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Decision processes of computer vision models—especially deep neural networks—are opaque in nature, meaning that these decisions cannot be understood by humans. Thus, over the last years, many methods to provide human-understandable explanations have ...

Sustainability is one of the main goals to pursue in several aspects of everyday life; the recent energy shortage and the price raise worsen this problem, especially in the management of energy in buildings. As the Internet of Things (IoT) is an assessed ...

ORIS is a tool for quantitative modeling and evaluation of concurrent systems with non-Markovian durations. It provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for model specification as Stochastic Time Petri Nets (STPNs), validation by interactive simulation, ...

Quantitative and integrated evaluation of software quality attributes at the architectural design stage provides a sound basis for making objective decisions for design trade-offs and developing a high quality software. In this paper we introduce ...

The emergence of mobile service composition meets the current needs for real-time eCommerce. However, the requirements for eCommerce, such as safety and timeliness, are becoming increasingly strict. Thus, the cloud-edge hybrid computing model has been ...

After sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the university campuses were closed and millions of university teachers and students had to shift teaching and learning activities from the classrooms to online courses in China. The COVID-19 pandemic ...

Persuasive technologies and nudging are increasingly used to shape user behaviors in applications ranging from health and the environment to business. A thorough understanding of the effectiveness of nudges across different contexts and whether they ...

With the development of three-dimensional computer graphics (3DCG) technology, expressing various objects and phenomena graphically became possible. However, there is no method for quantitatively evaluating the realism of the generated CG images. In ...

Treemaps have been used in information visualisation for over two decades. They make use of nested filled areas to represent information hierarchies such as file systems, library catalogues, etc. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of ...

We investigate how the perceived abstraction quality of stipple illustrations is related to the number of points used to create them. Since it is difficult to find objective functions that quantify the visual quality of such illustrations, we gather ...

This paper describes an evaluation conducted on the MetaCompose music generator, which is based on evolutionary computation and uses a hybrid evolutionary technique that combines FI-2POP and multi-objective optimization. The main objective of MetaC...

In spite of vast business potential, targeted advertising in public transportation systems is a grossly unexplored research area. For instance, SBS Transit in Singapore can reach 1 billion passengers per year but the annual advertising revenue ...

Truck platooning has advantages for fuel consumption, road safety, and use of the existing infrastructure. However, it does not simplify the job of the drivers who fear driving in close distance and mistrust the automation. To support drivers in ...

One of the barrier of the Fashion, Textile and Clothing (FTC) domain is the multiplicity and the evolving vocabulary used by the industry players as well as stylists or common users. Some projects tried to tackle the challenge of the absence of common ...

Network's security organisation and management is a hard and complex task. This is due to the diversity of security components and activities such as security policy specification, anomalies detection, vulnerability assessment, etc. In this paper, we ...

Current assessments of supercomputing high-performance computing primarily focus on system performance. Quantitative methods to measure the impact of supercomputing in a broad context have not been well developed. In this paper, the basic meaning of ...

For several years, the vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures (CIs) to cyber-threats has been limited, since they were mostly isolated systems, using proprietary protocols. Nowadays, CIs are increasingly threatened by external attacks: the use of off-...

This study examines the relationship between individuals' networking interests and a group's networked structure. The data set includes 25,651 members and 12,638 mentions from Twitter-mediated communities in South Korea. Using social network and web ...

Governments in many countries today consider Web portals as excellent means of information dissemination and visibility. The number of electronic services rendered through government web portals is increasing day by day. However, accessibility to these ...

Online tracking is a challenging task to develop effective and efficient models to account for appearance change. However, most tracking algorithms only consider the holistic or local information and do not make full use of the appearance information. In ...