Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 111

Volume 111, October 2020

Regular papers

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  Umair Ullah Tariq, Hui Wu, Suhaimi Abd Ishak:
  Energy and memory-aware software pipelining streaming applications on NoC-based MPSoCs. 1-16

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

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  Fuzhe Ma, Tao Sun, Lingyun Liu, Hongyu Jing:
  Detection and diagnosis of chronic kidney disease using deep learning-based heterogeneous modified artificial neural network. 17-26

Regular papers

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  Jixian Zhang, Xutao Yang, Ning Xie, Xuejie Zhang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Weidong Li:
  An online auction mechanism for time-varying multidimensional resource allocation in clouds. 27-38

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

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  Naram Mhaisen, Noora Fetais, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Mohsen Guizani:
  To chain or not to chain: A reinforcement learning approach for blockchain-enabled IoT monitoring applications. 39-51

Regular papers

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  Souad Hadjres, Fatna Belqasmi, May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara:
  A green, energy, and trust-aware multi-objective cloud coalition formation approach. 52-67

Special Issue on Advances in Self-Protecting Systems

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  Patrick Day, Stefano Iannucci, Ioana Banicescu:
  Autonomic Feature Selection using Computational Intelligence. 68-81

Special Issue on Information-Centric Network enabler Communication for Internet of Things

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  Yining Hua, Lin Guan, Konstantinos G. Kyriakopoulos:
  A Fog caching scheme enabled by ICN for IoT environments. 82-95

Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems

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  Jens Saenger, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Jörg Keller, Luca Caviglione:
  VoIP network covert channels to enhance privacy and information sharing. 96-106

Special Issue on Information-Centric Network enabler Communication for Internet of Things

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  Chang Xu, Lvhan Zhang, Liehuang Zhu, Chuan Zhang, Xiaojiang Du, Mohsen Guizani, Kashif Sharif:
  Aggregate in my way: Privacy-preserving data aggregation without trusted authority in ICN. 107-116

Special Issue on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS)

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  Chris Simpkin, Ian J. Taylor, Daniel Harborne, Graham A. Bent, Alun D. Preece, Raghu K. Ganti:
  Efficient orchestration of Node-RED IoT workflows using a Vector Symbolic Architecture. 117-131

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

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  Wei Xuan, Guangqiang You:
  Detection and diagnosis of pancreatic tumor using deep learning-based hierarchical convolutional neural network on the internet of medical things platform. 132-142

Regular papers

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  Jongseong Kim, Unil Yun, Eunchul Yoon, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Philippe Fournier-Viger:
  One scan based high average-utility pattern mining in static and dynamic databases. 143-158

Special Issue on Information-Centric Network enabler Communication for Internet of Things

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  Rehmat Ullah, Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Muhammad Ali Naeem, Byung-Seo Kim, Spyridon Mastorakis:
  ICN with edge for 5G: Exploiting in-network caching in ICN-based edge computing for 5G networks. 159-174

Regular papers

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  Hao Chen, Ali Asghar Heidari, Huiling Chen, Mingjing Wang, Zhifang Pan, Amir H. Gandomi:
  Multi-population differential evolution-assisted Harris hawks optimization: Framework and case studies. 175-198

Special Issue on NMA Digital ForensicTech

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  Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Carlos Quinto Huamán, Daniel Povedano Álvarez, Luis Javier García-Villalba:
  A machine learning forensics technique to detect post-processing in digital videos. 199-212

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

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  Hari Mohan Pandey:
  Secure medical data transmission using a fusion of bit mask oriented genetic algorithm, encryption and steganography. 213-225

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

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  Xin Zhao, Wei Xiao, Lu Wu, Zhigang Zhao, Jidong Huo, Shi Wang, Zhenhua Guo, Dianmin Sun:
  Intelligent city intelligent medical sharing technology based on internet of things technology. 226-233

Special Issue on sentiment analysis at social web or social computing

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  P. Vijayaragavan, R. Ponnusamy, M. Aramudhan:
  An optimal support vector machine based classification model for sentimental analysis of online product reviews. 234-240

Regular papers

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  Furqan Shahid, Abid Khan:
  Smart Digital Signatures (SDS): A post-quantum digital signature scheme for distributed ledgers. 241-253

