7+ hour, 29+ min ago   (277+ words) Crop models are increasingly incorporated into web applications, but their user and programming interfaces are often developed separately from the model implementation. We extended Cropbox, a crop modeling framework written in Julia, to derive both interfaces from model declarations written…...

1+ day, 4+ hour 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…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (533+ words) This study proposes EQAS (Empowered Question-Answering System), a hybrid framework designed to support context-aware question-answering and intelligent feedback generation in domain-specific knowledge environments. EQAS integrates fine-tuned transformer-based models, instruction-guided large language models, domain-specific knowledge graphs, and LangChain-based vector retrieval to…...

3+ day, 2+ 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…...

4+ day, 2+ 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…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (501+ words) Large language models (LLMs) can turn a flood of cross-layer industrial logs into a fluent incident narrative, but a narrative that cites only real, resolvable events can still be wrong in every relation that matters: the login came from a…...

6+ day, 3+ 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…...

6+ day, 4+ 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, 3+ day ago   (297+ words) Robot Operating System (ROS) applications are growing increasingly complex and distributed, incorporating multi-node architectures, real-time communication, and compute offloading to cloud or edge resources. Despite advances in containerization, large-scale robotics deployments often rely on ad hoc provisioning, updating, and scalability…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (471+ words) Code authorship attribution is an important research area for uncovering the source, affiliation, and purpose of software and malware. It encompasses a wide range of techniques for identifying code authorship based on the analysis of authors’ coding styles. These approaches…...