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An Intelligent Sdn-Enabled Framework For Real-Time Ipv6 Ip Spoofing Detection And Prevention, Navaneethan C. Arjuman, Ahmad Fikri Sharudin, Zar Chi Hlaing, Supriyanto Praptodiyono

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

With the increase in the adoption of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the issue of Internet Protocol (IP) spoofing has remained a significant risk that damages the integrity of networks. Although some countermeasures, like Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) and Router Advertisement (RA) Guard, are available, these solutions are complex to deploy, consume high resources, and can be bypassed by advanced attacks. This paper provides a critical review of the available IPv6 spoofing prevention methods and proposes an enhanced multi-layered framework that uses improved ingress and egress filtering, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based anomaly detection, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to automatically mitigate threats …

Mask-Resilient Multi-Biometric Authentication For Healthcare, Caleb Yeo, Siew-Chin Chong, Kian-Ming Lim, Lee-Ying Chong

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

The fast integration of digital healthcare platforms, including telemedicine and electronic health records, has created a significant need for secure, contactless authentication methods. Traditional login methods such as passwords and PINs are increasingly insufficient for ensuring the security of sensitive patient data. This paper presents a robust, lightweight Healthcare Authentication System that five biometric modules to address major challenges in facial recognition: spoofing attacks, liveness detection, and facial occlusion due to mask-wearing. The system leverages RetinaFace for face detection, a MobileNetV2 model for mask classification, a lightweight CNN for blink-based liveness verification, and MiniFASNet for spoof detection. For identity matching, …

Structured Data Preprocessing Techniques For A Multilingual Healthcare Dataset In Machine Learning Applications, Md. Abu Nishan, Choo-Yee Ting, Chih-Yang Pee, Helmi Zakariah, Thanh-Trung Nguyen

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Data preprocessing is a foundational stage in any machine learning (ML) workflow, especially when dealing with complex, multilingual, and real-world healthcare datasets. The quality, consistency, and structure of input data strongly influence the accuracy, fairness, and interpretability of predictive models. This paper presents a comprehensive and structured preprocessing framework designed for a large multilingual healthcare dataset containing 19,536 patient records with 67 features encompassing demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic information. The framework systematically addresses data heterogeneity, linguistic diversity, and structural inconsistencies through multiple stages of cleaning and transformation. The preprocessing process includes translation of Malay text into English to ensure linguistic …

Comparative Analysis Of Time Series Forecasting Models For Stock Price Prediction: Arima, Lstm, And Prophet, Muhammad Syahid Pebriadi, Tino Kemal Fattah, Putriana Salman, Rizky Amelia

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Stock price forecasting with a uniform approach is a challenging process due to nonlinearity, regime changes, and seasonality. The following paper would like to address the practical problem of selecting an appropriate model through comparing three widely used models such as Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Prophet based on how they are applied to different attributes of data and forecast-related tasks. The structured direct comparison will be our proposal, as to be able to identify the strengths and shortcomings in abiding by each model. Each of the model is methodologically trained and tested on …

Haptic Technology In Networked Digital Applications: A Literature Review, Tharanitharan Chandran, Ngu War Hlaing, Athirah Mohd Ramly

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Haptic-enhanced network applications provide a breakthrough merger of haptic technology with digital environments, allowing for immersive and responsive interactions. In contrast to traditional interfaces that rely primarily on visual and auditory feedback, these applications add tactile sensations, boosting user engagement in domains such as telemedicine, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), gaming, and remote collaboration. This study adopts a systematic literature review methodology to identify, filter, and analyse relevant academic sources published between 1998 to 2024, to examine accomplishments, challenges, and future directions of haptic technology in network applications. The study investigates actuator technology, tiny haptic devices, and adaptive algorithms …

A Comparative Study Of Machine Learning Algorithms For Customer Churn Prediction In Ecommerce, Tan Yi Qi, Lew Sook Ling, Ram Avtar

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Customer churn rate is one of the main challenges that e-Commerce businesses must address, as it may affect revenue and long-term growth. In this paper, predictive analysis was used to identify potential customers who would be lost. It uses two different types of data to evaluate and compare the performance of five Machine Learning (ML) models, namely logistic regression, decision tree, support vector machine, gradient boost and random forest. Accuracy, precision, recall rate and F1 score are used as indicators of model performance. Among them, random forest achieved the highest performance across both datasets, demonstrating superior predictive power and consistency. …

