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Flexible Online Task Assignment In Real-Time Spatial Data, Yongxin Tong, Libin Wang, Zimu Zhou, Bolin Ding, Lei Chen, Jieping Ye, Ke Xu
Flexible Online Task Assignment In Real-Time Spatial Data, Yongxin Tong, Libin Wang, Zimu Zhou, Bolin Ding, Lei Chen, Jieping Ye, Ke Xu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The popularity of Online To Offline (O2O) service platforms has spurred the need for online task assignment in real-time spatial data, where streams of spatially distributed tasks and workers are matched in real time such that the total number of assigned pairs is maximized. Existing online task assignment models assume that each worker is either assigned a task immediately or waits for a subsequent task at a fixed location once she/he appears on the platform. Yet in practice a worker may actively move around rather than passively wait in place if no task is assigned. In this paper, we define …
Measuring Fine-Grained Metro Interchange Time Via Smartphones, Weixi Gu, Kai Zhang, Zimu Zhou, Ming Jin, Yuxun Zhou, Xi Liu, Costas J. Spanos, Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, Wei-Hua Lin, Lin Zhang
Measuring Fine-Grained Metro Interchange Time Via Smartphones, Weixi Gu, Kai Zhang, Zimu Zhou, Ming Jin, Yuxun Zhou, Xi Liu, Costas J. Spanos, Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, Wei-Hua Lin, Lin Zhang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
High variability interchange times often significantly affect the reliability of metro travels. Fine-grained measurements of interchange times during metro transfers can provide valuable insights on the crowdedness of stations, usage of station facilities and efficiency of metro lines. Measuring interchange times in metro systems is challenging since agentoperated systems like automatic fare collection systems only provide coarse-grained trip information and popular localization services like GPS are often inaccessible underground. In this paper, we propose a smartphone-based interchange time measuring method from the passengers’ perspective. It leverages low-power sensors embedded in modern smartphones to record ambient contextual features, and utilizes a …
Will This Localization Tool Be Effective For This Bug? Mitigating The Impact Of Unreliability Of Information Retrieval Based Bug Localization Tools, Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo
Will This Localization Tool Be Effective For This Bug? Mitigating The Impact Of Unreliability Of Information Retrieval Based Bug Localization Tools, Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Information retrieval (IR) based bug localization approaches process a textual bug report and a collection of source code files to find buggy files. They output a ranked list of files sorted by their likelihood to contain the bug. Recently, several IR-based bug localization tools have been proposed. However, there are no perfect tools that can successfully localize faults within a few number of most suspicious program elements for every single input bug report. Therefore, it is difficult for developers to decide which tool would be effective for a given bug report. Furthermore, for some bug reports, no bug localization tools …
The Simpler The Better: A Unified Approach To Predicting Original Taxi Demands On Large-Scale Online Platforms, Yongxin Tong, Yuqiang Chen, Zimu Zhou, Lei Chen, Jie Wang, Qiang Yang, Jieping Ye, Weifeng Lv
The Simpler The Better: A Unified Approach To Predicting Original Taxi Demands On Large-Scale Online Platforms, Yongxin Tong, Yuqiang Chen, Zimu Zhou, Lei Chen, Jie Wang, Qiang Yang, Jieping Ye, Weifeng Lv
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
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Intuition: Role, Biases, Cognitive Basis, And A Hypothetical Synergistic Explanation Of Intuitive Brain Operations, Jens G. Pohl
Intuition: Role, Biases, Cognitive Basis, And A Hypothetical Synergistic Explanation Of Intuitive Brain Operations, Jens G. Pohl
Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center
This paper explores the characteristics of the intuitive responses that are generated by our brain continuously in an automatic and effortless manner. However, while intuition is a very powerful mechanism, it is also subject to many biasing influences. The author discusses the role of intuition, examines representative examples of biasing influences, compares cognitive theories of intuition advanced by Simon (2002), Klein (2003 and 1999), and Kahneman (2011), and then advances a hypothetical explanation of the neurological operations underlying intuition based on Hebbian rules (Hebb 1949) of plasticity in combination with synergetic principles.
