{"title":"M2M Rendezvous Redundancy for the Internet of Things","authors":"Andrew Attwood, O. Abuelma'atti, P. Fergus","doi":"10.1109/DESE.2013.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DESE.2013.17","url":null,"abstract":"Machine to Machine communication will play an important role in enabling the Internet of Things. Devices in both home and industrial settings will cooperate to create smart spaces. Devices will communicate with each other autonomously, enabling them to make decisions to reach an optimal environmental goal. The nature of their deployment will involve these devices having to operate under extreme conditions, such as during a fire, flooding or following an explosion. Events such as these would usually cause a reduction in the number of devices that originally constituted the system. Individual device loss might be temporary or permanent. Devices might not be active at the time of failure and may be sleeping due to the low power requirements to extend device longevity. It is important that when devices wake they can obtain the information they require and if a device is destroyed that its last known state is preserved in the system. Preserving the last know state of a device also provides a useful source of information for post failure analysis as well as the continued operation of the system during the event. This paper details our rendezvous state redundancy protocol for the Internet of Things. We then validate the use of position relative topologies when creating distributed hash tables for redundancy in wireless mesh IoT sensor networks. We then provide an evaluation of the keying mechanism used to provide optimal redundancy for given failure patterns.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123316648","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":"Towards Lifestyle-Oriented and Personalised E-Services for Elderly Care","authors":"H. Tawfik, Obinna Anya","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.69","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to demographic changes towards an increasing elderly population, research efforts have focused on exploring new service models aimed to ensure increased active and quality health and social life for the elderly. However, existing approaches often treat the elderly as compliant individuals, and deliver services through a series of discrete care episodes that hardly take account of the varied needs and lifestyles of the elderly, nor connect to the social networks, things and places around which the elderly have progressively built their lives. This position paper proposes to investigate the concept of personal lifestyle as an approach for informing the design of personalised e-services for elderly care. The goal is to identify the unmet needs and preferences of the elderly, and consequently develop lifestyle-oriented personalised active ageing e-services that take account of their usual habits, preconditions, preferences and circumstances in the provisioning of healthcare services to support independent living.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126633610","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":"ContextMorph: A Model of Context-Aware Cross-Boundary Decision Support in E-Health","authors":"Obinna Anya, H. Tawfik, A. Nagar","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.70","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in information technology have generated remarkable shifts in the way people share information and harness peer opinion across geographical boundaries for better decision-making. However, leveraging this development for cross-boundary clinical decision support in e-health poses a significant challenge. This is because information sharing in healthcare is more than simple transfer of information. It is realized within a complex structure of clinical work practices, including problem-based conversational encounters about a clinical situation, shared perceptions of the information, and practice-driven appraisal of evidence and peer opinion that vary across geographical and workplace boundaries. This paper proposes the concept of ContextMorph as a technique for adaptively transforming information across the work boundaries of an e-health environment to suit a user's local work context, problem requirements and clinical work practices. We describe the conceptual architecture of, and our approach to formalizing, ContextMorph.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122976111","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":"EEG-based Driver Fatigue Detection","authors":"Hamzah S. AlZu'bi, W. Al-Nuaimy, N. Al-Zubi","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.28","url":null,"abstract":"Fatigue is a gradual process leads to a slower reaction time. Fatigue is the major cause of road accidents around the globe. This paper proposes, implements and tests a system to detect fatigue based on Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. The system produces fatigue index which is relevant to the level of subject's drowsiness. The input to the system is EEG signal which is measured by inexpensive single electrode neuro-signal acquisition device. The system was tested on locally collected dataset for a car simulation driver in different drowsiness levels. The system was able to detect the fatigue level for all subjects in different levels of tiredness.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116514338","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":"Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation-Based Localization Algorithms for Mobile Devices","authors":"Mohammad Abdul Azim, Z. Aung","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.20","url":null,"abstract":"Localization precision remains active and open challenge in the area of wireless networks. For static network we develop model free approach of localization technique that by-passes the tedious modeling of diverse aspects to the contributing factor of localization errors, namely simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) localization technique. The improved version of SPSA, simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation by neighbor confidence (SPSA-NC) addresses error propagation of iterative localization controlled by incorporating a neighbor confidence matrix. The centralized SPSA and SPSA-NC does not scale well for the mobile environment due to the messaging requirements of repeated updates. We take distributed approaches to implement the aforementioned localization techniques for mobile devices by distributed simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (DSPSA) and distributed simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation by neighbor confidence (DSPSA-NC) respectively, compare the results with the centroid (C) and weighted centroid (WC) localization techniques and show superiority of our methods.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"1 35","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132748084","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":"Active Learning System in the Context of the Social Semantic Web","authors":"I. Szilagyi, Ana Roxin, I. Roxin","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.67","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the concept and the implementation of an Active Semantic Learning System that takes advantage of the Social Semantic Web in order to deliver an efficient and personalized learning experience to the learner. Active participation of the learner is encouraged through the social learning approach and through techniques that adapt the learning content to learners' needs and preferences. The semantic layer allows us to define a common understanding of the data used to describe the objects in the learning system. The objects in the learning system are described using semantic web technologies. Domain ontologies and explicit logic rules are defined in order to allow data inferences and reasoning at the system level.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115539284","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}
