Andreas Kanavos, T. Panagiotakopoulos, Gerasimos Vonitsanos, M. Maragoudakis, Y. Kiouvrekis
{"title":"Forecasting Winter Precipitation based on Weather Sensors Data in Apache Spark","authors":"Andreas Kanavos, T. Panagiotakopoulos, Gerasimos Vonitsanos, M. Maragoudakis, Y. Kiouvrekis","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555553","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed paper introduces an approach providing weather information on winter precipitation types using machine learning techniques. The proposed methodology takes as input the data received from weather sensors and in following the winter precipitation model aims at forecasting the weather type given three precipitation classes, namely rain, freezing rain, and snow, as registered in the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS). To enable the proposed classification, six supervised machine learning models were selected: Naive Bayes, Decision Stump, Hoeffding Tree, HoeffdingOption Tree, HoeffdingAdaptive Tree, and OzaBag. Results depicted that all the models performed well in terms of accuracy and computation time, while some achieved even better outcomes. Specifically, among all six models, OzaBag presented the best classification results, followed by HoeffdingOption Tree.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126783974","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":"Robustness of Compressed Deep Neural Networks with Adversarial Training","authors":"Yunchun Zhang, Chengjie Li, Wangwang Wang, Yuting Zhong, Xin Zhang, Yu-lin Zhang","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555552","url":null,"abstract":"Deep learning models are not applicable on edge computing devices. Consequently, compressed deep learning models gain momentum recently. Meanwhile, adversarial attacks targeting conventional deep neural networks (DNNs) and compressed DNNs are flouring nowadays. This paper firstly surveys the current compressing techniques, including pruning, distillation, quantization and weights sharing. Then, two iterative adversarial attacks, including I-FGSM (Iterative-Fast Gradient Sign Method) and PGD (Project Gradient Descent), are introduced. Three scenarios are built to test each DNN’s robustness against adversarial attacks. Besides, each DNN is trained with samples generated by different adversarial attacks and is then compressed under different pruning rate and tested under different attacks. The experimental results prove firstly that when a DNN is compressed with pruning rate lower than 70.0% is safe and with tiny accuracy decline. Second, iterative adversarial attacks are effective and cause dramatic performance degradation. Third, adversarial training helps to secure the compressed DNNs while lowering transferability of adversarial samples constructed by different attack algorithms.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124254982","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}
Arne Koschel, Marvin Bertram, R. Bischof, Kevin Schulze, Marc Schaaf, Irina Astrova
{"title":"A Look at Service Meshes","authors":"Arne Koschel, Marvin Bertram, R. Bischof, Kevin Schulze, Marc Schaaf, Irina Astrova","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555536","url":null,"abstract":"Service meshes can be seen as an infrastructure layer for microservice-based applications that are specifically suited for distributed application architectures. It is the goal to introduce the concept of service meshes and its use for microservices with the example of an open source service mesh called Istio. This paper gives an introduction into the service mesh concept and its relation to microservices. It also gives an overview of selected features provided by Istio as relevant to the above concept and provides a small sample setup that demonstrates the core features.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121795238","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}
Leonidas Liakopoulos, Nikolaos Stagakis, E. Zacharaki, K. Moustakas
{"title":"CNN-based stress and emotion recognition in ambulatory settings","authors":"Leonidas Liakopoulos, Nikolaos Stagakis, E. Zacharaki, K. Moustakas","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555508","url":null,"abstract":"Stress has been recognized as a major contributor in a number of mental, psychological or physical conditions which reduce the quality of human life. The monitoring of affective states through readily available wearables and unobtrusive sensors can allow to recognize early signs of stress and burn-out, thereby develop prevention policies to combat psychosocial risks. This study analyzes data from diverse sensing modalities with signal processing techniques and advanced machine learning approaches in order to unobtrusively recognize stress and negative emotions. We investigate the performance of - easy to obtain in ambulatory settings - heart rate signal and juxtapose it against multi-modal information from electrophysiological signals, facial expression features and body posture. For the former, we introduce 2D spectrograms into a convolutional neural network (CNN) and use the obtained activation maps as frequency patterns differentiating stressful conditions. For the rest of the sensors, we compare different classifiers (SVM, KNN, Random Forest, Neural Networks) and data fusion schemes. In addition, a second phase assessment is conceptualized for emotion recognition reflected in facial expressions using images from a smartphone’s camera. Our CNN implementation in Android platform enables near real-time estimation of the instantaneous emotional expressions, which, when combined with stress-indicators, can help elucidating the relationship between stress and negative affective states.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116908627","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}
Panagiotis Tsinganos, Jan Cornelis, Bruno Cornelis, B. Jansen, A. Skodras
{"title":"Transfer Learning in sEMG-based Gesture Recognition","authors":"Panagiotis Tsinganos, Jan Cornelis, Bruno Cornelis, B. Jansen, A. Skodras","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555555","url":null,"abstract":"The latest advancements in the field of deep learning and biomedical engineering have allowed for the development of myoelectric interfaces based on deep neural networks. A longstanding problem of these interfaces is that the models cannot easily be applied to new users due to the high variability and stochastic nature of the electromyography signals. Further training a new model for every new subject requires the collection of large volumes of data. Therefore, this work proposes a transfer learning (TL) scheme which allows reusing the knowledge of a pre-existing model for a new user. Firstly, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained on an initial dataset using the data of multiple subjects. Then, the weights of this model are fine-tuned for a new target subject. The approach is evaluated on the Ninapro datasets DB2 and DB7. The experimentation included three different CNN models and eight preprocessing alternatives. The results showed that the success of the TL method depends on how the data are preprocessed. Specifically, the biggest accuracy improvement (+5.14%) is achieved when only the first 20% of the signal duration is used.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115157612","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}
