Karim Boudjebbour^1,2, Abdelkader Belkhir¹, Hamza Kheddar^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.071532 - 12 January 2026

Abstract Identifying the community structure of complex networks is crucial to extracting insights and understanding network properties. Although several community detection methods have been proposed, many are unsuitable for social networks due to significant limitations. Specifically, most approaches depend mainly on user–user structural links while overlooking service-centric, semantic, and multi-attribute drivers of community formation, and they also lack flexible filtering mechanisms for large-scale, service-oriented settings. Our proposed approach, called community discovery-based service (CDBS), leverages user profiles and their interactions with consulted web services. The method introduces a novel similarity measure, global similarity interaction profile (GSIP), which… More >

Yu-Shiuan Tsai^*, Zhen-Rong Wu, Jian-Zhi Liu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 3431-3457, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066509 - 03 July 2025

Abstract Few-shot learning has emerged as a crucial technique for coral species classification, addressing the challenge of limited labeled data in underwater environments. This study introduces an optimized few-shot learning model that enhances classification accuracy while minimizing reliance on extensive data collection. The proposed model integrates a hybrid similarity measure combining Euclidean distance and cosine similarity, effectively capturing both feature magnitude and directional relationships. This approach achieves a notable accuracy of 71.8% under a 5-way 5-shot evaluation, outperforming state-of-the-art models such as Prototypical Networks, FEAT, and ESPT by up to 10%. Notably, the model demonstrates high… More >

Anastasios Dounis^*, Ioannis Palaiothodoros, Anna Panagiotou

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 759-811, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.057888 - 17 December 2024

Abstract Accurate medical diagnosis, which involves identifying diseases based on patient symptoms, is often hindered by uncertainties in data interpretation and retrieval. Advanced fuzzy set theories have emerged as effective tools to address these challenges. In this paper, new mathematical approaches for handling uncertainty in medical diagnosis are introduced using q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFS) and interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (IVq-ROFS). Three aggregation operators are proposed in our methodologies: the q-ROF weighted averaging (q-ROFWA), the q-ROF weighted geometric (q-ROFWG), and the q-ROF weighted neutrality averaging (q-ROFWNA), which enhance decision-making under uncertainty. These operators are paired More > Graphic Abstract

Khuram Ali Khan¹, Saba Mubeen Ishfaq¹, Atiqe Ur Rahman², Salwa El-Morsy^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 501-530, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.057865 - 17 December 2024

Abstract Due to the numerous variables to take into account as well as the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty, evaluating educational institutions can be difficult. The concept of a possibility Pythagorean fuzzy hypersoft set (pPyFHSS) is more flexible in this regard than other theoretical fuzzy set-like models, even though some attempts have been made in the literature to address such uncertainties. This study investigates the elementary notions of pPyFHSS including its set-theoretic operations union, intersection, complement, OR- and AND-operations. Some results related to these operations are also modified for pPyFHSS. Additionally, the similarity measures between pPyFHSSs are More >

Shahlaa Mashhadani^1,*, Wisal Hashim Abdulsalam¹, Oday Ali Hassen², Saad M. Darwish³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.5, pp. 805-828, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.054611 - 31 October 2024

Abstract Signature verification involves vague situations in which a signature could resemble many reference samples or might differ because of handwriting variances. By presenting the features and similarity score of signatures from the matching algorithm as fuzzy sets and capturing the degrees of membership, non-membership, and indeterminacy, a neutrosophic engine can significantly contribute to signature verification by addressing the inherent uncertainties and ambiguities present in signatures. But type-1 neutrosophic logic gives these membership functions fixed values, which could not adequately capture the various degrees of uncertainty in the characteristics of signatures. Type-1 neutrosophic representation is also… More >

Ali Ahmed^1,*, Alaa Omran Almagrabi², Omar M. Barukab³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2355-2370, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039847 - 21 June 2023

Abstract Content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) is a technique for retrieving medical images based on automatically derived image features. There are many applications of CBMIR, such as teaching, research, diagnosis and electronic patient records. Several methods are applied to enhance the retrieval performance of CBMIR systems. Developing new and effective similarity measure and features fusion methods are two of the most powerful and effective strategies for improving these systems. This study proposes the relative difference-based similarity measure (RDBSM) for CBMIR. The new measure was first used in the similarity calculation stage for the CBMIR using an More >

Lei Gu^*, Furong Zhang, Li Ma

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5911-5928, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038127 - 29 April 2023

Abstract Learning unlabeled data is a significant challenge that needs to handle complicated relationships between nominal values and attributes. Increasingly, recent research on learning value relations within and between attributes has shown significant improvement in clustering and outlier detection, etc. However, typical existing work relies on learning pairwise value relations but weakens or overlooks the direct couplings between multiple attributes. This paper thus proposes two novel and flexible multi-attribute couplings-based distance (MCD) metrics, which learn the multi-attribute couplings and their strengths in nominal data based on information theories: self-information, entropy, and mutual information, for measuring both More >

Wei Cong, Yong Zhao^*, Bingxiao Du^*, Senlin Huo, Xianqi Chen

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 621-654, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025143 - 05 January 2023

Abstract The spacecraft equipment layout optimization design (SELOD) problems with complicated performance constraints and diversity are studied in this paper. The previous literature uses the gradient-based algorithm to obtain optimized non-overlap layout schemes from randomly initialized cases effectively. However, these local optimal solutions are too difficult to jump out of their current relative geometry relationships, significantly limiting their further improvement in performance indicators. Therefore, considering the geometric diversity of layout schemes is put forward to alleviate this limitation. First, similarity measures, including modified cosine similarity and gaussian kernel function similarity, are introduced into the layout optimization More >

Angyan Tu^1,2, Jiancheng Chen³, Bing Wang^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.2, pp. 377-387, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021299 - 21 July 2022

Abstract A neutrosophic multi-valued set (NMVS) is a crucial representation for true, false, and indeterminate multi-valued information. Then, a consistent single-valued neutrosophic set (CSVNS) can effectively reflect the mean and consistency degree of true, false, and indeterminate multi-valued sequences and solve the operational issues between different multi-valued sequence lengths in NMVS. However, there has been no research on consistent single-valued neutrosophic similarity measures in the existing literature. This paper proposes cotangent similarity measures and weighted cotangent similarity measures between CSVNSs based on cotangent function in the neutrosophic multi-valued setting. The cosine similarity measures show the cosine… More >

Jayavarthini Chockalingam^*, Malathy Chidambaranathan

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.2, pp. 697-710, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.024142 - 08 February 2022

Abstract Presently, Person Re-IDentification (PRe-ID) acts as a vital part of real time video surveillance to ensure the rising need for public safety. Resolving the PRe-ID problem includes the process of matching observations of persons among distinct camera views. Earlier models consider PRe-ID as a unique object retrieval issue and determine the retrieval results mainly based on the unidirectional matching among the probe and gallery images. But the accurate matching might not be present in the top-k ranking results owing to the appearance modifications caused by the difference in illumination, pose, viewpoint, and occlusion. For addressing… More >