The danger of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has grown in tandem with the proliferation of intelligent information systems. Because of the sheer volume of connected devices, constantly shifting network circumstances, and the need for instantaneous reaction, conventional DDoS detection methods are inadequate for the IoT. In this context, this study aims to survey the current state of the art in the topic by reading relevant articles found in the Scopus database, with a brief overview of the IoT and DDoS as this study examines neural networks and their applicability to DDoS detection. Finally, a decision tree-based model is developed for the detection of DDoS attacks. The analysis sheds light on the present trends and issues in this field and suggests avenues for further study.

Machine learning and deep learning are one of the most sought-after areas in computer science which are finding tremendous applications ranging from elementary education to genetic and space engineering. The applications of machine learning techniques for the development of smart cities have already been started; however, still in their infancy stage. A major challenge for Smart City developments is effective waste management by following proper planning and implementation for linking different regions such as residential buildings, hotels, industrial and commercial establishments, the transport sector, healthcare institutes, tourism spots, public places, and several others. Smart City experts perform an important role for evaluation and formulation of an efficient waste management scheme which can be easily integrated with the overall development plan for the complete city. In this work, we have offered an automated classification model for urban waste into multiple categories using Convolutional Neural Networks. We have represented the model which is being implemented using Fine Tuning of Pretrained Neural Network Model with new datasets for litter classification. With the help of this model, software, and hardware both can be developed using low-cost resources and can be deployed at a large scale as it is the issue associated with healthy living provisions across cities. The main significant aspects for the development of such models are to use pre-trained models and to utilize transfer learning for fine-tuning a pre-trained model for a specific task.

The emergence of the metaverse, a virtual reality space, has ushered in a new era of digital experiences and interactions in global information systems. With its unique social norms and behaviors, this new world presents exciting opportunities for users to connect, socialize, and explore. However, as people spend more time in the metaverse, it has become increasingly apparent that the issue of cyberbullying needs to be addressed. Cyberbullying is a serious problem that can harm victims psychologically and physically. It involves using technology to harass, intimidate, or humiliate individuals or groups in global information systems. The risk of cyberbullying is high in the metaverse, where users are often anonymous. Therefore, it is crucial to establish a safer and more respectful culture within the metaverse to detect and prevent such incidents from happening.

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) driven blockchain is currently one of the most promising technology revolutions with enormous potential across a wide range of applications. Distributed ledger is essentially a distributed and encrypted database that can address several concerns pertaining to Internet security and trust with transparency. In fact, the scope of blockchain applications is broadening with each passing day. The exclusive features of safe and transparent data exchange provided by blockchain technology provide compelling arguments for its implementation in a variety of application scenarios. In this paper, we present the comprehensive view of blockchain and its related concepts. Though, there exists intensive research on these domains; however, these fields are still dealing with several security issues, data reliability and storage and scalability. Blockchain has emerged as a critical technology that can address these issues through its features like decentralization, transparency, immutability and auditability. Building trust in distributed systems without the need for authority is a technological advancement that can be well leveraged by domain, like, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and social media. Technologies like IoT and Cloud computing can be perceived as the trivial ones to get benefitted from the blockchain. However, the integration of social media and blockchain can revolutionize the domains, like, content creating and sharing, fake news scourge, trademarking and rights management. In this paper, we illustrate the integration of blockchain with IoT, cloud and social media and the related issues and challenges. Moreover, we also show some of the major research works done in each domain.

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack detection in intelligent systems. In recent times, due to the endemic COVID-19, the use of intelligent systems has increased. However, these systems are easily affected by DDoS attacks. A DDoS attack is a reliable tool for cyber-attackers because there is no efficient method which can detect or filter it properly. In this context, we analyze different types of DDoS attacks and defense techniques for intelligent systems. For the analysis, we used Scopus databases to collect relevant papers in English between 2014 and 2022. This study makes an important contribution to the field of DDoS attack detection for intelligent systems, providing a comprehensive overview of the field's evolution and current status, as well as a comprehensive, synthesized, and organized summary of various perspectives, definitions, and trends in the field.

With the advent of the 21st century, healthcare systems all around the world are facing challenges at an unprecedented scale. The recent covid-19 outbreak is a glaring example of such challenges. After facing such situations anyone can conclude that there is a need to change the way our current health system works and the recent blockchain technology emerged as a way to bring out this change. From universal health blueprint to medical supply chain management and connecting vetted suppliers, blockchain is making an impact. This paper introduces the concept of blockchain along with its applications with the main focus on healthcare and medical systems.

