Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems: The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2020) [1st ed.] 9783030577957, 9783030577964

Table of contents :
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix
Performance Evaluation of WMNs by WMN-PSODGA Simulation System Considering Exponential Distribution of Mesh Clients and Different Router Replacement Methods (Seiji Ohara, Admir Barolli, Phudit Ampririt, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa)....Pages 1-14
An Integrated Fuzzy-Based Simulation System for Driving Risk Management in VANETs Considering Road Condition as a New Parameter (Kevin Bylykbashi, Ermioni Qafzezi, Phudit Ampririt, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa)....Pages 15-25
Performance Evaluation of RIWM and RDVM Router Replacement Methods for WMNs by WMN-PSOHC Hybrid Intelligent System (Shinji Sakamoto, Admir Barolli, Phudit Ampririt, Leonard Barolli, Shusuke Okamoto)....Pages 26-35
A Decision-Making System Based on Fuzzy Logic for IoT Node Selection in Opportunistic Networks Considering Node Betweenness Centrality as a New Parameter (Miralda Cuka, Donald Elmazi, Makoto Ikeda, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa)....Pages 36-43
Applying a Consensus Building Approach to Communication Projects in the Health Sector: The Momento Medico Case Study (Ilaria Avino, Giuseppe Fenza, Graziano Fuccio, Alessia Genovese, Vincenzo Loia, Francesco Orciuoli)....Pages 44-55
Gesture-Based Human-Machine Interface System by Using Omnidirectional Camera (Liao Sichao, Yasuto Nakamura, Hiroyoshi Miwa)....Pages 56-66
A Secure Group Communication (SGC) Protocol for a P2P Group of Peers Using Blockchain (Rui Iizumi, Takumi Saito, Shigenari Nakamura, Makoto Takizawa)....Pages 67-77
Method for Detecting Onset Times of Sounds of String Instrument (Kenta Kimoto, Hiroyoshi Miwa)....Pages 78-88
PageRank for Billion-Scale Networks in RDBMS (Aly Ahmed, Alex Thomo)....Pages 89-100
An Algorithm to Select an Energy-Efficient Sever for an Application Process in a Cluster of Servers (Kaiya Noguchi, Takumi Saito, Dilawaer Duolikun, Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa)....Pages 101-111
Suggesting Cultural Heritage Points of Interest Through a Specialized Chatbot (Roberto Canonico, Giovanni Cozzolino, Giancarlo Sperlì)....Pages 112-120
Considering a Method for Generating Human Mobility Model by Reinforcement Learning (Yuutaro Iwai, Akihiro Fujihara)....Pages 121-132
Data Mining on Open Public Transit Data for Transportation Analytics During Pre-COVID-19 Era and COVID-19 Era (Carson K. Leung, Yubo Chen, Siyuan Shang, Yan Wen, Connor C. J. Hryhoruk, Denis L. Levesque et al.)....Pages 133-144
Eye Movement Patterns as a Cryptographic Lock (Marek R. Ogiela, Lidia Ogiela)....Pages 145-148
Evolutionary Fuzzy Rules for Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks (Tarek Batiha, Pavel Krömer)....Pages 149-160
Blockchain Architecture for Secured Inter-healthcare Electronic Health Records Exchange (Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Meryem Abouali, Tarel Saadawi)....Pages 161-172
Semi-automatic Knowledge Base Expansion for Question Answering (Alessandro Maisto, Giandomenico Martorelli, Antonietta Paone, Serena Pelosi)....Pages 173-182
Mina: SeMantic vIrtual Assistant for Domain oNtology Based Question-Answering (Nicola Fiore, Gaetano Parente, Michele Stingo, Massimiliano Polito)....Pages 183-193
SafeEat: Extraction of Information About the Presence of Food Allergens in Recipes (Alessandra Amato, Giovanni Cozzolino)....Pages 194-203
Accelerated Neural Intrusion Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks (Tarek Batiha, Pavel Krömer)....Pages 204-215
End-to-End Security for Connected Vehicles (Kazi J. Ahmed, Marco Hernandez, Myung Lee, Kazuya Tsukamoto)....Pages 216-225
Triangle Enumeration on Massive Graphs Using AWS Lambda Functions (Tengkai Yu, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Alex Thomo)....Pages 226-237
C’Meal! the ChatBot for Food Information (Alessandra Amato, Giovanni Cozzolino)....Pages 238-244
A Study on the Effect of Triads on the Wigner’s Semicircle Law of Networks (Toyoaki Taniguchi, Yusuke Sakumoto)....Pages 245-255
COVID-19-FAKES: A Twitter (Arabic/English) Dataset for Detecting Misleading Information on COVID-19 (Mohamed K. Elhadad, Kin Fun Li, Fayez Gebali)....Pages 256-268
Precision Dosing Management with Intelligent Computing in Digital Health (Hong Lu, Sara Rosenbaum, Wei Lu)....Pages 269-280
Optimal Number of MOAP Robots for WMNs Using Silhouette Theory (Atushi Toyama, Kenshiro Mitsugi, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli)....Pages 281-290
Performance Evaluation of a Recovery Method for Vehicular DTN Considering Different Reset Thresholds (Yoshiki Tada, Makoto Ikeda, Leonard Barolli)....Pages 291-299
Survey of UAV Autonomous Landing Based on Vision Processing (Liu Yubo, Bei Haohan, Li Wenhao, Huang Ying)....Pages 300-311
Improved Sentiment Urgency Emotion Detection for Business Intelligence (Tariq Soussan, Marcello Trovati)....Pages 312-318
Knowledge-Based Networks for Artificial Intuition (Olayinka Johnny, Marcello Trovati)....Pages 319-325
Research on Foreign Anti-terrorism Intelligence Early Warning Based on Visual Measurement (Xiang Pan, Zhiting Xiao, Xuan Guo, Yuan Chen)....Pages 326-337
Credit Rating Based on Hybrid Sampling and Dynamic Ensemble (Shudong Liu, Jiamin Wei, Xu Chen, Chuang Wang, Xu An Wang)....Pages 338-347
Low Infrared Emission Hybrid Frequency Selective Surface with Low-Frequency Transmission and High-Frequency Low Reflection in Microwave Region (Yiming Xu, Yu Yang, Xiao Li)....Pages 348-360
Rapid Detection of Crowd Abnormal Behavior Based on the Hierarchical Thinking (Xiao Li, Yu Yang, Yiming Xu, Linyang Li, Chao Wang)....Pages 361-371
Deep and Shallow Feature Fusion and Recognition of Recording Devices Based on Attention Mechanism (Chunyan Zeng, Dongliang Zhu, Zhifeng Wang, Yao Yang)....Pages 372-381
Teaching Evaluation Index Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (Qiong Li, Yanyan Zhao, Jiangtao Li, Lili Su)....Pages 382-390
High-Dimensional Data Clustering Algorithm Based on Stacked-Random Projection (Yujia Sun, Jan Platoš)....Pages 391-401
Adaptive Monitoring in Multiservice Systems (Lukáš Révay, Sanja Tomić)....Pages 402-412
Towards Faster Matching Algorithm Using Ternary Tree in the Area of Genome Mapping (Rostislav Hřivňák, Petr Gajdoš, Václav Snášel)....Pages 413-424
Preprocessing COVID-19 Radiographic Images by Evolutionary Column Subset Selection (Jana Nowaková, Pavel Krömer, Jan Platoš, Václav Snášel)....Pages 425-436
Transmission Scheduling for Tandemly-Connected Sensor Networks with Heterogeneous Packet Generation Rates (Ryosuke Yoshida, Masahiro Shibata, Masato Tsuru)....Pages 437-446
Smart Watering System Based on Framework of Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in Cloud Computing (Nurdiansyah Sirimorok, Mansur As, Kaori Yoshida, Mario Köppen)....Pages 447-459
P4-Based Implementation and Evaluation of Adaptive Early Packet Discarding Scheme (Kazumi Kumazoe, Masato Tsuru)....Pages 460-469
Matching Based Content Discovery Method on Geo-Centric Information Platform (Kaoru Nagashima, Yuzo Taenaka, Akira Nagata, Hitomi Tamura, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Myung Lee)....Pages 470-479
SDN-Based In-network Early QoE Prediction for Stable Route Selection on Multi-path Network (Shumpei Shimokawa, Yuzo Taenaka, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Myung Lee)....Pages 480-492
Reliable Network Design Considering Cost to Decrease Failure Probability of Simultaneous Failure (Yuma Morino, Hiroyoshi Miwa)....Pages 493-502
Beacon-Less Autonomous Transmission Control Method for Spatio-Temporal Data Retention (Ichiro Goto, Daiki Nobayashi, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Takeshi Ikenaga, Myung Lee)....Pages 503-513
Back Matter ....Pages 515-517

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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1263

Leonard Barolli Kin Fun Li Hiroyoshi Miwa   Editors

Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2020)

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 1263

Series Editor Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Advisory Editors Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Rafael Bello Perez, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba Emilio S. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Hani Hagras, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK László T. Kóczy, Department of Automation, Széchenyi István University, Gyor, Hungary Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA Chin-Teng Lin, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Jie Lu, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Patricia Melin, Graduate Program of Computer Science, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico Nadia Nedjah, Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ngoc Thanh Nguyen , Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland Jun Wang, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

The series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” contains publications on theory, applications, and design methods of Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Computing. Virtually all disciplines such as engineering, natural sciences, computer and information science, ICT, economics, business, e-commerce, environment, healthcare, life science are covered. The list of topics spans all the areas of modern intelligent systems and computing such as: computational intelligence, soft computing including neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computing and the fusion of these paradigms, social intelligence, ambient intelligence, computational neuroscience, artificial life, virtual worlds and society, cognitive science and systems, Perception and Vision, DNA and immune based systems, self-organizing and adaptive systems, e-Learning and teaching, human-centered and human-centric computing, recommender systems, intelligent control, robotics and mechatronics including human-machine teaming, knowledge-based paradigms, learning paradigms, machine ethics, intelligent data analysis, knowledge management, intelligent agents, intelligent decision making and support, intelligent network security, trust management, interactive entertainment, Web intelligence and multimedia. The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character. An important characteristic feature of the series is the short publication time and world-wide distribution. This permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results. ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **

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Editors Leonard Barolli Department of Information and Communication Engineering Faculty of Information Engineering Fukuoka Institute of Technology Fukuoka, Japan

Kin Fun Li Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Victoria Victoria, BC, Canada

Hiroyoshi Miwa School of Science and Technology Kwansei Gakuin University Sanda, Japan

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Welcome Message from the INCoS-2020 Organizing Committee

Welcome to the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2020), which is held at University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, from 31 August to 2 September 2020. INCoS is a multidisciplinary conference that covers the latest advances in intelligent social networks and collaborative systems, intelligent networking systems, mobile collaborative systems, secure intelligent cloud systems, etc. Additionally, the conference addresses security, authentication, privacy, data trust and user trustworthiness behaviour, which have become crosscutting features of intelligent collaborative systems. With the fast development of the Internet, we are experiencing a shift from the traditional sharing of information and applications as the main purpose of the networking systems to an emergent paradigm, which locates people at the very centre of networks and exploits the value of people’s connections, relations and collaboration. Social networks are playing a major role as one of the drivers in the dynamics and structure of intelligent networking and collaborative systems. Virtual campuses, virtual communities and organizations strongly leverage intelligent networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and informal electronic relations, such as business-to-business, peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative learning interactions, including the virtual campuses and eLearning and MOOCs systems. Altogether, this has resulted in entangled systems that need to be managed efficiently and in an autonomous way. In addition, the conjunction of the latest and powerful technologies based on cloud, mobile and wireless infrastructures is currently bringing new dimensions of collaborative and networking applications a great deal by facing new issues and challenges. INCoS-2020 conference paid a special attention to cloud computing services, storage, security and privacy, data mining, machine learning and collective intelligence, cooperative communication and cognitive systems, big data analytis, eLearning, virtual campuses and MOOCs, among others. The aim of this conference is to stimulate research that will lead to the creation of responsive environments for networking and, at longer-term, the development of adaptive, secure, mobile and intuitive intelligent systems for collaborative work and v

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learning. As in all previous editions, INCoS-2020 counted on with the support and collaboration of a large and internationally recognized TPC covering all main themes of the conference. The successful organization of the conference is achieved thanks to the great collaboration and hard work of many people and conference supporters. First, we would like to thank all the authors for their continued support to the conference by submitting their research work to the conference, for their presentations and discussions during the conference days. We would like to thank PC co-chairs, TPC members and external reviewers for their work by carefully evaluating the submissions and providing constructive feedback to authors. We would like to thank the track chairs for their work on setting up the tracks and the respective TPCs and also for actively promoting the conference and their tracks. We would like to acknowledge the excellent work and support by the international advisory committee. Our gratitude and acknowledgment for the conference keynotes for their interesting and inspiring keynote speeches. We greatly appreciate the support by web administrator co-chairs. We are very grateful to Springer as well as several academic institutions for their endorsement and assistance. Finally, we hope that you will find these proceedings to be a valuable resource in your professional, research and educational activities. Leonard Barolli Steering Committee Chair Kin Fun Li Hiroyoshi Miwa General Co-chairs Alex Thomo Flora Amato Omar Hussain Program Co-chairs

INCoS-2020 Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair Makoto Takizawa

Hosei University, Japan

General Co-chairs Kin Fun Li Hiroyoshi Miwa

University of Victoria, Canada Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Program Co-chairs Alex Thomo Flora Amato Omar Hussain

University of Victoria, Canada University of Naples “Frederico II”, Italy UNSW Canberra, Australia

Workshops Co-chairs Issa Traore Santi Caballé Natalia Kryvinska

University of Victoria, Canada Open University of Catalonia, Spain Comenius University in Bratislavia, Slovakia

International Advisory Committee Vincenzo Loia Fang-Yie Leu Albert Zomaya

University of Salerno, Italy Tunghai University, Taiwan University of Sydney, Australia

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International Liaison Co-chairs Riham AlTawry Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda Xu An Wang

University of Victoria, Canada Lodz University of Technology, Poland Engineering University of CAPF, China

Award Co-chairs Tomoya Enokido Marek Ogiela Masato Tsuru Vaclav Snasel

Rissho University, Japan AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Web Administrator Co-chairs Kevin Bylykbashi Donald Elmazi Miralda Cuka

Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Local Arrangement Co-chairs Parastoo Soleimani Sina Ghaffari

University of Victoria, Canada University of Victoria, Canada

Finance Chair Makoto Ikeda

Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Steering Committee Chair Leonard Barolli

Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Track Areas and PC Members Track 1: Data Mining, Machine Learning and Collective Intelligence Track Co-chairs Carson K. Leung Alfredo Cuzzocrea

University of Manitoba, Canada University of Calabria, Italy

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TPC Members Fan Jiang Wookey Lee Oluwafemi A. Sarumi Syed K. Tanbeer Tomas Vinar Kin Fun Li

University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Inha University, Korea Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria University of Manitoba, Canada Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia University of Victoria, Canada

Track 2: Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Management Track Co-chairs Marek Ogiela Morteza Saberi Chang Choi

AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland University of Technology Sydney, Australia Gachon University, Republic of Korea

TPC Members Hsing-Chung (Jack) Chen Been-Chian Chien Junho Choi Farookh Khadeer Hussain Hae-Duck Joshua Jeong Hoon Ko Natalia Krzyworzeka Libor Mesicek Lidia Ogiela Su Xi Ali Azadeh Jin Hee Yoon Hamed Shakouri Jee-Hyong Lee Jung Sik Jeon

Asia University, Taiwan National University, Taiwan Chosun University, Korea University of Technology Sydney, Australia Korean Bible University, Korea Sungkyunkwan University, Korea AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland J. E. Purkinje University, Czech Republic Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland Hohai University, China Tehran University, Iran Sejong University, South Korea Tehran University, Iran Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Mokpo National Maritime University, South Korea

Track 3: Grid and P2P Distributed Infrastructure for Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda Takuya Asaka

Lodz University of Technology, Poland Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

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TPC Members Jordi Mongay Batalla Nik Bessis Aniello Castiglione Naveen Chilamkurti Radu-Ioan Ciobanu Alexandru Costan Vladimir-Ioan Cretu Marc Frincu Rossitza Ivanova Dorian Gorgan Mauro Iacono George Mastorakis Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis Gabriel Neagu Rodica Potolea Radu Prodan Ioan Salomie George Suciu Nicolae Tapus Sergio L. Toral Marín Radu Tudoran Lucian Vintan Mohammad Younas

National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Edge Hill University, UK University of Naples Parthenope, Italy La Trobe University, Australia University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania IRISA/INSA Rennes, France University Politehnica of Timisoara, Romania West University of Timisoara, Romania Goleva Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece University of Nicosia, Cyprus National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania University of Innsbruck, Austria Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania BEIA International, Romania University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania University of Seville, Spain European Research Center, Germany Lucian Blaga University, Romania Oxford Brookes University, UK

Track 4: Nature’s Inspired Parallel Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Mohammad Shojafar Zahra Pooranian Daichi Kominami

University of Rome, Italy University of Padua, Italy Osaka University, Japan

TPC Members Francisco Luna Sergio Nesmachnow Nouredine Melab Julio Ortega Domingo Giménez Gregoire Danoy

University University University University University University

of Málaga, Spain La Republica, Uruguay of Lille 1, France of Granada, Spain of Murcia, Spain of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Carolina Salto Stefka Fidanova Michael Affenzeller Hernan Aguirre Francisco Chicano Javid Tahery Enrique Domínguez Guillermo Leguizamón Konstantinos Parsopoulos Carlos Segura Eduardo Segredo Javier Arellano

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University of La Pampa, Argentina IICT-BAS, Bulgaria Upper Austria University, Austria Shinshu University, Japan University of Malaga, Spain Karlstad University, Sweden University of Málaga, Spain Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina University of Ioannina, Greece CIMAT, Mexico Edinburgh Napier University, UK University of Málaga, Spain

Track 5: Security, Organization, Management and Autonomic Computing for Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Jungwoo Ryoo Simon Tjoa

Pennsylvania State University, USA St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

TPC Members Nikolaj Goranin Kenneth Karlsson Peter Kieseberg Hyoungshick Kim Hae Young Lee Moussa Ouedraogo Sebastian Schrittwieser Syed Rizvi

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lituania Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland SBA Research, Austria Sungkyunkwan University, Korea DuDu IT, Korea Wavestone, Luxembourg St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Pennsylvania State University, USA

Track 6: Software Engineering, Semantics and Ontologies for Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Kai Jander Flora Amato

University of Hamburg, Germany University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy

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TPC Members Tsutomu Kinoshita Kouji Kozaki Hiroyoshi Miwa Burin Rujjanapan Hiroshi Kanasugi Takayuki Shimotomai Jinattaporn Khumsri Rene Witte Amal Zouaq Jelena Jovanovic Zeinab Noorian Faezeh Ensan Alireza Vazifedoost Morteza Mashayekhi Giovanni Cozzolino

Fukui University of Technology, Japan Osaka University, Japan Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Nation University, Thailand Tokyo University, Japan Advanced Simulation Technology of Mechanics R&D, Japan Fukui University of Technology, Japan Concordia University, Canada University of Ottawa, Canada University of Belgrade, Serbia Ryerson University, Canada Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Sun Life Financial, Canada Royal Bank of Canada, Canada University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy

Track 7: Wireless and Sensor Systems for Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Do van Thanh Shigeru Kashihara

Telenor & Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

TPC Members Dhananjay Singh Shirshu Varma B. Balaji Naik Sayed Chhattan Shah Madhusudan Singh Irish Singh Gaurav Tripathi Jun Kawahara Muhammad Niswar Vasaka Visoottiviseth Jane Louie F. Zamora

HUFS, Korea IIIT-Allahabad, India NIT-Sikkim, India HUFS, Korea, USA Yonsei University, Korea Ajou University, Korea Bharat Electronics Limited, India Kyoto University, Japan Hasanuddin University, Indonesia Mahidol University, Thailand Weathernews Inc., Japan

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Track 8: Service-Based Systems for Enterprise Activities Planning and Management Track Co-chairs Corinna Engelhardt-Nowitzki Natalia Kryvinska

University of Applied Sciences, Austria Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

TPC Members Maria Bohdalova Ivan Demydov Jozef Juhar Nor Shahniza Kamal Bashah Eric Pardede Francesco Moscato Tomoya Enokido Olha Fedevych

Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine Technical University of Košice, Slovakia Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia La Trobe University, Australia University of Campania, Italy Rissho University, Japan Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine

Track 9: Next Generation Secure Network Protocols and Components Track Co-chairs Xu An Wang Mingwu Zhang

Engineering University of CAPF, China Hubei University of Technology, China

TPC Members Fushan Wei He Xu Yining Liu Yuechuan Wei Weiwei Kong Dianhua Tang Hui Tian Urszula Ogiela

The PLA Information Engineering University, China Nangjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Engineering University of CAPF, China Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China CETC 30, China Huaqiao University, China Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland

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Track 10: Big Data Analytics for Learning, Networking and Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Santi Caballé Francesco Orciuoli Shigeo Matsubara

Open University of Catalonia, Spain University of Salerno, Italy Kyoto University, Japan

TPC Members Jordi Conesa Soumya Barnejee David Bañeres Nicola Capuano Nestor Mora Jorge Moneo David Gañán Isabel Guitart Elis Kulla Evjola Spaho Florin Pop Kin Fun Li Miguel Bote Pedro Muñoz

Open University of Catalonia, Spain Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France Open University of Catalonia, Spain University of Salerno, Italy Open University of Catalonia, Spain University of San Jorge, Spain Open University of Catalonia, Spain Open University of Catalonia, Spain Okayama University of Science, Japan Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania University of Victoria, Canada University of Valladolid, Spain University of Carlos III, Spain

Track 11: Cloud Computing: Services, Storage, Security and Privacy Track Co-chairs Javid Taheri Shuiguang Deng

Karlstad University, Sweden Zhejiang University, China

TPC Members Ejaz Ahmed Asad Malik Usman Shahid Assad Abbas Nikolaos Tziritas

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan North Dakota State University, USA Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Osman Khalid Kashif Bilal Javid Taheri Saif Rehman Inayat Babar Thanasis Loukopoulos Mazhar Ali Tariq Umer

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Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Qatar University, Qatar Karlstad University, Sweden COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

Track 12: Intelligent Collaborative Systems for Work and Learning, Virtual Organization and Campuses Track Co-chairs Nikolay Kazantsev Monika Davidekova

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

TPC Members Luis Alberto Casillas Nestor Mora Michalis Feidakis Sandra Isabel Enciso Nicola Capuano Rafael Del Hoyo George Caridakis Kazunori Mizuno Satoshi Ono Yoshiro Imai Takashi Mitsuishi Hiroyuki Mitsuhara

University of Guadalajara, Mexico University of Cadiz, Spain University of Aegean, Greece Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas, Colombia University of Salerno, Italy Technological Center of Aragon, Spain University of Aegean, Greece Takushoku University, Japan Kagoshima University, Japan Kagawa University, Japan Tohoku University, Japan Tokushima University, Japan

Track 13: Social Networking and Collaborative Systems Track Co-chairs Nicola Capuano Dusan Soltes Yusuke Sakumoto

University of Salerno, Italy Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

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TPC Members Santi Caballé Thanasis Daradoumis Angelo Gaeta Christian Guetl Miltiadis Lytras Agathe Merceron Francis Palma Krassen Stefanov Daniele Toti Jian Wang Jing Xiao Jian Yu Aida Masaki Takano Chisa Sho Tsugawa

Open University of Catalonia, Spain University of the Aegean, Greece University of Salerno, Italy Graz University of Technology, Austria American College of Greece, Greece Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Screaming Power, Canada Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria Roma Tre University, Italy Wuhan University, China South China Normal University, China Auckland University of Technology, Australia Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Hiroshima City University, Japan Tsukuba University, Japan

Track 14: Intelligent and Collaborative Systems for e-Health Track Co-chairs Massimo Esposito

Mario Ciampi

Giovanni Luca Masala

Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy, Italy Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy, Italy University of Plymouth, UK

TPC Members Tim Brown Mario Marcos do Espirito Santo Jana Heckenbergerova Zdenek Matej Michal Musilek Michal Prauzek Vaclav Prenosil Alvin C. Valera Nasem Badr El Din

Australian National University, Australia Universidad Stadual de Montes Claros, Brazil University Pardubice, Czech Republic Masaryk University, Czech Republic University Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic VSB-TU OStrava, Czech Republic Masaryk University, Czech Republic Singapore Management University, Singapore University of Manitoba, Canada

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Emil Pelikan Joanne Nightingale Tomas Barton

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Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic National Physical Laboratory, UK University of Alberta, Canada

Track 15: Mobile Networking and Applications Track Co-chairs Miroslav Voznak Akihiro Fujihara Lukas Vojtech

VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

TPC Members Nobuyuki Tsuchimura Masanori Nakamichi Masahiro Shibata Yusuke Ide Takayuki Shimotomai Dinh-Thuan Do Floriano De Rango Homero Toral-Cruz Remigiusz Baran Mindaugas Kurmis Radek Martinek Mauro Tropea Gokhan Ilk Shino Iwami

Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Fukui University of Technology, Japan Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Advanced Simulation Technology of Mechanics R&D, Japan Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam University of Calabria, Italy University of Quintana Roo, Mexico Kielce University of Technology, Poland Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences, Lituania VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic University of Calabria, Italy Ankara University, Turkey Microsoft, Japan

INCoS-2020 Reviewers Amato Flora Barolli Admir Barolli Leonard Bylykbashi Kevin Caballé Santi Capuano Nicola Cuka Miralda Cui Baojiang

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INCoS-2020 Keynote Talks

Trustworthy Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence Arjan Durresi Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Abstract. Algorithms and computers have been used for a long time in supporting decision-making in various fields of human endowers. Examples include optimization techniques in engineering, statistics in experiment design, modeling of different natural phenomena and so on. In all such uses of algorithms and computers, an essential question has been how much we can trust them, what are the potential errors of such models, what is the field range of their applicability? With time, the algorithms and computers we use have become more powerful and more complex, and we call them today as artificial intelligence that includes various machine learning and other algorithmic techniques. But the increase of power and complexity of algorithms and computers and with extended use of them the question of how much we should trust them becomes more crucial. Their complexity might hide more potential errors and especially the interdependencies; their solution might be difficult to be explained and so on. To deal with these problems, we have developed an evidence and measurement-based trust management system; our system can be used to measure trust in human to human, human to machine and machine to machine interactions. In this talk, we will introduce our trust system and its validation on real stock market data. Furthermore, we will discuss the use of our trust system to build more secure computer systems, filter fake news on social networks and develop better collective decision-making support systems in managing natural resources, as well as future potential uses.

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Abstract. Time series are a type of time-dependent data found in many fields such as finance, medicine, meteorology, ecology and utility industry. In such fields, time series forecasting is an issue of great importance as it can help predict future index/equity values and behavioral changes in a stock market, health trajectories of a patient and probabilities of failure events such death and (re)-hospitalization and varying electricity consumption of individual households. It also poses significant theoretical and methodological challenges. One such challenge is identification and prediction of a regime and regime shifts since most time series models, whether they are linear or nonlinear, work well only within one regime. In this talk, I will introduce our recent work on building a novel framework to model time series interaction and evolution as an ecosystem. The focus of the talk is to show how to make use of the graph or network structures and community analysis approaches to account for interactions or interdependencies between time series. For this purpose, we build a time-evolving network graph from moving window segments of time series, where nodes represent time series profiles and links correspond to the similarity between the time series. By using a community detection algorithm, we discover communities displaying similar behaviours, or regimes, and trace the discovered behaviours in the form of trajectories of structural changes in these communities. Such changes are considered as behaviour events that may appear, persist or disappear w.r.t. a community, reflecting the survival of regimes and abrupt transition between regimes. Using such network structures for modelling the interactions allows also discovering “relational” features explaining why certain behaviours may persist longer than others. These relational features, together with behaviour profiles, constitute input to machine learning models for regime analysis and trajectory forecasting. In our work, we tackle the problem of learning regime shifts by modeling a time-dependent probability of transition between regimes, using a full time-dependent Cox regression model. We evaluate the whole approach by testing it on both synthetic and real data sets and compare its performance with that of state-of-the-art learning algorithms.

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Performance Evaluation of WMNs by WMN-PSODGA Simulation System Considering Exponential Distribution of Mesh Clients and Different Router Replacement Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seiji Ohara, Admir Barolli, Phudit Ampririt, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli, and Makoto Takizawa

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Performance Evaluation of WMNs by WMN-PSODGA Simulation System Considering Exponential Distribution of Mesh Clients and Different Router Replacement Methods Seiji Ohara1(B) , Admir Barolli2 , Phudit Ampririt1 , Keita Matsuo3 , Leonard Barolli3 , and Makoto Takizawa4 1

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Abstract. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are an important networking infrastructure and they have many advantages such as low cost and high-speed wireless Internet connectivity. However, they have some problems such as router placement, covering of mesh clients and load balancing. To deal with these problems, in our previous work, we implemented a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based simulation system, called WMN-PSO, and a simulation system based on Genetic Algorithm (GA), called WMN-GA. Then, we implemented a hybrid simulation system based on PSO and distributed GA (DGA), called WMN-PSODGA. Moreover, we added in the fitness function a new parameter for the load balancing of the mesh routers called NCMCpR (Number of Covered Mesh Clients per Router). In this paper, we consider Exponential distribution of mesh clients and five router replacement methods and carry out simulations using WMN-PSODGA system. The simulation results show that RIWM and LDIWM router replacement methods have better performance than other methods. Comparing RIWM and LDIWM, we see that RIWM has better behavior.

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The wireless networks and devices can provide users access to information and communication anytime and anywhere [3,8–11,14,20,26,27,29,33]. Wireless c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 1–14, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_1

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Mesh Networks (WMNs) are gaining a lot of attention because of their low-cost nature that makes them attractive for providing wireless Internet connectivity. A WMN is dynamically self-organized and self-configured, with the nodes in the network automatically establishing and maintaining mesh connectivity among itself (creating, in effect, an ad hoc network). This feature brings many advantages to WMN such as low up-front cost, easy network maintenance, robustness and reliable service coverage [1]. Moreover, such infrastructure can be used to deploy community networks, metropolitan area networks, municipal and corporative networks, and to support applications for urban areas, medical, transport and surveillance systems. Mesh node placement in WMNs can be seen as a family of problems, which is shown (through graph theoretic approaches or placement problems, e.g. [6,15]) to be computationally hard to solve for most of the formulations [37]. We consider the version of the mesh router nodes placement problem in which we are given a grid area where to deploy a number of mesh router nodes and a number of mesh client nodes of fixed positions (of an arbitrary distribution) in the grid area. The objective is to find a location assignment for the mesh routers to the cells of the grid area that maximizes the network connectivity, client coverage and consider load balancing for each router. Network connectivity is measured by Size of Giant Component (SGC) of the resulting WMN graph, while the user coverage is simply the number of mesh client nodes that fall within the radio coverage of at least one mesh router node and is measured by Number of Covered Mesh Clients (NCMC). For load balancing, we added in the fitness function a new parameter called NCMCpR (Number of Covered Mesh Clients per Router). Node placement problems are known to be computationally hard to solve [12, 13,38]. In previous works, some intelligent algorithms have been recently investigated for node placement problem [4,7,16,18,21–23,31,32]. In [24], we implemented a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based simulation system, called WMN-PSO. Also, we implemented another simulation system based on Genetic Algorithm (GA), called WMN-GA [19], for solving node placement problem in WMNs. Then, we designed and implemented a hybrid simulation system based on PSO and distributed GA (DGA). We call this system WMN-PSODGA. In this paper, we present the performance analysis of WMNs using WMNPSODGA system considering Exponential distribution of mesh clients and different router replacement methods. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We present our designed and implemented hybrid simulation system in Sect. 2. The simulation results are given in Sect. 3. Finally, we give conclusions and future work in Sect. 4.

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In PSO a number of simple entities (the particles) are placed in the search space of some problem or function and each evaluates the objective function at its current location. The objective function is often minimized and the exploration of the search space is not through evolution [17]. Each particle then determines its movement through the search space by combining some aspect of the history of its own current and best (best-fitness) locations with those of one or more members of the swarm, with some random perturbations. The next iteration takes place after all particles have been moved. Eventually the swarm as a whole, like a flock of birds collectively foraging for food, is likely to move close to an optimum of the fitness function. Each individual in the particle swarm is composed of three D-dimensional vectors, where D is the dimensionality of the search space. These are the current position xi , the previous best position pi and the velocity vi . The particle swarm is more than just a collection of particles. A particle by itself has almost no power to solve any problem; progress occurs only when the particles interact. Problem solving is a population-wide phenomenon, emerging from the individual behaviors of the particles through their interactions. In any case, populations are organized according to some sort of communication structure or topology, often thought of as a social network. The topology typically consists of bidirectional edges connecting pairs of particles, so that if j is in i’s neighborhood, i is also in j’s. Each particle communicates with some other particles and is affected by the best point found by any member of its topological neighborhood. This is just the vector pi for that best neighbor, which we will denote with pg . The potential kinds of population “social networks” are hugely varied, but in practice certain types have been used more frequently. We show the pseudo code of PSO in Algorithm 1. In the PSO process, the velocity of each particle is iteratively adjusted so that the particle stochastically oscillates around pi and pg locations. 2.2

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Distributed Genetic Algorithm (DGA) has been used in various fields of science. DGA has shown their usefulness for the resolution of many computationally hard combinatorial optimization problems. We show the pseudo code of DGA in Algorithm 2. Population of individuals: Unlike local search techniques that construct a path in the solution space jumping from one solution to another one through local perturbations, DGA use a population of individuals giving thus the search a larger scope and chances to find better solutions. This feature is also known as “exploration” process in difference to “exploitation” process of local search methods.

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Algorithm 1. Pseudo code of PSO. /* Initialize all parameters for PSO */ Computation maxtime:= T pmax , t := 0; Number of particle-patterns:= m, 2 ≤ m ∈ N 1 ; Particle-patterns initial solution:= P 0i ; Particle-patterns initial position:= x0ij ; Particles initial velocity:= v 0ij ; PSO parameter:= ω, 0 < ω ∈ R1 ; PSO parameter:= C1 , 0 < C1 ∈ R1 ; PSO parameter:= C2 , 0 < C2 ∈ R1 ; /* Start PSO */ Evaluate(G0 , P 0 ); while t < T pmax do /* Update velocities and positions */ = ω · v tij v t+1 ij +C1 · rand() · (best(Pijt ) − xtij ) +C2 · rand() · (best(Gt ) − xtij ); t+1 xij = xtij + v t+1 ij ; /* if fitness value is increased, a new solution will be accepted. */ Update Solutions(Gt , P t ); t = t + 1; end while Update Solutions(Gt , P t ); return Best found pattern of particles as solution;

Fitness: The determination of an appropriate fitness function, together with the chromosome encoding are crucial to the performance of DGA. Ideally we would construct objective functions with “certain regularities”, i.e. objective functions that verify that for any two individuals which are close in the search space, their respective values in the objective functions are similar. Selection: The selection of individuals to be crossed is another important aspect in DGA as it impacts on the convergence of the algorithm. Several selection schemes have been proposed in the literature for selection operators trying to cope with premature convergence of DGA. There are many selection methods in GA. In our system, we implement 2 selection methods: Random method and Roulette wheel method. Crossover operators: Use of crossover operators is one of the most important characteristics. Crossover operator is the means of DGA to transmit best genetic features of parents to offsprings during generations of the evolution process. Many methods for crossover operators have been proposed such as Blend Crossover (BLX-α), Unimodal Normal Distribution Crossover (UNDX), Simplex Crossover (SPX). Mutation operators: These operators intend to improve the individuals of a population by small local perturbations. They aim to provide a component of randomness in the neighborhood of the individuals of the population. In our system, we implemented two mutation methods: uniformly random mutation and boundary mutation.

