Ruirui Bai, Weixiong Rao, Mingxuan Yuan, Jia Zeng, Jianfeng Yan
{"title":"Context Aware Telco Churn Prediction Powered By Temporal Feature Engineering","authors":"Ruirui Bai, Weixiong Rao, Mingxuan Yuan, Jia Zeng, Jianfeng Yan","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480416","url":null,"abstract":"It is still challenging in telecommunication (Telco) industry to precisely predict those who will churn from the current Telco operator to another one in next month. State of art approaches suffer from the issue that the predicted churners might be those silent customers with trivial profits to Telco operators. Thus, it is quite necessary to focus on the churn prediction problem with respect to active customers, instead of silent ones. Thus, we propose 3 kinds of new features in order to capture the context-aware customer behaviour in terms of temporal features. Such features include long-range Feature, trend feature and regression-based feature for Telco churn prediction. After that, we employ an ensemble process on the base learners: Random Forst (RF), XGB and GBDT + SVM. Experimental results confirm that the prediction performance has been improved by using these new features. From millions of active customers, this system can provide a list of prepaid customers who are most likely to churn in the next month, having 0.69 precision for the top 25000 predicted churners in the list. At the same time, achieve 44.69% improvement when given $5 times 10 ^{4}$.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123351694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Mining IoT Data for Evaluating the Operation of Public Educational Buildings","authors":"Na Zhu, A. Anagnostopoulos, I. Chatzigiannakis","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480226","url":null,"abstract":"Public educational systems operate thousands of buildings with vastly different characteristics in terms of size, age, location, construction, thermal behavior and user communities. Their strategic planning and sustainable operation is an extremely complex and requires quantitative evidence on the performance of buildings such as the interaction of indoor-outdoor environment. Internet of Things (IoT) deployments can provide the necessary data to evaluate, redesign and eventually improve the organizational and managerial measures. In this work a data mining approach is presented to analyze the sensor data collected over a period of 2 years from an IoT infrastructure deployed over 18 school buildings spread in Greece, Italy and Sweden. The real-world evaluation indicates that data mining on sensor data can provide critical insights to building managers and custodial staff about ways to lower a buildings energy footprint through effectively managing building operations.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122461317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kentaro Noda, Yoshihiro Wada, S. Saiki, Masahide Nakamura, K. Yasuda
{"title":"Implementing Personalized Web News Delivery Service Using Tales Of Familiar Framework","authors":"Kentaro Noda, Yoshihiro Wada, S. Saiki, Masahide Nakamura, K. Yasuda","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480203","url":null,"abstract":"We have previously proposed the framework of Tales of Familiar (ToF), where an agent (called familiar) autonomously delivers information from various data streams as exclusively personalized tales for individual users. Based on the To framework, this paper implements a news delivery service, where a stuffed doll (as a familiar) tells a user the latest and personally selected news headlines, by matching user’s interests with Web news resources. In the implementation, we especially address three challenges: duplication of tales, value estimation of tales, and delivery timing of tales. We deploy the service in an actual household. The empirical result shows that the subject felt it useful that the familiar pushed his interesting news, automatically. We also evaluate how much the developed service was able to cover the technical issues.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131137931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of the Detection of Pedestrian Flow Using Bluetooth Low Energy","authors":"Tomoya Kitazato, Masaki Ito, K. Sezaki","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480336","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of human mobility data provide us many important insights. For example, a detailed analysis of human mobility in urban space can provide important insights into gathering events. This insight is useful when addressing urban planning and public safety issues, and serves as a powerful tool for solving traffic congestion, early detection of social unrest, and so on. The analysis of human mobility in an indoor space such as in a museum exhibition, can assist us in anticipating the behavior of visitors; and in the early recognition of potential problems, such as the buildup of foot traffic at specific points. However, there is no universally accepted method for easily sensing human mobility. To address this problem, we developed a novel method to detect pedestrian flow using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Our approach is based on the assumption that a BLE beacon is always affixed to the pedestrian. Thus, the individual’s velocity can be readily determined by analyzing the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of their BLE beacon. Apart from velocity, the direction of the pedestrian can also be determined by detecting their BLE beacon with multiple sensors. In this investigation, we evaluated the proposed method using both experimental real- world data and simulations. Participants with BLE beacons walked straight in a hall while the RSSI of their beacons was monitored from a moving sensor. This information was used to estimate the velocities of the beacons. We also simulated the RSSIs of the beacons and estimated their velocities under various conditions. Our results indicate that the proposed method can precisely detect the velocities of pedestrians.