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A Dynamic Pyramid Tilling Method for Traffic Data Stream Based on Flink

Traffic guidance, traffic management and emergency vehicle traffic all require keeping abreast of traffic status. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is highly expected to provide real-time traffic condition information service. To achieve this, the capability of handling dynamic data stream collected from multi traffic monitoring sources and serving the public with information timely is essential for ITS. With the wide spread of Internet of Things technology, not only the amount, but also the spatial and temporal resolutions of real-time traffic data have explosive growth, thereby enhancing the difficulty of real-time traffic data processing in ITS. Web pyramid map tiles is wide accepted for massive spatial data service, and the latency of tile generation significantly reduces the timeliness of information transmission and the reliability of services. A Flink-based method for dynamic pyramid tile generation and updating is proposed here. Take advantages of combining grid indexes, employing data partition and window selection mechanisms, and applying iterative computational characteristics for resampling, the distributed dynamic pyramid map tile generation algorithm (DPTG), can quickly visualize real-time spatial traffic data with digital map tiles. Taking the national highway road data from China as an example, the experimental results show that the Flink-based DPTG method has high efficiency and scalability in both batch processing and stream processing mode, which highlights the capability of the proposed method to support real-time traffic monitoring data processing for timely large-scale public service in ITS.

The Cognitive Bases of Conversion in Modern English

As known, the end of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st centuries in linguistics is characterized by language learning and studying the language processes from the perspective of anthropocentric paradigm. Moreover, at the age of globalization and innovative technologies, it was the English language that became the working language throughout the world which could not but affect its system. With spread of internet in virtual communication people tend to use the tools to save language. Despite the fact that in the scientific literature there is a great deal of works devoted to the study of different aspects of conversion, there is not a single study in which conversion would be considered as a mechanism of the principle of language saving. The relevance of our study is also explained by the fact that, unlike our predecessors, we consider conversion not as a word-building tool or one of the types of transposition, but as a universal language tool that needs a more detailed and complete description in the language. It is conditioned with the need to consider the factors of cognitive nature that determine the appearance and choice of particular conversion, both as reflection of the needs of the language itself and the communicative tasks of the speaker.

Energy-Aware System Design for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes: A Comprehensive Review.

Nowadays, wireless sensor networks are becoming increasingly important in several sectors including industry, transportation, environment and medicine. This trend is reinforced by the spread of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in almost all sectors. Autonomous energy supply is thereby an essential aspect as it decides the flexible positioning and easy maintenance, which are decisive for the acceptance of this technology, its wide use and sustainability. Significant improvements made in the last years have shown interesting possibilities for realizing energy-aware wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) by designing manifold and highly efficient energy converters and reducing energy consumption of hardware, software and communication protocols. Using only a few of these techniques or focusing on only one aspect is not sufficient to realize practicable and market relevant solutions. This paper therefore provides a comprehensive review on system design for battery-free and energy-aware WSN, making use of ambient energy or wireless energy transmission. It addresses energy supply strategies and gives a deep insight in energy management methods as well as possibilities for energy saving on node and network level. The aim therefore is to provide deep insight into system design and increase awareness of suitable techniques for realizing battery-free and energy-aware wireless sensor nodes.

Efficient Data Diffusion and Elimination Control Method for Spatio-Temporal Data Retention System

With the development and spread of Internet of Things technologies, various types of data for IoT applications can be generated anywhere and at any time. Among such data, there are data that depend heavily on generation time and location. We define these data as spatio-temporal data (STD). In previous studies, we proposed a STD retention system using vehicular networks to achieve the “Local production and consumption of STD” paradigm. The system can quickly provide STD for users within a specific location by retaining the STD within the area. However, this system does not take into account that each type of STD has different requirements for STD retention. In particular, the lifetime of STD and the diffusion time to the entire area directly influence the performance of STD retention. Therefore, we propose an efficient diffusion and elimination control method for retention based on the requirements of STD. The results of simulation evaluation demonstrated that the proposed method can satisfy the requirements of STD, while maintaining a high coverage rate in the area.

