Information, Volume 10, Issue 2

Formal concept analysis has proven to be a very effective method for data analysis and rule extraction, but how to build formal concept lattices is a difficult and hot topic. In this paper, an efficient and rapid incremental concept lattice construct...

The implementation of ubiquitous learning (u-learning) is a good opportunity to address the affordability, accessibility, and quality issues of the higher education sector that are present in many countries. However, its broad application is still li...

Interval Pythagorean fuzzy set (IPFS), which can handle imprecise and ambiguous information, has attracted considerable attention in both theory and practice. However, one of the main difficulties under IPFSs is the comparison between interval number...

At present, the identification of haze levels mostly relies on traditional measurement methods, the real-time operation and convenience of these methods are poor. This paper aims to realize the identification of haze levels based on the method of haz...

Parametric granular computing classification algorithms lead to difficulties in terms of parameter selection, the multiple performance times of algorithms, and increased algorithm complexity in comparison with nonparametric algorithms. We present non...

In recent years positioning sensors have become ubiquitous, and there has been tremendous growth in the amount of trajectory data. It is a huge challenge to efficiently store and query massive trajectory data. Among the typical operation over traject...

We address the question of whether AI, and in particular the Singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. We have invited a group of scholars to address this question, w...

In brain magnetic resonance (MR) images, image quality is often degraded due to the influence of noise and outliers, which brings some difficulties for doctors to segment and extract brain tissue accurately. In this paper, a modified robust fuzzy c-m...

By introducing an easy knapsack-type problem, a probabilistic knapsack-type public key cryptosystem (PKCHD) is proposed. It uses a Chinese remainder theorem to disguise the easy knapsack sequence. Thence, to recover the trapdoor information, the impl...

One of the most desired features of autonomous robotic systems is their ability to accomplish complex tasks with a minimum amount of sensory information. Often, however, the limited amount of information (simplicity of sensors) should be compensated...

With the large-scale growth of mobile terminal users, exploring their continuance use behavior attracts wide attention. However, there is insufficient research on user psychological states in different hierarchy models towards continuance use of a mo...

Based on comparative studies on correlation coefficient theory and utility theory, a series of rules that utility functions on dual hesitant fuzzy rough sets (DHFRSs) should satisfy, and a kind of novel utility function on DHFRSs are proposed. The ch...

In recent years, a great deal of interest has been shown toward big data. Much of the work on big data has focused on volume and velocity in order to consider dataset size. Indeed, the problems of variety, velocity, and veracity are equally important...

Three-dimensional models have been extensively used in several applications including computer-aided design (CAD), video games, medical imaging due to the processing capability improvement of computers, and the development of network bandwidth. There...

The use of computers to simulate facial aging or rejuvenation has long been a hot research topic in the field of computer vision, and this technology can be applied in many fields, such as customs security, public places, and business entertainment....

Open software repositories make large amounts of source code publicly available. Potentially, this source code could be used as training data to develop new, machine learning-based programming tools. For many applications, however, raw code scraped f...

The blind recognition of the frame parameter plays a crucial role in frame synchronization in the background of a non-cooperation communication system. This paper proposes an algorithm based on self-correlation on the foundation of existed cumulative...

This paper investigates the performance of two different adaptive control schemes for controlling the angular position of an electronic throttle (ET) plate. The adaptive backstepping controller and adaptive sliding mode backstepping controller are th...

Public speaking anxiety is commonly treated using cognitive behavioral therapy. During the therapy session, the patient is either asked to vividly imagine and describe the feared stimulus or is confronted with it in the real world. Sometimes, however...

Human agents in technical customer support provide users with instructional answers to solve a task that would otherwise require a lot of time, money, energy, physical costs. Developing a dialogue system in this domain is challenging due to the broad...

Three-way decision is a class of effective ways and heuristics commonly used in human problem solving and information processing. As an application of three-way decision in clustering, three-way clustering uses core region and fringe region to repres...

The ever-increasing complexity in manufacturing environments has caused delay and uncertainty for on-site personnel when retrieving critical information. Currently, information associated with manufacturing environments is created and stored in centr...

A labeled graph is a special structure with node identification capability, which is often used in information networks, biological networks, and other fields. The subgraph query is widely used as an important means of graph data analysis. As the siz...

