Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering & Technology (ICSISCET-2019) (Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, India, 2-3 November 2019) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:
29 June 2019
Special issue published: "Data-Driven Structural Damage Identification and Performance Assessment"
International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering 3(2) 2019
- Lifetime wave overtopping assessment of coastal defences under changing environments
- Structural damage identification of steel-concrete composite bridge under temperature effects based on cuckoo search
- Acquisition of thermal field of spatial steel structure based on temperature measurements
- Structural damage detection using wavelet packet transform combining with principal component analysis
- Comparative studies on structural damage detection using Lp norm regularisation
- Identification of unknown inputs considering structural parametric uncertainties
International Journal of Powertrains to invite expanded papers from International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication Technologies (ISAECT2019) for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication Technologies (ISAECT2019) (27-29 November 2019, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Powertrains.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology are now available here for free:
- Big data multi-query optimisation with Apache Flink
- Rational graph: a model for complex networks
- Q-DWSO: hybrid approach for QoS-aware dynamic web services orchestration
- A survey on automation of security requirements in service-based business processes
28 June 2019
Special issue published: "Business Innovation and Global Markets (SMICBES 2018)"
International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 12(2) 2019
- The role of entrepreneurial orientation in intervening the relationship between social media usage and performance enhancement of exporter SMEs in Indonesia
- Improving service excellence on passenger ships in Indonesia
- Palung salt in Bali: strategies for the local product to penetrate global markets
- The meaning of business success: Moslem women entrepreneur in Surakarta
- Expatriate career development: self efficacy, multicultural personality, collective efficacy, and individual expatriate performance
- Predicting financial distress probability of Indonesian plantation and mining firms
- System advantage strategy framework: a literature review
Research pick: Criminal cybersquatters - "Cyber-squatting: a cyber crime more than an unethical act"
Cybersquatting was rife in the early days of the World Web of the 1990s. An individual would register a domain name that was perhaps associated with an organisation or company and even a trademarked term. The cybersquatter might then use the domain for their own purposes whatever they might be or endeavour to sell the domain to the organisation. At first, it was unclear whether cybersquatting was illegal. Laws were tightened, domain registrars would take a dim view of such activity and commonly the domain would be handed over to what would appear to be the more legitimate owner. However, there are blurred lines when it comes to generic terms rather than company names or trademarks.
Some pundits perceive cybersquatting as unethical. It still goes on. Others suggest that it is beyond unethical it is criminal. Writing in the International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, a team from India suggests that cybersquatting, rather than being an artefact of an immature Web of a quarter of a century ago, is still rife and exploitative. The team offers many examples of cybersquatting and highlights how the activity is detrimental to the growth of the internet and society as a whole.
There may well be instances where cybersquatting was intentional. This author can point to a US government website that has essentially hijacked the name of a well-known personal and commercial website for its own use by using the domain with the .gov suffix where the .com already existed!
The team points out that there are no useful methods to prevent cybersquatting and in India and elsewhere it is increasing on a daily basis as new companies emerge only to find that the most pertinent domain for the website has been taken by a third party. There is a need to increase awareness of the problem before algorithms could be implemented at the registrar level to help preclude this unethical and often criminal activity on the internet.
Chandra, R. and Bhatnagar, V. (2019) ‘Cyber-squatting: a cyber crime more than an unethical act‘, Int. J. Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.146-150.
Some pundits perceive cybersquatting as unethical. It still goes on. Others suggest that it is beyond unethical it is criminal. Writing in the International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, a team from India suggests that cybersquatting, rather than being an artefact of an immature Web of a quarter of a century ago, is still rife and exploitative. The team offers many examples of cybersquatting and highlights how the activity is detrimental to the growth of the internet and society as a whole.
There may well be instances where cybersquatting was intentional. This author can point to a US government website that has essentially hijacked the name of a well-known personal and commercial website for its own use by using the domain with the .gov suffix where the .com already existed!
The team points out that there are no useful methods to prevent cybersquatting and in India and elsewhere it is increasing on a daily basis as new companies emerge only to find that the most pertinent domain for the website has been taken by a third party. There is a need to increase awareness of the problem before algorithms could be implemented at the registrar level to help preclude this unethical and often criminal activity on the internet.
Chandra, R. and Bhatnagar, V. (2019) ‘Cyber-squatting: a cyber crime more than an unethical act‘, Int. J. Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.146-150.
27 June 2019
International Journal of Society Systems Science to invite expanded papers from AICTE sponsored International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (RCHI-2019) for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the AICTE sponsored International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (RCHI-2019) (12-13 December 2019, Tamil Nadu, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Society Systems Science.
Special issue published: "Business and Economic Challenges in the Post-Great Recession: Global Economy and Business at a Crossroads"
International Journal of Business and Globalisation 22(4) 2019
- Lessons learned from the global recession - redesigned framework of key macroeconomic policies
- Monetary aggregation theory and nominal GDP targeting
- Contagion channels of the financial crisis towards Maghreb countries
- Working capital management and firm profitability: evidence from emerging markets
- Financial dynamics of energy companies during global economic crisis
- A synthesis of empirical research on the validity of Wagner's law
- Comparative analysis of economic systems' goals: ranking approach
- The role of the government in enhancing sustainable entrepreneurships
- Drivers for eco-innovation in firms: an exploratory study in Spain
- Cooperatives and crisis: economic dynamics in Italian context
- On the assessment of regional intellectual and innovation activities based on measurement theory methods and panel data regression analysis
- Higher education: should other countries follow the US model?
- Education expenditures and human capital: can austerity compromise growth in Portugal?
- The role of innovations in fostering economic growth: an empirical analysis for selected CEE countries
Research pick: Playing at physiotherapy - "A review of the use of new technologies in physical therapy rehabilitation: possibilities and challenges with Xbox and kinect"
Gaming technology can assist with physical therapy and rehabilitation, according to a team from Brazil. Writing in the International Journal of Auditing Technology, the team discusses the potential for the Microsoft Xbox games console and its motion sensor system, Kinect. The team has reviewed the use of this technology in the rehabilitation arena and concludes from their analysis, that the system has a positive role to play.
Ivo Pedro Gonzalez Junior, Fábio Madureira Garcia, Karla Souza Caggy Costa da Silva, Fernanda Xavier Ferreira, Jaqueline Ribeiro da Silva and Wylena Monteiro das Chagas of the Faculdade Adventista da Bahia, Brazil, point out that there have been many advances in the techniques, methods, resources, and instruments used to enable improvements in patient treatment and to reduce the time taken for an individual to return to “normal” life following injury, accident, surgery, or acute medical condition, such as non-lethal cerebral or spinal stroke.
The team points out that the games available promote movement, particular of the upper limbs and upper body, but perhaps more importantly than that “games tend to make patients momentarily forget their limitations and move motivated by the fun and immersive factor.” This is a crucial insight into the development and further implementation of gaming technology for physiotherapy in a wide range of conditions. Moreover, where conventional physiotherapy may be perceived as a boring necessity and see many patients skip sessions through lack of motivation, the gaming approach could, for many, avoid the sinking into apathy and provide its own motivation for engaging with the therapy and improving patient outcomes.
Gonzalez Jr., I.P., Garcia, F.M., da Silva, K.S.C.C., Ferreira, F.X., da Silva, J.R. and das Chagas, W.M. (2018) ‘A review of the use of new technologies in physical therapy rehabilitation: possibilities and challenges with Xbox and kinect‘, Int. J. Auditing Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.1-15.
Ivo Pedro Gonzalez Junior, Fábio Madureira Garcia, Karla Souza Caggy Costa da Silva, Fernanda Xavier Ferreira, Jaqueline Ribeiro da Silva and Wylena Monteiro das Chagas of the Faculdade Adventista da Bahia, Brazil, point out that there have been many advances in the techniques, methods, resources, and instruments used to enable improvements in patient treatment and to reduce the time taken for an individual to return to “normal” life following injury, accident, surgery, or acute medical condition, such as non-lethal cerebral or spinal stroke.
The team points out that the games available promote movement, particular of the upper limbs and upper body, but perhaps more importantly than that “games tend to make patients momentarily forget their limitations and move motivated by the fun and immersive factor.” This is a crucial insight into the development and further implementation of gaming technology for physiotherapy in a wide range of conditions. Moreover, where conventional physiotherapy may be perceived as a boring necessity and see many patients skip sessions through lack of motivation, the gaming approach could, for many, avoid the sinking into apathy and provide its own motivation for engaging with the therapy and improving patient outcomes.
Gonzalez Jr., I.P., Garcia, F.M., da Silva, K.S.C.C., Ferreira, F.X., da Silva, J.R. and das Chagas, W.M. (2018) ‘A review of the use of new technologies in physical therapy rehabilitation: possibilities and challenges with Xbox and kinect‘, Int. J. Auditing Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.1-15.
