Hung-Hsiang Wang¹, Chih-Ping Chen^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.1, pp. 685-709, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.047630

Abstract This paper presents a new method of using a convolutional neural network (CNN) in machine learning to identify brand consistency by product appearance variation. In Experiment 1, we collected fifty mouse devices from the past thirty-five years from a renowned company to build a dataset consisting of product pictures with pre-defined design features of their appearance and functions. Results show that it is a challenge to distinguish periods for the subtle evolution of the mouse devices with such traditional methods as time series analysis and principal component analysis (PCA). In Experiment 2, we applied deep learning to predict the extent… More >

Xingli Wu^{1,{{sup}}#{{/sup}}}, Huchang Liao^{1,{{sup}}#{{/sup}}}, Shuxian Sun¹, Zhengjun Wan^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.3, pp. 3125-3146, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.047031

Abstract Agricultural investment project selection is a complex multi-criteria decision-making problem, as agricultural projects are easily influenced by various risk factors, and the evaluation information provided by decision-makers usually involves uncertainty and inconsistency. Existing literature primarily employed direct preference elicitation methods to address such issues, necessitating a great cognitive effort on the part of decision-makers during evaluation, specifically, determining the weights of criteria. In this study, we propose an indirect preference elicitation method, known as a preference disaggregation method, to learn decision-maker preference models from decision examples. To enhance evaluation ease, decision-makers merely need to compare pairs of alternatives with which… More >

Ziqi Wang^*, Weihan Tian, Baojiang Cui

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 1797-1820, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.047051

Abstract The API used to access cloud services typically follows the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture style. RESTful architecture, as a commonly used Application Programming Interface (API) architecture paradigm, not only brings convenience to platforms and tenants, but also brings logical security challenges. Security issues such as quota bypass and privilege escalation are closely related to the design and implementation of API logic. Traditional code level testing methods are difficult to construct a testing model for API logic and test samples for in-depth testing of API logic, making it difficult to detect such logical vulnerabilities. We propose RESTlogic for this purpose.… More >

Ahmed H. Msmali¹, Fazal Dayan^2,*, Muhammad Rafiq³, Nauman Ahmed⁴, Abdullah Ali H. Ahmadini¹, Hassan A. Hamali⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2251-2269, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040266

Abstract In this article, a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) epidemic model is considered. The equilibrium analysis and reproduction number are studied. The conventional models have made assumptions of homogeneity in disease transmission that contradict the actual reality. However, it is crucial to consider the heterogeneity of the transmission rate when modeling disease dynamics. Describing the heterogeneity of disease transmission mathematically can be achieved by incorporating fuzzy theory. A numerical scheme nonstandard, finite difference (NSFD) approach is developed for the studied model and the results of numerical simulations are presented. Simulations of the constructed scheme are presented. The positivity, convergence and consistency of the… More >

Jing Deng¹, Xiaofei Xing¹, Guoqiang Deng^2,*, Ning Hu³, Shen Su³, Le Wang³, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3783-3795, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034116

Abstract As one of the major threats to the current DeFi (Decentralized Finance) ecosystem, reentrant attack induces data inconsistency of the victim smart contract, enabling attackers to steal on-chain assets from DeFi projects, which could terribly do harm to the confidence of the blockchain investors. However, protecting DeFi projects from the reentrant attack is very difficult, since generating a call loop within the highly automatic DeFi ecosystem could be very practicable. Existing researchers mainly focus on the detection of the reentrant vulnerabilities in the code testing, and no method could promise the non-existent of reentrant vulnerabilities. In this paper, we introduce… More >

Waqas Ahmad¹, Hikmat Ullah Khan^1,2,*, Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj^3,*, Saqib Iqbal⁴, Abdullah Mohammad Alomair³, Naif Almusallam³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 3101-3124, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.040614

Abstract Aspect-based sentiment analysis aims to detect and classify the sentiment polarities as negative, positive, or neutral while associating them with their identified aspects from the corresponding context. In this regard, prior methodologies widely utilize either word embedding or tree-based representations. Meanwhile, the separate use of those deep features such as word embedding and tree-based dependencies has become a significant cause of information loss. Generally, word embedding preserves the syntactic and semantic relations between a couple of terms lying in a sentence. Besides, the tree-based structure conserves the grammatical and logical dependencies of context. In addition, the sentence-oriented word position describes… More >

Qi Liu^1,2, Jing Li^1,2,*, Xianmin Wang^1,*, Wenpeng Zhao¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 1753-1771, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039600

Abstract Recent state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods usually use data augmentations as core components. Such methods, however, are limited to simple transformations such as the augmentations under the instance’s naive representations or the augmentations under the instance’s semantic representations. To tackle this problem, we offer a unique insight into data augmentations and propose a novel data-augmentation-based semi-supervised learning method, called Attentive Neighborhood Feature Augmentation (ANFA). The motivation of our method lies in the observation that the relationship between the given feature and its neighborhood may contribute to constructing more reliable transformations for the data, and further facilitating the classifier to distinguish… More >

Ren Tao, Chen Shuang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 6201-6217, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036178

Abstract A large variety of complaint reports reflect subjective information expressed by citizens. A key challenge of text summarization for complaint reports is to ensure the factual consistency of generated summary. Therefore, in this paper, a simple and weakly supervised framework considering factual consistency is proposed to generate a summary of city-based complaint reports without pre-labeled sentences/words. Furthermore, it considers the importance of entity in complaint reports to ensure factual consistency of summary. Experimental results on the customer review datasets (Yelp and Amazon) and complaint report dataset (complaint reports of Shenyang in China) show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches… More >

Dumitru Baleanu^1,2,3, Fazal Dayan⁴, Nauman Ahmed^3,5,*, Muhammad Rafiq^6,7, Ali Raza^3,8, Muhammad Ozair Ahmad⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 4175-4189, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034868

Abstract The first major outbreak of the severely complicated hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), primarily caused by enterovirus 71, was reported in Taiwan in 1998. HFMD surveillance is needed to assess the spread of HFMD. The parameters we use in mathematical models are usually classical mathematical parameters, called crisp parameters, which are taken for granted. But any biological or physical phenomenon is best explained by uncertainty. To represent a realistic situation in any mathematical model, fuzzy parameters can be very useful. Many articles have been published on how to control and prevent HFMD from the perspective of public health and… More >

Mudassir Shams¹, Nasreen Kausar², Ebru Ozbilge^3,*, Alper Bulut³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.3, pp. 2617-2633, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034370

Abstract Engineering and applied mathematics disciplines that involve differential equations in general, and initial value problems in particular, include classical mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and the general theory of relativity. A reliable, stable, efficient, and consistent numerical scheme is frequently required for modelling and simulation of a wide range of real-world problems using differential equations. In this study, the tangent slope is assumed to be the contra-harmonic mean, in which the arithmetic mean is used as a correction instead of Euler’s method to improve the efficiency of the improved Euler’s technique for solving ordinary differential equations with initial conditions. The stability, consistency,… More >