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Escaping from local optima: GA itself has the ability to avoid falling prematurely into local optima and can eventually escape from them during the search process. DGA has one more mechanism to escape from local optima by considering some islands. Each island computes GA for optimizing and they migrate its gene to provide the ability to avoid from local optima (See Fig. 1). Convergence: The convergence of the algorithm is the mechanism of DGA to reach to good solutions. A premature convergence of the algorithm would cause that all individuals of the population be similar in their genetic features and thus the search would result ineffective and the algorithm getting stuck into local optima. Maintaining the diversity of the population is therefore very important to this family of evolutionary algorithms. Algorithm 2. Pseudo code of DGA. /* Initialize all parameters for DGA */ Computation maxtime:= T gmax , t := 0; Number of islands:= n, 1 ≤ n ∈ N 1 ; initial solution:= P 0i ; /* Start DGA */ Evaluate(G0 , P 0 ); while t < T gmax do for all islands do Selection(); Crossover(); Mutation(); end for t = t + 1; end while Update Solutions(Gt , P t ); return Best found pattern of particles as solution;

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in Algorithm 3. Also, our implemented simulation system uses Migration function as shown in Fig. 2. The Migration function swaps solutions among lands included in PSO part.

Algorithm 3. Pseudo code of WMN-PSODGA system. Computation maxtime:= Tmax , t := 0; Initial solutions: P . Initial global solutions: G. /* Start PSODGA */ while t < Tmax do Subprocess(PSO); Subprocess(DGA); WaitSubprocesses(); Evaluate(Gt , P t ) /* Migration() swaps solutions (see Fig. 2). */ Migration(); t = t + 1; end while Update Solutions(Gt , P t ); return Best found pattern of particles as solution;

Fig. 2. Model of WMN-PSODGA migration.

Initialization We decide the velocity of particles by a random process considering the area size. For√instance, when √ the area size is W × H, the velocity is decided randomly from − W 2 + H 2 to W 2 + H 2 . Particle-Pattern A particle is a mesh router. A fitness value of a particle-pattern is computed by combination of mesh routers and mesh clients positions. In other words, each particle-pattern is a solution as shown is Fig. 3.

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Fig. 3. Relationship among global solution, particle-patterns, and mesh routers in PSO part.

Gene Coding A gene describes a WMN. Each individual has its own combination of mesh nodes. In other words, each individual has a fitness value. Therefore, the combination of mesh nodes is a solution. Fitness Function WMN-PSODGA has the fitness function to evaluate the temporary solution of the router’s placements. The fitness function is defined as: F itness = α × N CM C(xij , y ij ) + β × SGC(xij , y ij ) + γ × N CM CpR(xij , y ij ). This function uses the following indicators. • NCMC (Number of Covered Mesh Clients) The NCMC is the number of the clients covered by the SGC’s routers. • SGC (Size of Giant Component) The SGC is the maximum number of connected routers. • NCMCpR (Number of Covered Mesh Clients per Router) The NCMCpR is the number of clients covered by each router. The NCMCpR indicator is used for load balancing. WMN-PSODGA aims to maximize the value of the fitness function in order to optimize the placements of the routers using the above three indicators. Weight-coefficients of the fitness function are α, β, and γ for NCMC, SGC, and NCMCpR, respectively. Moreover, the weight-coefficients are implemented as α + β + γ = 1. Router Replacement Methods A mesh router has x, y positions, and velocity. Mesh routers are moved based on velocities. There are many router replacement methods, such as: Constriction Method (CM) CM is a method which PSO parameters are set to a week stable region (ω = 0.729, C1 = C2 = 1.4955) based on analysis of PSO by M. Clerc et al. [2,5,35]. Random Inertia Weight Method (RIWM) In RIWM, the ω parameter is changing randomly from 0.5 to 1.0. The C1 and C2 are kept 2.0. The ω can be estimated by the week stable region. The average of ω is 0.75 [28,35].

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An Integrated Fuzzy-Based Simulation System for Driving Risk Management in VANETs Considering Road Condition as a New Parameter Kevin Bylykbashi1(B) , Ermioni Qafzezi1 , Phudit Ampririt1 , Keita Matsuo2 , Leonard Barolli2 , and Makoto Takizawa3 1

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Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new Fuzzy-based Simulation System for Driver Risk Management in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). The proposed system considers Driver’s Health Condition (DHC), Vehicle’s Environment Condition (VEC), Weather Condition (WC), Road Condition (RC) and Vehicle Speed (VS) to assess the risk level. The proposed system is composed of two Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs): FLC1 and FLC2. FLC1 has the following inputs: WC, RC and VS and its output, together with VEC and DHC, serve as input parameters for FLC2. The input parameters’ data can come from different sources, such as on-board and on-road sensors and cameras, sensors and cameras in the infrastructure and from the communications between the vehicles. Based on the system’s output i.e., driving risk level, a smart box informs the driver for a potential risk/danger and provides assistance. We show through simulations the effect of the considered parameters on the determination of the driving risk and demonstrate a few actions that can be performed accordingly.

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Traffic accidents, road congestion and environmental pollution are persistent problems faced by both developed and developing countries, which have made people live in difficult situations. Among these, the traffic incidents are the most serious ones because they result in huge loss of life and property. For decades, we have seen governments and car manufacturers struggle for safer roads and car accident prevention. The development in wireless communications has allowed c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 15–25, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_2

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companies, researchers and institutions to design communication systems that provide new solutions for these issues. Therefore, new types of networks, such as Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) have been created. VANET consists of a network of vehicles, in which vehicles are capable of communicating among themselves in order to deliver valuable information such as safety warnings and traffic information. Nowadays, every car is likely to be equipped with various forms of smart sensors, wireless communication modules, storage and computational resources. The sensors gather information about the road and environment conditions and share it with neighboring vehicles and adjacent roadside units (RSU) via vehicleto-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. However, the difficulty lies on how to understand the sensed data and how to make intelligent decisions based on the provided information. As a result, various intelligent computational technologies and systems such as fuzzy logic, machine learning, neural networks, adaptive computing and others, are being or already deployed by many car manufacturers [6]. They focus on these auxiliary technologies to launch and fully support the driverless vehicles. Fully autonomous vehicles still have a long way to go but driving support technologies are becoming widespread, even in everyday cars. The goal is to improve both driving safety and performance relying on the measurement and recognition of the outside environment and their reflection on driving operation. On the other hand, we are focused not only on the outside information but also on the in-car information and driver’s health information to detect a potential accident or a risky situation, and alert the driver about the danger, or take over the steering if it is necessary. We aim to realize a new intelligent driver support system which can provide an output in real-time by combining information from many sources. In this work, we implement a fuzzy-based simulation system for driving risk management considering different types of parameters that have an impact on the driving safety and performance. The considered parameters are driver’s health condition, vehicle’s environment condition, weather condition, vehicle speed in addition to road condition which is a new parameter we have included in this work. The model of our proposed system is given in Fig. 1. Based on the output parameter value, it can be decided if an action is needed, and if so, which is the appropriate task to be performed in order to provide a better driving support. The structure of the paper is as follows. Section 2 presents a brief overview of VANETs. Section 3 describes the proposed fuzzy-based simulation system and its implementation. Section 4 discusses the simulation results. Finally, conclusions and future work are given in Sect. 5.

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VANETs are a special case of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) in which mobile nodes are vehicles. In VANETs nodes (vehicles) have high mobility and tend to follow organized routes instead of moving at random. Moreover, vehicles offer attractive features such as higher computational capability and localization through GPS. VANETs have huge potential to enable applications ranging from road safety, traffic optimization, infotainment, commercial to rural and disaster scenario connectivity. Among these, the road safety and traffic optimization are considered the most important ones as they have the goal to reduce the dramatically high number of accidents, guarantee road safety, make traffic management and create new forms of inter-vehicle communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The ITS manages the vehicle traffic, support drivers with safety and other information, and provide some services such as automated toll collection and driver assist systems [7]. Despite the attractive features, VANETs are characterized by very large and dynamic topologies, variable capacity wireless links, bandwidth and hard delay constrains, and by short contact durations which are caused by the high mobility, high speed and low density of vehicles. In addition, limited transmission ranges, physical obstacles and interferences, make these networks characterized by disruptive and intermittent connectivity. To make VANETs applications possible, it is necessary to design proper networking mechanisms that can overcome relevant problems that arise from vehicular environments.

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Although the developments in autonomous vehicle design indicate that this type of technology is not that far away from deployment, the current advances fall only into the Level 2 of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) levels [13]. However, the automotive industry is very competitive and there might be many other new advances in the autonomous vehicle design that are not launched yet. Thus, it is only a matter of time before driverless cars are on the road. On the other side, there will be many people who will still be driving even on the era of autonomous cars. The high cost of driverless cars, lack of trust and not wanting to give up driving might be among the reasons why those people will continue to drive their cars. Hence, many researchers and automotive engineers keep working on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) as a primary safety feature, required in order to achieve full marks in safety. ADASs are intelligent systems that reside inside the vehicle and help the driver in a variety of ways. These systems rely on a comprehensive sensing network and artificial intelligence techniques, and have made it possible to commence the era of connected cars. They can invoke action to maintain driver’s attention in both manual and autonomous driving. While the sensors are used to gather data regarding the inside/outside environment, vehicle’s technical status, driving performance and driver’s condition, the intelligent systems task is to make decisions based on these data. If the vehicle measurements are combined with those of the surrounding vehicles and infrastructure, a better environment perception can be achieved. In addition, with different intelligent systems located at these vehicles as well as at geographically distributed servers more efficient decisions can be attained. Our research work focuses on developing an intelligent non-complex driving support system which determines the driving risk level in real-time by considering different types of parameters. In the previous works, we have considered different parameters including in-car environment parameters such as the ambient temperature and noise, and driver’s vital signs, i.e. heart and respiratory rate for which we implemented a testbed and conducted experiments in a real scenario [2,4]. The considered parameters include environmental factors and driver’s health condition which can affect the driver capability and vehicle performance. In [3], we included vehicle speed in our intelligent system for its crucial impact on the determination of risk level and in [5] the weather condition was added. In this work, we consider the road condition as a new parameter. Although the weather affects the roads, it is essential to consider the road condition as a separated parameter because a change in the weather condition does not necessary mean the road condition will change too. For example, after a heavy snow or rain even if the weather gets better, the roads might still be slippery for a while, or a flooding may happen, which, in turn, could damage the roads. Moreover, the roads may have potholes or they may be bumpy, and such poor conditions are not related with the current weather condition.

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We use fuzzy logic to implement the proposed system as it can make a realtime decision based on the uncertainty and vagueness of the provided information [1,8–12,14,15].

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The proposed system called Fuzzy-based Simulation System for Driving Risk Management (FSSDRM) is shown in Fig. 2. For the implementation of FSSDRM, we consider the following parameters: Weather Condition (WC), Road Condition, Vehicle Speed (VS), Vehicle’s Environment Condition (VEC) and Driver’s Health Condition (DHC) to determine the Driving Risk Management (DRM). We implement the FSSDRM using two Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) because having five input parameters in a single FLC results in a complex Fuzzy Rule Base (FRB) composed of many rules which affect the overall complexity of the system. FLC1 makes use of WC, RC and VS to produce an output parameter, which then serves as one of the three input parameters of the FLC2. We call this parameter Weather-Road-Speed (WRS) only for illustration purposes which allows us to better explain the results. The other two input parameters of FLC2 are VEC and DHC, and the output is DRM which is the final output of our proposed system. The term sets of linguistic parameters of FSSDRM are defined respectively as: T (W C) = {V ery Bad (V B), Bad (B), Good (G)}; T (RC) = {V ery Bad (V Ba), Bad (Ba), Good (Go)}; T (V S) = {Slow (Sl), M oderate (M o), F ast (F a)}; T (W RS) = {N o/M inor Danger (Sl), M oderate Danger(M D), Considerable Danger(CD) High Danger(HD), V ery High Danger(V HD)}; T (V EC) = {V ery U ncomf ortable (V U nC), U ncomf ortable (U nC), Comf ortable (C)}; T (DHC) = {V ery Bad (V B), Bad (B), Good (G)}. T (DRM ) = {Saf e (Sf ), Low (Lw), M oderate (M d), High (Hg), V ery High (V H), Severe (Sv), Danger (D)}.

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moderate speed. If DHC shows a poor health condition and the inside environment is not comfortable, we can see that the driving risk values are increased compared with the aforementioned scenario. By comparing the DRM values for all the considered scenarios, we can see the significant impact of the WRS on the determination of the driving risk. When WRS is more than 0.5, the driver cannot manage to drive without a high risk even if he/she is in good health condition and feels comfortable inside the vehicle. These situations are determined with High, Very High, Severe or Danger regardless DHC and VEC values. This is due to the fact that there are other

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external or internal factors which can affect the driving and vehicle performance, such as a very low visibility caused by a bad weather, dangerous roads in which the driver cannot fully control the vehicle or a high speed combined with these factors which makes the effect even worse. In the cases when the risk level is above the moderate level for a number of consecutive decided DRM values, the system can perform a certain action. For example, when the DRM value is slightly above the moderate level the system may take an action to lift the driver’s mood, and when the DRM value is very high, the system could even decide to limit the vehicle’s operating speed to a speed that the risk level is decreased significantly.

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In this paper, we proposed a fuzzy-based system to decide the driving risk management. We considered five parameters: road condition, weather condition, vehicle speed, vehicle’s environment condition and driver’s health condition. We showed through simulations the effect of the considered parameters on the determination of the driving risk level. In addition, we demonstrated a few actions that can be performed based on the output of our system. However, it may occur that the system provides an output which determines a low risk, when actually the chances for an accident to happen are high, or the opposite scenario, which is the case when the system’s output implies a false alarm. Therefore, we intend to implement the system in a testbed and estimate the system performance by looking into correct detection and false positives/negatives to determine its accuracy.

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Performance Evaluation of RIWM and RDVM Router Replacement Methods for WMNs by WMN-PSOHC Hybrid Intelligent System Shinji Sakamoto1(B) , Admir Barolli2 , Phudit Ampririt3 , Leonard Barolli4 , and Shusuke Okamoto1 1

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Abstract. With the rapid development of wireless technologies, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are becoming an important networking infrastructure due to their low cost and increased high speed wireless Internet connectivity. However, WMNs have some problems sush as node placement problem, security, transmission power and so on. In this work, we deal with node placement problem. In our previous work, we implemented a hybrid simulation system based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Hill Climbing (HC) called WMN-PSOHC for solving the node placement problem in WMNs. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of two mesh router replacement methods: Random Inertia Weight Method (RIWM) and Rational Decrement of Vmax Method (RDVM) by WMN-PSOHC hybrid intelligent simulation system. Simulation results show that a better performance is achieved for RIWM compared with RDVM.

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The wireless networks and devices are becoming increasingly popular and they provide users access to information and communication anytime and anywhere [1,3–5,8–11,13,14,16,18,19,24,29]. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 26–35, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_3

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gaining a lot of attention because of their low cost nature that makes them attractive for providing wireless Internet connectivity. A WMN is dynamically self-organized and self-configured, with the nodes in the network automatically establishing and maintaining mesh connectivity among them-selves (creating, in effect, an ad hoc network). This feature brings many advantages to WMNs such as low up-front cost, easy network maintenance, robustness and reliable service coverage [2]. Moreover, such infrastructure can be used to deploy community networks, metropolitan area networks, municipal and corporative networks, and to support applications for urban areas, medical, transport and surveillance systems. In this work, we deal with node placement problem in WMNs. We consider the version of the mesh router nodes placement problem in which we are given a grid area where to deploy a number of mesh router nodes and a number of mesh client nodes of fixed positions (of an arbitrary distribution) in the grid area. The objective is to find a location assignment for the mesh routers to the cells of the grid area that maximizes the network connectivity and client coverage. Network connectivity is measured by Size of Giant Component (SGC) of the resulting WMN graph, while the user coverage is simply the number of mesh client nodes that fall within the radio coverage of at least one mesh router node and is measured by Number of Covered Mesh Clients (NCMC). Node placement problems are known to be computationally hard to solve [12,33]. In some previous works, intelligent algorithms have been recently investigated [7,15,17,26,27,35]. We already implemented a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based simulation system, called WMN-PSO [22]. Also, we implemented a simulation system based on Hill Climbing (HC) for solving node placement problem in WMNs, called WMN-HC [21]. In our previous work [22,25], we presented a hybrid intelligent simulation system based on PSO and HC. We called this system WMN-PSOHC. In this paper, we analyze the performance of Random Inertia Weight Method (RIWM) and Rational Decrement of Vmax Method (RDVM) by WMN-PSOHC simulation system. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We present our designed and implemented hybrid simulation system in Sect. 2. In Sect. 3, we introduce WMNPSOHC Web GUI tool. The simulation results are given in Sect. 4. Finally, we give conclusions and future work in Sect. 5.

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evolutionary computation field, in this work, we consider the bi-objective function and fitness function interchangeably. Each particle then determines its movement through the search space by combining some aspect of the history of its own current and best (best-fitness) locations with those of one or more members of the swarm, with some random perturbations. The next iteration takes place after all particles have been moved. Eventually the swarm as a whole, like a flock of birds collectively foraging for food, is likely to move close to an optimum of the fitness function. Each individual in the particle swarm is composed of three D-dimensional vectors, where D is the dimensionality of the search space. These are the current position xi , the previous best position pi and the velocity vi . The particle swarm is more than just a collection of particles. A particle by itself has almost no power to solve any problem; progress occurs only when the particles interact. Problem solving is a population-wide phenomenon, emerging from the individual behaviors of the particles through their interactions. In any case, populations are organized according to some sort of communication structure or topology, often thought of as a social network. The topology typically consists of bidirectional edges connecting pairs of particles, so that if j is in i’s neighborhood, i is also in j’s. Each particle communicates with some other particles and is affected by the best point found by any member of its topological neighborhood. This is just the vector pi for that best neighbor, which we will denote with pg . The potential kinds of population “social networks” are hugely varied, but in practice certain types have been used more frequently. In the PSO process, the velocity of each particle is iteratively adjusted so that the particle stochastically oscillates around pi and pg locations. 2.2

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Hill Climbing (HC) algorithm is a heuristic algorithm. The idea of HC is simple. In HC, the solution s is accepted as the new current solution if δ ≤ 0 holds, where δ = f (s ) − f (s). Here, the function f is called the fitness function. The fitness function gives points to a solution so that the system can evaluate the next solution s and the current solution s. The most important factor in HC is to define the neighbor solution, effectively. The definition of the neighbor solution affects HC performance directly. In our WMN-PSOHC system, we use the next step of particle-pattern positions as the neighbor solutions for the HC part. 2.3

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Initialization Our proposed system starts by generating an initial solution randomly, by ad hoc methods [34]. We decide the velocity of particles by a random process considering the area size. For √ instance, when√the area size is W × H, the velocity is decided randomly from − W 2 + H 2 to W 2 + H 2 . Particle-pattern. A particle is a mesh router. A fitness value of a particle-pattern is computed by combination of mesh routers and mesh clients positions. In other words, each particle-pattern is a solution as shown is Fig. 1. Therefore, the number of particle-patterns is a number of solutions. Fitness Function One of most important thing is to decide the determination of an appropriate objective function and its encoding. In our case, each particle-pattern has an own fitness value and compares other particle-patterns fitness value in order to share information of global solution. The fitness function follows a hierarchical approach in which the main objective is to maximize the SGC in WMN. Thus, we use α and β weight-coefficients for the fitness function and the fitness function of this scenario is defined as: Fitness = α × SGC(xij , y ij ) + β × NCMC(xij , y ij ).

Fig. 1. Relationship among global solution, particle-patterns and mesh routers.

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In this section, we show simulation results using WMN-PSOHC system. In this work, we consider Normal distribution of mesh clients. The number of mesh routers is considered 16 and the number of mesh clients 48. We consider the number of particle-patterns 9. We conducted simulations 100 times, in order to avoid the effect of randomness and create a general view of results. The total number of iterations is considered 800 and the iterations per phase is considered 4. We show the parameter setting for WMN-PSOHC in Table 1. Table 1. Parameter settings. Parameters

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In this work, we evaluated the performance of RIWM and RDVM router replacement methods for WMNs by WMN-PSOHC hybrid intelligent simulation system. Simulation results show that the performance of RIWM is better compared with RDVM. In our future work, we would like to evaluate the performance of the proposed system for different parameters and scenarios.

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A Decision-Making System Based on Fuzzy Logic for IoT Node Selection in Opportunistic Networks Considering Node Betweenness Centrality as a New Parameter Miralda Cuka1(B) , Donald Elmazi1 , Makoto Ikeda1 , Keita Matsuo1 , Leonard Barolli1 , and Makoto Takizawa2 1

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Abstract. Designed as a specialized ad hoc network suitable for applications such as emergency responses, Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) are considered as a sub-class of DTN where communication opportunities are intermittent and an end-to-end path between the source and destination may never exist. Existing networks have already brought connectivity to a broad range of devices, such as hand held devices, laptops, tablets, PC, etc. The Internet of Things (IoT) will extend the connectivity to devices beyond just mobile phones and laptops, but to buildings, wearable devices, cars, different things and objects. One of the issues for these networks is identifying the most important IoT nodes and then selecting them to carry out tasks in OppNets. In this work, we implement an IoT Node Selection System (IoNSS) in OppNets based on Fuzzy Logic. We use three input parameters for IoNSS: Node’s Buffer Occupancy (NBO), Node’s Residual Energy (NRE) and Node Betweenness Centrality (NBC). The output parameter is IoT Node Selection Decision (NSD). The results show that proposed system makes a proper selection decision for IoT nodes in OppNets.

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Communication systems are becoming increasingly complex, involving thousands of heterogeneous nodes with diverse capabilities and various networking technologies interconnected with the aim to provide users with ubiquitous access to information and advanced services at a high quality level, in a cost efficient manner, any time, any place, and in line with the always best connectivity principle. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 36–43, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_4

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The Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) can provide an alternative way to support the diffusion of information in special locations within a city, particularly in crowded spaces where current wireless technologies can exhibit congestion issues. Sparse connectivity, no infrastructure and limited resources further complicate the situation [1,2]. Routing methods for such sparse mobile networks use a different paradigm for message delivery. These schemes utilize node mobility by having nodes carry messages and wait for an opportunity to transfer messages to the destination or the next relay, rather than transmitting them over a fixed path [3]. Hence, the challenges for routing in OppNets are very different from the traditional wireless networks and their utility and potential for scalability makes them a huge success. Internet of Things (IoT) seamlessly connects the real world and cyberspace via physical objects embedded with various types of intelligent sensors. A large number of Internet-connected machines will generate and exchange an enormous amount of data that make daily life more convenient, help to make a tough decision and provide beneficial services. The IoT probably becomes one of the most popular networking concepts that has the potential to bring out many benefits [4,5]. The Fuzzy Logic (FL) is unique approach that is able to simultaneously handle numerical data and linguistic knowledge. The fuzzy logic works on the levels of possibilities of input to achieve the definite output. In this paper, we propose and implement a Fuzy-based system for node selection called IoNSS in OppNets. We use three input parameters: Node’s Buffer Occupancy (NBO), Node’s Residual Energy (NRE) and Node Betweenness Centrality (NBC). The output parameter Node Selection Decision (NSD) represents the possibility that the IoT nodes will be selected to complete a certain task. We evaluate the system and present the simulation results for different values of input parameters. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we present IoT and OppNets. Section 3 describes the proposed system. The simulation results are shown in Sect. 4. Finally, conclusions and future work are given in Sect. 5.

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The IoT network is a combination of IoT nodes which are connected with different mediums and use IoT Gateway to connect to the Internet. The data transmitted through the gateway is stored and processed securely within cloud server. These new connected things will trigger increasing demands for new IoT applications that are not limited to only individual users. The current solutions for IoT application development generally rely on integrated service-oriented programming platforms. In particular, resources (e.g., sensory data, computing resource, and control information) are modeled as services and deployed in the cloud or at the edge. It is difficult to achieve rapid deployment and flexible resource management at network edges, in addition, an IoT system’s scalability will be restricted by the capability of the edge nodes [6].

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The data might be relayed by any node and forwarded through other nodes (e.g. via smartphones) even in the absence of a predefined end-to-end by exploiting opportunities for communication as soon as they become available. Evidently, such an OppNet paradigm plays an important role as an enabler for communication in IoT because without it disconnected networks of nodes could not be connected to the Internet world [7]. OppNets comprises a network where nodes can be anything from pedestrians, vehicles, fixed nodes and so on (see Fig. 1). The data is sent from sender to receiver by using any communication opportunity that can be Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular technologies or satellite links. In such scenario, IoT nodes might roam and opportunistically encounter several different statically deployed networks and perform either data collection or dissemination as well as relaying data between these networks, thus introducing further connectivity for disconnected networks. For example, as seen in Fig. 1, a car could opportunistically encounter other IoT nodes, collect information from them and relay it until it finds an available access point where it can upload the information. Similarly, a person might collect information from home-based weather stations and relay it through several other people, cars and buses until it reaches its intended destination [7]. OppNets are not limited to only such applications, as they can introduce further connectivity and benefits to IoT scenarios.

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inputs into consideration. Fuzzy sets and FL have been developed to manage vagueness and uncertainty in a reasoning process of an intelligent system such as a knowledge based system, an expert system or a logic control system [8–20]. Our system implementation consists of three main stages. In the first stage the input and output parameters used for our system are selected based on the challenges OppNets face. The parameters we have used are: • Node’s Buffer Occupancy (NBO); • Node’s Residual Energy (NRE); • Node Betweenness Centrality (NBC). The NBO and NRE parameters indicate the amount of data stored in the node’s buffer at any given time and the energy remaining in the node’s battery. We have considered energy and buffer occupancy as resources which vary over time and extend network longevity. The NBC parameter measures the extent to which a node lies on the path of other nodes. Such nodes have a significant influence in the network as the information passes through them. In the second stage we design the proposed system based on FL (see Fig. 2). It consists of one Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC), which is the main part of our

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system, its basic elements and the input and output parameters. We first define all the linguistic variables and their term sets for each parameter as shown in Table 1. Next the appropriate Fuzzy Membership Functions (FMFs) are chosen based on the inputs and output and the problem specifics (see Fig. 3). We have decided to use triangular and trapezoidal FMFs due to their simplicity and computational efficiency [21]. However, the overlap triangle-to-triangle and trapezoid-to-triangle fuzzy regions can not be addressed by any rule. It depends on the parameters and the specifics of their applications. Lastly, the Fuzzy Rule Base (FRB) is build as a set of fuzzy parameters and decision rules as shown in Table 2. Decision rules are fuzzy conditional statements expressed in the “if X then Y ” form, where X and Y are term sets characterized by appropriate FMFs. In the third stage simulation results to analyze the behavior of our system are performed.

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In Fig. 4 are shown the simulation results for our IoNSS proposed system. We estimate the possibility of one IoT node to be selected based on three input parameters. The simulation results show that an increase in NBC increases the possibility of said node to be selected. In Fig. 4(a), for NRE = 0.1, when NBC increases from 0.1 to 0.5 and from 0.5 to 0.9, NSD increases 15% and 23%, respectively. We

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see this increase because nodes with a higher betweenness centrality have more control over the network since more information will pass through that node. NBO is another parameter we considered in this work. When we compare Fig. 4(a) with Fig. 4(b) and Fig. 4(a) with Fig. 4(c), for NRE = 0.1 and NBC = 0.5, NSD decreases 15% and 42%, respectively. An increase in NBO causes a decrease in NSD because the buffer of a node is more likely to overflow or drop the messages. NRE parameter is important because most of the nodes are battery powered. In Fig. 4(a), for NBC = 0.3, NSD has increased 29% when NRE increases from 0.1 to 0.5, and 14% when NRE increases from 0.5 to 0.9. Different tasks have different battery demands so a high NRE means more energy to accomplish them.

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In this paper, we proposed a fuzzy-based system for IoT node selection in OppNets called IoNSS. The IoNSS makes the selection decision and chooses which IoT nodes from a set of nodes are better suited for a task. We used three input parameters for the selection decision. The NSD increases with the increase of NRE and decreases with the increase of NBO. A high NBC increases NSD as the possibility of the message to reach the destination is increased. In the future work, we will also consider other parameters for IoT node selection and make extensive simulations and experiments to evaluate the proposed system.

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Applying a Consensus Building Approach to Communication Projects in the Health Sector: The Momento Medico Case Study Ilaria Avino, Giuseppe Fenza, Graziano Fuccio, Alessia Genovese, Vincenzo Loia, and Francesco Orciuoli(B) DISA-MIS, Universit` a degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy {gfenza,gfuccio,loia,forciuoli}@unisa.it, {i.avino,a.genovese28}@studenti.unisa.it https://www.disa.unisa.it/

Abstract. This work describes the decision-making solution provided by the CONSENSUS project. Such solution is based on contextualising, applying and experimenting both Fuzzy Consensus Model and Average Rating Values algorithm to the Consensus Conference, i.e., a decisionmaking method widely used to achieve an agreement among different opinions on controversial and complex medical issues. The Consensus Conference has been applied so far without the use of technological enablers but the need for automatically executing some of its steps, tracing all the phases of the process, improving the transparency of the whole procedure, eliminating some biases due to the physical presence of the decision-makers, allowing the remote interaction of all the involved actors has fed the idea to create a tool based on the above computational models. Keywords: Consensus conference rating values

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The Consensus Conference [2] is a method used to achieve an agreement among several actors on particularly controversial and complex medical issues, and develops through a structured process. The aim is to produce evidence-based recommendations supporting operators and patients in the management of specific clinical situations. Such recommendations are typically produced starting from the evaluation of the best scientific evidence. This is not always sufficient to certainly determine what is the best choice (possibly, among a set of alternatives) in the different situations that could be faced in clinical practice. The existence of these uncertainty areas is the starting point for organizing a structured discussion and involving a group of experts. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 44–55, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_5

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In general, the Consensus Conference method foresees the consultation of a group of researchers with experience on topics related to a specific issue. These researchers are charged by the Conference Organizing Committee (COC) to prepare and present a summary of the available scientific knowledge related to the aforementioned issue, in front of a jury composed of specialists and nonspecialists in the field. Moreover, the COC has the possibility to make working groups to analyze different aspects related to the conference issue and from their work, the jury draws information to compare the available evidence with experts’ opinions. At the end of the consultation, the jury draws up a final report, which summarizes answers obtained by aggregating experts’ opinions, and the related recommendations for the clinical application. The stronger the agreement among the experts’ opinions the greater is the value of the final report produced along with the phases of the conference. Thus, the phase in which the COC looks for the agreement among the experts is crucial for the quality of the result and very important for companies which offer the Consensus Conference as a service. The Consensus Conference method is also used by Momento Medico, namely MM, (https://www.momentomedico.it/) which is a company that promotes scientific culture by carrying out scientific communication projects. Typically, the customers of MM are medical or pharmaceutical companies interested in realizing new communication projects on drugs and therapies related, for instance, to some disease. Momento Medico adopts a Consensus Conference procedure that replaces the activity of the COC with the combined work of both the customer and the MM representative. MM representative also plays the role of moderator in the conference and replaces the activity of the jury. During the execution of the Consensus Conference many critical points could arise: i) experts may be influenced by their own experiences or prejudices, commonly known as bias, in making a decision, ii) the need to protect experts’ identity, guaranteeing anonymity to avoid them to feel limited in expressing their opinion due to the fear of other expert judgments, iii) the impossibility of being physically present in the same place for geographical reasons, timing or exceptional events, such as the recent “Covid-19” health emergency. Furthermore, technical needs arise like, for instance, the request for tracing all the phases of the process in order to analyse data and improve the next conferences. Therefore, it is also possible improving the method of expert selection, group building and so on. In this context, the employment of a computational model to support the Consensus Conference phases is proposed. In particular, this work proposes an approach based on the integrated use of the Fuzzy Consensus Model and the Average Rating Values approaches to provide a comprehensive formal framework on which a Group Decision Support System tool can be implemented and deployed to offer a solution for the aforementioned criticalities of the traditional Consensus Conference. The remaining part of the work is structured as follows. Section 2 describes the contextualisation of Fuzzy Consensus Model and Average Rating Values to the Consensus Conference. Section 3 describe the software prototype implementing the Group Decision Support System to sustain the phases of the Consensus Conference. Section 4 describes several experimentations carried out by the

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The idea underlying this work is to propose a computational approach for supporting the Consensus Conference in order to solve the criticalities discussed in Sect. 1. Such approach develops along a process leveraging on two main subprocesses: consensus-building and selection. The former is enabled by the Fuzzy Consensus Model [8]. The latter is enabled by the Average Rating Values algorithm [3].

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In the following subsections, the computational approach supporting the Consensus Conference is described along the conference phases (as described by Fig. 1) in order to emphasize its benefits. It is important to underline that phase #4 and phase #5 implement the two main sub-processes. 2.1

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In this phase, MM arranges a Consensus Conference upon request by a customer who needs to promote a medical product and/or a specific therapy. Thus, the customer representative meets the MM representative and asks for arranging the conference. This is the first contact and the starting point of the Consensus Conference. Firstly, they define the main topic to deal with. Given the conference main topic, MM is in charge of looking for and selecting experts with the most appropriate background, and the customer is in charge of preparing the product documentation to allow experts to read, study, analyse and discuss it. Experts are classified according to their knowledge level in: i) experts with the highest level of knowledge on the defined topic (e.g. university professors or nationally

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recognized doctors), called Very-High Level experts, ii) experts with a high level of knowledge in the field of the defined topic (e.g. specialists), called High Level experts, and iii) experts with a medium level of knowledge (e.g. general practitioners), called Medium Level experts. The number and the class of the experts to be selected are parameters of the whole process. Typically MM selects the 50% of Very High Level experts and the remaining part of High Level or Medium Level experts. A subset of experts E has been selected from the whole expert set. 2.2

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Once the issues and the corresponding sets of alternatives have been formalized, it is possible to divide the selected experts into one or more decision-making groups. The number of groups is established during the conference setting [4]. Typically, if the groups are more than one, they work independently in making their decisions with respect to all the proposed issues. At the end of the process, each group provides a choice for each issue (by selecting the choice among all the alternatives). Given the independence of groups, it could be possible to have conflicting results (decisions). In this case, MM must synthesize and harmonize the results. Generally, each decision-making group is composed by more than 50% of Very-High Level experts and the remaining part of High Level or Medium Level experts.

