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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,855 Views
11 Pages

5 July 2011

What is information? This is the first question that information science should answer clearly. However, the definitions of information have been so diversified that people are questioning if there is any unity among the diversity, leading to a suspi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,260 Views
14 Pages

12 July 2023

Forestry infrastructure plays a critical role in promoting tree growth to achieve carbon-neutral targets. However, as a quasi-public good, it faces challenges because of its non-excludability, meaning that everyone can use it whether they pay for it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,764 Views
16 Pages

An Integrated Decision Approach with Probabilistic Linguistic Information for Test Case Prioritization

  • A. D. Shrivathsan,
  • R. Krishankumar,
  • Arunodaya Raj Mishra,
  • K. S. Ravichandran,
  • Samarjit Kar and
  • V. Badrinath

23 October 2020

This paper focuses on an exciting and essential problem in software companies. The software life cycle includes testing software, which is often time-consuming, and is a critical phase in the software development process. To reduce time spent on test...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,969 Views
18 Pages

Synergetic Theory of Information Entropy Based on Failure Approach Index for Stability Analysis of Surrounding Rock System

  • Lijun Xiong,
  • Haiping Yuan,
  • Gaoliang Liu,
  • Hengzhe Li,
  • Yangyao Zou,
  • Xiaohu Liu and
  • Xiaoming Li

20 August 2023

It is generally acknowledged that the stability evaluation of surrounding rock denotes nonlinear complex system engineering. In order to accurately and quantitatively assess the safety states of surrounding rock and provide a scientific basis for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
15 Pages

Predicting the Redox Potentials and Hammett Parameters of Quinone Derivatives with the Information-Theoretic Approach

  • Mingxin Xu,
  • Yilin Zhao,
  • Hui Li,
  • Paul W. Ayers,
  • Dandan Liu,
  • Qingchun Wang and
  • Dongbo Zhao

6 January 2026

Accurately and efficiently predicting redox potentials and Hammett constants using simple density-based functions derived from information-theoretic approach (ITA) quantities remains an unresolved challenge. In this work, we employ two recently propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,439 Views
17 Pages

Predicting the Post-Hartree-Fock Electron Correlation Energy of Complex Systems with the Information-Theoretic Approach

  • Ping Wang,
  • Dongxiong Hu,
  • Linling Lu,
  • Yilin Zhao,
  • Jingbo Chen,
  • Paul W. Ayers,
  • Shubin Liu and
  • Dongbo Zhao

26 August 2025

Employing some simple physics-inspired density-based information-theoretic approach (ITA) quantities to predict the electron correlation energies remains an open challenge. In this work, we expand the scope of the LR(ITA) (LR means linear regression)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,985 Views
15 Pages

Using density functional theory (DFT) and the information-theoretic approach (ITA) quantities to appreciate the energetics and properties of biopolymers is still an unaccomplished and ongoing task. To this end, we studied the building blocks of nucle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,882 Views
31 Pages

Moving Information Horizon Approach for Dynamic Game Models

  • Ovanes Petrosian,
  • Lihong Shi,
  • Yin Li and
  • Hongwei Gao

14 December 2019

In the paper, a new class of dynamic game models with a moving information horizon or dynamic updating is studied. In this class of games, players do not have full information about the game structure (motion equations, payoff functions) on the inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,431 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2021

The concept of information is foundational to many disciplines yet also problematic and contested. This article contributes to the understanding of information through discussion of the findings of the interdisciplinary Difference That Makes a Differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
379 Views
26 Pages

6 November 2025

Wirelessly charging unmanned aerial vehicles (WCUAVs) can complete charging tasks without human intervention and may help us efficiently collect various types of geographically dispersed data in unmanned data collection systems (UDCSs). However, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,513 Views
24 Pages

10 May 2019

Collaborative strategic decision making has to be widely informed, communicated and knowledge-based in order to innovate transformations toward local and global sustainability. It is unimaginable that this process could be effective without computer-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,843 Views
22 Pages

17 February 2021

The bio-informed concept, which means “designing by learning from nature’s best ideas” as an approach, method, tool, discipline or strategy, is one of the most important research areas of today. It does not only shape designs, but also is based on co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,279 Views
50 Pages

