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Anticipatory Mobile Computing: A Survey of the State of the Art and Research Challenges
Today's mobile phones are far from mere communication devices they were ten
years ago. Equipped with sophisticated sensors and advanced computing hardware,
phones can be used to infer users' location, activity, social setting and more.
As devices become increasingly intelligent, their capabilities evolve beyond
inferring context to predicting it, and then reasoning and acting upon the
predicted context. This article provides an overview of the current state of
the art in mobile sensing and context prediction paving the way for
full-fledged anticipatory mobile computing. We present a survey of phenomena
that mobile phones can infer and predict, and offer a description of machine
learning techniques used for such predictions. We then discuss proactive
decision making and decision delivery via the user-device feedback loop.
Finally, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of anticipatory mobile
computing.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figure
Challenges of Multi-Factor Authentication for Securing Advanced IoT (A-IoT) Applications
The unprecedented proliferation of smart devices together with novel
communication, computing, and control technologies have paved the way for the
Advanced Internet of Things~(A-IoT). This development involves new categories
of capable devices, such as high-end wearables, smart vehicles, and consumer
drones aiming to enable efficient and collaborative utilization within the
Smart City paradigm. While massive deployments of these objects may enrich
people's lives, unauthorized access to the said equipment is potentially
dangerous. Hence, highly-secure human authentication mechanisms have to be
designed. At the same time, human beings desire comfortable interaction with
their owned devices on a daily basis, thus demanding the authentication
procedures to be seamless and user-friendly, mindful of the contemporary urban
dynamics. In response to these unique challenges, this work advocates for the
adoption of multi-factor authentication for A-IoT, such that multiple
heterogeneous methods - both well-established and emerging - are combined
intelligently to grant or deny access reliably. We thus discuss the pros and
cons of various solutions as well as introduce tools to combine the
authentication factors, with an emphasis on challenging Smart City
environments. We finally outline the open questions to shape future research
efforts in this emerging field.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. The work has been accepted for
publication in IEEE Network, 2019. Copyright may be transferred without
notice, after which this version may no longer be accessibl
Cyber-Agricultural Systems for Crop Breeding and Sustainable Production
The Cyber-Agricultural System (CAS) Represents an overarching Framework of Agriculture that Leverages Recent Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Actuators, and Scalable Cyberinfrastructure (CI) in Both Breeding and Production Agriculture. We Discuss the Recent Progress and Perspective of the Three Fundamental Components of CAS – Sensing, Modeling, and Actuation – and the Emerging Concept of Agricultural Digital Twins (DTs). We Also Discuss How Scalable CI is Becoming a Key Enabler of Smart Agriculture. in This Review We Shed Light on the Significance of CAS in Revolutionizing Crop Breeding and Production by Enhancing Efficiency, Productivity, Sustainability, and Resilience to Changing Climate. Finally, We Identify Underexplored and Promising Future Directions for CAS Research and Development
Employing Environmental Data and Machine Learning to Improve Mobile Health Receptivity
Behavioral intervention strategies can be enhanced by recognizing human activities using eHealth technologies. As we find after a thorough literature review, activity spotting and added insights may be used to detect daily routines inferring receptivity for mobile notifications similar to just-in-time support. Towards this end, this work develops a model, using machine learning, to analyze the motivation of digital mental health users that answer self-assessment questions in their everyday lives through an intelligent mobile application. A uniform and extensible sequence prediction model combining environmental data with everyday activities has been created and validated for proof of concept through an experiment. We find that the reported receptivity is not sequentially predictable on its own, the mean error and standard deviation are only slightly below by-chance comparison. Nevertheless, predicting the upcoming activity shows to cover about 39% of the day (up to 58% in the best case) and can be linked to user individual intervention preferences to indirectly find an opportune moment of receptivity. Therefore, we introduce an application comprising the influences of sensor data on activities and intervention thresholds, as well as allowing for preferred events on a weekly basis. As a result of combining those multiple approaches, promising avenues for innovative behavioral assessments are possible. Identifying and segmenting the appropriate set of activities is key. Consequently, deliberate and thoughtful design lays the foundation for further development within research projects by extending the activity weighting process or introducing a model reinforcement.BMBF, 13GW0157A, Verbundprojekt: Self-administered Psycho-TherApy-SystemS (SELFPASS) - Teilvorhaben: Data Analytics and Prescription for SELFPASSTU Berlin, Open-Access-Mittel - 201
Ontology-Based Method for Analysis of Inconsistency Factors in Emotion Recognition
In the paper the problem of inconsistency in emotion recognition is approached. One of the existing challenges is the exploration of factors, which can influence the inconsistency. Therefore the aim of the paper is to present a method that allows capturing knowledge of what factors and what values of these factors influence the inconsistencies between recognized emotional states. The high-level, semi-automatic method allowing to recognize these factors is presented. The input of the method is the structured dataset and the output is the set of rules identifying when recognized emotional states are consistent or not. The presented method is validated for the dataset prepared for emotion recognition from face expressions using various methods
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