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Seeking Independent Management Of Problem Behavior: A Proof-Of-Concept Study With Children And Their Teachers, Camellia Zakaria, Richard C. Davis, Zachary Walker Jun 2016

Seeking Independent Management Of Problem Behavior: A Proof-Of-Concept Study With Children And Their Teachers, Camellia Zakaria, Richard C. Davis, Zachary Walker

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Problem behaviors are particularly common in children with neurodevelopmental disorders like Autism and Down syndrome. These behaviors sometimes discourage social inclusion, inhibit learning development, and cause severe injuries, but caregivers are often unable to attend to their children immediately when the behaviors occur. Recent research shows that problem behavior can be automatically detected with wearable devices, but it is still not clear how to reduce caregivers' burdens and facilitate academic, social, and functional development of children with problem behaviors. We conducted a field study at a school with 21 children who exhibit problem behaviors and found that they needed frequent …


Poster: Android Whole-System Control Flow Analysis For Accurate Application Behavior Modeling, Huu Hoang Nguyen Jun 2016

Poster: Android Whole-System Control Flow Analysis For Accurate Application Behavior Modeling, Huu Hoang Nguyen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Android, the modern operating system for smartphones, together with its millions of apps, has become an important part of human life. There are many challenges to analyzing them. It is important to model the mobile systems in order to analyze the behaviors of apps accurately. These apps are built on top of interactions with Android systems. We aim to automatically build abstract models of the mobile systems and thus automate the analysis of mobile applications and detect potential issues (e.g., leaking private data, causing unexpected crashes, etc.). The expected results will be the accuracy models of actual various versions of …


Demo: Ta$Ker: Campus-Scale Mobile Crowd-Tasking Platform, Nikita Jaiman, Thivya Kandappu, Randy Tandriansyah, Archan Misra Jun 2016

Demo: Ta$Ker: Campus-Scale Mobile Crowd-Tasking Platform, Nikita Jaiman, Thivya Kandappu, Randy Tandriansyah, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We design and develop TA$Ker, a real-world mobile crowd- sourcing platform to empirically study the worker responses to various task recommendation and selection strategies.


Condensing Class Diagrams With Minimal Manual Labeling Cost, Xinli Yang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun Jun 2016

Condensing Class Diagrams With Minimal Manual Labeling Cost, Xinli Yang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Traditionally, to better understand the design of a project, developers can reconstruct a class diagram from source code using a reverse engineering technique. However, the raw diagram is often perplexing because there are too many classes in it. Condensing the reverse engineered class diagram into a compact class diagram which contains only the important classes would enhance the understandability of the corresponding project. A number of recent works have proposed several supervised machine learning solutions that can be used for condensing reverse engineered class diagrams given a set of classes that are manually labeled as important or not. However, a …


Automated Identification Of High Impact Bug Reports Leveraging Imbalanced Learning Strategies, Xinli Yang, David Lo, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun Jun 2016

Automated Identification Of High Impact Bug Reports Leveraging Imbalanced Learning Strategies, Xinli Yang, David Lo, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In practice, some bugs have more impact than others and thus deserve more immediate attention. Due to tight schedule and limited human resource, developers may not have enough time to inspect all bugs. Thus, they often concentrate on bugs that are highly impactful. In the literature, high impact bugs are used to refer to the bugs which appear in unexpected time or locations and bring more unexpected effects, or break pre-existing functionalities and destroy the user experience. Unfortunately, identifying high impact bugs from the thousands of bug reports in a bug tracking system is not an easy feat. Thus, an …


Cace: Exploiting Behavioral Interactions For Improved Activity Recognition In Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes, Mohammad Arif Ul Alam, Nirmalya Roy, Archan Misra, Joseph Taylor Jun 2016

Cace: Exploiting Behavioral Interactions For Improved Activity Recognition In Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes, Mohammad Arif Ul Alam, Nirmalya Roy, Archan Misra, Joseph Taylor

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We propose CACE (Constraints And Correlations mining Engine) which investigates the challenges of improving the recognition of complex daily activities in multi-inhabitant smart homes, by better exploiting the spatiotemporal relationships across the activities of different individuals. We first propose and develop a loosely-coupled Hierarchical Dynamic Bayesian Network (HDBN), which both (a) captures the hierarchical inference of complex (macro-activity) contexts from lower-layer microactivity context (postural and improved oral gestural context), and (b) embeds the various types of behavioral correlations and constraints (at both micro-and macro-activity contexts) across the individuals. While this model is rich in terms of accuracy, it is computationally …


