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Information, Volume 14, Issue 4

2023 April - 52 articles

Cover Story: Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) is a promising technology for educational purposes as it enables interactive, engaging, and spatially independent learning. While the didactic benefits of AR have been well studied lately, and smartphones with AR capabilities are ubiquitously available, concepts and tools for a scalable deployment of AR are still missing. The open-source TrainAR framework combines an interaction concept, a didactic framework and an authoring tool for procedural AR training applications for smartphones. The contribution of this paper is the open-source visual scripting-based authoring tool of TrainAR and its evaluation. TrainAR is an extension of Unity which allows non-programmer domain experts to create their own procedural AR trainings through visual state machines. View this paper
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Articles (52)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,664 Views
17 Pages

EduARdo—Unity Components for Augmented Reality Environments

  • Ilias Logothetis,
  • Myron Sfyrakis and
  • Nikolaos Vidakis

21 April 2023

Contemporary software applications have shifted focus from 2D representations to 3D. Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) are two technologies that have captured the industry’s interest as they show great potential in many areas. This paper pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,133 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2023

Deep neural networks have proven to be able to learn rich internal representations, including for features that can also be used for different purposes than those the networks are originally developed for. In this paper, we are interested in explorin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,859 Views
32 Pages

Evaluation of Automatic Legal Text Summarization Techniques for Greek Case Law

  • Marios Koniaris,
  • Dimitris Galanis,
  • Eugenia Giannini and
  • Panayiotis Tsanakas

21 April 2023

The increasing amount of legal information available online is overwhelming for both citizens and legal professionals, making it difficult and time-consuming to find relevant information and keep up with the latest legal developments. Automatic text...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,668 Views
23 Pages

20 April 2023

With methods for processing remote sensing data becoming widely available, the ability to quantify changes in spatial data and to evaluate the distribution of diverse landforms across target areas in datasets becomes increasingly important. One way t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,541 Views
29 Pages

Energy-Efficient Parallel Computing: Challenges to Scaling

  • Alexey Lastovetsky and
  • Ravi Reddy Manumachu

20 April 2023

The energy consumption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) presents a new grand technological challenge. The two main approaches to tackle the challenge include the development of energy-efficient hardware and software. The development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,648 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2023

Power control in an RS-coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) system with error-and-erasure correction decoding in Rayleigh fading channels was investigated. The power of each symbol within a codeword was controlled to reduce the codewo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,310 Views
19 Pages

Target Positioning and Tracking in WSNs Based on AFSA

  • Shu-Hung Lee,
  • Chia-Hsin Cheng,
  • Chien-Chih Lin and
  • Yung-Fa Huang

18 April 2023

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the target positioning and tracking are very important topics. There are many different methods used in target positioning and tracking, for example, angle of arrival (AOA), time of arrival (TOA), time difference o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,952 Views
18 Pages

Intelligent Augmented Reality for Learning Geometry

  • Aldo Uriarte-Portillo,
  • Ramón Zatarain-Cabada,
  • María Lucía Barrón-Estrada,
  • María Blanca Ibáñez and
  • Lucía-Margarita González-Barrón

17 April 2023

This work describes a learning tool named ARGeoITS that combines augmented reality with an intelligent tutoring system to support geometry learning. The work depicts a study developed in Mexico to measure the impact on the learning and motivation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,156 Views
14 Pages

Minimizing Energy Depletion Using Extended Lifespan: QoS Satisfied Multiple Learned Rate (ELQSSM-ML) for Increased Lifespan of Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET)

  • Manikandan Rajagopal,
  • Ramkumar Sivasakthivel,
  • Jeyakrishnan Venugopal,
  • Ioannis E. Sarris and
  • Karuppusamy Loganathan

17 April 2023

Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) typically employ with the aid of new technology to increase Quality-of-Service (QoS) when forwarding multiple data rates. This kind of network causes high forwarding delays and improper data transfer rates because of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,801 Views
20 Pages

Hyperparameter-Optimization-Inspired Long Short-Term Memory Network for Air Quality Grade Prediction

  • Dushi Wen,
  • Sirui Zheng,
  • Jiazhen Chen,
  • Zhouyi Zheng,
  • Chen Ding and
  • Lei Zhang

17 April 2023

In the world, with the continuous development of modern society and the acceleration of urbanization, the problem of air pollution is becoming increasingly salient. Methods for predicting the air quality grade and determining the necessary governance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
158 Citations
31,766 Views
17 Pages

Transformers in the Real World: A Survey on NLP Applications

  • Narendra Patwardhan,
  • Stefano Marrone and
  • Carlo Sansone

17 April 2023

The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant transformation with the introduction of Transformers. From the first introduction of this technology in 2017, the use of transformers has become widespread and has had a profo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,713 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2023