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133372454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Energy-efficient Sensor Networks by Minimizing Sensors Numbers with a Machine Learning Model","authors":"Zhishu Shen, K. Yokota, A. Tagami, T. Higashino","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480343","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing demand to construct sensor networks for a smart IoT (Internet of Things) world, numerous sensors with sensing and communication capabilities are expected to be deployed in the future. Thanks to the development of hardware manufacture technology, relatively small IoT smart sensors are now commercially available and cost-effective. However, the total power required by operating these sensors is expected to be enormous, due to their large number and frequent activity. Removing “unneeded sensors” is the most direct way to reduce the power consumption of sensor networks. Here, “unneeded sensors” refers to those that can be placed in sleep mode, or even be removed from the network topology entirely, without serious impact on the overall networks data processing performance. In this paper, we report the development of an energy-efficient sensor network by using a machine learning model to determine the actual necessity of all the sensors in a sensor network. Machine learning model is introduced to identify unneeded sensors by comparing the data from neighboring sensors to that from the potentially unneeded ones. For identifying unneeded sensors, different strategies with different computational complexity are also proposed. Numerical experiments conducted in two real indoor environments verify that our proposed scheme can reduce the total number of active sensors by around 1/3, while maintaining more than 90% of the original high monitoring performance of the sensor network.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124523865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scalable and Adaptive Polling Protocol for ConcurrentWireless Sensor Data Flows","authors":"Manos Koutsoubelias, A. Argyriou, S. Lalis","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480129","url":null,"abstract":"The uncoordinated transmission of sensor measure- ments to a collector over simple wireless technologies can lead to severely degraded performance when operating close to channel capacity. In this case, it can be far more effective to let the collector poll the sensor nodes to retrieve their data. We propose a coordinated protocol that exploits the broadcast ca- pability of the wireless channel to eliminate contention between nodes and to minimize the number of packet transmissions performed at each poll. Furthermore, to let the protocol follow the dynamic changes in the sensor data generation rate, we propose an application-agnostic method for estimating the data generation rate of each node locally, and extend the protocol so that the collector dynamically adjusts the polling rate accordingly. Our method is based on a Kalman filter tuned for stable data generation rates, which is controlled via simple signals generated at runtime by the underlying polling protocol. We experimentally evaluate an implementation of our protocol for different data traffic scenarios using real nodes that communicate with the collector over IEEE 802.15.4 radio, showing that the collector can successfully track the actual data rate for both periodic and stochastic data generation.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130945185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stavros Nousias, C. Tselios, Dimitris Bitzas, O. Orfila, S. Jamson, P. Mejuto, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, O. Akrivopoulos, I. Chatzigiannakis, A. Lalos, K. Moustakas
{"title":"Managing nonuniformities and uncertainties in vehicle-oriented sensor data over next generation networks","authors":"Stavros Nousias, C. Tselios, Dimitris Bitzas, O. Orfila, S. Jamson, P. Mejuto, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, O. Akrivopoulos, I. Chatzigiannakis, A. Lalos, K. Moustakas","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480342","url":null,"abstract":"Detailed and accurate vehicle-oriented sensor data is considered fundamental for efficient vehicle-to-everything V2X communication applications, especially in the upcoming highly heterogeneous, brisk and agile 5G networking era. Information retrieval, transfer and manipulation in real-time offers a small margin for erratic behavior, regardless of its root cause. This paper presents a method for managing nonuniformities and uncertainties found on datasets, based on an elaborate Matrix Completion technique, with superior performance in three distinct cases of vehicle-related sensor data, collected under real driving conditions. Our approach appears capable of handling sensing and communication irregularities, minimizing at the same time the storage and transmission requirements of Multi-access Edge Computing applications.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116443527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Karyotis, Konstantinos Tsitseklis, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, S. Papavassiliou