Health Misinformation in Social Networks: A Survey of Information Technology Approaches

  • Vasiliki Papanikou,
  • Panagiotis Papadakos,
  • Theodora Karamanidou,
  • Thanos G. Stavropoulos,
  • Evaggelia Pitoura and
  • Panayiotis Tsaparas

15 March 2025

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on the pervasive issue of medical misinformation in social networks from the perspective of information technology. The survey aims at providing a systematic review of related research and helping rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access

The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) compost has the potential to be an effective soil improver, and agriculture is the industry with the largest potential market for its adoption, followed by landscaping and gardening hobbyist uses....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,457 Views
16 Pages

A Multi-Informant Approach Testing an Expanded Home Numeracy Mode

  • Paola Bonifacci,
  • Diego Compiani,
  • Viola Ravaldini,
  • Benedetta Peri,
  • Alexandra Affranti and
  • Valentina Tobia

The role of home numeracy activities in the development of numeracy skills is receiving growing interest, although some mixed results highlight the need to consider models that include different contextual variables. The present study was aimed at in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,670 Views
13 Pages

Tumor-Informed Approach Improved ctDNA Detection Rate in Resected Pancreatic Cancer

  • Kazunori Watanabe,
  • Toru Nakamura,
  • Yasutoshi Kimura,
  • Masayo Motoya,
  • Shigeyuki Kojima,
  • Tomotaka Kuraya,
  • Takeshi Murakami,
  • Tsukasa Kaneko,
  • Yoshihito Shinohara and
  • Siew-Kee Low
  • + 8 authors

29 September 2022

Pancreatic cancer is one of the cancers with very poor prognosis; there is an urgent need to identify novel biomarkers to improve its clinical outcomes. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from liquid biopsy has arisen as a promising biomarker for cancer d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
11,592 Views
34 Pages

13 March 2022

We consider the “partial information decomposition” (PID) problem, which aims to decompose the information that a set of source random variables provide about a target random variable into separate redundant, synergistic, union, and uniqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,956 Views
24 Pages

9 June 2025

Research with population groups who have undergone circumstances of vulnerability demands a careful ethical approach to ensure that the study is conducted with the utmost respect and sensitivity, addressing potential challenges not only in regards to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
13,018 Views
22 Pages

17 February 2014

This paper synthesizes a recent line of work on automated predictive model making inspired by Rate-Distortion theory, in particular by the Information Bottleneck method. Predictive inference is interpreted as a strategy for efficient communication. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,111 Views
19 Pages

An Approach to Generating Reference Information for Technology Evaluation

  • Eungchan Kim,
  • Young Seok Ock,
  • Seung-Jun Shin and
  • Wonchul Seo

7 September 2018

A system for technology evaluation is essential for successfully implementing a technology-based financial support system. Technology evaluation has generally relied on the qualitative evaluation performed by the relevant experts. When evaluating the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,751 Views
16 Pages

Integrated Modeling Approach for the Development of Climate-Informed, Actionable Information

  • David R. Judi,
  • Cynthia L. Rakowski,
  • Scott R. Waichler,
  • Youcan Feng and
  • Mark S. Wigmosta

13 June 2018

Flooding is a prevalent natural disaster with both short and long-term social, economic, and infrastructure impacts. Changes in intensity and frequency of precipitation (including rain, snow, and rain-on-snow) events create challenges for the plannin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
936 Views
39 Pages

8 August 2025

Handling preliminary information appropriately is a critical challenge for many aspects of systems engineering design. The topic is gaining renewed visibility due to the expanding possibilities to apply AI to preliminary information to support system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,372 Views
22 Pages

12 May 2020

This paper proposes an information management approach to deal with the strategies alignment collaborative process. Much attention has been given to the information management in collaborative networks (CNs), resulting in a wide variety of informatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,032 Views
15 Pages

11 October 2021

The problem of countering the spread of destructive content in social networks is currently relevant for most countries of the world. Basically, automatic monitoring systems are used to detect the sources of the spread of malicious information, and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,716 Views
28 Pages