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Once the decision-making groups have been created, MM provides each group with Q = {q1 , q2 , . . . , ql } and Aqj (for all j = 1, . . . , l), i.e., the l decision-making problems to solve. For the sake of simplicity, it is better to consider only one decision-making group, namely G = {e1 , e2 , . . . , em }, to which apply the Fuzzy Consensus Model approach [7]. Firstly, each expert in G must provide her preferences on the set of alternatives Aqj , with qj ∈ Q, ∀j = 1, . . . , l. Preferences are provided by using Fuzzy Preference Relations [6]. More in detail, the expert ei must provide a matrix Pji for each issue qj (thus, each expert provides l Fuzzy Preference Relations for each issue). The value phk ij , i.e. the value corresponding to the cell (i, j) of q the matrix, indicates the degree to which the alternative ahj is preferred to the qj alternative ak , for h, k = 1, . . . , nj . Secondly, the Fuzzy Consensus Model - which takes as input the Fuzzy Preference Relations of all experts - is employed to compute a consensus measure [8], within the decision-making group, for each issue qj , for all j = 1, . . . , l. Let crj the consensus measure achieved for the issue qj . Such measure represents the agreement degree of the group of experts with respect to the alternatives for the issue qj . For each j = 1, . . . , l, the consensus measure cr must be compared to the minimum required consensus level cl, if crj ≥ cl, then an acceptable level of consensus is achieved and it is possible to rank the alternatives in order to retrieve the most suitable one (the final choice of the group). The ranking of the alternatives is provided by the selection process described in Sect. 2.5. Otherwise, if crj < cl than it is required to employ the Feedback Mechanism. The previous operations can be executed without the support of a moderator. In the Feedback Mechanism, instead, since there is the need of trying to increase the consensus measure, the moderator plays a fundamental role. She is in charge of identifying specific experts and providing them with personalized advice to convince them to change their opinions to strengthen the agreement in the group. The moderator’s tasks, in the Feedback Mechanism, can be fully automatized [8]. The personalization process takes care of the classification of the experts

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obtained by using the function in the Eq. 4 and two thresholds, namely λ1 and λ2 . The idea is to provide a greater amount of advice for less-experienced decision makers and fewer for more-experience ones. Once received the advice, each expert can change its Fuzzy Preference Relation. This operation is needed for all the issues in Q. Once all the new Fuzzy Preference Relations are ready, the new consensus measures must be computed to execute a new iteration. It is evident that the consensus process could not converge. Thus, a maximum number of iterations must be pre-defined and used as an exit condition. Hence, it is possible to have consensus-unachieved issues. In this case, MM knows that a risk to continue with the communication project arises. MM should assess the risk and define a mitigation strategy for it. It could continue with the phase described in Sect. 2.5 for selecting the most suitable alternative also for the consensus-unachieved issues. 2.5

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Once all issues in Q (both consensus-achieved and consensus-unachieved) have a final consensus measure, it is possible to choose the most suitable alternative for each one of them. This operation can be executed by using a ranking algorithm that accepts as input the Fuzzy Preference Relations provided by the experts. Also in this case, the computation is repeated for each issue. In the CONSENSUS Project, the Average Rating Values algorithm has been employed to execute the ranking task [3]. At the end of the algorithm execution, it is possible to obtain a vector Rj for each issue qj ∈ Q. For each issue, the alternative with the highest rank represents the choice of the group for such issue. Once the algorithm has been executed for all the issues, MM can write a report for the customer, providing the final result of the whole Consensus Conference. The report will contain, for each issue, the alternatives, the final choice and the rank vector, the last computed consensus measure, the flag consensus-achieved/consensus-unachieved, the consensus level (threshold) and all the other conference parameters. The report will include also qualitative information related to the risk analysis.

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This section shows the main functionalities of the software prototype concerning the creation and management of the Consensus Conference. Such prototype implements the phases described in Sect. 2 and has been developed by using the following tools: Python 3.6 (https://www.python.org/), for implementing the Fuzzy Consensus Model and the Average Rating Values algorithm, both functionalities have been implemented as external services invoked by the main application; MySQL (https://www.mysql.com/), for implementing the data layer of the main application, and PHP 7.4 (https://www.php.net/), with CakePHP 3.8 (https://cakephp.org/), for implementing the Web and the Business logic layers of the main application.

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Figure 2 shows the Web UI used by an expert to read the current issue and set the pairwise preferences to fulfil her Fuzzy Preference Relation matrix (such fulfilment is automatically executed by the application) needed to start the consensus building sub-process. Figure 3 shows the Web UI used by an expert to receive advice from the Feedback Mechanism and change her pairwise preferences (if she decide so). Figure 4 reports the snapshot of the Web UI accessed by the Momento Medico representative. Such screen shows the consensus measures obtained at each round (iteration) for tracing and monitoring the process.

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In this section, one of the first experiments executed in the context of Project CONSENSUS is described. Such experiment has been carried out through the engagement of internal stakeholders (involved in the healthcare domain). The experiment is organized in a way to consider a single issue with five different alternatives and only one decision-making group composed of five experts. As first step of the Consensus Conference, all required parameters are fixed: – Minimum consensus level, cl: 0.8 – Maximum number of rounds, roundmax: 4 – Experts and their weights: five experts are involved in this experiment and to each expert a weight is assigned: • • • • •

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– λ1 = 0.20 and λ2 = 0.40 are two thresholds used to create the subgroups to which send personalized advice in the case of Feedback Mechanism. The issue of the Consensus Conference concerns a patient with ASMA. In particular, the customer is interested to know which is the optimal approach to the management of an 18-year-old patient with episodes of wheezing, nocturnal coughing, rhinitis, and appearance of respiratory symptoms in the presence of pets. Five different alternatives about the issue are proposed after the execution of the first three phases of the conference (see Sect. 2): – Alternative 1:Triggering factor removal, spirometry, expiratory flow peak monitoring, pneumological examination; – Alternative 2: Triggering factor removal and Thorax X-ray, spirometry after bronchoconstrictors or bronchodilators, ENT examination, gastroenterological investigations; – Alternative 3: Triggering factor removal and Thorax X-ray, CT thorax scan, expiratory flow peak monitoring, bronchial provocation test with metacholine;

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The Feedback Mechanism generates customized advice for the experts, who should modify their own preferences. In particular, the experts are divided into three sub-groups (by using λ1 and λ2 and the approach proposed in [8]). In the case of the experiment, due to the original weights of the experts, only two groups are created: the first one including the highest experienced experts and the second one including the high experienced experts. Moreover, by taking into account the expert e3 , the advice generated for her by the Feedback Mechanism are reported in Fig. 6.

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Hence, the second round starts by submitting to the group of experts the same issue with the advice generated by the Feedback Mechanism. Each expert must provide her preferences another time and can decide to accept the recommendations or not. By considering the case of the expert e3 , she decide to accept the advice, so that her new pairwise comparison matrix is the following: ⎛ ⎞ − 0.6 0.6 0.3 0.3 ⎜0.4 − 0.5 0.5 0.5⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎟ P¯13 = ⎜ ⎜0.4 0.5 − 0.3 0.3⎟ ⎝0.7 0.5 0.7 − 0.3⎠ 0.7 0.5 0.7 0.7 − The consensus measure for the second round is computed and is cr = 82.99%. Figure 7(a) shows the consensus measure for each alternative and the final consensus level reached. This time, The minimum required consensus level is achieved. The last phase of the conference can start and the most suitable alternative can be selected now by means of the Average Rating Values algorithm. In this experiment, the best alternative is Alternative 1, which has been chosen from the majority of the expert group. The consensus has been achieved in two rounds, since all experts have accepted the advice suggested by the Feedback Mechanism. The results are reported in Fig. 7(b).

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In this paper a Group Decision Support System for the management of the Consensus Conference has been proposed. The model has been developed by automating the Fuzzy Consensus Model and the Average Rating Values Algorithm. Observing the experimentation results, it is possible to underline that both time and costs have been greatly optimized, the human moderator’s tasks have been partially automated, the privacy of the experts has been guaranteed in order to avoid the risk of bias and the experts’ individual judgement has been facilitated and encouraged. In future works the authors would like to organize a new experimentation with a larger number of experts to assess also the suitability of Fuzzy Consensus Model in such context and the adoption of a further approach [5]. Acknowledgements. This paper is partially supported by MISE (Italian Government) in the context of the research initiative CONSENSUS. Moreover, the authors thank the company Momento Medico (https://www.momentomedico.it/) to have supported this work with its knowledge on Consensus Conference practice. Finally, we thank Lucia Pascarella for her contribution in the early study phases of the CONSENSUS project, and Luca Rizzuti for this precious support to the Web App implementation phase.

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Gesture-Based Human-Machine Interface System by Using Omnidirectional Camera Liao Sichao(B) , Yasuto Nakamura, and Hiroyoshi Miwa Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen, Sanda-shi, Hyogo, Japan {liaosichao,miwa}@kwansei.ac.jp, [email protected]

Abstract. There has been extensively a huge amount of research on gesture-based human-machine interface so far. It is used not only for computer operations but also for virtual reality operations and computer game operations as applications in which gesture input is effective. In general, a dedicated device for such a system is developed; however, a gesture-based human-machine interface by using a generic device is more convenient and scalable than a dedicated device. In this paper, we propose a gesture-based human-machine interface system by using a generic device, an omnidirectional camera. We can input some simple operations for computer games by gestures, and the system can recognize a series of successive gestures. In addition, the system can simultaneously recognize gestures of several persons who stand along the surrounding of an omnidirectional camera.

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There has been extensively a huge amount of research on gesture-based humanmachine interface so far. The pointing motion [1] in 1980 is an early one. Nowadays, gesture operations moving both hands toward a wide-field display is practical by inexpensive and easy-to-use motion capture devices such as “Kinect” and “Leap Motion.” It is used not only for computer operations but also for virtual reality (VR) operations and computer game operations as applications in which gesture input is effective. In general, a dedicated device must be prepared for gesture operations. Therefore, when several persons try to participate in a game at the same time, it is necessary to prepare the devices for the number of people. However, the dedicated device has few uses except the game and is inconvenient in terms of carrying it in daily life. On the other hand, an omnidirectional camera has been developed, and it becomes inexpensive and popular now. The camera makes it possible to easily capture 360-degree areas in a single image. A gesture input system using the omnidirectional camera was proposed [2] by one of the author. This system can recognize a gesture of circular movement by using both hands along surrounding c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 56–66, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_6

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of the omnidirectional camera; therefore, we can easily rotate an object by the instinctive gesture. A gesture-based human-machine interface system by using a generic device is more convenient and scalable than a dedicated device. A practical gesture-based human-machine interface must be able to recognize a series of successive gestures. However, when several successive gestures are input, it is difficult to recognize each gesture, because, in general, there is no way to delimit each gesture. This is also the reason that it is difficult to recognize a sign language. Although it is almost impossible to re-design the gestures of a sign language, in an application such as VR operations and computer game operations, we can design a news set of appropriate gestures. It is necessary to design a set of gestures dedicated to an application. In this paper, we propose a gesture-based human-machine interface system by using a generic device, an omnidirectional camera. We can input simple operations for computer games by gestures, and the system can recognize a series of successive gestures. In addition, the system can simultaneously recognize gestures of several persons who stand along the surrounding of an omnidirectional camera.

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There are many studies on gesture-based human-machine interface by using a dedicated device as follows. The reference [3] proposes a system using a glove-type wearable device that is equipped with sensors for measuring angles of fingers and a wrist and with sensors for detecting opening or closing of a hand, and with an acceleration sensor. The reference [4] proposes a system that recognizes finger characters, a part of a sign language, by using a neural network analyzing recorded data from attaching myopotential sensors to a forearm. There are studies that uses the commercially available wearable device, Myo [5–7]. The reference [5] analyzes myopotential patterns of Brazilian sign language by using SVM (Support Vector Machine). A motion that is significantly different from the others can be effectively recognized; however, it is difficult to recognize small motions such as finger motions. The reference [6] studies to recognize a sign language by analyzing data from a myopotential sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a magnetic sensor by DTW (Dynamic Time Warping). The reference [7] studies to recognize the American sign language by analyzing data from a myopotential sensor, a gyro sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a magnetic sensor, and it shows that the k neighborhood method using DTW is effective. “Leap motion” is a device that accurately recognizes hand gestures [8]. The motions of hands and fingers on the device can be accurately recognized by using an infrared sensor. This device is very effective, when hands and fingers are near

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on the device. However, if gestures of several persons must be simultaneously recognized, the device cannot be used. “Kinect” is a motion-capture device [9]. This detects the skeleton of a person and its movement by adding distance information obtained from an infrared camera to data from an RGB camera. This device is also very effective, when we need only the motion of a skeleton. However, if a gesture including fingers must be recognized, the device cannot be used. Many system and methods using no dedicated device have been studied as follows. As a study on gesture input system, studies such as the references [10,11] have been proposed. These studies assume to use RGB cameras. The method of the reference [10] detects a hand by extracting a skin color area from the input image and judging that the area has a characteristic shape of a hand and fingers. This method assumes that a hand is near by a camera and the largest skin color area is a hand. If a camera must simultaneously recognize gestures of several persons, this method cannot be used, because largest skin color areas are not always hands but faces. The reference [11] proposes a method tracking hand areas by using the meanShift method detecting the maximal value of probabilistic distribution function. It is difficult to detect fingers by this method; therefore, it cannot be used for recognizing a gesture using fingers. The reference [12] proposes a system to recognize gestures from still images. It is difficult to track the movement of a hand, because it is necessary to cut out still images from a video in real time. The reference [13] proposes a system that simultaneously recognizes gestures of several persons by using an omnidirectional visual sensor. This system focuses on the recognition of the trajectories of motions, and input images are converted into low resolution images. Therefore, it is difficult to recognize the motions of fingers. If there are many gestures using fingers, it cannot be used.

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In this section, we propose a gesture-based human-machine interface system by using a generic device, an omnidirectional camera. The system can simultaneously recognize gestures of several persons (players) who stand along the surrounding of an omnidirectional camera. In this paper, we used Theta S of RICOH as an omnidirectional camera. The input of the system is RGB images that are made from spherical images from two fish-eye lenses. First, the system detects the hands and the faces of each players, then it recognizes gestures of the hands. We describe the method in detail in Sect. 3.1 3.1

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We explain the above procedures using an example. The background image is shown in Fig. 1 and the input image is shown in Fig. 2.

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Next, we describe the skin color detection procedure. Different people have different skin colors, and a skin color greatly depends on brightness in an environment. Therefore, when a skin color is detected using the RGB color system, many colors other than skin color are extracted. To avoid this, HSV, YIQ or YCbCr color system is used for skin color detection. The HSV color system is composed of 3 elements of H (hue), S (Saturation), V (luminosity), and it is defined as a model which is comparatively close to human. The conversion equation from the RGB color system to the HSV color system is given in Eq. (2). In this paper, we use HSV color system. V = M AX(R, G, B) M AX(R, G, B) − M IN (R, G, B) S= V   (G − B) + (G − R) −1  H = cos 2 (G − B)2 + (G − R)(B − R)

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The candidates of the regions are extracted by combining the background difference procedure and the skin color detection procedure (Fig. 5 and Fig. 6).

Fig. 5. Binarized regions extracted by background difference procedure and skin color detection procedure

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Next, we explain the facial detection procedure by using the Haar-Like feature method [14]. There is a method using LBP feature quantity using the distribution of luminance. The LBP feature quantity can be calculated faster than the Haar-Like feature quantity. However, we use the Haar-Like feature method, because the accuracy of face recognition is necessary to avoid the unstableness of recognition. The first player who has been stationary for a fixed time is set as the first player, and the other players are recognized sequentially. The area to be processed is limited by estimating the possible range of hands based on the basic human body ratio from the detected face size. Thus, the area candidates of the hands of each player are narrowed down. Next, we explain the fingertip detection procedure. The hands are extracted by the method in [10] from Fig. 6. Regions are determined by the labeling processing from a binary image such as Fig. 5 (Fig. 7) and the hands regions are extracted by using the method in [10] (Fig. 8).

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The boundaries are extracted from Fig. 8 by using the eight-neighborhood method (Fig. 9) and the fingers are detected by the piecewise linear approximation (Fig. 10).

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We show an example of the situation that the face, the hands, and the fingers of a player are detected in Fig. 11. Next, we explain the motion tracking procedure. Rectangles including a hand in Fig. 11 are tracked. Repeating that the fingers are detected by applying the fingertip detection procedure in the rectangles, a motion is tracked.

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Since a gesture-based human-machine interface system must be able to recognize a series of successive gestures, it is necessary not only to recognize each gesture but also to easily delimit each gesture. Each gesture must be designed to intuitively recall the corresponding operation. In this section, we design a set of gestures for VR operations and computer game operations. The design of a set of gestures means that each gesture is defined and an operation is allocated to the gesture. We assume that the system deals with the cursor operations; the object operations such as selection, movement, rotation; the meta-operations such as start, halt, reset of the system. A set of gestures must be designed so that, even if a series of successive gestures are input, each gesture is delimit and correctly recognized. We define a gesture so that the number of fingers of each hand represents the intent of an operation, and the motion of hands while keeping the state of fingers represents direction, degree, or quantity. We allocate each operation to a gesture in Table 1. Each operation is defined as a pair of a target and an action to Table 1. Gesture and Operation Target

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In this section, we evaluate the performance of the proposed system. First, we investigate the recognition ratio of the gestures by the system. Since the gestures are distinguished by the number of the fingers, we examine the ratio that the number of the figures are correctly recognized. Figure 12 shows the recognition ratio in one frame in case of one player.

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The average recognition ratio is 60%. Since the system uses as a valid gesture when the gesture is the majority of the gestures recognized in the preceding 30 frames, this recognition ratio is feasible. The recognition ratios are more than 70% when the number of the fingers is 0, 1, and 5; however, the recognition ratios are less than 50% when the number of the fingers is 3 and 4. Since the system makes one image from two images by two fish-eye lens, the image is distorted. In addition, when the number of the fingers is 3 and 4, the distances among the figures tend to be small. Therefore, the slender fingers easily get buried in the background, and it is difficult to extract the fingers correctly from an image. Figure 13 shows the recognition ratio in one frame in case of three players. The average recognition ratio is 56.6%, about 3% less than that of one player. When the number of the players increase, the distances from the omnidirectional camera to the players increase a little, because, since the players stand along the surrounding of the omnidirectional camera, the players take their distance from each other. Consequently, the fingers easily get buried in the background more than that of one player, and it is difficult to extract the fingers correctly from an image.

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In this paper, we proposed a gesture-based human-machine interface system by using a generic device, an omnidirectional camera. The prototype system that we developed can recognize a series of successive gestures of several persons who stand along the surrounding of an omnidirectional camera, and the persons can execute the VR operations if the gestures are input slowly. Furthermore, we evaluated the recognition ratio of the system. As a result, the average recognition ratio is 60% in case of one person and 56.6% in case of three persons. Since the system uses as a valid gesture when the gesture is the majority of the gestures recognized in the preceding 30 frames, this recognition ratio is feasible. The improvement of the recognition ratio by the deep learning technology and the increase in the recognition speed that is enough fast to use in an actual computer game remain for the future works.

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Abstract. In distributed applications, a group of multiple peer processes (peers) are cooperating with one another by exchanging messages in underlying networks. Here, every message sent by each member peer has to be causally delivered to every member peer. In addition to causally delivering messages, each message has to be securely exchanged among peers in a group. That is, each message is required to be sent by only member peers and received by only and every member peer in a group. In one approach to realizing the secure group communication, only and all the member peers share a group key and exchange messages encrypted by the group key. A group key is obtained among member peers by using the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). However, a CA (Certification Authority) has to provide each peer with a public key of another peer. The blockchain is now used to securely share data among peers by fully replicating append-only data in a distributed manner, especially in a scalable system. In this paper, we propose an SGCB (Secure Group Communication using Blockchain) protocol for member peers in a group to share public keys and create and share a group key by using the blockchain in a distributed manner without using CA. Keywords: Secure Group Communication model · SGCB protocol

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and are cooperating with one another in a distributed manner, i.e. there is no centralized coordinator. In a group of multiple peers of the P2P model, messages are required to be causally delivered to every member peer [14]. A message m1 causally precedes a message m2 iff (if and only if) the transmission event of the message m1 happened before the message m2 [14]. In order to causally deliver messages, logical clocks like linear clock [14] and vector clock [15] and physical clocks [18] are used. In addition to causally delivering messages, messages have to be authentically and secretly [9] delivered to only and every peer in a group in presence of malicious peers. In order to realize the authenticity and secrecy of the group communication, all and only the member peers share a group key and exchange messages encrypted by the group key with one another in a group. The blockchain [17] is a peer-to-peer (P2P) model for multiple peers to securely share an append-only database named ledger by fully replicating the database on every peer. A secure one-to-one communication protocol among a pair of peers is proposed by using the blockchain [13]. Here, the public key of each peer is stored in the blockchain and shared by every peer. In the traditional PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) [7], the CA (Certification Authority) manages public keys of every process. Every process has to communicate with the CA to obtain the public key of another process. In scalable systems, centralized authorities like the CA easily become performance bottleneck and a single point of failure. In this paper, we take a distributed P2P model by taking advantage of the blockchain. The public key of each peer and the group key of each group of peers are fully replicated to all the member peers of the group and cannot be changed in the blockchain once the keys are validated. In this paper, we newly propose a secure group communication (SGCB) protocol so that a group of multiple peers can share a group key with one another using the blockchain. The SGCB protocol is composed of BR (Blockchain registration) and SCV (smart-contract-based verification) protocols. Each peer first generates a pair of public and secret keys. Then, each peer registers the public key with its identifier in the blockchain by the BR protocol. Every peer can share the public key with the other peers through the blockchain. By using the public keys and private keys of member peers, only and every member peer obtains a group key in the blockchain by the SCV protocol. We implement the SGCB protocol on the private blockchain of Ethereum [1]. In Sect. 2, we present a system model like PKI and blockchain. In Sect. 3, we propose the SGCB protocol. In Sect. 4, we implement the SGCB protocol.

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is, messages sent by a peer can be delivered to a destination peer in the sending order with neither loss nor duplication of messages. In a group G, messages sent by each member peer have to be causally delivered to every member peer [14]. A message m1 causally precedes a message m2 iff (if and only if) the transmission event of the message m1 happened before the message m2 [14]. Messages are causally delivered to peer by using the logical clocks like linear clock [14] and vector clock [15] and the hybrid clock [18] which uses both physical clocks and logical clocks. In this paper, we assume every message is causally delivered to every member peer in a group by taking advantage of the logical clocks.

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A group G is composed of peers p1 , . . ., pn (n ≥ 1) which are interconnected in reliable networks. In this paper, we newly propose an SGCB (Secure Group Communication with using Blockchain) protocol for a group G of peers p1 , . . ., pn to make only and every member peer to obtain a group key. In the traditional CA (Certification Authority) model [12], the public key P Ki and private key SKi of each peer pi and the group key GK are managed in a centralized manner. The SGCB protocol is a P2P model which takes advantage of the blockchain, where a group key GK is generated and replicated on every peer in a distributed model without relying on the CA (Certification Authority). The SGCB protocol is a system which generates a secure group key GK by strictly adhering to two algorithms: blockchain registration (BR) algorithm and smart contract-based verification (SCV) algorithm. After registering a secure group key GK of a group G using the SGCB protocol in the blockchain, every member peer pi encrypts a message m in the group key GK and the message m obtained by encrypting the message m is sent to every other member peer in the group G. Here, each message is assumed to be reliably delivered to every destination peer by a reliable communication protocol such as TCP [6]. On receipt of the message m , only a member peer can obtain the message m by decrypting the message m in the group key GK. 3.2

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In this paper, we newly proposed the SGCB (Secure Group Communication with Blockchain) protocol to realize the secure group communication among peers by taking advantage of the blockchain. The SGCB protocol is composed of the BR (Blockchain registration) and SCV (smart contract-based verification) protocols without using the CA. First, the public key P Ki of end peer pi is registered in the ledger of the blockchain in the BR protocol. Then, the group key GK is created and appended to the ledger in the SCV protocol. The public key of each peer and the group key of a group of peers are stored in the blockchain, i.e. replicated on every peer. Only and all the member peers can securely communicate with one another by using the blockchain. We implemented the SGCB protocol by using the Ethereum private blockchain. As on-going studies, we are now evaluating the SGCB protocol, especially scalable environment.

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Method for Detecting Onset Times of Sounds of String Instrument Kenta Kimoto and Hiroyoshi Miwa(B) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen, Sanda-shi, Hyogo, Japan {kmt,miwa}@kwansei.ac.jp

Abstract. The technology of CG (Computer Graphics) is indispensable in the production of animation especially for playing musical instruments. Generally, in CG animation production of musical instrument performance, recording of musical instrument performance data by a motion capture system and recording of sound source data are performed separately. Therefore, it is inevitable that there are gaps between the sound source and the video. Since high-quality sound is required for sound source data, electronic musical instruments are not used. Therefore, sound source data is recorded in WAV format, which do not include the information of onset times and frequency. Consequently, it is necessary to detect onset times of musical instruments and to stretch the intervals of the onset times in order to synchronize sound source data and video data. There is still no effective method for detecting onset times for sound source of a stringed instrument such as a violin. In this paper, we focus on a unique property that occurs during performance of a stringed instrument. We propose a method for detecting onset times in sound source of a stringed instrument based on the property. Furthermore, we evaluate the effectiveness by experiments using real sound sources.

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The technology of CG (Computer Graphics) is indispensable in the production of animation especially for playing musical instruments. It is extremely difficult for animators to manually make a video image of a musical instrument performance, because the musical instrument performance is a complicated operation and even a slight difference from reality makes viewers feel uncomfortable. Therefore, the technology of CG animation for performance of some musical instruments such as piano has been researched and developed so far [1]. In the recent animation industry, the number of animation works that have performance scenes of musical instruments is increasing (Fig. 1). This fact suggests that demand for technology of CG animation will continue to increase. Generally, in CG animation production of musical instrument performance, recording of musical instrument performance data by a motion capture system and recording of sound source data are performed separately. Therefore, it is inevitable that there are gaps between the sound source and the video. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 78–88, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_8

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a music score. A spectrogram of a music piece is obtained from WAV format data by frequency decomposition using a short Fourier transform. In general, the onset time of a sound is estimated as the peak time of the intensity of the frequency corresponding to each sound. However, since harmonic, reverb, and noise are included in real sound data, the accuracy of detecting onset times by this method is low for actual sound data. There is a method for automatic transcription from WAV format data using deep learning [7]; however, this method also does not solve the problem of harmonic sufficiently, reverb, and noise, and the accuracy is not so high yet. Consequently, no generally effective method for automatic transcription of a music score including a method determining onset times is yet known. As for the study on synchronization of sound and motion, the reference [8] proposes a method by using feature points of music and movement. However, the feature points are not always the onset times. Therefore, it is difficult to reduce the gap between the onset time of a sound and the starting time of the motion creating the sound. To synchronize sound source and motion, it is necessary to change the speed of the sound and the motion. As for the study on variable speed of sound, there are some methods based on time stretch processing [9–11]. These methods change only playback time without changing the height of sounds. Time intervals between successive onset times must be stretched or compressed so that the onset time of a sound is equal to the starting time of the motion creating the sound, and the height of sounds must not be changed. Therefore, the above methods can be applied to synchronize sound source and motion. As for the studies on the record of the performance motion, there is a study on the record of three-dimensional hand movement by a motion capture system [12]. It is difficult to capture the motion accurately, because the markers attached to the fingers cause misrecognition due to the short distance to other markers. The reference [12] proposes the method to reduce the markers by attaching the markers only to the joints of the fingers. However, it is not useful for capturing musical instrument’s performance, because the fingers moves very rapidly. The reference [13] proposes the method of capturing accurate motion by correcting captured original motion of the performance of a piano.

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In this section, we propose a method for detecting onset times of sounds from sound source of a stringed instrument. We found, for the first time, that a momentary noise occurs when a bow hits to the strings or when the direction that a bow moves changes. This is referred to as a bow-string noise in this paper.

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We describe the bow-string noise in Sect. 3.1 and the proposed method by using the bow-string noise in Sect. 3.2. In the rest of the paper, we assume that we have a musical score for a musical instrument and that the musical performance is coincident with the musical score. The sound source data is recorded in WAV format. 3.1

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A sound of a stringed instrument is made by moving a bow in one direction while touching it to the strings on the instrument’s body. When the touching point of the bow to the strings reaches the end of the bow, the bow is moved in the opposite direction. When the direction changes, since the bow gives an opposite vector of force to a vibrating string, the momentary noise occurs. When a bow hits to the strings and a sound is made, the momentary noise also occurs. Bowstring noises frequently occur in musical performance of a stringed instrument. We show a spectrogram and momentary noises (bow-string noises) in Fig. 2.

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It is not difficult to detect bow-string noises from the spectrogram of a musical performance, because a bow-string noise has intensity over all frequencies in a moment. Thus, we can detect the onset time of a sound by detecting a time that intensity is larger than a constant over all frequencies (Fig. 3).

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A musical score for a stringed instrument and the sound source data recorded in WAV format which is coincident with the musical score are given. First, the proposed method determines the spectrogram of the sound source data. In this paper, a sound is decomposed into 550 frequencies, and the sound intensity in a frequency is a value within the range from 0 to 1677215. We show an example of a spectrogram in Fig. 5.

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Next, the method detects the times when the bow-string noises occur by choosing the time that the number of the frequencies where intensity is larger than a threshold is larger than a threshold (Fig. 6). Thus, the method detects the onset times of the sounds made at the time when a bow hits to the strings or when the direction that a bow moves changes.

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Next, the method detects the onset times of the sounds between the onset times of the sounds detected by the bow-string noises. These sounds are made during a slur. The method applies the method proposed in the reference [1]. The algorithm of the reference [1] determines the onset times based on the dynamic programming so that the occurrence times of frequencies with strong sound intensity matches to the musical score. Consequently, the method detected the onset times of all sounds contained in the sound source data of a musical instrument performance. We show an example of the detected onset times by the proposed method in Fig. 7.

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In this section, we evaluate the performance of the method proposed in the previous section. We used two pieces of the violin sonata no. 5 in F major by Ludwig van Beethoven and the musette D-Dur BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The former musical piece has no slurs, and the latter has some slurs. The sound source data of musical performance by two players are recorded in WAV format with the sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz, stereo, and 16 bit linear PCM. We show the result in Table 1. The part that does not include slurs are used as for the Musette. Table 1. The number of correctly detected onset times Musical piece

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The sounds that the method failed to detect are the first sound of the musical piece, very short sounds made in succession over a short period of time, and a sound made on the same string after a long extended sound. The part that no sound exists were not detected as an onset time by the method. We show an example in Fig. 8. White lines denote the correctly detected onset times and the arrows denote the onset times that the method failed to detect.

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PageRank for Billion-Scale Networks in RDBMS Aly Ahmed(B) and Alex Thomo University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada {alyahmed,thomo}@uvic.ca

Abstract. Data processing for Big Data plays a vital role for decisionmakers in organizations and government, enhances the user experience, and provides quality results in prediction analysis. However, many modern data processing solutions make a significant investment in hardware and maintenance costs, such as Hadoop and Spark, often neglecting the well established and widely used relational database management systems (RDBMS’s). PageRank is vital in Google Search and social networks to determine how to sort search results and how influential a person is in a social group. PageRank is an iterative algorithm which imposes challenges when implementing it over large graphs which are becoming the norm with the current volume of data processed everyday from social networks, IOT, and web content. In this paper we study computing PageRank using RDBMS for very large graphs using a consumer-grade server and compare the results to a dedicated graph database. Keywords: PageRank · One billion graph database · Big data · Matrix partitioning

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The amount of data collected from different sources has reached unprecedented levels [10]; the vast majority of the world’s data has been created in the last few years. To put this in numbers, data now is being measured in zetabytes, 1021 bytes, and petabytes, 1015 bytes. For example, Walmart is estimated to create 2.5 petabytes of consumer data every hour [13], Facebook processes tens of billions of likes and messages every day, Google receives 1.2 trillion search requests every year, and Internet of Things (IoT) data is expected to exceed 1.6 zetabytes by 2020 [11]. With the amount of data produced daily, one of the main challenges facing big data is filtering out data and identifying the wheat from the precious. As search results tend to be in millions of pages, ranking search results becomes very crucial, however ranking pages tends to be one of the most difficult problems as the search engine is required to present a very small subset of results and order them by relevance. A variety of ranking features such as page content or hyperlink structure of the web are used by Internet search engines to come up c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 89–100, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_9

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with a good ranking. Many algorithms have been proposed to sort query results and return the most relevant pages first. Among them are PageRank [15], HillTop [4] and Hypertext Induced Topic Selection (HITS) algorithms [6]. PageRank [5,15] developed by the Google founders is based on the hyperlink structure and on the assumption that high ranked pages usually contain links to useful pages, therefore giving more weight to pages that have more inbound links from high weighted paged. PageRank is an iterative algorithm and executed on the whole graph, which, in Google’s case, is very large. Algorithms such as PageRank for big data sets require extensive hardware setups and, in many cases, distributed computing, such as Hadoop [17] and Spark [16]. This is because we cannot fit the whole data set in one machine’s memory. Building such a setup comes with significant investment and continuous running costs. Nevertheless, some of the existing systems such as Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS’s) are still widely used and will not be deprecated in the future as the amount of investments on them is growing over the years. More specifically, RDBMS’s have been around for over half-century [7] and proven to provide consistent performance, stability, and concurrency control. RDBMS’s are currently the backbone of the IT industry and have been evolving over the past few decades for better performance. On the other hand, using dedicated graph databases for graph processing is presumed to provide better performance and scalability over relational databases (c.f. [3]), however, graph databases still have a long way to reach the level of maturity of RDMBS’s. From this prospective, using an RDBMS to implement graph algorithms seems logical and in fact more efficient. However computing graph algorithms using SQL queries is challenging and requires novel thinking. As such, there is active research on the use of novel methods to compute graph analytics on RDBMS (c.f. [1,2,9,14]). These works have shown that RDBMS’s often provide higher efficiency over graph databases for specific analytics task. This paper presents a PageRank algorithm implementation using RDBMS with table partitioning and compares it with the implementation provided by a dedicated Graph Database. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. A brief background review of the PageRank algorithm is given in Sect. 2. Our PageRank implementation using RDBMS with table partitioning is given in Sect. 3. Section 4 shows the results of the experiments. Section 5 concludes the paper.

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We denote by G = (V, E) a graph with V as a set of vertices, and E as the set of edges. For each vertex v there will be a non-negative initial PageRank value P R(v) and for each edge e = (u, v) there is a weight of 1/n assigned to it, where n is the number of outgoing links from u. We can use the following relational tables to store a graph. The TE table contains ∀e = (u, v) ∈ E along with their weights, where u is denoted by fid, and v by tid and w(u, v) by cost. We can construct a unique index on (fid,tid).

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The TV table contains ∀u ∈ V in the graph, denoted by id along with its rank P R(u), denoted by pagerank. We can also construct a unique index on id. The PageRank algorithm assigns a weight value to each page in the web or vertex in a graph; the higher the weight of a page or vertex, the more important it is. Web pages are represented as a directed graph where pages are vertices and links are edges. Below is an example of how we calculate PageRank for a small graph.

