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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
41 Citations
5,457 Views
15 Pages

17 February 2021

The field of natural language processing (NLP) has witnessed a boom in language representation models with the introduction of pretrained language models that are trained on massive textual data then used to fine-tune downstream NLP tasks. In this pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,105 Views
16 Pages

16 February 2021

Computer-aided methods, based on the entropic linear program framework, have been shown to be effective in assisting the study of information theoretic fundamental limits of information systems. One key element that significantly impacts their comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,509 Views
28 Pages

16 February 2021

Due to the limited bandwidth of Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN), the application layer is currently often tied straight above the link layer, limiting the evolution of sensor networks distributed over a large area. Consequently, the highly effic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
9,150 Views
26 Pages

14 February 2021

This framework for human behavior monitoring aims to take a holistic approach to study, track, monitor, and analyze human behavior during activities of daily living (ADLs). The framework consists of two novel functionalities. First, it can perform th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,256 Views
14 Pages

13 February 2021

In the distance estimation scheme using Frequency-Modulated-Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar, the frequency difference, which was caused by the time delay of the received signal reflected from the target, is calculated to estimate the distance informatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
16,301 Views
14 Pages

Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Online Review for Airlines

  • Hye-Jin Kwon,
  • Hyun-Jeong Ban,
  • Jae-Kyoon Jun and
  • Hak-Seon Kim

12 February 2021

The purpose of this study is to conduct topic modeling and sentiment analysis on the posts of Skytrax (airlinequality.com), where there are many interests and participation of the people who have used or are willing to use it for airlines. The purpos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,494 Views
31 Pages

A Safety Analysis Method for Control Software in Coordination with FMEA and FTA

  • Masakazu Takahashi,
  • Yunarso Anang and
  • Yoshimichi Watanabe

12 February 2021

In this study, we proposed a method to improve the safety level of control software (CSW) by managing the CSW’s design information and safety analysis results, and combining failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA). Here...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,134 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2021

The concept of information is foundational to many disciplines yet also problematic and contested. This article contributes to the understanding of information through discussion of the findings of the interdisciplinary Difference That Makes a Differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,732 Views
12 Pages

10 February 2021

This article discusses the impact of a lockdown caused by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 on the educational process at a selected faculty of a public university in the Czech Republic focused on economic education. The aim was to capture relevant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,948 Views
22 Pages

Clustering Optimization of LoRa Networks for Perturbed Ultra-Dense IoT Networks

  • Mohammed Saleh Ali Muthanna,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Min Wei,
  • Ahsan Rafiq and
  • Nteziriza Nkerabahizi Josbert

10 February 2021

Long Range (LoRa) communication is widely adapted in long-range Internet of Things (IoT) applications. LoRa is one of the powerful technologies of Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) standards designed for IoT applications. Enormous IoT applicatio...

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