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2017 December - 49 articles

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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,504 Views
15 Pages

18 December 2017

Handling uncertainty in an appropriate manner during the real operation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) is critical. Uncertain production scheduling as a part of CPS uncertainty issues should attract more attention. In this paper, a Mixed Integer No...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
5,428 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2017

Single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) handling the uncertainties characterized by truth, indeterminacy, and falsity membership degrees, are a more flexible way to capture uncertainty. In this paper, some new types of distance measures, overcoming t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,615 Views
5 Pages

9 December 2017

Given that consciousness is an essential ingredient for achieving Singularity, the notion that an Artificial General Intelligence device can exceed the intelligence of a human, namely, the question of whether a computer can achieve consciousness, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,571 Views
15 Pages

8 December 2017

Research indicates that non-commercial and informal university–industry interactions, which are defined as academic engagement, account for a larger part and play a more important role than commercialization in academic knowledge transfer in China. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,036 Views
26 Pages

sCwc/sLcc: Highly Scalable Feature Selection Algorithms

  • Kilho Shin,
  • Tetsuji Kuboyama,
  • Takako Hashimoto and
  • Dave Shepard

6 December 2017

Feature selection is a useful tool for identifying which features, or attributes, of a dataset cause or explain the phenomena that the dataset describes, and improving the efficiency and accuracy of learning algorithms for discovering such phenomena....

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,470 Views
13 Pages

Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network with a Conditional Random Field Layer for Uyghur Part-Of-Speech Tagging

  • Maihemuti Maimaiti,
  • Aishan Wumaier,
  • Kahaerjiang Abiderexiti and
  • Tuergen Yibulayin

30 November 2017

Uyghur is an agglutinative and a morphologically rich language; natural language processing tasks in Uyghur can be a challenge. Word morphology is important in Uyghur part-of-speech (POS) tagging. However, POS tagging performance suffers from error p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
29,237 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2017

Making use of the techniques of media ecology we argue that the premise of the technological Singularity based on the notion computers will one day be smarter that their human creators is false. We also analyze the comments of other critics of the Si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,142 Views
14 Pages

Face Classification Using Color Information

  • Atul Sajjanhar and
  • Ahmed Abdulateef Mohammed

26 November 2017

Color models are widely used in image recognition because they represent significant information. On the other hand, texture analysis techniques have been extensively used for facial feature extraction. In this paper; we extract discriminative featur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,508 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2017

A graph structure is a generalization of simple graphs. Graph structures are very useful tools for the study of different domains of computational intelligence and computer science. In this research paper, we introduce certain notions of intuitionist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,402 Views
17 Pages

24 November 2017

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are featured by long propagation delay, limited energy, narrow bandwidth, high BER (Bit Error Rate) and variable topology structure. These features make it very difficult to design a short delay and high en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,985 Views
17 Pages

22 November 2017

The main purpose of feature subset selection is to remove irrelevant and redundant features from data, so that learning algorithms can be trained by a subset of relevant features. So far, many algorithms have been developed for the feature subset sel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,903 Views
12 Pages

Investigating the Statistical Distribution of Learning Coverage in MOOCs

  • Xiu Li,
  • Chang Men,
  • Zhihui Du,
  • Jason Liu,
  • Manli Li and
  • Xiaolei Zhang

20 November 2017

Learners participating in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have a wide range of backgrounds and motivations. Many MOOC learners enroll in the courses to take a brief look; only a few go through the entire content, and even fewer are able to eventua...

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

20 November 2017

Anomaly detection has been widely used in a variety of research and application domains, such as network intrusion detection, insurance/credit card fraud detection, health-care informatics, industrial damage detection, image processing and novel topi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,523 Views
21 Pages

NC-TODIM-Based MAGDM under a Neutrosophic Cubic Set Environment

  • Surapati Pramanik,
  • Shyamal Dalapati,
  • Shariful Alam and
  • Tapan Kumar Roy

18 November 2017

A neutrosophic cubic set is the hybridization of the concept of a neutrosophic set and an interval neutrosophic set. A neutrosophic cubic set has the capacity to express the hybrid information of both the interval neutrosophic set and the single valu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,804 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2017

Automated source code documentation approaches often describe methods in abstract terms, using the words contained in the static source code or code excerpts from repositories. In this paper, we describe DynamiDoc: a simple automated documentation ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,253 Views
15 Pages

Land Cover Classification from Multispectral Data Using Computational Intelligence Tools: A Comparative Study