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The graph in Fig. 1 has four vertices representing four web pages. Page 1 has links to each of the other three pages; page 2 has links to 1 and 3 only; page 0 has a link only to 1, and page 3 has links to 2 and 0 only. Let us assume a random user is visiting page 1; this user will have a probability of 1/3 for each link (0, 2, 3) to follow and visit a next page. If the user is visiting page 0, then he will have a probability of 1 to visit page 1 as this is the only link available. If we follow the same logic, we will have a probability of 1/2 for each link on page 2 and page 3. The probability value for each link is the weight for each link, and based on this, we could build an adjacency matrix for the graph as a square matrix M with a number n of columns and rows. The PageRank algorithm proceeds in the following steps. • Set an initial PageRank value for each page • Repeat until convergence: compute PageRank using Eq. 1 P R(A) =

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The link probabilities (1/C(i)), as described above, could be represented as a matrix M . For the graph in Fig. 1, the matrix will be as follows. ⎡ ⎤ 0 1/3 0 1/2 ⎢1 0 1/2 0 ⎥ ⎥ M =⎢ ⎣0 1/3 0 1/2⎦ 0 1/3 1/2 0 Regarding the P R(i) values, we can represent them all by a PageRank vector V . Then the computation given by Eq. 1 can be written as M ·V , which captures the computation of PR values for all the vertices of the graph at the same time. We denote by Vt the version of V at iteration t. Then, PageRank is iteratively computed using Eq. 2, by multiplying matrix M and vector Vt and repeating until convergence. (2) Vt+1 = M · Vt where Vt+1 is the new vector holding the newly computed PageRanks for all the vertices. In each iteration, the newly computed PageRank values will get closer to the final PageRank values. We stop when PageRank values do not change much. Observe that the PageRank value of a vertex A is dependent on the value of PageRank of vertices pointing to it. However, we do not know the Pagerank value of inbound vertices till we calculate the ones pointing to them and we will not know the Pagerank values of them till we calculate the PageRank values of vertices pointing to them too and this keeps on. So, to overcome this starting problem, we initially set an estimated PageRank value for each vertex. This can be represented as a vector. V0 = [1/n, 1/n, · · · , 1/n] where n is the number of vertices in the graph.

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Representing the graph in a square matrix, M requires quadratic size. Computing Pagerank in its matrix representation requires the matrix to be fully loaded in memory; however, loading the graph into memory might not be possible for large graphs like the Google web or Facebook. However, since the matrix is very sparse, all the implementations exploit sparseness and do not materialize the matrix as is. Instead only the non-zero entries are stored in the format (i, j, mij ). Using RDBMS is quite efficient in this regard. First, matrix M could be saved as tuples (i, j, mij ) of only connected vertices. Second, when computing PageRank for a vertex A, the edges that need to be considered are only those pointing to vertex A. This is a tiny subset of the matrix. Figure 2 shows the SQL statement used to compute Pagerank using Eq. 2, where T E stores graph edges and T V stores vertices’s Pagerank estimates. If we

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run this SQL query, it will produce the result of multiplying the matrix with the vector Vi . The multiplication is very efficient as we only do the calculation for existing edges in the matrix.

Fig. 2. Compute pagerank for one iteration

Figure 3 shows the full SQL statement using the new Merge SQL [8] operation, which is very efficient in saving SQL results. This way, we save the new Pagerank estimate so that it can be used in the next iteration. The query will do a full table scan or index scan based on the table setup. RDBMS will need to load parts of the table into memory to compute Pagerank. This process is acceptable when the loaded parts could be loaded into memory but cumbersome when graph size is hugely larger than available memory, which inevitably will lead to use data swap and, as a result, diminish the performance dramatically. In the following section, we solve the graph size problem by using table partitioning based on partitioning the matrix M and vector Vi into parts that can be loaded into memory.

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To overcome the matrix size problem, we partitioned both the matrix and the vector into k parts and saved each part in a separate table, T Vi , and T Ei , where

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i ∈ [1, k]. We divide the matrix into stripes of almost equal size, and we create vectors to have only the vertices that are needed to compute Pagerank for each matrix stripe. Figure 4 shows how the matrix and vector are partitioned. Each matrix stripe will have a full set of inbound edges for a set of vertices and matched with a vector containing all the fid’s that exist in the partitioned matrix. This way, we will be able to compute Pagerank for the set of vertices of interest. A similar matrix partitioning scheme is also described in the Map-Reduce chapter of [12].

Fig. 4. Matrix and vector partitioning into k stripes.

The main goal is to create as many stripes as needed so that the portions of the matrix in one partition can fit conveniently into memory. We used the SQL statements in Fig. 5 to build the partitioned tables based on matrix partitions. Each T Ei table will have a subset of vertices along with all inbound edges, and each table T Vi will have all fid’s that exist in T Ei .

Fig. 5. Creating partition tables T Vi and T Ei for i ∈ [1, k].

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We executed the experiments on a consumer-grade server with Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @3.4 GHz 64 bit Processor, 12 G of RAM and running Windows 7 Home Premium, using Java JDK SE 1.8.

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As RDBMS’s we used the latest versions of a commercial database (which we anonymously call CD) and an open-source database (which we anonymously call OD). As graph database, we used the latest version of a graph database (which we anonymously call GD). We refrain from using the real names of these databases for obvious reasons. We used four real datasets from Stanford’s Data collection and a one-billionedge graph from The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics. By default, we used three table partitions in the case of table partitioning experiments except stated otherwise. All the results shown are based on computing one Pagerank iteration. The real datasets are Web-Google, Pokec, Live-Journal and Orkut (from http:// snap.stanford.edu), and UK 2005 (from http://law.di.unimi.it/webdata). Table 1 shows statistics about the datasets used. Table 1. Graph datasets Data set Web-Google

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We observed that in all the datasets we used, OD and CD clearly out-perform GD significantly. Figure 6 shows how GD performs poorly with large datasets, such as Live Journal (LJ) or Orkut. Orkut was the largest data set that GD could manage to process without crashing out. Using table partitioning gives significant enhancement in managing memory load which in turn boosts PageRank processing time especially with large data sets such as LJ, Orkut and the large graph UK-2005. Figure 7 shows big performance differences between the GD processing time and both RDBMS approaches using table scan and table partitioning. The impact of table partitioning starts to appear once the datasets become larger, as shown in the chart. Table partitioning significantly improved over the approach of table scan especially for LJ and Orkut. In our experiments we also wanted to decouple the processing time of computing PageRank from the time to save the results, hence we ran two separate experiments; one with saving the outcome and the other without saving the outcome. Figure 8 compares the results of the experiments. We noticed that CD did a better job than OD in both operations and the time taken for saving data was noticeably shorter. We relate this to the Merge operation which exists in CD

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Fig. 6. Results of running pageRank using GD, CD, and OD.

Fig. 7. Results of pageRank in RDBMS CD using table scan, table partitioning and GD. We show here only the dataset sizes as opposed to their names. The names are as in Fig. 6.

but does not in OD. The Merge operation showed to have superior performance over regular insert/update operations. In addition to the above, OD performs poorly in computing PageRank using a non-clustered index scan. Figure 9 shows a big jump in time when we used non-clustered index scan in large data sets, in contrast to a clustered index scan or table scan. We relate this to the OD optimizer not being good enough in planning and executing the queries. Also the I/O cost was high which indicates the data retrieval process included high random access. Such random access was reduced significantly when the table was reordered as part of building the clustered index, hence the processing time was also reduced significantly.

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Fig. 8. Show the difference between the time taken to only calculate pageRank without saving the results and the time taken to do the same with saving the results.

Fig. 9. OD performs poorly in the case of non-clustered index vs table scan or clustered index.

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Here we show our experiments on two very large datasets, namely UK-2005 and IT-2004, the latter with more than a billion edges. They represent the web network of UK and Italy in 2005 and 2004. The precise number of nodes and edges is given in Table 2. We ran the PageRank algorithm using table partitioning. Both data sets were partitioned into 12 partitions and we sum up all the processing time to compute PageRank for each partition. Figure 11 shows the runtime for each of the datasets. We used CD as it showed superiority over OD in I/O and memory management. GD could not be a part of the experiment as it failed to process any graph bigger than Orkut in our test environment setup. As Fig. 11 shows, even with over one billion graph size, we managed to get a good processing time. More specifically, for IT-2004, we were able to complete the computation of PageRank for all the partitions in about 10 min (600 s). Table 2. Billion-size datasets Data set Nodes# IT 2004

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We presented the implementation of the PageRank algorithm over RDBMS using different options, such as table-scan, non-clustered-index, clustered-index, and table-partitioning. We showed that RDBMS’s could perform better than GD and could process very big datasets in a consumer-grade server. The experiments showed that the OD optimizer was not good enough for our task. For instance, it was not able to determine that using a non-clustered index is not a good choice for our queries. The OD clustered index behaved better but still there was no improvement compared to simple table-scan without any indexing at all. The CD commercial query optimizer is more intelligent than its open-source counterpart. We observed that manually partitioning tables gives a significant improvement in the execution time of our queries. This tells us that RDBMS optimizers of today, even after many decades of development, still can be improved further in order to handle heavy analytical queries such as those computing PageRank. CD did not consume significant processing time in order to merge the data but OD in large datasets consumed significant processing time, in some cases double the query time. We clearly observed that both RDBMS’s we use, without using any indexing or partitioning still dramatically outperform graph database GD. This comes as a surprise because the latter was designed for handling graphs from the ground up. Therefore we conclude that specialized graph databases still have a lot of ground to cover in order to be good competitors to RDBMS engines for large datasets.

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An Algorithm to Select an Energy-Efficient Sever for an Application Process in a Cluster of Servers Kaiya Noguchi1(B) , Takumi Saito1 , Dilawaer Duolikun1 , Tomoya Enokido2 , and Makoto Takizawa1 1

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Abstract. We have to decrease electric energy consumption of information systems, especially servers to reduce carbon dioxide emission. In information systems, a client issues application processes to servers in clusters. Application processes have to be performed on servers so that the total energy consumption of servers in the cluster can be reduced. In this paper, we discuss how to select a server to energy-efficiently perform an application process issued by a client. In order to find an energyefficient server, we have to estimate the execution time of application processes and the energy consumption of the server to perform but new application processes issued and current application processes. In this paper, we newly propose an algorithm to estimate the execution time of application processes and the energy consumption of a server by considering not only current active application processes but also possible application processes to be issued after the current time. By using the estimation model, we also propose an MES (Minimum-Energy Server selection) algorithm to select a server to perform an application process. We design and implement an EDS (Eco Distributed System) simulator to evaluate selection algorithms in terms of energy consumption of servers and execution time of each process. Keywords: Energy-efficient cluster · Server selection · Power consumption model · MES algorithm · Energy estimation model simulator

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created and performed on the server. In our previous studies [4,8–10], algorithms to select a host server for each application process are proposed so as to reduce energy consumption of servers. Here, we have to estimate the execution time of application processes on servers. The simple power consumption (SPC) and computation (SC) models [5,6] and the multi-level power consumption (MLPC) and computation (MLC) models [9,10] are proposed to give the power consumption [W] of a server and the execution time of application processes on the server. The models are macrolevel ones [5] where the total power consumption of a whole server is considered without being conscious of each hardware component like CPU and memory. By using the power consumption and computation models, the execution time of an application process on a server and the energy consumption of the server can be estimated. Algorithms to select energy-efficient servers in a cluster are so far proposed [4–7,9]. Here, only active application processes being performed are considered to do the estimation. In this paper, we consider not only current active application processes but also possible application processes to be issued on a server after current time. We newly propose an algorithm to obtain the expected execution time of application processes on a server by estimating the number of possible application processes to be issued to the server. Here, the expected number of possible application processes to be issued is derived from the average number of application processes performed before the current time. By using the estimation model, we also propose an MES (Minimum-Energy Server selection) algorithm to select a server to perform a new application process issued by a client where the total energy consumption of the servers can be reduced. Here, a server is selected to perform a new application process, where estimated energy consumption is smallest to perform the new application process. We design an EDS (Eco Distributed System) simulator to estimate the MES algorithm in terms of the total energy consumption of servers and the average execution time of application processes compared with the previous estimation algorithm. The EDS simulator is implemented by SQL on a database. In Sect. 2, we present a system model and the power consumption and computation models. In Sect. 3, we propose an algorithm to estimate the execution time of application processes on a server. In Sect. 4, we propose the MES algorithm to select servers to energy-efficiently perform application processes. In Sect. 5, we present the EDS simulator and show some experiment.

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A cluster S is composed of servers s1 , · · · , sm (m ≥ 1) (Fig. 1). A client ci issues a request qi to a load balancer L. The load balancer L selects a host server st in the cluster S and forwards the request qi to the server st . An application process pi is created to handle the request qi and performed on the sever st . On termination of the application process pi , the server st sends a reply ri to

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the client ci . Here, the load balancer L selects such host server st that the total energy consumption of the servers s1 , · · · , sm can be reduced and the average execution time of application processes on the servers can be shortened. In this paper, a term process stands for an application process to be performed on a server, which only consumes CPU resources of a server, i.e. computation process [5]. A process pi is active on a server st if and only if (iff) the process pi is performed on the server st . Otherwise, the process pi is idle.

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A server st is composed of npt (≥1) homogeneous CPUs cpt0 , · · · , cptnpt −1 . Each CPU cptk [1] is composed of nct (≥1) homogeneous cores ctk0 , · · · , ctknct −1 . Each core ctkh supports the same number ctt of threads. A server st supports processes with totally ntt (= npt · nct · ctt ) threads. Each process is at a time performed on one thread. A thread is active iff at at least one process is performed, otherwise idle. In this paper, a term process means an application process which consumes CPU resources on a server. CPt (τ ) is a set of active processes performed on a server st at time τ . Here, the electric power N Et (n) [W] of a server st to concurrently perform n(≥0) processes is given in the MLPC (Multi-level Power Consumption) model [9,10] as follows [8,10]:

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The electric power Et (τ ) [W] consumed by a server st at time τ is assumed to be N Et (|CPt (τ )|) in this paper. That is, the electric power consumption of a number n of active processes. A server st is defined to server st depends on the et consume electric energy τ =st Et (τ ) [W · time unit] from time st to et. Let minTti show the minimum execution time [time unit] of a process pi , i.e. only the process pi is performed on a thread of a server st without any other process. Let minTi be a minimum one of minE1i , · · · , minTmi . That is, minTi is minTf i of a server sf which supports the fastest thread. A server sf with the fastest thread is referred to as f astest in a cluster S. In order to give the computation metrics of each process, the virtual computation amount V Ci of a process pi is introduced, which is defined to be minTi . The thread computation rate T CRt of a server st is minTti /V Ci = minTti /minTi (≤1). The computation rate SCRt of a server st is ntt · T CRt where ntt is the total number of thread of the server st . The maximum computation rate maxP CRti of a process pi on a server st is T CRt . Here, the process pi is only performed on the server st without any other process. It is noted, for every pair of processes pi and pj on a server st , maxP CRti = maxP CRtj = T CRt . The process computation rate N P Rti (n)(≤SCRt ) of a process pi on a server st where n processes are currently performed at time τ is defined as follows [3,4,9]: [MCML (Multi-level Consumption with Multiple CPUs) model]  ntt · T CRt /n if n > ntt . N P Rti (n) = T CRt if n ≤ ntt .

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In our previous studies [8,10], we estimate at current time τ by what time every current active process in a set CPt (τ ) to terminate on a server st under the assumption that no new process is to be issued after time τ by a client. Here, CPt (τ ) is a set of current active processes of a server st at time τ . Our previous estimation model [8,10] is shown in Algorithm 1. At current time τ , the variable Pt denotes a set CPt (τ ) of current active processes on a server st . The variable n shows the number |CPt (τ )| of current active processes. The variable EEt denotes the energy consumption of a server st , initially EEt = 0. The variable Ri denotes the computation residue of each active process pi (∈ Pt ) on the server st . The time variable tm stands for each time unit. The time variable tm initially denotes the current time τ . The energy consumption EEt of the server st is incremented by the power consumption N Et (n). The computation residue Ri is decremented by the process computation rate N P Rt (n) for each active process pi in the set Pt . If Ri ≤ 0, the process pi terminates and is removed from the set Pt . Then, the time variable tm is incremented by one, i.e. tm = tm + 1. Until the set Pt gets empty, this procedure is iterated. If Pt = φ, the estimation procedure terminates. The execution time ETt is tm − 1. EEt shows the total energy to be consumed by the server st and ETt indicates the execution time of the server st to perform every current active processes. As shown here, no new process is issued to the server st after the current time τ . In order to make the estimation of the energy consumption and execution time of a server st more accurate, we have to take into consideration possible processes to be issued after current time τ . A possible process is a process to be issued after current time τ . Let P be a set of all processes to be issued to a cluster. Let minT be the average minimum execution time of all the processes, i.e.  minT = pi ∈P minTi /|P |. At current time τ , we consider processes performed for δ time units from τ − δ2 to one time units τ − δ1 before the current time τ (δ = δ1 − δ2 + 1 ≤ τ ) (Fig. 2). We assume current active processes start after time τ − δ1 . In this paper, δ1 is the half of the average minimum execution time minT of all the processes in the set P , i.e. δ1 = minT /2. For each time t (τ − δ2 ≤ t ≤ τ − δ1 ), CPt (t) shows a set of active processes performed on a server st . The average number ant of active processes per one time unit from τ −δ1 |CPt (t)|/(δ2 − δ1 + 1). Let nt be the number time τ − δ2 to time τ − δ1 is t=τ −δ 2 |CPt (τ )| of active processes performed on a server st at current time τ . Let ent be the expected number of possible processes to be issued after the current time τ . In this paper, the expected number ent (nt ) of possible processes to be issued for the number nt of current active processes after the current time τ is given as follows;  ent (nt ) =

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The total  computation residue of current active processes and possible processes is pj ∈CPt (τ ) Rj + ent (nt ) · minT . The total number of processes to be performed at time τ is expected to be nt + ent (nt ). Hence, the execution time N Tt (nt ) of nt active processes on a server st is defined as follows;  pj ∈CPt (τ ) Rj + ent (nt ) · minT . (4) N ETt (nt ) = (nt + ent (nt )) · N P Rt (nt + ent (nt )) A server st consumes electric power N Et (nt + ent (nt )) [W] for N ETt (nt ) time units. Hence, the energy consumption N EEt (nt ) of a server st to perform active processes and new processes is given as follows; N EEt (nt ) = N ETt (nt ) · N Et (nt + ent (nt )).

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A client issues a request to a load balancer L of a cluster S of servers s1 , · · · , sm (m ≥ 1). The load balancer L selects a server st in the cluster S. Then, a process pi to handle the request is created and performed on the server st as shown in Fig. 1. Let S be a set {s1 , · · · , sm }(m ≥ 1) of servers in a cluster and P be a set {p1 , · · · , pn }(n ≥ 1) of processes to be performed on the servers. In this paper, we propose an MES (Minimum-Energy Server selection) algorithm to select a server to perform a new process by taking advantage of the proposed estimation algorithm. Suppose a process pi is issued to a server st at time τ . At time τ , not only current active processes CPt (τ ) but also the new process pi are performed on the server st . Let nt be the number of active processes on the server st at time

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We design and implement the EDS (Eco Distributed System) simulator to evaluate algorithms like the MES algorithm to select a server to perform a process issued by a client in terms of the total energy consumption of servers and the average execution time of processes. The EDS simulator is performed on tables in a database, which hold configurations of servers and processes. For example, a cluster is composed of four servers s1 , · · · , s4 (m = 4). The thread computation rate T CR1 of the server s1 is one, i.e. T CR1 = 1. T CR2 = 0.8, T CR3 = 0.6, and T CR4 = 0.4 for the servers s2 , s3 , and s4 , respectively. The performance and energy parameters of the servers are shown in Table 1. For example, the server s1 supports the server computation rate SCR1 = 16 by sixteen threads where the maximum power consumption maxE1 is 230 [W ] and the minimum power consumption minE1 is 150 [W ]. The server s4 supports SCR4 = 3.2 by eight threads where maxE4 = 77 [W ] and minE4 = 40 [W ]. The servers s2 and s3 supports the same number twelve threads while maxE2 > maxE1 and minE2 > minE1 . SCR2 = 9.6 and SCR3 = 7.2. The server s3 is more energyefficient than the server s2 . The server s4 shows a desktop PC. The server s1 stands for a server computer.

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Let P be a set of processes p1 , · · · , pn (n ≥ 1) to be issued to the clusters. For each process pi in the set P , the starting time stimei [time unit] and the minimum execution time minTi [time unit] are randomly given as 0 < stimei ≤ xtime and 5 ≤ minTi ≤ 25. Here, xtime = 1, 000 [time unit]. At each time τ , if there is a process pi whose start time (stimei ) is τ , one server st is selected by a selection algorithm. The process pi is added to the set Pt , i.e. Pt = Pt ∪ {pi }. For each server st , active processes in the set Pt are performed. The energy variable Et is incremented by N Et (|Pt |). If |Pt | = φ, Et is incremented by minEt . If |Pt | > 0, the variable Tt [time unit] is incremented by one [time unit]. The variable Tt [time unit] shows how long the server st is active, i.e. some process is performed. For each process pi in the set Pt , the computation residue Ri of the process pi is decremented by the process computation rate N P Rt (nt ). If Rt ≤ 0, the process pi terminates, i.e. Pt = Pt − {pi } and P = P − {pi }. Until the set P gets empty, the steps are iterated. The variables Et and Tt give the total energy consumption and execution time of each server.

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Suggesting Cultural Heritage Points of Interest Through a Specialized Chatbot Roberto Canonico, Giovanni Cozzolino(B) , and Giancarlo Sperl`ı DIETI - University of Napoli Federico II, via Claudio 21, Naples, Italy {roberto.canonico,giovanni.cozzolino,giancarlo.sperli}@unina.it

Abstract. Researchers and companies are making great efforts to create new ways of interaction with a increasing number and types of electronic devices, with particular attention to the conversational interface, whether spoken or written. The cultural heritage domain can bring many benefits from the great effort in this field, as a smart conversational system can provide both room/hotel/apartment information and information related to the area, natural or cultural points of interest, tourist routes, social events, history etc. The paper’s main goal is to present a quick and effective service to the tourists visiting a city for the first time. Learning the cultural preferences of the users can enhance customer satisfaction, since a smart system can propose them customised tours in order to reach point of interests according to the expressed preferences. The interaction with the user is simplified by a conversational interface (chatbot).

1 Introduction The Chatbot4Heritage (CB4H) project was born with the aim of integrating and centralising, on a single platform, information related to the tourism sector in Campania, generally from heterogeneous sources. In fact, the information a tourist may need during his or her stay ranges from details on local cultural sites, to upcoming cultural and entertainment events, the location of various types of services (e.g. in the catering sector), updates on the status of mobility, making it necessary to carry out numerous searches on different websites and worsening the overall user experience. The project aims, through a service-oriented architecture, to extrapolate through a web crawler the information coming from multiple event aggregator websites, transform it into a common format and, through the mediation of an Enterprise Service Bus, store it in special databases. This information can then be made available to client applications, including a Chatbot [1–3] with which any users will be able to interact easily in natural language. Researchers and companies are making great efforts to develop new ways of communicating with a increasing number and types of electronic devices, with particular attention to the conversational interface, whether spoken or in writing. The cultural heritage domain can bring many benefits from the great effort in this field, as an intelligent conversational framework can include both room/hotel/apartment information [4] and area specific information, natural or cultural points of interest, tourist routes, social events, history etc. The main aim of the paper is to provide the tourists visiting a city for the first time with a fast and efficient service. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 112–120, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_11

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The system can suggest to the users most appreciated cultural sites, by analysing opinion taken from social networks [5], and specifically taking in consideration cultural heritage communities [6] or the most authoritative persons [7] in the field of cultural heritage domain. Therefore, understanding the users’ cultural preferences can improve customer loyalty, as a smart system can give them personalised tours to reach the point of interest according to the preferences expressed [8]. A conversational interface [9] (chatbot) simplifies communications with the user. Moreover, since of Covid-19 disease spreading, many cities started to improve their mobility services, like underground, by implementing a routing service for tourists, that offers: • • • •

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2 System Architecture In order to retrieve information about locations, events or other relevant information, we have to chose a set of sources considered reliable. Then, the obtained data-set must undergo a process of processing and cleaning, removing formatting errors and non machine readable elements, so that the information contained in it can be inserted in a natural language sentence. We adopted a Service Oriented Architecture because of its intrinsic modularity. In this type of architecture, in fact, each module is developed independently and can be connected and removed from the main system without compromising the others. If, conceptually, the chatbot is considered a front end module, then it is possible to delegate data extraction and cleaning operations to other back end modules, using the Service Bus as an intermediary. The chatbot, at this point, can use the received data immediately, without having to process it further at runtime. Some example components were chosen and described in Fig. 1: a scraper, whose implementation in Python is described here through the Scrapy framework, for the Napolitoday.it website; an external API, that of the Yelp website; a MySQL database, which in this field is identified as Data Service; a web application in Django for direct insertion. For the implementation of the Service Bus, the choice fell on the open-source framework WSO2. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator has a graphical drag-and-drop interface for the configuration of the message flows between one component and another. One of

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• T = Average time between two stops. • Lc = List of changes, initially empty and used as a temporary. • [T |Ris] = A second list of changes, needed to make append rule to work and to get a result. The rule will initially check if given T value is inside Lc by using: not(member(T, Lc)). After that if the result is true, append rule will add the given T value to [T—Ris]. Otherwise we use append with an empty list, so it will not add nothing to [T—Ris]. Result will be a list containing a maximum of three elements, that it will be then used to determine how many lines the tourist must change. change(T,Lc,[T|Ris]):not(member(T,Lc)), append([T],Lc,[T|Ris]). change(T,Lc,[T|Ris]):member(T,Lc), append([],Lc,[T|Ris]).

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Visit Rule that calculate the path for the nearest stop, based on the selected attraction, it also shows the travel time, the number of changes and the stops list. Or, choose the final stop you want to reach and define the initial stop where the user is located, check if there are tourist attractions nearby. Compared to ‘Connection’ rule, there is an additional argument: the attraction that the user wants to visit (Att). The IM, as we already said, shows facts that associate a list of attractions with their nearest stop. Arguments • • • • • • •

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• N1 = Number of changes. • Result = List containing the number of changes not decreased. • L1c =List that represent the remaining path. In the first case the IM checks if there is already an attraction or a list of them X, in the Knowledge Base, that can be associated with the last stop (Ls). After the IM finds it, checks if the desired attraction belongs to the list X, if it’s true the IM searches a connection between Fs and Ls. If, at the first try, the IM doesn’t find a direct connection, then it recalls the OR in visit and it will repeat the initial step, but this time searching, In the facts, a connection between Fs and a middle stop Ms, with T1 as travel time, recalling the rule: conn1. For the remaining part of the code, can be checked the rule: connection. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

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Next we consider the calculation of gasoline cost for taxi transfer. We assume that taxi agent will take a shortest route to the destinations on the road network. In the process of reinforcement learning, this route is derived by Djikstra’s algorithm. We also assume that the gasoline cost is 1$/L and the fuel consumption is 10 miles/L. Then, the calculation of gasoline cost is described by Rg = −

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This section describes the rough processing flow of the simulator program to perform reinforcement learning 1. Settings of parameters for simulation (the number of taxi agents, the number of areas to divide, , the duration time of simulation) 2. Acquisition of map image by using the Smopy module.

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3. Extraction of the passenger probability distribution and passenger entry/exit data from the taxi’s mobility data. 4. After loading road network data, the program builds a network (directed graph) that fits the coordinates with the map image. 5. Generation of the taxi agent. 6. Execution of reinforcement learning using -greedy method. 7. Output the learning process as images, videos, and graphs as needed. 8. When the reward per unit time converges to a certain value, the learning ends. 9. Generate the final mobility model by using the learning parameters at the time of convergence as input parameters. 10. By changing , the mobility model with  where the simulation has obtained the best cumulative reward is selected as the final generation model.

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First, an taxi agent is generated, and the starting point and destination are chosen randomly. The movement is repeated for duration time of the simulation, and basically, one step corresponds to one second. When the agent reaches the destination, it stochastically determines whether or not it can pick up the passenger in the destination area based on the passenger probability distribution. When a passenger can be picked up, one person is randomly selected from all the passengers in the area. Then, the destination of the passenger is set as the next destination and the reward is obtained according to the taxi fare. When the taxi agent cannot pick up any passenger, it chooses the next destination for exploration or exploitation based on -greedy method. If it chooses exploration,

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the destination is randomly selected from the whole areas. If it chooses exploitation, the destination with the highest expected value of reward is chosen. After choosing the destination, the agent moves there, and while moving the gasoline cost is reduced from the reward for each time step. By repeating the movement and choosing the destination in this way, reinforcement learning is performed. Then, when the number of steps in the simulation reaches the duration time, the program ends to generate the learned mobility model.

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Figure 3 shows a visualization of the expected reward for each tile obtained by reinforcement learning as a heat map. It is observed that the pattern in Fig. 3 is similar to that in Fig. 2. This results indicates that the agent can learn the passenger probability distribution correctly by reinforcement learning.

Fig. 6. The temporal pattern of the cumulative reward.

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The reward gradually increases up for the first 40, 000(= 8×5, 000) steps, but thereafter it is stagnant between 70 and 100. This means that by learning up to 40, 000 steps, the agent efficiently earned the reward, and then it converged. The relation between the exploration parameter  and the final total earned reward is shown in Fig. 5. It can be observed that the smaller the exploration parameter , the larger the final total earned reward at the end of simulation. In the usual -greedy method, the maximum reward is obtained when the value of  is as small as around 0.1, so by comparison with this, this result seems to be strange because the agent with  = 0 has the highest reward. The reason comes from the fact that the taxi agent has the implicit exploration to pick up a passenger after taking the previous passenger to the destination. Therefore, it is considered that the reinforcement learning could be sufficiently performed without the explicit exploration for choosing random destination. Next, Fig. 6 shows the change over time step in the total earned reward of the agent. In the early steps, the agents with  = 0.01, 0.05 earned rewards larger than others. But, the agent with  = 0 becomes the largest of all in the total amount of reward after around 10,000 steps. This result indicates that the agent with  = 0, which has only the implicit exploration is disadvantageous in the beginning, but after sufficient time has passed, it is sufficient without the explicit exploration. This time, we adopted the condition that the agents did not forget what they learned and that the passenger probability distribution did not change over time. Under this condition, the agent with  = 0 is found to be advantageous in the long-time limit. From this result, it can be seen that the learning model outputs an efficient mobility model that does not perform any exploration. From the viewpoint of dichotomy of returner and explorer in human mobility patterns, our method generates a mobility model of the returner.

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We investigated a method to generate a mobility model for taxi’s mobility patterns by reinforcement learning using the actual travel data of taxis in San Francisco. In order to perform the reinforcement learning, it is necessary to model the environment, the state of agent, the reward, the expected reward, and the actions for agent to choose properly. For taxi’s mobility model, we successfully constructed a model of them by using the passenger probability distribution, the taxi fare, and gasoline cost for modeling the reward. We used -greedy method as a well-known algorithm for reinforcement learning. We compared the cumulative reward as the degree of learning by changing the exploration parameter . As a result, it was found that the cumulative reward was the highest when  = 0 in the long-time limit because the implicit search was dominant in the taxi mobility patterns. We concluded that from the viewpoint of dichotomy of returner and explorer in human mobility patterns, our method successfully generates a mobility model of the returner. For future work, it is interesting to consider how to generate a mobility model of the explorer by using reinforcement learning framework. In this study, we

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modeled that the passenger probability distribution does not change over time. However, it does change in general since there are times when many people move frequently, such as the morning and evening commuting hours. In such a time-varying situation, if the chance of the explicit exploration is small, it is not possible for the agent to adapt to the changes of passenger probability distribution, and it would be disadvantageous. To do this, it is necessary to introduce the forgetting rate of learning appropriately. It is also necessary to compare the results of reinforcement learning in various areas, such as a wide area including downtown San Francisco where the passenger probability distribution becomes more complicated. The reason that we first investigate this study using the taxi mobility data is that it is easy to model rewards based on the taxi fare and gasoline cost. However, there is a possibility to generate a mobility model of a person using some mobility data by properly estimating appropriate rewards for each movement even if there is no explicitly given rewards. Actually, it seems that people often decide to move on the assumption of short-term or long-term rewards. For example, going to school or going to work would be to expected to have long-term rewards, such as earning a degree or earning salary. Also, returning home would be a shortterm reward, such as comfort with the family and recovery of physical strength by sleep. We could also consider the reward obtained by moving to a certain place, such as meeting a specific person. If these various kinds of rewards could also be modeled based on datasets of mobility flows of people and their social interactions, wider human mobility models would be generated, which could help to perform more realistic social and economic simulations, and also those of disaster evacuation guidance [20–24]. Acknowledgements. This work was partially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) Grant Numbers 17K00141, 17H01742, and 20K11797.

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Data Mining on Open Public Transit Data for Transportation Analytics During PreCOVID-19 Era and COVID-19 Era Carson K. Leung(&) , Yubo Chen, Siyuan Shang, Yan Wen, Connor C. J. Hryhoruk, Denis L. Levesque, Nicholas A. Braun, Nitya Seth, and Prakhar Jain University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada [email protected]

Abstract. As the urbanization of the world continues and the population of cities rise, the issue of how to effectively move all these people around the city becomes much more important. In order to use the limited space in a city most efficiently, many cities and their residents are increasingly looking towards public transportation as the solution. In this paper, we focus on the public bus system as the primary form of public transit. In particular, we examine open public transit data for the Canadian city of Winnipeg. We mine and conduct transportation analytics on data prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) situation and during the COVID-19 situation. By discovering how often and when buses were reported to be too full to take on new passengers at bus stops, analysts can get an insight of which routes and destinations are the busiest. This information would help decision makers make appropriate actions (e.g., add extra bus for those busiest routines). This results in a better and more convenient transit system towards a smart city. Moreover, during the COVID-19 era, it leads to additional benefits of contributing to safer buses services and bus waiting experiences while maintaining social distancing. Keywords: Data mining
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1 Introduction In the modern era, with increasing urbanization and population density, the issue of how to accommodate larger and larger groups of people in cities is becoming more important. As the population of metropolitan areas rise so does the amount of traffic generated by people commuting within cities. By looking at major North American cities like Los Angeles or New York, it is clear that private individual transportation does not scale well with millions of inhabitants. In response, there has been a growing movement of people that demand better public transportation options in their cities. To meet this demand, cities have been looking into how to improve their public transportation systems to better fit the needs of its inhabitants.

