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Sugarmate: Non-Intrusive Blood Glucose Monitoring With Smartphones, Weixi Gu, Yuxun Zhou, Zimu Zhou, Xi Liu, Han Zou, Pei Zhang, Costas J. Spanos, Lin Zhang Sep 2017

Sugarmate: Non-Intrusive Blood Glucose Monitoring With Smartphones, Weixi Gu, Yuxun Zhou, Zimu Zhou, Xi Liu, Han Zou, Pei Zhang, Costas J. Spanos, Lin Zhang

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Inferring abnormal glucose events such as hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia is crucial for the health of both diabetic patients and non-diabetic people. However, regular blood glucose monitoring can be invasive and inconvenient in everyday life. We present SugarMate, a first smartphone-based blood glucose inference system as a temporary alternative to continuous blood glucose monitors (CGM) when they are uncomfortable or inconvenient to wear. In addition to the records of food, drug and insulin intake, it leverages smartphone sensors to measure physical activities and sleep quality automatically. Provided with the imbalanced and often limited measurements, a challenge of SugarMate is the inference …


On-Demand Developer Documentation, Martin P. Robillard, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Gabriele Bavota, Oscar Chaparro, Neil Ernst, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Michael Godfrey, Michele Lanza, Mario Linares-Vasquez, Gail C. Murphy, Laura Moreno, David Shepherd, Edmund Wong Sep 2017

On-Demand Developer Documentation, Martin P. Robillard, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Gabriele Bavota, Oscar Chaparro, Neil Ernst, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Michael Godfrey, Michele Lanza, Mario Linares-Vasquez, Gail C. Murphy, Laura Moreno, David Shepherd, Edmund Wong

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We advocate for a paradigm shift in supporting the information needs of developers, centered around the concept of automated on-demand developer documentation. Currently, developer information needs are fulfilled by asking experts or consulting documentation. Unfortunately, traditional documentation practices are inefficient because of, among others, the manual nature of its creation and the gap between the creators and consumers. We discuss the major challenges we face in realizing such a paradigm shift, highlight existing research that can be leveraged to this end, and promote opportunities for increased convergence in research on software documentation.


Inferring Spread Of Readers’ Emotion Affected By Online News, Agus Sulistya, Ferdian Thung, David Lo Sep 2017

Inferring Spread Of Readers’ Emotion Affected By Online News, Agus Sulistya, Ferdian Thung, David Lo

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Depending on the reader, A news article may be viewed from many different perspectives, thus triggering different (and possibly contradicting) emotions. In this paper, we formulate a problem of predicting readers’ emotion distribution affected by a news article. Our approach analyzes affective annotations provided by readers of news articles taken from a non-English online news site. We create a new corpus from the annotated articles, and build a domain-specific emotion lexicon and word embedding features. We finally construct a multi-target regression model from a set of features extracted from online news articles. Our experiments show that by combining lexicon and …


Automated Android Application Permission Recommendation, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Xin Xia, Shanping Li Sep 2017

Automated Android Application Permission Recommendation, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Xin Xia, Shanping Li

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The number of Android applications has increased rapidly as Android is becoming the dominant platform in the smartphone market. Security and privacy are key factors for an Android application to be successful. Android provides a permission mechanism to ensure security and privacy. This permission mechanism requires that developers declare the sensitive resources required by their applications. On installation or during runtime, users are required to agree with the permission request. However, in practice, there are numerous popular permission misuses, despite Android introducing official documents stating how to use these permissions properly. Some data mining techniques (e.g., association rule mining) have …


Audiosense: Sound-Based Shopper Behavior Analysis System, Amit Sharma, Youngki Lee Sep 2017

Audiosense: Sound-Based Shopper Behavior Analysis System, Amit Sharma, Youngki Lee

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This paper presents AudioSense, the system to monitor user-item interactions inside a store hence enabling precisely customized promotions. A shopper's smartwatch emits sound every time the shopper picks up or touches an item inside a store. This sound is then localized, in 2D space, by calculating the angles of arrival captured by multiple microphones deployed on the racks. Lastly, the 2D location is mapped to specific items on the rack based on the rack layout information. In our initial experiments conducted with a single rack with 16 compartments, we could localize the shopper's smartwatch with a median estimation error of …


Nlp2code: Code Snippet Content Assist Via Natural Language Tasks, Brock A. Campbell, Christoph Treude Sep 2017

Nlp2code: Code Snippet Content Assist Via Natural Language Tasks, Brock A. Campbell, Christoph Treude

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Developers increasingly take to the Internet for code snippets to integrate into their programs. To save developers the time required to switch from their development environments to a web browser in the quest for a suitable code snippet, we introduce NLP2Code, a content assist for code snippets. Unlike related tools, NLP2Code integrates directly into the source code editor and provides developers with a content assist feature to close the vocabulary gap between developers’ needs and code snippet meta data. Our preliminary evaluation of NLP2Code shows that the majority of invocations lead to code snippets rated as helpful by users and …


