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キン グン
金 群
所属
人間科学学術院 人間科学部
職名
教授
学位
博士(工学)
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Qun Jin is a professor in the Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. He has been extensively engaged in research works in the fields of computer science, information systems, and human informatics, with a focus on understanding and supporting humans through convergent research. His recent research interests cover intelligent and comprehensive data analytics, personal analytics and individual modeling, trustworthy platforms for data federation, sharing, and utilization, cyber-physical-social systems, and applications in healthcare and learning support and for the realization of a carbon-neutral society. He is a foreign fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ).

経歴

  • 2003年04月
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    継続中

    早稲田大学   人間科学学術院人間科学部人間情報科学科   教授

  • 2018年09月
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    2020年09月

    早稲田大学   人間科学学術院   副学術院長(国際担当)

  • 2018年09月
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    2020年09月

    早稲田大学   大学院人間科学研究科   研究科長

  • 2014年09月
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    2016年09月

    早稲田大学   人間科学学術院人間科学部人間情報科学科   学科主任

  • 1999年04月
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    2003年03月

    会津大学   コンピュータ理工学部   助教授

  • 1995年04月
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    1999年03月

    徳島大学   工学部知能情報工学科   助教授

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    ACM

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    IEEE Computer Society

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    IEEE

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    人工知能学会

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    情報処理学会

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    日本工学アカデミー

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    CCF

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研究分野

  • データベース   ビッグデータ・パーソナルデータ分析 / ウェブ情報学、サービス情報学   人間情報学 / 知能情報学   人工知能・機械学習 / 生命、健康、医療情報学   スマートヘルス・個別化ヘルスケア / 学習支援システム   個別化教育・学習支援 / 教育工学   eラーニング支援 / 認知科学   挙動認知情報学・個人モデル構築

研究キーワード

  • ウェルビーイング・コンピューティング

  • 挙動・認知情報学

  • 健康情報学

  • ビッグデータ

  • パーソナルアナリティクスと個人モデル構築

  • デジタルツイン

  • スマートエネルギーとカーボンニュートラルのための人間行動データ分析

  • サイバーセキュリティ

  • ブロックチェーン

  • メタバース

  • 人工知能・機械学習

  • ヘルスケア・学習支援への適用

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論文

  • Hierarchical Federated Learning With Social Context Clustering-Based Participant Selection for Internet of Medical Things Applications.

    Xiaokang Zhou, Xiaozhou Ye, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Wei Liang 0006, Nirmal-Kumar C. Nair, Shohei Shimizu, Zheng Yan 0002, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems   10 ( 4 ) 1742 - 1751  2023年08月

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    The proliferation in embedded and communication technologies made the concept of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) a reality. Individuals' physical and physiological status can be constantly monitored, and numerous data can be collected through wearable and mobile devices. However, the silo of individual data brings limitations to existing machine learning approaches to correctly identify a user's health status. Distributed machine learning paradigms, such as federated learning, offer a potential solution for privacy-preserving knowledge sharing without sending raw personal data. However, federated learning is vulnerable to harmful participants that can degrade the overall model quality by sharing low-quality data. Therefore, it is critical to select suitable participants to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of federated learning. In this article, a unique clustering-based approach is proposed to use social context data for participant selection. Different edge participant groups will be established, and group-specific federated learning will be performed. The models of various edge groups will be further aggregated to strengthen the robustness of the global model. The experimental results demonstrated that through participant selection, clustering-based hierarchical federated learning can achieve better results with less participants in two different IoMT applications for ECG and human motion monitoring. This shows the efficacy of the proposed method in improving federated learning performance and efficiency in various IoMT applications.

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  • CDNet: Contrastive Disentangled Network for Fine-Grained Image Categorization of Ocular B-Scan Ultrasound.

    Ruilong Dan, Yunxiang Li, Yijie Wang, Xiaodiao Chen, Gangyong Jia, Shuai Wang 0003, Ruiquan Ge, Guiping Qian, Qun Jin, Juan Ye, Yaqi Wang

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics   27 ( 7 ) 3525 - 3536  2023年07月

     概要を見る

    Precise and rapid categorization of images in the B-scan ultrasound modality is vital for diagnosing ocular diseases. Nevertheless, distinguishing various diseases in ultrasound still challenges experienced ophthalmologists. Thus a novel contrastive disentangled network (CDNet) is developed in this work, aiming to tackle the fine-grained image categorization (FGIC) challenges of ocular abnormalities in ultrasound images, including intraocular tumor (IOT), retinal detachment (RD), posterior scleral staphyloma (PSS), and vitreous hemorrhage (VH). Three essential components of CDNet are the weakly-supervised lesion localization module (WSLL), contrastive multi-zoom (CMZ) strategy, and hyperspherical contrastive disentangled loss (HCD-Loss), respectively. These components facilitate feature disentanglement for fine-grained recognition in both the input and output aspects. The proposed CDNet is validated on our ZJU Ocular Ultrasound Dataset (ZJUOUSD), consisting of 5213 samples. Furthermore, the generalization ability of CDNet is validated on two public and widely-used chest X-ray FGIC benchmarks. Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed CDNet, which achieves state-of-the-art performance in the FGIC task.

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  • Bi-Dueling DQN Enhanced Two-Stage Scheduling for Augmented Surveillance in Smart EMS.

    Wei Liang 0006, Weiquan Xie, Xiaokang Zhou, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   19 ( 7 ) 8218 - 8228  2023年07月

     概要を見る

    Safety production surveillance is of great significance to industrial operation management. While augmented intelligence of things is demonstrating tremendous potential in industrial applications, the analyzed information offers lots of benefits to the higher level planning in the enterprise management systems, to further improve the operational efficiency. In this article, a video surveillance system with augmented intelligence of things is considered as a promising solution to enhance the operational efficiency of enterprises. However, the challenge is to process the surveillance video streams as soon as possible without ignoring any emergencies. This issue can be formulated as a two-stage scheduling problem, which is an NP-hard problem that can be integrated with higher level enterprise systems for operational efficiency improvement. An improved Deep Q-Network (DQN) model with a newly designed prioritized replay scheme, named Bi-Dueling DQN with Prioritized Replay, is proposed to solve this two-stage scheduling problem in a smart enterprise management system. A dense reward function based on a concrete state representation is designed to tackle the sparse reward challenge and to speed up the convergence in actual large-scale task scheduling process. A prioritized replay scheme is then developed to improve the sampling efficiency, so as to effectively reduce the training time in deep reinforcement learning for the optimal two-stage scheduling. The experiment results demonstrated that the proposed approach is able to provide an efficient scheduling policy to resolve the two-stage scheduling problem, while at the same time offering insight information to improve the performance of higher level smart enterprise management systems.

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  • Intelligent Containment Control With Double Constraints for Cloud-Based Collaborative Manufacturing.

    Xiaokang Zhou, Hailiang Hou, Wei Liang 0006, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   19 ( 6 ) 7541 - 7551  2023年06月

     概要を見る

    Modern manufacturing process is commonly composed of multiple automated devices working together efficiently. Cloud-based manufacturing aims to achieve better efficiency by allowing the collaborative manufacturing across a group of automated robots. Cooperations between multiple robots can accomplish more complicated tasks that is beyond the capability of any individual one. However, it is of critical importance to control robots with different capabilities to work in harmony while ensuring safety and reliability during this process. In this paper, a double constrained containment mechanism is proposed to dispatch heterogeneous robots in a distributed containment control framework for smart manufacturing. Following a three-layer control framework, a cloud decision-making center is designed to realize the cloud-based collaborative manufacturing, which is more cost-effective than other commonly used containment mechanisms that only rely on information exchange among leader-robots. A projection-based containment control scheme is developed, which not only consider nonlinearities induced by position constraints and velocity constraints, but also can tackle dynamically changing communication topologies with uncertain communication delay, to efficiently navigate all follower-robots into a safe working zone formed by leaders. A theoretical stability analysis is conducted to prove the proposed mechanism can ensure all followers enter the target area while their positions and velocities remaining in the corresponding constraint sets. Experiment evaluation results under three application scenarios demonstrate the advantage of our method that can offer a more practical solution to other existing multi-robot containment control for cloud-based smart manufacturing, in considering both position and velocity constraints combined with switching topologies and communication delays.

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  • Decentralized P2P Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving and Resilient Mobile Robotic Systems.

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang 0006, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Zheng Yan 0002, Laurence T. Yang, Wei Wei 0006, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Wireless Communications   30 ( 2 ) 82 - 89  2023年04月

     概要を見る

    Swarms of mobile robots are being widely applied for complex tasks in various practical scenarios toward modern smart industry. Federated learning (FL) has been developed as a promising privacy-preserving paradigm to tackle distributed machine learning tasks for mobile robotic systems in 5G and beyond networks. However, unstable wireless network conditions of the complex and harsh working environment may lead to poor communication quality and bring big challenges to traditional centralized global training in FL models. In this article, a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based Privacy-Perceiving Asynchronous Federated Learning (PPAFL) framework is introduced to realize the decentralized model training for secure and resilient modern mobile robotic systems in 5G and beyond networks. Specifically, a reputation-aware coordination mechanism is designed and addressed to coordinate a group of smart devices dynamically into a virtual cluster, in which the asynchronous model aggregation is conducted in a decentralized P2P manner. A secret sharing based communication mechanism is developed to ensure an encrypted P2P FL process, while a Secure Stochastic Gradient Descent (SSGD) scheme is integrated with an Autoencoder and a Gaussian mechanism is developed to ensure an anonymized local model update, communicating within a few neighboring clients. The case study based experiment and evaluation in three different application scenarios demonstrate that the PPAFL can effectively improve the security and resilience issues compared with the traditional centralized approaches for smart mobile robotic applications in 5G and beyond networks.

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  • Edge-Enabled Two-Stage Scheduling Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Internet of Everything.

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang 0006, Ke Yan 0001, Weimin Li, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal   10 ( 4 ) 3295 - 3304  2023年02月

     概要を見る

    Nowadays, the concept of Internet of Everything (IoE) is becoming a hotly discussed topic, which is playing an increasingly indispensable role in modern intelligent applications. These applications are known for their real-time requirements under limited network and computing resources, thus it becomes a highly demanding task to transform and compute tremendous amount of raw data in a cloud center. The edge-cloud computing infrastructure allows a large amount of data to be processed on nearby edge nodes and then only the extracted and encrypted key features are transmitted to the data center. This offers the potential to achieve an end-edge-cloud-based big data intelligence for IoE in a typical two-stage data processing scheme, while satisfying a data security constraint. In this study, a deep-reinforcement-learning-enhanced two-stage scheduling (DRL-TSS) model is proposed to address the NP-hard problem in terms of operation complexity in end-edge-cloud Internet of Things systems, which is able to allocate computing resources within an edge-enabled infrastructure to ensure computing task to be completed with minimum cost. A presorting scheme based on Johnson's rule is developed and applied to preprocess the two-stage tasks on multiple executors, and a DRL mechanism is developed to minimize the overall makespan based on a newly designed instant reward that takes into account the maximal utilization of each executor in edge-enabled two-stage scheduling. The performance of our method is evaluated and compared with three existing scheduling techniques, and experimental results demonstrate the ability of our proposed algorithm in achieving better learning efficiency and scheduling performance with a 1.1-approximation to the targeted optimal IoE applications.

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  • An Efficient Smart Contract Vulnerability Detector Based on Semantic Contract Graphs Using Approximate Graph Matching

    Yingli Zhang, Jiali Ma, Xin Liu, Guodong Ye, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Qingguo Zhou

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal    2023年

     概要を見る

    The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a focus of information infrastructure development in recent years. The smart blockchain can provide various solutions for trust, security, and privacy (TSP) challenges to protect IoT data, and smart contracts are the foundation of blockchain intelligence, and greatly enhance the ability of smart blockchain to solve TSP problems. So the security of smart contracts must be addressed. We propose an efficient smart contract vulnerability detector to improve the safety of smart contracts. It comprises a graph extraction method and a complete vulnerability detection process. The graph extraction method consists of vulnerability pattern extraction and a graph generation process. The vulnerability detection process first uses the approximate graph matching algorithm to select representative SCGraphs from the dataset to build vulnerability SCGraph libraries. Secondly, determine whether the contract contains vulnerabilities by calculating the similarity between the SCGraphs generated from the contracts to be detected and the SCGraphs in the vulnerability library. Experiments show that our approach achieves an inspiring high detection rate and is the fastest among existing vulnerability detection tools, which indicates that it can provide good vulnerability detection for smart contracts.

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  • Distribution Bias Aware Collaborative Generative Adversarial Network for Imbalanced Deep Learning in Industrial IoT.

    Xiaokang Zhou, Yiyong Hu, Jiayi Wu, Wei Liang 0006, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   19 ( 1 ) 570 - 580  2023年

     概要を見る

    The impact of Internet of Things (IoT) has become increasingly significant in smart manufacturing, while deep generative model (DGM) is viewed as a promising learning technique to work with large amount of continuously generated industrial Big Data in facilitating modern industrial applications. However, it is still challenging to handle the imbalanced data when using conventional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based learning strategies. In this article, we propose a distribution bias aware collaborative GAN (DB-CGAN) model for imbalanced deep learning in industrial IoT, especially to solve limitations caused by distribution bias issue between the generated data and original data, via a more robust data augmentation. An integrated data augmentation framework is constructed by introducing a complementary classifier into the basic GAN model. Specifically, a conditional generator with random labels is designed and trained adversarially with the classifier to effectively enhance augmentation of the number of data samples in minority classes, while a weight sharing scheme is newly designed between two separated feature extractors, enabling the collaborative adversarial training among generator, discriminator, and classifier. An augmentation algorithm is then developed for intelligent anomaly detection in imbalanced learning, which can significantly improve the classification accuracy based on the correction of distribution bias using the rebalanced data. Compared with five baseline methods, experiment evaluations based on two real-world imbalanced datasets demonstrate the outstanding performance of our proposed model in tackling the distribution bias issue for multiclass classification in imbalanced learning for industrial IoT applications.

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  • A Self-Supervised Learning Based Framework for Eyelid Malignant Melanoma Diagnosis in Whole Slide Images

    Zijing Jiang, Linyan Wang, Yaqi Wang, Gangyong Jia, Guodong Zeng, Jun Wang, Yunxiang Li, Dechao Chen, Guiping Qian, Qun Jin

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics    2022年

     概要を見る

    Eyelid malignant melanoma (MM) is a rare disease with high mortality. Accurate diagnosis of such disease is important but challenging. In clinical practice, the diagnosis of MM is currently performed manually by pathologists, which is subjective and biased. Since the heavy manual annotation workload, most pathological whole slide image (WSI) datasets are only partially labeled (without region annotations), which cannot be directly used in supervised deep learning. For these reasons, it is of great practical significance to design a laborsaving and high data utilization diagnosis method. In this paper, a self-supervised learning (SSL) based framework for automatically detecting eyelid MM is proposed. The framework consists of a self-supervised model for detecting MM areas at the patch-level and a second model for classifying lesion types at the slide level. A squeeze-excitation (SE) attention structure and a feature-projection (FP) structure are integrated to boost learning on details of pathological images and improve model performance. In addition, this framework also provides visual heatmaps with high quality and reliability to highlight the likely areas of the lesion to assist the evaluation and diagnosis of the eyelid MM. Extensive experimental results on different datasets show that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art SSL and fully supervised methods at both patch and slide levels when only a subset of WSIs are annotated. It should be noted that our method is even comparable to supervised methods when all WSIs are fully annotated. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first SSL method for automatic diagnosis of MM at the eyelid and has a great potential impact on reducing the workload of human annotations in clinical practice.

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  • PSARE: A RL-Based Online Participant Selection Scheme Incorporating Area Coverage Ratio and Degree in Mobile Crowdsensing.

    Ying Xu, Yufeng Wang 0001, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology   71 ( 10 ) 10923 - 10933  2022年

     概要を見る

    Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a cost-effective paradigm for gathering real-time and location-related urban sensing data. To complete MCS tasks, MCS platform needs to exploit the trajectory of participants (vehicles or individuals, etc.) for effectively choosing participants. On one hand, the existing works usually assume that platform has possessed the abundant historical movement trajectory for participant selection, or can accurately predict the movement of participant before selection, but this assumption is impractical for many MCS applications, for some candidates have just arrived without sufficient mobility profiles, so-called trajectory from-scratch, or cold-trajectory issue. On the other hand, most of works only considers the coverage ratio of the sensing area, while some hotspots should be sensed frequently, so-called coverage degree of hotspots. To solve the issue, this paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) based, i.e., an improved Q-learning based online participant selection scheme to incorporate both coverage ratio and degree, PSARE. First, to solve the explosion of state-value table in traditional tabular Q-learning, an improved two-level Q-learning method is proposed to select participants in online way so as to achieve high long-term return. Specifically, in each selection round, PSARE dynamically compresses all the real participants (RPs) into several virtual participants (VPs) using the available historical trajectories of RPs, and the VP-based state-value table is constructed and constantly updated (i.e., the first level). Then, after selecting the VP through looking up the table, PARSE chooses the RP with the largest expected reward in this VP using epsilon-greedy way to balance the effect of exploration and exploitation (i.e., the second level). Moreover, the reward function is designed to measure the MCS coverage quality, including both coverage degree of hotspots and coverage ratio of target area. Thorough experiments on real-world mobility data set demonstrate that PSARE outperforms than other RL based online participant selection schemes (including deep Q-learning network) and traditional offline selection methods.

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  • Earning While Learning: An Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit Based Real-Time Bidding Scheme in Deregulated Electricity Market.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Bo Zhang 0034, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering   9 ( 6 ) 3991 - 4000  2022年

     概要を見る

    As the specific incarnation of cyber-physical-social systems, in deregulated electricity market, the market gaming behaviors may have significantly affected the costs of electricity delivered to the market. Especially, from the supply side, the primary goal of power generating companies (PGCs) is to develop strategic biddings to maximize their profits in long-term trading, when facing intrinsic uncertainty. Typically, in such repeated and dynamic settings, one fundamental challenge is that, any PGC neither has prior knowledge about all unknown opponents' incentives, nor observes their strategies and obtained profits. Especially, the common setting is that, once the bidding auction has occurred, the PGC only observes the market clearing price (MCP) at each round, and winning or losing status. While it is typical to assume some perfect or bounded rationality model of the PGCs, their real behaviors do not follow such assumptions due to lack of complete information, computational intractability, or lack of perfect execution, etc. We formulate the problem of sequentially optimizing any PGC's bids with an adversarial multi-armed bandit (MAB) model. Specifically, at each round, a PGC chooses to play against all other opponents from an infinite set of possible strategies that are split into continuous intervals by sequentially occurred MCPs. Then at the end of each round, the PGC observes the outcome of the auction and updates its estimation on the expected bid's fitness for each interval (i.e., how much the expected profit of the interval could be achieved), and selects the bid for the next round using the proposed algorithm Exp3C (i.e., exponential-weight for exploration and exploitation with continuous value). The experimental results based on real dataset demonstrate that Exp3C performs better than other heuristic schemes including pure greedy, ϵ-greedy and MCP predication based bidding schemes. Moreover, we theoretically prove the upper bound of average Exp3C regret per round follows O(2/√T), where T is the number of total rounds. In summary, the proposed Exp3C has two distinguished advantages. First it is distributed, since its decisions uniquely depend on its past decisions and profits. Second, it is rational, since a PGC is given guarantees on its own accumulated profit regardless of other PGCs' behaviors.

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  • AGMB-Transformer: Anatomy-Guided Multi-Branch Transformer Network for Automated Evaluation of Root Canal Therapy.

    Yunxiang Li, Guodong Zeng, Yifan Zhang, Jun Wang, Qun Jin, Lingling Sun, Qianni Zhang, Qisi Lian, Guiping Qian, Neng Xia, Ruizi Peng, Kai Tang, Shuai Wang, Yaqi Wang

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics   26 ( 4 ) 1684 - 1695  2022年

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    Accurate evaluation of the treatment result on X-ray images is a significant and challenging step in root canal therapy since the incorrect interpretation of the therapy results will hamper timely follow-up which is crucial to the patients' treatment outcome. Nowadays, the evaluation is performed in a manual manner, which is time-consuming, subjective, and error-prone. In this article, we aim to automate this process by leveraging the advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence, to provide an objective and accurate method for root canal therapy result assessment. A novel anatomy-guided multi-branch Transformer (AGMB-Transformer) network is proposed, which first extracts a set of anatomy features and then uses them to guide a multi-branch Transformer network for evaluation. Specifically, we design a polynomial curve fitting segmentation strategy with the help of landmark detection to extract the anatomy features. Moreover, a branch fusion module and a multi-branch structure including our progressive Transformer and Group Multi-Head Self-Attention (GMHSA) are designed to focus on both global and local features for an accurate diagnosis. To facilitate the research, we have collected a large-scale root canal therapy evaluation dataset with 245 root canal therapy X-ray images, and the experiment results show that our AGMB-Transformer can improve the diagnosis accuracy from 57.96% to 90.20% compared with the baseline network. The proposed AGMB-Transformer can achieve a highly accurate evaluation of root canal therapy. To our best knowledge, our work is the first to perform automatic root canal therapy evaluation and has important clinical value to reduce the workload of endodontists.

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  • Intelligent Small Object Detection for Digital Twin in Smart Manufacturing With Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.

    Xiaokang Zhou, Xuesong Xu, Wei Liang, Zhi Zeng, Shohei Shimizu, Laurence T. Yang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   18 ( 2 ) 1377 - 1386  2022年

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    Recently, along with several technological advancements in cyber-physical systems, the revolution of Industry 4.0 has brought in an emerging concept named digital twin (DT), which shows its potential to break the barrier between the physical and cyber space in smart manufacturing. However, it is still difficult to analyze and estimate the real-time structural and environmental parameters in terms of their dynamic changes in digital twinning, especially when facing detection tasks of multiple small objects from a large-scale scene with complex contexts in modern manufacturing environments. In this article, we focus on a small object detection model for DT, aiming to realize the dynamic synchronization between a physical manufacturing system and its virtual representation. Three significant elements, including equipment, product, and operator, are considered as the basic environmental parameters to represent and estimate the dynamic characteristics and real-time changes in building a generic DT system of smart manufacturing workshop. A hybrid deep neural network model, based on the integration of MobileNetv2, YOLOv4, and Openpose, is constructed to identify the real-time status from physical manufacturing environment to virtual space. A learning algorithm is then developed to realize the efficient multitype small object detection based on the feature integration and fusion from both shallow and deep layers, in order to facilitate the modeling, monitoring, and optimizing of the whole manufacturing process in the DT system. Experiments and evaluations conducted in three different use cases demonstrate the effectiveness and usefulness of our proposed method, which can achieve a higher detection accuracy for DT in smart manufacturing.

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  • Siamese Neural Network Based Few-Shot Learning for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang, Shohei Shimizu, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   17 ( 8 ) 5790 - 5798  2021年08月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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     概要を見る

    With the increasing population of Industry 4.0, both AI and smart techniques have been applied and become hotly discussed topics in industrial cyber-physical systems (CPS). Intelligent anomaly detection for identifying cyber-physical attacks to guarantee the work efficiency and safety is still a challenging issue, especially when dealing with few labeled data for cyber-physical security protection. In this article, we propose a few-shot learning model with Siamese convolutional neural network (FSL-SCNN), to alleviate the over-fitting issue and enhance the accuracy for intelligent anomaly detection in industrial CPS. A Siamese CNN encoding network is constructed to measure distances of input samples based on their optimized feature representations. A robust cost function design including three specific losses is then proposed to enhance the efficiency of training process. An intelligent anomaly detection algorithm is developed finally. Experiment results based on a fully labeled public dataset and a few labeled dataset demonstrate that our proposed FSL-SCNN can significantly improve false alarm rate (FAR) and F1 scores when detecting intrusion signals for industrial CPS security protection.

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  • Variational LSTM Enhanced Anomaly Detection for Industrial Big Data

    Xiaokang Zhou, Yiyong Hu, Wei Liang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   17 ( 5 ) 3469 - 3477  2021年05月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者

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    With the increasing population of Industry 4.0, industrial big data (IBD) has become a hotly discussed topic in digital and intelligent industry field. The security problem existing in the signal processing on large scale of data stream is still a challenge issue in industrial internet of things, especially when dealing with the high-dimensional anomaly detection for intelligent industrial application. In this article, to mitigate the inconsistency between dimensionality reduction and feature retention in imbalanced IBD, we propose a variational long short-term memory (VLSTM) learning model for intelligent anomaly detection based on reconstructed feature representation. An encoder-decoder neural network associated with a variational reparameterization scheme is designed to learn the low-dimensional feature representation from high-dimensional raw data. Three loss functions are defined and quantified to constrain the reconstructed hidden variable into a more explicit and meaningful form. A lightweight estimation network is then fed with the refined feature representation to identify anomalies in IBD. Experiments using a public IBD dataset named UNSW-NB15 demonstrate that the proposed VLSTM model can efficiently cope with imbalance and high-dimensional issues, and significantly improve the accuracy and reduce the false rate in anomaly detection for IBD according to F1, area under curve (AUC), and false alarm rate (FAR).

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  • Enhanced Diagnosis of Pneumothorax with an Improved Real-Time Augmentation for Imbalanced Chest X-rays Data Based on DCNN

    Yaqi Wang, Lingling Sun, Qun Jin

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics   18 ( 3 ) 951 - 962  2021年05月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

    担当区分:最終著者

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    Pneumothorax is a common pulmonary disease that can lead to dyspnea and can be life-threatening. X-ray examination is the main means to diagnose this disease. Computer-aided diagnosis of pneumothorax on chest X-ray, as a prerequisite for a timely cure, has been widely studied, but it is still not satisfactory to achieve highly accurate results. In this paper, an image classification algorithm based on the deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is proposed for high-resolution medical image analysis of pneumothorax X-rays, which features a Network In Network (NIN) for cleaning the data, random histogram equalization data augmentation processing, and a DCNN. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method can effectively increase the correct diagnosis rate of pneumothorax, and the Area under Curve (AUC) of the test verified in the experiment is 0.9844 on ZJU-2 test data and 0.9906 on the ChestX-ray14, respectively. In addition, a large number of atmospheric pleura samples are visualized and analyzed based on the experimental results and in-depth learning characteristics of the algorithm. The analysis results verify the validity of feature extraction for the network. Combined with the results of these two aspects, the proposed X-ray image processing algorithm can effectively improve the classification accuracy of pneumothorax photographs.

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  • CCFS: A Confidence-Based Cost-Effective Feature Selection Scheme for Healthcare Data Classification

    Yiyuan Chen, Yufeng Wang, Liang Cao, Qun Jin

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics   18 ( 3 ) 902 - 911  2021年05月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    Feature selection (FS) is one of the fundamental data processing techniques in various machine learning algorithms, especially for classification of healthcare data. However, it is a challenging issue due to the large search space. Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) is an efficient evolutionary computation technique, and has been widely used in FS. In this paper, we proposed a Confidence-based and Cost-effective feature selection (CCFS) method using BPSO to improve the performance of healthcare data classification. Specifically, first, CCFS improves search effectiveness by developing a new updating mechanism that designs the feature confidence to explicitly take into account the fine-grained impact of each dimension in the particle on the classification performance. The feature confidence is composed of two measurements: the correlation between feature and categories, and historically selected frequency of each feature. Second, considering the fact that the acquisition costs of different features are naturally different, especially for medical data, and should be fully taken into account in practical applications, besides the classification performance, the feature cost and the feature reduction ratio are comprehensively incorporated into the design of fitness function. The proposed method has been verified in various UCI public datasets and compared with various benchmark schemes. The thoroughly experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method, in terms of accuracy and feature selection cost.

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  • Multiscale Attention Guided Network for COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Chest X-ray Images

    Jingxiong Li, Yaqi Wang, Shuai Wang, Jun Wang, Jun Liu, Qun Jin, Lingling Sun

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics   25 ( 5 ) 1336 - 1346  2021年  [査読有り]  [国際共著]

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    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the most destructive pandemic after millennium, forcing the world to tackle a health crisis. Automated lung infections classification using chest X-ray (CXR) images could strengthen diagnostic capability when handling COVID-19. However, classifying COVID-19 from pneumonia cases using CXR image is a difficult task because of shared spatial characteristics, high feature variation and contrast diversity between cases. Moreover, massive data collection is impractical for a newly emerged disease, which limited the performance of data thirsty deep learning models. To address these challenges, Multiscale Attention Guided deep network with Soft Distance regularization (MAG-SD) is proposed to automatically classify COVID-19 from pneumonia CXR images. In MAG-SD, MA-Net is used to produce prediction vector and attention from multiscale feature maps. To improve the robustness of trained model and relieve the shortage of training data, attention guided augmentations along with a soft distance regularization are posed, which aims at generating meaningful augmentations and reduce noise. Our multiscale attention model achieves better classification performance on our pneumonia CXR image dataset. Plentiful experiments are proposed for MAG-SD which demonstrates its unique advantage in pneumonia classification over cutting-edge models. The code is available at https://github.com/JasonLeeGHub/MAG-SD.

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  • Research and Implementation of Chinese Couplet Generation System With Attention Based Transformer Mechanism

    Yufeng Wang, Jiang Zhang, Bo Zhang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems   9 ( 4 ) 1 - 9  2021年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    Couplet is a unique art form in Chinese traditional culture. The development of deep neural network (DNN) technology makes it possible for computers to automatically generate couplets. Especially, Transformer is a DNN-based 'Encoder-Decoder' framework, and widely used in natural language processing (NLP). However, the existed Transformer mechanism cannot fully exploit the essential linguistic knowledge in Chinese, including the special format and requirements of Chinese couplets. Therefore, this article adapts the Transformer mechanism to generate meaningful Chinese couplets. Specifically, the contributions of our work are threefold. First, considering the fact that the words in the corresponding positions of the antecedent clause and the subsequent clause in a Chinese couplet always have same part-of-speech (pos, i.e., word class), pos information is intentionally added into the Transformer to improve the accuracy of the conceived couplet. Second, to deal with the large number of unregistered and low-frequency words in Chinese couplet, a specific unregistered/low-frequency word processing mechanism (UWP) is designed and combined with the Transformer model. Third, to further improve the coherence of couplets, we incorporate the polish mechanisms (PMs) into Transformer model. In terms of three evaluation criteria including bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU), perplexity, and human evaluation, the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our designed Chinese couplet generation system.

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  • Intelligent Small Object Detection Based on Digital Twinning for Smart Manufacturing in Industrial CPS

    Xiaokang Zhou, Xuesong Xu, Wei Liang, Zhi Zeng, Shohei Shimizu, Laurence T. Yang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics     1 - 1  2021年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • KFRNN: An Effective False Data Injection Attack Detection in Smart Grid Based on Kalman Filter and Recurrent Neural Network

    Yufeng Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal   9 ( 9 ) 1 - 1  2021年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    The smart grid is now increasingly dependent on smart devices to operate, which leaves space for cyber attacks. Especially, the intentionally designed false data injection attack (FDIA) can successfully bypass the traditional measurement residual-based bad data detection scheme. Considering that the smart grid data naturally contain linear and nonlinear components, inspired by parallel ensemble learning, especially by the stacking method, this article presents an effective two-level learner-based FDIA detection scheme using the Kalman filter and recurrent neural network (KFRNN). The first level includes two base learners, in which the Kalman filter is used for state prediction to fit linear data, and the recurrent neural network is used to fit the nonlinear data feature. The second-level learner uses the fully connected layer and backpropagation (BP) module to adaptively combine the results of two base learners. Then, through fitting Weibull distribution of the sum of square errors (SSEs) between the observed measurements and the predicted measurements, the dynamic threshold is obtained to judge whether FDIA occurs or not. Comprehensive simulation results show that our scheme has better performance than other neural network-based and ensemble learning-based FDIA detection schemes.

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  • Academic Influence Aware and Multidimensional Network Analysis for Research Collaboration Navigation Based on Scholarly Big Data

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing   9 ( 1 ) 246 - 257  2021年01月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 最終著者

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    Scholarly big data, which is a large-scale collection of academic information, technical data, and collaboration relationships, has attracted increasing attentions, ranging from industries to academic communities. The widespread adoption of social computing paradigm has made it easier for researchers to join collaborative research activities and share academic data more extensively than ever before across the highly interlaced academic networks. In this study, we focus on the academic influence aware and multidimensional network analysis based on the integration of multi-source scholarly big data. Following three basic relations: Researcher-Researcher, Researcher-Article, and Article-Article, a set of measures is introduced and defined to quantify correlations in terms of activity-based collaboration relationship, specialty-aware connection, and topic-aware citation fitness among a series of academic entities (e.g., researchers and articles) within a constructed multidimensional network model. An improved Random Walk with Restart (RWR) based algorithm is developed, in which the time-varying academic influence is newly defined and measured in a certain social context, to provide researchers with research collaboration navigation for their future works. Experiments and evaluations are conducted to demonstrate the practicability and usefulness of our proposed method in scholarly big data analysis using DBLP and ResearchGate data.

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  • An Intelligent Dynamic Offloading From Cloud to Edge for Smart IoT Systems With Big Data

    Tian Wang, Yuzhu Liang, Yilin Zhang, Xi Zheng, Muhammad Arif, Jin Wang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering   7 ( 4 ) 2598 - 2607  2020年10月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    Intelligent networking and big data analytics are two important pillars for the operation of systems. Edge computing is frequently used in smart IoT systems, particularly in those which cannot be served efficiently through cloud computing due to the limitations in bandwidth, latency and Internet connectivity. However, applications always generate a large amount of data, which are pre-programmed and predefined to run on the cloud or edge platform and can't be changed at run time. The applications may gain better performance if they synergistically run on the cloud and edge platform. In this study, a novel algorithm called Dynamic Switching Algorithm is proposed to ensure intelligent dynamics where all tasks are either offloaded on cloud or edge according to the system's real-time conditions. We further divide applications into four types based on their real-time requirements. Each type of application is set to a reasonable latency to make sure the system to have less processing time. The results demonstrate that our method outperforms two state-of-the-art methods, decreasing both the average delay and energy consumption of offloading by 8.17%~66.90% and 3.76%~78.60% respectively. The experimental evaluations show that the performance of the proposed method could effectively offload tasks in smart IoT systems.

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  • BciNet: A Biased Contest-Based Crowdsourcing Incentive Mechanism Through Exploiting Social Networks

    Yufeng Wang, Wei Dai, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems   50 ( 8 ) 2926 - 2937  2020年08月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    Crowdsourcing has proved to be a splendid tool to aggregate the knowledge from a pool of individuals in order to perform abundant microtasks efficiently. Recently, with the explosive growth of online social network, Word of Mouth (WoM)-based crowdsourcing systems have emerged, in which besides conducting the tasks by themselves, participants simultaneously recruit other individuals through exploiting their social networks to help solve crowdsourced tasks. This crowdsourcing paradigm can greatly facilitate to grow the pool of crowdworkers. However, there exist two conflicting challenges in designing an effective WoM-based incentive mechanism: 1) sybil attack and 2) heterogeneous effect of participants. That is, intuitively, incentivizing (usually compensating for) common-ability individuals will inevitably stimulate the behavior of sybil attack (i.e., some individuals create multiple sybils, and split the total efforts into those sybils to expect more compensation). This paper proposes a novel biased contest-based crowdsourcing incentive mechanism through exploiting social networks (BciNet), aiming to balance those two conflicting objectives. BciNet is composed of two phases. First, based on spreading activation model, an enhanced geometric virtual point dissemination mechanism is able to provide sybil-proof property and accommodate the realistic social network structure. Second, based on participants' virtual points, a biased contest gives more reward to less able participants. Through carefully calibrating the bias factor, simulation results based on the real dataset show that BciNet can greatly improve the amount of participants' effort levels, and actually be robust against the sybil attack. In brief, for a practical incentive mechanism, the methodology to address conflicting goals is to put rational individuals into dilemma: to be sybil or not to be, it is the problem, i.e., the potential gain from the sybils in the second phase may be offset by the loss in the first phase.

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  • Deep-Learning-Enhanced Human Activity Recognition for Internet of Healthcare Things

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang, Kevin I-Kai Wang, Hao Wang, Laurence T. Yang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal   7 ( 7 ) 6429 - 6438  2020年07月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    Along with the advancement of several emerging computing paradigms and technologies, such as cloud computing, mobile computing, artificial intelligence, and big data, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been applied in a variety of fields. In particular, the Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT) is becoming increasingly important in human activity recognition (HAR) due to the rapid development of wearable and mobile devices. In this article, we focus on the deep-learning-enhanced HAR in IoHT environments. A semisupervised deep learning framework is designed and built for more accurate HAR, which efficiently uses and analyzes the weakly labeled sensor data to train the classifier learning model. To better solve the problem of the inadequately labeled sample, an intelligent autolabeling scheme based on deep Q-network (DQN) is developed with a newly designed distance-based reward rule which can improve the learning efficiency in IoT environments. A multisensor based data fusion mechanism is then developed to seamlessly integrate the on-body sensor data, context sensor data, and personal profile data together, and a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based classification method is proposed to identify fine-grained patterns according to the high-level features contextually extracted from the sequential motion data. Finally, experiments and evaluations are conducted to demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed method using real-world data.

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  • BTR: A Feature-Based Bayesian Task Recommendation Scheme for Crowdsourcing System

    Wei Dai, Yufeng Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems   7 ( 3 ) 780 - 789  2020年06月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    The crowdsourcing system is a distributed problem-solving platform, in which tasks are delivered to the crowd (i.e., crowdworkers) in the form of an open call. Usually, large-scale crowdsourcing systems contain abundant microtasks, and the overhead of a crowdworker spending on searching the appropriate task may be comparable to the cost of completing the task. Therefore, task recommendation is necessary. However, existing work ignores the dynamics in crowdsourcing system, i.e., new tasks continually arrive, which leads to the issues of task cold-start. To overcome the challenge of the new coming task recommendation, this article proposes a feature-based Bayesian task recommendation (BTR) scheme. The key idea to deal with the dynamics of the crowdsourcing system lies in that the BTR learns the latent factor of the task through the task features instead of task ID and then learns the user's preference according to their historical behaviors. Specifically, based on task features and the user's historical behavior records, BTR can not only timely provide crowdworkers with personalized task recommendations but also solve the task cold-start problem. The simulations based on the real crowdsourced data set demonstrate that BTR performs better than other typical schemes that target at recommending the newly arrived tasks to crowdworkers.

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  • Cyber-Enabled Well-Being Oriented Daily Living Support Based on Personal Data Analysis

    Seiji Kasuya, Xiaokang Zhou, Kiichi Tago, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing   8 ( 2 ) 493 - 502  2020年04月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    We are living in a cyber-physical-social environment with a variety of lifestyles and values. Living support has become important in such a diverse society. Owing to the ability to collect a large amount of personal data or life logs in the cyber-physical-social environment, it is now possible for us to provide living support based on personal data analysis. Moreover, analyzing such data can facilitate a deep understanding of an individual. In this study, we focus on the provision of cyber-enabled well-being oriented daily living support for an individual based on personal data analysis. Three categories of personal data are identified from an individual's daily life data. In this paper, we discuss the basic concept, model, and framework for well-being oriented personal data analysis in order to offer suggestions and advices to improve the living quality of an individual. Finally, we report a feasibility study with an application scenario by using personal and environmental data.

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  • DNN-DP: Differential privacy enabled deep neural network learning framework for sensitive crowdsourcing data

    Y. Wang, M. Gu, J. Ma, Q. Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems   7 ( 1 ) 215 - 224  2020年02月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • Detection of Health Abnormality Considering Latent Factors Inducing a Disease

    Kiichi Tago, Kosuke Takagi, Qun Jin

    IEEE Access   8   139433 - 139443  2020年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    Underlying latent factors may cause a person to feel unwell. As the influence of the latent factors increases, the person will become sick. It is difficult to directly measure the influence of latent factors on risk degrees. However, early symptoms of a disease may affect vital signs such as body temperature and blood pressure, which may be a result of the influence of the latent factors. Deep learning is often used to predict the onset of a disease owing to its high accuracy. However, the reliability of this method is limited because of its characteristics of a black-box model. In this study, we propose a new approach to detect health abnormality. We regard the degree of influence of latent factors as the risk of disease and detect health abnormality before the onset of the disease. In our approach, we used a combination of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM). First, in SEM, a domain model was created, and the factor score was estimated based on the relationship between latent factors and the explicit variables influenced by the factors. Thereafter, risk degrees were quantified with HMM using the estimated factor scores, and abnormality was identified in terms of risk degree. Finally, our proposed method was compared with three baselines: PCA (principal component analysis)-based approach, deep learning, and no-degree estimation methods. The average recall of our method was 98.75%, almost the same as the baselines, and false positive rate (FPR) was 0.186%, lower than the baselines. In the five-fold cross-validation comparing with no-degree estimation method, the average accuracy and recall of our method were 99.7% and 98.3% respectively, and FPR was 0.045%, all much better than the baseline. Moreover, our approach can make the process of obtaining the result visible and help detect abnormality sensitively by setting the threshold according to the risk degree, which can contribute to early detection of a disease and improve the reliability of abnormality detection as well.

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  • A Distributed Intelligent Hungarian Algorithm for Workload Balance in Sensor-Cloud Systems Based on Urban Fog Computing

    J. Jiang, Y. Long, Y. Mei, T. Wang, Q. Jin

    IEEE Access   7   77649 - 77658  2019年06月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • A Secure IoT Service Architecture With an Efficient Balance Dynamics Based on Cloud and Edge Computing

    Tian Wang, Guangxue Zhang, Anfeng Liu, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Qun Jin

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal   6 ( 3 ) 4831 - 4843  2019年06月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    The Internet of Things (IoT)-Cloud combines the IoT and cloud computing, which not only enhances the IoT's capability but also expands the scope of its applications. However, it exhibits significant security and efficiency problems that must be solved. Internal attacks account for a large fraction of the associated security problems, however, traditional security strategies are not capable of addressing these attacks effectively. Moreover, as repeated/similar service requirements become greater in number, the efficiency of IoT-Cloud services is seriously affected. In this paper, a novel architecture that integrates a trust evaluation mechanism and service template with a balance dynamics based on cloud and edge computing is proposed to overcome these problems. In this architecture, the edge network and the edge platform are designed in such a way as to reduce resource consumption and ensure the extensibility of trust evaluation mechanism, respectively. To improve the efficiency of IoT-Cloud services, the service parameter template is established in the cloud and the service parsing template is established in the edge platform. Moreover, the edge network can assist the edge platform in establishing service parsing templates based on the trust evaluation mechanism and meet special service requirements. The experimental results illustrate that this edge-based architecture can improve both the security and efficiency of IoT-Cloud systems.

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  • Design of a computational model for social learning support and analytics

    N.Y. Yen, J.C. Hung, C.C. Chen, Q. Jin

    Computers in Human Behavior (Elsevier)   92   547 - 561  2019年03月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • Personalization Recommendation Algorithm Based on Trust Correlation Degree and Matrix Factorization

    W. Li, X. Zhou, S. Shimizu, M. Xin, J. Jiang, H. Gao, Q. Jin

    IEEE Access   7   45451 - 45459  2019年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • Emerging Privacy Issues and Solutions in Cyber-Enabled Sharing Services: From Multiple Perspectives

    K. Yan, W. Shen, Q. Jin, H. Lu

    IEEE Access   7   26031 - 26059  2019年  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • DP3: A Differential Privacy-based Privacy-Preserving Indoor Localization Mechanism

    Y. Wang, M. Huang, Q. Jin, J. Ma

    IEEE Communications Letters   22 ( 12 ) 2547 - 2550  2018年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • Analysis of User Network and Correlation for Community Discovery Based on Topic-Aware Similarity and Behavioral Influence

    Xiaokang Zhou, Bo Wu, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems   48 ( 6 ) 559 - 571  2018年12月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    While social computing related research has focused mostly on how to provide users with more precise and direct information, or on recommending new search methods to find requested information rapidly, the authors believe that network users themselves could be viewed as an important social resource. This study concentrates on analyzing potential and dynamic user correlations, based on topic-aware similarity and behavioral influence, which may help us to discover communities in social networking sites. The dynamically socialized user networking (DSUN) model is extended and refined to represent implicit and explicit user relationships in terms of topic-aware features and social behaviors. A set of measures is defined to describe and quantify interuser correlations, relating to social behaviors. Three types of ties are proposed to describe and discover communities according to influence-based user relationships. Results of the experiment with Twitter data are used to show the discovery of three types of communities, based on the presented model. Comparison with six different schemes and two existing methods demonstrates that the proposed method is effective in discovering influence-based communities. Finally, the scenario-based simulation of collective decision-making processes demonstrates the practicability of the proposed model and method in social interactive systems.

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  • An Anti-Noise Process Mining Algorithm Based on Minimum Spanning Tree Clustering

    Li Weimin, Zhu Heng, Liu Wei, Chen Dehua, Jiang Jiulei, Jin Qun

    IEEE ACCESS   6   48756 - 48764  2018年10月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • PPRank: Economically Selecting Initial Users for Influence Maximization in Social Networks

    Yufeng Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL   11 ( 4 ) 2279 - 2290  2017年12月  [査読有り]

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    This paper focuses on seeking a new heuristic scheme for an influence maximization problem in social networks: how to economically select a subset of individuals (so-called seeds) to trigger a large cascade of further adoptions of a new behavior based on a contagion process. Most existing works on selection of seeds assumed that the constant number k seeds could be selected, irrespective of the intrinsic property of each individual's different susceptibility of being influenced (e.g., it may be costly to persuade some seeds to adopt a new behavior). In this paper, a price-performance-ratio inspired heuristic scheme, PPRank, is proposed, which investigates how to economically select seeds within a given budget and meanwhile try to maximize the diffusion process. Our paper's contributions are threefold. First, we explicitly characterize each user with two distinct factors: the susceptibility of being influenced (SI) and influential power (IP) representing the ability to actively influence others and formulate users' SIs and IPs according to their social relations, and then, a convex price-demand curve-based model is utilized to properly convert each user's SI into persuasion cost (PC) representing the cost used to successfully make the individual adopt a new behavior. Furthermore, a novel cost-effective selection scheme is proposed, which adopts both the price performance ratio (PC-IP ratio) and user's IP as an integrated selection criterion and meanwhile explicitly takes into account the overlapping effect; finally, simulations using both artificially generated and real-trace network data illustrate that, under the same budgets, PPRank can achieve larger diffusion range than other heuristic and brute-force greedy schemes without taking users' persuasion costs into account.

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  • Cybersecurity for Cyber-Enabled Multimedia Applications

    Qun Jin, Yong Xiang, Guozi Sun, Yao Liu, Chin-Chen Chang

    IEEE MULTIMEDIA   24 ( 4 ) 10 - 13  2017年10月  [査読有り]

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    With the rapid popularity of social network applications and advanced digital devices, we have witnessed the explosive growth of multimedia big data in terms of both scale and variety over the last few years. Yet at the same time, security issues related to multimedia big data have arisen. An urgent demand has emerged for novel technologies that deal with copyright protection, multimedia forgery detection, and cybersecurity - especially for cyber-enabled multimedia applications. This special issue brings together research efforts in cybersecurity for cyber-enabled multimedia applications.

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  • Analyzing Social Roles Based on a Hierarchical Model and Data Mining for Collective Decision-Making Support

    Bo Wu, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin, Fuhua Lin, Henry Leung

    IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL   11 ( 1 ) 356 - 365  2017年03月  [査読有り]

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    With the popularity of social networking services (SNSs) and the increase of users, individuals' social roles in a social network have become more and more important in terms of the recommendation of personalized services and the collective decision-making process. Usually, in an SNS system, active users may not represent the major opinions among the whole users, and most of the users' opinions may be multifarious. In this paper, we focus on analyzing and identifying users' dynamical social roles to facilitate the collective decision-making process. After introducing the social choice theory and an improved collective decision-making model, we present a three-layer model to analyze users' social roles in a hierarchical way and develop an integrated mechanism to utilize the identification of social roles to support the collective decision making. Based on a developed NetLogo-based tool, a case study for the course-offering determination with an application scenario is demonstrated to show the process of using users' social roles to support the collective decision making. The comparison experiment conducted between our method and the Delphi method shows the usefulness of our proposed method to help users achieve the decision consensus in a more efficient way.

