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Future Internet, Volume 8, Issue 4

December 2016 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,511 Views
24 Pages

Designing and Implementing Weather Generators as Web Services

  • Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun,
  • Nguyen Duy Hung,
  • Kiyoshi Honda,
  • Amor V. M. Ines and
  • Eunjin Han

15 December 2016

Climate and weather realizations are essential inputs for simulating crop growth and yields to analyze the risks associated with future conditions. To simplify the procedure of generating weather realizations and make them available over the Internet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,814 Views
18 Pages

11 November 2016

The multi-focus image fusion method is used in image processing to generate all-focus images that have large depth of field (DOF) based on original multi-focus images. Different approaches have been used in the spatial and transform domain to fuse mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,137 Views
18 Pages

Network Forensics Method Based on Evidence Graph and Vulnerability Reasoning

  • Jingsha He,
  • Chengyue Chang,
  • Peng He and
  • Muhammad Salman Pathan

10 November 2016

As the Internet becomes larger in scale, more complex in structure and more diversified in traffic, the number of crimes that utilize computer technologies is also increasing at a phenomenal rate. To react to the increasing number of computer crimes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,924 Views
10 Pages

25 October 2016

On the high-speed connections of the Internet or computer networks, the IP (Internet Protocol) packet traffic passing through the network is extremely high, and that makes it difficult for network monitoring and attack detection applications. This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
12,020 Views
17 Pages

ODK Scan: Digitizing Data Collection and Impacting Data Management Processes in Pakistan’s Tuberculosis Control Program

  • Syed Mustafa Ali,
  • Rachel Powers,
  • Jeffrey Beorse,
  • Arif Noor,
  • Farah Naureen,
  • Naveed Anjum,
  • Muhammad Ishaq,
  • Javariya Aamir and
  • Richard Anderson

24 October 2016

The present grievous tuberculosis situation can be improved by efficient case management and timely follow-up evaluations. With the advent of digital technology, this can be achieved through quick summarization of the patient-centric data. The aim of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,452 Views
19 Pages

Senior Living Lab: An Ecological Approach to Foster Social Innovation in an Ageing Society

  • Leonardo Angelini,
  • Stefano Carrino,
  • Omar Abou Khaled,
  • Susie Riva-Mossman and
  • Elena Mugellini

21 October 2016

The Senior Living Lab (SLL) is a transdisciplinary research platform created by four Universities that aims at promoting ageing well at home through the co-creation of innovative products, services and practices with older adults. While most living l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,005 Views
26 Pages

Autonomic Semantic-Based Context-Aware Platform for Mobile Applications in Pervasive Environments

  • Adel Alti,
  • Abderrahim Lakehal,
  • Sébastien Laborie and
  • Philippe Roose

29 September 2016

Currently, the field of smart-* (home, city, health, tourism, etc.) is naturally heterogeneous and multimedia oriented. In such a domain, there is an increasing usage of heterogeneous mobile devices, as well as captors transmitting data (IoT). They a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,055 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2016

In order to develop a Supercomputing Cloud Platform (SCP) prototype system using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Petri nets, we researched some technologies for Web service composition. Specifically, in this paper, we propose a reliability ca...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,917 Views
16 Pages

Data-Enabled Design for Social Change: Two Case Studies

  • Patrizia Marti,
  • Carl Megens and
  • Caroline Hummels

23 September 2016

Smartness in contemporary society implies the use of massive data to improve the experience of people with connected services and products. The use of big data to collect information about people’s behaviours opens a new concept of “user-centred desi...