Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 115

Volume 115, February 2021

Regular papers

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  Adarsh Kumar, Kriti Sharma, Harvinder Singh, Sagar Gupta Naugriya, Sukhpal Singh Gill, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A drone-based networked system and methods for combating coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 1-19
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  Juan Carlos Salinas-Hilburg, Marina Zapater, José Manuel Moya, José L. Ayala:
  Fast energy estimation framework for long-running applications. 20-33

Special Issue on Managing Quality of Service in Cloud and IoT

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  Alan Briones, Adrià Mallorquí, Agustín Zaballos, Ramon Martín de Pozuelo:
  Adaptive and aggressive transport protocol to provide QoS in cloud data exchange over Long Fat Networks. 34-44

Regular papers

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  Milosz Ciznicki, Krzysztof Kurowski, Jan Weglarz:
  Energy and performance improvements in stencil computations on multi-node HPC systems with different network and communication topologies. 45-58

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

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  Jianhang Zhou, Qi Zhang, Bob Zhang:
  An automatic multi-view disease detection system via Collective Deep Region-based Feature Representation. 59-75

Special Issue on Graph-Powered Machine Learning in Future-Generation Computing Systems

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  Qianren Mao, Xi Li, Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Dongxiao He, Shu Guo, Min He, Lihong Wang:
  Event prediction based on evolutionary event ontology knowledge. 76-89

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

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  (Withdrawn) Intelligent edge computing based on machine learning for smart city. 90-99

Special Issue on Advancing on Approximate Computing: Methodologies, Architectures and Algorithms

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  Fahimeh Hajizadeh, Mohammadreza Binesh Marvasti, Seyyed Amir Asghari, Mostafa Abbas Mollaei, Amir M. Rahmani:
  Configurable DSI partitioned approximate multiplier. 100-114

Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems

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  Mordechai Guri:
  MAGNETO: Covert channel between air-gapped systems and nearby smartphones via CPU-generated magnetic fields. 115-125
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  Özgür Yürekten, Mehmet Demirci:
  SDN-based cyber defense: A survey. 126-149

Special Issue on Internet of People: Human-driven Artificial Intelligence and Internet for Smarter Hyper-Connected Societies

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  Roger Pueyo Centelles, Roc Meseguer, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Sergio F. Ochoa, Rodrigo M. Santos:
  LoRaMoto: A communication system to provide safety awareness among civilians after an earthquake. 150-170

Special Issue on Advances in Self-Protecting Systems

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  Hisham A. Kholidy:
  Autonomous mitigation of cyber risks in the Cyber-Physical Systems. 171-187

Regular papers

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  Saeed Mirpour Marzuni, Abdorreza Savadi, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh:
  Cross-MapReduce: Data transfer reduction in geo-distributed MapReduce. 188-200
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  Dabiah Ahmed Alboaneen, Hugo Tianfield, Yan Zhang, Bernardi Pranggono:
  A metaheuristic method for joint task scheduling and virtual machine placement in cloud data centers. 201-212
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  Emiliano Casalicchio, Gabriele Gualandi:
  ASiMOV: A self-protecting control application for the smart factory. 213-235

Special Issue on Graph-Powered Machine Learning in Future-Generation Computing Systems

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  Wenjie Feng, Shenghua Liu, Christos Faloutsos, Bryan Hooi, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng:
  EagleMine: Vision-guided Micro-clusters recognition and collective anomaly detection. 236-250

Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems

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  Matteo Repetto, Alessandro Carrega, Riccardo Rapuzzi:
  An architecture to manage security operations for digital service chains. 251-266

Regular papers

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  Mumin Cebe, Kemal Akkaya:
  Communication-efficient certificate revocation management for Advanced Metering Infrastructure and IoT Integration. 267-278
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  Mohammad Ehsan Basiri, Shahla Nemati, Moloud Abdar, Erik Cambria, U. Rajendra Acharya:
  ABCDM: An Attention-based Bidirectional CNN-RNN Deep Model for sentiment analysis. 279-294

Special Issue on Computation Intelligence for Energy Internet

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  Yan Zhang, Kun Wang, Lei He:
  Editorial for FGCS special issue: Computation Intelligence for Energy Internet. 295-297

Special Issue on Advanced quality models toward future generation media systems

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  Tao Song, Honghua Zhao, Zhi Liu, Hao Liu, Yuanyuan Hu, Dianmin Sun:
  Intelligent human hand gesture recognition by local-global fusing quality-aware features. 298-303

