The growing computational demand for deep neural networks ( DNNs) has raised concerns about their energy consumption and carbon footprint, particularly as the size and complexity of the models continue to increase. To address these challenges, energy-efficient hardware and custom accelerators have become essential. Additionally, adaptable DNN s are being developed to dynamically balance performance and efficiency. The use of these strategies became more common to enable sustainable AI deployment. However, these efficiency-focused designs may also introduce vulnerabilities, as attackers can potentially exploit them to increase latency and energy usage by triggering their worst-case-performance scenarios. This new type of attack, called energy-latency attacks, has recently gained significant research attention, focusing on the vulnerability of DNN s to this emerging attack paradigm, which can trigger denial-of-service ( DoS) attacks. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of current research on energy-latency attacks, categorizing them using the established taxonomy for traditional adversarial attacks. We explore different metrics used to measure the success of these attacks and provide an analysis and comparison of existing attack strategies. We also analyze existing defense mechanisms and highlight current challenges and potential areas for future research in this developing field. The GitHub page for this work can be accessed at https://github.com/hbrachemi/Survey_energy_attacks/

This short paper gives an overview of the XCSP3 solver implemented in Picat. Picat provides several constraint modules, and the Picat XCSP3 solver uses the sat module. The XCSP3 solver mainly consists of a parser implemented in Picat, which converts constraints from XCSP3 format to Picat. The solver demonstrates the strengths of Picat, a logic-based language, in parsing, modeling, and encoding constraints into SAT. The high performance of the solver in recent XCSP competitions demonstrates the viability of using a SAT solver to solve general constraint satisfaction and optimization problems.

In material physics, characterization techniques are foremost crucial for obtaining the materials data regarding the physical properties as well as structural, electronics, magnetic, optic, dielectric, and spectroscopic characteristics. However, for many materials, ensuring availability and safe accessibility is not always easy and fully warranted. Moreover, the use of modeling and simulation techniques need a lot of theoretical knowledge, in addition of being associated to costly computation time and a great complexity deal. Thus, analyzing materials with different techniques for multiple samples simultaneously, still be very challenging for engineers and researchers. It is worth noting that although of being very risky, X-ray diffraction is the well known and widely used characterization technique which gathers data from structural properties of crystalline 1d, 2d or 3d materials. We propose in this paper, a Smart GRU for Gated Recurrent Unit model to forcast structural characteristics or properties of thin films of tin oxide SnO$_2$(110). Indeed, thin films samples are elaborated and managed experimentally and the collected data dictionary is then used to generate an AI -- Artificial Intelligence -- GRU model for the thin films of tin oxide SnO$_2$(110) structural property characterization.

With the advancements of Artifical Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the past decades, especially the rising of Large Language Model (LLM) and multimodality learning, softwrare engineering fields welcome AI techniques to be employed to every aspects of software cycles. Meanwhile, the research of intelligent applications has continuously been a hotspot (Zhao et al., 2021) because of the increasing amount of data of multimodalities generated in various domains. This type of software is designed to adapt to constantly changing scenarios of rich context (Zhao et al., 2021; Yue and Smith, 2021), and some examples are listed in part C of figure 1. One primary characteristic of those applications is that a great portion of their system behaviors is learned from continuous interaction with the users and environment involving detection and analysis of states and activities (Tzafestas, 2012; Yang and Newman, 2013; Cassavia et al., 2017), unlike applications of banking or insurance with more matured and stable business logic. The rapid evolution of hardware and software wheels bring more capabilities to intelligent applications meanwhile making the creation and maintenance of that software more intricate (Chu et al., 2021; Zheng et al., 2023), both fields of software engineering and intelligent applications are eager for breakthroughs in higher-level automation (HLA) - collaboratively resolving the challenges by benefiting from AI techniques.

