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Information, Volume 11, Issue 3

2020 March - 49 articles

Cover Story: Like most technologies, machine learning presents both opportunities and risks. Since mitigating unknown risks is difficult, this text first describes two types of interpretable machine learning architectures, including a promising deep learning variant. To facilitate human appeal of inevitable wrong predictions and to aid in regulatory compliance, the interpretable model predictions are paired with individualized explanations. Finally, interpretable models are tested for discrimination using measures with legal precedent in the United States. General highlights from the burgeoning Python ecosystem for responsible machine learning are also presented. These tools can enable practitioners to capitalize on machine learning opportunities while accounting for some discrimination, privacy, and security risks. View this paper.
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,482 Views
19 Pages

Standardized Test Procedure for External Human–Machine Interfaces of Automated Vehicles

  • Christina Kaß,
  • Stefanie Schoch,
  • Frederik Naujoks,
  • Sebastian Hergeth,
  • Andreas Keinath and
  • Alexandra Neukum

24 March 2020

Research on external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) has recently become a major area of interest in the field of human factors research on automated driving. The broad variety of methodological approaches renders the current state of research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,103 Views
11 Pages

24 March 2020

Industry 4.0 has managed to attract lots of attention from researchers because of the benefits it has to offer and many studies about Industry 4.0, as well as readiness and maturity models, are available from the technological point of view. Meanwhil...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,870 Views
19 Pages

23 March 2020

Early detection of the security incidents and correct forecasting of the attack development is the basis for the efficient and timely response to cyber threats. The development of the attack depends on future steps available to the attackers, their g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,764 Views
15 Pages

23 March 2020

In this study, a total of 94,511 surveys were used for the analysis, using raw data from the recent 3 years (2016–2018) of the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey (KYRBS) to compare differences in obesity rates based on eating behavior and physica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,268 Views
12 Pages

23 March 2020

Digital and networking technologies are increasingly used to predict who is at risk of attempting suicide. Such digitalized suicide prevention within and beyond mental health care raises ethical, social and legal issues for a range of actors involved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,215 Views
16 Pages

23 March 2020

Inferring customers’ preferences and recommending suitable products is a challenging task for companies, although recommender systems are constantly evolving. Loyalty is an indicator that measures the preference relationship between customers a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,435 Views
18 Pages

A Syllable-Based Technique for Uyghur Text Compression

  • Wayit Abliz,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Maihemuti Maimaiti,
  • Jiamila Wushouer,
  • Kahaerjiang Abiderexiti,
  • Tuergen Yibulayin and
  • Aishan Wumaier

23 March 2020

To improve utilization of text storage resources and efficiency of data transmission, we proposed two syllable-based Uyghur text compression coding schemes. First, according to the statistics of syllable coverage of the corpus text, we constructed a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
14,498 Views
29 Pages

Logic-Based Technologies for Intelligent Systems: State of the Art and Perspectives

  • Roberta Calegari,
  • Giovanni Ciatto,
  • Enrico Denti and
  • Andrea Omicini

22 March 2020

Together with the disruptive development of modern sub-symbolic approaches to artificial intelligence (AI), symbolic approaches to classical AI are re-gaining momentum, as more and more researchers exploit their potential to make AI more comprehensib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,579 Views
27 Pages

22 March 2020

Privacy preserving data publishing has received considerable attention for publishing useful information while preserving data privacy. The existing privacy preserving data publishing methods for multiple sensitive attributes do not consider the situ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,188 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2020

The article outlines the main concept and examples of mathematical models needed to estimate system potential and digitalization performance indicators. Such an estimation differs in that it is performed with predictive mathematical models. The purpo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,102 Views
16 Pages