Smishing is a combined form of short message service (SMS) and phishing in which a malicious text message or SMS is sent to mobile users. This form of attack has come to be a severe cyber-security difficulty and has triggered incredible monetary losses to the victims. Many antismishing solutions for mobile devices have been proposed till date but still, there is a lack of a full-fledged solution. Therefore, this paper proposes an efficient approach that analyzes text content and uniform resource locator (URL) presented in the SMS. We have integrated the URL phishing classifier with the text classifier to improve accuracy as some of the SMS contain the URL with no text or much less text. To find out rare words in a report, depending upon the frequency of term (TF) and the reciprocal of document frequency TF-inverse document frequency (IDF), a weighting framework TF-IDF is used. We have used two data sets for both text as well as for URL phishing classifier and used a synthetic minority oversampling technique to balance the training data. The voting classifier simply merges the findings of each classifier passed into it and predicts the output on the basis of voting. In proposed approach integrating KNN, RF, and ETC can detect smishing messages with a 99.03% accuracy and 98.94% precision rate which is relatively efficient compared with existing ones like SmiDCA model which has the given accuracy of 96.40% using Random Forest classifier in BFSA, Feature-Based it has an accuracy of 98.74% and 94.20% true positive rate and Smishing Detector it shows an overall accuracy of 96.29%.

In the last few decades, technology advancements have paved the way for the creation of intelligent and autonomous systems that utilize complex calculations which are both time-consuming and central processing unit intensive. As a consequence, parallel processing systems are gaining popularity to enhance overall computer performance. Programmers should be able to efficiently utilize available hardware resources with parallelization in an ideal world. Through the automatic parallelization of sequential code, multithreading can be executed without extra supervision. However, a wide range of software dependencies prevents this from being feasible. An architectural framework for speculative parallelization along with an efficient memory analysis and computational algorithms for the code generation are proposed that can provide optimal performance. Furthermore, a suitable support of hardware design as a runtime library to the proposed architectural framework is presented which can be used to recover misspeculated results during execution to minimize speculative parallelism overhead. The implementation makes use of the Low-Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure and is tested on numerous benchmarks, thus making it highly scalable in terms of programming languages and architectures. According to our experimental results, there is significant potential for speedup increase. In comparison to the overall function speedup, that is, geomean speedup of 5.2× approximately when using the proposed architecture without hardware support, the proposed architectural framework and algorithm with hardware support give an average geomean speedup of 7.0× approximately on the given benchmark which is written in C/C++.

Because of the overgrowth of data, especially in text format, the value and importance of multi-label text classification have increased. Aside from this, preprocessing and particularly intelligent feature selection (FS) are the most important step in classification. Each FS finds the best features based on its approach, but we try to use a multi-strategy approach to find more useful features. Evaluating and comparing features’ importance and relevance makes using multiple strategy and methods more suitable than conventional approaches because each feature is measured based on several perspectives. Nevertheless, the ensemble FS merges the final performance results of various methods to take advantage of different methods’ strengths and better classify. In this article, we have proposed an ensemble FS method for multi-label text data (MLTD) for the first time using the order statistics (EMFS) approach. We have utilized four multi-label FS (MLFS) algorithms with various particular performances to achieve a good result. In this method, as one of the most important statistics methods, Order Statistics was used to aggregate the ranks of different algorithms, which is robust against noise, redundant and inessential features. In the end, the performance of EMFS, executing six MLTDs, was evaluated according to six performance criteria (ranking-based and classification-based). Surprisingly, the proposed method was more accurate than others among all used MLTDs. The proposed method has improved by 1.5% compared to other methods. This value is based on the results obtained based on six evaluation criteria and all tested data sets.

With regard to large dimensions of contemporary data sets and restricted computational time of intelligent systems, reducing the dimensions of data sets is necessary. Feature selection is a practical way to remove a set of redundant, irrelevant, and noisy features. In this way, the speed of decision-making procedure will be increased while the accuracy of decisions will be retained. To this end, numerous attentions have been attracted to the topic and consequently, extensive range of methods has been proposed. Regarding the goals of the feature selection concept, the proposed algorithms in this field must be fast and accurate. Therefore, this paper proposes a light meanwhile accurate algorithm to fulfill the mentioned goals. The presented algorithm takes the speed advantage of Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) to propose a novel feature selection method for intelligent systems. Moreover, to reach the goal of accuracy, the proposed strategy considers three important fitness objectives, namely, the number of selected features, the accuracy of classification, and information gain. The proposed scheme considers an accurate multiobjective fitness function instead of manipulating the basic algorithm. The reason is that improving the basic algorithms, WOA in our case, may lead to loading more computational complexity. Also, to make the proposed algorithm as light as possible, this paper considers K-nearest neighbor algorithm as the main classifier. The proposed light feature selection algorithm is run on different data sets. Experimental results prove that this algorithm is able to reduce the number of features meanwhile it retains, and in some cases even increases, the accuracy of classification.

