Huang Zeng, Mingtian Zhang, Tengfei Liu, Anjia Yang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 5125-5142, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052846

Abstract Federated learning is an important distributed model training technique in Internet of Things (IoT), in which participant selection is a key component that plays a role in improving training efficiency and model accuracy. This module enables a central server to select a subset of participants to perform model training based on data and device information. By doing so, selected participants are rewarded and actively perform model training, while participants that are detrimental to training efficiency and model accuracy are excluded. However, in practice, participants may suspect that the central server may have miscalculated and thus… More >

Jiahui Liu^1,2, Lang Li^1,2,*, Di Li^1,2, Yu Ou^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4641-4657, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051613

Abstract Correlation power analysis (CPA) combined with genetic algorithms (GA) now achieves greater attack efficiency and can recover all subkeys simultaneously. However, two issues in GA-based CPA still need to be addressed: key degeneration and slow evolution within populations. These challenges significantly hinder key recovery efforts. This paper proposes a screening correlation power analysis framework combined with a genetic algorithm, named SFGA-CPA, to address these issues. SFGA-CPA introduces three operations designed to exploit CPA characteristics: propagative operation, constrained crossover, and constrained mutation. Firstly, the propagative operation accelerates population evolution by maximizing the number of correct bytes… More >

Simona-Vasilica Oprea^*, Adela Bâra

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 3827-3853, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051598

Abstract The potential of text analytics is revealed by Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In this paper, we propose an NLP framework that is applied to multiple datasets to detect malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Three categories of features, both ML and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms and a ranking schema are included in the proposed framework. We apply frequency and prediction-based embeddings, such as hash vectorizer, Term Frequency-Inverse Dense Frequency (TF-IDF) and predictors, word to vector-word2vec (continuous bag of words, skip-gram) from Google, to extract features from text. Further, we apply more… More >

Marya Iqbal¹, Yaser Hafeez¹, Nabil Almashfi², Amjad Alsirhani³, Faeiz Alserhani⁴, Sadia Ali¹, Mamoona Humayun^5,*, Muhammad Jamal⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 5031-5049, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051371

Abstract Embracing software product lines (SPLs) is pivotal in the dynamic landscape of contemporary software development. However, the flexibility and global distribution inherent in modern systems pose significant challenges to managing SPL variability, underscoring the critical importance of robust cybersecurity measures. This paper advocates for leveraging machine learning (ML) to address variability management issues and fortify the security of SPL. In the context of the broader special issue theme on innovative cybersecurity approaches, our proposed ML-based framework offers an interdisciplinary perspective, blending insights from computing, social sciences, and business. Specifically, it employs ML for demand analysis, More >

Bui Van Cong¹, Cho Do Xuan^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 3699-3723, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050019

Abstract The detection of software vulnerabilities written in C and C++ languages takes a lot of attention and interest today. This paper proposes a new framework called DrCSE to improve software vulnerability detection. It uses an intelligent computation technique based on the combination of two methods: Rebalancing data and representation learning to analyze and evaluate the code property graph (CPG) of the source code for detecting abnormal behavior of software vulnerabilities. To do that, DrCSE performs a combination of 3 main processing techniques: (i) building the source code feature profiles, (ii) rebalancing data, and (iii) contrastive… More >

Peng Xiao¹, Qi Zhong², Jingxue Chen¹, Dongyuan Wu¹, Zhen Qin¹, Erqiang Zhou^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4703-4724, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049791

Abstract In the intelligent medical diagnosis area, Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s trustworthiness, reliability, and interpretability are critical, especially in cancer diagnosis. Traditional neural networks, while excellent at processing natural images, often lack interpretability and adaptability when processing high-resolution digital pathological images. This limitation is particularly evident in pathological diagnosis, which is the gold standard of cancer diagnosis and relies on a pathologist’s careful examination and analysis of digital pathological slides to identify the features and progression of the disease. Therefore, the integration of interpretable AI into smart medical diagnosis is not only an inevitable technological trend but… More >

Hao Chen^#, Runfeng Xie^#, Xiangyang Cui, Zhou Yan, Xin Wang, Zhanwei Xuan^*, Kai Zhang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4283-4296, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049129

Abstract Accurately recommending candidate news to users is a basic challenge of personalized news recommendation systems. Traditional methods are usually difficult to learn and acquire complex semantic information in news texts, resulting in unsatisfactory recommendation results. Besides, these traditional methods are more friendly to active users with rich historical behaviors. However, they can not effectively solve the long tail problem of inactive users. To address these issues, this research presents a novel general framework that combines Large Language Models (LLM) and Knowledge Graphs (KG) into traditional methods. To learn the contextual information of news text, we… More >

Yasser Hachaichi¹, Ayman E. Khedr¹, Amira M. Idrees^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4081-4105, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048929

Abstract The diversity of data sources resulted in seeking effective manipulation and dissemination. The challenge that arises from the increasing dimensionality has a negative effect on the computation performance, efficiency, and stability of computing. One of the most successful optimization algorithms is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) which has proved its effectiveness in exploring the highest influencing features in the search space based on its fast convergence and the ability to utilize a small set of parameters in the search task. This research proposes an effective enhancement of PSO that tackles the challenge of randomness search which… More >

Yang Li¹, Zikang Zheng^1,*, Jiangkun Zhang²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.18, No.4, pp. 425-444, 2024, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.046584

Abstract Due to the lack of a quantitative basis for the inspection, evaluation, and identification of existing transmission tower foundations, a new fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is proposed to assess the reliability of transmission tower foundation bearing capacity. This method is based on the reliability analysis of the transmission tower foundation bearing capacity by analyzing the sensitivity of degradation of detection indexes on the reliability of transmission tower foundation bearing capacity, the weighting coefficient matrix is established about the influencing factors in the evaluation model. Through the correlation analysis between the bearing capacity degradation of the More > Graphic Abstract

Lin Ma¹, Liyong Wang¹, Shuang Zeng¹, Yutong Zhao¹, Chang Liu¹, Heng Zhang¹, Qiong Wu^2,*, Hongbo Ren²

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.6, pp. 1473-1493, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.047332

Abstract Accurate load forecasting forms a crucial foundation for implementing household demand response plans and optimizing load scheduling. When dealing with short-term load data characterized by substantial fluctuations, a single prediction model is hard to capture temporal features effectively, resulting in diminished prediction accuracy. In this study, a hybrid deep learning framework that integrates attention mechanism, convolution neural network (CNN), improved chaotic particle swarm optimization (ICPSO), and long short-term memory (LSTM), is proposed for short-term household load forecasting. Firstly, the CNN model is employed to extract features from the original data, enhancing the quality of data… More >