Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100994
Song-Shun Lin , Xin-Jiang Zheng , Zhao-Yao Bao
As supplier analysis becomes increasingly complex, there is a growing need for structured methods that support multi-dimensional evaluation under uncertainty. A knowledge-driven decision support approach (KDDSA) is proposed, leveraging entropy-based interval-valued spherical fuzzy sets to assign criteria weights. Additionally, a weighted coefficient of variation is introduced to measure consensus and account for variability in judgments, strengthening decision-making reliability. The proposed approach addresses the practical challenges of integrating multiple, often conflicting criteria in supplier analysis by incorporating economic, environmental, social, and supplier-specific dimensions, structured across sixteen indicators. To assess its practical applicability, KDDSA is applied to an infrastructure project, where uncertain assessments are integrated and processed through a multi-layered decision structure. The results highlight the critical importance of consensus building and uncertainty management for achieving reliable outcomes. By integrating heterogeneous information with advanced fuzzy modeling, the proposed approach enhances industrial information integration in complex decision-making contexts. The findings reinforce the potential of structured and information-integrated evaluation methods in enhancing supplier management within infrastructure supply chains.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100992
Pallavi Tiwari , S. Srinivasan
The proliferation of cloud computing and web-based services has led to a significant increase in the number and complexity of online web services. As a result, discovering appropriate services that meet user requirements has become a challenging task. Traditional web services discovery techniques often lack the efficiency and adaptability needed to handle user expectations in a dynamic environment. Additionally, it may struggle with limited scalability when dealing with large service sets. This results in suboptimal service selection, reduced user satisfaction, and increased latency. To address this challenge, a user requirement-oriented web services discovery approach based on Petri Nets and optimized Reinforcement (PN-ODRL) was proposed, aimed at improving the efficiency of agent-based services composition. Initially, service composition combines several atomic services related to specific tasks to fulfill user requirements. After that, a reinforcement learning-based Q-learning approach is utilized to choose the web services required by the user. Next, the Petri Net model is used to define RL actions by creating new finite action groups. A series of transitions within each action group identifies the best services, which are then recommended to the user. Then, Puffer Fish Optimization (PFO) is utilized to tune the learning rate and discount parameter present in the Q-learning algorithm, thereby enhancing the response time, cost, and reliability of the proposed approach. Experimental result for the proposed approach has an 85 % user satisfaction rate, 9ms of service discovery efficiency, 15.3Mbps of throughput, 97 % of availability, 24.6s of computational time, 18.3s of response time, 21.3s of processing time, 12.4s of mean residence time, 68.8s of execution time, and 93 % reliability. This approach reduced the response and processing time, enabling quicker service execution. Additionally, it could enhance user satisfaction with the system.
{"title":"Agent based web service composition using Q-learning algorithm with puffer fish optimization and petri net model","authors":"Pallavi Tiwari , S. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100992","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100992","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The proliferation of cloud computing and web-based services has led to a significant increase in the number and complexity of online web services. As a result, discovering appropriate services that meet user requirements has become a challenging task. Traditional web services discovery techniques often lack the efficiency and adaptability needed to handle user expectations in a dynamic environment. Additionally, it may struggle with limited scalability when dealing with large service sets. This results in suboptimal service selection, reduced user satisfaction, and increased latency. To address this challenge, a user requirement-oriented web services discovery approach based on Petri Nets and optimized Reinforcement (PN-ODRL) was proposed, aimed at improving the efficiency of agent-based services composition. Initially, service composition combines several atomic services related to specific tasks to fulfill user requirements. After that, a reinforcement learning-based Q-learning approach is utilized to choose the web services required by the user. Next, the Petri Net model is used to define RL actions by creating new finite action groups. A series of transitions within each action group identifies the best services, which are then recommended to the user. Then, Puffer Fish Optimization (PFO) is utilized to tune the learning rate and discount parameter present in the Q-learning algorithm, thereby enhancing the response time, cost, and reliability of the proposed approach. Experimental result for the proposed approach has an 85 % user satisfaction rate, 9ms of service discovery efficiency, 15.3Mbps of throughput, 97 % of availability, 24.6s of computational time, 18.3s of response time, 21.3s of processing time, 12.4s of mean residence time, 68.8s of execution time, and 93 % reliability. This approach reduced the response and processing time, enabling quicker service execution. Additionally, it could enhance user satisfaction with the system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100992"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145383857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100979
