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European singles charts are important part of the music industry responsible for creating popularity of songs. After modeling and exploring dynamics of global album sales in previous papers, we investigate patterns of hit singles popularity according to all data (1966-2015) from weekly charts (polls) in 12 Western European countries. The dynamics of building popularity in various national charts is...
Understanding the videos' popularity evolution in social media is important to service providers, video uploaders and viewers. Such understanding can not only drive the improvement of load balancing in the network, but also can be helpful in advertising and discovering new business opportunities. While concentrating on the evolution of video's cumulative number of views after uploading, by modifying...
Nowadays, content retrieval is marking the Internet usage. User communications are no longer tied up to host interconnection. Information Centric Networking (ICN) models are proposed to cope with these changes. The new paradigm redesigns the Internet architecture to bring out content to the first level. Over the last decade, many key projects have proposed a large solution spectrum to rebuilt networking...
In the information society, and utilizing ICT(Information and Communication Technology), it has become possible to deploy a new business model. In the use of the financial business ICT, companies rather than funding from traditional financial institutions such as banks and securities companies, it has become possible to raise funds from individuals of the general public. One of the new forms of financing...
In the Internet age, application of the Internet has penetrated into people's daily life. It has a great influence on people's daily life and overturns people's traditional conception of thinking. Depending on the Internet's resources integration ability, Internet companies are rapidly rising and affect the traditional industry's core business. Many traditional enterprises have begun to transform...
The Nujiang is one of the regions where debris flow disasters occur frequently. For a long time, debris flow disasters have caused serious losses of life and property, so strengthening and controling the management of debris flow disasters and predict and alert debris flow disasters has become one of the main tasks for constructing and protecting ecological environment. Based on WebGIS, Internet of...
The immense improvement in information and communications technologies (ICT) has motivated service providers to offer services through electronic channels. Governments also realize the widespread, cost-effective and strategic roles that ICT plays in order to serve citizens and other businesses. With the development of a greater number and variety of e-services, citizens have higher expectations and...
The development of the Internet and emerging technologies offer government new opportunities to serve and interact with citizens in transformative ways that were not possible before. E-government is concerned with transforming service delivery and the fundamental relationship between government and citizens. Most governments have realized the importance of ICT and are therefore moving away from the...
The increasing amount of network-based attacks evolved to one of the top concerns responsible for network infrastructure and service outages. In order to counteract these threats, computer networks are monitored to detect malicious traffic and initiate suitable reactions. However, initiating a suitable reaction is a process of selecting an appropriate response related to the identified network-based...
There are several challenges for enabling an Internet that is universally available and accessible to all. These challenges can be overcome by innovations in technology, economics and regulation/policy. Over the last few years the smart data pricing community have proposed several innovative pricing solutions which have the potential for reducing the cost of Internet access. However, it is imperative...
Novel emerging tools are allowing the manipulation and control of biological cells and their functions, e.g., sensing, actuation, and communication through biochemical stimuli. These tools have the potential to enable the implementation of manmade networks of biological computing devices, i.e., Internet of Bio-things. In this work, signal transduction pathways, i.e., cells' chemical reactions that...
The evolution of businesses, driven by the advent of the internet and subsequent globalisation, was very quick and sudden. Enterprises that had traditional development strategies and that were used to slow changes are suddenly feeling the urge to evolve or face obsolescence. This fast-paced evolution frequently leads to mistakes and erroneous decisions, many of which are solely detected after a long...
For ages, people have sought inspiration in nature. Biomimicry has propelled inventions from Velcro tape to "cat's eyes" retroreflective road markers. At the same time, scientists have been developing biologically inspired techniques, including genetic algorithms and neural and sensor networks. Although a first glance shows no direct connection between the Internet's offensive and defensive...
This study explores the main determinants of social network adoption at the country level. We use the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework to investigate factors influencing social network adoption. We utilize cross-sectional data from 130 countries. Results indicate that social network adoption, at the country level, is positively influenced by the technological maturity, public readiness,...
Various domains have adopted multistakeholder models (MSMs) to address and deal with global challenges, such as sustainability, environment, climate, and Internet governance. Here, the authors examine the use of MSMs and their historical evolution, fundamentals, and characteristics. They also present examples of how such models are used in the global Internet governance ecosystem. Finally, the article...
Ever since the introduction of the first epidemic model, scientists have tried extrapolating the damage caused by a contagious disease, given its spreading pattern in the premature stage. However, understanding epidemiology remains an elusive mystery to researchers specifically because of the unavailability of large amount of data. We utilise the study of diffusion of memes in a social networking...
Documents from the same domain usually discuss similar topics in a similar order. In this paper we present new ordering-based topic models that use generalised Mallows models to capture this regularity to constrain topic assignments. Specifically, these new models assume that there is a canonical topic ordering shared amongst documents from the same domain, and each document-specific topic ordering...
Ad exchanges are kind of the most popular online advertising marketplaces for trading ad spaces over the Internet. Ad exchanges run auctions to sell the ad spaces on publishers' web-pages to advertisers, who want to display ads on the ad spaces. However, the parties in the auction cannot check whether the auction is carried out correctly or not. Furthermore, the advertisers are usually not willing...
We evaluate joint caching and pricing strategies among access networks, transit networks and content providers in an Information Centric Network (ICN). Specifically, we develop game theoretic models to study the interaction between the caching and pricing strategies among the above entities in the ICN. We first study static Nash strategies under various conditions and observe that the ICNs always...
The conception of contemporary science plainly supports the idea of e-science, and the qualitative aspects of both digital humanities and e-science and the search for new methods for extracting information and patterns from texts, hypertexts, images and networks reveals patterns of argumentation, rationality and irrationality that should be taken into consideration as part of the whole enterprise...
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