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  • Enabling the Social Internet of Things and Social Cloud Introduction

    Weishan Zhang, Qun Jin, Didier El Baz

    IEEE CLOUD COMPUTING   2 ( 6 ) 6 - 9  2015年11月  [査読有り]

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    The social Internet of Things and social cloud have the potential to move forward hand in hand, changing our social patterns and providing new ways to communicate and collaborate.

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  • Discovery of Action Patterns and User Correlations in Task-Oriented Processes for Goal-Driven Learning Recommendation

    Xiaokang Zhou, Jian Chen, Bo Wu, Qun Jin

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES   7 ( 3 ) 231 - 245  2014年07月  [査読有り]

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    With the high development of social networks, collaborations in a socialized web-based learning environment has become increasing important, which means people can learn through interactions and collaborations in communities across social networks. In this study, in order to support the enhanced collaborative learning, two important factors, user behavior patterns and user correlations, are taken into account to facilitate the information and knowledge sharing in a task-oriented learning process. Following a hierarchical graph model for enhanced collaborative learning within a task-oriented learning process, which describes relations of learning actions, activities, sub-tasks and tasks in communities, the learning action pattern and Goal-driven Learning Group, as well as their formal definitions and related algorithms, are introduced to extract and analyze users' learning behaviors in both personal and cooperative ways. In addition, a User Networking Model, which is used to represent the dynamical user relationships, is proposed to calculate user correlations in accordance with their interactions in a social community. Based on these, an integrated mechanism is developed to utilize both user behavior patterns and user correlations for the recommendation of individualized learning actions. The system architecture is described finally, and the experiment results are presented and discussed to demonstrate the practicability and usefulness of our methods.

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  • A human-centric framework for context-aware flowable services in cloud computing environments

    Yishui Zhu, Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    INFORMATION SCIENCES   257   231 - 247  2014年02月  [査読有り]

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    Services are expected to be a promising way for people to use information and computing resources in our emerging ubiquitous network society and cloud computing environments. In this study, we propose a metaphoric concept called a flowable service. It is defined as a logical stream that organizes and provides circumjacent services in such a way that they are perceived by individuals to be naturally embedded in their surrounding environments. We present our view on how some of these problems, such as the flexibility, portability and interoperability of services, can be solved using flowable services in order to provide a seamless integration of diverse services in the most intuitive "flowable" way possible, thus achieving maximum satisfaction for both service providers and consumers while decreasing the delivery cost of the services. Recognizing the importance of the awareness of each individual's context for a smooth and accurate provision of services, we further propose a human-centric framework for context-aware flowable services, which harnesses the users' contexts to enable a pro-active support of human activities in a flexible and natural way. Owing to context-awareness, this framework can find and integrate circumjacent services that are considered needed by each individual and can create an ambient service environment that is tailored to his/her specific needs, proclivities and characteristics. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • LONET: An Interactive Search Network for Intelligent Lecture Path Generation

    Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih, Qun Jin

    ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY   4 ( 2 ) 1 - 27  2013年03月  [査読有り]

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    Sharing resources and information on the Internet has become an important activity for education. In distance learning, instructors can benefit from resources, also known as Learning Objects (LOs), to create plenteous materials for specific learning purposes. Our repository (called the MINE Registry) has been developed for storing and sharing learning objects, around 22,000 in total, in the past few years. To enhance reusability, one significant concept named Reusability Tree was implemented to trace the process of changes. Also, weighting and ranking metrics have been proposed to enhance the searchability in the repository. Following the successful implementation, this study goes further to investigate the relationships between LOs from a perspective of social networks. The LONET (Learning Object Network), as an extension of Reusability Tree, is newly proposed and constructed to clarify the vague reuse scenario in the past, and to summarize collaborative intelligence through past interactive usage experiences. We define a social structure in our repository based on past usage experiences from instructors, by proposing a set of metrics to evaluate the interdependency such as prerequisites and references. The structure identifies usage experiences and can be graphed in terms of implicit and explicit relations among learning objects. As a practical contribution, an adaptive algorithm is proposed to mine the social structure in our repository. The algorithm generates adaptive routes, based on past usage experiences, by computing possible interactive input, such as search criteria and feedback from instructors, and assists them in generating specific lectures.

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  • Ranking Metrics and Search Guidance for Learning Object Repository

    Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih, Louis R. Chao, Qun Jin

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES   3 ( 3 ) 250 - 264  2010年07月  [査読有り]

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    In line with the popularity of the Internet and the development of search engine, users request information through web-based services. Although general-purpose searching such as one provided by Google is powerful, searching mechanism for specific purposes could rely on metadata. In distance learning (or e-learning), SCORM provides an efficient metadata definition for learning objects to be searched and shared. To facilitate searching in a federated repository, CORDRA provides a common architecture for discovering and sharing Learning Objects. We followed SCORM and CORDRA specifications to develop a registry system, called the MINE Registry, for storing and sharing 20,738 Learning Objects created in the past five years. As a contribution, we propose the concept of "Reusability Tree" to represent the relationships among relevant Learning Objects and enhance CORDRA. We further collect relevant information, while users are utilizing Learning Objects, such as citations and time period persisted. The feedbacks from the user community are also considered as critical elements for evaluating significance degree of Learning Objects. Through theses factors, we propose a mechanism to weight and rank Learning Objects in the MINE Registry, in addition to other external learning objects repositories. As a practical contribution, we provide a tool called "Search Guider" to assist users in finding relevant information in Learning Objects based on individual requirements.

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  • Design of a virtual community based interactive learning environment

    Q Jin

    INFORMATION SCIENCES   140 ( 1-2 ) 171 - 191  2002年01月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for every-citizen learning communities based on a recently widespread Internet tool known as Multi-user dimension Object-Oriented (MOO). We discuss the design and development of a prototype system of the virtual community based interactive learning environment, which supports human-human communication in addition to human-computer communication. with emphasis on social interaction. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Influence maximization algorithm based on group trust and local topology structure.

    Chang Guo, Weimin Li, Fangfang Liu, Kexin Zhong, Xing Wu 0001, Yougang Zhao, Qun Jin

    Neurocomputing   564   126936 - 126936  2024年01月

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  • GOMPS: Global Attention-based Ophthalmic Image Measurement and Postoperative Appearance Prediction System.

    Xingru Huang, Zhi Li, Lixia Lou, Ruilong Dan, Lingxiao Chen, Guodong Zeng, Gangyong Jia, Xiaodiao Chen, Qun Jin, Juan Ye, Yaqi Wang

    Expert Syst. Appl.   232   120812 - 120812  2023年12月

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    Accurate measurements of ophthalmic parameters and postoperative appearance prediction are essential for the diagnosis and treatment of many ophthalmic diseases. Nevertheless, it remains challenging due to (1) inconsistent ophthalmic image sampling standards, including ocular-camera distance, facial angle, and patient number, (2) complicated ocular morphology, such as subconjunctival hemorrhage, ocular movements, lighting effects, and morphological aging. It is difficult for a model to measure parameters and make predictions in variable sampling methods and morphology conditions. Therefore, the Global attention-based Ophthalmic Image Measurement and Postoperative Appearance Prediction System (GOMPS) is proposed, which quantifies ophthalmic image parameters to diagnose disease and simultaneously predict postoperative appearance of blepharoptosis. By perceiving the global structure of the ophthalmic image, GOMPS makes logical inference predictions of the sclera and cornea morphology, to overcome the above difficulties. Concretely, a global attention unit (GAU) and a novel global attention structure-aware network (GASA-Net) are designed to enhance GOMPS's global structure awareness ability to perform logical reasoning. Extensive experimental results on our collected ophthalmic dataset for diagnosis & prediction (OD2P) demonstrate that GOMPS surpasses the state-of-the-art methods in segmentation accuracy and achieves the current optimal performance in measurement and postoperative prediction under many clinical scenes.

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  • Dynamic Multi-view Group Preference Learning for group behavior prediction in social networks.

    Weimin Li, Cai Zhang, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Expert Syst. Appl.   231   120553 - 120553  2023年11月

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    Group behavior modeling is an important research topic in the field of social network analysis. Existing methods regarding this topic can only learn the static group preference, ignoring the multiple characteristics of the group behavior, so they cannot model the group behavior in a complete way. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Multi-view Group Preference Learning (DMGPL) model for group behavior prediction in social networks. Firstly, an area-aware user dynamic preference extracting module is developed concerning user representation learning, which can integrate the dynamic user behavior preference and the corresponding group structural information into group members’ representations. Then, to simultaneously obtain stability, propensity, potentiality, and heterogeneity of the group behavior, Multi-view Group Preference Aggregation (MGA) is designed for group behavior modeling. In MGA, various aggregation strategies are used to capture different kinds of group behavior properties, which can achieve the effect of highlighting different properties in different scenarios. Moreover, considering the influence of the member's size on group behavior, we define the group scaling degree and perform group representation scaling to make MGA more flexible. Finally, extensive experiments are performed on two real-world datasets, and the results show that the accuracy of group behavior prediction by DMGPL improved by about 10% compared to the baseline models.

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  • Enabling inductive knowledge graph completion via structure-aware attention network.

    Jingchao Wang, Weimin Li, Wei Liu, Can Wang 0004, Qun Jin

    Applied Intelligence   53 ( 21 ) 25003 - 25027  2023年11月

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    Abstract: Knowledge graph completion (KGC) aims at complementing missing entities and relations in a knowledge graph (KG). Popular KGC approaches based on KG embedding are typically limited to the transductive setting, i.e., all entities must be seen during training, which is impractical for real-world KGs where new entities are emerging daily. Recent inductive KG embedding approaches propose to train a neighborhood aggregator in conjunction with entity and relation embeddings, which helps to embed unseen entities via existing neighbors. However, existing methods do not fully take advantage of the structural information of neighbors and are unable to handle triplets involving unseen relations. In this paper, we work further and propose a novel and unified inductive KGC model, namely structure-aware attention network (SAAN), which can efficiently generate embeddings of unseen entities and relations by aggregating neighbors with structure-aware attention weights. Unlike conventional embedding-based attention methods, SAAN can naturally learn importance weights by modeling structural correlations between nodes in an embedding-independent manner and can be applied to any existing KG embedding model. Experimental results on both transductive and inductive KGC tasks show that our model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

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  • Hic-KGQA: Improving multi-hop question answering over knowledge graph via hypergraph and inference chain.

    Jingchao Wang, Weimin Li, Fangfang Liu, Bin Sheng, Wei Liu, Qun Jin

    Knowl. Based Syst.   277   110810 - 110810  2023年10月

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    Question answering over knowledge graph (KGQA) aims at answering natural language questions posed over knowledge graphs (KGs). Moreover, multi-hop KGQA requires reasoning across multiple triplets in KGs to get to the answer. Unfortunately, KGs often lack complete information and contain many missing links, which poses huge challenges for multi-hop KGQA. To address this, recent several approaches have introduced KG embedding techniques, which have shown good performance on the multi-hop KGQA task. However, these methods ignore the semantic correlations between paths and questions, and the reasoning process is not easily explained. Furthermore, traditional KG embedding methods consider only low-order pairwise relations and ignore the higher-order relations among entities, leading to a sub-optimal embedding result. To address these problems, we propose Hic-KGQA, a novel hypergraph and inference chain-based model for multi-hop KGQA. Specifically, Hic-KGQA first generates pre-trained entity embeddings with multiple semantics via a hypergraph-based KGC module (HKM). Then, an inference chain modeling module (ICMM) is designed to learn the importance of different inference chains for the question and encode the highest-ranked inference chain into an embedding representation. Finally, two scoring networks are used to evaluate the correlation between the candidate answers and the questions from the perspective of both the triplet facts and the reasoning process to obtain more accurate answers. Furthermore, the mutual information maximization (MIM) is innovatively implemented to capture richer common path features from similar cases to alleviate the missing path problem caused by KG incompleteness. Experiments show that Hic-KGQA significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods and is explainable.

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  • A short-term residential load forecasting scheme based on the multiple correlation-temporal graph neural networks.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Lingxiao Rui, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Appl. Soft Comput.   146   110629 - 110629  2023年10月

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    Accurate residential load forecasting (RLF) is of great significance for the decision-making and operation of modern power system. In literature, deep neural network (DNN) based RLF schemes have witnessed great development due to the advantage of automatically extracting features and capturing complex non-linear pattern in the presented data. However, most existed works separately exploit the historical data of a specific residential house to forecast its load. However, the electricity consumption behaviors among residential users are not independent, and implicitly have some correlations, which can be explicitly characterized and exploited to improve the accuracy of RLF forecasting. Inspired by this idea, through exploiting the multiple correlations among households, this paper proposes a novel residential load forecasting framework based on multiple correlation-temporal graph neural networks, RLF-MGNN. Specifically, the novelty of our work includes three aspects. First, multiple graphs are explicitly constructed to represent both linear and nonlinear correlations among temporal load series of households. That is, the synchronization graph is built to describe the degree of linear correlation between two households using Pearson correlation coefficient, which characterizes the similarity of their consumption behaviors, and the causality graph is built to describe their nonlinear correlation using transfer entropy, which characterizes the amount of directional information transfer from one time series to another, and models the mutual influence between households. Second, the multiple correlation-temporal graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are designed to forecast the residential users’ loads. In detail, at each timestep, latent features are first extracted by corresponding GCNs to embed multiple correlations among households, and then are sent to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for further learning the latent temporal features. Finally, thorough experiments on real datasets demonstrate that our proposed RLF-MGNN outperforms the state-of-the-art independent DNN based schemes and other GNN based schemes.

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  • SGNR: A Social Graph Neural Network Based Interactive Recommendation Scheme for E-Commerce

    Dehua Ma, Yufeng Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Tsinghua Science and Technology   28 ( 4 ) 786 - 798  2023年08月

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    Interactive Recommendation (IR) formulates the recommendation as a multi-step decision-making process which can actively utilize the individuals' feedback in multiple steps and optimize the long-term user benefit of recommendation. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has witnessed great application in IR for e-commerce. However, user cold-start problem impairs the learning process of the DRL-based recommendation scheme. Moreover, most existing DRL-based recommendations ignore user relationships or only consider the single-hop social relationships, which cannot fully utilize the social network. The fact that those schemes can not capture the multiple-hop social relationships among users in IR will result in a sub-optimal recommendation. To address the above issues, this paper proposes a Social Graph Neural network-based interactive Recommendation scheme (SGNR), which is a multiple-hop social relationships enhanced DRL framework. Within this framework, the multiple-hop social relationships among users are extracted from the social network via the graph neural network which can sufficiently take advantage of the social network to provide more personalized recommendations and effectively alleviate the user cold-start problem. The experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed SGNR outperforms other state-of-the-art DRL-based methods that fail to consider social relationships or only consider single-hop social relationships.

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  • Rumor source localization in social networks based on infection potential energy.

    Weimin Li, Chang Guo, Yanxia Liu, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin, Mingjun Xin

    Information Sciences   634   172 - 188  2023年07月

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    The location technology of information sources in social networks is a major factor in exploring the means of information propagation. In this context, most existing methods ignore the direction of infected nodes and fail to make full use of the diffusion information, resulting in poor identification of source localization. To address such problems, a novel source location method based on infection potential energy is proposed. Its methodology consists of several steps: Firstly, a network reconstruction method is suggested, based on infection potential energy, to make the constructed information diffusion path more accurate. Afterwards, a network pruning method is identified to reduce the search space of candidate sources. Finally, considering the minor differences in the Gaussian density values of multiple nodes and the tendency of the rumor to spread, a distance centrality method is proposed. Experiments in real networks show that the suggested method achieves a better location performance.

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  • ADCB: Adaptive Dynamic Clustering of Bandits for Online Recommendation System.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Weidong Zhang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Neural Processing Letters   55 ( 2 ) 1155 - 1172  2023年04月

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    To deal with the insufficient feedbacks and dynamics of individual arrival and item popularity in online recommender, collaborative multi-armed bandit (MAB) schemes intentionally utilize the explicitly known or implicitly inferred social relationships among individuals to collaboratively recommend. Especially, without assuming the social relationships among individuals given, the dynamic cluster of bandits simultaneously infers the relationships, and recommends items through using the inferred relationships in multi-round interactive steps. However, the existed clustering bandit algorithms have two weakpoints: first they either fix the number of clusters in advance, or assign two individuals into the same cluster if there exists a path between two users in graph structure, which may lead to the wrongly cluster users. Second, they usually exploit only the cluster’s accumulated parameters of cluster as the inferred preference of individual in the cluster, which can’t fully accurately learn individual’s latent preference. To address issues above, we propose new clustering MAB based online recommendation methods, ADCB and ADCB+, based on adaptively splitting and merging clusters, which incrementally enforce both user-level re-assignment and cluster-level re-adjustment in recommendation rounds to efficiently and effectively learn the individuals’ preferences and their clustering structure. Especially, the proposed ADCB+ method further exploits both the accumulated cluster preference parameters and each individual’s personalized feature through the adaptively weighting of the two influences according to the number of user interactions. The experiments on three real online rating datasets (i.e., MovieLens-2k, Delicious-2k, LastFM-2k) consistently show that, in terms of the cumulative reward over recommendation rounds, and the average Click-Through-Rate, our proposed ADCB and ADCB+ schemes outperform than some existing dynamic clustering based online recommendation methods.

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  • Guest Editorial: Special issue on machine learning and deep learning algorithms for complex networks.

    Pasquale De Meo, Qun Jin, Jianguo Yao, Michael Sheng 0001

    CAAI Trans. Intell. Technol.   8 ( 1 ) 1 - 2  2023年03月

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  • Behavioral Analysis of Mowing Workers Based on Hilbert–Huang Transform: An Auxiliary Movement Analysis of Manual Mowing on the Slopes of Terraced Rice Fields

    Bo Wu, Yuan Wu, Ran Dong, Kiminori Sato, Soichiro Ikuno, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    Agriculture (Switzerland)   13 ( 2 )  2023年02月

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    In the mountainous areas of Japan, the weeds on the slopes of terraced rice paddies still need to be cut by the elderly manually. Therefore, more attention should be given to maintain proper postures while performing mowing actions (especially the pre-cutting actions) to reduce the risk of accidents. Given that complex mowing actions can be decomposed into different sub-actions, we proposed a joint angular calculation-based body movement analysis model based on the Hilbert–Huang transform to analyze the pre-cutting actions. We found that the two most important sub-actions were fast pre-cutting and slow pre-cutting. Based on field experiments, we analyzed the pre-cutting actions of workers with different experience levels and identified the factors that affected their falling risk (stability). The results showed differences and similarities in the actions’ frequency and amplitude in the sub-actions of workers with different mowing experience, confirmed the influence of body characteristics (body height, etc.) on body stability, and showed that workers should pay attention to their age and ankle part while mowing. The analysis results have identified factors for the mowing workers’ training and the development of equipment for use in complicated geographical conditions.

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  • Policy-Based Reinforcement Learning for Assortative Matching in Human Behavior Modeling.

    Ou Deng, Qun Jin

    HCI (19)   14029 LNCS   378 - 391  2023年

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    This paper explores human behavior in virtual networked communities, specifically individuals or groups’ potential and expressive capacity to respond to internal and external stimuli, with assortative matching as a typical example. A modeling approach based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is proposed, adding a multi-head attention function to the A3C algorithm to enhance learning effectiveness. This approach simulates human behavior in certain scenarios through various environmental parameter settings and agent action strategies. In our experiment, reinforcement learning is employed to serve specific agents that learn from environment status and competitor behaviors, optimizing strategies to achieve better results. The simulation includes individual and group levels, displaying possible paths to forming competitive advantages. This modeling approach provides a means for further analysis of the evolutionary dynamics of human behavior, communities, and organizations in various socioeconomic issues.

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  • Experimental Design and Validation of i-Comments for Online Learning Support.

    Jiaqi Wang, Jian Chen, Qun Jin

    HCI (30)   14040 LNCS   201 - 213  2023年

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    Online learning provides flexibility and accessibility, however, lack of interaction and support leads to decreased satisfaction and brings feelings of loneliness. Studies explored ways to promote social interaction and collaboration among learners, but there remain challenges in addressing the issues of relying on asynchronous communication in online learning. In this study, we explored which pattern of scrolling comments is beneficial and effective for online learning support. Based on the i-Comments model, we design an experiment, in which three groups of subjects are randomly assigned to view the video only, the video with i-Comments pattern I and video with i-Comments patternII. During the learning process, the subjects’ concentration is detected by an eye-tracking device, while their peaceful level is monitored through the emWave system. After viewing the videos, the subjects are requested to take a quiz to test their comprehension, and a questionnaire is used to investigate cognitive load, fatigue, loneliness, and satisfaction. The results showed that i-Comments with more relevant knowledge, larger quantity, and appearance when viewing the third and last video were found to significantly improve learning comprehension, enhance learning satisfaction, keep a peaceful state, and alleviate the sense of loneliness in online learning.

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  • Multidimensional Data Integration and Analysis for Youth Health Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

    Jianlun Wu, Yaping Ye, Yuxi Li, Ruichen Cong, Yishan Bian, Yuerong Chen, Kiichi Tago, Shoji Nishimura, Atsushi Ogihara, Qun Jin

    HCI (19)   14029 LNCS   154 - 168  2023年

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has been making big impact on mental and physical health of youth. Recent research shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing mental health problems due to the unique combination of public health crises and social isolation. The objective of this study is to integrate and analyze various health data sources to improve health care for youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of the research is to merge self-assessment data from individuals, data obtained from wearable devices, and health data based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), utilizing machine learning techniques to gain a comprehensive perspective of youth health. The experiment results showed that the correlation between the TCM-based Health Score (TCMHS) in the TCM dimension and the Wearable Device Stress-based Health Score (WDSHS) in wearable devices was stronger than the correlation between the Self-assessed Subjective Health Score (SSHS) and the WDSHS. On the other hand, activity calorie consumption was the most important feature to both the SSHS and WDSHS while resting heart rate affected the TCMHS most.

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  • A Trustworthy Decentralized System for Health Data Integration and Sharing: Design and Experimental Validation.

    Ruichen Cong, Yaping Ye, Jianlun Wu, Yuxi Li, Yuerong Chen, Yishan Bian, Kiichi Tago, Shoji Nishimura, Atsushi Ogihara, Qun Jin

    HCI (35)     125 - 134  2023年

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  • Coevolution modeling of group behavior and opinion based on public opinion perception.

    Weimin Li, Chang Guo, Zhibin Deng, Fangfang Liu, Jianjia Wang, Ruiqiang Guo, Can Wang 0004, Qun Jin

    Knowledge-Based Systems   270   110547 - 110547  2023年

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    It is important to study the evolution mechanism of group behavior for the prevention and control of harmful group behavior on social networks. Most researchers focus on the study of group behavior evolution in a deterministic environment, ignoring the influence of the uncertain environment formed by the randomness of behavioral decision-making, the incompleteness of public opinion information, and the instability of behavioral states. Therefore, this paper starts with the behavior decision-making process of individuals in an uncertain environment, defines the perception of public opinion, and builds a coevolution model of group behavior and opinion. First, considering the impact of public opinion information on group behavior evolution, this paper defines emotional resonance and topic popularity to quantify public opinion perception and designs an uncertain behavior decision-making model based on public opinion perception. Then, for the influence of the instability of the behavioral state on the opinion evolution process, this paper designs an opinion evolution model for perception based on the unstable behavioral state. Finally, we design the behavior state evolution mechanism based on the instability of the behavior state and fuse it with the behavior decision-making model and opinion evolution model to construct a coevolution model of group behavior and opinion. Compared with the experimental results of other models and real group behavior evolution, our model is effective.

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  • Artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) data acquisition based on graph neural networks: A systematical review.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Bo Zhang 0034, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience   35 ( 23 )  2023年

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    The power of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) stems from adapting machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models into abundant intelligent IoT fields, based on a large data stream with different formats, sizes, and timestamps generated by massive numbers of heterogeneous sensors. On the one hand, data acquisition is the fundamental basis for any AIoT systems, but data sensed by massive IoT devices may be noisy and even contain adversarial samples. On the other hand, ensuring the efficiency and robustness in data acquisition is vitally important for data-driven ML and AI. Recently, besides perceiving ability, the literature has witnessed great development of empowering things with learning and reasoning ability through deep learning models, including recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and/or convolutional neural network (CNNs). However, the existing works have one significant weakness: fail to explicitly leverage the geospatial implications and latent connections among sensors for high-quality data acquisition and quality control. Graphs are intrinsically suitable for representing the dependencies and inter-relationships between AIoT data sensing devices. Due to the ability of capturing the complex interactive relationships between nodes and producing high-level representations of the graph input, graph neural networks (GNNs) have exploded onto various ML and AI fields, to learn from graph-structured data. Our review covers the latest progresses in GNN for the fundamental atomic task of data acquisition in AIoT. Instead of surveying the abundant GNN schemes in vertically various IoT sensing applications, this paper systematically reviews the horizontal infrastructure that all AIoT fields should have, that is, AIoT data acquisition, based on GNN and other related emerging AI factors. Our contributions include the following aspects: Provide the latest progresses in GNN for the horizontal task of data acquisition in AIoT, propose the unified GNN pipeline based on encoder–decoder paradigm, and systematically categorize and summarize the emerging technologies helpful to address the issues in AIoT data acquisition, especially the noisy and adversarial data, and point out some future directions about GNN-based AIoT data acquisition.

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  • LDP-Fed+: A robust and privacy-preserving federated learning based classification framework enabled by local differential privacy.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Xu Zhang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience   35 ( 19 )  2023年

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    As a distributed learning framework, Federated Learning (FL) allows different local learners/participants to collaboratively train a joint model without exposing their own local data, and offers a feasible solution to legally resolve data islands. However, among them, the data privacy and model security are two challenges. The former means that, if original data are used for trained FL models, various methods can be used to deduce the original data samples, thereby causing the leakage of data. The latter implies that unreliable/malicious participants may affect or destroy the joint FL model, through uploading wrong local model parameters. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel distributed FL training framework, namely LDP-Fed+, which takes into account differential privacy protection and model security defense. Specifically, firstly, a local perturbation module is added at the local learner side, which perturbs the original data of local learners through feature extraction, binary encoding and decoding, and random response. Then, through using the perturbed data, local neural network model is trained to obtain the network parameters that meet local differential protection, to effectively deal with model inversion attacks. Secondly, a security defense module is added on the server side, which uses the auxiliary model and differential index mechanism to select an appropriate number of local disturbance parameters for aggregation to enhance model security defense and deal with membership inference attacks. The experimental results show that, compared with other federated learning models based on differential privacy, LDP-Fed+ has stronger robustness for model security and higher accuracy for model training while ensuring strict privacy protection.

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  • Multi-ledger Coordinating Mechanism by Smart Contract for Individual-Initiated Trustworthy Data Sharing.

    Yenjou Wang, Ruichen Cong, Yixiao Liu, Kiichi Tago, Ruidong Li, Hitoshi Asaeda, Qun Jin

    HCI (35)     232 - 243  2023年

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  • Effectiveness, Policy, and User Acceptance of COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps in the Post–COVID-19 Pandemic Era: Experience and Comparative Study

    Ming Xin Liu, Si Yu Zhou, Qun Jin, Shoji Nishimura, Atsushi Ogihara

    JMIR Public Health and Surveillance   8 ( 10 )  2022年10月

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    Background: In the post–COVID-19 pandemic era, many countries have launched apps to trace contacts of COVID-19 infections. Each contact-tracing app (CTA) faces a variety of issues owing to different national policies or technologies for tracing contacts. Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate all the CTAs used to trace contacts in various countries worldwide, including the technology used by each CTA, the availability of knowledge about the CTA from official websites, the interoperability of CTAs in various countries, and the infection detection rates and policies of the specific country that launched the CTA, and to summarize the current problems of the apps based on the information collected. Methods: We investigated CTAs launched in all countries through Google, Google Scholar, and PubMed. We experimented with all apps that could be installed and compiled information about apps that could not be installed or used by consulting official websites and previous literature. We compared the information collected by us on CTAs with relevant previous literature to understand and analyze the data. Results: After screening 166 COVID-19 apps developed in 197 countries worldwide, we selected 98 (59%) apps from 95 (48.2%) countries, of which 63 (66.3%) apps were usable. The methods of contact tracing are divided into 3 main categories: Bluetooth, geolocation, and QR codes. At the technical level, CTAs face 3 major problems. First, the distance and time for Bluetooth- and geolocation-based CTAs to record contact are generally set to 2 meters and 15 minutes; however, this distance should be lengthened, and the time should be shortened for more infectious variants. Second, Bluetooth- or geolocation-based CTAs also face the problem of lack of accuracy. For example, individuals in 2 adjacent vehicles during traffic jams may be at a distance of ≤2 meters to make the CTA trace contact, but the 2 users may actually be separated by car doors, which could prevent transmission and infection. In addition, we investigated infection detection rates in 33 countries, 16 (48.5%) of which had significantly low infection detection rates, wherein CTAs could have lacked effectiveness in reducing virus propagation. Regarding policy, CTAs in most countries can only be used in their own countries and lack interoperability among other countries. In addition, 7 countries have already discontinued CTAs, but we believe that it was too early to discontinue them. Regarding user acceptance, 28.6% (28/98) of CTAs had no official source of information that could reduce user acceptance. Conclusions: We surveyed all CTAs worldwide, identified their technological policy and acceptance issues, and provided solutions for each of the issues we identified. This study aimed to provide useful guidance and suggestions for updating the existing CTAs and the subsequent development of new CTAs.

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  • Design of a Vision Blind Spot Detection System Based on Depth Camera

    Zijun Wang, Qun Jin, Bo Wu

    2022 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech)     1 - 5  2022年09月

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    Nowadays, according to the report of world health organization, about 1.35 million people die in traffic accidents every year. Among them, because of it is difficult to predict in advance, the frequency of accidents caused by blind spots is relatively high, which means that it is necessary to design a system that can efficiently detect the target situations in which drivers in the area may have blind spots in their vision. Some existing methods, such as vehicle-mounted radar and pressure sensor are used for the blind spots' detection. However, they have some unresolved issues such as insufficient detection distance and limit excessive setting position. Therefore, to prevent misjudgment caused by insufficient information acquisition, this paper tries to present a multi-level object identification model based on face/object recognition and depth detection technologies via depth camera. Based on this, a new design of vision blind spot detection system is proposed by calculate the distance between human and vehicles via the depth camera. The proposed system has the function of determine whether vision blind spots exist and can quickly feedback the situation to drivers and pedestrians. This system will not only put forward a new vision blind spots determination method, but also can contribute to the research of public traffic accident prevention.

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    Qun Jin, Chin Chen Chang

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series     V - VI  2022年07月

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  • Analysis on the Subdivision of Skilled Mowing Movements on Slopes

    Bo Wu, Yuan Wu, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    Sensors   22 ( 4 ) 1372 - 1372  2022年02月

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    Owing to the aging of the rural population in the hilly and mountainous areas of Japan, mowing on narrow ridges and steep slopes is done manually by the elderly—individuals over 65 years of age. Studies have shown that many accidents that occurred during mowing were caused by workers’ unstable posture, especially when mowing on steep surfaces where there is a high risk of falling. It is necessary to analyze the body movements of mowing workers to elucidate the elements related to the risk of falls. Therefore, in this study, based on a high-precision motion-capture device and a series of experiments with elderly, skilled mowing workers, we focused on the movements of mowing. We sought to identify effective and safe mowing patterns and the factors that lead to the risk of falls. In various mowing styles, compared to the stride (S) and downward (D) mowing patterns, the basic (B) and moving (M) patterns were the most efficient; however, the risk of falls was also the highest among these patterns. While mowing, workers need to pay more attention to their arm strength and take appropriate measures to reduce the risk of falls according to their age and physique. The results can be used as data for the development of fall-detection systems and offer useful insights for the training of new mowing workers.

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  • CAN: Effective cross features by global attention mechanism and neural network for ad click prediction

    Wenjie Cai, Yufeng Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Tsinghua Science and Technology   27 ( 1 ) 186 - 195  2022年02月

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    Online advertising click-through rate (CTR) prediction is aimed at predicting the probability of a user clicking an ad, and it has undergone considerable development in recent years. One of the hot topics in this area is the construction of feature interactions to facilitate accurate prediction. Factorization machine provides second-order feature interactions by linearly multiplying hidden feature factors. However, real-world data present a complex and nonlinear structure. Hence, second-order feature interactions are unable to represent cross information adequately. This drawback has been addressed using deep neural networks (DNNs), which enable high-order nonlinear feature interactions. However, DNN-based feature interactions cannot easily optimize deep structures because of the absence of cross information in the original features. In this study, we propose an effective CTR prediction algorithm called CAN, which explicitly exploits the benefits of attention mechanisms and DNN models. The attention mechanism is used to provide rich and expressive low-order feature interactions and facilitate the optimization of DNN-based predictors that implicitly incorporate high-order nonlinear feature interactions. The experiments using two real datasets demonstrate that our proposed CAN model performs better than other cross feature- and DNN-based predictors.

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  • Message from the General Chairs: ITME 2022

    Xiaobo You, Qun Jin, Hong Liu, Xiansheng Liu

    Proceedings - 2022 12th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2022     XXIII  2022年

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  • CDNet: Contrastive Disentangled Network for Fine-Grained Image Categorization of Ocular B-Scan Ultrasound.

    Ruilong Dan, Yunxiang Li, Yijie Wang, Gangyong Jia, Ruiquan Ge, Juan Ye, Qun Jin, Yaqi Wang

    CoRR   abs/2206.08524  2022年

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  • An effective model-free Gaussian Process based online social media recommendation.

    Jiawei Xu, Yufeng Wang 0001, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    2022 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing & Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical & Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress on Cybermatics (Cybermatics)(iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Cybermatics)     374 - 378  2022年

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    Nowadays, a variety of social media platforms acts as the major information portals, frequently updates the news and media pool and recommends them to dynamically arriving individuals, which requires real-time performance and immediate response to user feedback. Traditional offline/static recommendation approaches assume there exist large amount of historical interactive data, and build models from these data, which can neither deal with cold-start issue and nor fully incorporate individuals' feedbacks. Reinforcement learning based online recommendation system such as multi-armed bandit (MAB) and contextual MAB, attempts to maximize the long-term learning gains over time through exploring and exploiting the inherently interactive nature of online learning processes. However, most of work adopt the model-based paradigm, in which the feedback/reward function of individual is statically set as a specific format (e.g., linear in the features of the recommended contents and individual), which can only tailor to some specific learning objective and individual model. Without assuming the fixed reward model for each individual, this paper utilizes Gaussian process (GP) to characterize the expected feedback/reward of any recommended social media. Then, targeting at relatively accurate and noisy feedbacks of individual users, two MAB based algorithms are designed to select recommended social media to balance the effect of exploration and exploitation. The experimental results on real social media dataset Movielens demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods compared with other model-based recommendation schemes.

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  • MARV: Multi-task learning and Attention based Rumor Verification scheme for Social Media.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Bo Zhang 0034, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China(ICCC)     94 - 98  2022年

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    Considering individuals can freely post messages on social media platforms, there is a large amount of unverified information, so-called rumor spreading on these platforms, which seriously affects users' experience and even disturbs social order. The application of Multi-Task Learning (MTL) in the field of rumor verification has witnessed great development, which improves rumor verification performance through jointly training the main task of rumor verification and the auxiliary task of stance classification. However, traditional MTL based rumor verification schemes can't adaptively weight different positions of data sequence to effectively represent the sequence, and then affect the verification performance. This paper proposes a novel rumor verification scheme for social media, MARV, through effectively exploiting the MTL and multi-head attention mechanism. Specifically, first, the shared LSTM layer in MARV is used to effectively process and represent the tweet sequences, and generate the high-level virtual features. Then, in the branch of rumor verification task, the multi-head attention layer is used to accurately learn the local dependencies in the high-level representations extracted from the shared layer. The experimental results on the PHEME and the RumourEval datasets demonstrate that our proposed MARV scheme is superior to other MTL based rumor verification schemes. Moreover, we also investigated the impact of differently placing attention module on the MTL based rumor verification.

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  • An Extendable Sentiment Monitoring Model for SNS Considering Environmental Factors.

    Yenjou Wang, Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin

    Social Computing and Social Media: Design, User Experience and Impact - 14th International Conference   13315 LNCS   408 - 421  2022年

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    Rapid growth of social network service (SNS) has drawn significant attention from the publics. Existing research indicated that emotional state and behavioral tendency of SNS users can be identified and predicted through sentiment analysis. However, it is found that not only the posts can express user’s emotions but the overall environmental conditions faced by the user may lead to the generation of different emotions based on the cognitive theory of emotion and observation. Therefore, it may lead to bias between the sentiment analysis results and the actual situation if only analyzing the post. This study targets to propose an extendable sentiment monitoring model which considers the actual environment of users in SNS. Through this model, the result of sentiment analysis is closer to reality. By analyzing the content of users’ continuous posts, the sentiment analysis can take into account the pre- and post-textual relationships. The classification result of external affecting sentiment factors by K-means is used as criteria for weighting method to adjust the results of sentiment analysis based on BERT. Finally, the time series analysis is used to predict sentiment tendency monitor sentiment changes. The experiment results show that the training and validation accuracy are 89.24% and 84.00%, respectively. By our weighting method to revise the BERT results, the F1 score is improved from 0.839 to 0.850.

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  • Linguistic and Contextual Analysis of SNS Posts for Approval Desire.

    Erina Murata, Kiichi Tago, Qun Jin

    Social Computing and Social Media: Design, User Experience and Impact - 14th International Conference   13315 LNCS   332 - 344  2022年

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    In recent years, SNS has become a service that everyone uses. In this study, we analyze Twitter, one of the most popular SNSs, which allows users to post their daily events and feelings within 140 characters and is used by people all over the world. In this study, we investigate the relationship between SNS posts and latent approval needs. The linguistic features of tweets and their contextual features are analyzed using information such as the frequency of posts and the number of characters in tweets, and the degree of desire for approval is defined and quantified based on the results of the analysis of tweets. The experiment results show that the agreement between the naïve Bayes classifier and human ratings was about 60%. It is found that users with a high percentage of posts for approval desire tend to post less frequently and with a higher average number of characters. This indicates that it may be because these users post for approval desire when it is important or when they really want to say something.

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  • Analyzing Change on Emotion Scores of Tweets Before and After Machine Translation.

    Karin Fukuda, Qun Jin

    Social Computing and Social Media: Design, User Experience and Impact - 14th International Conference   13315 LNCS   294 - 308  2022年

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    Many of the texts posted on Twitter are broken sentences, and the translated sentences may not be accurate. An inaccurate translation may spoil the meaning of the original text and induce miscommunication between the poster and the reader who uses the machine translation. Since many sentences tweeted on Twitter contain emotional expressions, this study uses sentiment analysis to calculate and compare the sentiment scores of the original and translated sentences to investigate the change in sentiment before and after machine translation. As a result of using dictionaries to classify tweets before and after translation, it was found that the classification of positive sentences tended to be more likely the same before and after translation. In addition, the results of the sentiment analysis of “joy”, “like”, “relief” and “excitement” by machine learning showed that the sentiment of “joy” was particularly increased when translated from Japanese into English.

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  • Analysis on the Effect of Living Habits and Environment to Concentration.

    Yukai Gu, Qun Jin

    HCI International 2022 Posters - 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction   1581 CCIS   129 - 136  2022年

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    It is believed that the living habits and living environment have a close relationship with a person’s concentration. In this study, an experiment is designed to measure the degree of concentration for two subjects for 40 days. Living habits and environment data, as well as EEG (Electroencephalogram) data are collected and divided into six cases according to gender and concentration status, and then PCA (Principal Component Analysis) for each case is conducted. Furthermore, using the principal components identified by PCA, a regression model is constructed to analyze the relationship between lifestyle (living habits and environment) data and concentration indexes by EEG. The analysis results on all the data of the subjects suggested that the regression model has a certain degree of accuracy and there exists a significant relationship between concentration and the time and quality of sleep on the previous day, even if the concentration status on the following day is different.

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  • i-Comments: On-screen Individualized Comments for Online Learning Support.

    Jiaqi Wang, Jian Chen, Qun Jin

    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress(DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech)     1 - 5  2022年

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    With the rapid development of digitization in education, online learning has become an alternative and promising way to enable flexible learning scenarios. Especially after COVID-19, online learning draws more and more attention. However, online learning has inherent disadvantages and problems. One of them is that learners have difficulty in concentrating, and the other one is that they may feel lonely during lessons. In this study, a new model of on-screen individualized comments, namely i-Comments, is proposed for online learning support. In the proposed model, three elements, i.e., timing, content, and quantity of i-Comments, are defined respectively, which are used to help learners improve concentration and decrease the feeling of loneliness. Furthermore, an experiment is designed to evaluate the model and verify whether the proposed model can help learners gain a better learning experience and improve their learning effectiveness.

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  • Improving Emotional Confusions in SNS Sentiment Analysis by Partial Redistribution of BERT Discrimination Results.

    Yenjou Wang, Qun Jin

    Big Data Analytics in Astronomy, Science, and Engineering - 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics   13830 LNCS   199 - 210  2022年

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    Most of previous research works of sentiment analysis on SNS mainly focused on polarity analysis to probe into user tendencies. However, human emotions are complex and changeable. It is difficult to use the results of traditional polarity analysis in the real-time application services. Although finer-grained sentiment analysis may provide more detailed results, it has the problem of ambiguity in the definition of features between emotions. In this study, we propose a partial redistribution method based on BERT to tackle this problem. It improves emotional confusion in sentiment analysis through the confusion matrix, and further uses binary classification models to re-train the data of the confused emotional group through the redistribution process. In addition, the model makes it possible to re-extract and define features for specific emotions. Finally, F1 score is used to judge whether each feature correction process exerts positive impact on the model. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach is effective in improving emotional confusion issues in SNS sentiment analysis.

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  • Measurement and verification of cognitive load in multimedia presentation using an eye tracker.

    Ruichen Cong, Kiichi Tago, Qun Jin

    Multimedia Tools and Applications   81 ( 19 ) 26821 - 26835  2022年

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    The development of interface designs can reduce extraneous processing for users and increase the effectiveness of multimedia presentations. In this study, we investigate cognitive load in multimedia presentations. First, we present a quantitative model to measure cognitive load in terms of information comprehension in which the pupil diameter variation is used as an indicator of cognitive load based on cognitive load theory. We design a verification experiment to measure the pupil diameter using an eye-tracker when different combinations of texts, audio-narrations, and images are presented to subjects. We further allow the subjects take a comprehension test on the presented information and analyze the relationship between cognitive load and the test score using the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). Moreover, we obtain the subjective cognitive load via a pre-designed questionnaire taken after the experiment and compare these two types of cognitive loads in terms of the mean absolute error (MAE). The experiment results show that there is a gap between the objective cognitive load obtained via the pupillary response and the subjective cognitive load obtained via a questionnaire, and the presentation with an optimized combination of multimedia can enhance information comprehension while reducing cognitive load.

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  • QAPP: A quality-aware and privacy-preserving medical image release scheme.

    Xu Zhang, Yufeng Wang 0001, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Information Fusion   88   281 - 295  2022年

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    The direct release of medical image may face the dilemma: the privacy protection of medical images inevitably affects the visual quality of images. To balance medical image quality and privacy, this paper proposes a quality-aware and privacy-preserving medical image release scheme, QAPP, which effectively integrates the discrete cosine transform (DCT) with differential privacy (DP). Specifically, QAPP is composed of three phases. First, DCT is applied to each medical image to obtain its cosine coefficients matrix. Second, the original cosine coefficients matrix is compressed into k*k cosine coefficients matrix, which can retain the main features of each image. Third, the appropriate Laplace noise is injected into the formed k*k matrix to achieve differential privacy, and these noise-added coefficients are used to reconstruct the noise-added medical images through inverse DCT. Especially, considering there two error sources affecting the image quality in our work: the compression error caused by DCT, and the injected noise error caused by DP, Therefore, a selection function is proposed to determine the optimal compression dimension k, which can minimize the influence of these two errors to improve the visualization quality of the medical image. Subjective and objective image quality evaluation, and extensive experiments of image classification and segmentation using the real medical image dataset demonstrate that the proposed method QAPP can better balance medical image quality and privacy than other similar DP-based methods.

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  • SSPA: an effective semi-supervised peer assessment method for large scale MOOCs.

    Yufeng Wang 0001, Hui Fang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Interactive Learning Environments   30 ( 1 ) 158 - 176  2022年

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    Peer assessment has become a primary solution to the challenge of evaluating a large number of students in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). In peer assessment, all students need to evaluate a subset of other students’ assignments, and then these peer grades are aggregated to predict a final score for each student. Unfortunately, due to the lack of grading experience or the heterogeneous grading abilities, students may introduce unintentional deviations in the evaluation. This paper proposes and implements a semi-supervised peer assessment method (SSPA) that incorporates a small number of teacher’s gradings as ground truth, and uses them to externally calibrate the procedure of aggregating peer grades. Specifically, each student’s grading ability is directly (if students have common peer assessments with teacher) or indirectly (if students have no common peer assessments with teacher) measured with the grading similarity between the student and teacher. Then, SSPA utilizes the weighted aggregation of peer grades to infer the final score of each student. Based on both real dataset and synthetic datasets, the experimental results illustrate that SSPA performs better than the existing methods.

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  • F-SWIR: Rumor Fick-spreading model considering fusion information decay in social networks.

    Weimin Li, Dingmei Wei, Xiaokang Zhou, Shaohua Li, Qun Jin

    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience   34 ( 22 )  2022年

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    The spread of rumors has a major negative impact on social stability. Traditional rumor spreading models are mostly based on infectious disease models and do not consider the influence of individual differences and the network structure on rumor spreading. In this paper, we propose a rumor Fick-spreading model that integrates information decay in social networks. The dissemination of rumors in social networks is random and uncertain and is affected by the dissemination capabilities of individuals and the network environment. The rumor Fick-transition coefficient and Fick-transition gradient are defined to determine the influence of the individual transition capacity and the network environment on rumor propagation, respectively. The Fick-state transition probability is used to describe the probability of change of an individual's state. Moreover, an information decay function is defined to characterize the self-healing probability of individuals. According to the different roles and reactions of users during rumor dissemination, the user state and the rumor dissemination rules among users are refined, and the influence of the network structure on the rumor dissemination is ascertained. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms other rumor spread models.

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  • Modeling social network behavior spread based on group cohesion under uncertain environment.

    Weimin Li, Zhibin Deng, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin, Bin Sheng

    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience   34 ( 21 )  2022年

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    Behavior is autonomous, convergent, and uncertain, which brings challenges to the modeling of social network behavior spread. In this article, we propose a behavior spread model based on group cohesion under uncertain environments. First, for behavioral convergence, we define group cohesion to quantify the convergent effects of group. Second, based on the game theory to model the autonomy of behavior, according to the characteristics of the game payoffs changing with time and the depth of spread, and integrating group cohesion, a dynamic game payoffs calculation method is designed. Finally, aiming at the uncertainty of behavior, a group behavior spread model based on random utility theory is established. Experiments on multiple real social network behavior spread datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in modeling and predicting behavior spread processes under uncertain environments.

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  • Secure Interoperation of Blockchain and IPFS Through Client Application Enabled by CP-ABE.

    Ruichen Cong, Yixiao Liu, Yenjou Wang, Kiichi Tago, Ruidong Li, Hitoshi Asaeda, Qun Jin

    HCI (32)   13333 LNCS   30 - 41  2022年

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    In recent years, personal health data can be collected via wearable devices and sensors and used for healthcare services improvement through data sharing. To share sensitive personal health data securely, many frameworks and approaches using blockchain-based systems have been proposed. However, the issue of letting individuals control and manage their data with privacy-preserving is still to be solved. In this paper, we propose a new model of Individual-Initiated Auditable Access Control (IIAAC) enabled with blockchain, CP-ABE (Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption) and IPFS (Inter-Planetary File System) for privacy-preserved data sharing. We describe the system architecture, its main components for our proposed model, and the protocols to make blockchain and IPFS interoperate with each other via a client application, including key generation, data publication, and data retrieval. We further build an experiment environment to evaluate the performance of our proposed model and architecture. Experiment results demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed model and system architecture for privacy-preserved data sharing.