The existing approaches to supporting the tasks of managing the urban areas development are aimed at choosing an alternative from a set of ready-made solutions. Little attention is paid to the procedure for the formation and analysis of acceptable op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,368 Views
17 Pages

14 April 2023

This paper presents a novel low-cost integrated system prototype, called School Violence Detection system (SVD), based on a 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). It is used for classifying and identifying automatically violent actions in educational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,858 Views
32 Pages

Evaluation of a Resilience-Driven Operational Concept to Manage Drone Intrusions in Airports

  • Domenico Pascarella,
  • Gabriella Gigante,
  • Angela Vozella,
  • Maurizio Sodano,
  • Marco Ippolito,
  • Pierre Bieber,
  • Thomas Dubot and
  • Edgar Martinavarro

13 April 2023

The drone market’s growth poses a serious threat to the negligent, illicit, or non-cooperative use of drones, especially in airports and their surroundings. Effective protection of an airport against drone intrusions should guarantee mandatory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,397 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Road Traffic Accidents on a Road in Portugal: A Multidisciplinary Approach Using Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and Geographic Information Systems

  • Paulo Infante,
  • Gonçalo Jacinto,
  • Daniel Santos,
  • Pedro Nogueira,
  • Anabela Afonso,
  • Paulo Quaresma,
  • Marcelo Silva,
  • Vitor Nogueira,
  • Leonor Rego and
  • Paulo R. Manuel
  • + 2 authors

13 April 2023

Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) cause human losses and irreparable physical and psychological damage to many of the victims. They also involve a very relevant economic dimension. It is urgent to improve the management of human and material resources for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,875 Views
24 Pages

Modeling Chronic Pain Experiences from Online Reports Using the Reddit Reports of Chronic Pain Dataset

  • Diogo A. P. Nunes,
  • Joana Ferreira-Gomes,
  • Fani Neto and
  • David Martins de Matos

12 April 2023

Reported experiences of chronic pain may convey qualities relevant to the exploration of this private and subjective experience. We propose this exploration by means of the Reddit Reports of Chronic Pain (RRCP) dataset. We define and validate the RRC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,782 Views
19 Pages

12 April 2023

Modern developments in machine learning methodology have produced effective approaches to speech emotion recognition. The field of data mining is widely employed in numerous situations where it is possible to predict future outcomes by using the inpu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,814 Views
16 Pages

A Super-Efficient TinyML Processor for the Edge Metaverse

  • Arash Khajooei,
  • Mohammad (Behdad) Jamshidi and
  • Shahriar B. Shokouhi

10 April 2023

Although the Metaverse is becoming a popular technology in many aspects of our lives, there are some drawbacks to its implementation on clouds, including long latency, security concerns, and centralized infrastructures. Therefore, designing scalable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,052 Views
20 Pages

10 April 2023

Recently, federated learning (FL) has gradually become an important research topic in machine learning and information theory. FL emphasizes that clients jointly engage in solving learning tasks. In addition to data security issues, fundamental chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,131 Views
19 Pages

Architecture and Data Knowledge of the Regional Data Center for Intelligent Agriculture

  • Emil Doychev,
  • Atanas Terziyski,
  • Stoyan Tenev,
  • Asya Stoyanova-Doycheva,
  • Vanya Ivanova and
  • Pepa Atanasova

9 April 2023

The main task of the National Research Program “Smart crop production”, supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria and approved by the Council of Ministers, is the development of a regional data center to facilitate th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,859 Views
29 Pages

Structure Learning and Hyperparameter Optimization Using an Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) Pipeline

  • Konstantinos Filippou,
  • George Aifantis,
  • George A. Papakostas and
  • George E. Tsekouras

9 April 2023

In this paper, we built an automated machine learning (AutoML) pipeline for structure-based learning and hyperparameter optimization purposes. The pipeline consists of three main automated stages. The first carries out the collection and preprocessin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,132 Views
18 Pages

8 April 2023

Residential electricity consumption forecasting plays a crucial role in the rational allocation of resources reducing energy waste and enhancing the grid-connected operation of power systems. Probabilistic forecasting can provide more comprehensive i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,053 Views
18 Pages

8 April 2023

Current microprocessor-based relay protection and automation (RPA) devices supported by IEC 61850 provide access to a large amount of information on the protected or controlled electric power facility in real time. The issue of using such information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,795 Views
22 Pages

Optimal Load Redistribution in Distribution Systems Using a Mixed-Integer Convex Model Based on Electrical Momentum

  • Daniela Patricia Bohórquez-Álvarez,
  • Karen Dayanna Niño-Perdomo and
  • Oscar Danilo Montoya