{"title":"Enhancing Community Detection for Big Sensor Data Clustering via Hyperbolic Network Embedding","authors":"V. Karyotis, Konstantinos Tsitseklis, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, S. Papavassiliou","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480134","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a novel big data clustering approach for measurements obtained from pervasive sensor networks. To address the potential very large scale of such datasets, we map the problem of data clustering to a community detection one. Datasets are cast in the form of graphs, representing the relations among individual observations and data clustering is mapped to node clustering (community detection) in the data graph. We propose a novel computational approach for enhancing the traditional Girvan-Newman (GN) community detection algorithm via hyperbolic network embedding. The data dependency graph is embedded in the hyperbolic space via Rigel embedding, making it possible to compute more efficiently the hyperbolic edge-betweenness centrality (HEBC) needed in the modified GN algorithm. This allows for more efficient clustering of the nodes of the data graph without significantly sacrificing accuracy. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach with artificial network and data topologies, and real benchmark datasets. The proposed methodology can be used for efficient clustering of datasets obtained from massive pervasive smart city/building sensor networks, such as the FIESTA-IoT platform, and exploited in various applications such as lower-cost sensing.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121205327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Propagation Based Model for Communication in Vehicular Cloud","authors":"Puya Ghazizadeh, Reza Fathi","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480399","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Cloud, a new concept that merges Cloud Computing and Vehicular Network is an example of pervasive computing. This idea is based on of benefiting from the unused vehicles parked in a specific location for a period of time by running a computational operation. Because of the embedded access point in vehicles, Vehicular Clouds are main part of Internet of Things. One of the challenges in Vehicular Cloud is the communication between the vehicles. Because of dynamic nature of Vehicular Clouds, communication links may emerge and fail randomly which leads to connection failure in the entire network. Here we use the underlying network structure to propose a new strategy to mitigate this failure of service. We use label propagation method in order to cluster the network. In short, the idea is to connect a computation node with nodes within the community rather than nodes outside the community. This model increases the locality which is the main factor in performance optimization.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116310428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Kalogiros, K. Lagouvardos, S. Nikoletseas, Nikos Papadopoulos, Pantelis Tzamalis
{"title":"Allergymap: A Hybrid mHealth Mobile Crowdsensing System for Allergic Diseases Epidemiology : a multidisciplinary case study","authors":"L. Kalogiros, K. Lagouvardos, S. Nikoletseas, Nikos Papadopoulos, Pantelis Tzamalis","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480280","url":null,"abstract":"Based on its large-scale, ubiquitous sensing ability of the physical world and its direct interaction with users, Mobile Crowd Sensing can be used for public health monitoring and improvement of the quality of life of patients. This paper presents Allergymap, a mHealth mobile crowdsensing system that aims to address several aspects of management of allergic diseases, like identification of allergens season onsets, patient stratification, control of allergy and monitoring treatment progress. Subjective data inputs from users, as well as objective environmental data from fixed stations, are inserted into the system (in a privacy-aware manner) for further processing and analysis, and finally exporting data visualization in distinct spatial maps The envisioned system attempts in a novel way to combine a hybrid architecture for analysis and visualization of allergens and irritants onsets, as well as new methods for increasing patient’s stratification to treatment. Also, some additional features are implemented for motivating users to become members of Allergymap community and enhance its potential. The system is currently deployed and validated in a multidisciplinary case study for Greece but is general enough to be used in any region.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117332637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}