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Computers Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010021

Sabrine Belmekki, Dominique Gruyer

{"title":"Advanced Road Safety: Collective Perception for Probability of Collision Estimation of Connected Vehicles","authors":"Sabrine Belmekki, Dominique Gruyer","doi":"10.3390/computers13010021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010021","url":null,"abstract":"In the dynamic landscape of vehicular communication systems, connected vehicles (CVs) present unprecedented capabilities in perception, cooperation, and, notably, probability of collision management. This paper’s main concern is the collision probability of collision estimation. Achieving effective collision estimation heavily relies on the sensor perception of obstacles and a critical collision probability prediction system. This paper is dedicated to refining the estimation of collision probability through the intentional integration of CV communications, with a specific focus on the collective perception of connected vehicles. The primary objective is to enhance the understanding of the potential probability of collisions in the surrounding environment by harnessing the collective insights gathered through inter-vehicular communication and collaboration. This improvement enables a superior anticipation capacity for both the driving system and the human driver, thereby enhancing road safety. Furthermore, the incorporation of extended perception strategies holds the potential for more accurate collision probability estimation, providing the driving system or human driver with increased time to react and make informed decisions, further fortifying road safety measures. The results underscore a significant enhancement in collision probability awareness, as connected vehicles collectively contribute to a more comprehensive collision probability landscape. Consequently, this heightened collective collision probability perception improves the anticipation capacity of both the driving system and the human driver, contributing to an elevated level of road safety. For future work, the exploration of our extended perception techniques to achieve real-time probability of collision estimation is proposed. Such endeavors aim to drive the development of robust and anticipatory autonomous driving systems that truly harness the benefits of connected vehicle technologies.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Forecasting of Bitcoin Illiquidity Using High-Dimensional and Textual Features 利用高维和文本特征预测比特币流动性不足

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Computers Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010020

Faraz Sasani, Mohammad Moghareh Dehkordi, Zahra Ebrahimi, Hakimeh Dustmohammadloo, Parisa Bouzari, P. Ebrahimi, E. Lencsés, M. Fekete-Farkas

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Mining Negative Associations from Medical Databases Considering Frequent, Regular, Closed and Maximal Patterns 从医学数据库中挖掘负关联，考虑频繁模式、常规模式、封闭模式和最大模式

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Computers Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010018

Raja Rao Budaraju, Sastry Kodanda Rama Jammalamadaka

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Faraway, so Close: Perceptions of the Metaverse on the Edge of Madness 远在天边，近在眼前：在疯狂边缘感知元宇宙

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Computers Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010019

M. Cruz, Abílio Oliveira, Alessandro Pinheiro

{"title":"Faraway, so Close: Perceptions of the Metaverse on the Edge of Madness","authors":"M. Cruz, Abílio Oliveira, Alessandro Pinheiro","doi":"10.3390/computers13010019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010019","url":null,"abstract":"With the evolution of technologies, virtual reality allows us to dive into cyberspace through different devices and have immersive experiences in different contexts, which, in a simple way, we call virtual worlds or multiverse (integrating Metaverse versions). Through virtual reality, it is possible to create infinite simulated environments to immerse ourselves in. Future internet may be slightly different from what we use today. Virtual immersion situations are common (particularly in gaming), and the Metaverse has become a lived and almost real experience claiming its presence in our daily lives. To investigate possible perspectives or concepts regarding the Metaverse, virtual reality, and immersion, we considered a main research question: To what extent can a film centered on the multiverse be associated with adults’ Metaverse perceptions? Considering that all participants are adults, the objectives of this study are: (1) Verify the representations of the Metaverse; (2) Verify the representations of immersion; (3) Verify the representations of the multiverse; (4) Verify the importance of a film (related to the Metaverse and the multiverse) on the representations found. This study—framed in a Ph.D. research project—analyzed the participants’ answers through an online survey using two films to gather thoughts, ideas, emotions, sentiments, and reactions according to our research objectives. Some limitations were considered, such as the number of participants, number of the questionnaire questions and the knowledge or lack of the main concepts. Our results showed that a virtual world created by a movie might stimulate the perception of almost living in that supposed reality, accepting the multiverse and Metaverse not as distant concepts but as close experiences, even in an unconscious form. This finding is also a positive contribution to a discussion in progress aiming for an essential understanding of the Metaverse as a complex concept.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":"58 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139447758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Blockchain-Powered Gaming: Bridging Entertainment with Serious Game Objectives 区块链驱动的游戏：连接娱乐与严肃游戏目标

