Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 108

Volume 108, July 2020

Regular papers

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  Bei Xu, Hai Zhuge:
  The influence of semantic link network on the ability of question-answering system. 1-14

Special Issue on NMA Digital ForensicTech

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  Carlos Quinto Huamán, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Luis Javier García-Villalba:
  Authentication and integrity of smartphone videos through multimedia container structure analysis. 15-33

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Giancarlo Fortino, Lidia Fotia, Fabrizio Messina, Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè:
  A meritocratic trust-based group formation in an IoT environment for smart cities. 34-45

Special Issue on Advancements in 5G Networks Security

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  Shanay Behrad, Emmanuel Bertin, Stéphane Tuffin, Noël Crespi:
  A new scalable authentication and access control mechanism for 5G-based IoT. 46-61

Special Issue on Intelligent Edge, Fog and Internet of things (IoT)-based services

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  Hyunhee Park:
  Adaptive Backoff enabled WUR on non-cellular local IoT for extreme low power operation. 62-67

Special Issue on NMA Digital ForensicTech

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  João J. C. Gondim, Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque, Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco:
  Mirror saturation in amplified reflection Distributed Denial of Service: A case of study using SNMP, SSDP, NTP and DNS protocols. 68-81

Regular papers

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  Taesik Kim, Hong Min, Eunsoo Choi, Jinman Jung:
  Optimal job partitioning and allocation for vehicular cloud computing. 82-96

Special Issue on Social and Intelligent Applications for Future Cities

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  Soroush Ojagh, Mohammad Reza Malek, Sara Saeedi, Steve H. L. Liang:
  A location-based orientation-aware recommender system using IoT smart devices and Social Networks. 97-118

Special Issue on New Computing Paradigms of Stream Data Mining and Optimization in Non-stationary Environments

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  Jia Luo, Didier El Baz, Rui Xue, Jinglu Hu:
  Solving the dynamic energy aware job shop scheduling problem with the heterogeneous parallel genetic algorithm. 119-134

Special Issue on Bio-computation in IoMT

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  Eric Ke Wang, Chien-Ming Chen, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Ahmad Almogren:
  A deep learning based medical image segmentation technique in Internet-of-Medical-Things domain. 135-144

Regular papers

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  Jie Lin, Biao Xiao, Hanlin Zhang, Xinyu Yang, Peng Zhao:
  A novel multitype-users welfare equilibrium based real-time pricing in smart grid. 145-160
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  Filip Petrovic, David Strelák, Jana Hozzová, Jaroslav Olha, Richard Trembecký, Siegfried Benkner, Jiri Filipovic:
  A benchmark set of highly-efficient CUDA and OpenCL kernels and its dynamic autotuning with Kernel Tuning Toolkit. 161-177

Special Issue on Model and Data Engineering in Big Data Science

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  Quentin Rouland, Brahim Hamid, Jason Jaskolka:
  Formal specification and verification of reusable communication models for distributed systems architecture. 178-197

Special Issue on Data Science for Smart Healthcare: Methodologies and Applications

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  Tao Han, Roberto F. Ivo, Douglas de A. Rodrigues, Solon Alves Peixoto, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque, Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças Filho:
  Cascaded Volumetric Fully Convolutional Networks for Whole-Heart and Great Vessel 3D segmentation. 198-209

Regular papers

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  Mirko D'Angelo, Mauro Caporuscio, Vincenzo Grassi, Raffaela Mirandola:
  Decentralized learning for self-adaptive QoS-aware service assembly. 210-227

Special Issue on Social and Intelligent Applications for Future Cities

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  Daniel G. Costa, Felipe P. de Oliveira:
  A prioritization approach for optimization of multiple concurrent sensing applications in smart cities. 228-243

Regular papers

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  Lingling Zhang, Hong Jiang, Fang Wang, Dan Feng, Yanwen Xie:
  Reservoir-based sampling over large graph streams to estimate triangle counts and node degrees. 244-255

Special Issue on Data Exploration

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  Giuseppe Rizzo, Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato:
  Class expression induction as concept space exploration: From DL-Foil to DL-Focl. 256-272