Daniel Gutiérrez-Reina, Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, S. T. Marín, C. Dobre, F. Barrero
{"title":"Analysis of Probabilistic Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks Using the Percolation Theory","authors":"Daniel Gutiérrez-Reina, Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, S. T. Marín, C. Dobre, F. Barrero","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.18","url":null,"abstract":"Opportunistic networks are mobile networks that rely on the store-carry-and-forward paradigm, using contacts between nodes to opportunistically transfer data. For this reason, traditional routing mechanisms are no longer suitable. To increase the success of successful message delivery, different probability-based techniques were previously studies by various authors. Here we address the question of how much of the forwarding probability of an ON has to be increased, in order for the network to achieve a given desired hit rate. We propose an approach based on percolation theory, which explains the influence of forwarding probability in a network's performance, and we try to prove that such a phenomenon is indeed present in ONs. We demonstrate, through extensive experiments, that the transition phase can be indeed observed in ONs when the forwarding probability is varied from 0 to 0.1. After the transition phase, little benefit is obtained in terms of reachability (exponential relationship) when the forwarding probability is increased. In contrast, the delivery cost increases much faster than the reachability after the transition phase. Consequently, increasing the forwarding probability only impacts on metrics like the delivery cost and latency since high reachability can be assumed in opportunistic networks.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128594651","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":"Agents' Monitoring Approach for Big Data","authors":"M. Randles, D. Lamb, Andrew Attwood","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.42","url":null,"abstract":"Data sources are becoming more prevalent as digital devices in the form of sensor networks, capture and record vast amounts of individual and environmental data. Much of this data is to some extent redundant, as it is captured or held at many locations, or is of a low priority level, so can safely be ignored. The distributed nature of such data, however, means that it is impossible to identify redundant or useless information without full scale analysis. The velocity of data arrival, the volume of data and the heterogeneous nature (variety) of the data makes this task unfeasible for any real time analysis, which is becoming more desirable in real world situations. Thus this paper is looking to utilize a multi-agent system or federation of agents to analyse data in a distributed manner. The method of setting up such an agent team is proposed so as to engender a cohesive team ethos endowing the agent federation with the power of a single agent's goal. It is then shown that this leads to a specific network topology to emerge within the agent team. Furthermore such a topology allows an acquaintance monitoring algorithm to be applied. This is shown to actively attenuate and prioritize data by suggesting only those sensor nodes that are likely to be in possession of useful and non-redundant data, using only data local to each agent team member. The results are gained, in this first instance, by a simulation.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129325409","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":"Using of Cement Kiln Dust as a Mineral Admixture to Produce Sustainable Self-Compacting Concrete","authors":"K. Najim, Zaher Shakir Mahmood","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.60","url":null,"abstract":"the use of waste/by-product materials in concrete technology has been increasingly popular as it makes the aim of sustainable development achievable. This paper presents an experimental study that aimed to find out the possibility of using the Cement Kiln Dust (CKD) as a cement replacement material. Different percentage replacements (10%, 20%, and 30% by weight of cement) were used in producing Self-compacting concrete SCC. The fresh and mechanical properties of four mixes were experimentally evaluated. The results showed that incorporating CKD led to deteriorate both fresh and mechanical strength. However, structural concrete (SCC) (in terms of strength) to be used in general civil engineering infrastructure projects could be easily produced. Where, with 30% wt CKD replacement, SCC having 25MPa compressive strength (cylinder specimen) was achieved.","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129989650","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":"Novel Multivariate Time Series Clustering Approach for E-Governance of Crime Data","authors":"B. Chandra, Manish Gupta","doi":"10.1109/DeSE.2013.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DeSE.2013.62","url":null,"abstract":"In recent past, there is an increased interest in multivariate time series (MTS) clustering research due to its wide applications in various areas such as finance, environmental research, multimedia and crime. The traditional similarity measures like correlation, Euclidean distance etc. cannot be applied to measure the similarity among data objects of MTS since every data object of MTS is in the form of a matrix. Although, some similarity measures like dynamic time warping (DTW), and extended Frobenius norm (Eros) have been introduced in the past for finding similarity among MTS data objects, they are either computationally expensive or inefficient for carrying out clustering of MTS datasets. In this paper, an efficient similarity measure has been introduced which outperforms the existing similarity measures. This paper also introduces a two phase methodology for e-governance of crime data with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The first phase forms homogeneous groups of objects using MTS clustering based on the proposed similarity measure and the second phase measures the performance of homogeneous groups using Malmquist data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. The proposed similarity measure for MTS and two phase methodology can be applied to wide variety of real world problems. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been illustrated on Indian crime data. Firstly, MTS clustering using proposed similarity measure is used to cluster various police administration units (PAUs) such as states, districts and police stations based on similar crime trends. Secondly, PAUs are ranked on the basis of their effective enforcement of crime prevention measures using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).","PeriodicalId":248716,"journal":{"name":"2013 Sixth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130623525","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}