1College of Finance and Commerce, Minxi Vocational & Technical College, Longyan 364021, Fujian, China.
2College of Information Technology and Engineering, Ningde Vocational and Technical College, Ningde 355099, Fujian, China.
Received: April 6, 2026
Accepted: May 15, 2026
Publication Date: June 27, 2026
Privacy-Preserving Data Preparation for Regional E-commerce IoT Data
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Recent developments in e-commerce highlight the importance of AI models, particularly LSTM, for improving sales forecasting and capturing regional patterns. However, challenges remain in handling sensitive customer data, enabling secure cross-regional learning, and addressing regional variability. This study proposes a secure and scalable regional e-commerce forecasting framework integrating Differential Privacy (DP) and Secure Multi
Party Computation (SMPC). The proposed approach achieves strong performance (MAE=0.691, RMSE=0.951, MAPE=0.519, R2=0.9663), ensuring accurate, scalable, and privacy-preserving forecasting.
Keywords: LSTM, Attention Mechanism, E-commerce Sales Forecasting, Regional Data, Sensor Data De-sensitization, Prediction Accuracy
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