7 April 2023

This paper addresses the problem concerning the efficient minimization of power losses in asymmetric distribution grids from the perspective of convex optimization. This research’s main objective is to propose an approximation optimization mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,150 Views
17 Pages

Graph Neural Networks and Open-Government Data to Forecast Traffic Flow

  • Petros Brimos,
  • Areti Karamanou,
  • Evangelos Kalampokis and
  • Konstantinos Tarabanis

7 April 2023

Traffic forecasting has been an important area of research for several decades, with significant implications for urban traffic planning, management, and control. In recent years, deep-learning models, such as graph neural networks (GNN), have shown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,660 Views
19 Pages

7 April 2023

This paper analyzes the relationships among eight ancient scripts from between Greece and India. We used convolutional neural networks combined with support vector machines to give a numerical rating of the similarity between pairs of signs (one sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,561 Views
18 Pages

6 April 2023

Parallel corpora have been widely used in the fields of natural language processing and translation as they provide crucial multilingual information. They are used to train machine translation systems, compile dictionaries, or generate inter-language...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,434 Views
22 Pages

6 April 2023

The ubiquity of the Internet and its technology and the increasing aging of the world’s population are ever more evident. Older users have different demands and capabilities when using the services offered in the digital environment. As a servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,180 Views
16 Pages

6 April 2023

Currently, machine learning (ML) technologies are widely employed in the automotive field for determining physical quantities thanks to their ability to ensure lower computational costs and faster operations than traditional methods. Within this cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,758 Views
34 Pages

AutoML with Bayesian Optimizations for Big Data Management

  • Aristeidis Karras,
  • Christos Karras,
  • Nikolaos Schizas,
  • Markos Avlonitis and
  • Spyros Sioutas

5 April 2023

The field of automated machine learning (AutoML) has gained significant attention in recent years due to its ability to automate the process of building and optimizing machine learning models. However, the increasing amount of big data being generate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,011 Views
18 Pages

5 April 2023

Virtual users generate a gigantic volume of unbalanced sentiments over various online crowd-sourcing platforms which consist of text, emojis, or a combination of both. Its accurate analysis brings profits to various industries and their services. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,186 Views
21 Pages

A Dual Stream Generative Adversarial Network with Phase Awareness for Speech Enhancement

  • Xintao Liang,
  • Yuhang Li,
  • Xiaomin Li,
  • Yue Zhang and
  • Youdong Ding

4 April 2023

Implementing single-channel speech enhancement under unknown noise conditions is a challenging problem. Most existing time-frequency domain methods are based on the amplitude spectrogram, and these methods often ignore the phase mismatch between nois...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,376 Views
36 Pages

Atlas-Based Shared-Boundary Deformable Multi-Surface Models through Multi-Material and Two-Manifold Dual Contouring

  • Tanweer Rashid,
  • Sharmin Sultana,
  • Mallar Chakravarty and
  • Michel Albert Audette

3 April 2023

This paper presents a multi-material dual “contouring” method used to convert a digital 3D voxel-based atlas of basal ganglia to a deformable discrete multi-surface model that supports surgical navigation for an intraoperative MRI-compati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,371 Views
31 Pages

3 April 2023

Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) is a promising technology for educational purposes. It allows for interactive, engaging, and spatially independent learning. While the didactic benefits of AR have been well studied in recent years and commodity smartpho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,962 Views
16 Pages

Pedestrian Detection and Tracking System Based on Deep-SORT, YOLOv5, and New Data Association Metrics

  • Mohammed Razzok,
  • Abdelmajid Badri,
  • Ilham El Mourabit,
  • Yassine Ruichek and
  • Aïcha Sahel

3 April 2023

Pedestrian tracking and detection have become critical aspects of advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), due to their academic and commercial potential. Their objective is to locate various pedestrians in videos and assign them unique identities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
26,265 Views
15 Pages

3 April 2023

The rise of social media as a platform for self-expression and self-understanding has led to increased interest in using the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to explore human personalities. Despite this, there needs to be more research on how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,585 Views
12 Pages

1 April 2023

How can useful information extracted from unstructured data be used to contribute to a better prediction of corporate failure or bankruptcy? In this research, we examine a data set of 2,163,147 financial statements of German companies that are triple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,794 Views
27 Pages

Digital Assistant for Arrival Scheduling with Conflict Prevention Capabilities

  • Francesco Nebula,
  • Roberto Palumbo,
  • Gabriella Gigante and
  • Angela Vozella

1 April 2023

Nowadays, in view of the growing traffic volume, an appropriate aircraft sequencing in the arrival sector is needed to maintain safety levels and improve the performance of the runway system and flight times. This paper presents a digital assistant s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,329 Views
18 Pages

