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A Human-Centered Power Conservation Framework Based On Reverse Auction Theory And Machine Learning, Enrico Casella, Simone Silvestri, Denise A. Baker, Sajal K. Das Jul 2024

A Human-Centered Power Conservation Framework Based On Reverse Auction Theory And Machine Learning, Enrico Casella, Simone Silvestri, Denise A. Baker, Sajal K. Das

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Extreme outside temperatures resulting from heat waves, winter storms, and similar weather-related events trigger the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, resulting in challenging, and potentially catastrophic, peak loads. As a consequence, such extreme outside temperatures put a strain on power grids and may thus lead to blackouts. To avoid the financial and personal repercussions of peak loads, demand response and power conservation represent promising solutions. Despite numerous efforts, it has been shown that the current state-of-the-art fails to consider (1) the complexity of human behavior when interacting with power conservation systems and (2) realistic home-level power dynamics. As …


Doing Personal Laps: Llm-Augmented Dialogue Construction For Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search, Hideaki Joko, Shubham Chatterjee, Andrew Ramsay, Arjen P. De Vries, Jeff Dalton, Faegheh Hasibi Jul 2024

Doing Personal Laps: Llm-Augmented Dialogue Construction For Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search, Hideaki Joko, Shubham Chatterjee, Andrew Ramsay, Arjen P. De Vries, Jeff Dalton, Faegheh Hasibi

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The future of conversational agents will provide users with personalized information responses. However, a significant challenge in developing models is the lack of large-scale dialogue datasets that span multiple sessions and reflect real-world user preferences. Previous approaches rely on experts in a wizard-of-oz setup that is difficult to scale, particularly for personalized tasks. Our method, LAPS, addresses this by using large language models (LLMs) to guide a single human worker in generating personalized dialogues. This method has proven to speed up the creation process and improve quality. LAPS can collect large-scale, human-written, multi-session, and multi-domain conversations, including extracting user preferences. …


Trec Ikat 2023: A Test Collection For Evaluating Conversational And Interactive Knowledge Assistants, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton, Leif Azzopardi Jul 2024

Trec Ikat 2023: A Test Collection For Evaluating Conversational And Interactive Knowledge Assistants, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton, Leif Azzopardi

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Conversational information seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. The extended TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT) collection aims to enable researchers to test and evaluate their Conversational Search Agent (CSA). The collection contains a set of 36 personalized dialogues over 20 different topics each coupled with a Personal Text Knowledge Base (PTKB) that defines the bespoke user personas. A total of 344 turns with approximately 26,000 passages are provided as assessments on relevance, as well …


Reinforcement Learning Based Proactive Entanglement Swapping For Quantum Networks, Tasdiqul Islam, Md Arifuzzaman, Engin Arslan Jul 2024

Reinforcement Learning Based Proactive Entanglement Swapping For Quantum Networks, Tasdiqul Islam, Md Arifuzzaman, Engin Arslan

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Entanglement generation and swapping is a difficult process due to probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. To overcome this issue, existing quantum routing algorithms try to create entanglement on multiple paths between source and destination. Although it is possible to save entangled qubits on unused links using quantum memories, the quantum routing algorithms discard them and try creating new entanglement in each time slot. In this work, we leverage the longevity of entanglement and introduce two enhancements to improve the performance of existing routing algorithms: (i) The generation and caching of entanglements across multiple time slots, and (ii) the proactively executing …


Effective Data Sharing In An Edge-Cloud Model: Security Challenges And Solutions, Arijit Karati, Sajal K. Das Jul 2024

Effective Data Sharing In An Edge-Cloud Model: Security Challenges And Solutions, Arijit Karati, Sajal K. Das

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The proposed protocol offers privacy-preserving authentication across several cloud platforms, flexible key management for consumer data protection, and effective user revocation. Performance evaluation demonstrates that the proposed framework supports low latency, safe unified remote access, and data privacy in the contemporary edge-enabled environment.


