Thirty Years of Machine Learning: The Road to Pareto-Optimal Wireless Networks

Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio techniques for adaptive learning and intelligent decision making because of the complex heterogeneous nature of the network structures and wireless services. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have great success in supporting big data analytics, efficient parameter estimation and interactive decision making. Hence, in this article, we review the thirty-year history of ML by elaborating on supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and deep learning. Furthermore, we investigate their employment in the compelling applications of wireless networks, including heterogeneous networks (HetNets), cognitive radios (CR), Internet of things (IoT), machine to machine networks (M2M), and so on. This article aims for assisting the readers in clarifying the motivation and methodology of the various ML algorithms, so as to invoke them for hitherto unexplored services as well as scenarios of future wireless networks.Comment: 46 pages, 22 fig

Bus line trajectories classification using weightless neural networks

Geo-enabled devices are ubiquitous nowadays. Within a diversity of possible applications using the huge of amount data generated by this technology, our work focuses on a chronic problem of Rio de Janeiro city: its public bus system. This text presents a framework for GPS trajectories classification, whose focus is the identification of bus routes of a public bus system. In order to do that, it was used the lightweight and versatile WiSARD, a weightless neural network classifier. Different binarization methods were used to adapt raw data to WiSARD’s binary input, making use of a set of rules defined by the application domain. Yet, it is evaluated a way of combining WiSARD through decision directed acyclic graphs. All these approachs result in different flavors of a neuro-symbolic learning system. The framework was tested against a vast data set created from open access and real-time data acquired from the current bus system of Rio de Janeiro city. Results obtained suggest the applicability of the proposed solution in a classification problem with more than 500 classes. Comparisons made also indicate an equivalent performance of WiSARD and other state-of-art and widely used machine learning methods. In addition, the framework described here is believed to be adaptable to other application domains.Dispositivos com localização espacial estão em toda parte hoje em dia. Dentre várias possíveis aplicações com a grande quantidade de dados gerada por esse tipo de equipamento, nosso trabalho foca em um problema crônico da cidade do Rio de Janeiro: seu sistema público de ônibus. Apresenta-se neste texto uma arquitetura para classificação de trajetórias GPS, cujo foco é a identificação de rotas de ônibus do sistema público. Para isso, utilizamos o leve e versátil classificador baseado em redes neurais sem peso WiSARD. Para a geração da entrada da rede, experimentamos diferentes formas de binarização, fazendo uso de regras definidas pelo problema. Ainda, avaliamos uma forma de combinação das redes WiSARD com o uso de um grafo acíclico de decisões. Todas essas propostas resultam em diferentes sabores de um sistema de aprendizado neurossimbólico. Tal arquitetura foi testada contra um vasto conjunto de dados construído a partir de dados fornecido em tempo real e de forma pública pelo sistema corrente da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Os resultados obtidos indicam a aplicabilidade da solução proposta em um problema de classificação envolvendo mais de 500 classes. As comparações efetuadas indicam uma equiparação do modelo WiSARD com outros modelos em estado da arte. No mais, acreditamos que a metodologia aqui descrita possa ser utilizada com sucesso em outros domínios

Sensing and Signal Processing in Smart Healthcare

In the last decade, we have witnessed the rapid development of electronic technologies that are transforming our daily lives. Such technologies are often integrated with various sensors that facilitate the collection of human motion and physiological data and are equipped with wireless communication modules such as Bluetooth, radio frequency identification, and near-field communication. In smart healthcare applications, designing ergonomic and intuitive human–computer interfaces is crucial because a system that is not easy to use will create a huge obstacle to adoption and may significantly reduce the efficacy of the solution. Signal and data processing is another important consideration in smart healthcare applications because it must ensure high accuracy with a high level of confidence in order for the applications to be useful for clinicians in making diagnosis and treatment decisions. This Special Issue is a collection of 10 articles selected from a total of 26 contributions. These contributions span the areas of signal processing and smart healthcare systems mostly contributed by authors from Europe, including Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, and Netherlands. Authors from China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Ecuador are also included

Modeling, Predicting and Capturing Human Mobility

Realistic models of human mobility are critical for modern day applications, specifically for recommendation systems, resource planning and process optimization domains. Given the rapid proliferation of mobile devices equipped with Internet connectivity and GPS functionality today, aggregating large sums of individual geolocation data is feasible. The thesis focuses on methodologies to facilitate data-driven mobility modeling by drawing parallels between the inherent nature of mobility trajectories, statistical physics and information theory. On the applied side, the thesis contributions lie in leveraging the formulated mobility models to construct prediction workflows by adopting a privacy-by-design perspective. This enables end users to derive utility from location-based services while preserving their location privacy. Finally, the thesis presents several approaches to generate large-scale synthetic mobility datasets by applying machine learning approaches to facilitate experimental reproducibility

ISBIS 2016: Meeting on Statistics in Business and Industry

This Book includes the abstracts of the talks presented at the 2016 International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics, held at Barcelona, June 8-10, 2016, hosted at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona TECH, by the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. The location of the meeting was at ETSEIB Building (Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial) at Avda Diagonal 647. The meeting organizers celebrated the continued success of ISBIS and ENBIS society, and the meeting draw together the international community of statisticians, both academics and industry professionals, who share the goal of making statistics the foundation for decision making in business and related applications. The Scientific Program Committee was constituted by: David Banks, Duke University Amílcar Oliveira, DCeT - Universidade Aberta and CEAUL Teresa A. Oliveira, DCeT - Universidade Aberta and CEAUL Nalini Ravishankar, University of Connecticut Xavier Tort Martorell, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona TECH Martina Vandebroek, KU Leuven Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, ESSEC Business Schoo