WooSang Shin , Jonghyeon Lee , Dong Yun Choi , Iljeok Kim , JongPil Yun
Ensuring the cross-sectional shape integrity of medical catheters is a necessity for their safe and effective clinical functionality. Although visual inspection technologies have advanced rapidly, automated inspection of catheter tubes remains challenging due to the complex, deformable structures resulting from extrusion processes and the inherent properties of the materials. In this study, we introduce the Implicit Dimension Measurement (IDiM) framework, which combines rule-based expertise with a data-driven Endpoint Alignment Model (EAM). By parameterizing cross-sectional dimensions using carefully defined endpoints and reference points, IDiM robustly infers key geometric features—even under moderate deformations. We validate its measurement accuracy on multi-lumen catheters (2-, 3-, and 4-lumen) through a high-resolution imaging setup deployed on an actual production line. Experimental results demonstrate measurement precision within five pixels of inter-annotator deviation, comparable to that of human inspectors, along with reliable detection of severe deformation cases via an anomaly detection approach. These findings highlight the practical feasibility of IDiM for high-fidelity shape inspection in medical manufacturing and suggest its broader applicability to other industries requiring precise dimensional verification.
{"title":"Implicit dimension measurement for automated cross-sectional inspection of multi-lumen medical catheters","authors":"WooSang Shin , Jonghyeon Lee , Dong Yun Choi , Iljeok Kim , JongPil Yun","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100979","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100979","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ensuring the cross-sectional shape integrity of medical catheters is a necessity for their safe and effective clinical functionality. Although visual inspection technologies have advanced rapidly, automated inspection of catheter tubes remains challenging due to the complex, deformable structures resulting from extrusion processes and the inherent properties of the materials. In this study, we introduce the Implicit Dimension Measurement (IDiM) framework, which combines rule-based expertise with a data-driven Endpoint Alignment Model (EAM). By parameterizing cross-sectional dimensions using carefully defined endpoints and reference points, IDiM robustly infers key geometric features—even under moderate deformations. We validate its measurement accuracy on multi-lumen catheters (2-, 3-, and 4-lumen) through a high-resolution imaging setup deployed on an actual production line. Experimental results demonstrate measurement precision within five pixels of inter-annotator deviation, comparable to that of human inspectors, along with reliable detection of severe deformation cases via an anomaly detection approach. These findings highlight the practical feasibility of IDiM for high-fidelity shape inspection in medical manufacturing and suggest its broader applicability to other industries requiring precise dimensional verification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100979"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100982
Yi Jiang , Baoping Cai , Xuelin Liu , Guowei Ji , Yixin Zhao , Qingping Li , Lei Gao , Kaizheng Wu
Leakage is the main form of failure and safety hazard for a subsea manifold. Timely acquisition of leakage location information is the guarantee for safe subsea oil and gas transportation. The threshold detection and localization method is an important means of identifying the position of subsea leakages and is also one of the few applicable solutions. However, the fixed threshold leads to large errors in identifying leakage moments, resulting in significant time difference errors. In addition, environmental noise causes rapid attenuation of leakage sound signals, making it difficult to reduce noise. To overcome these problems, a three-dimensional localization framework for leakage sound sources is integrated using the time-difference-of-arrival of the sound wave from the hydrophone array. The combination of a polynomial regression model and the double threshold detection method is used to obtain the arrival time difference. This integrated framework greatly reduces the error of time difference. A spectral subtraction technique optimized with standardized parameters is employed to effectively reduce hydroacoustic signal noise. A simulated prototype of a subsea manifold was used to study the performance of this integrated framework. The results indicate that the integrated framework effectively reduces subsea noise and time difference errors.