On the Performance of Battery-Assisted PS-SWIPT Enabled DF Relaying

  • Zhipeng Liu,
  • Guangyue Lu,
  • Yinghui Ye and
  • Liqin Shi

20 March 2020

Compared with the conventional simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) based relaying with “harvest-then-forward” protocol, the battery-assisted SWIPT relaying is more practical and powerful due to the joint use of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,222 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of Content Dissemination Strategies in Urban Vehicular Networks

  • Gonçalo Pessoa,
  • Lucas Guardalben,
  • Miguel Luís,
  • Carlos Senna and
  • Susana Sargento

19 March 2020

The main drivers for the continuous development of Vehicular ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are safety applications and services. However, in recent years, new interests have emerged regarding the introduction of new applications and services for non-urgen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,508 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2020

In this paper we examine the recent situation of advocacy through game accessibility of video games for people with physical disabilities and its challenges in Japan. We conducted an email survey among the dominant gaming companies in Japan. We disco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,982 Views
28 Pages

17 March 2020

After a literature review published by Nascimento et. al. (2017), the research team noticed the lack of studies focused on game controllers’ accessibility during use by children with Down syndrome. In view of that, this research describes a mob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,798 Views
20 Pages

17 March 2020

This paper focuses on business financial health evaluation with the use of selected mathematical and statistical methods. The issue of financial health assessment and prediction of business failure is a widely discussed topic across various industrie...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,169 Views
15 Pages

Circular Economy for Clothes Using Web and Mobile Technologies—A Systematic Review and a Taxonomy Proposal

  • Rui Faria,
  • Inês Lopes,
  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Gonçalo Marques,
  • Solange Fernandes,
  • Nuno M. Garcia,
  • José Lucas,
  • Aleksandar Jevremović,
  • Eftim Zdravevski and
  • Vladimir Trajkovik

17 March 2020

Nowadays, it is possible to buy clothing using online platforms, either by accessing online brand stores, general online stores or circular economy platforms. This paper presents a study on mobile applications that support online commerce for clothin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,417 Views
12 Pages

A Multi-Task Framework for Action Prediction

  • Tianyu Yu,
  • Cuiwei Liu,
  • Zhuo Yan and
  • Xiangbin Shi

16 March 2020

Predicting the categories of actions in partially observed videos is a challenging task in the computer vision field. The temporal progress of an ongoing action is of great importance for action prediction, since actions can present different charact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,869 Views
27 Pages

15 March 2020

Most people are using their smartphones daily and carry them all the time. Therefore, mobile learning applications can be integrated in daily routines to make learning a part of daily life. While numerous mobile learning applications exist, each with...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,652 Views
16 Pages

Creating Competitive Opponents for Serious Games through Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

  • David Kristan,
  • Pedro Bessa,
  • Ricardo Costa and
  • Carlos Vaz de Carvalho

14 March 2020

Competition is a basic element of our society. It drives us to rise above previously perceived limitations, increases our engagement and makes the world more interesting. Competition rewards our existing skills and prompts us to identify and improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,499 Views
13 Pages

13 March 2020

Accurate medical images analysis plays a vital role for several clinical applications. Nevertheless, the immense and complex data volume to be processed make difficult the design of effective algorithms. The first aim of this paper is to examine this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,823 Views
15 Pages

Active Disturbance Rejection Control for DC Motor Laboratory Plant Learning Object

  • Mikuláš Huba,
  • Mária Hypiusová,
  • Peter Ťapák and
  • Damir Vrancic

12 March 2020

The paper deals with learning objects for introductory modeling of simple dynamical systems and design of controllers with disturbance observer-based integral action. They can be used to illustrate the design process of state controllers, state and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,902 Views
15 Pages

12 March 2020

Mobile applications (apps) on IOS and Android devices are mostly maintained and updated via Apple Appstore and Google Play, respectively, where the users are allowed to provide reviews regarding their satisfaction towards particular apps. Despite the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,669 Views
21 Pages

12 March 2020

Teaching software engineering in its many different forms using traditional teaching methods is difficult. Serious games can help overcome these challenges because they allow real situations to be simulated. However, the development of serious games...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,548 Views
40 Pages

