Online social networks are widely used platforms that enable people to connect with each other. These social media channels provide an active communication platform for people, and they have opened new venues of research for the academic world and bu...
We live in a time dominated by interconnected networks surrounding us on all fronts. The emergence of social media platforms has driven the expansion of social networks, facilitating fast communication worldwide. Responses to content shared on these...
Graph distance measures have emerged as an effective tool for evaluating the similarity or dissimilarity between graphs. Recently, there has been a growing trend in the application of movie networks to analyze and understand movie stories. Previous s...
Topological measures are crucial to describe, classify and understand complex networks. Lots of measures are proposed to characterize specific features of specific networks, but the relationships among these measures remain unclear. Taking into accou...
Access to and interaction with natural blue or green spaces is a critical factor in quality of life and overall well-being. Studies have shown that exposure to natural areas has health benefits for individuals and society. Incorporating interconnecte...
Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is of critical concern to international shipping. A large portfolio of mitigation measures has been developed to mitigate ship gas emissions by reducing ship energy consumption but is constrained by p...
The performance of water distribution networks (WDNs) can be quantified by several types of hydraulic measure. In design and operation of a WDN, sufficient consideration should be given to system performance, and it would be inefficient to separately...
It is well known that there may be significant individual differences in physiological signal patterns for emotional responses. Emotion recognition based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is still a challenging task in the context of developing a...
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The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of news and financial data using their network representation. The formation of network structures from data sources is carried out using two different approaches: by building the so-called market graph...
Unloading zones are a fundamental part of the infrastructure of urban freight transport. The location and accessibility of unloading zones to commercial establishments reduce the operating time and, consequently, the transportation costs. In general,...
The seeming dichotomy between the protection of biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) represents an outstanding field of research that requires a structured and detailed analysis. The paper analyzes and discusses the role of ESs wit...
The reliability of the dust pump in an engine air filtration system significantly affects vehicle performance. Therefore, the extent to which the parameters of the dust pump impeller blade fixture affect its reliability is a critical consideration du...
The state of cross-market linkage structures and its stability over varying time-periods play a key role in the performance of international diversified portfolios. There has been an increasing interest of global investors in emerging capital markets...
We consider the graph representation of the stochastic model with n binary variables, and develop an information theoretical framework to measure the degree of statistical association existing between subsystems as well as the ones represented by eac...
Upper Northern Thailand is a critical region reflecting the severity of seasonal PM2.5 pollution and its transboundary spread, yet accurate spatial monitoring remains difficult due to complex mountainous terrain and a sparse network of physical monit...
Background and Objectives: Malaria poses significant threats to pregnant women, particularly in endemic regions. Preventive measures against it include insecticide-treated bed nets, intermittent preventive treatment, and various supplements. We aimed...
1 March 2021
This systematic review adopted the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Statement (PRISMA) guidelines and used the method of network meta-analysis to compare the effects of different types of interventions from different...
We introduce a new network centrality measure founded on the Gately value for cooperative games with transferable utilities. A directed network is interpreted as representing control or authority relations between players—constituting a hierarc...
The idea of constructing the “GNSS-like” seafloor geodetic network for underwater positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) has been proposed by many countries. Based on this idea, this paper introduces the principle of the seafloor PNT n...
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In network management, network measuring is crucial. Accurate network measurements can increase network utilization, network management, and the ability to find network problems promptly. With extensive technological advancements, the difficulty for...
Network measurement is an efficient way to understand network behavior. Traditional measurement techniques focus on internet protocol (IP) networks, where the processing capacity of network nodes is limited and primarily dedicated to packet forwardin...
Sensor networks, which are increasingly being used in a broad range of applications, constitute a measurement paradigm involving ensembles of sensors measuring possibly different quantities at a discrete sample of spatial locations and temporal point...
One of the most recent advancements in graph theory is the use of a multidisciplinary approach to the investigation of specific structural dependent features, such as physico-chemical properties, biological activity and the entropy measure of a graph...
Currently, supply chain networks can span the whole world, and any disruption of these networks may cause economic losses, decreases in sales and unsustainable supplies. Resilience, the ability of the system to withstand disruption and return to a no...
The optimization of measurements in a geodetic network (second-order design) has been investigated in the past; however, the practical usability of the outcomes of most of such studies is doubtful. Hence, we have proposed a new automated optimization...