Regular papers

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  Yifan Chen, Zhiyong Li, Bo Yang, Ke Nai, Keqin Li:
  A Stackelberg game approach to multiple resources allocation and pricing in mobile edge computing. 273-287
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  Nicola Mc Donnell, Enda Howley, Jim Duggan:
  Dynamic virtual machine consolidation using a multi-agent system to optimise energy efficiency in cloud computing. 288-301
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  Seyed Asgary Ghasempouri, Behrouz Tork Ladani:
  Model checking of robustness properties in trust and reputation systems. 302-319
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  Ashish Kumar Sahu, Pragya Dwivedi:
  Knowledge transfer by domain-independent user latent factor for cross-domain recommender systems. 320-333
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  Ashwin T. S, Ram Mohana Reddy Guddeti:
  Affective database for e-learning and classroom environments using Indian students' faces, hand gestures and body postures. 334-348
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  Chia-Cheng Hu:
  Minimizing executing and transmitting time of task scheduling and resource allocation in C-RANs. 349-360

Special Issue on Heterogeneous Computation in Specific Domain Accelerations

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  Ding Ding, Xiaocong Fan, Yihuan Zhao, Kaixuan Kang, Qian Yin, Jing Zeng:
  Q-learning based dynamic task scheduling for energy-efficient cloud computing. 361-371

Regular papers

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  Budan Wu, Ran Liu, Rongheng Lin, Junliang Chen:
  A distributed business process fragmentation method based on community discovery. 372-389

Special Issue on Intelligent Edge, Fog and Internet of things (IoT)-based services

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  Xinyao Liu, Baojiang Cui, Junsong Fu, Jinxin Ma:
  HFuzz: Towards automatic fuzzing testing of NB-IoT core network protocols implementations. 390-400

Special Issue on Advances in Self-Protecting Systems

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  Ghita Berrada, James Cheney, Sidahmed Benabderrahmane, William Maxwell, Himan Mookherjee, Alec Theriault, Ryan Wright:
  A baseline for unsupervised advanced persistent threat detection in system-level provenance. 401-413

Special Issue on Intelligent Edge, Fog and Internet of things (IoT)-based services

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  Yahya Al-Hadhrami, Farookh Khadeer Hussain:
  Real time dataset generation framework for intrusion detection systems in IoT. 414-423

Regular papers

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  Yousung Yang, Joohyung Lee, Nakyoung Kim, Kwihoon Kim:
  Social-viewport adaptive caching scheme with clustering for virtual reality streaming in an edge computing platform. 424-431
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  Karam M. Sallam, Ripon Kumar Chakrabortty, Michael J. Ryan:
  A two-stage multi-operator differential evolution algorithm for solving Resource Constrained Project Scheduling problems. 432-444

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Kuo-Chi Chang, Kai-Chun Chu, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Yuh-Chung Lin, Jeng-Shyang Pan:
  Agent-based middleware framework using distributed CPS for improving resource utilization in smart city. 445-453

Special Issue on Social and Intelligent Applications for Future Cities

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  Javier Palanca, Jaume Jordán, Javier Bajo, Vicent J. Botti:
  An energy-aware algorithm for electric vehicle infrastructures in smart cities. 454-466

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Aaisha Makkar, Neeraj Kumar:
  An efficient deep learning-based scheme for web spam detection in IoT environment. 467-487

Special Issue on Intelligent Edge, Fog and Internet of things (IoT)-based services

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  Hsing-Chung Chen, Karisma Trinanda Putra, Shian-Shyong Tseng, Chin-Ling Chen, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin:
  A spatiotemporal data compression approach with low transmission cost and high data fidelity for an air quality monitoring system. 488-500

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Shenglong Peng, Liang Zhou, Xuan He, Junyi Du:
  GPS-aided inter-microcell interference avoidance for request-transmission splitting slotted ALOHA-based scheme in smart cities with connected vehicles. 501-511
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  Daming Li, Lianbing Deng, Wenjian Liu, Su Qinglang:
  Improving communication precision of IoT through behavior-based learning in smart city environment. 512-520

Regular papers

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  Zhaonian Tan, Weixing Ji, Jianhua Gao, Yueyan Zhao, Akrem Benatia, Yizhuo Wang, Feng Shi:
  MMSparse: 2D partitioning of sparse matrix based on mathematical morphology. 521-532

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Chaolong Zhang, Yigang He, Bolun Du, Lifen Yuan, Bing Li, Shanhe Jiang:
  Transformer fault diagnosis method using IoT based monitoring system and ensemble machine learning. 533-545