26 June 2019
Research pick: Private targeted advertising - "Privacy-preserving targeted online advertising"
Is it plausible to develop targeted online marketing that does not impinge on the consumer’s privacy? Of course, the dilemma is that in order to show putative customers advertisements that are likely to hit the mark rather than random enticements, the advertiser needs to know something about the putative customer’s interests, tastes, personality, and other factors. Many see the acquisition of such information as worrying and there are now many places where gathering personal and private data would be in breach of local laws.
Writing in the International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, a team from India discusses the very possibility of privacy-preserving, but nevertheless, targeted advertising. Ainish Dave, Hardik Gajera, and Manik Lal Das of DA-IICT, in Gandhinagar, India, explain that targeted advertising is very attractive to sellers, because its success is likely to be greater than non-targeted, almost advertising. They too worry about a consumer’s private data getting into the hands of third parties. As such, they are developing a new model for targeting that does not compromise one’s privacy.
In the new approach, only keywords are extracted from the user’s browser history and these are encrypted homomorphically before being stored within the system to allow a targeted advertisement to be selected for that user without their personal data being acquired and stored on the advertising company’s servers and without anyone actually knowing what keywords were used to pull in the advertisement. Tests so far show that it is efficient and practical even when compared to other available advertising technology. “The security analysis of the proposed scheme shows that the scheme is secure with the hardness assumption of approximate-GCD problem, which is an intractable problem,” the team reports.
Dave, A., Gajera, H. and Das, M.L. (2019) ‘Privacy-preserving targeted online advertising‘, Int. J. Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.132-145.
Writing in the International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, a team from India discusses the very possibility of privacy-preserving, but nevertheless, targeted advertising. Ainish Dave, Hardik Gajera, and Manik Lal Das of DA-IICT, in Gandhinagar, India, explain that targeted advertising is very attractive to sellers, because its success is likely to be greater than non-targeted, almost advertising. They too worry about a consumer’s private data getting into the hands of third parties. As such, they are developing a new model for targeting that does not compromise one’s privacy.
In the new approach, only keywords are extracted from the user’s browser history and these are encrypted homomorphically before being stored within the system to allow a targeted advertisement to be selected for that user without their personal data being acquired and stored on the advertising company’s servers and without anyone actually knowing what keywords were used to pull in the advertisement. Tests so far show that it is efficient and practical even when compared to other available advertising technology. “The security analysis of the proposed scheme shows that the scheme is secure with the hardness assumption of approximate-GCD problem, which is an intractable problem,” the team reports.
Dave, A., Gajera, H. and Das, M.L. (2019) ‘Privacy-preserving targeted online advertising‘, Int. J. Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.132-145.
25 June 2019
Research pick: How does science feed patents? - "How patent experts create patent breadth"
Science feeds into patents and thence to economic growth. However, our understanding of the details of this transformation is limited. An analysis of twelve scientific discoveries carried out using an inductive grounded theory approach aims to fill the gaps. Karin Beukel of the Unit for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management, in the Department for Food and Resource Economics, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, explains all in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.
Beukel recasts the relationship between scientific discovery and patent showing that there are particular processes that affect “patent breadth”. Patenting experts can exploit the surplus patent breadth depending on the abstraction and cognitive variety within the patent. Her findings confirm that science acts as an input for technological advances, as one might expect. However, it has to be underpinned by foundations that allow the discovery to be explored and exploited.
Fundamentally, says Beukel, “the direction of how to exploit a scientific invention must be determined early in the process, immediately after scientific discovery, in order to guide the inventor and IP owner through the patent examination process.” Many years of anecdote suggests that this is indeed the case.
The research also shows that academia is not always best suited to the processing of scientific discovery to patent and that academic scientists, often through lack of awareness and knowledge of the patent process, will take a fragmented approach to sealing their intellectual property in a patent. This can mean less than great success for the invention or even failure, but also in a more esoteric sense a simple lack of patent breadth that means the potential of the discovery is not exploited to the full.
Beukel, K. (2019) ‘How patent experts create patent breadth‘, Int. J. Intellectual Property Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.91-119.
Beukel recasts the relationship between scientific discovery and patent showing that there are particular processes that affect “patent breadth”. Patenting experts can exploit the surplus patent breadth depending on the abstraction and cognitive variety within the patent. Her findings confirm that science acts as an input for technological advances, as one might expect. However, it has to be underpinned by foundations that allow the discovery to be explored and exploited.
Fundamentally, says Beukel, “the direction of how to exploit a scientific invention must be determined early in the process, immediately after scientific discovery, in order to guide the inventor and IP owner through the patent examination process.” Many years of anecdote suggests that this is indeed the case.
The research also shows that academia is not always best suited to the processing of scientific discovery to patent and that academic scientists, often through lack of awareness and knowledge of the patent process, will take a fragmented approach to sealing their intellectual property in a patent. This can mean less than great success for the invention or even failure, but also in a more esoteric sense a simple lack of patent breadth that means the potential of the discovery is not exploited to the full.
Beukel, K. (2019) ‘How patent experts create patent breadth‘, Int. J. Intellectual Property Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.91-119.
21 June 2019
Special issue published: "Cyberspace Security Protection, Risk Assessment and Management"
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 19(2) 2019
- Hybrid design for cloud data security using combination of AES, ECC and LSB steganography
- CSCAC: one constant-size CPABE access control scheme in trusted execution environment
- Recognising continuous emotions in dialogues based on DISfluencies and non-verbal vocalisation features for a safer network environment
- PM-LPDR: a prediction model for lost packets based on data reconstruction on lossy links in sensor networks
- An information network security policy learning algorithm based on Sarsa with optimistic initial values
- Evaluation of borrower's credit of P2P loan based on adaptive particle swarm optimisation BP neural network
- An approach for public cloud trustworthiness assessment based on users' evaluation and performance indicators
- A novel computational model for SRAM PUF min-entropy estimation
- Design of DDoS attack detection system based on intelligent bee colony algorithm
- LWE-based multi-authority attribute-based encryption scheme with hidden policies
- A secure hierarchical community detection algorithm
- Efficient security credential management for named data networking
- A network traffic-aware mobile application recommendation system based on network traffic cost consideration
- Pseudo Zernike moments-based approach for text detection and localisation from lecture videos
- Optimisation model of price changes after knowledge transfer in the big data environment
- Kernel-based tensor discriminant analysis with fuzzy fusion for face recognition
- A blind image watermarking algorithm based on amalgamation domain method
Research pick: Spotting the bot on the move - "Mobile botnets detection based on machine learning over system calls"
Researchers from Brazil and Portugal are developing the tools to detect malicious networks, botnets, on mobile phones based on machine learning. They provide details in the International Journal of Security and Networks.
A botnet is defined as an ad hoc network of Internet-connected devices control of which is usually taken for malicious purposes. Often a botnet controller will use the network to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) on another system, which might allow them to then gain access to the upper echelons or a corporate network, government computers, or other important data stores. They can use a botnet to steal data from organizations or individuals send spam and carry out phishing attacks to compromise many users’ email accounts, bank websites, and more.
Mobile internet devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are now almost ubiquitous, and so have become common targets for those who wish to exploit the vulnerabilities of such devices for criminal or malicious intent through the surreptitious recruitment of those devices into a botnet. Staying ahead of the malware so that devices are protected from attack and being taken over requires sophisticated defence technology.
The Brazilian team has found that it can achieve a high performance of some 84% in detecting botnet activity based on the similarity of “system calls” from different pieces of malware that would otherwise exploit a mobile device. The machine learning requires it to examine only 19 features of putative botnet characteristics, which makes it much faster than the prototype algorithm which needed 133 parameters. This means that the presence of a botnet can be detected within a second and so be blocked very quickly by associated protective software on the device before any real damage is done.
Turrisi da Costa, V.G., Barbon Jr., S., Miani, R.S., Rodrigues, J.J.P.C. and Zarpelão, B.B. (2019) ‘Mobile botnets detection based on machine learning over system calls‘, Int. J. Security and Networks, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.103-118.
A botnet is defined as an ad hoc network of Internet-connected devices control of which is usually taken for malicious purposes. Often a botnet controller will use the network to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) on another system, which might allow them to then gain access to the upper echelons or a corporate network, government computers, or other important data stores. They can use a botnet to steal data from organizations or individuals send spam and carry out phishing attacks to compromise many users’ email accounts, bank websites, and more.
Mobile internet devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are now almost ubiquitous, and so have become common targets for those who wish to exploit the vulnerabilities of such devices for criminal or malicious intent through the surreptitious recruitment of those devices into a botnet. Staying ahead of the malware so that devices are protected from attack and being taken over requires sophisticated defence technology.
