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This paper presents results of topic modeling and network models of topics using the ICCS corpus, which contains domain-specific (computational science) papers over sixteen years (a total of 5695 papers). We discuss topical structures of ICCS, how these topics evolve over time in response to the topicality of various problems, technologies and methods, and how all these topics relate to one another. This analysis illustrates multidisciplinary research and collaborations among scientific communities, by constructing static and dynamic networks from the topic modeling results and the authors’ keywords. The results of this study give insights about the past and future trends of core discussion topics in computational science. We used the Non-negative Matrix Factorization(NMF) topic modeling algorithm to discover topics and labeled and grouped results hierarchically. We used Gephi to study static networks of topics, and an R library called DyA to analyze the dynamic networks of topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the latest development in information technology, smart campuses have become a topic that attracts attention in the world of education, especially in higher education. The smart campus has the potential to change the way of managing, accessing facil- ities, and teaching and learning process. The smart campus can collaborate various latest technologies such as edge computing, blockchain, deep learning, virtual reality, and other trend recent technologies. Therefore, this research is a guideline for developing an effective and efficient smart campus system with the latest information and communication technology. This paper explains smart campus technology, features, architecture that have been implemented in real life. Thirty-two papers will be analyzed using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method. Hopefully, this guideline can be a valuable reference for smart campus designers, researchers, and practitioners interested in developing innovative and efficient smart campus systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We are investigating the use of natural user interfaces (NUI) applied to information and communication technologies (ICT) supporting workplace dynamics in partnership with mental health providers at a hospital in Brazil. We are using a participatory design (PD) process to uncover their paper-based workflow, defined here as paper user interface workflow (PUI) and their appropriation of mobile technologies supporting patients’ socialization process. We chose this group as they have no experience with graphical user interface (GUI) based interaction, are highly nomadic, have a refined workflow, have a high level of interdependence and are appropriating mobile technologies and social media into their workplace; thus, we believe their perspective within a PD setting provide unique insights into NUI design to provide high fidelity data and real time communication, enhancing data accessibility and fidelity on communication among the professionals. Our PD process has produced workflow representations and we are presenting two scenarios; from them we are proceeding to low- fidelity prototyping. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Smart grids are two-way communications grids that converge Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) to transfer energy-related information between different industry components within the grid. Smart grids have changed the energy sector by increasing sustainability, efficiency and integrating renewable energy sources. However, smart grids are vulnerable to IT-related attacks because they rely on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). By surveying relevant papers and evaluating accessible statistics, this study explores cybersecurity in smart grids by examining current communication protocols and standards. We carefully compile various datasets with general information about four of the most smart grid-related datasets. Our study and conclusions address the key components of a smart grid and offer information that can help create cybersecurity plans specifically for smart grids. This research contributes to the discourse on smart grid security, which is important for preserving the stability of contemporary energy systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart grids are two-way communications grids that converge Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) to transfer energy-related information between different industry components within the grid. Smart grids have changed the energy sector by increasing sustainability, efficiency and integrating renewable energy sources. However, smart grids are vulnerable to IT-related attacks because they rely on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). By surveying relevant papers and evaluating accessible statistics, this study explores cybersecurity in smart grids by examining current communication protocols and standards. We carefully compile various datasets with general information about four of the most smart grid-related datasets. Our study and conclusions address the key components of a smart grid and offer information that can help create cybersecurity plans specifically for smart grids. This research contributes to the discourse on smart grid security, which is important for preserving the stability of contemporary energy systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conceptualization of the value-based healthcare (VBHC) model as a way to improve the quality of patient care and control the costs of that care has been widely debated. However, few studies describe how to practically implement VBHC from the perspective of health information systems as technical platforms for data collection, analysis, and sharing. This study presents a scoping review of implementation experiences of this model, specifically focusing on the requirements and barriers of the information system. Out of the initially identified 1866 references, 24 papers were selected, from which the facilitating factors and barriers associated with the information system were extracted. The quality of data, its analysis, and resources (infrastructure and specialized human resources in information and technology communication) emerge as indispensable categories for implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarly interest in Green IT has been rapidly growing over the past 15 years in a wide variety of disciplines including computer science, information systems, sustainability, production management and engineering. This is not surprising given the growing environmental impacts of information and communication technologies. This article presents a bibliometric analysis of academic literature across 1862 sources to improve our understanding of the evolution and current state of this multidisciplinary field. The corpus includes 4067 published journal and conference papers identified using the Scopus database. A descriptive performance analysis of the corpus using Bibliometrix software first allows us to identify the most influential