Testing And Debugging: A Reality Check, Pavneet Singh Kochhar
Testing And Debugging: A Reality Check, Pavneet Singh Kochhar
Dissertations and Theses Collection
Testing and debugging are important activities during software development and maintenance. Testing is performed to check if the code contains errors whereas debugging is done to locate and fix these errors. Testing can be manual or automated and can be of different types such as unit, integration, system, stress etc. Debugging can also be manual or automated. These two activities have drawn attention of researchers in the recent years. Past studies have proposed many testing techniques such as automated test generation, test minimization, test case selection etc. Studies related to debugging have proposed new techniques to find bugs using various …
Hybrid Based Approaches For Software Fault Localization And Specification Mining, Bui Tien Duy Le
Hybrid Based Approaches For Software Fault Localization And Specification Mining, Bui Tien Duy Le
Dissertations and Theses Collection
Debugging programs and writing formal specifications are essential but expensive processes to maintain quality and reliability of software systems. Developers often have to debug and create specifications manually, which take a lot of their time and effort. Recently, several automated solutions have been proposed to help developers alleviate the cost of manual labor in the two processes. In particular, fault localization techniques help developer debug by accepting textual information in bug reports or program spectra (i.e., a record of which program elements are executed for each test case). Their output is a ranked list of program elements that are likely …
Real-Time Bursty Topic Detection And Virality Forecasting In Microblogs, Wei Xie
Real-Time Bursty Topic Detection And Virality Forecasting In Microblogs, Wei Xie
Dissertations and Theses Collection
Microblogs such as Twitter have become the largest social platforms for users around the world to share anything happening around them with friends and beyond. A bursty topic in microblogs is one that triggers a surge of relevant tweets within a short period of time, which often reflects important events of mass interest. How to leverage microblogs for early detection and further impact analysis of bursty topics has, therefore, become an important research problem with immense practical value.
Soft Sides Of Software, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed, Fabio Queda Silva
Soft Sides Of Software, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed, Fabio Queda Silva
Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications
Software is a field of rapid changes: the best technology today becomes obsolete in the near future. If we review the graduate attributes of any of the software engineering programs across the world, life-long learning is one of them. The social and psychological aspects of professional development is linked with rewards. In organizations, where people are provided with learning opportunities and there is a culture that rewards learning, people embrace changes easily. However, the software industry tends to be short-sighted and its primary focus is more on current project success; it usually ignores the capacity building of the individual or …
A Software Development Process For Freshman Undergraduate Students, Catherine Higgins, Fredrick Mtenzi, Ciaran O’Leary, Orla Hanratty, Claire Mcavinia
A Software Development Process For Freshman Undergraduate Students, Catherine Higgins, Fredrick Mtenzi, Ciaran O’Leary, Orla Hanratty, Claire Mcavinia
Book Chapters / Conference Papers
This conceptual paper presents work which is part of an ongoing research project into the design of a software development process aimed at freshman, undergraduate computing students. The process of how to plan and develop a solution is a topic that is addressed very lightly in many freshman, undergraduate courses which can leave novices open to developing habit-forming, maladaptive cognitive practices. The conceptual software development process described in this paper has a learning process at its core which centres on declarative knowledge (in the form of threshold concepts) and procedural knowledge (in the form of computational thinking skills) scaffolding freshman …
Jfix: Semantics-Based Repair Of Java Programs Via Symbolic Pathfinder, Xuan Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Goues Le, Willem Visser
Jfix: Semantics-Based Repair Of Java Programs Via Symbolic Pathfinder, Xuan Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Goues Le, Willem Visser
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Recently there has been a proliferation of automated program repair (APR) techniques, targeting various programming languages. Such techniques can be generally classified into two families: syntactic- and semantics-based. Semantics-based APR, on which we focus, typically uses symbolic execution to infer semantic constraints and then program synthesis to construct repairs conforming to them. While syntactic-based APR techniques have been shown success- ful on bugs in real-world programs written in both C and Java, semantics-based APR techniques mostly target C programs. This leaves empirical comparisons of the APR families not fully explored, and developers without a Java-based semantics APR technique. We present …
Iupdater: Low Cost Rss Fingerprints Updating For Device-Free Localization, Liqiong Chang, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Xiaojiang Chen, Junhao Hu, Dingyi Fang
Iupdater: Low Cost Rss Fingerprints Updating For Device-Free Localization, Liqiong Chang, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Xiaojiang Chen, Junhao Hu, Dingyi Fang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
