Optical Application improved with Logistics of Artificial Intelligent and Electronic Systems

Computer science and electronics have a very big incidence in several research areas; optics and photonics are not the exception. The utilization of computers, electronic systems, and devices has allowed the authors to develop several projects to control processes. A description of the computer tool called Laser Micro-Lithography (LML) to characterize materials is realized. The Reasoning Based on Cases (RBC) and its implementation in the software using Java are presented. In order to guarantee the lithography precision, a control system based on a microcontroller was developed and coupled to the mechanical system. An alternative of LML, considering the use of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), instead of a Personal Computer (PC) is described. In this case, C language is used for programming. RBC optimizes the materials characterization, recovering information of materials previously characterized. The communication between the PDA and the displacement table is achieved by means of a system based on a micro-controller DSPIC. The developed computers tool permits obtaining lithography with channels narrower than an optical fiber with minimum equipment. The development of irradiance meters based on electronic automation is shown; this section includes the basic theoretical concepts, the experimental device design and the experimental results. Future research trends are presented, and as a consequence of the developed work, perspectives of micro drilling and cutting are also analyzed.

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A bibliometric approach to quantitatively assess current research trends in 5G security

Library Hi Tech ◽

10.1108/lht-04-2021-0133 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

M. Najmul Islam Farooqui ◽

Junaid Arshad ◽

Muhammad Mubashir Khan

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

Research Work ◽

Quantitative Description ◽

Research Trends ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

Future Research ◽

Content Type ◽

Research Areas ◽

Art Research ◽

5G Security

PurposeAlongside the remarkable evolution of cellular communication to 5G networks, significant security and privacy challenges have risen which can affect the widespread adoption of advanced communication technologies. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to examine research within security and privacy for 5G-based systems highlighting contributions made by the research community and identify research trends within different subdomains of 5G security where open issues still exist.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses a bibliographic approach to review the state-of-the-art in the field of 5G security and is the pioneering effort to investigate 5G security research using this methodology. Specifically, the paper presents a quantitative description of the existing contributions in terms of authors, organizations, and countries. It then presents detailed keyword and co-citation analysis that shows the quantity and pattern of research work in different subfields. Finally, 5G security areas are identified having open challenges for future research work.FindingsThe study shows that China leads the world in terms of published research in the field of 5G security with USA and India ranked second and third respectively. Xidian University, China is ranked highest for number of publications and h-index followed by University Oulu and AALTO University Finland. IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Internet of Things Journal are the top publication venues in the field of 5G security. Using VOSViewer aided analysis with respect to productivity, research areas and keywords, the authors have identified research trends in 5G security among scientific community whilst highlighting specific challenges which require further efforts.Originality/valueExisting studies have focused on surveys covering state-of-the art research in secure 5G network (Zhang et al. 2019), physical layer security (Wu et al., 2018), security and privacy of 5G technologies (Khan et al., 2020) and security and privacy challenges when 5G is used in IoT (Sicari et al. 2020). However, our research has revealed no existing bibliometric studies in this area and therefore, to our best knowledge, this paper represents pioneering such effort for security within 5G.

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Identifying Major Research Areas and Minor Research Themes of Android Malware Analysis and Detection Field Using LSA

Complexity ◽

10.1155/2021/4551067 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-28

Author(s):

Deepak Thakur ◽

Jaiteg Singh ◽

Gaurav Dhiman ◽

Mohammad Shabaz ◽

Tanya Gera

Keyword(s):

