Coherent Taxonomy Research Articles

A Systematic Review of Reliability Studies on Composite Power Systems: A Coherent Taxonomy Motivations, Open Challenges, Recommendations, and New Research Directions

Power systems has been subjected to significant upgrades in terms of structure and capacity. Reliability evaluation of composite power systems has surfaced as an essential step in operation and planning stages of the modern power system. It is an effective tool to investigate the ability of power systems to supply customers with reliable power service. The purpose of this review is to enhance the knowledge of reliability studies conducted on composite power systems by providing a critical and systematic review. This work investigates peer-reviewed articles published between 2007 and 2017 in three reliable databases. The findings reveal that the reliability of composite power systems has received considerable attention over the last few years. Secondly, investigation studies demonstrated a crucial role in verifying the impact of adopting new technologies. Third, studies on this topic have been intensively conducted in Asia, which highlights the promising sectors in these regions. However, researchers have generally focused on developing several aspects (e.g., evaluation speed and wind power integration) at the expense of others (e.g., realistic studies and other renewable energy resources). The lack of practical applications is evident in the surveyed publications. These findings imply a potential incoordination between the needs of the real applications and researchers’ tendencies. Future reliability evaluation scholars are advised to consider the findings of this systematic review including concentrating on insufficiently covered topics and enhance the coordination among the efforts devoted in this area.

A review on intelligent process for smart home applications based on IoT: coherent taxonomy, motivation, open challenges, and recommendations

Innovative technology on intelligent processes for smart home applications that utilize Internet of Things (IoT) is mainly limited and dispersed. The available trends and gaps were investigated in this study to provide valued visions for technical environments and researchers. Thus, a survey was conducted to create a coherent taxonomy on the research landscape. An extensive search was conducted for articles on (a) smart homes, (b) IoT and (c) applications. Three databases, namely, IEEE Explore, ScienceDirect and Web of Science, were used in the article search. These databases comprised comprehensive literature that concentrate on IoT-based smart home applications. Subsequently, filtering process was achieved on the basis of intelligent processes. The final classification scheme outcome of the dataset contained 40 articles that were classified into four classes. The first class includes the knowledge engineering process that examines data representation to identify the means of accomplishing a task for IoT applications and their utilisation in smart homes. The second class includes papers on the detection process that uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to capture the possible changes in IoT-based smart home applications. The third class comprises the analytical process that refers to the use of AI techniques to understand the underlying problems in smart homes by inferring new knowledge and suggesting appropriate solutions for the problem. The fourth class comprises the control process that describes the process of measuring and instructing the performance of IoT-based smart home applications against the specifications with the involvement of intelligent techniques. The basic features of this evolving approach were then identified in the aspects of motivation of intelligent process utilisation for IoT-based smart home applications and open-issue restriction utilisation. The recommendations for the approval and utilisation of intelligent process for IoT-based smart home applications were also determined from the literature.

A Review on Systems-Based Sensory Gloves for Sign Language Recognition State of the Art between 2007 and 2017

Loss of the ability to speak or hear exerts psychological and social impacts on the affected persons due to the lack of proper communication. Multiple and systematic scholarly interventions that vary according to context have been implemented to overcome disability-related difficulties. Sign language recognition (SLR) systems based on sensory gloves are significant innovations that aim to procure data on the shape or movement of the human hand. Innovative technology for this matter is mainly restricted and dispersed. The available trends and gaps should be explored in this research approach to provide valuable insights into technological environments. Thus, a review is conducted to create a coherent taxonomy to describe the latest research divided into four main categories: development, framework, other hand gesture recognition, and reviews and surveys. Then, we conduct analyses of the glove systems for SLR device characteristics, develop a roadmap for technology evolution, discuss its limitations, and provide valuable insights into technological environments. This will help researchers to understand the current options and gaps in this area, thus contributing to this line of research.

