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View article: Recommendations and Roadmaps Towards Intelligent Railways
Recommendations and Roadmaps Towards Intelligent Railways Open
This paper provides an overview of the main results achieved within the Horizon 2020 Shift2Rail project named RAILS (Roadmaps for Artificial Intelligence Integration in the Rail Sector). The RAILS roadmapping process provided state-of-the-…
View article: Asset Discovery in Critical Infrastructures: An LLM-Based Approach
Asset Discovery in Critical Infrastructures: An LLM-Based Approach Open
Asset discovery in critical infrastructures, and in particular within industrial control systems, constitutes a fundamental cybersecurity function. Ensuring accurate and comprehensive asset visibility while maintaining operational continui…
View article: How can the holder trust the verifier? A CP-ABPRE-based solution to control the access to claims in a Self-Sovereign-Identity scenario
How can the holder trust the verifier? A CP-ABPRE-based solution to control the access to claims in a Self-Sovereign-Identity scenario Open
The interest in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) in research, industry, and governments is rapidly increasing. SSI is a paradigm where users hold their identity and credentials issued by authorized entities. SSI is revolutionizing the concept…
View article: Analysis of safe and effective next-generation rail signalling systems
Analysis of safe and effective next-generation rail signalling systems Open
Moving Block (MB) and Virtual Coupling (VC) rail signalling will change current train operation paradigm by migrating vital equipment from trackside to onboard to reduce train separation and maintenance costs. Their actual deployment is ho…
View article: Enabling secure health information sharing among healthcare organizations by public blockchain
Enabling secure health information sharing among healthcare organizations by public blockchain Open
The facilitation of sharing and exchanging patients’ health records is a paramount opportunity in e-health, enabling healthcare providers to garner a comprehensive and clear perspective of patients’ medical histories without necessitating …
View article: Building Cyber-Resilient Smart Grids with Digital Twins and Data Spaces
Building Cyber-Resilient Smart Grids with Digital Twins and Data Spaces Open
The rapid expansion of digital twin technology has revolutionized management and testing across various sectors, particularly in safeguarding critical infrastructure like smart grids. Aligned with the NIS2 Directive, Directive (EU) 2022/25…
View article: Securing FIWARE with TEE Technology
Securing FIWARE with TEE Technology Open
An important objective being pursued by the European Commission is the establishment of a unified data market where stakeholders can safely and confidently share and exchange data in standardized formats. This trend is supported by numerou…
View article: A self-adaptation-based approach to resilience improvement of complex internets of utility systems
A self-adaptation-based approach to resilience improvement of complex internets of utility systems Open
Resilience improvement of complex internets of utility systems is still an open issue for the current research. Proposed solutions fail to implement an integrated approach to detection, mitigation, and reaction which is able to face both w…
View article: Exploiting Digital Twin technology for Cybersecurity Monitoring in Smart Grids
Exploiting Digital Twin technology for Cybersecurity Monitoring in Smart Grids Open
The adoption of Digital Twin technology has witnessed significant growth in various domains, enabling continuous monitoring and testing in diverse applications. In the context of safeguarding critical infrastructures, particularly smart gr…
View article: Intelligent detection of warning bells at level crossings through deep transfer learning for smarter railway maintenance
Intelligent detection of warning bells at level crossings through deep transfer learning for smarter railway maintenance Open
Level Crossings are among the most critical railway assets, concerning both the risk of accidents and their maintainability, due to intersections with promiscuous traffic and difficulties in remotely monitoring their health status. Failure…
View article: Trustworthy AI for Safe Autonomy of Smart Railways: Directions and Lessons Learnt from Other Sectors
Trustworthy AI for Safe Autonomy of Smart Railways: Directions and Lessons Learnt from Other Sectors Open
Abstract: In this paper, we present some of the results achieved during the ongoing RAILS (Roadmaps for Artificial Intelligence Integration in the Rail Sector) research project, funded by the European Union Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking, an…
View article: Automatic Generation of Domain-Aware Control Plane Logic for Software Defined Railway Communication Networks
Automatic Generation of Domain-Aware Control Plane Logic for Software Defined Railway Communication Networks Open
The emergence of 5G technologies opens up new opportunities for railway communications. One of the foundational aspects of 5G architecture is its control-plane programmability, which can be achieved through Software Defined Networking (SDN…
View article: A Survey on Audio-Video Based Defect Detection Through Deep Learning in Railway Maintenance
A Survey on Audio-Video Based Defect Detection Through Deep Learning in Railway Maintenance Open
Within Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning (DL) represents a paradigm that has been showing unprecedented performance in image and audio processing by supporting or even replacing humans in defect and anomaly detection. The railway sect…
View article: Artificial Intelligence in Railway Transport: Taxonomy, Regulations, and Applications
Artificial Intelligence in Railway Transport: Taxonomy, Regulations, and Applications Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive in most engineering domains, and railway transport is no exception. However, due to the plethora of different new terms and meanings associated with them, there is a risk that railway prac…
View article: Compositional modeling of railway Virtual Coupling with Stochastic Activity Networks
Compositional modeling of railway Virtual Coupling with Stochastic Activity Networks Open
The current travel demand in railways requires the adoption of novel approaches and technologies in order to increase network capacity. Virtual Coupling is considered one of the most innovative solutions to increase railway capacity by dra…
View article: Software Verification and Validation of Safe Autonomous Cars: A Systematic Literature Review
Software Verification and Validation of Safe Autonomous Cars: A Systematic Literature Review Open
Autonomous, or self-driving, cars are emerging as the solution to several problems primarily caused by humans on roads, such as accidents and traffic congestion. However, those benefits come with great challenges in the verification and va…
View article: Low-Power Wide-Area Networks in Intelligent Transportation: Review and Opportunities for Smart-Railways
Low-Power Wide-Area Networks in Intelligent Transportation: Review and Opportunities for Smart-Railways Open
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in LPWAN, with a focus on intelligent transportation. IoT and LPWAN technologies appear as very promising for cost-effective remote surveillance, monitoring and contro…
View article: Securing MQTT by Blockchain-Based OTP Authentication
Securing MQTT by Blockchain-Based OTP Authentication Open
The Internet of Things is constantly capturing interest from modern applications, changing our everyday life and empowering industrial applications. Interaction and the collaboration among smart devices offer new challenges to security sin…
View article: ERTMS/ETCS Virtual Coupling: Proof of Concept and Numerical Analysis
ERTMS/ETCS Virtual Coupling: Proof of Concept and Numerical Analysis Open
Railway infrastructure operators need to push their network capacity up to their limits in high-traffic corridors. Virtual coupling is considered among the most relevant innovations to be studied within the European Horizon 2020 Shift2Rail…
View article: A Novel Query Language for Data Extraction from Social Networks
A Novel Query Language for Data Extraction from Social Networks Open
Online Social Networks (OSNs) represent an important source of information since they manage a huge amount of data that can be used in many different contexts. Moreover, many people create and manage more than one social profile in the dif…
View article: µGRIMOIRE: A Tool for Smart Micro Grids Modelling and Energy Profiling
µGRIMOIRE: A Tool for Smart Micro Grids Modelling and Energy Profiling Open
The construction of a usable, formal, and extensible modeller and simulator for Smart Energy Grids is of a paramount importance in the industrial settings. Final users are interested in deploying effective smart-home configurations able to…