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Artificial Intelligence and Information Visualization in Social and Industrial Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 18539

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Prof. Dr. Fei Xiong

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School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: data mining; social network; artificial intelligence application
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Prof. Dr. Shirui Pan

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School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Camperdown, NSW 4215, Australia
Interests: graph, social and multimedia data; deep learning; machine learning
Dr. Hongshu Chen

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School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: text mining and analytics; knowledge discovery and visualization; computing in management and social science
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Dr. Xuzhen Zhu

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State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Interests: propagation dynamics on complex networks; link prediction; recommender systems

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Dear Colleagues,

With the breakthrough of artificial intelligence, information visualization driven by artificial intelligence is a high priority in social and industrial systems. This technology is being used in more and more practical scenarios. It can be used in emergency detection, social pattern awareness and influence maximization in social systems, and can also help intelligent decision and optimal resources allocation in industrial systems. Furthermore, information visualization uses visual perception channels to convert data into graphic expressions, supplemented by interactive means, so as to enhance people's cognitive ability regarding data. For instance, for social and news topics, in order to help users quickly understand news contents, topics can be extracted and displayed in a word cloud. Using this visualization technology, key information can be obtained quickly. In terms of equipment maintenance and other issues involving factory assembly lines, advanced machine learning models are used to evaluate the health status or remaining life of mechanical products, and relevant statistical data are presented to operators through visualization. In the future, artificial intelligence and information visualization will play a greater role in social and industrial systems. They provide convenient tools for government and enterprise decision-making, and bring convenience to the work and life of the public.

The goal of this Special Issue of Applied Sciences is to welcome contributions to theories and methods of artificial intelligence and information visualization, as well as their applications in all kinds of social and industrial systems. We encourage articles with multidisciplinary methods for social and industrial data mining.

Prof. Dr. Fei Xiong
Prof. Dr. Shirui Pan
Dr. Hongshu Chen
Dr. Xuzhen Zhu
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Keywords

  • network representation learning
  • social network mining
  • topic discovery and visualization
  • web image processing
  • knowledge graph and its applications
  • deep learning in social computing and industrial mining
  • decision making based on machine learning
  • fault diagnosis driven by artificial intelligence

