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Information, Volume 10, Issue 3

March 2019 - 38 articles

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Articles (38)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,543 Views
20 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Secure Computation of Skyline Query in Distributed Multi-Party Databases

  • Mahboob Qaosar,
  • Asif Zaman,
  • Md. Anisuzzaman Siddique,
  • Annisa and
  • Yasuhiko Morimoto

25 March 2019

Selecting representative objects from a large-scale database is an essential task to understand the database. A skyline query is one of the popular methods for selecting representative objects. It retrieves a set of non-dominated objects. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,263 Views
21 Pages

Tangled String for Multi-Timescale Explanation of Changes in Stock Market

  • Yukio Ohsawa,
  • Teruaki Hayashi and
  • Takaaki Yoshino

22 March 2019

This work addresses the question of explaining changes in the desired timescales of the stock market. Tangled string is a sequence visualization tool wherein a sequence is compared to a string and trends in the sequence are compared to the appearance...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,942 Views
4 Pages

eHealth and Artificial Intelligence

  • Donato Impedovo and
  • Giuseppe Pirlo

19 March 2019

Artificial intelligence is changing the healthcare industry from many perspectives: diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. A wide range of techniques has been proposed in the literature. In this special issue, 13 selected and peer-reviewed original res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,825 Views
13 Pages

A Self-Learning Fault Diagnosis Strategy Based on Multi-Model Fusion

  • Tianzhen Wang,
  • Jingjing Dong,
  • Tao Xie,
  • Demba Diallo and
  • Mohamed Benbouzid

17 March 2019

This paper presents an approach to detect and classify the faults in complex systems with small amounts of available data history. The methodology is based on the model fusion for fault detection and classification. Moreover, the database is enriched...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,359 Views
21 Pages

16 March 2019

The total variation (TV) regularization-based methods are proven to be effective in removing random noise. However, these solutions usually have staircase effects. This paper proposes a new image reconstruction method based on TV regularization with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,501 Views
14 Pages

Estimating Spatiotemporal Information from Behavioral Sensing Data of Wheelchair Users by Machine Learning Technologies

  • Ikuko Eguchi Yairi,
  • Hiroki Takahashi,
  • Takumi Watanabe,
  • Kouya Nagamine,
  • Yusuke Fukushima,
  • Yutaka Matsuo and
  • Yusuke Iwasawa

15 March 2019

Recent expansion of intelligent gadgets, such as smartphones and smart watches, familiarizes humans with sensing their activities. We have been developing a road accessibility evaluation system inspired by human sensing technologies. This paper intro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,136 Views
20 Pages

An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Forecast the Environmental Impact of Data Centers

  • Joao Ferreira,
  • Gustavo Callou,
  • Albert Josua,
  • Dietmar Tutsch and
  • Paulo Maciel

14 March 2019

Due to the high demands of new technologies such as social networks, e-commerce and cloud computing, more energy is being consumed in order to store all the data produced and provide the high availability required. Over the years, this increase in en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,300 Views
13 Pages

Content-Aware Retargeted Image Quality Assessment

  • Tingting Zhang,
  • Ming Yu,
  • Yingchun Guo and
  • Yi Liu

12 March 2019

In targeting the low correlation between existing image scaling quality assessment methods and subjective awareness, a content-aware retargeted image quality assessment algorithm is proposed, which is based on the structural similarity index. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,367 Views
20 Pages

12 March 2019

Data fragmentation and allocation has for long proven to be an efficient technique for improving the performance of distributed database systems’ (DDBSs). A crucial feature of any successful DDBS design revolves around placing an intrinsic emph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,170 Views
16 Pages

11 March 2019

Metagenomics studies, as well as genomics studies of polyploid species such as wheat, deal with the analysis of high variation data. Such data contain sequences from similar, but distinct genetic chains. This fact presents an obstacle to analysis and...

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