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Future Internet, Volume 8, Issue 2

June 2016 - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,000 Views
12 Pages

Since the turn of the 21st century, we have seen a surge of studies on the state of U.S. education addressing issues such as cost, graduation rates, retention, achievement, engagement, and curricular outcomes. There is an expectation that graduates s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,605 Views
17 Pages

A Methodological Approach to Evaluate Livestock Innovations on Small-Scale Farms in Developing Countries

  • Antón García-Martínez,
  • José Rivas-Rangel,
  • Jaime Rangel-Quintos,
  • José Antonio Espinosa,
  • Cecilio Barba and
  • Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero

The aim of the study was deepening the knowledge of livestock innovations knowledge on small-scale farms in developing countries. First, we developed a methodology focused on identifying potential appropriate livestock innovations for smallholders an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,159 Views
21 Pages

Emerging technologies such as Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promise to address cost reduction and flexibility in network operation while enabling innovative network service delivery models. However, operati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,764 Views
17 Pages

A smart city is an environment where a pervasive, multi-service network is employed to provide citizens improved living conditions as well as better public safety and security. Advanced communication technologies are essential to achieve this goal. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,468 Views
18 Pages

Development of an Expert System for the Evaluation of Students’ Curricula on the Basis of Competencies

  • Luis Enrique Sánchez,
  • Antonio Santos-Olmo,
  • Esther Álvarez,
  • Monica Huerta,
  • Sara Camacho and
  • Eduardo Fernández-Medina

The concept of competence, which emerged during the reform of computer engineering degrees, has not brought benefits to companies when attempting to select the most suitable candidates for their jobs. This article aims to show some of the research th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,218 Views
62 Pages

For many individuals and organizations, cyber-insurance is the most practical and only way of handling a major financial impact of an information security event. However, the cyber-insurance market suffers from the problem of information asymmetry, l...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
12,733 Views
11 Pages

The many decisions that people make about what to pay attention to online shape the spread of information in online social networks. Due to the constraints of available time and cognitive resources, the ease of discovery strongly impacts how people a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,839 Views
17 Pages

In the last 20 years, the convergence of different factors—the rise of the complexity of science, the “data deluge” and the advances in information technologies—triggered a paradigm shift in the way we understand complex social systems and their evol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,932 Views
21 Pages

iNUIT: Internet of Things for Urban Innovation

  • Francesco Carrino,
  • Elena Mugellini,
  • Omar Abou Khaled,
  • Nabil Ouerhani and
  • Juergen Ehrensberger

Internet of Things (IoT) seems a viable way to enable the Smart Cities of the future. iNUIT (Internet of Things for Urban Innovation) is a multi-year research program that aims to create an ecosystem that exploits the variety of data coming from mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,889 Views
15 Pages

Interoperability and social implication are two current challenges in the digital library (DL) context. To resolve the problem of interoperability, our work aims to find a relationship between the main metadata schemas. In particular, we want to form...

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