Estimating 3D trajectories from 2D projections via disjunctive factored four-way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines
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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.patcog.2017.04.017
Estimation, recognition, and near-future prediction of 3D trajectories based on their two dimensional projections available from one camera source is an exceptionally difficul...
Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink
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Liu, Q., Zhang, K., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2017)
Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 25(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2017.10007397
In a traditional wireless sensor network with static sinks, sensor nodes close to the sink run out of their batteries quicker than other nodes due to the increased data traffi...
An Adaptively Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Real-Time Resource Awareness in a Multi-Job Heterogeneous Environment
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Liu, Q., Cai, W., Liu, Q., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2017)
An Adaptively Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Real-Time Resource Awareness in a Multi-Job Heterogeneous Environment. KSII transactions on internet and information systems, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2017.02.004
MapReduce (MRV1), a popular programming model, proposed by Google, has been well used to process large datasets in Hadoop, an open source cloud platform. Its new version MapRe...
BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications
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Chinenyeze, S. J., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017)
BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(2), e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848
With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimisation techniques have been proposed by the gr...
Educational affordances and learning design in music software development
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Cheng, L., & Leong, S. (2017)
Educational affordances and learning design in music software development. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 26(4), 395-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939x.2016.1267037
Although music software has become increasingly affordable and widely adopted in today’s classrooms, concerns have been raised about a lack of consideration for users’ needs d...
An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment
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Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 62(3), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2016.7613190
Pay-as-you-consume, as a new type of cloud computing paradigm, has become increasingly popular since a large number of cloud services are gradually opening up to consumers. It...
Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment
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Liu, Q., Cai, W., Jin, D., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment. Sensors, 16(9), 1386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16091386
Distributed Computing has achieved tremendous development since cloud computing was proposed in 2006, and played a vital role promoting rapid growth of data collecting and ana...
A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment
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Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment. Security and Communication Networks, 9(17), 4002-4012. https://doi.org/10.1002/sec.1582
A heterogeneous cloud system, for example, a Hadoop 2.6.0 platform, provides distributed but cohesive services with rich features on large-scale management, reliability, and e...
A topological insight into restricted Boltzmann machines
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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 feature...
Spatial anomaly detection in sensor networks using neighborhood information
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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 ad...