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Information, Volume 13, Issue 6

2022 June - 41 articles

Cover Story: Efficient shortest path algorithms are of key importance for routing and navigation systems. However, these applications are designed focusing on the requirements of motor vehicles, and therefore, finding paths in pedestrian sections of urban areas is not sufficiently supported. In addition, finding the shortest path is often not adequate for urban sidewalk routes, as users of these applications may also be interested in alternative routes that, although slightly longer, possess other desirable features and properties. The purpose of this paper is to present a heuristic algorithm for graph datasets that implements a penalty-based method which, by increasing certain edge weights, effectively searches for the most accessible alternative paths in multi-route cases. View this paper
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Articles (41)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,809 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2022

Governance in blockchain platforms is an increasingly important topic. A particular concern related to voting procedures is the formation of dominant positions, which may discourage participation of minorities. A main feature of standard majority vot...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,676 Views
24 Pages

Construction of a Low-Cost Layered Interactive Dashboard with Capacitive Sensing

  • Agapi Tsironi Lamari,
  • Spyros Panagiotakis,
  • Zacharias Kamarianakis,
  • George Loukas,
  • Athanasios Malamos and
  • Evangelos Markakis

17 June 2022

In the present work, a methodology for the low-cost crafting of an interactive layered dashboard is proposed. Our aim is that the tangible surface be constructed using domestic materials that are easily available in every household. Several tests wer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pervasive Computing in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,076 Views
11 Pages

LoRaWAN Based Indoor Localization Using Random Neural Networks

  • Winfred Ingabire,
  • Hadi Larijani,
  • Ryan M. Gibson and
  • Ayyaz-UI-Haq Qureshi

16 June 2022

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are frequently used as a potential solution for localization applications. However, GPS does not work indoors due to a lack of direct Line-of-Sight (LOS) satellite signals received from the End Device (ED) due to thic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computing, Communication & Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,122 Views
17 Pages

On Producing Accurate Rating Predictions in Sparse Collaborative Filtering Datasets

  • Dionisis Margaris,
  • Costas Vassilakis and
  • Dimitris Spiliotopoulos

15 June 2022

The typical goal of a collaborative filtering algorithm is the minimisation of the deviation between rating predictions and factual user ratings so that the recommender system offers suggestions for appropriate items, achieving a higher prediction va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems and Adaptive Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,707 Views
16 Pages

15 June 2022

This paper investigates how to construct a feature space for compression-based pattern recognition which judges the similarity between two objects x and y through the compression ratio to compress x with y (’s dictionary). Specifically, we focu...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,846 Views
12 Pages

14 June 2022

Nowadays, the rapid growth of technology delivers many new concepts and notations that aim to increase the efficiency and comfort of human life. One of these techniques is the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has been used to achieve efficient opera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computing, Communication & Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,488 Views
18 Pages

Movie Box Office Prediction Based on Multi-Model Ensembles

  • Yuan Ni,
  • Feixing Dong,
  • Meng Zou and
  • Weiping Li

10 June 2022

This paper is based on the box office data of films released in China in the past, which was collected from ENDATA on 30 November 2021, providing 5683 pieces of movie data, and enabling the selection of the top 2000 pieces of movie data to be used as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,475 Views
17 Pages

State-of-the-Art in Open-Domain Conversational AI: A Survey

  • Tosin Adewumi,
  • Foteini Liwicki and
  • Marcus Liwicki

10 June 2022

We survey SoTA open-domain conversational AI models with the objective of presenting the prevailing challenges that still exist to spur future research. In addition, we provide statistics on the gender of conversational AI in order to guide the ethic...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
22,583 Views
16 Pages

Attitudes toward Fashion Influencers as a Mediator of Purchase Intention

  • José Magano,
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira,
  • Cicero Eduardo Walter and
  • Ângela Leite

10 June 2022

Fashion influencers are a new phenomenon and profession to which many young individuals may currently aspire; such is its impact in the digital and online world. Hence, the article serves an upcoming group of fashion-influencers-to-be, as well as fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,286 Views
15 Pages

10 June 2022

Text vectorization is the basic work of natural language processing tasks. High-quality vector representation with rich feature information can guarantee the quality of entity recognition and other downstream tasks in the field of traditional Chinese...

