2022 December - 62 articles
Patients, hospitals, sensors, researchers, providers, phones, and healthcare organisations are producing enormous amounts of data in both the healthcare and drug detection sectors. The real challenge in these sectors is to find, investigate, manage,...
Evidence-based policy seeks to use evidence in public policy in a systematic way in a bid to improve decision-making quality. Evidence-based policy cannot work properly and achieve the expected results without accurate, appropriate, and sufficient ev...
This paper proposes a solution to the transfer problem between blockchain-based heterogeneous cryptocurrencies and CBDCs, with research derived from an analysis of the existing literature. Interoperability between heterogeneous blockchains has been a...
Big Data has changed how enterprises and people manage knowledge and make decisions. However, when talking about Big Data, so many times there are different definitions about what it is and what it is used for, as there are many interpretations and d...
Big data applications and analytics are vital in proposing ultimate strategic decisions. The existing literature emphasizes that big data applications and analytics can empower those who apply Big Data Analytics during the COVID-19 pandemic. This pap...
Bug localization is the process through which the buggy source code files are located regarding a certain bug report. Bug localization is an overwhelming and time-consuming process. Automating bug localization is the key to help developers and increa...
Human as well as algorithmic searches are performed to balance exploration and exploitation. The search task in this paper is the global optimization of a 2D multimodal function, unknown to the searcher. Thus, the task presents the following features...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a medical condition caused by diabetes. The development of retinopathy significantly depends on how long a person has had diabetes. Initially, there may be no symptoms or just a slight vision problem due to impairment of...
While big data benefits are numerous, the use of big data requires, however, addressing new challenges related to data processing, data security, and especially degradation of data quality. Despite the increased importance of data quality for big dat...
Diabetic retinopathy occurs due to long-term diabetes with changing blood glucose levels and has become the most common cause of vision loss worldwide. It has become a severe problem among the working-age group that needs to be solved early to avoid...
Social media is now regarded as the most valuable source of data for trend analysis and innovative business process reengineering preferences. Data made accessible through social media can be utilized for a variety of purposes, such as by an entrepre...
Clouds play a vital role in Earth’s water cycle and the energy balance of the climate system; understanding them and their composition is crucial in comprehending the Earth–atmosphere system. The dataset “Understanding Clouds from S...
Road markings and signs provide vehicles and pedestrians with essential information that assists them to follow the traffic regulations. Road surface markings include pedestrian crossings, directional arrows, zebra crossings, speed limit signs, other...
A subset of Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is an emerging technology. WBAN is a collection of tiny pieces of wireless body sensors with small computational capability, communicating short distances using ZigBee or Blueto...
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness suffered by working-age adults. The increase in the population diagnosed with DR can be prevented by screening and early treatment of eye damage. This screening process can be conducted by utiliz...
For more than ten years, online job boards have provided their services to both job seekers and employers who want to hire potential candidates. The provided services are generally based on traditional information retrieval techniques, which may not...
Mapping the pharmaceutically significant entities on natural language to standardized terms/concepts is a key task in the development of the systems for pharmacovigilance, marketing, and using drugs out of the application scope. This work estimates t...
In recent years, Recommendation Systems (RSs) have gained popularity in different scientific fields through the creation of (mostly mobile) applications that deliver personalized services. A mobile recommendation system (MRS) that classifies in situ...
As COVID-19 became a pandemic worldwide, contact tracing technologies and information systems were developed for quick control of infectious diseases in both the private and public sectors. This study aims to strengthen the data subject’s secur...
The task of determining the distance from one object to another is one of the important tasks solved in robotics systems. Conventional algorithms rely on an iterative process of predicting distance estimates, which results in an increased computation...
The heart’s mitral valve is the valve that separates the chambers of the heart between the left atrium and left ventricle. Heart valve disease is a fairly common heart disease, and one type of heart valve disease is mitral regurgitation, which...
This research aims to study and assess state-of-the-art physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) from different researchers’ perspectives. The PRISMA framework was used for a systematic literature review, and 120 research articles from the comp...
The lungs are the center of breath control and ensure that every cell in the body receives oxygen. At the same time, they filter the air to prevent the entry of useless substances and germs into the body. The human body has specially designed defence...
Large retail companies routinely gather huge amounts of customer data, which are to be analyzed at a low granularity. To enable this analysis, several Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), acquired for each customer through different channels are associ...
As a system capable of monitoring and evaluating illegitimate network access, an intrusion detection system (IDS) profoundly impacts information security research. Since machine learning techniques constitute the backbone of IDS, it has been challeng...