The Brazilian team has found that it can achieve a high performance of some 84% in detecting botnet activity based on the similarity of “system calls” from different pieces of malware that would otherwise exploit a mobile device. The machine learning requires it to examine only 19 features of putative botnet characteristics, which makes it much faster than the prototype algorithm which needed 133 parameters. This means that the presence of a botnet can be detected within a second and so be blocked very quickly by associated protective software on the device before any real damage is done.
Turrisi da Costa, V.G., Barbon Jr., S., Miani, R.S., Rodrigues, J.J.P.C. and Zarpelão, B.B. (2019) ‘Mobile botnets detection based on machine learning over system calls‘, Int. J. Security and Networks, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.103-118.
20 June 2019
Research pick: Crowdfunding your wine cellar - "Crowdfunding in wine business as financing opportunity for smaller wineries"
Crowdfunding in the wine business could represent a useful opportunity for small wineries, allowing them to garner the necessary funds to make their speciality product for a discerning and engaged clientele.
Giuseppe Festa, Gerardino Metallo, and Maria Teresa Cuomo of the Department of Economic and Statistical Sciences at the University of Salerno, in Salerno, Italy and Mario Situm of the Institute for Corporate Restructuring, at FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences, in Kufstein, Austria, address the notion in the International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business.
Crowdfunding is the practice of financing a venture through raising small amounts of money from a lot of people, usually via social media and the Internet. It has been used by authors, musicians, artists, scientists, charities, and organizations very successfully. The incentives for the funders can vary enormously and are often correlated with the size of their donation. For example, an author might crowdfund the publication of their book and offer smaller donors a free copy of the published first edition, a slightly bigger donation might get the donor a signed copy, bigger still and additional materials and merchandise might be offered or perhaps access to “secret” details, such as videos or short stories or background essays from the author. Sometimes, there might be an opportunity to receive a credit in the publication for a large donation or perhaps the opportunity to meet the author.
The extension of such a concept to winemaking has obvious benefits. The small winery gets the necessary funding to grow their grapes and make their wine. The donors get to drink the wine they helped make and perhaps get a tour of the vineyard, they might also have the opportunity of a share of the profits instead of the wine. There are a limited number of crowdfunding sites aimed at wineries and their consumers. However, the concept is expanding in offering donors involvement, engagement, and commitment at different levels
The researchers caution that in this relatively new world of wine crowdfunding, those involved at the winery side, the wine entrepreneurs and managers, need to constantly provide and communicating effectively with their donors to ensure positive sentiment and ongoing commitment, especially given that wine-making is not a one-off event as publishing a book might be, but an annual task.
Festa, G., Metallo, G., Cuomo, M.T. and Situm, M. (2019) ‘Crowdfunding in wine business as financing opportunity for smaller wineries‘, Int. J. Globalisation and Small Business, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.278-292.
Giuseppe Festa, Gerardino Metallo, and Maria Teresa Cuomo of the Department of Economic and Statistical Sciences at the University of Salerno, in Salerno, Italy and Mario Situm of the Institute for Corporate Restructuring, at FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences, in Kufstein, Austria, address the notion in the International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business.
Crowdfunding is the practice of financing a venture through raising small amounts of money from a lot of people, usually via social media and the Internet. It has been used by authors, musicians, artists, scientists, charities, and organizations very successfully. The incentives for the funders can vary enormously and are often correlated with the size of their donation. For example, an author might crowdfund the publication of their book and offer smaller donors a free copy of the published first edition, a slightly bigger donation might get the donor a signed copy, bigger still and additional materials and merchandise might be offered or perhaps access to “secret” details, such as videos or short stories or background essays from the author. Sometimes, there might be an opportunity to receive a credit in the publication for a large donation or perhaps the opportunity to meet the author.
The extension of such a concept to winemaking has obvious benefits. The small winery gets the necessary funding to grow their grapes and make their wine. The donors get to drink the wine they helped make and perhaps get a tour of the vineyard, they might also have the opportunity of a share of the profits instead of the wine. There are a limited number of crowdfunding sites aimed at wineries and their consumers. However, the concept is expanding in offering donors involvement, engagement, and commitment at different levels
The researchers caution that in this relatively new world of wine crowdfunding, those involved at the winery side, the wine entrepreneurs and managers, need to constantly provide and communicating effectively with their donors to ensure positive sentiment and ongoing commitment, especially given that wine-making is not a one-off event as publishing a book might be, but an annual task.
Festa, G., Metallo, G., Cuomo, M.T. and Situm, M. (2019) ‘Crowdfunding in wine business as financing opportunity for smaller wineries‘, Int. J. Globalisation and Small Business, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.278-292.
19 June 2019
International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence to invite expanded papers from 7th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (29 October - 1 November, 2019, Fez, Morocco) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation are now available here for free:
- Trade concentration and dynamics of the Norwegian imports: an application of R-MANOVA model
- How logistics performance promote the international trade volume? A comparative analysis of developing and developed countries
- Enablers of warning and recovery capabilities in supply chains: an empirical study
- Determinants of profitability in the Indian logistics industry
- Reverse logistics operations in a pharmaceutical retail environment
Special issue published: "Emerging Learning Tools and Approaches"
International Journal of Services and Standards 12(3/4) 2018
- Examining a WeChat-supported 5E-flipped classroom pedagogical approach
- Using wine appreciation apps for students to study wines
- Technological, institutional and situational influences on student persistence
- Guiding principles of visual-based programming for children's language learning
- Implementing learning analytics in higher education: the case of Asia
- The impact of ICT on financial inclusion: evidence from Arab countries
- Managing expatriate knowledge sharing process: the roles of source and recipient contexts
- Exploring the service recovery landscape through the lens of a systemigram
Research pick: Spinning star scientists - "Impact of regional systems of innovation on the formation of university spin-offs by biomedical star scientists"
Scientists at a research university often play a formative role in the commercialization of intellectual property and inventions emerging from their laboratories. Often, the “spinning off” of a startup company will be to the benefit of society as a whole particularly in the biomedical research areas where innovation might have a significant impact on human health.
Writing in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, V.J. Thomas of the School of Business at The University of the Fraser Valley, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and Elicia Maine of the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada, discuss the impact of regional startups on innovation when those scientists are star players in their field. They point out that regional effects can promote or restrain those star scientists to the benefit or detriment of the spinoff company and that such effects must be managed if entrepreneurship is to be fostered.
The research points to four recommendations for fostering spinoffs. First, there needs to be a focus on developing technology transfer and intellectual property policies that support inventors and align the long-term interests of the scientist-entrepreneur, the university and the regional system of innovation. Secondly, there has to be targeted funding for faculty and student research with commercial potential. Thirdly, research partnerships with local anchor companies must be built to generate positive feedback loops. Finally, encourage an entrepreneurial mindset should be encouraged among science, technology, engineering, and medical (STEM) students through entrepreneurship training and business plan competitions.
“Developing an entrepreneurial culture within universities can contribute not just to university spin-off formation but can fuel growth in the regional, national and global economy,” the team writes.
Thomas, V.J. and Maine, E. (2019) ‘Impact of regional systems of innovation on the formation of university spin-offs by biomedical star scientists‘, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp.271-287.
Writing in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, V.J. Thomas of the School of Business at The University of the Fraser Valley, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and Elicia Maine of the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada, discuss the impact of regional startups on innovation when those scientists are star players in their field. They point out that regional effects can promote or restrain those star scientists to the benefit or detriment of the spinoff company and that such effects must be managed if entrepreneurship is to be fostered.
The research points to four recommendations for fostering spinoffs. First, there needs to be a focus on developing technology transfer and intellectual property policies that support inventors and align the long-term interests of the scientist-entrepreneur, the university and the regional system of innovation. Secondly, there has to be targeted funding for faculty and student research with commercial potential. Thirdly, research partnerships with local anchor companies must be built to generate positive feedback loops. Finally, encourage an entrepreneurial mindset should be encouraged among science, technology, engineering, and medical (STEM) students through entrepreneurship training and business plan competitions.
“Developing an entrepreneurial culture within universities can contribute not just to university spin-off formation but can fuel growth in the regional, national and global economy,” the team writes.
Thomas, V.J. and Maine, E. (2019) ‘Impact of regional systems of innovation on the formation of university spin-offs by biomedical star scientists‘, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp.271-287.