Recycle Tracker Application: A Gamified Mobile Platform To Enhance Recycling Behaviour, Yi Han Ng, Pey Yun Goh, Lee Yeng Ong, Kian Ming Lim

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Malaysia's recycling efforts have long been challenged by limited accessibility, low motivation, and insufficient environmental awareness among the public. Despite various national campaigns, recycling participation rates remain inconsistent, highlighting the need for more engaging and user-centred approaches. To address these challenges, this paper presents the Recycle Tracker Application, a gamified mobile solution designed to encourage consistent recycling behaviour and strengthen environmental responsibility among Malaysians. The application integrates multiple core features, including a real-time interactive map of recycling centres, an educational waste-sorting and DIY recycling guide, personalized eco-goal setting, and an innovative Dino Evolution gamification system that rewards users as they …

Sql Optimization In E-Commerce Platforms Using Large Language Models: A Multi-Pattern Query Empirical Study, Min Ming Lee, Nabhan Salih

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

The rapid expansion in e-Commerce domains has presented an unprecedented challenge to database systems that support the execution of complex analytic queries on multi-billion transaction data stream while keeping queries’ response latency under one second. It is commonly observed that Large Language Models (LLMs) are very good at processing natural language queries, rather than struggling with syntax or semantics. This feature is instrumental to various tasks like analytics acceleration, transaction speed-up and handling large workloads across different domains. In this paper, a detailed examination of how LLMs can be employed as intelligent assistants for Structure Query Language (SQL) query optimization …

Leveraging Meaningful Intrusion Detection Mechanism For Voice Traffic Patterns, Aizam Nazmien Alinoordin, Liana Ameerah Rosli, Sin-Ban Ho, Said Suleiman Naseer Al Harthy, Ian Chai

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Voice over IP (VoIP) communication has emerged as an important way of communicating as a modern digital medium but it has been facing a lot of cyber threats because of the protocols involved and the real-time aspect associated with it. conventional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) do not cope well with VoIP traffic, as signature-based solutions fail to handle various types of intrusions, while anomaly-based approaches tend to produce a high false positive rate. In this research, a hybrid intrusion detection mechanism is integrated, a lightweight and application-based system built around signature matching and anomaly detection to offer advanced protection to …

A Web-Based Multi-Modal Ai Framework For Intelligent Content Moderation With Constructive Feedback, Marwah Zaid Mohammed Al-Helali, Naveen Palanichamy, Su-Cheng Haw, Subhashini Gopal

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Traditional content moderation systems primarily rely on strict measures that focus on removing offending or inappropriate content without offering users any form of educational feedback or guidance. This lack of constructive interaction often leads to a poor user experience, leaving users frustrated and uninformed regarding the reasons behind content removal. Moreover, such a system fails to encourage long-term positive behavioural changes within online communities, as users do not gain insights on how to improve their conduct. This paper proposes a new constructive Artificial Intelligence (AI) intervention system that integrates a number of AI models in order to conceptualize content moderation …

Empirical Evaluation Of Feature Selection Strategies For Interpretable And Robust Healthcare Machine Learning, Md. Abu Nishan, Choo-Yee Ting, Chih-Yang Pee, Helmi Zakariah, Thanh-Trung Nguyen

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Feature Section (FS) is a fundamental step in developing accurate, robust, and interpretable Machine Learning (ML) models, especially when working with high-dimensional structured datasets commonly found in healthcare, finance, and other dataintensive domains. Selecting the most relevant subset of features not only improves predictive performance but also enhances computational efficiency and model transparency. This paper presents a comprehensive and systematic study of widely adopted feature selection strategies, including filter, wrapper, embedded, model-agnostic methods, and dimensionality reduction techniques. Each category is examined through experimental evaluations across multiple classifiers and benchmark datasets to understand how different feature selection mechanisms affect model performance, …

Benchmarking Hybrid Learning Models For Personalized Risk Classification And Prediction In Oncology, Tshikutu Bikengela Anaclet, Nkongolo Kenda Simon, Biduaya Symphorien, Mabela Matendo Rostin, Mbuyi Mukendi Eugène

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

In the field of oncology, and specifically regarding prostate cancer, recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have opened fascinating possibilities for risk classification and prediction. However, moving from theoretical success to actual clinical practice remains a significant challenge. In this study, we evaluated several architectures (generative, discriminant, and hybrid models) to assess their real-world relevance in the context of longitudinal medical data, which is often noisy or incomplete. Our analysis does not merely measure raw performance; it seeks to understand the critical balance between statistical precision and the interpretability that clinicians require for daily decision-making. By examining the inherent strengths and …

