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Dynamic Taxi Service Planning by Minimizing Cruising Distance Without Passengers (open access)

Dynamic Taxi Service Planning by Minimizing Cruising Distance Without Passengers

This article studies route recommendation to a group of taxis by minimizing the overall mileage spent without customers.
Date: October 30, 2018
Creator: Luo, Zhongwen; Lv, Huimin; Fang, Fang; Zhao, Yishi; Liu, Yuanyuan; Xiang, Xiuqiao et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Application of BP Neural Networks to Analysis the National Vulnerability (open access)

The Application of BP Neural Networks to Analysis the National Vulnerability

Article uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and natural breakpoint method (NBM) to implement an AHP-NBM comprehensive evaluation model to assess the national vulnerability to climate change.
Date: 2019
Creator: Zhao, Guodong; Zhang, Yuewei; Shi, Yiqi; Lan, Haiyan & Yang, Qing
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Lightweight Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol for the Information Perception of IoT (open access)

A Lightweight Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol for the Information Perception of IoT

Article proposes a lightweight authentication protocol based on password, smart card and biometric identification that achieves mutual authentication among User, GWN and sensor node.
Date: 2019
Creator: Kou, Liang; Shi, Yiqi; Zhang, Liguo; Liu, Duo & Yang, Qing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated extraction of attributes from natural language attribute-based access control (ABAC) Policies (open access)

Automated extraction of attributes from natural language attribute-based access control (ABAC) Policies

Article (1) developing a practical framework to extract authorization attributes of hierarchical ABAC system from natural language artifacts, and (2) generating a set of realistic synthetic natural language access control policies (NLACPs) to evaluate the proposed framework.
Date: January 21, 2019
Creator: Alohaly, Manar; Takabi, Hassan & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bayesian analysis of complex mutations in HBV, HCV, and HIV studies (open access)

Bayesian analysis of complex mutations in HBV, HCV, and HIV studies

This article provides a review of the Bayesian-inference-based methods applied to Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) studies with a focus on the detection of the viral mutations and various problems which are correlated to these mutations. The authors also provide a summary of the Bayesian methods' applications toward these viruses' studies, where several important and useful results have been discovered.
Date: April 4, 2019
Creator: Guo, Xuan; Liu, Bing; Feng, Shishi & Zhang, Jing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabric Defect Detection Using Activation Layer Embedded Convolutional Neural Network (open access)

Fabric Defect Detection Using Activation Layer Embedded Convolutional Neural Network

This article develops a deep-learning algorithm for an on-loom fabric defect inspection system by combining the techniques of image pre-processing, fabric motif determination, candidate defect map generation, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs).
Date: April 29, 2019
Creator: Ouyang, Wenbin; Xu, Bugao; Hou, Jue & Yuan, Xiaohui
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations (open access)

A Corpus of Negations and their Underlying Positive Interpretations

Article presenting a corpus of negations and their underlying positive interpretations using negations from Simple Wikipedia, automatically generating potential positive interpretations, and collecting manual annotations that effectively rewrite the negation in positive terms. This article was presented at the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (SEM 2019) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6-7, 2019.
Date: June 2019
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra; Killian, Erin; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incorporating Emoji Descriptions Improves Tweet Classification (open access)

Incorporating Emoji Descriptions Improves Tweet Classification

Article presenting a simple strategy to process emojis in Tweets: replace them with their natural language description and use pretrained word embeddings as normally done with standard words. Results show that this strategy is more effective than using pretrained emoji embeddings for tweet classification.
Date: June 2019
Creator: Singh, Abhishek K.; Blanco, Eduardo & Jin, Wei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attention-Based Dense Point Cloud Reconstruction From a Single Image (open access)

Attention-Based Dense Point Cloud Reconstruction From a Single Image

Article proposes a two-stage training dense point cloud generation network.
Date: September 23, 2019
Creator: Lu, Qiang; Xiao, Mingjie; Lu, Yiyang; Yuan, Xiaohui & Yu, Ye
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D-FHNet: Three-Dimensional Fusion Hierarchical Reconstruction Method for Any Number of Views (open access)

