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Information, Volume 10, Issue 10

2019 October - 39 articles

Cover Story: Maps are one of the most conventional types of visualization used when conveying information to both inexperienced users and advanced analysts. However, the multivariate representation of data on maps is still considered an unsolved problem. We present a multivariate map that uses geospace to guide the position of multivariate glyphs and enable users to interact with the map and glyphs, conveying meaningful data at different levels of detail. We develop an algorithm pipeline for this process and demonstrate how the user can adjust the level of detail in the resulting imagery. The algorithm features a unique combination of guided glyph placement, level of detail, dynamic zooming, and smooth transitions. View this paper.
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Articles (39)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,707 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2019

Flexible paper-based physiological sensor electrodes were developed using chemically-modified graphene (CG) and carboxylic-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotube composites (f@MWCNTs). A solvothermal process with additional treatment was conducte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,621 Views
16 Pages

AndroShield: Automated Android Applications Vulnerability Detection, a Hybrid Static and Dynamic Analysis Approach

  • Amr Amin,
  • Amgad Eldessouki,
  • Menna Tullah Magdy,
  • Nouran Abdeen,
  • Hanan Hindy and
  • Islam Hegazy

22 October 2019

The security of mobile applications has become a major research field which is associated with a lot of challenges. The high rate of developing mobile applications has resulted in less secure applications. This is due to what is called the “rus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,419 Views
17 Pages

21 October 2019

With the high integration of smart grid information and physical systems, the security of information systems must affect the safe and stable operation of physical systems. Risk assessment is an effectual means to objectively evaluate the information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,153 Views
17 Pages

Bangla DeConverter for Extraction of BanglaText from Universal Networking Language

  • Md. Nawab Yousuf Ali,
  • Md. Lizur Rahman and
  • Golam Sorwar

21 October 2019

The people in Bangladesh and two states (i.e., Tripura and West Bengal) in India, which is about 230 million of the world population, use Bangla as their first dialect. However, very few numbers of resources and tools are available for this language....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,544 Views
30 Pages

18 October 2019

We implement hidden Markov models (HMMs) and hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs) on Bitcoin/US dollar (BTC/USD) with the aim of market phase detection. We make analogous comparisons to Standard and Poor’s 500 (S and P 500), a benchmark traditiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,531 Views
12 Pages

Psychophysiological Measures of Reactance to Persuasive Messages Advocating Limited Meat Consumption

  • Hanne Spelt,
  • Elisabeth Kersten-van Dijk,
  • Jaap Ham,
  • Joyce Westerink and
  • Wijnand IJsselsteijn

17 October 2019

Persuasive interventions can lose their effectiveness when a person becomes reactant to the persuasive messages—a state identified by feelings of anger and perceived threat to freedom. A person will strive to reestablish their threatened freedo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,297 Views
20 Pages

17 October 2019

This paper describes a preliminary experiment concerning the use of advanced Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge Representation techniques to improve the present formalization/digitization procedures of Cultural Heritage assets—with reference, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,060 Views
17 Pages

16 October 2019

The big data from various sensors installed on-board for monitoring the status of ship devices is very critical for improving the efficiency and safety of ship operations and reducing the cost of operation and maintenance. However, how to utilize the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,540 Views
19 Pages

MiNgMatch—A Fast N-gram Model for Word Segmentation of the Ainu Language

  • Karol Nowakowski,
  • Michal Ptaszynski and
  • Fumito Masui

16 October 2019

Word segmentation is an essential task in automatic language processing for languages where there are no explicit word boundary markers, or where space-delimited orthographic words are too coarse-grained. In this paper we introduce the MiNgMatch Segm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Citations
64,414 Views
20 Pages

Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

  • Dorota Kamińska,
  • Tomasz Sapiński,
  • Sławomir Wiak,
  • Toomas Tikk,
  • Rain Eric Haamer,
  • Egils Avots,
  • Ahmed Helmi,
  • Cagri Ozcinar and
  • Gholamreza Anbarjafari

16 October 2019

In the education process, students face problems with understanding due to the complexity, necessity of abstract thinking and concepts. More and more educational centres around the world have started to introduce powerful new technology-based tools t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,270 Views
28 Pages

A Comparison of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Fairness-Oriented OFDMA Schedulers

  • Ioan-Sorin Comșa,
  • Sijing Zhang,
  • Mehmet Aydin,
  • Pierre Kuonen,
  • Ramona Trestian and
  • Gheorghiță Ghinea

