Ransomware: Recent advances, analysis, challenges and future research directions

C Beaman, A Barkworth, TD Akande, S Hakak… - Computers & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed a huge surge in the number of ransomware attacks.
Different institutions such as healthcare, financial, and government have been targeted …

Oily wastewater treatment: Overview of conventional and modern methods, challenges, and future opportunities

K Abuhasel, M Kchaou, M Alquraish, Y Munusamy… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Industrial developments in the oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food sector
have contributed to the large production of oily wastewater worldwide. Oily wastewater …

Unmanned aerial vehicles in smart agriculture: Applications, requirements, and challenges

PKR Maddikunta, S Hakak, M Alazab… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the next few years, smart farming will reach each and every nook of the world. The
prospects of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for smart farming are immense …

A blockchain non-fungible token-enabled 'passport'for construction waste material cross-jurisdictional trading

L Wu, W Lu, Z Peng, C Webster - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
The waste material passport (WMP) has been proposed for construction waste material
(CWM) cross-border trading to reduce information asymmetry between parties. However, a …

Waste management: A comprehensive state of the art about the rise of blockchain technology

G Baralla, A Pinna, R Tonelli, M Marchesi - Computers in Industry, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last century, the increased urbanization and population growth produced a dramatic
increase in waste production, causing serious problems for the environment and human …

Blockchain for waste management in smart cities: A survey

RW Ahmad, K Salah, R Jayaraman, I Yaqoob… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart cities have the potential to overcome environmental problems caused by improper
waste disposal by improving human health, protecting the aquatic ecosystem, and reducing …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing the circular economy through new technologies: A new era of sustainable progress

E Sánchez-García, J Martínez-Falcó… - … Technology & Innovation, 2024 - Elsevier
Nowadays the pace of production and consumption is reaching environmentally
unsustainable levels. In this regard, the great technological advances developed in recent …

Detecting and mitigating the dissemination of fake news: Challenges and future research opportunities

W Shahid, B Jamshidi, S Hakak, H Isah… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fake news is a major threat to democracy (eg, influencing public opinion), and its impact
cannot be understated particularly in our current socially and digitally connected society …

IoT-enabled water distribution systems—A comparative technological review

NK Velayudhan, P Pradeep, SN Rao… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Water distribution systems are one of the critical infrastructures and major assets of the water
utility in a nation. The infrastructure of the distribution systems consists of resources …

The application of blockchain technology in the recycling chain: a state-of-the-art literature review and conceptual framework

S Xie, Y Gong, M Kunc, Z Wen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
More practitioners are embracing blockchain technology to improve recycling performance.
However, current research on the use of blockchain is mostly confined to general …