The pandemic has shown us that it is quite important to keep track record our health digitally. And at the same time, it also showed us the great potential of Instruments like wearable observing gadgets, video conferences, and even talk bots driven by artificial intelligence (AI) can provide good care from remotely. Real time data collected from different health care devices of cases across globe played an important role in combatting the virus and also help in tracking its progress. The evolution of biomedical imaging techniques, incorporated sensors, and machine learning (ML) in recent years has led in various health benefits. Medical care and biomedical sciences have become information science fields, with a solid requirement for refined information mining techniques to remove the information from the accessible data. Biomedical information contains a few difficulties in information investigation, including high dimensionality, class irregularity, and low quantities of tests. AI is a subfield of AI and computer science which centric the utilization of information and calculations to impersonate the way that people learn, steadily further developing its accuracy. ML is an essential element of the rapidly growing area of information science. Calculations are created using measurable procedures to make characterizations or forecasts, exposing vital experiences inside information mining operations. In this chapter, we explain and compare the different algorithms of ML which could be helpful in detecting different disease at earlier stage. We summarize the algorithms and different steps involved in ML to extract information for betterment of the society which is already exposed to the world of data.

Obesity is one of the most pressing issues in society today. Virtual reality has been used in the design of tools that promotes obesity control. However, the design of current VR tools lacks the involvement of prospective users and health practitioners. Such engagement is crucial in gathering semantic information that identifies stakeholders’ needs and ensures that all aspects of health are considered. Therefore, this paper aims to study the sociodemographic factors and individual-level characteristics and preferences that make the design of any obesity-control VR tool effective and satisfactory for a wide range of users. The paper also aims to solicit opinions of health practitioners to identify best health aspects that should be available in the design of any VR tool for obesity control. Organizations, businesses, and people will be able to readily augment such VR technologies on the semantic web, as well as on personal and mobile devices.

This paper aims to assess the needs of neurosurgical training in order to strategize the future plans for simulation and rehearsal. The main objective is to investigate the ability of virtual reality to enhance the training. An online questionnaire has been conducted among surgeons practicing in different countries across the globe. The study shows significant differences in rehearsal methods and surgical teaching methods practiced by the respondents. Among respondents, 90% did believe that virtual reality technology can serve surgical training, and almost all respondents agreed that there is a gap in the existing neurosurgical training in terms of operating room ergonomics. Adequate education on surgical ergonomics might lead to an improvement in the outcomes for both surgeon and patient. The contribution of the paper is twofold. One side investigates the new requirements for the enhancement of neurosurgeon training and adoption on a virtual reality simulator. The other side contributes to the body of knowledge related to the required ergonomics skills.

Recently, sentiment analysis of social media has become a hot topic because of the huge amount of information that is provided in these networks. Twitter is a popular social media application offers businesses and government the opportunities to share and acquire information. This article proposes a technique that aims at measuring customers' satisfaction with cloud service providers, based on their tweets. Existing techniques focused on classifying sentimental text as either positive or negative, while the proposed technique classifies the tweets into five categories to provide better information. A hybrid approach of dictionary-based and Fuzzy Inference Process (FIP) is developed for this purpose. This direction was selected for its advantages and flexibility in addressing complex problems, using terms that reflect on human behaviors and experiences. The proposed hybrid-based technique used fuzzy systems in order to accurately identify the sentiment of the input text while addressing the challenges that are facing sentiment analysis using various fuzzy parameters.

The King Abdullah Scholarship Program was created in 2005 by sending Saudi students to study abroad. The program has a series of specific rules and it was found that due to the multitude of services the students can choose from, there is a great difficulty in finding the most suitable universities/programs/courses. Traditional manual selection requires students to visit every university website looking for their preferred courses. Some students prefer to talk to advisers and recruiters to get help. Students are not aware that those advisers and recruiters might have a financial interest to direct students to certain universities. Therefore, the risk of applying to the wrong institution is increased. Manually selecting what is best for each criterion is a tedious task, and, consequently, in this work the authors use an automated system to reach a plausible solution.