Recently, a wide range of smart devices are deployed in a variety of environments to improve the quality of human life. One of the important IoT-based applications is smart homes for healthcare, especially for elders. IoT-based smart homes enable elders' health to be properly monitored and taken care of. However, elder…
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In a voice-controlled smart-home, a controller must respond not only to user's requests but also according to the interaction context. This paper describes Arcades, a system which uses deep reinforcement learning to extract context from a graphical representation of home automation system and to update continuously its…
This paper discusses how usage patterns and preferences of inhabitants can be learned efficiently to allow smart homes to autonomously achieve energy savings. We propose a frequent sequential pattern mining algorithm suitable for real-life smart home event data. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared to …
This paper presents a case study of a recommender system that can be used to save energy in smart homes without lowering the comfort of the inhabitants. We present an algorithm that uses consumer behavior data only and uses machine learning to suggest actions for inhabitants to reduce the energy consumption of their ho…
FedRule uses graph neural networks to recommend rules for smart homes without centralizing data.
problem Manual rule setup for smart devices is inefficient and privacy-compromising.
method FedRule constructs user-specific graphs for rule recommendation, using federated learning to protect privacy.
result FedRule achieves comparable performance to centralized methods and outperforms others.
Human activity recognition using smart home sensors is one of the bases of ubiquitous computing in smart environments and a topic undergoing intense research in the field of ambient assisted living. The increasingly large amount of data sets calls for machine learning methods. In this paper, we introduce a deep learnin…
Federated learning improves wake word detection in smart home devices.
problem Out-of-domain issues with continuously running speech-based models.
method Federated learning with adaptive averaging strategy.
result Reduces communication rounds and upstream communication costs.
SafeAccess identifies people in smart homes for safer access.
problem Enhancing safety and independence for people with disabilities.
method Change detection, Faster-RCNN, LBP/FaceNet, MTCNN, MMS.
result Average F-score of 0.97 for identifying friends/families/caregivers versus intruders/unknown.
New indicator detects financial strain through smart meter data.
problem Fuel poverty in households, affecting millions.
method Smart meters and machine learning for behavior measurement.
result Early detection of financial strain in households.
Smart meters detect dementia patients' daily activities to prevent crises.
problem Monitoring dementia patients' daily activities without intruding.
method Machine learning and signal processing for smart meter load disaggregation.
result SVM and Decision Forest models accurately detect ADLs and routine changes.
Study uses HMM for real-time activity recognition from sensor data.
problem Real-time activity recognition from streaming sensor data.
method Online hierarchical hidden Markov model.
result Improved activity recognition accuracy compared to existing methods.
Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim of extracting insights in processes. Applying process mining techniques on data from smart home environments has the potential to provide valuable insights in (un)healthy habits and to contribute to ambient assisted living solutions. …
AutoTune learns wireless identifiers for facial recognition in real-world settings.
problem Facial recognition requires extensive user training, making it impractical for widespread deployment.
method Uses ambient wireless identifiers to train deep neural networks for facial recognition without user effort.
result Demonstrates a system that continuously refines facial recognition using wireless identifiers over time.
Smart grid uses deep learning to optimize household energy use.
problem Optimizing household energy use under real-time pricing schemes.
method Multi-agent deep actor-critic learning for decentralized agents with partial observability.
result Deep reinforcement learning reduces peak-to-average energy consumption and costs.
We propose a new framework for single-channel source separation that lies between the fully supervised and unsupervised setting. Instead of supervision, we provide input features for each source signal and use convex methods to estimate the correlations between these features and the unobserved signal decomposition. We…
Systematic review of machine vision in robotics, highlighting challenges and improvements.
problem Challenges in machine vision for robotics, especially occlusion and lighting variance.
method Systematic literature review of 172 papers from four databases, selecting 52 relevant papers.
result Robustness and computation time improvements, but occlusion and lighting variance remain major issues.
Smart bin monitors predict medication adherence with high accuracy.
problem Predicting chronic medication adherence to improve healthcare efficiency.
method Machine learning models trained on IoT device data.
result High predictive performance (ROC AUC 0.86).