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  • Pre-braking behaviors analysis based on hilbert–huang transform

    Bo Wu, Yishui Zhu, Ran Dong, Kiminori Sato, Soichiro Ikuno, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction   5 ( 2 ) 157 - 182  2022年

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    Previous studies have shown that about 90% of traffic accidents are due to human error, which means that human factors may affect a driver's braking behaviors and thus their driving safety, especially when the driver makes a braking motion. However, most studies have mounted sensors on the brake pad, ignoring to some extent an analysis of the driver's behavior before the brake pad is pressed (pre-braking). Therefore, to determine the effect of different human factors on drivers' pre-braking behaviors, this study focused on analyzing drivers' local joints (knee, ankle, and toe) by a motion capture device. A Hilbert–Huang Transform (HHT)-based local human body movement analysis method was used to decompose the realistic complex pre-braking actions into sub-actions such as intrinsic mode functions (IMF1, IMF2, etc.). Analysis of the results showed that IMF1 is a common and necessary action when pre-braking for all drivers, and IMF2 may be the safety assurance action that allows right-foot transverse movement at the beginning part of the pre-braking process. We also found that the experienced, male, and Phys.50 groups may have consistent characteristics in the HHT scheme, which could mean that such drivers would have better performance and efficiency during the pre-braking process. The results of this study will be useful in decomposing and discerning the specific actions that lead to accidents, providing insights into driver training for novice drivers, and guiding the construction of daily automated driver assistance or accident prevention systems (advanced driver assistance systems, ADASs).

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  • Measurement and quantification of an individual's feelings for a place in personal data analysis

    Seiji Kasuya, Kiichi Tago, Qun Jin

    Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies   3 ( 5 ) 739 - 749  2021年12月

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    Location-related data are an important subset of personal data. An individual may have a positive or negative feeling for a specific place, which is important for personal data analysis. There are many studies on sentiment analysis within text data, such as tweets, but few studies have been conducted specifically on an individual's feelings regarding locations. In this study, we focus on measuring and quantifying an individual's feelings for a place using three representative methods in sentiment analysis: emotion dictionary, personalized dictionary, and Bayesian classification. We design an experiment to evaluate these methods using tweet data including locations and an individual's emotional changes with regard to these locations before entering, after exiting, and in a location. Three sets of emotion scores are obtained and normalized. Furthermore, we set four protocols and use statistical methods to compare these emotion scores with the subjective emotion scores provided by the user whose tweets are used in the experiment. Experimental results show that Bayesian classification performs the best in measuring and quantifying an individual's feelings for a place.

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  • Analysis on Falling Risk of Elderly Workers when Mowing on a Slope via Motion Capture

    Bo Wu, Yuan Wu, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    2021 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech)     890 - 895  2021年10月

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    Due to the aging of rural population, in Japan's terraced field areas, many elderly people have to do the mowing works of paddy levees manually. However, it takes the high risk of falling when mowing on slops, and many accidents are caused by the unstable postures. The analysis of their body motion becomes necessary. Based on our previous study, the personal factors could be important on affecting the mowing behaviors. Therefore, in this paper, we focus more on the mowing workers' personal factors (such as age and physique) and try to analyze the effect on their falling risk via a high precision motion capture device. A set of experiments was conducted in September 2020, and four new mowing workers over 60 years old were invited to participate in the experiments. Their joints angles data and related personal factor data were used to analyze the factors that have the greatest influence on body stability during slop mowing. The results of stepwise regression showed that the mowing workers' age and physique have significant effects on the stability of their body motion. The results of this study can clarify the factors that prevent accidents in the fall detection systems and offer useful insights for the training of new mowing workers.

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  • An Short-Term Residential Load Forecasting Scheme Using Multi-Task Learning

    Yu Feng Wang, Can Bin Xiao, Yan Chen, Qun Jin

    Beijing Youdian Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications   44 ( 3 ) 47 - 52  2021年06月

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    In smart grid regarded as specific embodying of cyber-physical-social system, load forecasting, especially short-term load forecasting for individual electric customers plays an increasingly role in planning and operation of smart power system. Considering the similarity of electricity consumption between users, inspired by multi-task learning, the article puts forward an effective residential load forecasting based on multi-task learning model. In detail, the K-means clustering technology and Pearson correlation coefficient are used to select two similar users. Then these two user's load data are merged as input, the bidirectional long short-term memory network is used as a sharing layer to fully capture the relationship between the data of the two users, and then two fully-connection task-specific output layers are respectively built. Based on real datasets, the proposed scheme is thoroughly compared with several typical deep learning based load forecasting schemes. Experiments show that proposed multi-task learning scheme improves the prediction accuracy compared with the existing deep learning prediction scheme.

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  • Individual-Initiated Auditable Access Control for Privacy-Preserved IoT Data Sharing with Blockchain

    Ruichen Cong, Yixiao Liu, Kiichi Tago, Ruidong Li, Hitoshi Asaeda, Qun Jin

    2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)     1 - 6  2021年06月

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    With the rapid development of sensors and IoT technology, personal health data can be collected and stored by various wearable devices and utilized for healthcare. To share and use sensitive health data securely and efficiently, a variety of solutions based on blockchain have been proposed and developed. However, there are still many issues to be solved, such as how to let individuals control and manage their own data, and how to make all data accesses strictly auditable. In this paper, we present a new model of Individual-Initiated Auditable Access Control (IIAAC) enabled with blockchain, CP-ABE (Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption) and IPFS (InterPlanetary File System). After introducing scenarios for sharing and use of health data, we define the design requirements for a blockchain-based system and describe the basic system architecture. We discuss the detailed procedures in IIAAC, including CP-ABE key generation, data publication and data retrieval. We further compare this study with related work in terms of functions and features.

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  • Evolutionary community discovery in dynamic social networks via resistance distance

    Weimin Li, Heng Zhu, Shaohua Li, Hao Wang, Hongning Dai, Can Wang, Qun Jin

    Expert Systems with Applications   171   114536 - 114536  2021年06月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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    Traditional social community discovery methods concentrate mainly on static social networks, but the analysis of dynamic networks is a prerequisite for real-time and personalized social services. Through the study of community changes, the community structure in a dynamic network can be tracked over time, which helps in the mining of dynamic network information. In this paper, we propose a method of tracking dynamic community evolution that is based on resistance distance. Specifically, we model the time-varying features of dynamic networks using the convergence of a resistance-based distance. In our model, the heterogeneity of neighboring nodes can be obtained in the local topology of nodes by analyzing the resistance distance between nodes. We design a community discovery algorithm that essentially discovers community structures on dynamic networks by identifying the so-called core node. During the process of community evolution analysis, both the dynamic contribution of ordinary nodes and core nodes in each community are considered. In addition, to avoid the inclusion of spurious communities in the community structure, we define the notion of noise community and account for it in our algorithm. Experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper can yield better accuracy than other existing methods.

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  • Improving Diagnosis Estimation by Considering the Periodic Span of the Life Cycle Based on Personal Health Data

    Kiichi Tago, Shoji Nishimura, Atsushi Ogihara, Qun Jin

    Big Data Research   23   100176 - 100176  2021年02月  [査読有り]  [国際誌]

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    With the surge in popularity of wearable devices, collection of personal health data has become quite easy. Many studies have been conducted using health data to estimate the onset and progression of illness. However, life habits may vary among individuals. By analyzing the life cycle from health-related data, conventional studies may be improved. This study proposes a new approach to improving diagnosis estimation by considering the life cycle analyzed from health-related data. The periodic span of the life cycle is estimated via autocorrelation analysis. In the range of the periodic span, dimension reduction for health data is performed by principal component analysis, and health features are extracted and used for diagnosis estimation. In our experiment, we used personal health data and pulse diagnosis data collected by a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. Using six multi-label classification methods, we verified that a combination of pulse and health features could improve the accuracy of diagnosis estimation compared with that using only pulse features.

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  • Analysis of the Conversations on Twitter regarding HPV Vaccine

    Daisuke Suzuki, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin, Atsushi Ogihara

    Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet   25 ( 4 ) 397 - 406  2021年

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    Background and objectives: Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of cervical cancer, and vaccination is an effective method to prevent HPV infection. In Japan, adverse reactions were reported in some HPV-vaccinated people in March 2013, and while Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare withdrew active recommendation of the vaccine in June 2013, the social movement to refuse vaccination has continued. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) has devised a plan to accurately disseminate information that promotes vaccination, but less than 1% of the eligible population was vaccinated, and the number has not increased. Besides, inaccurate information about health information can disseminate rapidly on social networks. Social networking services (SNS), mainly used by young people, can be used by the public to obtain medical information. However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), SNSs are prone to spreading inauthentic and misleading information when it comes to information related to health and medical care. “Infodemic” is defined as a situation in which unidentified and false information is widely disseminated on SNS, causing WHO to issue international alerts. This study aimed to organize information about HPV vaccination disseminated on SNS in Japan. Methods: We extracted 208 tweets with the keyword “HPV vaccine” posted in Japan between April 1, 2014, and September 30, 2017. The extracted tweets included data points such as ID, language, posting date and time, and latitude and longitude. The location information of the senders was obtained from the latitude and longitude, and the tweets were organized by prefecture, city, town, village, and ID. Then, we evaluated whether the information at the URLs was accurate by examining retweets, likes, and the number of comments on the tweet. Python version 3.7.7 was used to extract the tweets. Results: The results of classification of the tweets by prefecture are as follows: the Hokkaido prefecture accounted for four tweets; the northeast, six tweets; southern Kanto, 123 tweets; northern Kanto-Koshin, six tweets; Hokuriku, five tweets; Tokai, 35 tweets; Kinki, 10 tweets; Chugoku 4 tweets; Shikoku, three tweets; and Kyushu, nine tweets. A total of 93 users posted tweets; four users posted five or more tweets; 14 users posted 2–4 tweets, and 75 users posted one tweet. In particular, 66 tweets in Kanagawa prefecture, 14 tweets in Shizuoka prefecture, and two tweets in Tokyo were posted from the same ID. Regarding the type of tweet, there were 109 tweets, 65 retweets, and 34 replies. There were 137 tweets with and 71 tweets without URLs. When organized by the linked URL, 50 posts linked to a blog, 46 posts linked to a news item, seven posts linked to Facebook, five posts linked to a government agency homepage, four posts linked to YouTube, three posts linked to the home page of the City Council rep, two posts linked to a medical site, and 20 posts linked to other sources that could not be categorized. In terms of the authenticity of the posts, 25 tweets were judged as “accurate,” 14 were judged to be “inaccurate,” and 16 were judged as “unknown.” We classified the posts as follows; “accurate” for those that contained accurate information and “inaccurate” for those that contained inaccurate information. Discussion: The distribution of tweets and the uneven distribution of the users suggest that few people spread information about the HPV Vaccine on Twitter in Japan. Regarding the content, more than half of the tweets could not be judged as accurate or inaccurate because the verification results regarding adverse reactions of the HPV vaccine were not published at the time of sending, and in news and blog articles, personal opinions were stated rather than authentic medical information. In this study, we clarified the characteristics of tweets regarding HPV vaccination in Japan and the status of transmission. In the future, it will be necessary to change the keywords and time periods for which tweets need to be extracted, and the data set used for the analysis will need to be compared and examined.

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  • Dispensed Transformer Network for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation.

    Yunxiang Li, Jingxiong Li, Ruilong Dan, Shuai Wang, Kai Jin, Guodong Zeng, Jun Wang, Xiangji Pan, Qianni Zhang, Huiyu Zhou 0001, Qun Jin, Li Wang, Yaqi Wang

    CoRR   abs/2110.14944  2021年

  • GT U-Net: A U-Net Like Group Transformer Network for Tooth Root Segmentation.

    Yunxiang Li, Shuai Wang, Jun Wang, Guodong Zeng, Wenjun Liu, Qianni Zhang, Qun Jin, Yaqi Wang

    CoRR   abs/2109.14813  2021年

  • Anatomy-Guided Parallel Bottleneck Transformer Network for Automated Evaluation of Root Canal Therapy.

    Yunxiang Li, Guodong Zeng, Yifan Zhang, Jun Wang, Qianni Zhang, Qun Jin, Lingling Sun, Qisi Lian, Neng Xia, Ruizi Peng, Kai Tang, Yaqi Wang, Shuai Wang

    CoRR   abs/2105.00381  2021年

  • DAST: An aggregation scheme for crowdsensed indoor data exploiting sequential long-tail features.

    Yawen Zhong, Yichen Guo, Yufeng Wang 0001, Qun Jin

    IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops     1 - 6  2021年

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    In the era of big data, information about the same objects can be gathered and accumulated from multiple sources (i.e., crowdworkers) through so-called crowdsensing. Especially, in the indoor positioning system using Bluetooth fingerprints, multiple crowdworkers are required to collect the information of Bluetooth beacons at the reference points and the corresponding received signal strength indicators (RSSI). Due to the unknown proper and bias of each crowdworker, it is challenging to appropriately estimate the reliability of each worker/source and truthfully aggregate data. Moreover, the collected data possesses two properties: they follow long-tail, where most of the data is gathered by a few sources, i.e., abundant crowdworkers only provide small amount; they have time-sequential feature: the truth about the crowdsensing tasks smoothly evolve with time. In response to the above problem and data features, this paper proposes an accurate data aggregation mechanism incorporating sequential long-tail characteristics, DAST. Specifically, we infer each source's credibility based on the estimated confidence interval using the amount of data historically provided by the source. Meanwhile, in order to capture the sequential characteristics of the data, the accumulated data in previous period is used as a virtual source to obtain the new aggregated value for the current period. Thorough simulations using artificial data and real data demonstrate that the performance of DAST is superior to the existed schemes including Confidence-Aware Truth Discovery (CATD), Precision-Recall (PrecRec) and Dynamic Truth Discovery (DynaTD) in terms of the mean absolute error (MAE) and the root mean square error (RMSE).

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  • GT U-Net: A U-Net Like Group Transformer Network for Tooth Root Segmentation.

    Yunxiang Li, Shuai Wang, Jun Wang, Guodong Zeng, Wenjun Liu, Qianni Zhang, Qun Jin, Yaqi Wang

    Machine Learning in Medical Imaging - 12th International Workshop(MLMI@MICCAI)   12966 LNCS   386 - 395  2021年

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    To achieve an accurate assessment of root canal therapy, a fundamental step is to perform tooth root segmentation on oral X-ray images, in that the position of tooth root boundary is significant anatomy information in root canal therapy evaluation. However, the fuzzy boundary makes the tooth root segmentation very challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end U-Net like Group Transformer Network (GT U-Net) for the tooth root segmentation. The proposed network retains the essential structure of U-Net but each of the encoders and decoders is replaced by a group Transformer, which significantly reduces the computational cost of traditional Transformer architectures by using the grouping structure and the bottleneck structure. In addition, the proposed GT U-Net is composed of a hybrid structure of convolution and Transformer, which makes it independent of pre-training weights. For optimization, we also propose a shape-sensitive Fourier Descriptor (FD) loss function to make use of shape prior knowledge. Experimental results show that our proposed network achieves the state-of-the-art performance on our collected tooth root segmentation dataset and the public retina dataset DRIVE. Code has been released at https://github.com/Kent0n-Li/GT-U-Net.

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  • VFAT: A Personalized HAR Scheme Through Exploiting Virtual Feature Adaptation Based on Transfer Learning.

    Xiao Li 0014, Yufeng Wang 0001, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    19th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing(EUC)     1 - 8  2021年

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    Recently, on one hand, human activity recognition (HAR) has witnessed great application on portable smart devices (e.g., smart phones and wearables, etc.) as they are widely used around the world. On the other hand, HAR methods based on deep learning have attracted much attention, for they possess excellent performance due to their strength on extracting virtual features automatically and hierarchically. However, to establish a personalized deep learning based HAR scheme based on smart devices, insufficient records from target users and heavy computation cost on training from scratch are two challenges. Considering that, in transfer learning, the knowledge learnt in the source domain could be appropriately transferred to help accomplish tasks in the target domain, this paper proposes a personalized HAR scheme through exploiting virtual feature adaptation based on transfer learning (i.e., VFAT) to achieve high recognition accuracy with low computation time. VFAT is composed of pre-Training phase on sufficient labeled records in source-domain, and adaption phase on target-domain that uses the few labeled records available. Specifically, VFAT scheme pre-Trains the LSTM-based feature extraction component in the pre-Training phase and then introduces domain loss in the adaptation phase to minimize the similarity between target-domain virtual features and source-domain activity patterns (i.e., virtual features averaged by activity labels). The HAR scheme applied to the MotionSense dataset and results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed VFAT scheme. Moreover, we also investigate the impact of domain division on the performance of transfer learning based HAR.

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  • A Front-End Framework Selection Assistance System with Customizable Quantification Indicators Based on Analysis of Repository and Community Data.

    Koichi Kiyokawa, Qun Jin

    Big-Data-Analytics in Astronomy, Science, and Engineering - 9th International Conference on Big Data Analytics   13167 LNCS   41 - 55  2021年

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    Front-end frameworks are in increasing demand in web application development. However, it is difficult to compare them manually because of their rapid evolution and big variety. Prior research has revealed several indicators that developers consider important when selecting a framework. In this study, we propose and develop a system that assists developers in the selection process of a front-end framework, which collects data from repository and user community, such as GitHub and other sources, and quantifies a set of indicators. This system is built as a web application, and users can specify the importance of an indicator by adjusting the weight for each indicator. As a result of semi-structured interviews with front-end developers after using our system based on practical scenarios, we found that the proposed system is effective for narrowing down the framework and has practicality.

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  • Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence for Social Computing.

    Weishan Zhang, Huansheng Ning, Lu Liu 0001, Qun Jin, Vincenzo Piuri

    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems   8 ( 1 ) 118 - 121  2021年

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    The unprecedented development of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and Big Data has stimulated a boom of social networks such as Twitter, WeChat, Facebook, etc., generating a huge amount of social data that are worth further analysis. Social computing has an important focus on mining the deep relationships between social organizations, networks, and media. The increasing volumes and complexities make big social data mining more and more difficult. Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (H-AI) is an approach combining both human intelligence and AI, so as to handle demanding problems in a harmonious way. By adopting H-AI in social computing, it would provide more possibilities for social data analysis, relationship discovery, outlier detection, and prediction, and is proving to be an emerging and promising direction for AI and big data research.

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  • Guest Editorial: Machine Learning for AI-Enhanced Healthcare and Medical Services: New Development and Promising Solution.

    Ke Yan 0001, Zhiwei Ji, Qun Jin, Qing-Guo Wang

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics   18 ( 3 ) 850 - 851  2021年

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  • A Position and Area Localization Algorithm for Obstacles in the Environment of Sparsely-Deployed Sensors.

    Zhigang Gao, Xiaowei Yang, Bo Wu 0007, Huijuan Lu, Jianhui Zhang, Wenjie Diao, Qun Jin

    IEEE Access   9   39884 - 39896  2021年

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    Measuring the space area of obstacles is one of the important problems in obstacle localizing fields. Most of the existing research works on the localization of obstacles focus on where the obstacles are, and few of them measure both the positions and the areas of the obstacles. In this paper, we propose a Minimum convex bounding Polygon localizing algorithm based on Visible light Tracking (MPVT) in order to rapidly and accurately locate the position and area of a 2D obstacle in the environment of sparsely-deployed sensors. MPVT first determines the initial localization light by Visible Light Tracing method (VLT). Second, it searches for the first side of the Minimum Convex Bounding Polygon (MCBP) of the obstacle. Third, MPVT calculates the subsequent other sides and the vertexes of MCBP until the next side coincides with the first side. In order to evaluate the approximation degree between the actual values and the localization values in terms of areas, positions and shapes, we propose two performance evaluation indexes, i.e., the area ratio and the ratio of equivalent radius. We conducted experiments on the influence of obstacle orientation and sparseness of sensor deployment, the accuracy comparison with the existing methods, and the time complexity. Experiment results show that MPVT can accurately locate the position and area of the obstacle in the environment of sparsely-deployed sensors with low time overhead, and is suitable for low-cost obstacle localization applications.

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  • Analyzing eye-movements of drivers with different experiences when making a turn

    Bo Wu, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin, Yishui Zhu

    Proceedings - 2020 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking, MSN 2020     502 - 507  2020年12月

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    The driver's driving experience is one of the important factors affecting his or her behaviors. Prior studies have noted the effect of driving experiences on drivers' eye-movements when right-turning. However, related studies usually focused on the accident scenarios, for drivers' eye-movements on daily driving when facing right-turn, the effects of drivers' experience remain unknown. Therefore, according to design and apply a set of experiments, this paper focused on the analysis of driver's eye-movements during the daily right-turn task to compare the differences between Experienced and Novice drivers. A total of 10 drivers were invited and be classified into two groups (Experienced and Novice) to participate in the experiments. All of the drivers are driving on the right-hand side of the road, and the steering wheel is on the left side of the vehicle. The aimed data were collected by a set of glasses type eye-tracker and be further classified into four driving vision-based AOI (Areas of Interest). The results of Mann-Whitney U-tests showed that Novice drivers have a disordered line of sight and tend to spend more attention on their right view and switch their line of sight back and forth between the AOIs. Moreover, Experienced drivers more tend to keep their view directly in front of their heads instead of using the peripheral vision. The results of this study may provide guidelines to prevent accidents in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and offers useful insights for the training of new drivers.

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  • The effect of eye movements and cultural factors on product color selection

    Bo Wu, Yishui Zhu, Keping Yu, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences   10 ( 1 )  2020年12月

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    <title>Abstract</title>A color is a powerful tool used to attract people’s attention and to entice them to purchase a product. However, the way in which a specific color influences people’s color selection and the role of their eye movements and cultural factors in this process remain unknown. In this study, to delve into this problem, we designed an experiment to determine the influence of specific colors on people’s product preferences by using an eye-tracking device, intending to identify the role of their eye movements and cultural factors. Based on the experimental data, a detailed influence path model was built to describe the effect of specific colors on product evaluations by an integrated moderation and mediation analysis. Our findings show that in the influence process, the effects of specific colors on product evaluations are mediated by eye movements. Additionally, cultural factors partly moderate the process as an influencing factor. The research findings from this study have important implications for user-centered product design and visual marketing management.

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  • RV-ML: An Effective Rumor Verification Scheme Based on Multi-Task Learning Model

    Qian Lv, Yufeng Wang, Bo Zhang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Communications Letters   24 ( 11 ) 2527 - 2531  2020年11月

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    Social platforms are full of rumors (i.e., unverified contents). Naturally, it is imperative but challenging to effectively determine the veracity of these rumors on popular social platforms. Previously deep learning based rumor verification schemes usually treat the issue as an independent and single task. Considering the rumor verification and stance classification are relevant tasks, we propose an effective Rumor verification scheme based on Multi-task learning Model, RV-ML, in which the shared long-short term memory (LSTM) layer for both rumor verification and stance classification can effectively deal with the sequential information for the original input, and generate macro-level virtual features, and the convolution neural network (CNN) layer uniquely designed for rumor verification task is used to mine local features from shared LSTM layer. Comparisons between our RV-ML and several typical rumor verification schemes on the real RumourEval and PHEME datasets demonstrate that our proposed scheme gains better performance for the task of rumor verification.

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  • Guest Editorial: AI and Machine Learning Solution Cyber Intelligence Technologies: New Methodologies and Applications

    Ke Yan, Lu Liu, Yong Xiang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics   16 ( 10 ) 6626 - 6631  2020年10月  [招待有り]  [国際誌]  [国際共著]

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  • Analyzing Pre-braking Behaviors of Drivers with Varying Experience

    Bo Wu, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin, Yishui Zhu

    Proceedings - IEEE 18th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 18th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and IEEE 5th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2020     284 - 289  2020年08月

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    Many accidents are caused by drivers abruptly braking, or by their braking-related behaviors. However, it is challenging to collect data on the pre-braking behaviors of drivers by using sensors installed on vehicles, because of which this issue has not been adequately studied. In this paper, we focus on the differences in pre-braking behaviors between experienced and novice drivers by analyzing data collected from a motion capture device attached to them. The results of experiments and the Mann-Whitney U-test show that experienced drivers usually set their feet farther than novice drivers from the braking pad to reduce the chances of pressing it by mistake. However, when they needed to brake, their right foot had a lower response time for pushing the braking pad than novice drivers. The results of this study can provide guidelines for preventing accidents in the development of advanced driver assistance systems and can offer useful insights for training new drivers.

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  • Personalized real-time movie recommendation system: Practical prototype and evaluation

    Jiang Zhang, Yufeng Wang, Zhiyuan Yuan, Qun Jin

    Tsinghua Science and Technology   25 ( 2 ) 180 - 191  2020年04月

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    With the eruption of big data, practical recommendation schemes are now very important in various fields, including e-commerce, social networks, and a number of web-based services. Nowadays, there exist many personalized movie recommendation schemes utilizing publicly available movie datasets (e.g., MovieLens and Netflix), and returning improved performance metrics (e.g., Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE)). However, two fundamental issues faced by movie recommendation systems are still neglected: first, scalability, and second, practical usage feedback and verification based on real implementation. In particular, Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the major prevailing techniques for implementing recommendation systems. However, traditional CF schemes suffer from a time complexity problem, which makes them bad candidates for real-world recommendation systems. In this paper, we address these two issues. Firstly, a simple but high-efficient recommendation algorithm is proposed, which exploits users' profile attributes to partition them into several clusters. For each cluster, a virtual opinion leader is conceived to represent the whole cluster, such that the dimension of the original useritem matrix can be significantly reduced, then a Weighted Slope One-VU method is designed and applied to the virtual opinion leader-item matrix to obtain the recommendation results. Compared to traditional clusteringbased CF recommendation schemes, our method can significantly reduce the time complexity, while achieving comparable recommendation performance. Furthermore, we have constructed a real personalized web-based movie recommendation system, MovieWatch, opened it to the public, collected user feedback on recommendations, and evaluated the feasibility and accuracy of our system based on this real-world data.

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  • Three-hop velocity attenuation propagation model for influence maximization in social networks

    Weimin Li, Yuting Fan, Jun Mo, Wei Liu, Can Wang, Minjun Xin, Qun Jin

    World Wide Web   23 ( 2 ) 1261 - 1273  2020年03月

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    In the study of influence maximization in social networks, the speed of information dissemination decreases with increasing time and distance. The investigation of the characteristics of information dissemination is of great significance to the management and control of public opinion. A three-hop velocity decay propagation model is proposed to determine the propagation speed in information dissemination and the time and distance attenuation factors of information dissemination were modeled. We simulated the three-hop information propagation and developed an influence maximization algorithm based on the rate attenuation propagation model (IMMRA). Experiments using two example data sets showed that the proposed algorithm had higher accuracy and time efficiency than a greedy algorithm.

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  • Improved Cascade R-CNN for Medical Images of Pulmonary Nodules Detection Combining Dilated HRNet

    Shihuai Xu, Huijuan Lu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Wenjie Zhu, Qun Jin

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series     283 - 288  2020年02月

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    Using Computer-aided Diagnostic (CAD) to analyze medical images is currently a focused area, and deep learning is widely used in the detection of pulmonary nodules in medical imaging. Current detection algorithms are effective in detecting large pulmonary nodules, but their detection effect on small nodules and micro-nodules is not ideal. In order to solve this problem, this paper uses high-resolution network (HRNet) as the backbone network of Cascade R-CNN to improve its detection accuracy on small targets. HRNet can preserve the information of small target nodules in the feature map with high resolution and obtain a finegrained feature map for the detection task. This paper also combines dilated convolution with HRNet and proposes an improved HRNet named dilated HRNet. Experiments on the LIDC-IDRI dataset show that the improved Cascade R-CNN increases the detection accuracy of pulmonary nodules, especially on small nodules.

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  • Modified Hybrid Task Cascade for Lung Nodules Segmentation in CT Images with Guided Anchoring

    Shihuai Xu, Huijuan Lu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Wenjie Zhu, Qun Jin

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series     433 - 438  2020年02月

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    As lung cancer continues to threaten human health, Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD) plays an increasingly significant role in lung cancer diagnosis, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown the outstanding performance in image segmentation. In this work, Hybrid Task Cascade (HTC) is used to segment lung nodules that are difficult to find in CT images. Considering that lung nodules are usually quite small, this study integrates Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) into ResNet-50 to make full use of multi-scale feature and improve the segmentation accuracy of small target nodules. In addition, given that existing defects in Region Proposal Network (RPN), which refers to most of generated anchors are irrelevant to target objects, and the conventional method are unaware of the shapes of target objects, this work proposes to use Guided Anchoring to replace RPN in HTC and generate anchors more effectively. Experimental results on the LIDC-IDRI dataset demonstrate that the modified HTC improves the segmentation accuracy of lung nodules.

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  • Applying of Adaptive Threshold Non-maximum Suppression to Pneumonia Detection

    Hao Teng, Huijuan Lu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Zhigang Gao, Qun Jin

    Communications in Computer and Information Science   1160 CCIS   518 - 528  2020年

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    Hyper-parameters in deep learning are sensitive to prediction results. Non-maximum suppression (NMS) is an indispensable method for the object detection pipelines. NMS uses a pre-defined threshold algorithm to suppress the bounding boxes while their overlaps are not significant. We found that the pre-defined threshold is a hyper-parameter determined by empirical knowledge. We propose an adaptive threshold NMS that uses different thresholds to suppress the bounding boxes whose overlaps are not significant. The proposed adaptive threshold NMS algorithm provides improvements on Faster R-CNN with the AP metric on pneumonia dataset. Furthermore, we intend to propose more methods to optimize the hyper-parameters.

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  • IEEE access special section editorial: Proximity service (prose) challenges and applications

    Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Klimis Ntalianis, M. D. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Michele Luvisotto

    IEEE Access   8   169106 - 169109  2020年

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  • Analyzing the Effects of Driving Experience on Prebraking Behaviors Based on Data Collected by Motion Capture Devices

    Bo Wu, Yishui Zhu, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    IEEE Access   8   197337 - 197351  2020年

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    The prebraking-related actions typically studied are the main maneuvers carried out to avoid collision. Especially for those braking actions taken when turning or parking, accidents often occur because of human errors such as the incorrect choice of pedal. However, regarding these daily braking-related driving behaviors, the effects of the driver characteristics, such as driving experience and gender, on the prebraking behaviors remain unknown. Therefore, defining prebraking behaviors as the movements of a driver's body before his or her foot touches the brake pedal, this paper identifies the details of drivers' driving behaviors while prebraking by analyzing the data collected from a wearable high-precision 23-joint motion capture device and further confirms the effects of driver experience, gender and stature on these behaviors. According to two-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) that were performed on 100 sets of motion data collected from a set of driving experiments involving two different tasks, drivers perform similar prebraking body actions even under different braking scenarios. Moreover, the results of an interaction effects analysis confirmed the impact of drivers' experiences, gender and stature on their prebraking actions. The results of this study can serve as guidelines for future self-driving and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) development and provide useful insights for the identification and training of new drivers.

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  • Learning misclassification costs for imbalanced classification on gene expression data

    Huijuan Lu, Yige Xu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Zhigang Gao, Qun Jin

    BMC Bioinformatics   20  2019年12月

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    Background: Cost-sensitive algorithm is an effective strategy to solve imbalanced classification problem. However, the misclassification costs are usually determined empirically based on user expertise, which leads to unstable performance of cost-sensitive classification. Therefore, an efficient and accurate method is needed to calculate the optimal cost weights. Results: In this paper, two approaches are proposed to search for the optimal cost weights, targeting at the highest weighted classification accuracy (WCA). One is the optimal cost weights grid searching and the other is the function fitting. Comparisons are made between these between the two algorithms above. In experiments, we classify imbalanced gene expression data using extreme learning machine to test the cost weights obtained by the two approaches. Conclusions: Comprehensive experimental results show that the function fitting method is generally more efficient, which can well find the optimal cost weights with acceptable WCA.

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  • Classification of TCM pulse diagnoses based on pulse and periodic features from personal health data

    K. Tago, H. Wang, Q. Jin

    Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)    2019年12月  [査読有り]

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  • Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Human-Centric Cyber Social Computing

    Qun Jin, Weimin Li, Song Guo, Sethuraman Panchanathan

    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems   6 ( 5 ) 1038 - 1040  2019年10月

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  • Visualization design based on personal health data and persona analysis

    Qun Jin, Zhi Li

    Proceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019     201 - 206  2019年08月

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    Today, thanks to the development of wearable devices, people can easily accumulate and get access to their own health data. Through these health data, individuals can better quantify and manage their health status. However, there is a problem that health data is not fully used due to its complexity that non-expert individuals experiencing difficult in understanding. Visualization is widely used in helping people to understand data. In this study, we design a visualization system to solve the problem. Based on the intuitive design and intelligible interaction concept, we propose four functions: overview, detailed annotation, temporal comparison and horizontal comparison in the visualization system. We utilize persona analysis to help interaction design in the visualization system and describe application scenarios.

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  • Improved mask R-CNN for lung nodule segmentation

    Huanlan Yan, Huijuan Lu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Yige Xu, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2019     137 - 141  2019年08月

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    With more and more people suffer from lung cancer, computer-aided diagnosis plays a more and more important role in lung cancer diagnosis. CNN has achieved state-of-the-art performance in image processing, and Mask R-CNN outperforms most other methods on instance segmentation. However, the target is extraordinarily small, and the background is very large in images, which results in a large number of negative examples and most of them are easy negatives. They will contribute a large part of the loss value in smooth loss function. The class imbalance problem leads to inefficient training, which makes model degenerated. In this paper, we propose a method based on Mask R-CNN to segment lung nodules. Due to the non-uniformity of CT values, we use the Laplacian operator to do feature dimensionality reduction for filtering out part of the noise. In our model, the novel function Focal Loss is used to suppress well-classified examples. The model is tested on LIDC-IDRI dataset and the results showed that the average precision of lung nodules reaches 78%. Compared with the smooth loss function in Mask R-CNN it improves by 7%.

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  • Culture-based Color Influence Paths Analysis by Using Eye-tracking Devices

        66 - 71  2019年08月  [査読有り]  [国際共著]

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  • Polarity classification of tweets considering the poster's emotional change by a combination of Naive Bayes and LSTM

    K. Tago, K.Takagi, Q. Jin

    Misra S. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science   11619   579 - 588  2019年07月  [査読有り]

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  • An efficient location recommendation scheme based on clustering and data fusion

    W. Cai, Y. Wang, R. Lv, Q. Jin

    Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier)   77 ( 2019 ) 289 - 299  2019年07月  [査読有り]

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  • User role identification based on social behavior and networking analysis for information dissemination

    X. Zhou, B. Wu, Q. Jin

    Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)   96   639 - 648  2019年07月  [査読有り]

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  • BRIM: An accurate electricity spot price prediction scheme-based bidirectional recurrent neural network and integrated market

    Yiyuan Chen, Yufeng Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Energies   12 ( 11 )  2019年06月

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    For the benefit from accurate electricity price forecasting, not only can various electricity market stakeholders make proper decisions to gain profit in a competitive environment, but also power system stability can be improved. Nevertheless, because of the high volatility and uncertainty, it is an essential challenge to accurately forecast the electricity price. Considering that recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are suitable for processing time series data, in this paper, we propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM)-based forecasting model, BRIM, which splits the state neurons of a regular RNN into two parts: the forward states (using the historical electricity price information) are designed for processing the data in positive time direction and backward states (using the future price information available at inter-connected markets) for the data in negative time direction. Moreover, due to the fact that inter-connected power exchange markets show a common trend for other neighboring markets and can provide signaling information for each other, it is sensible to incorporate and exploit the impact of the neighboring markets on forecasting accuracy of electricity price. Specifically, future electricity prices of the interconnected market are utilized both as input features for forward LSTM and backward LSTM. By testing on day-ahead electricity prices in the European Power Exchange (EPEX), the experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method BRIM in enhancing predictive accuracy in comparison with the various benchmarks, and moreover Diebold-Mariano (DM) shows that the forecast accuracy of BRIM is not equal to other forecasting models, and thus indirectly demonstrates that BRIM statistically significantly outperforms other schemes.

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  • An accurate false data detection in smart grid based on residual recurrent neural network and adaptive threshold

    Yufeng Wang, Wanjiao Shi, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Energy Internet, ICEI 2019     499 - 504  2019年05月

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    Smart grids are vulnerable to cyber-attacks, which can cause significant damage and huge economic losses. Generally, state estimation (SE) is used to observe the operation of the grid. State estimation of the grid is vulnerable to false data injection attack (FDIA), so diagnosing this type of malicious attack has a major impact on ensuring reliable operation of the power system. In this paper, we present an effective FDIA detection method based on residual recurrent neural network (R2N2) prediction model and adaptive judgment threshold. Specifically, considering the data contains both linear and nonlinear components, the R2N2 model divides the prediction process into two parts: The first part uses the linear model to fit the state data; the second part predicts the nonlinearity of the residuals of the linear prediction model. The adaptive judgment threshold is inferred through fitting the Weibull distribution with the sum of squared errors between the predicted values and observed values. The thorough simulation results demonstrate that our scheme performs better than other prediction based FDIA detection schemes.

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  • Human–computer cooperation for future computing

    Byeong Seok Shin, Houcine Hassan, Qun Jin

    Journal of Supercomputing   75 ( 4 ) 1747 - 1750  2019年04月

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  • Experiment Design and Analysis of Cross-cultural Variation in Color Preferences Using Eye-tracking

    Proc.MUE2019 (The 13th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering), Xi’an, China   590   44 - 49  2019年04月  [査読有り]

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  • Analysis of health changes and the association of health indicators in the elderly using TCM pulse diagnosis assisted with ICT devices: a time series study

    S. Zhou, S. Nishimura, A. Ogihara, Q. Jin

    European Journal of Integrative Medicine (Elsevier)   27   105 - 113  2019年04月  [査読有り]

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  • An improved SSO algorithm for cyber-enabled tumor risk analysis based on gene selection

    C. Ye, J. Pan, Q. Jin

    Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)   89   407 - 418  2019年03月  [査読有り]

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  • A Self-Adaptive Process Mining Algorithm Based on Information Entropy to Deal with Uncertain Data

    Weimin Li, Yuting Fan, Wei Liu, Minjun Xin, Hao Wang, Qun Jin

    IEEE Access   7   131681 - 131691  2019年

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    Process mining is a technology to gain knowledge of the business process by using the event logs and achieve a model of the process, which contributes to the detection and improvement of the business process. However, most existing process mining algorithms have drawbacks associated with managing uncertain data, and the method of using the frequency threshold alone needs to be enhanced. This paper improves correlation measures in heuristic mining to build a correlation matrix based on an improved frequency matrix. Combined with the maximum entropy principle, a self-adaptive method to determine the threshold is given, which is used to remove the uncertain data relationship in the logs. Furthermore, this study identifies a selective and parallel structure through a modified frequency matrix, and we can get a Petri net-based process model from a directed graph. The recognition of parallel structures contributes to eliminating imbalances when calculating the threshold to deal with the uncertain data. Finally, this paper presents an algorithm framework for adaptively removing uncertain data. This study represents a new attempt to use entropy to remove uncertain data in the field of Business Process Management (BPM). The threshold to deal with the uncertain data does not need to set the parameters in advance. Therefore, the proposed algorithm is self-adaptive and universal. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this study has a higher degree of behavioral and structural appropriateness, and fitness, for the uncertain log data compared to traditional algorithms.

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  • Random convolutional neural network based on distributed computing with decentralized architecture

    Yige Xu, Huijuan Lu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Zhigang Gao, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   11956 LNCS   504 - 510  2019年

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    In recent years, deep learning has made great progress in image classification and detection. Popular deep learning algorithms rely on deep networks and multiple rounds of back-propagations. In this paper, we propose two approaches to accelerate deep networks. One is expanding the width of every layer. We reference to the Extreme Learning Machine, setting big number of convolution kernels to extract features in parallel. It can obtain multiscale features and improve network efficiency. The other is freezing part of layers. It can reduce back-propagations and speed up the training procedure. From the above, it is a random convolution architecture that network is proposed for image classification. In our architecture, every combination of random convolutions extracts distinct features. Apparently, we need a lot of experiments to choose the best combination. However, centralized computing may limit the number of combinations. Therefore, a decentralized architecture is used to enable the use of multiple combinations.

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  • Message from the ITME 2018 General Chairs

    Qun Jin, Ning Jin, Enrico Haemmerle

    Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2018     xxviii  2018年12月

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  • An Effective Feature Selection Scheme for Healthcare Data Classification Using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization

    Yiyuan Chen, Yufeng Wang, Liang Cao, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2018     703 - 707  2018年12月

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    Feature selection (FS) is one of fundamental data processing techniques in various machine learning algorithms, especially for classification of healthcare data. However, it is a challenging issue due to the large search space. This paper proposed a confidence based and cost effective feature selection method using binary particle swarm optimization, CCFS. First, CCFS improves search effectiveness by developing a new updating mechanism, in which confidence of each feature is explicitly considered, including the correlation between feature and categories, and historically selected frequency of each feature. Second, the classification accuracy, the feature reduction ratio, and the feature cost are comprehensively incorporated into the design of the fitness function. The proposed method has been verified in UCI cancer classification dataset (Lung Cancer). The experimental result shows the effectiveness of the proposed method, in terms of accuracy and feature selection cost.

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  • Correlation Analysis of Health and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Pulse Diagnosis for the Elderly Using Wearable Devices

    Siyu Zhou, Atsushi Ogihara, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2018     745 - 749  2018年12月

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    © 2018 IEEE. This study used wearable devices and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis, which verifies the promotion of wearable devices on the health habits of the elderly, and the correlation between pulse diagnosis and health. We used wearable devices and TCM diagnosis (including TCM doctor diagnosis and Pulse diagnosis instrument) to record health information for the elderly. One-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine health changes. Correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between pulse and health indicators. There was significant change in the number of steps for the elderly before and after using the wearable device. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) was negatively correlated with pulse wave time. Diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was negatively correlated with pulse duration. Pulse diagnosis can be used as an indicator to report the health of the elderly. And used wearable devices can quantify health indicators and improve the health awareness.

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  • An undergraduate curriculum model for intelligence science and technology

    Jingde Cheng, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Yi Pan

    Proceedings - 2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SCI 2018     234 - 239  2018年12月

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    Recently, many universities, particularly in China, started to offer undergraduate degree programs for the discipline of 'Intelligence Science and Technology'. However, until now, there is no universally recognized, explicitly defined, standard curriculum for the discipline of 'Intelligence Science and Technology'. This is probably because it is very difficult for scientists from various disciplines (including Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, etc.) to reach a universally accepted answer to the fundamental question, what is intelligence and why study it? Based on our understanding and consideration about the discipline of 'Intelligence Science and Technology', in this paper we sketch a primary framework for the body of knowledge about the discipline of 'Intelligence Science and Technology', propose a curriculum model for undergraduate degree programs of the discipline, and show example curriculums. Many practical curriculums for the discipline of 'Intelligence Science and Technology' can be derived and developed from our curriculum model according to different emphases on a specific scientific or technical aspect in different departments.

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  • Welcome message from the IEEE IoP 2018 general chairs

    Guojun Wang, Hakim Mabed, Qun Jin, Bin Guo, Fuhua Oscar Lin

    Proceedings - 2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SCI 2018     xciii  2018年12月

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  • TNERec: Topic-aware network embedding for scientific collaborator recommendation

    Xiangjie Kong, Mengyi Mao, Jiaying Liu, Bo Xu, Ruihe Huang, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SCI 2018     1007 - 1014  2018年12月

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    Collaboration is increasingly becoming a vital factor in an academic network, which can bring lots of benefits for scholars. Ubiquitous intelligence also provides an effective way for scholars to find collaborators. However, due to the large-scale of scholarly big data, there is a lot of information hard to capture in networks and we need to dig out valid information from collaboration networks. It is a valuable and urgent task to find appropriate collaborators for scholars. To address these problems, we hypothesize that fusing topic model and structure information could improve the performance of recommendations. In this paper, we propose a collaborator recommendation system, named TNERec (Topic-aware Network Embedding for scientific collaborator Recommendation), learning representations from scholars' research interests and network structure. TNERec first extracts scholars' research interests based on topic model and then learns vectors of scholars with network embedding. Finally, top-k recommendation list is generated based on the scholar vectors. Experimental results on a real-world dataset show the effectiveness of the proposed framework compared with state-of-the-art collaboration recommendation baselines.

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  • DNN-Based image classification for software GUI testing

    Huijuan Lu, Li Wang, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SCI 2018     1818 - 1823  2018年12月

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    Since visual design of Graphical User Interface (GUI) is one of the indispensable parts of every software and to some extent, it determines whether the software is attractive. And with the increasing amount of GUI designs, it is usually impractical to deal with a variety of designs manually with limited staff. Therefore, a solution for that program is needed. This work designs and implements an automatic GUI testing system based on Deep Neural Network (DNN) and cloud service. The system includes screenshot capturing and uploading module, web server, DNN models, etc. It provides accurate and efficient GUI automatic testing technology.

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  • Vote Parallel SVM: An extension of parallel support vector machine

    Yan Song, Qun Jin, Ke Yan, Huijuan Lu, Julong Pan

    Proceedings - 2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SCI 2018     1942 - 1947  2018年12月

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    Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a set of machine learning algorithms, which has been widely used in diverse domains. With the increasing size of datasets, the traditional SVM training algorithms for large-scale datasets become infeasible. Mathematical optimization and cascade parallelism are both popular strategies for accelerating SVM training. In these parallel methods, the use of appropriate parallel framework to reduce SVM training time has become a priority issue and a research focus. In this paper, we investigate and overview mathematical optimization algorithms and parallel technologies of SVM, and summarize parallel SVM solutions and application problems under different frameworks. We propose a Vote Parallel SVM to reduce the training time. Finally, we show experimental results comparing with baseline methods.

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  • Modeling of cross-disciplinary collaboration for potential field discovery and recommendation based on scholarly big data

    Wei Liang, Xiaokang Zhou, Suzhen Huang, Chunhua Hu, Xuesong Xu, Qun Jin

    Future Generation Computer Systems   87   591 - 600  2018年10月  [査読有り]

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    The promise of cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration has recently been proven by both technological innovation and scientific research. Much effort has been spent on research collaboration recommendation. A remaining challenge is to make valuable recommendation to specific researchers in specific fields in order to obtain more fruitful cross-disciplinary collaboration. Cross-disciplinary information hides in big data and the relationships between different fields are complicated, complex, and subtle. This paper proposes a method for cross-disciplinary collaboration recommendation (CDCR) to analyze cross-disciplinary collaboration patterns in scholarly big data, and recommend valuable research fields for possible cross-disciplinary collaboration. A cross-disciplinary discovery algorithm based on topic modeling is designed to extract potential research fields. Collaboration patterns are examined by analyzing the research field correlations. A recommendation algorithm is developed to provide a specific recommendation list of potential research fields according to the discovered cross-disciplinary collaboration patterns with researchers’ profiles. Evaluations conducted based on a real scholarly dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in recommending potentially valuable collaborations.

