Borja Bordel Sánchez^1,*, Ramón Alcarria², Tomás Robles¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.1, pp. 631-654, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.050349 - 20 August 2024

Abstract Future 6G communications are envisioned to enable a large catalogue of pioneering applications. These will range from networked Cyber-Physical Systems to edge computing devices, establishing real-time feedback control loops critical for managing Industry 5.0 deployments, digital agriculture systems, and essential infrastructures. The provision of extensive machine-type communications through 6G will render many of these innovative systems autonomous and unsupervised. While full automation will enhance industrial efficiency significantly, it concurrently introduces new cyber risks and vulnerabilities. In particular, unattended systems are highly susceptible to trust issues: malicious nodes and false information can be easily introduced into… More >

Peicong He, Yang Xin^*, Yixian Yang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 3067-3084, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.054777 - 15 August 2024

Abstract The proliferation of intelligent, connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices facilitates data collection. However, task workers may be reluctant to participate in data collection due to privacy concerns, and task requesters may be concerned about the validity of the collected data. Hence, it is vital to evaluate the quality of the data collected by the task workers while protecting privacy in spatial crowdsourcing (SC) data collection tasks with IoT. To this end, this paper proposes a privacy-preserving data reliability evaluation for SC in IoT, named PARE. First, we design a data uploading format using blockchain More >

Uddagiri Sirisha^1,, Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu^2,3,*, Panguluri Padmavathi⁴, Seongki Kim^5,, Aruna Pavate⁶, Jana Shafi⁷, Muhammad Fazal Ijaz^8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2301-2330, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053132 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Fetal health care is vital in ensuring the health of pregnant women and the fetus. Regular check-ups need to be taken by the mother to determine the status of the fetus’ growth and identify any potential problems. To know the status of the fetus, doctors monitor blood reports, Ultrasounds, cardiotocography (CTG) data, etc. Still, in this research, we have considered CTG data, which provides information on heart rate and uterine contractions during pregnancy. Several researchers have proposed various methods for classifying the status of fetus growth. Manual processing of CTG data is time-consuming and unreliable.… More >

Guodong Han, Hecheng Li^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2121-2137, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053077 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Currently, there is a growing trend among users to store their data in the cloud. However, the cloud is vulnerable to persistent data corruption risks arising from equipment failures and hacker attacks. Additionally, when users perform file operations, the semantic integrity of the data can be compromised. Ensuring both data integrity and semantic correctness has become a critical issue that requires attention. We introduce a pioneering solution called Sec-Auditor, the first of its kind with the ability to verify data integrity and semantic correctness simultaneously, while maintaining a constant communication cost independent of the audited… More >

Qiuyan Wang, Haibing Dong^*, Yongfei Huang, Zenglei Liu, Yundong Gou

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 1967-1983, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052775 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Sharing data while protecting privacy in the industrial Internet is a significant challenge. Traditional machine learning methods require a combination of all data for training; however, this approach can be limited by data availability and privacy concerns. Federated learning (FL) has gained considerable attention because it allows for decentralized training on multiple local datasets. However, the training data collected by data providers are often non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID), resulting in poor FL performance. This paper proposes a privacy-preserving approach for sharing non-IID data in the industrial Internet using an FL approach based on blockchain… More >

Ruijin Xue^1,2, Shuang Feng^1,2,*, Qi Wang^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 3107-3122, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052600 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Users’ interests are often diverse and multi-grained, with their underlying intents even more so. Effectively capturing users’ interests and uncovering the relationships between diverse interests are key to news recommendation. Meanwhile, diversity is an important metric for evaluating news recommendation algorithms, as users tend to reject excessive homogeneous information in their recommendation lists. However, recommendation models themselves lack diversity awareness, making it challenging to achieve a good balance between the accuracy and diversity of news recommendations. In this paper, we propose a news recommendation algorithm that achieves good performance in both accuracy and diversity. Unlike… More >

Fang Hu¹, Siyi Qiu², Xiaolian Yang¹, Chaolei Wu¹, Miguel Baptista Nunes³, Hui Chen^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2897-2915, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052570 - 15 August 2024

Abstract As the volume of healthcare and medical data increases from diverse sources, real-world scenarios involving data sharing and collaboration have certain challenges, including the risk of privacy leakage, difficulty in data fusion, low reliability of data storage, low effectiveness of data sharing, etc. To guarantee the service quality of data collaboration, this paper presents a privacy-preserving Healthcare and Medical Data Collaboration Service System combining Blockchain with Federated Learning, termed FL-HMChain. This system is composed of three layers: Data extraction and storage, data management, and data application. Focusing on healthcare and medical data, a healthcare and… More >

Mesut Ulu^1,*, Yusuf Sait Türkan², Kenan Mengüç³, Ersin Namlı², Tarık Küçükdeniz²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2259-2281, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052323 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Today, urban traffic, growing populations, and dense transportation networks are contributing to an increase in traffic incidents. These incidents include traffic accidents, vehicle breakdowns, fires, and traffic disputes, resulting in long waiting times, high carbon emissions, and other undesirable situations. It is vital to estimate incident response times quickly and accurately after traffic incidents occur for the success of incident-related planning and response activities. This study presents a model for forecasting the traffic incident duration of traffic events with high precision. The proposed model goes through a 4-stage process using various features to predict the… More >

Md. Mahbubur Rahman Tusher¹, Fahmid Al Farid^2,*, Md. Al-Hasan¹, Abu Saleh Musa Miah¹, Susmita Roy Rinky¹, Mehedi Hasan Jim¹, Sarina Mansor², Md. Abdur Rahim³, Hezerul Abdul Karim^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2633-2656, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049296 - 15 August 2024

Abstract The context of recognizing handwritten city names, this research addresses the challenges posed by the manual inscription of Bangladeshi city names in the Bangla script. In today’s technology-driven era, where precise tools for reading handwritten text are essential, this study focuses on leveraging deep learning to understand the intricacies of Bangla handwriting. The existing dearth of dedicated datasets has impeded the progress of Bangla handwritten city name recognition systems, particularly in critical areas such as postal automation and document processing. Notably, no prior research has specifically targeted the unique needs of Bangla handwritten city name… More >

Yan Sun, Caiyun Liu, Jun Li, Yitong Liu^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2351-2362, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048903 - 15 August 2024

Abstract With the development of technology, the connected vehicle has been upgraded from a traditional transport vehicle to an information terminal and energy storage terminal. The data of ICV (intelligent connected vehicles) is the key to organically maximizing their efficiency. However, in the context of increasingly strict global data security supervision and compliance, numerous problems, including complex types of connected vehicle data, poor data collaboration between the IT (information technology) domain and OT (operation technology) domain, different data format standards, lack of shared trust sources, difficulty in ensuring the quality of shared data, lack of data… More >