The ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices as essential platforms for sensitive data transmission has heightened the demand for secure client-server communication.Although various authentication and key agreement proto...The ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices as essential platforms for sensitive data transmission has heightened the demand for secure client-server communication.Although various authentication and key agreement protocols have been developed,current approaches are constrained by homogeneous cryptosystem frameworks,namely public key infrastructure(PKI),identity-based cryptography(IBC),or certificateless cryptography(CLC),each presenting limitations in client-server architectures.Specifically,PKI incurs certificate management overhead,IBC introduces key escrow risks,and CLC encounters cross-system interoperability challenges.To overcome these shortcomings,this study introduces a heterogeneous signcryption-based authentication and key agreement protocol that synergistically integrates IBC for client operations(eliminating PKI’s certificate dependency)with CLC for server implementation(mitigating IBC’s key escrow issue while preserving efficiency).Rigorous security analysis under the mBR(modified Bellare-Rogaway)model confirms the protocol’s resistance to adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks.Quantitative comparisons demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves 10.08%–71.34%lower communication overhead than existing schemes across multiple security levels(80-,112-,and 128-bit)compared to existing protocols.展开更多
Accurate purchase prediction in e-commerce critically depends on the quality of behavioral features.This paper proposes a layered and interpretable feature engineering framework that organizes user signals into three ...Accurate purchase prediction in e-commerce critically depends on the quality of behavioral features.This paper proposes a layered and interpretable feature engineering framework that organizes user signals into three layers:Basic,Conversion&Stability(efficiency and volatility across actions),and Advanced Interactions&Activity(crossbehavior synergies and intensity).Using real Taobao(Alibaba’s primary e-commerce platform)logs(57,976 records for 10,203 users;25 November–03 December 2017),we conducted a hierarchical,layer-wise evaluation that holds data splits and hyperparameters fixed while varying only the feature set to quantify each layer’s marginal contribution.Across logistic regression(LR),decision tree,random forest,XGBoost,and CatBoost models with stratified 5-fold cross-validation,the performance improvedmonotonically fromBasic to Conversion&Stability to Advanced features.With LR,F1 increased from 0.613(Basic)to 0.962(Advanced);boosted models achieved high discrimination(0.995 AUC Score)and an F1 score up to 0.983.Calibration and precision–recall analyses indicated strong ranking quality and acknowledged potential dataset and period biases given the short(9-day)window.By making feature contributions measurable and reproducible,the framework complements model-centric advances and offers a transparent blueprint for production-grade behavioralmodeling.The code and processed artifacts are publicly available,and future work will extend the validation to longer,seasonal datasets and hybrid approaches that combine automated feature learning with domain-driven design.展开更多
The advent of sixth-generation(6G)networks introduces unprecedented challenges in achieving seamless connectivity,ultra-low latency,and efficient resource management in highly dynamic environments.Although fifth-gener...The advent of sixth-generation(6G)networks introduces unprecedented challenges in achieving seamless connectivity,ultra-low latency,and efficient resource management in highly dynamic environments.Although fifth-generation(5G)networks transformed mobile broadband and machine-type communications at massive scales,their properties of scaling,interference management,and latency remain a limitation in dense high mobility settings.To overcome these limitations,artificial intelligence(AI)and unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)have emerged as potential solutions to develop versatile,dynamic,and energy-efficient communication systems.The study proposes an AI-based UAV architecture that utilizes cooperative reinforcement learning(CoRL)to manage an autonomous network.The UAVs collaborate by sharing local observations and real-time state exchanges to optimize user connectivity,movement directions,allocate power,and resource distribution.Unlike conventional centralized or autonomous methods,CoRL involves joint state sharing and conflict-sensitive reward shaping,which ensures fair coverage,less interference,and enhanced adaptability in a dynamic urban environment.Simulations conducted in smart city scenarios with 10 UAVs and 50 ground users demonstrate that the proposed CoRL-based UAV system increases user coverage by up to 10%,achieves convergence 40%faster,and reduces latency and energy consumption by 30%compared with centralized and decentralized baselines.Furthermore,the distributed nature of the algorithm ensures scalability and flexibility,making it well-suited for future large-scale 6G deployments.The results highlighted that AI-enabled UAV systems enhance connectivity,support ultra-reliable low-latency communications(URLLC),and improve 6G network efficiency.Future work will extend the framework with adaptive modulation,beamforming-aware positioning,and real-world testbed deployment.展开更多
To illustrate how firms and customers co-create value in business to business （B2B） e-commerce, an integrated value co-creation model is proposed based on information systems （IS） application capabilities from the...To illustrate how firms and customers co-create value in business to business （B2B） e-commerce, an integrated value co-creation model is proposed based on information systems （IS） application capabilities from the relational view. IS application capabilities, relational assets, customer agility and relational value are constructed and tested by empirical analysis. The empirical research tests and verifies the mediating effect of customer agility, and the interactions of IS application capabilities and relational assets, as well as their effect on relational value. This model expands the research framework of value co-creation in service dominant logic, and reveals the mechanism of how f＇n＇ms and customers co-create value in B2B e-commerce based on IS application capabilities, which provides the basis for further theory development and a practice guide.展开更多
Compared with common intelligent service,full-scene intelligent service has its uniqueness in high integration,synergy,and technological spillover.However,the traditional service or business model theories cannot prec...Compared with common intelligent service,full-scene intelligent service has its uniqueness in high integration,synergy,and technological spillover.However,the traditional service or business model theories cannot precisely elaborate its sociotechnical contextual nature and value creation logic.To fill this knowledge gap,we provide initial insights into the value co-creation logic in full-scene intelligent service by exploring the value co-creation elements using a data-driven text mining approach.We analyzed 171 business reports on the full-scene intelligent service by the topic modeling using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA).The findings reveal three main clusters:value proposition,participants,and connection platform.This study presents a theoretical framework for a further exploratory case study and quantitative research on full-scene intelligent service.This study also helps small and medium-sized enterprises to explore and exploit value co-creation opportunities.展开更多