Special Issue on Blockchain-as-a-Service for Industrial Internet of Things and Big Data Applications

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  Yongjun Ren, Yan Leng, Jian Qi, Pradip Kumar Sharma, Jin Wang, Zafer Al-Makhadmeh, Amr Tolba:
  Multiple cloud storage mechanism based on blockchain in smart homes. 304-313

Regular papers

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  Ahmed Falah, Lei Pan, Md. Shamsul Huda, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Adnan Anwar:
  Improving malicious PDF classifier with feature engineering: A data-driven approach. 314-326

Special Issue on Intelligent IoT Systems for Healthcare and Rehabilitation

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  Shudong Wang, Gaowei Liu, Xinzeng Wang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Sicheng He, Yulin Zhang:
  TagSNP-set selection for genotyping using integrated data. 327-334

Special Issue on Future Generation of Service-Oriented Computing Systems

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  Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, Azadeh Ghari Neiat:
  Resilient composition of drone services for delivery. 335-350
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  Majid Makki, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joosen:
  Thread-level resource consumption control of tenant custom code in a shared JVM for multi-tenant SaaS. 351-364

Regular papers

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  Sunggon Kim, Jaehyun Han, Hyeonsang Eom, Yongseok Son:
  Improving I/O performance in distributed file systems for flash-based SSDs by access pattern reshaping. 365-373

Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems

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  Faizana Naeem, Mujahid Mohsin, Usman Rauf, Liaqat Ali Khan:
  Formal approach to thwart against drone discovery attacks: A taxonomy of novel 3D obfuscation mechanisms. 374-386
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  José Tomás Martínez Garre, Manuel Gil Pérez, Antonio Ruiz-Martínez:
  A novel Machine Learning-based approach for the detection of SSH botnet infection. 387-396

Regular papers

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  Xiaonan Wang, Xingwei Wang, Yanli Li:
  NDN-based IoT with Edge computing. 397-405
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  Meng Li, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Donghui Hu:
  LEChain: A blockchain-based lawful evidence management scheme for digital forensics. 406-420

Special Issue on Advances in Self-Protecting Systems

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  Charilaos Skandylas, Narges Khakpour:
  Design and Implementation of Self-Protecting systems: A Formal Approach. 421-437

Regular papers

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  Ramin Toosi, Mohammad Ali Akhaee:
  Time-frequency analysis of keystroke dynamics for user authentication. 438-447
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  Jing Chen, Jiong Chen, Kun He, Ruiying Du:
  SeCrowd: Efficient secure interactive crowdsourcing via permission-based signatures. 448-458
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  Martina Sestak, Marjan Hericko, Tatjana Welzer-Druzovec, Muhamed Turkanovic:
  Applying k-vertex cardinality constraints on a Neo4j graph database. 459-474
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  Hongbo Zhu, Guangjie Han, Peng Yang, Wenbo Zhang, Chuan Lin, Hai Zhao:
  Functional-realistic CT image super-resolution for early-stage pulmonary nodule detection. 475-485

Special Issue on Intelligent IoT Systems for Healthcare and Rehabilitation

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  Hong Zhong, Yiyuan Zhou, Qingyang Zhang, Yan Xu, Jie Cui:
  An efficient and outsourcing-supported attribute-based access control scheme for edge-enabled smart healthcare. 486-496

Regular papers

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  Miao Zhang, Yong Peng, Mei Yang, Quanjun Yin, Xu Xie:
  A discrete PSO-based static load balancing algorithm for distributed simulations in a cloud environment. 497-516

Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems

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  Martin Husák, Václav Bartos, Pavol Sokol, Andrej Gajdos:
  Predictive methods in cyber defense: Current experience and research challenges. 517-530

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing

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  Wenyi Tang, Ling Tian, Xu Zheng, Guangchun Luo, Zaobo He:
  Susceptible user search for defending opinion manipulation. 531-541

Special Issue on Advanced quality models toward future generation media systems

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  Jianliang Wei, Fei Meng:
  How opinion distortion appears in super-influencer dominated social network. 542-552

Regular papers

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  Qiang Wang, Fucai Zhou, Jian Xu, Zifeng Xu:
  Efficient verifiable databases with additional insertion and deletion operations in cloud computing. 553-567
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  Timothy R. McIntosh, Paul A. Watters, A. S. M. Kayes, Alex Ng, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen:
  Enforcing situation-aware access control to build malware-resilient file systems. 568-582
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  Gang Yu, Yi Wang, Min Hu, Lihua Shi, Zeyu Mao, Vijayan Sugumaran:
  RIOMS: An intelligent system for operation and maintenance of urban roads using spatio-temporal data in smart cities. 583-609