Maximizing Network Throughput In Heterogeneous Uav Networks, Shuyue Li, Jing Li, Chaocan Xiang, Wenzheng Xu, Jian Peng, Ziming Wang, Weifa Liang, Xinwei Yao, Xiaohua Jia, Sajal K. Das Jun 2024

Maximizing Network Throughput In Heterogeneous Uav Networks, Shuyue Li, Jing Li, Chaocan Xiang, Wenzheng Xu, Jian Peng, Ziming Wang, Weifa Liang, Xinwei Yao, Xiaohua Jia, Sajal K. Das

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In this paper we study the deployment of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network that consists of multiple UAVs to provide emergent communication service for people who are trapped in a disaster area, where each UAV is equipped with a base station that has limited computing capacity and power supply, and thus can only serve a limited number of people. Unlike most existing studies that focused on homogeneous UAVs, we consider the deployment of heterogeneous UAVs where different UAVs have different computing capacities. We study a problem of deploying K heterogeneous UAVs in the air to form a temporarily connected …


Rainbowcake: Mitigating Cold-Starts In Serverless With Layer-Wise Container Caching And Sharing, Hanfei Yu, Rohan Basu Roy, Christian Fontenot, Devesh Tiwari, Jian Li, Hong Zhang, Hao Wang, Seung Jong Park Apr 2024

Rainbowcake: Mitigating Cold-Starts In Serverless With Layer-Wise Container Caching And Sharing, Hanfei Yu, Rohan Basu Roy, Christian Fontenot, Devesh Tiwari, Jian Li, Hong Zhang, Hao Wang, Seung Jong Park

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Serverless Computing Has Grown Rapidly as a New Cloud Computing Paradigm that Promises Ease-Of-Management, Cost-Efficiency, and Auto-Scaling by Shipping Functions Via Self-Contained Virtualized Containers. Unfortunately, Serverless Computing Suffers from Severe Cold-Start Problems - -Starting Containers Incurs Non-Trivial Latency. Full Container Caching is Widely Applied to Mitigate Cold-Starts Yet Has Recently Been Outperformed by Two Lines of Research: Partial Container Caching and Container Sharing. However, Either Partial Container Caching or Container Sharing Techniques Exhibit their Drawbacks. Partial Container Caching Effectively Deals with Burstiness While Leaving Cold-Start Mitigation Halfway; Container Sharing Reduces Cold-Starts by Enabling Containers to Serve Multiple Functions While Suffering …


Drone-Based Bug Detection In Orchards With Nets: A Novel Orienteering Approach, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Federico Coró, Sajal K. Das, Lorenzo Palazzetti, Cristina M. Pinotti Apr 2024

Drone-Based Bug Detection In Orchards With Nets: A Novel Orienteering Approach, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Federico Coró, Sajal K. Das, Lorenzo Palazzetti, Cristina M. Pinotti

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The Use of Drones for Collecting Information and Detecting Bugs in Orchards Covered by Nets is a Challenging Problem. the Nets Help in Reducing Pest Damage, But They Also Constrain the Drone's Flight Path, Making It Longer and More Complex. to Address This Issue, We Model the Orchard as an Aisle-Graph, a Regular Data Structure that Represents Consecutive Aisles Where Trees Are Arranged in Straight Lines. the Drone Flies Close to the Trees and Takes Pictures at Specific Positions for Monitoring the Presence of Bugs, But its Energy is Limited, So It Can Only Visit a Subset of Positions. to …


Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks For Intent Detection Based On Anticipatory Brain Potentials Using Electroencephalogram, Nathan Lutes, V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, K. Krishnamurthy Apr 2024

Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks For Intent Detection Based On Anticipatory Brain Potentials Using Electroencephalogram, Nathan Lutes, V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, K. Krishnamurthy

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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are receiving increased attention because they mimic synaptic connections in biological systems and produce spike trains, which can be approximated by binary values for computational efficiency. Recently, the addition of convolutional layers to combine the feature extraction power of convolutional networks with the computational efficiency of SNNs has been introduced. This paper studies the feasibility of using a convolutional spiking neural network (CSNN) to detect anticipatory slow cortical potentials (SCPs) related to braking intention in human participants using an electroencephalogram (EEG). Data was collected during an experiment wherein participants operated a remote-controlled vehicle on a testbed …