Regular papers

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  Shaojun Zou, Jiawei Huang, Wanchun Jiang, Jianxin Wang:
  Achieving high utilization of flowlet-based load balancing in data center networks. 546-559
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  Jitae Yun, Su-Kyung Yoon, Jeong-Geun Kim, Shin-Dug Kim:
  Access pattern-based high-performance main memory system for graph processing on single machines. 560-573

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Wenbo Zhang, Zonglin Wu, Guangjie Han, Yongxin Feng, Lei Shu:
  LDC: A lightweight dada consensus algorithm based on the blockchain for the industrial Internet of Things for smart city applications. 574-582

Regular papers

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  Mohamed Adel Serhani, Hadeel T. El Kassabi, Khaled Shuaib, Alramzana Nujum Navaz, Boualem Benatallah, Amin Beheshti:
  Self-adapting cloud services orchestration for fulfilling intensive sensory data-driven IoT workflows. 583-597
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  Nan Wang, Michail Matthaiou, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Blesson Varghese:
  DYVERSE: DYnamic VERtical Scaling in multi-tenant Edge environments. 598-612
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  Saqib Qamar, Hai Jin, Ran Zheng, Parvez Ahmad, Mohd Usama:
  A variant form of 3D-UNet for infant brain segmentation. 613-623
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  Dmitrii Chemodanov, Flavio Esposito, Prasad Calyam, Andrei M. Sukhov:
  REBATE: A REpulsive-BAsed Traffic Engineering protocol for dynamic scale-free networks. 624-635
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  Timothy A. Chadza, Konstantinos G. Kyriakopoulos, Sangarapillai Lambotharan:
  Analysis of hidden Markov model learning algorithms for the detection and prediction of multi-stage network attacks. 636-649
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  Yanghao Xie, Sheng Wang, Yueyue Dai:
  Revenue-maximizing virtualized network function chain placement in dynamic environment. 650-661
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  Chaoze Lu, Guosun Zeng, Ying-jie Xie:
  Bigraph specification of software architecture and evolution analysis in mobile computing environment. 662-676

Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City

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  Ying Gao, Xiaoqiang Wu, Wei Yan, Lei Zhang, Tunhua Wu:
  Dynamic network embedding enhanced advisor-advisee relationship identification based on internet of scholars. 677-686

Regular papers

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  Zafar Iqbal, Zahid Anwar:
  SCERM - A novel framework for automated management of cyber threat response activities. 687-708

Special Issue on Bio-computation in IoMT

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  Wenjing Xiao, Miao Li, Min Chen, Ahmed Barnawi:
  Deep interaction: Wearable robot-assisted emotion communication for enhancing perception and expression ability of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 709-716

Special Issue on Trusted Cloud-Edges (CE) Computations

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  Eslam B. Ali, Sherif S. Kishk, Ehab H. Abdelhay:
  Multidimensional auction for task allocation using computation offloading in fifth generation networks. 717-725

Special Issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention

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  Feras M. Awaysheh, Mamoun Alazab, Maanak Gupta, Tomás F. Pena, José Carlos Cabaleiro:
  Next-generation big data federation access control: A reference model. 726-741

Regular papers

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  Rasoul Rahmani, Irene Moser, Antonio L. Cricenti:
  Modelling and optimisation of microgrid configuration for green data centres: A metaheuristic approach. 742-750

Special Issue on Model and Data Engineering in Big Data Science

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  Faten Fakhfakh, Mohamed Tounsi, Mohamed Mosbah:
  Modeling and Proving Distributed Algorithms for Dynamic Graphs. 751-761

Special Issue on Heterogeneous Computation in Specific Domain Accelerations

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  Dario Madeo, Somnath Mazumdar, Chiara Mocenni, Roberto Zingone:
  Evolutionary game for task mapping in resource constrained heterogeneous environments. 762-776

Special Issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention

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  Omowunmi E. Isafiade, Antoine B. Bagula:
  Series mining for public safety advancement in emerging smart cities. 777-802

Special Issue on Advances in Self-Protecting Systems

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  Sandhya Mishra, Devpriya Soni:
  Smishing Detector: A security model to detect smishing through SMS content analysis and URL behavior analysis. 803-815

Special Issue on Baas-iot-big-data

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  Adnan Sajid, Bilal Khalid, Mudassar Ali, Shahid Mumtaz, Usman Masud, Farhan Qamar:
  Securing Cognitive Radio Networks using blockchains. 816-826