A review on smartphone skin cancer diagnosis apps in evaluation and benchmarking: coherent taxonomy, open issues and recommendation pathway solution

This research aims to review the attempts of researchers in response to the new and disruptive technology of skin cancer applications in terms of evaluation and benchmarking, in order to identify the research landscape from the literature into a cohesive taxonomy. An extensive search was conducted for articles dealing with ‘skin cancer’, ‘apps’ and ‘smartphone’ or ‘mHealth’ in different variations to find all the relevant articles in three main databases, namely, “Web of Science”, “Science Direct”, and “IEEE explore”. These databases are considered wide enough to cover medical and technical literature. The final classification scheme outcome of the dataset contained 110 articles that were classified into four classes: development and design; analytical; evaluative and comparative; and review and survey studies. Afterwards, another filtering process was achieved based on the evaluation criteria error rate within the dataset, time complicity and reliability, which are used in skin cancer applications. The final classification scheme outcome of the dataset contained 89 articles distributed in mapping and crossover with four sections concluded from 110 articles. Development and design studies, analytical studies, evaluative and comparative studies and articles of reviews and surveys comprised of 48.3146%, 22.4719%, 16.8539% (15), and 12.3595% (11) of the reviewed articles, respectively. The basic features of this evolving approach were identified in these aspects. We also determined open issues in terms of evaluation and benchmarking that hamper the utility of this technology. Furthermore, with the exception of the 89 papers reviewed, the new recommendation pathway solution was described in order to improve the measurement process for smartphone-based skin cancer diagnosis applications.

Systematic Review of Real-time Remote Health Monitoring System in Triage and Priority-Based Sensor Technology: Taxonomy, Open Challenges, Motivation and Recommendations.

The new and ground-breaking real-time remote monitoring in triage and priority-based sensor technology used in telemedicine have significantly bounded and dispersed communication components. To examine these technologies and provide researchers with a clear vision of this area, we must first be aware of the utilised approaches and existing limitations in this line of research. To this end, an extensive search was conducted to find articles dealing with (a) telemedicine, (b) triage, (c) priority and (d) sensor; (e) comprehensively review related applications and establish the coherent taxonomy of these articles. ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore and Web of Science databases were checked for articles on triage and priority-based sensor technology in telemedicine. The retrieved articles were filtered according to the type of telemedicine technology explored. A total of 150 articles were selected and classified into two categories. The first category includes reviews and surveys of triage and priority-based sensor technology in telemedicine. The second category includes articles on the three-tiered architecture of telemedicine. Tier 1 represents the users. Sensors acquire the vital signs of the users and send them to Tier 2, which is the personal gateway that uses local area network protocols or wireless body area network. Medical data are sent from Tier 2 to Tier 3, which is the healthcare provider in medical institutes. Then, the motivation for using triage and priority-based sensor technology in telemedicine, the issues related to the obstruction of its application and the development and utilisation of telemedicine are examined on the basis of the findings presented in the literature.

A survey on communication components for IoT-based technologies in smart homes

The new and disruptive Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies being used in smart homes have significantly bounded and dispersed communication components. To examine these technologies and provide researchers with a clear vision toward this area, we must be aware of the utilized approaches and the existing limitations in this line of research. To this end, an extensive search was conducted for articles dealing with (a) smart homes, (b) IoT, and (c) related applications were comprehensively reviewed and a coherent taxonomy for these articles was established. ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, and Web of Science databases were checked for articles on IoT-based smart home technologies. The retrieved articles were then filtered based on specified criteria “Communication components aspects”, and 82 articles were eventually selected and classified into four categories. The first category included articles that representing internet devices in a framework or model that follows the requirements of the stage in which any system is developed, the second category included analytical studies that monitor the possible changes in the variables used in a specific case study, the third category included evaluation, comparative studies, and assessing their worth or merit, and the fourth category included reviews and surveys a review and survey of the communication components of IoT-based smart home technologies. The motivation for using IoT-based technologies in smart homes, the issues related to application obstruction, and the development and utilization of smart homes are then examined based on the findings from the literature. With the exception of the 82 articles reviewed earlier, the telecommunication standards and concepts of this research were covering IoT solutions, communication protocols, IoT stack protocol, and quality of service for IoT based smart home technologies.