(This article belongs to the Collection Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,769 Views
11 Pages

10 June 2022

The digital transformation of core marketing activities substantially impacts relations between consumers and companies. Novel technologies are usually complex, making their underlying functionality as well as the desirable and undesirable implicatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Information Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,632 Views
15 Pages

On the Use of Mouse Actions at the Character Level

  • Ángel Navarro and
  • Francisco Casacuberta

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has improved performance in several tasks up to human parity. However, many companies still use Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools to achieve perfect translation, as well as other tools. Among these tools, we f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Machine Translation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,219 Views
15 Pages

Multilingual Offline Signature Verification Based on Improved Inverse Discriminator Network

  • Nurbiya Xamxidin,
  • Mahpirat,
  • Zhixi Yao,
  • Alimjan Aysa and
  • Kurban Ubul

To further improve the accuracy of multilingual off-line handwritten signature verification, this paper studies the off-line handwritten signature verification of monolingual and multilingual mixture and proposes an improved verification network (IDN...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
16,594 Views
12 Pages

Fourth Industrial Revolution between Knowledge Management and Digital Humanities

  • Muhammad Anshari,
  • Muhammad Syafrudin and
  • Norma Latif Fitriyani

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) offers optimum productivity and efficiency via automation, expert systems, and artificial intelligence. The Fourth Industrial Revolution deploys smart sensors, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management and Digital Humanities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,804 Views
18 Pages

Consumer adoption of electric vehicles is essentially related to product quality factors, such as safety, performance and compatibility; however, the relationship between product quality standards and consumer behavior is not clear. Based on Multi-At...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,100 Views
9 Pages

Composing the representation of a sentence from the tokens that it comprises is difficult, because such a representation needs to account for how the words present relate to each other. The Transformer architecture does this by iteratively changing t...

(This article belongs to the Collection Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,477 Views
10 Pages

Augmented reality (AR) has found application in online games, social media, interior design, and other services since the success of the smartphone game Pokémon Go in 2016. With recent news on the metaverse and the AR cloud, the contexts in wh...

(This article belongs to the Collection Augmented Reality Technologies, Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,261 Views
14 Pages

A Routing and Task-Allocation Algorithm for Robotic Groups in Warehouse Environments

  • Antonios Chatzisavvas,
  • Petros Chatzitoulousis,
  • Dimitris Ziouzios and
  • Minas Dasygenis

In recent years, the need for robotic fleets in large warehouse environments has constantly increased. The customers require faster services concerning the delivery of their products, making the use of systems such as robots and order-management soft...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,928 Views
25 Pages

In recent years, researchers from the fields of computer vision, language, graphics, and robotics have tackled Embodied AI research. Embodied AI can learn through interaction with the real world and virtual environments and can perform various tasks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Graph Technology and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,484 Views
17 Pages

This study proposes a digital twin (DT) application framework that integrates deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms for the dynamic scheduling of crane transportation in workshops. DT is used to construct the connection between the workshop se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,668 Views
28 Pages

Content and metadata concerning a specialized field such as Art and Cultural Heritage are often scattered throughout the World Wide Web, making it hard for end-users to find, especially amid the vast and often commercialized general content of the We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluating Methods and Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
118 Citations
22,448 Views
16 Pages

Multimodal Fake News Detection

  • Isabel Segura-Bedmar and
  • Santiago Alonso-Bartolome

Over the last few years, there has been an unprecedented proliferation of fake news. As a consequence, we are more susceptible to the pernicious impact that misinformation and disinformation spreading can have on different segments of our society. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sentiment Analysis and Affective Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,518 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Multi-View Ensemble Learning Architecture to Improve the Structured Text Classification

  • Carlos Adriano Gonçalves,
  • Adrián Seara Vieira,
  • Célia Talma Gonçalves,
  • Rui Camacho,
  • Eva Lorenzo Iglesias and
  • Lourdes Borrajo Diz

Multi-view ensemble learning exploits the information of data views. To test its efficiency for full text classification, a technique has been implemented where the views correspond to the document sections. For classification and prediction, we use...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods and Applications in Natural Language Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,306 Views
19 Pages

A New Multivariate Approach for Real Time Detection of Routing Security Attacks in VANETs

  • Souad Ajjaj,
  • Souad El Houssaini,
  • Mustapha Hain and
  • Mohammed-Alamine El Houssaini

Routing security attacks in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) represent a challenging issue that may dramatically decrease the network performances and even cause hazardous damage in both lives and equipment. This study proposes a new approach named...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive System Security: Recent Advances and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,483 Views
17 Pages

As the demands of multimedia and data services increase, efficient communication systems are being investigated to meet the high data rate requirements. Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes were proposed for improving overall system performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Communications Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
15,538 Views
14 Pages

In the era of global social media, Internet users’ privacy rights have been weakened, and the insight and alertness of individuals for privacy disclosure are decreasing. The security and flexibility of the system are usually the two ends of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
13,544 Views
12 Pages