Next-Gen Fitness: Ai-Based Diet Plans And Real-Time Exercise Monitoring With Gradient Boosting, Gaussian Mixture Models And Mediapipe, I. Kavitha, B. Vanathi, K. Revathi, K. Sanjaikumar

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Global shifts toward sedentary habits and refined dietary choices are magnifying public-health pressures from obesity, metabolic dysregulation, and cardiovascular disease, positioning targeted, personalized fitness coaching tools at the forefront of preventive-care strategy. By embedding tailored nutritional and physical-activity plans into daily life, these tools reinforce adherence, enhance intrinsic motivation, and catalyze sustained wellness achievements—each moderated by real-time analytics, feedback loops, and progressive adaptation to evolving behavior and physiology. Their leading benefits include prolonged engagement, diminished risk of relapse, and deep integration of healthful routines, culminating in lowered lifetime healthcare costs and improved individual life satisfaction. Current machine-learning approaches deliver commendable …

Calibrated Probabilistic Predictions For Phishing Email Detection Using Sentence-Bert With Machine Learning Models, Oluwasegun Abiodun Abioye, Abraham Evwiekpaefe, Philip Odion

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

The growing sophistication of phishing attacks requires better detection than classic conventional filters. Previous work has focused on the accuracy, precision and recall of classifiers but there is a lack in testing well-calibrated probability predictions, which are crucial for reliable decision-making using cybersecurity systems. To fill this gap, we present in this work a phishing email detection framework that combines semantically rich Sentence-BERT all-mpnet-base-v2 model embeddings with a wide variety of machine learning classifiers. A total of nine model configurations were tested, including Sentence-BERT combined with GRU, SVM, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, k-Nearest Neighbours, Gaussian Naïve Bayes, Multi-Layer Perceptron, LightGBM …

Iot Applications In Fire Safety Management: Bibliometric Study On Resilience And Emergency Response, Nur ‘Amirah Mhd Noh, Nor Rima Muhamad Ariff, Ahmad Amru Mohamad Zaid, Rabeah Md Zin

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

In the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been used more often in fire safety. Simple devices like smoke sensors, alarms, and connected networks are now able to detect signs of fire earlier and send alerts faster. These systems are not perfect, but they do make it easier to react before a small incident becomes serious. This paper reviews how research in this area has developed. The study looked at three main databases—Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), and IEEE Xplore. At first, the searches gave thousands of results, most of which were not directly related to fire …

Designing A Predictive Expense Tracking Mobile Application: A Comparison Of Random Forest, Linear Regression, And Prophet-Based Models, Li Wei Tai, Li Zhe Poh, Md Ismail Hossen

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

In today’s fast-paced world, people engage in various forms of daily consumption, yet many lack the habit of tracking their expenses due to low financial awareness. Without proper expense recording and budgeting, individuals often struggle to understand their consumption habits and are at a disadvantage when it comes to financial planning, especially during emergencies. To address these issues, this project proposes the development of a user-friendly expense tracking mobile application designed to help adults build healthy financial habits and utilize predictive algorithms to forecast future expenses. The application enables users to record daily transactions, analyse their spending patterns, plan budgets, …

Web Accessibility And Search Engine Optimization: Best Approach For Building Corporate Websites, Jeremiah Charles, Khaled Mahbub

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

The rapid digitization of products and services necessitates the development of safeguards to enforce equitable access to internet resources. Although legislative measures have been implemented to compel public-sector organizations to provide accessible web and mobile applications, most websites are still not fully accessible. There is an urgent need for organizations to integrate accessibility into current and future developments. The integration of solutions derived from decades of accessibility research into organizational processes and initiatives is beneficial to all users. This study provides a guide for businesses and organizations to improve their web accessibility and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This research covers …

Predictive Test Case Prioritization In Agile Workflows: A Machine Learning Approach With Smote-Enn And Pca, Kavinraj Baskaran, Junaidi Abdullah, Sin-Ban Ho, Said Suleiman Naseer Al Harthy, Ian Chai

