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Future Aware Pricing And Matching For Sustainable On-Demand Ride Pooling, Xianjie Zhang, Pradeep Varakantham, Hao Jiang Feb 2023

Future Aware Pricing And Matching For Sustainable On-Demand Ride Pooling, Xianjie Zhang, Pradeep Varakantham, Hao Jiang

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The popularity of on-demand ride pooling is owing to the benefits offered to customers (lower prices), taxi drivers (higher revenue), environment (lower carbon footprint due to fewer vehicles) and aggregation companies like Uber (higher revenue). To achieve these benefits, two key interlinked challenges have to be solved effectively: (a) pricing – setting prices to customer requests for taxis; and (b) matching – assignment of customers (that accepted the prices) to taxis/cars. Traditionally, both these challenges have been studied individually and using myopic approaches (considering only current requests), without considering the impact of current matching on addressing future requests. In this …


Learning Relation Prototype From Unlabeled Texts For Long-Tail Relation Extraction, Yixin Cao, Jun Kuang, Ming Gao, Aoying Zhou, Yonggang Wen, Tat-Seng Chua Feb 2023

Learning Relation Prototype From Unlabeled Texts For Long-Tail Relation Extraction, Yixin Cao, Jun Kuang, Ming Gao, Aoying Zhou, Yonggang Wen, Tat-Seng Chua

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Relation Extraction (RE) is a vital step to complete Knowledge Graph (KG) by extracting entity relations from texts. However, it usually suffers from the long-tail issue. The training data mainly concentrates on a few types of relations, leading to the lack of sufficient annotations for the remaining types of relations. In this paper, we propose a general approach to learn relation prototypes from unlabeled texts, to facilitate the long-tail relation extraction by transferring knowledge from the relation types with sufficient training data. We learn relation prototypes as an implicit factor between entities, which reflects the meanings of relations as well …


Learning Comprehensive Global Features In Person Re-Identification: Ensuring Discriminativeness Of More Local Regions, Jiali Xia, Jianqiang Huang, Shibao Zheng, Qin Zhou, Bernt Schiele, Xian-Sheng Hua, Qianru Sun Feb 2023

Learning Comprehensive Global Features In Person Re-Identification: Ensuring Discriminativeness Of More Local Regions, Jiali Xia, Jianqiang Huang, Shibao Zheng, Qin Zhou, Bernt Schiele, Xian-Sheng Hua, Qianru Sun

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Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to retrieve person images from a large gallery given a query image of a person of interest. Global information and fine-grained local features are both essential for the representation. However, global embedding learned by naive classification model tends to be trapped in the most discriminative local region, leading to poor evaluation performance. To address the issue, we propose a novel baseline network that learns strong global feature termed as Comprehensive Global Embedding (CGE), ensuring more local regions of global feature maps to be discriminative. In this work, two key modules are proposed including Non-parameterized Local Classifier …


Real-Time Hierarchical Map Segmentation For Coordinating Multi-Robot Exploration, Tianze Luo, Zichen Chen, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan Feb 2023

Real-Time Hierarchical Map Segmentation For Coordinating Multi-Robot Exploration, Tianze Luo, Zichen Chen, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan

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Coordinating a team of autonomous agents to explore an environment can be done by partitioning the map of the environment into segments and allocating the segments as targets for the individual agents to visit. However, given an unknown environment, map segmentation must be conducted in a continuous and incremental manner. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time hierarchical map segmentation method for supporting multi-agent exploration of indoor environments, wherein clusters of regions of segments are formed hierarchically from randomly sampled points in the environment. Each cluster is then assigned with a cost-utility value based on the minimum cost possible …


Safe Delivery Of Critical Services In Areas With Volatile Security Situation Via A Stackelberg Game Approach, Tien Mai, Arunesh Sinha Feb 2023

Safe Delivery Of Critical Services In Areas With Volatile Security Situation Via A Stackelberg Game Approach, Tien Mai, Arunesh Sinha

