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Information, Volume 12, Issue 2

February 2021 - 48 articles

Cover Story: A neural-network-based approach is suggested to solve a coverage planning problem for a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles in critical areas. The main goal is to fully cover the map, maintaining a uniform distribution of the fleet over the area, avoiding collisions between vehicles and obstacles. A bioinspired neural network structure is adopted, in which the cost of each neuron influences the cost of its neighbors, generating an attractive contribution to unvisited neurons. Several controls and precautions are introduced to minimize the risk of collisions and optimize coverage planning. Preliminary simulations performed in different scenarios demonstrate that the proposed approach can manage and coordinate the fleet, providing a full coverage of the map. View this paper
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Articles (48)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,478 Views
23 Pages

23 February 2021

The application of cosegmentation in remote sensing image change detection can effectively overcome the salt and pepper phenomenon and generate multitemporal changing objects with consistent boundaries. Cosegmentation considers the image information,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,919 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2021

Designing and delivering outcome-based courses that emphasize learner-centric educational discourse and active learning is challenging, especially in online learning environments. Ensuring quality in the design and delivery of such courses in the vir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,345 Views
29 Pages

A Survey on Gamification for Health Rehabilitation Care: Applications, Opportunities, and Open Challenges

  • Nooralisa Mohd Tuah,
  • Fatimah Ahmedy,
  • Abdullah Gani and
  • Lionelson Norbert Yong

22 February 2021

Research trends in gamification have shown a significant diversity in various areas of e-health, particularly in addressing the issues of rehabilitation and physical activity. Rehabilitation requires better engaging tools that help to increase the pa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,295 Views
14 Pages

Semantic Mapping for Mobile Robots in Indoor Scenes: A Survey

  • Xiaoning Han,
  • Shuailong Li,
  • Xiaohui Wang and
  • Weijia Zhou

22 February 2021

Sensing and mapping its surroundings is an essential requirement for a mobile robot. Geometric maps endow robots with the capacity of basic tasks, e.g., navigation. To co-exist with human beings in indoor scenes, the need to attach semantic informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
14,702 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2021

With the increasing number of cybercrimes, the digital forensics team has no choice but to implement more robust and resilient evidence-handling mechanisms. The capturing of digital evidence, which is a tangible and probative piece of information tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,160 Views
16 Pages

20 February 2021

The reputation of companies is one of their key success factors. It is therefore necessary to value this intangible asset. In order to detect possible threats quickly, continuous monitoring of corporate reputation plays an important role in this valu...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,571 Views
3 Pages

20 February 2021

Up until quite recently, our contemporary society has faced various challenges and issues related to accelerated urbanization and industrialization, consumers, and organizations’ rather limited range of possibilities to completely satisfy needs and w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,434 Views
21 Pages

19 February 2021

Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) started from Wuhan, China, in late December 2019. It swept most of the world’s countries with confirmed cases and deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a pandemic on 11 March 2020 due to its widespre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
207 Citations
34,336 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2021

In recent years, the growing number of devices connected to the internet has increased significantly. These devices can interact with the external environment and with human beings through a wide range of sensors that, perceiving reality through the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,491 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2021

Assessing the business performance is an important aspect of almost all economic decisions at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level, in the short and long term. Information about the partners’ relationship to the business, their interest in the e...

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