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Test Case Prioritization (TCP) is an essential part of agile software development, allowing for the identification and execution of critical test cases early in the process to maximize fault detection efficiency. Traditional TCP techniques often depend on static metrics, like code complexity and historical pass/fail rates, that do not conform with the dynamic nature of Agile workflows. To overcome this, the proposed research presents a discriminative machine learning-based predictive prioritization model that incorporates historical defect data, execution history, as well as requirement criticality to improve auspiciousness of TCP. The study assesses a range of machine learning models like Logistic Regression, …

Deep Learning For Skin Cancer Classification Using Data Augmentation And Pre-Trained Cnn Models, Pa Pa Min, Fang Yong Lim, Jashila Nair Mogan, Astie Darmayantie

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer worldwide, and its early detection is critical for effective treatment and improved survival rates. In recent years, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, have shown great promise in enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of medical image analysis. This study aims to develop a non-invasive, AI-powered diagnostic system for the early detection and classification of skin cancer using dermoscopic images. The proposed approach leverages deep learning techniques to automatically recognize and differentiate between various types of skin lesions, including both malignant and benign cases. The project focuses on …

Adaptive And Learned Query Optimization: Techniques, Architectures, And Emerging Trends, Rehab Mohammed Abdelhalim Mokhtar, Palanichamy Naveen

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

As databases continue to grow and complexity there is an urgent need to achieve more efficient and faster query processing. This paper presents a technical review of methods that work towards optimization of various types of queries. It progresses by focusing on basic approaches like rules-based optimization and cost-based optimization. Based on this basis, the paper presents a synthesized reference architecture for adaptive and learned query optimizers as a generic framework derived from prior system. It explains on how the classical optimizer components can be enhanced through runtime monitoring integration and feedback mechanisms. From this perspective, it becomes possible to …

An Intelligent Tourism Recommender System Using Retrieval-Guided Large Language Models, Wei-Jun Lim, Nabhan D. Salih, Hairulnizam Mahdin, Ammar Alazab

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Travel planning has become more complex nowadays due to the information overload from numerous online platforms causing travelers to be overwhelmed when selecting destinations, accommodations, and activities that match their preferences and constraints. Traditional tourism recommender systems usually provide static and generic suggestions that fail to match users’ needs and cannot understand natural user language. This research develops and evaluates a Generative AI Chatbot for Tourism Recommendations that use Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate personalized travel itineraries through natural language interaction to solve these limitations. The system can process user natural language inputs including travel origin and destination, trip …

A Framework For Pre-Pages Generator And Visualiser For Journal Publishing Systems: A Case Study, Karrthik Nadarajan, Jiaheng Lu

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

In the domain of academic publishing, publishers must establish an efficient editorial workflow for managing their publication schedule while producing quality content, as these two processes will ultimately provide a good experience to readers. Many independent publishers utilizing Open Journal Systems (OJS) rely on a manual compilation of "pre-pages" (front matter), including the Issue Cover, the Editorial Board List, and the Table of Contents (TOC), through a manual workflow that is labourintensive and prone to formatting and metadata errors. This study presents a web-based Pre-Pages Generator and Visualiser that automates the pre-publishing process, developed using Python and the Streamlit framework. …

The Application Of Time Series Forecasting Model For Carbon Emissions Prediction In Electrical Grid: A Step Toward Climate Action, Khim Chen Jason Tan, Keat Soon Tioh, Poh Soon Joseph Ng, Felix Pasila

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

This study evaluates the forecasting performance of three models of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Prophet, and Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) in predicting CO₂ emissions from the electricity grid in the United States. Using a real dataset from the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) that records CO₂ emissions at five-minute intervals between 2018 and 2020, the data underwent preprocessing steps including outlier removal, missing value imputation, and feature selection before model training. ARIMA parameters were determined using statistical tests such as ACF, Partial Autocorrelation Function (PACF), and Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF), while Prophet addressed seasonality and calendar effects. BiLSTM, …

Intelligent Telemedicine Systems: Machine Learning For Remote Diagnosis And Patient Management, Oras Baker, Kasthuri Subaramaniam, Asiah Lokman

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Telemedicine has experienced significant evolution in the past 10 years from a communication-driven health service to an intelligent, data-driven environment driven by AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) and cloud–edge computing. This development has been further advanced through ongoing global health challenges that have seen an ageing population, rising burden of chronic, multi-morbid conditions, healthcare specialist shortage, soaring cost of healthcare and major disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic. Modern telehealth services are now integrating more machine learning algorithms for remote diagnosis, real-time monitoring the patient, predictive risk stratification and proactive treatment. This paper offers a …