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  • Special Issue on Trends and Research Issues of Emerging Technologies to Enhance Learning

    Yin Chengjiu, Yen Neil, Jin Qun

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES   16 ( 4 )  2018年10月  [査読有り]

  • Experiment and Analysis on Visual Field and Fixation when Going Upstairs and Downstairs

    B. Wu, S. Nishimura, Q. Jin

    Proc. ITME2018 (9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education)     163 - 167  2018年10月  [査読有り]

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  • GCHAR: An efficient Group-based Context—aware human activity recognition on smartphone

    Liang Cao, Yufeng Wang, Bo Zhang, Qun Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing   118   67 - 80  2018年08月  [査読有り]

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    With smartphones increasingly becoming ubiquitous and being equipped with various sensors, nowadays, there is a trend towards implementing HAR (Human Activity Recognition) algorithms and applications on smartphones, including health monitoring, self-managing system and fitness tracking. However, one of the main issues of the existing HAR schemes is that the classification accuracy is relatively low, and in order to improve the accuracy, high computation overhead is needed. In this paper, an efficient Group-based Context-aware classification method for human activity recognition on smartphones, GCHAR is proposed, which exploits hierarchical group-based scheme to improve the classification efficiency, and reduces the classification error through context awareness rather than the intensive computation. Specifically, GCHAR designs the two-level hierarchical classification structure, i.e., inter-group and inner-group, and utilizes the previous state and transition logic (so-called context awareness) to detect the transitions among activity groups. In comparison with other popular classifiers such as RandomTree, Bagging, J48, BayesNet, KNN and Decision Table, thorough experiments on the realistic dataset (UCI HAR repository) demonstrate that GCHAR achieves the best classification accuracy, reaching 94.1636%, and time consumption in training stage of GCHAR is four times shorter than the simple Decision Table and is decreased by 72.21% in classification stage in comparison with BayesNet.

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  • An Optimized trust model integrated with linear features for cyber-enabled recommendation services

    Weimin Li, Jun Mo, Minjun Xin, Qun Jin

    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing   118   81 - 88  2018年08月  [査読有り]

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    The growth of cyberspace brings more information to service recommendation. The scores of item are used in most of the recommendation algorithms, but the attributes of users and items are rarely involved in trust recommendation in cyberspace. Both the rating features and attribute information are important for trust recommendation results. In this paper, we combine the heterogeneous information in cyberspace and propose a novel trust recommendation model based on the latent factor model and trusty neighborhood fitting model. We utilize the feature based Latent Factor Model and study the linear features integrated model To solve the failure problem of the latent factor model in the integrated model under the cold-start situations, we propose two optimized methods, which contain the filling method based on feature similarity and the filling method based on feature regression through mapping attributes to features. Experimental results show that the improved method outperforms traditional collaborative recommendation in terms of recommendation accuracy. Meanwhile, our proposed method has been verified to free from the impact of the cold-start problem.

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  • A Novel Personalized Recommendation Algorithm Based on Trust Relevancy Degree

    W. Li, H. Zhu, X. Zhou, S. Shimizu, M. Xin, Q. Jin

    Proc. CyberSciTech 2018 (2018 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress)     418 - 422  2018年08月  [査読有り]

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  • TSP: Truthful Grading-Based Strategyproof Peer Selection for MOOCs

    Yufeng Wang, Hui Fang, Chonghu Cheng, Qun Jin

    Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018     679 - 684  2018年07月

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    Considering that the challenges in using peer grading to select the best-k students in MOOCs (massive open online courses) are twofold: first is strategyproof, i.e., students should not benefit by untruthfully reporting valuations; second, instead of exerting (costly) efforts to evaluate, students may randomly provide (or just guess) the evaluations on other peers. This paper proposes a truthful grading-based strategyproof peer selection scheme for MOOCs, TSP. Specifically, all students are partitioned into same-size clusters, and each student only evaluates students in other clusters. Moreover, peer prediction mechanism was utilized to motivate each student to truthfully report their gradings through comparing their reports with other peer students who conduct same evaluation tasks. The theoretical analysis and simulation results show that TSP can both stimulate students to truthfully reporting their gradings, and meanwhile select best k-students in strategyproof way.

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  • PDL: An Efficient Prediction-Based False Data Injection Attack Detection and Location in Smart Grid

    Wanjiao Shi, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference   2   676 - 681  2018年06月

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    With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IOT) technologies, modern power systems have become complex cyber-physical systems. A large number of smart devices have promoted efficient generation, transmission and distribution in the smart grid. State estimation (SE) is one of fundamental components in smart grid that evaluates the operation state of a grid by using a set of sensor measurements and grid topologies. A major issue is the authenticity of the measurements collected by the sensors. Specifically, the false data injection attack (FDIA) aims to temper the information that reflect the grid operation state. In this paper, we propose an efficient prediction-based FDIA detection and location scheme, PDL, in which the state vector of smart grid can be represented as multivariate time series, and can be predicted by vector autoregressive processes (VAR) through intentionally exploiting the temporal and spatial correlations of states. Different from most previous works which assumed the state transfer matrix constant and diagonal, a time-varying and non-diagonal matrix is adopted in this scheme. Then, the consistency between the predicted measurements and the observed measurements is utilized to detect and locate abnormal data. Besides, the detected abnormal data can be replaced with the predicted data, which simplifies the calibration process. Extensive simulation results verify the performance of the proposed scheme.

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  • BLE Mesh: A Practical Mesh Networking Development Framework for Public Safety Communications

    Zhang Bo, Wang Yufeng, Wei Li, Jin Qun, Vasilakos Athanasios V

    TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   23 ( 3 ) 333 - 346  2018年06月  [査読有り]

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  • Analyzing influence of emotional tweets on user relationships using Naive Bayes and dependency parsing

    Kiichi Tago, Kosuke Takagi, Seiji Kasuya, Qun Jin

    World Wide Web   22 ( 3 ) 1 - 16  2018年05月  [査読有り]

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    Twitter is one of the most popular social network services (SNS) applications, in which users can casually post their messages. Given that users can easily post what they feel, Twitter is widely used as a platform to express emotions. These emotional expressions are considered to possibly influence user relationships on Twitter. In our previous study, we analyzed this influence using emotional word dictionaries. However, we could not measure the emotion scores for the words not included in the dictionaries. To solve this problem, in this study, we use the Naive Bayes and consider dependency parsing, i.e., the structure of tweets and the relationships of words. Furthermore, we introduce a set of new measures, namely total positive emotion score (TPES), total negative emotion score (TNES), and total neutral emotion score (TNtES). Based on these measures, we define a new composite index (CI) for emotion scores, which is a normalized value in the range of 0 to 1. We categorize users into positive and negative groups based on the composite index and test the difference of user relationships between these two groups with a statistical method. The result demonstrates that the relationships of positive users not only get better (i.e., the number increases) with time, but also tends to be mutual, which is consistent with the result of our previous study.

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  • Special issue on communication and computation cooperation (3C): Principles, algorithms and systems

    Kezhi Wang, Qun Jin, Hamid Sharif

    International Journal of Communication Systems   31 ( 7 )  2018年05月  [査読有り]

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  • Analyzing the changes of health condition and social capital of elderly people using wearable devices

    Zhou Siyu, Ogihara Atsushi, Nishimura Shoji, Jin Qun

    HEALTH INFORMATION SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS   6 ( 1 )  2018年04月  [査読有り]

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  • Special issue on "Advances in human-like intelligence towards next-generation web"

    Yen Neil, Hsu Ching-Hsien, Jin Qun, Kao Odej

    NEUROCOMPUTING   279   1 - 2  2018年03月  [査読有り]

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  • Optimization modeling and analysis of trustworthiness determination strategies for service discovery of MSNP

    Xixi Ma, Qun Jin, Julong Pan, Yufeng Wang

    Journal of Supercomputing   75 ( 4 ) 1 - 17  2018年02月  [査読有り]

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    In trustworthy service discovery for Mobile Social Networking in Proximity (MSNP), conventional trust computation faces a big challenging issue—relatively high latency. To cope with it, trustworthiness determination strategies were proposed in our previous study, aiming at avoiding trust computation under certain conditions, so as to reduce the latency. These strategies are conceived based on the assumption that data of a user’s past experience and current profile could be used, and they are incorporated with a set of thresholds from the analysis result of these data. The settings of these thresholds directly affect service quality and user satisfaction on the MSNP service, which in turn becomes an optimization problem. In this paper, we focus on formulating this optimization problem and demonstrating the effectiveness of our proposed solution by designing a simulation experiment. In detail, we establish mathematical models and adjust parameters. We conduct simulations on MATLAB and analyze the results obtained under several different settings. We further compare our work with related works. The results show that our proposed solution is practically feasible and effective in reducing latency under certain conditions.

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  • Geo-QTI: A quality aware truthful incentive mechanism for cyber–physical enabled Geographic crowdsensing

    Wei Dai, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Future Generation Computer Systems   79   447 - 459  2018年02月  [査読有り]

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    Nowadays, the cyber, social and physical worlds are increasingly integrating and merging. Especially, combining the strengths of humans and machines helps tackle increasing hard tasks that neither can be done alone. Following this trend, this paper designs a Quality aware Truthful Incentive mechanism for cyber–physical enabled Geographic crowdsensing called Geo-QTI. Different from existing work, Geo-QTI appropriately accommodates the utilities of various stakeholders: requesters, participants and the crowdsourcing platform, and explicitly takes the requesters’ quality requirements, and participants’ quality provision into account. Geo-QTI explicitly includes four components: requester selection, participant selection, pricing and allocation. Requester selection with feasible analysis removes the requesters whose job cannot be completed by all participants or suffers from the monopoly participant (without the participant's contribution, others cannot cover requesters’ requirement), obtains winning requesters set and determines actual payments. In participant selection phase, the platform aggregates the requested tasks (submitted by all winning requesters) in the sensed geographic area, and chooses the appropriate participants satisfying the winning requesters’ quality requirements with total cost as low as possible. Pricing phase determines the payments to winning participants. The phase of allocation assigns the specific participants to minimally cover the quality requirements of those winning requesters. Rigid theoretical analysis demonstrates Geo-QTI can achieve both requesters’ and participants’ individual rationality and truthfulness, computational efficiency and budget balance for the platform. Furthermore, the extensive simulations confirm our theoretical analysis, and illustrate that Geo-QTI can reduce requesters’ expenses greatly and ensure the fairness of allocation.

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  • Overlap community detection using spectral algorithm based on node convergence degree

    Weimin Li, Shu Jiang, Qun Jin

    Future Generation Computer Systems   79   408 - 416  2018年02月  [査読有り]

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    Community structure is a typical feature of complex networks in cyberspace, and community detection is considered to be crucial to understanding the topology structure, network function and social dynamics of cyberspace. However, some particular nodes may simultaneously belong to several communities in cyberspace. Though there are many algorithms to detect the overlapping communities, most of them are based on the network structure without considering the attributes of the nodes. In this paper, we focus on the convergence characteristic of network and propose an overlap community detection algorithm based on the node convergence degree, which is defined as a combination of attribute convergence degree and structure convergence degree. It combines the network topology with the attributes of the nodes and considers both local and global information of a node. An improved PageRank algorithm is used to get the importance of each node in the global network, while the information of local network is used to measure the structure convergence degree. The overlap communities are thus identified by spectral cluster based on the node convergence degree. Finally, experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness and better performance of our proposed method.

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  • Influence analysis of emotional behaviors and user relationships based on Twitter data

    Kiichi Tago, Qun Jin

    Tsinghua Science and Technology   23 ( 1 ) 104 - 113  2018年02月  [査読有り]

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    One of the main purposes for which people use Twitter is to share emotions with others. Users can easily post a message as a short text when they experience emotions such as pleasure or sadness. Such tweet serves to acquire empathy from followers, and can possibly influence others' emotions. In this study, we analyze the influence of emotional behaviors to user relationships based on Twitter data using two dictionaries of emotional words. Emotion scores are calculated via keyword matching. Moreover, we design three experiments with different settings: calculate the average emotion score of a user with random sampling, calculate the average emotion score using all emotional tweets, and calculate the average emotion score using emotional tweets, excluding users of few emotional tweets. We evaluate the influence of emotional behaviors to user relationships through the Brunner-Munzel test. The result shows that a positive user is more active than a negative user in constructing user relationships in a specific condition.

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  • RankwithTA: A robust and accurate peer grading mechanism for MOOCs

    Hui Fang, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2017   2018-   497 - 502  2018年01月  [査読有り]

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    Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to revolutionize higher education with their wide outreach and accessibility. One of key challenges in MOOCs is the student evaluation: The large number of students makes it infeasible for instructors or teaching assistants (TAs) to grade all assignments. Peer grading-having students assess each other-is a promising approach to tackling the problem of evaluation at scale. The user evaluations are then used directly, or aggregated into a consensus value. However, lacking an incentive scheme, users have no motive in making effort in completing the evaluations, providing inaccurate answers instead. To address the above issues, we propose and implement a peer grading scheme, RankwithTA. Specifically, considering that the quality of a student determines both her performance in the assignment and her grading ability, RankwithTA makes the grade each student received depend on both the quality of the solution they submitted, and on the quality of their review and grading work to incentivize students' correct grading, Furthermore, the ground truth is incorporated, which utilizes external calibration by having some students graded by instructors or TAs to provide a basis for accuracy. The simulation results illustrate that RankwithTA performs better than the existing schemes.

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  • Learning misclassification costs for imbalanced datasets, application in gene expression data classification

    Huijuan Lu, Yige Xu, Minchao Ye, Ke Yan, Qun Jin, Zhigang Gao

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   10954 LNCS   513 - 519  2018年

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    Cost-sensitive algorithms have been widely used to solve imbalanced classification problem. However, the misclassification costs are usually determined empirically, leading to uncertain performance. Hence an effective method is desired to automatically calculate the optimal cost weights. Targeting at the highest weighted classification accuracy (WCA), we propose two approaches to search for the optimal cost weights, including grid searching and function fitting. In experiments, we classify imbalanced gene expression data using extreme learning machine to test the cost weights obtained by the two approaches. Comprehensive experimental results show that the function fitting is more efficient which can well find the optimal cost weights with acceptable WCA.

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  • Analysis of pulse diagnosis data from a TCM doctor and a device by Random Forest

    K. Tago, A. Ogihara, S. Nishimura, Q. Jin

    Kojima K., Sakamoto M., Mineshima K., Satoh K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer   11717   74 - 80  2018年  [査読有り]

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  • Detection of Anomaly Health Data by Specifying Latent Factors with SEM and Estimating Hidden States with HMM

    K. Tago, Q. Jin

    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education     137 - 141  2018年  [査読有り]

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  • i-Blockchain: A Blockchain-Empowered Individual-Centric Framework for Privacy-Preserved Use of Personal Health Data

    K. Ito, K. Tago, Q. Jin

    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education     829 - 833  2018年  [査読有り]

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  • Extraction of Factors Related to Transportations and Destinations by Decision Trees for Personal Whereabouts Modeling

    S. Kasuya, K. Tago, Q. Jin

    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education     808 - 812  2018年  [査読有り]

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  • Comparison of measurements by the betweenness centrality and subjective experiment on the word priority of Tweets

    K. Takagi, K. Tago, K. Ito, Q. Jin

    Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Internet of People     1936 - 1941  2018年  [査読有り]

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  • Specifying Latent Factors with a Domain Model for Personal Data Analysis

    K. Tago, K. Takagi, K. Ito, Q. Jin

    Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech)     1 - 6  2018年  [査読有り]

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  • Analysis of Health and Physiological Index Based on Sleep and Walking Steps by Wearable Devices for the Elderly

    Siyu Zhou, Atsushi Ogihara, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, SOCA 2017   2017-   245 - 250  2017年12月  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we use wearable devices to monitor the health and physiological indicators of the elderly, and analyze the effects of the elderly's walking steps and sleep as the measurable health and physiological indexes. Eighteen cases of the elderly who received health management services are selected. We establish the generalized linear mixed model, and Pearson correlation analysis result shows statistically significant for the number of walking steps and systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure. The number of walking steps is positively correlated with the systolic/diastolic pressure. The more walking steps and the better the sleep quality, the more stable the daily blood pressure is. Therefore, it is possible to effectively control the elderly's blood pressure by exercising and managing sleeping. It can be better for the elderly to have self-esteem health managed by using wearable devices, and encourage the elderly to exercise at a certain extent.

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  • Trust-Aware Recommendation for E-Commerce Associated with Social Networks

    Wei Liang, Xiaokang Zhou, Suzhen Huang, Chunhua Hu, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, SOCA 2017   2017-   211 - 216  2017年12月  [査読有り]

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    In recent years, recommender systems are widely applied in e-commerce system to help users locating their interested information. However, the 'all good reputation' problem brings down the accuracy of recommender systems. In addition, users' social network can benefit the recommendation especially when dealing with cold-start scenarios. In this paper, a novel trust-aware recommendation approach for e-commerce is proposed, which unearths the hint from ordinary rating and trust network by users' instant interactions in e-commerce system. More precisely, a rating revamping algorithm is designed to extract semantic ratings from feedback comments, and further construct fine grained rating score for the next process. Then, the recommendation scheme is studied through analyzing the users' trust network and their own behavior in e-commerce system. Finally, evaluations conducted based on a real dataset 'Douban' to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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  • Analyzing Influence of Emotional Tweets on User Relationships by Naive Bayes Classification and Statistical Tests

    Kiichi Tago, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, SOCA 2017   2017-   217 - 222  2017年12月  [査読有り]

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    As an SNS, Twitter is popular because users can post their emotions as a short message easily. Emotional tweets may influence user relationships. In our previous study, we found that positive users construct mutual relationships in Twitter. Keyword matching with emotional word dictionaries was used to detect positive users. The problem of keyword matching is the limitation of word number. To solve this problem, we use machine learning, specifically Naive Bayes Classification, to classify emotions of tweets. We analyze whether there is a difference in user relationships between the positive and negative groups by the Brunner-Munzel test. The result shows that the relationships of positive users increase more than that of negative users in the followee fluctuation, follower fluctuation and mutual follow fluctuation, which means that a positive user is more active to construct user relationships than a negative user.

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  • A data intensive heuristic approach to the two-stage streaming scheduling problem

    Wei Liang, Chunhua Hu, Min Wu, Qun Jin

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES   89   64 - 79  2017年11月  [査読有り]

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    Data intensive computing (DIC) provides a high performance computing approach to process large volume of data. In this study, a new formalization is introduced to present the two-stage DIC task execution in a stream manner. A novel heuristic algorithm is proposed for the scheduling problem due to the NP complexity. The theoretical approximation ratio bounds for the heuristic are analyzed and confirmed by the experimental evaluation. Overall, we observe that the proposed method conducts average 1.2 times makespan than the theoretic bound of the optimal solution. Besides, the proposed method outperforms the GA and FIFO scheduling schemes with overall improvements. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Highly-skilled heath care workers exhibit tacit knowledge and advanced skills for preventing disordered swallowing and aspiration pneumonia in their patients

    Nao Ueda, Manabu Yamaji, Moyuan Li, Kohei Matsushita, Qun Jin, Shoji Nishimura, Atsushi Ogihara

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS   50   S159 - S159  2017年11月  [査読有り]

  • ActiRecognizer: Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Human Activity Recognition System

    Liang Cao, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2017 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC)   2018-January   266 - 271  2017年10月  [査読有り]  [国際共著]

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    In our society, inadequate physical activity is one of severe problems issues for human health, which may increase the health risks of many diseases. Nowadays, smartphones are ubiquitous and widely used around the world, in which multi-functional sensors and wireless interfaces are embedded. Therefore, smartphone is viewed as an appropriate platform for real-time activity recognition to address these healthy problems by monitoring and detecting user's everyday activities. In this paper, unlike other wearable devices based applications (e.g., watches, bands, or clip-on devices), ActiRecognizer, a smartphone-based prototype of a real-time human activity recognition (HAR) is designed and implemented, in which a detailed activity report of individuals (i.e. a pie chart containing the proportion and duration of each activity) can be correspondingly generated based on the detected real-time activities. Specifically, ActiRecognizer adopts client/server (C/S) architecture. At client side, smartphone associated with each individual periodically uploads the accelerometer and gyroscope sensing data to server for activity recognition and monitoring. At serve side, HAR is composed of offline training phase and online activity recognition phase: In training phase, sensing data are collected to extract the desired features that can appropriately characterize behaviors, classification model is generated utilizing these features, and then the trained classification model is used to classify user activity in real time. Finally, detailed activity reports and statistics are available to the user via a secure web interface.

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  • Recommendation for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Based on Potential Research Field Discovery

    Wei Liang, Xiaokang Zhou, Suzhen Huang, Chunhua Hu, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2017     349 - 354  2017年09月  [査読有り]

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    In recent years, cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration has been proved to be promising for both research practice and innovation. Lots of efforts have been spent in collaboration recommendation. However, the cross-disciplinary information is hidden in tons of publications, and the relationships between different fields are complicated, which make it challengeable recommending cross-disciplinary collaboration for a specific researcher. In this paper, a novel cross-disciplinary collaboration recommendation method (CDCR) that unearths the common cross-disciplinary collaboration patterns and historical scientific field preferences of authors is proposed to recommend potential cross-disciplinary research collaboration. In CDCR, a research field discovery algorithm is designed to classify scientific topics obtained from the publications into the correct field automatically. Then, the collaborative patterns are studied through analyzing the composition fields and the corresponding percentage of all publications. Furthermore, we investigate the common correlation of different research fields. Based on the common correlation and the researcher's specific pattern, the most valuable fields will be listed by CDCR. The effectiveness of our approach is evaluated based on a real academic dataset.

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  • ABT: An Effective Ability-Balanced Team Based Incentive Mechanism in Crowdsourcing System

    Yufeng Wang, Jie Huang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2017     220 - 225  2017年09月  [査読有り]

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    Crowdsourcing systems which rely on a great deal of crowdworkers to perform large quantities of microtasks, have been leveraged in a variety of applications. There are two factors affecting the productive output of each crowdworker. One is skill level, which is private information to each crowdworker, and another is her variable expended effort. In this paper, we construct and analyze a total-Ability-balanced team based incentive mechanism ABT, which can stimulate the strategic crowdworkers to truthfully report their ability levels, and according to crowdworkers' ability levels, form the competing teams. Specifically, a crowdworker with a certain skill level, is askedto choose a specificskill level (i.e., denoted as an ability threshold), and a basic payment scheme is designed to incentivize the crowdworker to truthfully report her ability level. Then, according to the chosen ability thresholds, crowdworkers are organized into total ability balanced teams to earn extra team bonus, which can further motivate crowdworkers to exert more efforts. Compared to team formation process where workers are randomly assigned to the same-scale teams and the pay per task model, our scheme ABT can improve the work efficiency.

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  • Device-to-Device based mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP) on smartphones: Framework, challenges and prototype

    Yufeng Wang, Li Wei, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qun Jin

    FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESCIENCE   74   241 - 253  2017年09月  [査読有り]

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    Recently, Device to Device (D2D) based mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP) has witnessed great development on smartphones. Unlike traditional OTT (Over-The-Top) based proximal social services (like Foursquare, etc.), in which the centralized server (usually located in the cloud) receives periodic location updates from users' mobile devices (e.g., using GPS, etc.), and then determines proximity based on gathered locations and interests, D2D based proximity services (MSNPs) support infrastructure-free and self-organized social networking, allowing users to share experiences in real time and in a specific place, which are more fun, and can significantly increase users' engagement. However, the glaring absence of the practical MSNP solutions on the market is alarming, due to the lack of comprehensive understanding of architecture, technologies and development frameworks available (advantages/disadvantage, applicability, etc.), as well as special requirements of MSNPs. This paper thoroughly investigates D2D based MSNP architecture, key challenges and their potential solutions on smartphones, organized as layers from bottom to up, presents how to utilize commercial off-the-shelf existing technologies and development frameworks to quickly and easily build MSNP applications, and summarizes the unsolved issues in popular development frameworks (e.g., AllJoyn, etc.). Our primary goal is, for commercially available smartphones, to identify key challenges in various layers of MSNP architecture, potential development frameworks and solutions, provide quick how-to-do for developers of MSNP applications, and greatly facilitate to develop and deploy interesting and commercially potential MSNP applications. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • A hybrid feature selection algorithm for gene expression data classification

    Huijuan Lu, Junying Chen, Ke Yan, Qun Jin, Yu Xue, Zhigang Gao

    NEUROCOMPUTING   256   56 - 62  2017年09月  [査読有り]

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    In the DNA microarray research field, the increasing sample size and feature dimension of the gene expression data prompt the development of an efficient and robust feature selection algorithm for gene expression data classification. In this study, we propose a hybrid feature selection algorithm that combines the mutual information maximization (MIM) and the adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA). Experimental results show that the proposing MIMAGA-Selection method significantly reduces the dimension of gene expression data and removes the redundancies for classification. The reduced gene expression dataset provides highest classification accuracy compared to conventional feature selection algorithms. We also apply four different classifiers to the reduced dataset to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed MIMAGA-Selection algorithm. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Health concerns: Self-disclosure and online behavior analysis

    Ting Wang, Guangyu Piao, Julong Pan, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2016 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2016     182 - 186  2017年07月  [査読有り]

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    With the rapid development of mobile networks, people are no longer limited to seeking information offline. The Internet provides a good choice for them. As the previous research work shows, more and more people get used to using the Internet to search for health information. Online health information has attracted much attention ever before. It is well known that health related information generated on the Internet contains a large amount of practical data, which can be utilized for health related study. In this paper, firstly we review related research work on self-disclosure and online behavior related to health information. We analyze and summarize factors relevant to health concerns, and discuss measuring dimensions for health concerns. Finally, we present a basic health concern model and future direction for health concern analysis based on online health information behaviors and social data.

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  • Message from the GreenCom-2017 General Chair

    Rubem Pereira, Geyong Min, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, IEEE Green Computing and Communications, IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData 2017   2018-January   xxvii  2017年07月

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  • Preface

    Juhong Christie Liu, Shoji Nishimura, Hai Zhang, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 6th International Conference of Educational Innovation Through Technology, EITT 2017   2018-March   xiii  2017年07月

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  • Social recommendation based on trust and influence in SNS environments

    Weimin Li, Zhengbo Ye, Minjun Xin, Qun Jin

    MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS   76 ( 9 ) 11585 - 11602  2017年05月  [査読有り]

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    The development of social media provides convenience to people's lives. People's social relationship and influence on each other is an important factor in a variety of social activities. It is obviously important for the recommendation, while social relationship and user influence are rarely taken into account in traditional recommendation algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new approach to personalized recommendation on social media in order to make use of such a kind of information, and introduce and define a set of new measures to evaluate trust and influence based on users' social relationship and rating information. We develop a social recommendation algorithm based on modeling of users' social trust and influence combined with collaborative filtering. The optimal linear relation between them will be reached by the proposed method, because the importance of users' social trust and influence varies with the data. Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms traditional recommendation in terms of recommendation accuracy and stability.

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  • A heuristic approach to discovering user correlations from organized social stream data

    Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS   76 ( 9 ) 11487 - 11507  2017年05月  [査読有り]

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    Recently, with the widespread popularity of SNS (Social Network Service), such as Twitter, Facebook, people are increasingly accustomed to sharing feeling, experience and knowledge with each other on Internet. The high accessibility of these web sites has allowed the information to be spread across the social media more quickly and widely, which leads to more and more populations being engaged into this so-called social stream environment. All these make the organization of user relationships become increasingly important and necessary. In this study, we try to discover the potential and dynamical user correlations using those organized social streams in accordance with users' current interests and needs, in order to assist the collaborative information seeking process. We develop a heuristic approach to build a Dynamically Socialized User Networking (DSUN) model, and define a set of measures (such as interest degree, and popularity degree) and concepts (such as complementary tie, weak tie, and strong tie), to discover and represent users' current profiling and dynamical correlations. The corresponding algorithms are developed respectively. Finally, the architecture of the functional modules is presented, and the experiment results are demonstrated and discussed based on an application of the proposed model.

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  • ELR-DC: An Efficient Recommendation Scheme for Location Based Social Networks

    Ruheng Lv, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things; IEEE Green Computing and Communications; IEEE Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing; IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-Smart Data 2016     567 - 572  2017年05月  [査読有り]

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    Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have recently attracted millions of mobile users to share their locations and location-related contents. With the increasing use of LBSNs, an efficient personalized recommendation service is required to recommend appropriate point of interests (POIs) to users. Traditional collaborative filtering (CF) based recommendation algorithms need go through all users in LBSN to recommend locations to the target user. Due to the fact that many users are irrelevant to the target user, these approaches perform poorly in accuracy and scalability. In this paper, we propose an Efficient Location Recommendation scheme based on Discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) and Collaborative filtering, called ELR-DC. This scheme efficiently detects communities with close internal ties and then conducts location recommendation in each community. Specifically, a similarity network among users is firstly constructed based on their check-in activities, which explicitly takes into account users' similarities of interest and active regions. Then, an improved merging DPSO algorithm (IMDPSO) is proposed to detect communities through utilizing the formed similarity network. Then, in each community, CF algorithm is applied to recommend Top-N locations to each user. Finally, we conduct a comprehensive performance evaluation on a large-scale datasets collected from Gowalla. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme have the superiority of the precision and efficiency over the existed CF algorithms.

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  • SmartFDS: Design and Implementation of Falling Detection System on Smartphones

    Xiao Li, Yufeng Wang, Qicai Zhou, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things; IEEE Green Computing and Communications; IEEE Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing; IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-Smart Data 2016     402 - 405  2017年05月  [査読有り]

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    Falling accidents cause severe damage to human health, especially to the elderly. Nowadays, smartphones are ubiquitous and widely used around the world, in which rich sensors are embedded. Thus, a smartphone based falling detection system, SmartFDS is proposed in this paper, which can recognize the associated individual's falling behavior and send out an emergent message containing the location for immediate help. Generally, SmartFDS includes offline training phase and online activity recognition phase. Specifically, in training phase, utilizing the embedded accelerometer sensor, falling data for various situations are collected to extract the desired features that can appropriately characterize the falling behavior. Considering that the raw data are intrinsically prone to noise and error, those data are preprocessed by weighted smoothing. Then, 6 time-domain features are elaborated to determine the discriminative features for characterizing falling, and two features, maximum and vertical velocity are selected. Then, 4 different classification algorithms are investigated, and SVM is selected. The prototype of SmartFDS is implemented on Android phones, and can detect falling in real time accurately.

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  • Message from the CIT 2016 program chairs

    Jiannong Cao, Qun Jin, Xiaodong Lin, Vincenzo Piuri

    Proceedings - 2016 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 2016, 2016 6th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing, IEEE SC2 2016 and 2016 International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2016     xv - xix  2017年03月

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  • Mobile crowdsourcing: framework, challenges, and solutions

    Yufeng Wang, Xueyu Jia, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE   29 ( 3 )  2017年02月  [査読有り]

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    Crowdsourcing is the generalized act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of Internet population through an open call. With the great development of smartphones with rich built-in sensors and multiple ratio interfaces, mixing smartphone-based mobile technologies and crowdsourcing offers significant flexibilities and leads to a new paradigm called mobile crowdsourcing (MCS), which can be fully explored for real-time and location-sensitive crowdsourced tasks. In this paper, we present a taxonomy for the MCS applications, which are explicitly divided as using human as sensors, and exploiting the wisdom of crowd (i.e., human intelligence). Moreover, two paradigms for mobilizing users in MCS are outlined: direct mode and word of mouth mode. A comprehensive MCS framework and typical workflow of MCS applications are proposed, which consist of nine functional modules, pertaining to three stakeholders in MCS: crowdsourcer, crowdworkers, and crowdsourcing platform. Then, we elaborate the MCS challenges including task management, incentives, security and privacy, and quality control, and summarize the corresponding solutions. Especially, from the viewpoints of various stakeholders, we propose the desired properties that an ideal MCS system should satisfy. The primary goal of this paper is to comprehensively classify and provide a summary on MCS framework, challenges, and possible solutions to highlight the MCS related research topics and facilitate to develop and deploy interesting MCS applications. Copyright (C) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Analyzing of research patterns based on a temporal tracking and assessing model

    Wei Liang, Qun Jin, Zixian Lu, Min Wu, Chunhua Hu

    PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING   20 ( 6 ) 933 - 946  2016年11月  [査読有り]

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    Scientific research works conducted by researchers spread all over the world in every research field, which are hard to be tracked and quantified. Although there are many research works focused on scientific community discovery and researcher profiling, it is still a big challenge to track the research patterns and assess the research development for an individual researcher or a research group over time. In this study, we seek to model researchers' scientific activities and quantify their outcome during their research career. A temporal tracking and assessing model is introduced to represent the research development and quantify the scientific outcome for both an individual and a group along the time. Based on our model, a research topic analyzing approach is developed to extract the topics covered by a research group for the research pattern analysis. Furthermore, a latent research pattern discovering approach is proposed to depict how a research group's research works contributed by its members are discovered and visualized. The effectiveness of our approach is evaluated based on a real academic dataset.

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  • QuaCentive: a quality-aware incentive mechanism in mobile crowdsourced sensing (MCS)

    Yufeng Wang, Xueyu Jia, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING   72 ( 8 ) 2924 - 2941  2016年08月  [査読有り]

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    Today's smartphones with a rich set of cheap powerful embedded sensors can offer a variety of novel and efficient ways to opportunistically collect data, and enable numerous mobile crowdsourced sensing (MCS) applications. Basically, incentive is one of fundamental issues in MCS. Through appropriately integrating three popular incentive methods: reverse auction, reputation and gamification, this paper proposes a quality-aware incentive framework for MCS, QuaCentive, which, pertaining to all components in MCS, can motivate crowd to provide high-quality sensed contents, stimulate crowdsourcers to give truthful feedback about quality of sensed contents, and make platform profitable. Specifically, first, we utilize the reverse auction and reputation mechanisms to incentivize crowd to truthfully bid for sensing tasks, and then provide high-quality sensed contents. Second, in to encourage crowdsourcers to provide truthful feedbacks about quality of sensed data, in QuaCentive, the verification of those feedbacks are crowdsourced in gamification way. Finally, we theoretically illustrate that QuaCentive satisfies the following properties: individual rationality, cost-truthfulness for crowd, feedback-truthfulness for crowdsourcers, platform profitability.

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  • Message from the IoP 2015 leading chairs

    Qun Jin, Lu Liu, Jianxin Li

    Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015     xl  2016年07月

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  • Modeling and analyzing of Research topic evolution associated with social networks of researchers

    Wei Liang, Zixian Lu, Qun Jin, Yonghua Xiong, Min Wu

    International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies   7 ( 3 ) 42 - 62  2016年07月  [査読有り]

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    Research trends keep evolving along the time with certain trackable patterns. Mining academic literature and discovering the latent research trends evolution is an interesting and important problem. Few of previous studies focusing on academic topic evolution modeling have addressed the temporal topic evolution patterns. In addition, researchers' profile and their social networks are valuable complementary to the research trends tracking. In this study, to analyze the underlying research trends evolution along with the scientific collaborations of researchers, a novel temporal research trends evolution model associated with researchers' social networks is proposed and built. Specifically, the detected research topics are classified into different clusters in each timeslot, and the evolution patterns are deduced among these topic clusters. The effectiveness of our approach is evaluated based on a real academic dataset. The experimental results can help users to discover the major research trends for specific fields. Besides, the tracked statuses of the corresponding scientific groups are helpful for searching research trends or finding collaboration opportunities according to researchers' different requirements.

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  • Energy-efficient localization and tracking on smartphones: Design principle and solutions

    Yufeng Wang, Yuanting Bu, Qun Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series   15-17-   29 - 35  2016年06月  [査読有り]

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    In recent years, various location based services (LBS) have witnessed great development and are being prevalently used in our life. However, as the foundation of various LBS applications, localization consumes large energy of resource-constraint mobile terminals, especially on smartphones. This paper explicitly proposes three technical principles, substitution, adaption and collaboration to guide energy-efficient localization and tracking schemes on smartphones. Then several typical schemes in indoor or outdoor environments are respectively summarized and compared under the umbrella of those three principles. Moreover, the context-Assisting techniques are also discussed to design energy-efficient LBS applications. Finally, the quantitative metrics to measure the tradeoff between energy and localization performance are summarized. The primary goal of this paper is to comprehensively classify and provide a summary on the sporadic localization schemes (with energy-efficiency as main concern), possible solutions and tradeoffs, and facilitate to develop and deploy the energy-efficient LBS applications.

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  • An Integrated Incentive Framework for Mobile Crowdsourced Sensing

    Wei Dai, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   21 ( 2 ) 146 - 156  2016年04月  [査読有り]

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    Currently, mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) are equipped with multiple wireless interfaces and rich built-in functional sensors that possess powerful computation and communication capabilities, and enable numerous Mobile Crowdsourced Sensing (MCS) applications. Generally, an MCS system is composed of three components: a publisher of sensing tasks, crowd participants who complete the crowdsourced tasks for some kinds of rewards, and the crowdsourcing platform that facilitates the interaction between publishers and crowd participants. Incentives are a fundamental issue in MCS. This paper proposes an integrated incentive framework for MCS, which appropriately utilizes three widely used incentive methods: reverse auction, gamification, and reputation updating. Firstly, a reverse-auction-based two-round participant selection mechanism is proposed to incentivize crowds to actively participate and provide high-quality sensing data. Secondly, in order to avoid untruthful publisher feedback about sensing-data quality, a gamification-based verification mechanism is designed to evaluate the truthfulness of the publisher's feedback. Finally, the platform updates the reputation of both participants and publishers based on their corresponding behaviors. This integrated incentive mechanism can motivate participants to provide high-quality sensed contents, stimulate publishers to give truthful feedback, and make the platform profitable.

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  • Special Issue on Mobile Social Networking and computing in Proximity (MSNP)

    Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES   82 ( 1 ) 91 - 92  2016年02月  [査読有り]

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  • Gradually Adaptive Recommendation Based on Semantic Mapping of Users’ Interest Correlations

    J. Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Q. Jin

    International Journal of Communication Systems   29 ( 2 ) 341 - 361  2016年01月  [査読有り]

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  • Gradually adaptive recommendation based on semantic mapping of users interest correlations

    Jian Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS   29 ( 2 ) 341 - 361  2016年01月  [査読有り]

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    In this paper, we propose a gradually adaptive recommendation model based on the combination of both users' commonalities and individualities that depend on the semantic mapping of users' interest correlations. We analyze users' information access behaviors and histories to extract users' interests and trace their transitions. In details, according to a set of bookmark tags classified by a semantic means, the pages accessed by users are assigned into several tag classes, which will finally be clustered into different groups in accordance with the types of interests that belong to two categories: personal and common interests, respectively. Based on the detection of users' interest focus transitions through interactions between users, we provide a series of information seeking actions in sequence to the target users. Besides, according to the reference groups which are defined to describe different relations with the target users, the successful experience is extracted and recommended. After the description of the definitions and measures, the mechanism to infer the interest focus, the system architecture and experimental evaluation results are described and demonstrated. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Security and Privacy Mechanisms for Sensor Middleware and Application in Internet of Things (IoT)

    Namje Park, Hongxin Hu, Qun Jin

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS   2016  2016年  [査読有り]

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  • A Framework of Personal Data Analytics for Well-Being Oriented Life Support

    Seiji Kasuya, Xiaokang Zhou, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    ADVANCED MULTIMEDIA AND UBIQUITOUS ENGINEERING: FUTURE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, VOL 2   354   443 - 449  2016年  [査読有り]

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    Nowadays, we are living in a well-suited social environment with a variety of lifestyles and values. Life support has become important in such a diversified society. Along with continuously collecting the tremendous amount of personal big data generated in the social environment, it is possible for us to provide the life support based on personal data analytics. Moreover, analyzing such a kind of data can facilitate deep understanding of individual life. In this study, we focus on personal data analytics to support well-being oriented life. Three categories of personal data are classified from the collection of individuals' daily life data, and a framework of well-being oriented personal data analysis is proposed, which can provide people with suggestions and advices to improve their living life.

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  • Perspectives on Cyber Science and Technology for Cyberization and Cyber-enabled Worlds

    Jianhua Ma, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Hui-Huang Hsu, Qun Jin, William Liu, Kevin Wang, Yufeng Wang, Xiaokang Zhou

    2016 IEEE 14TH INTL CONF ON DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING, 14TH INTL CONF ON PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING, 2ND INTL CONF ON BIG DATA INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING AND CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS (DASC/PICOM/DATACOM/CYBERSC     1 - 9  2016年  [査読有り]

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    Cyberization, as a new big trend following computerization and informatization, is the process of forming a new cyberworld and transforming our current physical, social and mental worlds into novel cyber-combined worlds. Cyber science, responding to the cyberization trend, aims to create a new collection of knowledge about these cyber-enabled worlds, and provide a way of discovering what is in the cyber-enabled worlds and how they work. Cyber science is concerned with the study of phenomena caused or generated by the cyberworld and cyberphysical, cyber-social and cyber-mental worlds, as well as the complex intertwined integration of cyber physical, social and mental worlds. It fuels advances in cyber technology, beyond the existing cyber related technologies. In this paper, after discussing the cyberization background and process, and explaining cyber science and technology, we present our visions and perspectives on new opportunities, essential issues and major challenges for cyber science and technology. We further describe cyber related technologies and closely related existing research areas, and envision future research directions, in terms of cyber physical, cyber social, cyber life, cyber intelligence and cyber security, which are five basic dimensions of cyber science and technology.

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  • Personal Data Analytics to Facilitate Cyber Individual Modeling

    Xiaokang Zhou, Bo Wu, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Weimin Li, Neil Y. Yen

    2016 IEEE 14TH INTL CONF ON DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING, 14TH INTL CONF ON PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING, 2ND INTL CONF ON BIG DATA INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING AND CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS (DASC/PICOM/DATACOM/CYBERSC     39 - 46  2016年  [査読有り]

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    The high development of emerging computing paradigms, such as Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing, and Social Computing, has brought us a big change from all walks of our work, life, learning and entertainment. Especially, with the high accessibility of social networking services along with the increasingly pervasive use of portable wireless mobile computing devices, more and more populations have been engaged into this kind of integration of real physical world and cyber digital space, which can be called the hyper world. To help people live better in the highly developed information society, the so-called cyber-individual (Cyber-I), which is far beyond a user model or a software agent to assist a user, has been proposed to provide the most comprehensive digital entities for its corresponding Real-I in terms of the individual's experience, behavior, and thinking as well as his or her birth, growth, and death. In this study, we concentrate on the personal data analytics to facilitate the cyber individual modeling. Organic Stream is introduced to systematically organize and refine the personal stream data, which can help improve the data processing and management in the CI-Spine tier and CI-Pivot tier of Cyber-I. The DSUN (Dynamically Socialized User Networking) model is employed to better utilize the collective intelligence from a group of users, which can help improve the CI-Mind tier to make Cyber-I to become more robust. Based on these, we discuss the functional modules for the facilitation of cyber individual modeling. Finally, a scenario is given, and the experimental results are presented to demonstrate that the valuable outcomes from the personal analysis can be utilized to enrich the Cyber-I, and provide users with more suitable services.

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  • Message forwarding strategies in Device-to-Device based mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP)

    Yufeng Wang, Jiabing Chen, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2016 IEEE 14TH INTL CONF ON DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING, 14TH INTL CONF ON PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING, 2ND INTL CONF ON BIG DATA INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING AND CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS (DASC/PICOM/DATACOM/CYBERSC     69 - 74  2016年  [査読有り]

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    Device to Device (D2D) based mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP) has witnessed great development on smartphones. Message forwarding/data routing in MSNP relies on the movement of individuals and their encounter opportunities to relay data to the destination, so-called store-carry-forward (SCF) mode. Due to lacking continuous network connectivity and must handle dynamic topology, message forwarding mechanism in MSNP is challenging. In recent years, exploiting MSNP users' social behaviours to forward message, have drawn tremendous interests. In this paper, we provide the taxonomy of social behaviour-based forwarding strategies, comprehensively summarize and compare various schemes, including location-based and encounter-based (further divided into social property based and community-based) strategies. Location-based strategies forward data to the individuals geographically closer to the destination, while encounter-based strategies forward data to the users more socially active through considering human interactions. Then, we present open issues in MSNP forwarding strategies and their potential solutions. The goal of this work is to provide deep understanding on SCF based message forwarding in MSNP which properly incorporate the individual's social characteristics, and bring new visions to MSNP research and applications.

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  • Overlap Community Detection Based On Node Convergence Degree

    Weimin Li, Shu Jiang, HuaiKou Miao, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    2016 IEEE 14TH INTL CONF ON DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING, 14TH INTL CONF ON PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING, 2ND INTL CONF ON BIG DATA INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING AND CYBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS (DASC/PICOM/DATACOM/CYBERSC     163 - 167  2016年  [査読有り]

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    Community structure is a common feature in real-world network. Overlap community detection is an important method to analyze topology structure and function of the network. Most algorithms are based on the network structure, without considering the node attributes. In this paper, we propose an overlapping community detection algorithm based on node convergence degree which combines the network topology with the node attributes. In our method, PageRank algorithm is used to get the importance of each node in the global network and utilize the local network (local neighbors) to measure the structure convergence degree. Then, node convergence degree combining node attributes and structure convergence degree is designed. Finally, the overlap communities can be identified by the Spectral Cluster based on node convergence degree. Experiments results demonstrate effectiveness and better performance of our method.

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  • Personal Data Analytics for Well-Being Oriented Life Support: Experiment and Feasibility Study

    Seiji Kasuya, Xiaokang Zhou, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    ADVANCES IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES   282   172 - 179  2016年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we concentrate on a feasibility study on personal data analysis for well-being oriented life support. We introduce our basic concept and model to describe the personal data collected from people's daily life, and discuss how to utilize the personal analysis to provide users with the individualized services in their daily lives. Finally, we present the experimental analysis based on people's daily activity data, to demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed approach.

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  • Ubi-Liven: A Human-Centric Safe and Secure Framework of Ubiquitous Living Environments for the Elderly

    Qun Jin, Bo Wu, Shoji Nishimura, Atsushi Ogihara

    2016 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED CLOUD AND BIG DATA (CBD 2016)     304 - 309  2016年  [査読有り]

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    The world has become an aging society with exponentially increasing social security benefit expenditure and nursing care costs. To help solve these issues and challenges, utilization of advanced ICT is highly expected to allow more elderly people to remain independent for their proactive social participation irrespective of age. In this study, we propose a human-centric safe and secure framework of ubiquitous living environments (Ubi-Liven) for the elderly people towards seamless integration of the cyber-enabled ubiquitous holistic living support system with a physical living environment. We further address and discuss the design and technical issues for the implementation of a smart living environment on the fly under the proposed framework, empowered by ubiquitous assistive technologies such as cloud, IoT and big data analytics based on life logs to provide holistic support for the elderly's activities of daily living and healthcare.

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  • A Privacy-Preserving Incentive Scheme for Advertisement Dissemination in Vehicular Social Networks

    Peipei Xiao, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2016 IEEE TRUSTCOM/BIGDATASE/ISPA     1741 - 1746  2016年  [査読有り]

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    Recent years has witnessed a great progress in Vehicular Social Networks (VSNs), which is a particular class of vehicular ad hoc networks, characterized by social aspects and features, including human mobility and rational behaviors. Among various VSN applications, one of the most promising applications is the dissemination of commercial advertisement via car-to-RSU (rode side unit) and car-to-car communication. However, due to non-cooperative behavior of selfish nodes or malicious ones in the real-world scenario, such vehicular advertisement system can't be realized unless proper security and incentive mechanisms are taken into account. In this paper, the privacy concern is addressed by leveraging a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to provide secure incentives for cooperative nodes. The selfishness issue is solved through adopting Topology dependent Reward Mechanisms (TDRM). Preliminary theoretical and simulation results show that, besides incentivizing individuals' participation, the proposed scheme can increase participants' reward through their active contribution and solicitation, and moreover, is robust against users' misbehaviors, especially Sybil-attack.

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  • Dynamic Community Mining and Tracking Based on Temporal Social Network Analysis

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Liang, Bo Wu, Zixian Lu, Shoji Nishimura, Takashi Shinomiya, Qun Jin

    2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CIT)     177 - 182  2016年  [査読有り]

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    Nowadays, the analysis of social networks, as well as the community evolution has become a hotly discussed topic in social computing field. In this paper, we focus on mining and tracking the dynamic communities based on social networking analysis. Based on a generic framework for the dynamic community discovery, a computational approach is developed to extract users' static and dynamic features for the temporal trend detection. A dynamically socialized user networking model is then presented to describe users' various social relationships. A mechanism is proposed and developed to detect the dynamic user communities, and track their evolving changes. Experiments using Twitter data demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in tracking how communities dynamically create, split, and merge from a group of connected people in social media environments.