works, authors, sources, institutions, and countries in the field. Examination of its conceptual structure reveals that most work has focused on the design and use phases of ICTs and neglected the manufacturing and end-of-life phases. Further insights are provided and opportunities for future research are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the modern times, the heavy footprint of Information and Communication Technologies in the everyday life brings multiple challenges to the ordinary citizen, like having a digital profile on numerous services and institutions. The spread of authentication services that need to be verified to perform simple tasks is thus overwhelming. Many countries hence developed elaborated solutions to unify some of the authentication services around a single e-ID card to help performing different everyday tasks. The burden associated with carrying a smartcard reader to authenticate, or the time spent and complexity of the authentication using Mobile Digital Tokens represent an adversity for citizens who are not so digitally educated. NFC is a technology that is growing in usage every year and is widely adopted now. It is easy and fast to use. This paper proposes a safe, easy, and fast way to implement NFC-based authentication in an e-ID card and discusses its benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) solution have been exploded in the last decades, the research community exhibits a deficiency in terms of methodologies for accurately quantifying the energy consumption of individual ICT components. This paper presents a novel methodology aimed at addressing the existing research gap by offering a comprehensive analysis of energy consumption ranges for ICT components, measured in Watt. The methodology being proposed involves the classification of ICT components into distinct classes, namely sensors, gateways, servers-platforms, and databases, while these classes are further subdivided into sub-classes. The calculation of energy consumption places emphasis on particular components within each sub-class, encompassing CPUs, RAM, GPUs, hard drives, network switches, cooling systems, and communication units. Compared with existing green ICT standards where mainly focused on strategy-related recommendations, the methodology utilises manufacturers' specifications for standard operational procedures in order to compute energy consumption. The objective of the methodology is to extend the current research and provide countable energy consumption attributes of various component types, that are used in the ICT architecture, supporting the decision-making process of architects regarding environmentally sustainable and high-performance device selection. This study concludes with the development of a tree diagram for calculating the energy consumption of an ICT system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to improve understanding of the differences and similarities between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that are offered to consumers to gain their knowledge and ICTs that are expected by consumers in terms of their engagement in knowledge sharing. Thus, this paper aims to solve this problem by answering the main research question: Are the ICT offered to consumers to engage them in knowledge sharing in line with their expectations? The presented outcomes result from two sets of data, (1) a survey questionnaire on consumers and (2) a case study online observation of enterprises and public sector organizations (PSOs). Popular and well-known ICTs were taken into consideration. The findings show that both enterprises and PSOs most often offer consumers their own websites. That indicates that they choose an easily accessible and convenient tool for them to facilitate consumer engagement. The comparison of the results taken from two sets of data has revealed that consumer expectations as to ICT usage for knowledge sharing are much higher than the possibilities offered by enterprises and PSOs. This is especially true for Internet forums, industry-specialized portals, and specialized organization websites. The results also show that females would like to use ICTs in greater scope than males. It is especially true for popular information websites and Facebook portal. What is more, the results show statistically significant differences between age generations for two ICTs only, i.e., mobile applications and Facebook portal. Detailed analyses indicated that the elder generations, i.e., Baby-Boomers and Builders, would like to use these ICTs in greater scope than the younger ones. In particular, the results reveal that consumers expect to use ICTs in greater scope than those offered by enterprises and PSOs. However, the results must be interpreted with caution because of their limitations that pertain to the survey sample, which embraced consumers from Poland only, as well as to ICTs selection limited to nine items. The findings presented could be relevant to any enterprise and PSO that would like to engage consumers in providing feedback about their product and service offerings with the ICT usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Project teams (PTs) are critical resources in the success of projects in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, as projects in this sector are highly dependent on human resources. Numerous researchers have written about the key role played by the PTs. However, PTs have not received commensurate recognition from their project managers (PMs) when it comes to the addressing of their needs and interests. ICT PTs have become forgotten stakeholders. In an effort to address the neglect of project teams by PMs, a model was developed by the authors of this paper to assist ICT PMs in treating PTs as key stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the refinement and evaluation process to which this model was subjected, using a two-phase Delphi methodology, using experienced experts comprising five PMs, twenty PT members as well as five academics. The data collected from the experts using interviews was analysed by means of statistical and qualitative methods. The results show that the experts have welcomed the use of the model in the ICT sector, acknowledging its suitability for a real-life project environment. Future studies should include the validation of the model in a real-life project environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a world whose attention to environmental and health problems is very high, the issue of properly managing nuclear waste is of a primary importance. Information and Communication Technologies have the due to support the definition of the next-generation plants for temporary storage of such wasting materials. This paper investigates on the adoption of one of the most cutting-edge techniques in computer science and engineering, i.e. Digital Twins, with the combination of other modern methods and technologies as Internet of Things, model-based and data-driven approaches. The result is the definition of a methodology able to support the construction of risk-aware facilities for storing nuclear waste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As