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In a Canadian metropolitan area (MA) of Winnipeg, the lack of sufficient public transit is a major issue. According the 2016 census [1], 13.6% of working people there used public transit as their main mode of commuting. Although this percentage is slightly higher than the national average of 12.4%, it is much lower than those in the three largest Canadian MAs (with 24.3% in Toronto, 22.3% in Montreal, and 20.4% in Vancouver). This low percentage of public transit users in Winnipeg means more cars on the road, which results in more traffic congestion and wear on the roads. The question is then: “What can be done to increase the number of transit users?” In a city like Winnipeg where the primary means of public transportation comes in the form of buses operated by Winnipeg Transit (a public transit agency in the City of Winnipeg government), an obvious direction for improvements can be found by examining the bus network. One might suggest that expanding the types of public transit could be beneficial for Winnipeg, but we have chosen to focus only on the system as it currently stands, ignoring the unknown future where sudden increases in funding could allow for new large-scale infrastructure projects. By analyzing collected data about bus operation, one discover where the current system is lacking. For instance, predicting more accurate arrival times of a bus at a particular stop can be very useful for potential bus riders. Accomplishing this would require more than just examining the bus operation data, external factors like weather conditions and lane closures would also need to be taken into account. Weather is an especially important factor when seeking for improvements to transit services of a MA where winters can be very harsh. These harsh winters often cause slower traffic, and thus delays in the arrival time of buses during certain times of the year. In this paper, we focus the “pass-up”1, which is a situation that occurs when a bus is full to its capacity and can no longer take on additional passengers. If a full bus arrives at a particular stop, and cannot allow anyone waiting for the bus to board, the bus is forced to pass by that stop and continue driving. Pass-ups can be a major problem for commuters, they can easily add an extra 10–20 min to someone’s commute, which could cause them to become late. If pass-ups are frequent, public transit becomes a less reliable transportation option, which could cause many people under tight time constraints to stop using the buses altogether. 1.2

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physical distancing), quarantine, and isolation2, depending on their conditions. For instance, an infected person (i.e., confirmed COVID-19 case) should be isolated (say, for at least 10 days until symptoms had improved and fever had been gone for at least three days without medications) with a purpose to keep infectious people separate from healthy people. A person who is exposed to the virus (i.e., could possibly become infectious) should be quarantined (say, for 14 days from the most recent date that a contact was exposed) with a purpose to separate currently healthy but potentially infectious people from other healthy people who have not been exposed to the virus. A healthy person should practice social distancing with a purpose to keep physical space (e.g., at least 2 arms lengths—which are approximately 2 m—as much as possible) between himself and other people outside of his home. Suggestions include (a) maintain social distance when waiting at a bus station, (b) maintain social distance when selecting seats (e.g., skipping a row of seats), (c) travel when there are fewer riders. Hence, when “pass-up” occurs, a bus has reached its “safe” capacity for passengers to practice social distancing. Moreover, when commuters cannot get on to the bus due to “pass-up”, they will have to wait for subsequent buses at the bus stops. This increases the number of people at the bus stop, making it more challenging to practice social distancing. 1.3

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During either the pre-COVID-19 era or the COVID-19 era, it is important to answer questions like: (a) How often, and when, buses are reported to be too full to take on new passengers at bus stops? (b) Which routes and destinations are the busiest? To answer these questions, we conduct data mining on open public transit data for transportation analytics. Specifically, we use open data from Winnipeg Transit3. We analyze and mine these data to discover useful knowledge related to the pass-ups. The discovered knowledge help analysts, officials and decision makers in the city to find the routes that might need additional bus service so as to reduce the frequency of pass-ups. In this paper, our key contribution is to our data mining on open public transit data (especially, pass-ups for buses in Winnipeg) for transportation analytics during the preCOVID-19 era and COVID-19 era. The mining results help reveal improvement areas for bus services. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Next section presents related work. In Sect. 3, we describe our data mining on open public transit data for transportation data. In Sect. 4, we present our evaluation for the pre-COVID-19 era and the COVID-19 era. Finally, we draw our conclusions in Sect. 5.

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2 Related Work Nowadays, big data [2–5] are everywhere. Examples include big sensor data [6, 7], social network data [8–10], and transportation data [11, 12]. Embedded in these big data are valuable information and knowledge that can be discovered by data science and/or data mining techniques [13–17]. In recent years, open data [11, 18] have become more popular as it allows governments to provide transparency for citizens to monitor government activities and allows citizens to gain some insights about services provided by the government. As a preview, in this paper, we examine open data and conduct data mining on the transportation data (especially, public transit data). Analyzing transportation data has become popular. For instance, Zhao et al. [19] predicted the demand of private vehicle services like taxi and ride-sharing services like Uber. They utilized temporal-correlated entropy to measure the demand and incorporate it into several predictor algorithms—such as Markov chain stochastic model, long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithm—to obtain accurate predictions. Unlike Zhao et al.’s works on predicting the demand for private vehicle services, we focus on analyzing the demand for public transportation services—especially, bus service. Among related works on analyzing public transportation data, many of them focused on the problem of accurate predictions of bus arrival or delay times. For instance, Audu et al. [11] used open data from Toronto, Canada, to accurately predict delays in bus arrival time. Yamaguchi et al. [20] applied various sophisticated machine learning models like artificial neural network (ANN) and gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) to a month of bus probe data from Fukuoka, Japan, to predict bus delay time. Liu et al. [21] adapted a modified k-nearest neighbor method to predict bus arrival time in Beijing, China. Unlike these related works on predicting bus delays or arrival times, we focus on a different aspect—namely, pass-ups. We examine the demand of bus services, especially on the busiest routes. Instead of predicting delays or arrival times of buses, we focus on a different aspect—namely, pass-ups. Rather than predicting arrival times, we perform frequent pattern mining to determine if extra buses are required based on the pass-up frequency at any particular stop. Negative impacts of bus pass-ups could be more serious than a delayed or late bus because, when bus passes up, passengers need to wait at the bus stops for the next scheduled bus. Such a waiting time for the next scheduled bus is usually much longer than the time delay caused by the current late bus. Moreover, the bus pass-ups could become more serious during the COVID-19 era because they may negatively affect the ability to practice social distancing, both on the bus and at the bus stops.

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The pass-up data are recorded by the bus’s on-board computer whenever a bus operator pushes a button to log when a bus is full and passengers have been passed-up at a bus stop. These data are updated on a daily basis. The number of pass-ups has been recorded within each calendar month since January 2011. Each record consists of the following attributes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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Moreover, attribute “route name” just a user-friendly attribute (with meaningful name rather than “route number”) to identify a route. In other words, one attribute is dependent of another. As such, only one (e.g., attribute “route number”) needs to be kept. Note that the attribute “location” records the location of the bus when the bus operator pressed the button to log the pass-up. Consequently, the recorded location may not always match precisely to the bus stop where the actual pass-up occurred. Hence, to get a more meaningful representation of pass-up locations, we perform data preprocessing and data transformation to identify the nearest bus stop (as opposed to GPS coordinates) where a bus was full. It was tempting to find a bus stop closest to the recorded (latitude, longitude)-values for the attribute “location”. However, a careful consideration reveals that the nearest bus stop may be for (a) some other routes or (b) the same route but running in the opposite direction for the opposite destination, rather than the one that passed up. Hence, we add a constraint in finding the nearest bus stop for that bus route and route destination at the time of reporting the pass-up. To do this, we integrate an additional dataset—namely, the list of bus stops, with their GPS coordinates in the form of (latitude, longitude)-values. Then, we search among the GPS coordinates of all the bus stops for a specific route and route destination, to find the nearest stops. A pseudocode is shown in Fig. 1.

Algorithm 1. Find nearest bus stop location for bus route R and destination D for each passupLocation busLoc for route R and destination D minDist ∞ currStop NULL passupStop NULL for each stopLocationOnRouteAndDestination stopLoc if (minDist > dist(stopLoc, busLoc)) minDist dist(stopLoc, busLoc) currStop stopLoc passupStop currStop where distance between the stop location stopLoc = (stopLatitude,, stopLongitude) and the recorded location busLoc = (busLatitude, busLongitude) where the bus operator pressed the button to log the pass-up is calculated by using the Manhattan distance: |busLatitude – stopLatitude| + |busLongitude – stopLongitude|

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3. Route number; 4. Route destination, which indicates the terminus of route and helps determine the direction (e.g., northbound vs. southbound) of the bus; and 5. Bus stop location of the pass-up. 3.2

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Once the open public transit data are preprocessed, we conduct data mining on the resulting preprocessed data. Specifically, we perform frequent pattern mining to find implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information and knowledge in the form of sets or collections of frequently co-occurring attribute-values. The singleton frequent patterns help reveal the frequently occurring values for each attribute related to bus pass-ups. For example, they help reveal information like: • • • •

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Moreover, non-singleton frequent patterns help reveal combination of frequently co-occurring attribute-values related to bus pass-ups. For example, they help reveal information like: • On which routes and to which destinations did most of the pass-ups occur? • Which combination of month, day, time interval, route number, and/or route destinations led to high numbers of the pass-ups? With the dataset containing temporal information on pass-ups, in addition to frequent pattern mining, we also perform frequent sequence mining (aka sequential mining) and periodic pattern mining to find interesting frequent sequences or frequent periodic patterns. From all these discovered frequent patterns or sequences, we could get insight about when and on which routes and destinations did pass-ups occur frequently. This information reveals that additional buses are in demand for those routes and destinations during those busiest times in order to improve rider experience. To a further extent, this revealed information also helps riders to safely practice social distancing during the COVID-19 era. 3.3

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With the quantifiable measures (i.e., frequency, time), we also determine the perceived negative impacts by crowd-voting. Specifically, the crowd collaboratively votes for the acceptable and unacceptable pass-up frequency and waiting time for the next scheduled bus due to pass-ups.

4 Evaluation We conducted our evaluation on real-life open public transit data from Winnipeg Transit (See footnote 3). During the pre-COVID-19 era, Winnipeg Transit operated a fleet of 640 buses over 93 bus routes departing from approximately 5,170 bus stops. These buses operated long hours for many passengers (e.g., over 1.55M hours to carry 48,409,060 passengers in year 2018). However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it experienced a 72% reduction in ridership. Hence, to maintain essential services while balancing the health, safety, and well-being of its bus operators and riders, it reduced its service to an “enhanced Saturday schedule” and cutting some routes (and operating only 84 routes) effective May 4, 2020. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 20, 2020, the Canadian province of Manitoba (where the city of Winnipeg is located) declared a state of emergency, which ordered public transit to enforce social distancing. Many non-critical businesses allowed their employees to work remotely from home, and schools were closed. In our evaluation, we analyzed and mined (1) bus pass-up data (available from January 1, 2011 to now). In addition, we also integrated other datasets including (2) the list of bus stops, which helps locate the nearest bus stops for the passed-up bus route and destination; (3) bus schedules, which helps find the expected arrival time of the next scheduled bus; and (4) on-time performance dataset, which helps find the actual arrival time of the next scheduled bus. To measure the impact of COVID-19, we divide these data into three intervals: (1) Pre-COVID-19 era (i.e., up to March 20, 2020), (2) COVID-19 era but before the bus service reduction (i.e., March 21 to May 3), and (3) COVID-19 era but after the bus service reduction (i.e., May 4 to now). For the per-COVID-19 era data, we focus on those from January 1, 2019 to March 20, 2020. 4.1

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Based on the bus pass-up data from 2011 to now, we observed that a periodic (or reoccurring) pattern that pass-ups occurred most frequently in September of each year as shown in Fig. 2. This is probably that, when students begin classes—following new schedules—often at new schools and universities, passenger loads are at their highest in the first few weeks of classes. The pass-ups then become lower when everyone learns their new routines and figures out the best way to get to class. We also observed that the next frequent month of pass-ups were in January. This is probably that, when students begin classes for a new year after coming back from December holiday. It takes time again for everyone learns their new routines and figures out the best way to get to class.

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Based on the bus pass-up data from January 2019 to now, we observed that, among the five time intervals in a day, the second most frequent time interval for the pass-ups was the afternoon peak hours (16:00–18:29), which is not too surprising. However, it is surprising that the most frequent time interval for the pass-ups was not the morning peak hours, but the off-peak hours (09:00–15:59). This may be an indication that the Transit is better prepared for the peak hours than off-peak hours.

Table 1. Comparisons on the top-10 routes having pass-ups during (a) January 1, 2019 to March 20, 2020; (b) March 21 to May 3, 2020; and (c) May 4 to June 11, 2020 2019-Mar 20, 2020 Mar 21-May 3, 2020 Route Pass-ups Route Pass-ups Total Weekly Total Weekly 162 2368 37.25 11 9 1.43 75 2132 33.54 18 8 1.27 11 1417 22.29 162 6 0.95 160 1029 16.19 17 5 0.80 21 858 13.50 47 4 0.64 18 769 12.10 16 4 0.64 170 741 11.66 19 4 0.64 19 733 11.53 47 3 0.48 72 664 10.44 55 3 0.48 36 623 9.80 45 2 0.32

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We observed and compared the top-10 routes having pass-ups during the preCOVID-19 era and the two COVID-19 periods. See Table 1. Due to the uneven number of days in these three periods, we add columns for showing the weekly passups for easy comparisons. We observed that Route 162 had the most frequent pass-ups in the pre-COVID-19 era, and dropped to the third during the first COVID-19 period (March 21 to May 3). A possible explanation is that this route mainly serves university students. However, starting March 21, the university closed. A lower demand leads to fewer passengers, and thus fewer pass-ups. Route 162 is not even on the top-10 list for the second COVID-19 period (May 4 to June 11). A careful investigation reveals that, following the reduction in transit services, Route 162 ceased operations from May 4. For routes 11 and 18, they had the third and sixth most frequent pass-ups in the preCOVID-19 era, and climbed to the top-2 in the two COVID-19 periods. This is an indication that these two routes were in high demand prior to COVID-19 and still in high demand during the COVID-19 era. Moreover, by examining the bus schedule and on-time performance data, it is disappointing to know the long waiting time to the next scheduled bus, especially during the second COVID-19 period. Specifically: • For route 11, the average time to wait for the next scheduled bus is about 35 min ± 19 min. Moreover, the maximum recorded waiting time during the second COVID-19 period was 1 h and 22 min. During the long duration, lots of passengers would be staying at the bus stops, making it challenging to maintain social distancing. Moreover, once the next scheduled bus arrived, it is likely that the bus could be easily filled and make it challenging to maintain social distancing on the bus. • For route 18, the average time to wait for the next scheduled bus is about 26 min ± 5 min. Moreover, the maximum recorded waiting time during the second COVID-19 period was 34 min. With crowd-voting, we collaboratively get an idea that a waiting time of longer 20 min is undesirable. This is an indication that these two bus routes are in demand.

5 Conclusions In this paper, we present our data mining on open public transit data (specifically, bus pass-up data) for transportation analytics. When integrating with other related data (e.g., list of bus stops, bus schedules, and on-time performance dataset), we managed to analyze and mine interesting patterns related to bus pass-ups. We also divided the data into pre-COVID-19 era and COVID-19 era to examine the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. By discovering how often and when buses were reported to be too full to take on new passengers at bus stops, analysts can get an insight of which routes and destinations are the busiest. This information would help decision makers make appropriate actions (e.g., add extra bus for those busiest routines). This results in a better and more convenient transit system towards a smart city. Moreover, during the

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Eye Movement Patterns as a Cryptographic Lock Marek R. Ogiela1(&) and Lidia Ogiela2 1

Cryptography and Cognitive Informatics Research Group, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30 Mickiewicza Ave, 30-059 Kraków, Poland [email protected] 2 Department of Cryptography and Cognitive Informatics, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Podchorążych 2 St., 30-084 Kraków, Poland [email protected]

Abstract. Eye tracking technologies play increasing role in advance vision systems, and multimedia applications. Such technologies can be also applied for security purposes, as a contactless devices and user interfaces. High precision of registered eye movements, allow also to use them in security cryptographic systems, in which individual and unique eye movement patterns, can be used as personal key or security lock. In this paper we define such solutions based on these technologies, which will be focused for creation of personalized security protocols for user authentication. Keywords: Security protocols procedures


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1 Introduction In advanced cryptographic systems it is possible to use different procedures for user authentication. Most common solutions are based on personal keys or CAPTCHA codes, which allow to check if authenticated persons allow to gain access for data or services, or simply check if he is a human being or computer bot. Additionally in creation personal authentication protocols we can consider many specific features or personal parameters like biometric patterns or behavioral features [1, 2]. Registering such parameters requires sensor or vision devices, which can analyzed registered patterns, or simply traditional interfaces for acquisition of user responses. In this paper will be described a different approach for user authentication and creation of personal security lock, which will base on analysis of special eye movements, analyzed with eye tracking glasses, and connected with performing very special selection of patterns according specific questions or semantic meaning [3]. In this solution eye movements can be performed by authorized persons and registered using eye tracking devices. The movement patterns can be user defined, and specific only for particular persons, or can be semantically oriented, where eye movements should follow special semantic sequence. Such new solutions will be described in next sections. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 145–148, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_14

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2 User Specific Eye Movements Using eye tracking glasses we can register areas and points of user attention. Looking on the test page it is possible to draw out, using eyes movements, any lines of patterns, according user preferences. Authentication protocols can be constructed on such user defined patterns, entered sequentially during authentication steps, and compared with stored and hashed patterns in databases. Such authentication protocols has several advantages like: • • • •

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Authentication protocol requires only in advance registration of personal patterns, characteristic for particular user, or registration of distinctive parameters fully describe such personal pattern [4]. During authentication using eye movement glasses particular user should again draw by eyes his own pattern, which should be quite similar to the registered ones. Pattern classification methods allow than compare unique features of both patterns (one stored in database, and second - a new one), and classify them as similar or different. In case of proper recognition the authentication procedure is successfully completed for authenticated user. The only limitation of such procedure is requirements connected with creation of database containing unique patterns registered for each users. Figures 1 presents an example of user specific eye movement’s patterns which can be applied for authentication purposes.

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3 Semantic-Based Eye Movements The second approach for user authentication, in which we can use eye tracking device is a CAPTCHA based protocols [5, 6]. In this approach authenticated user observe several different visual patterns, and he has to select only a few of them having particular meaning. Because such protocol can be semantically driven the proper selection may require also to choose patterns in particular order.

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When we consider such protocol with relation to transformative computing technologies it can be extended towards considering context parameters or environmental features. Such solutions similarly to AR systems, which presents augmented information, will be dependent from observed objects. The most important features of this solutions are following: • • • •

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4 Security of Authentication Based on Eye Movements Authentication protocols based on application of eye tracking systems allow to perform secure personal authorization using personal or knowledge-based patterns. Such techniques have security features characteristic for traditional visual CATCHA codes. Presented procedures require from user the abilities of understanding complex visual patterns or having knowledge from selected area of expertise [7, 8]. Application of eye tracking systems during authentication stages, may also require cognitive skills, and abilities to moving attention, and focus it on different object or environmental elements. It is also possible to apply for authentication specific eye movement pattern, which can be performed on demand by users. Eye moving patterns can be used for personal authentication, especially when connected with demands of proper understanding the content of visual elements. Computer systems are not capable to fast evaluate pattern in semantic way, or following moving attention according semantic path [9].

5 Conclusions In this paper have been presented new applications of eye tracking technologies in creation of personal authentication protocols. Such protocols allow to define user oriented visual pattern, or can base on users knowledge and expertise in some areas. Application of eye tracking devices make them fully mobile and allow to use in different situations considering external features and factors. Security of these procedures depend on specific user abilities, and on difficulties in semantic evaluation observed patterns. In most cases it requires specific knowledge about observed objects. Such contactless and mobile authentication systems can be applied in different situations e.g. in travel, smart cities etc. Presented solutions considerably extend standard authentication protocols towards application of perception features, and eye tracking systems, and allow to create user oriented security protocols [10–13].

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Acknowledgments. This work has been supported by the AGH University of Science and Technology research Grant No 16.16.120.773. This work has been supported by Pedagogical University of Krakow research Grant No BN.610-29/PBU/2020.

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Evolutionary Fuzzy Rules for Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Tarek Batiha(B) and Pavel Kr¨ omer VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, Ostrava, Czech Republic {tarek.batiha,pavel.kromer}@vsb.cz

Abstract. Next–generation digital services and applications often rely on large numbers of devices connected to a common communication backbone. The security of such massively distributed systems is a major issue and advanced methods to improve their ability to detect and counter cybernetic attacks are needed. Evolutionary algorithms can automatically evolve and optimize sophisticated intrusion detection models, suitable for different applications. In this work, a hybrid evolutionary–fuzzy classification and regression algorithm is used to evolve detectors for several types of intrusions in a wireless sensor network. The ability of genetic programming and differential evolution to construct and optimize intrusion detectors for wireless sensor networks is evaluated on a recent intrusion detection data set capturing malicious activity in a wireless sensor network.

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Genetic and evolutionary methods play an important role in many application domains, including computer security. Genetic fuzzy systems form a wide family of fuzzy systems evolved (constructed and/or optimized) by genetic and evolutionary algorithms with a specific optimization objective or objectives in mind [7]. The symbolic nature of evolutionary methods (e.g., genetic programming) make them a suitable candidate for the search for interpretable fuzzy models and rules. The security of massively distributed infrastructures, including wireless sensor networks, is becoming a crucial aspect of their development, deployment, and operations [3,6]. Wireless sensor networks comprise of many individual devices that are connected to a wireless network and communicate to accomplish their common goal. Intrusion detection is an important field of computer security that aims at the identification (detection) and prevention of security intrusions, i.e., malicious activities that have as the main goal an unauthorized use of the target devices [5,23]. Typical security intrusions include, for example, unauthorized access, identity and data theft, denial of service, etc. In this work, an evolutionary fuzzy model, called evolutionary fuzzy rule [14], is used as a machine–learned single–attack classifier for intrusion detection in c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 149–160, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_15

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are distributed cyberphysical systems that are usually spread over large areas and comprise of many cooperating and communicating devices (nodes). The main goal of a typical WSN is environmental monitoring, sensing of the variables of interest, and data transmission [6]. Individual WSN nodes observe the target environmental properties such as temperature, humidity, and solar radiation. At specified time steps, they measure the values of the properties in their vicinity, monitor their change in time, and transmit the gathered data to the outside world (e.g., the Internet). WSN nodes are usually embedded devices with significant constraints such as low computing power, small operating memory, and limited source of energy [2]. One of the main concerns of all algorithms and applications for WSN is their computational complexity and the associated energy budget. WSN nodes usually carry limited and often irreplaceable sources of energy (e.g., batteries). Because of that, one of the main aims of WSN operations is to balance the quality of service and energy consumption [9]. WSNs have often built–in mechanisms that allow the users to choose between increased lifetime (lower sampling frequency, limited data throughput, longer transmission delays) and more intense operations (frequent sampling, instant data transmissions). Security is a major aspect of all types of WSNs regardless of their primary application [6,16,18]. The limited computing power and memory and energy constraints of typical sensor nodes make it hard or even impossible to implement traditional computer security mechanisms [18]. On the other hand, the security requirements of mission critical WSN applications such as surveillance [6,9], industrial control and management, environmental monitoring, and, e.g., healthcare [9], are exceptionally high. The data processed and transmitted by WSNs needs to be confidential (not disclosed to unauthorized parties), have integrity (be reliable, authentic, and not tampered with), and be available as soon as possible [18]. Attackers aim at compromising different aspects of services and data provided by the networks. In response, cybersecurity measures including cryptography, secure routing, and intrusion detection are developed specifically for WSNs [6]. However, traditional intrusion detection techniques are in WSN difficult to implement due to the constraints of network nodes. The main goal of intrusion detection in WSN is the identification of malicious behaviour that violates the security rules of the system. There are several usual architectures of IDSs for WSNs that include standalone IDS (each WSN node has its independent IDS), distributed and cooperative IDSs (all nodes take collaborate on a global intrusion detection process), and hierarchical IDSs (each

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WSN layer in a multilayer network has its own IDS). In general, they focus on the detection of abnormal behaviour of users, misuse of network resources, and irregularities in the operations of systems and protocols that could indicate an intrusion [6]. One important aspect of intrusion detection in WSN is the knowledge of the routing algorithm. The attackers exploit routing algorithms, e.g., the Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy algorithm (LEACH). They compromise its individual steps by, e.g., false CH advertisements, disturbing the TDMA, improper data forwarding (discarding) and so on. Intrusion detection systems, on the other hand, can take advantage of the known behaviour associated with LEACH to build models of legitimate operations and confront them with the real operations of the nodes and the networks.

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Evolutionary fuzzy rules (EFRs) [12] were developed as a hybrid soft computing classification and regression model based on the principles of fuzzy information retrieval and evolutionary computation. The fuzzy set theory provides the theoretical background behind fuzzy information retrieval and evolutionary fuzzy rules, too. The general classification and/or regression task is in EFRs associated with the evaluation of a fuzzy search expression (EFR model, named fuzzy rule) over input data. A fuzzy rule is formulated as an extended Boolean search expression [19]. It consists of weighted input terms and fuzzy operators that aggregate them to a special kind of hierarchical fuzzy tree. The input terms are mapped to the attributes (features) of the processed data. The resulting fuzzy tree consists of nodes (operator nodes) and leafs (terminal nodes). In the fuzzy rule, three types of terminal nodes are used: 1) a feature node represents the name of an input feature (variable); 2) a past feature node that defines a requirement on certain feature in a previous data record; 3) a past output node that puts a requirement on a previous output of the predictor. Different node types are useful for different tasks. The feature node is the basic element of the model. It represents an entry point of the model in which is the weighted value of an attribute (feature) of current data record read and evaluated. The past feature node introduces the notion of sequences to EFRs and is required for the analysis of sequential (stream) data. The past input node brings feedback to EFRs. The operator nodes are be used to combine other nodes to sophisticated classification and regression trees by the means of binary fuzzy operators. The operators, currently supported by EFRs, are and, or, not, prod, and sum. They are associated with fuzzy set operations and evaluated using the standard t-norm and t-conorm, fuzzy complement, and product t-norm and t-conorm [29]. Genetic programming (GP) [1] and differential evolution (DE) [20] are in EFR used as a problem–independent machine learning strategies for structure learning and fine–tuning (parameter optimization) of EFR models. The EFRs

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are in this way first evolved by GP. An EFR is for the GP encoded into a linear chromosome composed of a series of instructions in reverse polish notation. They represent the operations the model performs with input data and are interpreted by a virtual stack machine. The instruction set contains instructions corresponding to the operations of EFR nodes Using this approach, an entire EFR, composed of n instructions, can be stored in a single linear chromosome. The length of the chromosomes depends on the structure and size of the encoded EFRs and may vary between the individuals in the population. GP operators were implemented with respect to the semantics of the EFR and are applied directly to the chromosomes. Mutation is implemented by a stochastic application of the following operations: 1) removal of a randomly selected subtree, 2) replacement of a randomly selected node by a new randomly generated subtree, 3) replacement of a randomly selected node by another compatible node, and 3) a combination of the above. The linear structure of EFR chromosomes also allows the use of traditional recombination strategies with only minor modifications. A modified one– point crossover, implemented in a way that maintains the of the encoded EFRs, is used. The crossover operator selects a random gene, x, from an EFR encoded by the first parent chromosome. Then, a random gene compatible with x is selected from the EFR encoded by the second parent chromosome. Finally, the marked parts of parent chromosomes (single genes or complete subtrees) are exchanged to form two new offspring chromosomes. The fitness function employed by EFRs, can be an arbitrary similarity, error, or goodness–of–fit measure. Although the GP is able to evolve good EFRs [12,13], the nature of the models allows further fine–tuning and optimization. The GP learns the structure and the parameters of the models at the same time. This is, however, a very complex task. When the GP terminates and the structure of an EFR is fixed, it can be seen as a model with a number of real–valued parameters and arbitrary real–parameter optimization methods can be employed to optimize the EFR discovered by the GP. In this work, the differential evolution is used to optimize learned EFRs and to constitute a 2–stage nature–inspired learning and optimization pipeline that produces accurate intrusion detection systems.

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Intrusion detection models for WSNs ought to have specific properties, including high accuracy, low computational (and energy) costs, flexibility, and transparency. EFRs satisfy these requirements very well and are in this work proposed as single–attack intrusion detection models for use in wireless sensor networks. Their ability to learn specific types of attacks is experimentally evaluated with the help of an intrusion detection data set, developed recently for intrusion detection in WSNs.

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The WSN–DS is a data set describing several types of attacks in a simulated wireless sensor network [3]. It contains 374,661 records with 23 nominal and numerical features divided into 5 categories (4 types of simulated security intrusions and normal network traffic). The data set consists of recorded network traffic in a simulated WSN composed of 100 sensor nodes and one base station (BS). The network uses the LEACH routing protocol [10] with the number of clusters set to 5. All simulated attacks exploit the properties of the routing protocol and the attributes that characterise the status of each network node are based specifically on LEACH. WSN–DS contains four types of simulated security intrusions [3]. In the course of a blackhole attack, the attacker pretends to be a cluster head (CH). The false CH captures, stores, and discards all received data and does not forward it to the base station. During a grayhole attack, the attacker assumes a similar strategy of false CH advertisement but drops only several randomly selected packets and forwards the rest to the base station. The flooding attack exploits several weak spots of the LEACH protocol. The attacker pretends to be the CH by sending a huge number of LEACH advertisement messages. This alone increases the power consumption of the nodes but the rogue node intercepts network traffic, too. The scheduling attack destroys the time–division multiple–access (TDMA) medium access schedule and makes multiple nodes to transmit data at the same time. The packet collisions that are caused by this behaviour result in data losses. In total, WSN–DS is composed of 5 classes of network traffic. However, as usual for intrusion detection data sets [25,26], the size of the classes is highly imbalanced. A detailed description of the structure of the data set is summarized in Table 1. It shows that the vast majority of the records corresponds to normal traffic and the individual attack classes represent only very small portion of the whole data set. Table 1. Traffic classes in WSN-DS Traffic class

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into training (60%) and test (40%) subsets and used to train and evaluate different neural architectures as specialized single attack classifiers. Finally, the train and test data sets were complemented by a rest data set which was a union of test with all the remaining records from WSN–DS. 5.1

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The attack–specific data sets were used to evolve EFRs as single–attack intrusion detection models. The evolution was carried out for each attack class, independently. The genetic programming, used at the first stage of the process to learn EFR structure and parameters, was a steady–state GP with a population of 100 candidate solutions and generation gap of 2 individuals (i.e., offspring individuals competed with their parents for survival in the population). It used a semi–elitary selection scheme, under which one parent was selected using the traditional roulette wheel selection mechanism and one from an elite set of best– ranked solutions. The crossover probability was set to 0.8 and the mutation probability to 0.02. The maximum number of generations was set to 10,000. The GP also used a simple restarting mechanism to avoid premature convergence. When the absolute difference between the fitness of the worst and the best EFR in the population was lower than a tolerance,  = 1e−6 , (i.e., convergence was detected), 50% of the rules in the population were replaced by new randomly generated ones. At the second stage of EFR learning, differential evolution was used to fine– tune the parameters (feature and operator weights) of the best EFR, found by the GP. The DE was a /DE/rand/1 version of the algorithm, with crossover probability, C, and scaling factor, F, both set to 0.9. The optimization algorithm used a population of 100 candidate parameter vectors and was executed for 1,000 generations. The dimension of the optimization problem, associated with EFR tuning, depended on the results of the GP and ranged in the case of single– attack intrusion detectors evolved in this work from 13 to 99 parameters. The combination of the GP and DE facilitates a 2–stage evolutionary learning and optimization pipeline to achieve accurate intrusion detection models. The fitness function, used by both, the GP and the DE, was accuracy, A, defined as the ratio of correctly classified records to all records in the data set, A=

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The ability of GP and DE to find good EFRs for intrusion detection in WSNs was studied in a series of computational experiments. A version of WSN–DS by Almomani et al. [3] was used as the source of data. It contains 18 features (2 of them identifying the source node) and 374,661 records with network traffic. The data features were for the experiments encoded as numerical values, normalized, and split into four attack–specific data sets using the principles outlined in Sect. 5. The data sets were used to learn, optimize, and validate intrusion detection models for different types of attacks. Because of the stochastic nature of the used algorithms, the evolution was for each attack class executed 31 times, independently. The accuracy of the evolved models is summarized in Table 2. The table shows the accuracy of the worst, the average (mean), and the best intrusion detection model found for each attack class during the 31 independent optimization runs. It can be immediately seen that the accuracies of the mean and the best models were on the test data set between 0.8998 and 1.00 (i.e., between 89.98% and 100%). The table also shows that the models also reached high classification accuracy of 88.49% to 99.96% on the test data set. The results on the rest data set are good, too, but biased by the unequal size of the classes (selected attack vs. other traffic). A statistical analysis of the results in the form of boxplots is shown in Fig. 1. The plots show that models with accuracy lower than 0.90 (for the grayhole attack 0.85) are outliers rather than common results.

Fig. 1. Accuracy of intrusion detection models evolved for each attack type in the 31 independent runs.

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Table 2. Accuracy of the worst, the average, and the best evolved intrusion detection models. Data Attack

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This work studied a flexible evolutionary–fuzzy classification algorithm, evolutionary fuzzy rules, in the role of single–attack intrusion detection models for wireless sensor networks. The soft computing method was used as a lightweight and transparent but accurate classifier that was learned and optimized from a WSN traffic data. The experiments used a realistic intrusion detection data set, WSN–DS, describing attacks typical for the environment of wireless sensor networks running the low–energy adaptive clustering hierarchy routing protocol. The computational experiments showed that accurate EFRs for intrusion classification can be obtained by a 2–stage learning and optimization process based on genetic programming and differential evolution. The evolved intrusion detection models achieve high classification accuracy between 88.49% and 99.96% on the test and rest data sets and provide only a small number of false positive and false negative intrusion classifications. In the case of the only attack when the number of misclassifications (false positives) was higher, the grayhole attack, the EFR can be at least used as a detector to select suspected network traffic for further analysis. Altogether, the results of the computational experiments show that EFRs have a good ability to detect intrusions in wireless sensor networks. Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in the frame of the project no. TN01000024 “National Competence Center - Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence”, and by the projects of the Student Grant System no. SP2020/108 and SP2020/161, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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Blockchain Architecture for Secured Inter-healthcare Electronic Health Records Exchange Oluwaseyi Ajayi(&), Meryem Abouali, and Tarel Saadawi City University of New York, City College, New York, NY 10031, USA {Oajayi000,maboual000}@citymail.cuny.edu, [email protected]

Abstract. In this on-going research, we propose a blockchain-based solution that facilitates a scalable and secured inter-healthcare EHRs exchange. These healthcare systems maintain their records on separate blockchain networks and are independent of each other. The proposed architecture can detect and prevent malicious activities on both stored and shared EHRs from either outsider or insider threats. It can also verify the integrity and consistency of EHR requests and replies from other healthcare systems and presents them in a standard format that can be easily understood by different healthcare nodes. In the preliminary result, we evaluate the security analysis against frequently encounter outsider and insider threats within a healthcare system. The result shows that the architecture detects and prevents outsider threats from uploading compromising EHRs into the blockchain and also prevents unauthorized retrieval of patient’s information.