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  • Energy-Efficient Architecture and Technologies for Device to Device (D2D) Based Proximity Service

    Zhang Bo, Wang Yufeng, Jin Qun, Ma Jianhua

    CHINA COMMUNICATIONS   12 ( 12 ) 32 - 42  2015年12月  [査読有り]

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    Considering that modern mobile terminals possess the capability to detect users' proximity, and offer means to directly communicate and share content with the people in close area, Device-to-Device (D2D) based Proximity Services (Pro Se) have recently witnessed great development, which enable users to seek for and utilize relevant value in their physical proximity, and are capable to create numerous new mobile service opportunities. However, without a breakthrough in battery technology, the energy will be the biggest limitation for ProSe. Through incorporating the features of ProSe (D2D communication technologies, abundant built-in sensors, localization-dependent, and context-aware, etc.), this paper thoroughly investigates the energy-efficient architecture and technologies for ProSe from the following four aspects: underlying networking technology, localization, application and architecture features, context-aware and user interactions. Besides exploring specific energy-efficient schemes pertaining to each aspect, this paper offers a perspective for research and applications. In brief, through classifying, summarizing and optimizing the multiple efforts on studying, modeling and reducing energy consumption for ProSe on mobile devices, the paper would provide guide for developers to build energy-efficient ProSe.

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  • A Pagerank-Inspired Heuristic Scheme for Influence Maximization in Social Networks

    Bo Zhang, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB SERVICES RESEARCH   12 ( 4 ) 48 - 62  2015年10月  [査読有り]

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    This article focused on seeking a new heuristic algorithm for the influence maximization problem in complex social networks, in which a small subset of individuals are intentionally selected as seeds to trigger a large cascade of further adoptions of a new behavior under certain influence cascade models. In literature, degree and other centrality-based heuristics are commonly used to estimate the influential power of individuals in social networks. The major issues with degree-based heuristics are twofold. First, those results are only derived for the uniform IC model, in which propagation probabilities on all social links are set as same, which is rarely the case in reality; Second, intuitively, an individual's influence power depends not only on the number of direct friends, but also relates to kinds of those friends, that is, the neighbors' influence should also be taken into account when measuring one's influential power. Based on the general weighted cascade model (WC), this article proposes Pagerank-inspired heuristic scheme, PRDiscount, which explicitly discounts the influence power of those individuals who have social relationships with chosen seeds, to alleviate the "overlapping effect" occurred in behavior diffusion. Then, the authors use both the artificially constructed social network graphs (with the features of power-law degree distribution and small-world characteristics) and the real-data traces of social networks to verify the performance of their proposal. Simulations illustrate that PRDiscount can advantage over the existing degree-based discount algorithm, Degree Discount, and achieve the comparable performance as greedy algorithm.

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  • HIC 2015 Chairs' welcome

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin

    HIC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Human-centric Independent Computing, co-located with HT 2015     iii  2015年09月

  • Social Recommendation Algorithm Dynamically Adaptable to User Profiling for SNS

    Weimin Li, Yikai Ni, Minye Wu, Zhengbo Ye, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2014 2nd International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2014     261 - 266  2015年08月  [査読有り]

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    With the development of social network services, the user relation spectrum of the social network has exceeded our imagination. Hence, personalized recommendation algorithms are adopted in many social networking sites to help users find their potential friends and related information more quickly and conveniently. In this paper, we discuss the weaknesses of current algorithms, and propose a user profile integrated dynamic social recommendation algorithm in order to overcome those limitations. Finally, through the experiment on Weibo dataset, it can conclude that the proposed algorithm outperforms traditional approaches in terms of accuracy and stability.

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  • Multi-dimensional attributes and measures for dynamical user profiling in social networking environments

    Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Wang, Qun Jin

    MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS   74 ( 14 ) 5015 - 5028  2015年07月  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we concentrate on analyzing and building the dynamical user profiling to describe users' multi-dimensional features and properties, in order to assist the individualized information seeking and recommendation process in social networking environments. A set of user attributes are introduced and defined to describe the basic user profiling in accordance with the analysis of information behaviors, and several centrality based measures are proposed and developed to describe the users' importance and contributions with regards to a group of users based on their social connections in the DSUN (Dynamically Socialized User Networking) model. The experimental results are discussed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed methods.

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  • Participatory information search and recommendation based on social roles and networks

    Bo Wu, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS   74 ( 14 ) 5173 - 5188  2015年07月  [査読有り]

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    With the increasing popularity of social network services, a tremendous amount of information has been produced. And with more and more users involving in the SNS environment, their network relationships have become as complex as in the real world. In order to find out the useful information more efficiently, in this study, we propose a participatory search and recommendation system based on users' social roles and their relationships in the SNS environment. The proposed system is used to filter users and their messages in a participatory way by analyzing their social roles and connection networks between each user, which can further contribute to personalized information search and recommendation. We describe the design and implementation issues of a prototype system, and discuss how to use the social roles and connection networks to support and empower information search and recommendation.

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  • Personalized fitting recommendation based on support vector regression

    Weimin Li, Xunfeng Li, Mengke Yao, Jiulei Jiang, Qun Jin

    HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES   5 ( 1 )  2015年07月  [査読有り]

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    Collaborative filtering (CF) is a popular method for the personalized recommendation. Almost all of the existing CF methods rely only on the rating data while ignoring some important implicit information in non-rating properties for users and items, which has a significant impact on the preference. In this study, considering that the average rating of users and items has a certain stability, we firstly propose a personalized fitting pattern to predict missing ratings based on the similarity score set, which combines both the user-based and item-based CF. In order to further reduce the prediction error, we use the non-rating attributes, such as a user's age, gender and occupation, and an item's release date and price. Moreover, we present the deviation adjustment method based on the support vector regression. Experimental results on MovieLens dataset show that our proposed algorithms can increase the accuracy of recommendation versus the traditional CF.

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  • Special Issue on "Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)" PREFACE

    Hung Jason C, Shih Timothy K, Jin Qun

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES   13 ( 3 ) IV - VI  2015年07月  [査読有り]

  • Intelligent state machine for social ad hoc data management and reuse

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Joseph C. Tsai, James J. Park

    MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS   74 ( 10 ) 3521 - 3541  2015年05月  [査読有り]

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    Recent advances in information technology have turned out World Wide Web to be the main platform for interactions where participants-users and corresponding events-are triggered. Although the participants vary in accordance with scenarios, a considerable size of data will be generated. This phenomenon indeed causes the complexity in information retrieval, management, and resuse, and meanwhile, turns down the value of this data. In this research, we attempt to achieve efficient management of user-generated data and its derivative contexts (i.e., social ad hoc data) for human supports. The correlations among data, contexts, and their hybridization are specifically concentrated. An intelligent state machine is proposed to outline the relations of data and contexts, and applied to further identify their usage scenarios. The performance and feasibility can be revealed by the experiments that were conducted on the data collected from open social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in the past few years with size around 500 users and 8,000,000 shared contents from them.

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  • Privacy protection for lbs in mobile environments: Progresses, issues and challenges

    Julong Pan, Zhengwei Zuo, Zhanyi Xu, Qun Jin

    International Journal of Security and its Applications   9 ( 1 ) 249 - 258  2015年  [査読有り]

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    In recent years, mainly driven by the availability of modern mobile devices with cheap integrated position sensors, location based services (LBS) have become more and more popular. Prominent examples are nearest friends finding in mobile social networks and the points of interest finders such as the nearest gas stations, hospitals, or places of interests etc. However, the users' privacy information such as location is threatened, when users enjoy the convenience and effectiveness provided by such location services. Therefore, how to secure users' privacy information must be taken into consideration. Many different approaches have been proposed to protect users' identity, location and so on. This paper reviews and analyzes existing privacy protection research works from an integrated perspective, gives the LBS category from two views, and discusses the challenges of securing privacy information. Lastly, our suggestions for future research works are presented.

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  • LIP3: A Lightweighted Fine-Grained Privacy-Preserving Profile Matching Mechanism for Mobile Social Networks in Proximity

    Yufeng Wang, Xiaohong Chen, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING, ICA3PP 2015   9532   166 - 176  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, Device to Device (D2D) based mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP) has witnessed great development on smartphones, which enable actively/passively and continuously seek for relevant value in one's physical proximity, through direct communicating with other individuals within the communication range, without the support of centralized networking infrastructure. Specially, a user would like to find out and interact with some strangers with similar interest in vicinity through profile matching. However, in matching process, individuals always have to reveal their personal and private profiles to strangers, which conflicts with users' growing privacy concerns. To achieve privacy preserving profile matching (i.e., friend discovery), many schemes are proposed based on homomorphic and commutative encryption, which bring tremendous computation and communication overheads, and are not practical for the resource limited mobile devices in MSNP. In this paper we adapt Confusion Matrix Transformation (CMT) method to design a Lightweighted fIne-grained Privacy-Preserving Profile matching mechanism, LIP3, which can not only efficiently realize privacy-preserving profile matching, but obtain the strict measurement of cosine similarity between individuals, while other existing CMT-based schemes can only roughly estimate the matching value.

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  • Personalized Micro-Learning Support Based on Process Mining

    Jian Chen, Yueqin Zhang, Jingyu Sun, Yongle Chen, Fuping Lin, Qun Jin

    2015 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE AND EDUCATION (ITME)     511 - 515  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Micro-Learning is a new leaning paradigm based on microblogging, e-mail or SMS, in which an integral learning resource consists of a series of micro learning units that are dispersed via the services of Internet, and can be used to help users learn at anywhere with a short-term. But the problem is that most of the micro learning units are disorganized. Therefore, it is a critical issue how to organize these micro learning units, in order to make them easier to be used and learned. In this study, we propose an approach based on process mining to organize the learning units according to the situation of users. Firstly, the successful micro-learning processes are extracted from the access logs. And then, the learning process map named navigation map is created based on the domain knowledge and the access sequence of users. Secondly, according to the similarity of access behavior, a reference user group is extracted dynamically for a target user. Based on the dynamic Bayesian network, the navigation map is then used to calculate the posterior probabilities of learning units. Finally, on the basis of posterior probabilities, a learning unit can be recommended for the target user to learn as the next step. The results are provided to the target user gradually, until the target user finish the whole course by the guide of learning process at his/her fragmented time.

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  • Service Discovery Based on Trustworthiness in MSNP: Major Issues, Potential Solutions, and Feasible Strategies

    Xixi Ma, Qun Jin, Julong Pan, Yufeng Wang

    2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY/SOCIALCOM/SUSTAINCOM (SMARTCITY)     315 - 320  2015年  [査読有り]

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    With the popularity of mobile Internet, smart phones and location-based services, Mobile Social Network in Proximity (MSNP) has attracted more and more attentions, for which trustworthy service discovery and its associated latency are two important issues. In this paper, after overviewing MSNP and trustworthiness for service discovery in MSNP, we discuss the major issues and potential solutions of trustworthy service discovery. We present trustworthiness determination strategies based on service provider candidates' past experience and current profile analysis to reduce the latency caused by trustworthiness computation for trustworthy service discovery in MSNP.

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  • HYChat: A hybrid interactive chat system for mobile social networking in proximity

    Jinhang Zuo, Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY/SOCIALCOM/SUSTAINCOM (SMARTCITY)     471 - 477  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, mobile social networks in proximity (MSNP) has gained tremendous attentions, which explicitly explores the physical proximity of individuals, and greatly facilitates their face-to-face interactions through direct communications. Generally, Proximity awareness can be enabled with two methodologies: Over-The-Top (OTT), in which the centralized server determines the proximity based on users' location updates and interests, and intermediate the interactions between proximal users; Device-to-Device (D2D), which allows two devices in radio range to discovery and communicate directly. This paper designs and implements a novel hybrid interactive chatting system, HYChat, which integrates the merits of both methodologies: simultaneously support direct interaction through WiFi Direct when individuals are within each other's radio range; when detecting two devices are out of range of WiFi Direct (e.g., due to individual's movement), it will switch to online OTT mode automatically to continue the interactive chat. Specifically, two key challenges in HYChat are preliminarily solved in this paper: profile matching prior to establishing connection among devices (i.e., layer 2 profile matching), and the smooth switching between D2D and OTT modes. The prototype of HYChat on Android phones illustrates its effectiveness. In brief, the hybrid system HYChat could greatly facilitate individuals' social interaction in physical proximity.

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  • A Temporal Model of Research Work Tracking and Assessing for an Individual and a Group

    Wei Liang, Zixian Lu, Qun Jin, Yonghua Xiong, Min Wu

    2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY/SOCIALCOM/SUSTAINCOM (SMARTCITY)     440 - 445  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Although there are many research works focused on scientific community discovery and researcher profiling, it is still a challenge to track and assess the research development for an individual researcher or a research group over time. In this study, we seek to model and quantify an individual's research work outcome during his/her research career. A temporal tracking model is introduced to represent research development for both an individual and a group along the time. Furthermore, assessing measures are proposed to depict how to quantify a research group's outcomes by its members' contribution. Based on our model, a research topic analyzing approach is proposed to extract the topics covered by a group and discover the group's research pattern. The analyzed output is helpful for a researcher to pursue his/her scientific life or find collaboration opportunities.

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  • Open Learning Platform Based on Personal and Social Analytics for Individualized Learning Support

    Xiaokang Zhou, Bo Wu, Qun Jin

    IEEE 12TH INT CONF UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE & COMP/IEEE 12TH INT CONF ADV & TRUSTED COMP/IEEE 15TH INT CONF SCALABLE COMP & COMMUN/IEEE INT CONF CLOUD & BIG DATA COMP/IEEE INT CONF INTERNET PEOPLE AND ASSOCIATED SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS     1741 - 1745  2015年  [査読有り]

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    With the help of several emerging computing paradigms, such as Ubiquitous Computing, Social Computing, and Mobile Computing, OLP (Open Learning Process) has become an important research issue in the online learning environment. It becomes possible to share the learning process related information in and cross systems to meet the needs of all stakeholders, such as teachers, learners and managers. In this study, we focus on the OLP in the social learning environment based on the personal and social analytics, which can provide users with the process-oriented learning support. We present a data processing framework to collect, analyze, and organize the learning-related data in a user-centric way. Three important issues regarding to the unified data management, socialized learning analytics, and sharable open learning process are discussed towards the process-oriented learning innovation. Based on these, an open learning platform is proposed and designed to provide users with the individualized support in the collaborative learning process.

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  • Modeling of research topic evolution associated with social networks of researchers

    Wei Liang, Zixian Lu, Qun Jin, Yonghua Xiong, Min Wu

    IEEE 12TH INT CONF UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE & COMP/IEEE 12TH INT CONF ADV & TRUSTED COMP/IEEE 15TH INT CONF SCALABLE COMP & COMMUN/IEEE INT CONF CLOUD & BIG DATA COMP/IEEE INT CONF INTERNET PEOPLE AND ASSOCIATED SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS     1169 - 1174  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Understanding research topic evolution in a specific field is important to learn the temporal structure and latent research trends. Although research works in terms of topic analysis have been developed for many years, it is still difficult to well understand the topic evolution due to the limitation of the bibliographical data which does not consider the researchers' profiles and their social networks. In this study, to analyze the underlying research topic evolution and facilitate the scientific collaborations for researchers, a novel topic evolution model based on the analysis of researchers' social networks is built. Specifically, the researchers' co-authorships associated with their latent social networks are analyzed. A research topic tracking method is then developed to track the topic evolutions and analyze the research lifecycle for the latent scientific teams. The derived results can help users to discover the major research trends for specific fields. And the tracked statuses of the corresponding scientific groups are illustrated in different lifecycle stages, which is useful for the search of research trends or finding of collaboration opportunity according to researchers' different requirements.

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  • BWMesh: a multi-hop connectivity framework on Android for proximity service

    Yufeng Wang, Jing Tang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    IEEE 12TH INT CONF UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE & COMP/IEEE 12TH INT CONF ADV & TRUSTED COMP/IEEE 15TH INT CONF SCALABLE COMP & COMMUN/IEEE INT CONF CLOUD & BIG DATA COMP/IEEE INT CONF INTERNET PEOPLE AND ASSOCIATED SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS     278 - 283  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Considering the inherent properties of privacy protection and battery efficiency, Device-to-Device (D2D) based proximity service (ProSe) has recently witnessed great development, which enable user to continuously and passively search for and utilize relevant value in one's physical proximity, and is capable to create numerous new mobile service opportunities. However, most of existing ProSe enabled frameworks and applications only provide single-hop Peer-to-Peer connection, lack of easily supporting simultaneous and multi-hop connection on commercially available smartphones to broaden ProSe coverage in static scenario. To solve this issue, this paper proposes a multi-hop connectivity framework BWMesh, through combining Bluetooth and WiFi Direct technologies. BWMesh possesses two special features: exploit users' heterogeneous network and enable smooth interaction among devices with different wireless technologies; provide an easy-to-deploy multi-hop networking framework on currently commercial available smartphones. Specifically, we identify several key issues in multi-hop connectivity framework, design and implement corresponding components to deal with those issues. Then, a prototype MultiChat, is developed based on BWMesh framework, which enables real-time chat among users in proximity, in multi-hop way, without accessing to Internet.

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  • Mobile crowdsourcing: architecture, applications, and challenges

    Yufeng Wang, Xueyu Jia, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    IEEE 12TH INT CONF UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE & COMP/IEEE 12TH INT CONF ADV & TRUSTED COMP/IEEE 15TH INT CONF SCALABLE COMP & COMMUN/IEEE INT CONF CLOUD & BIG DATA COMP/IEEE INT CONF INTERNET PEOPLE AND ASSOCIATED SYMPOSIA/WORKSHOPS     1127 - 1132  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Crowdsourcing is the generalized act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by employees or contractors, to a large group of Internet population (the wise crowd) by means of an open call. With the great development of smartphones with rich built-in sensors and ratio interfaces, mixing smartphone-based mobile technologies and crowdsourcing offers vast computing resources, and leads to a new paradigm called Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS). In this paper, we presents a taxonomy for the MCS applications, which are explicitly divided as using human as sensors, and exploiting the wisdom of crowd, and typical applications are summarized and compared. Then, a generic MCS framework is proposed, which consists of multiple functional modules. Finally, we elaborate the challenges in MCS applications (i.e., quality control, task management, incentives, as well as security and privacy), and summarize potential solutions. Our main contribution is to classify and provide a summary MCS framework, challenges and possible solutions to facilitate to develop and deploy various MCS applications.

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  • Associative Recommendation of Learning Contents Aided by Eye-Tracking in a Social Media Enhanced Environment

    Guangyu Piao, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING APPLICATION AND WIRELESS SENSOR   331   493 - 501  2015年  [査読有り]

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    In this paper, an approach to presenting the learning resources, especially those existing user-generated contents associated with learners' activities, as the recommendation to satisfy their current requirements in a social media enhanced learning system, is proposed. Users' attentions are caught and analyzed from the browsing behaviors of learners on a webpage through an eye-tracking device.

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  • A Heuristic Scheduling Approach to Hybrid Makepsan Problem for Data Intensive Computing

    Wei Liang, Yonghua Xiong, Min Wu, Qun Jin

    2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY/SOCIALCOM/SUSTAINCOM (SMARTCITY)     932 - 937  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Data intensive computing (DIC) offers an attractive option for business to remotely execute applications and load the computing resources from cloud in a streaming way. A key challenge in such environment is to increase the utilization of cloud cluster for the high throughput processing. One way of achieving this goal is to optimize the execution of computing jobs on the cluster. We observe that the order in which these jobs are executed can have a significant impact on their overall completion time (makespan). Our goal is to design a job scheduler that minimizes the makespan. In this study, a new formalization is introduced to present each job as a pair of disk processing and network transmitting two-stage durations. Due to the streaming processing feature, the two-stage operations are executed in an overlap manner and may lead to both one-stage and two-stage scheduling situations. A novel heuristic scheduling strategy is proposed for this hybrid scheduling problem, and the performance of the method is confirmed by the experimental evaluation.

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  • Strategic management advanced service for sustainable computing environment

    Sang Soo Yeo, Qun Jin, Vincenzo Loia, Hangbae Chang

    Scientific World Journal   2015  2015年

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  • Organic streams a unified framework for personal big data integration and organization towards social sharing and individualized sustainable use

    Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Big Data: Algorithms, Analytics, and Applications     241 - 255  2015年01月

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    This chapter describes a unified framework for dynamically integrating and meaningfully organizing personal and social Big Data. With the rapid development of emerging computing paradigms, we have been continuously experiencing a change in work, life, playing, and learning in the highly developed information society, which is a kind of seamless integration of the real physical world and cyber digital space. More and more people have been accustomed to sharing their personal contents across the social networks due to the high accessibility of social media along with the increasingly widespread adoption of wireless mobile computing devices. User-generated information has spread more widely and quickly and provided people with opportunities to obtain more knowledge and information than ever before, which leads to an explosive increase of data scale, containing big potential value for individual, business, domestic, and national economy development. Thus, it has become an increasingly important issue to sustainably manage and utilize personal Big Data, in order to mine useful insight and real value to better support information seeking and knowledge discovery. To deal with this situation in the Big Data era, a unified approach to aggregation and integration of personal Big Data from life logs in accordance with individual needs is considered essential and effective, which can benefit the sustainable information sharing and utilization process in the social networking environment. In this chapter, a new concept of organic stream, which is designed as a flexibly extensible data carrier, is introduced and defined to provide a simple but efficient means to formulate, organize, and represent personal Big Data. As an abstract data type, organic streams can be regarded as a logic metaphor, which aims to meaningfully process the raw stream data into an associatively and methodically organized form, but no concrete implementation for physical data structure and stor­age is defined. Under the conceptual model of organic streams, a heuristic method is proposed and applied to extract diversified individual needs from the tremendous amount of social stream data through social media. And an integrated mechanism is developed to aggregate and integrate the relevant data together based on individual needs in a meaningful way, in which personal data can be physically stored and distributed in private personal clouds and logically represented and processed by a set of newly introduced metaphors named heuristic stone, associative drop, and associative ripple the architecture of the system with the foundational modules is described, and the prototype implementation with the experiment’s result is presented to demonstrate the usability and effectiveness of the framework and system.

  • Message from SocialCom 2015 general chairs

    Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih

    Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City, SmartCity 2015, Held Jointly with 8th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2015, 5th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2015, 2015 International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, DataCom 2015, 5th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing, SC2 2015     xxx  2015年  [査読有り]

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  • Social network recommendation based on hybrid suffix tree clustering

    Jianhao Zhang, Xun Ma, Weimin Li, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   330   47 - 53  2015年  [査読有り]

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    Comparing to the ordinary text analysis and recommendation, the contents on Social Network Services (SNS) are observably more distinct and less redundant. Content-based recommendation has become the main method on SNSs. Because the limited contents are occurred in SNSs, a considerable effect can’t be reached by using ordinary cluster algorithms. In this paper, we propose a two-phase hybrid clustering algorithm based on Suffix Tree Clustering (STC), which not only uses the words themselves, but relations between them as well. Evaluation experiment and analysis confirm that our techniques have better recommendation results and effects on cold-start scenarios.

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  • Message from the FiSTA 2014 workshop organizers

    Bernady O. Apduhan, Rafael Santos, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2014     xxii  2014年12月  [査読有り]

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  • On studying business models in mobile social networks based on two-sided market (TSM)

    Yufeng Wang, Jing Tang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING   70 ( 3 ) 1297 - 1317  2014年12月  [査読有り]

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    In contrast to the huge popularity of Mobile Social Network (MSN) services, not sufficient attention has been reserved to the dynamics of revenue streams and business models in MSN. In this paper, we investigate how a two-sided market (TSM) formulation can be used to provide insight for the problem above from the perspective of MSN platform. Intuitively, MSN service platform could be described as a two-sided market, in which the critical feature is indirect value flow (indirect network externality): one/both sides of the market benefit from increasing adoption and/or consumption of the other side. For instance, participants, like consumers and the third service providers (or advertisers), are the "two sides" of MSN platform. In this paper, our contributions are threefold. First, we thoroughly characterize the economic features of MSN as TSM, including mobility, network externalities and herd effect, as well as long tail property. Second, we provide the various revenue streams within the framework of TSM, including advertising, subscription, and transactions, and characterize the basic components of general business model in MSN. Finally, the free plus premium (Freemium) business model in MSN is formally analyzed. Specifically, we quantitatively characterize the relationship of participation levels among free and premium users as well as service providers, and illustrate the mutual enhancement among those participants. And moreover, Freemium is theoretically compared with the traditional business model with no free users (NF model). The numerical results show that, in Freemium, the participation levels of premium users and service providers, as well as the profit of MSN platform always exceed the corresponding terms in NF model.

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  • Recommendation of location-based services based on composite measures of trust degree

    Weimin Li, Mengke Yao, Xiaokang Zhou, Shoji Nishimura, Qun Jin

    JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING   69 ( 3 ) 1154 - 1165  2014年09月  [査読有り]

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    As more and more users use the mobile terminals of high computing power, the location-based services (LBS) recommendations for mobile users have become an important and interesting topic. Mobile users are eager to get their interested and reliable services quickly. A considerable number of research works have been dedicated to service recommendation based on users' preferences and locations. In this paper, we study the credibility of recommended services, and propose a set of composite measures on how to provide more reliable services. We further propose the trustworthy Skyline of LBS recommendation in terms of the trust degree based on the newly introduced composite measures to achieve more credibility to provide recommendation services. Experimental results show that our method can recommend desired and trusted services to users.

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  • Survey on mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP): approaches, challenges and architecture

    Yufeng Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    WIRELESS NETWORKS   20 ( 6 ) 1295 - 1311  2014年08月  [査読有り]

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    Recently, mobile social networks (MSN) have gained tremendous attention, which free users from face-to-monitor life, while still can share information and stay in touch with their friends on the go. However most MSN applications regard mobile terminals just as entry points to existing social networks, in which centralized servers (for storage and processing of all application/context data) and continual Internet connectivity are prerequisites for mobile users to exploit MSN services, even though they are within proximity area (like campus, event spot, and community, etc.), and can directly exchange data through various wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi Direct, etc.). In this paper, we focus on mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP), which is explicitly defined in our paper as: MSNP is wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network of spontaneously and opportunistically connected nodes, and uses geo-proximity as the primary filter in determining who is discoverable on the social network. In this paper, first, primary support approaches related to MSNP available in literature, are summarized and compared, including MSN, mobile P2P and opportunistic networks. And then, we offer the special characteristics of MSNP, open issues and potential solutions. A networking technologies and platform independent architecture is proposed for developing MSNP applications, and proof-of-concept implementation of WiFi direct based MSNP application is also provided. Our primary goal is to identify the characteristics, technical challenges and potential solutions for future MSNP applications, capable to flexibly adapt to different application domains and deployment requirements.

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  • Special Issue on "Hybrid intelligence for growing internet and its applications" Preface

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Qiangfu Zhao

    FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING AND ESCIENCE   37   401 - 403  2014年07月  [査読有り]

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    The 2014 Special Issue of Future Generation Computer Systems is based on 'Hybrid intelligence for growing Internet and its applications'. The first paper highlights the growing needs of healthcare service provision for the elderly under a matured cloud-based environment. It particularly considers the issue in geriatric healthcare in non-adherence to medication regimens especially among those elderly patients who live alone. Another paper discusses the issues of scalable computing and storage capability in a cloud-empowered Internet environment. Integrating QoS awareness towards better requirement of user application development and interference reduction of virtual machine in a cloud-based system is particularly concentrated. Another paper places the emphasis on mining and annotating a semantic relation between data entities on the Internet with temporal, concise, and structured information.

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  • Probability Modeling and Functional Validation of Dynamic Service Composition for Location Based Services with Uncertain Factors

    Weimin Li, Zhengbo Ye, Xiaohua Zhao, Jiulei Jiang, Qun Jin

    JOURNAL OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGY   15 ( 4 ) 635 - 643  2014年07月  [査読有り]

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    In the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, real-time servers run with many uncertain factors. The modeling and validation for the dynamic service composition of location based services (LBS) in the IoT environment are essential, but it is difficult to consider these uncertain factors. In this paper, after analyzing the advantage and shortage of traditional modeling methods, with the introduction of probability, we propose a Color Probability-TCPN (CP-TCPN) by using the tokens with specific colors. The analysis and functional validation methods based on CP-TCPN are proposed and described. After using it to model and analyze the LBS based in the IoT environment, we demonstrate the result which indicates the CP-TCPN based approach can satisfy the modeling and analysis of the IoT based real-time system with uncertain factors.

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  • Process-Focused Social Learning Analytics Based on Personal Big Data for Cross-MOOCs Open Environments

    Q. Jin, X. Zhou, B. Wu, J. Chen, J. Pan, W. Zheng

    (Poster) Intel‐CSU Transparent Computing and Big Data Summit    2014年07月

  • Special section on human-centric computing Preface

    Qun Jin, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Changhoon Lee

    INFORMATION SCIENCES   257   229 - 230  2014年02月  [査読有り]

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  • A malicious behavior analysis based Cyber-I birth

    Jie Wen, Jianhua Ma, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin, Jian Chen, Benxiong Huang, Ning Zhong

    JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING   25 ( 1 ) 147 - 155  2014年02月  [査読有り]

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    Cyber-Individual (Cyber-I) is the digital counterpart of an individual in the real world, which aims at systematically studying and developing comprehensive individual human modeling and its associated applications. The ultimate goal of this research is to create a digital clone for each individual and to provide active desirable services. We present a part of our research work focusing on examining the basic system architecture and the birth process of Cyber-I from a security perspective. In this study, a customized honeypot is used to record multidimensional data Cyber-I is constructed for a corresponding invader. Further, assembling a Cyber-I with associated CI-Applications enables aninvader having more behaviors in the honeypot and provides a possible chance to prolong activities of the invader, which complements a loop mechanism to feed Cyber-I for its growth. The preliminary result in this paper reveals that appropriate authorization and controls are extremely necessary to prevent Cyber-I from being maliciously used and to ensure privacy of its real individual in building an open Cyber-I platform.

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  • User Attribute Analysis for Dynamical User Profiling in Social Networking Environments

    X. Zhou, Q. Jin

    Proc. AIM2014 (The 4th FTRA International Conference on Advanced IT, Engineering and Management)    2014年02月  [査読有り]

  • Personalized Fitting with Deviation Adjustment Based on Support Vector Regression for Recommendation

    Weimin Li, Mengke Yao, Qun Jin

    MULTIMEDIA AND UBIQUITOUS ENGINEERING   308   173 - 178  2014年  [査読有り]

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    Almost all of the existing Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods rely only on the rating data while ignoring some important implicit information in non-rating properties for users and items, which have a significant impact on the preference. In this study, considering that the average rating of users and items have a certain stability, we firstly propose a personalized fitting pattern to predict missing ratings based on the trusty score set, which combines both the user-based CF and item-based CF. In order to further reduce the prediction error, we use the non-rating attributes, such as a user's age, gender and occupation, and an item's release date and price. Moreover, we present the deviation adjustment method based on the Support Vector Regression (SVR). Experiment results show that our proposed algorithms can increase the accuracy of recommendation versus the traditional CF.

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  • Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Social Roles for Collective Decision-Making Support

    Bo Wu, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin, Fuhua Lin, Henry Leung

    2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CIT)     490 - 495  2014年  [査読有り]

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    With the popularity of Social Network Service (SNS) and the increasing of users, individuals' social roles in a social network have become more and more important in recommendation of the personalized services, and in a collective decision-making process as well. In an SNS system, active users may not represent the major opinions among the whole users, and most of the users' opinions may be multifarious. In this study, we consider users' social roles as an important element to support the collective decision-making process. After introducing the social choice theories and collective decision-making model, we present a three-layer model to analyze users' social roles in a hierarchical way, and utilize it to support the collective decision-making process. A case study for COD (Course-Offering Determination) with an application scenario is demonstrated to show the process of how users' social roles are utilized to support the collective decision-making.

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  • A Wi-Fi Direct based P2P application prototype for mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP)

    Yufeng Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2014 IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING (DASC)/2014 IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING (EMBEDDEDCOM)/2014 IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONF ON PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING (PICOM)     283 - +  2014年  [査読有り]

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    Nowadays, most popular social networking services adopt centralized architecture, in which continual Internet connectivity is prerequisite for each user to exploit those services, and centralized servers are used for storage and processing of all application/context data, even though mobile users are within proximity area (like campus, event spot, and community), and can directly exchange media through various wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Direct, etc.). On one hand, the omniscient centralized server may cause serious privacy concern, due to the fact that it collects and stores all users' data (messages, profiles, location, relations, etc.); On the other hand, transmitting a large amount of media generated by users in proximity through Internet, would not only bring a lot of pressure to the network infrastructure and service provider, but incur heavy data traffic cost to users. In this paper, our contributions are twofold. First, we propose a Wi-Fi Direct based P2P social networking framework, which enables direct data exchange among users without using infrastructure network when users are located in proximity, and provide solutions to two core problems in this framework, i.e., discoverability and privacy. Second, the prototype of this framework is preliminarily implemented in Android, which is composed of the following functions: localization based on Google Geocoding, Chat, and file-sharing component supporting intermittent transmission.

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  • A Management System for Cyber Individuals and Heterogeneous Data

    Jun Ren, Jianhua Ma, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin, Zhigang Chen

    2014 IEEE 11TH INTL CONF ON UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING AND 2014 IEEE 11TH INTL CONF ON AUTONOMIC AND TRUSTED COMPUTING AND 2014 IEEE 14TH INTL CONF ON SCALABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS     88 - 95  2014年  [査読有り]

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    The progressive development of information and communication technologies has led us to a new world called hyper world that is composed by the cyber world and the physical world, which, at the same time, brings us the digital explosions of data and connectivity as well as all kinds of smart services. Based on these, Cyber-I was proposed, which aims at creating a unique, digital, comprehensive description for every real person so that the possibility for the person being in the cyber world to get lost in the digital explosions will be reduced. However, the ultimate goal of realizing such Cyber-I needs an endless research process, which will cover multiple areas and disciplines. In order to merge efforts on the study of Cyber-I together as well as provide people with better services utilizing Cyber-I, this paper presents our research and development on a Cyber-I oriented management system where (1) the life cycle of Cyber-I including its birth, growth and death is simulated, (2) with the NO-SQL properties supported by Mongo DB, heterogeneous personal data coming from disparate sources with different formats through varied media can be managed in a scalable way, and (3) apps connected with the Cyber-I can not only fetch personal data but also provide personalized services, while the collected personal data can be used to generate user models from different aspects.

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  • Alljoyn based direct proximity service development: overview and prototype

    Yufeng Wang, Li Wei, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2014 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)     634 - 641  2014年  [査読有り]

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    Proximity awareness, the ability to actively (or passively) and continuously search for relevant value in one's physical proximity, is at the core of mobile revolution that is changing the way we interact with people and things around us. Especially, Device-to-Device (D2D) (peer-to-peer (P2P)) solutions support infrastructure-free and self-organized proximity services, and have great commercial potential from application viewpoint. However, astonishingly, the glaring absence of the practical and easy-to-use proximity service development framework is alarming. This paper aims at investigating the Qualcomm AllJoyn middleware, an open source peer-to-peer software development framework for ad-hoc proximity based D2D communication, and exploring how this middleware can enable the development of distributed application in mobile social networks in proximity (MSNP). Specifically, we thoroughly overview the core concepts and basic components in AllJoyn framework, and summarize the typical workflow of developing AllJoyn based proximity application. Furthermore, an AllJoyn based MSNP prototype, AllChat, is designed and implemented, in which users can enjoy text chat and photo sharing with both group and peer interaction modes in real time.

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  • Social Stream Organization Based on User Role Analysis for Participatory Information Recommendation

    Xiaokang Zhou, Bo Wu, Qun Jin, Shoji Nishimura, Julong Pan, Wenbin Zheng, Jianhua Ma

    2014 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBI-MEDIA COMPUTING AND WORKSHOPS (UMEDIA)     105 - 110  2014年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we propose an integrated approach to organize and refine the social streams in accordance with the analysis of both social data and social roles within a social group. The social stream data will be first collected and organized based on users' individual needs. After the calculation and analysis of users' importance based on the identification and classification of users' dynamical social roles within a user group, a mechanism is developed to organize and refine social streams and further provide users with more suitable and useful information that best fits their needs from more related users, in order to better assist the participatory information search and recommendation process in the social networking environment.

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  • Message from the ITME 2013 general chairs

    Yongnian Liu, Xiaohong Jiang, James J. Park, Qun Jin, Hong Liu

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   269  2014年

  • Preface

    Qun Jin, Jason C. Hung

    International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering   9 ( 3 ) 153 - 154  2014年

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  • A progressive approach for cross-browser web data generation

    Jin Zhu, Yoshiyori Urano, Hidenori Nakazato, Qun Jin

    International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering   9 ( 3 ) 235 - 246  2014年

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    A layout engine combines markup language (HTML, etc.) with formatting information (CSS, etc.), and displays the combined contents on the screen. It is commonly used for many existing web development applications and web browsers. Especially, web development applications use layout engine to confirm the impact on the layout of web editing results to achieve what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG). At present, different layout engines are adopted by various web development applications and web browsers. As there is not a uniform algorithm adopted by layout engine, the results displayed by web development applications are not necessarily consistent with the display on the web browsers. In addition, the results displayed by web development applications depend on layout engines. Hence, it is difficult to edit the common web contents since it cannot objectively reflect the result on web browsers. In this paper, we propose a progressive WYSIWYG solution, by completely separating web layout design from web data editing to generate cross-browser web data. Our proposed approach does not use layout engine, and thus can avoid the disadvantages mentioned above.© 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

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  • A probabilistic timing constraint modeling and functional validation approach to dynamic service composition for LBS

    Weimin Li, Xiaohua Zhao, Jiulei Jiang, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   274   501 - 508  2014年  [査読有り]

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    Location Based Services (LBS) is a kind of real-time service with uncertain factors, and its modeling and validation is essential. In this paper, with the introduction of probability, we propose a Color Probability-TCPN (CP-TCPN) by using the tokens with specific colors as the research objects and redefining several relative parameters. We use CP-TCPN to realize modeling and functional verification of the dynamic services composition for LBS. Simulation result is presented to illustrate the application of CP-TCPN in the modeling and analyzing of the real-time system with uncertain factors. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.

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  • An integrated recommendation approach based on influence and trust in social networks

    Weimin Li, Zhengbo Ye, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   309   83 - 89  2014年  [査読有り]

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    In real human society, influence on each other is an important factor in a variety of social activities. It is obviously important for recommendation. However, the influence factor is rarely taken into account in traditional recommendation algorithms. In this study, we propose an integrated approach for recommendation by analyzing and mining social data and introducing a set of new measures for user influence and social trust. Our experimental results show that our proposed approach outperforms traditional recommendation in terms of accuracy and stability. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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  • Capturing unselfconscious information seeking behavior by analyzing gaze patterns via eye tracking experiments

    Guangyu Piao, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin, Shoji Nishimura

    2013 IEEE Conference Anthology, ANTHOLOGY 2013    2014年  [査読有り]

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    In recent years, eye tracking has been widely applied in a variety of fields, such as web usability studies and psychological experiments. To develop a personalized system or network service, it is important to recognize and capture users' needs, situations and contexts in order to create an effective user model. In this paper, we present an integrated approach on how to capture users' unselfconscious information seeking behavior by analyzing their gaze patterns using an eye tracker. We describe the design of an eye tracking experiment, and analyze the eye tracking data to extract gaze patterns, which can be used for use modeling. We further discuss the experiment result and highlight our future work. © 2013 IEEE.

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  • Blended learning support with social media empowered by ubiquitous personal study

    Xiaokang Zhou, Haifeng Man, Hong Chen, Yan Wu, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   7697   130 - 139  2014年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, learning support in a blended learning environment integrated with social media is concentrated on. A method is proposed to integrate the S-UPS (Socialized Ubiquitous Personal Study), which is utilized to collect and manage social stream data, into a blended learning system so as to combine the best aspects of both face-to-face and online instructions for the improvement of learning efficiency and enrichment of learning experience. Based on these, an empirical study is conducted to show the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed method. Experimental evaluation analysis of the system reveals the enhancement of learning process in the blended learning environment. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Analysis of sharable learning processes and action patterns for adaptive learning support

    Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   8613   173 - 178  2014年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we focus on the deep analysis of the learning behavior patterns in the task-oriented learning process, which aims to extract and describe the sharable learning processes for adaptive learning support. The LA-Patterns are extracted to represent an individual's learning behavior patterns. Three categories, named Regular Patterns, Successive Patterns, and Frequent Patterns, are classified to describe users' learning patterns with different features, which can be utilized to recommend users with the adaptive learning process as the learning guidance. The experiment and analysis results in a learning management system are discussed finally. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.

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  • Recommendation of optimized information seeking process based on the similarity of user access behavior patterns

    Jian Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING   17 ( 8 ) 1671 - 1681  2013年12月  [査読有り]

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    Differing from many studies of recommendation that provided the final results directly, our study focuses on providing an optimized process of information seeking to users. Based on process mining, we propose an integrated adaptive framework to support and facilitate individualized recommendation based on the gradual adaptation model that gradually adapts to a target user's transition of needs and behaviors of information access, including various search-related activities, over different time spans. In detail, successful information seeking processes are extracted from the information seeking histories of users. Furthermore, these successful information seeking processes are optimized as a series of action units to support the target users whose information access behavior patterns are similar to the reference users. Based on these, the optimized information seeking processes are navigated to the target users according to their transitions of interest focus. In addition to describing some definitions and measures introduced, we go further to present an optimized process recommendation model and show the system architecture. Finally, we discuss the simulation and scenario for the proposed system.

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  • Modeling user-generated contents: an intelligent state machine for user-centric search support

    Neil Y. Yen, James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih

    PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING   17 ( 8 ) 1731 - 1739  2013年12月  [査読有り]

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    Researchers tend to agree that an increasing quantity of data has caused the complexity and difficulty for information discovery, management, and reuse. An essential factor relates to the increasing channels (i.e., Internet, social media, etc.) for information sharing. Finding information, especially those meaningful or useful one, that meets ultimate goal (or task) of user becomes harder then it is used to be. In this research, issues concerning the use of user-generated contents for individual search support are investigated. In order to make efficient use of user-generated contents, an intelligent state machine, as a hybridization of graph model (Document Graph) and petri-net model (Document Sensitive Petri-Net), is proposed. It is utilized to clarify the vague usage scenario between user-generated contents, such as discussions, posts, etc., and to identify correlations and experiences within them. As a practical contribution, an interactive search algorithm that generates potential solutions for individual is implemented. The feasibility of this research is demonstrated by a series of experiments and empirical studies with around 350,000 user-generated contents (i.e., documents) collected from the Internet and 200 users.

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  • Research on life-cycle of user model in U-Business

    Bofeng Zhang, Jianxing Zheng, Jianhua Ma, Yinsheng Li, Guobing Zou, Qun Jin

    PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING   17 ( 7 ) 1449 - 1457  2013年10月  [査読有り]

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    "U-Business" is a novel type business environment, which can provide various services via many mobile devices. In order to provide personalized service to different users, user model (UM) can play an important role in U-Business. UM reflects some characteristics of users to a certain degree, which is used widely in U-Business, like personalized recommendation, social computing, information retrieval services, and so on. Currently, there are more and more researchers who focus on the building and update of UM based on the activities of people. However, as too many UM appeared, the number of UM in cyber space is increasingly large, which takes a lot of space and cost. Furthermore, after some users disappear in the physic world, their models are still working in the cyber world. This case is not reasonable obviously, but few researches take care about it. Therefore, one of important issues, the death of UM should be taken into account in the whole life-cycle of user model. This paper proposes a specific user modeling method for the Cyber Individuals (Cyber-I) in U-Business. The essential difference between this UM and traditional ones is that it has a life, that is, birth, growth, and demise, like a life-cycle of Cyber-I. Specially, the significance of UM life ending and five states of UM death are described from an organic viewpoint. In addition, there is a framework of the whole life process of UM. Finally, the proposed idea is applied to the field of personalized service.

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  • Intelligent route generation: Discovery and search of correlation between shared resources

    Neil Y. Yen, Runhe Huang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih

    International Journal of Communication Systems   26 ( 6 ) 732 - 746  2013年06月  [査読有り]

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    Sharing information and resources on the Internet has become an important activity for education. The use of ubiquitous devices makes it possible for learning participants to be engaged in an open and connected social environment, and also allows the learning activities to be performed at any time and any place. In this study, the discovery of correlation among shared resources is concentrated. A hypothetical scenario is considered that the information, such as photos and thoughts, is applicable to be shared with implicit context (i.e., geographical information) by learners through a practical implementation, PadSCORM, on a mobile device. Two major contributions are achieved. First, the correlations among resources are determined through usage experiences mining and geographical information adjustment. It then assists learners in filtering out redundant information by highlighting the significance of resources. Second, an intelligent searching algorithm is proposed to visualize adaptive routes to facilitate search process and to enrich the learning activity. The empirical experiments revealing the feasibility and performance (e.g., accuracy and effectiveness) are conducted in the universities in North Taiwan. © 2012 John Wiley &amp
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  • Enriching user search experience by mining social streams with heuristic stones and associative ripples

    Xiaokang Zhou, Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih

    Multimedia Tools and Applications   63 ( 1 ) 129 - 144  2013年03月  [査読有り]

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    Recently, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming increasingly popular. The high accessibility of these sites has allowed the so-called social streams being spread across the Internet more quickly and widely, as more and more of the populations are being engaged into this vortex of the social networking revolution. Information seeking never means simply typing a few keywords into a search engine in this stream world. In this study, we try to find a way to utilize these diversified social streams to assist the search process without relying solely on the inputted keywords. We propose a method to analyze and extract meaningful information in accordance with users' current needs and interests from social streams using two developed algorithms, and go further to integrate these organized stream data which are described as associative ripples into the search system, in order to improve the relevance of the results obtained from the search engine and feedback users with a new perspective of the sought issues to guide the further information seeking process, which can benefit both search experience enrichment and search process facilitation. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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  • Effective session key distribution for secure fast handover in mobile networks (vol 44, pg 97, 2010)

    Jong Hyuk Park, Qun Jin

    TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS   52 ( 1 ) 359 - 359  2013年01月  [査読有り]

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  • Discovery of action patterns in task-oriented learning processes

    Xiaokang Zhou, Jian Chen, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   8167   121 - 130  2013年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, in order to support and facilitate the web-based learning, we concentrate on user learning behavior pattern discovery in a task-oriented learning process. Based on a hierarchical graph model which can describe relations among learning actions, learning activities, learning sub-tasks and learning tasks, we introduce the formal definitions for Learning Action Pattern and Goal-driven Learning Group to discover and represent users' learning behavior patterns within a learning task process. Two integrated algorithms are developed to calculate and generate the Learning Action Patterns for an individual user and the Goal-driven Learning Groups for a number of users, which can benefit sharing of learning activities and improve learning efficiency in e-learning environments. Finally, the design of a prototype system with experiment results is discussed. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Eye-Tracking Experiment Design for Extraction of Viewing Patterns in Social Media

    Guangyu Piao, Qun Jin, Xiaokang Zhou, Shoji Nishimura, Kanoksak Wattanachote, Timothy K. Shih, Neil Y. Yen

    2013 IEEE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AND 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMIC AND TRUSTED COMPUTING (UIC/ATC) UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING     308 - 313  2013年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, eye-tracking has been widely applied in a wide spectrum of fields for both academic researches and Business. In this study, we concentrate on the analysis of instant (and often subconscious) information generated from interactions between an individual and devices, such as a PC, laptop, and mobile phone. We present the experiment design to capture and extract the viewing patterns in Twitter using the eye-tracking technology. We show a set of experiment results based on the analysis of eye gazing data, in order to demonstrate how the subjects look for specified keywords in the Twitter timeline, which can further contribute to categorization of viewing patterns.