14 October 2019

Due to large-scale control problems in 5G access networks, the complexity of radio resource management is expected to increase significantly. Reinforcement learning is seen as a promising solution that can enable intelligent decision-making and reduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,631 Views
22 Pages

13 October 2019

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a useful risk assessment tool used to identify, evaluate, and eliminate potential failure modes in numerous fields to improve security and reliability. Risk evaluation is a crucial step in FMEA and the Risk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,703 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2019

The current inclusion of agile methodologies in web-oriented projects has been considered on a large-scale by software developers. However, the benefits and limitations go beyond the comforts that project managers delimit when choosing them. Selectin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,680 Views
14 Pages

Delay-Tolerant Sequential Decision Making for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Environments

  • Ibrahim Alghamdi,
  • Christos Anagnostopoulos and
  • Dimitrios P. Pezaros

12 October 2019

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the use of mobile devices and their applications. Meanwhile, cloud computing has been considered as the latest generation of computing infrastructure. There has also been a transformation in c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,885 Views
15 Pages

Identifying Influential Nodes in Complex Networks Based on Local Effective Distance

  • Junkai Zhang,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Jinfang Sheng,
  • Jinying Dai,
  • Jie Hu and
  • Long Chen

10 October 2019

With the rapid development of Internet technology, the social network has gradually become an indispensable platform for users to release information, obtain information, and share information. Users are not only receivers of information, but also pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,258 Views
20 Pages

Barriers Faced by Women in Software Development Projects

  • Edna Dias Canedo,
  • Heloise Acco Tives,
  • Madianita Bogo Marioti,
  • Fabiano Fagundes and
  • José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira

9 October 2019

Computer science is a predominantly male field of study. Women face barriers while trying to insert themselves in the study of computer science. Those barriers extend to when women are exposed to the professional area of computer science. Despite dec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,705 Views
19 Pages

Kadaster Knowledge Graph: Beyond the Fifth Star of Open Data

  • Stanislav Ronzhin,
  • Erwin Folmer,
  • Pano Maria,
  • Marco Brattinga,
  • Wouter Beek,
  • Rob Lemmens and
  • Rein van’t Veer

9 October 2019

After more than a decade, the supply-driven approach to publishing public (open) data has resulted in an ever-growing number of data silos. Hundreds of thousands of datasets have been catalogued and can be accessed at data portals at different admini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,249 Views
22 Pages

Multimodal Sequential Fashion Attribute Prediction

  • Hasan Sait Arslan,
  • Kairit Sirts,
  • Mark Fishel and
  • Gholamreza Anbarjafari

3 October 2019

We address multimodal product attribute prediction of fashion items based on product images and titles. The product attributes, such as type, sub-type, cut or fit, are in a chain format, with previous attribute values constraining the values of the n...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,040 Views
6 Pages

29 September 2019

With digital media, not only are media extensions of their human users, as McLuhan posited, but there is a flip or reversal in which the human users of digital media become an extension of those digital media as these media scoop up their data and us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,970 Views
20 Pages

29 September 2019

Opportunistic networks are considered as the promising network structures to implement traditional and typical infrastructure-based communication by enabling smart mobile devices in the networks to contact with each other within a fixed communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,988 Views
18 Pages

28 September 2019

Maps are one of the most conventional types of visualization used when conveying information to both inexperienced users and advanced analysts. However, the multivariate representation of data on maps is still considered an unsolved problem. We prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,893 Views
14 Pages

A Sustainable and Open Access Knowledge Organization Model to Preserve Cultural Heritage and Language Diversity

  • Amel Fraisse,
  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Alex Zhai,
  • Ronald Jenn,
  • Shelley Fisher Fishkin,
  • Pierre Zweigenbaum,
  • Laurence Favier and
  • Widad Mustafa El Hadi

28 September 2019

This paper proposes a new collaborative and inclusive model for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for sustaining cultural heritage and language diversity. It is based on contributions of end-users as well as scientific and scholarly communities fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,801 Views
17 Pages

Gender, Age and Subjective Well-Being: Towards Personalized Persuasive Health Interventions

  • Aisha Muhammad Abdullahi,
  • Rita Orji and
  • Abdullahi Abubakar Kawu

27 September 2019

(1) Background: Subjective well-being (SWB) is an individual’s judgment about their overall well-being. Research has shown that high subjective well-being contributes to overall health. SWB consists of both Affective and Cognitive dimensions. E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
17,187 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2019