Efficient Edge-AI Application Deployment for FPGAs

  • Stavros Kalapothas,
  • Georgios Flamis and
  • Paris Kitsos

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators have been widely adopted for artificial intelligence (AI) applications on edge devices (Edge-AI) utilizing Deep Neural Networks (DNN) architectures. FPGAs have gained their reputation due to the great...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
12,344 Views
25 Pages

This research highlights how cloud platform as a service technologies host extended reality technologies and convergent technologies in integrated solutions. It was only around 2019 that scholarly literature conceptualized the role of extended realit...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,279 Views
12 Pages

Telework and other flexible working arrangements, which have exponentially expanded with new advancements in digitalization and the impact of COVID-19, are modifying working conditions and workers’ engagement. Using the ‘job demands-resou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Work—Information Technology and Commute Choice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,984 Views
17 Pages

Insulators are important safety devices on high-voltage transmission lines. An insulator inspection system based on UAVs is widely used. Insulator defect detection is performed against two main engineering problems: 1. The scarcity of defect images,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
11,373 Views
13 Pages

Human Activity Recognition for Elderly People Using Machine and Deep Learning Approaches

  • Ahatsham Hayat,
  • Fernando Morgado-Dias,
  • Bikram Pratim Bhuyan and
  • Ravi Tomar

There are more than 962 million people aged 60 and up globally. Physical activity declines as people get older, as does their capacity to undertake everyday tasks, effecting both physical and mental health. Many researchers use machine learning and d...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,131 Views
17 Pages

Teaching Informatics to Adults of Vocational Schools during the Pandemic: Students’ Views and the Role of Neuroeducation

  • Spyridon Doukakis,
  • Maria Niari,
  • Elen Malliou,
  • Sarah Vlachou and
  • Evangelia Filippakopoulou

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an extremely significant impact on the educational process. The need to continue the educational practice, albeit the restrictions imposed in movement, led to a change in the way students participate and learn, as well a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Review
  • Open Access
186 Citations
36,605 Views
22 Pages

Online toxic discourses could result in conflicts between groups or harm to online communities. Hate speech is complex and multifaceted harmful or offensive content targeting individuals or groups. Existing literature reviews have generally focused o...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,664 Views
17 Pages

A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for the Quality Classification of Molded Products

  • Andrea Polenta,
  • Selene Tomassini,
  • Nicola Falcionelli,
  • Paolo Contardo,
  • Aldo Franco Dragoni and
  • Paolo Sernani

The developments in the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and cyber-physical systems (CPS) are paving the way to the implementation of smart factories in what is commonly recognized as the fourth industrial revolution. In the ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computing, Communication & Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,844 Views
15 Pages

MEC Computation Offloading-Based Learning Strategy in Ultra-Dense Networks

  • Chunhong Duo,
  • Peng Dong,
  • Qize Gao,
  • Baogang Li and
  • Yongqian Li

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has the potential to realize intensive applications in 5G networks. Through migrating intensive tasks to edge servers, MEC can expand the computing power of wireless networks. Fifth generation networks need to meet service...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 5G Networks and Wireless Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,217 Views
26 Pages

Strategic information system planning (SISP) is a central process that enables organizations to identify the strategic alignment of their IT portfolio to achieve their business needs and objectives. The extant SISP literature has focused on theoretic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluating Methods and Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,517 Views
25 Pages

Shortest Path Algorithms for Pedestrian Navigation Systems

  • Kyriakos Koritsoglou,
  • Georgios Tsoumanis,
  • Vaios Patras and
  • Ioannis Fudos

Efficient shortest path algorithms are of key importance for routing and navigation systems. However, these applications are designed focusing on the requirements of motor vehicles, and therefore, finding paths in pedestrian sections of urban areas i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Review
  • Open Access
180 Citations
39,952 Views
17 Pages

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is an emerging and significant research area in the pattern recognition domain. In daily life, the role of non-verbal communication is significant, and in overall communication, its involvement is around 55% to 93%. F...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision for Security Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,927 Views
28 Pages

Product design is crucial for product success. Many approaches can improve product design quality, such as concurrent engineering and design for X. This study focuses on applying product usage information (PUI) during product development. As emerging...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crossing “Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom” Models—Challenges, Solutions, and Recommendations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,273 Views
23 Pages

Creative Narration as a Design Technique

  • Dimosthenis Manias and
  • Irene Mavrommati

Creative narration is a structured ideation technique based on storytelling. It has the potential to enhance the initial design process of ideation in terms of collaboration and creativity. People from various disciplines, following specific steps, c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media (SEEDA-CECNSM 2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,080 Views
18 Pages

With the rapid development and wide application of cloud computing and 5G communication, the number of mobile users is increasing rapidly, meaning that cloud storage services are receiving more and more attention. The equality test technology of retr...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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