Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 105

Volume 105, April 2020

Regular papers

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  Zhulin Ma, Edwin H.-M. Sha, Qingfeng Zhuge, Weiwen Jiang, Runyu Zhang, Shouzhen Gu:
  Towards the design of efficient hash-based indexing scheme for growing databases on non-volatile memory. 1-12
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  Kashif Mehboob Khan, Junaid Arshad, Muhammad Mubashir Khan:
  Investigating performance constraints for blockchain based secure e-voting system. 13-26
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  Amit Saxena, Rajendra Joshi, Hemant Darbari, Cezary Mazurek, Amar Bhat, Anil Srivastava, Kevin Wojkovich, Ken Buetow, Sandra Gesing:
  The ICTBioMed NCIP Hub: Cancer research in a science gateway consortium. 27-32
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  Junxu Xia, Deke Guo, Junjie Xie:
  Efficient in-network aggregation mechanism for data block repairing in data centers. 33-43
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  Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Kashif Bilal, Amr Mohamed, Mohsen Guizani:
  PCCP: Proactive Video Chunks Caching and Processing in edge networks. 44-60
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  Hossein Moradi, Bahman Zamani, Kamran Zamanifar:
  CaaSSET: A Framework for Model-Driven Development of Context as a Service. 61-95
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  Yuan Wang, Zhipeng Gui, Huayi Wu, Dehua Peng, Jinghang Wu, Zousen Cui:
  Optimizing and accelerating space-time Ripley 's K function based on Apache Spark for distributed spatiotemporal point pattern analysis. 96-118

Special issue on HPCS17/18-SI

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  Jonas Posner, Mia Reitz, Claudia Fohry:
  A Comparison of Application-Level Fault Tolerance Schemes for Task Pools. 119-134

Special issue on Bio-computation in IoMT

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  Róger M. Sarmento, Francisco Fábio Ximenes Vasconcelos, Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças Filho, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque:
  An IoT platform for the analysis of brain CT images based on Parzen analysis. 135-147

Regular papers

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  Xuri Gong, Zhou Huang, Yaoli Wang, Lun Wu, Yu Liu:
  High-performance spatiotemporal trajectory matching across heterogeneous data sources. 148-161

Special issue on INDIS2018

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  Aiqin Hou, Chase Q. Wu, Ruimin Qiao, Liudong Zuo, Michelle M. Zhu, Dingyi Fang, Weike Nie, Feng Chen:
  QoS provisioning for various types of deadline-constrained bulk data transfers between data centers. 162-174

Regular papers

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  Jocelyn Edinio Zacko Gbadouissa, Ado Adamou Abba Ari, Chafiq Titouna, Abdelhak Mourad Guéroui, Ousmane Thiare:
  HGC: HyperGraph based Clustering scheme for power aware wireless sensor networks. 175-183
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  Jingwei Li, Yong Qi, Wei Wei, Jinwei Lin, Marcin Wozniak, Robertas Damasevicius:
  dCCPI-predictor: A state-aware approach for effectively predicting cross-core performance interference. 184-195

Special issue on HPCS17/18-SI

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  Tiago Carneiro, Jan Gmys, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens:
  Towards ultra-scale Branch-and-Bound using a high-productivity language. 196-209

Regular papers

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  M. Ishtiaque Aziz Zahed, Iftekhar Ahmad, Daryoush Habibi, Quoc Viet Phung, Md. Munjure Mowla:
  Proactive content caching using surplus renewable energy: A win-win solution for both network service and energy providers. 210-221
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  Md. Fazlul Kader:
  A power-domain NOMA based overlay spectrum sharing scheme. 222-229
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  Rahim Taheri, Meysam Ghahramani, Reza Javidan, Mohammad Shojafar, Zahra Pooranian, Mauro Conti:
  Similarity-based Android malware detection using Hamming distance of static binary features. 230-247
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  Jingyu Feng, Xinyu Zhao, Kexuan Chen, Feng Zhao, Guanghua Zhang:
  Towards random-honest miners selection and multi-blocks creation: Proof-of-negotiation consensus mechanism in blockchain networks. 248-258
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  Hesam Nejati Sharif Aldin, Hossein Deldari, Mohammad Hossein Moattar, Mostafa Razavi Ghods:
  Strict Timed Causal Consistency as a Hybrid Consistency Model in the Cloud Environment. 259-274
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  Daniela Loreti, Marco Lippi, Paolo Torroni:
  Parallelizing Machine Learning as a service for the end-user. 275-286
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  Xing Chen, Haijiang Wang, Yun Ma, Xianghan Zheng, Longkun Guo:
  Self-adaptive resource allocation for cloud-based software services based on iterative QoS prediction model. 287-296