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FSNB-YOLOV8: Improvement of Object Detection Model for Surface Defects Inspection in Online Industrial Systems
by Jun Li, Jinglei Wu and Yanhua Shao
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(17), 7913; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14177913 - 5 Sep 2024
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The current object detection algorithm based on CNN makes it difficult to effectively capture the characteristics of subtle defects in online industrial product packaging bags. These defects are often visually similar to the texture or background of normal product packaging bags, and the [...] Read more.
The current object detection algorithm based on CNN makes it difficult to effectively capture the characteristics of subtle defects in online industrial product packaging bags. These defects are often visually similar to the texture or background of normal product packaging bags, and the model cannot effectively distinguish them. In order to deal with these challenges, this paper optimizes and improves the network structure based on YOLOv8 to achieve accurate identification of defects. First, in order to solve the long-tail distribution problem of data, a fuzzy search data enhancement algorithm is introduced to effectively increase the number of samples. Secondly, a joint network of FasterNet and SPD-Conv is proposed to replace the original backbone network of YOLOv8, which effectively reduces the computing load and improves the accuracy of defect identification. In addition, in order to further improve the performance of multiscale feature fusion, a weighted bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) is introduced, which effectively enhances the model’s ability to detect defects at different scales through the fusion of deep information and shallow information. Finally, in order to reduce the sensitivity of the defect position deviation, the NWD loss function is used to optimize the positioning performance of the model better and reduce detection errors caused by position errors. Experimental results show that the FSNB_YOLOv8 model proposed in this paper can reach 98.8% mAP50 accuracy. This success not only verifies the effectiveness of the optimization and improvement of this article’s model but also provides an efficient and accurate solution for surface defect detection of industrial product packaging bags on artificial assembly systems. Full article
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3D-STARNET: Spatial–Temporal Attention Residual Network for Robust Action Recognition
by Jun Yang, Shulong Sun, Jiayue Chen, Haizhen Xie, Yan Wang and Zenglong Yang
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(16), 7154; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14167154 - 15 Aug 2024
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Existing skeleton-based action recognition methods face the challenges of insufficient spatiotemporal feature mining and a low efficiency of information transmission. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a model called the Spatial–Temporal Attention Residual Network for 3D human action recognition (3D-STARNET). This model [...] Read more.
Existing skeleton-based action recognition methods face the challenges of insufficient spatiotemporal feature mining and a low efficiency of information transmission. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a model called the Spatial–Temporal Attention Residual Network for 3D human action recognition (3D-STARNET). This model significantly improves the performance of action recognition through the following three main innovations: (1) the conversion from skeleton points to heat maps. Using Gaussian transform to convert skeleton point data into heat maps effectively reduces the model’s strong dependence on the original skeleton point data and enhances the stability and robustness of the data; (2) a spatiotemporal attention mechanism (STA). A novel spatiotemporal attention mechanism is proposed, focusing on the extraction of key frames and key areas within frames, which significantly enhances the model’s ability to identify behavioral patterns; (3) a multi-stage residual structure (MS-Residual). The introduction of a multi-stage residual structure improves the efficiency of data transmission in the network, solves the gradient vanishing problem in deep networks, and helps to improve the recognition efficiency of the model. Experimental results on the NTU-RGBD120 dataset show that 3D-STARNET has significantly improved the accuracy of action recognition, and the top1 accuracy of the overall network reached 96.74%. This method not only solves the robustness shortcomings of existing methods, but also improves the ability to capture spatiotemporal features, providing an efficient and widely applicable solution for action recognition based on skeletal data. Full article
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Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Based on Graph Convolutional Networks in Connected Vehicle Environment
by Jian Shi, Dongxian Sun and Baicang Guo
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(24), 13192; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132413192 - 12 Dec 2023
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Vehicle trajectory prediction is an important research basis for the decision making and path planning of the intelligent and connected vehicle. In the connected vehicle environment, vehicles share information and drive cooperatively, and the intelligent and connected vehicles are able to obtain more [...] Read more.
Vehicle trajectory prediction is an important research basis for the decision making and path planning of the intelligent and connected vehicle. In the connected vehicle environment, vehicles share information and drive cooperatively, and the intelligent and connected vehicles are able to obtain more accurate and rich perception information, which provides a data basis for accurate prediction of vehicle trajectories. However, attaining accurate and effective vehicle trajectory predictions poses technical challenges due to insufficient extraction of vehicular spatial–temporal interaction features. In this paper, we propose a vehicle trajectory prediction model based on graph convolutional neural network (GCN) in a connected vehicle environment. Specifically, using the driving scene information obtained by the intelligent and connected vehicle, the spatial graph and temporal graph are constructed based on the spatial interaction coefficient (SIC) and self-attention mechanism, respectively. Then, the graph data are entered into the interaction extraction module, and the spatial interaction features and temporal interaction features are extracted separately using the graph convolutional networks, which are fused to obtain the spatial–temporal interaction information. Finally, the interaction features are learned based on the convolutional neural networks to output the future trajectory information of all vehicles in the scene by one forward operation rather than a step-by-step process. The ablation experiment results show that the method proposed in this study to model the spatiotemporal interaction among vehicles based on SIC and self-attention mechanism reduces the prediction error by 5% and 12%, respectively. The results from the model comparison experiment show that the proposed method engenders an 8% improvement in prediction accuracy over the state-of-the-art solution, providing technical and theoretical support for trajectory prediction research of intelligent and connected vehicles. Full article