While most existing indoor localization techniques are device-based, many emerging applications such as intruder detection and elderly monitoring drive the needs of device-free localization, in which the target can be localized without any device attached. Among the diverse techniques, received signal strength (RSS) fingerprint-based methods are popular because of the wide availability of RSS readings in most commodity hardware. However, current fingerprint-based systems suffer from high human labor cost to update the fingerprint database and low accuracy due to the large degree of RSS variations. In this paper, we propose a fingerprint-based device-free localization system named iUpdater to significantly reduce …
Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim
Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
With the proliferation of sensors, such as accelerometers,in mobile devices, activity and motion tracking has become a viable technologyto understand and create an engaging user experience. This paper proposes afast adaptation and learning scheme of activity tracking policies when userstatistics are unknown a priori, varying with time, and inconsistent for differentusers. In our stochastic optimization, user activities are required to besynchronized with a backend under a cellular data limit to avoid overchargesfrom cellular operators. The mobile device is charged intermittently usingwireless or wired charging for receiving the required energy for transmission andsensing operations. Firstly, we propose an activity tracking policy …
Cyber Foraging: Fifteen Years Later, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jason Flinn
Cyber Foraging: Fifteen Years Later, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jason Flinn
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Revisiting Mahadev Satyanarayanan's original vision of cyber foraging and reflecting on the last 15 years of related research, the authors discuss the major accomplishments achieved as well as remaining challenges. They also look to current and future applications that could provide compelling application scenarios for making cyber foraging a widely deployed technology. This article is part of a special issue on pervasive computing revisited.
Cloud-Based Query Evaluation For Energy-Efficient Mobile Sensing, Tianli Mo, Lipyeow Lim, Sougata Sen, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee
Cloud-Based Query Evaluation For Energy-Efficient Mobile Sensing, Tianli Mo, Lipyeow Lim, Sougata Sen, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we reduce the energy overheads of continuous mobile sensing, specifically for the case of context-aware applications that are interested in collective context or events, i.e., events expressed as a set of complex predicates over sensor data from multiple smartphones. We propose a cloud-based query management and optimization framework, called CloQue, that can support thousands of such concurrent queries, executing over a large number of individual smartphones. Our central insight is that the context of different individuals & groups often have significant correlation, and that this correlation can be learned through standard association rule mining on historical data. …
Mopeye: Opportunistic Monitoring Of Per-App Mobile Network Performance, Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang, Weichao Li, Eric K. T. Cheng, Debin Gao
Mopeye: Opportunistic Monitoring Of Per-App Mobile Network Performance, Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang, Weichao Li, Eric K. T. Cheng, Debin Gao
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Crowdsourcing mobile user’s network performance has become an effective way of understanding and improving mobile network performance and user quality-of-experience. However, the current measurement method is still based on the landline measurement paradigm in which a measurement app measures the path to fixed (measurement or web) servers. In this work, we introduce a new paradigm of measuring per-app mobile network performance. We design and implement MopEye, an Android app to measure network round-trip delay for each app whenever there is app traffic. This opportunistic measurement can be conducted automatically without user intervention. Therefore, it can facilitate a large-scale and long-term …
A Decidable Fragment In Separation Logic With Inductive Predicates And Arithmetic, Quang Loc Le, Makoto Tatsuta, Jun Sun, Wei-Ngan Chin
A Decidable Fragment In Separation Logic With Inductive Predicates And Arithmetic, Quang Loc Le, Makoto Tatsuta, Jun Sun, Wei-Ngan Chin
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We consider the satisfiability problem for a fragment of separation logic including inductive predicates with shape and arithmetic properties. We show that the fragment is decidable if the arithmetic properties can be represented as semilinear sets. Our decision procedure is based on a novel algorithm to infer a finite representation for each inductive predicate which precisely characterises its satisfiability. Our analysis shows that the proposed algorithm runs in exponential time in the worst case. We have implemented our decision procedure and integrated it into an existing verification system. Our experiment on benchmarks shows that our procedure helps to verify the …
Auditing Anti-Malware Tools By Evolving Android Malware And Dynamic Loading Technique, Yinxing Xue, Guozhu Meng, Yang Liu, Tian Huat Tan, Hongxu Chen, Jun Sun, Jie Zhang
Auditing Anti-Malware Tools By Evolving Android Malware And Dynamic Loading Technique, Yinxing Xue, Guozhu Meng, Yang Liu, Tian Huat Tan, Hongxu Chen, Jun Sun, Jie Zhang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Although a previous paper shows that existing antimalware tools (AMTs) may have high detection rate, the report is based on existing malware and thus it does not imply that AMTs can effectively deal with future malware. It is desirable to have an alternative way of auditing AMTs. In our previous paper, we use malware samples from android malware collection GENOME to summarize a malware meta-model for modularizing the common attack behaviors and evasion techniques in reusable features. We then combine different features with an evolutionary algorithm, in which way we evolve malware for variants. Previous results have shown that the …
Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim
Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
With the proliferation of sensors, such as accelerometers,in mobile devices, activity and motion tracking has become a viable technology to understand and create an engaging user experience. This paper proposes a fast adaptation and learning scheme of activity tracking policies when user statistics are unknown a priori, varying with time, and inconsistent for different users. In our stochastic optimization, user activities are required to be synchronized with a backend under a cellular data limit to avoid overcharges from cellular operators. The mobile device is charged intermittently using wireless or wired charging for receiving the required energy for transmission and sensing …
Automatically Locating Malicious Packages In Piggybacked Android Apps, Li Li, Daoyuan Li, Tegawende Bissyande, Jacques Klein, Haipeng Cai, David Lo, Yves Le Traon
Automatically Locating Malicious Packages In Piggybacked Android Apps, Li Li, Daoyuan Li, Tegawende Bissyande, Jacques Klein, Haipeng Cai, David Lo, Yves Le Traon
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
To devise efficient approaches and tools for detecting malicious packages in the Android ecosystem, researchers are increasingly required to have a deep understanding of malware. There is thus a need to provide a framework for dissecting malware and locating malicious program fragments within app code in order to build a comprehensive dataset of malicious samples. Towards addressing this need, we propose in this work a tool-based approach called HookRanker, which provides ranked lists of potentially malicious packages based on the way malware behaviour code is triggered. With experiments on a ground truth set of piggybacked apps, we are able to …
Adviser+: Toward A Usable Web-Based Algorithm Portfolio Deviser, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir, Xiang Li Li, Lingxiao Jiang
Adviser+: Toward A Usable Web-Based Algorithm Portfolio Deviser, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir, Xiang Li Li, Lingxiao Jiang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The present study offers a more user-friendly and parallelized version of a web-based algorithm portfolio generator, called ADVISER. ADVISER is a portfolio generation tool to deliver a group of configurations for a given set of algorithms targeting a particular problem. The resulting configurations are expected to be diverse such that each can perform well on a certain type of problem instances. One issue with ADVISER is that it performs portfolio generation on a single-core which results in long waiting times for the users. Besides that, it lacks of a reporting system with visualizations to tell more about the generated portfolios. …
Ehealthportal: A Social Support Hub For The Active Living Of The Elderly, Di Wang, Ah-Hwee Tan
Ehealthportal: A Social Support Hub For The Active Living Of The Elderly, Di Wang, Ah-Hwee Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The absolute and relative increases in the number of elderly are evident worldwide, from the most developed countries to the lowest-income regions. The fast demographic transition poses great challenges to the healthcare system and introduces a significant burden to the elderly and their family. To meet the unprecedented challenges of global aging, various aging-in-place (AIP) solutions have been proposed to enable the elderly to live in their own home and community safely, independently and comfortably. Elderly need support in various aspects, such as physical, cognitive, emotional, and social, in their daily life. However, most existing AIP solutions provide support in …
Elderly Friendliness Evaluation Of Mobile Assistants, Di Wang, Xinjia Yu, Simon Fauvel, Ah-Hwee Tan, Chunyan Miao
Elderly Friendliness Evaluation Of Mobile Assistants, Di Wang, Xinjia Yu, Simon Fauvel, Ah-Hwee Tan, Chunyan Miao
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The rapidly increasing elderly population in many developed and developing countries poses great challenges to elderly care systems. To alleviate the problem of a shrinking workforce to deliver elderly care, using mobile intelligent assistants to lessen the caregivers' workload becomes a promising solution. However, the friendliness of such mobile assistants, which is seldom measured in a quantitative manner, may hinder their acceptance by the elderly users. In this paper, we propose a formalized systematic approach named Elderly Friendliness Evaluation Methodology (EFEM) to measure the elderly friendliness of any product, service or system. Furthermore, we apply EFEM to evaluate the elderly …
A Compact, Flexible Fiber-Optic Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor With Changeable Sensor Chips, David Michel, Feng Xiao, Kamal Alameh
A Compact, Flexible Fiber-Optic Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor With Changeable Sensor Chips, David Michel, Feng Xiao, Kamal Alameh
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We propose and demonstrate the concept of a novel compact, flexible fiber optic Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensor based on a double-pass Kretschmann-type configuration, where the SPR sensor chip can be replaced for various sensing applications. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed fiber-optic SPR structure has a sensitivity to salt concentration of around 4.8 μW/ppt.
