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In this paper, we present a method to create a safe arithmetic that can be used to obfuscate implementations that require operations over commutative groups. The method is based on the structure of the endomorphisms of certain extensions of the original commutative group. The endomorphisms of a commutative group are non-commutative (in general), thus we can use a non-commutative group to emulate the arithmetic of a commutative one. The techniques presented in this paper are very flexible and the programmer has a wide variety of options to obfuscate the algorithms. The system can be parameterized using conjugations, thus it is possible to generate a different arithmetic for each instance of the program with a change in the security parameters, even in cases in which this number is huge (for example, in IoT applications). The security of this method is based not only on the difficulty of the conjugacy search problem (in a harder version because only partial information about the groups is known by the attacker), but also in a number of extra options that can be chosen by the programmer. The paper explains the general method, analyzes its algebraic properties and provides detailed examples based on the vector spaces over F 2 and XOR operators.

In today’s society, investment wealth management has become a mainstream of the contemporary era. Investment wealth management refers to the use of funds by investors to arrange funds reasonably, for example, savings, bank financial products, bonds, stocks, commodity spots, real estate, gold, art, and many others. Wealth management tools manage and assign families, individuals, enterprises, and institutions to achieve the purpose of increasing and maintaining value to accelerate asset growth. Among them, in investment and financial management, people’s favorite product of investment often stocks, because the stock market has great advantages and charm, especially compared with other investment methods. More and more scholars have developed methods of prediction from multiple angles for the stock market. According to the feature of financial time series and the task of price prediction, this article proposes a new framework structure to achieve a more accurate prediction of the stock price, which combines Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and Long–Short-Term Memory Neural Network (LSTM). This new method is aptly named stock sequence array convolutional LSTM (SACLSTM). It constructs a sequence array of historical data and its leading indicators (options and futures), and uses the array as the input image of the CNN framework, and extracts certain feature vectors through the convolutional layer and the layer of pooling, and as the input vector of LSTM, and takes ten stocks in U.S.A and Taiwan as the experimental data. Compared with previous methods, the prediction performance of the proposed algorithm in this article leads to better results when compared directly.

Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of computing. First proposed in the 1980s as a way to improve computational modeling of quantum systems, the field of quantum computing has recently garnered significant attention due to progress in building small-scale devices. However, significant technical advances will be required before a large-scale, practical quantum computer can be achieved. Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects provides an introduction to the field, including the unique characteristics and constraints of the technology, and assesses the feasibility and implications of creating a functional quantum computer capable of addressing real-world problems. This report considers hardware and software requirements, quantum algorithms, drivers of advances in quantum computing and quantum devices, benchmarks associated with relevant use cases, the time and resources required, and how to assess the probability of success.

The recent digital revolution led robots to become integrated more than ever into different domains such as agricultural, medical, industrial, military, police (law enforcement), and logistics. Robots are devoted to serve, facilitate, and enhance the human life. However, many incidents have been occurring, leading to serious injuries and devastating impacts such as the unnecessary loss of human lives. Unintended accidents will always take place, but the ones caused by malicious attacks represent a very challenging issue. This includes maliciously hijacking and controlling robots and causing serious economic and financial losses. This paper reviews the main security vulnerabilities, threats, risks, and their impacts, and the main security attacks within the robotics domain. In this context, different approaches and recommendations are presented in order to enhance and improve the security level of robotic systems such as multi-factor device/user authentication schemes, in addition to multi-factor cryptographic algorithms. We also review the recently presented security solutions for robotic systems.

The human pose estimation is a significant issue that has been taken into consideration in the computer vision network for recent decades. It is a vital advance toward understanding individuals in videos and still images. In simple terms, a human pose estimation model takes in an image or video and estimates the position of a person’s skeletal joints in either 2D or 3D space. Several studies on human posture estimation can be found in the literature, however, they center around a specific class; for instance, model-based methodologies or human movement investigation, and so on. Later, various Deep Learning (DL) algorithms came into existence to overcome the difficulties which were there in the earlier approaches. In this study, an exhaustive review of human pose estimation (HPE), including milestone work and recent advancements is carried out. This survey discusses the different two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional human (3D) pose estimation techniques along with their classical and deep learning approaches which provide the solution to the various computer vision problems. Moreover, the paper also considers the different deep learning models used in pose estimation, and the analysis of 2D and 3D datasets is done. Some of the evaluation metrics used for estimating human poses are also discussed here. By knowing the direction of the individuals, HPE opens a road for a few real-life applications some of which are talked about in this study.

Chaos-based cryptosystems have been an active area of research in recent years. Although these algorithms are not standardized like AES, DES, RSA, etc., chaos-based cryptosystems like Chebyshev polynomials can provide additional security when used with standard public key cryptosystems like RSA and El-gamal. Standard encryption algorithms such as AES have always been the primary choice, but when it comes to image or video encryption, many researchers recommend chaos-based encryption techniques due to their computational efficiency. This paper presents a survey on the most up-to-date chaos-based image encryption techniques and classifies them into spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal domains for better understanding. The significant improvements in the field of image encryption are discussed. In addition, comparative analysis is performed to validate the evaluation matrices for quantifying the encryption algorithms’ security and performance in recent papers.