1 Introduction Recently, the rapid increase in the cyberattack launched at Healthcare systems has become a significant concern. In 2019, over 572 recorded data breaches in the U.S. health care industries have breached over 41 million patient records, and it is estimated to jump up by 60% in 2020 [1]. The effects of these cyberattacks are estimated to cost the industry about $1.4 billion a year. Although ransomware attack accounts for about 58% of the total breach, staff members inside the healthcare organization were responsible for about 9.2% of the data breach in 2019 [2]. Due to the prevalence of attacks on patient records, there is an urgent need to protect and secure stored data and exchanged data among different healthcare systems, especially now that healthcare systems are proposing more robust interoperability. One of the significant techniques to protect Electronic Healthcare Records is the use of firewall [3–7]. [3] implements the firewall to serve as an anomaly-based intrusion detection system (IDS). In the implementation, the firewall is either configured as a packet filtering firewall or status inspection firewall. The authors in [8] put forward encryption as a way of ensuring the security of EHRs during the exchange process. This approach was designed by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to secure EHRs when viewed by patients or when creating, receiving, maintaining, or transmitting Patient Health © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 161–172, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_16

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Information (PHI) by mobile devices. Despite the success of the approaches, the malicious intruders still find ways to subvert these protection systems and gain unauthorized EHRs. Healthcare providers believe that their data is secured as far as it is encrypted. Although encryption guarantees the confidentiality of such data, consistency, and integrity are not guaranteed. [9] proposed a message authentication code algorithm (MAC) for detecting any changes in stored data. Although this approach detects changes in the stored data, it is not practical for extensive data because downloading and calculating MAC of large files is overwhelming and time-consuming. Another method described in [9] secures cloud data integrity by computing the hash values of every data in the cloud. This solution is lighter than the first approach in [9], however, it requires more computation power, especially for massive data; hence, it is not practical. The authors in [10] employ the third party to coordinate activities of the database. The problem with this approach is that the data is vulnerable to man-in-themiddle or single-point-of-failure attack. Further research has put forward the application of blockchain technology in handling, protecting, and interaction of IoT devices with personal EHRs [10–17]. The approaches described in those researches prove effective in handling and protecting stored personal EHRs. However, the proposed solutions cannot be applied to the EHRs exchanged between two or more healthcare systems as they are primarily focused on securing and protecting personal EHRs; hence, the motivation for this work. In this ongoing research, we propose a solution that leverages the tamper-proof ability, data immutability, and distributive ledger ability of blockchain technology to exchange secured EHRs among different healthcare systems without any security concerns. The new dimension in the healthcare industry is the interoperability of different healthcare systems. The interoperability is important because a patient’s diagnosis and treatment journey can take them from a physician’s office to an imaging center, to the operating room of a hospital. Each stop generates a record, such as doctors’ notes, test results, medical device data, discharge summaries, or information pertinent to the social determinants of health, which become part of a patient’s electronic health record in each setting. For the best outcome, this health information needs to be accessible and securely exchanged among all sources that accompany patient’s treatment every step of the way. This outcome will not only strengthen care coordination but also improve safety, quality, efficiency, and encouragement of robust health registries. Most of the available solutions use a fax message for EHR exchange between healthcare systems, and cloud database for storing EHRs. The significant problems facing the currently available solution are (i) The medium of exchange can be hacked, thereby compromising the integrity and consistency of the shared data. (ii) the database housing the EHRs can be hacked, and data can be manipulated or deleted. (iii) Lack of universal format for EHRs exchange makes it difficult to detect and prevent malicious activities, both insider and outsider attackers. We are proposing a solution that ensures the privacy and consistency of shared data, presents a standard format for exchanging EHRs, and detects any malicious activities on stored and shared EHRs by either insider or outsider threats. Hence, the contributions of our work can be summarized as follows:

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• We propose a blockchain-based architecture that facilitates a scalable and secured inter-healthcare Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) exchange among different healthcare systems. • The proposed architecture detects and prevents malicious activities on both stored and shared EHRs from either outsider or insider threats. • The architecture verifies the integrity and consistency of EHR requests and replies from other healthcare systems and presents them in a standard format easily understood by the different healthcare system. • The architecture permanently stores the verified EHRs distributively, and shares with other health care systems securely when requested. • The proposed architecture is robust to a new healthcare system joining and leaving the network in real-time. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Sect. 2 discusses the background and related works on application blockchain technology in healthcare. Section 3 describes the proposed architecture. Section 4 presents the results, while Sect. 5 presents the conclusions of this paper and possible future works.

2 Background and Related Works First introduced as the technology behind bitcoin in 2008 [18], blockchain was implemented to solve the double-spending problem in a cryptocurrency called bitcoin. Since its inception, diverse areas have seen the application of blockchain technology. e.g. health system [10–17], data integrity security [19], as an intrusion detection system [20–22]. Blockchain is an append-only public ledger that records all transactions that have occurred in the network. Every participant in a blockchain network is called nodes. The data in a blockchain is known as a transaction, and it is divided into blocks. Each block is dependent on the previous one (parent block). So, every block has a pointer to its parent block. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by the consensus of most of the system’s participants. Once the transaction is verified, it is impossible to mutate/erase the records [18]. Blockchain is broadly divided into two: public and private blockchain [23]. A public blockchain is a permissionless blockchain in which all nodes do verification and validation of transactions. e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum. While private blockchains are permissioned blockchains where only nodes given permission can join and participate in the network. e.g., Hyperledger. Blockchain application in EHR is still in its inception. However, the potential it offers, the deficiencies and gaps it fills, especially ensuring the security and confidentiality of health data, makes it the forefront to be adopted in the healthcare industry nowadays. Different kinds of researches have been carried out for the application of blockchain technology in securing personal data. The authors in [24] propose a platform that enables a secure and private health record system by separating sensitive and non-sensitive data. The platform serves as a way of sharing a patient’s healthcare data with researchers without revealing the patient’s privacy. The model successfully uses proxy re-encryption techniques to share a patient’s sensitive data without revealing the patient’s private key and adopting an asymmetric cryptography technique to encrypt

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these data while storing it on the cloud. Another similar work in [25] proposes iBlockchain, which uses a permissioned blockchain to preserve the privacy of the Patient’s Health Data (PHD) and improve the individual’s experience in data exchange. It allows only qualified individuals and Healthcare Service Providers (HSP) to join the network to prevent malicious attacks. It uses cold storage functions as an offblockchain storage, and hot storage functions as the store where users temporarily put requested data in addition to a private key and a public key for secure data exchange. Further research in [26] proposes the conceptual design for sharing personal continuous dynamic health data using blockchain technology, which is supplemented by cloud storage. The authors proposed using hash pointers to the storage location to solve the problem of sharing large size continuous-dynamic data while integrating blockchain and cloud storage. Extensive size data can be stored in an encrypted format on the cloud, and only the transactional data and metadata can be saved and shared on the blockchain. The authors in [27] propose a decentralized record management system (MedRec) to manage authentication, confidentiality, accountability, and data sharing of EHRs using blockchain technology. It is a modular design that integrates with patient’s local data storage and encourages medical stakeholders to participate as miners. The result shows that the system enables the emergence of big data to empower researchers while engaging the patient and providers in the choice of release metadata. [28] proposes a new approach which joins blockchain and cloud computing network. In their work, they employ Amazon Web Services and Ethereum blockchain to facilitate the sematic level interoperability of EHRs systems without standardized data forms and formatting. The model proposes an interoperability data sharing framework that includes security through multilayer encryption, optical data storage through Amazon Web Service, and transfer using the Ethereum blockchain. Despite several types of blockchain application research in healthcare, most of the available solutions focus on securing and sharing personal EHRs, failing to address the interoperability of different healthcare systems in securely exchanging patient EHRs. Hence, the motivation for this work. The novelty in our proposed solution is that it facilitates a scalable and secured inter-healthcare EHRs exchange while detecting and preventing malicious activities on the data. This novelty distinguishes our work from previous works.

3 The Proposed Architecture The proposed architecture, which focuses on the interoperability of different blockchain networks, is implemented on the Ethereum blockchain platform. The Ethereum blockchain features a smart contract, which is stored on the chain and keeps the agreement among consortium members. All participants run it. Figure 1 shows a pictorial representation of the proposed architecture (Fig. 2).

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Fig. 1. The proposed architecture

The architecture comprises different health care systems running separate private blockchain network. In each private network, computers used for EHRs form nodes in the blockchain network. Each blockchain network is independent of each other and features a unique smart contract that is written according to the healthcare system’s policies and health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA). The computers (also known as miners) in each network prepare, submit, and verify all transactions (patient’s EHRs). The miners also run the consensus algorithm, thus validate transactions/blocks. In our previous works [29, 30], we described how miners prepare, verify, validate, and retrieve stored transactions from a consortium blockchain network. In these past works, we focused on how cyberattack features are securely distributed among different nodes through the blockchain network. In this paper, miners in a healthcare network prepare, submit, verify, and similarly validate transactions as described in our previous works; however, unlike the previous work, which uses public-private blockchain networks, we set up a fully private blockchain network for each healthcare system. In the current work, we focus on investigating a secured inter-healthcare EHRs exchange. In this implementation, the healthcare systems are assumed to keep and maintain patient health information on separate blockchain networks while we evaluate the interoperability’s security. Each healthcare network contains miners and a smart contract already running on the chain. The miners prepare transactions, submit, and validate these transactions while the smart contract handles the transaction verifications. A transaction can be a patient’s health information about to be stored into the blockchain network, requesting patient information from other healthcare or replies that carry the requested patient’s information. We described how information could be stored and retrieved within a blockchain network in our previous works, in this paper,

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we describe how our architecture carries out the formation of a patient’s information request and reply across different blockchain platforms. The proposed architecture is divided into three main steps, as shown below.

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The request stage is subdivided into three categories: Request formation, Request verification, and transaction formation. The request is formed based on the information and permission from the patient. The request formation is necessary when the past medical history of a patient is needed for treatment. For example, a person that lives say in New York, USA, travels to London, UK. If the person had to visit the hospital for treatment, the past medical history must be retrieved from the New York hospital. The past medical history can be retrieved by preparing a request with information that is unique to the patient. During the process, a requester (doctor or nurse in the visiting hospital) supplies the required information to a developed script running on the miners. This script captures the patients’ information such as Name, date of birth, Social Security Number (SSN), Name of the former healthcare system, and requester’s unique code. The script verifies the information and also verifies the identity of the requester. The request is developed into an agreed-upon format and submitted as a transaction to the hospital’s blockchain network. Apart from the submitted transaction, the miner (node) submits its information, which involves the requester’s unique code, the MAC address, and the transaction address of the miner. The smart contract verifies the format of the transaction, the requester, and the miner’s identities. The purpose of the verification is to detect and prevent all malicious activities on the transaction either by insider or outsider threats. Algorithm below describes the significant steps in the verification process. Since the blockchains communicate via smart contracts, each smart contract running on the blockchain networks contains the processes described in algorithm1. For a request to be successful, it must agree with a standard format, the unique code of the requester must be in the authorized code sets, former healthcare must be in the table, miner information must be correct, and the public key of miner must verify its

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private key If any of these verification steps fail, the transaction is dropped, and smart contract returns failed request. A successful request is validated and attached to request blockchain. For more about validation, visit our previous works in [29, 30]. program Verification (Request/Reply) var formatted request/reply; miner information; begin If Request; If

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After a successful validation process, the smart contract routes the request to the designated healthcare network based on the look-up table. The smart contract verifies the format of the received request and the requesting network. Algorithm below describes the verification of requests received by the healthcare network. For a request to be successful, the format of the request must agree with a standard, source information must pass verification step, requested EHRs must be available in the healthcare network, and source public key must verify its public key. If any verification fails, the request is dropped, and the smart contract issues a failed request to the sending network. A successful request is validated and attached to the blockchain. Based on the required information, the miners compete to prepare a reply by retrieving the patient’s EHRs from the blockchain network and preparing it for a transaction submitted to the blockchain for verification. The transaction (reply) and respective sending node are

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verified. A successfully verified reply is validated and attached to blockchain while routed back to the requester’s network. program Reply formation (Reply) var formatted request; Source information; begin If

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The requesting network verifies the sending network and the format of the received reply, as shown in verification algorithm above. When the verification process is successful, the transaction (reply) is validated and attached to the blockchain. The newly added block reflects on the ledger of every node in the network. Every blockchain node possesses a copy of this ledger. All blockchain nodes receive the notification of the newly added block but do not have access to the block’s content. The requesting node retrieves the information in the block, and a developed script converts it to a format that can easily be understood by the requester.

4 Result We carry out the implementation of the proposed architecture in the lab. We set up two different blockchain networks (I and II) with each network comprising of three nodes. For each blockchain network, we use Solidity v 0.6.2 implementation for smart contract and geth v 1.9.0 for Ethereum. The smart contract is written as described above and mined into the blockchain network. A transaction (request) was prepared as explained in Sect. 3 and submitted to the transaction in blockchain network I. We randomly generate ten-string long numbers to serve as the unique requester code. The MAC and transaction address of each miner, the format of a request and reply, and the requester’s unique codes are written in the smart contract. Apart from this, a look-up table that stores information about the blockchain II is written in the smart contract. This smart

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contract is mined into the blockchain I. We write a similar smart contract (with the blockchain I information) into blockchain II’s smart contract. We evaluate a preliminary result on the security analysis to demonstrate how the architecture detects and prevents threats from outsider and insider intruders within the blockchain network. We implement how the architecture detects an unauthorized node’s attempt to submit a transaction to the blockchain network. 4.1

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4.1.1 Outsider Threat Detection We analyze the security of the architecture against malicious transaction injection. We added a node (malicious node) that was not part of the blockchain to network I. Here, we assume that an attacker may find its way into joining the blockchain. The malicious node prepared a request transaction and submitted it to the blockchain network for verification. Although the transaction agrees with the standard, we observed a failed transaction notification contrary to the transaction address expected. The transaction failed because the sender is not privileged to submit the transaction; hence, it fails the verification step. We further check if the transaction is validated and join to the chain by querying the blockchain using manually created transaction address. The result shows that the transaction is not chained to the network. 4.1.2 Insider Threat Detection Here, we tested the security of the architecture against two typical ways a malicious insider can breach the patient’s health record. Multiple Requests. We implement a case where malicious insider compromised an authorized node and begins to send a large amount of what appears to be legitimate standard formatted request in an attempt to mount a DoS attack on the blockchain network. Although other authorized nodes are working to validate the transaction, we observed that the transactions are not mined because the frequency of receiving the same or similar transaction from the same node exceeds the threshold set in the smart contract. We persistently submit the same request from the same authorized node, and we observed that the miners stop mining after the sender was flagged to be compromised. The smart contract automatically drops all subsequent transactions from the same authorized node. Unauthorized Retrieval of Patient Information. We implement a case with malicious insider attempts to retrieve patient information. It is assumed that an attacker is not likely to hold an authorized node in a compromised state for too long due to frequent security checks. Based on this assumption, an attacker makes all efforts to assess the information in the shortest time. The result showed that no information was returned because the node used is not privileged to retrieve the information. In the smart contract, information retrieval privilege is set for each node (i.e., the node can only retrieve information that it prepares the request). The architecture drops the query because the node has no retrieval privilege for that patient’s EHRs, which makes it suspicious to have been compromised.

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5 Conclusion In this on-going research work, we propose a blockchain-based architecture that facilitates and secures inter-healthcare EHRs exchange. The proposed solution focuses on preparing a secured patient’s EHRs request and replies to and from another healthcare system. In this implementation, each healthcare system is assumed to keep and maintain patient health information on separate blockchain networks while we evaluate the security of the interoperability between them. We evaluate the security of the architecture on the detection and prevention of malicious transactions within a healthcare system. The preliminary result shows that architecture has a prospect of detecting and preventing malicious activities from either insider or outsider threats. As part of the continuation of the work, we wish to expand our work to accommodate the following: • Detect malicious replies or requests coming for another healthcare system. • Investigate how it protects against more insider threats scenarios • Evaluate the response time

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Semi-automatic Knowledge Base Expansion for Question Answering Alessandro Maisto(B) , Giandomenico Martorelli, Antonietta Paone, and Serena Pelosi University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy {amaisto,gmartorelli,spelosi}@unisa.it, [email protected]

Abstract. In this paper we present a hybrid semi-automatic methodology for the construction of a Lexical Knowledge Base. The purpose of the work is to face the challenges related to synonymy in Question Answering systems. We talk about a “hybrid” method for two main reasons: firstly, it includes both a manual annotation process and an automatic expansion phase; secondly, the Knowledge Base data refers, a the same time, to both the syntactic and the semantic properties borrowed from the Lexicon-Grammar theoretical framework. The resulting Knowledge Base allows the automatic recognition of those nouns and adjectives which are not typically related into synonyms databases. In detail, we refer to nouns and adjectives that enter into a morph-phonological relation with verbs, in addition to the classic matching between words based on synset from the MultiWordNet synonym database.

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One of the main problems of Question Answering (QA) is about the strong presence of ambiguity in Natural Language. [11] reports ambiguity as one of the QA criticality together with the lexical gap between Knowledge base and Queries, syntactic complexity of queries, procedural questions. In terms of QA, ambiguity concerns the properties of a single lexical unit to represent more meanings (polysemy) or the possibility that the same meaning may be expressed by more lexical units (synonymy). Synonyms might represent a critical resource in order to face the problem of ambiguity, but they are also useful for the resolution of the Lexical Gap problem. In this work we will describe the semi-automatic construction of a large lexical Knowledge Base for the treatment of Synonymy in an Italian closeddomain Question Answering system. In order to expose the relations between different words that refers to the same meaning there are three ways: first, semantic similarity method, which uses automatic algorithms to calculate the similarity between words and highlight synonymy relations; second, open-domain synonymy dictionaries such as WordNet [17]; third, morpho-syntactic relations dictionaries, which connect predicates with their related nouns and adjectives, linking the syntactic structures where they appear. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 173–182, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_17

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This work is included into a more general project of creation of a Closeddomain Question Answering Agent called B.4.M.A.S.S. [19] and developed by Network Contacts in collaboration with University of Salerno. The project focuses on the creation of a platform of hybrid agents (Human and Virtual agents) which collaborate in order to produce best Customer Operations services. In the Sect. 2 we briefly present the theoretical background: first we will describe the main core of the Lexicon Grammar Theory, then, we will analyze the importance of Semantic Knowledge Bases in QA projects; in Sect. 3 we present the adopted methodology. In Sect. 4 we present our conclusions.

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Since we propose an hybrid model for Question Answering [14], also the construction of the KB could be considered as result of an hybrid process and, consequently, is based as well on classic instruments such as WordNet and ontology [1–4], on a linguistic theoretical background called Lexicon-Grammar Theory. 2.1

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The Lexicon-Grammar (LG) is the method and the practice of formal description of the natural language [9,15]. Lexicon-grammar is based on the study and the collection of a great number of syntactic and semantic data about predicates stored into Lexicon-Grammar Tables. These binary tables describe, for each entry, a unique predicate by specifying the presence/absence of a set of definitional properties. Italian LG Tables have been developed by the Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences of the University of Salerno in the last 40 years, by manually explore texts [7]. 2.2

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Since about a decade, a great part of human knowledge on digital support is stored in knowledge bases: peculiar databanks which administrate information for didactic, cultural and business purposes. Information in KB can be stored in a structured or non-structured way, depending on the objective. In an extensive way, the net itself may be considered an immense KB due to the function that the two entities share, such as the necessity to be created and used by more than one user; the capacity to preserve integrity following the ACID protocol: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability; the presence of hypertexts; the possibility to create wide datasets which can be expanded in time [10]. Despite the size some knowledge bases have reached during years, we can always observe that they are quite incomplete. Such level of incompleteness mainly displays to a qualitative level, not quantitative. KB can grow enormous in size, but not very deep in structure and possibility to apply a high-level information retrieval. Some examples of this are the datasets of KB such as

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EuroWordNet, Wikidata, YAGO, BabelNet, UMBEL or Mindpixel. “Despite their seemingly huge size, these knowledge bases are greatly incomplete. For example, over 70% of people included in Freebase have no known place of birth, and 99% have no known ethnicity” [22]. This happens due to the fact that many KB contain manually inserted data, and complete all instances associating them to every possible structured information would be a tremendous long work. Those which have not so many structured data, or non-manually inserted ones, seem not able to offer satisfying answers. 2.3

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Since the net has been defined as “a semantic web” [5], information in web are associated to metadata which specify their semantic context. In this way, the web has been made compatible to the reception of interrogations via search engines and automatic processing. Knowledge bases can also be defined as wide databases which allow the information retrieval task [22]. A KB predisposed for Question Answering can contain either typical structured data (html; json, xml, rdf) or semi-structured information or completely non-structured ones, as a collection of texts. Depending on quantity and typology of data in the KB is possible to divide QA systems in two types: Closed-domain QA and Open-domain QA. The first ones are automated responses which works in closed or limited knowledge fields. On the other hands, the second ones provide solutions to questions posed in generic knowledge fields, with less boundaries. 2.4

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Transform KB in semantic databases is the key to obtain more relevant answers and fill the gap we discussed previously [22]. Ideally, an answer should display in a triple, such as the sequence of subject-predicate-object. At the current state, this only occurs in certain cases and not all of them. The way to extract the best quality of information from KBs is via question answering, and the criteria the interrogations are asked. Generally, the types of questions lead back to two: Factoid and Complex/Narrative. Factoid questions are related to Closed-domain QA, while Complex/Narrative questions are connected to Open-domain QA. In turn, QA paradigms are divided in two types: • IR-based approaches: TREC; IBM Watson; Google • Knowledge-based and Hybrid approaches: IBM Watson; Apple Siri; Wolfram Alpha; True Knowledge Evi And they can consider three kinds of approaches: • IR-based Factoid QA • Knowledge-based approaches (Siri) • Hybrid approaches (IBM Watson)

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According to the studies formalized by Dan Jurafsky [12], the best way to take advantage of semantic databases is based on KB. IR-factoid does not have the necessity to use a semantic database because that approach requires less information and should be able to provide more straightforward data. On the other hand, hybrid approaches generate a partial semantic representation of queries and are based on other information to provide answers. In order to obtain better structured KB and fill the gap they present, a semantic approach is more advisable. In such way, question answering will excerpt better results because it will permit a more extended use of language during the asking phase, allowing databases to be accessible to a wider audience. Another issue QA can encounter when interacting with KB is ambiguity, the presence of multiple meanings in the same lexical unit. Each KB is structured to work and have identity independently from others, and this sometimes enhances the risk of ambiguity. The same lexical unit can be associated to multiple meanings in various KB. There are multiple ways this has been dealt with during the years, even if the issue is still not completely solved. One way is through neural networks, which associate a series of meanings to a lexical units, or express it in a triple. In this case, “the answer to the question can thus be derived by finding the relation–entity triple in the KB and returning the entity not mentioned in the question” [23]. Another way to deal with ambiguity is through the idea of generality. Assuming to analyze a series of contexts with the same domains, generality identifies the property of the same context to indicate similar meanings. By assigning a context to different KB that were not originally structured to work together, this will enhance the possibility of reducing generality and ambiguity as a consequence. “A logic dealing with KB contexts enables a reasoning system to use such seemingly inconsistent knowledge bases without deriving a contradiction. Every knowledge base will be given in a separate context and lifting axioms will be used to relate the two contexts” [6,16].

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For the purposes of a closed-domain QA System it is necessary the creation of a Domain Knowledge Base, in the form of a Lexical database or electronic dictionary, which includes terms of a specialized language that belongs to a specialized area of speech [13]. In our case-study the domain of the system concern the Costumer Operations and, in particular, ICT services. A great number of technical terms of the ICT domain derive from other languages (i.e. bufferizzare from the English word buffer ) but included into the domain-lexicon there are also generic terms that are used with a specific meaning. Our dictionary includes terms that refers to promos (i.e All Inclusive Unlimited ), or to hardware (i.e. Samsung Galaxy S7 ). Moreover, the dictionary can

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be used for disambiguate generic terms used in a specific way in the telecommunication language, such as ricarica (recharge), attivazione (activation), traffico (traffic), etc. For the creation of the lexical resource we used a semi-automatic process starting from a corpus of forum posts. The corpus is composed by 168.734 tokens and includes users queries and operators responses related to the specific domain of ICT. We extracted the recurring N-grams (in this case we considered Bi-grams and Tri-Grams), that are compound words generally not included in dictionaries. For the extraction we use the software NooJ [20]. A Syntactic Finite State Automaton (FSA) (Fig. 1) has been built with NooJ to extract specialized terms not yet included into the dictionary from the corpus. In order to recognize acronyms (i.e. GPRS ) or special terms composed by mixed-cases (i.e. MyWind ), present in large number into the corpus and not recognized by NooJ, we took advantage of a Morphological Finite State Automaton (Fig. 2).

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Finite State Automata built with NooJ include nodes, which represent words or morphemes, and edges. Syntactic Automata include yellow nodes that are called metanodes because they contain other grammars. Red parentheses are used to create variables that can be used in order to write outputs or new dictionary entries. Empty nodes can be used to write instruction such as restrictions or constraints for the variable (〈$Nome=:N〉 means that the word included into the variable Nome must be a Noun), or outputs ($1L and, 〈Verbo〉 compose an output in which the Lemma in the variable 1, Verbo, is followed by the tag 〈Verbo〉). Morphological Automata include some command for the treatment of single characters such as 〈U〉 which indicate an Uppercase character or 〈D〉 which indicates Digits. nodes with circular edges represent Loops. The results of the application of FSA to the corpus is a list of 138265 word forms. The logic of this extraction is to reach the best Recall, in order to collect

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all possible domain terms. Consequently, the Precision, calculated on a sample of 500 words, is about 0,482 due to the presence of a great number of false positives. In the sample we found only 5 false negatives and they were words composed by mixed-cases unrecognized by the morphological grammar, or English words not contained in the NooJ dictionary. Therefore, the recall reaches the 0,979. We manually check the list of results and we delete all the words not related with ICT domain; after that, we reduce to lemmas all the words obtaining a list of 1024 elements. 3.2

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For the extractions of synonyms we use WordNet and MultiWordNet Java API. Terms which not match with these two databases have been manually added. MultiWordNet [18] is an Italian version of WordNet which includes about 40.000 word entries and 31 synsets. Due to the strong presence of English terms, the extraction includes two steps: first we extract synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms and contraries from MultiWordNet Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs databases. Then we repeat the same operation with WordNet. All the results have been included in a JSON structure like the one in the Fig. 3. We used the JSON1 format because, even if it had never been used for linguistic annotations, it is particularly suitable for this purpose. The JSON format is synthetic, easy to compile for humans and for the machines, and it also allows data to be affordable on the web. 1

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In this structure the item “lemma” refers to the word concerned. The item “id” refers to a specific id composed of a letter that represents the domain (T in this case) and a sequence number. The item “POS” refers to the part of speech and it could be “NOUN” for nouns, “ADV” for adverbs, “VERB” for verbs and “ADJ” for adjectives. The item “lingua” refers to the language of the word and it could be English or Italian. The item “class” refers to the category of the word (i.e. Telephony, Electronics, etc.). The others items refer to synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, holonyms and meronyms of the word. The last two items contain, respectively, an example with the term concerned and the definition of the word. We found useful the example because it allows to know if the terms in the list of results were, indeed, related to telecommunications domain. Each term is contained in the structure as many times as its meanings related to the domain. The automatic expansion of the Lexical Databases generates 1070 entries organized as showed in Table 1.

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main resource. In this way we simplified the original tables. The id is composed by the Lexicon-grammar class number and a sequence number. Others items of the structure refer to the lemma, the part of speech and the Lexicon-grammar class. The item “omografi” indicates if the lemma has an homograph, using a boolean value (true/false). The item “struttura definizionale” refers to the definitional structure of the class. The item “esempio” contains an example. The last two items refer to nominalizations (Vn) and adjectivalizations (V-a).

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In this work we presented a methodology for the creation and the expansion of Lexical Knowledge Bases for the treatment and the solution of two of the main problem of the Question Answering systems: the linguistic gap between queries and KB and the ambiguity. The methodology relies on two steps: the first one concerns the creation of a large database of verbs, connected to nouns and adjectives which, in certain syntactic structures express the same meaning of the predicate; the second step consists of the automatic expansion of a list of noun, adjectives and verbs extracted from a domain corpus, based on MultiWordNet Synsets. The methodology has been implemented into a Question Answering System tested on the ICT domain and, in particular, on Customer Operations for Telephone Companies. The advantage of a semi automatic approach in a methodology such as the one presented in this paper is that rebuilt the resource for other domain is faster and to adapt the entire system to other domains are easier. In fact, the manual compilation of the dictionary is a smaller part of the work because the extraction of terms from the corpus, the expansion of the lexical entries and also the calculation of Nominalization and Adjectivalization could be performed in a semi-automatic way.

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Mina: SeMantic vIrtual Assistant for Domain oNtology Based Question-Answering Nicola Fiore1(B) , Gaetano Parente1 , Michele Stingo1 , and Massimiliano Polito1,2 1

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Abstract. Aim of this article is to present the methodological nucleus of a custom Question-Answering system named Mina: a software solution with the ability to perform automated search over an ontological representation of localized knowledge domains, in order to extract fine-grained information so as to respond to user queries expressed as natural language questions. First the pipeline adopted by Mina will be presented, focusing on the multi-agent nature of the system Mina exists within, consisting of a distributed and dynamic environment on which several autonomous software (the so called agents) coexist and cooperate to perform specific tasks. Second we will focus on the strategies Mina exploits for the extraction of the correct answer which needs to be provided, starting with the introduction of the NC Common Lang library, a collection of linguistic analysis tools, adopted for the extraction of intents and entities contained within user queries; following up we’ll show the ontological representation of a specific knowledge sphere - the telecommunication domain in our case - describing the structured scheme of concepts and relationships according to which the answer retrieval operation is performed, querying the ontology through Description Logic inferences. As a final instance, three different test scenarios are presented with the intent to provide solid evidence about the correct functioning of Mina.

1 Introduction Performing automated information retrieval processes has become a matter of crucial importance both for private and public institutions, particularly considering the vast amount of data on which the use of several digital services is based on, from healthcare to customer care passing through the whole tertiary economic sector. Taking into further account the extremely mixed and complex nature of the informative flow that runs within such services, increasingly becoming more centered around semi-structured and unstructured data, it follows that designing and implementing software solutions able to handle these kind of input becomes essential in order to retrieve punctual information. To this purpose in this article we present the base methodology of a custom QA (Question Answering) system, which is a software solution exploited when automated research of answers becomes necessary within specific knowledge area. We present Mina, a virtual assistant capable of answering to human input questions from localized c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 183–193, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_18

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knowledge domains, exploiting several natural language processing tools (NLP) so as to extrapolate the intents and the entities of a sentence, the latter used to interrogate an ontological conceptualization of the working domain area, which in our prototype corresponds to the Telecommunication (TELCO) field. The resulting output it is a single reply, either obtained from the retrieval of a punctual information or from a further filter mechanism amongst a set of possible replies. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews a selection of related works concerning QA methodologies of particular interest. Section 3 presents the complete pipeline of Mina, first illustrating the NC Common Lang library - composed of PoS tagging, Lemmatization and Parsing modules - then displaying the ontological scheme of our working domain, focusing on the structuring principles and explaining the set of classes and relationships composing the TELCO ontology instance; further information will be provided both on how ontological queries are translated from natural language questions into Description Logic expressions and about the possible filter algorithm step, that serves its purpose when a submitted ontological query returns a set of formally correct responses amongst which is to find a single reply. Section 4 presents three different test cases so as to give solid proof on the functioning of Mina pipeline, namely a generic case, synonymy case and a filtered answer case. Lastly in Sect. 5 we discuss future works.

2 Related Works Throughout the entire design phase of the project, we focused on some of the most interesting literature works within the field of QA systems, paying particular attention to ontology-based methodologies. In AQUA [1] for instance, the ontological structures are compared against relationships found within a formal query via similarity algorithm. The input question is firstly analyzed by a syntactic parser which outputs a parsed sentence in the form of subject, predicate, object and, whenever are present, adjectives. In case of convergence between query features and the ontological structures, AQUA can return the answer to be provided; otherwise, the similarity algorithm is called in order to find similarities between the relationships used within the parsed query and the relationships within the ontological structures. When similarities are found AQUA returns the linked answer, or else the system tries to reformulate the query, still exploiting the ontologies, so as to repeat the whole pipeline until a proper response is found. MOQA [2] implements an ontology representing things or events in the real world. As a first step, the TMR (Text Meaning Representation) is extracted from the question, thanks to which a formal query is launched over the ontology, this way obtaining all the hierarchical connections related to the initial question (usually on historical topic or about known personalities. Further the questions and the instances are taken within another structure called Fact Repository. MKQA [3] is a QA system for the musical domain. The structure of the ontology has classes such as singers, songs etc. Once that a question has been analyzed and the query constructed, the ontology returns all the pieces of information which are then processed, so that a specific answer may be constructed based on the input question. (Fu et al., 2010) [4] use a different approach. Dealing with questions from real users, through textual preprocessing analysis they derive the predicate from the initial answer. When a new query containing a predicate matches with one

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of the questions previously processed (usually FAQs), they retrieve the proper response from an indexed repository of replies; the ontology is structured in such a way that there is only one possible match and, therefore, the associated index linked to the correct answer is taken. In case there were more matching FAQs - which happens when a sentence partially corresponds with more than one pre-processed answer - an algorithm step in calculating the ranking for each one of the possible matches, further taking the index of the FAQ with the highest matching ranking.

