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The development of process-driven systems and the advancements in digital twins have led to the birth of new ways of monitoring and analyzing systems, i.e., digital process twins. Specifically, a digital process twin can allow the monitoring of system behavior and the analysis of the execution status to improve the whole system. However, the concept of the digital process twin is still theoretical, and process-driven systems cannot really benefit from them. In this regard, this work discusses how to effectively exploit a digital process twin and proposes an implementation that combines the monitoring, refinement, and enactment of system behavior. We demonstrated the proposed solution in a multi-robot scenario. Full article

Nowadays, one of the important and indispensable conditions for the effectiveness and competitiveness of industrial companies is the high efficiency of manufacturing and assembly. These enterprises based on different methods and tools systematically monitor their efficiency metrics with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). One of these most frequently used metrics is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), the product of availability, performance and quality. In addition to monitoring, it is also necessary to predict efficiency, which can be implemented with the support of machine learning techniques. This paper presents and compares several supervised machine learning techniques amongst other polynomial regression, lasso regression, ridge regression and gradient boost regression. The aim of this article is to determine the best estimation method for semiautomatic assembly line and large batch size. The case study presented with a real industrial example gives the answer as to which of the cumulative or rolling horizon prediction methods is more accurate. Full article

Recently, various methods to predict the future price of financial assets have emerged. One promising approach is to combine the historic price with sentiment scores derived via sentiment analysis techniques. In this article, we focus on predicting the future price of Bitcoin, which is currently the most popular cryptocurrency. More precisely, we propose a hybrid approach, combining time series forecasting and sentiment prediction from microblogs, to predict the intraday price of Bitcoin. Moreover, in addition to standard sentiment analysis methods, we are the first to employ a fine-tuned BERT model for this task. We also introduce a novel weighting scheme in which the weight of the sentiment of each tweet depends on the number of its creator’s followers. For evaluation, we consider periods with strongly varying ranges of Bitcoin prices. This enables us to assess the models w.r.t. robustness and generalization to varied market conditions. Our experiments demonstrate that BERT-based sentiment analysis and the proposed weighting scheme improve upon previous methods. Specifically, our hybrid models that use linear regression as the underlying forecasting algorithm perform best in terms of the mean absolute error (MAE of 2.67) and root mean squared error (RMSE of 3.28). However, more complicated models, particularly long short-term memory networks and temporal convolutional networks, tend to have generalization and overfitting issues, resulting in considerably higher MAE and RMSE scores. Full article

This paper investigated the importance of explainability in artificial intelligence models and its application in the context of prediction in Formula (1). A step-by-step analysis was carried out, including collecting and preparing data from previous races, training an AI model to make predictions, and applying explainability techniques in the said model. Two approaches were used: the attention technique, which allowed visualizing the most relevant parts of the input data using heat maps, and the permutation importance technique, which evaluated the relative importance of features. The results revealed that feature length and qualifying performance are crucial variables for position predictions in Formula (1). These findings highlight the relevance of explainability in AI models, not only in Formula (1) but also in other fields and sectors, by ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI-based decision making. The results highlight the importance of considering explainability in AI models and provide a practical methodology for its implementation in Formula (1) and other domains. Full article

Stream Reasoning (SR) focuses on developing advanced approaches for applying inference to dynamic data streams; it has become increasingly relevant in various application scenarios such as IoT, Smart Cities, Emergency Management, and Healthcare, despite being a relatively new field of research. The current lack of standardized formalisms and benchmarks has been hindering the comparison between different SR approaches. We proposed a new benchmark, called EnviroStream, for evaluating SR systems on weather and environmental data. The benchmark includes queries and datasets of different sizes. We adopted I-DLV-sr, a recently released SR system based on Answer Set Programming, as a baseline for query modelling and experimentation. We also showcased continuous online reasoning via a web application. Full article

With the ubiquitous use of digital technologies and the consequent data deluge, official statistics faces new challenges and opportunities. In this context, strengthening official statistics through effective data governance will be crucial to ensure reliability, quality, and access to data. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for digital data governance for official statistics, addressing key components, such as data collection and management, processing and analysis, data sharing and dissemination, as well as privacy and ethical considerations. The framework integrates principles of data governance into digital statistical processes, enabling statistical organizations to navigate the complexities of the digital environment. Drawing on case studies and best practices, the paper highlights successful implementations of digital data governance in official statistics. The paper concludes by discussing future trends and directions, including emerging technologies and opportunities for advancing digital data governance. Full article