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Vaccine delivery in under-resourced locations with security risks is not just challenging but also life threatening. The COVID pandemic and the need to vaccinate added even more urgency to this issue. Motivated by this problem, we propose a general framework to set-up limited temporary (vaccination) centers that balance physical security and desired (vaccine) service coverage with limited resources. We set-up the problem as a Stackelberg game between the centers operator (defender) and an adversary, where the set of centers is not fixed a priori but is part of the decision output. This results in a mixed combinatorial and continuous optimization …


Lightweight And Non-Invasive User Authentication On Earables, Changshuo Hu, Xiao Ma, Dong Ma, Ting Dang Feb 2023

Lightweight And Non-Invasive User Authentication On Earables, Changshuo Hu, Xiao Ma, Dong Ma, Ting Dang

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The widespread adoption of wireless earbuds has advanced the developments in earable-based sensing in various domains like entertainment, human-computer interaction, and health monitoring. Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in user authentication using earables. Despite the successes witnessed in acoustic probing and speech based authentication systems, this paper proposed a lightweight and non-invasive ambient sound based user authentication scheme. It employs the difference between the in-ear and out-ear sounds to estimate the individual-specific occluded ear canal transfer function (OECTF). Specifically, the {out-ear, in-ear} scaling factors at different frequency bands are captured via linear regression and treated as the OECTF …


Effective Graph Kernels For Evolving Functional Brain Networks, Xinlei Wang, Jinyi Chen, Bing Tian Dai, Junchang Xin, Yu Gu, Ge Yu Feb 2023

Effective Graph Kernels For Evolving Functional Brain Networks, Xinlei Wang, Jinyi Chen, Bing Tian Dai, Junchang Xin, Yu Gu, Ge Yu

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The graph kernel of the functional brain network is an effective method in the field of neuropsychiatric disease diagnosis like Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The traditional static brain networks cannot reflect dynamic changes of brain activities, but evolving brain networks, which are a series of brain networks over time, are able to seize such dynamic changes. As far as we know, the graph kernel method is effective for calculating the differences among networks. Therefore, it has a great potential to understand the dynamic changes of evolving brain networks, which are a series of chronological differences. However, if the conventional graph kernel …


Web Apis: Features, Issues, And Expectations: A Large-Scale Empirical Study Of Web Apis From Two Publicly Accessible Registries Using Stack Overflow And A User Survey, Neng Zhang, Ying Zou, Xin Xia, David Lo, David Lo, Shanping Li Feb 2023

Web Apis: Features, Issues, And Expectations: A Large-Scale Empirical Study Of Web Apis From Two Publicly Accessible Registries Using Stack Overflow And A User Survey, Neng Zhang, Ying Zou, Xin Xia, David Lo, David Lo, Shanping Li

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With the increasing adoption of services-oriented computing and cloud computing technologies, web APIs have become the fundamental building blocks for constructing software applications. Web APIs are developed and published on the internet. The functionality of web APIs can be used to facilitate the development of software applications. There are numerous studies on retrieving and recommending candidate web APIs based on user requirements from a large set of web APIs. However, there are very limited studies on the features of web APIs that make them more likely to be used and the issues of using web APIs in practice. Moreover, users' …


Mirror: Mining Implicit Relationships Via Structure-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Networks, Jiaying Liu, Feng Xia, Jing Ren, Bo Xu, Guansong Pang, Lianhua Chi Feb 2023

Mirror: Mining Implicit Relationships Via Structure-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Networks, Jiaying Liu, Feng Xia, Jing Ren, Bo Xu, Guansong Pang, Lianhua Chi

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Data explosion in the information society drives people to develop more effective ways to extract meaningful information. Extracting semantic information and relational information has emerged as a key mining primitive in a wide variety of practical applications. Existing research on relation mining has primarily focused on explicit connections and ignored underlying information, e.g., the latent entity relations. Exploring such information (defined as implicit relationships in this article) provides an opportunity to reveal connotative knowledge and potential rules. In this article, we propose a novel research topic, i.e., how to identify implicit relationships across heterogeneous networks. Specially, we first give a …


