Search Results for author: Athman Bouguettaya

Found 23 papers, 1 papers with code

Determining Intent of Changes to Ascertain Fake Crowdsourced Image Services

no code implementations11 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.

Positional Encoding-based Resident Identification in Multi-resident Smart Homes

no code implementations27 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.

Temporal Sequences

CrowdWeb: A Visualization Tool for Mobility Patterns in Smart Cities

no code implementations22 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.

Disaster Response Management +1

Energy Loss Prediction in IoT Energy Services

no code implementations16 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.

Service Composition

Monitoring Efficiency of IoT Wireless Charging

no code implementations10 Mar 2023 Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya

Crowdsourcing wireless energy is a novel and convenient solution to charge nearby IoT devices.

DIY-IPS: Towards an Off-the-Shelf Accurate Indoor Positioning System

1 code implementation8 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.

Position

IMAP: Individual huMAn mobility Patterns visualizing platform

no code implementations8 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.

Management

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Composing Moving IoT Services

no code implementations6 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.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Occupancy Estimation from Thermal Images

no code implementations15 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.

Privacy Preserving

Conflict Detection in IoT-based Smart Homes

no code implementations28 Jul 2021 Bing Huang, Hai Dong, Athman Bouguettaya

Conflicts may arise during interactions between the resident and IoT services in smart homes.

Reputation Bootstrapping for Composite Services using CP-nets

no code implementations27 May 2021 Sajib Mistry, Athman Bouguettaya

We consider the history of invocation among component services to determine reputation-interdependence in a composition.

Q-Learning

Drone-as-a-Service Composition Under Uncertainty

no code implementations11 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.

Scheduling Service Composition

Sequential Learning-based IaaS Composition

no code implementations24 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.

Clustering Q-Learning

A CP-Net based Qualitative Composition Approach for an IaaS Provider

no code implementations24 Feb 2021 Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry

The IaaS provider's and consumers' qualitative preferences are captured using CP-Nets.

Long-term IaaS Provider Selection using Short-term Trial Experience

no code implementations24 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

Layer-based Composite Reputation Bootstrapping

no code implementations1 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.

Heuristics based Mosaic of Social-Sensor Services for Scene Reconstruction

no code implementations21 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.

Service Composition

Enabling Edge Cloud Intelligence for Activity Learning in Smart Home

no code implementations14 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.

Activity Recognition

Service mining for Internet of Things

no code implementations14 May 2020 Bing Huang, Athman Bouguettaya

A service mining framework is proposed that enables discovering interesting relationships in Internet of Things services bottom-up.

Cognitive Amplifier for Internet of Things

no code implementations14 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.

A Conflict Detection Framework for IoT Services in Multi-resident Smart Homes

no code implementations27 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

Social-Sensor Composition for Tapestry Scenes

no code implementations28 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.

Clustering Service Composition

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