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Information, Volume 10, Issue 5

2019 May - 29 articles

Cover Story: Recommender systems have gained a lot of popularity due to their widespread adoption in various industries, such as entertainment and tourism. Numerous research efforts have focused on formulating and advancing state-of-the-art systems that recommend the right set of items to the right person. However, these recommender systems are hard to compare, because the published evaluation results are computed on diverse datasets and obtained using different methodologies. In this paper, we researched and prototyped an offline evaluation framework called Sequeval that is designed to evaluate recommender systems capable of suggesting sequences of items. Sequeval is publicly available, and it aims to become a focal point for researchers and practitioners when experimenting with sequence-based recommender systems, providing comparable and objective evaluation results. View this paper
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Articles (29)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,858 Views
19 Pages

In this contribution, a gain adaptation for sliding mode control (SMC) is proposed that uses both linear model predictive control (LMPC) and an estimator-based disturbance compensation. Its application is demonstrated with an electromagnetic actuator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,383 Views
23 Pages

Background: We conducted research on the newly developed personalized recommendation service (PRS) of the global network of Korean scientists and engineers (KOSEN) in order to explore the information usage behavior and importance of the PRS used by K...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,488 Views
17 Pages

An Approach for Recommending Contextualized Services in e-Tourism

  • Mario Casillo,
  • Fabio Clarizia,
  • Francesco Colace,
  • Marco Lombardi,
  • Francesco Pascale and
  • Domenico Santaniello

«You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours». Those are the words used by Italo Calvino in his book “Invisible Cities” to give us a key aspect of a city,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,141 Views
17 Pages

Istex: A Database of Twenty Million Scientific Papers with a Mining Tool Which Uses Named Entities

  • Denis Maurel,
  • Enza Morale,
  • Nicolas Thouvenin,
  • Patrice Ringot and
  • Angel Turri

Istex is a database of twenty million full text scientific papers bought by the French Government for the use of academic libraries. Papers are usually searched for by the title, authors, keywords or possibly the abstract. To authorize new types of q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,320 Views
14 Pages

We write the mutual information between an input speech utterance and its reconstruction by a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) codec in terms of the mutual information between the input speech and the contributions due to the short-term predicto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,692 Views
20 Pages

In this paper we introduce a novel adaptation algorithm for adaptive filtering of FIR and IIR digital filters within the context of system identification. The standard LMS algorithm is hybridized with GA (Genetic Algorithm) to obtain a new integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,528 Views
24 Pages

Serious games for health are those that are not aimed solely at entertainment, but rather at supporting health treatments. In this paper, we develop and assess the proposal of a Virtual Reality (VR) game aimed at supporting Sensory Processing Disorde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,214 Views
22 Pages

Sequeval: An Offline Evaluation Framework for Sequence-Based Recommender Systems

  • Diego Monti,
  • Enrico Palumbo,
  • Giuseppe Rizzo and
  • Maurizio Morisio

Recommender systems have gained a lot of popularity due to their large adoption in various industries such as entertainment and tourism. Numerous research efforts have focused on formulating and advancing state-of-the-art of systems that recommend th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,612 Views
18 Pages

A Computation-Efficient Group Key Distribution Protocol Based on a New Secret Sharing Scheme

  • Runhai Jiao,
  • Hong Ouyang,
  • Yukun Lin,
  • Yaoming Luo,
  • Gang Li,
  • Zaiyu Jiang and
  • Qian Zheng

With the development of 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile terminals are widely used in various applications under multicast scenarios. However, due to the limited computation resources of mobile terminals, reducing the computation cost of m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,318 Views
16 Pages

Ontological Semantic Annotation of an English Corpus Through Condition Random Fields

  • Guidson Coelho de Andrade,
  • Alcione de Paiva Oliveira and
  • Alexandra Moreira

One way to increase the understanding of texts by machines is through adding semantic information to lexical items by including metadata tags, a process also called semantic annotation. There are several semantic aspects that can be added to the word...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,582 Views
17 Pages

Link Prediction Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network

  • Wentao Wang,
  • Lintao Wu,
  • Ye Huang,
  • Hao Wang and
  • Rongbo Zhu

In recent years, endless link prediction algorithms based on network representation learning have emerged. Network representation learning mainly constructs feature vectors by capturing the neighborhood structure information of network nodes for link...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,279 Views
14 Pages

Interactivity in Cybermedia News: An Interview with Journalists in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador

  • Daniel Barredo Ibáñez,
  • Karen Tatiana Pinto Garzón,
  • Úrsula Freundt-Thurne and
  • Narcisa Medranda Morales

Interactivity is a factor on which cyber journalism is based and summarizes participation options between a user and the medium, a user with other users, and a user with editors. In this study, we focus on the latter in three countries—Colombia, Peru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,630 Views
14 Pages