Cross-Domain Graph Anomaly Detection Via Anomaly-Aware Contrastive Alignment, Qizhou Wang, Guansong Pang, Mahsa Salehi, Wray Buntine, Christopher Leckie Feb 2023

Cross-Domain Graph Anomaly Detection Via Anomaly-Aware Contrastive Alignment, Qizhou Wang, Guansong Pang, Mahsa Salehi, Wray Buntine, Christopher Leckie

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Cross-domain graph anomaly detection (CD-GAD) describes the problem of detecting anomalous nodes in an unlabelled target graph using auxiliary, related source graphs with labelled anomalous and normal nodes. Although it presents a promising approach to address the notoriously high false positive issue in anomaly detection, little work has been done in this line of research. There are numerous domain adaptation methods in the literature, but it is difficult to adapt them for GAD due to the unknown distributions of the anomalies and the complex node relations embedded in graph data. To this end, we introduce a novel domain adaptation approach, …


Mitigating Popularity Bias For Users And Items With Fairness-Centric Adaptive Recommendation, Zhongzhou Liu, Yuan Fang, Min Wu Feb 2023

Mitigating Popularity Bias For Users And Items With Fairness-Centric Adaptive Recommendation, Zhongzhou Liu, Yuan Fang, Min Wu

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Recommendation systems are popular in many domains. Researchers usually focus on the effectiveness of recommendation (e.g., precision) but neglect the popularity bias that may affect the fairness of the recommendation, which is also an important consideration that could influence the benefits of users and item providers. A few studies have been proposed to deal with the popularity bias, but they often face two limitations. Firstly, most studies only consider fairness for one side - either users or items, without achieving fairness jointly for both. Secondly, existing methods are not sufficiently tailored to each individual user or item to cope with …


Scalable And Globally Optimal Generalized L1 K-Center Clustering Via Constraint Generation In Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Aravinth Chembu, Scott Sanner, Hassan Khurram, Akshat Kumar Feb 2023

Scalable And Globally Optimal Generalized L1 K-Center Clustering Via Constraint Generation In Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Aravinth Chembu, Scott Sanner, Hassan Khurram, Akshat Kumar

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The k-center clustering algorithm, introduced over 35 years ago, is known to be robust to class imbalance prevalent in many clustering problems and has various applications such as data summarization, document clustering, and facility location determination. Unfortunately, existing k-center algorithms provide highly suboptimal solutions that can limit their practical application, reproducibility, and clustering quality. In this paper, we provide a novel scalable and globally optimal solution to a popular variant of the k-center problem known as generalized L1 k-center clustering that uses L1 distance and allows the selection of arbitrary vectors as cluster centers. We show that this clustering objective …


The Three-Sided Market Of On-Demand Delivery, S. Bahrami, M. Nourinejad, Y. Yin, Hai Wang Jan 2023

The Three-Sided Market Of On-Demand Delivery, S. Bahrami, M. Nourinejad, Y. Yin, Hai Wang

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On-demand delivery services are three-sided markets that enable interactions between customers and suppliers with the help of crowdsourced drivers. Customers and suppliers may pay a commission to gain access to the service and drivers are granted a wage for providing their delivery service. This study characterizes the properties of three-side on-demand delivery markets, and proposes pricing strategies that enable the platform to manipulate the market towards profit or social welfare maximizing outcomes. We consider earning-sensitive independent drivers, price-and-time-sensitive customers, and price-sensitive suppliers. By assuming that all players are heterogeneous in their valuation of the service, we model their numbers as …


Causal Interventional Training For Image Recognition, Wei Qin, Hanwang Zhang, Richang Hong, Ee-Peng Lim, Qianru Sun Jan 2023