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Semantically Guided Enhanced Fusion for Intent Detection and Slot Filling
by Songtao Cai, Qicheng Ma, Yupeng Hou and Guangping Zeng
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(22), 12202; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132212202 - 10 Nov 2023
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Intention detection and slot filling are two major subtasks in building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. These two tasks are closely related to each other, and information from one will influence the other, establishing a bidirectional contributory relationship. Existing studies have typically [...] Read more.
Intention detection and slot filling are two major subtasks in building a spoken language understanding (SLU) system. These two tasks are closely related to each other, and information from one will influence the other, establishing a bidirectional contributory relationship. Existing studies have typically modeled the two-way connection between these two tasks simultaneously in a unified framework. However, these studies have merely contributed to the research direction of fully using the correlations between feature information of the two tasks, without sufficient focusing on and utilizing native textual semantics. In this article, we propose a semantic guidance (SG) framework, enabling enhancing the understanding of textual semantics by dynamically gating the information from both tasks to acquire semantic features, ultimately leading to higher joint task accuracy. Experimental results on two widely used public datasets show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance. Full article
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Prediction of Inbound and Outbound Passenger Flow in Urban Rail Transit Based on Spatio-Temporal Attention Residual Network
by Jun Yang, Xueru Dong, Huifan Yang, Xiao Han, Yan Wang and Jiayue Chen
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(18), 10266; https://doi.org/10.3390/app131810266 - 13 Sep 2023
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Passenger flow prediction is a critical approach to ensure the effective functioning of urban rail transit. However, there are few studies that combine multiple influencing factors for short-term passenger flow prediction. It is also a challenge to accurately predict passenger flow at all [...] Read more.
Passenger flow prediction is a critical approach to ensure the effective functioning of urban rail transit. However, there are few studies that combine multiple influencing factors for short-term passenger flow prediction. It is also a challenge to accurately predict passenger flow at all stations in the line at the same time. To overcome the above limitations, a deep learning-based method named ST-RANet is proposed, which consists of three spatio-temporal modules and one external module. The model is capable of predicting inbound and outbound passenger flow for all stations within the network simultaneously. We model the spatio-temporal data in terms of three temporal characteristics, including closeness, period, and trend. For each characteristic, we construct a spatio-temporal module that innovatively integrates the attention mechanisms into the middle of residual units and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract and learn spatio-temporal features. Subsequently, the results of the three modules are integrated using a parameter matrix method, which allows for dynamic aggregation based on data. The integration results are further combined with external factors, such as holidays and meteorological information, to obtain passenger flow prediction values for each station. The proposed model is validated using real data from Beijing Subway, and optimized parameters are applied for 30-min granularity passenger flow predictions. Comparing the performance against 5 baseline models and verifying with data from multiple lines, the results indicate that the proposed ST-RANet model shows the best results. It is demonstrated that the method proposed in this paper has high prediction accuracy and good applicability. Full article
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Modeling Graph Neural Networks and Dynamic Role Sorting for Argument Extraction in Documents
by Qingchuan Zhang, Hongxi Chen, Yuanyuan Cai, Wei Dong and Peng Liu
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(16), 9257; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13169257 - 15 Aug 2023
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The existing methods for document-level event extraction mainly face two challenges. The first challenge is effectively capturing event information that spans across sentences. The second challenge is using predefined orders to extract event arguments while disregarding the dynamic adjusting of the order according [...] Read more.
The existing methods for document-level event extraction mainly face two challenges. The first challenge is effectively capturing event information that spans across sentences. The second challenge is using predefined orders to extract event arguments while disregarding the dynamic adjusting of the order according to the importance of argument roles. To address these issues, we propose a model based on graph neural networks which realizes the semantic interaction among documents, sentences, and entities. Additionally, our model adopts a dynamic argument detection strategy, extracting arguments depending on their number in correspondence with each role. The experimental results confirm the outperformance of our model, which surpasses previous methods by 7% and 1.9% in terms of an F1 score. Full article
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A Comprehensive Survey of Recommender Systems Based on Deep Learning
by Hongde Zhou, Fei Xiong and Hongshu Chen
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(20), 11378; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132011378 - 17 Oct 2023
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With the increasing abundance of information resources and the development of deep learning techniques, recommender systems (RSs) based on deep learning have gradually become a research focus. Although RSs have evolved in recent years, a systematic review of existing RS approaches is still [...] Read more.
With the increasing abundance of information resources and the development of deep learning techniques, recommender systems (RSs) based on deep learning have gradually become a research focus. Although RSs have evolved in recent years, a systematic review of existing RS approaches is still warranted. The main focus of this paper is on recommendation models that incorporate deep learning techniques. The objective is to guide novice researchers interested in this field through the investigation and application of the proposed recommendation models. Specifically, we first categorize existing RS approaches into four types: content-based recommendations, sequence recommendations, cross-domain recommendations, and social recommendation methods. We then introduce the definitions and address the challenges associated with these RS methodologies. Subsequently, we propose a comprehensive categorization framework and novel taxonomies for these methodologies, providing a thorough account of their research advancements. Finally, we discuss future developments regarding this topic. Full article
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