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MMST-LSTM: Leveraging Radar Echo Prediction for Emerging Consumer Applications in Edge Computing (2025)
Journal Article
Wu, M., Xiao, B., Yang, Z., Sun, J., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (online). MMST-LSTM: Leveraging Radar Echo Prediction for Emerging Consumer Applications in Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2025.3566725

With the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, there is a growing demand from the public for rapid and accurate short-term heavy precipitation forecasts. This study proposes a lightweight deep learning model, MMST-LSTM, which integrates Mul... Read More about MMST-LSTM: Leveraging Radar Echo Prediction for Emerging Consumer Applications in Edge Computing.

Semantic-Driven Approach for Validation of IoT Streaming Data in Trustable Smart City Decision-Making and Monitoring Systems (2025)
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Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., Cruickshank, P., & Liu, Q. (2025). Semantic-Driven Approach for Validation of IoT Streaming Data in Trustable Smart City Decision-Making and Monitoring Systems. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 9(4), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc9040108

Ensuring the trustworthiness of data used in real-time analytics remains a critical challenge in smart city monitoring and decision-making. This is because the traditional data validation methods are insufficient for handling the dynamic and heteroge... Read More about Semantic-Driven Approach for Validation of IoT Streaming Data in Trustable Smart City Decision-Making and Monitoring Systems.

GSFL: A Privacy-Preserving Grouping-Split Federated Learning Approach in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing Scenarios (2025)
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Liu, Q., Wang, Z., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., & Lin, H. (online). GSFL: A Privacy-Preserving Grouping-Split Federated Learning Approach in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing Scenarios. ACM transactions on autonomous and adaptive systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3725221

The advancement of mobile multimedia communications, 5G, and Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the widespread use of edge devices, including sensors, smartphones, and wearables. This has generated in a large amount of distributed data, leading to n... Read More about GSFL: A Privacy-Preserving Grouping-Split Federated Learning Approach in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing Scenarios.

PMNet: a multi-branch and multi-scale semantic segmentation approach to water extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images with edge-cloud computing (2024)
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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.

An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment (2024)
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Liu, Q., Jin, Y., Cao, X., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., & Qi, L. (2024). An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 11(4), 5308 - 5318. 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.

Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements, and Challenges (2023)
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Liu, Q., Yang, Z., Ji, R., Zhang, Y., Bilal, M., Liu, X., Vimal, S., & 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.

A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter (2023)
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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.

Near-Data Prediction Based Speculative Optimization in a Distribution Environment (2022)
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Liu, Q., Wu, X., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Hu, Y. (2022). Near-Data Prediction Based Speculative Optimization in a Distribution Environment. Mobile Networks and Applications, 27(6), 2339-2347. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-021-01793-7

Hadoop is an open source from Apache with a distributed file system and MapReduce distributed computing framework. The current Apache 2.0 license agreement supports on-demand payment by consumers for cloud platform services, helping users leverage th... Read More about Near-Data Prediction Based Speculative Optimization in a Distribution Environment.

Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks (2021)
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Liu, Q., Zhang, J., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., Khosravi, M., & Bilal, M. (2022). Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks. Physical Communication, 51, Article 101584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2021.101584

The intensification of the greenhouse effect is driving the implementation of energy saving and emission reduction policies, which lead to a wide variety of energy saving solutions benefiting from the advancement of emerging technologies such as Wire... Read More about Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks.

A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for predicting PM2.5 in Beijing based on spatiotemporal correlation (2021)
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Ding, C., Wang, G., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2021). A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for predicting PM2.5 in Beijing based on spatiotemporal correlation. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 128(3), 503-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-021-00501-8

Long-term exposure to air environments full of suspended particles, especially PM2.5, would seriously damage people's health and life (i.e., respiratory diseases and lung cancers). Therefore, accurate PM2.5 prediction is important for the government... Read More about A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for predicting PM2.5 in Beijing based on spatiotemporal correlation.

A fully connected deep learning approach to upper limb gesture recognition in a secure FES rehabilitation environment (2021)
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Liu, Q., Wu, X., Jiang, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., & Qi, L. (2021). A fully connected deep learning approach to upper limb gesture recognition in a secure FES rehabilitation environment. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36(5), 2387-2411. https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22383

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. The rehabilitation of Patients' limb functions has great medical value, for example, the therapy of functional electrical stimulation (FES) systems, but suffers from effective... Read More about A fully connected deep learning approach to upper limb gesture recognition in a secure FES rehabilitation environment.