Mergeable And Revocable Identity-Based Encryption, Shengmin Xu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo
Mergeable And Revocable Identity-Based Encryption, Shengmin Xu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Identity-based encryption (IBE) has been extensively studied and widely used in various applications since Boneh and Franklin proposed the first practical scheme based on pairing. In that seminal work, it has also been pointed out that providing an efficient revocation mechanism for IBE is essential. Hence, revocable identity-based encryption (RIBE) has been proposed in the literature to offer an efficient revocation mechanism. In contrast to revocation, another issue that will also occur in practice is to combine two or multiple IBE systems into one system, e.g., due to the merge of the departments or companies. However, this issue has not …
Convergence Technologies For Sensor Systems In The Next Generation Networks, Conor Gildea, Declan Barber
Convergence Technologies For Sensor Systems In The Next Generation Networks, Conor Gildea, Declan Barber
The ITB Journal
This paper describes an approach to the internetworking of sensory nodes in a converged network environment. This preliminary investigation of sensory network creation is driven by a joint applied research project which seeks to establish the feasibility of the real-time remote monitoring of animal welfare while in transit between Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. This paper examines the use of Java to create sensor services in converging architectures which leverage the Internetworking protocols and describes our implementation of such a system.
Neural Networks For Real-Time Pathfinding In Computer Games, Ross Graham, Hugh Mccabe, Stephen Sheridan
Neural Networks For Real-Time Pathfinding In Computer Games, Ross Graham, Hugh Mccabe, Stephen Sheridan
The ITB Journal
One of the greatest challenges in the design of realistic Artificial Intelligence (Al) in computer games is agent movement. Pathfinding strategies are usually employed as the core of any AI movement system. The two main components for basic real-time pathfinding are (i) travelling towards a specified goal and (ii) avoiding dynamic and static obstacles that may litter the path to this goal. The focus of this paper is how machine learning techniques, such as Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, can be used to enhance an AI agent's ability to handle pathfinding in real-time by giving them an awareness of …
Emotion Authentication: A Method For Voice Integrity Checking, C. Reynolds, L. Vasiu, M. Smith
Emotion Authentication: A Method For Voice Integrity Checking, C. Reynolds, L. Vasiu, M. Smith
The ITB Journal
When people communicate with telephone type systems, it is often assumed that the listener would notice any modification of the speaker's voice. It is possible however to introduce small changes that would not be noticed by a listener but could modify the reading of a Voice Stress Analyser, popularly referred to as a lie detector. Existing approaches to checking the integrity of voice require significant amounts of processing or are able to detect only non-subtle modification such as change of speaker. With the advent of real time voice modification using software and hardware based signal processing, we argue that it …
Strengthening The Practices Of An Agile Methodology?, Jimmy Doody, Amanda O'Farrell
Strengthening The Practices Of An Agile Methodology?, Jimmy Doody, Amanda O'Farrell
The ITB Journal
An investigation into how the software development process in an agile environment (Extreme Programming) can be aided by intelligent software, leading to the development of a tool that will automate the process of standardising and clarifying source code. The tool will also speed up and aid the testing process, by producing test objects based on the source code, and by providing full test tracking, without having a negative impact on the development process. By making the coding and testing processes more automated, the research aims to evaluate the following hypotheses: 1. That the programmer's productivity can be increased by the …
Setting Up And Mentoring In Coderdojo Dublin 15, Arnold Hensman
Setting Up And Mentoring In Coderdojo Dublin 15, Arnold Hensman
The ITB Journal
Initilally beginning in Ireland, CoderDojo is a non-profit organisation that has grown rapidly into a global network of community based programming clubs. Mentors teach coding skills to young people aged between 7 and 17. All classes are free of charge and clubs operate entirely on a volunteer basis. The first Dublin 15 based CoderDojo began just over two years ago and continues to thrive during weekend sessions held at The Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB), which offers the use of its premises and resources for the sessions. This paper will chronicle the involvement of ITB staff and students with the …