Cyberbullying is disturbing and troubling online misconduct. It appears in various forms and is usually in a textual format in most social networks. Intelligent systems are necessary for automated detection of these incidents. Some of the recent experiments have tackled this issue with traditional machine learning models. Most of the models have been applied to one social network at a time. The latest research has seen different models based on deep learning algorithms make an impact on the detection of cyberbullying. These detection mechanisms have resulted in efficient identification of incidences while others have limitations of standard identification versions. This paper performs an empirical analysis to determine the effectiveness and performance of deep learning algorithms in detecting insults in Social Commentary. The following four deep learning models were used for experimental results, namely: Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Data pre-processing steps were followed that included text cleaning, tokenization, stemming, Lemmatization, and removal of stop words. After performing data pre-processing, clean textual data is passed to deep learning algorithms for prediction. The results show that the BLSTM model achieved high accuracy and F 1-measure scores in comparison to RNN, LSTM, and GRU. Our in-depth results shown which deep learning models can be most effective against cyberbullying when directly compared with others and paves the way for future hybrid technologies that may be employed to combat this serious online issue.

The demand for automatic detection of Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 is increasing across the globe. The exponential rise in cases burdens healthcare facilities, and a vast amount of multimedia healthcare data is being explored to find a solution. This study presents a practical solution to detect COVID-19 from chest X-rays while distinguishing those from normal and impacted by Viral Pneumonia via Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNN). In this study, three pre-trained CNN models (EfficientNetB0, VGG16, and InceptionV3) are evaluated through transfer learning. The rationale for selecting these specific models is their balance of accuracy and efficiency with fewer parameters suitable for mobile applications. The dataset used for the study is publicly available and compiled from different sources. This study uses deep learning techniques and performance metrics (accuracy, recall, specificity, precision, and F1 scores). The results show that the proposed approach produced a high-quality model, with an overall accuracy of 92.93%, COVID-19, a sensitivity of 94.79%. The work indicates a definite possibility to implement computer vision design to enable effective detection and screening measures.

With the recent increase in internet usage, the number of important, sensitive, confidential individual and corporate data passing through internet has increasingly grown. With gaps in the security systems, attackers have attempted to intrude the network, thereby gaining access to essential and confidential information, which may cause harm to the operation of the systems, and also affect the confidentiality of the data. To counter these possible attacks, intrusion detection systems (IDSs), which is an essential branch of cybersecurity, were employed to monitor and analyze network traffic thereby detects and reports malicious activities. A large number of review papers have covered different approaches for intrusion detection in networks, most of which follow a non-systematic approach, merely made a comparison of the existing techniques without reflecting an in-depth analytical synthesis of the methodologies and performances of the approaches to give a complete understanding of the state of IDS. Nonetheless, many of these reviews investigated more about the anomaly-based IDS with more emphasis on deep-learning models, while signature, hybrid-based (signature + anomaly-based) have received minimal focus. Hence, by adhering to the principles of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), this work reviewed existing contributions on anomaly-, signature-, and hybrid-based approaches to provide a comprehensive overview of network IDS's state of the art. The articles were retrieved from seven databases (ScienceDirect, SpringerNature, IEEE, MDPI, Hindawi, PeerJ, and Taylor & Francis) which cut across various reputable journals and conference Proceedings. Among the 776 pieces of the literature identified, 71 were selected for analysis and synthesis to answer the research questions. Based on the research findings, we identified unexplored study areas and unresolved research challenges. In order to create a better IDS model, we conclude by presenting promising, high-impact future research areas.

In recent years, machine learning has become a hot research method in various fields and has been applied to every aspect of our life, providing an intelligent solution to problems that could not be solved or difficult to be solved before. Machine learning is driven by data. It learns from a part of the input data and builds a model. The model is used to predict and analyze another part of the data to get the results people want. With the continuous advancement of ocean observation technology, the amount of ocean data and data dimensions are rising sharply. The use of traditional data analysis methods to analyze massive amounts of data has revealed many shortcomings. The development of machine learning has solved these shortcomings. Nowadays, the use of machine learning technology to analyze and apply ocean data becomes the focus of scientific research. This method has important practical and long-term significance for protecting the ocean environment, predicting ocean elements, exploring the unknown, and responding to extreme weather. This paper focuses on the analysis of the state of the art and specific practices of machine learning in ocean data, review the application examples of machine learning in various fields such as ocean sound source identification and positioning, ocean element prediction, ocean biodiversity monitoring, and deep-sea resource monitoring. We also point out some constraints that still exist in the research and put forward the future development direction and application prospects.