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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
Robotic ubiquitous cognitive ecology for smart homes
Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices pervasively embedded in everyday environments, where they cooperate to perform complex tasks. While their potential makes them increasingly popular, one fundamental problem is how to make them both autonomous and adaptive, so as to reduce the amount of preparation, pre-programming and human supervision that they require in real world applications. The project RUBICON develops learning solutions which yield cheaper, adaptive and efficient coordination of robotic ecologies. The approach we pursue builds upon a unique combination of methods from cognitive robotics, machine learning, planning and agent- based control, and wireless sensor networks. This paper illustrates the innovations advanced by RUBICON in each of these fronts before describing how the resulting techniques have been integrated and applied to a smart home scenario. The resulting system is able to provide useful services and pro-actively assist the users in their activities. RUBICON learns through an incremental and progressive approach driven by the feed- back received from its own activities and from the user, while also self-organizing the manner in which it uses available sensors, actuators and other functional components in the process. This paper summarises some of the lessons learned by adopting such an approach and outlines promising directions for future work
Production Optimization Indexed to the Market Demand Through Neural Networks
Connectivity, mobility and real-time data analytics are the prerequisites for a new model of intelligent
production management that facilitates communication between machines, people and
processes and uses technology as the main driver.
Many works in the literature treat maintenance and production management in separate approaches,
but there is a link between these areas, with maintenance and its actions aimed at ensuring the
smooth operation of equipment to avoid unnecessary downtime in production.
With the advent of technology, companies are rushing to solve their problems by resorting to technologies
in order to fit into the most advanced technological concepts, such as industries 4.0 and
5.0, which are based on the principle of process automation. This approach brings together database
technologies, making it possible to monitor the operation of equipment and have the opportunity
to study patterns of data behavior that can alert us to possible failures.
The present thesis intends to forecast the pulp production indexed to the stock market value.The
forecast will be made by means of the pulp production variables of the presses and the stock exchange
variables supported by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, aiming to achieve an effective
planning. To support the decision of efficient production management, in this thesis algorithms
were developed and validated with from five pulp presses, as well as data from other sources, such
as steel production and stock exchange, which were relevant to validate the robustness of the model.
This thesis demonstrated the importance of data processing methods and that they have great relevance
in the model input since they facilitate the process of training and testing the models. The
chosen technologies demonstrated good efficiency and versatility in performing the prediction of
the values of the variables of the equipment, also demonstrating robustness and optimization in
computational processing. The thesis also presents proposals for future developments, namely
in further exploration of these technologies, so that there are market variables that can calibrate
production through forecasts supported on these same variables.Conectividade, mobilidade e análise de dados em tempo real são pré-requisitos para um novo
modelo de gestão inteligente da produção que facilita a comunicação entre máquinas, pessoas e
processos, e usa a tecnologia como motor principal.
Muitos trabalhos na literatura tratam a manutenção e a gestão da produção em abordagens separadas,
mas existe uma correlação entre estas áreas, sendo que a manutenção e as suas políticas
têm como premissa garantir o bom funcionamento dos equipamentos de modo a evitar paragens
desnecessárias na linha de produção.
Com o advento da tecnologia há uma corrida das empresas para solucionar os seus problemas
recorrendo às tecnologias, visando a sua inserção nos conceitos tecnológicos, mais avançados,
tais como as indústrias 4.0 e 5.0, as quais têm como princípio a automatização dos processos.
Esta abordagem junta as tecnologias de sistema de informação, sendo possível fazer o acompanhamento
do funcionamento dos equipamentos e ter a possibilidade de realizar o estudo de padrões
de comportamento dos dados que nos possam alertar para possíveis falhas.
A presente tese pretende prever a produção da pasta de papel indexada às bolsas de valores. A
previsão será feita por via das variáveis da produção da pasta de papel das prensas e das variáveis
da bolsa de valores suportadas em tecnologias de artificial intelligence (IA), tendo como objectivo
conseguir um planeamento eficaz. Para suportar a decisão de uma gestão da produção eficiente,
na presente tese foram desenvolvidos algoritmos, validados em dados de cinco prensas de pasta de
papel, bem como dados de outras fontes, tais como, de Produção de Aço e de Bolsas de Valores,
os quais se mostraram relevantes para a validação da robustez dos modelos.
A presente tese demonstrou a importância dos métodos de tratamento de dados e que os mesmos
têm uma grande relevância na entrada do modelo, visto que facilita o processo de treino e testes dos
modelos. As tecnologias escolhidas demonstraram uma boa eficiência e versatilidade na realização
da previsão dos valores das variáveis dos equipamentos, demonstrando ainda robustez e otimização
no processamento computacional.
A tese apresenta ainda propostas para futuros desenvolvimentos, designadamente na exploração
mais aprofundada destas tecnologias, de modo a que haja variáveis de mercado que possam calibrar
a produção através de previsões suportadas nestas mesmas variáveis
A Survey of Deep Learning for Data Caching in Edge Network
The concept of edge caching provision in emerging 5G and beyond mobile
networks is a promising method to deal both with the traffic congestion problem
in the core network as well as reducing latency to access popular content. In
that respect end user demand for popular content can be satisfied by
proactively caching it at the network edge, i.e, at close proximity to the
users. In addition to model based caching schemes learning-based edge caching
optimizations has recently attracted significant attention and the aim
hereafter is to capture these recent advances for both model based and data
driven techniques in the area of proactive caching. This paper summarizes the
utilization of deep learning for data caching in edge network. We first outline
the typical research topics in content caching and formulate a taxonomy based
on network hierarchical structure. Then, a number of key types of deep learning
algorithms are presented, ranging from supervised learning to unsupervised
learning as well as reinforcement learning. Furthermore, a comparison of
state-of-the-art literature is provided from the aspects of caching topics and
deep learning methods. Finally, we discuss research challenges and future
directions of applying deep learning for cachin
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