Contribution of Collaborative Filtering Approach on Environmental Big Data Analytics Context

In recent years and following the spread of internet using, the way of life in our society as well as the management of the main production sectors have changed towards digitalization (E-Commerce, E-Surgery, road traffic management, etc.) to minimize the. This change challenged researchers and organizations to come up with solutions to manage, maintain, classify and make the best decision from the gigantic flows of data created daily while reducing environmental Damage (Consumption of Energical resources….), From which was born the Collaborative filtering approach which facilitate decision making based on the experience feedback of Internet users. This approach is used generally the big Data Analytics Algorithm to predict and classify data

Determinants of e-Commerce Use at Different Educational Levels: Empirical Evidence from Turkey

Rapid spread of internet has made e-commerce an essential and effective tool for commercial transactions. The purpose of this study is to investigate e-commerce use differences between individuals in Turkey according to their educational levels and to specify the relationship between demographic characteristics of individuals and e-commerce use. In this study, the cross-sectional data obtained by Household Information Technologies Usage Survey were used. Binary logistic regression analysis was utilized to determine the factors associated with the e-commerce use of individuals. This study has concluded that the variables of income level, age, gender, occupation, region, social media use, use of internet banking, use of e-government, number of information equipment in a household and the number of people in a household have relationships with e-commerce use. In addition, it has been found out that the variables in e-commerce use showed differences according to educational levels of individuals. It has been determined as a result of this study that as the education level of the individuals increased, their tendency towards online shopping increased. Higher education level refers to higher income level at both state and private institutions and more perception towards innovations. This has naturally a positive effect on online shopping behaviors of individuals.

Ephemeral-Cyber-Physical System: A Cloud-Like CPS Using Shared Devices in Open IoT

With the spread of Internet of Things (IoT), a lot of devices have been connected to networks. We believe that Open IoT, where devices are shared by multiple services, will be common in the future. However, constructing cyber-physical systems (CPS) by using shared devices has challenges. Since there are many combinations of devices and software in the network, designing and testing systems cannot be done manually as with current CPS. The system model and technologies suitable for Open IoT are necessary. In this article, we propose a new concept of CPS. It is “Ephemeral-Cyber-Physical System (E-CPS),” which is temporarily constructed by combining devices in the network similar to an instance of cloud computing. Also, we propose a method of actuator control optimization for automatically constructing E-CPS by using nonconfigured devices connected to the network. This method will significantly contribute to not only E-CPS but also quick and inexpensive provision of conventional CPS. Experiments with a simulator, and with lighting devices and cameras confirmed that the method can automatically optimize the actuator control value and it enables satisfying the service requirements at a low cost.

Failure-Aware and Delay-Predicted Multipath Virtual Queue Scheduling for Multimedia Transmission in Edge IoT

The spread of Edge Internet of Things (IoT) radically changes our lifestyle. However, the multimedia services in edge IoT are still stuck by inefficiency. The dynamic typologies perplex the transmission of massive real-time data. To solve this problem, multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) which has a natural advantage in transmission robustness and bandwidth aggregation is becoming a good choice. In this paper, failure-aware and delay-predicted multipath virtual queue scheduling (FD-MVQS) is proposed to optimize the MPTCP performance in edge IoT. FD-MVQS constructs a two-plane cooperative scheduling system. In the control plane, the transmission failure estimation and chaos theory-based arrival delay prediction methods are introduced to provide the foundation for prescheduling. In the data plane, the multipath virtual queue scheduling is designed to allocate segments to different subflows. Simulation results showed that the proposed FD-MVQS performed better than standard and typical multipath transmission solutions in throughput, delay, and segment disorder.

The real costs of plagiarism: Russian governors, plagiarized PhD theses, and infrastructure in Russian regions

This paper investigates whether politicians who have plagiarized their PhD dissertations perform worse in running their polities than those who have not committed plagiarism. We look at the Russian regional governors and document that a substantial portion of them have plagiarized PhD theses. We find a negative association between plagiarized PhD of a governor and development of infrastructure (specifically, housing construction and spread of broadband Internet) in a region, controlling for other region-level characteristics potentially affecting infrastructural development. We argue that in the Russian context, a plagiarized PhD thesis is likely to indicate that a governor both is inclined to dishonest behavior and possesses poor managerial capabilities, which should have a particularly negative effect on the performance of their regions in terms of the development of infrastructure.