Poster: Improving Communication And Communicability With Smarter Use Of Text-Based Messages On Mobile And Wearable Devices, Kenny T. W. Choo Jun 2016

Poster: Improving Communication And Communicability With Smarter Use Of Text-Based Messages On Mobile And Wearable Devices, Kenny T. W. Choo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While smartphones have undoubtedly afforded many modern conveniences such as emails, instant messaging or web search, the notifications from smartphones conversely impact our lives through a deluge of information, or stress arising from expectations that we should turn our immediate attention to them (e.g., work emails). In my latest research, we find that the glanceability of smartwatches may provide an opportunity to reduce the perceived disruption from mobile notifications. Text is a common medium for communication in smart devices, the application of natural language processing on text, together with the physical affordances of smartwatches, present exciting opportunities for research to …


Collective Rumor Correction On The Death Hoax Of A Political Figure In Social Media, Alton Y. K. Chua, Sin-Mei Cheah, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Ee-Peng Lim Jun 2016

Collective Rumor Correction On The Death Hoax Of A Political Figure In Social Media, Alton Y. K. Chua, Sin-Mei Cheah, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Ee-Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Conversations on social media networks that discuss a crisis incident as it unfolds have become a norm in recent years. Left to its own devices, such conversations could quickly degenerate into rumor mills. Little research has thus far examined the correction of rumors on social media. Using the third person effect as a theoretical underpinning, we developed a model of collective rumor correction on social media based on an incident surrounding the death hoax of a political figure. Tweets from Twitter were collected and analyzed for the period when a spike of circulating rumors speculating the demise of Singapore's first …


Multi Faceted Text Classification Using Supervised Machine Learning Models, Abhiteja Gajjala Jun 2016

Multi Faceted Text Classification Using Supervised Machine Learning Models, Abhiteja Gajjala

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In recent year’s document management tasks (known as information retrieval) increased a lot due to availability of digital documents everywhere. The need of automatic methods for extracting document information became a prominent method for organizing information and knowledge discovery. Text Classification is one such solution, where in the natural language text is assigned to one or more predefined categories based on the content. In my research classification of text is mainly focused on sentiment label classification. The idea proposed for sentiment analysis is multi-class classification of online movie reviews. Many research papers discussed the classification of sentiment either positive or …


How Long Will This Live? Discovering The Lifespans Of Software Engineering Ideas, Subhajit Datta, Santonu Sarkar, A. S. M Sajeev Jun 2016

How Long Will This Live? Discovering The Lifespans Of Software Engineering Ideas, Subhajit Datta, Santonu Sarkar, A. S. M Sajeev

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We all want to be associated with long lasting ideas; as originators, or at least, expositors. For a tyro researcher or a seasoned veteran, knowing how long an idea will remain interesting in the community is critical in choosing and pursuing research threads. In the physical sciences, the notion of half-life is often evoked to quantify decaying intensity. In this paper, we study a corpus of 19,000+ papers written by 21,000+ authors across 16 software engineering publication venues from 1975 to 2010, to empirically determine the half-life of software engineering research topics. In the absence of any consistent and well-accepted …


Qcri At Semeval-2016 Task 4: Probabilistic Methods For Binary And Ordinal Quantification, Giovanni Da San Martino, Wei Gao, Fabrizio Sebastiani Jun 2016

Qcri At Semeval-2016 Task 4: Probabilistic Methods For Binary And Ordinal Quantification, Giovanni Da San Martino, Wei Gao, Fabrizio Sebastiani

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. (2016). n. In , pages 58—63, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. (1st place in sub-task E of Sentiment Analysis in Twitter)


Deepsense: A Gpu-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Framework On Commodity Mobile Devices, Huynh Nguyen Loc, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee Jun 2016

Deepsense: A Gpu-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Framework On Commodity Mobile Devices, Huynh Nguyen Loc, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recently, a branch of machine learning algorithms called deep learning gained huge attention to boost up accuracy of a variety of sensing applications. However, execution of deep learning algorithm such as convolutional neural network on mobile processor is non-trivial due to intensive computational requirements. In this paper, we present our early design of DeepSense - a mobile GPU-based deep convolutional neural network (CNN) framework. For its design, we first explored the differences between server-class and mobile-class GPUs, and studied effectiveness of various optimization strategies such as branch divergence elimination and memory vectorization. Our results show that DeepSense is able to …


Demo: Gpu-Based Image Recognition And Object Detection On Commodity Mobile Devices, Loc Nguyen Huynh, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee Jun 2016

Demo: Gpu-Based Image Recognition And Object Detection On Commodity Mobile Devices, Loc Nguyen Huynh, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee

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In this demo, we show that it is feasible to execute CNN for vision sensing tasks directly on mobile devices by leveraging integrated GPU. We propose our design of DeepSense framework based on OpenCL to execute deep learning algorithms in energy-efficient and fast manner.


