21+ hour, 43+ min ago   (591+ words) Framework and runtime selection for containerized microservices are usually guided by request-level benchmarks, yet deployment-facing costs often dominate operational expenditure in Kubernetes environments. This study empirically evaluates four such infrastructure characteristics: container image size, startup time, idle resource consumption, and…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (359+ words) Productivity evaluation in industrial software projects is still predominantly based on aggregate Function Point-to-effort ratios. Such an approach overlooks the internal structural and functional heterogeneity of software projects, potentially leading to misleading comparisons between systems characterized by similar functional sizes…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (492+ words) Total postharvest losses of fresh fruits and vegetables in tropical and subtropical agricultural systems frequently exceed 30 percent, driven by high crop perishability, limited cold-chain infrastructure, and the geographic concentration of conventional processing facilities far from production zones. This review examines…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (412+ words) Account-based state sharding improves blockchain parallelism by distributing account states and transaction execution across physical shards, but effective placement must preserve transaction locality without concentrating processing demand on a small number of shards. This paper presents LB-Louvain, a coarse-to-fine account-partitioning…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (417+ words) The functions and application scenarios of AI glasses continue to expand; however, research on design optimization informed by user needs and usage experiences remains limited. This study develops a natural language processing framework for design optimization that integrates BERTopic, large…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (308+ words) Visual security quantification is critical for evaluating perceptual image encryption schemes. Traditional visual security indices often rely on partial feature extraction and fixed-position block matching, which limits their capability to capture localized information leakage. To address these limitations, this paper…...

5+ day, 47+ min ago   (407+ words) The inspection of conventional door locks in public buildings is a repetitive security task commonly performed manually at predefined times. This paper presents the development and experimental validation of a non-invasive, low-complexity robotic system designed for autonomous door lock-state verification....

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (625+ words) Web applications increasingly handle sensitive data in diverse use cases, but conventional encryption implementations apply a uniform level of cryptographic protection to all traffic, regardless of the associated risk. This static approach results in either excessive computational overhead when applying…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (587+ words) Large language models and AI agents are extending data-engineering automation beyond isolated artifact generation toward end-to-end processes in which agents interpret requirements, select data, generate transformations, invoke tools, validate results, and communicate analytical outputs. This shift introduces risks that conventional…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (526+ words) Online social networks generate large volumes of textual data that reflect users’ opinions, affective expressions, and broader patterns of engagement and social behavior. However, natural language processing approaches frequently examine sentiment, trust-related signals, and behavioral indicators independently, limiting their ability…...