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Information, Volume 9, Issue 8

2018 August - 22 articles

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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,401 Views
17 Pages

17 August 2018

With the widespread availability of cell-phone recording devices, source cell-phone identification has become a hot topic in multimedia forensics. At present, the research on the source cell-phone identification in clean conditions has achieved good...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,528 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2018

Prediction of electricity consumption plays critical roles in the economy. Accurate electricity consumption forecasting is essential for policy makers to formulate electricity supply policies. However, limited data and variables generally cannot prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,010 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2018

A microblog is a new type of social media for information publishing, acquiring, and spreading. Finding the significant topics of a microblog is necessary for popularity tracing and public opinion following. This paper puts forward a method to detect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semantics for Big Data Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,832 Views
11 Pages

Construction of Complex Network with Multiple Time Series Relevance

  • Zongwen Huang,
  • Lingyu Xu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Gaowei Zhang and
  • Yaya Liu

7 August 2018

Multivariate time series data, which comprise a set of ordered observations for multiple variables, are pervasively generated in weather conditions, traffic, financial stocks, etc. Therefore, it is of great significance to analyze the correlation bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,994 Views
16 Pages

6 August 2018

Online health communities (OHCs) should utilize health-care knowledge for enhancing online patient support. To examine the use of existing OHCs to identify the challenges and strategies of enhancing online patients’ decision-making support, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,158 Views
25 Pages

6 August 2018

Geographical location and mobile phone numbers are important parts of user privacy and lots of studies have been working on the privacy leakage problems of these two aspects. However, no researchers have ever studied the security problems that can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,920 Views
19 Pages

6 August 2018

For multiple attribute decision making, ranking and information aggregation problems are increasingly receiving attention. In a normal neutrosophic number, the ranking method does not satisfy the ranking principle. Moreover, the proposed operators do...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,840 Views
15 Pages

Aspect Term Extraction Based on MFE-CRF

  • Yanmin Xiang,
  • Hongye He and
  • Jin Zheng

3 August 2018

This paper is focused on aspect term extraction in aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), which is one of the hot spots in natural language processing (NLP). This paper proposes MFE-CRF that introduces Multi-Feature Embedding (MFE) clustering based...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,555 Views
19 Pages

2 August 2018

Governments at all levels have a mandate to provide services, protect society, and make the economy prosper. While this is a long-term goal, citizens are now expecting greater and faster delivery of services from government. This paper presents a sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,403 Views
11 Pages

1 August 2018

This article presents some pressing issues on roboethics, which lie at the frontier between roboethics and information ethics. It relates them to the well-established field of marketing ethics, stressing two main points. First, that human attention a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ROBOETHICS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,822 Views
14 Pages

1 August 2018

To comprehensively describe uncertain/interval linguistic arguments and confident linguistic arguments in the decision making process by a linguistic form, this study first presents the concept of a single-valued linguistic neutrosophic interval ling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,315 Views
16 Pages

30 July 2018

To improve the invisibility and robustness of quantization-based image watermarking algorithms, we developed an improved quantization image watermarking method based on the wavelet transform and normalization strategy used in this study. In the proce...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,825 Views
22 Pages

29 July 2018

Scientifically and rationally analyzing the characteristics of land use evolution and exploring future trends in land use changes can provide the scientific reference basis for the rational development and utilization of regional land resources and s...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,744 Views
16 Pages

First Steps towards Data-Driven Adversarial Deduplication

  • Jose N. Paredes,
  • Gerardo I. Simari,
  • Maria Vanina Martinez and
  • Marcelo A. Falappa

27 July 2018

In traditional databases, the entity resolution problem (which is also known as deduplication) refers to the task of mapping multiple manifestations of virtual objects to their corresponding real-world entities. When addressing this problem, in both...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,494 Views
6 Pages

The Singularity May Be Near

  • Roman V. Yampolskiy

27 July 2018

Toby Walsh in “The Singularity May Never Be Near” gives six arguments to support his point of view that technological singularity may happen, but that it is unlikely. In this paper, we provide analysis of each one of his arguments and arr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI AND THE SINGULARITY: A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,241 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2018

Distrust based recommender systems have drawn much more attention and became widely acceptable in recent years. Previous works have investigated using trust information to establish better models for rating prediction, but there is a lack of methods...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,918 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2018

With the rapid increase of wireless network traffic, the energy consumption of mobile network operators (MNOs) continues to increase, and the electricity bill has become an important part of the operating expenses of MNOs. The power grid as the power...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
17,984 Views
17 Pages

A Framework for More Effective Dark Web Marketplace Investigations

  • Darren R. Hayes,
  • Francesco Cappa and
  • James Cardon

26 July 2018

The success of the Silk Road has prompted the growth of many Dark Web marketplaces. This exponential growth has provided criminal enterprises with new outlets to sell illicit items. Thus, the Dark Web has generated great interest from academics and g...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,477 Views
10 Pages

Neutrosophic αψ-Homeomorphism in Neutrosophic Topological Spaces

  • Mani Parimala,
  • Ranganathan Jeevitha,
  • Saeid Jafari,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • Ramalingam Udhayakumar

26 July 2018

In this article, the concept of neutrosophic homeomorphism and neutrosophic αψ homeomorphism in neutrosophic topological spaces is introduced. Further, the work is extended as neutrosophic αψ∗ homeomorphism, neutrosophic &a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,866 Views
15 Pages

26 July 2018

A linguistic cubic variable (LCV) is comprised of interval linguistic variable and single-valued linguistic variable. An LCV contains decision-makers’ uncertain and certain linguistic judgments simultaneously. The advantage of the Dombi operato...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Techniques for Business Processes Information Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,684 Views
12 Pages

25 July 2018

The research identifies and substantiates the problem of quality deterioration in the sentiment classification of text collections identical in composition and characteristics, but staggered over time. It is shown that the quality of sentiment classi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web)
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