A Framework for Detecting Intentions of Criminal Acts in Social Media: A Case Study on Twitter

  • Ricardo Resende de Mendonça,
  • Daniel Felix de Brito,
  • Ferrucio de Franco Rosa,
  • Júlio Cesar dos Reis and
  • Rodrigo Bonacin

12 March 2020

Criminals use online social networks for various activities by including communication, planning, and execution of criminal acts. They often employ ciphered posts using slang expressions, which are restricted to specific groups. Although literature s...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,597 Views
7 Pages

10 March 2020

This paper presents the initial development of a non-invasive system for identification of the pulse pressure waveform to be used for screening cardiac problems. The system employs a tonometric method using an off-the-shelf force sensor and custom-de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,833 Views
9 Pages

A Ranking-Based Hashing Algorithm Based on the Distributed Spark Platform

  • Anbang Yang,
  • Jiangbo Qian,
  • Huahui Chen and
  • Yihong Dong

9 March 2020

With the rapid development of modern society, generated data has increased exponentially. Finding required data from this huge data pool is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. Hashing technology is widely used in similarity searches of large-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,124 Views
19 Pages

9 March 2020

Alleviating traffic congestion is one of the main challenges for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) in smart cities. Many congestion pricing systems have been proposed recently. However, most of them focus on punishing the vehicles that use certain roads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,942 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2020

Robotic and other autonomous systems that need to operate in environments with people should respect social rules. One important aspect of this is personal space, which is the space surrounding a person. When two people are in a conversation, they po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,657 Views
12 Pages

5 March 2020

This paper is a part of an exploratory study with the goal of investigating the applicability of collaboratively-developed enterprise resource planning (the CD-ERP approach) within Libyan public universities. Since it is being proposed in order to ov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,395 Views
17 Pages

4 March 2020

Credit operations are fundamental in the banks’ activities and provide a significant share of their income. Under an increased demand for credit resources, credit risks are growth. It keeps the importance of the problem of an increase in the efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,399 Views
14 Pages

Bimodal Emotion Recognition Model for Minnan Songs

  • Zhenglong Xiang,
  • Xialei Dong,
  • Yuanxiang Li,
  • Fei Yu,
  • Xing Xu and
  • Hongrun Wu

4 March 2020

Most of the existing research papers study the emotion recognition of Minnan songs from the perspectives of music analysis theory and music appreciation. However, these investigations do not explore any possibility of carrying out an automatic emotio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,787 Views
25 Pages

3 March 2020

Despite the rapidly growing computing power of computers, it is often insufficient to perform mass calculations in a short time, for example, simulation of systems for various sets of parameters, the searching of huge state spaces, optimization using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,129 Views
18 Pages

Nature of Attractive Multiplayer Games: Case Study on China’s Most Popular Card Game—DouDiZhu

  • Yuexian Gao,
  • Wanxiang Li,
  • Yuhao Xiao,
  • Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid and
  • Hiroyuki Iida

2 March 2020

DouDiZhu, a multiplayer game with incomplete information, is the most popular card game in China. Although there are many DouDiZhu card games in the world, the specific characteristics of classical DouDiZhu card games are a harmonious combination of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,304 Views
19 Pages

1 March 2020

The negative impact of brand negative online word-of-mouth (OWOM) on social images in social media is far greater than the promotion of positive OWOM. Thus, how to optimize brand image by improving the positive OWOM effect and slowing the negative OW...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
23,979 Views
32 Pages

29 February 2020

This manuscript outlines a viable approach for training and evaluating machine learning systems for high-stakes, human-centered, or regulated applications using common Python programming tools. The accuracy and intrinsic interpretability of two types...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,644 Views
16 Pages

29 February 2020

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can provide flexible wireless connections in a smart city, internet of things (IoT), and device-to-device (D2D) communications. The performance of WMNs can be greatly enhanced by adopting a multi-radio technique, which e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,413 Views
26 Pages