This paper aims to address the issue of evaluating the operation of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs). Previous studies have commonly employed the method of constructing comprehensive evaluation systems, which greatly relies on manual experience for index selection and weight allocation. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes an evaluation method based on natural language models for assessing the operation of charging stations. By utilizing the proposed SimCSEBERT model, this study analyzes the operational data, user charging data, and basic information of charging stations to predict the operational status and identify influential factors. Additionally, this study compared the evaluation accuracy and impact factor analysis accuracy of the baseline and the proposed model. The experimental results demonstrate that our model achieves a higher evaluation accuracy (operation evaluation accuracy = 0.9464; impact factor analysis accuracy = 0.9492) and effectively assesses the operation of EVCSs. Compared with traditional evaluation methods, this approach exhibits improved universality and a higher level of intelligence. It provides insights into the operation of EVCSs and user demands, allowing for the resolution of supply–demand contradictions that are caused by power supply constraints and the uneven distribution of charging demands. Furthermore, it offers guidance for more efficient and targeted strategies for the operation of charging stations. Full article

This study is devoted to the transcription of human speech in the Kazakh language in dynamically changing conditions. It discusses key aspects related to the phonetic structure of the Kazakh language, technical considerations in collecting the transcribed audio corpus, and the use of deep neural networks for speech modeling. A high-quality decoded audio corpus was collected, containing 554 h of data, giving an idea of the frequencies of letters and syllables, as well as demographic parameters such as the gender, age, and region of residence of native speakers. The corpus contains a universal vocabulary and serves as a valuable resource for the development of modules related to speech. Machine learning experiments were conducted using the DeepSpeech2 model, which includes a sequence-to-sequence architecture with an encoder, decoder, and attention mechanism. To increase the reliability of the model, filters initialized with symbol-level embeddings were introduced to reduce the dependence on accurate positioning on object maps. The training process included simultaneous preparation of convolutional filters for spectrograms and symbolic objects. The proposed approach, using a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning methods, resulted in a 66.7% reduction in the weight of the model while maintaining relative accuracy. The evaluation on the test sample showed a 7.6% lower character error rate (CER) compared to existing models, demonstrating its most modern characteristics. The proposed architecture provides deployment on platforms with limited resources. Overall, this study presents a high-quality audio corpus, an improved speech recognition model, and promising results applicable to speech-related applications and languages beyond Kazakh. Full article

At present, the design of modern vehicles requires improving driving performance while meeting emission standards, leading to increasingly complex power systems. In autonomous driving systems, accurate, real-time vehicle speed prediction is one of the key factors in achieving automated driving. Accurate prediction and optimal control based on future vehicle speeds are key strategies for dealing with ever-changing and complex actual driving environments. However, predicting driver behavior is uncertain and may be influenced by the surrounding driving environment, such as weather and road conditions. To overcome these limitations, we propose a real-time vehicle speed prediction method based on a lightweight deep learning model driven by big temporal data. Firstly, the temporal data collected by automotive sensors are decomposed into a feature matrix through empirical mode decomposition (EMD). Then, an informer model based on the attention mechanism is designed to extract key information for learning and prediction. During the iterative training process of the informer, redundant parameters are removed through importance measurement criteria to achieve real-time inference. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior speed prediction performance through comparing it with state-of-the-art statistical modelling methods and deep learning models. Tests on edge computing devices also confirmed that the designed model can meet the requirements of actual tasks. Full article

The digital transition that drives the new industrial revolution is largely driven by the application of intelligence and data. This boost leads to an increase in energy consumption, much of it associated with computing in data centers. This fact clashes with the growing need to save and improve energy efficiency and requires a more optimized use of resources. The deployment of new services in edge and cloud computing, virtualization, and software-defined networks requires a better understanding of consumption patterns aimed at more efficient and sustainable models and a reduction in carbon footprints. These patterns are suitable to be exploited by machine, deep, and reinforced learning techniques in pursuit of energy consumption optimization, which can ideally improve the energy efficiency of data centers and big computing servers providing these kinds of services. For the application of these techniques, it is essential to investigate data collection processes to create initial information points. Datasets also need to be created to analyze how to diagnose systems and sort out new ways of optimization. This work describes a data collection methodology used to create datasets that collect consumption data from a real-world work environment dedicated to data centers, server farms, or similar architectures. Specifically, it covers the entire process of energy stimuli generation, data extraction, and data preprocessing. The evaluation and reproduction of this method is offered to the scientific community through an online repository created for this work, which hosts all the code available for its download. Full article

