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Information, Volume 10, Issue 12

December 2019 - 39 articles

Cover Story: The agent-based approach is a well-established methodology to model distributed intelligent systems. Multi-agent systems (MAS) are boosting applications dealing with safety and information-critical tasks. Therefore, the transparency and trustworthiness of the agents must be enforced. Employing reputation-based mechanisms helps to promote trust in the system. Nevertheless, to fully guarantee MAS with desired accountability and transparency are objectives that are still unmet. This paper elaborates on the notions of trust, the integration of blockchain technologies (BCT) and MAS, and discusses the ethical implications. In particular, we leverage MAS (based on the Java Agent DEvelopment Framework—JADE) and BCT (based on Hyperledger Fabric), tightly coupled to handle interactions, reputation computation, monitoring, and disagreement-management policies. View this paper.
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,221 Views
9 Pages

17 December 2019

This bibliometric study presents the most influential cited references for papers published in the journal Information by using reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS). A total of 30,960 references cited in 996 papers in the journal Informatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,952 Views
8 Pages

Development of an Electrohydraulic Variable Buoyancy System

  • João Falcão Carneiro,
  • João Bravo Pinto,
  • Nuno A. Cruz and
  • Fernando Gomes de Almeida

17 December 2019

The growing needs in exploring ocean resources have been pushing the length and complexity of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) missions, leading to more stringent energy requirements. A promising approach to reduce the energy consumption of AUVs i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
13,015 Views
14 Pages

17 December 2019

Financial institutions use credit scoring to evaluate potential loan default risks. However, insufficient credit information limits the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform’s capacity to build effective credit scoring. In recent years, many type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,992 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2019

Manycast routing and spectrum assignment (RSA) in elastic optical networks (EONs) has become a hot research field. In this paper, the mathematical model and high efficient algorithm to solve this challenging problem in EONs is investigated. First, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,292 Views
13 Pages

An LSTM Model for Predicting Cross-Platform Bursts of Social Media Activity

  • Neda Hajiakhoond Bidoki,
  • Alexander V. Mantzaris and
  • Gita Sukthankar

14 December 2019

Burst analysis and prediction is a fundamental problem in social network analysis, since user activities have been shown to have an intrinsically bursty nature. Bursts may also be a signal of topics that are of growing real-world interest. Since burs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
554 Citations
61,988 Views
36 Pages

Choosing Mutation and Crossover Ratios for Genetic Algorithms—A Review with a New Dynamic Approach

  • Ahmad Hassanat,
  • Khalid Almohammadi,
  • Esra’a Alkafaween,
  • Eman Abunawas,
  • Awni Hammouri and
  • V. B. Surya Prasath

10 December 2019

Genetic algorithm (GA) is an artificial intelligence search method that uses the process of evolution and natural selection theory and is under the umbrella of evolutionary computing algorithm. It is an efficient tool for solving optimization problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,228 Views
14 Pages

Success Factors Importance Based on Software Project Organization Structure

  • Ahmed Fawzi Otoom,
  • Ghadeer AL Kateb,
  • Maen Hammad,
  • Rateb J. Sweis and
  • Haneen Hijazi

10 December 2019

The main aim of this paper is to identify critical success factors (CSFs) and investigate whether they are the same or not across different project organization structures. The organization structures under the study are: functional, project, and mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,526 Views
15 Pages

10 December 2019

The test oracle problem exists widely in modern complex software testing, and metamorphic testing (MT) has become a promising testing technique to alleviate this problem. The inference of efficient metamorphic relations (MRs) is the core problem of m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,779 Views
18 Pages

A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Community Environment Adaptability for Elderly People Based on the Improved TOPSIS

  • Shen-Cheng Zhang,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Zhi Liu,
  • Shouzhen Zeng,
  • Yun Jin and
  • Tomas Baležentis

9 December 2019

As the main way of providing care for elderly people, home-based old-age care puts forward higher requirements for the environmental adaptability of the community. Five communities in Wuhu were selected for a comprehensive assessment of environmental...

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