3D-FHNet: Three-Dimensional Fusion Hierarchical Reconstruction Method for Any Number of Views

Article proposes a three-dimensional fusion hierarchical reconstruction method that utilizes a multi-view feature combination method and a hierarchical prediction strategy to unify the single view and any number of multiple views 3D reconstructions.
Date: November 22, 2019
Creator: Lu, Qiang; Lu, Yiyang; Xiao, Mingjie; Yuan, Xiaohui & Jia, Wei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genome-Resolved Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing of Soil Microbial Communities Using 13CO2 and 13C-Methanol (open access)

Genome-Resolved Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing of Soil Microbial Communities Using 13CO2 and 13C-Methanol

Article describes experiment where proteomic sable isotope probing (SIP) was combined with targeted metagenomic binning to reconstruct metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of the microorganisms producing labeled proteins. Carbon flows were tracked from 13CO2 to the rhizosphere communities of Zea mays, Triticum aestivum, and Arabidopsis thaliana.
Date: December 6, 2019
Creator: Li, Zhou; Yao, Qiuming; Guo, Xuan; Crits-Christoph, Alexander; Mayes, Melanie A.; Hervey, William Judson IV et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social- and Content-Aware Prediction for Video Content Delivery (open access)

Social- and Content-Aware Prediction for Video Content Delivery

Article proposes a Social- and Content-aware Video content delivery Prediction method (SCVP) to address the problem of predicting whether a video will be watched by a user for efficient video content delivery in mobile social networks.
Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Fan, Yuqi; Yang, Bing; Hu, Donghui; Yuan, Xiaohui & Xu, Xiong
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hidden Markov model-based activity recognition for toddlers (open access)

Hidden Markov model-based activity recognition for toddlers

Article describes study which sought to evaluate methods for activity recognition for toddlers.
Date: March 5, 2020
Creator: Albert, Mark; Sugianto, Albert; Nickele, Katherine; Zavos, Patricia; Sindu, Pinky; Ali, Munazza et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
BAM: A Block-Based Bayesian Method for Detecting Genome-Wide Associations with Multiple Diseases (open access)

BAM: A Block-Based Bayesian Method for Detecting Genome-Wide Associations with Multiple Diseases

Article proposes a novel Bayesian method, named BAM, for simultaneously partitioning Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) into Linkage Disequilibrium(LD)-blocks and detecting genome-wide multi-locus epistatic interactions that are associated with multiple diseases. Experimental results on the simulated datasets demonstrate that BAM is powerful and efficient.
Date: April 16, 2020
Creator: Guo, Xuan; Wu, Guanying & Xu, Baohua
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detecting Negation Cues and Scopes in Spanish (open access)

Detecting Negation Cues and Scopes in Spanish

Article addresses the processing of negation in Spanish by presenting a machine learning system that processes negation in Spanish and providing a qualitative error analysis aimed at understanding the limitations of the system and showing which negation cues and scopes are straightforward to predict automatically, and which ones are challenging.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Blanco, Eduardo; Jiménez-Zafra, Salud María; Morante, Roser; Martín-Valdivia, María Teresa & Ureña-López, L. Alfonso
System: The UNT Digital Library
WikiPossessions: Possession Timeline Generation as an Evaluation Benchmark for Machine Reading Comprehension of Long Texts (open access)

WikiPossessions: Possession Timeline Generation as an Evaluation Benchmark for Machine Reading Comprehension of Long Texts

Article presents WikiPossessions, a new benchmark corpus for the task of temporally-oriented possession (TOP), or tracking objects as they change hands over time. In addition to the corpus, the authors release evaluation scripts and a baseline model for the task.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Blanco, Eduardo; Palmer, Alexis & Chinnappa, Dhivya
System: The UNT Digital Library
TS: A powerful truncated test to detect novel disease associated genes using publicly available gWAS summary data (open access)

