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Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization (2024)
Journal Article
Zeng, L., Liu, Q., Shen, S., & Liu, X. (2024). Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 29(3), 806 - 817. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2023.9010058

Edge computing nodes undertake more and more tasks as business density grows. How to efficiently allocate large-scale and dynamic workloads to edge computing resources has become a critical challenge. An edge task scheduling approach based on an impr... Read More about Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization.

PMNet: a multi-branch and multi-scale semantic segmentation approach to water extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images with edge-cloud computing (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, Z., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Du, Z., & Cao, X. (2024). PMNet: a multi-branch and multi-scale semantic segmentation approach to water extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images with edge-cloud computing. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 13(1), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-024-00637-5

In the field of remote sensing image interpretation, automatically extracting water body information from high-resolution images is a key task. However, facing the complex multi-scale features in high-resolution remote sensing images, traditional met... Read More about PMNet: a multi-branch and multi-scale semantic segmentation approach to water extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images with edge-cloud computing.

Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Bamgboye, O., Chrysoulas, C., Liu, X., Watt, T., Sodiya, A., Oyeleye, M., & Kalutharage, S. (in press). Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria.

The water management landscape in Nigeria struggles with formidable obstacles characterized by a lack of adequate infrastructure, an uneven distribution of resources, and insufficient access to clean water, particularly in rural areas. These challeng... Read More about Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria.

A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Pan, L., Cao, X., Gan, J., Huang, X., & Liu, X. (in press). A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Article e8060. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.8060

As the edge nodes of the Internet of Smart Grids (IoSG), smart sockets enable all kinds of power load data to be analyzed at the edge, which create conditions for edge calculation and real-time (RT) load forecasting. In this article, an edge-cloud co... Read More about A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system.

An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Jin, Y., Cao, X., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., …Qi, L. (in press). An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2023.3342873

Fake news is a prevalent issue in modern society, leading to misinformation and societal harm. News credibility assessment is a crucial approach for evaluating the accuracy and authenticity of news. It plays a significant role in enhancing public awa... Read More about An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment.

DenMerD: a feature enhanced approach to radar beam blockage correction with edge-cloud computing (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Sun, J., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024). DenMerD: a feature enhanced approach to radar beam blockage correction with edge-cloud computing. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 13, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-024-00607-x

In the field of meteorology, the global radar network is indispensable for detecting weather phenomena and offering early warning services. Nevertheless, radar data frequently exhibit anomalies, including gaps and clutter, arising from atmospheric re... Read More about DenMerD: a feature enhanced approach to radar beam blockage correction with edge-cloud computing.

PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2023). PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping. In 2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC). https://doi.org/10.1109/SWC57546.2023.10449141

The rapid growth of private data from distributed edge networks, driven by the proliferation of IoT sensors, wearable devices, and smartphones, offers significant opportunities for AI applications. However, traditional distributed machine learning me... Read More about PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping.

Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gomez, L. R., Watt, T., Babaagba, K. O., Chrysoulas, C., Homay, A., Rangarajan, R., & Liu, X. (2023). Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques. In ICISS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (113-118). https://doi.org/10.1145/3625156.3625173

In recent years, text has been the main form of communication on social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Emotion Recognition from these platforms can be exploited for all sorts of applications. Through the mea... Read More about Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques.

Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements, and Challenges (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Yang, Z., Ji, R., Zhang, Y., Bilal, M., Liu, X., …Xu, X. (2023). Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements, and Challenges. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 9(4), 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/msmc.2022.3216943

Radars are widely used to obtain echo information for effective prediction, such as precipitation nowcasting. In this article, recent relevant scientific investigation and practical efforts using deep learning (DL) models for weather radar data analy... Read More about Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements, and Challenges.

DenMerD: A Feature Propagation Enhanced Approach to Beam Blockage Correction in Weather Radar (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Sun, J., & Liu, X. (in press). DenMerD: A Feature Propagation Enhanced Approach to Beam Blockage Correction in Weather Radar. Journal on Artificial Intelligence,

In the realm of meteorological research, extensive global radar networks serve to detect and provide early warnings for a diverse array of weather phenomena. However, the inherently discontinuous nature of radar observations often results in the pres... Read More about DenMerD: A Feature Propagation Enhanced Approach to Beam Blockage Correction in Weather Radar.

Towards Improving Accessibility of Web Auditing with Google Lighthouse (2023)
Conference Proceeding
McGill, T., Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., & Kalutharage, C. S. (2023). Towards Improving Accessibility of Web Auditing with Google Lighthouse. In H. Shahriar, Y. Teranishi, A. Cuzzocrea, M. Sharmin, D. Towey, A. Jahangir Alam Majumder, …S. Iqbal Ahamed (Eds.), 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (1594-1599). https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00246

Google Lighthouse is a tool made by Google for auditing web pages performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices with the intention of improving the quality of the websites. This allows software developers to understand areas of improvement with... Read More about Towards Improving Accessibility of Web Auditing with Google Lighthouse.