<strong>Background</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>:</strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> <...<strong>Background</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>:</strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sexual health needs are insufficiently met for persons living </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">with rheumatological diseases and it is necessary to create better ways to meet </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">these needs.</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To co-create a working model to improve sexual </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">health for persons living with rheumatological diseases, that can be used by rheumatological teams in regular rheumatology practice. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">Design</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">This study </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">applied a co-creation design with three key features: 1) it took a systems perspec</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">tive with emergent multiple interactive entities;2) the research process was</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;"> viewed as a creative endeavour with strong links to design, while human imagination and the individual experience of patient and staff were at the core of the creative design effort;3) the process of the co-creative efforts was as important as the generated product. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">Results</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A model defining the role of the patient, the professionals, and the team in optimizing sexual health for persons living with rheumatological diseases was co-created. The model can be seen as a practice guideline, which includes the support needed from and to each participant in the process of promoting sexual health, while being within the professional scope of the professionals</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">’</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> knowledge and capacity, and in line with the needs of the persons living with rheumatological diseases.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Discussion and Conclusions</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The co-creative work process identified crucial factors in promoting sexual health, resulting in a useful model for patients, professionals and teams. Co-creation was experienced to be a useful research design to improve rheumatological care, through valuing and using the competence of all research members equally.</span>展开更多
Establishing a sense of ritual within tourism consumption scenarios offers tourists the opportunity for interactive engagement.Drawing upon the value co-creation theory,this study constructed an influence mechanism mo...Establishing a sense of ritual within tourism consumption scenarios offers tourists the opportunity for interactive engagement.Drawing upon the value co-creation theory,this study constructed an influence mechanism model to examine tourists'active engagement in the process of co-creating tourism experience values.It employed Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling(PLS-SEM)to empirically test the proposed hypotheses.The findings demonstrate that the model constructed in the present study exhibits robust reliability,validity,and explanatory power.The perception of the sense of ritual in tourism exerts a significant positive influence on tourists’co-creation of tourism experience values,thereby significantly enhancing both the communitas and flow experienced by tourists during their travels.Moreover,such communitas and flow can mediate the influence of the sense of ritual in tourism on tourists’co-creation of tourism experience values.This study contributes to advancing the current research on tourists’co-creation of tourism experience values and the sense of ritual in tourism,thereby providing theoretical foundations for cultivating a sense of ritual within tourism consumption scenarios.展开更多
The purpose of this study aims to explore the impacts of task-based co-creation of local picture books on facilitating the development of vocabulary ability and cultural knowledge ofEFL 5th graders with different Engl...The purpose of this study aims to explore the impacts of task-based co-creation of local picture books on facilitating the development of vocabulary ability and cultural knowledge ofEFL 5th graders with different English proficiency levels in Taiwan,China.Twenty-one 5th graders participated in this study forty minutes per week,lasting for sixteen weeks.They were required to co-create English picture books of Pinghu through thematic task-based activities.Research data required for the study were collected through the pre-/post-tests of vocabulary and cultural knowledge,a participants'feedback questionnaire as well as semi-structured interviews.The results of this study showed that after experimental instruction,EFL 5th graders significantly improved their recognition of the connection between English word sounds and word meanings,word meanings and word forms,word forms and word meanings,as well as spellings.Moreover,their local cultural knowledge was improved significantly as well.Furthermore,based upon the 5th graders'responses to questionnaire and semi-structure interview,most of them developed a very positive attitude towards the activities of co-creating local picture books and their interest,self-confidence in English writing,and English learning behavior.Based on the findings,some suggestions were offered for the pedagogical applications and future studies.展开更多
Today,the e-commerce live broadcast industry has formed a huge market,and it has become one of the important ways for most netizens to purchase goods.Live streaming has brought new opportunities for e-commerce and new...Today,the e-commerce live broadcast industry has formed a huge market,and it has become one of the important ways for most netizens to purchase goods.Live streaming has brought new opportunities for e-commerce and new growth for brand value.The interaction between brands and customers has gradually expanded,in this case,the importance of value co-creation has become more and more prominent.This article will take e-commerce live broadcast marketing as the research object,and the brand value co-creation as the research perspective,then provide a direction based on the value co-creation perspective for the healthy and long-term development of e-commerce live broadcast marketing by studying and analyzing the cases of brand value co-creation.展开更多
The objective of this work is to understand how the process of co-creation occurs within the creative industry of video games. For this, concepts of the creative industry, co-creation, information and communication te...The objective of this work is to understand how the process of co-creation occurs within the creative industry of video games. For this, concepts of the creative industry, co-creation, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and innovation were studied. Since this is an exploratory and qualitative research, a single case study was chosen as a method. The analysis was done in a Brazilian company that develops games for mobile devices. The results show that the consumer (gamer) participates in value creation in the company’s products, mainly in the initial production stages. In the later phases, after the launch and other steps of the life cycle, although there is a relationship with the users, the joint creation of value is little explored by the organization. Also, it was verified that the co-creation process is supported by different information and communication tools, which provide agility to the process.展开更多
