Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling: An Orienteering Problem With Time-Dependent Profits And Travel Times,
2019
Singapore Management University
Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling: An Orienteering Problem With Time-Dependent Profits And Travel Times, Guansheng Peng, Reginald Dewil, Cédric Verbeeck, Aldy Gunawan, Lining Xing, Pieter Vansteenwegen
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The scheduling problem of an Agile Earth Observation Satellite is to schedule a subset of weighted observation tasks with each a specific “profit” in order to maximize the total collected profit, under its operational constraints. The “time-dependent transition time” and the “time-dependent profit” are two crucial features of this problem. The former relates to the fact that each pair of consecutive tasks requires a transition time to maneuver the look angle of the camera from the previous task to the next task. The latter follows from the fact that a different look angle of an observation leads to a different …
Sieve: Helping Developers Sift Wheat From Chaff Via Cross-Platform Analysis,
2019
PT Telkon Indonesia
Sieve: Helping Developers Sift Wheat From Chaff Via Cross-Platform Analysis, Agus Sulistya, Gede A. A. P. Prana, David Lo, Christoph Treude
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Software developers have benefited from various sources of knowledge such as forums, question-and-answer sites, and social media platforms to help them in various tasks. Extracting software-related knowledge from different platforms involves many challenges. In this paper, we propose an approach to improve the effectiveness of knowledge extraction tasks by performing cross-platform analysis. Our approach is based on transfer representation learning and word embedding, leveraging information extracted from a source platform which contains rich domain-related content. The information extracted is then used to solve tasks in another platform (considered as target platform) with less domain-related content. We first build a word …
Rplidar A2 Accuracy,
2019
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Rplidar A2 Accuracy, Ramiro O. Garcia
STAR Program Research Presentations
Traffic is not only a source of frustration but also a leading cause of death for people under 35 years of age. Recent research has focused on how driver assistance technology can be used to mitigate traffic fatalities and create more enjoyable commutes. In addition, self-driving vehicles can reduce fuel consumption the amount by 5% and increases the number of cars on the highway. To achieve this we need to research reliable sensors. This summer I research Rplidar A2 sensor which hopefully will be responsible for recording distance to the preceding car and helping prevent Insider Attacks or Misbehaviors of …
Preference Learning And Similarity Learning Perspectives On Personalized Recommendation,
2019
Singapore Management University
Preference Learning And Similarity Learning Perspectives On Personalized Recommendation, Duy Dung Le
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Personalized recommendation, whose objective is to generate a limited list of items (e.g., products on Amazon, movies on Netflix, or pins on Pinterest, etc.) for each user, has gained extensive attention from both researchers and practitioners in the last decade. The necessity of personalized recommendation is driven by the explosion of available options online, which makes it difficult, if not downright impossible, for each user to investigate every option. Product and service providers rely on recommendation algorithms to identify manageable number of the most likely or preferred options to be presented to each user. Also, due to the limited screen …
Exploiting Approximation, Caching And Specialization To Accelerate Vision Sensing Applications,
2019
Singapore Management University
Exploiting Approximation, Caching And Specialization To Accelerate Vision Sensing Applications, Nguyen Loc Huynh
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Over the past few years, deep learning has emerged as state-of-the-art solutions for many challenging computer vision tasks such as face recognition, object detection, etc. Despite of its outstanding performance, deep neural networks (DNNs) are computational intensive, which prevent them to be widely adopted on billions of mobile and embedded devices with scarce resources. To address that limitation, we
focus on building systems and optimization algorithms to accelerate those models, making them more computational-efficient.
First, this thesis explores the computational capabilities of different existing processors (or co-processors) on modern mobile devices. It recognizes that by leveraging the mobile Graphics Processing …
A Case Study On Automated Fuzz Target Generation For Large Codebases,
2019
Singapore Management University
A Case Study On Automated Fuzz Target Generation For Large Codebases, Matthew Kelly, Christoph Treude, Alex Murray
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing improvements to available Fuzz Testing tools and frameworks in order to improve efficiency. In this paper however, we instead look at a way in which we can reduce the amount of developer time required to integrate Fuzz Testing to help maintain an existing codebase. We accomplish this with a new technique for automatically generating Fuzz Targets, the modified versions of programs on which …
A Machine Learning Model For Clustering Securities,
2019
Southern Methodist University
A Machine Learning Model For Clustering Securities, Vanessa Torres, Travis Deason, Michael Landrum, Nibhrat Lohria
SMU Data Science Review
In this paper, we evaluate the self-declared industry classifications and industry relationships between companies listed on either the Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) markets. Large corporations typically operate in multiple industries simultaneously; however, for investment purposes they are classified as belonging to a single industry. This simple classification obscures the actual industries within which a company operates, and, therefore, the investment risks of that company.