Jasper: Sensing Gamers' Emotions Using Physiological Sensors, Sinh Huynh, Youngki Lee, Taiwoo Park, Rajesh Krishna Balan Jun 2016

Jasper: Sensing Gamers' Emotions Using Physiological Sensors, Sinh Huynh, Youngki Lee, Taiwoo Park, Rajesh Krishna Balan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper aims to develop a system that evaluates the emotional experience of gamers based on physiological changes. A within-subject experiment with 22 participants has been designed to investigate the effects of difficulty level and social playing mode on player emotions and to examine the correlation between each emotion and the physiological changes. We demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity wearable physiological sensing devices to recognize mobile gamer's emotion. Specifically, our system performs 3-level excitement classification at an accuracy of 77.38% and binary classification of happiness state at an accuracy of 73.21%. These classification results show the potential of using …


Small Scale Deployment Of Seat Occupancy Detectors, Nguyen Huy Hoang Huy, Gihan Hettiarachchi, Youngki Lee, Rajesh Krishna Balan Jun 2016

Small Scale Deployment Of Seat Occupancy Detectors, Nguyen Huy Hoang Huy, Gihan Hettiarachchi, Youngki Lee, Rajesh Krishna Balan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we present the results of a small-scale field deployment of our capacitance-based seat occupancy detector. We deployed our sensors to 36 seats in our university library and measured the performance of our system over a period of 8 weeks. As part of this deployment, we had to tackle numerous real-world deployment issues such as hardware failure, variations in signal quality, and interference caused by multiple objects in near proximity. We present our overall system design, along with the modifications we made to tackle various real-world problems. Finally, we present the results of our deployment which showed that …


Designing And Comparing Multiple Portfolios Of Parameter Configurations For Online Algorithm Selection, Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir Jun 2016

Designing And Comparing Multiple Portfolios Of Parameter Configurations For Online Algorithm Selection, Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Algorithm portfolios seek to determine an effective set of algorithms that can be used within an algorithm selection framework to solve problems. A limited number of these portfolio studies focus on generating different versions of a target algorithm using different parameter configurations. In this paper, we employ a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach to determine a promising range of values for each parameter of an algorithm. These ranges are further processed to determine a portfolio of parameter configurations, which would be used within two online Algorithm Selection approaches for solving different instances of a given combinatorial optimization problem effectively. We …


Strategic Planning For Setting Up Base Stations In Emergency Medical Systems, Supriyo Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham Jun 2016

Strategic Planning For Setting Up Base Stations In Emergency Medical Systems, Supriyo Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Emergency Medical Systems (EMSs) are an important component of public health-care services. Improving infrastructure for EMS and specifically the construction of base stations at the ”right” locations to reduce response times is the main focus of this paper. This is a computationally challenging task because of the: (a) exponentially large action space arising from having to consider combinations of potential base locations, which themselves can be significant; and (b) direct impact on the performance of the ambulance allocation problem, where we decide allocation of ambulances to bases. We present an incremental greedy approach to discover the placement of bases that …


Robust Partial Order Schedules For Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Pradeep Varakantham, Hoong Chuin Lau Jun 2016

Robust Partial Order Schedules For Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Pradeep Varakantham, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this work, we consider RCPSP/max with durational uncertainty. We focus on computing robust Partial Order Schedules (or, in short POS) which can be executed with risk controlled feasibility and optimality, i.e., there is stochastic posteriori quality guarantee that the derived POS can be executed with all constraints honored and completion before robust makespan. To address this problem, we propose BACCHUS: a solution method on Benders Accelerated Cut Creation for Handling Uncertainty in Scheduling. In our proposed approach, we first give an MILP formulation for the deterministic RCPSP/max and partition the model into POS generation process and start time schedule …


Poster: A Device-Free Evaluation System For Gymnastics Using Passive Rfid Tags, Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen, Anwen Wang, Zhanyong Tang Jun 2016