Github And Stack Overflow: Analyzing Developer Interests Across Multiple Social Collaborative Platforms, Ka Wei Roy Lee, David Lo Sep 2017

Github And Stack Overflow: Analyzing Developer Interests Across Multiple Social Collaborative Platforms, Ka Wei Roy Lee, David Lo

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Increasingly, software developers are using a wide array of social collaborative platforms for software development and learning. In this work, we examined the similarities in developer’s interests within and across GitHub and Stack Overflow. Our study finds that developers share common interests in GitHub and Stack Overflow; on average, 39% of the GitHub repositories and Stack Overflow questions that a developer had participated fall in the common interests. Also, developers do share similar interests with other developers who co-participated activities in the two platforms. In particular, developers who co-commit and co-pull-request same GitHub repositories and co-answer same Stack Overflow questions, …


Loopster: Static Loop Termination Analysis, Xiaofei Xie, Bihuan Chen, Liang Zou, Shang-Wei Lin, Yang Liu, Xiaohong Li Sep 2017

Loopster: Static Loop Termination Analysis, Xiaofei Xie, Bihuan Chen, Liang Zou, Shang-Wei Lin, Yang Liu, Xiaohong Li

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Loop termination is an important problem for proving the correctness of a system and ensuring that the system always reacts. Existing loop termination analysis techniques mainly depend on the synthesis of ranking functions, which is often expensive. In this paper, we present a novel approach, named Loopster, which performs an efficient static analysis to decide the termination for loops based on path termination analysis and path dependency reasoning. Loopster adopts a divide-and-conquer approach: (1) we extract individual paths from a target multi-path loop and analyze the termination of each path, (2) analyze the dependencies between each two paths, and then …


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 Aug 2017

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

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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 Aug 2017

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

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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 Aug 2017

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

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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 …


Toward Accurate Network Delay Measurement On Android Phones, Weichao Li, Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang, Ricky K. P. Mok Aug 2017

Toward Accurate Network Delay Measurement On Android Phones, Weichao Li, Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang, Ricky K. P. Mok

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Measuring and understanding the performance of mobile networks is becoming very important for end users and operators. Despite the availability of many measurement apps, their measurement accuracy has not received sufficient scrutiny. In this paper, we appraise the accuracy of smartphone-based network performance measurement using the Android platform and the network round-trip time (RTT) as the metric. We show that two of the most popular measurement apps-Ookla Speedtest and MobiPerf-have their RTT measurements inflated. We build three test apps that cover three common measurement methods and evaluate them in a testbed. We overcome the main challenge of obtaining a complete …


Flexible Online Task Assignment In Real-Time Spatial Data, Yongxin Tong, Libin Wang, Zimu Zhou, Bolin Ding, Lei Chen, Jieping Ye, Ke Xu Aug 2017

Flexible Online Task Assignment In Real-Time Spatial Data, Yongxin Tong, Libin Wang, Zimu Zhou, Bolin Ding, Lei Chen, Jieping Ye, Ke Xu

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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 …


Managing Sensor Systems For Early Detection Of Mild Cognitive Impairment In Community Elderly: Lessons Learned And Future Work, Boon Thai Ng, Hwee-Pink Tan, Hwee Xian Tan Aug 2017

Managing Sensor Systems For Early Detection Of Mild Cognitive Impairment In Community Elderly: Lessons Learned And Future Work, Boon Thai Ng, Hwee-Pink Tan, Hwee Xian Tan

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The aging population is a pertinent issue faced by governments globally. One of the most common and costly health issues associated with the aging population is cognitive decline, leading up to dementia. In this paper, we describe a non-intrusive, continuous and scalable system for early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in the elderly, which enables early medical interventions to be provided. We focus on the system design and feature extraction of the sensor system, to validate our hypothesis of the use of sensor systems for early detection of MCI. Lessons learned from deploying the sensor system is presented, together …


Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim Jul 2017

Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim

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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 …


Ehealthportal: A Social Support Hub For The Active Living Of The Elderly, Di Wang, Ah-Hwee Tan Jul 2017

Ehealthportal: A Social Support Hub For The Active Living Of The Elderly, Di Wang, Ah-Hwee Tan

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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 Jul 2017

Elderly Friendliness Evaluation Of Mobile Assistants, Di Wang, Xinjia Yu, Simon Fauvel, Ah-Hwee Tan, Chunyan Miao

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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 …


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 Jul 2017

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

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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 …


Mergeable And Revocable Identity-Based Encryption, Shengmin Xu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo Jul 2017