TS: A powerful truncated test to detect novel disease associated genes using publicly available gWAS summary data

This article proposes a new truncated statistic method (TS) by utilizing a truncated method to find the genes that have a true contribution to the genetic association. The proposed truncated statistic outperforms existing methods. It can be employed to detect novel traits associated genes using GWAS summary data.
Date: May 4, 2020
Creator: Zhang, Jianjun; Guo, Xuan; Gonzales, Samantha; Yang, Jingjing & Wang, Xuexia
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experiment-Based Review of Low-Light Image Enhancement Methods (open access)

An Experiment-Based Review of Low-Light Image Enhancement Methods

Article reviews the current techniques of low-light image enhancement.
Date: May 6, 2020
Creator: Yuan, Xiaohui; Wang, Wencheng; Wu, Xiaojin & Guo, Zairui
System: The UNT Digital Library
Massive MIMO Systems for 5G and beyond Networks—Overview, Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Direction (open access)

Massive MIMO Systems for 5G and beyond Networks—Overview, Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Direction

This article presents a comprehensive overview of the key enabling technologies required for 5G and 6G networks, highlighting the massive MIMO systems. The authors discuss the fundamental challenges related to pilot contamination, channel estimation, precoding, user scheduling, energy efficiency, and signal detection in massive MIMO systems and discuss state-of-the-art mitigation techniques. Recent trends such as terahertz communication, ultra massive MIMO (UM-MIMO), visible light communication (VLC), machine learning, and deep learning for massive MIMO systems are outlined. Finally, future research for massive MIMO systems for 5G and beyond is discussed.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Chataut, Robin & Akl, Robert G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining Potential Effects of HUMIRA in Twitter Posts Through Relational Similarity (open access)

Mining Potential Effects of HUMIRA in Twitter Posts Through Relational Similarity

Article investigating HUMIRA effects mentioned in Twitter posts using a relational similarity-based method. The authors were able to identify effects previously known as well as potentially unreported, which demonstrates the power of this method and its potential for studying effects of other medications shared by Twitter users.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: Feng, Shichao; Jiang, Keyuan; Huang, Liyuan; Chen, Tingyu & Bernard, Gordon R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Edge Computing in Multi-Person Mixed Reality for Cooperative Perception (open access)

Exploring Edge Computing in Multi-Person Mixed Reality for Cooperative Perception

Article and accompanying poster presenting a prototype for the use of Edge with MR devices to provide cooperative perception capability to the MR device.
Date: June 25, 2020
Creator: Tang, Sihai; Chen, Bruce (Haidi); Hochstetler, Jacob; Hirsch, Jason & Fu, Song
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deriving Theorems in Implicational Linear Logic, Declaratively (open access)

Deriving Theorems in Implicational Linear Logic, Declaratively

This article aims to generate all theorems of a given size in the implicational fragment of propositional intuitionistic linear logic. It was presented at the 36th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP).
Date: September 19, 2020
Creator: Tarau, Paul & de Paiva, Valeria
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerometer-Based Automated Counting of Ten Exercises without Exercise-Specific Training or Tuning (open access)

Accelerometer-Based Automated Counting of Ten Exercises without Exercise-Specific Training or Tuning

Article presents research that creates an automatic repetition counting system that is flexible enough to measure multiple distinct and repeating movements during physical therapy without being trained on the specific motion.
Date: October 10, 2020
Creator: Zelman, Samuel; Dow, Michael; Tabashum, Thasina; Xiao, Ting & Albert, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
JS-MA: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Based Method for Mapping Genome-Wide Associations on Multiple Diseases (open access)

JS-MA: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Based Method for Mapping Genome-Wide Associations on Multiple Diseases

Article develops a a simple, fast, and powerful method, named JS-MA, based on Jensen-Shannon divergence and agglomerative hierarchical clustering, to detect the genome-wide multi-locus interactions associated with multiple diseases.
Date: October 30, 2020
Creator: Guo, Xuan
System: The UNT Digital Library