Poster: A Device-Free Evaluation System For Gymnastics Using Passive Rfid Tags, Binbin Xie, Jie Xiong, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen, Anwen Wang, Zhanyong Tang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

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Dual Formulations For Optimizing Dec-Pomdp Controllers, Akshat Kumar, Hala Mostafa, Shlomo Zilberstein Jun 2016

Dual Formulations For Optimizing Dec-Pomdp Controllers, Akshat Kumar, Hala Mostafa, Shlomo Zilberstein

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Decentralized POMDP is an expressive model for multi-agent planning. Finite-state controllers (FSCs)---often used to represent policies for infinite-horizon problems---offer a compact, simple-to-execute policy representation. We exploit novel connections between optimizing decentralized FSCs and the dual linear program for MDPs. Consequently, we describe a dual mixed integer linear program (MIP) for optimizing deterministic FSCs. We exploit the Dec-POMDP structure to devise a compact MIP and formulate constraints that result in policies executable in partially-observable decentralized settings. We show analytically that the dual formulation can also be exploited within the expectation maximization (EM) framework to optimize stochastic FSCs. The resulting EM algorithm …


Geometric Aspects And Auxiliary Features To Top-K Processing [Advanced Seminar], Kyriakos Mouratidis Jun 2016

Geometric Aspects And Auxiliary Features To Top-K Processing [Advanced Seminar], Kyriakos Mouratidis

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Top-k processing is a well-studied problem with numerous applications that is becoming increasingly relevant with the growing availability of recommendation systems and decision making software on PCs, PDAs and smart-phones. The objective of this seminar is twofold. First, we will delve into the geometric aspects of top-k processing. Second, we will cover complementary features to top-k queries that have a strong geometric nature. The seminar will close with insights in the effect of dimensionality on the meaningfulness of top-k queries, and interesting similarities to nearest neighbor search.


An Experimental Investigation Of Product Competition And Marketing In Social Networks, Cen Chen, Zhiling Guo, Shih-Fen Cheng, Hoong Chuin Lau Jun 2016

An Experimental Investigation Of Product Competition And Marketing In Social Networks, Cen Chen, Zhiling Guo, Shih-Fen Cheng, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We conduct computational experiment using Facebook data to evaluate competing firms’ initial market seeding and subsequent targeted marketing strategies that influence consumers’ new product adoption decisions. We find that firms generally overspend their advertising budget in the market seeding phase. In the subsequent market advertising phase, a coupon strategy (equivalent to price discount) generally yields higher market share than the strategy of distributing free product samples. The effect is more significant when both price and product quality are low. We offer managerial insights into firms’ effective competition strategies for new product introduction in the presence of consumers’ word of mouth …


An Economic Analysis Of Consumer Learning For Online Entertainment Shopping, Jin Li, Zhiling Guo, Geoffrey K.F. Tso Jun 2016

An Economic Analysis Of Consumer Learning For Online Entertainment Shopping, Jin Li, Zhiling Guo, Geoffrey K.F. Tso

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Entertainment shopping supported by pay-to-bid auction is an emerging online business model in recent years. Consumers expect both entertainment value and monetary return from their participation in entertainment shopping. We propose a dynamic structural model to study consumers’ online shopping behavior. We analyze the learning process of consumers from two perspectives based on the Bayesian updating framework: (1) consumers update their beliefs about the entertainment value through their repeated personal participation experiences, and (2) consumers infer the expected monetary payoffs on the website by observing the publically available auction ending price information. We estimate the model using a large dataset …


Efficient Multi-Class Selective Sampling On Graphs, Peng Yang, Peilin Zhao, Zhen Hai, Wei Liu, Hoi, Steven C. H., Xiao-Li Li Jun 2016

Efficient Multi-Class Selective Sampling On Graphs, Peng Yang, Peilin Zhao, Zhen Hai, Wei Liu, Hoi, Steven C. H., Xiao-Li Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A graph-based multi-class classification problem is typically converted into a collection of binary classification tasks via the one-vs.-all strategy, and then tackled by applying proper binary classification algorithms. Unlike the one-vs.-all strategy, we suggest a unified framework which operates directly on the multi-class problem without reducing it to a collection of binary tasks. Moreover, this framework makes active learning practically feasible for multi-class problems, while the one-vs.-all strategy cannot. Specifically, we employ a novel randomized query technique to prioritize the informative instances. This query technique based on the hybrid criterion of "margin" and "uncertainty" can achieve a comparable mistake bound …


Poster: Air Quality Friendly Route Recommendation System, Savina Singla, Divya Bansal, Archan Misra Jun 2016

Poster: Air Quality Friendly Route Recommendation System, Savina Singla, Divya Bansal, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

To model the overall personal inhalation of hazardous gases through the air (both indoor and outdoor) by an individual, provide air quality friendly route recommendations, thus raising the overall quality of urban movement and living healthy life.


