27 articles in this issue
Swarna Bindu Chetty, Hamed Ahmadi, Sachin Sharma and Avishek Nag
With the emergence of various types of applications such as delay-sensitive applications, future communication networks are expected to be increasingly complex and dynamic. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) provides the necessary support towards effic... see more
Dries Naudts, Vasilis Maglogiannis, Seilendria Hadiwardoyo, Daniel van den Akker, Simon Vanneste, Siegfried Mercelis, Peter Hellinckx, Bart Lannoo, Johann Marquez-Barja and Ingrid Moerman
In the upcoming decade and beyond, the Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) initiative will play a huge role in increasing road safety, traffic efficiency and comfort of driving in Europe. While several individual vehicular wireless commun... see more
Lazaros Vrysis, Nikolaos Vryzas, Rigas Kotsakis, Theodora Saridou, Maria Matsiola, Andreas Veglis, Carlos Arcila-Calderón and Charalampos Dimoulas
Social media services make it possible for an increasing number of people to express their opinion publicly. In this context, large amounts of hateful comments are published daily. The PHARM project aims at monitoring and modeling hate speech against refu... see more
Sadaf Safavi and Mehrdad Jalali
In location-based social networks (LBSNs), exploit several key features of points-of-interest (POIs) and users on precise POI recommendation be significant. In this work, a novel POI recommendation pipeline based on the convolutional neural network named ... see more
Chuanhong Li, Lei Song and Xuewen Zeng
The continuous increase in network traffic has sharply increased the demand for high-performance packet processing systems. For a high-performance packet processing system based on multi-core processors, the packet scheduling algorithm is critical because... see more
Laith T. Khrais and Abdullah M. Alghamdi
Most retailers are integrating their practices with modern technologies to enhance the effectiveness of their operations. The adoption of technology aims to enable businesses to accurately meet customer needs and expectations. This study focused on examin... see more
Quintino Francesco Lotito, Davide Zanella and Paolo Casari
The pervasiveness of online social networks has reshaped the way people access information. Online social networks make it common for users to inform themselves online and share news among their peers, but also favor the spreading of both reliable and fak... see more
Yuexuan Zhao and Jing Huang
Graph variational auto-encoder (GVAE) is a model that combines neural networks and Bayes methods, capable of deeper exploring the influential latent features of graph reconstruction. However, several pieces of research based on GVAE employ a plain prior d... see more
Marisol Hernández-Orellana, Adolfina Pérez-Garcias and Ángel Roco-Videla
At present, our online activity is almost constant, either producing information or consuming it, both for the social and academic fields. The spaces in which people move and travel every day, innocently divided between the face-to-face and the virtual, a... see more
Xingchen Zhou, Ming Xu, Yiming Wu and Ning Zheng
Federated learning is a novel distributed learning framework, which enables thousands of participants to collaboratively construct a deep learning model. In order to protect confidentiality of the training data, the shared information between server and p... see more
Shengbo Chen, Hongchang Zhang and Zhou Lei
Person re-identification (ReID) plays a significant role in video surveillance analysis. In the real world, due to illumination, occlusion, and deformation, pedestrian features extraction is the key to person ReID. Considering the shortcomings of existing... see more
Pin Wu, Rukang Zhu and Zhidan Lei
Using the single premise entailment (SPE) model to accomplish the multi-premise entailment (MPE) task can alleviate the problem that the neural network cannot be effectively trained due to the lack of labeled multi-premise training data. Moreover, the abu... see more
Zhiyan Yu, Gaochao Xu, Yang Li, Peng Liu and Long Li
The combination of mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) is recognized as a promising technology to solve the problem of limited battery capacities and insufficient computation capabilities of mobile devices. This technology can tr... see more
Yi-Bing Lin, Chien-Chao Tseng and Ming-Hung Wang
Network slicing is considered a key technology in enabling the underlying 5G mobile network infrastructure to meet diverse service requirements. In this article, we demonstrate how transport network slicing accommodates the various network service require... see more
Steven Knowles Flanagan, Zuoyin Tang, Jianhua He and Irfan Yusoff
Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) or IEEE 802.11p/OCB (Out of the Context of a Base-station) is widely considered to be a primary technology for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication, and it is aimed toward increasing the safety of users on the ... see more
Eric Hitimana, Gaurav Bajpai, Richard Musabe, Louis Sibomana and Jayavel Kayalvizhi
Many countries worldwide face challenges in controlling building incidence prevention measures for fire disasters. The most critical issues are the localization, identification, detection of the room occupant. Internet of Things (IoT) along with machine l... see more
Dimitra Georgiou and Costas Lambrinoudakis
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) harmonizes personal data protection laws across the European Union, affecting all sectors including the healthcare industry. For processing operations that pose a high risk for data subjects, a Data Protection... see more
Jhan-Jia Lin, Yu-Tse Lee and Ja-Ling Wu
In a community with an aging population, helping each other is a must society function. Lacking mutual trust makes the need for a fair and transparent service exchange platform on top of the public service administration’s list. We present an efficient bl... see more
Jie Yu, Yaliu Li, Chenle Pan and Junwei Wang
Classification of resource can help us effectively reduce the work of filtering massive academic resources, such as selecting relevant papers and focusing on the latest research by scholars in the same field. However, existing graph neural networks do not... see more
Maghsoud Morshedi and Josef Noll
Video conferencing services based on web real-time communication (WebRTC) protocol are growing in popularity among Internet users as multi-platform solutions enabling interactive communication from anywhere, especially during this pandemic era. Meanwhile,... see more
Claudia Antal, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Marcel Antal and Ioan Salomie
The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) provides an infrastructure for developing decentralized applications with no central authority for registering, sharing, and synchronizing transactions on digital assets. In the last years, it has drawn high interes... see more
Max Cappellari, John Belstner, Bryan Rodriguez and Jeff Sedayao
The XPRIZE Foundation designs and operates multi-million-dollar, global competitions to incentivize the development of technological breakthroughs that accelerate humanity toward a better future. To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the foundation coordinated... see more
Carl-Anton Werner Axelsson, Mona Guath and Thomas Nygren
With the rise of misinformation, there is a great need for scalable educational interventions supporting students’ abilities to determine the trustworthiness of digital news. We address this challenge in our study by developing an online intervention tool... see more
Albert Weichselbraun, Philipp Kuntschik, Vincenzo Francolino, Mirco Saner, Urs Dahinden and Vinzenz Wyss
Recent developments in the fields of computer science, such as advances in the areas of big data, knowledge extraction, and deep learning, have triggered the application of data-driven research methods to disciplines such as the social sciences and humani... see more
Efstratios Chatzoglou, Georgios Kambourakis and Vasileios Kouliaridis
Using automotive smartphone applications (apps) provided by car manufacturers may offer numerous advantages to the vehicle owner, including improved safety, fuel efficiency, anytime monitoring of vehicle data, and timely over-the-air delivery of software ... see more
Thirupathi Samala, Vijaya Kumar Manupati, Maria Leonilde R. Varela and Goran Putnik
Research on flexible unit systems (FUS) with the context of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis have remarkably progressed in recent times, being now reinforced in the current Industry 4.0 era with the increased focus on integration of dist... see more
Alireza Ahadi, Matt Bower, Abhay Singh and Michael Garrett
As COVID-19 continues to impact upon education worldwide, systems and organizations are rapidly transiting their professional learning to online mode. This raises concerns, not simply about whether online professional learning can result in equivalent out... see more