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Athman Bouguettaya

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arXiv2020

Event-based Detection of Changes in IaaS Performance Signatures

We propose a novel ECA approach to manage changes in IaaS performance signatures. The proposed approach relies on the detection of anomalous performance behavior in the context of IaaS performance signatures. A novel anomaly-based event detection technique is proposed. It utilizes the experience of free trial users to detect potential changes in IaaS performance signatures. A signature change detection technique is proposed using the cumulative sum control chart analysis. Additionally, a self-adjustment method is introduced to improve the accuracy of the proposed approach. A set of experiments based on real-world datasets are conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

A Game-Theoretic Drone-as-a-Service Composition for Delivery

We propose a novel game-theoretic approach for drone service composition considering recharging constraints. We design a non-cooperative game model for drone services. We propose a non-cooperative game algorithm for the selection and composition of optimal drone services. We conduct several experiments on a real drone dataset to demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

Fluid Composition of Intermittent IoT Energy Services

We propose a novel fluid composition approach of wireless energy services in a crowdsourced IoT environment. The proposed approach selects an optimal set of dynamic energy services according to the consumer's requirements. We leverage the mobility patterns of the crowd in confined areas to capture the intermittent behavior of IoT energy services. We model the IoT energy services based on their mobility patterns to propose a knapsack-based heuristic for the fluid composition. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

Fine-grained Conflict Detection of IoT Services

We propose a novel framework to detect conflicts among IoT services in a multi-resident smart home. A fine-grained conflict model is proposed considering the functional and non-functional properties of IoT services. The proposed conflict model is designed using the concept of entropy and information gain from information theory. We use a novel algorithm based on temporal proximity to detect conflicts. Experimental results on real-world datasets show the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

Incentive-Based Selection and Composition of IoT Energy Services

We propose a novel incentive-based framework for composing energy service requests. An incentive model is designed that considers the context of the providers and consumers to determine rewards for sharing wireless energy. We propose a novel priority scheduling approach to compose energy service requests that maximizes the reward of the provider. A set of exhaustive experiments with a dataset and collected IoT users' behavior is conducted to evaluate the proposed approach. Experimental results prove the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

Service mining for Internet of Things

A service mining framework is proposed that enables discovering interesting relationships in Internet of Things services bottom-up. The service relationships are modeled based on spatial-temporal aspects, environment, people, and operation. An ontology-based service model is proposed to describe services. We present a set of metrics to evaluate the interestingness of discovered service relationships. Analytical and simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed evaluation measures.

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arXiv2020

Just-in-Time Memoryless Trust for Crowdsourced IoT Services

We propose just-in-time memoryless trust for crowdsourced IoT services. We leverage the characteristics of the IoT service environment to evaluate their trustworthiness. A novel framework is devised to assess a service's trust without relying on previous knowledge, i.e., memoryless trust. The framework exploits service-session-related data to offer a trust value valid only during the current session, i.e., just-in-time trust. Several experiments are conducted to assess the efficiency of the proposed framework.

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arXiv2020

Enabling Edge Cloud Intelligence for Activity Learning in Smart Home

We propose a novel activity learning framework based on Edge Cloud architecture for the purpose of recognizing and predicting human activities. Although activity recognition has been vastly studied by many researchers, the temporal features that constitute an activity, which can provide useful insights for activity models, have not been exploited to their full potentials by mining algorithms. In this paper, we utilize temporal features for activity recognition and prediction in a single smart home setting. We discover activity patterns and temporal relations such as the order of activities from real data to develop a prompting system. Analysis of real data collected from smart homes was used to validate the proposed method.

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arXiv2020

Cognitive Amplifier for Internet of Things

We present a Cognitive Amplifier framework to augment things part of an IoT, with cognitive capabilities for the purpose of improving life convenience. Specifically, the Cognitive Amplifier consists of knowledge discovery and prediction components. The knowledge discovery component focuses on finding natural activity patterns considering their regularity, variations, and transitions in real life setting. The prediction component takes the discovered knowledge as the base for inferring what, when, and where the next activity will happen. Experimental results on real-life data validate the feasibility and applicability of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS) for Delivery

We propose a novel framework for composing Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS) for delivery. Two composition approaches, i.e., sequential and parallel are designed considering the different behaviors of drone swarms. The proposed framework considers various constraints, e.g., recharging time and limited battery to meet delivery deadlines. We propose SDaaS composition algorithms using a modified A* algorithm. A cooperative behavior model is incorporated to reduce recharging and waiting time in a delivery. Experimental results prove the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

A Conflict Detection Framework for IoT Services in Multi-resident Smart Homes

We propose a novel framework to detect conflicts among IoT services in a multi-resident smart home. A novel IoT conflict model is proposed considering the functional and non-functional properties of IoT services. We design a conflict ontology that formally represents different types of conflicts. A hybrid conflict detection algorithm is proposed by combining both knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches. Experimental results on real-world datasets show the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2020

Social-Sensor Composition for Tapestry Scenes

The extensive use of social media platforms and overwhelming amounts of imagery data creates unique opportunities for sensing, gathering and sharing information about events. One of its potential applications is to leverage crowdsourced social media images to create a tapestry scene for scene analysis of designated locations and time intervals. The existing attempts however ignore the temporal-semantic relevance and spatio-temporal evolution of the images and direction-oriented scene reconstruction. We propose a novel social-sensor cloud (SocSen) service composition approach to form tapestry scenes for scene analysis. The novelty lies in utilising images and image meta-information to bypass expensive traditional image processing techniques to reconstruct scenes. Metadata, such as geolocation, time and angle of view of an image are modelled as non-functional attributes of a SocSen service. Our major contribution lies on proposing a context and direction-aware spatio-temporal clustering and recommendation approach for selecting a set of temporally and semantically similar services to compose the best available SocSen services. Analytical results based on real datasets are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2018

Mobile Crowdsourced Sensors Selection for Journey Services

We propose a mobile crowdsourced sensors selection approach to improve the journey planning service especially in areas where no wireless or vehicular sensors are available. We develop a location estimation model of journey services based on an unsupervised learning model to select and cluster the right mobile crowdsourced sensors that are accurately mapped to the right journey service. In our model, the mobile crowdsourced sensors trajectories are clustered based on common features such as speed and direction. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework is efficient in selecting the right crowdsourced sensors.

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arXiv2018

A Deep Learning Spatiotemporal Prediction Framework for Mobile Crowdsourced Services

This papers presents a deep learning-based framework to predict crowdsourced service availability spatially and temporally. A novel two-stage prediction model is introduced based on historical spatio-temporal traces of mobile crowdsourced services. The prediction model first clusters mobile crowdsourced services into regions. The availability prediction of a mobile crowdsourced service at a certain location and time is then formulated as a classification problem. To determine the availability duration of predicted mobile crowdsourced services, we formulate a forecasting task of time series using the Gramian Angular Field. We validated the effectiveness of the proposed framework through multiple experiments.

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