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A Bayesian Data Analytics Approach to Buildings’ Thermal Parameter Estimation
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-06-28)Modeling buildings’ heat dynamics is a complex process which depends on various factors including weather, building thermal capacity, insulation preservation, and residents’ behavior. Gray-box models offer an explanation ... -
Social Media-based User Embedding: A Literature Review
(2019-06)Automated representation learning is behind many recent success stories in machine learning. It is often used to transfer knowledge learned from a large dataset (e.g., raw text) to tasks for which only a small number ... -
Developing Machine Learning Based Predictive Models for Smart Policing
(IEEE, 2019-08-01)Crimes are problematic where normal social issues are confronted and influence personal satisfaction, financial development, and quality-of-life of a region. There has been a surge in the crime rate over the past couple ... -
Causes and Effects of the Presence of Technical Debt in Agile Software Projects
(2019)The current software development scenario is characterized by a wide adoption of agile methodologies. Despite its benefits, agile software development (ASD) is also vulnerable to technical debt (TD). In fact, due to its ... -
Understanding automated and human-based technical debt identification approaches-a two-phase study
(Springer London, 2019-06-08)Context The technical debt (TD) concept inspires the development of useful methods and tools that support TD identification and management. However, there is a lack of evidence on how different TD identification tools ... -
Predicting Malware Attributes from Cybersecurity Texts
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019-06)Text analytics is a useful tool for studying malware behavior and tracking emerging threats. The task of automated malware attribute identification based on cybersecurity texts is very challenging due to a large number ... -
Scalable Collapsed Inference for High-Dimensional Topic Models
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019-06)The bigger the corpus, the more topics it can potentially support. To truly make full use of massive text corpora, a topic model inference algorithm must therefore scale efficiently in 1) documents and 2) topics, while 3) ... -
The Economic ABCs of Educating and Training Generations X, Y, and Z
(International Society for Performance Improvement, 2019-05-14)Despite the lack of empirical evidence to support generational differences in workplace training, some authors, corporate trainers, and popular theorists assert that generational stereotypes based on historical events and ... -
Assessing Water Budget Sensitivity to Precipitation Forcing Errors in Potomac River Basin Using the VIC Hydrologic Model CyberTraining: Big Data + High-Performance Computing + Atmospheric Sciences
(2019)The Potomac River Basin is a watershed located on the East Coast of the USA across West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Inter-annual variations in precipitation makes it challenging ... -
Multi Authority Access Control in a Cloud EHR System with MA-ABE
(IEEE, 2019-07-08)With the rapid adoption of Cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, health providers are particularly concerned about managing data privacy on the cloud. Existing approaches have either a scalability bottleneck ... -
Hybrid Causality Analysis of ENSO’s Global Impacts on Climate Variables Based on Data-Driven Analytics and Climate Model Simulation
(Frontiers, 2019-09-18)Numerous studies have indicated that El Niño and the southern oscillation (ENSO) could have determinant impacts on remote weather and climate using the conventional correlation-based methods, which however, cannot identify ... -
A Semantic Approach for Automating Knowledge in Policies of Cyber Insurance Services
(IEEE, 2019-07-08)With the rapid adoption of web services, the need to protect against various threats has become imperative for organizations operating in cyberspace. Organizations are increasingly opting to get financial cover in the ... -
Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption
(IEEE, 2019-05-20)Medical organizations find it challenging to adopt cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) services due to the risk of data breaches and the resulting compromise of patient data. Existing authorization models follow a ... -
Promoting Skill and Discipline Diversity in Cybersecurity Advocacy
(2018-10)Cybersecurity advocates attempt to reduce exposure to cyber attacks by promoting security best practices and encouraging security technology adoption. However, little is known about the skills necessary for successful advocacy. ... -
"Woe is me": Examining Older Adults' Perceptions of Privacy
(ACM, 2019-05-04)We conducted a study of n = 20 older adults to better understand their mental models for what the term 'privacy' means to them in both digital and non-digital contexts. Participants were asked to diagrammatically represent ... -
"Pretty Close to a Must-Have": Balancing Usability Desire and Security Concern in Biometric Adoption
(2019-05-09)We report on a qualitative inquiry among security-expert and non-expert mobile device users about the adoption of biometric authentication using semi-structured interviews(n=38, 19/19 expert/non-expert). Security experts ... -
Eye-Tracking-based Wizard-of-Oz Usability Evaluation of an Emotional Display Agent Integrated to a Virtual Environment
(2019)This paper presents the results of the usability testing of an experimental component of the Virtual Collaboration Arena (VirCA) developed by the Cognitive Informatics Group of the Computer and Automation Research Institute ... -
Designing Mobile Interaction Guidelines to Account for Situationally Induced Impairments and Disabilities (SIID) and Severely Constraining Situational Impairments (SCSI)
(2019-04-12)This research investigates the variety and complexity of situational impairment events (SIE) that are being experienced by users of smartphone technology of all abilities. The authors have created a classification system ... -
Extending Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems With Bayesian Abductive Reasoning
(2019-03-28)Evolving cybersecurity threats are a persistent challenge for system administrators and security experts as new malwares are continually released. Attackers may look for vulnerabilities in commercial products or execute ... -
Hybrid Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Source Systems
The use of artificial intelligence in clinical care to improve decision support systems is increasing. This is not surprising since by its very nature, the practice of medicine consists of making decisions based on ...
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