Optimal buying and selling times for homes in fluctuating interest rates.
problem Maximizing profit from buying and selling homes in a market with variable interest rates.
method Nested optimal stopping problem solved using a nonnegative concave majorant approach.
result Investor's optimal buying and selling strategies derived for CIR interest rates.
Paper tackles federated learning with personalised bandit algorithms.
problem Optimizing local and global objectives in a heterogeneous environment.
method Surrogate objective function combining client preferences and global knowledge; phase-based elimination algorithm.
result Achieves sublinear regret with logarithmic communication overhead.
Paper presents a novel online HAR method using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models.
problem Challenges in robust online activity recognition in smart environments.
method Two-phase approach: 1) Segmentation and activity reporting using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models, 2) Correction of labels based on statistical features.
result Proposes a method that can detect and correct interrupted activities, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
Paper offers local neural network explanations by considering model architecture.
problem Creating true neighbourhoods for black box models.
method Penultimate layer decoding for local neighbourhood generation.
result Local explanations are more accurate and relevant to instances.
The paper introduces mortgage-rate-adjusted home prices to help buyers and adjust housing indices.
problem Impact of mortgage rates on home prices and property purchase decisions.
method Derives mortgage-rate-adjusted 'effective price' and constructs a price-mortgage rate neutrality line.
result Mortgage rates significantly affect home prices over long periods but not during the pandemic.
Economic effects on households of an augmentation of the cash back duration of real estate loanq-fin.CP
Examines how extending home loan durations affects French households financially.
problem Financial implications for households with extended home loan durations.
method Analysis of French and international home loan systems, including bullet loans and Japanese home loans.
result Extending home loan durations can reduce monthly payments but raises financial risks.
New method learns time-varying home field advantage in football.
problem Discovering causal factors behind home field advantage in sports.
method DYNAMO: a novel causal discovery method for non-stationary processes.
result Time-varying home field advantages influenced by referee bias.
With rapid development of the Internet, web contents become huge. Most of the websites are publicly available, and anyone can access the contents from anywhere such as workplace, home and even schools. Nevertheless, not all the web contents are appropriate for all users, especially children. An example of these content…
Study uses SVM to predict weather-induced home insurance claims and losses.
problem Assessing future weather-induced home insurance claims and losses for disaster preparedness.
method Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression for forecasting future claim dynamics.
result Illustrates SVM approach in forecasting weather-induced home insurance claims in a Canadian city.
Efficient neural network improves disaggregation of home energy usage.
problem Estimating power consumption of individual appliances from total home power.
method Fully convolutional neural network architecture with improved computational efficiency.
result Achieves state-of-the-art disaggregation performance with reduced training and prediction times.
Active sensing improves energy breakdown without installing sensors.
problem Reduce energy consumption by providing appliance-level energy breakdown.
method Active learning solution based on low-rank tensor completion.
result Our approach gives better performance with fewer sensors installed.
Analyzes national real estate investment risks and returns.
problem Investors and home buyers face increasing costs and risks.
method Examines economic vulnerabilities and traditional market analysis.
result Ensures positive returns and fair prices for real estate investments.
Crowdsourcing has been successfully applied in many domains including astronomy, cryptography and biology. In order to test its potential for useful application in a Smart Grid context, this paper investigates the extent to which a crowd can contribute predictive hypotheses to a model of residential electric energy con…
Study integrates ESG factors into home price predictions for U.S. cities.
problem Predicting average annual home prices using ESG factors.
method Used P-spline GAM and GLM models, transformed time series data.
result ESG factors influence home prices differently by city.
Proposes a probabilistic framework for smart contract risk quantification.
problem Quantifying financial risk of smart contract cyber attacks and failures.
method Probabilistic graph-theoretical framework using bond percolation models.
result Analytical results and numerical examples for aggregate loss distribution.
Paper proposes auction method for smart derivatives to avoid disputes.
problem Disputes over derivative liquidation processes in smart contracts.
method Defines an auction type resolution for smart derivatives.
result Proposes a beneficial method for smart derivatives participants.
