Review Article

Intelligent Mobile Applications: A Systematic Mapping Study

Table 1

Definition and description of the research questions of the study.

IDResearch questionRationale

RQ1In which years, sources, and publication channels papers were published?To identify where studies concerning this field of research can be found and whether there are specific publication channels; it also indicates when effort regarding this research area was made
RQ2Which research types are adopted in selected papers?To provide an overview of different types of research outlined in the literature regarding the application of ML in intelligent mobile apps development
RQ3Which application fields are targeted in selected papers?To determine in which application fields ML techniques were carried out and researchers were interested
RQ4Which contexts are targeted in selected papers?To determine in which context different studies were performed
RQ5Which kinds of data are collected from mobile devices?To identify which data are interesting researches to perform data analysis with ML techniques
RQ6Which ML models, tasks, and techniques are used to analyze mobile data?To determine which kind of ML techniques researchers were often interested in