{"title":"Challenges and Opportunities in Rapid Epidemic Information Propagation with Live Knowledge Aggregation from Social Media","authors":"C. Pu, Abhijit Suprem, Rodrigo Alves Lima","doi":"10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00026","url":null,"abstract":"A rapidly evolving situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic is a significant challenge for AI/ML models because of its unpredictability. The most reliable indicator of the pandemic spreading has been the number of test positive cases. However, the tests are both incomplete (due to untested asymptomatic cases) and late (due the lag from the initial contact event, worsening symptoms, and test results). Social media can complement physical test data due to faster and higher coverage, but they present a different challenge: significant amounts of noise, misinformation and disinformation. We believe that social media can become good indicators of pandemic, provided two conditions are met. The first (True Novelty) is the capture of new, previously unknown, information from unpredictably evolving situations. The second (Fact vs. Fiction) is the distinction of verifiable facts from misinformation and disinformation. Social media information that satisfy those two conditions are called live knowledge. We apply evidence-based knowledge acquisition (EBKA) approach to collect, filter, and update live knowledge through the integration of social media sources with authoritative sources. Although limited in quantity, the reliable training data from authoritative sources enable the filtering of misinformation as well as capturing truly new information. We describe the EDNA/LITMUS tools that implement EBKA, integrating social media such as Twitter and Facebook with authoritative sources such as WHO and CDC, creating and updating live knowledge on the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":360326,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132954647","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 Distributed Edge-based Systems","authors":"S. Dustdar, Ilir Murturi","doi":"10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00021","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few years, researchers from academia and industry stakeholders suggest adding more computational resources (i.e., storage, networking, and processing) closer to the end-users and IoT domain, respectively, at the edge of the network. Such computation entities perceived as edge devices aim to overcome high-latency issues between the cloud and the IoT domain. Thus, processing IoT data streams closer to the end-users and IoT domain can solve several operational challenges. Since then, a plethora of application-specific IoT systems are introduced, mainly hard-coded, inflexible, and limited extensibility for future changes. Additionally, most IoT systems maintain a centralized design to operate without considering the dynamic nature of edge networks. In this paper, we discuss some of the research issues, challenges, and potential solutions to enable: i) deploying edge functions on edge resources in a distributed manner and ii) deploying and scaling edge applications on-premises of Edge-Cloud infrastructure. Additionally, we discuss in detail the three-tier Edge-Cloud architecture. Finally, we introduce a conceptual framework that aims to enable easy configuration and deployment of edge-based systems on top of heterogeneous edge infrastructure and present our vision within a smart city scenario.","PeriodicalId":360326,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124620313","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}
Benjamin M. Marlin, T. Abdelzaher, G. Ciocarlie, Adam D. Cobb, Mark S. Dennison, Brian Jalaian, Lance M. Kaplan, Tiffany R. Raber, A. Raglin, P. Sharma, M. Srivastava, T. Trout, Meet P. Vadera, Maggie B. Wigness
{"title":"On Uncertainty and Robustness in Large-Scale Intelligent Data Fusion Systems","authors":"Benjamin M. Marlin, T. Abdelzaher, G. Ciocarlie, Adam D. Cobb, Mark S. Dennison, Brian Jalaian, Lance M. Kaplan, Tiffany R. Raber, A. Raglin, P. Sharma, M. Srivastava, T. Trout, Meet P. Vadera, Maggie B. Wigness","doi":"10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00020","url":null,"abstract":"The resurgence of AI in the recent decade dramatically changes the design of modern sensor data fusion systems, leading to new challenges, opportunities, and research directions. One of these challenges is the management of uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to reason about sources of uncertainty, develops representations of uncertainty, and investigates uncertainty mitigation strategies in modern intelligent data processing systems. Insights are developed into workflow composition that maximizes efficacy at accomplishing mission goals despite the sources of uncertainty, while leveraging a collaboration of humans, algorithms, and machine learning components.","PeriodicalId":360326,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129056705","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":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI) CogMI 2020","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/cogmi50398.2020.00004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/cogmi50398.2020.00004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360326,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129603640","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":"Conference Keynote: Synthesizing Interpretable Behavior for Human-Aware AI Systems","authors":"S. Kambhampati","doi":"10.1109/cogmi50398.2020.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/cogmi50398.2020.00010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360326,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126128909","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":"Social Media and Ubiquitous Technologies for Remote Worker Wellbeing and Productivity in a Post-Pandemic World","authors":"V. D. Swain, Koustuv Saha, G. Abowd, M. Choudhury","doi":"10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CogMI50398.2020.00025","url":null,"abstract":"In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, remote work styles have become the norm. However, these work settings introduce new intricacies in worker behaviors. The overlap between work and home can disrupt performance. The lack of social interaction can affect motivation. This elicits a need to implement novel methods to evaluate and enhance remote worker functioning. The potential to unobtrusively and automatically assess such workers can be fulfilled by social media and ubiquitous technologies. This paper situates recent research in the new context by extending our insights for increased remote interaction and online presence. We present implications for proactive assessment of remote workers by understanding day-level activities, coordination, role awareness, and organizational culture. Additionally, we discuss the ethics of privacy-preserving deployment, employer surveillance, and digital inequity. This paper aims to inspire pervasive technologies for the new future of work.","PeriodicalId":360326,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116534269","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}