Professional Burnout Syndrome (PBS) among health-care professionals has been considered a threat to both staff well-being and patient safety, especially in a high-stress medical environment. While robotics and AI have been increasingly integrated into healthcare, their impact on PBS has not been explored in detail yet. Therefore, this paper proposes a real-time PBS detection framework for healthcare professionals using emotion recognition. This framework includes a deep learning-based emotion detection system for humanoid companion robots, which then correlates emotional trends with the Circumplex model to identify burnout risk. Our experimental evaluation results across five deep learning architectures, MobileNet, RegNetY, Swin Transformer, ConvNeXt V2, and EVA-02, show a highest accuracy of 74.05% on a public emotion dataset. These results demonstrate the feasibility of integrating such systems into healthcare workflows for early PBS warnings. Also, this work suggests a human-in-the-loop diagnostic model, where robotic emotion detection complements clinical expertise by providing proactive support, strengthening workforce resilience, and maintaining the quality of patient care.

The concept of modernizing outdated systems in critical infrastructure through digital transformation has been a widely discussed topic nowadays. Following the transition of energy systems, the attention has now shifted towards digitalizing the water distribution systems. These systems are large-scale but outdated systems that frequently encounter various issues and upgrading them would enable easier to identify issues and provide smoother, more efficient service. However, this process requires cautious planning and guidance to ensure that the generated data is reliable, and the system remains operational during the transition. Hence, the primary objective of this paper is to propose a formal model based on ternary relational semantics that can guide the digital transformation of water distribution networks. The proposed model provides a flexible transformation process while making the system generate reliable data. Additionally, this paper demonstrates the application of the proposed model by developing a proof of concept based on a real-world scenario.

In social media, human-generated web data from real-world events have become exponentially complex due to the chaotic and spontaneous features of natural language. This may create an information overload for the information consumers, and in turn not easily digest a large amount of information in a limited time. To tackle this issue, we propose to use Complex Event Processing (CEP) and semantic web reasoners to disentangle the human-generated data and present users with only relevant and important data. However, one of the key obstacles is that the human-generated data can have no structured meaning sometimes even for the speaker, hindering the output of the CEP. Therefore, in order to adapt to the CEP inputs, we present two different techniques that allow for the discrimination and digestion of value of human-generated data. The first one relies on the Variable Sharing Property that was developed for relevance logics, while the second one is based on semantic equivalence and natural language processing. The results can be given to CEP for further semantic reasoning and generate digested information for users.

Smart Grids offer multiple benefits: efficient energy provision, quicker recoveries from failures, etc.Nevertheless, there is risk of data tampering, unsolicited modification of the data of the smart meters.The main aim of this paper is to provide a model for processing the smart meter data that flags any energy consumption level that could be indication of data tampering.The proposed model is time-sensitive, allowing for tracking the energy usage along time, thus making possible the detection of long-lasting abnormal levels of energy consumption.Such model can be integrated in an anomaly detection system and in a semantic web reasoner.

With the recent developments of the Internet of Things and its integration in the web environment, the Web of Things and the real-time data submissions to Reasoners are enabled. However, the data that are fed to the Reasoners are often inconsistent. This can be possibly caused by the malfunction of certain Internet of Things device or by human errors. The data consistency issue is becoming more complex in the Web of Things network. This paper, therefore, proposes a new data processing model to tackle the inconsistent data, so that the processed data can be further used in Reasoners. The data processing model introduces an oversimplification of the Shramko-Wansing sixteen-valued trilattice, which is an extension of Belnap’s four-valued bilattice to assign the data classical truth-values. A preliminary implementation is demonstrated to validate the proposed model. The result shows that our model can avoid system collapse when contradictory outputs exist.

Smart Grids (SG) represent one of the key critical infrastructures. Over time, several ontologies were defined in the SG domain to model aspects such as devices and sensors integration, and prosumers’ communication needs. In this paper, we review the state of the art regarding semantic web reasoning in the domain of SGs. We compare five main ontologies in terms of descriptive statistics (e.g., number of axioms), load time and reasoners runtime performance. Results show that not all the ontologies in the SG domain are readily available, and that some of them might be more appropriate for deployment in devices with limited computational resources.