Evidence Synthesis ◽

Research Literature ◽

Research Trends ◽

Intellectual Structure ◽

Future Research ◽

Malware Analysis ◽

High Quality Research ◽

Android Malware ◽

Research Areas ◽

Future Research Directions

Contemporary technologies have ensured the availability of high-quality research data shared over the Internet. This has resulted in a tremendous availability of research literature, which keeps evolving itself. Thus, identification of core research areas and trends in such ever-evolving literature is not only challenging but interesting too. An empirical overview of contemporary machine learning methods, which have the potential to expedite evidence synthesis within research literature, has been explained. This manuscript proposes Simulating Expert comprehension for Analyzing Research trends (SEAR) framework, which can perform subjective and quantitative investigation over enormous literature. TRENDMINER is the use case designed exclusively for the SEAR framework. TRENDMINER uncovered the intellectual structure of a corpus of 444 abstracts of research articles (published during 2010–2019) on Android malware analysis and detection. The study concludes with the identification of three core research areas, twenty-seven research trends. The study also suggests the potential future research directions.

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Unveiling the Past, Current and Future of Global Sustainable Livelihoods Research by Visual and Quantitative Analysis

10.21203/rs.3.rs-735256/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tong Li ◽

Lizhen Cui ◽

Ranjay K. Singh ◽

Francesco Fava ◽

Zhihong Xu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Global Environmental Change ◽

Sustainable Livelihoods ◽

Science Research ◽

Research Trends ◽

Annual Number ◽

Future Research ◽

The Past ◽

Research Areas ◽

Research Studies

Abstract Sustainable Livelihoods (SLs) is now a high-priority field in global environmental change research, becoming one of the key research paradigms in sustainability science increasingly and an important component of the Sustainable Development Goals. A Scientometrics analysis based on Science Citation Index-Expanded was performed to understand the research trends and areas in SLs studies. A total of 6441 papers related to SLs studies and 265, 759 references published from 1991 to 2020 were selected as the research objects. Using advanced quantitative analysis tools such as CiteSpace and VOSviewer, we quantify and visualize the characteristics and evolution of the literature in the field of SLs research, to clarify the historical research characteristics, knowledge base, and future research trends. The results show that the annual number of documents increased exponentially since 1991. Ecological sciences and ecology were the most popular Web of Science research areas. The institution with the greatest research documents and most citations was the CGIAR. The most influential journal is Word Development. Singh R.K., Shackleton C.M., was the most productive author. Six clusters of research areas were determined by keyword co-occurrence analysis. The results of the evolution of research hotspots show that the four tags currently still active. We also detected 11 directions of SLs research studies based on the keywords’ score relevance, which has allowed the iden-tification of future lines of research with more importance. These results can help related researchers better understand the past current and future of SLs research studies, which is significant for achieving livelihoods sustainability.

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Study on Hub Location Models and Research Trends

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.505-506.528 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 505-506 ◽

pp. 528-532

Author(s):

Meng Liang Li ◽

Xi Fu Wang ◽

Quan Xin Sun

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Models ◽

Research Trends ◽

Future Research ◽

Hub Location ◽

Hub Location Problem ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Resolution Algorithm ◽

Fertile Area

Hub location has been a fertile area for interdisciplinary researchers. There has been used to plan the number of hubs, position, grades, scale and so on. Many scholars have studied hub location problem for more than 30-year history which has indepth researched on the theoretical concepts, mathematical models and applications in hub location. For the development of hub location, a review of classification of HLPs is provided, and then mathematical models, resolution algorithm, the advantages and disadvantages of each classification could be described in detail. At the end, the future research trends will be presented.

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Biodiversity Research Trends and Gaps from the Confluence of Three Global Biodiversity Hotspots in the Far-Eastern Himalaya

International Journal of Ecology ◽

10.1155/2019/1323419 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Deepa Basnet ◽

Pratikshya Kandel ◽

Nakul Chettri ◽

Yongping Yang ◽

Mahendra Singh Lodhi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Past Research ◽

Research Trends ◽

Eastern Himalaya ◽

Future Research ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Research Areas ◽

