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Information, Volume 12, Issue 11

2021 November - 54 articles

Cover Story: Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are basic support for intelligent transportation systems, enabling communication among multiple road entities and fostering the development of new applications and services aimed at enhancing driving experience and increasing road safety. These are complex networks with highly demanding characteristics that pose great challenges to the implementation of security mechanisms, creating vulnerabilities that are easily exploitable by attackers. In this work, an intelligent hierarchical security framework is proposed. It makes use of machine learning algorithms to enhance attack detection and defines methods for secure communications among entities, ensuring strong authentication, privacy, and anonymity. View this paper
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Articles (54)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,564 Views
21 Pages

Recent Advances in Dialogue Machine Translation

  • Siyou Liu,
  • Yuqi Sun and
  • Longyue Wang

22 November 2021

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in dialogue translation, which is a significant application task for machine translation (MT) technology. However, this has so far not been extensively explored due to its inherent characteristics including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,746 Views
12 Pages

Predictive Maintenance for Switch Machine Based on Digital Twins

  • Jia Yang,
  • Yongkui Sun,
  • Yuan Cao and
  • Xiaoxi Hu

22 November 2021

As a unique device of railway networks, the normal operation of switch machines involves railway safe and efficient operation. Predictive maintenance becomes the focus of the switch machine. Aiming at the low accuracy of the prediction state and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,832 Views
23 Pages

Multimatcher Model to Enhance Ontology Matching Using Background Knowledge

  • Sohaib Al-Yadumi,
  • Wei-Wei Goh,
  • Ee-Xion Tan,
  • Noor Zaman Jhanjhi and
  • Patrice Boursier

22 November 2021

Ontology matching is a rapidly emerging topic crucial for semantic web effort, data integration, and interoperability. Semantic heterogeneity is one of the most challenging aspects of ontology matching. Consequently, background knowledge (BK) resourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,229 Views
13 Pages

22 November 2021

The number of consumers playing virtual reality games is booming. To speed up product iteration, the user experience team needs to collect and analyze unsatisfying experiences in time. In this paper, we aim to detect the unsatisfying experiences hidd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
16,571 Views
11 Pages

19 November 2021

Implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems often aims to improve the companies’ processes in order to gain competitive advantage on the market. Especially, small companies need to integrate systems with suppliers and customers; henc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,742 Views
23 Pages

19 November 2021

Recently, the communication paradigm has been changing in society in the higher education context because of the ease of access to the Internet and the high number of mobile devices. Thus, universities have increased their interest in accepting diffe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
15,668 Views
36 Pages

19 November 2021

This work conducts a systematic literature review about the domain of personalized advertisement, and more specifically, about the techniques that are used for this purpose. State-of-the-art publications and techniques are presented in detail, and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,687 Views
14 Pages

Raising Awareness about Cloud Security in Industry through a Board Game

  • Tiange Zhao,
  • Tiago Gasiba,
  • Ulrike Lechner and
  • Maria Pinto-Albuquerque

19 November 2021

Today, many products and solutions are provided on the cloud; however, the amount and financial losses due to cloud security incidents illustrate the critical need to do more to protect cloud assets adequately. A gap lies in transferring what cloud a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
24,338 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Social Media Activities on Brand Equity

  • Ra’ed Masa’deh,
  • Shafig AL-Haddad,
  • Dana Al Abed,
  • Hadeel Khalil,
  • Lina AlMomani and
  • Taghreed Khirfan

18 November 2021

This study aims to investigate the impact of Social Media Activities on brand equity (brand awareness and brand image). A cross-sectional quantitative study has been conducted using a validated questionnaire distributed to a convenience sample of 362...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,822 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2021

A significant problem in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is the high rate of student dropout in these courses. An effective student dropout prediction model of MOOC courses can identify the factors responsible and provide insight on how to initia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,741 Views
13 Pages

Revolutions Take Time

  • Peter Wittenburg and
  • George Strawn

16 November 2021

The 2018 paper titled “Common Patterns in Revolutionary Infrastructures and Data” has been cited frequently, since we compared the current discussions about research data management with the developments of large infrastructures in the past believing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,045 Views
27 Pages

Help Me Learn! Architecture and Strategies to Combine Recommendations and Active Learning in Manufacturing

  • Patrik Zajec,
  • Jože M. Rožanec,
  • Elena Trajkova,
  • Inna Novalija,
  • Klemen Kenda,
  • Blaž Fortuna and
  • Dunja Mladenić

16 November 2021

This research work describes an architecture for building a system that guides a user from a forecast generated by a machine learning model through a sequence of decision-making steps. The system is demonstrated in a manufacturing demand forecasting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,333 Views
19 Pages

16 November 2021

In response to the difficulty of plant leaf disease detection and classification, this study proposes a novel plant leaf disease detection method called deep block attention SSD (DBA_SSD) for disease identification and disease degree classification o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,027 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2021

This study aimed to explore communication techniques based on the information and communication technology (ICT) used in the implementation of instructional supervision to determine their effect on the teacher’s learning process and find effective te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,577 Views
17 Pages