Buses and subways are crucial modes of transportation for residents, yet frequent disturbances pose serious challenges to their daily commutes. To tackle these disruptions and boost the stability of the transportation network, it is vital to accurate...
Network measurements are the foundation for network applications. The metrics generated by those measurements help applications improve their performance of the monitored network and harden their security. As severe network attacks using leaked infor...
Network identification by deconvolution is a proven method for determining the thermal structure function of a given device. The method allows to derive the thermal capacitances as well as the resistances of a one-dimensional thermal path from the th...
Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) are created by small hardware devices that possess the necessary functionalities to measure and exchange a variety of environmental data in their deployment setting. In this paper, we discuss the experiments in deployi...
Single, hip-mounted accelerometers can provide accurate measurements of energy expenditure (EE) in some settings, but are unable to accurately estimate the energy cost of many non-ambulatory activities. A multi-sensor network may be able to overcome...
This paper presents a measurement-driven study of end-to-end latency in an indoor private standalone 5G network deployed at TU Wien IFT TEC-Lab. The testbed combines pico radio units, edge computing resources, and a local 5G core to form a campus-sca...
In industrial production, high-power microwaves are commonly used for heating and drying processes; however, their application in measurement is relatively limited. This paper presents a power measurement system to enhance the use of microwave measur...
Graph energy is the energy of the matrix representation of the graph, where the energy of a matrix is the sum of singular values of the matrix. Depending on the definition of a matrix, one can contemplate graph energy, Randić energy, Laplacian energy...
Granger causality and variants of this concept allow the study of complex dynamical systems as networks constructed from multivariate time series. In this work, a large number of Granger causality measures used to form causality networks from multiva...
This paper presents a comprehensive review of centrality measures and their usefulness in transportation networks in the face of climate change adaptation. The focus is on understanding the importance of transportation nodes in the event of extreme w...
This paper presents a novel lattice based biomimetic neural network trained by means of a similarity measure derived from a lattice positive valuation. For a wide class of pattern recognition problems, the proposed artificial neural network, implemen...
Automated pavement crack detection and measurement are important road issues. Agencies have to guarantee the improvement of road safety. Conventional crack detection and measurement algorithms can be extremely time-consuming and low efficiency. There...
This paper proposes a personalized head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method based on deep neural networks by using anthropometric measurements and ear images. The proposed method consists of three sub-networks for representing personal...
In this paper, the problem of estimating a scalar field (e.g., the spatial distribution of contaminants in an area) using a sensor network is considered. The sensors are assumed to have quantized measurements. We consider distributed estimation algor...
The installation of smart meters in smart cities to monitor streetlights (SLs) provides easy access to measurements of electrical variables and lighting levels, which improves the operation of installation. The use of smart meters in cities requires...
Computing resource measurement and computing routing are essential technologies in the computing first network (CFN), serving as its foundational elements. This paper introduces a Software Defined Computing First Network (SD-CFN) architecture. Buildi...
In this paper, we present a water mist dehazing network to improve the accuracy of radiation temperature measurements of the billet surface in the secondary cooling zone of continuous casting. First, we develop a billet radiation attenuation model th...
Recently, the number of people who are members of multiple online social networks simultaneously has increased. However, if these people share everything with others, they risk their privacy. Users may be unaware of the privacy risks involved with sh...
Software-defined measurement (SDM) is a simple and efficient way to deploy measurement tasks and collect measurement data. With SDM, it is convenient for operators to implement fine-grained network-wide measurements at the flow level, from which many...
To achieve high-precision measurements of target points on long straight tracks, a multi-level measurement method based on length–angle mixed intersection techniques was explored. Firstly, a control network with graded measurement levels was pr...
The growing popularity of inexpensive IoT (Internet of Things) sensor networks makes their uncertainty an important aspect of their adoption. The uncertainty determines their fitness for purpose, their perceived quality and the usefulness of informat...
Estimating uncertain state variables of a general complex dynamical network with randomly incomplete measurements of transmitted output variables is investigated in this paper. The incomplete measurements, occurring randomly through the transmission...
The ecological value, cultural value, economic value and industrial value of the county space, where a variety of human activities and natural ecological processes are carried out, act as the key elements considered in county spatial planning. Howeve...
Quantum key distribution (QKD) networks hold promise for sharing secure randomness over multi-partities. Most existing QKD network schemes and demonstrations are based on trusted relays or limited to point-to-point scenario. Here, we propose a flexib...
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