Causal Interventional Training For Image Recognition, Wei Qin, Hanwang Zhang, Richang Hong, Ee-Peng Lim, Qianru Sun

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Deep learning models often fit undesired dataset bias in training. In this paper, we formulate the bias using causal inference, which helps us uncover the ever-elusive causalities among the key factors in training, and thus pursue the desired causal effect without the bias. We start from revisiting the process of building a visual recognition system, and then propose a structural causal model (SCM) for the key variables involved in dataset collection and recognition model: object, common sense, bias, context, and label prediction. Based on the SCM, one can observe that there are “good” and “bad” biases. Intuitively, in the image …


Analytics-Enabled Authentic Assessment Design Approach For Digital Education, Tristan Lim, Swapna Gottipati, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Jun Wei Ng, Christopher Pang Jan 2023

Analytics-Enabled Authentic Assessment Design Approach For Digital Education, Tristan Lim, Swapna Gottipati, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Jun Wei Ng, Christopher Pang

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There are known issues in authentic assessment design practices in digital education, which include the lack of freedom-of-choice, lack of focus on the multimodal nature of the digital process, and shortage of effective feedbacks. This study looks to identify an assessment design construct that overcomes these issues. Specifically, this study introduces an authentic assessment that combines gamification (G) with heutagogy (H) and multimodality (M) of assessments, building upon rich pool of multimodal data and learning analytics (A), known as GHMA. This is a skills-oriented assessment approach, where learners determine their own goals and create individualized multimodal artefacts, receive cognitive challenge …


Quantifying Stranded Assets Of The Coal-Fired Power In China Under The Paris Agreement Target, Weirong Zhang, Yiou Zhou, Zhen Gong, Junjie Kang, Changhong Zhao, Zhixu Meng, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jiahai Yuan Jan 2023

Quantifying Stranded Assets Of The Coal-Fired Power In China Under The Paris Agreement Target, Weirong Zhang, Yiou Zhou, Zhen Gong, Junjie Kang, Changhong Zhao, Zhixu Meng, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jiahai Yuan

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Coal-fired power plays a critical role in China's compliance with the Paris Agreement. This research quantifies China's stranded coal assets under different coal capacity expansion scenarios with an integrated approach and high-precision coal-fired power database. From a top-down perspective, firstly, the pathway of China's coal-fired power capacity consistent with the global 2 degrees C scenario is outlined and then those stranded coal-fired power plants are identified with a bottom-up perspective. Stranded value is estimated based upon a cash flow algorithm. Results show that if coal capacity stabilizes during 2020-2030, China will only incur a sizeable yet manageable stranded asset loss …


A Secure Emr Sharing System With Tamper Resistance And Expressive Access Control, Shengmin Xu, Jianting Ning, Yingjiu Li, Yinghui Zhang, Guowen Xu, Xinyi Huang, Robert H. Deng Jan 2023

A Secure Emr Sharing System With Tamper Resistance And Expressive Access Control, Shengmin Xu, Jianting Ning, Yingjiu Li, Yinghui Zhang, Guowen Xu, Xinyi Huang, Robert H. Deng

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To reduce the cost of human and material resources and improve the collaborations among medical systems, research laboratories and insurance companies for healthcare researches and commercial activities, electronic medical records (EMRs) have been proposed to shift from paperwork to friendly shareable electronic records. To take advantage of EMRs efficiently and reduce the cost of local storage, EMRs are usually outsourced to the remote cloud for sharing medical data with authorized users. However, cloud service providers are untrustworthy. In this paper, we propose an efficient, secure, and flexible EMR sharing system by introducing a novel cryptosystem called dual-policy revocable attribute-based encryption …


Just-In-Time Obsolete Comment Detection And Update, Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo, Meng Yan, Shangping Li Jan 2023

Just-In-Time Obsolete Comment Detection And Update, Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo, Meng Yan, Shangping Li

