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Information, Volume 12, Issue 6

2021 June - 40 articles

Cover Story: Public websites offer information on a variety of topics and services and are accessed by users of varying skills to browse different types of electronic document repositories. However, the complex website structure and diversity of web browsing behavior create a challenging task for click prediction. This paper presents the results of a novel reinforcement learning approach to model user browsing patterns in a hierarchically ordered municipal website. We study how accurate the predictor for browsing history is when the target pages are not the immediate next pages pointed to by hyperlinks but instead appear a number of levels down the hierarchy. We compare the performance of traditional types of baseline classifiers against our reinforcement learning-based training algorithm. View this paper
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Articles (40)

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,771 Views
28 Pages

20 June 2021

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to identify and understand the obstacles and barriers in applying electronic exams successfully in the process of distance education. We followed an exploratory descriptive approach through a questionna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,859 Views
12 Pages

19 June 2021

We study the class of networks, which can be created in polylogarithmic parallel time by network constructors: groups of anonymous agents that interact randomly under a uniform random scheduler with the ability to form connections between each other....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,801 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2021

The electric grid is becoming increasingly cyber-physical with the addition of smart technologies, new communication interfaces, and automated grid-support functions. Because of this, it is no longer sufficient to only study the physical system dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,490 Views
14 Pages

18 June 2021

Secure communication is becoming an urgent need in a digital world where tera bytes of sensitive information are sent back and forth over public networks. In this paper, we combine the power of both encryption and Steganography to build a secure chan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,536 Views
14 Pages

17 June 2021

Wavelet transform is a well-known multi-resolution tool to analyze the time series in the time-frequency domain. Wavelet basis is diverse but predefined by manual without taking the data into the consideration. Hence, it is a great challenge to selec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,825 Views
27 Pages

16 June 2021

The background of the paper is that there are currently no specifications or guidelines for the design of a user interface for an augmented reality system in an industrial context. In this area, special requirements apply for the perception and recog...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,681 Views
18 Pages

15 June 2021

In social media, users are spreading misinformation easily and without fact checking. In principle, they do not have a malicious intent, but their sharing leads to a socially dangerous diffusion mechanism. The motivations behind this behavior have be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,359 Views
16 Pages

15 June 2021

The cell cycle is an important process in cellular life. In recent years, some image processing methods have been developed to determine the cell cycle stages of individual cells. However, in most of these methods, cells have to be segmented, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
12,523 Views
18 Pages

15 June 2021

A stock trend prediction has been in the spotlight from the past to the present. Fortunately, there is an enormous amount of information available nowadays. There were prior attempts that have tried to forecast the trend using textual information; ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
11,291 Views
13 Pages

14 June 2021

IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), which can solve the problem of IPv4 address exhaustion and allow the growth of the Internet (particularly in the era of the Internet of Things). IPv6 networks have been deployed for more...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,895 Views
11 Pages

14 June 2021

With the increase and diversification of network users, the scale of the inter-domain routing system is becoming larger and larger. Cascading failure analysis and modeling are of great significance to improve the security of inter-domain routing netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,613 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2021

Blockchain is an innovative distributed ledger technology that is widely used to build next-generation applications without the support of a trusted third party. With the ceaseless evolution of the service-oriented computing (SOC) paradigm, Blockchai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,069 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2021

Based on actual safety management difficulties and needs, this paper aims to screen and extract the key accident potential factors of personal injuries and deaths within the electric power industry to provide a reference for electric power companies’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,387 Views
20 Pages

10 June 2021

Virtual reality technology has grown significantly in recent years. The arrival of Head Mounted Displays (HDM) on the market for end-users has positioned these technologies as a new channel to promote new simulated or contextualized experiences. We h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,498 Views
13 Pages

Deep Learning Models for Colorectal Polyps

  • Ornela Bardhi,
  • Daniel Sierra-Sosa,
  • Begonya Garcia-Zapirain and
  • Luis Bujanda

10 June 2021

Colorectal cancer is one of the main causes of cancer incident cases and cancer deaths worldwide. Undetected colon polyps, be them benign or malignant, lead to late diagnosis of colorectal cancer. Computer aided devices have helped to decrease the po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
196 Citations
64,416 Views
17 Pages

Live streaming commerce, which evolved from social commerce, has continued to flourish rapidly over the past few years in China. It is a new business model that allows vendors to directly face and interact with consumers. This study focuses on the im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,586 Views
21 Pages

Quantitative and Qualitative Comparison of 2D and 3D Projection Techniques for High-Dimensional Data

  • Zonglin Tian,
  • Xiaorui Zhai,
  • Gijs van Steenpaal,
  • Lingyun Yu,
  • Evanthia Dimara,
  • Mateus Espadoto and
  • Alexandru Telea

Projections are well-known techniques that help the visual exploration of high-dimensional data by creating depictions thereof in a low-dimensional space. While projections that target the 2D space have been studied in detail both quantitatively and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,861 Views
29 Pages

Large keystone organizations use partnership models to manage their software ecosystem partners. Although several partnership models have been developed by platform owners, smaller companies willing to create a new ecosystem may experience difficulti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,647 Views
30 Pages

Freely available satellite imagery improves the research and production of land-cover products at the global scale or over large areas. The integration of land-cover products is a process of combining the advantages or characteristics of several prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,384 Views
17 Pages

Information technology (IT) is a competitive path and offers the entrepreneurial opportunity of accumulating business knowledge in capturing consumer behavior. This study employed a conceptual framework to investigate the information processing facet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,314 Views
17 Pages

Machine learning (ML) has the potential for significant impact on the modeling, operation, and control of particle accelerators due to its ability to model nonlinear behavior, interpolate on complicated surfaces, and adapt to system changes over time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,982 Views
22 Pages