A cloud-based Bi-directional LSTM approach to grid-connected solar PV energy forecasting for multi-energy systems (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Darteh, O. F., Bilal, M., Huang, X., Attique, M., Liu, X., & Acakpovi, A. (2023). A cloud-based Bi-directional LSTM approach to grid-connected solar PV energy forecasting for multi-energy systems. Sustainable Computing, 40, Article 100892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2023.100892

The drive for smarter, greener, and more livable cities has led to research towards more effective solar energy forecasting techniques and their integration into traditional power systems. However, the availability of real-time data, data storage, an... Read More about A cloud-based Bi-directional LSTM approach to grid-connected solar PV energy forecasting for multi-energy systems.

PMNet: A Multi-branch and Multi-scale Fusion Convolutional Neural Network for Water Body Extraction of High-resolution Remote Sensing Images (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zhang, Z., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Du, Z. (in press). PMNet: A Multi-branch and Multi-scale Fusion Convolutional Neural Network for Water Body Extraction of High-resolution Remote Sensing Images. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing,

Automatic extraction of water body information from high-resolution remote sensing images is one of the core tasks of remote sensing image interpretation. Since the complex multi-scale characteristics of high-resolution remote sensing images, it is d... Read More about PMNet: A Multi-branch and Multi-scale Fusion Convolutional Neural Network for Water Body Extraction of High-resolution Remote Sensing Images.

A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zeng, L., Bilal, M., Song, H., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Cao, X. (2023). A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 7(4), 1667 - 1677. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgcn.2023.3283509

Supply chain management is a vital part of ensuring service quality and production efficiency in industrial applications. With the development of cloud computing and data intelligence in modern industries, datacenters have become an important basic s... Read More about A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter.

CFNet: An Eigenvalue Preserved Approach to Multiscale Building Segmentation in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Li, Y., Bilal, M., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., & Xu, X. (2023). CFNet: An Eigenvalue Preserved Approach to Multiscale Building Segmentation in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 16, 2481-2491. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2023.3244336

In recent years, AI and Deep Learning (DL) methods have been widely used for object classification, recognition, and segmentation of high-resolution multispectral remote sensing images. These DL-based solutions perform better compare to traditional s... Read More about CFNet: An Eigenvalue Preserved Approach to Multiscale Building Segmentation in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images.

Explainable AI-Based DDOS Attack Identification Method for IoT Networks (2023)
Journal Article
Kalutharage, C. S., Liu, X., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Papadopoulos, P. (2023). Explainable AI-Based DDOS Attack Identification Method for IoT Networks. Computers, 12(2), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12020032

The modern digitized world is mainly dependent on online services. The availability of online systems continues to be seriously challenged by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The challenge in mitigating attacks is not limited to identify... Read More about Explainable AI-Based DDOS Attack Identification Method for IoT Networks.

Dense-FCN: A Deep Learning Approach for Weather Radar Beam Blockage Correction (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Sun, J., Wu, H., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Ma, J. (2022). Dense-FCN: A Deep Learning Approach for Weather Radar Beam Blockage Correction. In 2022 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). https://doi.org/10.1109/dasc/picom/cbdcom/cy55231.2022.9927851

The weather radar will receive a lot of non-meteorological echo information during the body scan process, such as: object echoes, co-wave interference echoes, airplanes, flocks of birds, etc. These non-meteorological echoes will cause pollution to no... Read More about Dense-FCN: A Deep Learning Approach for Weather Radar Beam Blockage Correction.

Emerging Simulation Frameworks for Analyzing Smart Grid Cyberattack: A Literature Review (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Darteh, O. F., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Bah, I., Nakoty, F. M., & Acakpovi, A. (2022). Emerging Simulation Frameworks for Analyzing Smart Grid Cyberattack: A Literature Review. In 2022 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). https://doi.org/10.1109/dasc/picom/cbdcom/cy55231.2022.9927892

The transition of the conventional power grid into the Smart Grid (SG), a widely distributed energy delivery network characterized by a two-way flow of electricity and information, is key for energy sector stakeholders. Despite the SG’s clear improve... Read More about Emerging Simulation Frameworks for Analyzing Smart Grid Cyberattack: A Literature Review.

An Input Sampling Scheme to Radar Echo Extrapolation For RNN-Based Models (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Y., Yang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2022). An Input Sampling Scheme to Radar Echo Extrapolation For RNN-Based Models. In 2022 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). https://doi.org/10.1109/dasc/picom/cbdcom/cy55231.2022.9927983

Short-term heavy rainfall can have a significant impact on people's production, life and travel. Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) is complex. It can predict weather conditions for the next week or even two weeks, but cannot predict the weather in t... Read More about An Input Sampling Scheme to Radar Echo Extrapolation For RNN-Based Models.