Special Issue on The Road to Exascale II: Advances on High Performance Computing and Simulations

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  Weichao Ding, Fei Luo, Liangxiu Han, Chunhua Gu, Haifeng Lu, Joel Fuentes:
  Adaptive virtual machine consolidation framework based on performance-to-power ratio in cloud data centers. 254-270

Special Issue on Advanced quality models toward future generation media systems

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  Fenghua Huang, Xinjiu Qi, Chuanlin Li, Wei Hu:
  Aerial image classification by learning quality-aware spatial pyramid model. 271-277

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

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  Mohammad Heydari, Alexios Mylonas, Vahid Heydari Fami Tafreshi, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Surjit Singh:
  Known unknowns: Indeterminacy in authentication in IoT. 278-287

Regular papers

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  Chaoshu Yang, Qingfeng Zhuge, Xianzhang Chen, Edwin H.-M. Sha, Duo Liu, Runyu Zhang:
  Optimizing synchronization mechanism for block-based file systems using persistent memory. 288-299
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  Shimin Li, Huiling Chen, Mingjing Wang, Ali Asghar Heidari, Seyedali Mirjalili:
  Slime mould algorithm: A new method for stochastic optimization. 300-323

Special issue on DecenIoT

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  Nachiket Tapas, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito:
  Experimenting with smart contracts for access control and delegation in IoT. 324-338

Regular papers

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  Jinyan Wang, Shijian Fang, Chen Liu, Jiawen Qin, Xianxian Li, Zhenkui Shi:
  Top-k closed co-occurrence patterns mining with differential privacy over multiple streams. 339-351
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  Paolo Missier, Jeremy W. Bryans, Carl Gamble, Vasa Curcin:
  Abstracting PROV provenance graphs: A validity-preserving approach. 352-367

Special Issue on Intelligent IoT Systems for Healthcare and Rehabilitation

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  Wangyang Yu, Menghan Jia, Xianwen Fang, Yao Lu, Jianchun Xu:
  Modeling and analysis of medical resource allocation based on Timed Colored Petri net. 368-374

Special Issue on Advanced quality models toward future generation media systems

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  Feng Zhao, Jing Li, Lu Zhang, Zhe Li, Sang-Gyun Na:
  Multi-view face recognition using deep neural networks. 375-380

Regular papers

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  Tao Hu, Peng Yi, Julong Lan, Yuxiang Hu, Penghao Sun:
  FTLink: Efficient and flexible link fault tolerance scheme for data plane in Software-Defined Networking. 381-400
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  Gayashan Amarasinghe, Marcos Dias de Assunção, Aaron Harwood, Shanika Karunasekera:
  ECSNeT++ : A simulator for distributed stream processing on edge and cloud environments. 401-418
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  Minsoo Kim, Ilhyun Suh, Yon Dohn Chung:
  MARS: A multi-level array representation for simulation data. 419-434
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  Ahmed Saleh Bataineh, Rabeb Mizouni, Jamal Bentahar, May El Barachi:
  Toward monetizing personal data: A two-sided market analysis. 435-459
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  Yawen Wang, Yunfei Guo, Zehua Guo, Thar Baker, Wenyan Liu:
  CLOSURE: A cloud scientific workflow scheduling algorithm based on attack-defense game model. 460-474
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  Simonetta Balsamo, Andrea Marin, Ivan Stojic:
  Computation of the normalising constant for product-form models of distributed systems with synchronisation. 475-490
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  Rizkallah Touma, Anna Queralt, Toni Cortes:
  CAPre: Code-Analysis based Prefetching for Persistent Object Stores. 491-506
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  Hooman Alavizadeh, Dong Seong Kim, Julian Jang-Jaccard:
  Model-based evaluation of combinations of Shuffle and Diversity MTD techniques on the cloud. 507-522
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  Faaiz Shah, Arnaud Castelltort, Anne Laurent:
  Handling missing values for mining gradual patterns from NoSQL graph databases. 523-538

Special Issue on Edge of the Cloud

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  Raafat Omar Aburukba, Mazin AliKarrar, Taha Landolsi, Khaled El-Fakih:
  Scheduling Internet of Things requests to minimize latency in hybrid Fog-Cloud​ computing. 539-551