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

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  Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Mamoun Alazab, Farhan Riaz, Junaid Arshad, Tariq Abullah:
  Socioscope: I know who you are, a robo, human caller or service number. 297-307

Regular papers

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  En Wang, Dawei Li, Boxiang Dong, Huan Zhou, Michelle Zhu:
  Flat and hierarchical system deployment for edge computing systems. 308-317
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  Wei Li, Kun Yu, Chaolu Feng, Dazhe Zhao:
  SP-MIOV: A novel framework of shadow proxy based medical image online visualization in computing and storage resource restrained environments. 318-330
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  Manuel López Martín, Belén Carro, Antonio Sánchez-Esguevillas:
  IoT type-of-traffic forecasting method based on gradient boosting neural networks. 331-345
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  Lara Ortiz-Martin, Pablo Picazo-Sanchez, Pedro Peris-Lopez:
  Are the Interpulse Intervals of an ECG signal a good source of entropy? An in-depth entropy analysis based on NIST 800-90B recommendation. 346-360
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  Jonatan Enes, Roberto R. Expósito, Juan Touriño:
  Real-time resource scaling platform for Big Data workloads on serverless environments. 361-379
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  Francisco Ortin, Oscar Rodriguez-Prieto, Nicolas Pascual, Miguel García:
  Heterogeneous tree structure classification to label Java programmers according to their expertise level. 380-394
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  Ryan A. Cooke, Suhaib A. Fahmy:
  A model for distributed in-network and near-edge computing with heterogeneous hardware. 395-409
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  Sri Nikhil Gupta Gourisetti, Michael Mylrea, Hirak Patangia:
  Cybersecurity vulnerability mitigation framework through empirical paradigm: Enhanced prioritized gap analysis. 410-431

Special issue on Baas-iot-big-data

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  Daniele Mazzei, Giacomo Baldi, Gualtiero Fantoni, Gabriele Montelisciani, Antonio Pitasi, Laura Ricci, Lorenzo Rizzello:
  A Blockchain Tokenizer for Industrial IOT trustless applications. 432-445

Special Issue on Data Science in Social Media

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  Guillermo Blanco, Roi Pérez-López, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Anália Lourenço:
  Understanding the social evolution of the Java community in Stack Overflow: A 10-year study of developer interactions. 446-454

Special Issue on Model and Data Engineering in Big Data Science

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  Alfonso de la Vega, Diego García-Saiz, Carlos Blanco, Marta E. Zorrilla, Pablo Sánchez:
  Mortadelo: Automatic generation of NoSQL stores from platform-independent data models. 455-474

Special issue on Baas-iot-big-data

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  Zibin Zheng, Shaoan Xie, Hong-Ning Dai, Weili Chen, Xiangping Chen, Jian Weng, Muhammad Imran:
  An overview on smart contracts: Challenges, advances and platforms. 475-491

Regular papers

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  Chengxiang Tang, Xuefan Dong, Ying Lian, Daisheng Tang:
  Do Chinese hospital services constitute an oligopoly? Evidence of the rich-club phenomenon in a patient referral network. 492-501
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  Serena Nicolazzo, Antonino Nocera, Domenico Ursino, Luca Virgili:
  A privacy-preserving approach to prevent feature disclosure in an IoT scenario. 502-519
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  Kavi Kumar Khedo, Yasdeo Bissessur, Datta S. Goolaub:
  An inland Wireless Sensor Network system for monitoring seismic activity. 520-532

Special Issue on Data Science in Social Media

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  Tinghuai Ma, Qin Liu, Jie Cao, Yuan Tian, Abdullah Al-Dhelaan, Mznah Al-Rodhaan:
  LGIEM: Global and local node influence based community detection. 533-546

