11 articles in this issue
Yue Li, Xutao Wang and Pengjian Xu
Text classification is of importance in natural language processing, as the massive text information containing huge amounts of value needs to be classified into different categories for further use. In order to better classify text, our paper tries to bu... see more
Jialu Xu and Feiyue Ye
With the explosion of web information, search engines have become main tools in information retrieval. However, most queries submitted in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Understanding the queries and mining query intention is critical for searc... see more
Anping Song, Zuoyu Wu, Xuehai Ding, Qian Hu and Xinyi Di
Facial nerve paralysis (FNP) is the most common form of facial nerve damage, which leads to significant physical pain and abnormal function in patients. Traditional FNP detection methods are based on visual diagnosis, which relies solely on the physician’... see more
Linbo Zhai and Wenwen Jiang
In recent years, the laboratory security of universities has become an important issue for students and devices. To solve this security issue, this paper proposes an intelligent monitoring system to realize environment detection in university laboratories... see more
Roger Giddings, Xiao Duan, Ehab Al-Rawachy and Mingzhi Mao
Optical access networks, metro networks and mobile data networks are facing rapidly evolving demands, not only is it essential to satisfy the unyielding need for increased user bandwidths, but future networks must also support the growing wide variation i... see more
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, George Kousis, Athina Thanou, Ioanna Lykourentzou and Symeon Papavassiliou
This paper addresses the problem of museum visitors’ Quality of Experience (QoE) optimization by viewing and treating the museum environment as a cyber-physical social system. To achieve this goal, we harness visitors’ internal ability to intelligently se... see more
Yannis Nikoloudakis, Spyridon Panagiotakis, Thrasivoulos Manios, Evangelos Markakis and Evangelos Pallis
Composting is the delicate procedure of supervised decomposition of organic waste, which gradually transforms waste to nutrient-rich manure. It requires deep knowledge and constant attention by experts to achieve a quality outcome in a timely fashion. Nev... see more
Wusheng Ji, Li Li and Weiwei Zhou
In order to put Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in a hybrid system, this paper presents the design and implementation of a RFID reader/router that can obtain information of both RFID tags and WSN sensor nodes and tr... see more
YangQun Li
The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly part of daily life. However, the development of IoT applications still faces many problems, such as heterogeneity, complex management, and other difficulties. In this paper, first, the open source technologies ... see more
Chuang Wang, Xu’nan Chen, Abdel-Hamid Ali Soliman and Zhixiang Zhu
RFID (radio frequency identification) is widely used in the manufacturing processes of enterprises. At the same time, with the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) systems began to evolve into cloud MES systems. In this pap... see more
Simona Ibba, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Michele Marchesi and Roberto Tonelli
An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is an innovative way to fund projects based on blockchain. The funding is based on the selling of tokens by means of decentralized applications called smart contracts written in Solidity, a programming language specific for ... see more