The Changes Of Norms Among The Youths Relationship In A Small Town

This research was conducted to prove the extent of changes in social norms among young people in a small town. The case study are the two cities: Indramayu and Cirebon. It aims to analyze the things that cause a change in norms of the youth association. The method is survey and observation, with quantitative data collected by questionnaire. The samples in this study were 300 respondents using quota sampling; i.e., 150 respondents drawn from high school in Indramayu, and the rests were taken from Cirebon. The analysis was done by scoring techniques. Based on the results there are changes in social norms among the youths. For about 91 percent in Indramayu male and female respondents have dated at least once. Meanwhile in Cirebon, the pattern shows only 80 percent. There is also evidence that 53 percent young men and women in Indramayu have ever been kissed, and 29 percent for case in Cirebon. One of the causes of the change in norms is the globalization involving technology improvement, especially spreading of internet. The survey revealed that the most dominant in influencing the youngster relationship such as kissing, hugging, holding hands and even sexual intercourse is porn video. Approximately at56 percent or 167 people of the 300 respondents get the motivation after watching it.
 

Development of Sensors-Based Agri-Food Traceability System Remotely Managed by A Software Platform for Optimized Farm Management.

The huge spreading of Internet of things (IoT)-oriented modern technologies is revolutionizing all fields of human activities, leading several benefits and allowing to strongly optimize classic productive processes. The agriculture field is also affected by these technological advances, resulting in better water and fertilizers’ usage and so huge improvements of both quality and yield of the crops. In this manuscript, the development of an IoT-based smart traceability and farm management system is described, which calibrates the irrigations and fertigation operations as a function of crop typology, growth phase, soil and environment parameters and weather information; a suitable software architecture was developed to support the system decision-making process, also based on data collected on-field by a properly designed solar-powered wireless sensor network (WSN). The WSN nodes were realized by using the ESP8266 NodeMCU module exploiting its microcontroller functionalities and Wi-Fi connectivity. Thanks to a properly sized solar power supply system and an optimized scheduling scheme, a long node autonomy was guaranteed, as experimentally verified by its power consumption measures, thus reducing WSN maintenance. In addition, a literature analysis on the most used wireless technologies for agri-food products’ traceability is reported, together with the design and testing of a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) low-cost sensor tag to be applied into the containers of agri-food products, just collected from the fields or already processed, to monitor the main parameters indicative of any failure or spoiling over time along the supply chain. A mobile application was developed for monitoring the tracking information and storing conditions of the agri-food products. Test results in real-operative scenarios demonstrate the proper operation of the BLE smart tag prototype and tracking system.

Cultural similarities in Lausanne emigrants: An evaluation in terms of the hospitality value

The purpose of this study is to compare the cultural similarities of Lausanne Emigrants who were forced to compulsory migration in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne from Develi region of Kayseri to Kozani and Ioannina regions of Greece in terms of the “hospitality” value. Conducted during the two separate trips to the region during 2017 and 2019, the study has the characteristics of a descriptive survey model. The study was designed as a qualitative case study, and interview and observation techniques were used. Everyone who participated in the study stated that hospitality is important, and although in the past people used to visit each other frequently, this tradition has been forgotten recently, and the new generation has not paid much attention to it. While the participants stated that those who came from outside the village were regarded as guests of God and were entertained, they also stated that they have not had overnight guests anymore since there are hotels in their villages, but there are still overnight visitations among the relatives. While all of the participants expressed that hospitality is their ancestral tradition and these traditions should be protected, they also stated that the younger generation has not given much attention to these values with the spread of internet and especially social media. Following the footsteps of this study results, wedding and marriage rituals and traditions, funeral traditions and food culture of the emigrants can be examined in future studies. Key words: Develi, Greece, hospitality, Kozani, Lausanne, migration, population exchange.

Anthropology and the Third Information Revolution

This journal, Visual Anthropology, has now been in existence for a third of a century, and so it is an appropriate moment to look back at where we and our scholarship have come from, and what changes we have seen during our own lifetimes. This article first gives a rapid overview of the four major forms of information technology in human history. These were the age of oral transfer of messages, writing, printing, and lastly the age of mechanical reproduction, including the development of digital technologies. The rest of the article recalls the author’s own experience of the most recent period of computer and multi-media work. The first phase of this was the computer revolution from the 1960s to around the Millennium, the second is the spread of the high-speed internet with the accompanying tools on the web. The article ends by considering some of the implications for anthropology of the accumulated developments, in terms of on-line databases, digital repositories and personal publishing. Anthropology has been transformed during the author’s lifetime by the rapid growth of more powerful tools of communication, and it is likely that this will increase exponentially into the future. As anthropologists we need to see the big picture of how this has happened and what its implications are.

