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View ArticleLearning latent activities from social signals with hierarchical Dirichlet...
Understanding human activities is an important research topic, most noticeably in assisted‑living and healthcare monitoring environments. Beyond simple forms of activity (e.g., an RFID event of...
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There are increasing calls to improve the quality of Teacher Education by reconceptualising the connection between university-based coursework and the teaching practicum. In response, the School of...
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Monitoring daily physical activity of human plays an important role in preventing diseases as well as improving health. In this paper, we demonstrate a framework for monitoring the physical activity...
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Sophisticated ranking mechanisms make use of term dependency features in order to compute similarity scores for documents. These features often include exact phrase occurrences, and term proximity...
View ArticleUnsupervised inference of significant locations from WiFi data for...
Motion and location activities are essential to understanding human dynamics. This paper presents a method for discovering significant locations and individuals' daily routines from WiFi data, a data...
View ArticleBayesian nonparametric extraction of hidden contexts from pervasive honest...
Hidden patterns and contexts play an important part in intelligent pervasive systems. Most of the existing works have focused on simple forms of contexts derived directly from raw signals. High-level...
View ArticleBenchmarking a set of exam questions for introductory programming
This paper reports on the combining of two related but hitherto distinct themes in programming education research. The first is the recognition that students in programming courses tend to perform far...
View Article(In Press) Cross-layer multi-cloud real-time application QoS monitoring and...
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to affordable hardware (multi-core CPUs, GPUs, disks, and networking equipment) and software (databases, application servers and data processing frameworks)...
View ArticleFixed-lag particle filter for continuous context discovery using Indian...
Exploiting context from stream data in pervasive environments remains a challenge. We aim to extract proximal context from Bluetooth stream data, using an incremental, Bayesian nonparametric framework...
View ArticleExtraction of latent patterns and contexts from social honest signals using...
A fundamental task in pervasive computing is reliable acquisition of contexts from sensor data. This is crucial to the operation of smart pervasive systems and services so that they might behave...
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