Arne Koschel, Samuel Klassen, Kerim Jdiya, Marc Schaaf, Irina Astrova
{"title":"Cloud Computing: Serverless","authors":"Arne Koschel, Samuel Klassen, Kerim Jdiya, Marc Schaaf, Irina Astrova","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555534","url":null,"abstract":"A serverless architecture is a new approach to offering services over the Internet. It combines BaaS (Backend-as-a-service) and FaaS (Function-as-a-service). With the serverless architecture no own or rented infrastructures are needed anymore. In addition, the company does not have to worry about scaling any longer, as this happens automatically and immediately. Furthermore, there is no need any longer for maintenance work on the servers, as this is completely taken over by the provider. Administrators are also no longer needed for the same reason. Finally, many ready-made functions are offered, with which the development effort can be reduced. As a result, the serverless architecture is very well suited to many application scenarios, and it can save considerable costs (server costs, maintenance costs, personnel costs, electricity costs, etc.). The company only must subdivide the source code of the application and upload it to the provider’s server. The rest is done by the provider.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124760969","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}
Aimilia Zisimou, Ioanna Kalaitzoglou, Georgia Theodoropoulou, Alexandros Bousdekis, G. Miaoulis
{"title":"Evaluation of Public Funding Processes by Mining Event Logs","authors":"Aimilia Zisimou, Ioanna Kalaitzoglou, Georgia Theodoropoulou, Alexandros Bousdekis, G. Miaoulis","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555573","url":null,"abstract":"The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are financial tools set up to invest in job creation and a sustainable and healthy European economy and environment. The criticality of these processes in terms of the time constraints, the large budgets, and the heterogeneity of the funded projects pose significant challenges to their management and evaluation. On the other hand, the emergence of Process Intelligence opens the door to new ways of managing public funding processes that ensure increased efficiency. In this paper, we propose a process mining based approach for analyzing delays, bottlenecks, and variations in process execution, thus setting the priorities for process improvements in the domain of public funding programs. We applied the proposed approach in the administrative verification of expenditure of the Partnership Agreement for the Development Framework (PA)). The results show that process mining is able to provide significant insights regarding delays, bottlenecks, and variations in process execution, thus setting the priorities for process improvement.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129427148","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":"Near-Far Problem as a Function of Analog to Digital Converter Resolution in Software Defined Radio Tactical Network","authors":"Kashif Shahzad, M. Zeeshan, M. U. Farooq, S. Khan","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555577","url":null,"abstract":"Software-defined radios (SDR) based tactical networks have great significance in hostile scenarios primarily due to their ease of deployment and reconfiguration capabilities. These implementations are without the requirement of any permanent immovable infrastructure which makes them feasible for various law enforcement deployments. These self-healing and self-forming networks can operate over a significantly wide range with the help of various waveforms. This paper discusses a temporal domain issue faced in SDR tactical networks which arise due to different geographical distances between communicating nodes. This is referred to as a near-far problem and it is critical as it affects the performance of the network. This paper also proposes a hypothetical solution utilizing the reduced analog to digital converter (ADC) resolution that can cater to this problem. The proposed scheme is validated by simulations which proposes the concept of frequency selective gains to be used instead of operating on time domain-based Automatic Gain Controllers (AGC). The concept is proposed for the state-of-the-art hybrid narrowband wideband receiver; however, the entire discussion is valid for any TDMA/FDMA-based SDR networks.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"354 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134059583","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}
A. Nikas, Stavros Skalidakis, Alevgul H. Sorman, Ester Galende-Sánchez, K. Koasidis, Filippos Serepas, D. V. D. Ven, Jorge Moreno, Anastasios Karamaneas, Themistoklis Koutsellis, E. Kanellou, H. Doukas
{"title":"Integrating Integrated Assessment Modelling in Support of the Paris Agreement: The I2AM PARIS Platform","authors":"A. Nikas, Stavros Skalidakis, Alevgul H. Sorman, Ester Galende-Sánchez, K. Koasidis, Filippos Serepas, D. V. D. Ven, Jorge Moreno, Anastasios Karamaneas, Themistoklis Koutsellis, E. Kanellou, H. Doukas","doi":"10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA52424.2021.9555502","url":null,"abstract":"Calls “to do science differently” and democratise the research process have proliferated in the last decades, especially in the context of climate science and policy support. This new arena demands more participatory procedures to expand the knowledge-making beyond researchers and experts. One way that science has started to interact with society has been the increasing number of online platforms that have emerged as alternative forums, providing the opportunity for engaging a variety of tools, models, results, and preferences. This study presents I2 AM PARIS, a platform dedicated to delivering on comprehensive and comprehensible scientific information in support of climate policymaking. It does so by bringing the climate-economy modelling community together in a common workspace, with shared protocols, data exchange formats, and nomenclature, and by making the used and produced information accessible to and digestible by all stakeholders. To this end stakeholders, who lie at the heart of the platform, have co-designed the presentation of the platform in order to respond to pertinent questions in the climate debate co-created with stakeholders and the scientific processes together. Oriented on documenting detailed capabilities of integrated assessment models, providing access to input datasets and assumptions driving them, and offering ad hoc visualisation and databases of their outputs, I2 AM PARIS emphasises transparency, reproducibility, inclusivity, plurality, and comprehensibility.","PeriodicalId":437496,"journal":{"name":"2021 12th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133420663","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}
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