obvious, disasters cause widespread human, economic, and environmental losses throughout the world. Both natural and man-made disasters require an effective disaster management system to curtail their potential damage and ensure prompt response to affected communities. The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in this field has facilitated information exchange, situational awareness, and communication among various stakeholders. Within ICT, the recommendation system has been widely used to help decision makers take critical and effective decisions. In this review, we aim to unravel how recommendation systems (RS) have been used in the disaster management domain. To this end, a systematic literature review (SLR) was performed, resulting in a data set of 44 papers dealing with this topic. Selected studies were evaluated to provide an answer to five different research questions. We considered what are the most common recommendation approaches adopted in these studies, the input and output of the recommendation system, the disaster management phase involved, and the contribution of the study in the field. The results of this review present a starting point for further research in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovative mobility solutions are constantly emerging with the advent of information and communication technologies, offering travellers multidimensional choices. Without a fully agent-based and dynamic travel demand microsimulation modelling system, it is impossible to evaluate such emerging mobility solutions/options realistically. The network modelling component is the most critical roadblock of such a modelling system. The paper presents an operational network model (GTASim) in an agent-based microsimulation framework, MATSim for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, to capture the network dynamics necessary for a Comprehensive Utility maximizing System of Travel Option Modelling (CUSTOM). GTASim is developed using open-source network data and a large-scale regional household travel survey data. GTASim microstimulates network flows for all modes, including different transit services in the region. The modelled transit network has 26,125 transit stop facilities and 820 transit routes with more than 64,350 departures. The CaDyTS-based calibration is specified using peak hour traffic volumes at over 100 cordon count stations in major highways, regional streets, and numerous transit stations/stops. This is the first-ever developed fully agent-based dynamic multimodal transportation network microsimulation for the region. Thus, the model, with further integration with CUSTOM will equip the authorities to make conclusive decisions considering users' level of behavioural adaptation with intricate policies in megacities like GTHA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at identifying the key role of "Smart Energy and Power Systems Modelling", within the context of Energy Informatics. The main objective is to describe how the specific subject of "Smart Energy and Power Systems Modelling" can give a key contribution within the novel domain of Energy Informatics, by successfully linking and integrating the different disciplines involved. First the paper will present how and where the specific subject of "Smart Energy and Power Systems Modelling" can position itself within the broad Energy Informatics domain. Afterwards the paper will explain how Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Information and Communication Technologies (IoT), coupled with "Smart Energy and Power Systems Modelling", can enhance the Energy Informatics domain. In addition, the main challenges and opportunities for Energy Informatics specialists will be outlined, with regard to the interdisciplinary approach that characterises this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Business modelling can be considered as a practice for enabling change in enterprise by defining recommended Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions, which provide value to business stakeholders. Business modelling and business analyses can be connected with different business models, techniques, and software tools. The goal of the paper is to present and discuss which business models are already well known for enterprise architecture (EA) business analysis. The literature review was done for this purpose. Beyond that, the paper aims to present a classification of business models and their mapping in ArchiMate language into different notations and languages diagrams for information architecture modelling. Proposed in this paper the business model mapping was applied in author's earlier projects as well as it is used in university course teaching on system analysis and modelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry has not adopted digital transformation enthusiastically like other industries, for instance, manufacturing, aerospace or finance. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an innovative technology that is considered as an opportunity for the AEC industry to move to the digital era and improve the collaboration among stakeholders by applying Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). BIM provides all required tools and automations to achieve end-to-end communication, data exchange and information sharing among collaborators. Accordingly, virtual 3D models, created by the BIM process, delivered as physical assets, monitored in real-time and managed using Building Management Systems (BMS), can adopt the Internet of Things (IoT) designs and services. However, the implementation of IoT in a highly modular environment with various moving parts and inter-dependencies between stakeholders leads to security concerns. Therefore, this paper proposes system design that employs the blockchain technology as a measure to secure and control the framework that involves integrated IoT and BIM technologies. Although this paper considers system design applied in a smart museum, the authors assume that design is generic and applicable in other building categories. For instance, this design can be implemented in the ongoing Alumni Hall renovation project at State University of New York College at Oneonta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase of age average led to an increase in the demand of providing and improving the service of healthcare. The advancing of the information and communication technology (ICT) led to the development of smart cities which have a lot of components. One of those components is Smart Health (s-Health), which is used in improving healthcare by providing many services such as patient monitoring, early diagnosis of diseases and so on. Nowadays there are many machine learning techniques that can facilitates s-Health services. This paper reviews recent published papers in the area of smart health starting from the years 2011 to 2017, and a structured analysis for different machine learning (ML) approaches that are applied in s-Health. The results show that the ML approach is used in many s-Health applications such as Glaucoma diagnosis, Alzheimer's disease, bacterial sepsis diagnoses, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) readmissions, and cataract detection. