K. Sakthidasan¹, Bhekisipho Twala², S. Yuvaraj³, K. Vijayan^3,*, S. Praveenkumar³, Prashant Mani⁴, C. Bharatiraja³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3721-3735, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014321

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a heterogeneous information sharing and access platform that provides services in a pervasive manner. Task and computation offloading in the IoT helps to improve the response rate and the availability of resources. Task offloading in a service-centric IoT environment mitigates the complexity in response delivery and request processing. In this paper, the state-based task offloading method (STOM) is introduced with a view to maximize the service response rate and reduce the response time of the varying request densities. The proposed method is designed using the Markov decision-making model to… More >

Luis-Eduardo Bautista-Villalpando^1,*, Alain Abran²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 203-218, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.015437

Abstract Cyberattacks are difficult to prevent because the targeted companies and organizations are often relying on new and fundamentally insecure cloud-based technologies, such as the Internet of Things. With increasing industry adoption and migration of traditional computing services to the cloud, one of the main challenges in cybersecurity is to provide mechanisms to secure these technologies. This work proposes a Data Security Framework for cloud computing services (CCS) that evaluates and improves CCS data security from a software engineering perspective by evaluating the levels of security within the cloud computing paradigm using engineering methods and techniques More >

Sulaiman Khan¹, Shah Nazir¹, Habib Ullah Khan^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 895-915, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013878

Abstract During the last decade the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) based applications inspired the world by providing state of the art solutions to many common problems. From traffic management systems to urban cities planning and development, IoT based home monitoring systems, and many other smart applications. Regardless of these facilities, most of these IoT based solutions are data driven and results in small accuracy values for smaller datasets. In order to address this problem, this paper presents deep learning based hybrid approach for the development of an IoT-based intelligent home security and appliance control… More >

Priya Baldoss^1,2,*, Gnanasekaran Thangavel³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 253-265, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013695

Abstract In the present scenario, cloud computing service provides on-request access to a collection of resources available in remote system that can be shared by numerous clients. Resources are in self-administration; consequently, clients can adjust their usage according to their requirements. Resource usage is estimated and clients can pay according to their utilization. In literature, the existing method describes the usage of various hardware assets. Quality of Service (QoS) needs to be considered for ascertaining the schedule and the access of resources. Adhering with the security arrangement, any additional code is forbidden to ensure the usage… More >

Yan Zhou^1,*, Yue Li¹, Yunxing Zhang²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 191-203, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014142

Abstract Service pricing is a bottleneck in the development of innovation services, as it is the issue of most concern to the suppliers and demanders. In this paper, a negotiated pricing model that is based on the multiobjective genetic algorithm is developed for innovation services. Regarding the process of service pricing as a multiobjective problem, the objective functions which include the service price, service efficiency, and service quality for the suppliers and the demanders are constructed. Because the solution of a multiobjective problem is typically a series of alternatives, an additional negotiation process is necessary in More >

Mohemmed Sha^*, Abdalla Alameen

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 201-211, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014513

Abstract The composition of the web service is a common technique to attain the best results of complex web tasks. The selection of appropriate web services, linking those services in the action flow and attaining the actual functionality of the task are the important factors to be considered. Even though different frameworks and methods have been proposed to dynamically compose web services, each method has its advantage and disadvantage over the other. Most of the methods give much importance to the Quality of Service (QoS) but fail to achieve the actual functionality after composition. This paper… More >

Omar Nooh Almotiry¹, Mohemmed Sha^2,*, Mohamudha Parveen Rahamathulla³, Omer Salih Dawood Omer²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 1-12, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014267

Abstract As technology improves, several modernization efforts are taken in the process of teaching and learning. An effective education system should maintain global connectivity, federate security and deliver self-access to its services. The cloud computing services transform the current education system to an advanced one. There exist several tools and services to make teaching and learning more interesting. In the higher education system, the data flow and basic operations are almost the same. These systems need to access cloud-based applications and services for their operational advancement and flexibility. Architecting a suitable cloud-based education system will leverage… More >

Manjur Kolhar^*, Abdalla Alameen

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1215-1226, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012658

Abstract Plagiarism refers to the use of other people’s ideas and information without acknowledging the source. In this research, anti-plagiarism software was designed especially for the university and its campuses to identify plagiarized text in students’ written assignments and laboratory reports. The proposed framework collected original documents to identify plagiarized text using natural language processing. Our research proposes a method to detect plagiarism by applying the core concept of text, which is semantic associations of words and their syntactic composition. Information on the browser was obtained through Request application programming interface by name Url.AbsoluteUri, and it is… More >

Ruben Willems^1,*, Fouke Ombelet², Eva Goossens^2,3,4, Katya De Groote⁵, Werner Budts^6,7, Stéphane Moniotte⁸, Michèle de Hosson⁹, Liesbet Van Bulck^2,4, Arianne Marelli¹⁰, Philip Moons^2,11,12, Julie De Backer^4,9,#, Lieven Annemans^1,#

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.15, No.6, pp. 399-429, 2020, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2020.011709

Abstract Objective: Cost-of-illness studies in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) have mainly been limited to hospitalizations. This is the first paper to provide a comprehensive overview from a societal perspective including inpatient and outpatient medical costs, and absenteeism- and unemployment-related societal costs. Methods: A retrospective longitudinal (2006–2015) database analysis was performed in Belgium combining administrative and clinical databases (n = 10,572). Trends in resource use and costs per patient year were standardized to assess the impact of changes in the patient population composition. Generalized Linear Mixed Models assessed the impact of age, sex, lesion complexity, and time.… More >

Minjae Seo¹, Jong-Ho Paik^{2, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2571-2589, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011347

Abstract The trend in video viewing has been evolving beyond simply providing a multiview option. Recently, a function that allows selection and viewing of a clip from a multiview service that captures a specific range or object has been added. In particular, the freeview service is an extended concept of multi-view and provides a freer viewpoint. However, since numerous videos and additional data are required for its construction, all of the clips constituting the content cannot be simultaneously provided. Only certain clips are selected and provided to the user. If the video is not the preferred… More >