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Information, Volume 9, Issue 4

April 2018 - 33 articles

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Articles (33)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,320 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Location Systems for Asset Management in Nursing Homes: An Explorative Study of Ethical Aspects

  • J. Van Hoof,
  • J. Verboor,
  • C.E. Oude Weernink,
  • A.A.G. Sponselee,
  • J.A. Sturm,
  • J.K. Kazak,
  • G.M.J. Govers and
  • Y. Van Zaalen

Real-time location systems (RTLS) can be implemented in aged care for monitoring persons with wandering behaviour and asset management. RTLS can help retrieve personal items and assistive technologies that when lost or misplaced may have serious fina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
19,490 Views
15 Pages

Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence and Singularity

  • Pei Wang,
  • Kai Liu and
  • Quinn Dougherty

In the current discussions about “artificial intelligence” (AI) and “singularity”, both labels are used with several very different senses, and the confusion among these senses is the root of many disagreements. Similarly, although “artificial genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,762 Views
18 Pages

Online novel recommendation recommends attractive novels according to the preferences and characteristics of users or novels and is increasingly touted as an indispensable service of many online stores and websites. The interests of the majority of u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,643 Views
28 Pages

The anticipated next stage of human organization is often described by futurists as a global technological singularity. This next stage of complex organization is hypothesized to be actualized by scientific-technic knowledge networks. However, the ge...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
17,186 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2018

A controversial question that has been hotly debated in the emerging field of robot ethics is whether robots should be granted rights. Yet, a review of the recent literature in that field suggests that this seemingly straightforward question is far f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,315 Views
16 Pages

Robust Aircraft Detection with a Simple and Efficient Model

  • Jiandan Zhong,
  • Tao Lei,
  • Guangle Yao and
  • Ping Jiang

29 March 2018

Aircraft detection is the main task of the optoelectronic guiding and monitoring system in airports. In practical applications, we demand not only detection accuracy, but also efficiency. Existing detection approaches always train a set of holistic t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,889 Views
22 Pages

Language-Agnostic Relation Extraction from Abstracts in Wikis

  • Nicolas Heist,
  • Sven Hertling and
  • Heiko Paulheim

29 March 2018

Large-scale knowledge graphs, such as DBpedia, Wikidata, or YAGO, can be enhanced by relation extraction from text, using the data in the knowledge graph as training data, i.e., using distant supervision. While most existing approaches use language-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,968 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2018

Recognizing textual entailment comprises the task of determining semantic entailment relations between text fragments. A text fragment entails another text fragment if, from the meaning of the former, one can infer the meaning of the latter. If such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,464 Views
20 Pages

Random Linear Network Coding for 5G Mobile Video Delivery

  • Dejan Vukobratovic,
  • Andrea Tassi,
  • Savo Delic and
  • Chadi Khirallah

28 March 2018

An exponential increase in mobile video delivery will continue with the demand for higher resolution, multi-view and large-scale multicast video services. Novel fifth generation (5G) 3GPP New Radio (NR) standard will bring a number of new opportuniti...

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