Special issue on Extreme & BD Analysis

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  Huanzhou Zhu, Ligang He, Matthew Leeke, Rui Mao:
  WolfGraph: The edge-centric graph processing on GPU. 552-569
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  Javier Álvarez Cid-Fuentes, Pol Álvarez, Ramon Amela, Kuninori Ishii, Rafael K. Morizawa, Rosa M. Badia:
  Efficient development of high performance data analytics in Python. 570-581
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  Olivier Beaumont, Thomas Lambert, Loris Marchal, Bastien Thomas:
  Performance analysis and optimality results for data-locality aware tasks scheduling with replicated inputs. 582-598

Special Issue on Social and Intelligent Applications for Future Cities

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  Fan Wu, Qinhua Zheng, Feng Tian, Zhihai Suo, Yuan Zhou, Kuo-Ming Chao, Mo Xu, Nazaraf Shah, Jun Liu, Fei Li:
  Supporting poverty-stricken college students in smart campus. 599-616

Special Issue on The Road to Exascale II: Advances on High Performance Computing and Simulations

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  Ali Mohammed, Ahmed Eleliemy, Florina M. Ciorba, Franziska Kasielke, Ioana Banicescu:
  An approach for realistically simulating the performance of scientific applications on high performance computing systems. 617-633

Special Issue on Information-Centric Network enabler Communication for Internet of Things

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  Ikram Ud Din, Suhaidi Hassan, Ahmad Almogren, Farrukh Ayub, Mohsen Guizani:
  PUC: Packet Update Caching for energy efficient IoT-based Information-Centric Networking. 634-643

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

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  Naveed Islam, Khalid Haseeb, Ahmad Almogren, Ikram Ud Din, Mohsen Guizani, Ayman Altameem:
  A framework for topological based map building: A solution to autonomous robot navigation in smart cities. 644-653

Special issue on KELICIT_CBCS

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  Sergiu Stefan Nicolaescu, Adrian Florea, Claudiu Vasile Kifor, Ugo Fiore, Nicolae Cocan, Ilie Receu, Paolo Zanetti:
  Human capital evaluation in knowledge-based organizations based on big data analytics. 654-667
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  Marcello Cinque, Raffaele Della Corte, Antonio Pecchia:
  Contextual filtering and prioritization of computer application logs for security situational awareness. 668-680
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  Mauro Caporuscio, Francesco Flammini, Narges Khakpour, Prasannjeet Singh, Johan Thornadtsson:
  Smart-troubleshooting connected devices: Concept, challenges and opportunities. 681-697

Special Issue on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences

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  Roberto R. Expósito, Jorge González-Domínguez, Juan Touriño:
  SMusket: Spark-based DNA error correction on distributed-memory systems. 698-713
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  Hager Ahmed, Eman M. G. Younis, Abdeltawab M. Hendawi, Abdelmgeid A. Ali:
  Heart disease identification from patients' social posts, machine learning solution on Spark. 714-722

Special Issue on Model and Data Engineering in Big Data Science

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  Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral, Luis Iribarne, Michael Vassilakopoulos:
  Improving Distance-Join Query processing with Voronoi-Diagram based partitioning in SpatialHadoop. 723-740

Special Issue on ML for IoT Security

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  Jinbo Xiong, Lei Chen, Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Chunjie Cao, Minshen Wang, Entao Luo, Ximeng Liu:
  A secure data deletion scheme for IoT devices through key derivation encryption and data analysis. 741-753
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  Xingyue Fan, Ting Wu, Qiuhua Zheng, Yuanfang Chen, Muhammad Alam, Xiaodong Xiao:
  HSE-Voting: A secure high-efficiency electronic voting scheme based on homomorphic signcryption. 754-762
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  Raja Majid Ali Ujjan, Zeeshan Pervez, Keshav P. Dahal, Ali Kashif Bashir, Rao Mumtaz, Jonathan González:
  Towards sFlow and adaptive polling sampling for deep learning based DDoS detection in SDN. 763-779

Special issue on Science Gateways 2017

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  Marcus A. Christie, Anuj Bhandar, Supun Nakandala, Suresh Marru, Eroma Abeysinghe, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, Marlon E. Pierce:
  Managing authentication and authorization in distributed science gateway middleware. 780-785