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm and deep learning models especially the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are the most commonly used machine learning approaches where they proved to get high evaluation performance in most cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reverse logistics is a specific logistics activity that is mainly undertaken by manufacturing enterprises. The main concept of reverse logistics assumes the materials and products circularity to gain the secondary value of used or defected objects. Manufacturing enterprises experience the most the problem of differentiated failures so reverse logistics becomes more and more popular part of their basic activity. For this reason, they are looking for modern solutions that are helpful in organizing reverse logistics processes and supportive for their performance. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) future trends might be the great answer for the manufacturing enterprises needs in the field of reverse logistics processes support. The paper main goal is to present some possibilities of ICT trends useful to enrich reverse logistics activities. For this reason the research was made in Polish and German manufacturing enterprises to verify their knowledge on analyzed theme, as well as, to assess their willingness for investing in such solutions. Because in both countries the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (divided into these groups according the size of the employment) are the main part of the whole enterprises population, presented research is concentrated on these three groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prosument is a person who plays the roles of consumer and producer simultaneously. Direct communication between producers and consumers is fast and accessible in the world of omnipresent globalization and the popularisation of information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly social media. The paper presents the results of the survey conducted on a group of 1,620 prosumers and the practical applications of the analysis of the results. The research aimed to identify the main components of the prosumer decision-making process and their importance in this process. A diagnostic survey was used in the study, and the collected data were statistically analyzed. The main findings are that prosumption destimulants, information contribution, information channels, incentives for prosumption and reactive attitude are five independent components of the prosumer decision-making process. The analysis of the results allowed determining that subjective income satisfaction significantly influences prosumer attitudes. People with higher income satisfaction are more willing and likely to participate in the information exchange process. Such analysis may be useful for producers to help them develop communication channels with prosumers as well as better target incentives for prosumption to support such attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Information cycle contains techniques and tools utilized to collect, combine, and distribute the output of the processes involved in project management. Information cycle in construction (ICC) are systems which assist project managers in implementation of projects. An ICC is capable of dramatically improving processes throughout projects. Information cycle in wind farms is an innovative solution for analyzing and measurement data in management of wind farms execution. This research was carried out as a case study on Kahak wind farm power plant (KWFPP) project which is a renewable project. This paper presents the effects of information cycle in construction on project management in KWFPP project. This paper aims to determine the possible effects of information cycle in construction on project management in this renewable project. In this article, along with presenting a model, the status of project management system in KWFPP project will be evaluated and examined. The findings of the research suggest that ICC significantly contributes to great achievements and efficiency of the project management and KWFPP project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The smart health paradigms employ Internet-connected wearables for tele-monitoring, diagnosis providing inexpensive healthcare solutions. Mist computing reduces latency and increases throughput by processing data near the edge of the network. In the present paper, we proposed a secure mist Computing architecture that is validated on recently released public geospatial health dataset. Results and discussion support the efficacy of proposed architecture for smart geospatial health applications. The present research paper proposed SoA-Mist i.e. a three-tier secure framework for efficient management of geospatial health data with the use of mist devices. It proposed the security aspects in client layer, mist layer, fog layer and cloud layer. It has defined the prototype development by using win-win spiral model with use case and sequence diagram. Overlay analysis has been performed with the developed framework on malaria vector borne disease positive maps of Maharastra state in India from 2011 to 2014 in mobile clients as test case. Finally, It concludes with the comparison analysis of cloud based framework and proposed SoA-Mist framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the construction of a 3D map of an indoor environment using the RGB-D camera (Microsoft Kinect V2.0). 3D mapping and localization have always been an intriguing topic in research and with the introduction of Microsoft Kinect sensor, the research has grown rapidly. In this paper, we propose a method to generate the 3D map of an indoor environment using the Microsoft Kinect version 2.0 sensor. The results obtained show an improvement over the previously used methods. We believe that this would contribute to many applications such as computer vision, robotics, home automation etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information and Communication Technologies provide valuable opportunities for companies to expand their business. In this sense, the availability of a multilingual corporate website can be of great help when it comes to reach international targets at a reduced cost. This is especially relevant in countries with remarkable tourism flows and foreign population, which is the case of Spain. The aim of this paper is to analyze the web presence and the multilingual dissemination of their corporate information of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) from the tourist sector located in Andalusia (Spain). To meet this objective, a sample of 160 SMEs has been analyzed. A frequency analysis has been carried out as well as decision trees, the latter in order to identify drivers for influencing companies for having a website and its subsequent translation. Results show that, although around 70% of the companies had a corporate website, less than 40% of them translated their content