A single VLP-16 LiDAR estimation method based on a single-frame 3D laser point cloud is proposed to address the problem of estimating negative obstacles’ geometrical features in structured environments. Firstly, a distance measurement method is devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,256 Views
15 Pages

Joint Subtitle Extraction and Frame Inpainting for Videos with Burned-In Subtitles

  • Haoran Xu,
  • Yanbai He,
  • Xinya Li,
  • Xiaoying Hu,
  • Chuanyan Hao and
  • Bo Jiang

Subtitles are crucial for video content understanding. However, a large amount of videos have only burned-in, hardcoded subtitles that prevent video re-editing, translation, etc. In this paper, we construct a deep-learning-based system for the invers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
11,645 Views
16 Pages

With the development of the e-commerce industry, various brands of products with different qualities and functions continuously emerge, and the number of online shopping users is increasing every year. After purchase, users always leave product comme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
140 Citations
23,334 Views
23 Pages

In recent years, the use of recommender systems has become popular on the web. To improve recommendation performance, usage, and scalability, the research has evolved by producing several generations of recommender systems. There is much literature a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,597 Views
16 Pages

Land cover semantic segmentation in high-spatial resolution satellite images plays a vital role in efficient management of land resources, smart agriculture, yield estimation and urban planning. With the recent advancement in remote sensing technolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,539 Views
18 Pages

Reinforcement Learning Page Prediction for Hierarchically Ordered Municipal Websites

  • Petri Puustinen,
  • Kostas Stefanidis,
  • Jaana Kekäläinen and
  • Marko Junkkari

Public websites offer information on a variety of topics and services and are accessed by users with varying skills to browse the kind of electronic document repositories. However, the complex website structure and diversity of web browsing behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,791 Views
14 Pages

Constructing Crop Portraits Based on Graph Databases Is Essential to Agricultural Data Mining

  • Yue-Xin Shi,
  • Bo-Kai Zhang,
  • Yong-Xiang Wang,
  • Han-Qian Luo and
  • Xiang Li

Neo4j is a graph database that can use not only data, but also data relationships. Crop portraits, a kind of property graph, model the crop entity in the real world based on data to realize the networked management of crop knowledge. The existing cro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,819 Views
12 Pages

As the classic feature selection algorithm, the Relief algorithm has the advantages of simple computation and high efficiency, but the algorithm itself is limited to only dealing with binary classification problems, and the comprehensive distinguishi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,376 Views
18 Pages

MMORPG Evolution Analysis from Explorer and Achiever Perspectives: A Case Study Using the Final Fantasy Series

  • Haolan Wang,
  • Zeliang Zhang,
  • Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid,
  • Hiroyuki Iida and
  • Keqiu Li

Due to the advent of the Internet, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been enjoyed worldwide by many players simultaneously, and game publishers’ revenues have reached billions of dollars from subscriptions alone. Frequent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,722 Views
26 Pages

Augmented reality is the fusion of virtual components and our real surroundings. The simultaneous visibility of generated and natural objects often requires users to direct their selective attention to a specific target that is either real or virtual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,484 Views
29 Pages

Resource Recommender for Cloud-Edge Engineering

  • Amirmohammad Pasdar,
  • Young Choon Lee,
  • Tahereh Hassanzadeh and
  • Khaled Almi’ani

The interaction between artificial intelligence (AI), edge, and cloud is a fast-evolving realm in which pushing computation close to the data sources is increasingly adopted. Captured data may be processed locally (i.e., on the edge) or remotely in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,516 Views
22 Pages

Knowledge and Innovation Management Model in the Organizational Environment

  • Jorge Alberto Romero-Hidalgo,
  • Paula C. Isiordia-Lachica,
  • Alejandro Valenzuela and
  • Ricardo Alberto Rodríguez-Carvajal

The objective of this research is to develop a methodology that allows the construction of a standard of knowledge management and technological innovation applicable to the field of the universities in Mexico, the use of which results in better use o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,566 Views
19 Pages

As part of the assumptions of Industry 4.0. many modern technologies are developing. One of them is robotic process automation (RPA). It allows the replacement of human labor with robots, thus increasing the production capacity of enterprises. In pra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,146 Views
14 Pages

Currently, reviews on the Internet contain abundant information about users and products, and this information is of great value to recommendation systems. As a result, review-based recommendations have begun to show their effectiveness and research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,899 Views
31 Pages

Network-based procedures for topic detection in huge text collections offer an intuitive alternative to probabilistic topic models. We present in detail a method that is especially designed with the requirements of domain experts in mind. Like simila...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,682 Views
15 Pages

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the dissemination of social reports among entrepreneurs in order to determine the number of reporting organizations and examples in which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) areas enterprises report. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,251 Views
19 Pages

Virtual World as an Interactive Safety Training Platform

  • Sayli Shiradkar,
  • Luis Rabelo,
  • Fahad Alasim and
  • Khalid Nagadi

Virtual training platform allows interactive and engaging learning through practice without exposing trainees to hazards. In the recent pandemic (COVID-19) situation, online training is gaining importance as it allows learning with social distancing....

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,565 Views
15 Pages

An Approach for Realizing Hybrid Digital Twins Using Asset Administration Shells and Apache StreamPipes

  • Michael Jacoby,
  • Branislav Jovicic,
  • Ljiljana Stojanovic and
  • Nenad Stojanović

Digital twins (DTs) are digital representations of assets, capturing their attributes and behavior. They are one of the cornerstones of Industry 4.0. Current DT standards are still under development, and so far, they typically allow for representing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,945 Views
16 Pages

This article proposes a gateway system design method applied to the monitoring of a breeding environment based on Bluetooth low energy consumption. Through the queue mechanism and buffer management method, the key information that has the greatest im...

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