Predicting traffic risk incidents in first-person helps to ensure a safety reaction can occur before the incident happens for a wide range of driving scenarios and conditions. One challenge to building advanced driver assistance systems is to create an early warning system for the driver to react safely and accurately while perceiving the diversity of traffic-risk predictions in real-world applications. In this paper, we aim to bridge the gap by investigating two key research questions regarding the driver’s current status of driving through online videos and the types of other moving objects that lead to dangerous situations. To address these problems, we proposed an end-to-end two-stage architecture: in the first stage, unsupervised learning is applied to collect all suspicious events on actual driving; in the second stage, supervised learning is used to classify all suspicious event results from the first stage to a common event type. To enrich the classification type, the metadata from the result of the first stage is sent to the second stage to handle the data limitation while training our classification model. Through the online situation, our method runs $9.60$ fps on average with $1.44$ fps on standard deviation. Our quantitative evaluation shows that our method reaches 81.87% and 73.43% for the average F1-score on labeled data of CST-S3D and real driving datasets, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed method has the potential to assist distribution companies in evaluating the driving performance of their driver by automatically monitoring near-miss events and analyzing driving patterns for training programs to reduce future accidents. Full article

Plant taxonomy is the scientific study of the classification and naming of various plant species. It is a branch of biology that aims to categorize and organize the diverse variety of plant life on earth. Traditionally, plant taxonomy has been performed using morphological and anatomical characteristics, such as leaf shape, flower structure, and seed and fruit characters. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and especially deep learning can also play an instrumental role in plant taxonomy by automating the process of categorizing plant species based on the available features. This study investigated transfer learning techniques to analyze images of plants and extract features that can be used to cluster the species hierarchically using the k-means clustering algorithm. Several pretrained deep learning models were employed and evaluated. In this regard, two separate datasets were used in the study comprising of seed images of wild plants collected from Egypt. Extensive experiments using the transfer learning method (DenseNet201) demonstrated that the proposed methods achieved superior accuracy compared to traditional methods with the highest accuracy of 93% and F1-score and area under the curve (AUC) of 95%, respectively. That is considerable in contrast to the state-of-the-art approaches in the literature. Full article

YouTube is a popular video-sharing platform that offers a diverse range of content. Assessing the quality of a video without watching it poses a significant challenge, especially considering the recent removal of the dislike count feature on YouTube. Although comments have the potential to provide insights into video content quality, navigating through the comments section can be time-consuming and overwhelming work for both content creators and viewers. This paper proposes an NLP-based model to classify Arabic comments as positive or negative. It was trained on a novel dataset of 4212 labeled comments, with a Kappa score of 0.818. The model uses six classifiers: SVM, Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, KNN, Decision Tree, and Random Forest. It achieved 94.62% accuracy and an MCC score of 91.46% with NB. Precision, Recall, and F1-measure for NB were 94.64%, 94.64%, and 94.62%, respectively. The Decision Tree had a suboptimal performance with 84.10% accuracy and an MCC score of 69.64% without TF-IDF. This study provides valuable insights for content creators to improve their content and audience engagement by analyzing viewers’ sentiments toward the videos. Furthermore, it bridges a literature gap by offering a comprehensive approach to Arabic sentiment analysis, which is currently limited in the field. Full article

The digital twin (DT) research field is experiencing rapid expansion; yet, the research on industrial practices in this area remains poorly understood. This paper aims to address this knowledge gap by sharing feedback and future requirements from the manufacturing industry. The methodology employed in this study involves an examination of a survey that received 99 responses and interviews with 14 experts from 10 prominent UK organisations, most of which are involved in the defence industry in the UK. The survey and interviews explored topics such as DT design, return on investment, drivers, inhibitors, and future directions for DT development in manufacturing. This study’s findings indicate that DTs should possess characteristics such as adaptability, scalability, interoperability, and the ability to support assets throughout their entire life cycle. On average, completed DT projects reach the breakeven point in less than two years. The primary motivators behind DT development were identified to be autonomy, customer satisfaction, safety, awareness, optimisation, and sustainability. Meanwhile, the main obstacles include a lack of expertise, funding, and interoperability. This study concludes that the federation of twins and a paradigm shift in industrial thinking are essential components for the future of DT development. Full article

The adoption of business analytics (BA) has become increasingly important for organizations seeking to gain a competitive edge in today’s data-driven business landscape. Hence, understanding the key factors influencing the adoption of BA at the organizational level is decisive for the successful implementation of these technologies. This paper presents a systematic literature review that utilizes the PRISMA technique to investigate the organizational, technological, and environmental factors that affect the adoption of BA. By conducting a thorough examination of pertinent research, this review consolidates the current understanding and pinpoints essential elements that shape the process of adoption. Out of a total of 614 articles published between 2012 and 2022, 29 final articles were carefully chosen. The findings highlight the significance of organizational factors, technological factors, and environmental factors in shaping the adoption of the BA process. By consolidating and analyzing the current body of research, this paper offers valuable insights for organizations aiming to adopt BA successfully and maximize their benefits at the organizational level. The synthesized findings also contribute to the existing literature and provide a foundation for future research in this field. Full article