Due to the ubiquitous nature of CCTV cameras that record continuously, there is a large amount of video data that are unstructured. Often, when these recordings have to be reviewed, it is to look for a specific person that fits a certain description....
In information systems research, the advantages of Customer Experience (CX) and its contribution to organizations are largely recognized. The CX analytics evaluate how customers perceive products, ranging from their functional usage to their cognitiv...
The Lee–Carter model could be considered as one of the most important mortality prediction models among stochastic models in the field of mortality. With the recent developments of machine learning and deep learning, many studies have applied d...
The aim of this research work was to investigate the applicability of smart contracts in the context of automating the process of managing meeting minutes. To this end, smartMinutes, a proof-of-concept prototype of automating meeting minutes was desi...
Data is the lifeblood of any organization. In today’s world, organizations recognize the vital role of data in modern business intelligence systems for making meaningful decisions and staying competitive in the field. Efficient and optimal data...
One of the travelers’ main challenges is that they have to spend a great effort to find and choose the most desired travel offer(s) among a vast list of non-categorized and non-personalized items. Recommendation systems provide an effective way...
The concept of scope was introduced in Social Network Analysis to assess the authoritativeness and convincing ability of a user toward other users on one or more social platforms. It has been studied in the past in some specific contexts, for example...
Detecting societal sentiment trends and emotion patterns is of great interest. Due to the time-varying nature of these patterns and trends this detection can be a challenging task. In this paper, the emotion patterns and trends are detected among soc...
Automatic age estimation from facial images is an exciting machine learning topic that has attracted researchers’ attention over the past several years. Numerous human–computer interaction applications, such as targeted marketing, content...
Federated learning (FL) is one of the leading paradigms of modern times with higher privacy guarantees than any other digital solution. Since its inception in 2016, FL has been rigorously investigated from multiple perspectives. Some of these perspec...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models have become essential tools used in many critical systems to make significant decisions; the decisions taken by these models need to be trusted and explained on many occasions. On the othe...
The paper discusses the role of artistic expression and practices in extending realities. It presents a reflection and framework for VR/AR/MxR, Virtual Reality to Augmented or Mixed, or Extended Realities, as a continuum from completely virtual to mi...
The rapid development of natural language processing and deep learning techniques has boosted the performance of related algorithms in several linguistic and text mining tasks. Consequently, applications such as opinion mining, fake news detection or...
The Telecare Medical Information System (TMIS) is a technology used in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) that is used efficiently for remote healthcare services. TMIS services can be provided as cloud computing services for storage and processing pu...
Accurate and robust human immune system assessment through white blood cell evaluation require computer-aided tools with pathologist-level accuracy. This work presents a multi-attention leukocytes subtype classification method by leveraging fine-grai...
One of the most prevalent recommendation systems is ranking-oriented collaborative filtering which employs ranking aggregation. The collaborative filtering study recently applied the ranking aggregation that considers the weight point of items to ach...
Participation in the labor market is seen as the most important factor favoring long-term integration of migrants and refugees into society. This paper describes the job recommendation framework of the Integration of Migrants MatchER SErvice (IMMERSE...
Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a standard that is applied in describing business knowledge in the form of controlled natural language. Business process designers develop SBVR from formal documents and later translate it into bus...
Traditional data-driven feature selection techniques for extracting important attributes are often based on the assumption of maximizing the overall classification accuracy. However, the selected attributes are not always meaningful for practical pro...
Deep learning techniques have rapidly become important as a preferred method for evaluating medical image segmentation. This survey analyses different contributions in the deep learning medical field, including the major common issues published in re...
Computer security depends mainly on passwords to protect human users from attackers. Therefore, manual and alphanumerical passwords are the most frequent type of computer authentication. However, creating these passwords has significant drawbacks. Fo...
Digitalisation has enjoyed rapid acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic on top of the already fast-paced expansion impacting almost every aspect of daily life. Digital twin technology, which is considered a building block of Metaverse and an impor...
Real-world data obtained from integrating heterogeneous data sources are often multi-valued, uncertain, imprecise, error-prone, outdated, and have different degrees of accuracy and correctness. It is critical to resolve data uncertainty and conflicts...
Social media platforms offer their audience the possibility to reply to posts through comments and reactions. This allows social media users to express their ideas and opinions on shared content, thus opening virtual discussions. Most studies on soci...
Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) or drone technologies have attracted great focus recently because of their crucial implementations. Hence, diverse research has been performed on establishing FANET implementations in disparate disciplines. Indeed, civ...
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