Special issue on Science Gateways 2018

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  Shuai Yuan, Steven R. Brandt, Qin Chen, Ling Zhu, Reza Salatin, Rion Dooley:
  A sustainable collaboratory for coastal resilience research. 786-792
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  Chandima Hewa Nadungodage, Ann Christine Catlin, Andres Bejarano, Steven Clark, Guneshi T. Wickramaarachchi, Sumudinie Fernando, Parameswaran Desigavinayagam:
  The DEEDS platform: Support for integrated data and computing across the research lifecycle. 793-805
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  Daniele D'Agostino, Duncan Law-Green, Mike Watson, Giovanni Novara, Andrea Tiengo, Stefano Sandrelli, Andrea Belfiore, Ruben Salvaterra, Andrea De Luca:
  A citizen science exploration of the X-ray transient sky using the EXTraS science gateway. 806-818
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  Joseph T. Yun, Nickolas Vance, Chen Wang, Luigi Marini, Joseph Troy, Curtis Donelson, Chieh-Li Chin, Mark Henderson:
  The Social Media Macroscope: A science gateway for research using social media data. 819-828

Special Issue on CyberSecurity and Biometrics for a better Cyberworld

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  Mustafa Emad Hameed, Masrullizam Mat Ibrahim, Nurulfajar Abd Manap, Ali A. Mohammed:
  A lossless compression and encryption mechanism for remote monitoring of ECG data using Huffman coding and CBC-AES. 829-840
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  Jianjian Ai, Hongchang Chen, Zehua Guo, Guozhen Cheng, Thar Baker:
  Mitigating malicious packets attack via vulnerability-aware heterogeneous network devices assignment. 841-852

Special Issue on Smart Data for Internet of Things

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  Zhuo Liu, Changchuan Bai, Hang Yu, Ying Zhu, Tai-Hua Wu, Fanyu Bu, Qingchen Zhang:
  An adaptive deep learning model to differentiate syndromes of infectious fever in smart medicine. 853-858
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  Xia Xie, Yu Fu, Hai Jin, Yaliang Zhao, Wenzhi Cao:
  A novel text mining approach for scholar information extraction from web content in Chinese. 859-872

Special issue on SmartTech&Arch for IoT

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  Luigi Patrono, Luigi Atzori, Petar Solic, Marina Mongiello, Aitor Almeida:
  Challenges to be addressed to realize Internet of Things solutions for smart environments. 873-878

Special issue on SMD2018

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  Odnan Ref Sanchez, Ilaria Torre, Bart P. Knijnenburg:
  Semantic-based privacy settings negotiation and management. 879-898

Special Issue on Trusted Cloud-Edges (CE) Computations

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  Sana Belguith, Nesrine Kaaniche, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Tooska Dargahi:
  PROUD: Verifiable Privacy-preserving Outsourced Attribute Based SignCryption supporting access policy Update for cloud assisted IoT applications. 899-918
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  Luca Verderame, Ivan Merelli, Lucia Morganti, Elena Corni, Daniele Cesini, Daniele D'Agostino, Alessio Merlo:
  A secure cloud-edges computing architecture for metagenomics analysis. 919-930
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  Jörn Altmann, José Ángel Bañares, Konstantinos Tserpes:
  Economics of computing services: An overview of economic motivated solutions to Cloud Computing. 931-933
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  Massimiliano Albanese, Alessandra De Benedictis, Douglas D. J. de Macedo, Fabrizio Messina:
  Security and trust in cloud application life-cycle management. 934-936
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  Retraction notice to "Inhibition of KRAS gene mutation on non-small cell lung cancer and its effect on circulating tumor cells" [Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 98 (2019) 104-108]. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 111: 937 (2020)
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  Retraction notice to "High-resolution ultrasound Images in gouty arthritis to Evaluate Relationship between tophi and bone erosion" [Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 98 (2019) 131-134]. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 111: 938 (2020)
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  Sadia Din, Anand Paul:
  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]. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 111: 939 (2020)
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  (Withdrawn) Retraction notice to "Energy-aware resource management for uplink non-orthogonal multiple access: Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning" [Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 105 (2020) 684-694]. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 111: 940 (2020)