Bitseat: Reimagining The Financing For Airliners Using Nonfungible Tokens (Blockchain Technology), Edwin S. Ongola

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

This essay describes how blockchain technology, particularly nonfungible tokens, can be used to raise funding for airliners. The essay begins with a brief overview on the costs, categories, and acquisition methods of airliners. After that, the essay introduces concepts on blockchain technology, tokens, and smart contracts. The essay then touches on how nonfungible tokens can be used to facilitate fractional ownership of airliners. From there, the essay discusses Bitseat, a conceptual nonfungible token for fractional ownership of airliners, covering its overall design, appeal, marketplace alternatives, and challenges. Finally, in the discussion, the essay summarizes the overall concept and outlines its …

A Novel Entropy Based Maintainability Measurement Algorithm For Java Source Code., Remi M. Yusuf Mr, Md Shadab Mashuk, Julian Bass

Communications of the IIMA

Software metrics play a central role in assessing and managing the quality of software systems providing quantitative insights into attributes such as complexity, reliability, rigidity, modifiability and maintainability. Among these, maintainability is particularly critical, as it directly influences the ease of system evolution, long-term sustainability, and overall cost effectiveness. Despite the widespread use of metric-based maintainability measurement algorithms, capturing a value that reflects the maintainability situation of software source code remains a challenging task, especially in the presence of design deficiencies such as code smells. To measure changes in maintainability, this study experimentaly characterises the relationship between code smells and …

A Transformer-Based Approach With Data Augmentation For Multilabel Emotional Context Detection, Mohsin Hasan Hussein, Marem H. Abdulabas, Azha Talal Mohammed Ali, Homam Aziz Ghazi

Al-Bahir

Emotion identification in texts is becoming increasingly difficult because of the wide variety of ways emotions are represented. This study uses a fine-tuned Robustly Optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Approach

(RoBERTa) to offer a Transformer-based model for identifying multilabel emotional context in textual data. To balance emotion categories and enhance the model's capacity for generalization, data augmentation is applied on two different datasets: Semantic Evaluation and Cross-lingual Emotion Dataset (SemEval and XED) English corpus. This stage is considered one of the most important steps in preprocessing as it greatly helps to improve the results. The RoBERTa model was then …

A Vision For The Future Of Academic Publishing In Sports Analytics, Ryan Elmore, B. Baumer, Brian Macdonald, Gregory J. Matthews, Michael E. Schuckers

Statistical and Data Sciences: Faculty Publications

This article introduces the Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports (JSDSS), a Diamond Open Access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal is founded on three core principles. First, our commitment to open access is absolute. Second, reproducibility is critical and fundamental to the journal. Third, we believe sport is a rich and underutilized laboratory for statistical and data science innovation. The aim of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports is to provide an outlet for original, rigorous, practical, state-of-the-art, reproducible, and peer-reviewed analysis of sports data as well as the data science tools (software, applications, data, etc.) …

Machine Learning For Predictive Energy And Emissions Modeling Of Vehicles And Power Grids In The United States, S M Tanvir Faysal Alam Chowdhoury

Dissertations

The environmental benefits of electric vehicle (EV) adoption depend on more than replacing internal combustion engine vehicles with electric powertrains. EV adoption reshapes electricity demand, interacts with regional generation mixes, and influences travel behavior and congestion, creating a coupled transportation-energy system in which vehicle and power-plant emissions must be evaluated together. This dissertation develops machine-learning frameworks for predicting energy consumption and emissions from vehicles and power grids under rising EV adoption. The first component forecasts grid emissions from EV charging. Using simulation data from NREL's Cambium database, a Prophet-based time-series framework predicts carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane emission rates …

Causal Discovery Methods For Single Cell Rna-Seq Data, Melanie Lambert

All Dissertations

The advancement of single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has enabled the study of causal relationships between genes at single cell resolution. Although many causal discovery methods have been applied to scRNA-seq perturbation data, they are not well-suited to capture the characteristics of scRNA-seq data. The overall goal of this dissertation is to enhance researchers' ability to gain insight into genetic relationships.

The scRNA-seq data is high-dimensional, typically containing thousands of genes, and is sparse and zero-inflated due to dropout events, as well as noisy and subject to biological variability. Traditional causal discovery methods, such as constraint or score-based approaches, do …