Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast changing civilian and military practice. Although the discussions of AI ethics often address issues of bias, fairness, and/or autonomous weapons, this paper suggests that the epistemic domain is the most urgent problem. Algorithmic manipulation and disinformation, as a kind of epistemic war, account to new ways of war discourses in the context of AI-enabled societies, where the possibility of responsible agency is put at risk. The main argument is that epistemic responsibility has to take priority over technological control in both ethics and policy. The paper shall then propose a new policy orientation that is based on principle of
epistemic jus in bello
: the principle of knowledge-based justness in warfare. This truth is that the integrity of knowledge environments is ethically no lesser urgent than defending civilian lives during kinetic conflict. By combining a formalized measure of epistemic integrity – via the Epistemic Integrity Index (EII) – with this normative framework, the paper bridges philosophy, ethics, and policy, offering a new model for understanding and regulating AI’s role in the epistemic dimension of modern conflict.
Abasianie Samuel Etuk, B. Stephen, Emmanuel Udoh et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
Cloud service providers face significant challenges in preventing hardware and software failures due to the large-scale and heterogeneous nature of cloud computing. Although many studies have focused on characterising failed jobs, fewer have explored proactive failure prediction. This paper presents a deep learning-based failure prediction model that integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) networks to identify job failures before they occur. The proposed model improves the performance of cloud computing applications by reducing job failures and optimising resource utilisation. Using the Google Cluster Traces dataset, we analyse failure patterns and evaluate the effectiveness of the model across multiple performance metrics. The results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed scheme, achieving an accuracy of 99.96%, along with a high F1-score of 99.92% when compared to existing models. These findings highlight the potential of deep learning in proactive failure mitigation, providing a foundation for future advances in cloud workload reliability.
Wunukhen Shehu Awudu, P. Asuquo, B. Agbor et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) with Web3 ecosystems introduces new opportunities for automation, trust, and decentralized coordination. However, the same decentralized nature also amplifies security vulnerabilities, as conventional centralized intrusion detection and response systems are unable to provide real-time, tamper-proof protection at scale. This paper presents the Smart Contract-Based Automated Response System (SC-ARS), a novel framework that integrates blockchain smart contracts, machine learning (ML)-based anomaly detection, and automated mitigation policies. SC-ARS leverages lightweight consensus mechanisms and decentralized storage to ensure resilience against single points of failure, while smart contracts provide transparent and auditable enforcement of security actions. The ML pipeline, implemented using Random Forest, XGBoost, and LSTM models, is trained on benchmark datasets (NSL-KDD and CICIDS2017) to enable accurate anomaly detection. Experimental evaluation demonstrates up to 95% detection accuracy, a 50% reduction in response latency, and scalability to over 100,000 IoT devices without performance degradation. These results highlight the suitability of SC-ARS for deployment in smart cities, industrial IoT, and decentralized critical infrastructures where trust, transparency, and real-time responsiveness are essential.
S. Bassey, B. Stephen, Emediong Bassey Obot et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
A comprehensive evaluation of deep learning architectures for DDoS attack detection in AMI environments, focusing on Convolutional Neural Network, CNN-Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-LSTM), and CNN-Gated Recurrent Unit (CNN-GRU) hybrid approaches.
S. Bassey, P. Asuquo, Victor Anaga et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
To address the critical global challenge of microplastic pollution and the limitations of alignment-dependent genomic tools in analyzing fragmented environmental data, this study introduces an alignment-free computational framework for identifying microbial bioremediation potential. We established a standardized, multi-domain dataset encompassing Bacteria, Protists, Archaea, and Fungi, integrating metadata on polymer interactions to fill existing data gaps. Utilizing tetranucleotide frequency patterns (k=4), we developed a novel analysis method to isolate predictive genomic signatures, identifying C-rich motifs such as ‘CCCC’ as primary indicators of degradation capability.A statistical scoring model was subsequently implemented to rank candidate taxa, effectively prioritizing high-value organisms from complex metagenomes derived from plastic-associated microbial assemblages. Our approach demonstrates significantly reduced computational time and more sensitive than the older methods, identifying potential degraders that alignment techniques often miss. It connects the theoretical side of detecting functional genes with real-world environmental checks, creating a flexible tool to speed up finding new microbes for tackling plastic waste and restoring ecosystems.
U. Luke, Emem Okon Abang, Etimbuk Daniel Akpan et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
A dynamic recurrent neural network is proposed to accurately predict workloads and integrates an auto-encoder to effectively extract representations from the original workload data with high dimensionality to enable adaptive and accurate predictions for highly variable workloads.
Okore Kalu, Chijioke Okafor, P. Asuquo et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
Results indicate that decentralized, interoperable, and energy-aware intrusion detection is feasible for large-scale IoT deployments, particularly in resource-constrained IoT environments.
S. Bassey, Emmanuel Udoh, B. Stephen et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
This work proposes an intelligent, lightweight Tiny LSTM–GRU hybrid IDS on the edge to monitor device-generated behavioral patterns in real time, with minimal computational and energy overhead, and proposes an adaptive FedProx-based weighted federated learning framework.
Emmanuel Udok, B. Stephen, U. Luke et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
This approach combines semantic understanding of clinical narratives with structural modeling of patient-disease-treatment relationships and successfully validates synthetic EHR data utility for privacy-preserving healthcare AI development while addressing critical requirements necessary for clinical decision support system.
U. Luke, P. Asuquo, Victor Anaga et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
Comparative evaluation against existing machine learning and deep learning approaches indicates that the proposed framework achieves competitive accuracy while maintaining deployment-oriented processing speeds, suggesting that the CNN-GRU model is well-suited for SDN security monitoring under controlled experimental conditions.
Victor Anaga, B. Stephen, E. Adediji et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations
The results show a success in implementing a real time, scalable, privacy-preserving, and adaptive IDS in large-scale IoT deployments through intelligent workload distribution between edge and cloud layers.
Chidera Winifred John, Eduediuyai Ekerete Dan, P. Asuquo et al.· E3S Web of Conferences· 0 citations