18 June 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Auditing Technology
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Auditing Technology are now available here for free:
- The US$ 2.1 billion derivative loss that ruined the Brazilian Aracruz
- Innovation networks: the effects of collaboration in the oil and gas industries
- Firm's financial risk vulnerability: evidence from Nigeria
- Triple entry ledgers with blockchain for auditing
Special issue published: "Decision Support Systems in Commerce, Logistics and Transportation"
International Journal of Decision Support Systems 3(3/4) 2018
- Using Kano's model to incorporate Six Sigma analysis in customer satisfaction measurement
- A multicriteria decision support approach for redesigning e-learning systems
- Identifying risks factors of students' failure in e-learning systems: towards a warning system
- Decision support systems for strategic information systems planning: an approach for logistics strategic management
- Analysis of gas pipeline system from a European energy security perspective
- Diving into online ratings to determine hotels' improvement priorities
- Ground enhancing compound selection using genetic programming
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management
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- New industrial platforms and radical technology foresight: the case of 3D printing in Finland and Europe
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- How do fab-spaces enable entrepreneurship? Case studies of 'makers' - entrepreneurs
- The cash is in the medium, not in the machine: toward the golden moments of 3D printing
Research pick: Shields up to beat global warming - "Efficiency evaluation of huge space shield for mitigating global warming"
Might an enormous orbiting “shield” be one way to combat the rising temperatures around the world caused by elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels? Writing in the International Journal of Global Warming, a team in China has done the calculations and they suggest it might be possible to lower average global temperatures by a third of a degree Celsius with such a shield. This could have a significant, low-cost impact on climate change when we consider that fractions of a degree rises in temperature are already causing serious problems at the Earth’s extreme environments.
Jie He of the School of Mechanical Engineering, at Xi’an Aeronautical University, in Shaanxi and Fei Zheng of the School of Electromechanical Engineering, at Xidian University also in Shaanxi, outline the details in their paper. There have been numerous suggestions for how we might combat the effects of rising atmospheric carbon concentrations due to the ever-increasing industrialization of the world and our seemingly insatiable appetite for burning fossil fuels whether coal, oil, or natural gas.
Many of the schemes involving taxing emissions to make it prohibitively expensive to burn fossil fuels. Other approaches involve finding ways to sequester carbon dioxide from exhaust gases or the atmosphere as a whole. There are schemes where developed nations can offset their carbon emissions by financing more sustainable options – wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric – in the developing world. Large-scale engineering – geo-engineering – also has its schemes for reversing the effects by seeding the oceans with iron to help cultivate algae that can absorb carbon dioxide.
Then, there is the off-planet approach being addressed by He and Zheng. At first, such a scheme – essentially putting in place a giant parasol to shield our planet to some degree from the sun – seems farfetched, the stuff of futuristic science fiction and yet it has many merits, the team argues. The team has tested successfully a much-reduced scale model of such a shield, just 2 metres in diameter. The concept of the shield being a controllable spacecraft that shifts in its orbit depending on what region of the planet needs shielding at a given time over the course of the day will be considered in future work.
He, J. and Zheng, F. (2019) ‘Efficiency evaluation of huge space shield for mitigating global warming‘, Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp.1-15.
Jie He of the School of Mechanical Engineering, at Xi’an Aeronautical University, in Shaanxi and Fei Zheng of the School of Electromechanical Engineering, at Xidian University also in Shaanxi, outline the details in their paper. There have been numerous suggestions for how we might combat the effects of rising atmospheric carbon concentrations due to the ever-increasing industrialization of the world and our seemingly insatiable appetite for burning fossil fuels whether coal, oil, or natural gas.
Many of the schemes involving taxing emissions to make it prohibitively expensive to burn fossil fuels. Other approaches involve finding ways to sequester carbon dioxide from exhaust gases or the atmosphere as a whole. There are schemes where developed nations can offset their carbon emissions by financing more sustainable options – wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric – in the developing world. Large-scale engineering – geo-engineering – also has its schemes for reversing the effects by seeding the oceans with iron to help cultivate algae that can absorb carbon dioxide.
Then, there is the off-planet approach being addressed by He and Zheng. At first, such a scheme – essentially putting in place a giant parasol to shield our planet to some degree from the sun – seems farfetched, the stuff of futuristic science fiction and yet it has many merits, the team argues. The team has tested successfully a much-reduced scale model of such a shield, just 2 metres in diameter. The concept of the shield being a controllable spacecraft that shifts in its orbit depending on what region of the planet needs shielding at a given time over the course of the day will be considered in future work.
He, J. and Zheng, F. (2019) ‘Efficiency evaluation of huge space shield for mitigating global warming‘, Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp.1-15.
14 June 2019
International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing to invite expanded papers from International Conference on International Conference on Information Management & Machine Intelligence (ICIMMI-2019) for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on International Conference on Information Management & Machine Intelligence (ICIMMI-2019) (14-15 December 2019, Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing.
Research pick: Surgical Skype - "Post-surgical continuity of care from home using social media in a resource limited country"
In a country with limited resources, might social media be useful in the post-surgical care of patients in their own homes? That is the question researchers from India hope to answer with their research just published in the International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices.
Naval Bansal of Fortis, in Mohali, India, and colleagues Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Saroj Kanta Mishra, Gyan Chand, Anjali Mishra, Gaurav Agarwal, Amit Agarwal, and Ashok Kumar Verma of the Department of Endocrine Surgery, at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, in Lucknow, India, discuss their feasibility study in this context. The team followed more than one hundred thyroidectomy patients who were offered some of their follow-up care via Microsoft’s well-known voice over internet (VoIP) application, Skype. In detail, 76 of the patients had Internet access and of those 51 opted for conventional follow up and 25 patients consented to have tele-follow up using the software.
The team found that distance from the treating hospital was the most significant factor in choosing Skype follow up. Moreover, those who opted for Skype tended to be better educated, with a degree or postgraduate degree. Everyone who opted for Skype follow-up saved money and work days by avoiding the need to take time to re-visit the hospital. “Even in resource constrained countries, social media can provide an alternative mode of healthcare delivery,” the team suggests. There remains a need to instill confidence in such an approach for the less well-educated and for those who see face-to-face care as a better choice.
Of course, there will be times when a Skype follow-up would be inadequate at which times patients would have to visit their healthcare worker or receive physical as opposed to virtual care in their home.
Bansal, N., Yadav, S.K., Mishra, S.K., Chand, G., Mishra, A., Agarwal, G., Agarwal, A. and Verma, A.K. (2019) ‘Post-surgical continuity of care from home using social media in a resource limited country‘, Int. J. Telemedicine and Clinical Practices, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.156-164.
Naval Bansal of Fortis, in Mohali, India, and colleagues Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Saroj Kanta Mishra, Gyan Chand, Anjali Mishra, Gaurav Agarwal, Amit Agarwal, and Ashok Kumar Verma of the Department of Endocrine Surgery, at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, in Lucknow, India, discuss their feasibility study in this context. The team followed more than one hundred thyroidectomy patients who were offered some of their follow-up care via Microsoft’s well-known voice over internet (VoIP) application, Skype. In detail, 76 of the patients had Internet access and of those 51 opted for conventional follow up and 25 patients consented to have tele-follow up using the software.
The team found that distance from the treating hospital was the most significant factor in choosing Skype follow up. Moreover, those who opted for Skype tended to be better educated, with a degree or postgraduate degree. Everyone who opted for Skype follow-up saved money and work days by avoiding the need to take time to re-visit the hospital. “Even in resource constrained countries, social media can provide an alternative mode of healthcare delivery,” the team suggests. There remains a need to instill confidence in such an approach for the less well-educated and for those who see face-to-face care as a better choice.
Of course, there will be times when a Skype follow-up would be inadequate at which times patients would have to visit their healthcare worker or receive physical as opposed to virtual care in their home.
Bansal, N., Yadav, S.K., Mishra, S.K., Chand, G., Mishra, A., Agarwal, G., Agarwal, A. and Verma, A.K. (2019) ‘Post-surgical continuity of care from home using social media in a resource limited country‘, Int. J. Telemedicine and Clinical Practices, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.156-164.
13 June 2019
Research pick: How trustworthy is that website? - "Trust evaluation of websites: a comprehensive study"
The internet is ubiquitous and for many people it is part of every aspect of their everyday lives from news and information to finding their way around a new city and from emailing close friends to finding a partner. But, how do we know which websites on the internet are trustworthy in so many different contexts?
Writing in the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Himani Bansal of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India and Shruti Kohli of DWP Digital, in London, UK, suggest that a template is needed to assess the validity of information, this could be a matter of life or death with respect to medication information, they add.
The team has assimilated data from a range of websites that are classified by an external website as being “similar”. They have then aggregated all of the behaviour around those websites and analysed that data to see how the different sites are perceived by the users. They compared their scores for a website’s trustworthiness with assessments of the same websites made by others independently using different tools.
Trust is an essential factor in any relationship if it is to be a positive one and if it is to thrive. There is at the moment no common tool for assessing the trustworthiness of a website. The new approach taken in the present papers offers an alternative that may well allow us to validate websites objectively. Such a system might be interlaced with a search engine or be incorporated into a browser plugin or extension that would offer the user information about the trustworthiness of a site they intend to use.