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  • Organic Streams: Data Aggregation and Integration Based on Individual Needs

    Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin, Bo Wu, Wei Wang, Julong Pan, Wenbin Zheng

    2013 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AWARENESS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & UBI-MEDIA COMPUTING (ICAST-UMEDIA)     535 - +  2013年  [査読有り]

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    With the high accessibility of the social media, more and more people have been accustomed to sharing their personal contents across the social networks, which results in an explosive increase of data scale. In this study, in order to support information and knowledge discovery in big data, we propose an approach to aggregation and integration of personal big data from life logs in accordance with individual needs, which can benefit the sustainable information utilization process. In details, the organic stream, which is designed as an extensible data carrier, is introduced and developed to formulize and organize the personal big data, in order to extract dynamical individual needs from the tremendous amount of data posted through social media, and further aggregate and integrate the related data in a meaningful way, which can also facilitate the personalized information retrieval and reuse process. The architecture of the system with the foundational modules is given, and the experiment result is presented to demonstrate the usability and effectiveness of our approach.

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  • Dynamically Identifying Roles in Social Media by Mapping Real World

    Bo Wu, Qun Jin, Xiaokang Zhou, Wei Wang, Fuhua Lin, Henry Leung

    2013 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AWARENESS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & UBI-MEDIA COMPUTING (ICAST-UMEDIA)     573 - +  2013年  [査読有り]

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    With the rapid growing of users in the SNS environments, their network relationships in Internet have become as complex as in the real world. On the other hand, the user's social role plays an important role in providing individualized services, such as information recommendation in the SNS environments. However, as we know, people will switch or change their social roles dynamically in the real society, which is also true in the cyber network space, such as SNS. In this paper, we present a basic model to describe social roles in both the real world and the SNS environment, in which a set of attributes and factors are considered and introduced to represent the time-changing social roles in different situations and contexts. The mechanism that we develop to identify the roles is twofold: mapping of real world situations to cyber space, and analyzing social role attributes based on the mapping and synthesizing. We further describe an application scenario in regard to how to map the different situations and analyze the role attributes, in order to dynamically identify roles in the cyber space.

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  • Overview mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP): applications, characterstics and challenges

    Yufeng Wang, Tang Jing, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2013 IEEE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS & 2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING (HPCC_EUC)     2112 - 2119  2013年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, mobile social networking applications have gained tremendous attention, which free users from face-to-monitor life, while they still can share information and stay in touch with their friends on the go. However most MSN applications regard mobile terminals just as entry points to existing social networks, depend on centralized servers (for storage and processing of all application/context data) and continual Internet connectivity, even though mobile users are within proximity area (like campus, event spot, and community), and can directly exchange data through various wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi Direct, etc.). In this paper, we focus on thoroughly overviewing the mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP), including existing applications, characteristics and challenges. Our primary goal is to identify the characteristics, technical challenges and potential solution for future MSNP applications, capable to flexibly adapt to different application domains and deployment requirements.

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  • Message from the FiSTA 2013 chairs

    Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin, Rafael Santos, Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Andrew Flahive, Bernady O. Apduhan, Atsuko Takefusa, Ching Hsien Hsu, Fenghui Yao, Guifeng Shao, Hai V. Tran, Hiroaki Higaki

    Proceedings of the 2013 13th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2013    2013年

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  • Special issue on cognitivebased text understanding and web wisdom

    Xiangfeng Luo, Qing Li, Qun Jin, Feifei Xu

    International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence   7 ( 2 )  2013年

  • 3rd international workshop on advances in semantic information retrieval

    Vitaly Klyuev, Maxim Mozgovoy, Stefano Borgo, Katarzyna Budzynska, Massimiliano Carrara, Jolanta Cybulka, Vladimir Dobrynin, Krzysztof Goczyla, Yannis Haralambous, Wladyslaw Homenda, Qun Jin, Janusz Kaczmarek, Tuomo Kakkonen, Piotr Kulicki, Cristian Lai, Sabina Leonelli, Simone Ludwig, Jacek Martinek, Nikolay Mirenkov, Ahsan Morshed, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Raúl Palma, Maciej Piasecki, Evgeny Pyshkin, Marek Reformat, Roman Shtykh, Larisa Soldatova, Mari Carmen Suárez De Figueroa Baonza, T. Tadeusiewicz, Robert Trypuz, Miroslav Vacura, Eloisa Vargiu, Alexander Vazhenin, Haofen Wang, Shih Hung Wu, Slawomir Zadrozny, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz

    2013 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2013     241  2013年

  • Special issue on technology-enhanced social learning

    Chengjiu Yin, Xinyou Zhao, Qun Jin

    International Journal of Distance Education Technologies   11 ( 1 )  2013年01月

  • Integration of range-based and range-free localization algorithms in wireless sensor networks for mobile clouds

    Yufeng Wang, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom 2013     957 - 961  2013年  [査読有り]

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    Usually, in mobile server cloud computing (MSCC) environments, there exist enormous sensors conducting various tasks. Localization of sensor nodes using the technologies in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is critical to both cloud infrastructure operations and most applications. Specifically, in WSN, Malguki (the method's name, Malguki, means 'spring') is an effective range-based algorithm which can compute the location of a node using noisy distance estimations. However, through simulation, we found that, in original Malguki algorithm that uses an iterative process to locate unknown nodes, the initial positions of unknown nodes in iteration are evenly and randomly selected, which may cause large average localization error. Considering the mentioned weak point, this paper proposes to enhance the Malguki with a simple range-free Centroid localization algorithm, which intentionally obtains initial positions of unknown nodes in iteration by Centroid algorithm. Simulation results show that the integration of range-based and range-free localization algorithm, Centroid Malguki always performs better than original Malguki algorithm. © 2013 IEEE.

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  • Erratum: Effective session key distribution for secure fast handover in mobile networks (Telecommunication Systems (DOI 10.1007/s11235-009-9219-0))

    Jong Hyuk Park, Qun Jin

    Telecommunication Systems   52 ( 1 ) 359  2013年01月  [査読有り]

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  • An adaptively emerging mechanism for context-aware service selections regulated by feedback distributions

    Yishui Zhu, Qun Jin

    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences   2 ( 1 ) 1 - 15  2012年12月  [査読有り]

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    Background: In the cloud computing environments, numerous ambient services may be created speedily and provided to a variety of users. In such a situation, people may be annoyed by how to make a proper and optimal selection quickly and economically. Methods: In this study, we propose an Adaptively Emerging Mechanism (AEM) to reduce this selection burden with an interdisciplinary approach. AEM is applied and integrated into the Flowable Service Model (FSM), which has been proposed and developed in our previous study. We consider the user’s feedback information is a pivotal factor for AEM, which contains the user’s satisfaction degree after using the services. At the same time, we assume that these factors, such as the service cost, matching result precision, responding time, personal and social context information, etc., are essential parts of the optimizing process for the selection of ambient services. Results and Conclusion: By analyzing the result of AEM simulation, we reveal that AEM can (1) substantially improve the selection process for LOW feedback users
    (2) bring no negative effect on the selection process for MEDIUM or HIGH feedback users
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  • Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems Foreword

    Qun Jin, Yufeng Wang

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES   78 ( 6 ) 1671 - 1672  2012年11月  [査読有り]

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  • Socialized ubiquitous personal study: Toward an individualized information portal

    Hong Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES   78 ( 6 ) 1775 - 1792  2012年11月  [査読有り]

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    Recently, SNS (Social Network Service), blog and microblog have become very popular. Stream data, a large collection of diverse contents that are created dynamically in the form of streams, have become an important part of the Internet resources. At the same time, it has become easier to collect people's activities as their lifelogs, not only in the cyber space, but also in the physical world by means of ubiquitous and sensing technology. Either stream data or lifelogs represent different aspects of people's information behaviors and social activities, which we call Social Streams. In this study, we try to integrate and organize these social stream data, such as Twitter Tweets, into Ubiquitous Personal Study (UPS) proposed in our previous study. In this paper, we introduce and define a set of new metaphors: Drop, Stream, River and Ocean, to represent a variety of social stream data in different stages, in order to enable UPS socialized toward an individualized information portal. We further propose a Framework of Organic Streams to meaningfully organize these stream data. We discuss the design and implementation issues of a prototype system, and describe the algorithms to realize our proposed metaphors. Moreover, we show a scenario of using the socialized UPS to support learning activities, with experimental data and analysis results. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Organic Stream: Meaningfully Organized Social Stream for Individualized Information Seeking and Knowledge Mining

    X. Zhou, J. Chen, Q. Jin, T.K. Shih

    Proc. U-Media2012 (The 5th IET International Conference on Ubi- Media Computing)    2012年08月  [査読有り]

  • Goal-Driven Process Navigation for Individualized Learning Activities in Ubiquitous Networking and IoT Environments

    Jian Chen, Qun Jin, Runhe Huang

    JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE   18 ( 9 ) 1132 - 1151  2012年  [査読有り]

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    In the study, we propose an integrated adaptive framework to support and facilitate individualized learning through sharing the successful process of learning activities based on similar learning patterns in the ubiquitous learning environments empowered by Internet of Things (IoT). This framework is based on a dynamic Bayesian network that gradually adapts to a target student's needs and information access behaviours. By analysing the log data of learning activities and extracting students' learning patterns, our analysis results show that most of students often use their preferred learning patterns in their learning activities, and the learning achievement is affected by the learning process. Based on these findings, we try to optimise the process of learning activities using the extracted learning patterns, infer the learning goal of target students, and provide a goal-driven navigation of individualized learning process according to the similarity of the extracted learning patterns.

  • AB-Chord: an efficient approach for resource location in structured P2P networks

    Yufeng Wang, Xiangming Li, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    2012 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE & COMPUTING AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMIC & TRUSTED COMPUTING (UIC/ATC)     278 - 284  2012年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, P2P (Peer-to-Peer) technology has witnessed a rapid development. Basically, one of key components in successful P2P applications is how to efficiently look up resources. Considering that structured P2P is a relatively efficient way to locate resources, this paper conducted two improvements to increase the search efficiency in Chord-based algorithms, one of the most popular structured P2P resource lookup protocols. In detail, our contributions are twofold. First, considering the fact that routing information in Chord is not abundant enough for efficient resource search, and looking up resource can only be enforced in clockwise direction, a new algorithm called AB-Chord is proposed to reconstruct the finger tables in Chord, in which counter-clockwise finger table is added to achieve resource queries in both directions, and the density of neighboring fingers is increased. Additionally, AB-Chord implements a new operation to remove the redundant fingers introduced by adding fingers in AB-Chord. Experimental results show that AB-Chord's query efficiency has been improved in terms of the average lookup hops and average lookup delay. And furthermore, considering that the proposed AB-Chord algorithm enlarged the finger table which may cause the forwarding-storm of routing maintenance messages, we further propose AB-Chord+, which appropriately extends the periodic time of updating finger tables and makes the joining and leaving nodes actively send updating messages, to reduce the number of messages forwarded in the network. Simulated results show that AB-Chord+ reduced the network bandwidth consumption.

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  • Attachment factor in user experience over a time span: Experiment design and analysis

    Shinichiro Kajiwara, Qun Jin

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series     45 - 50  2012年

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    There are various factors that may affect user experience (UX) on a product. In this study, we investigate the attachment factor in UX over a time span. In this paper, we firstly discuss our view on attachment and UX from an interdisciplinary perspective, by taking iPhone as our case study. We describe the design of an experiment based on a time span sheet and take account into account the attachment factor in UX. We further reports the experiment results based on data collected from 36 subjects (among them 20 are iPhone users), and discuss our observations from the statistical analysis. The experiment result shows that there exists interrelation between attachment factor and UX, and the attachment of users to a specific product is created and strengthened while using it for a long time. Copyright 2012 ACM.

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  • Proceedings of 2012 International Symposium on Information Technologies in Medicine and Education, ITME 2012: Preface

    Xiaohong Jiang, Qun Jin, Hong Liu, Shaozi Li

    Proceedings of 2012 International Symposium on Information Technologies in Medicine and Education, ITME 2012   2  2012年

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    Conference proceedings front matter may contain various advertisements, welcome messages, committee or program information, and other miscellaneous conference information. This may in some cases also include the cover art, table of contents, copyright statements, title-page or half title-pages, blank pages, venue maps or other general information relating to the conference that was part of the original conference proceedings. © 2012 IEEE.

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  • User-centric integrated recommendation by gradual adaptation based on focus of interests and its transition

    Jian Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 2012     435 - 441  2012年  [査読有り]

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    Recommender system is a focus in the age of information explosion. In this study, with the benefit of social networking service, we propose a User-Centric Integrated Recommendation Model based on combining of users' individualities and commonalities, in which users' interests are focused and their transitions are traced by analyzing users' information access behaviors and histories, and then a sequence of information seeking actions are recommended to target users through dectecting the transitions of their interests focus by interaction of users and the system, and extracting successful experience from a reference user group, in which the reference users are similar to the target users. A set of bookmark tags are used to describe relations of Web pages. The pages accessed by users are classified by the bookmark tags, and grouped into two categories of individual and common interests and their sub-categories. The individual interests are divided into three types: strong interest, weak interest and uncertain interest. The common interests are divided into popular interest, public interest and private interest. In this paper, in addition to describing definitions and measures, we present a mechanism of inferring interest focus and show the system architecture. Finally, the conclusion and further work are introduced. © 2012 IEEE.

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  • Message from MENS-12 symposium chairs

    Yoshiaki Kakuda, Yufeng Wang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin, Zhingming Cai, Chin-Chih Chang, Yinong Chen, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Juergen Dunkel, Xinxin Fan, Cheng Fu, Ruijun He, Teresa Higuera, Eitaro Kohno, Runhe Huang, Ruidong Li, Miroslaw Malek, Tomoyuki Ohta, Yizhi Ren, Achim Rettberg, Kenichi Takahashi, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Feng Xia, Baoliu Ye, Deqing Zou

    Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and IEEE 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, UIC-ATC 2012     xl - xli  2012年  [査読有り]

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  • On studying relationship between altruism and the psychological phenomenon of self-deception in rational and autonomous networks

    Yufeng Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings - 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2012     336 - 341  2012年  [査読有り]

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    In open networking environments, resources, services, strategies and actions are voluntarily provided, maintained, chosen and determined by independent, rational and autonomous peers. Basically, Game theory is a basic tool for modeling choices by rational agents in those environments, which, usually assumes players choose strategies which maximize utility of game outcomes given their beliefs about what others players will do. This means that the most challenging question is often how beliefs are formed. Intuitively, beliefs depend not only on what people know to be true, but also on what they want to be true (desire). This paper introduces a model of rational choices that allows for this possibility that peers' beliefs are affected by their interests (desires), and, based on this model, analyzes the impact of psychological belief (optimistic bias and pessimistic bias) on the existing altruism-based cooperative mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. We found that, when there exist free riders, on the contrary to the intuitive thought, pessimistic bias of belief on contribution level can facilitate the P2P systems to converge to the stable equilibrium in easier way than optimistic bias. © 2012 IEEE.

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  • Message from the Third International Workshop on Future Information System Technologies and Applications (FISTA 2012) chairs

    Bernady O. Apduhan, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2012     xxix  2012年  [査読有り]

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  • Knowledge organization aided by eye-tracking in a social media enhanced learning environment

    Xiaokang Zhou, Guangyu Piao, Qun Jin

    Proceedings of 2012 International Symposium on Information Technologies in Medicine and Education, ITME 2012   1   6 - 10  2012年  [査読有り]

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    Comparing with traditional e-learning, the socialized e-learning system provides us a new paradigm to deliver knowledge through social medias. In this study, we concentrate on the organization of knowledge delivered across the social media enhanced learning environment in order to support the learning process. An integrated approach is proposed to capture users' intentions using eye-tracking technology, and further organize the related social streams into meaningful contents, in which both re-defined and newly created knowledge from interactions among users can be extracted in accordance with users' individualized requirements to assist their learning tasks and finally promote the learning efficiency for both professors and students. © 2012 IEEE.

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  • User correlation discovery and dynamical profiling based on social streams

    Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   7669   53 - 62  2012年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we try to discover the potential and dynamical user correlations using those reorganized social streams in accordance with users' current interests and needs, in order to assist the information seeking process. We develop a mechanism to build a Dynamical Socialized User Networking (DSUN) model, and define a set of measures (such as interest degree, and popularity degree) and concepts (such as complementary tie, weak tie, and strong tie), which can discover and represent users' current profiling and dynamical correlations. The corresponding algorithms are developed respectively. Based on these, we finally discuss an application scenario of the DSUN model with experiment results. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Learning activity sharing and individualized recommendation based on dynamical correlation discovery

    Xiaokang Zhou, Jian Chen, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   7558   200 - 206  2012年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we concentrate on learning activity sharing and individualized recommendation based on dynamical user correlations, in order to support and facilitate the web-based learning process integrated with social streams. A user correlation-based learning activity model is built to demonstrate the relations among user, learning task and learning activity. Based on these, an integrated method is proposed to provide a target user with the possible learning activity as the next learning step, which is expected to enhance the learning efficiency. Finally, design of a Moodle-based prototype system is discussed. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

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  • A human-centric integrated approach to web information search and sharing

    Roman Y Shtykh, Qun Jin

    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences   1 ( 1 ) 1 - 37  2011年12月  [査読有り]

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    In this paper we argue a user has to be in the center of information seeking task, as in any other task where the user is involved. In addition, an essential part of user-centrism is considering a user not only in his/her individual scope, but expanding it to the user's community participation quintessence. Through our research we make an endeavor to develop a holistic approach from how to harnesses relevance feedback from users in order to estimate their interests, construct user profiles reflecting those interests to applying them for information acquisition in online collaborative information seeking context. Here we discuss a human-centric integrated approach for Web information search and sharing incorporating the important user-centric elements, namely a user's individual context and 'social' factor realized with collaborative contributions and co-evaluations, into Web information search.

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  • Pervasive Learning Tools and Technologies

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Hiroaki Ogata, Timothy K. Shih, Y. Yano

    Pervasive Computing and Networking     37 - 50  2011年06月  [査読有り]

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  • Message from the CPSCom 2011 workshop chairs

    Qun Jin, Alvin Chin, Yan Zhang

    Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011     28  2011年

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  • A multiple response approach for adaptive learning service with context-based multimedia contents

    Xinyou Zhao, Qun Jin, Toshio Okamoto

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   102 LNEE   269 - 280  2011年

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    Learners can benefit more from the emerging ubiquitous computing technology in more learning scenarios beyond traditional computer-based e-learning system. But due to the great diversity of device specification, learning contents, and mobile context existing today, learners may have a poor learning experience in the ubiquitous computing technology-enhanced learning (u-learning) environment. This paper proposes a multiple response approach for adaptive learning service with context-based multimedia contents, which recommends preferred media for learners according to the u-learning environment. Based on six learning statuses from SCORM, five learning responses of learning objects are used to reward or penalize the preferred media according to the learning context. In the evaluation experiment, the accessed object, time, location and mobile device are mainly used as context data. With the comparison between the controlled group and non-controlled group, the results show that the proposed method can improve the utilization rate of learning objects which implies that the learners are more interested in these recommended media. The results also show that the learning experience is improved. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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  • Constructing robust digital identity infrastructure for future networked society

    Jianming Yong, Sanjib Tiwari, Xiaodi Huang, Qun Jin

    Proceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2011     570 - 576  2011年

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    Identity fraud has become one of major concerns for broad communities. The new information era needs a new digital identity infrastructure to support next generation Internet. This article suggests a hierarchical structure for digital identities. We define and classify all digital identities into three broad categories: Object, People and Organization. This paper is the first to systematically address the classification of digital identities. More and more individuals and communities heavily rely on the network. Many countries are trying their own digital identity initiatives, like E-passport, national smart card, etc. This article intends to initiate a discussion on a universal digital identity infrastructure for our future. We believe that in the near future all paper-based identities will be replaced by digital identities. A robust digital identity infrastructure will take a vital role in the future information age. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • A service-oriented architecture for context-aware ubiquitous learning delivery

    Xinyou Zhao, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2011 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2011   4   2461 - 2465  2011年

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    With the continued increase in the use of ubiquitous devices, learners' expectations of learning services have also increased. Most of the learning services being provided today are not designed or delivered for ubiquitous learning environments because these learning services have not been taken into account rich learning contexts. This paper proposes a service-oriented architecture for context-aware adaptive learning services, which contains adaptation service, transforming service, and presentation service. Within each service, the conflicts are resolved by different learning rule base. The results show that the system may improve the learning experience under ubiquitous learning environments, and the learners are more interested in adapted learning service than those from general learning service. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • CAPK: A learning process model for web 2.0 technology enhanced community of practice

    Haifeng Man, Hong Chen, Yan Wu, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011     546 - 551  2011年  [査読有り]

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    There have been two open questions about Web 2.0 enhanced CoP (Community of Practice). The first one is the isolation of CoPs caused by the variety of web services, and the second one is the context loss in knowledge transference. Both of the questions arise from the discontinuity of the knowledge transference in a CoP or among CoPs. In order to tackle these questions, CAPK (Context, Actor, Pipe and Knowledge object), a new learning process model, is proposed to model learning in the Web 2.0 technology enhanced CoPs. In this model, the premise of learning is the connection to the knowledge objects by various pipes which can be used to maintain a connection with a knowledge object. Context is considered as the most important component of effective learning in this model. CAPK model can provide us a new perspective to tackle the above problems. In order to achieve effective learning in current web based CoPs, flexible connection to and management of knowledge objects are necessary to support learning in CoPs. Besides, a uniform context description is also a requirement. In this paper, after the introduction of the CAPK learning process model, we describe design and implementation of a prototype system for managing the pipes of knowledge objects to provide a solution to transfer context information through Activity Streams specification in and cross various systems. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • A hybrid P2P search engine for social learning

    Ashraf Uddin Ahmed, Tanvir Shahid, Hong Chen, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011     564 - 569  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Social learning is showing one of the immersive potentialities for human knowledge gathering on the Internet throughout the last decEDe. Due to rapid growth of Internet, people can communicate with each other using IM (Instant Messaging), WWW and P2P. IM Services, such as
    Yahoo, Twitter, Google Talk, ICQ (I seek you), etc. which provides individual and group communications. Web search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL etc.) collect versatile information by crawling web directories, and web public documents (html, PDF, text, etc.) throughout the world. P2P (Gnutella, Napster, Freenet, etc.) serves file sharing between and/or among users. However, IM, WEB and P2P do not support WW, which indicates WHO the right person/user is and WHAT the right topic a user is looking for. To overcome the WW issues, this research presents a hybrid search engine called P2P-SSE (P2P Social Search Engine) which can find the WW and serves users queries for the support of social learning. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • Goal-driven navigation for learning activities based on process optimization

    Jian Chen, Haifeng Man, Qun Jin, Runhe Huang

    Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011     389 - 395  2011年  [査読有り]

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    This paper describes an integrated approach to provide an optimized learning process to students by analyzing the log data of learning activities and extracting their learning patterns. Our analysis results show that most of students almost always use their main learning patterns in their learning activities, and the learning achievement is affected by the learning process. Based on these findings, we try to optimize the process of learning actions using the extracted learning patterns, infer the learning goal of students, and then navigate them a personalized learning process according to the similarity of the extracted learning patterns. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • Enabling open learning process with learning activity streams: Model, metaphor and specification

    Haifeng Man, Hong Chen, Jian Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Yan Wu, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   7048   233 - 242  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Sharing learning activity in and cross various systems is a prospective approach to implement OLP (Open Learning Process), a paradigm to share the knowledge generated in the learning process. The question is that the systems supporting teaching and learning are always separated and isolated. To implement OLP, firstly a uniform description of learning activity and a protocol to share learning activity in and cross systems are necessary. Secondly, a systematic framework to support learning activity description is also important. In this research, first, we show our vision of OLP by introducing metaphors such as a drop or an ocean of learning activity. Then based on the analysis of web based learning activity through Activity Theory, we propose a learning activity model to describe learning activity. Moreover, a specification of learning activity streams based on Activity Streams specification is introduced. Finally, a prototype system supporting learning activity streams is implemented based on UPS (Ubiquitous Personal Study) platform. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Automated lecture template generation in CORDRA-based learning object repository

    Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih, Qun Jin, Li-Chieh Lin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   7048   295 - 304  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Sharing resources and information on Internet has become an important activity for education. The MINE Registry, a branch of distributed repository, inherited the architecture of CORDRA has been developed for storing and sharing Learning Objects. Following the usage experiences, especially those being utilized to generate the lecture, the interaction structure is defined to clarify the relationships among Learning Objects. The methods to social network analysis are applied to quantify the implicit correlations and to evaluate the interdependency. In addition, an intelligent mining algorithm is proposed to explore the developed interaction structure and automatically generates lecture templates corresponding to the query criteria. The concentration of this study is to facilitate the complex and time-consuming process of creating lectures through a simple search mechanism. The implemented system has demonstrated the preliminary results and the feasibility are also revealed by the evaluation results. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Automatic learning sequence template generation for educational reuse

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih, Li-Chieh Lin

    Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, GrC 2011     773 - 778  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Sharing resources and information on Internet has become an important activity for education. The learning object repository has been developed to achieve efficient management of learning objects. Following usage experiences of learning objects collected in the past, this study concentrates on investigating implicit information between learning objects. We define a social structure for identifying relationship between learning objects and define a set of metrics to evaluate the interdependency. The structure identifies usage experiences and can be graphed in terms of implicit and explicit relations among learning objects. As a practical contribution, an adaptive algorithm is proposed to mine the social structure. The algorithm generates adaptive learning sequence by identifying possible interactive search input and assists them in completing self-paced learning situation. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • Discovery of implicit correlation between shared information in an open environment

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin

    MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops - ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning, MTDL'11     43 - 46  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Sharing information and resources on the Internet has become an important activity for education. The use of ubiquitous devices makes possible for learning participants to be engaged in an open and connected social environment, and also allows the learning activities to be performed at any time and any places. In this study, the discovery of correlation among shared resources is concentrated. A hypothetical scenario is considered that the information, such as photos and thoughts, is applicable to be shared with implicit context (i.e. geographical information) by learners through a practical implementation, PadSCORM, on a mobile device. Two major contributions are achieved. First, the correlations among resources are determined through usage experiences mining and geographical information adjustment. It then assists learners in filtering out redundant information by highlighting the significance of resources. Second, an intelligent searching algorithm is proposed to visualize adaptive routes in order to facilitate search process and to enrich the learning activity. © 2011 ACM.

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  • Flowable services: A human-centric framework toward service assurance

    Qun Jin, Yishui Zhu, Roman Y. Shtykh, Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih

    Proceedings - 2011 10th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2011     653 - 658  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Service computing aims to provide IT and computing resources to users in a way that it simply serves them. However, many issues remain in, such as portability, interoperability, and heterogeneity of diverse services, in addition to service modeling, creation, deployment, discovery, recommendation, composition, and delivery, in order to provide a service that best fits user needs and contexts at the time. In this study, we propose a new model of flowable services. Its primary purpose is to realize seamless integration and provision of diverse services in an intuitive "flowable" way maximally close to the "flow" of users' activities and thoughts, and as pertinent as possible to their needs, thus gain the most satisfaction. In this paper, we propose and discuss a human-centric framework of flowable services toward service assurance. We further describe the evaluation of the model, and an application scenario for adaptive delivery of personalized learning service under the proposed framework.

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  • Adaptive object re-ranking mechanism for ubiquitous learning environment

    Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih, Qun Jin, Jason C. Hung, Qingguo Zhou, Louis R. Chao

    Journal of Multimedia   6 ( 2 ) 129 - 138  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Ubiquitous Learning (U-Learning), as an emerging learning paradigm, makes it possible for learners to carry out the learning activities at any places and at anytime. With the advantages of the devices, learners can obtain a variety of supplementary materials from the Internet. In the scope of distance learning, LOR (Learning Object Repository) stands for managing and sharing of learning related materials (known as learning objects). However, some challenges may raise while performing these activities. For instance, a huge amount of learning objects may appear while learners utilize the search service provided by LOR. Learners have to spend time on collecting relevant resources for specific purposes. This situation may discourage the reusability of learning objects especially in a ubiquitous environment. In this paper, based on systematic re-examination of reuse scenarios, an adaptive mechanism, as a resource discovery and search middleware, was proposed to assist learners in obtaining possible objects under ubiquitous environment. Achievement of the proposed mechanism can produce search results adaptive to specific situations in order of similarity degree based on the mixed information. We try to filter out some irrelevant results by using the past usage history, current geographical information and input query, so as to enhance the efficiency of learning objects retrieval in a ubiquitous environment. As a pilot test, Apple iPhone was utilized to be the major client testbed. © 2011 Academy Publisher.

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  • Generating associative ripples of relevant information from a variety of data streams by throwing a heuristic stone

    Xiaokang Zhou, Hong Chen, Qun Jin, Jianming Yong

    Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011    2011年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, the vast dialog in the microblog, such as twitter, Facebook has become increasingly popular. As we post more messages in microblogs, information is spreading more quickly and widely. These widely spread and diversified contents could be viewed as data streams, which have become an important part of the Internet resources. However, these separated data streams are littery and meaningless, so we need to collect and organize them together to provide us with meaningful information. It is hard to imagine that we could find useful information by simply inputting a few keywords into a search engine in such a stream environment. In this study, we try to find a way to seek the information related to users' personal and current interests and needs among these data streams and provide users with other more relevant information. We introduce a set of metaphors to represent a variety of data streams in different levels, and define two new metaphors: heuristic stone and associative ripple to assist the seeking process and describe the results. Based on these, we further propose two algorithms for the information seeking and processing, and discuss a scenario of the information seeking process that utilizes the proposed metaphors and algorithms. Copyright 2011 ACM.

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  • Dynamical user networking and profiling based on activity streams for enhanced social learning

    Xiaokang Zhou, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   7048   219 - 225  2011年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, social media enhanced learning has become more and more popular. It is featured as learning through interaction and collaboration in a community or across a social network, which can be considered as a kind of social learning. In this study, we integrate SNS (such as twitter) into the web-based learning process and further delve into the discovery of potential information from the reorganized stream data. We propose a Dynamical Socialized User Networking (DSUN) model which represents users' profiling and dynamical relationship by a set of measures. Finally, we show an application scenario of the DSUN model to assist the learning process and enhance the learning efficiency in web-based environments. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

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  • Organizing learning stream data by eye-tracking in a blended learning environment integrated with social media

    Xiaokang Zhou, Guangyu Piao, Qun Jin, Runhe Huang

    ITME 2011 - Proceedings: 2011 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education   2   335 - 339  2011年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we integrate social media into the blended learning environment, and further delve into utilizing the eye-tracking technology to enhance learning to be socialized and more efficient. We propose an approach to employ eye-tracking to extract those related learning stream data according to different seeking patterns in a learning process. Based on these, we go further to organize these raw stream data into meaningful learning contents in accordance with specific tasks in order to benefit both teachers and students, which can assist the learning process and promote the learning efficiency in the blended learning environment. © 2011 IEEE.

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  • Effective session key distribution for secure fast handover in mobile networks

    Jong Hyuk Park, Qun Jin

    TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS   44 ( 1-2 ) 97 - 107  2010年06月  [査読有り]

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    In this paper, we introduce a session key distribution mechanism for fast secure handover in wireless mobile networks. The proposed mechanism is based on the stream control transmission protocol in where a mobile node actively changes its IP address without its connection loss. When a mobile node moves between different access routers, the required session key at a new access router is distributed previously through the tunnel established between the previous access router and the new access router. Due to the reduced key distribution time, the mobile node achieves its secure seamless handover. The provided performance analysis proves that the proposed mechanism provides the reduced signaling cost compared to existing mobility protocols. In addition, the proposed mechanism reduces the handover latency so that the reduced amount of packet loss provides the stable handover performance for real-time applications.

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  • Evaluation of Drowsiness during Driving based on Heart Rate Analysis - a driving simulation study

    Masaru Tasaki, Hui Wang, Motoaki Sakai, Mai Watanabe, Qun Jin, Daming Wei

    2010 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE WORKSHOPS (BIBMW)     411 - 416  2010年  [査読有り]

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    t is a common sense that drowsiness during driving could cause traffic accidents. Related researches show that drowsiness occurs when the parasympathetic nerve system predominates over others, and the high frequency (HF) component of heart rate variability (HRV) on an electrocardiogram (ECG) is closely related with the parasympathetic nerve activity, so it is reasonable to evaluate drowsiness based on heart rate analysis. In the driving simulation study, ECG and calculated R-R intervals were put on record during the monitoring process of drowsiness degrees. Relations among different indexes, such as, temporal change of HF band, RR50, Coefficient of Variation of R-R interval (CVRR), and LF to HF ratio (LF/HF) were evaluated as well. The experimental results suggest that there exist certain correlations between drowsiness and HF, RR50, CVRR, or LF/HF, which will be compared in the future with data collected in real driving experiments.

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  • Dynamic Navigation for Personalized Learning Activities Based on Gradual Adaption Recommendation Model

    Jian Chen, Haifeng Man, Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih

    ADVANCES IN WEB-BASED LEARNING-ICWL 2010   6483   31 - +  2010年  [査読有り]

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    This study aims to provide learners with appropriate learning activities navigation based on a learning process recommendation system that gradually adapts to their needs. A learning activity consists of a series of purposeful learning actions with a specific sequence. In the system, user profile is generated from various learning related activities that are collected over different time spans. A dynamic user group is generated based on the similarity of user profiles which have had successful learning experience, and can be used to create a personalized navigation of learning activities for a target learner. In this paper, after introducing how to create a dynamic design of learning activities navigation, we focus on discussing the design and implementation issues of the prototype system for personalized learning support.

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  • Open Learning: A Framework for Sharable Learning Activities

    Haifeng Man, Hong Chen, Qun Jin

    ADVANCES IN WEB-BASED LEARNING-ICWL 2010   6483   387 - 392  2010年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we develop an innovative approach using sharable learning activity to create an open learning network. In this paper, we present our vision of open learning and a framework for sharable learning activities. We further discuss how to utilize open source software to implement a prototype system, and describe the scenarios and features of the proposed framework and system.

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  • A novel WYSIWYG approach for generating cross-Browser web data

    Jin Zhu, Xiao Liu, Yoshiyori Urano, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 2010 10th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2010     155 - 164  2010年

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    Layout engine combines markup language (Html, etc) with formatting information (CSS, etc), and displays the combined contents on the screen. It is commonly used for many existing web development applications and web browsers. Especially, Web Development Applications use Layout Engine to confirm impact on the layout of web editing results to achieve What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG). At present, different layout engines are adopted by various web development applications and web browsers. As there is not a uniform algorithm adopted by layout engine, the results displayed by web development applications are not necessarily kept the same as displayed on the web browsers. In addition, the results displayed by web development applications are depended on layout engines. Hence it is difficult to edit the common web contents since it cannot objectively reflect the result on web browsers. In this paper, we proposes a novel WYSIWYG solution, by completely separating web layout design from web data editing to generate cross-browser web data. Our proposed approach does not use layout engine, and thus can avoid the disadvantages mentioned above.

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  • Shift to Cyber-I: Reexamining personalized pervasive learning

    Neil Y. Yen, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Runhe Huang, Timothy K. Shih

    Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2010, 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2010     685 - 690  2010年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, there have been lots of researches on how to provide personalized services to different users according to their personal characters, needs, situations, contexts and so on. Such personalized services are often based on users' profiles provided by the users in the beginning, and users' records or experiences in using corresponding systems in certain periods. However, different systems or terminals collect user information independently and cannot share the user's personal information collected by these different systems/terminals. As a result, each system can only utilize the limited information collected by the system itself to provide services or recommendations, and it thus cannot meet what users' needs in varied situations across the different systems/terminals. Therefore, it is still an open issue on how to gather, share and utilize various kinds of personal information to effective personalized services in right time, right place and right means to users. In this paper, a case study for personalized pervasive learning is discussed as one typical application of the concept of Cyber-I, an individual's counterpart on the cyberspace. The Cyber-I aims to provide a better environment for users to obtain what they may really need on the Web, and it can be considered as an innovated possibility of web usage scenario in the near future. Our case study using pervasive devices (iPad, cell phone, and laptop) for learning issues can be regarded as the best practice to support the proposed Cyber-I. © 2010 IEEE.

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  • A framework of organic streams: Integrating dynamically diversified contents into ubiquitous personal study

    Hong Chen, Xiaokang Zhou, Haifeng Man, Yan Wu, Ashraf Uddin Ahmed, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing in Conjunction with the UIC 2010 and ATC 2010 Conferences, UIC-ATC 2010     386 - 391  2010年  [査読有り]

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    Recently, SNS, blog and microblog have become very popular. A different form of diversified contents, comparing to traditional static HTML web pages, are so easy to be generated dynamically, and can be provided to users by timeline. These contents are generally processed data streams, and have become an important part of the Internet resources. In this study, we try to integrate these dynamically diversified contents, such as twitter stream data, into Ubiquitous Personal Study (UPS), a personalized virtual study proposed in our previous study. In this paper, we introduce and define a set of new metaphors to represent a variety of data streams, such as Drop, Stream, River, and Ocean. We propose a Framework of Organic Streams to meaningfully organize these stream data. We describe the design and implementation issues of a prototype system, and discuss a scenario of using the enhanced UPS to support learning that utilizes twitter data streams. © 2010 IEEE.

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  • Preface of MENS'10: The 2nd International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems

    Yufeng Wang, Goutam Chakraborty, Kuan-Ching Li, Tadashi Dohi, Mieso Denko, Ma. Jianhua, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing in Conjunction with the UIC 2010 and ATC 2010 Conferences, UIC-ATC 2010     xxxv - xxxvi  2010年  [査読有り]

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  • A new paradigm of ranking &amp; searching in learning object repository

    Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih, Qun Jin

    MTDL'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2010     1 - 6  2010年  [査読有り]

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    With the development of internet and search engine, users are thought to obtain everything through corresponding web services. Although general purpose searching such as one provided by Google is powerful, searching mechanism for different purposes has to rely on specific metadata. We followed SCORM and CORDRA to develop a registry system named MINE Registry for storing and managing the learning objects. As a contribution, we propose the concept of "Reusability Tree" to represent the relationships among relevant Learning Objects and to enhance CORDRA. We further collect relevant information while users are utilizing Learning Objects, such as citations and time period persisted. The feedbacks from community users are also considered as critical elements for evaluating significance degree of Learning Objects. Through these factors, we propose a mechanism to weight and rank Learning Objects in the MINE Registry, in addition to other external learning objects repositories.

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  • Harnessing user contexts to enable flowable services model

    Yishui Zhu, Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    2010 3rd International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, HumanCom 2010    2010年  [査読有り]

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    Services are expected to be a promising way for people to use information and computing resources in the emerging ubiquitous network society. In this study, we propose a metaphoric concept called flowable service. It is defined as a logical stream that organizes and provides circumjacent services in such a way that they are perceived by individuals as those naturally embedded in their surrounding environments. We present our view on how some of these problems, such as flexibility, portability and interoperability of services, can be solved using the flowable services to make seamless integration of diverse services in an intuitive "flowable" way possible, thus achieving maximum satisfaction of both service providers and consumers while decreasing the delivery cost of services. Recognizing the importance of the awareness of each individual's context for smooth and accurate provision of services, we conceive the flowable service framework that harnesses users' contexts to enable pro-active support of human activities in a flexible and natural way. Owing to context-awareness, the framework is able to find and integrate the circumjacent services that are considered to be needed by each individual, and create an ambient service environment tailored to his/her particular needs, proclivities and characteristics. © 2010 IEEE.

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  • A re-examination of ranking metrics for Learning Object repository

    Neil Y. Yen, Ying-Hong Wang, Qun Jin, David J.T. Yang

    2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, U-Media 2010     91 - 94  2010年  [査読有り]

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    In line with the popularity of Internet and the development of search engine, users request information through Web-based services. Although general purpose searching such as one provided by Google is powerful, searching mechanism for specific purposes could rely on metadata. We followed SCORM and CORDRA specifications to develop a registry system, called the MINE Registry, for storing and sharing 20,738 Learning Objects created in the past five years. As a contribution, we propose the concept of "Reusability Tree" to represent the relationships among relevant Learning Objects and to enhance CORDRA. We further collect relevant information while users are utilizing Learning Objects, such as citations and time period persisted. The feedbacks from community users are also considered as critical elements for evaluating significance degree of Learning Objects. Through these factors, we propose a mechanism to weight and rank Learning Objects in the MINE Registry, in addition to other external learning objects repositories. © 2010 IEEE.

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  • Provision of flowable services in cloud computing environments

    Yishui Zhu, Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    2010 5th International Conference on Future Information Technology, FutureTech 2010 - Proceedings    2010年  [査読有り]

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    Cloud computing, which can provide ubiquitous services, is a nexus of hardware, software, data and people. Service model is an essential part of cloud computing. It is recognized that the service model should provide precise computing results with low costs. However, we think it is not adequate as a computing paradigm if no consideration is made on the human aspects, especially, the factors of end users. In this study, we propose a novel service model: Flowable Service Model (FSM),which aims to provide appropriate services (as a flow) for users in any time and any place, and let them to enjoy ambient life empowered by cloud computing. How to make the services flowing from the cyber world to the real world? Being inspired by James Williams' stream of consciousness theory, we conceive FSM to leverage a variety of personal information, such as users' behaviors and habits. The operational mechanism for FMS is described in this paper. We expect our proposed model can make every user to feel more ambient with available cloud services. © 2010 IEEE.

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  • An agent based approach for promoting interactive teaching and active learning

    Runhe Huang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    2010 9th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, ITHET 2010     349 - 354  2010年  [査読有り]

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    This paper proposes an agent based support system for promoting interactive teaching and learning. The agent based system is developed with the emphasis on learning to know students' characters, habits, and preferences so that the teacher or the system can give students appropriate hints, encouragements, confidents, and as well as influence students gradually without their noticing and feeling of be persuaded and pressured. With more active participation of students in the interactive learning process, the teaching is more effective and the learning is more efficient. ©2010 IEEE.

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  • An integrated system to assist personalized learning based on gradual adaption recommendation model

    Jian Chen, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Runhe Huang

    2010 9th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, ITHET 2010     300 - 306  2010年  [査読有り]

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    This study presents an integrated adaptive system to support and facilitate individual learning based on a recommendation model that gradually adapts to a learner's needs and information access behaviors, including various learning related activities, over different time spans. In this paper, we focus on describing the integrated framework and discussing the design and implementation issues of the prototype system for personalized learning support. ©2010 IEEE.

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  • Putting adaptive granularity and rich context into learning objects

    Haifeng Man, Qun Jin

    2010 9th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, ITHET 2010     140 - 145  2010年  [査読有り]

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    The content granularity and context information are two important factors to the efficiency and reusability of learning objects. The context information is necessary to facilitate the discovery and reuse of learning objects stored in global and/or local repositories. However, traditional learning objects are generally not conceived to incorporate with enough context information. Users have to do some extension of the description item set to fit their special use. In this paper, in order to deal with the issue mentioned above, we firstly introduce a context-rich paradigm, the related service driven tagging strategy, and a context model of learning objects. We further explain how to use the context information to realize the adaptive granularity of the content object. Finally, we show a simple concept model for online authoring systems that support the evolution from resource objects to learning objects. ©2010 IEEE.

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  • Trend of e-learning: The service mashup

    Neil Y. Yen, Timothy K. Shih, Qun Jin, Hui-Huang Hsu, Louis R. Chao

    International Journal of Distance Education Technologies   8 ( 1 ) 69 - 88  2010年01月  [査読有り]

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    With the improvement of internet technologies and multimedia resources, traditional learning has been replaced by distance learning, web-based learning or others' e-learning learning styles. According to distance learning, there are many research organizations and companies who make efforts in developing the relevant systems. But they lack interoperability. The only way to reuse these applications is to redevelop them for specific purposes. In order to solve this situation and norm the various learning resources, IMS proposes a new e-learning standard named "Common Cartridge". This standard not only integrates the past e-learning standards like LOM, SCORM and QTI but also proposes a technical architecture called Learning Tools Interoperability to allow applications to reuse different systems without reprogramming. In this paper, we firstly introduce the current e-learning environment. Then we pay attention on the usage of Common Cartridge standards and discuss the architecture of Learning Tools Interoperability. According to these standards, we will point out the e-learning standard that might be widely utilized in the future. Copyright © 2010, IGI Global.

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  • Ubiquitous Personal Study: a framework for supporting information access and sharing

    Hong Chen, Qun Jin

    PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING   13 ( 7 ) 539 - 548  2009年10月  [査読有り]

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    The information resources on the Web are diversified, the amount of which is increasing rapidly. Demands for selecting useful information from the Internet, managing personal contents, and sharing contents under control have risen. In this study, we propose the Ubiquitous Personal Study, a framework of personalized virtual study to support accessing, managing, organizing, sharing and recommending information. In this paper, we focus on discussing the framework, and design and implementation issues on how to implement it with Web 2.0 mash-up technology and Open Source Software.

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  • Specification, standards and information management for distributed systems

    Irfan Awan, Qun Jin, Kuo-Ming Chao

    COMPUTER STANDARDS & INTERFACES   31 ( 5 ) 869 - 869  2009年09月  [査読有り]

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  • Dynamically constructing user profiles with similarity-based online incremental clustering

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms   1 ( 4 ) 377 - 397  2009年06月  [査読有り]

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    User profiling is a widely used technique to analyse and store user interests and preferences to apply this knowledge to improve user experiences with information systems. In this research paper, we present an approach for dynamically constructing user profiles, particularly from uniform relevance feedback in information-seeking activities. We propose an inference method for user interests, which we call High-Similarity Sequence Data-Driven (H2S2D) clustering and discuss its peculiarities and show its superiority for the creation of high-quality concepts, which are the elementary constituents of user profiles. To reflect the volatility of user interests and emphasise the steadiness of persistent preferences, we adopt recency, frequency and persistency as the three main criteria for multi-layered dynamic profile construction and update. Copyright © 2009 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

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  • Integrating Search and Sharing: User-Centric Collaborative Information Seeking

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH IEEE/ACIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE     388 - +  2009年  [査読有り]

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    User-centeredness has become an essential feature of information systems directly interacting with a user. In this paper we emphasize the importance of a user as an active content creator and contributor, community, and their synergy to achieve better user-centeredness in personalized Web search services. For this, we realize individual-community collaborative scheme integrating information search and sharing, and thus benefiting from both individual and community activities. Here we show the details of the scheme, including expertise-based information co-evaluation and collaborative search.

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  • Resource Retrieval Service to Enhance U-Learning Environment

    Neil Y. Yen, Louis R. Chao, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma, Timothy K. Shih

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBIQUITOUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & APPLICATIONS (ICUT 2009)     365 - +  2009年  [査読有り]

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    E-Learning makes it possible for learners to study at any time. With the improvement of ubiquitous technologies and corresponding devices, learners can conduct their learning activities without any limitations from the environment. Instructors can utilize various kinds of resources to create more plentiful learning materials for learners. In this situation, instructors or learners have to spend more time on collecting relevant resources for a specific purpose. In our previous works, we utilized the geographical information and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to develop an outdoor adventure game to support learning procedures. In this paper, we go further to propose and develop a resource retrieval mechanism to assist learners in collecting relevant learning resources. This mechanism can be regarded as a search procedure. We aim at providing search results in the order of relevant degree based on learners' current geographical information. It can make resource retrieval more efficient in ubiquitous learning environments.

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  • A Context-Aware Framework for Flowable Services

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Yishui Zhu, Qun Jin

    THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND UBIQUITOUS ENGINEERING (MUE 2009)     251 - +  2009年  [査読有り]

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    The paper first introduces the concept of flowable service, the basic idea of which is to organize circumjacent services in such a way so that they are perceived by an individual as those naturally embedded in his/her surrounding environment. It is achieved by seamless integration and provision of diverse services in an intuitive "flowable" way. For this, the mechanism responsible for service discovery, composition and provision has to have a good understanding of a user it serves to. We design a framework with a special focus on context-awareness to find and integrate the circumjacent services thought to be needed by each individual at his/her current situation, and thus create an ambient service environment tailored to his/her particular needs and characteristics. Here introduce the framework, its components and process abstraction, and outline some major issues we have to face when implementing our approach.

