30 results

Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization

Journal Article
Zeng, L., Liu, Q., Shen, S., & Liu, X. (2024)
Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 29(3), 806 - 817. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2023.9010058
Edge computing nodes undertake more and more tasks as business density grows. How to efficiently allocate large-scale and dynamic workloads to edge computing resources has bec...

PMNet: a multi-branch and multi-scale semantic segmentation approach to water extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images with edge-cloud computing

Journal Article
Zhang, Z., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Du, Z., & Cao, X. (2024)
PMNet: a multi-branch and multi-scale semantic segmentation approach to water extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images with edge-cloud computing. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 13(1), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-024-00637-5
In the field of remote sensing image interpretation, automatically extracting water body information from high-resolution images is a key task. However, facing the complex mul...

Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria

Conference Proceeding
Bamgboye, O., Chrysoulas, C., Liu, X., Watt, T., Sodiya, A., Oyeleye, M., & Kalutharage, S. (in press)
Towards Building a Smart Water Management System (SWAMS) in Nigeria.
The water management landscape in Nigeria struggles with formidable obstacles characterized by a lack of adequate infrastructure, an uneven distribution of resources, and insu...

A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system

Journal Article
Liu, Q., Pan, L., Cao, X., Gan, J., Huang, X., & Liu, X. (in press)
A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Article e8060. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.8060
As the edge nodes of the Internet of Smart Grids (IoSG), smart sockets enable all kinds of power load data to be analyzed at the edge, which create conditions for edge calcula...

Utilizing the Ensemble Learning and XAI for Performance Improvements in IoT Network Attack Detection

Conference Proceeding
Kalutharage, C. S., Liu, X., Chrysoulas, C., & Bamgboye, O. (2024)
Utilizing the Ensemble Learning and XAI for Performance Improvements in IoT Network Attack Detection. In Computer Security. ESORICS 2023 International Workshops (125-139). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54129-2_8

An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment

Journal Article
Liu, Q., Jin, Y., Cao, X., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., …Qi, L. (in press)
An Entity Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Approach to News Credibility Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2023.3342873
Fake news is a prevalent issue in modern society, leading to misinformation and societal harm. News credibility assessment is a crucial approach for evaluating the accuracy an...

DenMerD: a feature enhanced approach to radar beam blockage correction with edge-cloud computing

Journal Article
Liu, Q., Sun, J., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024)
DenMerD: a feature enhanced approach to radar beam blockage correction with edge-cloud computing. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 13, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-024-00607-x
In the field of meteorology, the global radar network is indispensable for detecting weather phenomena and offering early warning services. Nevertheless, radar data frequently...

PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping

Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2023)
PFL-LDG: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning via Lightweight Device Grouping. In 2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC). https://doi.org/10.1109/SWC57546.2023.10449141
The rapid growth of private data from distributed edge networks, driven by the proliferation of IoT sensors, wearable devices, and smartphones, offers significant opportunitie...

Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques

Conference Proceeding
Gomez, L. R., Watt, T., Babaagba, K. O., Chrysoulas, C., Homay, A., Rangarajan, R., & Liu, X. (2023)
Emotion Recognition on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques. In ICISS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (113-118). https://doi.org/10.1145/3625156.3625173
In recent years, text has been the main form of communication on social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Emotion Recognition from thes...

Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements, and Challenges

Journal Article
Liu, Q., Yang, Z., Ji, R., Zhang, Y., Bilal, M., Liu, X., …Xu, X. (2023)
Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements, and Challenges. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 9(4), 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/msmc.2022.3216943
Radars are widely used to obtain echo information for effective prediction, such as precipitation nowcasting. In this article, recent relevant scientific investigation and pra...
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Long-range Perceptive and Situation-Proactive Autonomous Vehicles for Green and Human-centric Driving

2024 - 2026
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are expected play significant roles in the society and economy. However, the current AVs have a severe drawback: they are unable to recognize the situations they are facing o...
Funder: Royal Society | Value: £12,000

Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum

2024 - 2026
The next-generation of intelligent cyber-physical and IoT systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming an essential part of our environment. With the ever-growing number of intelligent...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £357,303

Context-driven proactively Auto-recognising and Learning Met-bot for Meteorological Disaster Surveillance and Precautious Warning

2019 - 2022
The project aims to advance the autonomy of field robots with a novel approach to developing a new generation of Meteorological Drone Robots (Met-Bot) which will be context-driven, proactively auto-re...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £12,000

Context-Active Resilience in Cyber Physical systems (CAR)

2016 - 2018
This European Fellowship project will benefit the researcher by giving and enhancing the knowledge and skills for a future generation of CPSs which enjoy the unique feature of context-active resilienc...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £127,083

A semantic-driven cloud migration framework

2014 - 2016
Cloud computing is a fast emerging ICT technology to achieving an innovative and sustainable digital economy. It is expected to be a dominating model and technology of the ICT sector for the next 15 y...
Funder: Royal Society | Value: £12,000

eTourism

2013 - 2014
This Innovation Voucher in collaboration with Edinburgh Travel Limited aims to build a novel and effective web based e-tourism service to make the tour as pleasant and memorable as possible. Service a...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Towards Green, Sustainable and Personalisable E-Business Services

2012 - 2014
The project will advance the current state of art of e-business and cloud computing by developing a novel approach to cloud-based e-business service evolution and personalisation. We'll seek further ...
Funder: ENU Development Trust | Value: £30,359

The Online Pension Company Ltd

2011 - 2012
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with The Online Pension Company Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme.
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

An Approach to Modelling and Evolution of Service Architecture and its Reliability in Clouds

2011 - 2013
Clouds are a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for ICT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £12,000

FlexiCAGE

2008 - 2010
Funder: Scottish Enterprise | Value: £92,500
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An AI-driven and IoT-assisted approach to explainable smart banking and finance services

2024 - date
Fatima Mumtaz | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Oluwaseun Bamgboye

An approach to developing new smart IoT systems with real-time deep learning in a cloud-edge-IoT continuum environment

2022 - date
Rakesh Kumar | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Christos Chrysoulas

Applying Brain-signals Analysis for Evaluation of user experience in healthcare application

2021 - date
Hanadi Alfraidi | Director of Studies: Prof Amir Hussain | Second Supervisor: Dr Baraq Ghaleb

An approach to blockchain-based secure microservice-oriented architecture

2021 - date
Wellington Majora | Director of Studies: Dr Zakwan Jaroucheh | Second Supervisor: Prof Xiaodong Liu

Developing a Novel Framework for Secure and Proactive IoT with AI as Key Drive

2021 - date
Chathuranga Sampath Kalutharage | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Christos Chrysoulas

An approach to proactive smart building maintenance management

2020 - date
Zhimeng Huang | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Imed Romdhani

Privacy-preserving methods for Natural Language Processing

2020 - date
Richard Plant | Director of Studies: Dr Dimitra Gkatzia | Second Supervisor: Dr Valerio Giuffrida

An Approach to Context-Proactive Augumented Reality

2019 - date
Xi Wang | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Tom Flint

Blockchain-based Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Internet of Things (IoT)

2018 - date
Mwrwan Abubakar | Director of Studies: Dr Zakwan Jaroucheh | Second Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

Developing ontology-based decision-making frameowrk for Middle Eastern region HEIs

2017 - date
Ghadeer Ashour | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Dr Imed Romdhani