A Network-Based Indicator of Travelers Performativity on Instagram

The spread of Internet and online social media has created a huge amount of data able to provide new insights to researchers in different disciplinary fields, but it also presents new challenges for data science. Data arising from online social networks can be naturally coded as relational data in affiliation and adjacency matrices, then analyzed with social network analysis. In this study, we apply an interdisciplinary approach (based on automatic visual content analysis, social network analysis, and exploratory statistical techniques) to define and derive a suitable indicator for characterizing places, along with the online activities of travelers, in terms of sharing images. We envisage a novel storytelling perspective where stories are related to places and the narrative activity is realized through posting images. Specifically, we use data extracted from an online social network (i.e., Instagram) to identify travelers’ paths among sites of interests. Starting from a large collection of pictures geolocalized in a pre-specified set of locations (i.e., five locations in the Campania region of Italy during the 2018 Christmas season), we use automatic alternative text to produce an ex-post taxonomy of images on the most recurrent themes emerging from pictures posted on Instagram. Quantitative measures defined on the co-occurrence of locations and the emerging themes are used to build a statistical indicator able to characterize paths among different locations as narrated from travelers’ posts. The proposed analysis, presented and discussed along with real data, can be useful for stakeholders interested in the fields of policy-making, communication design, and territory profiling strategies.

Digital payment and banking adoption research in Gulf countries: A systematic literature review

The global spread and use of internet and mobile contributed to the development of digital payments and baking. There is a lack of research which provides comprehensive synthesis and analysis of factors affecting the use and adoption of digital banking and payment methods in GCC countries. Thus, the aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review and perform weight and meta-analysis. By reviewing 46 studies, it was found that best predictors for digital payment and banking adoption in GCC countries are trust, perceived security and perceived usefulness. Based on the extensive literature review, the conceptual of factors affecting adoption digital banking and payment methods in Gulf countries model was proposed, which will set agenda for future research. Practitioners will be able to use the findings from this study to improve adoption and quality of digital banking and payment services

Performance comparison of programming languages for Internet of Things middleware

AbstractThe rapid spread of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in recent years has driven the creation of a number of IoT middleware for enabling communication between devices using different standards and technologies. Such middleware facilitates the development of IoT solutions, allowing the developer to handle data and devices through middleware without the need to understand and communicate with each device individually. Although some studies present the performance of middleware solutions, they do not consider the effect of the underlying programming language in the overall performance of the solution. This paper replicates a common middleware use case in three different programming languages, evaluates their comparative performance, and discusses the results found. In the studied use case, Javascript presents better performance for small to medium applications, while, globally, Java demonstrates to be the most robust choice for IoT middleware.

A dynamic group decision making process for high number of alternatives using hesitant Fuzzy Ontologies and sentiment analysis

The high spread of Internet and social networks have completely changed the way that Group Decision Making methods are designed, developed and implemented. Experts now operate in environments where a large amount of information is available and new ideas and participants can appear at any time; this results in a dynamically changing decision environment. In this paper, a novel group decision making method for dynamic contexts with a high number of decision alternatives is presented. As the main component of the proposal, a perceptual computing scheme is used in order to extract information from the experts. In the process, sentiment analysis is used when analyzing the debate texts in order to obtain information for selecting the best alternatives on each round. Moreover, interval type-2 hesitant Fuzzy Ontologies are used in order to store the information related to alternatives. By combining interval type-2 and hesitant fuzzy sets, imprecise information can be represented in a comfortable and intuitive way within the ontology.