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Computers Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010014

Dimitrios Stamatakis, Dimitrios G. Kogias, Pericles Papadopoulos, Panagiotis A. Karkazis, Helen C. Leligou

{"title":"Blockchain-Powered Gaming: Bridging Entertainment with Serious Game Objectives","authors":"Dimitrios Stamatakis, Dimitrios G. Kogias, Pericles Papadopoulos, Panagiotis A. Karkazis, Helen C. Leligou","doi":"10.3390/computers13010014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010014","url":null,"abstract":"The advancement and acceptance of new technologies often hinges on the level of understanding and trust among potential users. Blockchain technology, despite its broad applications across diverse sectors, is often met with skepticism due to a general lack of understanding and incidents of illicit activities in the cryptocurrency domain. This study aims to demystify blockchain technology by providing an in-depth examination of its application in a novel blockchain-based card game, centered around renewable energy and sustainable resource management. This paper introduces a serious game that uses blockchain to enhance user interaction, ownership, and gameplay, demonstrating the technology’s potential to revolutionize the gaming industry. Notable aspects of the game, such as ownership of virtual assets, transparent transaction histories, trustless game mechanics, user-driven content creation, gasless transactions, and mechanisms for in-game asset trading and cross-platform asset reuse are analyzed. The paper discusses how these features, not only provide a richer gaming experience but also serve as effective tools for raising awareness about sustainable energy and resource management, thereby bridging the gap between entertainment and education. The case study offers valuable insights into how blockchain can create dynamic, secure, and participatory virtual environments, shifting the paradigm of traditional online gaming.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":"58 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Robust Timing Synchronization Algorithm Based on PSSS for LTE-V2X 基于 PSSS 的 LTE-V2X 稳健定时同步算法

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Computers Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010012

Ju Zhang, Bin Chen, Jiahui Qiu, Lingfan Zhuang, Zhiyuan Wang, Liu Liu

{"title":"A Robust Timing Synchronization Algorithm Based on PSSS for LTE-V2X","authors":"Ju Zhang, Bin Chen, Jiahui Qiu, Lingfan Zhuang, Zhiyuan Wang, Liu Liu","doi":"10.3390/computers13010012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010012","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Long-Term Evolution Vehicle-to-Everything (LTE-V2X) communication technology has received extensive attention. Timing synchronization is a crucial step in the receiving process, addressing Timing Offsets (TOs) resulting from random propagation delays, sampling frequency mismatches between the transmitter and receiver or a combination of both. However, the presence of high-speed relative movement between nodes and a low antenna height leads to a significant Doppler frequency offset, resulting in a low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for received signals in LTE-V2X communication scenarios. This paper aims to investigate LTE-V2X technology with a specific focus on time synchronization. The research centers on the time synchronization method utilizing the Primary Sidelink Synchronization Signal (PSSS) and conducts a comprehensive analysis of existing algorithms, highlighting their respective advantages and disadvantages. On this basis, a robust timing synchronization algorithm for LTE-V2X communication scenarios is proposed. The algorithm comprises three key steps: coarse synchronization, frequency offset estimation and fine synchronization. Enhanced robustness is achieved through algorithm fusion, optimal decision threshold design and predefined frequency offset values. Furthermore, a hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform is established. The simulation results demonstrate a substantial performance improvement for the proposed algorithm compared to existing methods under adverse channel conditions characterized by high frequency offsets and low SNR.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":" 70","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139139501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Comparative Study on Recent Automatic Data Fusion Methods 最新自动数据融合方法比较研究

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Computers Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010013

