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Microgrids As A Service for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Kamoto, K. M., & Liu, X. (2020). Microgrids As A Service for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa. Computers, Materials & Continua, 63(3), 1249-1261. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.05598

The majority of the population on the African continent is unable to access basic electricity services, this despite the abundance of renewable energy sources (RESs). The inability to adequately tap into these RESs has led to the continued dependence... Read More about Microgrids As A Service for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa..

Low-Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Unsupervised Learning and Generalized Appliance Models (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Kamoto, K. M., Liu, X., Sun, M., & Linge, N. (2019). Low-Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Unsupervised Learning and Generalized Appliance Models. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 65(1), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2019.2891160

Awareness of electric energy usage has both societal and economic benefits, which include reduced energy bills and stress on non-renewable energy sources. In recent years, there has been a surge in interest in the field of load monitoring, also refer... Read More about Low-Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Unsupervised Learning and Generalized Appliance Models.

An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment (2018)
Journal Article
Jin, D., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019). An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Journal of Computers, 30(3), 130-142. https://doi.org/10.3966/199115992019063003010

Hadoop is a famous parallel computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data, but there exists such a task in hadoop framework, which is called “Straggling task” and has a serious impact on Hadoop. Speculative execution (SE) is an effe... Read More about An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment.

A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Liu, Q., & Sun, M. (2018). A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network. Computers, Materials & Continua, 57(2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2018.04025

In a home energy management system (HEMS), appliances are becoming diversified and intelligent, so that certain simple maintenance work can be completed by appliances themselves. During the measurement, collection and transmission of electricity load... Read More about A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network.

SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data (2018)
Journal Article
Xiao, B., Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2018). SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data. Computers, Materials & Continua, 56(3), 365-379. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmc.2018.01830

In recent years, the rapid development of big data technology has also been favored by more and more scholars. Massive data storage and calculation problems have also been solved. At the same time, outlier detection problems in mass data have also co... Read More about SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data.

An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-Based Architecture through Feature-Driven Evolution Rules (2018)
Journal Article
Habibullah, S., Liu, X., & Tan, Z. (2018). An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-Based Architecture through Feature-Driven Evolution Rules. International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, 10(5), 164-169. https://doi.org/10.7763/ijcte.2018.v10.1219

Evolving legacy enterprise systems into a lean system architecture has been on the agendas of many enterprises. Recent advance in legacy system evaluation is in favour of microservice technologies, which not only significantly reduce the complexity i... Read More about An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-Based Architecture through Feature-Driven Evolution Rules.

Appliance Recognition Based on Continuous Quadratic Programming (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2018). Appliance Recognition Based on Continuous Quadratic Programming. In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2018) (63-72). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00018-9_6

The detailed information of residents' electricity consumption is of great significance to the planning of the use of electrical appliances and the reduction of electrical energy consumption. On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of residents... Read More about Appliance Recognition Based on Continuous Quadratic Programming.

A Self-organizing LSTM-Based Approach to PM2.5 Forecast (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., Liu, Q., Zou, Y., & Wang, G. (2018, June). A Self-organizing LSTM-Based Approach to PM2.5 Forecast. Presented at 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2018), Haikou, China

Nanjing has been listed as the one of the worst performers across China with respect to the high level of haze-fog, which impacts people's health greatly. For the severe condition of haze-fog, PM2.5 is the main cause element of haze-fog pollution in... Read More about A Self-organizing LSTM-Based Approach to PM2.5 Forecast.

CAMA-UAN: A Context-Aware MAC Scheme to the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks for the Improved CACA-UAN (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2018, April). CAMA-UAN: A Context-Aware MAC Scheme to the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks for the Improved CACA-UAN. Presented at 2018 3rd International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS), Nagoya, Japan

Acoustic Communication is one of the most common and popular techniques used for Underwater Sensor Networks. The design of its communication protocol becomes a challenge due to its features of high delay and low bandwidth. Relevant research work has... Read More about CAMA-UAN: A Context-Aware MAC Scheme to the Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks for the Improved CACA-UAN.

Home appliances classification based on multi-feature using ELM (2018)
Journal Article
Wu, Z., Liu, Q., Chen, F., Chen, F., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018). Home appliances classification based on multi-feature using ELM. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 28(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.094710

With the development of science and technology, the application in artificial intelligence has been more and more popular, as well as smart home has become a hot topic. And pattern recognition adapting to smart home attracts more attention, while the... Read More about Home appliances classification based on multi-feature using ELM.