A Systematic Review on Smartphone Skin Cancer Apps: Coherent Taxonomy, Motivations, Open Challenges and Recommendations, and New Research Direction

Objective: This research aims to survey the efforts of researchers in response to the new and disruptive technology of skin cancer apps, map the research landscape from the literature onto coherent taxonomy, and determine the basic characteristics of this emerging field. In addition, this research looks at the motivation behind using Smartphone apps in the diagnosis of skin cancer and in health care and the open challenges that impede the utility of this technology. This study offers valuable recommendations to improve the acceptance and use of medical apps in the literature. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive survey using the keywords “skin cancer,” “apps,” and “Smartphone” or “m-Health” in different variations to find all the relevant articles in three major databases: Web of Science, Science Direct, and IEEE Xplore. These databases broadly cover medical and technical literature. Results: We found 110 articles after a comprehensive survey of the literature. Out of the 110 articles, 46 present actual attempts to develop and design medical apps or share certain experiences of doing so. Twenty-eight articles consist of analytical studies on the incidence of skin cancer, the classification of malignant cancer or benign cancer, and the methods of prevention and diagnosis. Twenty-two articles comprise studies that range from the evaluative or comparative study of apps to the exploration of the desired features for skin cancer detection. Fourteen articles consist of reviews and surveys that refer to actual apps or the literature to describe medical apps for a specific specialty, disease, or skin cancer and provide a general overview of the technology. New research direction: With the exception of the 110 papers reviewed earlier in results section, the new directions of this research were described. In state-of-the-art, no particular study presenting watermarking and stenography approaches for any type of skin cancer images based on Smartphone apps is available. Discussion: Researchers have attempted to develop and improve skin cancer apps in several ways since 2011. However, several areas or aspects require further attention. All the articles, regardless of their research focus, attempt to address the challenges that impede the full utility of skin cancer apps and offer recommendations to mitigate their drawbacks. Conclusions: Research on skin cancer apps is active and efficient. This study contributes to this area of research by providing a detailed review of the available options and problems to allow other researchers and participants to further develop skin cancer apps, and the new directions of this research were described.

Early Childhood Research Landscape on Children’s Profile: Coherent Taxonomy, Motivation, Open Challenges, Recommendations and, Pathways for Future Research

To survey researchers’ efforts in depth in learning new problems, issues, motives on research related to children’s profiles; sculpting the literature into a clear and structed taxonomy; and determining the basic attributes of this research in terms of motivation and challenges, as well as recommendations and future studies. A focused search for each article was conducted on child profiles in four major databases: ScienceDirect, Web of Science, EBSCO, and ERIC. These databases are broad and sufficient to cover child profile studies in the literature. The initial query search resulted in 99 articles: (15/99) from ScienceDirect database, (45/99) from WoS, (23/99) from ERIC, and (16/99) articles from EBSCO, from 2011 to 2016. Those papers were thoroughly perused for the main purpose of developing a general map for research conducted on this emerging topic. Most of the articles (81.82%; 81/99) were measurement and evaluation papers; (15.15%; 15/99) were review and survey papers that refer to the literature in order to describe the child profile; and (3.03%; 3/99) were a design. Since 2011, researchers have followed the trend of child profile applications in many ways, while leaving certain aspects for further attention. Regardless of their categorization, articles focus on several challenges that hinder the full utility of child profile apps and do recommend mitigations. Research on child profiles is active and highly varied. In this paper, we hope that this review of previous studies will contribute to understanding the challenges and gaps that are available to other researchers to join this research line.

