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Information, Volume 13, Issue 7

2022 July - 46 articles

Cover Story: The rapid development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 is an extraordinary achievement. Several countries have a pharmacovigilance system that detects, assesses, understands, and prevents the possible adverse effects of a drug. To benefit from such huge data sources, specialists and researchers can start observing small datasets to “predict” the behavior of the big picture. This paper defines a general framework for a pharmaceutical data analysis application to collect, filter, enrich, analyze, and visualize data, from small to big. Our evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination side effects shows that most adverse events can be classed as non-serious, and they concern muscle/joint pain, chills and nausea, headache, and fatigue. View this paper
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Articles (46)

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,369 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2022

Urban mobility is one of the main issues in the pursuit of sustainability. The United Nations 2030 Agenda assigns mobility and transport central roles in sustainable development and its components: economic, social, and environment. In this context,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,103 Views
31 Pages

21 July 2022

Because of the splendid front of sustainable energy reassets in a DC Microgrid, it is profoundly willing to variances in energy age. A hybrid energy storage system (HESS) which includes a battery and a supercapacitor (SC) is used to decrease in-built...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
9,670 Views
16 Pages

Drivers Influencing the Adoption Intention towards Mobile Fintech Services: A Study on the Emerging Bangladesh Market

  • Md. Sharif Hassan,
  • Md. Aminul Islam,
  • Farid Ahammad Sobhani,
  • Hussen Nasir,
  • Imroz Mahmud and
  • Fatema Tuz Zahra

20 July 2022

People’s acceptance of technological changes has escalated with time. However, the acceptance and adoption of fintech services hiked after the outbreak of the virulent coronavirus. With this breakout, the adoption of mobile fintech services (MF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,793 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2022

Mobile edge computing (MEC) sinks the functions and services of cloud computing to the edge of the network to provide users with storage and computing resources. For workflow tasks, the interdependency and the sequence constraint being among the task...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,211 Views
9 Pages

18 July 2022

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the maximum branch number in cryptography, and they are generally used in diffusion layers of symmetric ciphers. The diffusion layer of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) uses the circulant MDS matrix w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,227 Views
15 Pages

16 July 2022

Passenger mobility plays an important role in today’s society and optimized transport services are a priority. In recent years, MaaS (Mobility as a Service) has been studied and tested as new integrated services for users. In this paper, MaaS i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
35,629 Views
19 Pages

16 July 2022

Storytelling content is where the facts are conveyed by emotion and that make people more engaged and want to take action or change their surroundings. Stories fascinate people and can easily be remembered compared to the facts alone. The much-hyped...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,075 Views
21 Pages

15 July 2022

In the context of e-commerce, online travel agencies often derive useful information from online reviews to improve transactions. Based on the dispute on the usefulness of different types of reviews and social exchange theory, this study investigates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,711 Views
17 Pages

A Multi-Sensory Guidance System for the Visually Impaired Using YOLO and ORB-SLAM

  • Zaipeng Xie,
  • Zhaobin Li,
  • Yida Zhang,
  • Jianan Zhang,
  • Fangming Liu and
  • Wei Chen

15 July 2022

Guidance systems for visually impaired persons have become a popular topic in recent years. Existing guidance systems on the market typically utilize auxiliary tools and methods such as GPS, UWB, or a simple white cane that exploits the user’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,429 Views
13 Pages

15 July 2022

This work studies a general distributed coded computing system based on the MapReduce-type framework, where distributed computing nodes within a half-duplex network wish to compute multiple output functions. We first introduce a definition of communi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,511 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2022

Vertical integration, also known as make-or-buy, defines whether activities are conducted by company or provided by external parties. There are different models to support decision making for vertical integration in the literature. However, they igno...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,248 Views
27 Pages

Integrating Human Factors in the Visualisation of Usable Transparency for Dynamic Risk Assessment

  • Anastasija Collen,
  • Ioan-Cosmin Szanto,
  • Meriem Benyahya,
  • Bela Genge and
  • Niels Alexander Nijdam

14 July 2022

Modern technology and the digitisation era accelerated the pace of data generation and collection for various purposes. The orchestration of such data is a daily challenge faced by even experienced professional users in the context of Internet of Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,141 Views
16 Pages

A Virtual Tour for the Promotion of Tourism of the City of Bari

  • Valerio De Luca,
  • Giorgia Marcantonio,
  • Maria Cristina Barba and
  • Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

13 July 2022

The use of information technology in the field of cultural heritage makes it possible to involve more and more people in the promotion of cultural heritage, fostering social, cultural, economic and community growth. This work stems from the interest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,507 Views
22 Pages

12 July 2022

Body-rocking is an undesired stereotypical motor movement performed by some individuals, and its detection is essential for self-awareness and habit change. We envision a pipeline that includes inertial wearable sensors and a real-time detection syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,991 Views
14 Pages

12 July 2022

Normalization as a layer within neural networks has over the years demonstrated its effectiveness in neural network optimization across a wide range of different tasks, with one of the most successful approaches being that of batch normalization. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,143 Views
27 Pages