Cr-Sam: Curvature Regularized Sharpness-Aware Minimization, Tao Wu, Tony Tie Luo, Donald C. Wunsch Mar 2024

Cr-Sam: Curvature Regularized Sharpness-Aware Minimization, Tao Wu, Tony Tie Luo, Donald C. Wunsch

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The Capacity to Generalize to Future Unseen Data Stands as One of the Utmost Crucial Attributes of Deep Neural Networks. Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) Aims to Enhance the Generalizability by Minimizing Worst-Case Loss using One-Step Gradient Ascent as an Approximation. However, as Training Progresses, the Non-Linearity of the Loss Landscape Increases, Rendering One-Step Gradient Ascent Less Effective. on the Other Hand, Multi-Step Gradient Ascent Will Incur Higher Training Cost. in This Paper, We Introduce a Normalized Hessian Trace to Accurately Measure the Curvature of Loss Landscape on Both Training and Test Sets. in Particular, to Counter Excessive Non-Linearity of Loss Landscape, …


Lrs: Enhancing Adversarial Transferability Through Lipschitz Regularized Surrogate, Tao Wu, Tony Tie Luo, Donald C. Wunsch Mar 2024

Lrs: Enhancing Adversarial Transferability Through Lipschitz Regularized Surrogate, Tao Wu, Tony Tie Luo, Donald C. Wunsch

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The Transferability of Adversarial Examples is of Central Importance to Transfer-Based Black-Box Adversarial Attacks. Previous Works for Generating Transferable Adversarial Examples Focus on Attacking Given Pretrained Surrogate Models While the Connections between Surrogate Models and Adversarial Trasferability Have Been overlooked. in This Paper, We Propose Lipschitz Regularized Surrogate (LRS) for Transfer-Based Black-Box Attacks, a Novel Approach that Transforms Surrogate Models towards Favorable Adversarial Transferability. using Such Transformed Surrogate Models, Any Existing Transfer-Based Black-Box Attack Can Run Without Any Change, Yet Achieving Much Better Performance. Specifically, We Impose Lipschitz Regularization on the Loss Landscape of Surrogate Models to Enable a Smoother …


Smartgrid-Ng: Blockchain Protocol For Secure Transaction Processing In Next Generation Smart Grid, Lokendra Vishwakarma, Debasis Das, Sajal K. Das, Christian Becker Jan 2024

Smartgrid-Ng: Blockchain Protocol For Secure Transaction Processing In Next Generation Smart Grid, Lokendra Vishwakarma, Debasis Das, Sajal K. Das, Christian Becker

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With the advent of Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), the Smart Grid is a rapidly growing technology in decentralized energy distribution and trading. However, this advancement came with some serious cyber security challenges and attacks, such as single-point failure due to a centralized architecture of smart grids, slow transaction processing, emerging cybersecurity threats, double-spending, fork, and fault tolerance. We propose a comprehensive framework for the smart grid called SmartGrid-NG to solve all these issues. Instead of using blockchain as a blackbox plugin tool, we also propose a reputation-based blockchain protocol called GridChain to increase the performance of blockchain-based …


Splitfed-Based Patient Severity Prediction And Utility Maximization In Industrial Healthcare 4.0, Himanshu Singh, Biken Moirangthem, Ajay Pratap, Shilpi Kumari, Abhishek Kumar, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Splitfed-Based Patient Severity Prediction And Utility Maximization In Industrial Healthcare 4.0, Himanshu Singh, Biken Moirangthem, Ajay Pratap, Shilpi Kumari, Abhishek Kumar, Sajal K. Das

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The healthcare industry has transitioned from traditional healthcare 1.0 to AI-powered healthcare 4.0. However, overall cost for patient treatment remains high and challenging to manage due to the absence of a centralized cost evaluation mechanism before hospital visits. Therefore, in this paper, we devise a cloud-based mechanism to calculate hospitals' star rating based on questionnaire with the application of Z-score and K∗clustering algorithm. To evaluate disease severity at cloud, splitfed technique is utilized in coordination with Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). Finally, the cloud calculates provisional treatment costs and finds a preferable hospital with a low payable treatment cost and …