By using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques on Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, we obtained self-defined industry classifications per company. Using clustering techniques such as Hierarchical Agglomerative and k-means clustering we …
Successful Shot Locations And Shot Types Used In Ncaa Men’S Division I Basketball,
2019
Northern Michigan University
Successful Shot Locations And Shot Types Used In Ncaa Men’S Division I Basketball, Olivia D. Perrin
All NMU Master's Theses
The primary purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of court location (distance and angle from basket) and shot types used on shot success in NCAA Men’s DI basketball during the 2017-18 season. A secondary purpose was to further expand the analysis based on two additional factors: player position (guard, forward, or center) and team ranking. All statistical analyses were completed in RStudio and three binomial logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate factors that influence shot success; one for all two and three point shot attempts, one for only two point attempts, and one for only …
Multiagent Decision Making And Learning In Urban Environments,
2019
Singapore Management University
Multiagent Decision Making And Learning In Urban Environments, Akshat Kumar
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Our increasingly interconnected urban environments provide several opportunities to deploy intelligent agents—from self-driving cars, ships to aerial drones—that promise to radically improve productivity and safety. Achieving coordination among agents in such urban settings presents several algorithmic challenges—ability to scale to thousands of agents, addressing uncertainty, and partial observability in the environment. In addition, accurate domain models need to be learned from data that is often noisy and available only at an aggregate level. In this paper, I will overview some of our recent contributions towards developing planning and reinforcement learning strategies to address several such challenges present in largescale urban …
A Survey On Bluetooth 5.0 And Mesh: New Milestones Of Iot,
2019
Singapore Management University
A Survey On Bluetooth 5.0 And Mesh: New Milestones Of Iot, Juenjie Yin, Zheng Yang, Hao Cao, Tongtong Liu, Zimu Zhou, Chenshu Wu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
No abstract provided.
Safe Automated Refactoring For Intelligent Parallelization Of Java 8 Streams,
2019
CUNY Hunter College
Safe Automated Refactoring For Intelligent Parallelization Of Java 8 Streams, Raffi Khatchadourian, Yiming Tang, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Syed Ahmed
Publications and Research
Streaming APIs are becoming more pervasive in mainstream Object-Oriented programming languages and platforms. For example, the Stream API introduced in Java 8 allows for functional-like, MapReduce-style operations in processing both finite, e.g., collections, and infinite data structures. However, using this API efficiently involves subtle considerations such as determining when it is best for stream operations to run in parallel, when running operations in parallel can be less efficient, and when it is safe to run in parallel due to possible lambda expression side-effects. Also, streams may not run all operations in parallel depending on particular collectors used in reductions. In …
Tests As Maintainable Assets Via Auto-Generated Spies: A Case Study Involving The Scala Collections Library's Iterator Trait,
2019
Loyola University Chicago
Tests As Maintainable Assets Via Auto-Generated Spies: A Case Study Involving The Scala Collections Library's Iterator Trait, Konstantin Läufer, John O'Sullivan, George K. Thiruvathukal
Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In testing stateful abstractions, it is often necessary to record interactions, such as method invocations, and express assertions over these interactions. Following the Test Spy design pattern, we can reify such interactions programmatically through additional mutable state. Alternatively, a mocking framework, such as Mockito, can automatically generate test spies that allow us to record the interactions and express our expectations in a declarative domain-specific language. According to our study of the test code for Scala’s Iterator trait, the latter approach can lead to a significant reduction of test code complexity in terms of metrics such as code size (in some …
Practical And Effective Sandboxing For Linux Containers,
2019
Singapore Management University
Practical And Effective Sandboxing For Linux Containers, Zhiyuan Wan, David Lo, Xin Xia, Liang Cai
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
A container is a group of processes isolated from other groups via distinct kernel namespaces and resource allocation quota. Attacks against containers often leverage kernel exploits through the system call interface. In this paper, we present an approach that mines sandboxes and enables fine-grained sandbox enforcement for containers. We first explore the behavior of a container by running test cases and monitor the accessed system calls including types and arguments during testing. We then characterize the types and arguments of system call invocations and translate them into sandbox rules for the container. The mined sandbox restricts the container’s access to …
Lightweight And Efficient Neural Natural Language Processing With Quaternion Networks,
2019
Singapore Management University
Lightweight And Efficient Neural Natural Language Processing With Quaternion Networks, Yi Tay, Aston Zhang, Anh Tuan Luu, Jinfeng Rao, Shuai Zhang, Shuohang Wang, Jie Fu, Siu Cheung Hui
SCIS Student Publications