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Comments are valuable resources for the development, comprehension and maintenance of software. However, while changing code, developers sometimes neglect the evolution of the corresponding comments, resulting in obsolete comments. Such obsolete comments can mislead developers and introduce bugs in the future, and are therefore detrimental. We notice that by detecting and updating obsolete comments in time with code changes, obsolete comments can be effectively reduced and even avoided. We refer to this task as Just-In-Time (JIT) Obsolete Comment Detection and Update. In this work, we propose a two-stage framework named CUP2 (Two-stage Comment UPdater) to automate this task. CUP2 consists …


Contextual Path Retrieval: A Contextual Entity Relation Embedding-Based Approach, Pei-Chi Lo, Ee-Peng Lim Jan 2023

Contextual Path Retrieval: A Contextual Entity Relation Embedding-Based Approach, Pei-Chi Lo, Ee-Peng Lim

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Contextual path retrieval (CPR) refers to the task of finding contextual path(s) between a pair of entities in a knowledge graph that explains the connection between them in a given context. For this novel retrieval task, we propose the Embedding-based Contextual Path Retrieval (ECPR) framework. ECPR is based on a three-component structure that includes a context encoder and path encoder that encode query context and path, respectively, and a path ranker that assigns a ranking score to each candidate path to determine the one that should be the contextual path. For context encoding, we propose two novel context encoding methods, …


Vacsen: A Visualization Approach For Noise Awareness In Quantum Computing, Shaolun Ruan, Yong Wang, Weiwen Jiang, Ying Mao, Qiang Guan Jan 2023

Vacsen: A Visualization Approach For Noise Awareness In Quantum Computing, Shaolun Ruan, Yong Wang, Weiwen Jiang, Ying Mao, Qiang Guan

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Quantum computing has attracted considerable public attention due to its exponential speedup over classical computing. Despite its advantages, today's quantum computers intrinsically suffer from noise and are error-prone. To guarantee the high fidelity of the execution result of a quantum algorithm, it is crucial to inform users of the noises of the used quantum computer and the compiled physical circuits. However, an intuitive and systematic way to make users aware of the quantum computing noise is still missing. In this paper, we fill the gap by proposing a novel visualization approach to achieve noise-aware quantum computing. It provides a holistic …


Neighbor-Anchoring Adversarial Graph Neural Networks, Zemin Liu, Yuan Fang, Yong Liu, Vincent W. Zheng Jan 2023

Neighbor-Anchoring Adversarial Graph Neural Networks, Zemin Liu, Yuan Fang, Yong Liu, Vincent W. Zheng

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have witnessed widespread adoption due to their ability to learn superior representations for graph data. While GNNs exhibit strong discriminative power, they often fall short of learning the underlying node distribution for increased robustness. To deal with this, inspired by generative adversarial networks (GANs), we investigate the problem of adversarial learning on graph neural networks, and propose a novel framework named NAGNN (i.e., Neighbor-anchoring Adversarial Graph Neural Networks) for graph representation learning, which trains not only a discriminator but also a generator that compete with each other. In particular, we propose a novel neighbor-anchoring strategy, where …


Intelligent Adaptive Gossip-Based Broadcast Protocol For Uav-Mec Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning, Zen Ren, Xinghua Li, Yinbin Miao, Zhuowen Li, Zihao Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Ximeng Liu, Deng, Robert H. Jan 2023

Intelligent Adaptive Gossip-Based Broadcast Protocol For Uav-Mec Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning, Zen Ren, Xinghua Li, Yinbin Miao, Zhuowen Li, Zihao Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Ximeng Liu, Deng, Robert H.

