10 articles in this issue
Chia-Lin Chang, Michael McAleer and Yu-Chieh Wu
This paper is the first to investigate the effect of industrial penetration (geographic concentration of industries) and internet intensity (the proportion of enterprises that uses the internet) for Taiwan manufacturing firms, and analyses whether the rel... see more
Bo Sun, Ming Wei and Senlai Zhu
This paper presents a mixed-integer linear programming model for demand-responsive feeder transit services to assign vehicles located at different depots to pick up passengers at the demand points and transport them to the rail station. The proposed model... see more
Yu Wu, Jessica Kropczynski, Raquel Prates and John M. Carroll
In recent years, software developers have started to appropriate GitHub repositories to curate resources, in order to systematically select, evaluate, and organize existing artifacts for preservation and future use. Curation behaviors in social media site... see more
Dino Giuli
Jani Suomalainen, Kimmo Ahola, Mikko Majanen, Olli Mämmelä and Pekka Ruuska
Fifth generation (5G) technologies will boost the capacity and ease the management of mobile networks. Emerging virtualization and softwarization technologies enable more flexible customization of network services and facilitate cooperation between differ... see more
Yibin Ruan and Jiazhu Dai
Deep neural network has achieved great progress on tasks involving complex abstract concepts. However, there exist adversarial perturbations, which are imperceptible to humans, which can tremendously undermine the performance of deep neural network classi... see more
Tehseen Ul Hassan, Fei Gao, Babur Jalal and Sheeraz Arif
The overlay integration of low-power femtocells over macrocells in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) plays an important role in dealing with the increasing demand of spectral efficiency, coverage and higher data rates, at a nominal cost to network operator... see more
Virginia Pilloni
We are living in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, namely Industry 4.0. This paper presents the main aspects related to Industry 4.0, the technologies that will enable this revolution, and the main application domains that will be affected by i... see more
Sufian Hameed and Hassan Ahmed Khan
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has proved itself to be a backbone in the new network design and is quickly becoming an industry standard. The idea of separation of control plane and data plane is the key concept behind SDN. SDN not only allows us to pr... see more
Ewerton L. S. Oliveira, Davide Orrù, Luca Morreale, Tiago P. Nascimento and Andrea Bonarini
Physically-Interactive RoboGames (PIRG) are an emerging application whose aim is to develop robotic agents able to interact and engage humans in a game situation. In this framework, learning a model of players’ activity is relevant both to understand thei... see more