Null Models for Formal Contexts

  • Maximilian Felde,
  • Tom Hanika and
  • Gerd Stumme

28 February 2020

Null model generation for formal contexts is an important task in the realm of formal concept analysis. These random models are in particular useful for, but not limited to, comparing the performance of algorithms. Nonetheless, a thorough investigati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,959 Views
19 Pages

Design of a 3D Platform for Immersive Neurocognitive Rehabilitation

  • Danilo Avola,
  • Luigi Cinque and
  • Daniele Pannone

28 February 2020

In recent years, advancements in human–computer interaction (HCI) have enabled the development of versatile immersive devices, including Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). These devices are usually used for entertainment activities as video-gaming o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,967 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2020

This article presents a defect detection model of sugarcane plantation images. The objective is to assess the defect areas occurring in the sugarcane plantation before the harvesting seasons. The defect areas in the sugarcane are usually caused by st...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,757 Views
9 Pages

27 February 2020

Remote experiments have been gaining a lot of popularity over the last years. They are available for many areas including control education. The majority of laboratories available via the Internet were developed from scratch and lack modularity, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
13,618 Views
23 Pages

27 February 2020

Today, Android accounts for more than 80% of the global market share. Such a high rate makes Android applications an important topic that raises serious questions about its security, privacy, misbehavior and correctness. Application code analysis is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,293 Views
23 Pages

A Generic WebLab Control Tuning Experience Using the Ball and Beam Process and Multiobjective Optimization Approach

  • Ricardo Massao Kagami,
  • Guinther Kovalski da Costa,
  • Thiago Schaedler Uhlmann,
  • Luciano Antônio Mendes and
  • Roberto Zanetti Freire

27 February 2020

In control engineering education, the possibility of using a real control system in the learning process motivates professors to improve both students’ knowledge and skills, thus avoiding an approach only based on control theory. While consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,519 Views
36 Pages

27 February 2020

At PKC 2008, Plantard et al. published a theoretical framework for a lattice-based signature scheme, namely Plantard–Susilo–Win (PSW). Recently, after ten years, a new signature scheme dubbed the Diagonal Reduction Signature (DRS) scheme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,826 Views
19 Pages

Design of a Mobile Augmented Reality Platform with Game-Based Learning Purposes

  • Maria Cristina Costa,
  • António Manso and
  • João Patrício

26 February 2020

Augmented reality (AR) is an emergent technology that overlays virtual objects into the real environment. Lately, AR is gaining prominence in education because of its increasing affordability through computers or mobile technologies. In addition, res...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
14,995 Views
26 Pages

Analysis of Facial Information for Healthcare Applications: A Survey on Computer Vision-Based Approaches

  • Marco Leo,
  • Pierluigi Carcagnì,
  • Pier Luigi Mazzeo,
  • Paolo Spagnolo,
  • Dario Cazzato and
  • Cosimo Distante

26 February 2020

This paper gives an overview of the cutting-edge approaches that perform facial cue analysis in the healthcare area. The document is not limited to global face analysis but it also concentrates on methods related to local cues (e.g., the eyes). A res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,092 Views
18 Pages

The Zaragoza’s Knowledge Graph: Open Data to Harness the City Knowledge

  • Paola Espinoza-Arias,
  • María Jesús Fernández-Ruiz,
  • Victor Morlán-Plo,
  • Rubén Notivol-Bezares and
  • Oscar Corcho

26 February 2020

Public administrations handle large amounts of data in relation to their internal processes as well as to the services that they offer. Following public-sector information reuse regulations and worldwide open data publication trends, these administra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,264 Views
11 Pages

25 February 2020

The Bologna process has led European universities to review quality assurance in Higher Education. Active learning, competency-based education as well as outcome-based teaching and learning have been encouraged as means to maintain quality assurance...

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