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Information, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2018 - 35 articles

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Articles (35)

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
26,634 Views
20 Pages

23 July 2018

This paper explores a practical application of a weak, or narrow, artificial intelligence (AI) in the news media. Journalism is a creative human practice. This, according to widespread opinion, makes it harder for robots to replicate. However, writin...

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

A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

  • Caroline A. Byrne,
  • Rem Collier and
  • Gregory M. P. O’Hare

21 July 2018

Europe’s social agenda for the “active elderly” is based upon a series of programs that provide a flexible infrastructure for their lives so that they are motivated, engaged in lifelong learning, and contributing to society. Economi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,871 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2018

The matter of success in forecasting precipitation is of great significance to flood control and drought relief, and water resources planning and management. For the nonlinear problem in forecasting precipitation time series, a hybrid prediction mode...

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

Visual Saliency Based Just Noticeable Difference Estimation in DWT Domain

  • Chunxing Wang,
  • Xiaoyue Han,
  • Wenbo Wan,
  • Jing Li,
  • Jiande Sun and
  • Meiling Xu

20 July 2018

It has been known that human visual systems (HVSs) can be applied to describe the underlying masking properties for the image processing. In general, HVS can only perceive small changes in a scene when they are greater than the just noticeable distor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,048 Views
10 Pages

Knowledge Acquisition from Critical Annotations

  • Tamás Mészáros and
  • Margit Kiss

20 July 2018

Critical annotations are important knowledge sources when researching one’s oeuvre. They describe literary, historical, cultural, linguistic and other kinds of information written in natural languages. Acquiring knowledge from these notes is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,004 Views
24 Pages

20 July 2018

Aiming at the low recognition effect of apple images captured in a natural scene, and the problem that the OTSU algorithm has a single threshold, lack of adaptability, easily caused noise interference, and over-segmentation, an apple image recognitio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,095 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Task Autonomous Planning Method for Small Satellites

  • Jun Long,
  • Cong Li,
  • Lei Zhu,
  • Shilong Chen and
  • Junfeng Liu

20 July 2018

Existing on-board planning systems do not apply to small satellites with limited onboard computer capacity and on-board resources. This study aims to investigate the problem of autonomous task planning for small satellites. Based on the analysis of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,436 Views
16 Pages

Virtual Interactive Environment for Low-Cost Treatment of Mechanical Strabismus and Amblyopia

  • Aratã Andrade Saraiva,
  • Matheus Pereira Barros,
  • Alexandre Tolstenko Nogueira,
  • N. M. Fonseca Ferreira and
  • Antonio Valente

19 July 2018

This study presents a technique that uses an interactive virtual environment for the rehabilitation treatment of patients with mechanical strabismus and/or amblyopia who have lost eye movement. The relevant part of this treatment is the act of forcin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,471 Views
20 Pages

A Study of a Health Resources Management Platform Integrating Neural Networks and DSS Telemedicine for Homecare Assistance

  • Alessandro Massaro,
  • Vincenzo Maritati,
  • Nicola Savino,
  • Angelo Galiano,
  • Daniele Convertini,
  • Emanuele De Fonte and
  • Maurizio Di Muro

19 July 2018

The proposed paper is related to a case of study of an e-health telemedicine system oriented on homecare assistance and suitable for de-hospitalization processes. The proposed platform is able to transfer efficiently the patient analyses from home to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,276 Views
20 Pages

17 July 2018

For more than 30 years, data warehouses (DWs) have attracted particular interest both in practice and in research. This success is explained by their ability to adapt to their evolving environment. One of the last challenges for DWs is their ability...

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