Graph autoencoders enable ML across diverse sensor networks.
problem Deploying ML across different sensor networks with varying types or layouts.
method Graph Autoencoders for activity recognition across heterogeneous sensor networks.
result Transferable activity classifiers achieve 75% accuracy on unseen sensor layouts.
This paper surveys smart buildings using machine learning and big data.
problem Improving comfort and efficiency in smart buildings through data analysis.
method Survey of machine learning and big data techniques for smart buildings.
result Machine learning and big data are crucial for smart building services.
Motion Classification using Kinematically Sifted ACGAN-Synthesized Radar Micro-Doppler Signatureseess.SP
Paper generates synthetic radar signatures for motion classification.
problem Lack of large training datasets for radar-based human activity recognition.
method Adversarial learning for synthetic data generation, kinematic sifting for consistency.
result 93% overall accuracy achieved on diverse aspect angles.
FinTech uses data science and AI to transform finance.
problem Transforming finance with data science and AI.
method DSAI techniques including complex system methods, quantitative methods, etc.
result DSAI enables smart FinTech for various financial sectors.
Twitter releases dataset to study user engagement on Home Timeline, focusing on privacy.
problem Limited exploration of user feedback on Twitter's Home Timeline.
method Release of a large-scale dataset of 160 million Tweets with engagement information.
result Demonstrates challenges in predicting user engagements and privacy concerns.
The paper categorizes four types of scale-up: smart, dumb, forced, and fumbled.
problem Growing ventures in size and maintaining efficiency.
method Identifying modularity and speed as key factors, categorizing four types of scale-up.
result Modularity and speed are crucial for successful scale-up.
Paper explores activity recognition and prediction in real homes using sensor data and video.
problem Improving accuracy of activity recognition and prediction in real home environments.
method Binary sensor data, depth video data, field trial, probabilistic methods, LSTM networks, transfer learning, IIR filter.
result Achieved good accuracy in predicting next sensor event and its mean time of occurrence using LSTM model.
Game theory improves smart road sign security against small perturbations.
problem Ensuring smart road signs are secure from small-scale adversarial attacks.
method Integrates game theory into smart road sign classification to detect imperceptible perturbations.
result Proposes a randomized detection strategy to ensure robustness against worst-case attackers.
Study shows how algorithmic prediction affects US housing market, reducing racial wealth disparities.
problem Impact of algorithmic prediction on housing market and racial wealth disparities.
method Natural experiment using digitization of housing records to study entry, allocation, and prices.
result Digitization leads to increased sale prices for minority-owned homes, reducing racial wealth disparities.
Smart contracts create digital financial derivatives.
problem Creating a new digital financial derivative contract.
method Applied existing smart contract technologies to develop two prototypes.
result Demonstrated feasibility of digital financial derivatives on centralized and DLT platforms.
Improved security of smart contracts by classifying them into four categories.
problem Detecting and classifying vulnerabilities in smart contracts efficiently.
method Used AWD-LSTM for multi-class classification, addressing class imbalance.
result Achieved a weighted average Fbeta score of 90.0%.
Improved multi-user VoiceFilter-Lite model for speech recognition.
problem Limited performance of multi-user VoiceFilter-Lite models.
method Dual learning rate schedule and FiLM for feature conditioning.
result Closed the performance gap between multi-user and single-user VoiceFilter-Lite models.
SMART simplifies data labeling for machine learning.
problem Creating labeled training data for machine learning.
method Intuitive web interface, active learning, inter-rater reliability.
result Reduces the need for labeled data and improves label quality.
Smart Contract-Enabled Procurement under Bounded Demand Variability: A Truncated Normal Approachq-fin.GN
Study develops smart contract framework for procurement under demand variability.
problem Operational and economic implications of smart contract adoption under moderate uncertainty.
method Multi-supplier model with endogenized adoption costs, supplier readiness, and inventory penalties; analytical and numerical results.
result Partial adoption strategies support moderate demand variability, while excessive digital investment reduces profitability.
Automated model tracks mouse behavior in home cages.
problem Confounding analysis in specialized arenas.
method Group Behaviour Model (GBM) using permutation matrix.
result Model captures individual and group behavior.