Bansal, H. and Kohli, S. (2019) ‘Trust evaluation of websites: a comprehensive study‘, Int. J. Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 13, Nos. 1/2, pp.101-112.
Writing in the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Himani Bansal of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India and Shruti Kohli of DWP Digital, in London, UK, suggest that a template is needed to assess the validity of information, this could be a matter of life or death with respect to medication information, they add.
The team has assimilated data from a range of websites that are classified by an external website as being “similar”. They have then aggregated all of the behaviour around those websites and analysed that data to see how the different sites are perceived by the users. They compared their scores for a website’s trustworthiness with assessments of the same websites made by others independently using different tools.
Trust is an essential factor in any relationship if it is to be a positive one and if it is to thrive. There is at the moment no common tool for assessing the trustworthiness of a website. The new approach taken in the present papers offers an alternative that may well allow us to validate websites objectively. Such a system might be interlaced with a search engine or be incorporated into a browser plugin or extension that would offer the user information about the trustworthiness of a site they intend to use.
Bansal, H. and Kohli, S. (2019) ‘Trust evaluation of websites: a comprehensive study‘, Int. J. Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 13, Nos. 1/2, pp.101-112.
12 June 2019
World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development to invite expanded papers from International Conference on Sustainable Development in Energy and Environment (ICSDEE'19) for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Development in Energy and Environment (ICSDEE'19) (18-20 July 2019, Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development.
Special issue published: "Modelling and Control"
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology 60(2) 2019
- Modelling, simulation and control of a class of hybrid dynamic systems: using hybrid automaton, APROS and mixed integer quadratic optimisation algorithm
- Towards compact swarm intelligence: a new compact firefly optimisation technique
- Intelligent power system controller design
- Hybrid chaotic synchronisation between identical and non-identical fractional-order systems
- Sensorless high-order sliding modes vector control for induction motor drive with a new adaptive speed observer using super-twisting strategy
- Novel adaptive iterative observer based on integral backstepping control of a wearable robotic exoskeleton
- Chaos synchronisation of two different PMSMs via a fractional-order sliding mode controller
- Secure communication scheme using chaotic time-varying delayed system
Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal to invite expanded papers from 5th Ibero-American Congress on Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the 5th Ibero-American Congress on Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEEMAT2019) (11-13 September 2019, Portalegre, Portugal) will be invited for review and potential publication by Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal.
Research pick: Julia set encrypts sensitive photos - "A novel encryption compression scheme using Julia sets"
In the late 1980s, Chaos Theory came to the fore in the realm of science popularisation. Strange attractors and the so-called butterfly effect became a part of modern culture. The science was often lost in the wake of beautiful artful representations of the mathematics in the form of colourful fractals that were generated on the computer and revealed the spiralling infinities within. Terms such as the Julia set and the Mandelbrot were scattered around as butterfly wings on the breeze.
Of course, the public fascination may have dwindled as the next trendy discovery came along, but scientists keep working on such things, following the threads that might lead to a new discovery within the coils of those fractals. Now, writing in the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, a team reports how they have used Julia sets and a logistic map to devise a new way to compress and encrypt digital information based on fractals.
Bhagwati Prasad and Kunti Mishra of the Department of Mathematics, at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, in Noida, India, suggest that their success with their proposal could open up a new efficient and secure way to send confidential images, such as those from medical imaging, military, and other multimedia applications.
The team has demonstrated proof of principle with their approach using various medical images, including a conventional chest X-ray, an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan, and a CT (computerised tomography) scan. For these images they were able to compress and encrypt the files by almost ten times.
Prasad, B. and Mishra, K. (2019) ‘A novel encryption compression scheme using Julia sets‘, Int. J. Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 13, Nos. 1/2, pp.8-14.
Of course, the public fascination may have dwindled as the next trendy discovery came along, but scientists keep working on such things, following the threads that might lead to a new discovery within the coils of those fractals. Now, writing in the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, a team reports how they have used Julia sets and a logistic map to devise a new way to compress and encrypt digital information based on fractals.
Bhagwati Prasad and Kunti Mishra of the Department of Mathematics, at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, in Noida, India, suggest that their success with their proposal could open up a new efficient and secure way to send confidential images, such as those from medical imaging, military, and other multimedia applications.
The team has demonstrated proof of principle with their approach using various medical images, including a conventional chest X-ray, an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan, and a CT (computerised tomography) scan. For these images they were able to compress and encrypt the files by almost ten times.
Prasad, B. and Mishra, K. (2019) ‘A novel encryption compression scheme using Julia sets‘, Int. J. Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, Vol. 13, Nos. 1/2, pp.8-14.
11 June 2019
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets to invite expanded papers from 2nd International Conference on "Frontiers of Operations Research & Business Studies (FORBS 2019)" for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on "Frontiers of Operations Research & Business Studies (FORBS 2019)" (27-28 December 2019, Calcutta Business School, West Bengal, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets.
New Editor for International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering
Prof. Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi from Politecnico di Milano in Italy has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering.
First issue: International Journal of Nuclear Safety and Security (free sample issue available)
There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
Research pick: Collective learning online - "The role of social media in collective learning"
Is there a valuable role that social media can play in education? Writing in the International Journal of Innovation and Learning, a research team from Malaysia and Thailand discuss the advent of e-learning and its growth in the early part of this century.
“E-learning combines modern interactive learning methods with knowledge management methods that provide better evaluation of knowledge,” they explain. They add that “Social media has brought revolutionary new ways of interacting, participating, cooperating and collaborating which involve users generating content and connecting with people through a ‘many-to-many’, rather than the traditional ‘one-to-many’, communication approach.”
The question then arises as to what the interplay between e-learning and social media acceptance and use look like. Khalid Abdul Wahid of the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Kelantan, Malaysia, working with colleague Wan Saiful ‘Azzam Wan Ismail there and Haruthai Numprasertchai of Kasetsart University, in Bangkok, Thailand, hoped to lay bare the connections. Fundamentally, their survey of 359 students in Malaysia shows that:
“All antecedents of technology acceptance which included performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating condition have positive significant effect on collective learning except social influence.”
The team points out that universities must provide sufficient infrastructure and those people working around students need to recognise just how much time students spend online. Importantly, students are accessing the internet on campus, but many spend more time online than in face-to-face classes. This has become a normalized scenario and thus it is important that the information and communications technology is in place to support this shift in attitude and activity.
Wahid, K.A., Ismail, W.S.A.W. and Numprasertchai, H. (2019) ‘The role of social media in collective learning’, Int. J. Innovation and Learning, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp.363–376.
“E-learning combines modern interactive learning methods with knowledge management methods that provide better evaluation of knowledge,” they explain. They add that “Social media has brought revolutionary new ways of interacting, participating, cooperating and collaborating which involve users generating content and connecting with people through a ‘many-to-many’, rather than the traditional ‘one-to-many’, communication approach.”
The question then arises as to what the interplay between e-learning and social media acceptance and use look like. Khalid Abdul Wahid of the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Kelantan, Malaysia, working with colleague Wan Saiful ‘Azzam Wan Ismail there and Haruthai Numprasertchai of Kasetsart University, in Bangkok, Thailand, hoped to lay bare the connections. Fundamentally, their survey of 359 students in Malaysia shows that:
“All antecedents of technology acceptance which included performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating condition have positive significant effect on collective learning except social influence.”
The team points out that universities must provide sufficient infrastructure and those people working around students need to recognise just how much time students spend online. Importantly, students are accessing the internet on campus, but many spend more time online than in face-to-face classes. This has become a normalized scenario and thus it is important that the information and communications technology is in place to support this shift in attitude and activity.
Wahid, K.A., Ismail, W.S.A.W. and Numprasertchai, H. (2019) ‘The role of social media in collective learning’, Int. J. Innovation and Learning, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp.363–376.
10 June 2019
Inderscience journals to invite expanded papers from 3rd International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the 3rd International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE) (13-15 June 2019, Skopje, North Macedonia) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Vehicle Design
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Vehicle Design are now available here for free:
- Advanced approach for layshaft gear set synthesis
- Estimation of road transport vehicle dynamic characteristics using random decrement analysis and on-the-road vibration data
- Estimation of tyre forces using smart tyre sensors and artificial intelligence
- Matching and optimising analysis of multi-axle steering vehicle steering system
- Vehicle subsystems' energy losses and model-based approach for fuel efficiency estimation towards an integrated optimisation
- On crashworthiness design of double conical structures under oblique load
- Hybrid powertrain efficiency improvement by using electromagnetically controlled double-clutch transmission
Special issue published: "Financial Resources for SMEs: From Bank Loans to Venture Capitalist Support. The Old and the New Ways to Raise Capital for Smaller Firms"
International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business 10(3) 2019
- When do subsidies facilitate high-tech firms' access to venture capital? An examination of cross-national and national grants
- How did the global financial crisis impact the determinants of SMEs' capital structure?