3 Mina Pipeline The genesis of this work comes from the need to create a QA (Question Answering) solution - namely a process with automatic ability to answer questions expressed in natural language [5] - for industrial purposes. To this purpose we designed a mixed methodology where the retrieval of the correct answer relies on multiple pre/post processing steps in conjunction with the use of an ontological conceptualization of a specific knowledge area. The pipeline which exploits the ontological knowledge involves two main software routines: Mina, a semantic agent which returns unambiguous responses within a specific domain; LandS, both a speech-to-text and text-to-speech agent which - via Google APIs - takes a question in audio format and creates a proper string transcription. The same applies contrariwise, when after receiving the answer from Mina, the agent vocally converts the response. These two agents coexist and collaborate within the MAS (Multi Agents System) environment [6, 7], a set of cooperative software components with the aim of performing tasks within a distributed and dynamic ecosystem. The entire pipeline is outlined in Fig. 1. Following we address the solution with which Mina is able to find the correct answer within a localized domain. In the first stage, once that a text converted request has been received from Mina, the latter submits the natural language query to the NC Common Lang library, a collection of several Natural Language Processing tools. This library help us obtaining meaningful semantic intents and entities within the uttered questions. 3.1 NC Common Lang The use of NC Common Lang library is preparatory for the construction of Descprition Logic queries, thanks to which the ontology is inspected and thus returning the correct answer to be provided. This library contains and refers to the majority of the best known methods adopted for the processing of natural language. In the first place a Part-of-Speech Tagger - which is a software attributing to each word of a given text the correct grammatical category - based on TINT [8] and refined on [9] is invoked. The second module used by NC Common Lang produces text lemmatization. Using the tags found by the PoS Tagger, our Lemmatizer performs a comparision against the entries of custom electronic dictionaries based on [10–12]. The last module used at this stage is the Syntactic Parser, which gives the syntactic tree representation of a written text. The type of syntactic information will depend on the reference grammar used for the purpose. The term grammar here refers to a descriptive language and its binding set

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of rules. In this sense, a parser does anything but accept a string of symbols, further checking if the sequence falls within the possible structural relationships established by the working grammar, in order to recognize its correctness (also defined as grammaticality) and provide one or more structural representations of the input sequence. 3.2

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Borrowing thee definition proposed by (Studer et al., 1998) [13], an Ontology, within the IT field, corresponds to a formal and explicit specification of a shared conceptualization related to a knowledge area. For explicit we mean that constraints, concepts and properties of an ontology must be explicitly defined and linked by precise causal relationships. Formality refers to the ability of an ontology to be accessible for simple computations (therefore machine-readable) but also for complex computation operations (machine-understandable). Sharing, lastly, assumes that the knowledge underlying the ontological representation is not the result of the speculation of an single individual, but that it is precisely shared by a group that expresses its consent on it. According to the above mentioned principles, the ontological representation of the TELCO domain adopted in our project is structured as follows:

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• 3 SuperClasses: Intenti, Entit`a and Risposte (Intents, Entities, Answers); • There are subclasses of the class Entit`a corresponding to the entities of the working domain. In this case we implemented only subclasses of the TELCO domain (e.g. recharge, activate, etc.), but the adopted methodology is readily replicable over different business domains; • There is the subclass Risposte TELCO of the class Risposte which contains as instances (individuals) the single answer to be provided; • The Intenti class has instances corresponding to the uttered intents • Finally, there are links between the mentioned classes in the form of object properties and the related descriptions in the form of data properties. The complete ontology scheme is outlined in Fig. 2. A further relationship between ontology objects is constituted so as to represent lexical synonymy between words. This way we are not only stating meaning equivalence between instances of the domain - as in the case of the words SIM and scheda (Italian slang to name a sim card) - but we are allowing transitive sharing of object and data properties sets as well. As stated before, our ontology relies on three main super classes, namely Intenti, which contains instances of all the terms (mainly predicates) that are to be identified within a phrase; Entit`a which contains within its subclasses all the entities semantically linked to one or more intents. Finally, there is the

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main class - Risposte TELCO - which lists instances corresponding to specific codes that uniquely lead us in retrieving the correlated answers stored in external database. Summarizing, once that the system receives a question, the latter is examined by the NC Common Lang library that extrapolates the related intent and entities; thus the system interrogates via Description Logic queries the ontology so as to obtain the single instance of the Risposte Telco class that is linked both with the identified intents and entities. Therefore we can say that we use our ontology as a means of answer collection. 3.3

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As previously stated, a fundamental feature of our work is the automatic investigation of the knowledge contained within the ontology throughout queries in the form of inferences made via Description Logic (DL) [14], which is a family of knowledge representation languages that are widely used in ontological modelling and that is fully supported as World Wide Web Consortium standard. The way in which we build the DL queries works on top of the OWL API Java distribution [15] - that in turn exploits the HermiT reasoner [16] - and it has been algorithmically instantiated as outlined below. Algorithm 1: createExpression Result: expression expression = “Risposte TELCO THAT ha intento VALUE”; expression = expression + NC Common Lang’s intent value; while entity has next do expression = expression + ” AND ” + entity’s category + ” VALUE ” + entity’s value; While using DL Queries as a means for interrogating the ontology, we faced a limit. In front of a relatively low number of found entities, the query submitted to the ontology returns a set of instances (individuals) instead of a single item. Since we are in the necessity to retrieve a unique instance as a valid response, a filter algorithm in the way that is shown below has been implemented to address this issue. Algorithm 2: getUniqueIndividual Result: response execute DL query on ontology and get individuals list; create elementsList; add to elementsList intents and entities taken distinctly from NC Common Lang; while individuals has next do get individual’s object and data properties labels; create propertiesList; add to propertiesList object and data properties labels taken distinctly; if propertiesList size is equal to the elementsList size then individual is the response; As you can see, the algorithm already holds a list containing the labels of both intent and entities and, for each one of the instances returned by the query, creates a list

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of labels corresponding to those that identify the object properties of the intent with the relative entity data properties that have been found. At the end of the expanded instance listing creation, the algorithm just take the only individual that has the same size in terms of linked labels when compared with that of the input question. Practically, we rule out instances that have different labels other than those of the original question, because these are probably associated with questions that should have more pieces of information and that therefore should refers to more associated entities. Thanks to this algorithm, we univocally find the correct answer to be provided, as it is shown in the example in Sect. 4.3.

4 Testing the System So as to prove the effectiveness of the proposed methodology, we carried out three different test cases, whose results are displayed in the present paragraph. 4.1 Generic QnA Test This test addresses the easiest case where, from a sentence received as input, we retrieve firsthand a unique result from the DL query investigation. For this test we took the following sentence: Voglio effettuare una ricarica homebanking1 Sending this sentence to the NC Common Lang processing step, and passing its result to the createExpression method, we obtain the following DL query: Risposte TELCO THAT ha intento VALUE caricare AND ha mezzo VALUE homebanking Executing the DL query on the ontology we obtain the answer to be provided to the user as it can be seen in Fig. 3.

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This test addresses the case in which the system correctly retrieves the same answer while trying to respond to different questions having similar words in terms of their meaning content. In this example we rely on the synonimic relationship between the words sim and scheda, as shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 4. Description of the individual sim. The synonymy with the term scheda is declared thanks to the correlation Same individual as.

Starting with this sentence as input question: Voglio riattivare la mia sim scaduta2 further sending this sentence to the NC Common Lang processing step, and passing its result to the createExpression method, we obtain the following DL query: Risposte TELCO THAT ha intento VALUE attivare AND ha contratto VALUE sim AND ha stato VALUE scaduto Executing the DL query on the ontology we correctly obtain the answer that has to be provided, as it can be seen in Fig. 4.

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In case of the following sentence as starting point Voglio riattivare la mia scheda scaduta3 further passing the NC Common Lang result to the createExpression algorithm, we obtain the following query: Risposte TELCO THAT ha intento VALUE attivare AND ha contratto VALUE scheda AND ha stato VALUE scaduto Executing the DL query on ontology we obtain the same answer as in the previous example as it can be seen in Fig. 5. 2 3

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4.3 Filter Mechanism Test This case shows the use of the Filter mechanism in order to obtain the instance that adheres completely to the conditions of the input query in case of overlapping of different replies. For this test we take the following sentence: Voglio attivare un numero4 Sending this sentence to the NC Common Lang processing step and further passing its result to the createExpression method, we obtain the following query: Risposte TELCO THAT ha intento VALUE attivare AND ha contratto VALUE numero Executing the DL query on the ontology we get all the instances that meet at least these conditions, as it is shown in Fig. 7.

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In order to solve this issue it becomes necessary to obtain the instance that only adheres to the conditions expressed by the labels of the input query. To do so we use the Filter mechanism as displayed in the getOnlyIndividual method. In Fig. 8 it is shown a step by step portion of the test filter algorithm execution. As it is possible to notice, the Filter mechanism identifies the newLinea instance as the unique item that only respects the ha intento and “ha contratto” conditions found in the original query, ruling out the remaining instances holding these two abovementioned conditions and more. 4

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5 Future Works As stated at the beginning, this project currently represents a baseline methodology and our future goals will mainly focus on the complete implementation of the knowledge contained in the ontology regarding the TELCO domain, as well as for different domain such as ENERGY, INSURANCE, AUTOMOTIVE, LAW and HEALTH, exploiting original methodologies [17, 18]. As further step we also intend to statistically compare the robustness of our system in comparison against methodologies representing QnA state of art solution.

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SafeEat: Extraction of Information About the Presence of Food Allergens in Recipes Alessandra Amato1 and Giovanni Cozzolino2(B) 1

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Abstract. The application of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated to shorten the gap between users and digital systems. IA techniques can bring a lot of advantage in facing the issue of allergic reaction related to food allergies. Recognising and avoiding the foods on which it is based is an effective way to avoid an allergic reaction. To identify possible allergens, it is important to read the food labels carefully or to know what are the ingredients from which it is made. In this paper we present a system that exploits the techniques and tools of Artificial Intelligence to extract and analyse the ingredients of a recipe, and alert the user to the presence of possible allergens. The performed experimentation shows that the system can alert the user of allergens in Wikipedia Cookbok dataset recipes.

1 Introduction Allergy indicates a condition in which a subject’s immune system reacts abnormally by producing antibodies to certain substances considered harmful, which for most people are completely harmless. Food allergy, in particular, is a reaction of the immune system to a certain food, perceived by the body as harmful. When you suffer from a food allergy, the immune system mistakenly identifies a specific food or a substance present in it as something harmful (allergen): to neutralise it then releases antibodies (immunoglobulin E, also known as IgE). Allergy symptoms are due to the body’s release of chemical mediators (e.g. histamine) in response to the immune reaction triggered by the encounter of allergens with antibodies. Food allergens are all foods, or ingredients of which they are composed, that trigger immune-mediated reactions, even serious ones, if ingested by specific individuals. The best way to prevent an allergic reaction is to know - and avoid - the foods on which it is based. It is good to read the food labels carefully and if you have already had a severe allergic reaction, wear an identification mark (bracelet or tag) that allows others to know what you are suffering from if you are unable to communicate. Also social network are becoming a media that collect users behaviours [1] and influence the tastes and the preferences of individuals regarding food consumption [2, 3] by providing personalised offers [4]. A fundamental rule introduced in the European Regulation 1169/2011 is the obligation for all companies in the food sector to inform consumers about the presence of c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 194–203, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_19

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allergens in the foods they are going to eat. For example, in the catering sector it is necessary to indicate the possible allergenic content of each dish when drawing up the menu. In fact, in accordance with the Regulation, information on food allergens must be properly documented and, above all, it must be displayed well in view in order to be easily available both for the person responsible for any inspection and for the consumer. In the European Regulation 1169/2011 there is indicated a detailed list of the 14 main food allergens with their respective derivatives: crostaceans, eggs, arachids, fish, soia, gluten, springs, solfites, milk, nuts, cederal, senape, sulphur dioxide and sulphites, lupins. In this paper, we present the SafeEat [5] project aiming to assist companies in the process of recognition and identification of allergens inside food. The project exploits Artificial Intelligence techniques [6] that uses an inferential engine [7, 8] to unify the food tested with any allergens.

2 System Implementation System’s core is a Knowledge Base populated through a set of Rules that encode the results of researches performed according European Regulation 1169/2011. In the following we describe the specifications of both Knowledge Base and rules, with some additional examples. 2.1 Knowledge Base The structure of the code is divided into three main functions aiming to indicate the ‘facts’ on which the rules will be based. The functions are: 1. allergy(ALLERGEN, LIST ) - combine an ALLERGEN with a LIST of ingredients containing it; 2. derivatives(ORIGIN, LIST ) - associate to an ORIGIN element all its derivatives in a LIST; 3. substitutes(LIST, ADMIT T ED) - associates to a LIST of elements containing an allergen, ones that can be substituted with the elements present within an ADMITTED list. We noted that the category of elements related to sulphites was directly dependent on elements combined with other categories of allergens. Therefore, a rule was provided for the list of foods containing sulphites, by means of an append of lists related to fish, molluscs, crustaceans and nuts with a list of basic sulphites. 1. sul f ites(LIST, X) is based on a recursive structure that uses append, a preset function of Prolog that provides the concatenation of lists. In the Listing 1 we reported an extract of the facts constituting the Knowledge Base.

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2.2 Rules The rules on which the code is based are different and provide for the complete exploration of KB. The following are codes and examples. • allergies(ALLERGEN, LIST ) - allergies is true if each indicated ALLERGEN corresponds to the required LIST; the rule aims to associate to the KB also the list of sulphites. • derivate(DERIVAT E, ORIGIN) - derivate is true if ORIGIN corresponds to a Z list within the derivates ‘fact’ of which DERIVATE is part (the verification of the presence of DERIVATE in the list is done through a preset function of Prolog member). • allergen(ELEMENT, ALLERGEN) - allergen is true if ALLERGEN is merged with a Z list in allergies of which ELEMENT is part of or if the ELEMENT itself is derived from P, member of the Z list. • recipe(INGREDIENT SL IST, ALLERGEN, ELEMENT ) - recipe is true if within INGREDIENTS LIST is present ELEMENT and ELEMENT unifies with the required allergen.

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• substitute(ELEMENT, SUBST ITUT E) - substitute is true if in ELEMENT there is a Z allergen and if SUBSTITUTE belongs to the list of substitutes S that merges with the list of which X is part and furthermore SUBSTITUTE is not a Z allergen. In the Listing 2 we report a set of implemented rules. 1

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3 System Implementation By exploiting the functionalities of Python programming language and NLP libraries [9], we aim to obtain information about the presence of food allergens within specific recipes. In particular, we considered recipes extracted from the Wikipedia Cookbook. After obtaining the recipe, the system will be able to recognise the main allergens contained in it, by using the facts and the rules of the Knowledge Base. The extraction of the text requires several steps due to the exclusive interest in the ingredients used, in fact specific functions are implemented to eliminate from the text everything that is not included in the list of ingredients. Generally the Cookbook is structured as shown in the Fig. 1: there is an introductory section of the recipe, a list of ingredients with the respective quantities and the procedure.

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We have to import the Cookbook web page through the urllib.request library through which the HTML code will be decoded and imported. The inspection of the web page allows you to understand where the ingredients are placed in the HTML of the recipe web page. After, it is necessary to implement a method to “clean” the text of the page from all the strings, numbers, units of measures and symbols that we are not interested in. We first have to perform the tokenization of the text, i.e. separates all words. We continue by deleting all the numbers present between the tokens, precisely because a number will in no case indicate an allergen. Then, we continue with the lemmatization process. A lemma is the canonical form corresponding to a dictionary entry. We carry out this process in order to collect the terms in clusters as they are derived from the same lemma.

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Finally, proceed with the process of POS tagging or grammatical tagging. This step consists in associating to each token the correct grammatical category. It has been decided to proceed in this way with the aim of identifying among all the tokens only those corresponding to names, thus searching among them the food allergens. Once we have extrapolated the names in the correct lemmatized format, we adapt the list of ingredients for the request in Prolog, as a string with characters ‘[’ and ‘]’ to open and close the list and each identified ingredient separated by a comma. In Listing 3 we report the implementation of the NLP pipeline 1 2

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4 Experimentation We performed an evaluation of the potentialities of our approach by considering as a case study a pizzeria, and simulating the approach through a series of queries explained in the following. For example, to prepare a Margherita, composed of water, yeast, wheat flour, tomato sauce, olive oil and mozzarella cheese, we can start by analysing the mozzarella and yeast elements, verifying their possible unification with an allergen. As we can see in the Fig. 2, we can easily verify, by querying the Knowledge Base through the allergen function, that lactose is present in the mozzarella, while in the yeast no allergens are present.

Fig. 2. Querying the Knowledge Base we can identify possible allergens.

We can also specify a query that verifies the presence of an allergen in a certain recipe. Considering the Fig. 3, the presence of gluten has occurred. The query returns us the Boolean value true, which confirms the presence of gluten within the recipe.

Fig. 3. The query returns true if an allergen is present within the ingredients of a recipe.

We can also request a replacement for an allergy-generating element. The case under consideration, reported in Fig. 4 is the replacements of cashew nut oil: these will certainly be elements that do not contain cashew nuts but it is not certain that they are free from other allergens.

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With the compound query submitted, all the substitutes elements containing an allergen and those in which no allergen is present, such as olive oil or seed oil, will be verified twice.

Fig. 4. The query returns all the substitutes of a specific element, with their possible allergens.

5 Conclusions The immune system erroneously defines a food allergy as something unhealthy (allergen) with a particular food or ingredient found in it. An effective way to avoid an allergic reaction is by recognising and avoiding the foods it is based on. It’s important to carefully read the food labels or to know what are the ingredients it is made of, in order to identify possible allergens. In this paper we presented a system that exploits Artificial Intelligence techniques and tool in order to extract and analyse the ingredients of a recipe, and alert the user about the presence of possible allergens. The experimentation show that the system is able to alert the user about the presence of allergens in recipes taken from Wikipedia Cookbok dataset. Future works foresee to enhance NLP pipeline and Knowledge Base implementation, by taking into account semantic tools, like ontologies, that can improve the correlation and reasoning process [10–12]. Acknowledgement. This paper has been produced with the financial support of the Project financed by Campania Region of Italy ‘REMIAM - Rete Musei intelligenti ad avanzata Multimedialit`a’. CUP B63D18000360007.

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Accelerated Neural Intrusion Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks Tarek Batiha(B) and Pavel Kr¨ omer VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, Ostrava, Czech Republic {tarek.batiha,pavel.kromer}@vsb.cz

Abstract. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) form an important layer of technology used in smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, Industry, Energy, Agriculture 4.0, the Internet of Things, and, for example, fog and edge computing. Cybernetic security of such systems is a major issue and efficient methods to improve their security and reliability are sought. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) automatically detect malicious network traffic, classify cybernetic attacks, and protect systems and their users. Neural networks are used by a variety of intrusion detection systems. Their efficient use in WSNs requires both learning and optimization and very efficient implementation of the detection. In this work, the acceleration of a neural intrusion detection model, developed specifically for wireless sensor networks, is proposed, studied, and evaluated.

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Wireless sensor networks are in the heart of today’s massively distributed infrastructures including the Internet of Things, smart and cognitive environments, vehicular and mobile ad–hoc networks, and environmental monitoring networks. Their security is becoming the crucial aspect of their development, deployment, and operations [3,8]. They are usually composed of large numbers of individual devices connected via different kinds of communication networks. The wireless nature of the communication and the accessibility of their installations make them especially prone to various cybernetic attacks [24]. Intrusion detection is an important area of cybernetic security focused on identification (detection) and prevention of security intrusions. Intrusions are malicious activities which are in favour of an intruder like unauthorized use of the target devices, unauthorized access, identity and data theft, denial of service, etc. Artificial neural networks are often used by knowledge–based and machine learning–based intrusion detection strategies. Together with other algorithms, they constitute efficient IDSs [27]. They can be used to learn models of different actors and to predict their behaviour [10] or to model intrusion classes in computer networks [6] and wireless sensor networks [3]. The learning and adaptation of artificial neural networks is very resources and time consuming. There have been many strategies of improving learning c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 204–215, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_20

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efficiency like to improve learning algorithm [11] or put a maximum effort into the use of available hardware resources [26]. Massively parallel and energy– efficient floating–point accelerators and general purpose graphical processing units (GPGPUs) are nowadays becoming available for wireless sensor networks, too [4]. In this work, a GPGPU–based acceleration of a neural intrusion detection system, proposed recently for wireless sensor networks [5], is designed, developed, and evaluated.

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Intrusion detection is a field that deals with security intrusions, i.e., security and privacy violations [6] originating from unauthorized uses of computer networks and connected devices [23]. Security intrusions also often target data and communication confidentiality and integrity and decrease (even disable) the level of service provided by the attacked devices [21]. Security intrusions are attributed to intruders, i.e., hostile actors that aim at the misuse of computer and network resources. There are several types of malicious activities (attacks) that can be classified as security intrusions. They include information gathering (packet sniffing, keylogging), system exploits, privilege escalation, access to restricted resources and so on [23]. Due to the variety and novelty of attacks and the flaws in the development and implementation of complex systems, it is usually not possible to completely secure computer systems (networks) for their entire lifetime by design. In reality, such systems are prone to design flaws and no prevention measures can suppress user errors and system abuse [21]. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are software and/or hardware tools developed to mitigate malicious activities and in particular security intrusions. They continuously monitor the target systems and identify system states associated with security intrusions [23]. The operations of IDSs are based on the assumption that regular (authorized) actions of system users can be described by predictable patterns, do not include commands or sequences of commands that can weaken system security policies, and follow the specifications that describe which actions are allowed to which users [6]. An IDS has to monitor the status of the target system, collect the data that describes its properties in time, and analyze its behaviour to detect anomalies that might be related to security breaches. The monitoring is achieved by a set of sensors that collect the data from available data sources and forward it to analyzers that confront it with models of normal behaviour and models of known types of security intrusions [6,23]. The analysis of system behaviour usually exploits patterns (signatures) of malicious data and heuristic characteristics (attack rules) of known types of security intrusions. Alternatively, it attempts to detect the discrepancies between current behaviour and known behaviour of legitimate users by various anomaly (outlier) detection algorithms [23]. Most often, real–world IDSs use a combination of intrusion modelling and anomaly detection.

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The majority of security intrusion models is based on statistical and probabilistic methods, cluster analysis, knowledge–based approaches, and machine learning–based algorithms [6,23]. Statistical methods build statistical profiles of captured data in the form of univariate, multivariate, and time–series based models [23]. Other types of probabilistic security intrusion models use belief (Bayesian) networks and, e.g., Markov models. Cluster analysis can be used to find groups (clusters) of similar events and find their typical representatives (centroids, medoids). Under this approach both complete clusters and their representatives can be used to classify user behaviour as normal, malicious, or anomalous [6]. Knowledge–based approaches take advantage of expert knowledge in the form of crisp and fuzzy (rule–based) expert system that are designed either manually or with the help of machine learning [23]. Intrusion models based on machine learning are nowadays used in a growing number of IDSs. In general, they use some form of supervised or unsupervised learning to find classification models that classify user behaviour into several groups [23]. Machine learning– based intrusion models include artificial neural networks (multilayer feedforward networks, self–organizing maps), kernel–based methods (support vector machines) [6], evolutionary methods [23], and other nature–inspired algorithms.

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Wireless sensor networks are distributed cyberphysical systems that are usually spread over large areas and comprise of many cooperating and communicating devices (nodes). WSN nodes are usually embedded devices with significant constraints such as low computing power, small operating memory, and limited source of energy [1]. They carry limited and often irreplaceable sources of energy (e.g., batteries). Because of that, one of the main aims of WSN operations is to balance the quality of service and energy consumption [12]. Security is one of the major concerns of WSNs [8,22]. The limited computing power, memory, and energy constraints of typical WSN nodes make it hard or even impossible to implement traditional computer security mechanisms [22]. On the other hand, the security requirements of mission critical WSN applications such as surveillance [8,12], industrial control and management, environmental monitoring, and, e.g., healthcare [12], are exceptionally high. The data processed and transmitted by WSNs needs to be confidential (not disclosed to unauthorized parties), have integrity (be reliable, authentic, and not tampered with), and be available as soon as possible [22]. Attackers aim at compromising different aspects of services and data provided by the networks. In response, cybersecurity measures including cryptography, secure routing, and intrusion detection are developed specifically for WSNs [8]. However, traditional intrusion detection techniques are in WSN difficult to implement due to the constraints of network nodes. The main goal of intrusion detection in WSN is the identification of malicious behaviour that violates the security rules of the system. They focus on

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the detection of abnormal behaviour of users, misuse of network resources, and irregularities in the operations of systems and protocols that could indicate an intrusion [8]. The knowledge of the routing algorithm is important for intruders as well as for intrusion detection. Low–energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) is a hierarchical routing algorithm based on clustering [14]. It is one of the most popular routing strategies for WSNs [3,8]. LEACH divides nodes into regular (normal) nodes and cluster heads (CH) that collect and forward data to base stations. The attackers exploit the protocol by compromising its individual steps. Intrusion detection systems, on the other hand, take advantage of the known behaviour associated with LEACH to build models of legitimate operations and confront them with the real operations of the nodes and the networks. 3.1

Neural Models for Intrusion Detection

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are often used by knowledge–based and machine learning–based intrusion detection strategies. Together with other soft computing algorithms (fuzzy methods, cluster analysis), they constitute efficient IDSs [27]. They can be used to learn models of different actors (systems components and users) and to predict their behaviour [10], to detect anomalies and to identify misuse in computer networks [13,28], and to model intrusion classes in computer networks [6] and wireless sensor networks [3]. ANNs are in this field popular due to the ability to learn complex non–linear relationships between inputs and outputs but lack interpretability (explainability) which is in some cases required [10]. Nevertheless, their good detection capability makes them useful also together with other machine learning methods to establish hybrid intrusion detection pipelines. There is a number of recent intrusion detection models taking advantage of deep learning and deep neural networks. Deep neural models are used to pre– train neural models [15,25], process high–dimensional data [15], extract useful features from network traffic payload [19], and enable efficient anomaly detection for self–learning IDSs [2,20]. Their applications span several domains, including backbone Internet connections [2], local area (in–vehicle) networks [15], wireless sensor networks [5], and IoT devices [25]. The deep neural network models used in the context of intrusion detection include autoencoders [20], recurrent neural networks [2], deep belief networks [15,25], and, e.g., convolutional neural networks [19]. Despite the undoubted usefulness of neural network–based models for intrusion detection, the computational complexity associated with their training, inference, and adaptation makes their use in certain types of devices complicated [17,20] and the design of practical models has been identified as one of the challenges of modern IDSs [17]. It is also well–known that neural networks with different architectures and topologies perform differently on the intrusion detection task [5].

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In this work, we study the acceleration of a collective neural model for intrusion detection in WSNs [5] and its ability to train and detect on a variety of different floating–point accelerators (GPGPUs). 3.2

Acceleration of Neural Models

The learning and adaptation of ANNs on data intensive tasks is very resource and time consuming. It often involves large amounts of data that need to be processed to (re)train the neural models. One way of improving the efficiency of learning and evaluation is through modifications of the learning algorithm [11]. Other put emphasis on the use of the full potential of the available (parallel) hardware [7,26]. This includes the advanced features of modern CPUs, such as extended instructions sets of modern processors (SSE2, SSE3, SSE4) [26], and, in particular, the massive parallelism available in modern GPGPUs [7]. Even though modern software frameworks, such as Keras and TensorFlow, are well optimized for the use of parallel hardware [9], there are still ways to further improve accelerated neural models by the selection of optimum parameters for specific networks. This has been demonstrated, for example, on the optimization of the batch sizes with regard to training stability and generalization performance [18].

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Accelerated Neural Intrusion Detection for WSNs

This work studies the acceleration of a neural intrusion detection strategy for WSNs introduced in [5]. It is based on a collection of compact neural networks, each optimized for the detection of a specific type of intrusions. This approach allows flexibility and a variety of possible deployments of the IDS. The modularity of the collective system and the loose ties between individual models allow, e.g., to use specific detectors only by nodes, which are prone to the associated attacks. The ANN architectures, identified as best against different types of attacks [5], are in this work implemented in the Keras framework and studied on three different GPGPUs, representing different families of accelerators with different high–level properties and low–level hardware architectures. The speed and accuracy of GPGPU–accelerated network learning is measured and compared. All experiments were performed in the context of an intrusion detection data set created specifically for WSN security research [3]. The WSN-DS is a data set describing several types of attacks in a simulated wireless sensor network [3]. It contains 374,661 records with 23 nominal and numerical features divided into 5 categories (4 types of simulated security intrusions and normal network traffic). The data set consists of recorded network traffic in a simulated WSN composed of 100 sensor nodes and one base station (BS). The network uses the LEACH routing protocol [14] with the number of clusters set to 5. All simulated attacks exploit the properties of the routing protocol and the attributes that characterise the status of each network node are based specifically on LEACH.

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WSN-DS contains four types of simulated security intrusions [3]. In the course of a blackhole attack, the attacker pretends to be a cluster head (CH). The false CH captures, stores, and discards all received data and does not forward it to the base station. During a grayhole attack, the attacker assumes a similar strategy of false CH advertisement but drops only several randomly selected packets and forwards the rest to the base station. The flooding attack exploits several weak spots of the LEACH protocol. The attacker pretends to be the CH by sending a huge number of LEACH advertisement messages. This alone increases the power consumption of the nodes but the rogue node intercepts network traffic, too. The scheduling attack destroys the time–division multiple–access (TDMA) medium access schedule and makes multiple nodes to transmit data at the same time. The packet collisions that are caused by this behaviour result in data losses. In total, WSN-DS is composed of 5 classes of network traffic. However, the size of the classes is highly imbalanced. A detailed description of the structure of the data set is summarized in Table 1. It shows that the vast majority of the records corresponds to normal traffic and the individual attack classes represent only very small portion of the whole data set. Table 1. Network traffic classes in WSN-DS

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Experiments and Results

The ability of different accelerators to train and execute neural intrusion detection models for WSNs was tested in a series of computational experiments. A version of WSN-DS by Almomani et al. [3] was used in the experiments as the source of data. It contains 18 features (2 of them identifying the source node) and 374,661 records with network traffic. The data features were for the experiments encoded as numerical features and normalized. To overcome the different sizes of the classes, the data set was split into smaller sets, each representing one type of WSN attack and examples of remaining network traffic (including other attacks). They were created using randomized but stratified sampling strategy. It means that the sizes of classes (attack/no attack) were in each set the same. The attack–specific data sets were further split into training (60%) and test (40%) subsets and used to train and evaluate different neural architectures as specialized single attack classifiers.

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Finally, the train and test data sets were complemented by rest data set which was a union of test with all the remaining records from WSN-DS. The best ANN–based intrusion detection models, found for each attack class in an earlier work [5], were trained on the train data by three different GPGPU–based floating–point accelerators and the speed of the training and the accuracy of the trained models was evaluated. The accuracy of intrusion classification was measured in terms of the true positive rate, TPR, the false positive rate, FPR, the true negative rate, TNR, the false negative rate, FNR, and accuracy, A, defined as [3]: TN TP , TNR = , TP + FN TN + FP FP FN FPR = , FNR = , FP + TN FN + TP TP + TN A= , TP + TN + FP + FN TPR =

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Three Nvidia GPGPUs, common as of early 2020, were in this work used to accelerate the ANNs for attack classification: • Nvidia Jetson TX2 is a mini computer with an integrated GPU. It is considered to be one of the most effective platforms for AI computing. The architecture of the integrated GPU is Pascal and its maximum power input is only 15W. • Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti GPU is a widely used GPU that is mostly recognized as a gaming GPU. The architecture of the GTX 1070 Ti is Pascal, too, and its maximum power input is 180W. • Nvidia RTX 2080 has a newer architecture than Jetson TX2 and GTX 1070ti, called Turing. It is considered to be a hi–end GPU with maximum power input of 225W. The main features of the GPUs are summarized in Table 2. Table 2. Accelerators’ properties RTX2080 GTX1070Ti TX2 GPU architecture

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The ability of fast learning is especially useful in situations when the environment changes and the models need to adapt. The GPGPUs, used in this study, use the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) [16]. CUDA is a hardware and software platform which enables the execution of general purpose programs on Nvidia GPUs. The CUDA runtime takes care of the scheduling and execution of kernels (CUDA routines) by many concurrent tasks (threads and thread groups) executed on the available hardware in parallel. A CUDA application is split between the CPU (host) and one or more GPUs (device). The host code can contain arbitrary operations, data types, and functions while the device code can contain only a subset of operations and functions implemented on the device. The ANNs were in this work implemented in the Keras framework with TensorFlow 2.0 as a GPU–accelerated backend. The adoption of a high–level framework enabled the use of a single portable code base across all testing platforms. The experiments involved the training of an ANN architecture, found successful in the single attack detection task in previous research [5]. The network had 16 neurons in the input layer, 2 hidden layers with 7 and 5 neurons, respectively, rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function in the neurons in hidden layers, and one output neuron with sigmoid activation function. Separate ANNs were trained for individual attacks for 300 epochs using input batches with sizes 32, 64, 128, and 256 records, respectively. All experiments were due to the stochastic nature of some training steps and to obtain representative time profiles repeated 31 times, independently. The results of the computational experiments are shown in Table 3. The table shows for each type of attack and every batch size the quality of learning (train), quality of testing (train), and the overall quality of detection (rest) on every tested GPU architecture. It also shows the average times needed to train the networks on every accelerator. The table clearly confirms the expected: the more powerful the GPGPU, the faster the training times. Next, the comparison reveals that the quality, in terms of TPR, FPR, TNR, FNR, and A measures is comparable on different hardware. This indicates robust and stable implementation of the training algorithms across different GPGPUs with different low–level properties. The high impact of the batch size parameter on the training time is clearly shown in the TIME column of Table 3. It can be seen that the average reduction in training time between the minimum batch size of 32 and the maximum batch size of 256 is 7 fold. The table also shows that it has no negative impact on the quality of the trained models. In contrary, large batch sizes not only reduce the training time but also increase the ability of the trained models to detect single attacks for certain types of intrusions. Finally, the table shows a good ability of the low–power Jetson TX2 GPGPU to train the ANNs. At the largest batch sizes of 256, it was able to train the networks to classify different types of intrusions in, on average, 1.5–6.7 s, at only

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Table 3. Average accuracy and training times (in seconds) of the ANN-7-5 intrusion detector on different hardware and with different input batch sizes. TX2

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0.928 0.017 0.983 0.072 0.956 0.931 0.014 0.986 0.069 0.959 0.929 0.011 0.989 0.071 0.988

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15 W power. The mobile platform is 7.5–8.4 times slower, but consumes 15 times less energy than the high–end GPGPU.

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This work investigated the acceleration of ANN–based intrusion detection models for wireless sensor networks. Three different GPGPUs, representing families of energy–efficient, mid–range, and high–end floating–point accelerators, were used to train multilayer artificial neural networks that served as single attack intrusion detectors for wireless sensor networks. The experiments used a realistic intrusion data set, WSN–DS, describing attacks typical for the environment of wireless sensor networks running the low–energy adaptive clustering hierarchy routing protocol. The computational experiments showed that the GPGPUs can efficiently accelerate the ANN training process and different GPU architectures can train networks with similar classification accuracy. The level of training speedup depends on the architecture and capability of the hardware, and other parameters of the training algorithm, too. In particular, the effect of input batch size on the training time and model accuracy was studied. The computational experiments showed that an increase in the batch size reduced the average training time and at the same time maintained or even slightly improved model accuracy. It is, however, also known that small batch sizes are preferred for some other ANN architectures, for example, deep convolutional neural networks [18]. Special attention was in this research paid to hardware acceleration of ANN– based intrusion detectors by energy–efficient accelerators, represented by Nvidia Jetson TX2. The experiments showed that despite its highly constrained architecture, not comparable to medium and top–range GPGPUs, the mobile device is able to train ANN intrusion detection models at a reasonable time without compromising their accuracy. This makes them useful for efficient execution of local intrusion detection models operating in the changing conditions of real– world wireless sensor networks that require occasional adaptation (retraining) of the models but usually have only limited resources and small energy budget. Acknowledgements. This work was supported from ERDF in project “A Research Platform focused on Industry 4.0 and Robotics in Ostrava”, reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/ 0.0/17 049/ 0008425 and by the grants of the Student Grant System no. SP2020/108 and SP2020/161, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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End-to-End Security for Connected Vehicles Kazi J. Ahmed1(&), Marco Hernandez2, Myung Lee1, and Kazuya Tsukamoto3

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Abstract. Recently Mode 4 operation of Cellular Vehicle to Everything (CV2X) specifies the operation of vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-pedestrian and vehicle-to-UE-stationary over the PC5 interface. However, the security is delegated to the application layer, which is out of the scope of the 3GPP-layer specification. Hence, we propose a transparent and independent distributed security protocol for C-V2X over the PC5 interface at the RLC-layer based on cryptographic ratchets. Our new proposed security protocol provides authenticated encryption, integrity, forward and backward secrecy. The security procedure can start on the fly as soon as vehicles enter a C-V2X group over the PC5 interface, using the cryptographic credentials of the digital certificate issued for ITS applications. The distributed security protocol supports strong encryption, authentication and privacy regardless of the use case in 5G applications for CV2X over the PC5 interface.