Internet in Social Reality of Russian Youth: Potential Risks and Opportunities

The paper is devoted to an empirical analysis of the role of the Internet in the everyday reality of Russian youth. The author notes that the unusual speed of the Internet spread in the life of Russian society made the circumstances of growing up of modern young Russians very specific. In fact, they became the first generation of Russian “digital natives”. Growing up in the conditions of the rapid spread of the Internet in society, many of them are used to perceiving the Internet as a natural and inalienable attribute of everyday reality. The author uses materials of secondary data analysis and the data of his sociological research among Russian youth to determine the role of the Internet in the social reality of youth and to find out the possible risks and opportunities that it can create. The empirical basis of the study is a questionnaire survey conducted by the author in 2018 among the youth of the city of Ekaterinburg, Russia. The key conclusion of the article is that the Internet is deeply integrated into the social reality of modern Russian youth. The growing importance of the Internet in life is a source of a number of risks, which include the formation of Internet addiction, increasing the vulnerability of young people to destructive content and the formation of a communicative gap between representatives of different generations. The Internet can also be used to broadcast information to a youth audience, to organize cooperation among young people, to popularize good practices and for other purposes.
 Keywords: youth, Russian youth, Internet, “digital natives”, Russian society

“Digital Impression” in Communication: Caricaturized Case of the Reality

İnternetin ve yeni iletişim teknolojilerinin 2000’li yıllardan itibaren hızla yaygınlaşmasıyla birlikte, geleneksel haberleşme ve iletişim şekilleri de değişime uğramıştır. Özellikle genç kuşaklarda akıllı cep telefonları adeta “bedenin bir parçası” haline gelirken, kuşaklararası iletişim kanalları da X ve Y kuşaklarının aleyhine tıkanmaya başlamıştır. Z Kuşağı veya Alfa Kuşağı olarak adlandırılan en genç kuşağın, iletişimin şekli ve kuralları konusundaki tutumu da, özde bağımsız ve özgür bir ruha işaret etse de, bir önceki kuşakların yaşam tarzına ters düşen kimi biçimsel uygulamaları içermektedir. Toplu taşım araçlarında herkesin başını akıllı cep telefonlarına gömerek hayatını dijitalleştirmesi, sokakta görüntülü olarak cep telefonlarıyla yüksek sesle konuşulması, bir kafede oturan 4-5 kişilik arkadaş grubunun sürekli cep telefonlarıyla ilgilenmesi, yasak ve/veya tehlikeli olmasına rağmen uçaklarda cep telefonlarının son ana kadar kapatılmaması ya da uçuş moduna alınmaması, sinema veya konserlerde sık sık çalan cep telefonları, hoca ders anlatırken bile öğrencilerin sıra altından mesajlaşması gibi gündelik hayatta sıkça rastlanan davranışlar, yeni iletişim teknolojilerinin sorgulanmasına yol açmaktadır. Bu çalışmada dijital görgüsüzlük olgusu, gündelik hayat sosyolojisi ve kısmen "serbest zaman" kavramı çerçevesinde ele alınmış, teknolojik gelişmelerin neden olduğu kültürel davranış değişiklikleri eleştirel bir bakış açısıyla tartışılmıştır.

Digitization in the Transport Sector: Development Trends and Indicators. Part 1

The article outlines the current global trends in digitalization, which include the use of big data and cloud technologies, the spread of Internet of Things (IoT), the development of robotics, the spread of 3D printing technology, blockchain processes and crowdsourcing. The main problem of the article is to study the process of digitalisation in general and in the transport sector in the context of trends and development indicators, and to make recommendations for further improvement of the national statistical database by including indicators on the development of information and communication technologies in the transport sector based on international databases. The particular attention is paid to the consideration of the institutional basis of digitalisation worldwide, with focus on the practices of the EU, Germany, Canada, the USA and Kazakhstan. The experience of Ukraine in digitization of the economy and the transport sector in particular is carefully studied. Consideration is given to the database indicators measuring digitalization trends, with selecting the indicators reflecting these processes in individual economies and related to digital transformations in the transport. The particular attention is paid to the Ukraine’s position in these international databases and the completeness of information on relevant indicators in Ukraine. A comparison of the selected indicators with the indicators of digitalisation in the transport sector in the official statistical database was carried out, and the systematization of these indicators was made in order to further improve the official statistical database by including in it the indicators on the development of information and communication technologies in the transport sector. The careful study and analysis of international and national statistical databases allowed for creating a set of indicators on digitalization in the transport sector, with including the indicators in it reflecting the dissemination of information and communication technologies in the transport sector and characterizing digital transformations in the transport. The proposed set of indicators is dynamic and can be complemented by other indicators in the process of digital transformations in the transport sector. Given the current global trends of the growing penetration of digital technology in all the spheres of human activity, this set of indicators can be used not only to monitor these processes in the transport sector, but also in the management practices.