and, if they do it, they mostly offered only one translated version of the webpage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cities are making significant efforts to implement the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, in which sensors collect data from heterogeneous sources, and advanced software systems can provide an accurate city context. Most initiatives focus on improving the quality of life through energy-efficient buildings, waste management, or reducing traffic congestion. One of the main applications of IoT is smart tourism. This concept focuses on using Information and Communication Technologies to give visitors better experiences without interfering with the city's daily life. This paper studies related concepts and related works in smart tourism, sustainability, and IoT, identifying challenges and literature gaps. Finally, we provide a brief analysis of the real case study of the mountainous Alpujarra region in Spain based on its specific characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern information and communication technologies are implemented in vatious spheres (in particular, sectors of the critical infrastructute), but these technologies are vulnerable to web-attacks and other emerging threats. Early detection of such threats is a relevant and important research task without universal solution for various information and communication systems. In this paper, a method of linguistic terms using statistical data was used for structural and analytical models of the host and network parameters construction. Based on these models, system of the logical rules can be developed to provide the functioning of web-attacks detection system. In the future, given results as well as system of the logical rules can be used to create advanced intrusion detection system based on honeypot technology (or others) for web-attacks detection and intruder identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) has become an emerging trend in the information and engineering industries, which is inevitable to impact our lives in various ways. The advancement of IoT as an intelligent system is facing a number of challenges such as security and privacy. This paper aims to establish a starting point towards addressing this challenge by suggesting the implementation of data provenance in IoT. However, the complexity of IoT brings a number of challenges for utilizing provenance data. This paper discusses seven main challenges that influence data provenance implementation in IoT systems. The paper is expected to contribute to the literature that attempts to addresses the complex and multidimensional challenge of security and privacy in IoT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Nowadays, the heterogeneity of interconnected things and communication technologies creates several small worlds composed of a single object and a smartphone. For each object, the user needs to download a specific application, search and connect the device. The result is a waste of valuable resources: several objects are able to communicate with the smartphone, but they cannot directly interact among them. In this paper, we propose a model that can be used to define a set of standard interfaces suitable for every smart object. Devices that adhere to the same model can be easily controlled and placed in relation among them, creating multi-object behaviors for a smart space. The smartphone is still a control center, but with a single application it is possible to control and personalize spaces in a holistic way, instead of using the traditional one-to-one approach. Moreover, personalization should be portable: it is desirable that a behavior works in as many smart spaces as possible, at least in a similar way as it does in the environment in which it was configured, freeing the user from the tedious task of adapting it manually every time s/he goes to another space. A portable personalization extends the bring your own device paradigm to a new “bring your own space” paradigm. The model is inspired in the object-oriented programming, reinterpreting features such as inheritance and polymorphism to the real world, so it is possible to provide a software system able to adapt existing behaviors to new spaces. The use of the model is exemplified in the paper with two examples of smart spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents experimental results of cluster analysis using self organising neural networks for identifying failing banks. The paper first describes major reasons and likelihoods of bank failures. Then it demonstrates an application of a self-organising neural network and presents results of the study. Findings of the paper demonstrate that a self-organising neural network is a powerful tool for identifying potentially failing banks. Finally, the paper discusses some of the limitations of cluster analysis related to understanding of the exact meaning of each cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) to opinion mining, with special attention to media influence on public opinion. Particularly, in this paper, we describe the FCM, the concepts and relationships among them. Our opinion mining model is based on a multilevel FCM, to distribute the concepts according to the aspects that describe the elements conforming public opinion, which are: social, technological and biological. We carry out preliminary tests, and the results are very encouraging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent suggestions urge advancing Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) to provide the overdue support tools for individuals in the envisaged Knowledge Societies. To point out essential issues to be addressed, the paper proposes a PKM for Development (PKM4D) framework as a substantial extension of a current framework focusing on ICT4D (Information and Communications Technologies for Development). Closely aligned to Maslow's Extended Hierarchy of Needs, it allows for a differentiated assessment of knowledge management related innovations and interventions and their impact on six ecosystems related to technology, extelligence, society, knowledge workers, institutions, and the ideosphere. The framework is a spin-off of a design science research project aiming to introduce a novel PKM concept and system. The objective of this paper is to provide a motivation and more general narrative for employing the PKM4D framework in other developmental contexts in order to address opportunity divides independent of space (e.g. developed/developing countries), time (e.g. study or career phase), discipline (e.g. natural or social science), or role (e.g. student, professional, or leader). With a prototype about to be converted into a viable PKM system (PKMS) and in following up on prior concept and design related articles, the PKMS is not the prime focus of attention but serves as an example case of a novel intervention to be assessed and validated by applying the PKM4D framework and its twelve criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart agriculture is an approach that helps those managing agricultural systems deal with technological