5 August 2022

The notion of information and complexity are important concepts in many scientific fields such as molecular biology, evolutionary theory and exobiology. Many measures of these quantities are either difficult to compute, rely on the statistical notion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,579 Views
17 Pages

A significant increase in System-of-Systems (SoS) is currently observed in the social and technical domains. As a result of the increasing number of constituent system components, Systems of Systems are becoming larger and more complex. Recent resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,232 Views
35 Pages

An Information Theoretic Approach to Privacy-Preserving Interpretable and Transferable Learning

  • Mohit Kumar,
  • Bernhard A. Moser,
  • Lukas Fischer and
  • Bernhard Freudenthaler

20 September 2023

In order to develop machine learning and deep learning models that take into account the guidelines and principles of trustworthy AI, a novel information theoretic approach is introduced in this article. A unified approach to privacy-preserving inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,065 Views
13 Pages

We live in a rapidly changing business environment where change has become the norm for organizations to maintain competitiveness. Although both scholars and practitioners agree that organizational change communication is important to help employees...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,772 Views
15 Pages

28 January 2017

Recently, due to the increasing importance of reducing severe vehicle accidents on roads (especially on highways), the automatic identification of road surface conditions, and the provisioning of such information to drivers in advance, have recently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,440 Views
18 Pages

7 January 2022

Complex networks usually consist of dense-connected cliques, which are defined as communities. A community structure is a reflection of the local characteristics existing in the network topology, this makes community detection become an important res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,159 Views
17 Pages

27 January 2021

The question of beauty has inspired philosophers and scientists for centuries. Today, the study of aesthetics is an active research topic in fields as diverse as computer science, neuroscience, and psychology. Measuring the aesthetic appeal of images...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,557 Views
14 Pages

Data Processing and Information Classification—An In-Memory Approach

  • Milena Andrighetti,
  • Giovanna Turvani,
  • Giulia Santoro,
  • Marco Vacca,
  • Andrea Marchesin,
  • Fabrizio Ottati,
  • Massimo Ruo Roch,
  • Mariagrazia Graziano and
  • Maurizio Zamboni

18 March 2020

To live in the information society means to be surrounded by billions of electronic devices full of sensors that constantly acquire data. This enormous amount of data must be processed and classified. A solution commonly adopted is to send these data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,134 Views
30 Pages

4 January 2020

Current research on software vulnerability analysis mostly focus on source codes or executable programs. But these methods can only be applied after software is completely developed when source codes are available. This may lead to high costs and tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,737 Views
16 Pages

A GIS-Based Web Approach for Serving Land Price Information

  • Yongjun Yang,
  • Yaqin Sun,
  • Songnian Li,
  • Shaoliang Zhang,
  • Kuoyin Wang,
  • Huping Hou and
  • Shishuo Xu

19 October 2015

Participants in the land market are usually hampered to browse and analyze the land price information due to the lack of information sources and available analysis tools. A service-oriented GIS-based web system was developed to provide a practical so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,692 Views
20 Pages

Quantum Approach for Contextual Search, Retrieval, and Ranking of Classical Information

  • Alexander P. Alodjants,
  • Anna E. Avdyushina,
  • Dmitriy V. Tsarev,
  • Igor A. Bessmertny and
  • Andrey Yu. Khrennikov

13 October 2024

Quantum-inspired algorithms represent an important direction in modern software information technologies that use heuristic methods and approaches of quantum science. This work presents a quantum approach for document search, retrieval, and ranking b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,599 Views
34 Pages

30 March 2019

In this paper, we propose an approach to obtain reduced-order models of Markov chains. Our approach is composed of two information-theoretic processes. The first is a means of comparing pairs of stationary chains on different state spaces, which is d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,021 Views
23 Pages

A New Approach to Information Extraction in User-Centric E-Recruitment Systems

  • Malik Nabeel Ahmed Awan,
  • Sharifullah Khan,
  • Khalid Latif and
  • Asad Masood Khattak

17 July 2019

In modern society, people are heavily reliant on information available online through various channels, such as websites, social media, and web portals. Examples include searching for product prices, news, weather, and jobs. This paper focuses on an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,682 Views
7 Pages