In this paper,we investigate a multi-UAV aided NOMA communication system,where multiple UAV-mounted aerial base stations are employed to serve ground users in the downlink NOMA communication,and each UAV serves its as...In this paper,we investigate a multi-UAV aided NOMA communication system,where multiple UAV-mounted aerial base stations are employed to serve ground users in the downlink NOMA communication,and each UAV serves its associated users on its own bandwidth.We aim at maximizing the overall common throughput in a finite time period.Such a problem is a typical mixed integer nonlinear problem,which involves both continuous-variable and combinatorial optimizations.To efficiently solve this problem,we propose a two-layer algorithm,which separately tackles continuous-variable and combinatorial optimization.Specifically,in the inner layer given one user association scheme,subproblems of bandwidth allocation,power allocation and trajectory design are solved based on alternating optimization.In the outer layer,a small number of candidate user association schemes are generated from an initial scheme and the best solution can be determined by comparing all the candidate schemes.In particular,a clustering algorithm based on K-means is applied to produce all candidate user association schemes,the successive convex optimization technique is adopted in the power allocation subproblem and a logistic function approximation approach is employed in the trajectory design subproblem.Simulation results show that the proposed NOMA scheme outperforms three baseline schemes in downlink common throughput,including one solution proposed in an existing literature.展开更多
Objectives:This study aimed to explore the effectiveness and advantages of an“Internet+”nursing model based on user profilingin the rehabilitation of postoperative breast cancer patients.Methods:Breast cancer patien...Objectives:This study aimed to explore the effectiveness and advantages of an“Internet+”nursing model based on user profilingin the rehabilitation of postoperative breast cancer patients.Methods:Breast cancer patients admitted to the hospital from July 2023 to September 2024 were enrolled.These patients were randomly assigned to a control group and an intervention group,with 52 patients in each group.The control group received routine nursing care,while the intervention group received an“Internet+”nursing intervention based on user profilingin addition to routine care.The intervention period lasted for one month following discharge.Before and one month after the intervention,the Fear of Progression Questionnaire-Short Form(FOP-Q-SF),the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory-Short Form(FCRI-SF),Chinese Posttraumatic Growth Inventory(C-PTGI),and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast(FACT-B)were applied to assess the effects of interventions.Results:A total of 104 patients were analyzed.After the intervention,FOP-Q-SF and FCRI-SF scores were significantlylower in the intervention group compared to the control group,with statistical significance(t=3.98,P<0.001;t=-7.59,P<0.001),and Cohen’s d of 0.781 and 1.49,respectively.Additionally,CPTGI and FACT-B scores in the intervention group were significantly higher than those in the control group(t=-6.534,P<0.001;t=-4.579,P<0.001),with Cohen’s d of 0.585 and 0.656.Conclusions:An“Internet+”nursing model based on user profilingcould reduce postoperative breast cancer patients fear of disease progression and cancer recurrence,also enhancing posttraumatic growth and overall quality of life.展开更多
A recommender system is a tool designed to suggest relevant items to users based on their preferences and behaviors.Collaborative filtering,a popular technique within recommender systems,predicts user interests by ana...A recommender system is a tool designed to suggest relevant items to users based on their preferences and behaviors.Collaborative filtering,a popular technique within recommender systems,predicts user interests by analyzing patterns in interactions and similarities between users,leveraging past behavior data to make personalized recommendations.Despite its popularity,collaborative filtering faces notable challenges,and one of them is the issue of grey-sheep users who have unusual tastes in the system.Surprisingly,existing research has not extensively explored outlier detection techniques to address the grey-sheep problem.To fill this research gap,this study conducts a comprehensive comparison of 12 outlier detectionmethods(such as LOF,ABOD,HBOS,etc.)and introduces innovative user representations aimed at improving the identification of outliers within recommender systems.More specifically,we proposed and examined three types of user representations:1)the distribution statistics of user-user similarities,where similarities were calculated based on users’rating vectors;2)the distribution statistics of user-user similarities,but with similarities derived from users represented by latent factors;and 3)latent-factor vector representations.Our experiments on the Movie Lens and Yahoo!Movie datasets demonstrate that user representations based on latent-factor vectors consistently facilitate the identification of more grey-sheep users when applying outlier detection methods.展开更多
This study introduces an advanced recommender system for technology enhanced learning(TEL)that synergizes neural collaborative filtering,sentiment analysis,and an adaptive learning rate to address the limitations of t...This study introduces an advanced recommender system for technology enhanced learning(TEL)that synergizes neural collaborative filtering,sentiment analysis,and an adaptive learning rate to address the limitations of traditional TEL systems.Recognizing the critical gap in existing approaches—primarily their neglect of user emotional feedback and static learning paths—our model innovatively incorporates sentiment analysis to capture and respond to nuanced emotional feedback from users.Utilizing bidirectional encoder representations from Transformers for sentiment analysis,our system not only understands but also respects user privacy by processing feedback without revealing sensitive information.The adaptive learning rate,inspired by AdaGrad,allows our model to adjust its learning trajectory based on the sentiment scores associated with user feedback,ensuring a dynamic response to both positive and negative sentiments.This dual approach enhances the system’s adapt-ability to changing user preferences and improves its contentment understanding.Our methodology involves a comprehensive analysis of both the content of learning materials and the behaviors and preferences of learners,facilitating a more personalized learning experience.By dynamically adjusting recommendations based on real-time user data and behavioral analysis,our system leverages the collective insights of similar users and rele-vant content.We validated our approach against three datasets-MovieLens,Amazon,and a proprietary TEL dataset—and saw significant improvements in recommendation precision,F-score,and mean absolute error.The results indicate the potential of integrating sentiment analysis and adaptive learning rates into TEL recommender systems,marking a step forward in developing more responsive and user-centric educational technologies.This study paves the way for future advancements in TEL systems,emphasizing the importance of emotional intelli-gence and adaptability in enhancing the learning experience.展开更多