Using Augmented Reality in K-12 Education: An Indicative Platform for Teaching Physics

  • Christina Volioti,
  • Euclid Keramopoulos,
  • Theodosios Sapounidis,
  • Konstantinos Melisidis,
  • Maria Zafeiropoulou,
  • Charalampos Sotiriou and
  • Vladimiros Spiridis

12 July 2022

Augmented Reality (AR) could provide key benefits in education and create a richer user experience by increasing the motivation and engagement of the students. To this end, the current paper presents a system with three AR applications for teaching p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,089 Views
22 Pages

12 July 2022

Recent reports indicate that over 85% of data breaches are still caused by a human element, of which healthcare is one of the organizations that cyber criminals target. As healthcare IT infrastructure is characterized by a human element, this study c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,348 Views
14 Pages

Toward Trust-Based Recommender Systems for Open Data: A Literature Review

  • Chenhao Li,
  • Jiyin Zhang,
  • Amruta Kale,
  • Xiang Que,
  • Sanaz Salati and
  • Xiaogang Ma

12 July 2022

In recent years, the concept of “open data” has received increasing attention among data providers and publishers. For some data portals in public sectors, such as data.gov, the openness enables public oversight of governmental proceeding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,558 Views
15 Pages

What Attracts the Driver’s Eye? Attention as a Function of Task and Events

  • Yke Bauke Eisma,
  • Dirk J. Eijssen and
  • Joost C. F. de Winter

11 July 2022

This study explores how drivers of an automated vehicle distribute their attention as a function of environmental events and driving task instructions. Twenty participants were asked to monitor pre-recorded videos of a simulated driving trip while th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,773 Views
21 Pages

11 July 2022

Speech coding is an essential technology for digital cellular communications, voice over IP, and video conferencing systems. For more than 25 years, the main approach to speech coding for these applications has been block-based analysis-by-synthesis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,897 Views
14 Pages

11 July 2022

Uyghur text detection and recognition in images with simple backgrounds is still a challenging task for Uyghur image content analysis. In this paper, we propose a new effective Uyghur text detection method based on channel-enhanced MSERs and the CNN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,487 Views
28 Pages

Supervised Learning Models for the Preliminary Detection of COVID-19 in Patients Using Demographic and Epidemiological Parameters

  • Aditya Pradhan,
  • Srikanth Prabhu,
  • Krishnaraj Chadaga,
  • Saptarshi Sengupta and
  • Gopal Nath

10 July 2022

The World Health Organization labelled the new COVID-19 breakout a public health crisis of worldwide concern on 30 January 2020, and it was named the new global pandemic in March 2020. It has had catastrophic consequences on the world economy and wel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,952 Views
19 Pages

The rapid development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 is an extraordinary achievement. However, no medical product can ever be considered risk-free. Several countries have a pharmacovigilance system that detects, assesses, understands, and pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,349 Views
12 Pages

Distributed Edge Computing for Resource Allocation in Smart Cities Based on the IoT

  • Omar Abdulkareem Mahmood,
  • Ali R. Abdellah,
  • Ammar Muthanna and
  • Andrey Koucheryavy

Smart cities using the Internet of Things (IoT) can operate various IoT systems with better services that provide intelligent and efficient solutions for various aspects of urban life. With the rapidly growing number of IoT systems, the many smart ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,024 Views
24 Pages

GaSubtle: A New Genetic Algorithm for Generating Subtle Higher-Order Mutants

  • Fadi Wedyan,
  • Abdullah Al-Shishani and
  • Yaser Jararweh

Mutation testing is an effective, yet costly, testing approach, as it requires generating and running large numbers of faulty programs, called mutants. Mutation testing also suffers from a fundamental problem, which is having a large percentage of eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,407 Views
17 Pages

Physiological and kinematic signals from humans are often used for monitoring health. Several processes of interest (e.g., cardiac and respiratory processes, and locomotion) demonstrate periodicity. Training models for inference on these signals (e.g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,202 Views
26 Pages

Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems for Vehicle Identification Based on Multinet Architecture

  • Jacobo González-Cepeda,
  • Álvaro Ramajo and
  • José María Armingol

Security cameras have been proven to be particularly useful in preventing and combating crime through identification tasks. Here, two areas can be mainly distinguished: person and vehicle identification. Automatic license plate readers are the most w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,465 Views
33 Pages

Interactive Search on the Web: The Story So Far

  • Sareh Aghaei,
  • Kevin Angele,
  • Elwin Huaman,
  • Geni Bushati,
  • Mathias Schiestl and
  • Anna Fensel

Search on the web, specifically fetching of the relevant content, has been paid attention to since the advent of the web and particularly in recent years due to the tremendous growth in the volume of data and web pages. This paper categorizes the sea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,278 Views
14 Pages

Businesses affected by the pandemic have realized the importance of incorporating digital transformation into their operations. However, as a result of the market lockdown, they realized that they needed to digitalize their firms immediately and make...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,774 Views
16 Pages

An Intrusion Detection Method for Industrial Control System Based on Machine Learning