Information Entropy Approach for a Disorderless One-Dimensional Lattice

  • Luis Arturo Juárez-Villegas and
  • Moisés Martínez-Mares

29 January 2020

Dimensionless conductance through a disorderless lattice is studied using an alternative approach. Usually, the conductance of an ordered lattice is studied at a fixed size, either finite or infinite if the crystalline limit is reached. Here, we prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,686 Views
18 Pages

An Information-Spectrum Approach to the Capacity Region of the Interference Channel

  • Lei Lin,
  • Xiao Ma,
  • Chulong Liang,
  • Xiujie Huang and
  • Baoming Bai

13 June 2017

In this paper, a general formula for the capacity region of a general interference channel with two pairs of users is derived, which reveals that the capacity region is the union of a family of rectangles. In the region, each rectangle is determined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,801 Views
29 Pages

15 February 2024

The new logic of partitions is dual to the usual Boolean logic of subsets (usually presented only in the special case of the logic of propositions) in the sense that partitions and subsets are category-theoretic duals. The new information measure of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,560 Views
29 Pages

MASISCo—Methodological Approach for the Selection of Information Security Controls

  • Mauricio Diéguez,
  • Carlos Cares,
  • Cristina Cachero and
  • Jorge Hochstetter

13 January 2023

As cyber-attacks grow worldwide, companies have begun to realize the importance of being protected against malicious actions that seek to violate their systems and access their information assets. Faced with this scenario, organizations must carry ou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
13,200 Views
18 Pages

6D Pose Estimation of Objects: Recent Technologies and Challenges

  • Zaixing He,
  • Wuxi Feng,
  • Xinyue Zhao and
  • Yongfeng Lv

29 December 2020

6D pose estimation is a common and important task in industry. Obtaining the 6D pose of objects is the basis for many other functions such as bin picking, autopilot, etc. Therefore, many corresponding studies have been made in order to improve the ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,250 Views
15 Pages

21 April 2022

Community structure is a network characteristic where nodes can be naturally divided into densely connected groups. Community structures are ubiquitous in social, biological, and technological networks. Revealing community structure in the network he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,819 Views
16 Pages

28 June 2019

In his influential study, Theil (1967) developed the notion of entropy on the basis of information theory. He then advocated the use of entropy-based measure for the analysis of income inequality. In this paper, the first of its kind, we apply Theil&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
983 Views
14 Pages

19 February 2025

The tumor immune system is modified through immunotherapy to more effectively eliminate cancer cells. This has led to the adoption of several mathematical models of cancer diffusion to explore the tumor–immune interaction, and as a result, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,512 Views
19 Pages

An Information Theory-Based Approach to Assessing Spatial Patterns in Complex Systems

  • Tarsha Eason,
  • Wen-Ching Chuang,
  • Shana Sundstrom and
  • Heriberto Cabezas

15 February 2019

Given the intensity and frequency of environmental change, the linked and cross-scale nature of social-ecological systems, and the proliferation of big data, methods that can help synthesize complex system behavior over a geographical area are of gre...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,687 Views
15 Pages

Meet the Medicines—A Crowdsourced Approach to Collecting and Communicating Information about Essential Medicines Online

  • Yaela N. Golumbic,
  • Kymberley R. Scroggie,
  • Ciara R. Kenneally,
  • Jiarun Lin,
  • Mitchell T. Blyth,
  • Genevieve Firmer,
  • Peter J. Rutledge and
  • Alice Motion

The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains a list of medicines and medical devices, essential medicines, that should be available to everyone, to form a functioning healthcare system. Yet, many of these medicines remain out of reach for people aro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,903 Views
18 Pages

Information sharing in vehicular networks has great potential for the future Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Vehicles and roadside units (RSUs) can exchange perceptual information and driving experience to enable intelligent transportation applications s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,350 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2022

Information-centric networking (ICN) is an emerging network architecture that has the potential to address low-transmission latency and high-reliability requirements in the fifth generation and beyond communication networks (5G/B5G). In the ICN archi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,125 Views
15 Pages

25 November 2021

The paper analyses the characteristics of Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI) and the need to assure and assess its quality for a possible use and re-use. Ontologies and soft ontologies are presented as means to support quality assurance and asses...

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