All Outputs (119)

Analyzing Objective and Subjective Data in Social Sciences: Implications for Smart Cities (2019)
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Erhan, L., Ndubuaku, M., Ferrara, E., Richardson, M., Sheffield, D., Ferguson, F. J., Brindley, P., & Liotta, A. (2019). Analyzing Objective and Subjective Data in Social Sciences: Implications for Smart Cities. IEEE Access, 7, 19890-19906. https://doi.or

The ease of deployment of digital technologies and the Internet of Things gives us the opportunity to carry out large-scale social studies and to collect vast amounts of data from our cities. In this paper, we investigate a novel way of analyzing dat... Read More about Analyzing Objective and Subjective Data in Social Sciences: Implications for Smart Cities.

Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance (2018)
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Cauteruccio, F., Fortino, G., Guerrieri, A., Liotta, A., Mocanu, D. C., Perra, C., Terracina, G., & Torres Vega, M. (2019). Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance. Info

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks are a source of large amount of different information representing environmental aspects such as light, temperature, and humidity. A very important research problem related to the analysis of the sensor data is... Read More about Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance.

Interference graphs to monitor and control schedules in low-power WPAN (2018)
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van der Lee, T., Liotta, A., & Exarchakos, G. (2019). Interference graphs to monitor and control schedules in low-power WPAN. Future Generation Computer Systems, 93, 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.10.014

Highlights • This study presents the complete and slotted interference graph model. • The service uses the complete interference graph to evaluate the network. • Slotted interference graphs are used to reschedule problematic connections. • Rea... Read More about Interference graphs to monitor and control schedules in low-power WPAN.

Deep learning with multi-scale feature fusion in remote sensing for automatic oceanic eddy detection (2018)
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Du, Y., Song, W., He, Q., Huang, D., Liotta, A., & Su, C. (2019). Deep learning with multi-scale feature fusion in remote sensing for automatic oceanic eddy detection. Information Fusion, 49, 89-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.006

Oceanic eddies are ubiquitous in global oceans and play a major role in ocean energy transfer and nutrients distribution, thus being significant for understanding ocean current circulation and marine climate change. They are characterized by a combin... Read More about Deep learning with multi-scale feature fusion in remote sensing for automatic oceanic eddy detection.

Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science (2018)
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Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Stone, P., Nguyen, P. H., Gibescu, M., & Liotta, A. (2018). Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 2383. https://doi.or

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g. sparsity, scale-... Read More about Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science.

An Edge-Based Architecture to Support Efficient Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0 (2018)
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Pace, P., Aloi, G., Gravina, R., Caliciuri, G., Fortino, G., & Liotta, A. (2019). An Edge-Based Architecture to Support Efficient Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(1), 481-489. https://doi.org/10.110

Edge computing paradigm has attracted many interests in the last few years as a valid alternative to the standard cloud-based approaches to reduce the interaction timing and the huge amount of data coming from Internet of Things (IoT) devices toward... Read More about An Edge-Based Architecture to Support Efficient Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0.

On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (2018)
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Mocanu, E., Mocanu, D. C., Nguyen, P. H., Liotta, A., Webber, M. E., Gibescu, M., & Slootweg, J. G. (2019). On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(4), 3698-3708. https://doi.org/10.1109/

Unprecedented high volumes of data are becoming available with the growth of the advanced metering infrastructure. These are expected to benefit planning and operation of the future power systems and to help customers transition from a passive to an... Read More about On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.

A Review of Predictive Quality of Experience Management in Video Streaming Services (2018)
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Torres Vega, M., Perra, C., De Turck, F., & Liotta, A. (2018). A Review of Predictive Quality of Experience Management in Video Streaming Services. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 64(2), 432-445. https://doi.org/10.1109/tbc.2018.2822869

Satisfying the requirements of devices and users of online video streaming services is a challenging task. It requires not only managing the network quality of service but also to exert real-time control, addressing the user's quality of experience (... Read More about A Review of Predictive Quality of Experience Management in Video Streaming Services.

Self-Learning Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (2018)
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Chincoli, M., & Liotta, A. (2018). Self-Learning Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors, 18(2), Article 375. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18020375

Current trends in interconnecting myriad smart objects to monetize on Internet of Things applications have led to high-density communications in wireless sensor networks. This aggravates the already over-congested unlicensed radio bands, calling for... Read More about Self-Learning Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks (2018)
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Mocanu, D. C., Exarchakos, G., & Liotta, A. (2018). Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks. Scientific Reports, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19356-4

Almost all the natural or human made systems can be understood and controlled using complex networks. This is a difficult problem due to the very large number of elements in such networks, on the order of billions and higher, which makes it impossibl... Read More about Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks.

