Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 97

Volume 97, August 2019

Special issue on Smart Data for IoT

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  Zhuo Liu, Chenhui Yao, Hang Yu, Tai-Hua Wu:
  Deep reinforcement learning with its application for lung cancer detection in medical Internet of Things. 1-9

Special issue on Fog and Cloud for CIS

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  Mohamed Mohamed, Robert Engel, Amit Warke, Shay Berman, Heiko Ludwig:
  Extensible persistence as a service for containers. 10-20

Special issue on Smart Data for IoT

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  Yibing Zhao, Feng Ding, Jining Li, Lie Guo, Wanfeng Qi:
  The intelligent obstacle sensing and recognizing method based on D-S evidence theory for UGV. 21-29

Special issue on ASNT

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  Dominik Ziemke, Simon Metzler, Kai Nagel:
  Bicycle traffic and its interaction with motorized traffic in an agent-based transport simulation framework. 30-40

Special issue on Tactile Internet

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  Yuhan Su, Xiaozhen Lu, Lianfen Huang, Xiaojiang Du, Mohsen Guizani:
  Tac-U: A traffic balancing scheme over licensed and unlicensed bands for Tactile Internet. 41-49

Special issue on Comput.Intell.EI

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  Juan Luo, Luxiu Yin, Jinyu Hu, Chun Wang, Xuan Liu, Xin Fan, Haibo Luo:
  Container-based fog computing architecture and energy-balancing scheduling algorithm for energy IoT. 50-60

Special issue on Smart Data for IoT

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  Feng Lu, Ziqian Shi, Lin Gu, Hai Jin, Laurence Tianruo Yang:
  An adaptive multi-level caching strategy for Distributed Database System. 61-68

Special issue on Fog and Cloud for CIS

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  Aicha Ben Jrad, Sami Bhiri, Samir Tata:
  STRATFram: A framework for describing and evaluating elasticity strategies for service-based business processes in the cloud. 69-89

Special issue on Comput.Intell.EI

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  Zhaoxi Hong, Yixiong Feng, Zhiwu Li, Yong Wang, Hao Zheng, Zhongkai Li, Jianrong Tan:
  An integrated approach for multi-objective optimisation and MCDM of energy internet under uncertainty. 90-104

Special issue on SmartTech&Arch for IoT

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  Toni Perkovic, Mario Cagalj, Tonko Kovacevic:
  LISA: Visible light based initialization and SMS based authentication of constrained IoT devices. 105-118

Special issue on ECP for BPM

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  Mahbuba Afrin, Jiong Jin, Ashfaqur Rahman, Yu-Chu Tian, Ambarish Kulkarni:
  Multi-objective resource allocation for Edge Cloud based robotic workflow in smart factory. 119-130

Special issue on C-IoT-QoS

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  Carlos Guerrero, Isaac Lera, Carlos Juiz:
  Evaluation and efficiency comparison of evolutionary algorithms for service placement optimization in fog architectures. 131-144

Special issue on SmartTech&Arch for IoT

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  Mauro A. A. da Cruz, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Pascal Lorenz, Petar Solic, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque:
  A proposal for bridging application layer protocols to HTTP on IoT solutions. 145-152

Special issue on Smart Data for IoT

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  Tao Hu, Chunxia Xiao:
  Data-driven main color map feature learning, design and simulation for smart ethnic cloth. 153-164

Special issue on Tactile Internet

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  Arsla Khan, Saud Khan, Sobia Baig, Hafiz Muhammad Asif, Soo Young Shin:
  Wavelet OFDM with Overlap FDE for non-Gaussian channels in precoded NOMA based systems. 165-179

Special issue on USPN

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  Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças Filho, Samuel Luz Gomes, Navar de Medeiros Mendonça e Nascimento, Cláudio Marques de Sá Medeiros, Fatma Outay, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque:
  Energy production predication via Internet of Thing based machine learning system. 180-193

Regular papers

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  Dawei Sun, Shang Gao, Xunyun Liu, Fengyun Li, Xinqi Zheng, Rajkumar Buyya:
  State and runtime-aware scheduling in elastic stream computing systems. 194-209

Special issue on Security & Biometrics

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  Abir Mhenni, Estelle Cherrier, Christophe Rosenberger, Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara:
  Analysis of Doddington zoo classification for user dependent template update: Application to keystroke dynamics recognition. 210-218

Special issue on Tactile Internet

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  Wazir Zada Khan, Ejaz Ahmed, Saqib Hakak, Ibrar Yaqoob, Arif Ahmed:
  Edge computing: A survey. 219-235

Special issue on Cloud App Security&Trust

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  Marco de Benedictis, Antonio Lioy:
  Integrity verification of Docker containers for a lightweight cloud environment. 236-246

Regular papers

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  Maha Bouaziz, Abderrezak Rachedi, Abdelfettah Belghith, Marion Berbineau, Saad A. Al-Ahmadi:
  EMA-RPL: Energy and mobility aware routing for the Internet of Mobile Things. 247-258
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  Vicent Giménez Alventosa, Germán Moltó, Miguel Caballer:
  A framework and a performance assessment for serverless MapReduce on AWS Lambda. 259-274

Special issue on Cognitive-Computing-App

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  Jie Cui, Mingjun Wang, Yonglong Luo, Hong Zhong:
  DDoS detection and defense mechanism based on cognitive-inspired computing in SDN. 275-283

Special issue on Smart Data for IoT

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  Shengmin Xu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Ximeng Liu:
  A secure IoT cloud storage system with fine-grained access control and decryption key exposure resistance. 284-294

Regular papers

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  Ignacio Martín, José Alberto Hernández, Sergio de los Santos:
  Machine-Learning based analysis and classification of Android malware signatures. 295-305

Special issue on Security & Biometrics

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  Qian Xu, Chengxiang Tan, Wenye Zhu, Ya Xiao, Zhijie Fan, Fujia Cheng:
  Decentralized attribute-based conjunctive keyword search scheme with online/offline encryption and outsource decryption for cloud computing. 306-326

Special issue on SmartTech&Arch for IoT

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  Luigi Atzori, Claudia Campolo, Bin Da, Roberto Girau, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito, Salvatore Quattropani:
  Smart devices in the social loops: Criteria and algorithms for the creation of the social links. 327-339

Regular papers

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  Muthukumar Murugan, Krishna Kant, Ajaykrishna Raghavan, David H. C. Du:
  Software defined deduplicated replica management in scale-out storage systems. 340-354

Special issue on IoMT Big Data

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  Sam Leroux, Steven Bohez, Elias De Coninck, Pieter Van Molle, Bert Vankeirsbilck, Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Bart Dhoedt:
  Multi-fidelity deep neural networks for adaptive inference in the internet of multimedia things. 355-360

Special issue on ECP for BPM

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  Ying Xie, Yuanwei Zhu, Yeguo Wang, Yongliang Cheng, Rongbin Xu, Abubakar Sadiq Sani, Dong Yuan, Yun Yang:
  A novel directional and non-local-convergent particle swarm optimization based workflow scheduling in cloud-edge environment. 361-378

Special issue on SmartTech&Arch for IoT

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  Pedro H. Vilela, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Petar Solic, Kashif Saleem, Vasco Furtado:
  Performance evaluation of a Fog-assisted IoT solution for e-Health applications. 379-386

Special issue on ECP for BPM

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  Yuanchun Jiang, Dandan Tao, Yezheng Liu, Jianshan Sun, Haifeng Ling:
  Cloud service recommendation based on unstructured textual information. 387-396

Special issue on Fog and Cloud for CIS

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  Khouloud Boukadi, Rima Grati, Molka Rekik, Hanêne Ben-Abdallah:
  Business process outsourcing to cloud containers: How to find the optimal deployment? 397-408

Regular papers

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  Muhammad Faizan Khan, Guojun Wang, Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan:
  Wi-Fi frequency selection concept for effective coverage in collapsed structures. 409-424

Special issue on AI in IoV

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  Sana Ullah, Ki-Il Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Muhammad Imran, Pervez Khan, Eduardo Tovar, Farman Ali:
  UAV-enabled healthcare architecture: Issues and challenges. 425-432

Regular papers

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  Suresh V. Limkar, Rakesh Kumar Jha:
  A novel method for parallel indexing of real time geospatial big data generated by IoT devices. 433-452

Special issue on Trusted Cloud-Edge Comp

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  Hu Xiong, Yanan Zhao, Li Peng, Hao Zhang, Kuo-Hui Yeh:
  Partially policy-hidden attribute-based broadcast encryption with secure delegation in edge computing. 453-461

Regular papers

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  Hadeel T. El Kassabi, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Rachida Dssouli, Alramzana Nujum Navaz:
  Trust enforcement through self-adapting cloud workflow orchestration. 462-481
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  Alireza Toroghi Haghighat, Mehdi Shajari:
  Block withholding game among bitcoin mining pools. 482-491

Special issue on SerCo

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  Dimitrios Michail, Antonios Makris, Iraklis Varlamis, Mark Sawyer:
  Parallelization of large-scale drug-protein binding experiments. 492-502

Special issue on Security & Biometrics

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  Juan E. Tapia, Claudia Arellano:
  Soft-biometrics encoding conditional GAN for synthesis of NIR periocular images. 503-511

Special issue on DecenIoT

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  Muneeb Ul Hassan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Jinjun Chen:
  Privacy preservation in blockchain based IoT systems: Integration issues, prospects, challenges, and future research directions. 512-529

Regular papers

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  Varun Kumar Sharma, Lal Pratap Verma, Mahesh Kumar:
  CL-ADSP: Cross-Layer Adaptive Data Scheduling Policy in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. 530-563

Special issue on Cognitive-Computing-App

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  Leandro Bezerra Marinho, Navar de Medeiros Mendonça e Nascimento, João Wellington M. Souza, Mateus Valentim Gurgel, Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças Filho, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque:
  A novel electrocardiogram feature extraction approach for cardiac arrhythmia classification. 564-577
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  Jin Cui, Lei Ren, Xiaokang Wang, Lin Zhang:
  Pairwise comparison learning based bearing health quantitative modeling and its application in service life prediction. 578-586