15 November 2021

The public bicycle system is an important component of “mobility as a service” and has become increasingly popular in recent years. To provide a better understanding of the station activity and driving mechanisms of public bicycle systems, the study...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,116 Views
14 Pages

Severity Assessment and Progression Prediction of COVID-19 Patients Based on the LesionEncoder Framework and Chest CT

  • You-Zhen Feng,
  • Sidong Liu,
  • Zhong-Yuan Cheng,
  • Juan C. Quiroz,
  • Dana Rezazadegan,
  • Ping-Kang Chen,
  • Qi-Ting Lin,
  • Long Qian,
  • Xiao-Fang Liu and
  • Xiang-Ran Cai
  • + 4 authors

15 November 2021

Automatic severity assessment and progression prediction can facilitate admission, triage, and referral of COVID-19 patients. This study aims to explore the potential use of lung lesion features in the management of COVID-19, based on the assumption...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,068 Views
19 Pages

12 November 2021

In this study, Call Detail Records (CDRs) covering Budapest for the month of June in 2016 were analyzed. During this observation period, the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship took place, which significantly affected the habit of the residents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,725 Views
14 Pages

12 November 2021

Communication over doubly selective channels (both time and frequency selective) suffers from significant intercarrier interference (ICI). This problem is severe in underwater acoustic communications. In this paper, a novel partial fractional (PFrFT)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,633 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2021

This article investigates the effect of personality traits on the attitude of web users towards online advertising. Utilizing and analyzing personality traits along with possible correlations between these traits and their influence on consumers’ buy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
12,689 Views
11 Pages

10 November 2021

A growing body of research in retinal imaging is recently considering vascular tortuosity measures or indexes, with definitions and methods mostly derived from cardiovascular research. However, retinal microvasculature has its own peculiarities that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,284 Views
16 Pages

10 November 2021

In order to adapt to the actual scene of a stereo satellite observing the same area sequentially and improve the accuracy of the target-oriented 3D reconstruction, this paper proposed a building DSM fusion update method based on adaptive splines and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,492 Views
36 Pages

RADAR: Resilient Application for Dependable Aided Reporting

  • Antonia Azzini,
  • Nicola Cortesi and
  • Giuseppe Psaila

9 November 2021

Many organizations must produce many reports for various reasons. Although this activity could appear simple to carry out, this fact is not at all true: indeed, generating reports requires the collection of possibly large and heterogeneous data sets....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,778 Views
12 Pages

Profiling Attack against RSA Key Generation Based on a Euclidean Algorithm

  • Sadiel de la Fe,
  • Han-Byeol Park,
  • Bo-Yeon Sim,
  • Dong-Guk Han and
  • Carles Ferrer

9 November 2021

A profiling attack is a powerful variant among the noninvasive side channel attacks. In this work, we target RSA key generation relying on the binary version of the extended Euclidean algorithm for modular inverse and GCD computations. To date, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,571 Views
16 Pages

Asset Management Method of Industrial IoT Systems for Cyber-Security Countermeasures

  • Noritaka Matsumoto,
  • Junya Fujita,
  • Hiromichi Endoh,
  • Tsutomu Yamada,
  • Kenji Sawada and
  • Osamu Kaneko

8 November 2021

Cyber-security countermeasures are important for IIoT (industrial Internet of things) systems in which IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) are integrated. The appropriate asset management is the key to creating strong security...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,427 Views
13 Pages

Automation of Basketball Match Data Management

  • Łukasz Chomątek and
  • Kinga Sierakowska

8 November 2021

Despite the fact that sport plays a substantial role in people’s lives, funding varies significantly from one discipline to another. For example, in Poland, women’s basketball in the lower divisions, is primarily developing thanks to enthusiasts. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,664 Views
12 Pages

Measuring Discrimination against Older People Applying the Fraboni Scale of Ageism

  • Ágnes Hofmeister-Tóth,
  • Ágnes Neulinger and
  • János Debreceni

5 November 2021

The progressive aging of developed societies, caused by profound demographic changes, brings with it the necessity of confronting the subject of discrimination against older people. In the last 50 years, many scales of ageism have been developed to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,790 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Social Life by Deep Learning

  • Jose Antonio Jijon-Vorbeck and
  • Isabel Segura-Bedmar

5 November 2021

Due to the globalisation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the expansion of social media as the main source of information for many people, there have been a great variety of different reactions surrounding the topic. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,365 Views
11 Pages

4 November 2021

This paper describes a voice encryption device that can be widely used in civil voice call encryption. This article uses a composite encryption method to divide the speech into frames, rearrange them in the time domain, and encrypt the content of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
38,551 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2021

This paper designs and implements an energy management system based on the Spring Boot framework. The system mainly includes three layers, which are the data collection layer, the business logic layer, and the display interface layer from bottom to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,771 Views
26 Pages

An Intelligent Hierarchical Security Framework for VANETs

  • Fábio Gonçalves,
  • Joaquim Macedo and
  • Alexandre Santos

2 November 2021

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are an emerging type of network that increasingly encompass a larger number of vehicles. They are the basic support for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and for establishing frameworks which enable communica...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,635 Views
18 Pages