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  • Preface of MANS'09

    Yufeng Wang, Kuan Ching Li, Qun Jin, Hongbo Zhu, Jianhua Ma

    UIC-ATC 2009 - Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing in Conjunction with the UIC'09 and ATC'09 Conferences    2009年

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  • A flowable service model for seamless integration of services

    Yishui Zhu, Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin, Jianhua Ma

    Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, ACSE 2009     199 - 204  2009年

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    In this paper we introduce a novel model called flowable service model to seamlessly integrate diverse services in an intuitive "flowable" way. With this model we seek to achieve maximum satisfaction of both service providers and consumers, and reduce the delivery cost of services at the same time. We describe the principal characteristics of the model and its peculiarities, and illustrate ideas on mediation and integration of flow services inspired by Human Information Processing.

  • Information sharing across diverse media platforms with reconfigurable user grouping

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin, Guozhen Zhang, Runhe Huang

    Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, ACSE 2009     89 - 94  2009年

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    In this study, we propose a distributed framework for flexible and collaborative information sharing. It integrates diverse information media platforms, which are well-known as collaboration spaces where an individual user can share his/her contents with others freely, by using a hybrid peer-to-peer network model. Further, the framework ensures user collaboration on different reconfigurable scales: individual, small-group and large-group. Here we discuss the framework and show its prototype implementation that supports creating, managing, exchanging and sharing information among several different media platforms.

  • Message from the 2CCom 2009 symposium chairs

    Albert Zomaya, Qun Jin, Bharat K. Bhargava, Naixue Xiong, Sang Soo Yeo

    Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009   2  2009年

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  • Message from the PICom-09 chairs

    William Zhu, Qun Jin, Alessio Vecchio, Mingtian Zhou, Ajith Abraham, Hussein Mouftah, Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang

    8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2009     xxi - xxii  2009年  [査読有り]

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  • A web recommender system based on dynamic sampling of user information access behaviors

    Jian Chen, Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 2009   2   172 - 177  2009年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we propose a Gradual Adaption Model for a Web recommender system. This model is used to track users' focus of interests and its transition by analyzing their information access behaviors, and recommend appropriate information. A set of concept classes are extracted from Wikipedia. The pages accessed by users are classified by the concept classes, and grouped into three terms of short, medium and long periods, and two categories of remarkable and exceptional for each concept class, which are used to describe users' focus of interests, and to establish reuse probability of each concept class in each term for each user by Full Bayesian Estimation as well. According to the reuse probability and period, the information that a user is likely to be interested in is recommended. In this paper, we propose a new approach by which short and medium periods are determined based on dynamic sampling of user information access behaviors. We further present experimental simulation results, and show the validity and effectiveness of the proposed system. © 2009 IEEE.

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  • A user location-aware music playing system

    Youhei Katori, Jianhua Ma, Tomomi Kawashima, Bernady O. Apduhan, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin

    UIC-ATC 2009 - Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing in Conjunction with the UIC'09 and ATC'09 Conferences     377 - 382  2009年  [査読有り]

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    This research is aimed at a smart music playing environment in which a set of speakers are placed in different locations/rooms and one of the speakers will automatically play a music whenever a user gets close to it. Our study is focused on the design and prototype implementation of such a smart music playing system called U-LAMP (User Location-Aware Music Player). It consists of a server that stores streamed music data, and a set of clients that can receive and play the streamed music from the server. A user carries a RFID tag and can move around. When the user's tag ID is detected by a RFID reader that is connected to a nearby client, the server will switch the transmission of streamed music data from the previous client to the current one. This paper explains in details about how to get a user's location by detecting the user's tag ID, manage RTP-based music data delivery from the server to the client, play a streamed music using JMF, and achieve better audio listening effects during the transition period of handing-over the playing music stream between speakers in different rooms. © 2009 IEEE.

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  • A tree-structured intelligence entity pool and its sharing among ubiquitous objects

    Runhe Huang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009   2   318 - 325  2009年  [査読有り]

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    With the rapid advancing in electronics, VLSI, and nanotechnology, ubiquitous devices (u-objects) like mobile devices, sensing devices, RFID devices, IC cards, wireless devices, wireless wearable devices, etc. are getting more and more in number, smaller and smaller in size, and even invisible in form. In order to make them work without human involved and interaction, there is necessity of enabling them with intelligent, smart, or autonomic computing capabilities. Of course, intelligent function embedded is a straightforward approach. However, it may be difficult for the tiny devices to embed the intelligent computing capabilities due to their limited capacity and processing power. For a multiple intelligent agents system, it is not efficient to develop and maintain intelligent computing functions for each individual agent. Therefore, the idea is to design an intelligence entity sharing pool in which a requested intelligence entity can be dynamically composed from a number of atomic intelligence entities and complex intelligence entities residing in the intelligence entity pool and posted to virtual objects (v-object) in the v-object server for sharing by ubiquitous devices in the real world. This research is of three main phases: designing the intelligence entity sharing pool
    mapping u-objects to virtual objects (v-objects)
    and developing a framework for intelligence entity sharing. This paper is mainly focused on describing the first two phases. © 2009 IEEE.

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  • 利用者の情報アクセス行動を推定する逐次適応モデル(セッション2:履歴,状況・行動推定II)

    陳健, シュテイフロマン, 金群

    情報処理学会研究報告. GN, [グループウェアとネットワークサービス]   2008 ( 7 ) 19 - 24  2008年12月

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    本研究では、利用者の情報アクセス行動のデータを、ショート、ミディアム、ロングといった期間やRemarkableやExceptionalなどの特殊カテゴリに分けて収集・解析し、完全ベイジアン推定を基にした逐次適応モデルを提案する。

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  • Improving Mobile Web Search Experience with Slide-Film Interface

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    SITIS 2008: 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS     659 - +  2008年  [査読有り]

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    With slide-film interface discussed in this paper we propose a new mobile Web search experience. The interface abolishes fatigue-inducing scrolling while preserving "quality" summaries of Web search results to improve the efficacy and efficiency of mobile Web search. The evaluation of the approach shows that the proposed interface is superior to the conventional mobile search method in a number of aspects like easy navigation and good viewability of search results and can be its good alternative.

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  • Inferring User Interests from Relevance Feedback with High Similarity Sequence Data-Driven Clustering

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION     390 - +  2008年  [査読有り]

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    Relevance feedback is an important source of information about a user and often used for usage and user modeling for further personalization of user-system interactions. In this paper we present a method to infer the user's interests from his/her relevance feedback using an online incremental clustering method For inference of a new interest (concept) and concept update the method uses the similarity characteristics of uniform user relevance feedback It is fast, easy to implement and gives reasonable clustering results. We evaluate the method against two different data sets, demonstrate and discuss the outcomes.

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  • Harnessing user contributions and dynamic profiling to better satisfy individual information search needs

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB AND GRID SERVICES   4 ( 1 ) 63 - 79  2008年  [査読有り]

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    In the situation of information overload we are experiencing today, conventional web search systems taking a one-size-fits-all approach are often not capable of effectively satisfy individual information needs. To improve the quality of web information retrieval, we propose a collaborative personalised search approach that makes an attempt to &apos;understand&apos; and better satisfy the information needs for each and every searching user. We present a web information retrieval framework called Better Search and Sharing (BESS) that Captures user-system interactions, profiles them and induces personal interests that changes over time with an interest-change-driven profiling mechanism that is also extensively used for the co-evaluation of documents found valuable inside a specific search context by users with similar interests.

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  • Implementation of Ubiquitous Personal Study Using Web 2.0 Mash-up and OSS Technologies

    Hong Chen, Nozomi Ikeuchi, Qun Jin

    2008 22ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON ADVANCED INFORMATION NETWORKING AND APPLICATIONS, VOLS 1-3     1573 - 1578  2008年  [査読有り]

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    The information resources on the Web are diversified, and the amount is increasing rapidly. Demands for selecting useful information from the Internet, managing personal contents, and sharing contents under control have risen. In this study, we propose the Ubiquitous Personal Study (UPS), a framework of personalized virtual study to support accessing, managing, organizing, sharing and recommending information. In this paper, we focus on discussing the issues on how to implement it with Web 2.0 mash-up technology and Open Source Software.

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  • Slide-film interface: Overcoming small screen limitations in mobile web search

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Jian Chen, Qun Jin

    ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL   4956   622 - +  2008年  [査読有り]

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    It is well known that alongside with search engine performance improvements and functionality enhancements one of the determinant factors of user acceptance of any search service is the interface. This factor is particularly important for mobile Web search mostly due to small screen limitations of handheld devices. In this paper we propose scrolless mobile Web search interface to decrease search efforts that are multiplied due to these limitations, and discuss its potential advantages and drawbacks over conventional one.

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  • Robots in smart spaces - A case study of a u-object finder prototype

    Tomomi Kawashima, Jianhua Ma, Bernady O. Apduhan, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin

    UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS   5061   61 - +  2008年  [査読有り]

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    A smart space is a physical spatial environment such as a room that can provide automatic responses according to the contextual information occurring in an environment. The context data is usually acquired via various devices which are installed somewhere in the environment and/or embedded into some special physical objects, called u-objects, which are capable of executing computation and/or communication. However, the devices used in current researches on smart space are either fixed or residing in real. objects, which are incapable of moving by themselves. Likewise, more and more robots have been produced, but most of them are designed and developed based on the assumption that the space surrounding a robot is an ordinary one, i.e., a non-smart space. Therefore, it is necessary to study what additional services can be offered and what specific technical issues will be faced when adding robots to smart spaces. To identify the potential novel services and technology problems, this research is focused on a case study of a u-object finding service performed by a robot in a smart space. This paper presents the design and development of the system prototype robot which can communicate with other devices and can find a u-object with attached RFID tag in a smart room. Some preliminary experiments were conducted and the results verified the functionalities of the system.

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  • Modeling and analyzing individual's daily activities using lifelog

    Katsuhiro Takata, Jianhua Ma, Bernady O. Apduhan, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS     503 - +  2008年  [査読有り]

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    Lifelog is a data set composed of one or more media forms that record the same individual's daily activities. One of the main challenging issues is how to extract meaningful information from the huge and complex lifelog data which is continuously captured and accumulated from multiple sensors. This study is focused on the activity models and analysis techniques to process lifelog data in order: to find what events/states are interesting or important, to summarize the useful records in some structured and semantic ways for efficient retrievals and presentations of past life experiences, and to use these experiences to further improve the individual's quality of life. We propose an integrated technique to process the lifelog data using the correlations between different kinds of captured data from multiple sensors, instead of dealing with them separately. To use and test the proposed models and the analysis techniques, several prototype systems have been implemented and applied to some domain-specific lifelog data; such as in improving a group's collaborative efforts in revising a software, in managing kid's outdoor safety care, in providing a runner's workout assistance, and in structuring lifelog image generation, respectively.

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  • Message from the UASS 2008 chairs

    Jong Hyuk Park, Laurence T. Yang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin, Hangbae Chang

    Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA     73  2008年

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  • IMIS 2008 message from the workshop organizers MUE 2008

    Seong Moo Yoo, Bonam Kim, Hui Huang Hsu, Ilsun You, Jong Hyuk Park, Minyi Guo, Ching Hsien Hsu, David Simplot-Ryl, Edwin H.M. Sha, Hai Jin, Javier Lopez, Shu Ching Chen, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Junmo Yang, Wen Tzeng Huang, Akiyo Nadamoto, Chengcui Zhang, Ching Sheng Wang, Chunming Rong, Frode Eika Sandnes, Geyong Min, Howard Leung, Hyobeom Ahn, Hyunju Kim, Indrakshi Ray, Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Javier García-Villalba, Jemal H. Abawajy, Jinhua Guo, Jon Youn, Kouichi Sakurai, Kuei Ping Shih, Lawrence Y. Deng, Mei Ling Shyu, Mohammad Al-Shurman, Oh Heum Kwon, Pedro M. Ruiz, Pilar Herrero, Q. Shi, Qun Jin, Seungjin Park, Sang Hyuk Son, Whai En Chen, Witold Pedrycz, Xiaofeng Chen, Yin Fu Huang

    Proceedings - 2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE 2008    2008年

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  • Capturing user contexts: Dynamic profiling for information seeking tasks

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    Proc. - The 3rd Int. Conf. Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2008 - Includes I-CENTRIC 2008: Int. Conf. Advances in Human-Oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services     365 - 370  2008年

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    Knowing each user's information needs is important for information systems to better facilitate human information activities. This is especially important in the days of information overload we are experiencing today. However, knowing and correctly applying individual information needs is extremely difficult, often impossible. Yet knowing multiple contexts of user information behavior can give us some conception (or a hint) of conceivable information a user tries to obtain in a particular context. In this paper we focus on capturing such information contexts into dynamically changing profiles which are further used to facilitate the user's information seeking activities. © 2008 IEEE.

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  • Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2008: Message from SCCM 2008 Chairs

    Mika Ylianttila, Jin Qun, Minyi Guo, Heming Zhang, Zhixiong Chen, Jukka Riekki, Jiehan Zhou, Mika Rautiainen

    Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2008   PART2  2008年

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  • Gradual adaption model for estimation of user information access behavior

    Jian Chen, Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    Proc. - The 3rd Int. Conf. Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2008 - Includes I-CENTRIC 2008: Int. Conf. Advances in Human-Oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services     378 - 383  2008年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we propose a gradual adaption model for estimation of user information access behavior. A variety of users' information access data are collected by unit of a day for each user, and analyzed in terms of short, medium, long periods, and by remarkable and exceptional categories. The proposed model is then established by analyzing the pre-processed data based on Full Bayesian Estimation. We further present experimental simulation results, and show the operability and effectiveness of our proposed model. © 2008 IEEE.

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  • Enhancing IR with user-centric integrated approach of interest change driven layered profiling and user contributions

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINAW'07   2   240 - 245  2007年  [査読有り]

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    We discuss an approach to enhance conventional IR with contributions (relevance judgments) done by users interacting with a document collection and personalization by profiles inside the collaborative search and sharing system. It is designed to capture user search intentions derived from explicit and implicit feedback and keep analyzed data in layered profiles for further query augmentation, document recommendation and contribution personalization in the form of "subjective index." For profile generation and document evaluation we propose an interest change driven profiling mechanism which reflects all dynamics of user search intentions. © 2007 IEEE.

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  • P2Pネットワークを用いた異なるメディア・プラットフォーム間における情報共有の提案(情報共有)

    飯村卓也, 吉見圭司, 竹井菜奈子, 張国珍, 金群

    情報処理学会研究報告. GN, [グループウェアとネットワークサービス]   2006 ( 60 ) 25 - 30  2006年05月

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    本研究では、BlogやWiki、XOOPSといった個人が自由に情報を発信し交換できるメディア・プラットフォームを、ピア・ツー・ピア(P2P)ネットワーク環境で連携する情報共有支援環境を提案し、個人や少人数のグループから人数の制限がないオープンなコミュニティを柔軟に形成でき、オフラインでも情報の作成や編集が可能な協調分散型情報共有システムの試作を試みた。

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  • Ubisafe computing: Vision and challenges (I)

    Jianhua Ma, Qiangfu Zhao, Vipin Chaudhary, Jingde Cheng, Laurence T. Yang, Runhe Huang, Qun Jin

    AUTONOMIC AND TRUSTED COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS   4158   386 - 397  2006年  [査読有り]

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    In recent years, a variety of new computing paradigms have been proposed for various purposes. It is true that many of them intend to and really can gratify some of the people sometime, somewhere; a few of them can even gratify some of the people anytime, anywhere. However, at present, none of the computing paradigms intend to gratify all the people anytime, anywhere. With the rapid advance of information technology and the spread of information services, the IT disparity in age, social standing, and race of the people has been expanding and has become a critical social problem of the 21st century. Thus, we have a fundamental question: Can we construct, in a unified methodology, a computing environment that can gratify all the people in all situations, all places and all the time? We propose a novel and inclusive computing paradigm, named ubisafe computing, for studying and providing possible solutions to the above problem. The ultimate goal of ubisafe computing is to build a computing environment in which all people and organizations can benefit from ubiquitous services anytime anywhere with assured and desired satisfaction without worrying or thinking about safety. That is, the ubisafe computing vision emphasizes two basic aspects: ubiquitous safety and ubiquitous satisfaction to all people in all situations. This paper presents the motivations for the ubisafe computing vision but focuses on one basic aspect of ubiquitous safety that covers reliability, security, privacy, persistency, trust, risk, out of control, and other watchfulness while considering novel, essential ubicomp or percomp features of unobtrusive computers, diverse users/people and life-like systems.

  • Scalable information sharing utilizing decentralized P2P networking integrated with centralized personal and group media tools

    Guozhen Zhang, Qun Jin

    20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED INFORMATION NETWORKING AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 2, PROCEEDINGS   2   707 - +  2006年  [査読有り]

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    We proposed a collaborative information sharing environment based on P2P net-working technology, to support communication among special groups with given tasks, ensure fast information exchange, increase the productivity Of working groups, and reduce maintenance and administration costs in our previous work.
    However, for a social growing community, not only the information exchange/sharing functions are necessary, but also solutions to support users with idea and knowledge publication tools for private purpose or public use are essential. Some private message (personal idea and experience) posting tools (e.g., weblog) and group collaborative knowledge editing tools (e.g., Wikis) are used in practice; the merits of these tools have been recognized.
    In this paper we propose a scalable information sharing solution, which integrates decentralized P2P networking with centralized personal/group media tools. This solution combines the effective tools, such as weblog and Wiki, into P2P-based collaborative groupware system, to facilitate infinite, growing and scalable information management and sharing for individuals and groups.

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  • Enhancing ontology-based context modeling with temporal vector space for ubiquitous intelligence

    Shermann S. M. Chan, Qun Jin

    20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED INFORMATION NETWORKING AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 1, PROCEEDINGS   1   669 - +  2006年  [査読有り]

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    Context is the information, which is created and obtained from the surrounding environment for the interaction between humans and computational services. A generic model is a key accessor to the context in any context-aware applications for ubiquitous computing. In the past decades, a number of context modeling techniques have been proposed e.g. markup scheme based, logic-based, graphical, and ontology-based. Since ontology in its nature is a promising tool to specify concepts and interrelations, it has been widely adopted in context modeling. However, in the rapid changing environments, semantics may vary according to the time factors and dynamic group of users. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based context model with temporal vector space in order to complement this deficiency.

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  • Collaboratively shared information retrieval model for e-learning

    Shermann S. M. Chan, Qun Jin

    ADVANCES IN WEB BASED LEARNING - ICWL 2006   4181   123 - 133  2006年  [査読有り]

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    Nowadays, the World Wide Web offers public search services by a number of Internet search engine companies e.g. Google [16], Yahoo! [17], etc. They own their internal ranking algorithms, which may be designed for either general-purpose information and/or specific domains. In order to fight for bigger market share, they have developed advanced tools to facilitate the algorithms through the use of Relevance Feedback (RF) e.g. Google's Toolbar. Experienced by the black-box tests of the RF toolbar, all in all, they can acquire simple and individual RF contribution. As to this point, in this paper, we have proposed a collaboratively shared Information Retrieval (IR) model to complement the conventional IR approach (i.e. objective) with the collaborative user contribution (i.e. subjective). Not only with RF and group relevance judgments, our proposed architecture and mechanisms provide a unified way to handle general purpose textual information (herein, we consider e-Learning related documents) and provide advanced access control features [15] to the overall system.

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  • Message from CAUL 2006 Workshop Organizers

    Shian Shyong Tseng, Kinshuk, Stephen J.H. Yang, Gwo Jen Hwang, Nian Shing Chen, Mohamed Ally, Johnny Biström, Jan Brase, William C.C. Chu, Jen Yao Chung, Francis C.M. Lau, Kuo En Chang, Gwo Dong Chen, Ming Syan Chen, Irene Chen, Shih Wei Chou, Andrea Detti, Claus Eikemeier, Jun H. Jo, Yueh Min Huang, Qun Jin, Vicki Jones, Soraya Kouadri Most'efaoui, Jaakko Kurhila, Stefano Levialdi, Sheng Tun Li, Anthony Y.H. Liao, Pierpaolo Loreti, Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, Haruo Nishinosono, Caoimhín O'Nualláin, Timothy K. Shih, Charles A. Shoniregun, Marten J. Van Sinderen, Judy C.R. Tseng, David Yang, Yao Ming Yeh, Pao Ta Yu, Jia Zhang, Rick Chen, Angus Huang, Jeff Huang, Blue Lan, Norman Shao, Addison Su, Jun Ming Su, Jui Feng Weng

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing   2006 I  2006年

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  • A survey of distance education challenges and technologies

    Timothy K. Shih, Jason C. Hung, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Future Directions in Distance Learning and Communication Technologies   1 ( 1 ) 1 - 25  2006年  [査読有り]

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    Distance education, e-learning, and virtual university are similar terms for a trend of modern education. It is an integration of information technologies, computer hardware systems, and communication tools to support educational professionals in remote teaching. This chapter presents an overview of distance education from the perspective of policy, people, and technology. A number of questions frequently asked in distance learning panel discussions are presented, with the suggested answers from the authors. The survey presented in this chapter includes communication, intelligent, and educational technologies of distance education. Readers of this chapter are academic researchers and engineers who are interested in new research issues of distance education, as well as educators and general participants who are seeking for new solutions. © 2007, Idea Group Inc.

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  • Design of bookmark-based information space to support exploration and rediscovery

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Jin Qun

    Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 2006    2006年  [査読有り]

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    Search is not the only activity in information space users are engaged in. Most of time users rediscover things they used to find in the past, and often they just browse without any specific purpose discovering information space around them or with a particular purpose, such as learning miscellaneous information. We propose an approach for designing exploratory information space that makes use of human-centered power of bookmarking for information selection. The information space is built as a result of a search for something a user intends to discover, and serves as a place for rediscoveries of personal findings, socialization and exploration inside discovery chains of other participants of the proposed prototype system. The most important elements of the proposed information space, main elements of the prototype system to be implemented and used to explore the space, and use scenarios are discussed here. © 2006 IEEE.

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  • Peer-to-peer solution to support group collaboration and information sharing

    Roman Shtykh, Guozhen Zhang, Qun Jin

    International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications   1 ( 3 ) 187 - 198  2005年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we propose and develop an opensource groupware system called NetIsle. NetIsle is a general purpose groupware system for uniform open groups that integrate a number of tools for online collaboration to ensure fast information exchange and sharing, increase the productivity of working groups, and reduce maintenance and administration costs. The main technologies used for the construction of the system are peer-to-peer (P2P) and push, which are best fitted to those principles and beliefs we build our system upon. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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  • Research on collaborative service solution in ubiquitous learning environment

    GZ Zhang, Q Jin

    PDCAT 2005: Sixth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, Proceedings   2005   804 - 806  2005年  [査読有り]

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    This paper outlines anew model of ubiquitous computing technology support learning (uLearning). In the uLearning, in order to facilitate the awareness of other helpful learners, increase the availability of the mutual and friendly support in the learning process, and enhance learners' communication skills, the authors offer a serial of services. These services arc designed as dynamic group construction service, social intercommunion facilitation service, service of navigating learner to get out of difficulty, etc.

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  • Ubiquitous learning on pocket SCORM

    HP Chang, WC Chang, YL Sie, NH Lin, CH Huang, TK Shih, Q Jin

    EMBEDDED AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING - EUC 2005 WORKSHOPS, PROCEEDINGS   3823   171 - 179  2005年  [査読有り]

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    With advanced technologies, computer devices have become smaller and powerful. As a result, many people enjoy ubiquitous learning using mobile devices such as Pocket PCs. Pocket PCs are easy to carry and use as a distance learning platform. In this paper, we focus on the issues of transferring the current PC based Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) to Pocket PC based. We will also introduce the Pocket SCORM Run-Time Environment (RTE) which has been developed in our lab. Pocket SCORM architecture is able to operate, even when the mobile device is off-line. It will keep the students' learning record. When it is on line, the records will then be sent back to Learning Management System (LMS). With memory limitation, we provides course caching algorithm to exchange the course content on the Pocket SCORM.

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  • Peer-to-peer based social interaction tools in ubiquitous learning environment

    GZ Zhang, Q Jin, TK Shih

    11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol I, Proceedings   1   230 - 236  2005年  [査読有り]

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    This paper discusses a fundamental notion and model of ubiquitous computing technology support learning (uLearning) system. In order to increase learners' social skills and support social interaction among learners, the authors design a collection of support tools; these tools serve for three processes: encounter communication and collaboration. Furthermore, prototyping implementation of the social interaction support tools is introduced.

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  • A framework of social interaction support for ubiquitous learning

    GZ Zhang, Q Jin, M Lin

    AINA 2005: 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED INFORMATION NETWORKING AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 2   2   639 - 643  2005年  [査読有り]

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    This paper describes the computer supported ubiquitous learning system and the social interaction between learners. We define the ubiquitous learning with five prime attributes, and present a generalized social interaction support model for the ubiquitous learning. Moreover in order to support learners with increasing social skill, a solution for constructing social interaction in ubiquitous learning environment is designed, which includes three major functions: encounter communication and collaboration support functions.

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  • 『キャンパス』モデルによる e-Learning の実践 : 早稲田大学人間科学部eスクールの取り組み

    西村 昭治, 浅田 匡, 向後 千春, 菊池 英明, 金 群, 松居 辰則, 野嶋 栄一郎

    日本教育工学会大会講演論文集   20   149 - 152  2004年09月

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  • 早稲田大学eスクールの実践 : 大学教育におけるeラーニングの展望

    向後 千春, 西村 昭治, 浅田 匡, 菊池 英明, 金 群, 野嶋 栄一郎

    日本教育工学会研究報告集   2004 ( 3 ) 17 - 23  2004年05月

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  • Design of peer-to-peer groupware integrated with interactive browser for active information sharing and collaboration support

    R Shtykh, GZ Zhang, Q Jin

    FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS     404 - 409  2004年  [査読有り]

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    In this study, we propose and develop an open-source groupware system called NetIsle. NetIsle is a general-purpose groupware system for uniform open groups that integrate a number of tools for online collaboration to ensure fast information exchange and sharing, increase the productivity of working groups, and reduce maintenance and administration costs. The main technologies used for the construction of the system are peer-to-peer (P2P) and push, which are best fitted to those principles and beliefs we build our system upon.

  • Multi-agent system for Online course content management

    R Komatsu, JH Ma, Q Jin

    18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED INFORMATION NETWORKING AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 1 (LONG PAPERS), PROCEEDINGS   1   183 - 188  2004年  [査読有り]

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    This paper presents a multi-agent system to assist a teacher managing his/her course contents placed on web servers. In this system there is a set of agents and every agent may work independently from or collaboratively with others. Once generated, an agent can reside in a teacher's daily working computer (called administration host) or a proxy host, and can move between the two hosts. Each agent is devoted to one piece of job and all of them, as a whole, coordinately conduct a sequence of management work during the entire process of teaching a course. A teacher may administrate agents via a specific system shell on his/her administration host, or a usual web browser on another computer/PDA/mobile phone. The system has been carefully modularized, and thus a new type of agent, if necessary, can be relatively easily developed and quickly incorporated into the system to further enhance or extend its management capability.

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  • NetIsle: A hybrid peer-to-peer groupware system based on push technology for small group collaboration

    R Shtykh, Q Jin

    DATABASES IN NETWORKED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS   2822   177 - 187  2003年  [査読有り]

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    This paper describes small group collaboration solutions based upon push technology, which provides awareness for collaboration, reduces efforts for necessary information discovery, and makes users collaboration initiators, active information providers and new values creators. The push technology-based tools, i.e. File Pusher, Scheduler, NetIsle Mailer, etc., axe implemented in a hybrid peer-to-peer general-purpose groupware system, called NetIsle, which has been developed by using Java RMI and sockets and can be run on any platform where Java VM is available.

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  • Collaborative information browser: Collecting and organizing information through group collaboration

    Qun Jin, Nobuko Furugori, Katsuyoshi Hanasaki, Norifumi Asahi, Yoshiteru Ooi

    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics   6   170 - 174  2002年

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    In recent years, we have encountered a serious problem that a huge amount of information is flooding on the Internet. There is a growing desire to have an effective way to utilize information on the Internet. We propose a framework for collecting, organizing and reusing information through group collaboration: collaborative information browser. We further discuss the design and implemention of a prototype for a collaborative information browser.

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  • Mobile Agent Platform Supports to e-Marketing

    Ying Hong Wang, Qun Jin, Shih Wel Kao, Huei Yuan Chan

    11th Golden West International Conference on Intelligent Systems 2002, ICIS 2002     143 - 148  2002年

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    Due to the popularization of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), the limitation of distance and region are broken for business behaviors. At same time, E-Commerce becomes one of the most important applications on Internet E-Commerce can help a company or enterprise to extend its trading area to unlimited space. Some techniques and facilities are proposed to enhance E-Commerce applications. Agent technique is one of the important technologies developed to support the Internet applications. Especially, the Internet and WWW technologies broken the limitation of space of enterprise marketing, and the agent techniques solve the problems of temporality. Because of when the users are off-line, the agents are still active in the world of computer network and play the role of their users. In this paper, agents and mobile agents mechanism are proposed for electronic marketplaces. There are some researching issues will be discussed. They include the platform of mobile agents, the types and classifications of agents and mobile agents, authentication and security facilities, and so on. Based on this architecture of E-marketplace, the applications of E-commerce will be more effective, easier to develop, and more creating the marketing of business.

  • A push-type groupware system to facilitate small group collaboration

    R. Shtykh, Qun Jin

    Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Cyber Worlds, CW 2002     354 - 359  2002年

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    In this study, we are trying to develop a general-purpose groupware system for uniform open groups that integrate in itself all main tools necessary for collaboration and cooperation online to achieve common goals at shorter times, ensure fast information transfer and decrease the amount of necessary administration. The system consists of a number of tools that reflect actions of one member at all the nodes of the system, giving awareness for collaboration and increasing its effectiveness. In comparison with other applications that have been designed for knowledge sharing, our system pushes necessary information through the network so that no manual search and download are necessary if one of the group members possesses it. Thus the speed of training, knowledge and information sharing is accelerated and participation of the group members will be increased. By developing the system, we are trying to provide shared workspace for all main platforms as well.

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  • Individualized collaboration support for online leaning communities

    Q Jin

    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION, VOLS I AND II, PROCEEDINGS     784 - 788  2002年  [査読有り]

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    In this paper we introduce a framework for every-netizen online learning communities that widely open to anyone who is willing to learn and share knowledge with others across the networks. We discuss how to provide individualized collaboration support for e-learning in the community, and demonstrate a prototype of implementation in a web-based social virtual environment with two supporting tools.

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  • Peer-to-peer file sharing with integrated attribute descriptions in XML and an embedded database engine

    S Takizawa, Q Jin

    DATABASES IN NETWORKED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   2544   225 - 238  2002年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    As a new distributed computing paradigm, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and systems have attracted more and more attentions in recent years. This study aims at proposing and constructing a new information resource sharing system based on the P2P paradigm. In this paper, we focus on solving and improving the hit rate and search speed problems that exist in Gnutella, one of the most popular P2P file sharing systems. We discuss how to introduce XML to describe the attributes and properties of each shared file and integrate an embedded database engine to increase the search speed. Preliminary experiment results have demonstrated that the approach proposed in this study is efficient and useful.

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  • Design of multilingual agents for community-based collaborative virtual universities

    Q. Jin, J. Huang, Z. Y. Peng

    Journal of Shanghai University   5 ( SUPPL. SEPT. ) 248 - 253  2001年09月

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    Community-based collaborative virtual universities that widely open to anyone who has the will to learn and to share their knowledge with others across the networks have been proposed, which imply the diversity of their users, encompassing the needs of people of all ages, nationalities and ability levels, and consequently cause a language problem in knowledge representation and communication. This paper proposes a multilingual agent and discusses how to design the agent in the context of multi agent paradigm to provide an integrated solution of software agent and virtual environment media technologies, with a demonstration of a prototyping implementation in a MOO (Multi user dimension Object-Oriented) based virtual environment.

  • A shopping negotiation agent that adapts to user preferences

    Runhe Huang, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   2252   45 - 56  2001年

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    This paper describes a shopping negotiation agent that can adapt user preferences and automatically negotiate with its counter party on behalf of a user it represents. The agent is built on a basis of the proposed negotiation model, the enhanced extended Bazaar model, which is a sequence of decision making model of negotiation with exploiting common knowledge, public information, and game theory. Since different users can have different preferences, it is important for the agent to have adaptation to different user preferences. This can be achieved by acquiring user preferences, tracing user’s behavior on Web and mapping the behavior to a set of the preference parameters, creating the negotiation model class, and generating an instance negotiation model object with new/updated preference parameters.

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  • Computer supported social networking for augmenting cooperation

    H. Ogata, Y. Yano, N. Furugori, Q. Jin

    Computer Supported Cooperative Work   10 ( 2 ) 189 - 209  2001年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    The exploration of social networks is essential for finding capable cooperators who can help problem-solving and for augmenting cooperation between workers in an organization. This paper describes PeCo-Mediator-II to seek capable cooperators through a chain of personal connections (PeCo) in a networked organization. Moreover, this system helps to gather, explore, and visualize social networks in an organization. The experimental results show that the system facilitates users' encounters with cooperators and develops new helpful connections with the cooperators.

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  • Design of a virtual community based interactive learning environment

    Q Jin

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH JOINT CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SCIENCES, VOLS 1 AND 2   5 ( 2 ) A636 - A642  2000年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for every-citizen learning comminities based on a recently widespread Internet tool known as MOO (Multi user dimension Object-Oriented). We discuss the design and development of a prototype system of virtual community based interactive learning environments, which supports human-human communication in addition to human-computer communication, with emphsis on social interaction.

  • 探索結果を利用した人脈ネットワークの活用支援の提案とその実験的評価 (<特集>ヒューマンインタフェースとインタラクション)

    緒方 広明, 矢野 米雄, 古郡 延子, 金 群

    情報処理学会論文誌   40 ( 2 ) 632 - 641  1999年02月  [査読有り]

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    本論文では, 人脈ネットワークの探索結果を用いて, 人脈探索を支援する手法を提案する. 我々は, 人脈を分散型人脈活用支援システムPeCo-Mediator-IIをすでに構築したが, 探索結果の利用は考慮されていなかった. 探索結果を利用することにより, 協力者, 仲介者などのユーザのタイプ分けを行い, 人脈探索の効率化をはかる. また, 協力可能な人物として準協力者の役割を設けることにより, 新たに協力者を育成し, 同じ協力者への依頼の集中を避ける. さらに, 協力者から得たノウハウを共有することにより人脈探索の繰返しを軽減する. 最後に, これらの支援機能をPeCo-Mediator-II上に実現したシステムと, その実験的評価について述べる.

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  • 分散型人脈活用支援システムPeCo-Mediator-IIの構築 (<小特集>コンカレント・コラボレーション技術論文小特集)

    緒方 広明, 古郡 延子, 金 群, 矢野 米雄

    電子情報通信学会論文誌. D-I, 情報・システム, I-コンピュータ   80 ( 7 ) 551 - 560  1997年07月  [査読有り]

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    本論文では, 通信ネットワークを利用して, 組織内のインフォーマルな人的ネットワーク(人脈)の有効利用を支援することを目的とした分散型人脈活用支援システムPeCo-Mediator-IIについて述べる. PeCo-Mediator-IIは, 名刺交換をもとにした人脈の共有活用を支援するシステムPeCo-Mediatorをネットワーク環境に拡張したものである. PeCo-Mediator-IIは, 電子メールの交換による人脈を個人ごとに蓄積し, ネットワークを介して人脈をたどり, 協力者を探し, その協力を得る過程を支援する. 本論文では, ネットワーク環境における人脈の蓄積手法と人脈の強さの数量化手法, ならびに, 人脈探索の状態遷移モデルを提案する. 更に, これらの提案に基づいて試作したシステムと, その実験的評価について述べる.

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  • Entropy based approach for direction-of-arrival estimation in Gaussian and non-Gaussian correlated noise

    Yifeng Zhou, Henry Leung, Patrick C. Yip, Q. Jin

    ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings   5   3505 - 3508  1997年

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    In this paper, we present an entropy based approach for DOA estimation in Gaussian and non-Gaussian environments. The DOA estimates are obtained by minimizing an entropy measure of the array data in the noise sub-space. We show that the entropy approach leads to the MAP algorithm under the Gaussian assumption. Under the non-Gaussian assumption, we apply the varimax norm as an information measure. An intuitive consistency analysis is also performed. Computer simulations are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

  • Design issues and experiences from having lessons in text-based social virtual reality environments

    Qun Jin, Yoneo Yano

    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics   2   1418 - 1423  1997年

     概要を見る

    In the past few years, a network-accessible, multi-user simulated environment known as MUD has becoming widespread on the Internet for purposes of entertainment and education. In this paper, we firstly discuss design issues of collaborative learning in text-based virtual reality environments. We describe our experimental MUD based virtual learning environment, its integration with outside databases and Internet resources, and a graphical user interface to use it. Finally, we introduce our experimental use of this virtual learning environment, experiences from having virtual lessons in it, and some primary evaluation results.

  • Stochastic Petri net model of an Ethernet-based manufacturing system

    Q Jin, Y Yano, Y Sugasawa

    STOCHASTIC MODELLING IN INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING   445   46 - 57  1997年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    Petri nets can be viewed as a kind of language for specifying Markov models of a system, because of their highly visual nature that can give insight into the nature of the modeled system. In this paper, an aggregate approach by extended stochastic Petri net and Markov renewal process with some non-regeneration points is proposed to conduct performance analysis of an Ethernet-based flexible manufacturing system. The proposed approach may improve efficiency of performance analysis for most practical distributed network based manufacturing systems.

  • Design issues and experiences from having lessons in text-based social virtual reality environments

    Q Jin, Y Yano

    SMC '97 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS - 1997 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS, VOLS 1-5     1418 - 1423  1997年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    In the past few years, a network-accessible, multi-user simulated environment known as MUD has becoming widespread on the Internet for purposes of entertainment and education. In this paper, we firstly discuss design issues of collaborative learning in text-based virtual reality environments. We describe our experimental MUD based virtual learning environment, its integration with outside databases and Internet resources, and a graphical user interface to use it. Finally, we introduce our experimental use of this virtual learning environment, experiences from having virtual lessons in it, and some primary evaluation results.

  • Non-regenerative stochastic Petri nets: Modeling and analysis

    Q Jin, Y Yano, Y Sugasawa

    IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES   E79A ( 11 ) 1781 - 1790  1996年11月  [査読有り]

    担当区分:筆頭著者, 責任著者

     概要を見る

    We develop a new class of stochastic Petri net. non-regenerative stochastic Petri net (NRSPN), which allows the firing time of its transitions with arbitrary distributions, and can automatically generate a bounded reachability graph that is equivalent to a generalization of the Markov renewal process in which some of the states may not constitute regeneration points. Thus, it can model and analyze behavior of a system whose states include some non-regeneration points. We show how to model a system by the NRSPN, and how to obtain numerical solutions For the NRSPN model. The probabilistic behavior of the modeled system can be clarified with the reliability measures such as the steady-state probability, the expected numbers of visits to each slate per unit lime, availability, unavailability and mean time between system failure. Finally, to demonstrate the modeling ability and analysis power of the NRSPN model, we present an example for a fault-tolerant system using the NRSPN and give numerical results for specific distributions.

  • (67)学生による授業評価アンケート : 工学部全学生、全クラスに対する実施と評価(第19セッション 教育評価(II))

    矢野 米雄, 金 群, 森吉 孝

    工学・工業教育研究講演会講演論文集   8   215 - 218  1996年07月

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  • Modeling and analysis of agents' probabilistic behavior by a non-regenerative Stochastic Petri net

    Q Jin, Y Yano, Y Sugasawa

    INFORMATION INTELLIGENCE AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-4   1   187 - 192  1996年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    When interacting and acting in a dynamic multiagent environment, an agent must ask itself what is presently its best course of action given what it now knows about what the environment will be like when it intends to act. It requires some ability to make decision by computing the probability that relevant propositions will hold at a specified point of time. Among the interaction and action, some of them can be characterized by an exponential time distribution, others might not. This paper presents a non-regenerative stochastic Petri net that allows arbitrary time distributions, use it to model and analyze agents' probabilistic behavior.

  • Design of a supporting tool for knowledge creation

    N Furugori, Q Jin, H Ogata, Y Yano

    INFORMATION INTELLIGENCE AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-4   1   580 - 585  1996年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    Knowledge Creation from flooding information is one of the most burdensome subject we face today. We have developed a supporting tool to create knowledge for effective use of information. As a basis of the tool, we propose a cooperative framework, where user and the system cooperate each other to derive knowledge from gathered information. After presented the structure of the tool, we illustrate two major functions with examples. First one is the systematic arrangement of knowledge and the second is the elaborated search referencing knowledge base.

  • Distributed PeCo-Mediator: Finding partners via personal connections

    H Ogata, A Goji, Q Jin, Y Yano, N Furugori

    INFORMATION INTELLIGENCE AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-4   1   802 - 807  1996年

     概要を見る

    In this paper, we describe the distributed PeCo-Mediator which support a user to find a partner by using personal connections (PeCo). We have already proposed PeCo-Mediator which allows members to share and use their PeCo. PeCo-Mediator is very available in some small groups. In an organizational use, however, there are some problems; (1) It is difficult a user to offer his/her ties because they are private information; (2) Since this system only supports to find some candidate partners and relationships with them, a user has to negotiate with them to get the cooperation, using the offered connection. Distributed PeCo-Mediator has the two sub-systems; PeCo-Collector for maintaining the individual PeCo in his/her own site, and PeCo-Agent for supporting the negotiation between him/her and a candidate. It improves the privacy of users and also facilitates to find a cooperative and capable partner.

  • COMES: Collaborative organizational memory system

    H Ogata, K Tsutsumi, Q Jin, Y Yano, N Furugori

    INFORMATION INTELLIGENCE AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-4   2   983 - 987  1996年

     概要を見る

    This paper describes COMES (Collaborative Organizational Memory System) for supporting real-time collaboration in organizational problem solving. A related area of research investigates organizational memory or know-how systems such as Answer Garden and FISH. These systems are generally text-based and asynchronous. However, users must often repeat to exchange question and answer with each other to solve a problem; and only text-based information makes it difficult for them to communicate smoothly. Therefore, COMES allows organizational members to collaborate with each other in synchronous text-and-sketch based problem-solving forums connected via the Internet and makes its process retrievable and visible.

  • PeCo-Mediator:人脈活用支援システムのモデル化と試作

    緒方 広明, 矢野 米雄, 古郡 延子, 金 群

    情報処理学会論文誌   36 ( 6 ) 1299 - 1309  1995年06月  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    人脈(Personal Connection : PeCo)は,仕事を進める上で他者の協力が必要な場合に役立つ.我々は,グループの各個人が持つ人脈の共有活用により,グループ活動の支援を目的としたシステム&quot;PeCo-Mediator&quot;を構築した.利用者は,共有する人物情報と人脈情報を利用して,問題解決能力をもつ人物を探し,その人物への人脈を辿り,幅広い分野の人物から協力を得ることができる.本論分では,人物探索を支援する柔軟なデータベースの枠組と人脈探索を支援する環境について述べる.柔軟なデータベースは,多様な属性をもつ人物情報が蓄積でき,利用者の情報の捉え方に適応できる.人脈の探索環境は,利用者の人脈の捉え方に適応できる人脈モデルに従い,人脈の強さを数量化して,活用できそうな人脈を視覚的に表示する.

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  • Representation and analysis of behavior for multiprocess systems by using stochastic Petri nets

    Q. Jin, Y. Sugasawa

    Mathematical and Computer Modelling   22 ( 10-12 ) 109 - 118  1995年

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    This paper proposes a new approach to visually represent the behavior of multiprocess in a computer network system using stochastic Petri net (SPN) and an aggregate approach of SPN and Markov renewal process (MRP) to conduct behavior analysis and performance evaluation for the system. SPN is employed because of its highly visual nature that can give insight into the nature of the modeled system and because of its expressive power for an exponentially distributed event. In order to increase the analytical power of the SPN model, MRP is introduced and an embedded transference probability matrix is applied to obtain the steady-state solution of the model, from which it is possible to obtain automatically the performance measures of the multiprocess computer network system. © 1995.

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  • Analyzing system reliability using non-regenerative stochastic petri nets

    Y. Sugasawa, R. F. Vidale, Q. Jin

    IEEE Symposium on Emerging Technologies &amp; Factory Automation   3   399 - 406  1995年

     概要を見る

    A Non-Generative Stochastic Petri Net (NRSPN) is developed by defining its marking process in terms of a general state space of a Markov Renewal Process (MRP) and introducing new notations for the NRSPN. In order to analyze probabilistic properties of reliable systems, a unique modification of the conventional MRP, in which all states are regeneration points, is made. The NRSPN model allows firing times with arbitrary distribution; thus it can model and analyze system states that include some non-generative points. Moreover, the probabilistic behavior of a system can be clarified with the numerical measures of the first-passage time distributions, the renewal function, and the transition probabilities.

  • PeCo-Mediator: Supporting access to unknown partners for cooperation using collective personal connections - Adaptable menu-based query interface

    H OGATA, Y YANO, N FURUGORI, Q JIN

    SYMBIOSIS OF HUMAN AND ARTIFACT: FUTURE COMPUTING AND DESIGN FOR HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION   20 ( C ) 397 - 402  1995年  [査読有り]

     概要を見る

    This paper describes a groupware system, called PeCo-Mediator, and its adaptable menu-based query user-interface (UI). PeCo-Mediator collects group users' personal connections (PeCo) to help users finding partners who can solve their problem in business activities. Moreover, its UI is adaptable for a user's original perspective and another's viewpoint to use effectively diverse personal information. © 1995 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Modeling and analysis of reliability performance for a distributed dual-processor system

    Qun Jin, Yoshio Sugasawa

    Computers and Industrial Engineering   27 ( 1-4 ) 497 - 500  1994年09月

     概要を見る

    This paper proposes an aggregate approach of extended stochastic Petri net and Markov renewal process to conduct behavior analysis and reliability performance evaluation for distributed/parallel systems. Petri net is used because of its highly visual nature that can give insight into the nature of the modeled system. Markov renewal process is introduced in order to increase the analytical power of Petri net model. Further, numerical measure values are defined as indices to evaluate the reliability performance of the system. The modeling and analytical approach presented in this paper makes it possible to evaluate performance of a system with probabilistic behavior following non-exponential time distribution. The proposed approach could be effectively applied to modeling and behavior analyzing for most asynchronous concurrent systems. © 1994.

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  • COMPUTER-SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENT FOR COMMON EXPLOITATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

    N FURUGORI, Q JIN, H OGATA, Y YANO

    COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   27 ( 1-4 ) 189 - 192  1994年09月  [査読有り]

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    Personal connections have great influences on various social activities, e.g., a business negotiation. However, data of personal connections are usually diverse, dynamic and ill-formed. In this paper, we firstly propose a model and representation for personal connections, then describe the framework to deal with ill-formed information. We discuss some key criteria on developing a common exploitation environment integrated with an adaptable data-base and user interface to support group decision. Finally, we give illustrations to show that the developed environment is effective and useful.

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  • Extended stochastic Petri Net models for systems with parallel and cooperative motions

    Yoshio Sugasawa, Qun Jin, Koichiro Seya

    Computers and Mathematics with Applications   24 ( 1-2 ) 119 - 126  1992年07月

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    Stochastic Petri Nets have been developed to model and analyze systems involving concurrent activities with the time associated is exponentialy distributed. In this paper, we present an Extended Stochastic Petri Net that allows the firing times of its transitions to non-exponential distributions. We use it to model and analyze a multi-robot system with parallel and cooperative motions in the context of a generalized Markov Renewal Process. The modeling flexibility of Petri Net and the analyzing power of Markov Renewal Process are fully exploited. © 1992.

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  • Analysis of Stochastic Petri Net model with non-exponential distributions using a generalized Markov Renewal Process

    Qun Jin, Yoshio Sugasawa, Koichiro Seya

    Microelectronics Reliability   31 ( 5 ) 933 - 939  1991年

     概要を見る

    Stochastic Petri Nets have been developed to model and analyze systems involving concurrent activities. However, the firing times of a Stochastic Petri Net model are always exponentially distributed. This paper presents an aggregate approach on how to analyze Stochastic Petri Net model with non-exponential distributions using a generalized Markov Renewal Process. Therefore, the modeling flexibility of Petri Net and the analyzing power of Markov Renewal Process are fully exploited. Moreover, an Abstract Partial Reachability Graph is introduced to simplify the Markov solution. Furthermore, the aggregate approach is applied to evaluate performance of a parallel operation system. © 1991.

