Jianchun Wen¹, Minghao Zhu^1,*, Bo Gao², Zhaojian Liu¹, Xuehan Li³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.2, pp. 1-17, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.069671 - 09 December 2025

Abstract Urban traffic generates massive and diverse data, yet most systems remain fragmented. Current approaches to congestion management suffer from weak data consistency and poor scalability. This study addresses this gap by proposing the Urban Traffic Congestion Unified Metadata Model (UTC-UMM). The goal is to provide a standardized and extensible framework for describing, extracting, and storing multisource traffic data in smart cities. The model defines a two-tier specification that organizes nine core traffic resource classes. It employs an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Schema that connects general elements with resource-specific elements. This design ensures both syntactic and… More >

Hassan Javed¹, Labiba Gillani Fahad¹, Syed Fahad Tahir^2,*, Mehdi Hassan², Hani Alquhayz³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.2, pp. 3981-3996, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.064359 - 23 September 2025

Abstract Accurate plant species classification is essential for many applications, such as biodiversity conservation, ecological research, and sustainable agricultural practices. Traditional morphological classification methods are inherently slow, labour-intensive, and prone to inaccuracies, especially when distinguishing between species exhibiting visual similarities or high intra-species variability. To address these limitations and to overcome the constraints of image-only approaches, we introduce a novel Artificial Intelligence-driven framework. This approach integrates robust Vision Transformer (ViT) models for advanced visual analysis with a multi-modal data fusion strategy, incorporating contextual metadata such as precise environmental conditions, geographic location, and phenological traits. This combination… More >

Ravi Nahta¹, Nagaraj Naik^2,*, Srivinay³, Swetha Parvatha Reddy Chandrasekhara⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.1, pp. 461-487, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.063973 - 31 July 2025

Abstract The exponential growth of over-the-top (OTT) entertainment has fueled a surge in content consumption across diverse formats, especially in regional Indian languages. With the Indian film industry producing over 1500 films annually in more than 20 languages, personalized recommendations are essential to highlight relevant content. To overcome the limitations of traditional recommender systems—such as static latent vectors, poor handling of cold-start scenarios, and the absence of uncertainty modeling—we propose a deep Collaborative Neural Generative Embedding (C-NGE) model. C-NGE dynamically learns user and item representations by integrating rating information and metadata features in a unified neural More >

Bing Wei, Yubin Li, Yi Wu^*, Ming Zhong, Ning Luo

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.3, pp. 4773-4804, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065090 - 30 July 2025

Abstract Metadata prefetching and data placement play a critical role in enhancing access performance for file systems operating over wide-area networks. However, developing effective strategies for metadata prefetching in environments with concurrent workloads and for data placement across distributed networks remains a significant challenge. This study introduces novel and efficient methodologies for metadata prefetching and data placement, leveraging fine-grained control of prefetching strategies and variable-sized data fragment writing to optimize the I/O bandwidth of distributed file systems. The proposed metadata prefetching technique employs dynamic workload analysis to identify dominant workload patterns and adaptively refines prefetching policies, More >

Wafaa H. Alwan^1,*, Sabah M. Alturfi²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.49, pp. 419-434, 2025, DOI:10.32604/csse.2025.064195 - 30 April 2025

Abstract Plant diseases pose a significant challenge to global agricultural productivity, necessitating efficient and precise diagnostic systems for early intervention and mitigation. In this study, we propose a novel hybrid framework that integrates EfficientNet-B8, Vision Transformer (ViT), and Knowledge Graph Fusion (KGF) to enhance plant disease classification across 38 distinct disease categories. The proposed framework leverages deep learning and semantic enrichment to improve classification accuracy and interpretability. EfficientNet-B8, a convolutional neural network (CNN) with optimized depth and width scaling, captures fine-grained spatial details in high-resolution plant images, aiding in the detection of subtle disease symptoms. In… More >

Min-Gyu Kim¹, Hwankuk Kim^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.1, pp. 585-607, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.051221 - 20 August 2024

Abstract In the IoT (Internet of Things) domain, the increased use of encryption protocols such as SSL/TLS, VPN (Virtual Private Network), and Tor has led to a rise in attacks leveraging encrypted traffic. While research on anomaly detection using AI (Artificial Intelligence) is actively progressing, the encrypted nature of the data poses challenges for labeling, resulting in data imbalance and biased feature extraction toward specific nodes. This study proposes a reconstruction error-based anomaly detection method using an autoencoder (AE) that utilizes packet metadata excluding specific node information. The proposed method omits biased packet metadata such as… More >

Ruchun Jia, Jianwei Zhang^*, Yi Lin

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2391-2418, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.044149 - 27 February 2024

Abstract With the popularization of the Internet and the development of technology, cyber threats are increasing day by day. Threats such as malware, hacking, and data breaches have had a serious impact on cybersecurity. The network security environment in the era of big data presents the characteristics of large amounts of data, high diversity, and high real-time requirements. Traditional security defense methods and tools have been unable to cope with the complex and changing network security threats. This paper proposes a machine-learning security defense algorithm based on metadata association features. Emphasize control over unauthorized users through… More >

Adnan Ali¹, Jinlong Li¹, Huanhuan Chen¹, Uzair Aslam Bhatti², Asad Khan^3,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.38, No.3, pp. 241-258, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.041645 - 27 February 2024

Abstract Spammer detection is to identify and block malicious activities performing users. Such users should be identified and terminated from social media to keep the social media process organic and to maintain the integrity of online social spaces. Previous research aimed to find spammers based on hybrid approaches of graph mining, posted content, and metadata, using small and manually labeled datasets. However, such hybrid approaches are unscalable, not robust, particular dataset dependent, and require numerous parameters, complex graphs, and natural language processing (NLP) resources to make decisions, which makes spammer detection impractical for real-time detection. For… More >

Naseer Ahmed Sajid¹, Munir Ahmad¹, Atta-ur Rahman^2,*, Gohar Zaman³, Mohammed Salih Ahmed⁴, Nehad Ibrahim², Mohammed Imran B. Ahmed⁴, Gomathi Krishnasamy⁶, Reem Alzaher², Mariam Alkharraa², Dania AlKhulaifi², Maryam AlQahtani², Asiya A. Salam⁶, Linah Saraireh⁵, Mohammed Gollapalli⁶, Rashad Ahmed⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2195-2214, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.033844 - 09 February 2023

Abstract From the beginning, the process of research and its publication is an ever-growing phenomenon and with the emergence of web technologies, its growth rate is overwhelming. On a rough estimate, more than thirty thousand research journals have been issuing around four million papers annually on average. Search engines, indexing services, and digital libraries have been searching for such publications over the web. Nevertheless, getting the most relevant articles against the user requests is yet a fantasy. It is mainly because the articles are not appropriately indexed based on the hierarchies of granular subject classification. To… More >

Jongyun Choi¹, Hyesoo Kong², Hwamook Yoon², Heungseon Oh³, Yuchul Jung^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 4019-4037, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025711 - 29 March 2022

Abstract The volume of academic literature, such as academic conference papers and journals, has increased rapidly worldwide, and research on metadata extraction is ongoing. However, high-performing metadata extraction is still challenging due to diverse layout formats according to journal publishers. To accommodate the diversity of the layouts of academic journals, we propose a novel LAyout-aware Metadata Extraction (LAME) framework equipped with the three characteristics (e.g., design of automatic layout analysis, construction of a large meta-data training set, and implementation of metadata extractor). In the framework, we designed an automatic layout analysis using PDFMiner. Based on the More >