Shedding Light On Software Engineering-Specific Metaphors And Idioms, Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski Jan 2024

Shedding Light On Software Engineering-Specific Metaphors And Idioms, Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski

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Use of figurative language, such as metaphors and idioms, is common in our daily-life communications, and it can also be found in Software Engineering (SE) channels, such as comments on GitHub. Automatically interpreting figurative language is a challenging task, even with modern Large Language Models (LLMs), as it often involves subtle nuances. This is particularly true in the SE domain, where figurative language is frequently used to convey technical concepts, often bearing developer affect (e.g., 'spaghetti code). Surprisingly, there is a lack of studies on how figurative language in SE communications impacts the performance of automatic tools that focus on …


Trusted Digital Twin Network For Intelligent Vehicles, Asad Malik, Ayan Roy, Sanjay Madria Jan 2024

Trusted Digital Twin Network For Intelligent Vehicles, Asad Malik, Ayan Roy, Sanjay Madria

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Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) infrastructure facilitates wireless communication among vehicles within close proximity. This allows sharing of contextual information such as speed, location, direction, traffic, route closures, human behavior mental conditions to improve traffic flow, reduce collisions, and enhance safety on the road. However, the assumption of honest peers along with the over-reliability on the information shared in the network can pose a serious threat to human safety. A digital twin is a concept that enables a system to develop a virtual environment that mimics the real-life scenario for any situation. The availability of powerful computing equipment inside vehicles can be leveraged …


Mobility Management In Tsch-Based Industrial Wireless Networks, Marco Pettorali, Francesca Righetti, Carlo Vallati, Sajal K. Das, Giuseppe Anastasi Jan 2024

Mobility Management In Tsch-Based Industrial Wireless Networks, Marco Pettorali, Francesca Righetti, Carlo Vallati, Sajal K. Das, Giuseppe Anastasi

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Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) are an effective technology for improving the efficiency and productivity in many industrial domains and are also the building blocks for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). To support this trend, the IEEE has defined the 802.5.4 Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) protocol. Unfortunately, TSCH does not provide any mechanism to manage node mobility, while many current industrial applications involve Mobile Nodes (MNs), e.g., mobile robots or wearable devices carried by workers. In this article, we present a framework to efficiently manage mobility in TSCH networks, by proposing an enhanced version of the Synchronized Single-hop …


Undeniable Authentication Of Digital Twin-Managed Smart Microfactory, Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Undeniable Authentication Of Digital Twin-Managed Smart Microfactory, Anusha Vangala, Ashok Kumar Das, Sajal K. Das

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Smart Microfactories Use Additive Manufacturing to Create Products with Mixed Materials and Variable Sizes. Digital Twin Technology Enhances Control of the Additive Manufacturing Equipment in These Factories, Increasing Productivity and Minimizing Errors. the Digital Twins Communicate with the Machines to Furnish Sensitive Data and Instructions, Which Must Be Protected from Tampering. Authentication Rescues the Digital and Physical Twins from Menacing Attacks Such as Privileged Insider, Impersonation, Ephemeral Secret Leakage (ESL) and Man-In-The-Middle (MiTM) Attacks. to This End, We Propose Lightweight Authentication among the Digital and Physical Twins with the Undeniability of Issued Commands and Deniable Key Agreement. It Achieves Perfect …


Disseminating Over-The-Air Updates Via Intelligent Labeling In Multi-Tier Networks, Atefeh Asayesh, Asad Waqar Malik, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Disseminating Over-The-Air Updates Via Intelligent Labeling In Multi-Tier Networks, Atefeh Asayesh, Asad Waqar Malik, Sajal K. Das