{"title":"Leakage localization methodology based on time difference of arrival of sound wave for subsea manifold","authors":"Yi Jiang , Baoping Cai , Xuelin Liu , Guowei Ji , Yixin Zhao , Qingping Li , Lei Gao , Kaizheng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100982","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leakage is the main form of failure and safety hazard for a subsea manifold. Timely acquisition of leakage location information is the guarantee for safe subsea oil and gas transportation. The threshold detection and localization method is an important means of identifying the position of subsea leakages and is also one of the few applicable solutions. However, the fixed threshold leads to large errors in identifying leakage moments, resulting in significant time difference errors. In addition, environmental noise causes rapid attenuation of leakage sound signals, making it difficult to reduce noise. To overcome these problems, a three-dimensional localization framework for leakage sound sources is integrated using the time-difference-of-arrival of the sound wave from the hydrophone array. The combination of a polynomial regression model and the double threshold detection method is used to obtain the arrival time difference. This integrated framework greatly reduces the error of time difference. A spectral subtraction technique optimized with standardized parameters is employed to effectively reduce hydroacoustic signal noise. A simulated prototype of a subsea manifold was used to study the performance of this integrated framework. The results indicate that the integrated framework effectively reduces subsea noise and time difference errors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100982"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100981
Duojin Wang , Yue Dong , Mingyue Zhou , Xin Li
Amidst growing demands for rehabilitation, robot-assisted therapy has rapidly evolved as a crucial treatment modality. Despite its potential to enhance outcomes and efficiency, increased adverse events due to human errors remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, we present a novel hybrid Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART) that integrates the SHELL model, extended Z-polar coordinate (E-ZPC), and the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to enhance system reliability in robot-assisted rehabilitation. SHELL model is used to comprehensively identify and analyze error-producing conditions (EPCs) across diverse domains. Expert weight allocation is taken into consideration. The integration of ZPC facilitates the management of uncertainty and enhances the credibility of expert assessments, which are further refined with the innovative ZPC-PA operator that combines Z-numbers with the Power Average (PA) operator for robust data aggregation. Two case studies demonstrate the effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed method, and a comparative analysis confirms its advantage in mitigating result errors. Sensibility analysis validates the robustness of our approach. This research aims to enhance the safety and effectiveness of robot-assisted rehabilitation, thereby facilitating better outcomes for patients and advancing the reliability research in this evolving field.
{"title":"A hybrid HEART framework integrating EPC identification model and extended Z-polar coordinate for HRA: An application of robot-assisted rehabilitation","authors":"Duojin Wang , Yue Dong , Mingyue Zhou , Xin Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amidst growing demands for rehabilitation, robot-assisted therapy has rapidly evolved as a crucial treatment modality. Despite its potential to enhance outcomes and efficiency, increased adverse events due to human errors remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, we present a novel hybrid Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART) that integrates the SHELL model, extended Z-polar coordinate (E-ZPC), and the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to enhance system reliability in robot-assisted rehabilitation. SHELL model is used to comprehensively identify and analyze error-producing conditions (EPCs) across diverse domains. Expert weight allocation is taken into consideration. The integration of ZPC facilitates the management of uncertainty and enhances the credibility of expert assessments, which are further refined with the innovative ZPC-PA operator that combines Z-numbers with the Power Average (PA) operator for robust data aggregation. Two case studies demonstrate the effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed method, and a comparative analysis confirms its advantage in mitigating result errors. Sensibility analysis validates the robustness of our approach. This research aims to enhance the safety and effectiveness of robot-assisted rehabilitation, thereby facilitating better outcomes for patients and advancing the reliability research in this evolving field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100981"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100983
Maria Elena Latino, Marta Menegoli, Angelo Corallo, Maria Grazia Gnoni
The agri-food industry faces complex challenges that impact operational efficiency, profitability, and the ability to meet evolving consumer expectations for transparency and sustainability. Industry 4.0 technologies, particularly the Internet of Things and data analytics, offer substantial potential to enhance performance and support sustainability goals across the supply chain. This study investigates the application of Internet of Things and analytics through a multiple case study approach, illustrating how agri-food companies can transform operational and product data into actionable insights to inform decision-making and implement effective sustainability practices. The research adopts a four-phase methodology - Digitalization & Sustainability Case stud* Guideline- identifying market needs, mapping product information, elaborating data analysis, and collecting stakeholder feedback, thus providing a replicable guideline for conducting case studies in the intersection of digitalization and sustainability. A practical roadmap is presented for leveraging technological assets to generate meaningful sustainability indicators and rankings, supporting both operational managers and end consumers in accessing transparent, data-driven information. The study contributes to theory by advancing methodological rigor in multiple case studies and highlighting how data integration facilitates sustainable decision-making in agri-food supply chains. Practically, it offers actionable insights for managers aiming to enhance operational efficiency, improve communication of sustainability performance, and build consumer trust. The findings underscore the value of Internet of Things and analytics in enabling data-driven innovation and supporting future research on generalizing these approaches across diverse agri-food contexts.
