ABSTRACT
The extreme rise of the Internet of Things and the increasing access of people to web applications have led to the expanding use of diverse e-commerce solutions, which was even more obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic. Large amounts of heterogeneous data from multiple sources reside in e-commerce environments and are often characterized by data source inaccuracy and unreliability. In this regard, various fusion techniques can play a crucial role in addressing such challenges and are extensively used in numerous e-commerce applications. This paper's goal is to conduct an academic literature review of prominent fusion-based solutions that can assist in tackling the everyday challenges the e-commerce environments face as well as in their needs to make more accurate and better business decisions. For categorizing the solutions, a novel 4-fold categorization approach is introduced including product-related, economy-related, business-related, and consumer-related solutions, followed by relevant subcategorizations, based on the wide variety of challenges faced by e-commerce. Results from the 65 fusion-related solutions included in the paper show a great variety of different fusion applications, focusing on the fusion of already existing models and algorithms as well as the existence of a large number of different machine learning techniques focusing on the same e-commerce-related challenge.
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COVID-19 , Pandemics , Algorithms , Commerce , HumansABSTRACT
The extreme rise of the Internet of Things and the increasing access of people to web applications have led to the expanding use of diverse e-commerce solutions, which was even more obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic. Large amounts of heterogeneous data from multiple sources reside in e-commerce environments and are often characterized by data source inaccuracy and unreliability. In this regard, various fusion techniques can play a crucial role in addressing such challenges and are extensively used in numerous e-commerce applications. This paper's goal is to conduct an academic literature review of prominent fusion-based solutions that can assist in tackling the everyday challenges the e-commerce environments face as well as in their needs to make more accurate and better business decisions. For categorizing the solutions, a novel 4-fold categorization approach is introduced including product-related, economy-related, business-related, and consumer-related solutions, followed by relevant subcategorizations, based on the wide variety of challenges faced by e-commerce. Results from the 65 fusion-related solutions included in the paper show a great variety of different fusion applications, focusing on the fusion of already existing models and algorithms as well as the existence of a large number of different machine learning techniques focusing on the same e-commerce-related challenge.
ABSTRACT
Fake news has now grown into a big problem for societies and also a major challenge for people fighting disinformation. This phenomenon plagues democratic elections, reputations of individual persons or organizations, and has negatively impacted citizens, (e.g., during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US or Brazil). Hence, developing effective tools to fight this phenomenon by employing advanced Machine Learning (ML) methods poses a significant challenge. The following paper displays the present body of knowledge on the application of such intelligent tools in the fight against disinformation. It starts by showing the historical perspective and the current role of fake news in the information war. Proposed solutions based solely on the work of experts are analysed and the most important directions of the application of intelligent systems in the detection of misinformation sources are pointed out. Additionally, the paper presents some useful resources (mainly datasets useful when assessing ML solutions for fake news detection) and provides a short overview of the most important R&D projects related to this subject. The main purpose of this work is to analyse the current state of knowledge in detecting fake news;on the one hand to show possible solutions, and on the other hand to identify the main challenges and methodological gaps to motivate future research.