Aimed at the problem of how to objectively obtain the threshold of a user’s cognitive load in a virtual reality interactive system, a method for user cognitive load quantification based on an eye movement experiment is proposed. Eye movement da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,813 Views
14 Pages

An Improved Jacobi-Based Detector for Massive MIMO Systems

  • Xiaoqing Zhao,
  • Zhengquan Li,
  • Song Xing,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Qiong Wu and
  • Baolong Li

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the key technologies in the fifth generation (5G) cellular communication systems. For uplink massive MIMO systems, the typical linear detection such as minimum mean square error (MMSE) presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,046 Views
17 Pages

Researchers have proposed many multidimensional frameworks to identify significant and potential factors, e.g., educational background, positive feelings and career aspirations, that impact English learning attitude in second language acquisition. Ye...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,807 Views
13 Pages

Based on the grey prediction model GM(1,1), a novel fractional-order grey prediction model is proposed and its modeling error is systematically studied. In this paper, exponential data sequences are generated for numerical simulation. Via the numeric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,416 Views
13 Pages

A linguistic cubic hesitant variable (LCHV) is a hybrid form of linguistic values in group decision-making environments. It is composed of an interval language variable and multiple single-valued language variables given by different decision-makers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,728 Views
18 Pages

Improving reliability is one of the major concerns of scientific workflow scheduling in clouds. The ever-growing computational complexity and data size of workflows present challenges to fault-tolerant workflow scheduling. Therefore, it is essential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,016 Views
15 Pages

A Complexity Reduction Scheme for Depth Coding in 3D-HEVC

  • Qiuwen Zhang,
  • Yihan Wang,
  • Tao Wei,
  • Bin Jiang and
  • Yong Gan

3D-high efficiency video coding (3D-HEVC) is the next-generation compression standard for multiview system applications, which has recently been approved by MPEG and VCEG as an extension of HEVC. To improve the compression efficiency of depth map, se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,515 Views
14 Pages

The main objective of this study is to explore the spatiotemporal activities pattern of bicycle sharing system by combining together temporal and spatial attributes variables through clustering analysis method. Specifically, three clustering algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,669 Views
16 Pages

Botnets are a common and serious threat to the Internet. The search for the infected nodes of a P2P botnet is affected by the number of commonly connected nodes, with a lower detection accuracy rate for cases with fewer commonly connected nodes. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,058 Views
16 Pages

Intent detection is one of the main tasks of a dialogue system. In this paper, we present our intent detection system that is based on fastText word embeddings and a neural network classifier. We find an improvement in fastText sentence vectorization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,101 Views
13 Pages

Cross-Domain Text Sentiment Analysis Based on CNN_FT Method

  • Jiana Meng,
  • Yingchun Long,
  • Yuhai Yu,
  • Dandan Zhao and
  • Shuang Liu

Transfer learning is one of the popular methods for solving the problem that the models built on the source domain cannot be directly applied to the target domain in the cross-domain sentiment classification. This paper proposes a transfer learning m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,733 Views
42 Pages

30 April 2019

Network traffic exhibits a high level of variability over short periods of time. This variability impacts negatively on the accuracy of anomaly-based network intrusion detection systems (IDS) that are built using predictive models in a batch learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,680 Views
14 Pages

28 April 2019

Most existing multi-label data streams classification methods focus on extending single-label streams classification approaches to multi-label cases, without considering the special characteristics of multi-label stream data, such as label dependency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,813 Views
15 Pages

27 April 2019

Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) represent a class of malware used to generate large numbers of new domain names to achieve command-and-control (C2) communication between the malware program and its C2 server to avoid detection by cybersecurity me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,502 Views
14 Pages

Review of the Augmented Reality Systems for Shoulder Rehabilitation

  • Rosanna Maria Viglialoro,
  • Sara Condino,
  • Giuseppe Turini,
  • Marina Carbone,
  • Vincenzo Ferrari and
  • Marco Gesi

26 April 2019

Literature shows an increasing interest for the development of augmented reality (AR) applications in several fields, including rehabilitation. Current studies show the need for new rehabilitation tools for upper extremity, since traditional interven...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,968 Views
17 Pages

26 April 2019

Recommender systems are one of the fields of information filtering systems that have attracted great research interest during the past several decades and have been utilized in a large variety of applications, from commercial e-shops to social networ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,434 Views
16 Pages

Exploring Whether Data Can be Represented as a Composite Unit in Form Processing Using the Manufacturing of Information Approach

  • Monica Blasco-Lopez,
  • Robert Hausler,
  • Rabindranarth Romero-Lopez,
  • Mathias Glaus and
  • Rafael Diaz-Sobac

26 April 2019

Data and information quality have been recognized as essential components for improving business efficiency. One approach for the assessment of information quality (IQ) is the manufacturing of information (MI). So far, research using this approach ha...

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