- Venture capitalists and value creation: the role of informal investors in the growth of smaller European firms
- Smaller firms and public equity: new platforms with old problems
- Crowdfunding in wine business as financing opportunity for smaller wineries
Free open access article available: "Investigating radio-frequency identification usage behaviours and organisational performance according to factors of user perception"
The following paper, "Investigating radio-frequency identification usage behaviours and organisational performance according to factors of user perception" (International Journal of Services Technology and Management 25(3/4) 2019) is freely available for download as an open access article.
It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.
It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.
9 June 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Tourism Policy
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Tourism Policy are now available here for free:
- Reviewing articles for tourism and hospitality journals: an altruistic academic tradition or a service to be paid for?
- Determinants of profitability in the Greek tourism sector - assessing the effect of the crisis
- Economic valuation of the tourist spots in Bangladesh
- Impact of economic factors and a political conflict on international tourism demand in Nepal: a vector error correction model
- Tourism and energy use in lodges and camps in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Special issue published: "Digital Innovation and Intelligence Analysis of E-Business Collaborations and Societal Challenges"
International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise 6(1) 2019
- Fuzzy association rule mining for economic development indicators
- Clustering of text documents with keyword weighting function
- Heterogeneous network security management
- Integrating the power of social media dataset impact in medical diagnosis
- Design of interleaved flyback converter
- Solving quadratic assignment problem by symbiotic organisms search algorithm
- Gandhian management perspective for enhancing productivity and innovation in public sector organisation
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Islamic Marketing and Branding
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Islamic Marketing and Branding are now available here for free:
- The current state of Muslim-friendly tourism policies in non-Islamic countries: an exploratory study of Korea's approach
- Factors affecting small and medium family businesses' internationalisation in Saudi Arabia
- Halal packaging and certification in India: issues and challenges
- Islamic marketing mix: is there a role for Islamic-based strategies?
- Islamic Branding as a Tool for Customer Retention: Antecedents and Consequences of Islamic brand loyalty
Special issue: "Service-Oriented Software Architecture and Assessment in the Future IoT Environment" [includes free OA article]
International Journal of Services Technology and Management 25(3/4) 2019
- Investigating radio-frequency identification usage behaviours and organisational performance according to factors of user perception [Open Access article]
- A study on medical information leakage protection to construct a trustworthy medical service oriented architecture in IoT environment: case study of medical tour service in South Korea
- A position revision method by path-loss factor in wireless sensor node deployment
- SaaS level database integration in cloud environment through database as a service
- Feature models as service contracts in service oriented architecture
- Identity evaluation of moving vehicles tracking using hue and slope value on wireless sensor network
- The five-year effects of physical activity and sedentary behaviour on chronic disease morbidity of Chinese adults
- A study on the computational thinking-based SW education and problem solving related procedures
- Discovering objects and services in context-aware IoT environments
- Analysing prior research to improve business performance in the IoT industry
- Knowledge-based service oriented architecture for automotive product development: South East Asia scenario
- A game theoretical analysis of the 'going global' strategy of Chinese high-speed railway
- Disruptive online service innovation in the presence of competition among disruptors: the case of 3rd-party online payment
8 June 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise are now available here for free:
- Supply chain risk management and quality: a case study and analysis of Indian automotive industry
- A practical quality management system implementation framework for small-sized companies
- Coordination quality index: a metric for measuring the quality of coordination efforts in humanitarian supply chain
- Sustainable supplier selection by way of managing knowledge: a case of the automotive industry
- Adoption of sustainable supply operation quality practices and their impact on stakeholder's performance and sustainable performance for sustainable competitiveness in Indian manufacturing companies
- Assessment of top management leadership and commitment to improve perishable food supply chain quality
- Managing welfare driven supply chains: insights from the Indian PDS
- Developing the preferred supplier relationships - a case study
- An insight into centralised sourcing strategy for enhancing performance and sustainability of multi-tier supply network
- Exploring environmental sustainability in the food service supply chains
Free open access article available: "On the quality of unsupported overhangs produced by laser powder bed fusion"
The following paper, "On the quality of unsupported overhangs produced by laser powder bed fusion" (International Journal of Manufacturing Research 14(2) 2019) is freely available for download as an open access article.
It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.
It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.
Special issue published: "Artificial Intelligent Techniques Applied to the Study of Engineering Applications: Part II"
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 11(2) 2019
- Identification of person or data using modified square blockwise approach
- A secured cloud storage auditing with empirical outsourcing of key updates
- Stimulated RR MAC protocol for power efficient wireless sensor networks
- Students' performance analysis system using cumulative predictor algorithm
- A hybrid algorithm for efficient task scheduling in cloud computing environment
- A survey on contrastive opinion summarisation
- Analysis of heuristic-based multilevel thresholding methods for image segmentation using R programming
- Aggregated clustering for grouping of users based on web page navigation behaviour
- Unified dynamic texture segmentation system based on local and global spatiotemporal techniques
- Evaluation of worker quality in crowdsourcing system on Hadoop platform
- Design and implementation of finite state machine using quantum-dot cellular automata
- Enhanced H-ABE-R and T-ABKS for cloud computing environment
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing are now available here for free:
- A holding access-point assignment algorithm for IEEE802.11 wireless local-area networks
- Cooperative and priority based on dynamic resource adaptation method in wireless network
- Data-centric communication strategy for wireless sensor networks
- Non-transferable proxy re-encryption for multiple groups
- Implementation of information collecting tools using mobile terminals useful for efficient infrastructure maintenance
- Incentive mechanisms for promoting D2D communications in cellular networks
7 June 2019
Special issue published: "Marketing in the E-Landscape: Models, Concepts and Practices"
International Journal of Technology Marketing 13(1) 2018
- Measuring and managing organisations' social media climate: the social media climate index
- Online trust and the importance of interaction
- International expansion of retailers: the role of technical expertise, alliances and allocation of resources in economic crises
- An empirical study of factors determining wearable fitness tracker continuance among actual users
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environmental Engineering
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Environmental Engineering are now available here for free:
- Sources and cancer risks assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in particulate matter and surface soils in Kunming, China
- Remote monitoring of urban flooding based on the warning system of INEA-RJ, Brazil
- Assessment of water quality parameters of Bhalswa Lake in New Delhi
- Optimisation of coagulation (poly iron chloride) process for partially stabilised leachate using response surface methodology
- Formation, properties and revegetation prospects for bauxite processing residue and the effects of seawater neutralisation
- Removal of cyanide and copper simultaneously from cyanide barren solution
New Editor for International Journal of Power Electronics
Dr. Dinesh Kumar from Danfoss Drives A/S in Denmark has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Power Electronics.
Research pick: Sewage sludge down on the farm - "Potential benefits and risk assessments of using sewage sludge on soil and plants: a review"
The phrase “sewage farm” may have fallen from favour and been replaced with terms such as waste water treatment works and the like. But, the origin of that archaic phrase refers very directly to the fact that partly processed human waste was at one time commonly used as agriculture fertiliser on farmland close to such a treatment works.
Majeed Ali, Talaat Ahmed and Mohammad A. Al-Ghouti of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, at Qatar University, in Doha, Qatar, discuss the modern potential for using sewage sludge on soil and plants in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management. The team emphasizes that in their review of approaches to the use of sewage they have found great variation in how the material is used and how much pre-treatment is carried out.
“The fertiliser potential and pollutant risk for applied sewage sludge in agricultural activities must be specifically evaluated for each sludge due to the fact that there is variation in the characteristics of sludges in which they undergo different treatment levels, in addition to the differences in the pollutant nature that is found in the wastewater,” the team writes.
Whereas the old-fashioned sewage farm may have been able to use simply treated raw sewage in an essentially small and closed community. In the modern world of much greater personal mobility and exposure to a wide range of pathogens and pollution from around the world, it is essential that sewage sludge be adequately treated before it can be used as fertilizer. This must be done to eliminate and remove any harmful materials that can negatively affect the environment, human health, soil, and the crops grown with the help of that sludge. The team suggests that there are several viable ways to adequately treat sewage sludge, namely aerobic, anaerobic digestion, and thermal treatment.
Ali, M., Ahmed, T. and Al-Ghouti, M.A. (2019) ‘Potential benefits and risk assessments of using sewage sludge on soil and plants: a review’, Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp.352–369.
Majeed Ali, Talaat Ahmed and Mohammad A. Al-Ghouti of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, at Qatar University, in Doha, Qatar, discuss the modern potential for using sewage sludge on soil and plants in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management. The team emphasizes that in their review of approaches to the use of sewage they have found great variation in how the material is used and how much pre-treatment is carried out.