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Connected Vehicles Rely on Sophisticated Software Systems for Diverse Features, Including Navigation, Entertainment, Communication, and Safety Functions. as Technology Continues to Advance, the Reliance on Software in Connected Vehicles Becomes Increasingly Integral to their overall Performance and the Delivery of Innovative Features. Therefore, in the Domain of Software-Enabled Automobiles, the Implementation of over-The-Air (OTA) Software Updates is Deemed Essential for the Dissemination of Software and Fixes in Connected Vehicles. the Conventional Method of Addressing This Matter Entailed Manufacturers Undertaking the Task of Recalling Outdated Vehicles; However, the Central Issue Lies in the Considerable Challenge of Effectively Notifying Owners through Recall …


Communication-Efficient Federated Learning For Leo Constellations Integrated With Haps Using Hybrid Noma-Ofdm, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tony T. Luo, Khaled Ramadan Jan 2024

Communication-Efficient Federated Learning For Leo Constellations Integrated With Haps Using Hybrid Noma-Ofdm, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tony T. Luo, Khaled Ramadan

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Space AI has become increasingly important and sometimes even necessary for government, businesses, and society. An active research topic under this mission is integrating federated learning (FL) with satellite communications (SatCom) so that numerous low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites can collaboratively train a machine learning model. However, the special communication environment of SatCom leads to a very slow FL training process up to days and weeks. This paper proposes NomaFedHAP, a novel FL-SatCom approach tailored to LEO satellites, that (1) utilizes high-altitude platforms (HAPs) as distributed parameter servers (PSs) to enhance satellite visibility, and (2) introduces non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) …


Towards Fine-Gained Services: Nfv-Assisted Tracking And Positioning Using Micro-Services For Multi-Robot Cooperation, Bo Yi, Lin Qiu, Jianhui Lv, Yingpu Nian, Xingwei Wang, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Towards Fine-Gained Services: Nfv-Assisted Tracking And Positioning Using Micro-Services For Multi-Robot Cooperation, Bo Yi, Lin Qiu, Jianhui Lv, Yingpu Nian, Xingwei Wang, Sajal K. Das

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Robotics as a Service (RaaS) emerges as a new paradigm to motivate diversified potential of the "remote-controlled economy" for flexible and efficient service provision with the help of cloud computing. The multi-robot cooperation (MRC) technology has been widely used in various intelligent logistics scenarios, such as warehouses, factories, airports and subway stations, benefiting from the advantages of high operational efficiency and low labor cost. While promising, the corresponding challenge is that the service functions deployed on logistics robots (LRs) are more prone to failures such as resource exhaustion and error configuration in the multi-robot system (MRS). In this way, it …


Resource Aware Clustering For Tackling The Heterogeneity Of Participants In Federated Learning, Rahul Mishra, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Garvit Banga, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Resource Aware Clustering For Tackling The Heterogeneity Of Participants In Federated Learning, Rahul Mishra, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Garvit Banga, Sajal K. Das

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Federated Learning Is A Training Framework That Enables Multiple Participants To Collaboratively Train A Shared Model While Preserving Data Privacy. The Heterogeneity Of Devices And Networking Resources Of The Participants Delay The Training And Aggregation. The Paper Introduces A Novel Approach To Federated Learning By Incorporating Resource-Aware Clustering. This Method Addresses The Challenges Posed By The Diverse Devices And Networking Resources Among Participants. Unlike Static Clustering Approaches, This Paper Proposes A Dynamic Method To Determine The Optimal Number Of Clusters Using Dunn Indices. It Enables Adaptability To The Varying Heterogeneity Levels Among Participants, Ensuring A Responsive And Customized Approach To …


Personalized Federated Graph Learning On Non-Iid Electronic Health Records, Tao Tang, Zhuoyang Han, Zhen Cai, Shuo Yu, Xiaokang Zhou, Taiwo Oseni, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Personalized Federated Graph Learning On Non-Iid Electronic Health Records, Tao Tang, Zhuoyang Han, Zhen Cai, Shuo Yu, Xiaokang Zhou, Taiwo Oseni, Sajal K. Das

