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Information, Volume 8, Issue 4

December 2017 - 49 articles

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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,759 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
4,334 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
7,336 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
10,283 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
6,822 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
193 Citations
16,608 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
6,777 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
6,952 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
5,371 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
4,452 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...

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