Many state-of-the-art neural models for NLP are heavily parameterized and thus memory inefficient. This paper proposes a series of lightweight and memory efficient neural architectures for a potpourri of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. To this end, our models exploit computation using Quaternion algebra and hypercomplex spaces, enabling not only expressive inter-component interactions but also significantly (75%) reduced parameter size due to lesser degrees of freedom in the Hamilton product. We propose Quaternion variants of models, giving rise to new architectures such as the Quaternion attention Model and Quaternion Transformer. Extensive experiments on a battery of NLP tasks demonstrates the …
Improving 3d Printed Prosthetics With Sensors And Motors,
2019
Bridgewater College
Improving 3d Printed Prosthetics With Sensors And Motors, Rachel Zarin
Honors Projects
A 3D printed hand and arm prosthetic was created from the idea of adding bionic elements while keeping the cost low. It was designed based on existing models, desired functions, and materials available. A tilt sensor keeps the hand level, two motors move the wrist in two different directions, a limit switch signals the fingers to open and close, and another motor helps open and close the fingers. All sensors and motors were built on a circuit board, programmed using an Arduino, and powered by a battery. Other supporting materials include metal brackets, screws, guitar strings, elastic bands, small clamps, …
Semantic Patches For Java Program Transformation (Artifact),
2019
Singapore Management University
Semantic Patches For Java Program Transformation (Artifact), Hong Jin Kang, Thung Ferdian, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The program transformation tool Coccinelle is designed for making changes that is required in many locations within a software project. It has been shown to be useful for C code and has been been adopted for use in the Linux kernel by many developers. Over 6000 commits mentioning the use of Coccinelle have been made in the Linux kernel. Our artifact, Coccinelle4J, is an extension to Coccinelle in order for it to apply program transformations to Java source code. This artifact accompanies our experience report “Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation”, in which we show a case study of applying …
Resource Constrained Deep Reinforcement Learning,
2019
Singapore Management University
Resource Constrained Deep Reinforcement Learning, Abhinav Bhatia, Pradeep Varakantham, Akshat Kumar
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In urban environments, resources have to be constantly matched to the “right” locations where customer demand is present. For instance, ambulances have to be matched to base stations regularly so as to reduce response time for emergency incidents in ERS (Emergency Response Systems); vehicles (cars, bikes among others) have to be matched to docking stations to reduce lost demand in shared mobility systems. Such problems are challenging owing to the demand uncertainty, combinatorial action spaces and constraints on allocation of resources (e.g., total resources, minimum and maximum number of resources at locations and regions). Existing systems typically employ myopic and …
On True Language Understanding,
2019
Singapore Management University
On True Language Understanding, Seng-Beng Ho, Zhaoxia Wang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Despite the relative successes of natural language processing in providing some useful interfaces for users, natural language understanding is a much more difficult issue. Natural language processing was one of the main topics of AI for as long as computers were put to the task of generating intelligent behavior, and a number of systems that were created since the inception of AI have also been characterized as being capable of natural language understanding. However, in the existing domain of natural language processing and understanding, a definition and consensus of what it means for a system to “truly” understand language do …
Developing 5gl Concepts From User Interactions,
2019
Grand Valley State University
Developing 5gl Concepts From User Interactions, David Stuckless Meyer
Masters Theses
In the fulfilling of the contracts generated in Test Driven Development, a developer could be said to act as a constraint solver, similar to those used by a 5th Generation Language(5GL). This thesis presents the hypothesis that 5GL linguistic mechanics, such as facts, rules and goals, will be emergent in the communications of developer pairs performing Test Driven Development, validating that 5GL syntax is congruent with the ways that practitioners communicate. Along the way, nomenclatures and linguistic patterns may be observed that could inform the design of future 5GL languages.
Bincor: An R Package For Estimating The Correlation Between Two Unevenly Spaced Time Series,
2019
Basque Centre for Climate Change - BC3, University of the Basque Country
Bincor: An R Package For Estimating The Correlation Between Two Unevenly Spaced Time Series, Josue M. Polanco-Martinez, Martin A. Medina-Elizalde, Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goni, Manfred Mudelsee
The R Journal
This paper presents a computational program named BINCOR (BINned CORrelation) for estimating the correlation between two unevenly spaced time series. This program is also applicable to the situation of two evenly spaced time series not on the same time grid. BINCOR is based on a novel estimation approach proposed by Mudelsee (2010) for estimating the correlation between two climate time series with different timescales. The idea is that autocorrelation (e.g. an AR1 process) means that memory enables values obtained on different time points to be correlated. Binned correlation is performed by resampling the time series under study into time bins …