Regular papers

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  Damian Arellanes, Kung-Kiu Lau:
  Evaluating IoT service composition mechanisms for the scalability of IoT systems. 827-848
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  D. Pradeep, C. Sundar:
  QAOC: Novel query analysis and ontology-based clustering for data management in Hadoop. 849-860
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  Lassana Coulibaly, Bernard Kamsu-Foguem, Fana Tangara:
  Rule-based machine learning for knowledge discovering in weather data. 861-878

Special Issue on New Computing Paradigms of Stream Data Mining and Optimization in Non-stationary Environments

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  Paolo Bellavista, Kaoru Ota, Zhihan Lv, Irfan Mehmood, Seungmin Rho:
  Towards smarter cities: Learning from Internet of Multimedia Things-generated big data. 879-881
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  Marisol García-Valls, Christian Calva-Urrego, Ana García-Fornes:
  Accelerating smart eHealth services execution at the fog computing infrastructure. 882-893
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  Bo-Wei Chen:
  Incomplete data classification - Fisher Discriminant Ratios versus Welch Discriminant Ratios. 894-908
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  Aakanksha Tewari, Brij B. Gupta:
  Security, privacy and trust of different layers in Internet-of-Things (IoTs) framework. 909-920
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  Anish Jindal, Neeraj Kumar, Mukesh Singh:
  A unified framework for big data acquisition, storage, and analytics for demand response management in smart cities. 921-934
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  Shabir A. Parah, Javaid A. Sheikh, Jahangir A. Akhoon, Nazir A. Loan:
  Electronic Health Record hiding in Images for smart city applications: A computationally efficient and reversible information hiding technique for secure communication. 935-949
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  Maitreyee Dey, Soumya Prakash Rana, Sandra E. M. Dudley:
  Smart building creation in large scale HVAC environments through automated fault detection and diagnosis. 950-966
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  Shangguang Wang, Chuntao Ding, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Fangchun Yang:
  Dimensionality reduction via preserving local information. 967-975
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  Jiachen Yang, Yurong Han, Yafang Wang, Bin Jiang, Zhihan Lv, Houbing Song:
  Optimization of real-time traffic network assignment based on IoT data using DBN and clustering model in smart city. 976-986
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  Yicong Gao, Zixian Zhang, Yixiong Feng, Maria Savchenko, Ichiro Hagiwara, Hao Zheng:
  Flexible mesh morphing in sustainable design using data mining and mesh subdivision. 987-994
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  Muhammad Sajjad, Mansoor Nasir, Khan Muhammad, Siraj Khan, Zahoor Jan, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Mohamed Elhoseny, Sung Wook Baik:
  Raspberry Pi assisted face recognition framework for enhanced law-enforcement services in smart cities. 995-1007
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  Rahul Raman, Pankaj Kumar Sa, Sambit Bakshi, Banshidhar Majhi:
  Kinesiology-inspired estimation of pedestrian walk direction for smart surveillance. 1008-1026
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  Rajiv Ranjan, Lydia Y. Chen, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Albert Y. Zomaya:
  A note on advances in scheduling algorithms for Cyber-Physical-Social workflows. 1027-1029
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  Reem Y. Ali, Shashi Shekhar, Shounak Athavale, Eric D. Marsman:
  ULAMA: A Utilization-Aware Matching Approach for robust on-demand spatial service brokers. 1030-1048
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  Shangguang Wang, Yan Guo, Yan Li, Ching-Hsien Hsu:
  Cultural distance for service composition in cyber-physical-social systems. 1049-1057
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  Anish Jindal, Neeraj Kumar, Mukesh Singh:
  Internet of energy-based demand response management scheme for smart homes and PHEVs using SVM. 1058-1068
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  Shijian Li, Minhao Shi, Runhe Huang, Xinwei Chen, Gang Pan:
  Perception-enhancement based task learning and action scheduling for robotic limb in CPS environment. 1069-1083
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  Yiping Wen, Jianxun Liu, Wanchun Dou, Xiaolong Xu, Buqing Cao, Jinjun Chen:
  Scheduling workflows with privacy protection constraints for big data applications on cloud. 1084-1091
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  Gonzalo De La Torre Parra, Paul Rad, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo:
  Driverless vehicle security: Challenges and future research opportunities. 1092-1111