Though the self-portrait has been hailed as the defining artistic genre of modernity, there is not yet a good account of what the self-portrait actually is. This paper provides such an account through the lens of document theory and the philosophy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,761 Views
26 Pages

26 September 2019

Communication languages convey information through the use of a set of symbols or units. Typically, this unit is word. When developing language technologies, as words in a language do not have the same prior probability, there may not be sufficient t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,584 Views
22 Pages

26 September 2019

Recently, with the development of big data and 5G networks, the number of intelligent mobile devices has increased dramatically, therefore the data that needs to be transmitted and processed in the networks has grown exponentially. It is difficult fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,636 Views
20 Pages

When Personalization Is Not an Option: An In-The-Wild Study on Persuasive News Recommendation

  • Cristina Gena,
  • Pierluigi Grillo,
  • Antonio Lieto,
  • Claudio Mattutino and
  • Fabiana Vernero

26 September 2019

Aiming at granting wide access to their contents, online information providers often choose not to have registered users, and therefore must give up personalization. In this paper, we focus on the case of non-personalized news recommender systems, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,706 Views
22 Pages

25 September 2019

With the advancement of various technologies, the research and application of space object optical characteristic (SOOC), one of the main characteristics of space objects, are faced with new challenges. Current diverse structures of massive SOOC data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,572 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Bayesian Network Structure Learning

  • Xingping Sun,
  • Chang Chen,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Hongwei Kang,
  • Yong Shen and
  • Qingyi Chen

24 September 2019

Since the beginning of the 21st century, research on artificial intelligence has made great progress. Bayesian networks have gradually become one of the hotspots and important achievements in artificial intelligence research. Establishing an effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,446 Views
21 Pages

Profiling and Predicting the Cumulative Helpfulness (Quality) of Crowd-Sourced Reviews

  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Mohsen Marjani,
  • Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem,
  • Abdullah Gani,
  • Misbah Liaqat and
  • Kwangman Ko

24 September 2019

With easy access to the Internet and the popularity of online review platforms, the volume of crowd-sourced reviews is continuously rising. Many studies have acknowledged the importance of reviews in making purchase decisions. The consumer’s fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
14,189 Views
26 Pages

23 September 2019

Enterprise architecture (EA) is an integrated strategy, business, and information systems approach for analysis, governance, and information technology (IT) alignment. It is a comprehensive blueprint that requires the careful planning, documentation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
5,808 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model: Interval Rough SAW Method for Sustainable Supplier Selection

  • Željko Stević,
  • Elmina Durmić,
  • Mladen Gajić,
  • Dragan Pamučar and
  • Adis Puška

22 September 2019

Sustainability in a supply chain is a demand on the one hand and a challenge on the other. It is necessary to balance between these dimensions in order to fulfill the purpose of the supply chain. Therefore, in the first phase—i.e., in procurement—it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,068 Views
21 Pages

21 September 2019

The purpose of activity recognition is to identify activities through a series of observations of the experimenter’s behavior and the environmental conditions. In this study, through feature selection algorithms, we researched the effects of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,608 Views
29 Pages

Blind Queries Applied to JSON Document Stores

  • Stefania Marrara,
  • Mauro Pelucchi and
  • Giuseppe Psaila

21 September 2019

Social Media, Web Portals and, in general, information systems offer their own Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), used to provide large data sets concerning every aspect of day-by-day life. APIs usually provide data sets as collections of JSO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,684 Views
15 Pages

Development of a Smart Traceability System for the Rice Agroindustry Supply Chain in Indonesia

  • Pradeka Brilyan Purwandoko,
  • Kudang Boro Seminar,
  • Sutrisno and
  • Sugiyanta

20 September 2019

Rice is an essential food commodity in national and food security in Indonesia with a complex supply chain network. Various risks related to food quality and food safety occurs along the supply chain. Therefore, a tool is needed to monitor the rice p...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,667 Views
3 Pages

Special Issue “Wearable Augmented and Mixed Reality Applications”

  • Andrea Sanna,
  • Federico Manuri and
  • Francesco De Pace

20 September 2019

Until some years ago, there was a lack of affordable devices that allowed for research in order to design and implement augmented and mixed reality applications. Thanks to technology improvements, it is now possible to find several wearable devices o...

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