Tundra Ecosystem ◽

Ecosystem Level ◽

Genetic Level ◽

Far Eastern

The Far-Eastern Himalaya Landscape (FHL), a shared transboundary landscape between China, India, and Myanmar, is one of the most intact and biologically rich landscapes in the Eastern Himalaya. Yet, the state of biodiversity and its significance are comparatively poorly known to conservationists and policy makers due to low priority in research, inaccessibility, and remoteness. We collated and reviewed 1032 articles relating to biodiversity of the FHL to understand research trends, identify knowledge gaps, and suggest priority research areas for future biodiversity conservation and management in the landscape. Our review showed that the Myanmar part of the landscape is the most studied, followed by the Indian and Chinese parts. The trend of publications in the landscape showed that the earliest publication on biodiversity in the FHL dates back to 1833, while the years from 2001 to 2017 account for almost 80% of the total publications. Most studies focused on species (73.6%), followed by ecosystems (25%) and genetics (1.4%). Mammals were the most studied taxa (22.6%), with a greater focus on charismatic megafauna, followed by arthropods (15.6%), angiosperms (14.8%), insects (13.4%), and birds (10.8%). There were very few publications on lower invertebrates and lower kingdoms, Monera, Protista, Fungi, and Viruses. At the ecosystem level, most studies focused on forests (58.5%) followed by freshwater (32%), agroecosystems (9%), and alpine/tundra ecosystem (0.5%); there were only 14 studies at genetic level. In the FHL, new species have been discovered and rediscovered starting from the early 1930s until 2017. The majority of newly discovered species in the last 18 years are arthropods. The paper reviews past research areas, identifies gaps for future research and intervention, and recommends transboundary collaboration to address these gaps for conservation and sustainable development of the FHL landscape.

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Leading research trends on trading strategies

Finance, Markets and Valuation ◽

10.46503/lhtp1113 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 27-54

Author(s):

J. Oliver-Muncharaz ◽

F. García

Keyword(s):

Research Trends ◽

Trading Strategies ◽

Future Research ◽

Trend Prediction ◽

Main Research ◽

Research Areas ◽

Analysis Pattern ◽

Variables Selection ◽

Academic Researchers ◽

Long Time

Trading strategies have attracted the attention of academic researchers and practitioners for a long time, but most specially in recent years due to the explosion of high-quality databases and computation capacity. Numerous studies are devoted to the analysis and proposal of trading strategies which cover aspects such as trend prediction, variables selection, technical analysis, pattern recognition etc. and apply many different methodologies. This paper conducts a meta-literature review which covers 1187 research articles from 1984 to 2020. The aim of this paper is to show the increasing importance of the topic and present a systematic study of the leading research areas, countries, institutions and authors contributing to this field. Moreover, a network analysis to identify the main research streams and future research opportunities is conducted.

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Research and Development Journey and Future Trends of Hollow Fiber Membranes for Purification Applications (1970–2020): A Bibliometric Analysis

Membranes ◽

10.3390/membranes11080600 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 600

Author(s):

Muhammad Ayub ◽

Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman ◽

Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir ◽

Adnan Ali ◽

Imran Ullah Khan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Hollow Fiber ◽

Hollow Fiber Membrane ◽

Research Trends ◽

Future Research ◽

Separation And Purification ◽

Research Directions ◽

Research Areas ◽

New Research ◽

Significant Attention

Hollow fiber membrane (HFM) technology has received significant attention due to its broad range separation and purification applications in the industry. In the current study, we applied bibliometric analysis to evaluate the global research trends on key applications of HFMs by evaluating the global publication outputs. Results obtained from 5626 published articles (1970–2020) from the Scopus database were further manipulated using VOSviewer software through cartography analysis. The study emphasizes the performance of most influential annual publications covering mainstream journals, leading countries, institutions, leading authors and author’s keywords, as well as future research trends. The study found that 62% of the global HFM publications were contributed by China, USA, Singapore, Japan and Malaysia, followed by 77 other countries. This study will stimulate the researchers by showing the future-minded research directions when they select new research areas, particularly in those related to water treatment, biomedical and gas separation applications of HFM.

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