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A Fog-Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Condition Monitoring and Distributing Industry 4.0 Services
(2019)
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) seeks to enhance transparency and trust in AI systems. Evaluating the quality of XAI explanation methods remains challenging due to limitations in existing metrics. To address these issues, we propose a novel metric called Explanation Significance Assessment (ESA) and its extension, the Weighted Explanation Significance Assessment (WESA). These metrics offer a comprehensive evaluation of XAI explanations, considering spatial precision, focus overlap, and relevance accuracy. In this paper, we demonstrate the applicability of ESA and WESA on medical data. These metrics quantify the understandability and reliability of XAI explanations, assisting practitioners in interpreting AI-based decisions and promoting informed choices in critical domains like healthcare. Moreover, ESA and WESA can play a crucial role in AI certification, ensuring both accuracy and explainability. By evaluating the performance of XAI methods and underlying AI models, these metrics contribute to trustworthy AI systems. Incorporating ESA and WESA in AI certification efforts advances the field of XAI and bridges the gap between accuracy and interpretability. In summary, ESA and WESA provide comprehensive metrics to evaluate XAI explanations, benefiting research, critical domains, and AI certification, thereby enabling trustworthy and interpretable AI systems.
A Review on Digital Wallets and Federated Service for Future of Cloud Services Identity Management
(2023)
In today’s technology-driven era, managing digital identities has become a critical concern due to the widespread use of online services and digital devices. This has led to a fragmented landscape of digital identities, burdening individuals with multiple usernames, passwords, and authentication methods. To address this challenge, digital wallets have emerged as a promising solution. These wallets empower users to store, manage, and utilize their digital assets, including personal data, payment information, and credentials. Additionally, federated services have gained prominence, enabling users to access multiple services using a single digital identity. Gaia-X is an example of such a service, aiming to establish a secure and trustworthy data infrastructure. This paper examines digital identity management, focusing on the application of digital wallets and federated services. It explores the categorization of identities needed for different cloud services, considering their unique requirements and characteristics. Furthermore, it discusses the future requirements for digital wallets and federated identity management in the cloud, along with the associated challenges and benefits. The paper also introduces a categorization scheme for cloud services based on security and privacy requirements, demonstrating how different identity types can be mapped to each category.
The YOLO series of object detection algorithms, including YOLOv4 and YOLOv5, have shown superior performance in various medical diagnostic tasks, surpassing human ability in some cases. However, their black-box nature has limited their adoption in medical applications that require trust and explainability of model decisions. To address this issue, visual explanations for AI models, known as visual XAI, have been proposed in the form of heatmaps that highlight regions in the input that contributed most to a particular decision. Gradient-based approaches, such as Grad-CAM, and non-gradient-based approaches, such as Eigen-CAM, are applicable to YOLO models and do not require new layer implementation. This paper evaluates the performance of Grad-CAM and Eigen-CAM on the VinDrCXR Chest X-ray Abnormalities Detection dataset and discusses the limitations of these methods for explaining model decisions to data scientists.
Quality assurance (QA) plays a crucial role in manufacturing to ensure that products meet their specifications. However, manual QA processes are costly and time-consuming, thereby making artificial intelligence (AI) an attractive solution for automation and expert support. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained a lot of interest in visual inspection. Next to AI methods, the explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) systems, which achieve transparency and interpretability by providing insights into the decision-making process of the AI, are interesting methods for achieveing quality inspections in manufacturing processes. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to explore AI and XAI approaches for visual QA (VQA) in manufacturing. Our objective was to assess the current state of the art and identify research gaps in this context. Our findings revealed that AI-based systems predominantly focused on visual quality control (VQC) for defect detection. Research addressing VQA practices, like process optimization, predictive maintenance, or root cause analysis, are more rare. Least often cited are papers that utilize XAI methods. In conclusion, this survey emphasizes the importance and potential of AI and XAI in VQA across various industries. By integrating XAI, organizations can enhance model transparency, interpretability, and trust in AI systems. Overall, leveraging AI and XAI improves VQA practices and decision-making in industries.
The digital transformation of companies is expected to increase the digital interconnection between different companies to develop optimized, customized, hybrid business models. These cross-company business models require secure, reliable, and traceable logging and monitoring of contractually agreed information sharing between machine tools, operators, and service providers. This paper discusses how the major requirements for building hybrid business models can be tackled by the blockchain for building a chain of trust and smart contracts for digitized contracts. A machine maintenance use case is used to discuss the readiness of smart contracts for the automation of workflows defined in contracts. Furthermore, it is shown that the number of failures is significantly improved by using these contracts and a blockchain.
Evolutionary strategy is increasingly used for optimization in various machine learning problems. It can scale very well, even to high dimensional problems, and its ability to globally self optimize in flexible ways provides new and exciting opportunities when combined with more recent machine learning methods. This paper describes a novel approach for the optimization of models with a data driven evolutionary strategy. The optimization can directly be applied as a preprocessing step and is therefore independent of the machine learning algorithm used. The experimental analysis of six different use cases show that, on average, better results are attained than without evolutionary strategy. Furthermore it is shown, that the best individual models are also achieved with the help of evolutionary strategy. The six different use cases were of different complexity which reinforces the idea that the approach is universal and not depending on specific use cases.
