Wei Zhou¹, Hao Wang², Ghulam Mohiuddin³, Dan Chen^4,*, Yongjun Ren¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 1473-1488, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.029657

Abstract As the basis of cloud computing, distributed storage technology mainly studies how data centers store, organize and manage data. Blockchain has become the most secure solution for cloud storage due to its decentralization and immutability. Consensus mechanism is one of the core technologies of blockchain, which affects the transaction processing capability, security and scalability of blockchain. The current mainstream consensus algorithms such as Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, and Delegated Proof of Stake all have the problem of wasting resources. And with the explosive growth of data, cloud storage nodes store a large amount of redundant data, which inevitably… More >

Te Xu¹, Zhixian Lin¹, Xinwei Lin¹, Changsheng Lin¹, Feng Gao¹, Zixuan Li², Peiwen Liu^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.4, pp. 1501-1515, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.020082

Abstract With the help of smart grid technologies, a lot of electrical loads can provide demand response to support the active power balance of the grid. Compared with centralized control methods, decentralized methods reduce the computational burden of the control center and enhance the reliability of the communication. In this paper, a novel second-order multi-agent consensus control method is proposed for load control problem. By introducing the velocity state into the model, the proposed method achieves better performance than traditional ones. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. More >

Jieren Cheng^1,3, Yuan Zhang^2,3,*, Yuming Yuan⁴, Hui Li⁴, Xiangyan Tang^1,3, Victor S. Sheng⁵, Guangjing Hu^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1385-1402, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026437

Abstract The research on the governing blockchain by blockchain supervision system is an important development trend of blockchain technology. In this system there is a supervisory blockchain managing and governing the supervised blockchain based on blockchain technology, results in a uniquely cross-blockchain demand to consensus mechanism for solving the trust problem between supervisory blockchain and supervised blockchain. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a cross-blockchain consensus mechanism based on smart contract and a set of smart contracts endorse the cross-blockchain consensus. New consensus mechanism called Proof-of-Endorse-Contracts (PoEC) consensus, which firstly transfers the consensus reached in supervisory blockchain to supervised blockchain… More >

Ruhao Ma^1,*, Fansheng Meng¹, Haiwen Du^2,3

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 1623-1637, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026748

Abstract Blockchain technology ensures the security of cross-organizational data sharing in the process of collaborative innovation. It drives the development of collaborative innovation in discrete manufacturing to intelligent innovation. However, collaborative innovation is a multi-role, networked, and open resource-sharing process. Therefore, it is easy to form information barriers and increase the risk of cooperation between organizations. In this paper, we firstly analyze the blockchain-based information management models in the traditional discrete manufacturing collaborative innovation process. Then, we found that in the process of industry-university-research (IUR) collaborative innovation, consensus servers maintain too many connections due to the high latency between them, which… More >

Salaheddine Kably^1,2,*, Mounir Arioua¹, Nabih Alaoui²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5271-5291, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020833

Abstract Blockchain technology is regarded as the emergent security solution for many applications related to the Internet of Things (IoT). In concept, blockchain has a linear structure that grows with the number of transactions entered. This growth in size is the main obstacle to the blockchain, which makes it unsuitable for resource-constrained IoT environments. Moreover, conventional consensus algorithms such as PoW, PoS are very computationally heavy. This paper solves these problems by introducing a new lightweight blockchain structure and lightweight consensus algorithm. The Multi-Zone Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) Blockchain (Multizone-DAG-Blockchain) framework is proposed for the fog-based IoT environment. In this context,… More >

Mesfer AI Duhayyim¹, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi², Radwa Marzouk³, Abdalla Ibrahim Abdalla Musa⁴, Noha Negm⁵, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁶, Manar Ahmed Hamza^6,*, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 4135-4149, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022336

Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a breakthrough technology in the transfer of medical data via a communication system. Wearable sensor devices collect patient data and transfer them through mobile internet, that is, the IoMT. Recently, the shift in paradigm from manual data storage to electronic health recording on fog, edge, and cloud computing has been noted. These advanced computing technologies have facilitated medical services with minimum cost and available conditions. However, the IoMT raises a high concern on network security and patient data privacy in the health care system. The main issue is the transmission of health data with… More >

Anwer Mustafa Hil¹, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi², Hadeel Alsolai³, Ola Abdelgney Omer Ali⁴, Nadhem Nemri⁵, Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Abu Sarwar Zamani¹, Mohammed Rizwanullah¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 3921-3936, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022301

Abstract Social media is a platform in which user can create, share and exchange the knowledge/information. Social media marketing is to identify the different consumer's demands and engages them to create marketing resources. The popular social media platforms are Microsoft, Snapchat, Amazon, Flipkart, Google, eBay, Instagram, Facebook, Pin interest, and Twitter. The main aim of social media marketing deals with various business partners and build good relationship with millions of customers by satisfying their needs. Disruptive technology is replacing old approaches in the social media marketing to new technology-based marketing. However, this disruptive technology creates some issues like fake news, insecure,… More >

Chuanwang Ma^1,*, Yu Zhang^1,2, Binxing Fang^1,2, Hongli Zhang¹, Yidong Jin³, Dasheng Zhou³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.130, No.1, pp. 463-481, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.016838

Abstract Ripple acts as a real-time settlement and payment system to connect banks and payment providers. As the consensus support of the Ripple network to ensure network consistency, Ripple consensus protocol has been widely concerned in recent years. Compared with those Byzantine fault tolerant protocols, Ripple has a significant difference that the system can reach an agreement under decentralized trust model. However, Ripple has many problems both in theory and practice, which are mentioned in the previous researches. This paper presents Ripple+, an improved scheme of Ripple consensus protocol, which improves Ripple from three aspects: (1) Ripple+ employs a specific trust… More >

Asma A. Alhashmi^*, Abdulbasit A. Darem

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.1, pp. 241-254, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.020023

Abstract Due to the proliferation of internet-enabled smartphones, many people, particularly young people in Arabic society, have widely adopted social media platforms as a primary means of communication, interaction and friendship making. The technological advances in smartphones and communication have enabled young people to keep in touch and form huge social networks from all over the world. However, such networks expose young people to cyberbullying and offensive content that puts their safety and emotional well-being at serious risk. Although, many solutions have been proposed to automatically detect cyberbullying, most of the existing solutions have been designed for English speaking consumers. The… More >

Tossapon Boongoen, Natthakan Iam-On^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1993-2011, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019776

Abstract A mix between numerical and nominal data types commonly presents many modern-age data collections. Examples of these include banking data, sales history and healthcare records, where both continuous attributes like age and nominal ones like blood type are exploited to characterize account details, business transactions or individuals. However, only a few standard clustering techniques and consensus clustering methods are provided to examine such a data thus far. Given this insight, the paper introduces novel extensions of link-based cluster ensemble, and that are accurate for analyzing mixed-type data. They promote diversity within an ensemble through different initializations of the k-prototypes algorithm… More >