Face Recognition and Age Estimation Implications of Changes in Facial Features: A Critical Review Study

Facial features are considered as one of the important personal characteristics. This can be used in many applications, such as face recognition and age estimation. The value of these applications depends in several areas, such as security applications, law enforcement applications, and attendance systems. In addition, facial features are particularly the key usage in the finding of lost child. Present applications have achieved a high level of accuracy. This paper provides a survey of face recognition, including the age estimation, which was discussed. Moreover, the research outlines several challenges faced in face recognition area that had been explored. The research also provides a landscape mapping based on integrating into a critical and coherent taxonomy. In the methodology sections, the exploration the accomplished via a deep focused in every single article in “Face Recognition”, then “Age Estimation”, and later in “Facial Features”. The “Articles extraction” is mining from diverse sources, such as Web of Science, ACM, IEEE, Science Direct, and Springer databases. The research covers overall 72 articles; 32/72 articles were face recognition. Moreover, 39/72 of the articles were for age estimation. A comparison based on the objectives of the approaches is presented to underline the taxonomy. Ending by research conclusion on face techniques contributes to the understanding of the recognition approaches, which can be used in future researches. The research concluded that face techniques’ performance is distinct from one data set to another. This paper contributes to display gaps for other researchers to join this line of research.

Comprehensive Insights Into the Criteria of Student Performance in Various Educational Domains

This paper surveyed the literature on the criteria of student performance in various educational domains in order to establish the coherent taxonomy and figure out the gap on this pivotal research area. The significant search for articles focused on: 1) student evaluation; 2) education-related; and 3) criteria and domain. The three reliable databases are the Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and IEEE Xplore. These databases are sufficiently broad to cover education and technical literature. The set comprised 178 articles. The biggest group (170/178) included various evaluation criteria and domains. Most domains (84/170) covered criteria, such as performance and skills. Another group (8/178) utilized surveys and reviews to characterize the evaluation criteria for specific specializations. Since 2012, researchers have investigated the process of student evaluation in several domains. Regardless of class, the challenges that prohibited the full adoption of evaluation criteria were the focus of articles and recommended mitigations. Although research areas on student evaluation differed, the results were evenly pivotal. This paper affirms the existing research and provides the supplemental areas for future work.

Taxonomy, virulence and life cycles of Bacillus cereus sensu lato

Abstract Bacillus cereus sensu lato is a group of several species of Gram-positive sporeformers ubiquitous in nature and showing huge impact on human activities. They are often found in soil, air, plant material, animal tissues and digestive tracts as well as in food products. Their genetic similarities and frequent horizontal gene transfer causes doubts regarding their taxonomy. In addition, their toxicity and psychrotolerance constitute serious problems in the dairy industry, being responsible for food-poisonings and spoilage of cold-stored products. Finally, recent finding indicate that B. cereus sensu lato toxicity plays an important role not only in their virulence, but also in social interactions with other bacteria. 1. Introduction. 2. The most important aspects of B. cereus sensu lato biology. 2.1. First challenge – coherent taxonomy. 2.2. Second challenge – life cycles and interactions with the environment. 2.3. Third challenge – adaptation to low temperatures. 2.4. Fourth challenge – toxins of B. cereus sensu lato. 3. Summary

A review and classification of computer-based manufacturing scheduling tools

Computer-based manufacturing scheduling tools can play a key role in the management of industrial operations, as obtaining economic and reliable schedules is at the core of excellence in customer service and of efficiency in manufacturing companies. As a consequence, this topic has been receiving an increasing interest in the last decades, resulting in a number of case studies and descriptions of implementation of these tools. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no review of these cases in order to classify existing references and to identify relevant issues still not properly addressed. Therefore, in this paper we carry out a systematic review of case studies of manufacturing scheduling tools. In order to provide a coherent taxonomy for the analysis of these tools, we develop a classification based on the functionalities of the manufacturing scheduling tools. Using this framework, existing contributions are classified and discussed, and a number of conclusions and open issues are identified. We hope that our work can establish a coherent picture of the topic so it serves as a starting point for future research.

Parent Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder: What's in a Name?

Parent training (PT) is well understood as an evidence-based treatment for typically developing children with disruptive behavior. Within the field of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the term parent training has been used to describe a wide range of interventions including care coordination, psychoeducation, treatments for language or social development, as well as programs designed to address maladaptive behaviors. As a result, the meaning of "parent training" in ASD is profoundly uncertain. This paper describes the need to delineate the variants of PT in ASD and offers a coherent taxonomy. Uniform characterization of PT programs can facilitate communication with families, professionals, administrators, and third-party payers. Moreover, it may also serve as a framework for comparing and contrasting PT programs. In support of the taxonomy, a purposive sampling of the literature is presented to illustrate the range of parent training interventions in ASD.

