International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing

Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2019
Research Article

1. Transitional Method for Identifying Improvements in Video Distribution Services

Motoi Iwashita
Pages: 141 - 148
Customer satisfaction is an indicator that is generally utilized to improve goods/services for customer retention. Therefore, companies should understand the changes in customers’ perception of their goods/services and decide improvements. Therefore, a transitional evaluation approach is needed for goods/services...
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2. Efficient Searching for Essential API Member Sets based on Inclusion Relation Extraction

Yushi Kondoh, Masashi Nishimoto, Keiji Nishiyama, Hideyuki Kawabata, Tetsuo Hironaka
Pages: 149 - 157
Search tools for Application Programming Interface (API) usage patterns extracted from open source repositories could provide useful information for application developers. Unlike ordinary document retrieval, API member sets obtained by mining are often similar to each other and are mixtures of several...
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3. A Secure and Scalable Data Source for Emergency Medical Care using Blockchain Technology

Shirin Hasavari, Yeong-Tae Song
Pages: 158 - 166
A relationship exists between the emergency patient death rate and factors such as the failure to access a patient’s critical data and the time it takes to arrive at hospitals. The ability for Paramedics to access a patient’s complete picture of emergency-relevant medical data is critical and can significantly...
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4. SAIFU: Supporting Program Understanding by Automatic Indexing of Functionalities in Source Code

Masashi Nishimoto, Keiji Nishiyama, Hideyuki Kawabata, Tetsuo Hironaka
Pages: 167 - 174
Programs in the event-driven style that are typical of mobile and/or Web applications are becoming complex and hard to maintain. For the purpose of reducing the burden put on software developers while reading source code to understand its details, we propose a tool for supporting program understanding,...