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The increasing complexity of the aerospace industry has highlighted the need to anticipate issues from the entire lifecycle of aircrafts. Identified too late, issues originating from the manufacturing or the maintenance phases can have considerable consequences on the overall development costs, time and quality of aircraft development. Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an approach that aims to improve the design process of a system by considering all lifecycle phases from the initial conceptualization. However, this way of working demands a high degree of collaboration and extensive knowledge sharing among the involved stakeholders. The digitization of the industry has provided new opportunities addressing such challenges. Approaches based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are providing compelling ways to foster cross-domain collaboration while incorporating knowledge supporting design decisions. This paper leverages an ontology-based digital thread framework as a bridge between aircraft and manufacturing engineering activities. With enriched insights and global perspectives, this framework aims to enable early cross-domain trade-offs analysis to support knowledge-driven concurrent and collaborative engineering during the conceptual design phase.
{"title":"An ontology-based digital thread framework to support early concurrent engineering in the aerospace industry","authors":"Eliott Duverger , Alexis Aubry , Rebeca Arista , Eric Levrat","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100984","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing complexity of the aerospace industry has highlighted the need to anticipate issues from the entire lifecycle of aircrafts. Identified too late, issues originating from the manufacturing or the maintenance phases can have considerable consequences on the overall development costs, time and quality of aircraft development. Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an approach that aims to improve the design process of a system by considering all lifecycle phases from the initial conceptualization. However, this way of working demands a high degree of collaboration and extensive knowledge sharing among the involved stakeholders. The digitization of the industry has provided new opportunities addressing such challenges. Approaches based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are providing compelling ways to foster cross-domain collaboration while incorporating knowledge supporting design decisions. This paper leverages an ontology-based digital thread framework as a bridge between aircraft and manufacturing engineering activities. With enriched insights and global perspectives, this framework aims to enable early cross-domain trade-offs analysis to support knowledge-driven concurrent and collaborative engineering during the conceptual design phase.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100984"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Window to the Brain (WttB) is a novel cranial implant designed to enhance therapeutic procedures involving brain tissue. Previous computational models studying the effectiveness of the WttB exhibited some discrepancies with experimental results and inconsistencies in certain parameter values. To overcome these drawbacks, the following steps are followed. We first perform a domain reduction where the model is solved via the finite element method. Then, model parameters are calibrated using asynchronous random Particle Swarm Optimization (arPSO) algorithm. A statistical identifiability analysis is performed to evaluate how accurately model parameters are estimated based on the quantity and quality of experimental data. Afterward, we implement Hybrid Digital Twins (HDT) using Grammatical Evolution and Lexicase Selection to improve the model fitting keeping the model complexity. The outcomes demonstrate a complete alignment between experimental and computational results, as well as reasonable values for all model parameters. The final optimized model achieved a mean absolute error of 0.1871, with a standard deviation of 0.0013 and a 95% confidence interval (CI) of [0.1866, 0.1876], indicating a very low residual error and high stability across simulations. Our computational approach enhances the results from previous studies, which can be more useful for improving clinical practice.