A renewable energy forecasting and control approach to secured edge-level efficiency in a distributed micro-grid (2021)
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Anaadumba, R., Liu, Q., Marah, B. D., Nakoty, F. M., Liu, X., & Zhang, Y. (2021). A renewable energy forecasting and control approach to secured edge-level efficiency in a distributed micro-grid. Cybersecurity, 4, Article 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42400-020-00065-3

Energy forecasting using Renewable energy sources (RESs) is gradually gaining weight in the research field due to the benefits it presents to the modern-day environment. Not only does energy forecasting using renewable energy sources help mitigate th... Read More about A renewable energy forecasting and control approach to secured edge-level efficiency in a distributed micro-grid.

A Sensory Similarities Approach to Load Disaggregation of Charging Stations in Internet of Electric Vehicles (2020)
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Liu, Q., Kamoto, K. M., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, Z., Khosravi, M. R., Xu, Y., & Qi, L. (2021). A Sensory Similarities Approach to Load Disaggregation of Charging Stations in Internet of Electric Vehicles. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(14), 15895-15903. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2020.3027684

Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) have become popular in recent years as an essential requirement for safer and more efficient transportation systems. Internet of Electric vehicles (IoEV) as well as their hybrid forms provide an ideal means o... Read More about A Sensory Similarities Approach to Load Disaggregation of Charging Stations in Internet of Electric Vehicles.

A secure edge monitoring approach to unsupervised energy disaggregation using mean shift algorithm in residential buildings (2020)
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Liu, Q., Nakoty, F. M., Wu, X., Anaadumba, R., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Qi, L. (2020). A secure edge monitoring approach to unsupervised energy disaggregation using mean shift algorithm in residential buildings. Computer Communications, 162, 187-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.08.024

Compared to Intrusive Load Monitoring which uses smart power meters at each level to be monitored, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an ingenious way that relies on signal readings at a single point to deduce the share of the devices that have... Read More about A secure edge monitoring approach to unsupervised energy disaggregation using mean shift algorithm in residential buildings.

A Survey of Error Analysis and Calibration Methods for MEMS Triaxial Accelerometers (2020)
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Xiao, B., Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Sun, M. (2020). A Survey of Error Analysis and Calibration Methods for MEMS Triaxial Accelerometers. Computers, Materials & Continua, 64(1), 389-399. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.06092

MEMS accelerometers are widely used in various fields due to their small size and low cost, and have good application prospects. However, the low accuracy limits its range of applications. To ensure data accuracy and safety we need to calibrate MEMS... Read More about A Survey of Error Analysis and Calibration Methods for MEMS Triaxial Accelerometers.

An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes (2020)
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Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Dannah, W., Jin, D., Liu, X., & Sun, M. (2020). An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes. Computers, Materials & Continua, 62(2), 713-729. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.04604

Hadoop is a well-known parallel computing system for distributed computing and large-scale data processes. “Straggling” tasks, however, have a serious impact on task allocation and scheduling in a Hadoop system. Speculative Execution (SE) is an effic... Read More about An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes.

A Survey of Lower Limb Rehabilitation Systems and Algorithms Based on Functional Electrical Stimulation (2020)
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Sun, M., Wu, X., & Liu, Q. (2020). A Survey of Lower Limb Rehabilitation Systems and Algorithms Based on Functional Electrical Stimulation. Computers, Materials & Continua, 62(1), 281-292. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.06098

Functional electrical stimulation is a method of repairing a dysfunctional limb in a stroke patient by using low-intensity electrical stimulation. Currently, it is widely used in smart medical treatment for limb rehabilitation in stroke patients. In... Read More about A Survey of Lower Limb Rehabilitation Systems and Algorithms Based on Functional Electrical Stimulation.

An Adaptive Kalman Filtering Approach to Sensing and Predicting Air Quality Index Values (2020)
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Chen, J., Chen, K., Ding, C., Wang, G., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2020). An Adaptive Kalman Filtering Approach to Sensing and Predicting Air Quality Index Values. IEEE Access, 8, 4265-4272. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2963416

In recent years, Air Quality Index (AQI) have been widely used to describe the severity of haze and other air pollutions yet suffers from inefficiency and compatibility on real-time perception and prediction. In this paper, an Auto-Regressive (AR) pr... Read More about An Adaptive Kalman Filtering Approach to Sensing and Predicting Air Quality Index Values.

PM2.5 Pollution: Health and Economic Effect Assessment Based on a Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model (2019)
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Chen, K., Wang, G., Wu, L., Chen, J., Yuan, S., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2019). PM2.5 Pollution: Health and Economic Effect Assessment Based on a Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(24), Article 5102. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245102

At present particulate matter (PM₂.₅) pollution represents a serious threat to the public health and the national economic system in China. This paper optimizes the whitening coefficient in a grey Markov model by a genetic algorithm, predicts the con... Read More about PM2.5 Pollution: Health and Economic Effect Assessment Based on a Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model.