Special issue on Trusted Cloud-Edge Comp

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  Nader Sohrabi Safa, Carsten Maple, Steven Furnell, Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Charith Perera, Mohammad Dabbagh, Mehdi Sookhak:
  Deterrence and prevention-based model to mitigate information security insider threats in organisations. 587-597

Special issue on SmartTech&Arch for IoT

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  Aitor Almeida, Rubén Mulero, Piercosimo Rametta, Vladimir Urosevic, Marina Andric, Luigi Patrono:
  A critical analysis of an IoT - aware AAL system for elderly monitoring. 598-619

Regular papers

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  Luigi Coppolino, Salvatore D'Antonio, Giovanni Mazzeo, Luigi Romano:
  A comparative analysis of emerging approaches for securing java software with Intel SGX. 620-633

Special issue on Tactile Internet

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  Hannan Bin Liaqat, Amjad Ali, Junaid Qadir, Ali Kashif Bashir, Muhammad Bilal, Fiaz Majeed:
  Socially-aware congestion control in ad-hoc networks: Current status and the way forward. 634-660

Regular papers

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  Zaihong He, Jishun Kuang, Yanjie Tan, Shihui Peng, Huailiang Tan:
  LPCMsim: A Lightweight Phase Change Memory Simulator. 661-673

Special issue on CTIA

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  Václav Bartos, Martin Zádník, Sheikh Mahbub Habib, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis:
  Network entity characterization and attack prediction. 674-686

Special issue on Cybersecurity & privacy

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  Muhammad Asif Habib, Mudassar Ahmad, Sohail Jabbar, Shehzad Khalid, Junaid Chaudhry, Kashif Saleem, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Mohammed Sayim Khalil:
  Security and privacy based access control model for internet of connected vehicles. 687-696

Special issue on WORKS 2017

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  Marcos A. Guerine, Murilo B. Stockinger, Isabel Rosseti, Luidi Gelabert Simonetti, Kary A. C. S. Ocaña, Alexandre Plastino, Daniel de Oliveira:
  A provenance-based heuristic for preserving results confidentiality in cloud-based scientific workflows. 697-713

Special issue on Cloud App Security&Trust

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  Shupan Li, Limin Xiao, Li Ruan, Shubin Su:
  A novel integrity measurement method based on copy-on-write for region in virtual machine. 714-726

Special issue on CloudFogSmartCities

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  Hsi-Peng Lu, Chiao-Shan Chen, Hueiju Yu:
  Technology roadmap for building a smart city: An exploring study on methodology. 727-742

Regular papers

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  Pan Li, Songtao Guo, Chengsheng Pan, Li Yang, Guiyan Liu, Yue Zeng:
  Fast congestion-free consistent flow forwarding rules update in software defined networking. 743-754

Special issue on ECP for BPM

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  Binbin Huang, Zhongjin Li, Peng Tang, Shangguang Wang, Jun Zhao, Haiyang Hu, Wanqing Li, Victor I. Chang:
  Security modeling and efficient computation offloading for service workflow in mobile edge computing. 755-774

Special issue on C-IoT-QoS

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  Jianfeng Guan, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Muhammad Imran:
  Extension of MIH for FPMIPv6 (EMIH-FPMIPv6) to support optimized heterogeneous handover. 775-791

Special issue on Fog and Cloud for CIS

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  Mohammed AlShaer, Yehia Taher, Rafiqul Haque, Mohand-Saïd Hacid, Mohamed Dbouk:
  IBRIDIA: A hybrid solution for processing big logistics data. 792-804

Regular papers

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  Chenghao Li, Huyin Zhang, Tianying Zhou:
  Coflow scheduling algorithm based density peaks clustering. 805-813

Special issue on Science Gateways 2017

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  Damjan Temelkovski, Tamás Kiss, Gábor Terstyánszky, Pamela Greenwell:
  Extending molecular docking desktop applications with cloud computing support and analysis of results. 814-824

Special issue on ECP for BPM

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  Qiang Wu, Jun Shen, Binbin Yong, Jianqing Wu, Fucun Li, Jinqiang Wang, Qingguo Zhou:
  Smart fog based workflow for traffic control networks. 825-835

Regular papers

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  Lan Gao, Yunlong Xu, Rui Wang, Hailong Yang, Zhongzhi Luan, Depei Qian:
  Accelerating in-memory transaction processing using general purpose graphics processing units. 836-848
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  Ali Asghar Heidari, Seyedali Mirjalili, Hossam Faris, Ibrahim Aljarah, Majdi M. Mafarja, Huiling Chen:
  Harris hawks optimization: Algorithm and applications. 849-872

Special issue on Cybersecurity & privacy

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  Ademir Silva, Kátia Silva, Antônio A. de A. Rocha, Flavio Queiroz:
  Calculating the trust of providers through the construction weighted Sec-SLA. 873-886

Special issue on Security & Biometrics

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  Attia Qamar, Ahmad Karim, Victor Chang:
  Mobile malware attacks: Review, taxonomy & future directions. 887-909