2 Papers in the Special Issue
In this special issue, most of the papers assume that (1) the data sources are stored in Cloud (Ren et al. 2015); and (2) the data sources should be encrypted before outsourcing to Cloud storage for privacy requirements, which makes the traditional and efficient plain text keyword search technique useless (Fu et al. 2015; Xia et al. 2016). Referring to the first paper BRevealing Determinant Factors for Early Breast Cancer Recurrence by Decision Tree,^ by Guo et al. (2017) present a Decision Tree algorithm to the clinical information of a cohort of non-metastatic invasive breast cancer patients, to establish a classifier that categorizes patients based on whether they develop early recurrence and on similarities of their clinical and pathological diagnoses. As a result, this paper identified pathological nodal stage, the percentage of intra-tumor stroma and components of TGFß-Smad signaling pathway as highly relevant factors for early breast cancer recurrence.
Next, the second paper BGrammatical facial expression recognition in sign language discourse: a study at the syntax level,^ by Freitas et al. (2017) present a study which applies inductive reasoning to recognize patterns, to study the problem involving the automated recognition of Grammatical Facial Expressions (GFEs) at the discourse syntactic level in 1230 Inf Syst Front (2017) 19:1229–1232 the Libras (Brazilian) Sign Language. In general, GFEs stand out in automated recognition processes for sign languages, as they help to remove ambiguity among signals, and they also contribute to compose the semantic meaning of discourse.