Arkan Hammoodi Hasan Kabla, Mohammed Anbar, Selvakumar Manickam, Alwan Ahmed Abdulrahman Alwan, Shankar Karuppayah^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3375-3398, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036587

Abstract The cyber-criminal compromises end-hosts (bots) to configure a network of bots (botnet). The cyber-criminals are also looking for an evolved architecture that makes their techniques more resilient and stealthier such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. The P2P botnets leverage the privileges of the decentralized nature of P2P networks. Consequently, the P2P botnets exploit the resilience of this architecture to be arduous against take-down procedures. Some P2P botnets are smarter to be stealthy in their Command-and-Control mechanisms (C2) and elude the standard discovery mechanisms. Therefore, the other side of this cyberwar is the monitor. The P2P botnet monitoring is an exacting mission… More >

Wen Deng¹, Guangjun Liang^1,2,3,*, Chenfei Yu¹, Kefan Yao¹, Chengrui Wang¹, Xuan Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1561-1576, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035016

Abstract With the frequent occurrence of telecommunications and network fraud crimes in recent years, new frauds have emerged one after another which has caused huge losses to the people. However, due to the lack of an effective preventive mechanism, the police are often in a passive position. Using technologies such as web crawlers, feature engineering, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, this paper proposes a user portrait fraud warning scheme based on Weibo public data. First, we perform preliminary screening and cleaning based on the keyword “defrauded” to obtain valid fraudulent user Identity Documents (IDs). The basic information and account information of… More >

Ziwen Yu¹, Jianjun Zhang^1,*, Wenwu Tan¹, Ziyi Xiong¹, Peilun Li¹, Liangqing Meng², Haijun Lin¹, Guang Sun³, Peng Guo⁴

Journal on Big Data, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 135-143, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jbd.2022.031024

Abstract Many countries are paying more and more attention to the protection of water resources at present, and how to protect water resources has received extensive attention from society. Water quality monitoring is the key work to water resources protection. How to efficiently collect and analyze water quality monitoring data is an important aspect of water resources protection. In this paper, python programming tools and regular expressions were used to design a web crawler for the acquisition of water quality monitoring data from Global Freshwater Quality Database (GEMStat) sites, and the multi-thread parallelism was added to improve the efficiency in the… More >

S. Samsudeen Shaffi^1,*, I. Muthulakshmi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 183-192, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.031494

Abstract As data grows in size, search engines face new challenges in extracting more relevant content for users’ searches. As a result, a number of retrieval and ranking algorithms have been employed to ensure that the results are relevant to the user’s requirements. Unfortunately, most existing indexes and ranking algorithms crawl documents and web pages based on a limited set of criteria designed to meet user expectations, making it impossible to deliver exceptionally accurate results. As a result, this study investigates and analyses how search engines work, as well as the elements that contribute to higher ranks. This paper addresses the… More >

Tsung-Yin Ou¹, Guan-Yu Lin², Hsin-Pin Fu¹, Shih-Chia Wei¹, Wen-Lung Tsai^3,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.3, pp. 881-897, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.022637

Abstract Most real estate agents develop new objects by visiting unfamiliar clients, distributing leaflets, or browsing other real estate trading website platforms, whereas consumers often rely on websites to search and compare prices when purchasing real property. In addition to being time consuming, this search process renders it difficult for agents and consumers to understand the status changes of objects. In this study, Python is used to write web crawler and image recognition programs to capture object information from the web pages of real estate agents; perform data screening, arranging, and cleaning; compare the text of real estate object information; as… More >

M. Arun Manicka Raja^1,*, S. Swamynathan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1263-1280, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019451

Abstract News feed is one of the potential information providing sources which give updates on various topics of different domains. These updates on various topics need to be collected since the domain specific interested users are in need of important updates in their domains with organized data from various sources. In this paper, the news summarization system is proposed for the news data streams from RSS feeds and Google news. Since news stream analysis requires live content, the news data are continuously collected for our experimentation. The major contributions of this work involve domain corpus based news collection, news content extraction,… More >

Sawroop Kaur¹, Aman Singh^1,*, G. Geetha², Mehedi Masud³, Mohammed A. Alzain⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 2933-2948, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019030

Abstract Web crawlers have evolved from performing a meagre task of collecting statistics, security testing, web indexing and numerous other examples. The size and dynamism of the web are making crawling an interesting and challenging task. Researchers have tackled various issues and challenges related to web crawling. One such issue is efficiently discovering hidden web data. Web crawler’s inability to work with form-based data, lack of benchmarks and standards for both performance measures and datasets for evaluation of the web crawlers make it still an immature research domain. The applications like vertical portals and data integration require hidden web crawling. Most… More >

Guang Sun¹, Huanxin Xiang², Shuanghu Li^1,*

Journal on Big Data, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 89-106, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jbd.2019.07235

Abstract Web crawlers are an important part of modern search engines. With the development of the times, data has exploded and humans have entered a “big data era”. For example, Wikipedia carries the knowledge from all over the world, records the real-time news that occurs every day, and provides users with a good database of data, but because of the large amount of data, it puts a lot of pressure on users to search. At present, single-threaded crawling data can no longer meet the requirements of text crawling. In order to improve the performance and program versatility of single-threaded crawlers, a… More >