“The fertiliser potential and pollutant risk for applied sewage sludge in agricultural activities must be specifically evaluated for each sludge due to the fact that there is variation in the characteristics of sludges in which they undergo different treatment levels, in addition to the differences in the pollutant nature that is found in the wastewater,” the team writes.
Whereas the old-fashioned sewage farm may have been able to use simply treated raw sewage in an essentially small and closed community. In the modern world of much greater personal mobility and exposure to a wide range of pathogens and pollution from around the world, it is essential that sewage sludge be adequately treated before it can be used as fertilizer. This must be done to eliminate and remove any harmful materials that can negatively affect the environment, human health, soil, and the crops grown with the help of that sludge. The team suggests that there are several viable ways to adequately treat sewage sludge, namely aerobic, anaerobic digestion, and thermal treatment.
Ali, M., Ahmed, T. and Al-Ghouti, M.A. (2019) ‘Potential benefits and risk assessments of using sewage sludge on soil and plants: a review’, Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp.352–369.
6 June 2019
Special issue published: "Systems Modelling and Real-World Industry 4.0 Applications"
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling 14(2) 2019
- Investigating manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises' immediate response and short-term recovery from flooding using an agent-based approach
- Sustainability of retail store processes: an analytic model for economic and environmental evaluation
- Properties modelling as design by contract for cyber-physical systems: an example in the smart grid domain
- Collaborative training in a virtual environment to increase productivity in a shipyard
- An investigation of the interactions between psychosocial risk factors and their health impact: mechanisms and consequences
- Mixed reality for industrial applications: interactions in human-machine system and modelling in immersive virtual environment
- Human factors in occupational health and safety 4.0: a cross-sectional correlation study of workload, stress and outcomes of an industrial emergency response
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology
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- Variations in coalbed gas content, initial gas desorption property and coal strength after drilling-slotting integration technique and gas drainage: insight into pore characteristics
- Factors controlling production in hydraulically fractured low permeability oil reservoirs
- Review and prospects of bitter apricot oil as an alternative feedstock for biodiesel production - an Indian perspective
- Modelling of pressure transient behaviour for fractured gas wells under stress-sensitive and slippage effects
- Influences of temperature and moisture on coal sorption characteristics of a bituminous coal from the Sydney Basin, Australia
- Non-Darcy displacement in linear composite and radial aquifer during CO2 sequestration
- Diamondoids: occurrence in fossil fuels, applications in petroleum exploration and fouling in petroleum production. A review paper
- Three-dimensional pore networks and transport properties of a shale gas formation determined from focused ion beam serial imaging
- Direct numerical simulation of pore-scale reactive transport: applications to wettability alteration during two-phase flow
- Systematic approach to numerical simulation and modelling of shale gas reservoirs
- Investment decision in oil and gas projects using real option and risk tolerance models
Special issue published: "System Identification and Health Monitoring of Civil Structures with the Presence of Uncertainties"
International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering 3(1) 2019
- Operational modal analysis and Bayesian model updating of a standing seam metal roofing system
- An efficient method for Bayesian system identification based on Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
- Multi-scale finite element model validation method of cable-stayed bridge based on the support vector regression
- Fractal signal processing method of acoustic emission monitoring for seismic damage of concrete columns
- A parametric study of bridge load effect under stochastic vehicular load
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms is becoming an Open Access-only journal
We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms is becoming an Open Access-only journal.
All accepted articles submitted from May 2019 onwards will be Open Access, and will require a fee payment of US $1600 (discounted from the standard US $3000 fee).
All accepted articles submitted from May 2019 onwards will be Open Access, and will require a fee payment of US $1600 (discounted from the standard US $3000 fee).
Research pick: Indian startups on Twitter - "Twitter analysis of founders of top 25 Indian startups"
The microblogging platform, Twitter, is almost ubiquitous. Members of the public, citizen journalists use it, so too do business leaders, charities, scientists, authors, writers, politicians, even presidents. But, are companies making the most of it? Writing in the Journal of Global Business Advancement, a team from India has analysed 25 startups and the twitter use of their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) there to answer that question.
Nakul Parameswar of the Indian Institute of Management Jammu, in Jammu and Kashmir, and colleagues explain that “The active involvement of Chief Executive Officers in social media influences the business effectiveness, performance and market legitimacy of the business.” The team used two data mining tools – Anaconda Navigator and TIBCO Spotfire – to analyse well over 160 000 tweets from the 25 CEOs to come to this conclusion. They point out that the CEOs were tweeting about a wide range of topics: various aspects of emotions ranging from the business sector to personal feelings, political views, and societal concerns.
As the shine has worn off the traditional media newspapers, television, and radio in the wake of Web 2.0 and the advent of the so-called social media and online social networks there is greater equity between the information providers and the information consumers. Indeed, citizens feel that social media gives them a voice that was once the preserve of editors, journalists, news anchors, and presenters. In terms of commerce, social media gives consumers a voice that allows them to share experiences with products and services as well as reach out to the very people who offer them in a way that was never possible in the days of one-way media and a handwritten letter to the company headquarters.
In return companies and providers need to recognize and be responsive to the activity of the clients and customers online. There is a vast spectrum of responsiveness among the 25 CEO twitter accounts analysed. Some need to do more, some maybe do too much. Balance is needed.
Sindhani, M., Parameswar, N., Dhir, S. and Ongsakul, V. (2019) ‘Twitter analysis of founders of top 25 Indian startups‘, J. Global Business Advancement, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.117-144.
Nakul Parameswar of the Indian Institute of Management Jammu, in Jammu and Kashmir, and colleagues explain that “The active involvement of Chief Executive Officers in social media influences the business effectiveness, performance and market legitimacy of the business.” The team used two data mining tools – Anaconda Navigator and TIBCO Spotfire – to analyse well over 160 000 tweets from the 25 CEOs to come to this conclusion. They point out that the CEOs were tweeting about a wide range of topics: various aspects of emotions ranging from the business sector to personal feelings, political views, and societal concerns.
As the shine has worn off the traditional media newspapers, television, and radio in the wake of Web 2.0 and the advent of the so-called social media and online social networks there is greater equity between the information providers and the information consumers. Indeed, citizens feel that social media gives them a voice that was once the preserve of editors, journalists, news anchors, and presenters. In terms of commerce, social media gives consumers a voice that allows them to share experiences with products and services as well as reach out to the very people who offer them in a way that was never possible in the days of one-way media and a handwritten letter to the company headquarters.
In return companies and providers need to recognize and be responsive to the activity of the clients and customers online. There is a vast spectrum of responsiveness among the 25 CEO twitter accounts analysed. Some need to do more, some maybe do too much. Balance is needed.
Sindhani, M., Parameswar, N., Dhir, S. and Ongsakul, V. (2019) ‘Twitter analysis of founders of top 25 Indian startups‘, J. Global Business Advancement, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.117-144.
5 June 2019
Themed Issue on: "Coordinating, Collaborating and Co-Operating for Innovative Change and Strategy and Coopetition"
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 37(1) 2019
Section 1: Coordinating, Collaborating and Cooperating for Innovative Change
Section 1: Coordinating, Collaborating and Cooperating for Innovative Change
- Consumer evaluation of collaboration between perfumery and gastronomy for innovation
- Management control systems in family businesses: do women matter? Evidence from the Italian food sector
- Who invests why? An analysis of investment decisions in B2B or B2C equity crowdfunding projects
- When less is more: coordinating innovation in open versus closed source software development
- Co-opetition in the boating industry and collective managerial capacity
- The impact of trust and electronic word-of-mouth reviews on purchasing intention
- Identifying the determinants of corporate venture capital strategy: evidence from French firms
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- Developing strategic relationships for religious tourism businesses: a systematic literature review
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- Modelling customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the frame of telecommunications industry: a review
- Managerial competence and financial performance of SMEs: the contingent role of stakeholder engagement
Special issue published: "Workplace Innovation in the Era of Disruptive Technologies"
International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation 16(3) 2019
- Workplace innovation: a review and potential future avenues
- Unleashing workplace innovation in Scotland
- Innovation adoption of employees in logistics: individual and organisational factors related to the actual use of innovation
- The human factor in innovation: implications for policies and practices
- Sociotechnical perspectives on digitalisation and Industry 4.0
Free sample articles newly available from Journal for Global Business Advancement
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- Investigating the efficacy of techniques affecting information exchange in virtual teams
- How do public hospitals respond to environmental change? Evidence from Thailand
- Tourism analytics: social media analytics framework for promoting Asian tourist destinations using big data approach
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- Intention towards halal logistics: a case study of Indonesian consumers
- Cultural value differences among ethnic groups in Indonesia: Are Hofstede's Indonesian findings still relevant?
