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Information, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2018 - 21 articles

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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,177 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2018

The lack of privileged access to emergent and operational deployments is one of the key matters during validation and testing of novel telecommunication systems and technologies. This matter jeopardizes the repeatability of experiments, which results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,054 Views
15 Pages

A Blockchain Approach Applied to a Teledermatology Platform in the Sardinian Region (Italy)

  • Katiuscia Mannaro,
  • Gavina Baralla,
  • Andrea Pinna and
  • Simona Ibba

23 February 2018

The use of teledermatology in primary care has been shown to be reliable, offering the possibility of improving access to dermatological care by using telecommunication technologies to connect several medical centers and enable the exchange of inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,206 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2018

The performance bottleneck of transparent computing (TC) is on the server side. Caching is one of the key factors of the server-side performance. The count of disk input/output (I/O) can be reduced if multiple data blocks that are correlated with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,639 Views
14 Pages

On the Use of Affordable COTS Hardware for Network Measurements: Limits and Good Practices

  • Eduardo Miravalls-Sierra,
  • David Muelas,
  • Jorge E. López de Vergara,
  • Javier Ramos and
  • Javier Aracil

22 February 2018

Wireless access technologies are widespread in domestic scenarios, and end users extensively use mobile phones or tablets to browse the Web. Therefore, methods and platforms for the measurement of network key performance indicators must be adapted to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,449 Views
24 Pages

20 February 2018

This paper presents an efficient and simple technique on reducing the false contour problem which often occurs in the JPEG decoded image. The false contour appears on JPEG decoded image while applying small quality factor. This problem induces unplea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,108 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2018

Radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled smart shelves have recently attracted enormous attention from both industry and academia. Retailers have an explosion of interest in deploying smart shelves for the automatic ordering and the reduction of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,255 Views
11 Pages

10 February 2018

To create a safe work atmosphere, it is essential to control the spread of unsafe behaviors among construction workers. Based on group behavior theory, the relationship between the influence factors and means of spreading unsafe behavior among constr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,031 Views
21 Pages

NS-Cross Entropy-Based MAGDM under Single-Valued Neutrosophic Set Environment

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

9 February 2018

A single-valued neutrosophic set has king power to express uncertainty characterized by indeterminacy, inconsistency and incompleteness. Most of the existing single-valued neutrosophic cross entropy bears an asymmetrical behavior and produces an unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,425 Views
12 Pages

Local Patch Vectors Encoded by Fisher Vectors for Image Classification

  • Shuangshuang Chen,
  • Huiyi Liu,
  • Xiaoqin Zeng,
  • Subin Qian,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Guomin Wu and
  • Baobin Duan

9 February 2018

The objective of this work is image classification, whose purpose is to group images into corresponding semantic categories. Four contributions are made as follows: (i) For computational simplicity and efficiency, we directly adopt raw image patch ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,804 Views
21 Pages

8 February 2018

Identifying similar and related words is not only key in natural language understanding but also a suitable task for assessing the quality of computational resources that organise words and meanings of a language, compiled by different means. This pa...

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