Cloud Computing in Free Route Airspace Research
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors consider the very practical aspect of the use of cloud computing in the Free Route Airspace (FRA) study, for which they proposed a method for citation and reference management due to cite some supportive resources. To illustrate the method, the authors consider FRA modeling by using graph theory. For the model's visualization, and the data analysis, the online MATLAB programs were applied with success. Although the manuscript is carefully edited, there are some minor shortcomings that need to be corrected:
1. Figure 1: This Figure should be described in a bit more detail: What does 2021 (year?) mean? And what is the node# 1 highlighted in red?
2. page 6: The sentence "The target function expresses the criterion of optimization, which can be environment
protection, length of travel time, or cost of the flight. " requires a broader justification, as such an interpretation does not result from the formulation of the optimization problem.
3. In the optimization problem, the constraints are not taken into account. The decision variables should also be precisely identified.
After correcting the above-mentioned shortcomings, the manuscript should be published, because it has many advantages, which I wrote about at the beginning.
Author Response
According to the proposal, we modified the article as follows:
The article has been supplemented with another link that exactly and accurately describes the target function of the optimization task. We have also refined the descriptions of optimization task constraints.
We also made minor edits that we were notified of and edits as suggested by other reviewers. These adjustments have improved the article.
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper discussed a method that provides a citation only to one supporting source, which is located in the cloud.
In overall, the topic is interesting. However, the structure and presentation of the manuscript are unproperly to a scientific research . Please consider the following comments:
- What is the background related to this topic. Is about IoT? or citation of reference?
- What is special cloud schema? is a new service? software, platform or infrastructure related to cloud computing?
- In introduction section, the second paragraph is poorly presented. The main idea is about how to cite properly some references. However, it seems that the topic of IoT and how to retrieve IoT sensed data is mixed. What the main idea of the second paragraph
- I advise authors to simplify the manuscript. The section 3 discussed the FRA data structure and Algorithms. However, the content does not meet data structure. The sub section has objective function. Are the authors tried to solve a particular problem through optimization algorithms. This is harder to grasp.
Author Response
This article describes a very simple Cloud Computing application. In our research, we found that some topics may contain a large amount of technical documentation (more than 10 extensive documents). In this case, it is advisable to have one citation source and the Cloud is the most suitable for that. It is also possible to insert other inputs, data and outputs such as data structures and algorithms.
We needed to write this contribution so that we could refer to this article in further research.
Reviewer 3 Report
I hope you're well. I appreciate your scientific effort to produce this manuscript. Your paper has scientific value and interesting.
This manuscript proposes a method (for citation and reference management) to cite such supportive resources using Cloud Computing. However, it don't describe correctly the state of cloud computing.
Overall, the research work does not adequately review the literature, so we propose to improve both the quality and quantity of references and, above all, to clarify to the reader why cloud computing technology contributes to solving this research question. Some works to cite that will help to build this section are:
Rezaei, T. K. Chiew, S. P. Lee, and Z. Shams Aliee, “A semantic interoperability framework for software as a service systems in cloud computing environments,” Expert Systemswith Applications, vol. 41, no. 13, pp. 5751–5770, 2014.
Palos-Sanchez, P. R. (2017). Drivers and Barriers of the Cloud Computing in SMEs: the Position of the European Union. Harvard Deusto Business Research, 6(2), 116-132.
Armbrust, A. Fox, R. Griffith et al., “A view of cloud computing,” Communications of the ACM, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 50–58, 2010.
S.U. R.Malik, S.U. Khan,S. J. Ewenet al., “Performance analysis of data intensive cloud systems based on data management and replication: a survey,”Distributed and ParallelDatabases, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 179–215, 2016.
Palos-Sanchez, P. R., Arenas-Marquez, F. J., & Aguayo-Camacho, M. (2017). Cloud computing (SaaS) adoption as a strategic technology: Results of an empirical study. Mobile Information Systems, 2017.
Haag and A. Eckhardt, “Organizational cloud service adoption: a scientometric and content-based literature analysis,”Journal of Business Economics, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 407–440, 2014.
Palos Sánchez, P. R., Arenas Márquez, F. J., & Aguayo Camacho, M. (2017). Determinants of adoption of clud computing services by small, medium and large companies. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 95 (6), 1273-1285.
Some suggestions are as follows:
Please use different terms in the "Title" and the "Keywords".
Please use the full term when use for first time an abbreviation.
The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
A flowchart should be added to the article to show the research methodology.
It is suggested to compare the results of the present research with some similar studies which is done before.
It is suggested to organize Conclusion section much better. This section should present in one 250-300 words paragraph.
Author Response
According to the proposal, we modified the article as follows:
The article was supplemented with links to Cloud applications with a brief description of each application.
We have also added one diagram to the article, which shows the application, the classification of the research cloud.
We reworked the Abstract and Conclusion based on the proposal.
We also made minor edits as suggested by other reviewers.
These adjustments have improved the article.
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors addressed some of my concerns. one concern is still pending. This concern is about the background and related work on general application of Cloud Computing technology to reference research sources.
Author Response
Based on the comments/remarks from Reviewer No.2, we have improved the Introduction of our manuscript by providing the background information on the application of Cloud computing technology and the benefits we gained from using this technology.
This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors discussed the components of FRA, which can a significant system for real-world airspace management tasks. This is quite useful and interesting. However, the reviewer has the following concerns.
1. The organization of the paper can be improved; sections are not connected well, which results in lower readability. For example, Section 2 can be presented first in Introduction to give readers more information about FRA.
2. The paper did not explicitly point out the uniqueness of this work, if compared with the existing work. The authors did not provide a Related Work section either. For example, how this work differs from “Kraus, Jakub. "Free route airspace (fra) in europe." Perner's Contacts 6.4 (2011): 129-135.” and from “Dudek, Ewa. "ATM functionality development concept with particular analysis of free route airspace operations in Poland." International Scientific Conference Transport of the 21st Century. Springer, Cham, 2019.”
3. In Section 1-4, components of FRA are discussed, but section 5 was introduced with a sudden different problem, which is confusing to the readers.
4. The paper is hardly to be considered as a research paper because the research investigation was NOT supported by experimental results or analysis.
5. The research problem in this paper was not clearly presented at the beginning.
Reviewer 2 Report
The publication contains a proposal for a method to cite supporting research objects using Cloud Computing.
However, it stays widely unclear, what the research problem is, that is solved by this contribution.
A clear research question is missing, as well as a proper and systematic research methodology. Making use of cloud computing means to provide research references can be hardly seen as a new and unsolved research problem.