Mergeable And Revocable Identity-Based Encryption, Shengmin Xu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo

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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 …


Automatically Locating Malicious Packages In Piggybacked Android Apps, Li Li, Daoyuan Li, Tegawende Bissyande, Jacques Klein, Haipeng Cai, David Lo, Yves Le Traon Jul 2017

Automatically Locating Malicious Packages In Piggybacked Android Apps, Li Li, Daoyuan Li, Tegawende Bissyande, Jacques Klein, Haipeng Cai, David Lo, Yves Le Traon

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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 …


Cyber Foraging: Fifteen Years Later, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jason Flinn Jul 2017

Cyber Foraging: Fifteen Years Later, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jason Flinn

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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.


Mopeye: Opportunistic Monitoring Of Per-App Mobile Network Performance, Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang, Weichao Li, Eric K. T. Cheng, Debin Gao Jul 2017

Mopeye: Opportunistic Monitoring Of Per-App Mobile Network Performance, Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang, Weichao Li, Eric K. T. Cheng, Debin Gao

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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 …


Jfix: Semantics-Based Repair Of Java Programs Via Symbolic Pathfinder, Xuan Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Goues Le, Willem Visser Jul 2017

Jfix: Semantics-Based Repair Of Java Programs Via Symbolic Pathfinder, Xuan Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Goues Le, Willem Visser

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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 Jul 2017

Iupdater: Low Cost Rss Fingerprints Updating For Device-Free Localization, Liqiong Chang, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Xiaojiang Chen, Junhao Hu, Dingyi Fang

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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 …


Adviser+: Toward A Usable Web-Based Algorithm Portfolio Deviser, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir, Xiang Li Li, Lingxiao Jiang Jul 2017

Adviser+: Toward A Usable Web-Based Algorithm Portfolio Deviser, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir, Xiang Li Li, Lingxiao Jiang

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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. …


Cloud-Based Query Evaluation For Energy-Efficient Mobile Sensing, Tianli Mo, Lipyeow Lim, Sougata Sen, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee Jul 2017

Cloud-Based Query Evaluation For Energy-Efficient Mobile Sensing, Tianli Mo, Lipyeow Lim, Sougata Sen, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee

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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. …


Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim Jul 2017

Fast Adaptation Of Activity Sensing Policies In Mobile Devices, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Dusit Niyato, Shaowei Lin, Hwee-Pink Tan, Dong In Kim

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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 …


A Decidable Fragment In Separation Logic With Inductive Predicates And Arithmetic, Quang Loc Le, Makoto Tatsuta, Jun Sun, Wei-Ngan Chin Jul 2017

A Decidable Fragment In Separation Logic With Inductive Predicates And Arithmetic, Quang Loc Le, Makoto Tatsuta, Jun Sun, Wei-Ngan Chin

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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 …


Ubiear: Bringing Location-Independent Sound Awareness To The Hard-Of-Hearing People With Smartphones, Sicong Liu, Zimu Zhou, Junzhao Du, Longfei Shangguan, Jun Han, Xin Wang Jun 2017

Ubiear: Bringing Location-Independent Sound Awareness To The Hard-Of-Hearing People With Smartphones, Sicong Liu, Zimu Zhou, Junzhao Du, Longfei Shangguan, Jun Han, Xin Wang

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Non-speech sound-awareness is important to improve the quality of life for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people. DHH people, especially the young, are not always satisfied with their hearing aids. According to the interviews with 60 young hard-of-hearing students, a ubiquitous sound-awareness tool for emergency and social events that works in diverse environments is desired. In this paper, we design UbiEar, a smartphone-based acoustic event sensing and notification system. Core techniques in UbiEar are a light-weight deep convolution neural network to enable location-independent acoustic event recognition on commodity smartphons, and a set of mechanisms for prompt and energy-efficient acoustic sensing. …


Battery-Aware Mobile Data Service, Liang He, Guozhu Meng, Yu Gu, Cong Liu, Jun Sun, Ting Zhu, Yang Liu, Kang G. Shin Jun 2017

Battery-Aware Mobile Data Service, Liang He, Guozhu Meng, Yu Gu, Cong Liu, Jun Sun, Ting Zhu, Yang Liu, Kang G. Shin

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Significant research has been devoted to reduce the energy consumption of mobile devices, but how to increase their energy supply has received far less attention. Moreover, reducing the energy consumption alone does not always extend the device operation time due to a unique battery property - the capacity it delivers hinges critically upon how it is discharged. In this paper, we propose B-MODS, a novel design of battery-aware mobile data service on mobile devices. B-MODS constructs battery-friendly discharge patterns utilizing the recovery effect so as to increase the capacity delivered from batteries while meeting data service requirements. We implement B-MODS …