Resilience of Video Streaming Services to Network Impairments (2018)
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Torres Vega, M., Perra, C., & Liotta, A. (2018). Resilience of Video Streaming Services to Network Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 64(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1109/tbc.2017.2781125

When dealing with networks, performance management through conventional quality of service (QoS)-based methods becomes difficult and is often ineffective. In fact, quality emerges as an end-to-end factor, for it is particularly sensitive to the end-u... Read More about Resilience of Video Streaming Services to Network Impairments.

Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks (2017)
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Torres Vega, M., Koonen, A. M. J., Liotta, A., & Famaey, J. (2018). Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7(2), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2017.2771771

In light of the extreme radio congestion, the time has come to consider the upper parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical beam-steered wireless communications offer great potential for future indoor short-range connectivity, due to virtually u... Read More about Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks.

Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (2017)
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Mocanu, D. C., Bou Ammar, H., Puig, L., Eaton, E., & Liotta, A. (2017). Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines. Pattern Recognition, 69, 325-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j

Estimation, recognition, and near-future prediction of 3D trajectories based on their two dimensional projections available from one camera source is an exceptionally difficult problem due to uncertainty in the trajectories and environment, high dime... Read More about Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines.

Fusing Bluetooth Beacon Data with Wi-Fi Radiomaps for Improved Indoor Localization (2017)
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Kanaris, L., Kokkinis, A., Liotta, A., & Stavrou, S. (2017). Fusing Bluetooth Beacon Data with Wi-Fi Radiomaps for Improved Indoor Localization. Sensors, 17(4), 812. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17040812

Indoor user localization and tracking are instrumental to a broad range of services and applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) and particularly in Body Sensor Networks (BSN) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) scenarios. Due to the widespread ava... Read More about Fusing Bluetooth Beacon Data with Wi-Fi Radiomaps for Improved Indoor Localization.

Deep Learning for Quality Assessment in Live Video Streaming (2017)
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Vega, M. T., Mocanu, D. C., Famaey, J., Stavrou, S., & Liotta, A. (2017). Deep Learning for Quality Assessment in Live Video Streaming. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24(6), 736-740. https://doi.org/10.1109/lsp.2017.2691160

Video content providers put stringent requirements on the quality assessment methods realized on their services. They need to be accurate, real-time, adaptable to new content, and scal-able as the video set grows. In this letter, we introduce a novel... Read More about Deep Learning for Quality Assessment in Live Video Streaming.

Predictive no-reference assessment of video quality (2016)
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Torres Vega, M., Mocanu, D. C., Stavrou, S., & Liotta, A. (2017). Predictive no-reference assessment of video quality. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 52, 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2016.12.001

Among the various means to evaluate the quality of video streams, lightweight No-Reference (NR) methods have low computation and may be executed on thin clients. Thus, these methods would be perfect candidates in cases of real-time quality assessment... Read More about Predictive no-reference assessment of video quality.

Impact of Transmission Power Control in multi-hop networks (2016)
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Kotian, R., Exarchakos, G., Stavros, S., & Liotta, A. (2017). Impact of Transmission Power Control in multi-hop networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 75, 94-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.10.010

Many Transmission Power Control (TPC) algorithms have been proposed in the past, yet the conditions under which they are evaluated do not always reflect typical Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios. IoT networks consist of several source nodes transmit... Read More about Impact of Transmission Power Control in multi-hop networks.

A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines (2016)
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Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Nguyen, P. H., Gibescu, M., & Liotta, A. (2016). A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines. Machine Learning, 104(2-3), 243-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-016-5570-z

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and models derived from them have been successfully used as basic building blocks in deep artificial neural networks for automatic features extraction, unsupervised weights initialization, but also as density esti... Read More about A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines.

Spatial anomaly detection in sensor networks using neighborhood information (2016)
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Bosman, H. H., Iacca, G., Tejada, A., Wörtche, H. J., & Liotta, A. (2017). Spatial anomaly detection in sensor networks using neighborhood information. Information Fusion, 33, 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2016.04.007

The field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), embedded systems with sensing and networking capability, has now matured after a decade-long research effort and technological advances in electronics and networked systems. An important remaining challen... Read More about Spatial anomaly detection in sensor networks using neighborhood information.

Sample Size Determination Algorithm for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems (2016)
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Kanaris, L., Kokkinis, A., Fortino, G., Liotta, A., & Stavrou, S. (2016). Sample Size Determination Algorithm for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems. Computer Networks, 101, 169-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.12.015

Provision of accurate location information is an important task in the Internet of Things (IoT) applications and scenarios. This need has boosted the research and development of fingerprint based, indoor localization systems, since GPS information is... Read More about Sample Size Determination Algorithm for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems.