Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cybersecurity in Hospitals: A Systematic, Organizational Perspective

BACKGROUND: Cybersecurity incidents are a growing threat to the health care industry in general and hospitals in particular. The health care industry has lagged behind other industries in protecting its main stakeholder (ie, patients), and ...

Cybersecurity

Abstract Cybersecurity is often defined in terms of data security. This definition is too narrow. A broader definition includes security issues, such as disinformation and incitement on social media platforms. Cyberthreats include viruses, ...

Cybersecurity

The Internet has given rise to new opportunities for the public sector to improve efficiency and better serve constituents. But with an increasing reliance on the Internet, digital tools are also exposing the public sector to new risks. Thi...

Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things: Legal aspects

Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity

In teacher education programs, preservice teachers learn about strategies to appropriately integrate computer-related and Internet-capable technologies into instructional settings to improve student learning. Many presume that preservice te...

Arabic natural language processing: An overview

Arabic is recognised as the 4th most used language of the Internet. Arabic has three main varieties: (1) classical Arabic (CA), (2) Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), (3) Arabic Dialect (AD). MSA and AD could be written either in Arabic or in Ro...

Software Engineering in the Small.

The article focuses on issues concerning software engineering The article focuses on issues concerning software engineering. Smaller-sized software companies are developing significant products that need effective, tailored software ...

A Scalable Real-Time SDN-Based MQTT Framework for Industrial Applications

The increasing prominence of concepts such as Smart Production and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) within the context of Industry 4.0 has introduced a new set of requirements for the engineering of industrial systems, including support...

IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Toward Service-Centric Internet of Things (IoT): From Modeling to Practice

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to an emerging paradigm to seamlessly and ubiquitously integrate a large number of smart things with intra/inter links to the physical and cyber worlds. Sensor-enabled communication technologies connect b...

Software engineering and middleware

The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components. Middleware resolves heterogeneity and facilitates communicat...

Comprehensive renewable energy

Comprehensive Renewable is the only multi-volume reference work of its type at a time when renewable energy sources are seen increasingly as realistic alternatives to fossil fuels. As the majority of information published for the target aud...

A quantum fuzzy logic-enhanced evolutionary framework for energy-latency optimization in 6G Edge-IioT

Abstract The transition toward 6G-enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) requires strict Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), creating a fundamental trade-off with energy consumption. Orchestrating resources in dense, hyp...

Quantum Computing for Healthcare: A Review

In recent years, the interdisciplinary field of quantum computing has rapidly developed and garnered substantial interest from both academia and industry due to its ability to process information in fundamentally different ways, leading to ...

Lightweight Anonymous Group Authentication and Quantum-Cloud Key Distribution Based on PUF for Classical Network Environments

With the rapid development of quantum computing, in response to its disruptive threats to traditional cryptosystems and the urgent demand for lightweight and highly scalable secure group communication among resource-constrained devices in l...

Design Considerations for a Distributed Low-Cost Air Quality Sensing System for Urban Environments in Low-Resource Settings

With rapid urbanization, hazardous environmental exposures such as air, noise, plastic, soil and water pollution have emerged as a major threat to urban health. Recent studies show that 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe contaminated air ...

Time-Aware Service Ranking Prediction in the Internet of Things Environment

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), building IoT systems with high quality of service (QoS) has become an urgent requirement in both academia and industry. During the procedures of building IoT systems, QoS-aware ser...

Authentication in distributed systems

Security of distributed systems is a topic of growing importance.The security breaches of the last few years (internet worm .... ) have demonstrated the need for additional research in this area.One important aspect of security is authentic...

Trust Management in Distributed Systems

Distributed systems such as the Internet, peer-to-peer networks, and mobile ad hoc networks involve numerous entities, many of which haven't previously interacted. Trust management can help minimize risk and ensure the network activity of b...

Empowering Sustainability: The Crucial Role of IoT-Enabled Distributed Learning Systems in Reducing Carbon Footprints

Electrical energy plays a pivotal role in modern society by powering homes, industries, and transportation systems. However, the production of electricity is associated with significant carbon emissions, primarily from fossil fuel-based pow...

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

From the Publisher: Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen cover the principles, advanced concepts, and technologies of distributed systems in detail, including: communication, replication, fault tolerance, and security. Intended for use i...