The space-air-ground integrated network(SAGIN)is an important sixth-generation(6G)scenario that is enabled by dynamic spot beam forming by a phased array antenna(PAA).The extremely high mobility of satellites and more...The space-air-ground integrated network(SAGIN)is an important sixth-generation(6G)scenario that is enabled by dynamic spot beam forming by a phased array antenna(PAA).The extremely high mobility of satellites and more complicated radio resource control(RRC)have brought introduced a new challenge,and the issue of determining appropriate moments and procedures for executing handover(HO)for all users in a coverage area is urgent.The existing research considers the users as an entirety,and it determines the HO moment under the assumption that all of the satellite subpoints(SSP)pass through the centre of the cell.However,when using this scheme,the HO failure ratio(HOFR)would experience great degradation caused by the imbalance between the unified HO moments and the uncertain spatial distribution of users’(SDU)spatial-temporal variation.This paper proposes a novel HO moment determination method for a low-orbit satellite internet network(LEO-SIN).The rules of SDU variance under SSP motion are first proposed,and they calculate dynamic UE requests within the constraints of the footprint boundary and with SSP motions.Then,we first formulate the problems of multiuser-directed graphs for HO moment determination and prove that it is a nondeterministic polynomial-time(NP)hard problem.An animal survival algorithm based on the Dingo of algorithm(DOA)is proposed to solve the above problems.Multiuser fused directed graphs are first designed to determine HO moments based on the rules of SDU variation and the animal survival algorithm.The simulations show that the proposed method has a better HO performance for LEO-SIN.展开更多
Background The redirected walking(RDW)method for multi-user collaboration requires maintaining the relative position between users in a virtual environment(VE)and physical environment(PE).A chasing game in a VE is a t...Background The redirected walking(RDW)method for multi-user collaboration requires maintaining the relative position between users in a virtual environment(VE)and physical environment(PE).A chasing game in a VE is a typical virtual reality game that entails multi-user collaboration.When a user approaches and interacts with a target user in the VE,the user is expected to approach and interact with the target user in the corresponding PE as well.Existing methods of multi-user RDW mainly focus on obstacle avoidance,which does not account for the relative positional relationship between the users in both VE and PE.Methods To enhance the user experience and facilitate potential interaction,this paper presents a novel dynamic alignment algorithm for multi-user collaborative redirected walking(DA-RDW)in a shared PE where the target user and other users are moving.This algorithm adopts improved artificial potential fields,where the repulsive force is a function of the relative position and velocity of the user with respect to dynamic obstacles.For the best alignment,this algorithm sets the alignment-guidance force in several cases and then converts it into a constrained optimization problem to obtain the optimal direction.Moreover,this algorithm introduces a potential interaction object selection strategy for a dynamically uncertain environment to speed up the subsequent alignment.To balance obstacle avoidance and alignment,this algorithm uses the dynamic weightings of the virtual and physical distances between users and the target to determine the resultant force vector.Results The efficacy of the proposed method was evaluated using a series of simulations and live-user experiments.The experimental results demonstrate that our novel dynamic alignment method for multi-user collaborative redirected walking can reduce the distance error in both VE and PE to improve alignment with fewer collisions.展开更多
In offshore maritime communication sys-tems,base stations(BSs)are employed along the coastline to provide high-speed data service for ves-sels in coastal sea areas.To ensure the line-of-sight propagation of BS-vessel ...In offshore maritime communication sys-tems,base stations(BSs)are employed along the coastline to provide high-speed data service for ves-sels in coastal sea areas.To ensure the line-of-sight propagation of BS-vessel links,high transceiver an-tenna height is required,which limits the number of geographically available sites for BS deployment,and imposes a high cost for realizing effective wide-area coverage.In this paper,the joint user association and power allocation(JUAPA)problem is investigated to enhance the coverage of offshore maritime systems.By exploiting the characteristics of network topology as well as vessels’motion in offshore communica-tions,a multi-period JUAPA problem is formulated to maximize the number of ships that can be simultane-ously served by the network.This JUAPA problem is intrinsically non-convex and subject to mixed-integer constraints,which is difficult to solve either analyt-ically or numerically.Hence,we propose an iterative augmentation based framework to efficiently select the active vessels,where the JUAPA scheme is iteratively optimized by the network for increasing the number of the selected vessels.More specifically,in each itera-tion,the user association variables and power alloca-tion variables are determined by solving two separate subproblems,so that the JUAPA strategy can be up-dated in a low-complexity manner.The performance of the proposed JUAPA method is evaluated by exten-sive simulation,and numerical results indicate that it can effectively increase the number of vessels served by the network,and thus enhances the coverage of off-shore systems.展开更多
With the rapid development of the Internet and e-commerce,e-commerce platforms have accumulated huge amounts of user behavior data.The emergence of big data technology provides a powerful means for in-depth analysis o...With the rapid development of the Internet and e-commerce,e-commerce platforms have accumulated huge amounts of user behavior data.The emergence of big data technology provides a powerful means for in-depth analysis of these data and insight into user behavior patterns and preferences.This paper elaborates on the application of big data technology in the analysis of user behavior on e-commerce platforms,including the technical methods of data collection,storage,processing and analysis,as well as the specific applications in the construction of user profiles,precision marketing,personalized recommendation,user retention and churn analysis,etc.,and discusses the challenges and countermeasures faced in the application.Through the study of actual cases,it demonstrates the remarkable effectiveness of big data technology in enhancing the competitiveness of e-commerce platforms and user experience.展开更多
Using the existing positioning technology can easily obtain high-precision positioning information,which can save resources and reduce complexity when used in the communication field.In this paper,we propose a locatio...Using the existing positioning technology can easily obtain high-precision positioning information,which can save resources and reduce complexity when used in the communication field.In this paper,we propose a location-based user scheduling and beamforming scheme for the downlink of a massive multi-user input-output system.Specifically,we combine an analog outer beamformer with a digital inner beamformer.An outer beamformer can be selected from a codebook formed by antenna steering vectors,and then a reduced-complexity inner beamformer based on iterative orthogonal matrices and right triangular matrices(QR)decomposition is applied to cancel interuser interference.Then,we propose a low-complexity user selection algorithm using location information in this paper.We first derive the geometric angle between channel matrices,which represent the correlation between users.Furthermore,we derive the asymptotic signal to interference-plus-noise ratio(SINR)of the system in the context of two-stage beamforming using random matrix theory(RMT),taking into account inter-channel correlations and energies.Simulation results show that the algorithm can achieve higher system and speed while reducing computational complexity.展开更多
基金supported by the Key Project of Science and Technology Research by Chongqing Education Commission under Grant KJZD-K202400610the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation General Project Grant CSTB2025NSCQ-GPX1263.