The Wellbeing Game uses game design elements to promote wellbeing. Players document their daily activities in the game and categorize them to one or more of five wellbeing-related factors. The users join teams and can create team events to work toget...

The adaptability of an in-progress business process is an essential requirement for any business process management system in dynamic business process environments. Over the last two decades, the artifact-centric approach for business process managem...

We are pleased to introduce this special issue on the topic of “Towards the Multilingual Web of Data”, which we feel is a timely and valuable topic in our increasingly multilingual and interconnected world [...]

The purpose of this paper was to create service models for cognitively stimulating mobile games and incorporate them into Finnish and Chinese elderly care. The implementation involved the use of two different mobile games as part of the everyday live...

Solving programming exercises is the best way to promote practice in computer programming courses and, hence, to learn a programming language. Meanwhile, programming courses continue to have an high rate of failures and dropouts. The main reasons are...

The paper discusses the relation between the “non-statement view” of the structuralist program in philosophy of science and agent-based simulation and the use of this relation for a deeper understanding of the verification and the validat...

Today’s AI systems sorely lack the essence of human intelligence: Understanding the situations we experience, being able to grasp their meaning. The lack of humanlike understanding in machines is underscored by recent studies demonstrating lack...

Providing adapted e-health services, applications, and platforms responds to a growing need for medical institutions like hospitals or even homes [...]

Due to the dynamic change of the opportunistic network topology and the lack of stable information transmission paths between nodes, the traditional topology-based routing algorithm cannot achieve the desired routing performance. To address of this p...

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer is a practicable solution to encourage energy-constrained relay nodes to cooperate with the source to transmit information to the destination. In this paper, we study the outage performance of hybr...

Incorporating obstacle information into maneuvering target-tracking algorithms may lead to a better performance when the target when the target maneuver is caused by avoiding collision with obstacles. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy-logic-based met...

A building information model (BIM) is of upmost importance with a full life-time cycle in architecture engineering and construction industry. Smart construction relies on BIM to manipulate information flow, data flow, and management flow. Currently,...

Entity linking (also called entity disambiguation) aims to map the mentions in a given document to their corresponding entities in a target knowledge base. In order to build a high-quality entity linking system, efforts are made in three parts: Encod...

Given a query shoeprint image, shoeprint retrieval aims to retrieve the most similar shoeprints available from a large set of shoeprint images. Most of the existing approaches focus on designing single low-level features to highlight the most similar...

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role to alleviate the negative impacts of disasters by providing essential assistance to the rescue and evacuation operations in the affected areas. Then, the reliability of UAV connections and t...

A power-down system has an on-state, an off-state, and a finite or infinite number of intermediate states. In the off-state, the system uses no energy and in the on-state energy it is used fully. Intermediate states consume only some fraction of ener...

Recommender systems help users by recommending items, such as products and services, that can be of interest to these users. Context-aware recommender systems have been widely investigated in both academia and industry because they can make recommend...

Internet of Things comprises an increasing number of interconnected smart devices, where communication happens anytime, anywhere, reducing hardware costs and the complexity of the architectures. Reading Radio Frequency Identification tags using ultra...

In recent years, entity-based ranking models have led to exciting breakthroughs in the research of information retrieval. Compared with traditional retrieval models, entity-based representation enables a better understanding of queries and documents....

This paper focuses on the channel state estimation (CSE) problem in parametrized Hierarchical MAC (H-MAC) stage in Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding (WPNC) networks with Hierarchical Decode and Forward (HDF) relay strategy. We derive a non-pilot...

Now, data collection and analysis are becoming more and more important in a variety of application domains, as long as novel technologies advance. At the same time, we are experiencing a growing need for human–machine interaction with expert sy...

Cardiac signal processing is usually a computationally demanding task as signals are heavily contaminated by noise and other artifacts. In this paper, an effective approach for peak point detection and localization in noisy electrocardiogram (ECG) si...

To create alternative complex patterns, a novel design method is introduced in this study based on the error back propagation (BP) neural network user cognitive surrogate model of an interactive genetic algorithm with individual fuzzy interval fitnes...

UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have been widely used in many fields, where they need to be detected and controlled. Small-sample UAV recognition requires an effective detecting and recognition method. When identifying a UAV target using the backward...

In this work, a new adaptive block-backstepping control design algorithm was developed for an under-actuated model (represented by a ball–arc system) to enhance the transient and steady-state behaviors and to improve the robustness characterist...