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Understanding The Latent Disease Patterns Embedded In Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Is Crucial For Making Precise And Proactive Healthcare Decisions. Federated Graph Learning-Based Methods Are Commonly Employed To Extract Complex Disease Patterns From The Distributed EHRs Without Sharing The Client-Side Raw Data. However, The Intrinsic Characteristics Of The Distributed EHRs Are Typically Non-Independent And Identically Distributed (Non-IID), Significantly Bringing Challenges Related To Data Imbalance And Leading To A Notable Decrease In The Effectiveness Of Making Healthcare Decisions Derived From The Global Model. To Address These Challenges, We Introduce A Novel Personalized Federated Learning Framework Named PEARL, Which Is Designed For …


Lease: Leveraging Energy-Awareness In Serverless Edge For Latency-Sensitive Iot Services, Aastik Verma, Anurag Satpathy, Sajal K. Das, Sourav Kanti Addya Jan 2024

Lease: Leveraging Energy-Awareness In Serverless Edge For Latency-Sensitive Iot Services, Aastik Verma, Anurag Satpathy, Sajal K. Das, Sourav Kanti Addya

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Resource Scheduling Catering to Real-Time IoT Services in a Serverless-Enabled Edge Network is Particularly Challenging Owing to the Workload Variability, Strict Constraints on Tolerable Latency, and Unpredictability in the Energy Sources Powering the Edge Devices. This Paper Proposes a Framework LEASE that Dynamically Schedules Resources in Serverless Functions Catering to Different Microservices and Adhering to their Deadline Constraint. to Assist the Scheduler in Making Effective Scheduling Decisions, We Introduce a Priority-Based Approach that Offloads Functions from over-Provisioned Edge Nodes to Under-Provisioned Peer Nodes, Considering the Expended Energy in the Process Without Compromising the Completion Time of Microservices. for Real-World Implementations, …


Early Detection Of Driving Maneuvers For Proactive Congestion Prevention, Debasree Das, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Early Detection Of Driving Maneuvers For Proactive Congestion Prevention, Debasree Das, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra, Sajal K. Das

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Road Traffic Congestion Affects Not Only the Commute Delay but Also a city's overall Social, Economic, and Environmental Growth. Existing Approaches for Road Congestion Mitigation Primarily Adopt a Reactive Approach by Detecting Congestion after It Occurs and Recommending Alternate Routes to the Vehicles, Which Fails to Prevent Congestion Cascading. in Contrast, We Propose a Pervasive Platform Called ProCon that Proactively Infers the Driving Micro-Behaviors that Can Contribute to Congestion Formation and Assist the Drivers in Avoiding Such Maneuvers in Real-Time during the Navigation. Thorough Evaluations over Multiple Real-Life and Simulated Datasets Indicate that ProCon Can Reduce Congestion for More Than …


Uncovering The Causes Of Emotions In Software Developer Communication Using Zero-Shot Llms, Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski Jan 2024

Uncovering The Causes Of Emotions In Software Developer Communication Using Zero-Shot Llms, Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski

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Understanding and identifying the causes behind developers' emotions (e.g., Frustration caused by 'delays in merging pull requests') can be crucial towards finding solutions to problems and fostering collaboration in open-source communities. Effectively identifying such information in the high volume of communications across the different project channels, such as chats, emails, and issue comments, requires automated recognition of emotions and their causes. To enable this automation, large-scale software engineering-specific datasets that can be used to train accurate machine learning models are required. However, such datasets are expensive to create with the variety and informal nature of software projects' communication channels. In …


On The K-Weak Coverage Of Random Mobile Sensors, Sajal K. Das, Rafal Kapelko Jan 2024

On The K-Weak Coverage Of Random Mobile Sensors, Sajal K. Das, Rafal Kapelko

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This paper studies the fundamental problem of energy consumption in the movement of mobile random sensors ensuring k-weak coverage on the domain. In particular, we analyze two notions of k-weak coverage on the unit square, namely (1) (k, x)-weak coverage in which every straight-line path across the width of the unit square passes through the sensing range of at least k sensors; and (2) (k, x, y)-weak coverage in which every straight-line path across the width and the length of the unit square passes through the sensing range of at least k sensors. The number of reliable and p-reliable sensors …