文摘The ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices as essential platforms for sensitive data transmission has heightened the demand for secure client-server communication.Although various authentication and key agreement protocols have been developed,current approaches are constrained by homogeneous cryptosystem frameworks,namely public key infrastructure(PKI),identity-based cryptography(IBC),or certificateless cryptography(CLC),each presenting limitations in client-server architectures.Specifically,PKI incurs certificate management overhead,IBC introduces key escrow risks,and CLC encounters cross-system interoperability challenges.To overcome these shortcomings,this study introduces a heterogeneous signcryption-based authentication and key agreement protocol that synergistically integrates IBC for client operations(eliminating PKI’s certificate dependency)with CLC for server implementation(mitigating IBC’s key escrow issue while preserving efficiency).Rigorous security analysis under the mBR(modified Bellare-Rogaway)model confirms the protocol’s resistance to adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks.Quantitative comparisons demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves 10.08%–71.34%lower communication overhead than existing schemes across multiple security levels(80-,112-,and 128-bit)compared to existing protocols.
基金supported by the research fund of Hanyang University(HY-202500000001616).
文摘Accurate purchase prediction in e-commerce critically depends on the quality of behavioral features.This paper proposes a layered and interpretable feature engineering framework that organizes user signals into three layers:Basic,Conversion&Stability(efficiency and volatility across actions),and Advanced Interactions&Activity(crossbehavior synergies and intensity).Using real Taobao(Alibaba’s primary e-commerce platform)logs(57,976 records for 10,203 users;25 November–03 December 2017),we conducted a hierarchical,layer-wise evaluation that holds data splits and hyperparameters fixed while varying only the feature set to quantify each layer’s marginal contribution.Across logistic regression(LR),decision tree,random forest,XGBoost,and CatBoost models with stratified 5-fold cross-validation,the performance improvedmonotonically fromBasic to Conversion&Stability to Advanced features.With LR,F1 increased from 0.613(Basic)to 0.962(Advanced);boosted models achieved high discrimination(0.995 AUC Score)and an F1 score up to 0.983.Calibration and precision–recall analyses indicated strong ranking quality and acknowledged potential dataset and period biases given the short(9-day)window.By making feature contributions measurable and reproducible,the framework complements model-centric advances and offers a transparent blueprint for production-grade behavioralmodeling.The code and processed artifacts are publicly available,and future work will extend the validation to longer,seasonal datasets and hybrid approaches that combine automated feature learning with domain-driven design.
基金supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(RS-2025-00559546)supported by the IITP(Institute of Information&Coummunications Technology Planning&Evaluation)-ITRC(Information Technology Research Center)grant funded by the Korea government(Ministry of Science and ICT)(IITP-2025-RS-2023-00259004).
文摘The advent of sixth-generation(6G)networks introduces unprecedented challenges in achieving seamless connectivity,ultra-low latency,and efficient resource management in highly dynamic environments.Although fifth-generation(5G)networks transformed mobile broadband and machine-type communications at massive scales,their properties of scaling,interference management,and latency remain a limitation in dense high mobility settings.To overcome these limitations,artificial intelligence(AI)and unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)have emerged as potential solutions to develop versatile,dynamic,and energy-efficient communication systems.The study proposes an AI-based UAV architecture that utilizes cooperative reinforcement learning(CoRL)to manage an autonomous network.The UAVs collaborate by sharing local observations and real-time state exchanges to optimize user connectivity,movement directions,allocate power,and resource distribution.Unlike conventional centralized or autonomous methods,CoRL involves joint state sharing and conflict-sensitive reward shaping,which ensures fair coverage,less interference,and enhanced adaptability in a dynamic urban environment.Simulations conducted in smart city scenarios with 10 UAVs and 50 ground users demonstrate that the proposed CoRL-based UAV system increases user coverage by up to 10%,achieves convergence 40%faster,and reduces latency and energy consumption by 30%compared with centralized and decentralized baselines.Furthermore,the distributed nature of the algorithm ensures scalability and flexibility,making it well-suited for future large-scale 6G deployments.The results highlighted that AI-enabled UAV systems enhance connectivity,support ultra-reliable low-latency communications(URLLC),and improve 6G network efficiency.Future work will extend the framework with adaptive modulation,beamforming-aware positioning,and real-world testbed deployment.
基金The National Science&Technology Pillar Program of China(No.2012BAH29F01)the Innovation Project for Postgraduate Education of Jiangsu Province(No.3214003911)
文摘To illustrate how firms and customers co-create value in business to business （B2B） e-commerce, an integrated value co-creation model is proposed based on information systems （IS） application capabilities from the relational view. IS application capabilities, relational assets, customer agility and relational value are constructed and tested by empirical analysis. The empirical research tests and verifies the mediating effect of customer agility, and the interactions of IS application capabilities and relational assets, as well as their effect on relational value. This model expands the research framework of value co-creation in service dominant logic, and reveals the mechanism of how f＇n＇ms and customers co-create value in B2B e-commerce based on IS application capabilities, which provides the basis for further theory development and a practice guide.