Special issue on Data Exploration

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  Fabian Colque Zegarra, Juan C. Carbajal Ipenza, Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Viviane P. Moreira, Sihem Amer-Yahia, João Luiz Dihl Comba:
  Visual exploration of rating datasets and user groups. 547-561

Regular papers

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  Abid Hussain, Jin Chun, Maria Khan:
  A novel customer-centric Methodology for Optimal Service Selection (MOSS) in a cloud environment. 562-580
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  Jean-Paul A. Yaacoub, Mohamad Noura, Hassan N. Noura, Ola Salman, Elias Yaacoub, Raphaël Couturier, Ali Chehab:
  Securing internet of medical things systems: Limitations, issues and recommendations. 581-606
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  Edith Zavala, Xavier Franch, Jordi Marco, Christian Berger:
  HAFLoop: An architecture for supporting Highly Adaptive Feedback Loops in self-adaptive systems. 607-630

Special Issue on Data Science in Social Media

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  Jose Miguel Herrera, Denis Parra, Barbara Poblete:
  Social QA in non-CQA platforms. 631-649

Regular papers

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  Maha Kadadha, Hadi Otrok, Rabeb Mizouni, Shakti Singh, Anis Ouali:
  SenseChain: A blockchain-based crowdsensing framework for multiple requesters and multiple workers. 650-664

Special issue on IEFIoT

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  Kevin Bylykbashi, Ermioni Qafzezi, Makoto Ikeda, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli:
  Fuzzy-based Driver Monitoring System (FDMS): Implementation of two intelligent FDMSs and a testbed for safe driving in VANETs. 665-674
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  Abdulaziz Aldegheishem, Rasool Bukhsh, Nabil Ali Alrajeh, Nadeem Javaid:
  FaaVPP: Fog as a virtual power plant service for community energy management. 675-683

Regular papers

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  (Withdrawn) Energy-aware resource management for uplink non-orthogonal multiple access: Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. 684-694

Special issue on Bio-computation in IoMT

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  Jingjing Wang, Meiru Liu, Chunhui Zhang, Huaqiang Xu, Liren Zhang, Yuefeng Zhao:
  An adaptive sparse Bayesian model combined with probabilistic label fusion for multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation in brain MRI. 695-704

Regular papers

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  César Piñeiro, Rodrigo Martínez-Castaño, Juan Carlos Pichel:
  Ignis: An efficient and scalable multi-language Big Data framework. 705-716

Special issue on IOT-CPS-Smart-City

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  Li Kuang, Tao Gong, Shuyin OuYang, Honghao Gao, Shuiguang Deng:
  Offloading decision methods for multiple users with structured tasks in edge computing for smart cities. 717-729

Special issue on IEFIoT

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  Fatos Xhafa, Burak Kilic, Paul Krause:
  Evaluation of IoT stream processing at edge computing layer for semantic data enrichment. 730-736

Regular papers

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  Caesar Wu, Rajkumar Buyya, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
  Modeling cloud business customers' utility functions. 737-753