changes in an efficient manner, aiming to provide the agriculture industry with the infrastructure to leverage advanced technologies - including big data, the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) - to track, monitor, automate and analyze operations. Thanks to new technologies and precisely the Internet of Things, the agricultural sector will have a radical change to improve efficiency, productivity, global market and reduce human intervention, time and costs. Smart agriculture and IoT-based agriculture are laying the foundation for a "third green revolution," which refers to the combined application of information and communication technologies. This paper focuses on role of IoT in agriculture and presents some devices such as precision equipment, IoT sensors and actuators, geo-positioning systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and robots that leads to smart agriculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing competition between industrial companies forces them to improve their management systems. Moreover, the emergence of information and communication technologies has led to the notion of mass customization. Thus, the need to deploy smart supply chains. In this paper we propose the use of the product driven system concept to make reliable the application of FEFO. The First expired First out (FEFO) is used for the product with an expiration date. The proposed solution is modelled with BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) to clearly visualize the different interactions between the smart products and the warehouse managers. Through this solution, we ensure a reliable application of the FEFO, and consequently an elimination of the problem of product expiration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advent of “smartphones”, technology has helped mankind to solve some of its difficulties. On a similar note, “smart city” is a futuristic approach to alleviate obstacles triggered by ever-increasing population and fast urbanization which is going to benefit the governments as well as the masses. Modern day cities are deprived of vital elements like quality of life and socio-economic development which can be delivered by the smart cities. Smart cities are an endeavour to make cities more efficient, sustainable and liveable. In other words, a smart city is a city that can monitor and integrate functionality of all the critical infrastructure like roads, tunnels, airways, waterways, railways, communication power supply, etc., control maintenance activities and can help in optimizing the resources while keeping an eye on the security issues as well. This research paper explores various aspects and dimensions of a smart city. To bridge the gap in literature regarding the concept of smart cities and its implementation, a framework has been developed to get better insights about the idea of smart city. On the basis of extensive and deep research of literature from diverse domains, we have identified six significant pillars for developing the framework as: S ocial, M anagement, E conomic, L egal, T echnology and S ustainability (SMELTS). The paper throws light upon how these factors can make the smart city initiative a successful project. The proposed framework has been used to figure out various agendas for research and traces its practical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advancement into smart mobile devices has accelerated the adoption of various pervasive computing based ubiquitous applications, where Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) has extended its usability from hard core military applications to civil society applications. The success for routing requires a robust computational mechanism of routing based on the collaborative framework of energy (i.e. battery power), signal strength and zonal routings. The paper presents a framework of novel routing technique in order to jointly address the problem pertaining to routing overhead and energy drainage among the mobile nodes. Different from conventional simulation mechanism, the paper presents a communication district with inclusion of auxiliary nodes for minimizing the overhead during the routing process. The outcome of the proposed study shows significant reduction in routing overhead along with energy efficiency as compared to existing AODV and DSDV protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many applications of Wireless Sensor Networks such as Airborne Ad-hoc Networks (AANETs) or Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) require the network architecture to be three-dimensional. In this paper, we present a terrestrial three-dimensional network architecture as well as protocol stack deployment for static sensor nodes placed at varying heights. A Dynamic Cluster-Based TDMA MAC (DCB-TDMA MAC) protocol has been developed for this network and simulated using Cooja platform. Cluster-Head nodes are rotated based on residual energy in order to maximize the lifetime of the network. Detailed working of protocol involving Time Synchronization, MAC, Cluster-Head rotation, Dynamic Routing is provided in this paper along with simulation results and analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On account of the colossal expansion in the size of research paper repository, the stature of Recommender System has increased, as it can guide the researchers to find papers akin to them from this vast collection. Furthermore, the recommendation methods like collaborative-filtering or content-based do not allow the user's to provide their personalized requirements explicitly; hence the focus is shifted towards the customized Recommender Systems that can scrutinize user's preferences by contemplating their inputs. But the state-of-art recommendation techniques satisfying user's personalized requirements make a strong assumption of static dataset. So, in this work we are going to present a customized Recommender System that can acknowledge the ever growing nature of research paper repository. To accomplish this, the Efficient Incremental High-Utility Itemset Mining algorithm (EIHI), which has been recently introduced in the literature, is used which is specialized to work with dynamic datasets. Experimental results prove that the proposed system satisfies the researcher's personalized requirements and at the same time handles the incremental nature of the research paper repository efficiently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an ICT based system for enhancing teaching and learning in a large classroom and increasing the interactivity to improve learning. Typically, such a classroom suffers from difficulties in audibility of lectures, seamless teacher-student interaction, monitoring attention of students, collecting attendance and conducting examinations. