Youbang Guan^1,2, Bong Jun Choi^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2399-2411, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012365 - 13 April 2021

Abstract Smart home technology provides consumers with network connectivity, automation or enhanced services for home devices. With the Internet of Things era, a vast data flow makes business platforms have to own the same computing power to match their business services. It achieves computing power through implementing big data algorithms deployed in the cloud data center. However, because of the far long geographical distance between the client and the data center or the massive data capacity gap, potentially high latency and high packet loss will reduce the usability of smart home systems if service providers deploy… More >

R. Praveena^*, T. R. GaneshBabu

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 69-86, 2021, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2021.014622 - 09 April 2021

Abstract The cup nerve head, optic cup, optic disc ratio and neural rim configuration are observed as important for detecting glaucoma at an early stage in clinical practice. The main clinical indicator of glaucoma optic cup to disc ratio is currently determined manually by limiting the mass screening was potential. This paper proposes the following methods for an automatic cup to disc ratio determination. In the first part of the work, fundus image of the optic disc region is considered. Clustering means K is used automatically to extract the optic disc whereas K-value is automatically selected… More >

Yangling Li¹, Zhengrong Li¹, Hui Yu¹, Gang Huang¹, Xiaopeng Pei², Kun Xu^2,*, Pixin Wang², Ying Tan^3,*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.8, pp. 1365-1376, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.014909 - 08 April 2021

Abstract In this work, the –catechol and –thiol modified starch was prepared by the esterification and amino condensation reaction, then a fully starch based hydrogel was prepared via the thiol-catechol Michael addition reaction. The starch hydrogel gained shape memory behaviors by coordinate with Fe³⁺ ions at alkaline condition. ¹ H-NMR had been used to character the structure of the starch derivatives and its character peaks. The hydrogel’s modulus had also been measured before and after coordinating with Fe³⁺ ions in linear area and the result showed that both the hydrogel’s storage modulus and loss modulus kept constant in More >

Kunkun Wang^1,2, Xianda Liu^2,3,4,*

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.3, No.1, pp. 9-19, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jai.2021.016706 - 02 April 2021

Abstract With the development of Internet technology, the computing power of data has increased, and the development of machine learning has become faster and faster. In the industrial production of industrial control systems, quality inspection and safety production of process products have always been our concern. Aiming at the low accuracy of anomaly detection in process data in industrial control system, this paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on stacking integration using the machine learning algorithm. Data are collected from the industrial site and processed by feature engineering. Principal component analysis (PCA) and integrated rule… More >

Ruixin Zhao^1,*, Zhongju Feng¹, Guan Jiang¹, Fuchun Wang¹, Yidong Zhang², Changan Zhang³, Zhenbing Wang¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 441-453, 2021, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2021.010595 - 02 April 2021

Abstract The present study examines the working conditions of fully grouted bolts used for the construction and expansion of high slopes. On the basis of a pull out destructive test, the work load and the ultimate load are obtained on site, and the Flac3d numerical simulation method is employed to determine the axial force distribution and the effective anchor length. The test results show that (1) the Q-S (load-displacement) curve of the bolt displays a certain degree of deformation coupled with the creep of the surrounding rock; (2) the working load of the bolt is closely More >

Abdalla Alameen^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 593-602, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016950 - 01 April 2021

Abstract It is forecasted that billions of Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor devices will be installed worldwide by 2020. These devices can provide infrastructure-based services for various applications such as in smart hospitals, smart industry, smart grids, and smart industrial towns. Among them, the hospital service system needs to authenticate devices, and medical data are recorded for diagnostic purposes. In general, digital signatures are employed, but the computational power and their huge numbers pose many challenges to the digital signature system. To solve such problems, we developed a ledger system for authenticating IoT medical devices.… More >

Yang Wu¹, Lihong Xu^1,*, Erik D. Goodman²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 561-576, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016415 - 01 April 2021

Abstract Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) requires a lot of data for training, but there has always been data vacuum in agriculture, making it difficult to label all existing data accurately. Therefore, a lightweight tomato leaf disease identification network supported by Variational auto-Encoder (VAE) is proposed to improve the accuracy of crop leaf disease identification. In the lightweight network, multi-scale convolution can expand the network width, enrich the extracted features, and reduce model parameters such as deep separable convolution. VAE makes full use of a large amount of unlabeled data to achieve unsupervised learning, and then… More >

Sarah Chaudhry¹, Fakhra Batool¹, Abdul Hafeez Muhammad¹, Ansar Siddique^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 379-395, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016263 - 01 April 2021

Abstract Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the healthcare leading to provision of eHealth facilities remotely. During the peak time of COVID-19, as the long queues at health care facilities can result in spread of the virus. ICT can play an effective role especially for reducing the extended waiting time of patients to consult a medical practitioner which is considered as a source of hazard during the pandemic. However, in developing countries where majority population is semiliterate so find difficulty when come into contact with appointment systems which are not particularly designed keeping in consideration… More >

Jamal Kh-Madhloom^1,2,*, Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani¹, Mohd Rizuan Baharon¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 493-512, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015129 - 01 April 2021

Abstract Over the decades, protecting the privacy of a health cloud using the design of a fog computing network is a very important field and will be more important in the near future. Current Internet of Things (IoT) research includes security and privacy due to their extreme importance in any growing technology that involves the implementation of cryptographic Internet communications (ICs) for protected IC applications such as fog computing and cloud computing devices. In addition, the implementation of public-key cryptography for IoT-based DNA sequence testing devices requires considerable expertise. Any key can be broken by using… More >

Issam Alhadid¹, Hassan Tarawneh², Khalid Kaabneh², Ra’ed Masa’deh³, Nawaf N. Hamadneh^4,*, Muhammad Tahir⁵, Sufian Khwaldeh¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 321-336, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014892 - 01 April 2021

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a style of software design where Web Services (WS) provide services to the other components through a communication protocol over a network. WS components are managed, updated, and rearranged at runtime to provide the business processes as SCs, which consist of a set of WSs that can be invoked in a specific order to fulfill the clients’ requests. According to the Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements, WS selection and composition are significant perspectives of research to meet the clients’ expectations. This paper presents an effective technique using SMFS that attempts to

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