基金The authors thank seminar participants at the China Academic Conference on Computer Simulation and Information Technology for their helpful comments.
文摘Compared with common intelligent service,full-scene intelligent service has its uniqueness in high integration,synergy,and technological spillover.However,the traditional service or business model theories cannot precisely elaborate its sociotechnical contextual nature and value creation logic.To fill this knowledge gap,we provide initial insights into the value co-creation logic in full-scene intelligent service by exploring the value co-creation elements using a data-driven text mining approach.We analyzed 171 business reports on the full-scene intelligent service by the topic modeling using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA).The findings reveal three main clusters:value proposition,participants,and connection platform.This study presents a theoretical framework for a further exploratory case study and quantitative research on full-scene intelligent service.This study also helps small and medium-sized enterprises to explore and exploit value co-creation opportunities.
文摘<strong>Background</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>:</strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sexual health needs are insufficiently met for persons living </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">with rheumatological diseases and it is necessary to create better ways to meet </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">these needs.</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To co-create a working model to improve sexual </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">health for persons living with rheumatological diseases, that can be used by rheumatological teams in regular rheumatology practice. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">Design</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">This study </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">applied a co-creation design with three key features: 1) it took a systems perspec</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">tive with emergent multiple interactive entities;2) the research process was</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;"> viewed as a creative endeavour with strong links to design, while human imagination and the individual experience of patient and staff were at the core of the creative design effort;3) the process of the co-creative efforts was as important as the generated product. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;">Results</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A model defining the role of the patient, the professionals, and the team in optimizing sexual health for persons living with rheumatological diseases was co-created. The model can be seen as a practice guideline, which includes the support needed from and to each participant in the process of promoting sexual health, while being within the professional scope of the professionals</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">’</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> knowledge and capacity, and in line with the needs of the persons living with rheumatological diseases.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Discussion and Conclusions</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The co-creative work process identified crucial factors in promoting sexual health, resulting in a useful model for patients, professionals and teams. Co-creation was experienced to be a useful research design to improve rheumatological care, through valuing and using the competence of all research members equally.</span>
基金This study was supported by the Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education(No.23YJA790070)the Graduate Innovation Research Project of Southwest Minzu University(No.YB2022621)the Research Project of BCIMY(No.BCIMY1910).
文摘Establishing a sense of ritual within tourism consumption scenarios offers tourists the opportunity for interactive engagement.Drawing upon the value co-creation theory,this study constructed an influence mechanism model to examine tourists'active engagement in the process of co-creating tourism experience values.It employed Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling(PLS-SEM)to empirically test the proposed hypotheses.The findings demonstrate that the model constructed in the present study exhibits robust reliability,validity,and explanatory power.The perception of the sense of ritual in tourism exerts a significant positive influence on tourists’co-creation of tourism experience values,thereby significantly enhancing both the communitas and flow experienced by tourists during their travels.Moreover,such communitas and flow can mediate the influence of the sense of ritual in tourism on tourists’co-creation of tourism experience values.This study contributes to advancing the current research on tourists’co-creation of tourism experience values and the sense of ritual in tourism,thereby providing theoretical foundations for cultivating a sense of ritual within tourism consumption scenarios.
文摘The purpose of this study aims to explore the impacts of task-based co-creation of local picture books on facilitating the development of vocabulary ability and cultural knowledge ofEFL 5th graders with different English proficiency levels in Taiwan,China.Twenty-one 5th graders participated in this study forty minutes per week,lasting for sixteen weeks.They were required to co-create English picture books of Pinghu through thematic task-based activities.Research data required for the study were collected through the pre-/post-tests of vocabulary and cultural knowledge,a participants'feedback questionnaire as well as semi-structured interviews.The results of this study showed that after experimental instruction,EFL 5th graders significantly improved their recognition of the connection between English word sounds and word meanings,word meanings and word forms,word forms and word meanings,as well as spellings.Moreover,their local cultural knowledge was improved significantly as well.Furthermore,based upon the 5th graders'responses to questionnaire and semi-structure interview,most of them developed a very positive attitude towards the activities of co-creating local picture books and their interest,self-confidence in English writing,and English learning behavior.Based on the findings,some suggestions were offered for the pedagogical applications and future studies.
文摘Today,the e-commerce live broadcast industry has formed a huge market,and it has become one of the important ways for most netizens to purchase goods.Live streaming has brought new opportunities for e-commerce and new growth for brand value.The interaction between brands and customers has gradually expanded,in this case,the importance of value co-creation has become more and more prominent.This article will take e-commerce live broadcast marketing as the research object,and the brand value co-creation as the research perspective,then provide a direction based on the value co-creation perspective for the healthy and long-term development of e-commerce live broadcast marketing by studying and analyzing the cases of brand value co-creation.
文摘The objective of this work is to understand how the process of co-creation occurs within the creative industry of video games. For this, concepts of the creative industry, co-creation, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and innovation were studied. Since this is an exploratory and qualitative research, a single case study was chosen as a method. The analysis was done in a Brazilian company that develops games for mobile devices. The results show that the consumer (gamer) participates in value creation in the company’s products, mainly in the initial production stages. In the later phases, after the launch and other steps of the life cycle, although there is a relationship with the users, the joint creation of value is little explored by the organization. Also, it was verified that the co-creation process is supported by different information and communication tools, which provide agility to the process.
基金supported by Beijing Natural Science Fund–Haidian Original Innovation Joint Fund(L232040 and L232045).