Special Issue on Energy for CPC systems

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  Neeraj Kumar, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Laurence T. Yang:
  Energy Management for Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems. 754-756
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  Deze Zeng, Lin Gu, Hong Yao:
  Towards energy efficient service composition in green energy powered Cyber-Physical Fog Systems. 757-765
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  Rahat Iqbal, Faiyaz Doctor, Brian More, Shahid Mahmud, Usman Yousuf:
  Big Data analytics and Computational Intelligence for Cyber-Physical Systems: Recent trends and state of the art applications. 766-778
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  Yunliang Chen, Xiaodao Chen, Wangyang Liu, Yuchen Zhou, Albert Y. Zomaya, Rajiv Ranjan, Shiyan Hu:
  Stochastic scheduling for variation-aware virtual machine placement in a cloud computing CPS. 779-788
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  Xiaolong Xu, Xuyun Zhang, Maqbool Khan, Wanchun Dou, Shengjun Xue, Shui Yu:
  A balanced virtual machine scheduling method for energy-performance trade-offs in cyber-physical cloud systems. 789-799
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  M. Shamim Hossain, Md. Abdur Rahman, Ghulam Muhammad:
  Towards energy-aware cloud-oriented cyber-physical therapy system. 800-813
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  Yuliang Shi, Mianxiong Dong, Wenbin Zhang, Lei Liu, Yongqing Zheng, Lizhen Cui, Junhua Zhang:
  AdaptScale: An adaptive data scaling controller for improving the multiple performance requirements in Clouds. 814-823
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  Rui Li, Qinghua Zheng, Xiuqi Li, Zheng Yan:
  Multi-objective optimization for rebalancing virtual machine placement. 824-842
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  Srikanth Reddy K, Lokesh Kumar Panwar, Bijaya K. Panigrahi, Rajesh Kumar, Yan Xu:
  A dual objective approach for aggregator managed demand side management (DSM) in cloud based cyber physical smart distribution system. 843-854
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  Feng Lu, Jingru Hu, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Zaiyang Tang, Peng Li, Ziqian Shi, Hai Jin:
  Energy-efficient traffic offloading for mobile users in two-tier heterogeneous wireless networks. 855-863
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  Tian Wang, Jiandian Zeng, Yongxuan Lai, Yiqiao Cai, Hui Tian, Yonghong Chen, Baowei Wang:
  Data collection from WSNs to the cloud based on mobile Fog elements. 864-872
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  Liangmin Wang, Zhendong Yang, Xiangmei Song:
  SHAMC: A Secure and highly available database system in multi-cloud environment. 873-883
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  Hyun-Woo Kim, Gangman Yi, Jong Hyuk Park, Young-Sik Jeong:
  Adaptive resource management using many-core processing for fault tolerance based on cyber-physical cloud systems. 884-893
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  Chen Chen, Xiaomin Liu, Tie Qiu, Arun Kumar Sangaiah:
  A short-term traffic prediction model in the vehicular cyber-physical systems. 894-903
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  Jiuxin Cao, Zhuo Ma, Jue Xie, Xiangying Zhu, Fang Dong, Bo Liu:
  Towards tenant demand-aware bandwidth allocation strategy in cloud datacenter. 904-915
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  Guoqi Xie, Gang Zeng, Junqiang Jiang, Chunnian Fan, Renfa Li, Keqin Li:
  Energy management for multiple real-time workflows on cyber-physical cloud systems. 916-931
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  Yuxin Liu, Anfeng Liu, Shuang Guo, Zhetao Li, Young-June Choi, Hiroo Sekiya:
  Context-aware collect data with energy efficient in Cyber-physical cloud systems. 932-947
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  Marcel Antal, Claudia Pop, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Florin Pop:
  A System of Systems approach for data centers optimization and integration into smart energy grids. 948-963
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  Bin Yuan, Deqing Zou, Hai Jin, Shui Yu, Laurence T. Yang:
  HostWatcher: Protecting hosts in cloud data centers through software-defined networking. 964-972
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  Bang Wang, Qiang Yang, Xianjun Deng:
  Energy management for cost minimization in green heterogeneous networks. 973-984
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  Jiachen Yang, Bin Jiang, Zhihan Lv, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo:
  A task scheduling algorithm considering game theory designed for energy management in cloud computing. 985-992
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  Jianjiang Li, Yajun Liu, Jian Pan, Peng Zhang, Wei Chen, Lizhe Wang:
  Map-Balance-Reduce: An improved parallel programming model for load balancing of MapReduce. 993-1001
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  Yi Zhou, Shubbhi Taneja, Xiao Qin, Wei-Shinn Ku, Jifu Zhang:
  EDOM: Improving energy efficiency of database operations on multicore servers. 1002-1015
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  Yuxia Cheng, Wenzhi Chen, Zonghui Wang, Zhongxian Tang, Yang Xiang:
  Smart VM co-scheduling with the precise prediction of performance characteristics. 1016-1027
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  Jing Zeng, Laurence T. Yang, Man Lin, Huansheng Ning, Jianhua Ma:
  A survey: Cyber-physical-social systems and their system-level design methodology. 1028-1042