Research pick: Finding fake fingerprints - "Fake fingerprint liveness detection based on micro and macro features"
It was once the stuff of science fiction security, open your eye wide and look into the camera to gain entry to the spaceship flight deck or press a finger tip or palm of your against the pad to access the secret database that lets you take control of the baddies’ weapons. Today, of course, iris recognition, fingerprint readers, and other biometric systems are becoming increasingly commonplace. Most modern smart phones have a fingerprint reader that lets you unlock your phone without having to remember a password or number.
Of course, from a security perspective, what’s to stop a third party “lifting” your fingerprint, and creating a facsimile of its loops, whorls and arches with a piece of a skin-like rubbery material and then presenting this to the biometric device to gain access? The simple answer is nothing! Moreover, for a simple fingerprint ID system, there would be no way for it to know that the presented fingerprint was not part of a living person’s finger rather than a rubber dab.
However, writing in the International Journal of Biometrics, a team from India describes their approach to developing a system that not only reads fingerprints but can detect the “liveness” of the fingerprint based on an algorithmic analysis of micro and macro features. Rohit Agrawal and Anand Singh Jalal of GLA University, in Mathura, and K.V. Arya of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Lucknow, explain that their approach sidesteps the problem associated with earlier statistical methods that work well with micro, but not the macro, features of a fingerprint.
The team explains that they have combined local Haralick micro texture features with macro features derived from neighbourhood grey-tone difference matrix. This allows them to generate an effective feature vector. They then train the algorithm with known fingerprints and test it against genuine and fake fingerprints. They achieve an almost 95 per cent accuracy with a low error rate. Earlier systems can boast only 90 per cent accuracy.
Agrawal, R., Jalal, A.S. and Arya, K.V. (2019) ‘Fake fingerprint liveness detection based on micro and macro features’, Int. J. Biometrics, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.177–206.
Of course, from a security perspective, what’s to stop a third party “lifting” your fingerprint, and creating a facsimile of its loops, whorls and arches with a piece of a skin-like rubbery material and then presenting this to the biometric device to gain access? The simple answer is nothing! Moreover, for a simple fingerprint ID system, there would be no way for it to know that the presented fingerprint was not part of a living person’s finger rather than a rubber dab.
However, writing in the International Journal of Biometrics, a team from India describes their approach to developing a system that not only reads fingerprints but can detect the “liveness” of the fingerprint based on an algorithmic analysis of micro and macro features. Rohit Agrawal and Anand Singh Jalal of GLA University, in Mathura, and K.V. Arya of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Lucknow, explain that their approach sidesteps the problem associated with earlier statistical methods that work well with micro, but not the macro, features of a fingerprint.
The team explains that they have combined local Haralick micro texture features with macro features derived from neighbourhood grey-tone difference matrix. This allows them to generate an effective feature vector. They then train the algorithm with known fingerprints and test it against genuine and fake fingerprints. They achieve an almost 95 per cent accuracy with a low error rate. Earlier systems can boast only 90 per cent accuracy.
Agrawal, R., Jalal, A.S. and Arya, K.V. (2019) ‘Fake fingerprint liveness detection based on micro and macro features’, Int. J. Biometrics, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.177–206.
4 June 2019
Special issue published: "Competing in Global Economy – Challenges and Solutions"
Journal for Global Business Advancement 12(1) 2019
- Establishing a highly competitive university: a strategic management perspective
- What are the outcomes of emerging markets mergers and acquisitions? Evidence from Turkey
- External barriers facing internationalising sharing economy companies: a study of European and American sharecoms
- The impact of product diversification and capital structure on firm performance: evidence from Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises
- Twitter analysis of founders of top 25 Indian startups
- Adoption of One Belt and One Road initiative by Oman: lessons from the East
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- A roadmap to autonomous of airlines: specifications and communication protocols
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- Fully morphing aircraft structures: studies from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey
Special issue published: "6th International Workshop on Nanotechnology and Applications (IWNA)"
International Journal of Nanotechnology 15(11/12) 2018
- Designing BN sheets of X-G//(h-BN)n//X-G (X = B, N) and GO/h-BN/GO structures for based anodes material to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries
- Theoretical and experimental simulation of inkjet printing process: investigation of physical parameters of a droplet
- Fabrication of 3-stepped spiral trench with smooth sidewall at nano-level to deposit superconducting material for energy storage
- A photochemical method for fabrication of triangular silver nanoplates using light emission diodes for biosensors
- Hydrothermal synthesis and characterisation of iron cerium oxide nanoparticles for hydrogen sulphide removal application
- Film formation and characterisation of PVDF piezoelectric polymer thin film by spray coating and its application to helical spring
- Modification of nanosized LiFePO4 via nickel doping and graphene coating
- Fabrication of lithium-ion batteries based on various LiNi1-xCoxO2 cathode materials
- Synthesis and properties of Y2O3:Eu3+ nanoflakes for security labels application using inkjet ink with electrohydrodynamic printing technique
- Synthesis and characterisation of core-shell structure PLA/CS/NIF nanoparticles
- Effect of CeO2 morphology on performance of NiO/CeO2 catalyst in combined steam and CO2 reforming of CH4
- Circular electrodes stepping manipulation platform for A549 cancer cell detection
- New approach for paper-based microchannel fabrication by inkjet printing technology
- A valveless micropump based on additive fabrication technology
- Electrochemical sensor chips for multiple measurements of dissolved oxygen, pH and oxidation-reduction potential in aquacultural farming
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- Fatigue behaviour of concrete-filled steel tubular joints - a review
- Life-cycle cost assessment of inelastic buildings with tuned mass dampers in seismic areas
Research pick: Curating Flickr by mining comments for tags - "Needle in a haystack: an empirical study on mining tagsfrom Flickr user comments"
In the age of Web 2.0 and social media and online social networking, user-generated content has become the main source of information for many people. Nowhere is this truer than on popular photo-sharing websites. While the likes of Instagram have moved to the fore, there are still millions of people using the much older and more sophisticated service Flickr. This site was established in 2004 by Ludicorp, it was then bought by Yahoo, which itself was acquired by Verizon, and the Flickr component sold on to another photo site, SmugMug in April 2018.
Research published in the International Journal of Information Technology and Management describes an empirical study on how tags might be mined from the comments Flickr users make on each other’s photographs, videos, and other images. Haijun Zhang, Jingxuan Li, and Bin Luo of the Department of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School and Yan Li of the School of Computer Engineering at Shenzhen Polytechnic in Shenzhen, both in Guangdong Province, China, hope to develop a technique that might be useful in the curation of the huge database of images stored by Flickr.
They have developed a two-phase approach wherein tags are generated from comments on a given photo and then these are ranked.
“In the phase of candidate tags generation, two methods are introduced relying on natural language processing (NLP) techniques, namely word-based and phrase-based,” the team explains. “In ranking and recommending tags, we proposed an algorithm by jointly modelling the location information of candidate tags, statistical information of candidate tags and semantic similarity between candidate tags. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.”
The team claims this to be the first paper addressing the problem of tagging photos in the Flickr database in this way, it could assist in curating the collection, especially where photos have not been tagged initially by the person that uploads them.
Zhang, H., Li, J., Luo, B. and Li, Y. (2019) ‘Needle in a haystack: an empirical study on mining tagsfrom Flickr user comments’, Int. J. Information Technology and Management, Vol. 18, Nos. 2/3, pp.297–326.
Research published in the International Journal of Information Technology and Management describes an empirical study on how tags might be mined from the comments Flickr users make on each other’s photographs, videos, and other images. Haijun Zhang, Jingxuan Li, and Bin Luo of the Department of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School and Yan Li of the School of Computer Engineering at Shenzhen Polytechnic in Shenzhen, both in Guangdong Province, China, hope to develop a technique that might be useful in the curation of the huge database of images stored by Flickr.
They have developed a two-phase approach wherein tags are generated from comments on a given photo and then these are ranked.
“In the phase of candidate tags generation, two methods are introduced relying on natural language processing (NLP) techniques, namely word-based and phrase-based,” the team explains. “In ranking and recommending tags, we proposed an algorithm by jointly modelling the location information of candidate tags, statistical information of candidate tags and semantic similarity between candidate tags. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.”
The team claims this to be the first paper addressing the problem of tagging photos in the Flickr database in this way, it could assist in curating the collection, especially where photos have not been tagged initially by the person that uploads them.
Zhang, H., Li, J., Luo, B. and Li, Y. (2019) ‘Needle in a haystack: an empirical study on mining tagsfrom Flickr user comments’, Int. J. Information Technology and Management, Vol. 18, Nos. 2/3, pp.297–326.
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