Yan Zeng^1,2,3, Siyuan Teng¹, Tian Xiang^4,*, Jilin Zhang^1,2,3, Yuankai Mu⁵, Yongjian Ren^1,2,3,*, Jian Wan^1,2,3

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 1047-1064, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.027226

Abstract Federated learning is a distributed machine learning method that can solve the increasingly serious problem of data islands and user data privacy, as it allows training data to be kept locally and not shared with other users. It trains a global model by aggregating locally-computed models of clients rather than their raw data. However, the divergence of local models caused by data heterogeneity of different clients may lead to slow convergence of the global model. For this problem, we focus on the client selection with federated learning, which can affect the convergence performance of the global model with the selected… More > Graphic Abstract

Xiaorui Zhang^1,2,3,*, Chunlin Yuan¹, Wei Sun^3,4, Sunil Kumar Jha⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 4273-4291, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036975

Abstract The image emotion classification task aims to use the model to automatically predict the emotional response of people when they see the image. Studies have shown that certain local regions are more likely to inspire an emotional response than the whole image. However, existing methods perform poorly in predicting the details of emotional regions and are prone to overfitting during training due to the small size of the dataset. Therefore, this study proposes an image emotion classification network based on multilayer attentional interaction and adaptive feature aggregation. To perform more accurate emotional region prediction, this study designs a multilayer attentional… More >

Siguang Chen^1,2,*, Li Yang^1,2, Yanhang Shi^1,2, Qian Wang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3781-3796, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036437

Abstract As an essential component of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), electric vehicles (EVs) can store massive amounts of electric power in their batteries and send power back to a charging station (CS) at peak hours to balance the power supply and generate profits. However, when the system collects the corresponding power data, several severe security and privacy issues are encountered. The identity and private injection data may be maliciously intercepted by network attackers and be tampered with to damage the services of ITS and smart grids. Existing approaches requiring high computational overhead render them unsuitable for the resource-constrained Internet of Things… More >

Zibo Wang^1,3, Chaobin Huo², Yaofang Zhang^1,3, Shengtao Cheng^1,3, Yilu Chen^1,3, Xiaojie Wei⁵, Chao Li⁴, Bailing Wang^1,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 2957-2979, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035694

Abstract With the growing discovery of exposed vulnerabilities in the Industrial Control Components (ICCs), identification of the exploitable ones is urgent for Industrial Control System (ICS) administrators to proactively forecast potential threats. However, it is not a trivial task due to the complexity of the multi-source heterogeneous data and the lack of automatic analysis methods. To address these challenges, we propose an exploitability reasoning method based on the ICC-Vulnerability Knowledge Graph (KG) in which relation paths contain abundant potential evidence to support the reasoning. The reasoning task in this work refers to determining whether a specific relation is valid between an… More >

P. Shanmuga Prabha^*, S. Magesh Kumar

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3101-3119, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.034885

Abstract Today, securing devices connected to the internet is challenging as security threats are generated through various sources. The protection of cyber-physical systems from external attacks is a primary task. The presented method is planned on the prime motive of detecting cybersecurity attacks and their impacted parameters. The proposed architecture employs the LYSIS dataset and formulates Multi Variant Exploratory Data Analysis (MEDA) through Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for the extraction of unique parameters. The feature mappings are analyzed with Recurrent 2 Convolutional Neural Network (R2CNN) and Gradient Boost Regression (GBR) to identify the maximum correlation. Novel… More >

Salma Khan¹, Muhammad Gulistan¹, Nasreen Kausar², Dragan Pamucar³, Tzung-Pei Hong^4,5, Hafiz Abdul Wahab^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 3141-3156, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026169

Abstract In this paper, a decision-making problem with a q-rung orthopair fuzzy hypersoft environment is developed, and two operators of ordered weighted average and induced ordered weighted average are developed. Several fundamental features are also derived. The induced ordered weighted average operator is essential in a q-ROFH environment as the induced ordered aggregation operators are special cases of the existing aggregation operators that already exist in q-ROFH environments. The main function of these operators is to help decision-makers gain a complete understanding of uncertain facts. The proposed aggregation operator is applied to a decision-making problem, with the aim of selecting the… More > Graphic Abstract

Shahzaib Ashraf¹, Bushra Batool², Muhammad Naeem^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 1785-1811, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024851

Abstract This research proposes multicriteria decision-making (MCDM)-based real-time Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) transfusion framework. The testing phase of the methodology denotes the ability to stick to plastic surfaces, the upregulation and downregulation of certain surface protein markers, and lastly, the ability to differentiate into various cell types. First, two scenarios of an enhanced dataset based on a medical perspective were created in the development phase to produce varying levels of emergency. Second, for real-time monitoring of COVID-19 patients with different emergency levels (i.e., mild, moderate, severe, and critical), an automated triage algorithm based on a formal medical guideline is proposed, taking… More >

Ahmad O. Aseeri¹, Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary^2,*, Mohammed Saeed Alkatheiri³, Mohammed A. Alqarni⁴, Yu Zhuang⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1901-1918, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.028777

Abstract IoT devices rely on authentication mechanisms to render secure message exchange. During data transmission, scalability, data integrity, and processing time have been considered challenging aspects for a system constituted by IoT devices. The application of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) ensures secure data transmission among the internet of things (IoT) devices in a simplified network with an efficient time-stamped agreement. This paper proposes a secure, lightweight, cost-efficient reinforcement machine learning framework (SLCR-MLF) to achieve decentralization and security, thus enabling scalability, data integrity, and optimized processing time in IoT devices. PUF has been integrated into SLCR-MLF to improve the security of the… More >

Arslan Iftikhar¹, M. A. Elmagzoub², Ansar Munir^1,*, Hamad Abosaq Al Salem², Mahmood ul Hassan³, Jarallah Alqahtani², Asadullah Shaikh²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 1153-1168, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.030802

Abstract In every network, delay and energy are crucial for communication and network life. In wireless sensor networks, many tiny nodes create networks with high energy consumption and compute routes for better communication. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is a very complex scenario to compute minimal delay with data aggregation and energy efficiency. In this research, we compute minimal delay and energy efficiency for improving the quality of service of any WSN. The proposed work is based on energy and distance parameters as taken dependent variables with data aggregation. Data aggregation performs on different models, namely Hybrid-Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (H-LEACH),… More >

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain¹, Imran Siddique², Rifaqat Ali³, Fahd Jarad^4,5,6,*, Aiyared Iampan⁷

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 619-651, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022767

Abstract Experts use Pythagorean fuzzy hypersoft sets (PFHSS) in their investigations to resolve the indeterminate and imprecise information in the decision-making process. Aggregation operators (AOs) perform a leading role in perceptivity among two circulations of prospect and pull out concerns from that perception. In this paper, we extend the concept of PFHSS to interval-valued PFHSS (IVPFHSS), which is the generalized form of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft set. The IVPFHSS competently deals with uncertain and ambagious information compared to the existing interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft set. It is the most potent method for amplifying fuzzy data in the decision-making (DM) practice. Some… More >