{"title":"Enhancing precision in window to the brain modeling: Methodology and implementation of hybrid digital twins","authors":"Marcos Llamazares López , Macarena Trujillo Guillén , Juan-Carlos Cortés , Rafael-J. Villanueva","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Window to the Brain (WttB) is a novel cranial implant designed to enhance therapeutic procedures involving brain tissue. Previous computational models studying the effectiveness of the WttB exhibited some discrepancies with experimental results and inconsistencies in certain parameter values. To overcome these drawbacks, the following steps are followed. We first perform a domain reduction where the model is solved via the finite element method. Then, model parameters are calibrated using asynchronous random Particle Swarm Optimization (arPSO) algorithm. A statistical identifiability analysis is performed to evaluate how accurately model parameters are estimated based on the quantity and quality of experimental data. Afterward, we implement Hybrid Digital Twins (HDT) using Grammatical Evolution and Lexicase Selection to improve the model fitting keeping the model complexity. The outcomes demonstrate a complete alignment between experimental and computational results, as well as reasonable values for all model parameters. The final optimized model achieved a mean absolute error of 0.1871, with a standard deviation of 0.0013 and a 95% confidence interval (CI) of [0.1866, 0.1876], indicating a very low residual error and high stability across simulations. Our computational approach enhances the results from previous studies, which can be more useful for improving clinical practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure sustainable cybersecurity practices is a major challenge in the era of Industry 4.0. AI techniques can classify and detect the huge number of cyber-attacks affecting modern industrial systems due to their adaptability and predictability, offering speed of classification, discovery of hidden patterns, and increased accuracy. However, the current literature shows a significant gap in analysing the relationship between AI-based cyber risk assessment and sustainability pillars (i.e., economic, social, and environmental) in modern industrial contexts. To fill this gap, this study explores the opportunities that AI techniques applied to cyber risk assessment can offer in terms of sustainability in the context of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Specifically, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted for the purpose of exploring the following four areas: (i) the definitions of sustainable cybersecurity and green cybersecurity in the industrial context; (ii) the AI techniques adopted for risk assessment, from a sustainability perspective; (iii) the industries involved; and (iv) the sustainability benefits of implementing AI technologies for cyber risk assessment. Following this analysis, an original tabular outline is created and validated by domain experts. It brings together evidence from the literature to facilitate understanding of the interplay between sustainability and cybersecurity and highlight the contribution that AI can bring not only to cyber risk assessment, but also to sustainability pillars, laying the groundwork for interesting future research directions.
{"title":"AI-based cybersecurity for a sustainable digital industry: Systematic literature review and future research directions","authors":"Marianna Lezzi, Pierluigi Montefusco, Mariangela Lazoi, Angelo Corallo","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100980","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2025.100980","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure sustainable cybersecurity practices is a major challenge in the era of Industry 4.0. AI techniques can classify and detect the huge number of cyber-attacks affecting modern industrial systems due to their adaptability and predictability, offering speed of classification, discovery of hidden patterns, and increased accuracy. However, the current literature shows a significant gap in analysing the relationship between AI-based cyber risk assessment and sustainability pillars (i.e., economic, social, and environmental) in modern industrial contexts. To fill this gap, this study explores the opportunities that AI techniques applied to cyber risk assessment can offer in terms of sustainability in the context of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Specifically, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted for the purpose of exploring the following four areas: (i) the definitions of sustainable cybersecurity and green cybersecurity in the industrial context; (ii) the AI techniques adopted for risk assessment, from a sustainability perspective; (iii) the industries involved; and (iv) the sustainability benefits of implementing AI technologies for cyber risk assessment. Following this analysis, an original tabular outline is created and validated by domain experts. It brings together evidence from the literature to facilitate understanding of the interplay between sustainability and cybersecurity and highlight the contribution that AI can bring not only to cyber risk assessment, but also to sustainability pillars, laying the groundwork for interesting future research directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100980"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100978
P. Mentesidis, V. Mygdalis, I. Pitas
Accurate segmentation of insulated pipelines is essential for automated inspection and structural analysis in complex industrial environments. While UAV-based visual inspection is increasingly adopted, current systems often struggle with cluttered scenes and rely heavily on manual interpretation. This paper proposes Region-Aware Guidance Training (RAGT) for pipeline segmentation, a novel and modular deep neural network (DNN) training framework designed to enhance the performance and deployment readiness of state-of-the-art (SOTA) real-time region segmentation models in cluttered industrial settings. RAGT integrates two complementary components: Region-Augmented Knowledge Distillation (RAKD), which guides the model to focus on task-relevant regions, and Background-Aware Augmentation (BAUG), which improves generalization by increasing background diversity during training. Both modules can operate independently or jointly within the unified RAGT framework. Experiments demonstrate that RAGT achieves improvements of up to 8 units in challenging segmentation tasks.
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