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UAV-assisted mobile edge computing (UAV-MEC) has been proposed to offer computing resources for smart devices and user equipment. UAV cluster aided MEC rather than one UAV-aided MEC as edge pool is the newest edge computing architecture. Unfortunately, the data packet exchange during edge computing within the UAV cluster hasn't received enough attention. UAVs need to collaborate for the wide implementation of MEC, relying on the gossip-based broadcast protocol. However, gossip has the problem of long propagation delay, where the forwarding probability and neighbors are two factors that are difficult to balance. The existing works improve gossip from only one factor, …


Seqadver: Automatic Payload Construction And Injection In Sequence-Based Android Adversarial Attack, Fei Zhang, Ruitao Feng, Xiaofei Xie, Xiaohong Li, Lianshuan Shi Jan 2023

Seqadver: Automatic Payload Construction And Injection In Sequence-Based Android Adversarial Attack, Fei Zhang, Ruitao Feng, Xiaofei Xie, Xiaohong Li, Lianshuan Shi

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Machine learning has achieved a great success in the field of Android malware detection. In order to avoid being caught by these ML-based Android malware detection, malware authors are inclined to initiate adversarial sample attacks by tampering with mobile applications. Although machine learning has high capability, it lacks robustness against adversarial attacks. Currently, many of the adversarial attacking tools not only inject dead code into target applications, which can never be executed, but also require the injection of many benign features into a malicious APK. This can be easily noticeable by program analysis techniques. In this paper, we propose SeqAdver, …


Sleepmore: Inferring Sleep Duration At Scale Via Multi-Device Wifi Sensing, Camellia Zakaria, Gizem Yilmaz, Priyanka Mammen, Michael Chee, Prashant Shenoy, Rajesh Krishna Balan Jan 2023

Sleepmore: Inferring Sleep Duration At Scale Via Multi-Device Wifi Sensing, Camellia Zakaria, Gizem Yilmaz, Priyanka Mammen, Michael Chee, Prashant Shenoy, Rajesh Krishna Balan

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The availability of commercial wearable trackers equipped with features to monitor sleep duration and quality has enabled more useful sleep health monitoring applications and analyses. However, much research has reported the challenge of long-term user retention in sleep monitoring through these modalities. Since modern Internet users own multiple mobile devices, our work explores the possibility of employing ubiquitous mobile devices and passive WiFi sensing techniques to predict sleep duration as the fundamental measure for complementing long-term sleep monitoring initiatives. In this paper, we propose SleepMore, an accurate and easy-to-deploy sleep-tracking approach based on machine learning over the user's WiFi network …


Learning Feature Embedding Refiner For Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, Jingwen Li, Yining Ma, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Jie Zhang, Yeow Meng Chee Jan 2023

Learning Feature Embedding Refiner For Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, Jingwen Li, Yining Ma, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Jie Zhang, Yeow Meng Chee

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While the encoder–decoder structure is widely used in the recent neural construction methods for learning to solve vehicle routing problems (VRPs), they are less effective in searching solutions due to deterministic feature embeddings and deterministic probability distributions. In this article, we propose the feature embedding refiner (FER) with a novel and generic encoder–refiner–decoder structure to boost the existing encoder–decoder structured deep models. It is model-agnostic that the encoder and the decoder can be from any pretrained neural construction method. Regarding the introduced refiner network, we design its architecture by combining the standard gated recurrent units (GRU) cell with two new …


Learning Large Neighborhood Search For Vehicle Routing In Airport Ground Handling, Jianan Zhou, Yaoxin Wu, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Jie Zhang, Zhenghua Chen Jan 2023

Learning Large Neighborhood Search For Vehicle Routing In Airport Ground Handling, Jianan Zhou, Yaoxin Wu, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Jie Zhang, Zhenghua Chen

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Dispatching vehicle fleets to serve flights is a key task in airport ground handling (AGH). Due to the notable growth of flights, it is challenging to simultaneously schedule multiple types of operations (services) for a large number of flights, where each type of operation is performed by one specific vehicle fleet. To tackle this issue, we first represent the operation scheduling as a complex vehicle routing problem and formulate it as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model. Then given the graph representation of the MILP model, we propose a learning assisted large neighborhood search (LNS) method using data generated …