Classifying orofacial pains: a new proposal of taxonomy based on ontology

We propose a new taxonomy model based on ontological principles for disorders that manifest themselves through the symptom of persistent orofacial pain and are commonly seen in clinical practice and difficult to manage. Consensus meeting of eight experts from various geographic areas representing different perspectives (orofacial pain, headache, oral medicine and ontology) as an initial step towards improving the taxonomy. Ontological principles were introduced, reviewed and applied during the consensus building process. Diagnostic criteria for persistent dento-alveolar pain disorder (PDAP) were formulated as an example to be used to model the taxonomical structure of all orofacial pain conditions. These criteria have the advantage of being (i) anatomically defined, (ii) in accordance with other classification systems for the provision of clinical care, (iii) descriptive and succinct, (iv) easy to adapt for applications in varying settings, (v) scalable and (vi) transferable for the description of pain disorders in other orofacial regions of interest. Limitations are that the criteria introduce new terminology, do not have widespread acceptance and have yet to be tested. These results were presented to the greater conference membership and were unanimously accepted. Consensus for the diagnostic criteria of PDAP was established within this working group. This is an initial first step towards developing a coherent taxonomy for orofacial pain disorders, which is needed to improve clinical research and care.

A taxonomy of multinational ethical and methodological standards for clinical trials of therapeutic interventions

BackgroundIf trials of therapeutic interventions are to serve society's interests, they must be of high methodological quality and must satisfy moral commitments to human subjects. The authors set out to...

COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NAMES OF PLANT PATHOGENIC BACTERIA, 1980-2007

The names of all plant pathogenic bacteria which have been effectively and validly published in terms of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and the Standards for Naming Pathovars are listed to provide an authoritative register of names for use by authors, journal editors and others who require access to currently correct nomenclature. Included are species, subspecies and pathovar names and details of type and pathotype strains reported from 1980 to 2007. An explanation of how to use this list is provided. In recent years the taxonomy of plant pathogenic bacteria has been extensively revised. For some taxa there are several valid synonyms. Unless otherwise stated, the most recently published name is used in this list as the reference name (in bold italic) to which all other synonyms are referred. This does not mean that the reference name is always to be preferred. A synonym, i.e., a previously published name for the same organism, may represent a classification considered by individual scientists or groups to give a more coherent taxonomy and may be used. This list is presented by the International Society of Plant Pathology Committee on the Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Carolee T. Bull Convener.

A taxonomy of visualization strategies for cultural heritage applications

In this article we present a general classification of the different approaches that might be employed to constitute a visual representation of a cultural heritage item, including the ones featuring the use of traditional tools as the ones exhibiting the inclusion of modern 2D and 3D digital technologies. In order to establish a coherent taxonomy, specific elements characterizing such approaches will be discussed and employed to assist the definition of a general conceptual framework that will enable the classification of the possible design choices according to their specific characteristics. Finally, a selection of modeling and simulation techniques which are specifically related to the creation process underlying the virtual representation of heritage items by means of modern visualization technologies will be explored alongside the main areas of preferences linked to the major actors active in the cultural heritage field.

Interpretation of complex situations in a semantic-based surveillance framework

The integration of cognitive capabilities in computer vision systems requires both to enable high semantic expressiveness and to deal with high computational costs as large amounts of data are involved in the analysis. This contribution describes a cognitive vision system conceived to automatically provide high-level interpretations of complex real-time situations in outdoor and indoor scenarios, and to eventually maintain communication with casual end users in multiple languages. The main contributions are: (i) the design of an integrative multilevel architecture for cognitive surveillance purposes; (ii) the proposal of a coherent taxonomy of knowledge to guide the process of interpretation, which leads to the conception of a situation-based ontology; (iii) the use of situational analysis for content detection and a progressive interpretation of semantically rich scenes, by managing incomplete or uncertain knowledge, and (iv) the use of such an ontological background to enable multilingual capabilities and advanced end-user interfaces. Experimental results are provided to show the feasibility of the proposed approach.