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  Hong Yao, Muzhou Xiong, Hui Li, Lin Gu, Deze Zeng:
  Joint optimization of function mapping and preemptive scheduling for service chains in network function virtualization. 1112-1118
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  Liwei Huang, Yutao Ma, Yanbo Liu, Arun Kumar Sangaiah:
  Multi-modal Bayesian embedding for point-of-interest recommendation on location-based cyber-physical-social networks. 1119-1128
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  Jian Shen, Chen Wang, Anxi Wang, Qi Liu, Yang Xiang:
  Moving centroid based routing protocol for incompletely predictable cyber devices in Cyber-Physical-Social Distributed Systems. 1129-1139
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  Chinnapong Angsuchotmetee, Richard Chbeir, Yudith Cardinale:
  MSSN-Onto: An ontology-based approach for flexible event processing in Multimedia Sensor Networks. 1140-1158
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  Henri E. Bal, Arindam Pal:
  Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning Algorithms for Scalable Big Data Analytics. 1159-1161
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  Nitin A. Gawande, Jeff A. Daily, Charles Siegel, Nathan R. Tallent, Abhinav Vishnu:
  Scaling Deep Learning workloads: NVIDIA DGX-1/Pascal and Intel Knights Landing. 1162-1172
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  Thomas P. Parnell, Celestine Dünner, Kubilay Atasu, Manolis Sifalakis, Haralampos Pozidis:
  Tera-scale coordinate descent on GPUs. 1173-1191
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  Jing Chen, Jianbin Fang, Weifeng Liu, Tao Tang, Canqun Yang:
  clMF: A fine-grained and portable alternating least squares algorithm for parallel matrix factorization. 1192-1205
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  Yuchen Qiao, Kazuma Hashimoto, Akiko Eriguchi, Haixia Wang, Dongsheng Wang, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kenjiro Taura:
  Parallelizing and optimizing neural Encoder-Decoder models without padding on multi-core architecture. 1206-1213
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  Yin Zhang, Haider Abbas:
  Special issue: Cognitive Internet of Things assisted by cloud computing and big data. 1214-1216
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  Ziad A. Al-Sharif, Mohammed I. Al-Saleh, Luay Alawneh, Yaser Jararweh, Brij B. Gupta:
  Live forensics of software attacks on cyber-physical systems. 1217-1229
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  Yan Hu, Hong Li, Tom H. Luan, An Yang, Limin Sun, Zhiliang Wang, Rui Wang:
  Detecting stealthy attacks on industrial control systems using a permutation entropy-based method. 1230-1240
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  Valentin Tudor, Vincenzo Gulisano, Magnus Almgren, Marina Papatriantafilou:
  BES: Differentially private event aggregation for large-scale IoT-based systems. 1241-1257
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  Weizhi Meng, Wenjuan Li, Yu Wang, Man Ho Au:
  Detecting insider attacks in medical cyber-physical networks based on behavioral profiling. 1258-1266
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  Sravani Challa, Ashok Kumar Das, Prosanta Gope, Neeraj Kumar, Fan Wu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos:
  Design and analysis of authenticated key agreement scheme in cloud-assisted cyber-physical systems. 1267-1286
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  Jian Xu, Laiwen Wei, Wei Wu, Andi Wang, Yu Zhang, Fucai Zhou:
  Privacy-preserving data integrity verification by using lightweight streaming authenticated data structures for healthcare cyber-physical system. 1287-1296
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  Tianqing Zhu, Ping Xiong, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou, Philip S. Yu:
  Differentially private model publishing in cyber physical systems. 1297-1306
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  Tianqi Zhou, Jian Shen, Xiong Li, Chen Wang, Haowen Tan:
  Logarithmic encryption scheme for cyber-physical systems employing Fibonacci Q-matrix. 1307-1313
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  Heng Ye, Jiqiang Liu, Wei Wang, Ping Li, Tong Li, Jin Li:
  Secure and efficient outsourcing differential privacy data release scheme in Cyber-physical system. 1314-1323
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  Yiting Zhang, Ming Yang, Zhen Ling, Yaowen Liu, Wenjia Wu:
  FingerAuth: 3D magnetic finger motion pattern based implicit authentication for mobile devices. 1324-1337
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  Zhiwei Zhang, Xiaofeng Chen, Jianfeng Ma, Jian Shen:
  SLDS: Secure and location-sensitive data sharing scheme for cloud-assisted Cyber-Physical Systems. 1338-1349
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  (Withdrawn) Erratum to "Smart health monitoring and management system: Toward autonomous wearable sensing for Internet of Things using big data analytics [Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 91 (2019) 611-619]". 1350-1359