Up until now, it has been shown that big parts of the so called Industry 4.0 are impacted by Machine Learning (ML) in some way or another. In many shopfloor situations, there are different sensors involved and all data is eventually structured, accumulated and prepared for application in various ML-based scenarios, e.g., predictive maintenance of a machine, quality monitoring of manufactured workpieces or handling domain-specific aspect of the respective fabricator or product. As the physical environment of Cyber Physical System (CPS) can change rapidly, the overall Data Acquisition (DAQ) process and ML training is impacted, too. This work focuses on datasets which consist of small amounts of tabular information and how to utilize them in image-based Neural Networks (NN) with respect to meta learning and multimodal transformations. Therefore, the conceptual utilization of an DAQ system in industrial environments is discussed regarding a variety of techniques for preprocessing and generating visual material from multimodal data. The outcome of such operations is a new dataset which is then applied in model training. Therefore, the presented approach is three-fold. In first analysing the concept of predicting the similarity of structured and numerical data in different datasets, indicators of the feasibility when applying the methodology in related but more sophisticated learning scenarios can be gained. Although ongoing time-series data is differing from simple multi-class data in terms of a chronologically dimension, basic classification concepts are applied to it and evaluated. In order to extend the similarity prediction with a temporal component, the discussed methods are extended by multimodal transformations and an subsequent utilization in Siamese Neural Networks (SNN). By discussing the concept of applying visual representations of structured time-series data in a meta-learning context, known trends and historic information can be utilized for generating real-world test-samples and predicting their validity on inference.
ARTHUR – Distributed Measuring System for Synchronous Data Acquisition from Different Data Sources
(2023)
In industrial manufacturing lines, different machines are well orchestrated and applied for their well-defined purpose. As each of these machines must be monitored and maintained in the first place, there are scenarios in which a Data Acquisition system brings enormous benefits. Since the cost of such professional systems is often not appropriate or feasible for research projects or prototyping, a proof of concept is often achieved by applying end-user hardware. In this work, a distributed measurement system for supporting the collection of data is described with respect to AI-based projects for research and teaching. ARTHUR (meAsuRing sysTem witH distribUted sensoRs) is arbitrarily expandable and has so far been used in the field of data acquisition on machine tools. Typical measured values are Accoustic Emission values, force plates X-Y-Z force values, simple PLC switching signals, OPC-UA machine parameters, etc., which were recorded by a wide variety of sensors. The overall ATHUR system is based on Raspberry Pis and consists of a master node, multiple independent measurement worker nodes, a streaming system realized with Redis, as well as a gateway that stores the data in the cloud. The major objectives of the ARTHUR system are scalability and the support for low-cost measuring components while solely applying open-source software. The work on hand discusses the advantages and disadvantages regarding the hard- and software of this TCP/IP-based system.
On the way to the smart factory, the manufacturing companies investigate the potential of Machine Learning approaches like visual quality inspection, process optimisation, maintenance prediction and more. In order to be able to assess the influence of Machine Learning based systems on business-relevant key figures, many companies go down the path of test before invest. This paper describes a novel and inexpensive distributed Data Acquisition System, ARTHUR (dAta collectoR sysTem witH distribUted sensoRs), to enable the collection of data for AI-based projects for research, education and the industry. ARTHUR is arbitrarily expandable and has so far been used in the field of data acquisition on machine tools. Typical measured values are Acoustic Emission values, force plate X-Y-Z force values, simple SPS signals, OPC-UA machine parameters, etc. which were recorded by a wide variety of sensors. The ARTHUR system consists of a master node, multiple measurement worker nodes, a local streaming system and a gateway that stores the data to the cloud. The authors describe the hardware and software of this system and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
While the number of devices connected together as the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, the demand for an efficient and secure model of resource discovery in IoT is increasing. An efficient resource discovery model distributes the registration and discovery workload among many nodes and allow the resources to be discovered based on their attributes. In most cases this discovery ability should be restricted to a number of clients based on their attributes, otherwise, any client in the system can discover any registered resource. In a binary discovery policy, any client with the shared secret key can discover and decrypt the address data of a registered resource regardless of the attributes of the client. In this paper we propose Attred, a decentralized resource discovery model using the Region-based Distributed Hash Table (RDHT) that allows secure and location-aware discovery of the resources in IoT network. Using Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) and based on predefined discovery policies by the resources, Attred allows clients only by their inherent attributes, to discover the resources in the network. Attred distributes the workload of key generations and resource registration and reduces the risk of central authority management. In addition, some of the heavy computations in our proposed model can be securely distributed using secret sharing that allows a more efficient resource registration, without affecting the required security properties. The performance analysis results showed that the distributed computation can significantly reduce the computation cost while maintaining the functionality. The performance and security analysis results also showed that our model can efficiently provide the required security properties of discovery correctness, soundness, resource privacy and client privacy.