Luis Manuel Pereira, A. Salazar, L. Vergara

{"title":"A Comparative Study on Recent Automatic Data Fusion Methods","authors":"Luis Manuel Pereira, A. Salazar, L. Vergara","doi":"10.3390/computers13010013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010013","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic data fusion is an important field of machine learning that has been increasingly studied. The objective is to improve the classification performance from several individual classifiers in terms of accuracy and stability of the results. This paper presents a comparative study on recent data fusion methods. The fusion step can be applied at early and/or late stages of the classification procedure. Early fusion consists of combining features from different sources or domains to form the observation vector before the training of the individual classifiers. On the contrary, late fusion consists of combining the results from the individual classifiers after the testing stage. Late fusion has two setups, combination of the posterior probabilities (scores), which is called soft fusion, and combination of the decisions, which is called hard fusion. A theoretical analysis of the conditions for applying the three kinds of fusion (early, late, and late hard) is introduced. Thus, we propose a comparative analysis with different schemes of fusion, including weaknesses and strengths of the state-of-the-art methods studied from the following perspectives: sensors, features, scores, and decisions.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":" 43","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139141294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Facilitating Communication in Neuromuscular Diseases: An Adaptive Approach with Fuzzy Logic and Machine Learning in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems 促进神经肌肉疾病患者的交流：在辅助和替代性交流系统中使用模糊逻辑和机器学习的自适应方法

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Computers Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010010

Jhon Fernando Sánchez-Álvarez, Gloria Patricia Jaramillo-Álvarez, J. A. Jiménez-Builes

{"title":"Facilitating Communication in Neuromuscular Diseases: An Adaptive Approach with Fuzzy Logic and Machine Learning in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems","authors":"Jhon Fernando Sánchez-Álvarez, Gloria Patricia Jaramillo-Álvarez, J. A. Jiménez-Builes","doi":"10.3390/computers13010010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010010","url":null,"abstract":"Augmentative and alternative communication techniques (AAC) are essential to assist individuals facing communication difficulties. (1) Background: It is acknowledged that dynamic solutions that adjust to the changing needs of patients are necessary in the context of neuromuscular diseases. (2) Methods: In order address this concern, a differential approach was suggested that entailed the prior identification of the disease state. This approach employs fuzzy logic to ascertain the disease stage by analyzing intuitive patterns; it is contrasted with two intelligent systems. (3) Results: The results indicate that the AAC system’s adaptability enhances with the progression of the disease’s phases, thereby ensuring its utility throughout the lifespan of the individual. Although the adaptive AAC system exhibits signs of improvement, an expanded assessment involving a greater number of patients is required. (4) Conclusions: Qualitative assessments of comparative studies shed light on the difficulties associated with enhancing accuracy and adaptability. This research highlights the significance of investigating the use of fuzzy logic or artificial intelligence methods in order to solve the issue of symptom variability in disease staging.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards Blockchain-Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning: A Pre-Implementation Guide 实现区块链集成企业资源规划：实施前指南

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Computers Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010011

Lahlou Imane, Motaki Noureddine, Sarsri Driss, L’yarfi Hanane

{"title":"Towards Blockchain-Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning: A Pre-Implementation Guide","authors":"Lahlou Imane, Motaki Noureddine, Sarsri Driss, L’yarfi Hanane","doi":"10.3390/computers13010011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13010011","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of numerous challenges in supply chain management, new technologies are being implemented to overcome obstacles and improve overall performance. Among these technologies, blockchain, a part of the distributed ledger family, offers several advantages when integrated with ERP systems, such as transparency, traceability, and data security. However, blockchain remains a novel, complex, and costly technology. The purpose of this paper is to guide decision-makers in determining whether integrating blockchain technology with ERP systems is appropriate during the pre-implementation phase. This paper focuses on the literature reviews, theories, and expert opinions to achieve its objectives. It first provides an overview of blockchain technology, then discusses its potential benefits to the supply chain, and finally proposes a framework to assist decision-makers in determining whether blockchain meets the needs of their consortium and whether this integration aligns with available resources. The results highlight the complexity of blockchain, the importance of detailed and in-depth research in deciding whether to integrate blockchain technology into ERP systems, and future research prospects. The findings of this article also present the critical decisions to be made prior to the implementation of blockchain, in the event that decision-makers choose to proceed with blockchain integration. The findings of this article augment the existing literature and can be applied in real-world contexts by stakeholders involved in blockchain integration projects with ERP systems.","PeriodicalId":46292,"journal":{"name":"Computers","volume":"3 8‐9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139156652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Custom ASIC Design for SHA-256 Using Open-Source Tools 利用开源工具为 SHA-256 定制 ASIC 设计

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Computers Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.3390/computers13010009

Lucas Daudt Franck, G. Ginja, J. P. Carmo, José A. Afonso, M. Luppe

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