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

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  Shitong Mao, Aliaa Sabry, Yassin Khalifa, James L. Coyle, Ervin Sejdic:
  Estimation of laryngeal closure duration during swallowing without invasive X-rays. 610-618

Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems

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  Viraaji Mothukuri, Reza M. Parizi, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Yan Huang, Ali Dehghantanha, Gautam Srivastava:
  A survey on security and privacy of federated learning. 619-640

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing

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  Bander Ali Saleh Al-rimy, Mohd Aizaini Maarof, Mamoun Alazab, Syed Zainudeen Mohd Shaid, Fuad A. Ghaleb, Abdulmohsen Almalawi, Abdullah Marish Ali, Tawfik Al Hadhrami:
  Redundancy Coefficient Gradual Up-weighting-based Mutual Information Feature Selection technique for Crypto-ransomware early detection. 641-658

Special Issue on Graph-Powered Machine Learning in Future-Generation Computing Systems

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  Zar Bakht Imtiaz, Awais Manzoor, Saif ul Islam, Malik Ali Judge, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues:
  Discovering communities from disjoint complex networks using Multi-Layer Ant Colony Optimization. 659-670

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

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  Jian Liu, Yuanmin Duan, Yuedong Wu, Rui Chen, Liang Chen, Geng Chen:
  Information flow perception modeling and optimization of Internet of Things for cloud services. 671-679

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

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  Shaker H. Ali El-Sappagh, Hager Saleh, Radhya Sahal, Tamer AbuHmed, S. M. Riazul Islam, Farman Ali, Eslam Amer:
  Alzheimer's disease progression detection model based on an early fusion of cost-effective multimodal data. 680-699

Regular papers

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  Mostafa Mehrabi, Nasser Giacaman, Oliver Sinnen:
  Unified programming concepts for unobtrusive integration of cloud-based and local parallel computing. 700-719
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  Maroua Masmoudi, Sana Ben Abdallah Ben Lamine, Hajer Baazaoui Zghal, Bernard Archimède, Mohamed-Hedi Karray:
  Knowledge hypergraph-based approach for data integration and querying: Application to Earth Observation. 720-740

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

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  Santiago Felici-Castell, Miguel García-Pineda, Jaume Segura-Garcia, Rafael Fayos-Jordan, Jesús López Ballester:
  Adaptive live video streaming on low-cost wireless multihop networks for road traffic surveillance in smart cities. 741-755

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing

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  P. Mohamed Shakeel, S. Baskar, Hassan Fouad, Gunasekaran Manogaran, Vijayalakshmi Saravanan, Carlos Enrique Montenegro-Marín:
  Internet of things forensic data analysis using machine learning to identify roots of data scavenging. 756-768

Regular papers

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  Mohamad Arafeh, Paolo Ceravolo, Azzam Mourad, Ernesto Damiani, Emanuele Bellini:
  Ontology based recommender system using social network data. 769-779
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  Ritu Singhal, Archana Singhal:
  A feedback-based combinatorial fair economical double auction resource allocation model for cloud computing. 780-797
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  Ali Daud, Faizan Abbas, Tehmina Amjad, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Jalal S. Alowibdi:
  Finding rising stars through hot topics detection. 798-813
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  Iván García-Cobo, Héctor D. Menéndez:
  Designing large quantum key distribution networks via medoid-based algorithms. 814-824

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

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  Bin Pu, Ningbo Zhu, Kenli Li, Shengli Li:
  Fetal cardiac cycle detection in multi-resource echocardiograms using hybrid classification framework. 825-836

Special Issue on Graph-Powered Machine Learning in Future-Generation Computing Systems

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  Kun Zhan, Chaoxi Niu:
  Mutual teaching for graph convolutional networks. 837-843

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing

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  Syed Ibrahim Imtiaz, Saif ur Rehman, Abdul Rehman Javed, Zunera Jalil, Xuan Liu, Waleed S. Alnumay:
  DeepAMD: Detection and identification of Android malware using high-efficient Deep Artificial Neural Network. 844-856

Regular papers

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  Christopher Bayliss, Javier Panadero, Laura Calvet, Joan Manuel Marquès:
  Reliability in volunteer computing micro-blogging services. 857-871

Special Issue on Advanced quality models toward future generation media systems

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  Dehua Zhang, Sha Lou:
  The application research of neural network and BP algorithm in stock price pattern classification and prediction. 872-879