no code implementations • 11 Nov 2023 • Muhammad Umair, Athman Bouguettaya, Abdallah Lakhdari
We propose a novel framework for crowdsourced images to determine the likelihood of an image being fake.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2023 • Zhiyi Song, Dipankar Chaki, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel resident identification framework to identify residents in a multi-occupant smart environment.
no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Yisheng Alison Zheng, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Shing Tai Tony Lui, Athman Bouguettaya
However, the platform was initially designed to detect individual mobility patterns, making it unsuitable for representing the crowd in a smart city scale.
no code implementations • 16 May 2023 • Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose Easeformer, a novel attention-based algorithm to predict the battery levels of IoT devices in a crowdsourced energy sharing environment.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2023 • Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya
Crowdsourcing wireless energy is a novel and convenient solution to charge nearby IoT devices.
1 code implementation • 8 Sep 2022 • Riccardo Menon, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Qijun He, Athman Bouguettaya
We present DIY-IPS - Do It Yourself - Indoor Positioning System, an open-source real-time indoor positioning mobile application.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2022 • Yisheng Alison Zheng, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Shing Tai Tony Lui, Athman Bouguettaya
In addition, the rigid mobility models may result in missing the hidden regularities in users' records.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2021 • Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Athman Bouguettaya, Mohammed Bahutair
We develop a novel framework for efficiently and effectively discovering crowdsourced services that move in close proximity to a user over a period of time.
no code implementations • 15 Oct 2021 • Zishan Qin, Dipankar Chaki, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a non-intrusive, and privacy-preserving occupancy estimation system for smart environments.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2021 • Bing Huang, Hai Dong, Athman Bouguettaya
Conflicts may arise during interactions between the resident and IoT services in smart homes.
no code implementations • 27 May 2021 • Sajib Mistry, Athman Bouguettaya
We consider the history of invocation among component services to determine reputation-interdependence in a composition.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Ali Hamdi, Flora D. Salim, Du Yong Kim, Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Athman Bouguettaya
Specifically, we propose a service model of DaaS based on the dynamic spatiotemporal features of drones and their in-flight contexts.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Sajib Mistry, Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose an extended three-dimensional Q-learning approach to maximize the global preference ranking.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry
The IaaS provider's and consumers' qualitative preferences are captured using CP-Nets.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry
We propose a novel approach to select privacy-sensitive IaaS providers for a long-term period.
Cryptography and Security Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2021 • Sajib Mistry, Athman Bouguettaya, Lie Qu
We propose a topology-aware Forest Deep Neural Network (fDNN) to find the correlations between the reputation of a composite service and reputation indicators of component services.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2020 • Tooba Aamir, Hai Dong, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a heuristics-based social-sensor cloud service selection and composition model to reconstruct mosaic scenes.
no code implementations • 14 May 2020 • Bing Huang, Athman Bouguettaya, Hai Dong
We propose a novel activity learning framework based on Edge Cloud architecture for the purpose of recognizing and predicting human activities.
no code implementations • 14 May 2020 • Bing Huang, Athman Bouguettaya
A service mining framework is proposed that enables discovering interesting relationships in Internet of Things services bottom-up.
no code implementations • 14 May 2020 • Bing Huang, Athman Bouguettaya, Azadeh Ghari Neiat
We present a Cognitive Amplifier framework to augment things part of an IoT, with cognitive capabilities for the purpose of improving life convenience.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2020 • Dipankar Chaki, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry
A novel IoT conflict model is proposed considering the functional and non-functional properties of IoT services.
Computers and Society Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 28 Mar 2020 • Tooba Aamir, Hai Dong, Athman Bouguettaya
The extensive use of social media platforms and overwhelming amounts of imagery data creates unique opportunities for sensing, gathering and sharing information about events.
no code implementations • 4 Sep 2018 • Ahmed Ben Said, Abdelkarim Erradi, Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Athman Bouguettaya
This papers presents a deep learning-based framework to predict crowdsourced service availability spatially and temporally.