A Diversity-Enhanced Memetic Algorithm For Solving Electric Vehicle Routing Problems With Time Windows And Mixed Backhauls, Jianhua Xiao, Jingguo Du, Zhiguang Cao, Xingyi Zhang, Yunyun Niu Jan 2023

A Diversity-Enhanced Memetic Algorithm For Solving Electric Vehicle Routing Problems With Time Windows And Mixed Backhauls, Jianhua Xiao, Jingguo Du, Zhiguang Cao, Xingyi Zhang, Yunyun Niu

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The electric vehicle routing problem (EVRP) has been studied increasingly because of environmental concerns. However, existing studies on the EVRP mainly focus on time windows and sole linehaul customers, which might not be practical as backhaul customers are also ubiquitous in reality. In this study, we investigate an EVRP with time windows and mixed backhauls (EVRPTWMB), where both linehaul and backhaul customers exist and can be served in any order. To address this challenging problem, we propose a diversity-enhanced memetic algorithm (DEMA) that integrates three types of novel operators, including genetic operators based on adaptive selection mechanism, a selection operator …


Crowdfa: A Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing Paradigm Via Federated Analytics, Bowen Zhao, Xiaoguo Li, Ximeng Liu, Qingqi Pei, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng Jan 2023

Crowdfa: A Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing Paradigm Via Federated Analytics, Bowen Zhao, Xiaoguo Li, Ximeng Liu, Qingqi Pei, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng

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Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) systems typically struggle to address the challenge of data aggregation, incentive design, and privacy protection, simultaneously. However, existing solutions usually focus on one or, at most, two of these issues. To this end, this paper presents CROWD FA, a novel paradigm for privacy-preserving MCS through federated analytics (FA), which aims to achieve a well-rounded solution encompassing data aggregation, incentive design, and privacy protection. Specifically, inspired by FA, CROWD FA initiates an MCS computing paradigm that enables data aggregation and incentive design. Participants can perform aggregation operations on their local data, facilitated by CROWD FA, which supports various …


Reks: Role-Based Encrypted Keyword Search With Enhanced Access Control For Outsourced Cloud Data, Yibin Miao, Feng Li, Xiaohua Jia, Huaxiong Wang, Ximeng Liu, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Robert H. Deng Jan 2023

Reks: Role-Based Encrypted Keyword Search With Enhanced Access Control For Outsourced Cloud Data, Yibin Miao, Feng Li, Xiaohua Jia, Huaxiong Wang, Ximeng Liu, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Robert H. Deng

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Keyword-based search over encrypted data is an important technique to achieve both data confidentiality and utilization in cloud outsourcing services. While commonly used access control mechanisms, such as identity-based encryption and attribute-based encryption, do not generally scale well for hierarchical access permissions. To solve this problem, we propose a Role-based Encrypted Keyword Search (REKS) scheme by using the role-based access control and broadcast encryption. Specifically, REKS allows owners to deploy hierarchical access control by allowing users with parent roles to have access permissions from child roles. Using REKS, we further facilitate token generation preprocessing and efficient user management, thereby significantly …


Seven Pillars For The Future Of Artificial Intelligence, Erik Cambria, Rui Mao, Melvin Chen, Zhaoxia Wang, Seng-Beng Ho Jan 2023

Seven Pillars For The Future Of Artificial Intelligence, Erik Cambria, Rui Mao, Melvin Chen, Zhaoxia Wang, Seng-Beng Ho

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In recent years, AI research has showcased tremendous potential to impact positively humanity and society. Although AI frequently outperforms humans in tasks related to classification and pattern recognition, it continues to face challenges when dealing with complex tasks such as intuitive decision-making, sense disambiguation, sarcasm detection, and narrative understanding, as these require advanced kinds of reasoning, e.g., commonsense reasoning and causal reasoning, which have not been emulated satisfactorily yet. To address these shortcomings, we propose seven pillars that we believe represent the key hallmark features for the future of AI, namely: Multidisciplinarity, Task Decomposition, Parallel Analogy, Symbol Grounding, Similarity Measure, …