Recently, damages such as internal system intrusion, network and device vulnerability attacks, malicious code infection, and information leakage due to security attacks are increasing within the smart grid environment. Detailed and dynamic access control must be implemented to enable the power system in the smart grid environment to respond to such attacks. Dynamic and partial delegation must be available, and permission role restrictions must be considered for dynamic access control when delegating a role because of changes in power resource manager authority. In this paper, we propose an intelligent access control framework that can recognize security context by analyzing security vulnerabilities for security management of power systems. The intelligent access control framework is designed as a framework that enables collaboration within the smart grid environment, and a system administrator is designed to transmit access control policy information required between the power service principal and the agent. In addition, an experiment is conducted for the control inference of security context ontology-based access, attack detection inference of the security context awareness service, and the attack response of the intelligent integrated access control system. Experimental results show that the precision of security context ontology-based access control inference is 70%, and the attack response rate of integrated access control is 72.8%.

Text-to-image technology enables computers to create images from text by simulating the human process of forming mental images. GAN-based text-to-image technology involves extracting features from input text; subsequently, they are combined with noise and used as input to a GAN, which generates images similar to the original images via competition between the generator and discriminator. Although images have been extensively generated from English text, text-to-image technology based on multilingualism, such as Korean, is in its developmental stage. Webtoons are digital comic formats for viewing comics online. The webtoon creation process involves story planning, content/sketching, coloring, and background drawing, all of which require human intervention, thus being time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, this study proposes a multilingual text-to-image model capable of generating webtoon images when presented with multilingual input text. The proposed model employs multilingual BERT to extract feature vectors for multiple languages and trains a DCGAN in conjunction with the images. The experimental results demonstrate that the model can generate images similar to the original images when presented with multilingual input text after training. The evaluation metrics further support these findings, as the generated images achieved an Inception score of 4.99 and an FID score of 22.21.

The spread of social media has accelerated the formation and dissemination of user review data, which contain subjective opinions of users on products, in an e-commerce environment. Because these reviews significantly influence other users, opinion mining has garnered substantial attention in analyzing the positive and negative opinions of users and deriving solutions based on these analytical results. Terms that include sentimental information and used in user reviews serve as the most crucial element in sentimental classification. In this regard, it is crucial to distinguish the most influential terms in user reviews. This study proposed a document-level sentiment classification model based on the collection and application of user reviews generated in an e-commerce environment. Here, a term information extraction method was applied to the proposed model to select core terms, classify the selected terms according to parts of speech (POS), determine terms that can increase information power and influence, and adopt these terms in opinion mining research, based on SVM, SVM+, and SVM+MTL techniques. The results obtained from evaluating the proposed model indicate that it exhibited excellent sentiment analysis performance. The proposed model is expected to be effectively utilized in providing enhanced services for users and increasing competitiveness in the e-commerce environment.

Recently, security attacks occurring in edge computing environments have emerged as an important research topic in the field of cybersecurity. Edge computing is a distributed computing technology that expands the existing cloud computing architecture to introduce a new layer, the edge layer, between the cloud layer and the user terminal layer. Edge computing has the advantage of greatly improving the data processing speed and efficiency but, at the same time, is complex, and various new attacks occur frequently. Therefore, for improving the security of edge computing, effective and intelligent security strategies and policies must be established in consideration of a wide range of vulnerabilities. Intelligent security systems, which have recently been studied, provide a way to detect and respond to security threats by integrating the latest technologies, such as machine learning and big data analysis. Intelligent security technology can quickly recognize attack patterns or abnormal behaviors within a large amount of data and continuously respond to new threats through learning. In particular, knowledge-based technologies using ontology or knowledge graph technology play an important role in more deeply understanding the meaning and relationships between of security data and more effectively detecting and responding to complex threats. This study proposed a method for recommending strategies to respond to edge computing security incidents based on the automatic generation and embedding of security knowledge graphs. An EdgeSecurity–BERT model, utilizing the latest security vulnerability data from edge computing, was designed to extract entities and their relational information. Also, a security vulnerability assessment method was proposed to recommend strategies to respond to edge computing security incidents through knowledge graph embedding. In the experiment, the classification accuracy of security news data for common vulnerability and exposure data was approximately 86% on average. In addition, the EdgeSecurityKG applying the security vulnerability similarity improved the Hits@10 performance to identify the correct link, but the MR performance was degraded owing to the increased complexity. In complex areas, such as security, careful evaluation of the model’s performance and data selection are important. The EdgeSecurityKG applying the security vulnerability similarity provides an important advantage in understanding complex security vulnerability relationships.

Recent advances in deep learning technology have led to increased interest in text-to-image technology, which enables computers to create images from text by simulating the human process of forming mental images. The GAN-based text-to-image technology involves the extraction of features from input text, which are combined with noise and then used as input to a GAN that generates images that are similar to the original images through competition between the generator and discriminator. Although generating images from English text is a mature area of research, text-to-image technology based on multilingualism, such as Korean, is still in its early stages of development. Webtoon is a digital comic format that allows comics to be viewed online. The creation process for webtoons is divided into story planning, content/sketching, coloring, and background drawing. Since each stage of webtoon production requires human intervention, it is both time-consuming and expensive. As a result, deep learning technologies such as automatic coloring and automatic line drawing are being used to reduce human involvement. However, there is a shortage of technology that can assist authors with story creation in webtoon production. Therefore, this study proposes a multilingual text-to-image model capable of generating webtoon images when presented with multilingual input text. The proposed model employs Multilingual BERT to extract feature vectors for multiple languages, and trains a DCGAN in conjunction with the images. The experimental results demonstrate that the model can generate images that are similar to the original images when presented with multilingual input text after training.

This study focuses on harnessing deep-learning-based text-to-image transformation techniques to help webtoon creators’ creative outputs. We converted publicly available datasets (e.g., MSCOCO) into a multimodal webtoon dataset using CartoonGAN. First, the dataset was leveraged for training contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP), a model composed of multi-lingual BERT and a Vision Transformer that learnt to associate text with images. Second, a pre-trained diffusion model was employed to generate webtoons through text and text-similar image input. The webtoon dataset comprised treatments (i.e., textual descriptions) paired with their corresponding webtoon illustrations. CLIP (operating through contrastive learning) extracted features from different data modalities and aligned similar data more closely within the same feature space while pushing dissimilar data apart. This model learnt the relationships between various modalities in multimodal data. To generate webtoons using the diffusion model, the process involved providing the CLIP features of the desired webtoon’s text with those of the most text-similar image to a pre-trained diffusion model. Experiments were conducted using both single- and continuous-text inputs to generate webtoons. In the experiments, both single-text and continuous-text inputs were used to generate webtoons, and the results showed an inception score of 7.14 when using continuous-text inputs. The text-to-image technology developed here could streamline the webtoon creation process for artists by enabling the efficient generation of webtoons based on the provided text. However, the current inability to generate webtoons from multiple sentences or images while maintaining a consistent artistic style was noted. Therefore, further research is imperative to develop a text-to-image model capable of handling multi-sentence and -lingual input while ensuring coherence in the artistic style across the generated webtoon images.