Energy Consumption Optimization Of Uav-Assisted Traffic Monitoring Scheme With Tiny Reinforcement Learning, Xiangjie Kong, Chenhao Ni, Gaohui Duan, Guojiang Shen, Yao Yang, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Energy Consumption Optimization Of Uav-Assisted Traffic Monitoring Scheme With Tiny Reinforcement Learning, Xiangjie Kong, Chenhao Ni, Gaohui Duan, Guojiang Shen, Yao Yang, Sajal K. Das

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can capture pictures of road conditions in all directions and from different angles by carrying high-definition cameras, which helps gather relevant road data more effectively. However, due to their limited energy capacity, drones face challenges in performing related tasks for an extended period. Therefore, a crucial concern is how to plan the path of UAVs and minimize energy consumption. To address this problem, we propose a multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient based (MADDPG) algorithm for UAV path planning (MAUP). Considering the energy consumption and memory usage of MAUP, we have conducted optimizations to reduce consumption on …


Incivility In Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Annotated Dataset Of Locked Github Issue Threads, Ramtin Ehsani, Mia Mohammad Imran, Robert Zita, Kostadin Damevski, Preetha Chatterjee Jan 2024

Incivility In Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Annotated Dataset Of Locked Github Issue Threads, Ramtin Ehsani, Mia Mohammad Imran, Robert Zita, Kostadin Damevski, Preetha Chatterjee

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In the dynamic landscape of open-source software (OSS) development, understanding and addressing incivility within issue discussions is crucial for fostering healthy and productive collaborations. This paper presents a curated dataset of 404 locked GitHub issue discussion threads and 5961 individual comments, collected from 213 OSS projects. We annotated the comments with various categories of incivility using Tone Bearing Discussion Features (TBDFs), and, for each issue thread, we annotated the triggers, targets, and consequences of incivility. We observed that Bitter frustration, Impatience, and Mocking are the most prevalent TBDFs exhibited in our dataset. The most common triggers, targets, and consequences of …


Collect Spatiotemporally Correlated Data In Iot Networks With An Energy-Constrained Uav, Wenzheng Xu, Heng Shao, Qunli Shen, Jian Peng, Wen Huang, Weifa Liang, Tang Liu, Xin Wei Yao, Tao Lin, Sajal K. Das Jan 2024

Collect Spatiotemporally Correlated Data In Iot Networks With An Energy-Constrained Uav, Wenzheng Xu, Heng Shao, Qunli Shen, Jian Peng, Wen Huang, Weifa Liang, Tang Liu, Xin Wei Yao, Tao Lin, Sajal K. Das

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UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) Are Promising Tools For Efficient Data Collections Of Sensors In IoT Networks. Existing Studies Exploited Both Spatial And Temporal Data Correlations To Reduce The Amount Of Collected Redundant Data, In Which Sensors Are First Partitioned Into Different Clusters, A Master Sensor In Each Cluster Then Collects Raw Data From Other Sensors And Compresses The Received Data. An Energy-Constrained UAV Finally Collects The Maximum Amount Of Compressed Data From Different Master Sensors. We However Notice That The Compressed Data From Only A Portion Of Clusters Are Collected By The UAV In The Existing Studies, While The Data …


Stitching Satellites To The Edge: Pervasive And Efficient Federated Leo Satellite Learning, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tony Tie Luo Jan 2024

Stitching Satellites To The Edge: Pervasive And Efficient Federated Leo Satellite Learning, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Tony Tie Luo

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In the Ambitious Realm of Space AI, the Integration of Federated Learning (FL) with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Constellations Holds Immense Promise. However, Many Challenges Persist in Terms of Feasibility, Learning Efficiency, and Convergence. These Hurdles Stem from the Bottleneck in Communication, Characterized by Sporadic and Irregular Connectivity between LEO Satellites and Ground Stations, Coupled with the Limited Computation Capability of Satellite Edge Computing (SEC). This Paper Proposes a Novel FL-SEC Framework that Empowers LEO Satellites to Execute Large-Scale Machine Learning (ML) Tasks Onboard Efficiently. its Key Components Include I) Personalized Learning Via Divide-And-Conquer, Which Identifies and Eliminates Redundant …