A Systematic Review of Effective Hardware and Software Factors Affecting High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping

  • Firozeh Solimani,
  • Angelo Cardellicchio,
  • Massimiliano Nitti,
  • Alfred Lako,
  • Giovanni Dimauro and
  • Vito Renò

1 April 2023

Plant phenotyping studies the complex characteristics of plants, with the aim of evaluating and assessing their condition and finding better exemplars. Recently, a new branch emerged in the phenotyping field, namely, high-throughput phenotyping (HTP)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,572 Views
25 Pages

1 April 2023

Neural network (NN) components are being increasingly incorporated into software systems. Neural network properties are determined by their architecture, as well as the training and testing datasets used. The engineering of datasets and neural networ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,898 Views
16 Pages

30 March 2023

The rapid growth of ship traffic leads to traffic congestion, which causes maritime accidents. Accurate ship trajectory prediction can improve the efficiency of navigation and maritime traffic safety. Previous studies have focused on developing a shi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
27,812 Views
32 Pages

A Review of Time-Based Solar Photovoltaic Tracking Systems

  • Abdulwaheed Musa,
  • Emmanuel Alozie,
  • Suleiman A. Suleiman,
  • John Adedapo Ojo and
  • Agbotiname Lucky Imoize

30 March 2023

Solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant form of energy that can be obtained from the Sun. Solar panels convert this energy to generate solar power, which can be used for various electrical purposes, particularly in rural areas. Maximum solar p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,885 Views
25 Pages

30 March 2023

More than 1.3 million people are killed in traffic accidents annually. Road traffic accidents are mostly caused by human error. Therefore, an accurate driving fatigue detection system is required for drivers. Most driving fatigue detection studies co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,813 Views
26 Pages

29 March 2023

In today’s business environment, reducing costs is crucial due to the variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and security infrastructure. However, applying security measures to complex business scenarios can lead to performance degradation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,583 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2023

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an efficient method for feature learning in the field of machine learning and data mining. To investigate the nonlinear characteristics of datasets, kernel-method-based NMF (KNMF) and its graph-regularized ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,632 Views
15 Pages

Identification of Critical Parameters Affecting an E-Learning Recommendation Model Using Delphi Method Based on Expert Validation

  • Abubaker Salem Mohamed Shibani,
  • Masnizah Mohd,
  • Ahmad Tarmizi Abdul Ghani,
  • Mohamad Shanudin Zakaria and
  • Sumaia Mohammed Al-Ghuribi

28 March 2023

E-learning is an innovative strategy for enhancing teaching and learning in digital environments with the goal of enhancing education. In the same context, recommendation models have been developed for predicting the user’s learning preferences...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,029 Views
19 Pages

Sharing Augmented Reality between a Patient and a Clinician for Assessment and Rehabilitation in Daily Living Activities

  • Mariolino De Cecco,
  • Alessandro Luchetti,
  • Isidro Butaslac,
  • Francesco Pilla,
  • Giovanni Maria Achille Guandalini,
  • Jacopo Bonavita,
  • Monica Mazzucato and
  • Kato Hirokazu

27 March 2023

In rehabilitation settings that exploit Mixed Reality, a clinician risks losing empathy with the patient by being immersed in different worlds, either real and/or virtual. While the patient perceives the rehabilitation stimuli in a mixed real–v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,337 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2023

Computation-intensive vehicle tasks sharply increase with the rapid growth of intelligent vehicles. The technology of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has the possibility of assisting vehicles with computation offloading. To solve the problem of computati...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
16,785 Views
23 Pages

IoT-Enabled Precision Agriculture: Developing an Ecosystem for Optimized Crop Management

  • Shadi Atalla,
  • Saed Tarapiah,
  • Amjad Gawanmeh,
  • Mohammad Daradkeh,
  • Husameldin Mukhtar,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Wathiq Mansoor,
  • Kamarul Faizal Bin Hashim and
  • Motaz Daadoo

27 March 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to revolutionize agriculture by providing real-time data on crop and livestock conditions. This study aims to evaluate the performance scalability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in agriculture, speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,751 Views
14 Pages

An Efficient Healthcare Data Mining Approach Using Apriori Algorithm: A Case Study of Eye Disorders in Young Adults

  • Kanza Gulzar,
  • Muhammad Ayoob Memon,
  • Syed Muhammad Mohsin,
  • Sheraz Aslam,
  • Syed Muhammad Abrar Akber and
  • Muhammad Asghar Nadeem

27 March 2023

In the public health sector and the field of medicine, the popularity of data mining and its usage in knowledge discovery and databases (KDD) are rising. The growing popularity of data mining has discovered innovative healthcare links to support deci...

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