Demo: Smartwatch Based Shopping Gesture Recognition, Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan, Sharanya Eswaran, Sougata Sen, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan Jun 2016

Demo: Smartwatch Based Shopping Gesture Recognition, Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan, Sharanya Eswaran, Sougata Sen, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In the current retail segment, the retail store owners are keen to understand the browsing behavior and purchase pattern of the shoppers inside the physical stores. Profiling the behavior of the shopper is key to success for any marketing strategies that can optimize or personalize shopping-related services in real-time. We envision that exploiting the knowledge of real-time behavior of shopper’s in-store activities enables novel applications such as: (a) targeted advertising or recommendations: based on longer term shopper profiles, (b) proactive retail help to assist the shoppers who are confused in choosing between two items, (c) smart reminders that can remind …


Adaptable Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption With Time Interval, Siqi Ma, Junzuo Lai, Deng, Robert H., Xuhua Ding Jun 2016

Adaptable Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption With Time Interval, Siqi Ma, Junzuo Lai, Deng, Robert H., Xuhua Ding

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In this paper, we introduce a new cryptographic primitive: adaptable KP-ABE with time interval (KP-TIABE), which is an extension of key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE). Adaptable KP-TIABE specifies a decryption time interval for every ciphertext such that the ciphertext can only be decrypted within this time interval. To be more flexible, the decryption time interval associated with a ciphertext can be adjusted on demand by a semi-trusted server. We propose a formal model for adaptable KP-TIABE, present a concrete adaptable KP-TIABE scheme and prove its security under the security model.


Value-Inspired Elderly Care Service Design For Aging-In-Place, Na Liu, Sandeep Purao, Hwee-Pink Tan Jun 2016

Value-Inspired Elderly Care Service Design For Aging-In-Place, Na Liu, Sandeep Purao, Hwee-Pink Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Most current projects aimed at in-home monitoring for the elderly appear to focus on demonstrating technical feasibility and ensuring safety. In doing so, they often overlook the complexity of the interactions between the elderly and the caregivers. This study explores this complexity by adopting a value-inspired design perspective. Following an action design method, we describe the (re)design of the system and service protocol for an elderly-home monitoring effort. The work requires that we leverage the capabilities (of the technological infrastructure system as well as the service providers) to reconcile the values held by the participants (the elderly and their caregivers). …


Indoor Location Error-Detection Via Crowdsourced Multi-Dimensional Mobile Data, Savina Singla, Archan Misra Jun 2016

Indoor Location Error-Detection Via Crowdsourced Multi-Dimensional Mobile Data, Savina Singla, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We explore the use of multi-dimensional mobile sensing data as a means of identifying errors in one or more of those data streams. More specifically, we look at the possibility of identifying indoor locations with likely incorrect/stale Wi-Fi fingerprints, by using concurrent readings from Wi-Fi and barometer sensors from a collection of mobile devices. Our key contribution is a novel two-step process: (i) using longitudinal, crowd-sourced readings of (possibly incorrect) Wi-Fi location estimates to statistically estimate the barometer calibration offset of individual mobile devices, and (ii) then, using such offset-corrected barometer readings from devices (that are supposedly collocated) to identify …


Cdrep: Automatic Repair Of Cryptographic-Misuses In Android Applications, Siqi Ma, David Lo, Teng Li, Robert H. Deng Jun 2016

Cdrep: Automatic Repair Of Cryptographic-Misuses In Android Applications, Siqi Ma, David Lo, Teng Li, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cryptography is increasingly being used in mobile applications to provide various security services; from user authentication, data privacy, to secure communications. However, there are plenty of mistakes that developers could accidentally make when using cryptography in their mobile apps and such mistakes can lead to a false sense of security. Recent research efforts indeed show that a significant portion of mobile apps in both Android and iOS platforms misused cryptographic APIs. In this paper, we present CDRep, a tool for automatically repairing cryptographic misuse defects in Android apps. We classify such defects into seven types and manually assemble the corresponding …