  • Yixin Cao,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Xiaosong Zhao,
  • Kai Jin and
  • Ziyi Chen

The integration of communication networks and the internet of industrial control in Industrial Control System (ICS) increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks, causing devastating outcomes. Traditional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) largely re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,441 Views
15 Pages

Recently, emerging technologies have assisted the healthcare system in the treatment of a wide range of diseases so considerably that the development of such methods has been regarded as a practical solution to cure many diseases. Accordingly, undere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,213 Views
14 Pages

Incorporating a Machine Learning Model into a Web-Based Administrative Decision Support Tool for Predicting Workplace Absenteeism

  • Gopal Nath,
  • Yawei Wang,
  • Austin Coursey,
  • Krishna K. Saha,
  • Srikanth Prabhu and
  • Saptarshi Sengupta

30 June 2022

Productivity losses caused by absenteeism at work cost U.S. employers billions of dollars each year. In addition, employers typically spend a considerable amount of time managing employees who perform poorly. By using predictive analytics and machine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,522 Views
16 Pages

Detection of Racist Language in French Tweets

  • Natalia Vanetik and
  • Elisheva Mimoun

29 June 2022

Toxic online content has become a major issue in recent years due to the exponential increase in the use of the internet. In France, there has been a significant increase in hate speech against migrant and Muslim communities following events such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,076 Views
14 Pages

A Snapshot of Children’s Attitudes toward Machine Translation

  • Vilmantė Liubinienė,
  • Donata Lisaitė and
  • Jurgita Motiejūnienė

28 June 2022

Technologies offered and used on the Internet play a significant part in the lives of children; nevertheless, little research has been done on how children view and use machine translation (MT). According to recent literature, there are various benef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,489 Views
17 Pages

Implementation and Performance of Face Recognition Payment System Securely Encrypted by SM4 Algorithm

  • Yukun Zhou,
  • Ningsheng Wu,
  • Baidong Hu,
  • Yitao Zhang,
  • Jingyun Qiu and
  • Weiming Cai

28 June 2022

Face recognition payment is a new type of payment method, with AI face recognition technology as the core, and its speed and convenience are more in line with the users’ payment habits. However, the face is a biological feature with weak privac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,979 Views
13 Pages

28 June 2022

Scene classification is one of the most complex tasks in computer-vision. The accuracy of scene classification is dependent on other subtasks such as object detection and object classification. Accurate results may be accomplished by employing object...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,791 Views
15 Pages

27 June 2022

The mass of redundant and irrelevant data in network traffic brings serious challenges to intrusion detection, and feature selection can effectively remove meaningless information from the data. Most current filtered and embedded feature selection me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,765 Views
18 Pages

27 June 2022

The advancement of society and technology has promoted the development of modern agriculture. It has become a trend to replace traditional manpower with intelligent agricultural machinery that operates independently. As the core technology of intelli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,359 Views
14 Pages

27 June 2022

We focused on job interviews as critical examples of complex social interaction in organizational contexts. We aimed at investigating the effect of face-to-face vs. computer-mediated interaction, of role (candidate, recruiter), and of the interview p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,415 Views
13 Pages

25 June 2022

Understanding the antecedents and consequences of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) is of significant theoretical value and great interest to both consumers and firms. To reconcile the disagreement in the relationship between eWOM and product sales, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,923 Views
15 Pages

25 June 2022

Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S. and globally. The goal of this study is to increase understanding of PTB risk factors that are present early in pregnancy by leveraging statistical and machine learning (ML) tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,500 Views
19 Pages

Human Evaluation of English–Irish Transformer-Based NMT

  • Séamus Lankford,
  • Haithem Afli and
  • Andy Way

25 June 2022

In this study, a human evaluation is carried out on how hyperparameter settings impact the quality of Transformer-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for the low-resourced English–Irish pair. SentencePiece models using both Byte Pair Encodin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,099 Views
11 Pages

Understanding Entertainment Trends during COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

  • Amaal Aldawod,
  • Raseel Alsakran and
  • Hend Alrasheed

23 June 2022

Studying people’s opinions is a growing research field. This area of research is known as sentiment analysis. The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything around the world and reduced social contact among people. Citizens and residents of Saudi Ara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,140 Views
25 Pages

Travel-Time Estimation by Cubic Hermite Curve

  • Owen Tamin,
  • Badrul Ikram,
  • Ahmad Lutfi Amri Ramli,
  • Ervin Gubin Moung and
  • Christie Chin Pei Yee

23 June 2022

Travel time is a measure of time taken to travel from one place to another. Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation applications such as Waze and Google Maps are easily accessible presently and allow users to plan a route based on travel time from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,570 Views
16 Pages

Fake News Incidents through the Lens of the DCAM Disinformation Blueprint

  • Matina Rapti,
  • George Tsakalidis,
  • Sophia Petridou and
  • Kostas Vergidis

22 June 2022

The emergence of the Internet and web technologies has magnified the occurrence of disinformation events and the dissemination of online fake news items. Fake news is a phenomenon where fake news stories are created and propagated online. Such events...

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