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) 1 paradigm has been assumed for this system. The paper focuses on a method for improving interaction in the classroom by monitoring students’ activities. A report for non-interaction with the system is sent to the teacher after regular intervals, which will assist the teacher in identifying students with low interest in the class lecture. All the activities and interaction of the students in the class are stored as activity records in the system through which the level of interaction of the student can be made. The proposed system solves both the problems associated with teaching and learning in a large classroom as well as helps in prevention of frequent use of smartphones for non-learning purposes. An empirical study was conducted to test the acceptability of the system. The results obtained from the experiences of the participants were found to be encouraging and positive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasingly, healthcare is provided by a team of care providers from different organizations. Cross-organizational healthcare data sharing is a major issue in interoperable healthcare organizations. Studies have shown that quality of care can be put at risk when patients are transferred from one organization to another, while the need for protecting patient privacy is sometimes an inhibitor to providing information computing technology (ICT) solutions. This paper presents a systematic literature review of cross-organizational healthcare data sharing. The review includes research related to laws and regulations as well as proposed methodological and ICT solutions. Our methodology for querying, filtering and selecting relevant papers from scientific, academic and general repositories is explained and the selected papers are categorized and compared in terms of scope, contributions, and future directions. Based on this analysis, we outline a possible research direction for developing ICT solutions that healthcare providers and regulators would be willing to adopt. Based on our review, we concluded that inspite of the liberal regulations around data sharing among authorized healthcare providers, these organizations are utterly reluctant to collaborate on patient information. Fear of a breech of personal health information, and the shortage of technological facilitators that are compatible with the existing health information systems, are the main causes of the cross-organizational interoperability problems in the healthcare sector. The existing collaborative technologies require considerable initial investments that the current healthcare system is not willing to spend funds on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, Indonesian citizen experience a fast changing lifestyle related to information and communication technology (ICT) utility, such as gadget and internet. The ease of information and knowledge retrieval to support learning process comes with problems to be taken care of such as information overload, negative content, netiquette negligence, and gadget addiction. Meanwhile, Indonesia will face an upcoming challenge in the economic sector, Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) in 2020. An initiative for economic integration uses ICT as economic hub to promote every sector growth in economy. A concept explored in this research context to answers those problems mentioned above and to overcome the upcoming challenge is improving quality of Indonesian human resources through digital literacy education. This paper discusses a learning system model dedicated to deliver digital literacy education to the Indonesian citizen. Objectives of this research are increasing awareness towards digital literacy concept and preparing citizen to be digitally literate and competent using ICT to support their learning process, doing their work more effective and efficient, and preparing Indonesian young generation to become qualified workforce competing in FTAAP 2020, furthermore international work competition. This paper delivers analysis for learning system model as a result from the initial research of research series about digital literacy education in Indonesia. Resulting model justified by sets of detailed scenario about how this model works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable development challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to reform their courses and life on campus. ICT professionals and students who are future leaders of the nation are progressively exposed to thinking of sustainability. This paper presents evolution of Green ICT and discusses the barriers in implementation of Green ICT at higher education institutions based on survey conducted in India. An extensive literature review pertaining to Green ICT and sustainable development was carried out and 10 barriers were summarized. Using SPSS tool and Wilcoxon Test, the most important barrier for successful implementation of Green ICT at higher education has been discovered. The survey revealed that lack of motivation and rational for adopting green polices among the implementers is truly hurdle in implementation of Green or sustainable ICT. In nutshell, the paper assists the policy maker in designing green strategies and polices based on barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasingly, healthcare is provided by a team of care providers from different organizations. Cross-organizational healthcare data sharing is a major issue in interoperable healthcare organizations. Studies have shown that quality of care can be put at risk when patients are transferred from one organization to another, while the need for protecting patient privacy is sometimes an inhibitor to providing information computing technology (ICT) solutions. This paper presents a systematic literature review of cross-organizational healthcare data sharing. The review includes research related to laws and regulations as well as proposed methodological and ICT solutions. Our methodology for querying, filtering and selecting relevant papers from scientific, academic and general repositories is explained and the selected papers are categorized and compared in terms of scope, contributions, and future directions. Based on this analysis, we outline a possible research direction for developing ICT solutions that healthcare providers and regulators would be willing to adopt. Based on our review, we concluded that inspite of the liberal regulations around data sharing among authorized healthcare providers, these organizations are utterly reluctant to collaborate on patient information. Fear of a breech of personal health information, and the shortage of technological facilitators that are compatible with the existing health information systems, are the main causes of the cross-organizational interoperability problems in the healthcare sector. The existing collaborative technologies require considerable initial investments that the current healthcare system is not willing to spend funds on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the epidemic situation of COVID-19, the construction of distance education and resource sharing platform becomes more and more urgent and important when there is a major public health emergency in the world. This paper comprehensively introduces the social needs, framework composition, main functions and expected objectives of the system, analyzes the existing main problems and development bottlenecks in combination with