Adverse drug reactions considerably impact patient outcomes and healthcare costs in cancer therapy. Using artificial intelligence to predict adverse drug reactions in real time could revolutionize oncology treatment. This study aims to assess the performance of artificial intelligence models in predicting adverse drug reactions in patients with cancer. This is the first systematic review and meta-analysis. Scopus, PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and ACM Digital Library databases were searched for studies in English, French, and Arabic from January 1, 2018, to August 20, 2023. The inclusion criteria were: (1) peer-reviewed research articles; (2) use of artificial intelligence algorithms (machine learning, deep learning, knowledge graphs); (3) study aimed to predict adverse drug reactions (cardiotoxicity, neutropenia, nephrotoxicity, hepatotoxicity); (4) study was on cancer patients. The data were extracted and evaluated by three reviewers for study quality. Of the 332 screened articles, 17 studies (5%) involving 93,248 oncology patients from 17 countries were included in the systematic review, of which ten studies synthesized the meta-analysis. A random-effects model was created to pool the sensitivity, specificity, and AUC of the included studies. The pooled results were 0.82 (95% CI:0.69, 0.9), 0.84 (95% CI:0.75, 0.9), and 0.83 (95% CI:0.77, 0.87) for sensitivity, specificity, and AUC, respectively, of ADR predictive models. Biomarkers proved their effectiveness in predicting ADRs, yet they were adopted by only half of the reviewed studies. The use of AI in cancer treatment shows great potential, with models demonstrating high specificity and sensitivity in predicting ADRs. However, standardized research and multicenter studies are needed to improve the quality of evidence. AI can enhance cancer patient care by bridging the gap between data-driven insights and clinical expertise.

This short paper gives an overview of the XCSP3 solver implemented in Picat. Picat provides several constraint modules, and the Picat XCSP3 solver uses the sat module. The XCSP3 solver mainly consists of a parser implemented in Picat, which converts constraints from XCSP3 format to Picat. The solver demonstrates the strengths of Picat, a logic-based language, in parsing, modeling, and encoding constraints into SAT. The solver submitted to the 2022 XCSP competition is based on the one that won the 2019 XCSP competition.

This short paper gives an overview of the XCSP3 solver implemented in Picat. Picat provides several constraint modules, and the Picat XCSP3 solver uses the sat module. The XCSP3 solver mainly consists of a parser implemented in Picat, which converts constraints from XCSP3 format to Picat. The solver demonstrates the strengths of Picat, a logic-based language, in parsing, modeling, and encoding constraints into SAT. The solver submitted to the 2022 XCSP competition is based on the one that won the 2019 XCSP competition.

Speeding up the spelling in event-related potentials (ERP) based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) requires eliciting strong brain responses in a short span of time, as much as the accurate classification of such evoked potentials remains challenging and imposes hard constraints for signal processing and machine learning techniques. Recent advances in stimulus presentation and deep learning showcased a promising direction in significantly improving the efficacy of those systems, in this study we propose the combination of colored inverted face stimulation with classification using convolutional neural networks in the hard settings of dry electrodes and fast flashing single-trial ERP-based BCI. The high online accuracy achieved, with two subjects passing the 90 percent correct symbol detection bar and a transfer rate above 60 bits per minute, demonstrates the approach potential in improving the practicality of ERP based BCIs.

Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) is a recent metaheuristic that has been used in several optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a new version of the algorithm (xBOA) based on the crossover operator and compare its results to the original BOA and 3 other variants recently introduced in the literature. We also proposed a framework for solving the unknown area exploration problem with energy constraints using metaheuristics in both single- and multi-robot scenarios. This framework allowed us to benchmark the performances of different metaheuristics for the robotics exploration problem. We conducted several experiments to validate this framework and used it to compare the effectiveness of xBOA with wellknown metaheuristics used in the literature through 5 evaluation criteria. Although BOA and xBOA are not optimal in all these criteria, we found that BOA can be a good alternative to many metaheuristics in terms of the exploration time, while xBOA is more robust to local optima; has better fitness convergence; and achieves better exploration rates than the original BOA and its other variants.

Predicting the quality of multimedia content is often needed in different fields. In some applications, quality metrics are crucial with a high impact, and can affect decision making such as diagnosis from medical multimedia. In this paper, we focus on such applications by proposing an efficient and shallow model for predicting the quality of medical images without reference from a small amount of annotated data. Our model is based on convolution self-attention that aims to model complex representation from relevant local characteristics of images, which itself slide over the image to interpolate the global quality score. We also apply domain adaptation learning in unsupervised and semi-supervised manner. The proposed model is evaluated through a dataset composed of several images and their corresponding subjective scores. The obtained results showed the efficiency of the proposed method, but also, the relevance of the applying domain adaptation to generalize over different multimedia domains regarding the downstream task of perceptual quality prediction. \footnote{Funded by the TIC-ART project, Regional fund (Region Centre-Val de Loire)}