文摘In this paper,we investigate a multi-UAV aided NOMA communication system,where multiple UAV-mounted aerial base stations are employed to serve ground users in the downlink NOMA communication,and each UAV serves its associated users on its own bandwidth.We aim at maximizing the overall common throughput in a finite time period.Such a problem is a typical mixed integer nonlinear problem,which involves both continuous-variable and combinatorial optimizations.To efficiently solve this problem,we propose a two-layer algorithm,which separately tackles continuous-variable and combinatorial optimization.Specifically,in the inner layer given one user association scheme,subproblems of bandwidth allocation,power allocation and trajectory design are solved based on alternating optimization.In the outer layer,a small number of candidate user association schemes are generated from an initial scheme and the best solution can be determined by comparing all the candidate schemes.In particular,a clustering algorithm based on K-means is applied to produce all candidate user association schemes,the successive convex optimization technique is adopted in the power allocation subproblem and a logistic function approximation approach is employed in the trajectory design subproblem.Simulation results show that the proposed NOMA scheme outperforms three baseline schemes in downlink common throughput,including one solution proposed in an existing literature.
基金funded by the 2023 Hospital Management Innovation Research Project by the Jiangsu Hospital Association(No.JSYGY-2-2023-551)。
文摘Objectives:This study aimed to explore the effectiveness and advantages of an“Internet+”nursing model based on user profilingin the rehabilitation of postoperative breast cancer patients.Methods:Breast cancer patients admitted to the hospital from July 2023 to September 2024 were enrolled.These patients were randomly assigned to a control group and an intervention group,with 52 patients in each group.The control group received routine nursing care,while the intervention group received an“Internet+”nursing intervention based on user profilingin addition to routine care.The intervention period lasted for one month following discharge.Before and one month after the intervention,the Fear of Progression Questionnaire-Short Form(FOP-Q-SF),the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory-Short Form(FCRI-SF),Chinese Posttraumatic Growth Inventory(C-PTGI),and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast(FACT-B)were applied to assess the effects of interventions.Results:A total of 104 patients were analyzed.After the intervention,FOP-Q-SF and FCRI-SF scores were significantlylower in the intervention group compared to the control group,with statistical significance(t=3.98,P<0.001;t=-7.59,P<0.001),and Cohen’s d of 0.781 and 1.49,respectively.Additionally,CPTGI and FACT-B scores in the intervention group were significantly higher than those in the control group(t=-6.534,P<0.001;t=-4.579,P<0.001),with Cohen’s d of 0.585 and 0.656.Conclusions:An“Internet+”nursing model based on user profilingcould reduce postoperative breast cancer patients fear of disease progression and cancer recurrence,also enhancing posttraumatic growth and overall quality of life.
文摘A recommender system is a tool designed to suggest relevant items to users based on their preferences and behaviors.Collaborative filtering,a popular technique within recommender systems,predicts user interests by analyzing patterns in interactions and similarities between users,leveraging past behavior data to make personalized recommendations.Despite its popularity,collaborative filtering faces notable challenges,and one of them is the issue of grey-sheep users who have unusual tastes in the system.Surprisingly,existing research has not extensively explored outlier detection techniques to address the grey-sheep problem.To fill this research gap,this study conducts a comprehensive comparison of 12 outlier detectionmethods(such as LOF,ABOD,HBOS,etc.)and introduces innovative user representations aimed at improving the identification of outliers within recommender systems.More specifically,we proposed and examined three types of user representations:1)the distribution statistics of user-user similarities,where similarities were calculated based on users’rating vectors;2)the distribution statistics of user-user similarities,but with similarities derived from users represented by latent factors;and 3)latent-factor vector representations.Our experiments on the Movie Lens and Yahoo!Movie datasets demonstrate that user representations based on latent-factor vectors consistently facilitate the identification of more grey-sheep users when applying outlier detection methods.
文摘This study introduces an advanced recommender system for technology enhanced learning(TEL)that synergizes neural collaborative filtering,sentiment analysis,and an adaptive learning rate to address the limitations of traditional TEL systems.Recognizing the critical gap in existing approaches—primarily their neglect of user emotional feedback and static learning paths—our model innovatively incorporates sentiment analysis to capture and respond to nuanced emotional feedback from users.Utilizing bidirectional encoder representations from Transformers for sentiment analysis,our system not only understands but also respects user privacy by processing feedback without revealing sensitive information.The adaptive learning rate,inspired by AdaGrad,allows our model to adjust its learning trajectory based on the sentiment scores associated with user feedback,ensuring a dynamic response to both positive and negative sentiments.This dual approach enhances the system’s adapt-ability to changing user preferences and improves its contentment understanding.Our methodology involves a comprehensive analysis of both the content of learning materials and the behaviors and preferences of learners,facilitating a more personalized learning experience.By dynamically adjusting recommendations based on real-time user data and behavioral analysis,our system leverages the collective insights of similar users and rele-vant content.We validated our approach against three datasets-MovieLens,Amazon,and a proprietary TEL dataset—and saw significant improvements in recommendation precision,F-score,and mean absolute error.The results indicate the potential of integrating sentiment analysis and adaptive learning rates into TEL recommender systems,marking a step forward in developing more responsive and user-centric educational technologies.This study paves the way for future advancements in TEL systems,emphasizing the importance of emotional intelli-gence and adaptability in enhancing the learning experience.
基金supported by the China National Key Research and Development Plan(2022YFB2902605)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(4252008)+2 种基金the 13th 5-Year Plan Civil Aerospace Technology Advance Research Project(D030301)the Hebei Province High-level Talent Funding Project(B2021003032)the New Technology Research University Cooperation Project(SKX212010010).