the teaching practice, and shares the experience of distance teaching through the actual applications. Among them, the At present, the two-level (University and College) public platforms shared by the teachers together with students in Sichuan University were highlighted, which would provide useful reference for relevant research and platform construction. Finally, some "pocket experiments" were successfully carried out at students home under the long-distance guidance of teachers, and information and communication technologies are expected to play more and more key role during the epidemic or other similar global public health emergencies in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adopts a new approach to searching the users with similarinterests by mobile network services instead of by desktop users. First, the direct trustis calculated based on the mobile users’ behavior andthe weight of the corresponding context (time and position), then an indirect trust degree calculation method is proposed according to the propagationdistance based on the theory of the six degrees of separation; secondly this paper further uses the evaluation score about a certain mobile web service given by a mobile user to calculate the preference similarity degree between different users. Finally based on the time attenuation functionit tries to find the users with similar preference,so as to make use of the neighbor users’ preference profile to dynamicallyupdate the target user's preference profile. Simulation shows that the proposed approach outperformspure sliding window methodand pure forgetting strategy method which fail totake the context mobile information into considerationin terms of Recall Ratio and Precision Ratio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monitoring and surveillance of large surface represent a challenge for peoples. In some environments, this task can be so hard, cost and takes lot of time. Automatic monitoring is the best solution in many cases. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) as a monitoring tool know a large use in many domains: military domain, space domain, and agronomic domain. The objective of this paper is to present the design of an architecture where a wireless sensor network is deployed to survey a large date palm forest. The paper presents the specification level of this architecture and a formal verification of this specification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cloud computing created many new opportunities for organisations across the world. Presently, Cloud services are available at affordable prices and accessible for all scales of businesses. The economic benefits of this wider acceptance to adopting Cloud computing are enormous and many companies have embraced Cloud computing now. Over the years, technology emergence has helped to enhance the growth of Cloud computing, but the growth had not been as per expectations in the beginning era of the Cloud computing. This paper analyzes various factors that have affected the adoption rate of Cloud computing to be slower than expectations. This paper also identifies that the major factor behind the slower growth of Cloud computing is the controversial view about Cloud computing in the eyes of IT workforce. Based on the result of a survey of IT workforce at various organizational levels, this paper establishes that the identified factors such as Cloud computing awareness and the fear of job loss in IT workforce played a role in slow adoption of Cloud computing. Further, this paper presents recommendations to handle technology adoption and forecasting in a better way in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper suggests a method to measure the physical distance between an IoT device and a mobile device (also a Thing) using BLE(Bluetooth Low-Energy profile) interfaces with smaller distance errors. BLE is a well-known technology for the low-power connectivity suitable for IoT devices and also for the proximity with the range of several meters. Apple has already adopted the technic and enhanced it to provide subdivided proximity range levels. But as it is also a variation of RSS-based distance estimation, iBeacon could only provide immediate, near or far status but not a real and accurate distance. To provide the distance using BLE, this paper introduces additional self-correcting beacon to calibrate the reference distance and mitigate errors from environmental factors. By adopting self-correcting beacon while measuring the distance, the average distance error showed less than 10% within the range of 1.5 meters. Some considerations are presented to extend the range to be able to get accurate distances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As image enhancement is the main issue for biomedical image diagnosis, the aim of this paper is to present a method to enhance the biomedical images. In this paper, a combination of wavelets is used for the same. In the method after applying SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transforms ) algorithm on the image the first wavelet D’Mayer is applied, then image is extracted and the second wavelet Coieflet is applied on the image. The results of the proposed method have been compared with other wavelets on the basis of different metrics like PSNR (Peak signal to noise ratio) and Beta coefficient and it has been found that the proposed method provides better results than the other methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cloud computing is one of the latest and an emerging area in the Information and Technology (IT) sector, which has given a different dimension to the organizations. Performance and security aspects of private cloud and widely used public cloud are the major issues which have to be addressed in Cloud Computing. Intrusion is one such critical and important security problem for Cloud Computing. This paper will attempt to give an overall idea about Cloud computing, Intrusion, types of Intrusion Detection Systems and earlier works done on Intrusion Detection System. The key proposal of this paper is to give an overall idea for building a Hybrid Intrusion Detection System that would detect any type of intrusion into the cloud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital Image Processing Domain may be the old but the techniques and algorithms which are generating day by day are the trends of next generation real time applications. It has a wide scope in the field of research. When this domain is combined, implemented and operated over Cloud computing it will becomes the trends in the field of health care domain and hospital management systems. In this paper we are explaining the comparative strategical algorithm, which shows the step by step procedure of acquisition, transformation, interpolation, filtering, edge detection and image recognition in cloud. It also shows in each and every stage how the data has been read and transformed from one phase to another phase are discussed. This paper analyzes the comparative strategical architecture and a comparative study with the existing results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]