  • André Mora,
  • Tiago M. A. Santos,
  • Szymon Łukasik,
  • João M. N. Silva,
  • António J. Falcão,
  • José M. Fonseca and
  • Rita A. Ribeiro

15 November 2017

This article discusses how computational intelligence techniques are applied to fuse spectral images into a higher level image of land cover distribution for remote sensing, specifically for satellite image classification. We compare a fuzzy-inferenc...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,180 Views
2 Pages

12 November 2017

Transportation systems are very important in modern life; therefore, massive research efforts have been devoted to this field of study in the recent past. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,389 Views
19 Pages

End-to-End Delay Model for Train Messaging over Public Land Mobile Networks

  • Franco Mazzenga,
  • Romeo Giuliano and
  • Alessandro Vizzarri

11 November 2017

Modern train control systems rely on a dedicated radio network for train to ground communications. A number of possible alternatives have been analysed to adopt the European Rail Traffic Management System/European Train Control System (ERTMS/ETCS) co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
6,626 Views
10 Pages

10 November 2017

In this paper, we will extend the VIKOR (VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje) method to multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) with interval neutrosophic numbers (INNs). Firstly, the basic concepts of INNs are briefly prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,799 Views
41 Pages

The Impact of Message Replication on the Performance of Opportunistic Networks for Sensed Data Collection

  • Tekenate E. Amah,
  • Maznah Kamat,
  • Kamalrulnizam Abu Bakar,
  • Syed Othmawi Abd Rahman,
  • Muhammad Hafiz Mohammed,
  • Aliyu M. Abali,
  • Waldir Moreira and
  • Antonio Oliveira-Jr

9 November 2017

Opportunistic networks (OppNets) provide a scalable solution for collecting delay‑tolerant data from sensors for their respective gateways. Portable handheld user devices contribute significantly to the scalability of OppNets since their number incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
11,919 Views
13 Pages

9 November 2017

Handwritten digit recognition is an open problem in computer vision and pattern recognition, and solving this problem has elicited increasing interest. The main challenge of this problem is the design of an efficient method that can recognize the han...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,381 Views
14 Pages

8 November 2017

We consider the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer in two-phase decode-and-forward two-way relaying networks, where a relay harvests the energy from the signal to be relayed through either power splitting or time splitting. Here, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,435 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2017

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have emerged as a new powerful technology for data transmission between vehicles. Efficient data transmission accompanied with low data delay plays an important role in selecting the ideal data forwarding path in VA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,688 Views
16 Pages

6 November 2017

The general theory of information, which includes syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and many other special theories of information, provides theoretical and practical tools for discerning a very large diversity of different kinds, types, and classes of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,929 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2017

In Magnetic Resonance (MR) brain image analysis, segmentation is commonly used for detecting, measuring and analyzing the main anatomical structures of the brain and eventually identifying pathological regions. Brain image segmentation is of fundamen...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
195 Citations
16,893 Views
18 Pages

A Distributed Ledger for Supply Chain Physical Distribution Visibility

  • Haoyan Wu,
  • Zhijie Li,
  • Brian King,
  • Zina Ben Miled,
  • John Wassick and
  • Jeffrey Tazelaar

2 November 2017

Supply chains (SC) span many geographies, modes and industries and involve several phases where data flows in both directions from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, to customers. This data flow is necessary to support critical busine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,861 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2017

Images captured in bad conditions often suffer from low contrast. In this paper, we proposed a simple, but efficient linear restoration model to enhance the low contrast images. The model’s design is based on the effective space of the 3D surface gra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,080 Views
38 Pages

30 October 2017

To improve the quality of service and reduce the possibility of security attacks, a secure and efficient user authentication mechanism is required for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Session key establishment between...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,468 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2017

Action and event recognition in multimedia collections is relevant to progress in cross-disciplinary research areas including computer vision, computational optimization, statistical learning, and nonlinear dynamics. Over the past two decades, action...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,522 Views
12 Pages

26 October 2017

Integration of different energy networks will increase additional flexibility to system operation. The key component in such a coupled infrastructure is the energy router, which plays an important role in energy transition and storage to smoothing th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,886 Views
26 Pages

24 October 2017

The concept of intuitionistic neutrosophic sets provides an additional possibility to represent imprecise, uncertain, inconsistent and incomplete information, which exists in real situations. This research article first presents the notion of intuiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,030 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2017

Software testing and benchmarking are key components of the software development process. Nowadays, a good practice in large software projects is the continuous integration (CI) software development technique. The key idea of CI is to let developers...

