using the sentiment analysis tool (V...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
31,321 Views
25 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Generative AI and Large Language Models: A Narrative Review

  • Georgios Feretzakis,
  • Konstantinos Papaspyridis,
  • Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis and
  • Vassilios S. Verykios

4 November 2024

Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs), has transformed the paradigm of data generation and creative content, but this progress raises critical privacy concerns, especially when models are trained on sensitive data. This review provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,587 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2024

The purpose of this paper is to describe a feature selection algorithm and its application to enhance the accuracy of the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees by improving the efficiency of tree construction. Applying machine learning models for Arab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,309 Views
22 Pages

3 November 2024

In today’s competitive environment, multi-branch companies allocate their stores with the aim of expanding their territorial coverage to attract new customers and increase their market share. Consumer satisfaction surveys either produce global...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,161 Views
14 Pages

3 November 2024

In the area of consumer health search (CHS), there is an increasing concern about returning topically relevant and understandable health information to the user. Besides being used to rank topically relevant documents, Learning to Rank (LTR) has also...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,477 Views
21 Pages

3 November 2024

Social media is an important driver of firm success by providing an avenue for stakeholder engagement. Operating in a highly complex and competitive environment, firms in the ship management industry can utilise social media platforms to engage with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,890 Views
25 Pages

Quantum Marine Predator Algorithm: A Quantum Leap in Photovoltaic Efficiency Under Dynamic Conditions

  • Okba Fergani,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Raihane Mechgoug,
  • Shadi Atalla,
  • Wathiq Mansoor and
  • Nacira Tkouti

3 November 2024

The Quantum Marine Predator Algorithm (QMPA) presents a groundbreaking solution to the inherent limitations of conventional Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques in photovoltaic systems. These limitations, such as sluggish response times and...

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