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  • Modelling and analysis of a semaphore system by an extended stochastic petri net

    Yoshio Sugasawa, Qun Jin, Jian Ting Zhang, Koichiro Seya

    International Journal of Systems Science   22 ( 1 ) 217 - 224  1991年01月

     概要を見る

    Providing a particularly effective means to model a concurrent or parallel system, a Petri net is here applied to model a semaphore system. A Markov renewal process is introduced to the model, which is defined as an extended stochastic Petri net. Probabilistic behaviour of the semaphore system can thus be clarified. Finally, a case study with assumed numerical values is given. © 1991 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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  • Probabilistic behavior and reliability analysis for a multi-robot system by applying Petri net and Markov renewal process theory

    Qun Jin, Yoshio Sugasawa, Koichiro Seya

    Microelectronics Reliability   29 ( 6 ) 993 - 1001  1989年

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    The strategic importance of robots in the workplace has greatly increased in recent years as an ever wider variety have been introduced into a whole host of industrial production lines. However, when these robots are examined in the context of the entire production system a number of problems can be identified. Firstly, the slowness of the operating time and secondly the fall-off in efficiency and reliability of the system when a robot is integrated with other units. This paper seeks to carefully analyze the behavior of two robots in a combination of arrangements. The robots operate independently and in coordination with each other and then each of them operates in conjunction with a conveyer incorporated in the system. Operations are then represented in a Petri net model and analysis of probabilistic behavior and reliability is performed with introducing of Markov renewal process. In terms of numerical examples a comparison of uniform and non-uniform mean operating time intervals is made in order to determine the effect of irregularities in robot operations on the system as a whole. © 1989.

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    2025年03月
     

    金 群

  • 健康データの分析による健康増進で中長期的にまちを発展させる事業

    内閣府  デジタル田園都市国家構想推進交付金

    研究期間:

    2022年04月
    -
    2025年03月
     

    埼玉県皆野町, 早稲田大学人間総合研究センター, 株式会社アイネス総合研究所

  • ブロックチェーンと連合学習による個人主導の高信頼データ共有

    早稲田大学-情報通信研究機構マッチング研究支援事業

    研究期間:

    2021年04月
    -
    2023年03月
     

    金 群

  • 障害情報の電子化による次世代地域・福祉サービス連携の創出

    JST  戦略的創造研究推進事業(社会技術研究開発)「SDGsの達成に向けた共創的研究開発プログラム」

    研究期間:

    2019年11月
    -
    2021年10月
     

    巖淵 守

  • 高齢者生活支援のための脈データ分析と健康管理指向脈診基盤モデル構築

    井深大基金  東洋医学に関する人間科学的研究プロジェクト

    研究期間:

    2016年04月
    -
    2019年03月
     

    金 群

  • 個人ビッグデータの持続的活用を実現するための基盤モデルとメカニズムの研究

    早稲田大学  特定課題A

    研究期間:

    2014年04月
    -
    2015年03月
     

    金 群

  • Growing Campusの基盤をなす分散協調型知識情報共有システムの構築

    早稲田大学  人間総合研究センターシーズ型研究課題

    研究期間:

    2010年04月
    -
    2013年03月
     

    西村 昭治

  • 実世界での実験・実習・体験とu-Learningの融合

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(A)

    研究期間:

    2007年04月
    -
    2010年03月
     

    矢野 米雄

  • 人間中心の分散協調型知識情報共有システムの研究開発とeスクールでの利用

    早稲田大学  人間総合研究センターシーズ型研究課題

    研究期間:

    2004年04月
    -
    2007年03月
     

    金 群

  • ブロードバンドを利用した新しい高等教育の有機的モデルとプロトタイプの開発

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(B)

    研究期間:

    2003年04月
    -
    2007年03月
     

    向後 千春

  • 環境メディアとして仮想現実システムを利用したラーニングコミュニティの研究開発

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(B)

    研究期間:

    2000年04月
    -
    2003年03月
     

    金 群

  • 社会ネットワークに着目したエージェント指向協調学習支援システムの研究開発

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(B)

    研究期間:

    2000年04月
    -
    2002年03月
     

    緒方 広明

  • エージェントを用いた日本語教育のための柔軟な協調学習環境の研究

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(B)

    研究期間:

    1997年04月
    -
    2001年03月
     

    矢野 米雄

  • インターネットを利用した日本語学習マルチメディア辞書の構築

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(B)

    研究期間:

    1997年04月
    -
    2001年03月
     

    矢野 米雄

  • 協調学習を支援するためのテキスト型仮想現実の構成に関する研究

    科学研究費補助金  奨励研究(A)

    研究期間:

    1998年04月
    -
    2000年03月
     

    金 群

  • 協調学習のための能動型データベースシステムの研究

    科学研究費補助金  重点領域研究

    研究期間:

    1997年04月
    -
    1998年03月
     

    矢野 米雄

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Misc

  • 特集「人間中心のユニバーサル/ユビキタス・ネットワークサービス」の編集にあたって

    金群, 荒金陽助

    情報処理学会論文誌   49 ( 1 )  2008年11月

    CiNii

  • Optimum Order Time for a Spare Part Inventory System Modeled by a Non-Regenerative Stochastic Petri Net

    JIN Qun, VIDALE Richard F., SUGASAWA Yoshio

    IEICE transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer sciences   83 ( 5 ) 818 - 827  2000年05月

     概要を見る

    We determine the optimum time T_OPT to order a spare part for a system before the part in operation has failed. T_OPT is a function of the part's failure-time distribution, the lead(delivery)time of the part, its inventory cost, and the cost of downtime while waiting delivery. The probabilities of the system's up and down states are obtained from a non-regenerative stochastic Petri net. T_OPT is found by minimizing E[cost], the expected cost of inventory and downtime. Three cases are compared:1)Exponential order and lead times, 2)Deterministic order time and exponential lead time, and 3)Deterministic order and lead times. In Case 1, it is shown analytically that, depending on the ratio of inventory to downtime costs, the optimum policy is one of three:order a spare part immediately at t=0, wait until the part in operation fails, or order before failure at T_OPT>0. Numerical examples illustrate the three cases.

    CiNii

  • 探索結果を利用した人脈ネットワークの活用支援の提案とその実験的評価

    緒方 広明, 矢野 米雄, 古郡 延子, 金群

    情報処理学会論文誌   40 ( 2 ) 632 - 641  1999年02月

     概要を見る

    本論文では 人脈ネットワークの探索結果を用いて 人脈探索を支援する手法を提案する. 我々は 人脈を分散型人脈活用支援システムPeCo-Mediator-IIをすでに構築したが 探索結果の利用は考慮されていなかった. 探索結果を利用することにより 協力者 仲介者などのユーザのタイプ分けを行い 人脈探索の効率化をはかる. また 協力可能な人物として準協力者の役割を設けることにより 新たに協力者を育成し 同じ協力者への依頼の集中を避ける. さらに 協力者から得たノウハウを共有することにより人脈探索の繰返しを軽減する. 最後に これらの支援機能をPeCo-Mediator-II上に実現したシステムと その実験的評価について述べる.The exploration of social networks is essential to find capable cooperators who can help in problem-solving and in augmenting cooperation among workers in an organization. PeCo-Mediator-II is an agent based system that helps gathering, exploring, and visualizing social networks among users. This paper proposes a user model with history logs to support exploration, to share individual knowledge, and to reduce overload of cooperators. Experimental results show that the system facilitated users encounter cooperators and helped develop new relationships between users and cooperators.

    CiNii

  • 仮想環境を利用した協調学習およびその実験的評価

    金群

    教育システム情報学会誌   14 ( 3 ) 29 - 36  1997年

    CiNii

  • PeCo - Mediator:人脈活用支援システムのモデル化と試作

    緒方 広明, 矢野 米雄, 古郡 延子, 金群

    情報処理学会論文誌   36 ( 6 ) 1299 - 1309  1995年06月

     概要を見る

    人脈(PersonalComection:PeCo)は、仕事を進める上で他者の協力が必要な場合に役立つ。我々は、グループの各個人が持つ人脈の共有活用により、グノレープ活動の支援を目的としたシステム"PeCo-Mediator"を構築した。利用者は、共有する人物情報と人脈情報を利用して、問題解決能力をもつ人物を探し、その人物への人脈を辿り、幅広い分野の人物から協力を得ることができる白本論文では、人物探索を支援する柔軟なデータベースの枠組と人脈探索を支擾する環境について述べる。柔軟なデータベースは、多様な属性をもつ人物情報が蓄積でき、利用者の情報の捉え方に適応できる。人脈の探索環境は、利用者の人脈の捉え方に適応できる人脈モデルに従い、人脈の強さを数量化して、活用できそうな人脈を視覚的に表示する。

    CiNii

  • Device-to-device based proximity service: Architecture, issues, and applications

    Yufeng Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qun Jin

    Device-to-Device Based Proximity Service: Architecture, Issues, and Applications     1 - 478  2017年01月

    その他  

     概要を見る

    D2D-based proximity service is a very hot topic with great commercial potential from an application standpoint. Unlike existing books which focus on D2D communications technologies, this book fills a gap by summarizing and analyzing the latest applications and research results in academic, industrial fields, and standardization. The authors present the architecture, fundamental issues, and applications in a D2D networking environment from both application and interdisciplinary points of view.

    DOI

  • Message from the UCAWSN 2014 general chairs

    Hwa Young Jeong, Han Chieh Chao, Yi Pan, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   331   v - vi  2015年

    その他  

  • Growing Campusの基盤をなす分散協調型知識情報共有システムの構築

    西村 昭治, 金 群, 尾澤 重知

    人間科学研究   26 ( 2 ) 221 - 222  2013年09月

    CiNii

  • Message from the ICWL 2013 program committee co-chairs

    Yueh Min Huang, Frederick Li, Qun Jin

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)   8167 LNCS  2013年

    その他  

    DOI

  • Welcome message from the HumanCom 2012 general chairs

    Qun Jin, Martin Sang Soo Yeo, Bin Hu

    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering   182 LNEE  2012年

    その他  

  • Foreword

    Qun Jin

    Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures    2011年

    その他  

    DOI

  • 自己拡張を実現するためのデジタルメディアの可能性

    中舘 俊一, シュティフ ロマン, 金 群

    ワークショップ2007 (GN Workshop 2007) 論文集   2007   69 - 70  2007年11月

    CiNii

  • 時空間情報を基につながるCubicSNSの提案

    池内希, 陳泓, 金群

    ワークショップ2007 (GN Workshop 2007) 論文集   2007   65 - 66  2007年11月

    CiNii

  • モバイル検索のためのスクロールなしのインタフェース

    シュティフ ロマン, 陳 健, 金 群

    ワークショップ2007 (GN Workshop 2007) 論文集   2007   67 - 68  2007年11月

    CiNii

  • WebサービスのMashupによる情報アクセス共有支援環境の試作

    陳 泓, 池内 希, 金 群

    ワークショップ2007 (GN Workshop 2007) 論文集   2007   95 - 100  2007年11月

    CiNii

  • ウェブ検索挙動に基づいた共通の興味をもつユーザグループの動的形成と参加推薦方式の提案

    シュティフ ロマン, 金 群

    ワークショップ2006 (GN Workshop 2006) 論文集   2006   57 - 58  2006年11月

    CiNii

  • Wikiの普及と個性化の保持

    陳健, 金群

    ワークショップ2006 (GN Workshop 2006) 論文集   2006   67 - 68  2006年11月

    CiNii

  • パーソナライズドWeb検索における適合性フィードバックの増大する役割--Better Search & Sharingの試み--

    シュティフ ロマン, 金 群

    ワークショップ2006 (GN Workshop 2006) 論文集   2006   109 - 113  2006年11月

    CiNii

  • Cross SNS を活用した情報アクセス共有支援環境の提案

    陳 泓, 竹井 菜奈子, 張 国珍, 金 群

    ワークショップ2006 (GN Workshop 2006) 論文集   2006   103 - 108  2006年11月

    CiNii

  • 仮想環境における協調学習のためのデータベースエージェント

    金 群, 緒方 広明, 矢野 米雄

    全国大会講演論文集   55 ( 3 ) 298 - 299  1997年09月

     概要を見る

    通信技術のめざましい発展に伴い, 近年, インターネットを介した仮想コミュニティ, 仮想オフィス, 仮想クラスルームが次々と現われ, このような仮想空間に入り込んで, 仕事したり, 学習したりすることは単なる夢ではなく, 現実のものとなりつつある。MOO (Multi user dimension Object-Oriented)と呼ばれるマルチユーザシミュレーション環境が, こうした仮想空間を容易に実現できるシステムとして注目を集めている。我々はMOOをベースにした協調学習環境の構築を行っている。仮想学習環境の外部にあるデータベースやインターネット上にある豊富な情報資源を教育/学習の教材として活用するため, 外部データベースやWWWサーバなどへのアクセスが必要となる。本研究報告では, それらのアクセスを可能にするエージェントについて述べる。

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

  • 仮想コミュニティにおける協調学習支援

    邵 穎志, 白草 義浩, 金 群, 矢野 米雄

    電子情報通信学会技術研究報告. ET, 教育工学   96 ( 578 ) 175 - 180  1997年03月

     概要を見る

    仮想コミュニティ環境MOOはネットワークを利用した究極の教育形態であると言われてぃる.しかし,仮想コミュニティ環境MOOを協調学習に利用する際,(1)大容量のデータを取り扱うことが不得意である.(2)インターネットに既存の知識情報を検索・利用することが困難である,という欠点を持っている.そこで,我々は外部テータベースとのリンク,WWWサーバへのアクセスを可能にすることで,これらの問題点を解決し,仮想コミュニティ環境MOOの機能拡張を行った.本稿では仮想コミュニティ環境MOO,MOO環境の問題点と解決方法及び機能拡張されたMOO環境を用いた協調学習支援システムの構築について述べる.

    CiNii

  • テキスト型仮想現実システムを利用した協調学習環境

    白草 義浩, 邵 穎志, 金 群, 矢野 米雄

    教育システム情報学会研究報告   1996 ( 2 ) 3 - 8  1996年09月

    CiNii

  • 協調エージェントを用いた人脈活用支援システムの構築

    相曽友宏, 郷司敦史, 緒方広明, JIN Q, 矢野米雄, 古郡延子

    電子情報通信学会技術研究報告   96 ( 71(OFS96 10-15) ) 31 - 36  1996年05月

     概要を見る

    近年のインターネットの普及により, 様々な専門分野の知識を持った人達の潜在的な知識ネットワークが形成されている. 我々は, 知識ネットワークとして人脈を活用し, 問題解決に役立てるためのシステムについて研究を行っている. 人脈を個々の知識を結びつけるネットワークと捉えることにより, 各個人が持つ知識を統合して, より大きな成果を得ることが期待できる. 本稿では, 各個人ごとに人脈の蓄積を行うデータベースPeCo-Collectorと, 人脈を辿り, 協力者を探索するソフトウェアエージェントPeCo-Agentについて述べる.

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

  • 外国人のための擬態語・擬音語辞書システムの構築

    川崎桂司, 越智洋司, AYALA G, 緒方広明, 矢野米雄, 林敏浩, 野村千恵子, 河野南代子, JIN Q

    電子情報通信学会技術研究報告   95 ( 604(ET95 112-131) ) 33 - 40  1996年03月

     概要を見る

    本稿では状況.発音.意味.使い方.感覚等に着目した擬態語・擬音語辞書システムJAMIOSについて述べる.日本人は擬態語や擬音語を頻繁に用いる傾向がある.しかしこれらの語は,日本語独特の表現であり感覚的な語なので,日本語を学習する外国人にとって理解が困難である.そこでJAMIOSは,(1)使用する状況をマルチメディア情報を用いて提示し,その状況や発音形態を変化させることで検索が進められる,(2)擬態語・擬音語の特徴に沿った様々な知識や関連語を検索できる,(3)例文を利用して日本語中での使い方を提示する等の特徴を持つ.

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

  • 日本語待遇表現学習支援システムの構築

    村田 利恵, 越智 洋司, アヤラ ヘラルド, 緒方 広明, 金 群, 矢野 米雄, 林 敏浩, 野村 千惠子, 河野 南代子

    電子情報通信学会技術研究報告. ET, 教育工学   95 ( 604 ) 41 - 48  1996年03月

     概要を見る

    日本語に慣れてきた外国人は,待遇表現の難しさに直面する。例えば日本人と外国人の対人関係の捉え方の違いにより,意思伝達における誤解を生む場合がある.これは待遇表現が,状況や対人関係によって複雑に変化するため,事例的に学習しただけでは対応しきれないことが原因である.我々は外国人が待遇表現を使用したときの問題点が特に,(1)相手が日本でどの対人関係に当たるかわからない.(2)対人関係と状況に適した待遇表現がわからないことにあると考える.本稿ではこれらを考慮した待遇表現学習支援システムの概要について述べる.

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

  • 外国人のための擬音語・擬態語辞書システムの構築

    川崎桂司, 越智洋司, AYALA G, 緒方広明, 矢野米雄, 林敏浩, 野村千恵子, 河野南代子, JIN Q

    教育システム情報学会全国大会講演論文集   20th   225 - 228  1995年08月

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

  • 対人関係を考慮した外国人のための敬意表現学習支援システムの構築

    村田利恵, 越智洋司, AYALA G, 緒方広明, 矢野米雄, 林敏浩, 野村千恵子, 河野南代子, JIN Q

    教育システム情報学会全国大会講演論文集   20th   221 - 224  1995年08月

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

  • 外国人のための擬態語・擬音語辞書システムの構築

    川崎桂司, 越智洋司, アヤラ ヘラルド, 緒方広明, 金群, 矢野米雄, 林敏浩, 野村千恵子, 河野南代子

    電気関係学会四国支部連合大会講演論文集   1995   332  1995年

    J-GLOBAL

  • 人脈活用支援システムにおける人脈探索エージェントのモデル化

    緒方広明, 郷司敦史, 金群, 矢野米雄

    電気関係学会四国支部連合大会講演論文集   1995   346  1995年

    J-GLOBAL

  • PeCo‐Collector: インタネット環境における人脈データベースシステム

    郷司敦史, 緒方広明, 金群, 矢野米雄

    電気関係学会四国支部連合大会講演論文集   1995   344  1995年

    J-GLOBAL

  • 対人関係を考慮した日本語敬意表現学習支援システムの構築

    村田利恵, 越智洋司, アヤラ ヘラルド, 緒方広明, 金群, 矢野米雄, 林敏浩, 野村千恵子, 河野南代子

    電気関係学会四国支部連合大会講演論文集   1995   334  1995年

    J-GLOBAL

  • 事例に基づくノウハウの共有システムORMEXの構築

    堤清二, 緒方広明, 金群, 矢野米雄

    電気関係学会四国支部連合大会講演論文集   1995   340  1995年

    J-GLOBAL

  • 柔軟な構造で非定型情報を扱うフレームワーク 人脈活用支援システム

    古郡延子, JIN Q, 緒方広明, 矢野米雄

    システムシンポジウム講演論文集   20th   165 - 168  1994年

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  • 人脈活用支援システムの構築 : 個人情報共有活用環境

    緒方 広明, 森川 富昭, 矢野 米雄, 古郡 延子, 金 群

    情報処理学会研究報告.IM, [情報メディア]   93 ( 95 ) 29 - 36  1993年10月

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    幅広い分野で,かつ多くの人脈を積極的に活用することにより,新しいプロジェクトが生まれたり,商談,企画などのグループ活動が成功したり効率が向上する場合が多い.そこで,本システムはグループ情報源である各個人が所有する人脈をグループで共有活用することを目的とする.本稿では,人脈のように動的で非定型,かつ個人的な情報を共有活用する環境である個人情報共有活用環境について述べる.この環境は,個人レベルでは,データベース,ユーザインタフェイス,検索法において利用者の自由度を高めることにより,個人的で非定型な情報を電子化しやすく,共有レベルでは,システムの使用によりシステムが成長する枠組を持つ.

    CiNii

  • 人脈活用支援システムの構築

    緒方広明, 森川富昭, 林敏浩, 矢野米雄, 土定正明, 古郡延子, 金群

    情報処理学会研究報告   93 ( 56(GW-2) ) 57 - 64  1993年06月

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    グループの情報源は各個人である.分散オフィス化に伴い,各個人の情報を共有し,それを各分散オフィスで活用できる環境が必要となる.そこで我々は,各個人が人と人との出合によって生じた人脈という情報に着目し,それをグループで共有・活用することを目的とするシステムの構築を行う.これにより,グループ活動の生産性が上がり,組織力が向上すると考えられる.各個人の人脈をグループで活用する場合,各個人が人脈を評価する必要がある.そこで我々は人脈の定量化とその視覚化を行った.本報告では,人脈の考察,人脈の定量化とその視覚化手法,並びに本システムの構成とそれを用いた人脈活用について述べる.It is said that every member of a group is considered as an information source. With the development of distributed offices, we consider the necessity of groupware systems that allow sharing information between each group member for its usage in each distributed office. Therefore we are developing a system whose aim is to share and use the personal connections (PC) that each group member obtains in her/his social relationships. We suppose that in this way our system can raise the productivity and the power of the group in general. When a group member uses other members&#039; PC in the system, s/he has to evaluate the degree of that PC in some way. Therefore the system allows the quantification and visualization of a group PC. In this paper, we describe our considerations about practical use of the PC together with its quantification and visualization methods, the overview of the system and the practical use of the PC provided by this environment.

    CiNii J-GLOBAL

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  • 利用者中心のネットワーク情報システムにおけるユーザモデルの研究

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  • ブロックチェーンと連合学習による高信頼データ共有基盤モデルの構築

    2022年  

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    ビッグデータを有効的に利活用するため、セキュリティとプライバシー保護を強化することが不可欠である。本研究では、ブロックチェーンと連合学習を連携させ、データは分散状態のまま維持しつつ、データ所有者があらかじめ設定したポリシーと属性によるアクセス権限に従い、データの中身を明かさずに利用者のリクエストに応じ、データを共有し、利活用することができる高信頼データ共有モデルを新たに提案し構築することを目的とする。今年度においては、データの信頼性保証と取得・共有の効率性を両立する高信頼データアクセスを実現する基盤モデルとメカニズムの構築及び実験検証を行い、研究成果の一部は国際会議や学術論文誌に発表している。

  • ブロックチェーンを用いた連合学習における個人主導データアクセスコントロール

    2022年  

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    連合学習はデータを集約せずに機械学習モデルを構築できる新たなプライバシー保護技術として注目を集めている。本研究は、データは分散状態のまま維持しつつ、その所有者が予め設定したアクセスポリシーに従い、ブロックチェーンを用いた連合学習における機械学習モデル構築で利用できる新たな個人主導データアクセスコントロール手法を開発することが目的である。今年度の研究においては、Hyperledger Fabricというコンソーシアム型ブロックチェーンと連合学習を連携させたうえ、CP-ABEというポリシーと属性ベース暗号方式による利用者個人主導データアクセスコントロールモデルの構築を試み、研究成果の一部は国際会議や学術論文誌に発表している。

  • パーソナルアナリティクスによる個人化ヘルスケアのモデル構築

    2021年  

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    本研究は、パーソナルデータ分析に基づき個に適するヘルスケアについて探究し、モデルを構築することが目的である。具体的には、ビッグデータと人工知能技術を用いて、ウェアラブルデバイスやセンサーで収集・蓄積される歩数、睡眠などの活動量・生活データ、血圧、心拍などの健康関連データを含む個人に関わるパーソナルデータを分析することにより個人モデルを構築するパーソナルアナリティクス手法を新たに提案する。今年度の研究においては、これまでの研究で提案している個人モデルの考えに基づき、個々の年齢、生活スタイルや健康状態に適する個人化ヘルスケアモデルの構築を試み、研究成果の一部は国際会議や学術論文誌に発表している。

  • 個人モデルに基づく個に適応するヘルスデータの比較分析法

    2021年  

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    近年、ウェアラブルデバイスやセンサーにより歩数、睡眠などの活動量・生活データ、血圧、心拍などの健康関連データを含む個人に関わるパーソナルデータが持続的に収集し蓄積することが可能となった。本研究では、パーソナルデータを分析することにより個人モデルを構築し、それに基づきヘルスデータを比較しながら分析する、個に適応する新たな手法を提案し確立することを目的とする。具体的には、ヘルスデータを収集し、個人の現在のデータと過去のデータを比較分析するとともに、年齢や生活習慣など何らかの類似性を有する他の個人またはグループとの比較分析を行う検証実験を行った。研究成果の一部は国際会議や学術論文誌に発表している。

  • 個人モデルに基づくヘルスデータの縦横比較分析

    2021年  

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    ヘルスデータ分析に関するこれまでの研究では、時系列分析や異常検知などに重点を置くばかりで、個人を中心にした比較分析が行われていない。本研究は、過去のデータとの比較分析のみならず、同年代あるいは似た生活習慣など類似性を有する他の個人またはグループとの比較分析を行うため、個人モデルに基づくヘルスデータの縦横比較分析手法を新たに提案し、計算論的な方法論として構築し確立することが目的である。今年度の研究においては、常に更新するヘルスデータに適合する動的な特性を考慮した提案手法を実現するための基盤モデル構築とアルゴリズムを考案し検証を行っている。研究成果の一部は国際会議や学術論文誌に発表している。

  • ブロックチェーンを用いたパーソナルデータのプライバシー保護と利活用基盤モデル構築

    2020年  

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    本研究は、パーソナルデータ利活用におけるプライバシー保護を強化するため、ブロックチェーン技術を用いてデータのオーナー(所有者)が主導でデータへのアクセスコントロールを可能とする安全性の高いプラットフォームを提案することが目的である。今年度の研究においては、データが時系列的に分散保持され、記録されたデータが改竄不可能といった高い信頼性が確保できるブロックチェーンの分散台帳機能を活かしながら、ハッシュや暗号化技術を利用したデータのオフチェーン保存など、個人主導によるデータアクセスコントルールを基本とする新たなフレームワークを提案し、検証を行った。研究成果の一部は国際会議や学術論文誌に発表している。

  • パーソナルデータ分析に基づく統合個人モデルの構築

    2018年  

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    本研究は、特定のシステムに依存せず、複数の異なるシステムを跨り適用可能な個人モデルを提案し、パーソナルデータの特性を考慮しながらデータ分析に基づく統合個人モデル(UnifiedIndividual Model)の構築法を計算論的な方法論として開発し確立することが目的である。具体的には、ヘルスケアやソーシャルメディアにおけるパーソナルデータを実験データとして取得し、ブロックチェーンを利用したパーソナルデータにおけるプライバシー保護の強化をはかる仕組みづくりや関連基盤アルゴリズムの開発を行い、検証・評価実験を実施する。さらに、実験結果を分析し、今後の展開と応用の可能性と課題について検討する。

  • パーソナルデータ分析による個人モデルの構築法

    2017年  

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     本研究ではパーソナルビッグデータに基づくパーソナルアナリティックス(PersonalAnalytics)を新たに提案し、個人モデル(IndividualModel)を構築するための動的分割統治法を計算論的な方法論として研究開発するとともに、実験用データを収集し、検証実験を行い、結果を分析する。本研究は、パーソナルビッグデータの特性を考慮した動的分割統治法をコアに、「分人」という概念を導入した個人中心の統合モデリング手法(UnifiedIndividual Modeling)を新たに提案し確立することを目指すものである。また、本研究で提案している個人モデルは、従来のユーザモデルと違って、特定のシステムに依存しないものであり、それによりシステムをまたがる個別化サービスを提供すことが可能となる。

  • マイクロコンテンツを有効利用するためのソーシャルラーニング基盤モデルの構築

    2016年   武 博

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    In this study, we propose a fundamentalmodel for social learning in order to effectively use micro contents aseducational resources, based on personal data analytics and individualmodeling. We improve data-driven individual modeling, proposed in our previousstudy, by introducing the concept of dividual and divide-and-conquer algorithm.We further propose a temporal social network analysis approach for dynamiccommunity mining and tracking, and develop overlap community detectionalgorithm by spectral clustering based on node convergence degree that takesboth the network structure and node attributes into account. We use topicevolution model and temporal social network analysis for topic tracking andassessing and pattern extraction as well. Experiments have been conducted basedon different data sets, and comparison with related works and result analysis haveshown the effectiveness of our proposed model and approach.

  • 学習プロセスを手助けするためのソーシャルラーニング基盤モデルの構築と実証実験

    2015年  

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    本研究では、ソーシャルラーニングを、授業や研修、個人の読書、他人との情報共有やインタラクション、日々の生活や社会活動、仕事経験といった知識獲得プロセスを包括的かつ有機的に融合し、一種の拡張されたラーニングプロセスとしてとらえ、基盤モデルを構築する。さらに、利用者の情報アクセス履歴や学習活動を含むパーソナルデータを分析・マイニングすることにより、適応型学習支援を可能とする利用者の個人モデルを構築し、ソーシャルラーニングにおける学習プロセスを手助けするための支援メカニズムを開発し、実験的な試作と検証を行っている。

  • 個人ビッグデータの持続的活用を実現するための基盤モデルとメカニズムの研究開発

    2014年  

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    本研究では、個人に関わる日々の情報行動や情報アクセス履歴を記録するライフログをパーソナルデータと呼び、長期間にわたり蓄積されたパーソナルデータを一種の個人ビッグデータととらえる。このような個人ビッグデータを持続的、効果的に活用するための基盤モデルを提案し、多種多様なデータを集約し、組織化するメカニズムおよび、個人化サービスを提供するためのユニファイド・インディビジュアル・モデリング手法を研究開発している。さらに、SNS環境における動的ユーザプロファイリング、ソーシャルデータ分析によるグループにおける個人の役割の特定、ソーシャルラーニングにおける学習行動分析などへの適用を試みた。

  • 適応型ラーニングサービスを提供するための統合ユーザモデルと基盤メカニズムの研究

    2013年   周 暁康

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    本研究では、ソーシャルネットワーキング環境における利用者の情報アクセス行動履歴やログデータなどを解析し、利用者と情報環境両方の複合要素を考慮したユニファイドユーザモデリング手法を提案し、統合ユーザモデルを構築するとともに、適応型ラーニングサービスを提供するための基盤メカニズムおよび関連アルゴリズムを研究開発する。本年度では、・これまで提案している「進化する統合情報環境の基盤モデル」をベースに、ライフログのような個人ビッグデータを利活用するためのモデル改善と拡張を行い、データ整合、情報融合、再利用可能な知識化を行うとともに、個人ビッグデータに基づくアプリケーションに依存しないユニバーサルユーザモデルを構築する手法を提案している。・TwitterのようなSNS環境における利用者のメッセージやり取りやフォロー関係などから社会的役割と関係ネットワークを推定し、利用者参加型の情報検索・推薦メカニズムを考案するとともに、社会的役割に関わるさまざまな属性やSNS環境および実世界におけるさまざまな状況とコンテキストを総合的に考慮し、マッピングをすることにより社会的役割の特定を図り、基本モデルの構築及び必要なアルゴリズムの開発を行っている。・これまで提案しているDynamical Socialized User Networkingモデルに基づいて、ソーシャルネットワーキング環境における利用者の多次元属性データを解析することによる動的ユーザプロファイリング手法を提案し、中心性指数をベースにした複数のメジャーを新たに定義し導入することによって、ソーシャルネットワーキングにおける利用者個人の重要度と貢献度の定量化を図り、実験データを用いた実験評価を行っている。・ソーシャルネットワーキング環境における利用者のニーズに適合したデータの集約と整合を実現するため、これまで提案しているOrganic Streamsメタファーの改善と拡張を行い、Twitterから取得したデータを用いた評価実験を行っている。また、Eye-Trackingを用いたソーシャルメディアにおける閲覧パターン抽出法を考案し、評価実験を行った。・タスク指向ラーニングプロセスにおけるアクションパタンを発見するアルゴリズムを考案し、ゴール駆動ラーニンググループの動的構成及びそれに基づく適応型ラーニングコンテンツの推薦サービスを実現するためのメカニズムを開発し、プロトタイプシステムを用いて実験評価を行っている。・関連の研究成果をまとめた研究論文を発表している。

  • 利用者と情報環境の統合モデリングによる適用型学習支援メカニズムの研究開発

    2012年  

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     本研究では、「ユーザ中心」の理念に基づき、クラウド環境における利用者の情報アクセス行動や学習活動を解析し、利用者と情報環境の状況やコンテキストを考慮した統合モデリング手法を提案し、基盤モデルを構築するとともに、利用者のニーズに適合した利用者主導の適応型学習支援メカニズムおよび関連のアルゴリズムを研究開発する。本年度では、・クラウド環境における利用者の情報アクセス行動や学習活動を解析し、利用者と情報環境の状況やコンテキストを考慮した統合モデリングを実現するための統合情報環境のフレームワークを提案し、それに基づき、利用者の利便性とシステムの柔軟性を両立させるスケーラブルなサービス指向でありながら、ユーザモデルに基づく個人に適応する学習統合支援環境の基盤モデルを構築している。・利用者の情報アクセス行動または学習活動からユーザコンテキストをキャプチャーし、ユーザモデルを動的に作成する手法を提案している。・これまで提案している利用者とシステムのインタラクションに基づく逐次適応モデルと、新たに開発した挙動解析に基づく最適化プロセス推薦モデルを統合し、それに基づく目的駆動型学習プロセスナビゲーションシステムを構築している。・利用者の個性を重視しながら利用者間の共通性をも考慮し、利用者の興味とニーズや情報アクセスの変化などを適時に検知するアルゴリズムや、利用者の情報アクセス挙動をパターン化し、挙動パターンの類似度によって過去の成功した学習プロセスを抽出するアルゴリズムを考案し、目標学習者にとって最適化された学習プロセスを推薦する仕組みを開発し、適応型個人化学習サービスとして提供するプロトタイプシステムを構築し、実験的な評価を行っている。・TwitterやFacebookといったソーシャルメディアにおける大量に生成された非構造化ストリームデータ(ソーシャルストリーム)を有機的・効果的な利用が可能な知識情報コンテンツとして組織化するためのアルゴリズムを開発し、プロトタイプシステムを構築し、実験的な評価を行っている。・関連の研究成果をまとめた研究論文を発表している。

  • クラウド環境における適応型学習統合支援メカニズムの開発と実証実験システムの構築

    2011年  

     概要を見る

     近年、ソーシャルコンピューティングやライフログが声高に叫ばれ、クラウドサービスをはじめとするサービス・コンピューティングの研究や利活用が盛んに行われている。その一方、情報通信技術を活用したe-ラーニングは、何時でも何処でも求められる教育が手に入る技術として、研究開発が盛んに行われ、広く活用されている。クラウドサービスを利用した教育・学習資源とデジタルコンテンツの共有活用は、高等教育機関のみならず、社会人を対象とする職業訓練や特殊技能の習得、在職研修など企業や一般社会でも可能となり、持続発展可能な生涯学習社会の実現に向けて重要な意味をもつと考えられる。しかし、従来の多くのe-ラーニング支援システムは、先進な技術を利用した高度な機能の取り入れに重点を置く一方、各学習者のバックグランドや学習能力、現在の学習環境など個人的な特性といった人間的な側面はあまり考慮されていない。学習者は与えられたシステムと機能しか利用できなく、受動的に進めざるを得なかった。 そこで、本研究では、「ユーザ中心」の理念に基づき、クラウド環境における利用者の情報アクセス行動や学習活動を解析して、それに基づくラーニングオブジェクトのネットワークモデルを構築するとともに、利用者のニーズに適合した学習コンテンツをサービスとして提供する利用者主導の適応型学習統合支援システムを提案し、プロトタイプシステムを構築し、評価実験を行う。本年度では、 ・利用者の情報アクセス行動や学習活動をソーシャルネットワーク分析手法によりマイニングし、ラーニングオブジェクトの内側の属性と他のラーニングオブジェクトとの関連性や利用者の関係やソーシャル的な要素を複合的に考慮したネットワークモデルを提案している。 ・ソーシャルメディアから続々と大量に生成された構造化されていないデータに対応するため、これまで提案してきたユビキタス・パーソナル・スタディ(Ubiquitous Personal Study、略してUPS)を拡張し、ソーシャライズドUPS(Socialized Ubiquitous Personal Study、略してS- UPS)フレームワークを提案し、クラウド環境をベースにした試作システムを構築している。 ・マイクロブロックサービスとS- UPS試作システムを統合し、ブレンディッドラーニング支援環境として実験的に試用し、実験評価を行っている。 ・関連の研究成果をまとめた研究論文を発表している。

  • 何時でも何処でも手軽に使える利用者主導のサービス指向学習支援環境の構築と実証実験

    2008年   シュティフ ロマン

     概要を見る

     近年、所謂Web 2.0が声高に叫ばれ、Webサービスをはじめとするサービス・コンピューティングの研究が盛んに行われている。本研究では、人間がテクノロジに迎合するのではなく、テクノロジが人間に適合するという「人間中心」の理念に基づき、サービス・コンピューティング技術を利用して、何時でも何処でも手軽に使える利用者主導のサービス指向学習支援環境を提案し、その基盤モデルを構築するとともに、初歩的な実証実験を行うものである。 これまで、個人の情報アクセスとコンテンツ共有を統合管理するメタファーとしてUPS (Ubiquitous Personal Study、ユビキタス個人書斎)およびそれを支援するためのフレームワークを提案している。本年度では、さらに、ユーザプロファイリングやコンテキストアウェアネス技術を活用し、システムが利用者に適合するメカニズムの開発および、Webサービスのマッシュアップによるプロトタイプシステムの試作を行っている。また、利用者のさまざまな情報探索行動からユーザコンテキストをキャプチャーすることにより動的ユーザモデルを構築し、それに基づき、人間のニーズにより適合した、何時でも何処でも手軽に使える利用者主導のサービスを提供するFlowable Service Modelを提案し、関連の研究成果をまとめた研究論文を発表している。

  • 人間中心のユニバーサル・ユビキタス情報アクセス共有活用支援環境の構築

    2007年   シュティフ ロマン

     概要を見る

     情報通信技術(ICT)の急速な進歩に伴い、何時でも何処でも誰でも使えるユビキタスネットワーク社会のインフラが整いつつある。このような社会であらゆる人がICTの恩恵を実感でき、安心して快適で便利な生活をしていくためには、誰もが時間的、空間的、身体的制約、知識、言語の壁を超えて、手軽に使いこなせる情報環境やユーザーインターフェースが必要不可欠である。本研究では、ユビキタス環境において、ライフタイムにわたる情報アクセス共有活用のあり方について検討し、それを支援するシステムを実現するための主な問題と課題を明らかにし、人間を中心に据えたアプローチと関連技術を研究開発し、ロングタームにわたるユビキタス情報アクセス・マネジメント・共有活用支援環境を構築し、実証実験を行うことを目指している。 本年度では、まず、共有・共同利用を念頭に、ロングタームにわたるユニバーサル・ユビキタス情報アクセス共有活用支援環境を実現するために、利用者の利便性とシステムの柔軟性やスケーラビリティの両立を可能とする人間中心のサービス指向アプローチについてサーベイや研究調査を行った。また、利用者の情報アクセス行動を推定する逐次適応モデルなどを提案し、人間の情報行動をモデル化するとともに、情報探索・推薦、情報アクセス・一括管理、共有活用を支援するプロトタイプシステムとして、BESS(Better Search and Sharing、「よりよい検索・共有」)やUPS(Ubiquitous Personal Study、「ユビキタス・パーソナル・スタディ」)、モバイル検索のためのスクロールなしのインタフェースなどを研究開発し、実験評価を行っている。

  • サービス指向ユビキタス・ラーニング支援環境の構築と実証実験

    2007年   シュティフ ロマン

     概要を見る

     近年、Webサービスをはじめとするサービス・コンピューティングの研究が盛んに行われ、新たな学際的な研究分野としてサービス科学を提唱されている。本研究は、利用者主導のサービス指向ユビキタス・ラーニング支援システムを提案し構築するとともに、多様な利用者の異なる個性、能力、ニーズなどに柔軟に対応でき、現在普及しつつあるブロードバンドネットワーク環境を生かした高度な機能を研究開発することを目指すものである。本研究でいうサービスは、狭義的なe-サービス(Webサービス)やu-サービス(ユビキタス・サービス)にとどまらず、利用者の利便性とシステムの柔軟性やスケーラビリティを両立させた広義的なu-サービス(ユニバーサル・サービス)をめざすものである。サービスは、コンピュータやネットワークを人間に奉仕させるものだと位置づけるものである。 本年度では、デジタルキャンパスとフィジカルキャンパスとのシームレスな融合をめざす「成長するキャンパス(Growing Campus)」の理念のもと、利用者主導のユビキタス・ラーニングを支援するサービス指向モデルを提案し、さらに、実証環境システムのプロトタイプとして、ユビキタス・パーソナル・スタディ(Ubiquitous Personal Study、略してUPS)というメタファーを提案している。UPSは、個人のためにすべての情報・情報アクセスを一括管理・組織化するとともに、個人ポータルとして情報のアクセス共有活用を支援する統合環境を提供するものであり、一種の個人化されたデジタル仮想書斎である。個々に分散したUPS はさらにクロースSNS(Cross Social Networking Service、略してXSNS)を通して相互連結により友人関係を確立し、情報共有、情報推薦、友人推薦などの機能を提供する基盤プラットフォームとなる。UPSは、WEBサービスのマッシュアップによるシステムの試作を行い、実験評価を進めている。

  • 学習者と学習環境のインタラクションをさりげなく支援する知能情報メディアの研究

    2005年  

     概要を見る

     従来の多くのe-ラーニングシステムは、人間的な部分が抜け落ちた、単なる知識や情報の伝達でしかない。ラーニングコミュニティなど知識情報共有型e-ラーニングシステムにおいて、学習コンテンツの作成・流通・再利用における統一規格や、異なるシステム間の互換性など多くの問題点と課題が残されている。本研究は、それらの問題を総合的に解決することを目指して、学習者と学習環境のインタラクションをさりげなく支援するとともに、人間とのインタラクションを通じて進化する知能情報メディアを提案し、モデル化とそのあり方について探求し明らかにするものである。 本年度では、これまでの研究において提案されている「社会的インタラクション支援フレームワーク」に基づき、知能情報メディアの基本モデルの洗練化をはかり、そのうえ、学習者間の社会的相互作用を促進するとともに、学習者と学習環境のインタラクションを支援する仕組みを考案し、サービス指向ユビキタス・ラーニング支援やスケーラブルな情報共有システムなどの実証環境の構築への適用を試みた。さらに、オントロジに基づくコンテキスト・アウェア・モデルを提案し、人間と情報環境のインタラクションをさりげなく支援することが可能な能動的な知能情報メディアへの展開の可能性について検討した。

  • 利用者主導の知識情報共有型e-ラーニング支援環境の研究開発

    2005年  

     概要を見る

     情報通信技術を活用したeーラーニングは、いつでもどこでも求める教育が手に入るシステムとして、盛んに研究開発が行われ、活用されている。しかし、e-ラーニングを含めて一般的に自己学習は、学習者が孤独感に陥ったり、学習ペースがつかめず脱落したり、学習者の意欲や教育効果を殺ぐなど、挫折するケースが見受けられる。本研究は、ピア・ツー・ピア(P2P)ネットワーク技術を利用して、利用者主導の知識情報共有型e-ラーニング支援システムを提案し、多様な利用者の異なる個性、能力、ニーズなどに柔軟に対応できる高度な機能を研究開発するとともに、教育/学習現場において評価実験を行いながら、問題点を明らかにし、改良を加え、その有効性を実証し、そのうえ、新たな知識情報共有型e-ラーニング支援環境を構築するものである。 本年度では、従来のクライアント/サーバモデルに基づいたe-ラーニング・モデルと比較しながら、P2Pネットワークの特徴を生かした学習モデルおよび学習者個人のニーズや能力に柔軟に対応できる利用者主導のe-ラーニング支援仕組みを考案するとともに、これまでの研究において提案されている「社会的インタラクション支援フレームワーク」を発展させ、サービス指向ユビキタス・ラーニング支援環境を提案し、プロトタイプシステムの構築を行った。さらに、分散型P2P ネットワークと集中型個人・グループ・メディア・ツールの統合によるスケーラブルな知識情報共有システムを提案し、その試作を進んでいる。

  • 学習者と学習環境のインタラクションをさりげなく支援する知能情報メディアの研究

    2004年  

     概要を見る

     協調学習に基づくコミュニティ型e-ラーニングシステムでは、学習者の自発的な参加および知識情報の共有が奨励される。実践において、こういった学習者主導型e-ラーニングの難しさの1つとして、仮想環境におけるコミュニケーションとインタラクションにあると指摘されている。本研究は、学習者と学習環境のインタラクションをさりげなく支援するとともに、人間とのインタラクションを通じて進化する知能情報メディアを提案するものである。 本年度では、これまでの研究において提案されている仮想環境メディアの考え方を発展させ、知能情報メディアの基本要件を検討し、モデル化を試みるとともに、知能情報メディアモデルのコアとなる「社会的インタラクション支援フレームワーク」を考案した。また、利用者の個性の差異を超えて、相互理解を促進する仕組みを有し、人間とのインタラクションを通じて進化させるために、知能情報メディアに「暗黙の知」を用いた支援メカニズムを埋め込み、学習環境とコンテンツとのシームレスな統合をはかり、学習者同士間のコミュニケーション、学習者と学習環境やコンテンツとのインタラクションをさりげなく支援する手法を提案している。このような「支援メカニズム」を実現するためには、(1)人間の会話や挙動を観察し、人間とのインタラクションを通じて人間の意図を理解できる知的エージェント技術、(2)多様なデータと知識を統一規格で記述できるXML およびそれを発展させた技術、(3)利用者間のダイレクトなコミュニケーションと情報交換や、対等な知識共有と効率的な配送仕組みを提供できるピア・ツー・ピア(P2P)ネットワーク技術、を融合したアプローチを考案し、本年度では、「社会的インタラクション支援フレームワーク」に基づき、ユビキタスラーニングを実現するためのP2P型プロトタイプシステムを構築し、初歩的な実験を行った。

  • ピア・ツー・ピア技術を活用したラーニングコミュニティの研究

    2003年  

     概要を見る

     高度情報ネットワーク化社会において、知識の更新のペースがますます速めており、従来の学校、大学での教育では対応できなくなりつつある。そのため、生涯を通じた多様な学習者を対象とする教育/学習システムが求められている。 本研究は、ピア・ツー・ピア(P2P)技術を利用して、多様な学習者に対して広く開かれた新たなコミュニティ型eーラーニングシステムを提案することを目的とする。本年度では、学習者個々のニーズに柔軟に対応できるパーソン・ツー・パーソンeーラーニングモデルを新たに考案し、P2Pネットワークの特徴を生かした教授/学習支援環境のあり方について検討するとともに、従来のクライアント/サーバモデルに基づいたeーラーニングモデルとの比較を行った。また、eーラーニングに適したP2P技術とは何かについて、サーベイを行い、ラーニングコミュニティの特徴を発揮でき、従来のeーラーニングシステムにおける学習者個性の喪失や孤独感、学習ペースがつかめにくいなどの問題を改善し、eーラーニングに適したP2P仕組みの提案を行った。それをもとに、ピア・ツー・ピア型ラーニングコミュニティにおけるコミュニケーションやコラボレーションを支援し、学習者個人のニーズや能力に応じた学習内容や進み方を設定可能な支援環境とグループウェアツールを設計し、試作を行った。さらに、ピア・ツー・ピア型ラーニングコミュニティを利用するためのクライアントシステムとGUIインターフェースをも試作し、初歩的な実験評価を行い、これからの改良・改善策をまとめた。 従来の多くのeーラーニングシステムは、人間的な部分が抜け落ちた、単なる情報や知識の伝達でしかない。本研究は、P2P技術の利点とラーニングコミュニティの特徴を発揮し、融合することによって、ピア・ツー・ピアeーラーニングに適した学習モデルと仕組みづくりを探求し、従来のeーラーニングにおける問題点を解決し、改善するものである。

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