WHAT IS “LAWYERING”? THE CHALLENGE OF TAXONOMY

OVER the past few years, an important legal debate has been raging, the full effects of which many lawyers have not yet felt. I am referring to the taxonomy debate and, specifically, the attempts by the late Professor Peter Birks and (the mainly academic) supporters and advocates of his and similar views to impose a coherent and logical taxonomy upon private (common) law. Much more attention should be paid to sound taxonomy, it is argued. This “great project” has been little noticed outside the backwater of the law in which it began, namely the law of restitution (or “unjust enrichment” as the theorists here under consideration would prefer).

Educating the Dictionary User

Educating the Dictionary User w: Charlotte Brewer Hertford College, Oxford Writing not as a practical lexicographer but as an academic who researches lexicography on the one hand, and includes lexicography in an undergraduate course on the history of the English language on the other, I am struck by the naive faith widi which even sophisticated language users approach dictionaries. One issue in particular stands out: how difficult it is for readers /users to assess a dictionary and understand its intended function. This is partly because no one ever reads the introductory material, but also because when someone picks up even a short dictionary and leafs through it, they can feel overwhelmed by the vast quantity of knowledge and scholarship it presents, in a form impossible to analyze or evaluate except on the basis of an individual entry (whose relationship to the whole diey cannot know) . Sometimes diis extensive display of information is enabling. W. H. Auden said that, if marooned on a desert island, he would choose to have with him "a good dictionary" in preference to "the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways," and other poets have found the same: Emerson believed that "neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion. The raw material of possible poems and histories" (W. H. Auden, TheDyer's Hand. London: Faber and Faber, 1963; Emerson quoted in die OED entry for didionary). For non-poets, though, the wealdi of linguistic material in a dictionary , organized by alphabetical sequence bizarrely unconnected with Dictionaries:Journal oftheDictionary Society ofNorth America 27 (2006), 139-142 140Charlotte Brewer a word's meaning or its relative significance, can shut off a person's critical faculties—perhaps because it appeals to a deeply lodged belief, or cultural instinct, diat a collection ofwords and their meanings in some way represents, unproblematically, the world itself. The urge to record knowledge, understanding, and natural phenomena in a coherent taxonomy has lain behind the compilation of encyclopedias and dictionaries over many centuries, from Isidore's late sixth century Etymohgiae and its medieval successors through to the opus of d'Alembert and Diderot and subsequent works, and the large size and wide scope of the resulting volumes have often elicited from both autiiors and readers the corresponding view that such reference works faithfully reflect, in some way or other, the world outside them. As die seventeenth century educationalist Comenius wrote, "Encyclopaedia is the system of all sciences, based on method and laid out like the world itself " (quoted as an epigraph to Werner Hüllen's English Dictionaries, 800-1700: The Topical Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) from Comenius, Lexicon Reale Pansophium). But this implies that lexicographers choose their words in a neutral and unfettered way (or perhaps that the words choose themselves). Nothing could be further from the truth, as all practitioners know. The constraints are numerous and scarcely need mentioning in a journal like Didionariesr. available space in the book (supposing it is a book) in which the dictionary is to appear, in turn determined by publishing costs ofvarious sorts, together with assumptions about the likely buyers; plus lexicographers' time (however paid, or not paid) ; all this in some sort of relation to the editorial limits that have to be imposed in order to make a word-gathering project susceptible of completion (e.g., on scientific , technical, specialist vocabulary, on words no longer current, on colloquialisms and slang, regionalisms, loan words, etc., etc.) . In addition, many dictionaries, even of the language as a whole rather than a specialized subset of it, look for particular market niches: for example, for students (therefore more hospitable to usage comments and technical words), or for specific word-games such as scrabble or crosswords (therefore more hospitable to archaic words) . A historical overview of dictionaries swiftly teaches one both that dictionaries borrow shamelessly one from another, and that die most important thing for any new dictionary is to survive commercially by competing successfully in the marketplace, usually by claiming (rightly or...