Gamifying Computer Science Education for Z Generation

  • Hadeel Mohammed Jawad and
  • Samir Tout

1 November 2021

Generation Z members use their smart devices as part of their everyday routine. Teaching methods may need to be updated to make learning materials more interesting for this generation. This paper suggests gamifying computer science subjects to enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,154 Views
9 Pages

1 November 2021

There is spiking interest in graph analysis, mainly sparked by social network analysis done for various purposes. With social network graphs often achieving very large size, there is a need for capable tools to perform such an analysis. In this artic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,508 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2021

Within the space of question answering (QA) systems, the most critical module to improve overall performance is question analysis processing. Extracting the lexical semantic of a Natural Language (NL) question presents challenges at syntactic and sem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,295 Views
22 Pages

A Text Mining Approach in the Classification of Free-Text Cancer Pathology Reports from the South African National Health Laboratory Services

  • Okechinyere J. Achilonu,
  • Victor Olago,
  • Elvira Singh,
  • René M. J. C. Eijkemans,
  • Gideon Nimako and
  • Eustasius Musenge

30 October 2021

A cancer pathology report is a valuable medical document that provides information for clinical management of the patient and evaluation of health care. However, there are variations in the quality of reporting in free-text style formats, ranging fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,929 Views
16 Pages

29 October 2021

Providing feedback to students is one of the most effective ways to enhance their learning. With the advancement of technology, many tools have been developed to provide personalized feedback. However, these systems are only beneficial when interacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,021 Views
21 Pages

28 October 2021

In the last few years, a number of social media e-business models including the social networking giants of Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram have offered direct purchase abilities to both their users and the involved enterprises. Hence, individuals...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,640 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2021

Depression is a common mental health disorder that affects an individual’s moods, thought processes and behaviours negatively, and disrupts one’s ability to function optimally. In most cases, people with depression try to hide their symptoms and refr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,074 Views
18 Pages

Passive Fault-Tolerant Control of a 2-DOF Robotic Helicopter

  • Manuel A. Zuñiga,
  • Luis A. Ramírez,
  • Gerardo Romero,
  • Efraín Alcorta-García and
  • Alejandro Arceo

27 October 2021

The presence of faults in dynamic systems causes the potential loss of some of the control objectives. For that reason, a fault-tolerant controller is required to ensure a proper operation, as well as to reduce the risk of accidents. The present work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,764 Views
26 Pages

Data-Driven Multi-Agent Vehicle Routing in a Congested City

  • Alex Solter,
  • Fuhua Lin,
  • Dunwei Wen and
  • Xiaokang Zhou

27 October 2021

Navigation in a traffic congested city can prove to be a difficult task. Often a path that may appear to be the fastest option is much slower due to congestion. If we can predict the effects of congestion, it may be possible to develop a better route...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,642 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2021

In the Fourth Industrial Revolution era, data-based business management activities among enterprises proliferated are mainly based on digital transformation. In this change, the information security system and its operation are emphasized as essentia...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,658 Views
25 Pages

27 October 2021

We consider the distributed setting of N autonomous mobile robots that operate in Look-Compute-Move (LCM) cycles following the well-celebrated classic oblivious robots model. We study the fundamental problem of gathering N autonomous robots on a plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Citations
10,675 Views
11 Pages

25 October 2021

A recurrent neural network (RNN) combines variable-length input data with a hidden state that depends on previous time steps to generate output data. RNNs have been widely used in time-series data analysis, and various RNN algorithms have been propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,951 Views
20 Pages

Optimizing Small BERTs Trained for German NER

  • Jochen Zöllner,
  • Konrad Sperfeld,
  • Christoph Wick and
  • Roger Labahn

25 October 2021

Currently, the most widespread neural network architecture for training language models is the so-called BERT, which led to improvements in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In general, the larger the number of parameters in a BERT mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,200 Views
25 Pages

RDFsim: Similarity-Based Browsing over DBpedia Using Embeddings

  • Manos Chatzakis,
  • Michalis Mountantonakis and
  • Yannis Tzitzikas

23 October 2021

Browsing has been the core access method for the Web from its beginning. Analogously, one good practice for publishing data on the Web is to support dereferenceable URIs, to also enable plain web browsing by users. The information about one URI is us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,804 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2021

The aim of this study is to investigate firms’ strategies for developing and diffusing technology standards while maintaining a consensus with competitors in their industry. We conducted a case study of information technology (IT) standardization and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,786 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2021

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly useful as data grow in volume and accessibility. ML can perform tasks (e.g., categorisation, decision making, anomaly detection, etc.) through experience and without explicit instruction, even when the data are t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,440 Views
20 Pages

Evaluating a Taxonomy of Textual Uncertainty for Collaborative Visualisation in the Digital Humanities

  • Alejandro Benito-Santos,
  • Michelle Doran,
  • Aleyda Rocha,
  • Eveline Wandl-Vogt,
  • Jennifer Edmond and
  • Roberto Therón

21 October 2021

The capture, modelling and visualisation of uncertainty has become a hot topic in many areas of science, such as the digital humanities (DH). Fuelled by critical voices among the DH community, DH scholars are becoming more aware of the intrinsic adva...

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