文摘The space-air-ground integrated network(SAGIN)is an important sixth-generation(6G)scenario that is enabled by dynamic spot beam forming by a phased array antenna(PAA).The extremely high mobility of satellites and more complicated radio resource control(RRC)have brought introduced a new challenge,and the issue of determining appropriate moments and procedures for executing handover(HO)for all users in a coverage area is urgent.The existing research considers the users as an entirety,and it determines the HO moment under the assumption that all of the satellite subpoints(SSP)pass through the centre of the cell.However,when using this scheme,the HO failure ratio(HOFR)would experience great degradation caused by the imbalance between the unified HO moments and the uncertain spatial distribution of users’(SDU)spatial-temporal variation.This paper proposes a novel HO moment determination method for a low-orbit satellite internet network(LEO-SIN).The rules of SDU variance under SSP motion are first proposed,and they calculate dynamic UE requests within the constraints of the footprint boundary and with SSP motions.Then,we first formulate the problems of multiuser-directed graphs for HO moment determination and prove that it is a nondeterministic polynomial-time(NP)hard problem.An animal survival algorithm based on the Dingo of algorithm(DOA)is proposed to solve the above problems.Multiuser fused directed graphs are first designed to determine HO moments based on the rules of SDU variation and the animal survival algorithm.The simulations show that the proposed method has a better HO performance for LEO-SIN.
基金Supported by STI 2030 Major Projects of China(2021ZD0200400).
文摘Background The redirected walking(RDW)method for multi-user collaboration requires maintaining the relative position between users in a virtual environment(VE)and physical environment(PE).A chasing game in a VE is a typical virtual reality game that entails multi-user collaboration.When a user approaches and interacts with a target user in the VE,the user is expected to approach and interact with the target user in the corresponding PE as well.Existing methods of multi-user RDW mainly focus on obstacle avoidance,which does not account for the relative positional relationship between the users in both VE and PE.Methods To enhance the user experience and facilitate potential interaction,this paper presents a novel dynamic alignment algorithm for multi-user collaborative redirected walking(DA-RDW)in a shared PE where the target user and other users are moving.This algorithm adopts improved artificial potential fields,where the repulsive force is a function of the relative position and velocity of the user with respect to dynamic obstacles.For the best alignment,this algorithm sets the alignment-guidance force in several cases and then converts it into a constrained optimization problem to obtain the optimal direction.Moreover,this algorithm introduces a potential interaction object selection strategy for a dynamically uncertain environment to speed up the subsequent alignment.To balance obstacle avoidance and alignment,this algorithm uses the dynamic weightings of the virtual and physical distances between users and the target to determine the resultant force vector.Results The efficacy of the proposed method was evaluated using a series of simulations and live-user experiments.The experimental results demonstrate that our novel dynamic alignment method for multi-user collaborative redirected walking can reduce the distance error in both VE and PE to improve alignment with fewer collisions.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2018YFA0701601by the Program of Jiangsu Province under Grant NTACT-2024-Z-001.
文摘In offshore maritime communication sys-tems,base stations(BSs)are employed along the coastline to provide high-speed data service for ves-sels in coastal sea areas.To ensure the line-of-sight propagation of BS-vessel links,high transceiver an-tenna height is required,which limits the number of geographically available sites for BS deployment,and imposes a high cost for realizing effective wide-area coverage.In this paper,the joint user association and power allocation(JUAPA)problem is investigated to enhance the coverage of offshore maritime systems.By exploiting the characteristics of network topology as well as vessels’motion in offshore communica-tions,a multi-period JUAPA problem is formulated to maximize the number of ships that can be simultane-ously served by the network.This JUAPA problem is intrinsically non-convex and subject to mixed-integer constraints,which is difficult to solve either analyt-ically or numerically.Hence,we propose an iterative augmentation based framework to efficiently select the active vessels,where the JUAPA scheme is iteratively optimized by the network for increasing the number of the selected vessels.More specifically,in each itera-tion,the user association variables and power alloca-tion variables are determined by solving two separate subproblems,so that the JUAPA strategy can be up-dated in a low-complexity manner.The performance of the proposed JUAPA method is evaluated by exten-sive simulation,and numerical results indicate that it can effectively increase the number of vessels served by the network,and thus enhances the coverage of off-shore systems.
文摘With the rapid development of the Internet and e-commerce,e-commerce platforms have accumulated huge amounts of user behavior data.The emergence of big data technology provides a powerful means for in-depth analysis of these data and insight into user behavior patterns and preferences.This paper elaborates on the application of big data technology in the analysis of user behavior on e-commerce platforms,including the technical methods of data collection,storage,processing and analysis,as well as the specific applications in the construction of user profiles,precision marketing,personalized recommendation,user retention and churn analysis,etc.,and discusses the challenges and countermeasures faced in the application.Through the study of actual cases,it demonstrates the remarkable effectiveness of big data technology in enhancing the competitiveness of e-commerce platforms and user experience.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61901341).
文摘Using the existing positioning technology can easily obtain high-precision positioning information,which can save resources and reduce complexity when used in the communication field.In this paper,we propose a location-based user scheduling and beamforming scheme for the downlink of a massive multi-user input-output system.Specifically,we combine an analog outer beamformer with a digital inner beamformer.An outer beamformer can be selected from a codebook formed by antenna steering vectors,and then a reduced-complexity inner beamformer based on iterative orthogonal matrices and right triangular matrices(QR)decomposition is applied to cancel interuser interference.Then,we propose a low-complexity user selection algorithm using location information in this paper.We first derive the geometric angle between channel matrices,which represent the correlation between users.Furthermore,we derive the asymptotic signal to interference-plus-noise ratio(SINR)of the system in the context of two-stage beamforming using random matrix theory(RMT),taking into account inter-channel correlations and energies.Simulation results show that the algorithm can achieve higher system and speed while reducing computational complexity.