  • Review
  • Open Access
107 Citations
15,868 Views
26 Pages

The Current Role of Image Compression Standards in Medical Imaging

  • Feng Liu,
  • Miguel Hernandez-Cabronero,
  • Victor Sanchez,
  • Michael W. Marcellin and
  • Ali Bilgin

19 October 2017

With the increasing utilization of medical imaging in clinical practice and the growing dimensions of data volumes generated by various medical imaging modalities, the distribution, storage, and management of digital medical image data sets requires...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
4,357 Views
9 Pages

Neutrosophic Commutative N -Ideals in BCK-Algebras

  • Seok-Zun Song,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • Young Bae Jun

18 October 2017

The notion of a neutrosophic commutative N -ideal in BCK-algebras is introduced, and several properties are investigated. Relations between a neutrosophic N-ideal and a neutrosophic commutative N-ideal are discussed. Characterizations of a neutrosoph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
6,589 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2017

Recently, the TODIM has been used to solve multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems. The single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) are useful tools to depict the uncertainty of the MADM. In this paper, we will extend the TODIM method to the M...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
4,927 Views
12 Pages

Neutrosophic N-Structures Applied to BCK/BCI-Algebras

  • Young Bae Jun,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • Hashem Bordbar

16 October 2017

Neutrosophic N -structures with applications in B C K / B C I -algebras is discussed. The notions of a neutrosophic N -subalgebra and a (closed) neutrosophic N -ideal in a B C K / B C I -algebra are introduced, and severa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,193 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2017

With the unparalleled growth of motor vehicles, traffic accident between pedestrians and vehicles is one of the most serious issues in the word-wild. Plenty of injuries and fatalities are caused by the traffic accidents and crashes. The connected veh...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,535 Views
13 Pages

13 October 2017

Grey prediction models for time series have been widely applied to demand forecasting because only limited data are required for them to build a time series model without any statistical assumptions. Previous studies have demonstrated that the combin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,646 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2017

This paper develops an offset free tracking model predictive control based on a dynamic partial least square (PLS) framework. First, state space model is used as the inner model of PLS to describe the dynamic system, where subspace identification met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,166 Views
20 Pages

9 October 2017

The RPL (Routing Protocol for LLN) protocol is a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks. In such a network, energy is a very scarce resource, so many studies are focused on minimizing global energy consumption. End-to-end latency is anothe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,739 Views
17 Pages

3 October 2017

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), more and more static and mobile sensors are being deployed for sensing and tracking environmental phenomena, such as fire, oil spills and air pollution. As these sensors are usually battery-powe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,074 Views
14 Pages

Neutrosophic Similarity Score Based Weighted Histogram for Robust Mean-Shift Tracking

  • Keli Hu,
  • En Fan,
  • Jun Ye,
  • Changxing Fan,
  • Shigen Shen and
  • Yuzhang Gu

2 October 2017

Visual object tracking is a critical task in computer vision. Challenging things always exist when an object needs to be tracked. For instance, background clutter is one of the most challenging problems. The mean-shift tracker is quite popular becaus...

  • Review
  • Open Access
220 Citations
23,449 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2017

By now, personal life has been invaded by online social networks (OSNs) everywhere. They intend to move more and more offline lives to online social networks. Therefore, online social networks can reflect the structure of offline human society. A pie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,725 Views
16 Pages

28 September 2017

Accurate electricity price forecasting plays an important role in the profits of electricity market participants and the healthy development of electricity market. However, the electricity price time series hold the characteristics of volatility and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,410 Views
15 Pages

27 September 2017

With the rapid development of maritime digital communication, the demand for spectrum resources is increasing, and building a maritime cognitive radio communication system is an effective solution. In this paper, the problem of how to effectively all...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,141 Views
13 Pages

22 September 2017

Multivariable coupling, nonlinear and large time delays exist in the coil outlet temperature (COT) control system of the ethylene cracking furnace, which make it hard to achieve accurate control over the COT of the furnace in actual production. To so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,484 Views
11 Pages

22 September 2017

Data cannot be shared and leakage cannot be located simultaneously among multiple pipeline leak detection systems. Based on cyber-physical system (CPS) architecture, the method for locating leakage for pipelines with multibranch is proposed. The sing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,643 Views
10 Pages

22 September 2017

The linguistic neutrosophic numbers (LNNs) can express the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity degrees independently by three linguistic variables. Hence, they are an effective tool for describing indeterminate linguistic information under linguistic d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,288 Views
20 Pages

21 September 2017

The computational discovery of DNA motifs is one of the most important problems in molecular biology and computational biology, and it has not yet been resolved in an efficient manner. With previous research, we have solved the single-objective motif...

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