1 Introduction Major focus of incoming 5G cellular networks is to secure it from the ground up, protecting the confidentiality and integrity of data and control frames with strong encryption, as well as the authentication of users. However, 5G security protocols are not applicable to PC5 interface, termed Mode 4, as the 5G security mechanisms are embedded in the network, leaving security of C-V2X over PC5 out of the scope of the 3GPP-layer [1]. Of course, security may be applied at the application layer. Initially, 3GPP specified Release 12 mainly regarding the Proximity Services (ProSe) for Device-to-Device (D2D) including unicast, multicast and broadcast. Later, the support for Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) over the sidelink PC5 interface was introduced by Release 14 and 15 [2, 3] which was in fact the legacy from early ITS wireless standards. However, IEEE WAVE [4] and ITS - 5G [5] prioritized emergency and safety communication (vehicle’s position, speed, vehicle’s technical data, user identification, etc.), where latency was a concern for safety. Thus, early ITS applications do not include association, handshake, etc., which essentially means all vehicles that want to transmit broadcast, while the rest listen under certain scheduling for channel access. The security coordination was delegated to layers above the MAC layer. To provide © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 216–225, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_21

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multicast and unicast among other services, 3GPP is currently in development for Release 16, C-V2X for 5G. This new V2X systems in 5G can bring new threats, which necessitates to revisit the security assessment for such applications in 5G. Conventionally, the secure communication is modeled to achieve confidentiality in unicast or multicast sessions, while assuming the communication interfaces are ideal, from the physical layer to the application layer. Moreover, it is thought that an adversary only observes and interacts with the communication channel. However, from the recent security breaches, it is clear that the system vulnerabilities due to malware or implementation bugs in hardware and software are critical and an immediate threat. For instance, an adversary does not need to break a cryptographic key or cipher, but simply extracts it using a system exploit. Several solutions have already been proposed to mitigate this vulnerability, most notably the family of protocols named Off the Record (OTR) [6]. The concept is to mitigate the damage of a compromised key by regularly refreshing keys, while making computationally hard to derive future or past keys from a compromised key. These OTR based protocols for end-to-end encryption attempt to increase users’ privacy as the encrypted traffic is not controlled by intermediary service providers. The author in [7] introduced the idea of using a one-way function in the process of updating a message key with the aim of establishing forward and backward secrecy, later named ratchet. However, the assumption that ciphers like AES and Elliptic-Curve (EC) cryptography are robust, and as such if there is a security breach via a system exploit, that would be more likely in the key management. In this proposed work, we employ Radio Link Control (RLC) layer based security solution without interacting with the service provider. Thus it can run security procedure on the fly as soon as one wants to communicate other. Moreover, unlike others, key refreshing is controlled only by the initiator, thus simplifies RLC procedure and reduces the key refreshment latency. Hence, we propose a distributed security protocol for C-V2X over the PC5 interface at the RLC layer based on cryptographic ratchets, which is transparent and independent to the application layer. The security protocol introduces cryptographic ratchets and an ephemeral version of the Diffie-Hellman (DH) algorithm where keys are created without central control, securely protecting the out-of-coverage use case. The security procedure will start on the fly as soon as vehicles enter a C-V2X group over the PC5 interface, using the cryptographic credentials of the digital certificate issued for ITS applications. The proposed distributed security protocol supports strong encryption, authentication, integrity and privacy regardless of the use cases in 5G applications for C-V2X over the PC5 interface.

2 Background The proposed security protocol introduces the use of cryptographic ratchets to secure the PC5 interface of C-V2X sessions and an ephemeral version of the Diffie-Hellman (DH) algorithm for the initial cryptographic handshake, protecting the out-of-coverage use case. Keys are created without central control and a simplified cryptographic ratchet algorithm streamline implementation allowing fast data transmission. While the proposal runs at the RLC layer, in conjunction with the randomization of MAC

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addresses [1] it supports strong privacy of user identities and sensitive vehicle’s data information without the need to use pseudonyms. Moreover, our security protocol encrypts RLC-PDUs that include Basic Safety Message (BSM) or similar ITS messages, vehicle’s user/owner identity, group identity, IP address, etc. The combination of randomization of MAC addresses, the proposed security protocol enables strong privacy as well. This protocol also gears toward C-V2X Release 16 over the PC5 interface regardless of the use case. This can include use cases such as V2UAV. To the authors’ knowledge, there is no security protocol that addresses such case in C-V2X applications. 2.1

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C-V2X specifies Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) communication via the PC5 interface assuming out-ofcoverage scenarios. The operation of such ad-hoc networks without access to the 5G cellular network is supported with two protocol stacks: 1) in the user data plane (UPL) and 2) in the user control plane (CPL) [8]. The communication protocol stack specified for the CPL differs from UPL in the radio resource control (RRC) layer. Cellular V2X (C-V2X) communications are supported with two logical channels: 1) the Sidelink Broadcast Control Channel (SBCCH) to carry Control Plane (CPL) messages, and 2) the Sidelink Traffic Channel (STCH) to carry User Plane (UPL) data [8]. Sidelink Control Information (SCI) is used to transmit control information for processing time and frequency. In out-of-coverage scenarios of a 5G network, PC-5 interface C-V3X will come into play. However, 3GPP did not lay out any security specification for this interface. We are proposing a distributed security procedure to secure the data flow at the RLC layer in order to produce secure RLC Protocol Data Units (RLC-PDUs) as shown in Fig. 1a. UE k

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and the Message Integrity Code (MIC) is part of the authenticated encryption for integrity and authentication protection of secure RLC-PDUs. 2.2

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A cryptographic ratchet is a procedure of updating an encryption key combined with a one-way function, resulting in past and future keys are computationally hard to be derived from a compromised key. The proposed security protocol is based on the conjectured one-way functions: cryptographic hash function and discrete logarithm problem as in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange [9]. Especially, we use the Elliptic Curve DH (ECDH) algorithm [10] and the cryptographic hash embedded in the Hashbased Key Derivation Function (HKDF) [11] to update encryption keys. Initially, parties will establish a shared secret key, which is then used as the initialization of the cryptographic ratchet algorithm. An ephemeral version of the ECDH algorithm will be employed to derive such shared secret key or root key that will cover out-of-coverage use cases (Mode 4 of the PC5 interface). Thus, some added mechanisms for authentication are required in order to ensure that the cryptographic credentials are from the intended party. The mechanisms are based on deniable authentication protocol based on Diffie–Hellman algorithm [7, 13]. The procedure is performed by the concatenation of the ECDH operations applied to the public key of vehicle’s digital certificate, an ephemeral key generated per session, and assigned key for additional authentication. We assume the vehicle’s digital certificate, which includes vehicle’s public key, has been validated by the corresponding Certificate Authority (CA) repository. These multiple assurances prevent attacks, like man-in themiddle (MitM) attacks, even if the vehicle is out-of-coverage. 2.3

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Our proposed security procedure works with several security keys and functions. General form of asymmetric key pairs is ðdK ; K Þ; where dK represent the private and K represents the public key. Each vehicle has Identity key pairs ðdIK ; IK Þ where IK is the public key in the vehicle’s digital certificate, Vehicles also have ephemeral key pair ðdEK ; EK Þ which is generated only once per invocation and disposable afterwards. In addition, each vehicle has signed key pair ðdSK ; SK Þ, where SK is transformed to octets and digitally signed by dIK using EdDSA [12] and represented as SigSK. In order for this procedure to work, every vehicle has to post the public keys and digital signature to the corresponding ITS-PKI repository, as well as the refreshed versions when available. Moreover, each vehicle has to store previous keys in a secure location locally, in case of delayed packets. Further, every vehicle has to delete securely every disposable key pair and signature locally and in the corresponding repository. A set of keys we called it the bundle-keys of a given vehicle as the set of public keys and signature fIK; SK; SigSK g need to be posted to the corresponding repository for online validation.

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Besides key pairs, we also have employed several functions to run the security procedure. • DS:TestðPK; SignatureÞ: performs a verification of Signature using public PK; • DH:PK ðdPK1 ; PK2 Þ: obtains the shared secret key from the ECDH algorithm with the private key dPK1 and public key PK2 . • RSCðÞ: obtains the value of a receiver sequence counter used to protect against replay packets. • HKDFðÞ: obtains the message key from the Hash-based Key Derivation Function defined as [11], MK ¼ HKDF ðZ; Salt; Hash; L; OtherInfoÞ. Here MK is the message key for encryption and decryption; Z is the shared secret as an octet sequence generated during the execution of a key-establishment scheme of either the EDH algorithm (during the cryptographic hand-shake) or the conventional ECDH algorithm (during the cryptographic ratchet); Salt is a message authentication code (MAC) used as key for the randomness-extraction step during two-step key derivation; Hash indicates the Hash function employed (SHA-2 or SHA-3) in the HMAC procedure for randomness-extraction and key-expansion; L is the length of MK in bits, and OtherInfo is an octet sequence of context-specific data, whose value does not change during the execution of the HKDF. Finally, we quickly summarize the ECDH parameters in order to introduce the notation of variables used across the paper. Given the domain parameters for EC Cryptography ðp; a; b; G; n; hÞ, there exist a curve over a finite field Fp and base point G such that given d as a random number in ½1; 2; . . .n 1 such that Q ¼ dG. The generated key pair ðd; QÞ defines the public key as Q and the private key as d.

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The Extended Diffie-Hellman (EDH) algorithm [7, 13, 14] is used for the key agreement protocol based on a shared secret key between the parties. This allows authenticated encryption (AE) and integrity check during the cryptographic handshake, besides of cryptographic deniability at the RLC layer. This step will create a initial shared key that will be used as a root key in the later security procedure. The EDH procedure is depicted below by Algorithm 1. To follow the procedure let Peer k and Peer l are two parties need to exchange encrypted information. In case of offline or outof-coverage situation, one party Peer k can start a secure session by requesting Peer’s l public keys either directly via a command frame, or to a CA repository. As mentioned before the public key in the digital certificate is defined as the Identity Key ðIK Þ. The corresponding private key is located in a secure location in every Peer device. Now, Peer k starts a secure communication session with Peer l over PC5 by requesting the bundle-keys of Peer l via the command frame Get.Key.Request(), and validates such bundle-keys with the corresponding CA repository. If Peer k is offline the 5G network, such validation is postponed till Peer k is back online. However, the cryptographic handshake can continue in the mean time. In order to get the bundle-keys

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of Peer k, Peer l can follow similar procedure. Peer k will only proceeds with the EDH algorithm once a full validation of the cryptographic credentials is passed. The EDH handshake consists of two parts: 1) Derives SSK in Peer k, 2) Derives SSK in Peer l. Once both SSK matched, the derived SSK is then used as the Root Key ðRK Þ for the cryptographic ratchet algorithm in order to provide forward and backward secrecy. The EDH procedure 1 is executed by Peer k, while the EDH procedure 2 is executed by Peer l. Algorithm 1 Extended Diffie-Hellman Procedure EDH.1 Input: Key of Peer Output: Shared Secret Key ( ) Steps: Bundle-keys of Peer Signature Check: ; : 0, if fails. Return Status: FAIL and ; Generate ; ; ; ;

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the HKDF (forward secrecy), 3) exchanging public keys for the DH ratchet via RLC-PDUs over a secure channel. Fib 1b illustrates this exchange with the commands Send.DH.Request() and Send.DH.Response(). Our proposed security procedure supports backward secrecy utilizing HKDF ratchet. Let’s assume the initiator, Peer k, controls the refreshing of cryptographic ratchet keys. Thus HKDF ratchet is implemented as an iterative one-way function
given by MKnk þ 1 ¼ HKDF MKnk ; SKnk þ 1 ; Hash; L; OtherInfo where n ¼ 0; 1. . .; MKn is the message key for encryption and decryption at stage n; MK0 ¼ RK is the root key from the EDH algorithm; Salt ¼ SKK is the shared secret key from the DH ratchet generated by the k th user; Hash is generated by SHA-3 [15]; L is the length of the message key in bits; OtherInfo ¼ IKk jjIKljjPN is given by where PN (Packet Number) is an unsigned integer rollover counter initialized to 0 at the start of a secure communication session, and incremented by 1 per transmitted RLC-PDU, which is used for protection against replay frames. Notice that the same message key, MK is derived in both Peer k and Peer l at stage n for encryption and decryption respectively. While HKDF ratchet provides backward secrecy, the DH ratchet supports forward secrecy: if a given message key is compromised, future keys cannot be derived as the DH ratchet resets the HKDF ratchet. The exchange of public keys and management information is performed over a secured channel with integrity and authentication checks. The main motivation for cryptographic ratchets is to mitigate the damage of a compromised key by regularly refreshing keys, while making computationally hard to derive future or past keys from a compromised key based on one-way functions. In order to increase users’ privacy by end-to-end encryption while the encrypted traffic is not controlled by intermediary service providers, several protocols have been proposed. For instance, the protocol in [7] introduced the concept of double ratchet, handles 3 chains: root, sending and receiving chain, in which a message key is refreshed by swapping the sending and receiving chains between two end-to-end participants. These participants take turns to refresh the ratchet keys, like a table tennis game. Our proposal in contrast uses a generalized iterative HKDF and ECDH as cryptographic ratchets without the need to define such chains (root, sending, receiving) and without the need that participants take turns to refresh the ratchet keys as the algorithm goes on. As such, the initiator controls the refreshing of keys during a communication session, simplifying the protocol implementation. Algorithm 2 illustrates the proposed cryptographic ratchet protocol for C-V2X over the PC5 interface performed by Peer k, and by Peer l. The DH ratchet however, requires the exchange of public keys between Peers. The commands Get.Keys.Request () and Get.Keys.Response() are used for this purpose over a secure channel as shown in Fig. 1b. These public keys can be inserted in RLC-PDUs. After the public keys of the DH ratchet are exchanged, the derived SKn þ 1 at stage n þ 1 is used as the Salt input of the iterative HKDF ratchet, and consequently a new message key is computed in Peer k for encryption and Peer l for decryption.

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Here we present a formal analysis of the proposed security protocol. One may try to use software or system exploit to extract security keys. However, it cannot acquire such keys since security procedure is controlled by RLC layer. If one tries to put any discrepancy in RLC layer, the procedure will not commence. All the device keys will be stored in tamper resistant module of the device. If one tries to break it in order to obtain the keys, the device will automatically send message to the CA and the device keys will be registered as banned key. Thus a compromised device will lose its certificate from CA. An attacker can use a compromised device B (Peer k) to acquire the private messages from device A (Peer l). However, the security procedure with device A will first check the identity key IKB of device B in its digital certificate and CA repository, and will find that it is banned. Thus, such compromised device B will not able to complete the handshake procedure and hence not procure private messages. An attacker can try Man in the Middle (MitM) attack. A rogue device R may download all the keys (public) of device B and send those to device A in order to commence the security handshake. While device A generates the SSK as indicated in Algorithm 1, and sends an encrypted message in Send:DH:RequestðÞ, device R cannot

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recreate the SSK counterpart without having device B’s private keys. Thus the MitM attack will not be successful. An attacker may retrieve session key from communicating message. However, it can only obtain the current message, the previous message keys cannot be derived, because of the HKDF ratchet. As such, previous encrypted messages are secured.

4 Conclusion We propose a distributed security protocol for C-V2X over the PC5 interface at the RLC-layer based on cryptographic ratchets, which provides authenticated encryption, integrity, privacy, forward and backward secrecy. The proposal can be introduced on the fly as soon as vehicles enter a C-V2X group over the PC5 interface, regardless of the use case in 5G applications for C-V2X. All Elliptic-Curve (EC) keys are created without central control and a simplified cryptographic ratchet algorithm simplifies implementation allowing fast data transmission. As the security protocol runs at the RLC layer, the proposal in combination with the randomization of MAC addresses [1] supports strong privacy of user identities and sensitive vehicle’s data information without the need to use pseudonyms. The proposed security protocol supports a strong level of protection due to the authentication, integrity, confidentiality, privacy and protection against replay of packets at the RLC layer of C-V2X applications over the PC5 interface. Furthermore, if an attacker compromises an encryption key, such attack would not be able to derive previous or future keys as the algorithm goes on, because of the forward and backward secrecy properties. Acknowledgments. This research is supported in part by NSF grant # 1827923 and Juno2 project, NICT grant # 19304.

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Triangle Enumeration on Massive Graphs Using AWS Lambda Functions Tengkai Yu(B) , Venkatesh Srinivasan(B) , and Alex Thomo(B) University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada {yutengkai,srinivas,thomo}@uvic.ca

Abstract. Triangle enumeration is a fundamental task in graph data analysis with many applications. Recently, Park et al. proposed a distributed algorithm, PTE (Pre-partitioned Triangle Enumeration), that, unlike previous works, scales well using multiple high end machines and can handle very large real-world networks. This work presents a serverless implementation of the PTE algorithm using the AWS Lambda platform. Our experiments take advantage of the high concurrency of the lambda instances to compete with the expensive server-based experiments of Park et al. Our analysis shows the tradeoff between the time and cost of triangle enumeration and the numbers of tasks generated by the distributed algorithm. Our results reveal the importance of using a higher number of tasks in order to improve the efficiency of PTE. Such an analysis can only be performed using a large number of workers which is indeed possible using AWS Lambda but not easy to achieve using few servers as in the case of Park et al.

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Triangle enumeration is an essential task when analyzing large graphs. Due to the booming of graph sizes in modern data science, it becomes almost impossible to fit the entire graph into the main memory of a single machine. Although there are several methods developed to use a single machine’s resources efficiently (EMNI [1], EM-CF [2], and MGT [3]), distributed algorithms show higher scalability and speed during experiments. The PTE algorithm of Park et al. [4] has stood out among the distributed algorithms due to its minimized shuffled data size. The algorithm separates the graph into subgraphs based on edge types. A higher number of tasks leads to smaller subgraph sizes. Park et al. implemented the PTE algorithm over 41 top tier servers and showed promising experimental results. However, server-based implementation limits the maximum number of tasks. In this paper, we implement the PTE algorithm on the AWS Lambda platform. This highly scalable, on-demand computation service allows us to use 1000 concurrent instances at the same time, thus significantly increasing the maximum number of tasks allowed. This implementation turns out to be not only cost-effective but also achieved the same speed as the original PTE implementation. The experiment results show the sweet spot for numbers of tasks when c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 226–237, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_22

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enumerating smaller size graphs, which can be the guide for choosing the number of tasks for a similar size data. More importantly, for more massive graphs like the Twitter network, our charts show how increasing the number of tasks can help to increase the speed significantly. 1.1

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1. We present a serverless lambda implementation of the PTE triangle algorithm on the AWS Lambda platform, thus showing the possibility of efficiently enumerating triangles on the inexpensive AWS Lambda framework. Namely, we are able to enumerate more 34 billion triangles for twitter-2010 in less than 2 min and spending less $4. This is in contrast to the original paper that achieved a similar run time but using an expensive high-end, multi-server environment. 2. We present a detailed trade-off of the time and cost of enumerating triangles versus the number of tasks used. This analysis was not available in the original PTE paper. We show that the run time reduced at a quadratic rate while the money cost increased at a lesser rate. Also, we determine the sweet spot for the number of tasks after which an increase in this number is not beneficial. 3. We also present a more detailed investigation of the scalability of the PTE algorithm enabled by the large number of lambda instances we can inexpensively spawn in AWS lambda. This analysis was not available in the original PTE paper. Furthermore, our results represent a careful design in terms of language and frameworks chosen in order to be able to scale to large datasets. 4. We show the benefit of using higher number of tasks to the boosting of the enumeration speed. This is hard to evaluate in the server-based system. However, in the serverless system like the AWS Lambda platform, we always have the flexibility to use more tasks when we are not satisfied with the current enumeration speed.

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Before the PTE algorithm, there were a couple of approaches that tried to enumerate triangles in massive graphs. Their implementations run on either a single machine or distributed clusters. However, due to the considerable memory or disk cost of this problem, these implementations failed under certain extreme conditions. On the other hand, even when they are capable of completion, these approaches were more costly complexity-wise compared to the PTE algorithm. 2.1

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Many distributed algorithms copied parts of the graph and sent them to distributed machines so that they can achieve parallel and exact enumerations.

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The PATRIC algorithm [5] separated the original set of vertices into p disjoint subsets of core nodes where p is the number of their distributed machines. Then this algorithm sent subgraphs, each one containing a set of core vertices to a distributed machine along with all the neighbors of these core vertices, and enumerated the triangles in these subgraphs at the same time. On the other hand, the PDTL algorithm [6] implemented a multi-core version of MGT. We recall that the MGT algorithm [3] is an I/O efficient algorithm using external memory. So in the PDTL algorithm, every machine received a full copy of the graph in their external memory. The disadvantages of these two approaches are undeniable. PATRIC requires the separated graphs to fit into the main memory on every machine while the division can be redundant. Nodes with high degrees replicate in too many machines, thus challenge the total memory size. The PDTL algorithm suffers the from same problem as the MGT algorithm that the entire graph can be much larger than the capacity of external memories of every distributed machine. 2.2

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The critical difference between Map-reduce algorithms and distributed algorithms from the previous subsection is that Map-reduce uses keys to group the data when shuffling data. This helps the machines retrieve and combine data when there exists stable storage available, thus fitting the cloud platforms most. In this case, the challenging factor is no longer the original graph, but the total amount of the shuffled data. Cohen [7] uses a pair of nodes (u, v) as the key, and the shuffled data contains all 1 step or 2 step paths between u and v [7]. As a result, every edge has a chance 3 to be replicated n − 1 times which leads to the O(|E| 2 ) of shuffled data. The Graph Partition (GP) algorithm [8] uses the nodes’ hashed value triples as the 3 √ key, which reduces the quantity of shuffled data to O(|E| 2 / M ) where M is the total data space of all machines. However, every triangle is still reported more than once and needs a weight function to count the correct value. The TTP algorithm [9] sorts the edge list, so every triangle with more than one hash value is enumerated only once. The CTTP algorithm [10] requires the number of √ 3 rounds R = O(|E| 2 /(M m)) to ensure enough space for every round process, where m√is the memory size of a single reducer. However, TTP and CTTP need 3 O(|E| 2 / M ) of shuffled data. This drawback leads us to the PTE algorithms [4], which only generates O(|E|) shuffled data and will be discussed in more detail in Sect. 4.

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self-loop over any node u since it can form a triangle (u, u, u). Also, for any triangle with nodes (u, v, w), we wish to count it exactly once. For example, given directed edges e1 = (u, v), e2 = (v, u), e3 = (v, w) and e4 = (u, w), they can form two triangles over nodes (u, v, w) with edges sets (e1 , e3 , e4 ) and (e2 , e3 , e4 ). This fact requires us to remove all self-loops and only keep one edge between all connected nodes. As a solution, we remove all self-loops, symmetrize all edges between connected nodes pairs, and then remove one edge from all symmetric edge pairs. Now, for any symmetric edge pair, which edge are we supposed to remove? This question leads to our second reason: we wish to increase our enumeration speed when using set intersections. In the PTE algorithm, for every edge (u, v), we intersect the outgoing edge sets of nodes u and v and add the length of the intersection set to the counting result. If there exists a node with a very high outdegree, this node involves a high volume of intersections, and each intersection computation takes a longer time than intersecting out-neighbours of two low out-degree nodes. Please note that, although the original PTE paper for-loops the intersection and applies if conditioning on every node, which we modify in our work by using separated type-1 workers, the time cost is affected by the outdegree of all nodes in the same way. As the solution, for any two nodes u and v, we denote u ≺ v if d(u) < d(v) or d(u) = d(v) and id(u) < id(v), and we only keep the edge (u, v) if u ≺ v. This prevents the existence of nodes whose degrees are much higher than others thus reducing the enumeration time significantly. 3.2

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3.2.1 AWS Lambda AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform provided by Amazon Website Services [11]. Unlike EC2 servers, which is another computing product from AWS, Lambda provides higher scalability and convenience of implementation. Scientists do not need to calculate the proper server size to rent, which they have to do when using EC2, but they only need to judge the number of function instances required by the job. Due to the on-demand nature of Lambda function instances, the Lambda platform is more convenient to achieve the most resourceefficient and economic experiment. Each function can configure the memory space (from 128 MB to 3008 MB) and the maximum running time (3 s to 900 s) for its instances [12]. The temporary disk size for any function instance is 512 MB. However, the AWS team does not reveal the exact computation power allocated to the functions but only informs the customers that the CPU power increases linearly with the configured memory. Although the documentation shows there is one full vCPU granted when the configured memory is 1792 MB, we could find the exact CPU power for our experiment [12].

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Why are the Lambda functions more economical than renting EC2 servers? The EC2 servers, by the service of AWS [13], are rented by hours. If we wish to rent 41 machines as described in the original PTE paper, we can choose the machine type t3a.2xlarge. This machine charges us $0.3008 per hour, and thus 41 of these machines can cost us more than 12 dollars per hour. This cost is more than our experiments cost for four graphs and five different numbers of colors. Also, the Lambda’s low cost per function makes it inexpensive for the early implementation and debugging. 3.2.2 S3 Buckets S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are where we store the graphs and subgraphs’ enumeration results. With a valid IAM role, a Lambda function instance can search, get, and put a target file from the S3 bucket efficiently. This feature overcomes the difficulty of emitting data on a shared disk machine. Another benefit of S3 buckets is that they can provide a massive amount of data storage space at low cost. Local machines disk can run out quickly when partitioning the graphs into many while we do not need to worry about this when using S3 bucket.

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The key idea of the PTE (Pre-partitioned Triangle Enumeration) algorithm is to partition vertices by assigning ρ colors to vertices before the enumeration starts. There are three versions of PTE algorithms in [4]: P T EBASE , P T ECD and P T ESC . The P T EBASE is foundation of all of them, and it is the one we focus in this paper to illustrate the benefits of using AWS Lambda over a set of high-end servers. The algorithm first assigns these ρ colors to all vertices uniformly at random using a function ξ. Since each edge has two endpoint nodes, edges are separated   subsets by the algorithm. This coloring process uses a into ρ + ρ2 = ρ(ρ+1) 2 simple hash function to achieve uniform distribution, and the time cost is linear in the size of the edges set. Thus, there are 3 types of triangles. Type-1 triangles have all three nodes of the same color, type-2 triangles contain 2 different colors, and type-3 triangles require all three nodes have distinct colors. The type-1 triangles are the easiest to count. A single edge subset file Eii is enough to count all type-1 triangles of color i. On the other hand, all type-2 or type-3 triangles require combining 3 color subsets to enumerate. We can use the same procedure to implement the function enumerating these  two  types of triangles, and the total number of the function instances is ρ2 + ρ3 . The PTE algorithm achieves a significant decrease in the amount of shuffled data. For any edge Eij or Eii , it only creates ρ copies since there are only ρ choices of the third node. This helps the PTE algorithm to stand out against other distributed algorithms. Note that, when we enumerate type-2 triangles of color i and j, we also enumerate two kinds of type-1 triangles: type-1 triangles of color i or j. This

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overlapping implies that all type-1 triangles are counted (ρ − 1) times by enumerating type-2 triangles. Thus the final count of triangles should be    enum(i.j) + enum(i, j, k) − (ρ − 2) ∗ enum(i) i,j∈[ρ]

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We use four datasets in our experiments downloaded from the Webgraph site, and they are based on the real-world internet data [14,15]. uk-2005 and indochina2004 are the internet crawl from two regions. Thus their nodes represent URLs, and edges are directed links from one URL to another. On the other hand, ljournal-2008 and twitter-2010 are from the social network applications, Live Journal and Twitter. Their nodes are users, while every edge indicates that one user is following another. The sizes of graphs are presented in Table 1. As described previously, we pre-processed and partitioned these graphs, then uploaded them to the S3 buckets. Using the compression framework of Webgraph facilitated this process significantly and furthermore being able to run the algorithm on compressed partitions of the graphs in the Lambda functions made their footprint small enough to easily satisfy the AWS Lambda requirements. Notably, some other works that have successfully used Webgraph for scaling various algorithms to big graphs are [16–21]. Table 1. The summary of datasets Dataset

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We used two types of Lambda functions in our implementation. The Type-23 function is responsible for enumerating all the type 2 and 3 triangles. Thus its job includes getting 3 graphs from the S3 buckets, combining them, and enumerating the combination. On the other hand, the Type-1 function only gets one file from the S3 bucket and enumerates this relatively smaller subgraph. This difference between workloads leads to a significant running time difference. As we mentioned in the previous section, the original PTE paper counted the type-1 triangles as a part of the type-2 triangle, so they set up a condition to ensure all type-1 triangles are counted only once. We take advantage of the fact that type-1 enumerations cost much less time than the other two types according to Fig. 1 and 2. Thus, we can call more tasks in parallel to reduce the total time cost. Every instance from either function can have 3,008 MB memory, 512 MB temporary disk size, and a maximum of 15 min running time. Unfortunately, we cannot provide the information about the CPU since it is hidden from customers, as we explained before. AWS Lambda allows a maximum of 1000 parallel instances from both functions.

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We created a folder “graphs” inside an S3 bucket containing all graphs. All subgraphs partitioned from the same original graph belong to the same subfolder under the “graphs” folder (“graphs/twitter-2010” for example). Then this subfolder contains all sub subfolders of different numbers of color partitions. This structure makes sure that all subgraphs of a single experiment share the same prefix, and S3 buckets limit the number of requests of all files under the same prefix by 3500 (Please note that this version of the “enumerateTriangles” function is much simpler than the one in the original PTE paper. Since we are fixing the number of the type-1 triangles in the final result by subtraction, we no longer need those if conditions enforcing the non-duplicate type-1 triangle enumerations.).

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Algorithm 1: Triangle Enumeration on AWS Lambda Data: problem = (i) or (i,j) or (i,j,k) initialize E  if problem is type (i) then retrieve Ei,i from the S3 bucket E  = Ei,i else if problem is type (i, j) then retrieve Ei,i , Ei, j , E j, j from the S3 bucket E  = Ei,i ∩ Ei, j ∩ E j, j else // problem is type (i, j, k) retrieve Ei,k , Ei, j , E j,k from the S3 bucket E  = Ei,k ∩ Ei, j ∩ E j,k end enumerateTriangles(E  )

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5.3.1 Number of Colors We started at 3 colors (1 or 2 colors are not sufficient for separating the graph) and chose steps of size 3 for increasing the colors. However, it turns out only ljournal-2008 is enumerable with 3 colors. indochina-2008 and uk-2005 exceeded the Lambda function time limit (15 min) when using 3 colors. Thus our visualization starts at 6 colors. Also, twitter-2010 is not enumerable with only 6 colors, so its line starts at 9 colors. Also, keep in mind that the AWS Lambda only allows 1000 instancesrunning    at the same time, and type-2 and type-3 function instances sum up to ρ2 + ρ3 instances. The calculation of this formula shows that in order not to exceed the number 1000 of lambda instances we can start, the largest number of colors we can use is 18 (969 instances).

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5.3.2 Total Running Time The total running time is the time from the start to the end of enumeration. Figure 3 shows a significant decrease in running time when the number of colors increases. We make an interesting observation that, when the number of colors is 18, the time required to enumerate twitter-2010 is only 117.865 s, which is very close to the Twitter enumeration time in the PTE paper. We note that these two Twitter graphs are slightly different: the twitter-2010 dataset has 200M more edges than the Twitter graph used by the PTE paper. This fact means the we can achieve the same running time with a lower budget. We can also locate the sweet spot quickly for every graph. All graphs except twitter-2010 have their sweet spot at 9 colors. On the other hand, the running time on twitter-2010 decreases well beyond 9 colors. This implies that, in an ideal implementation, a greater number of colors can achieve an even shorter time for its enumeration. 5.3.3 Time Summation from All Workers Figure 4 shows the sum of running time of all workers, which is directly related to the money charged by the AWS Lambda platform. As the number of colors grows, this sum increases quadratically. However, the rate of increase is slower than the rate at which the total running time decreases. The most expensive experiment is enumerating twitter-2010 with 18 colors. It contains 969 type-2-3 function instances and 18 type-1 instances. The total summation of time is 79,620 s in total. Given the charge rate from AWS Lambda, this experiment only costs 3.89806709729 dollars per run. 5.4

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When the graph fits into the AWS Lambda platform, the speed of enumeration is very close or maybe even faster than the one from [4]. We achieve this at a much lower cost. They used 41 machines fully equipped with Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 CPUs and 32 GB RAM [4]. Our result highlights the usefulness of on-demand services. A data scientist can turn to the AWS Lambda instead of purchasing or renting an expensive set of machines to either enumerate graphs fitting inside the platform, or running other algorithms that can separate the graph into different instances correctly. Now assume scientists chose to enumerate triangles using the AWS Lambda, what is the relationship between time and money? If you want your program to run faster, you need to pay more money. This insight is straightforward from the Fig. 4. As the number of colors grows, the real-world time cost decreases quadratically. However, the sum of the workers’ time increases also quadratically, albeit at a lower rate. Since AWS Lambda charges mainly for the time cost of functions in this application, higher speed implies higher cost. Space in S3 Buckets, on the other hand, does not cost that much. This leads us to the following question: Is higher number of colors always a better choice? In other words, given the 1000 concurrent instances limit, should

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the experiment always choose the number of colors to be 18? Fortunately, the answer is no. Remember, the total time charts contain the sweet spots for three graphs. These sweet spots imply that, for any graph with a size smaller or equal to uk-2005, 9 colors are enough efficiency-wise. A higher number of colors cannot increase the speed of enumeration significantly for these graphs but can cost much more. More experiments are needed to list sweet spots for different graph sizes, but this insight can help us choose the workload for this on-demand service wisely. Is it disappointing that we failed to find the sweet spot for twitter-2010? On the contrary, this is our most important insight overall. Our chart shows the total time decreases even when the number of colors is 18. This fact reveals the contribution of a higher number of colors, which the original PTE paper did not consider. Park et al. only had 41 machines, and there are only 3 cores per machine used in their experiments. If they use one machine as the master, there are 9 120 workers for the enumeration job, where the number 120 equals to 9 only + 2 3 . This calculation implies that their concurrent number of colors cannot be higher than 9. However, since the total time cost still decreases fast with 18 colors, it motivates the use of higher number of colors in future experiments.

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In this paper, we implemented the PTE algorithm using the AWS Lambda platform and ran experiments over large graphs like twitter-2010. The PTE algorithm partitions massive graphs efficiently and provides high scalability when enumerating triangles. This algorithm minimizes the shuffled data to increase the capability of the distributed system. We used the AWS Lambda platform to offer an economical implementation of the PTE algorithm and achieved accurate, high-speed enumeration. Our experiments proved the strength of the AWS Lambda platform for running the distributed enumeration algorithms. None of the Lambda instances can hold the entire graph inside its space (memory or the tmp disk), but they can achieve the correct count if we properly separate the graph. High concurrency helped us to achieve scalability when running the experiments. We could locate the sweet spot for graphs shown in the previous section and choose the appropriate number of colors according to the size of any new graph. Our experiments showed that for any graphs of the size bigger than twitter-2010, it is helpful to use the highest number of colors possible. What’s Next? In [4], the authors used 41 high-tier machines to enumerate triangles in much larger graphs like ClueWeb12, which has the size of 56G and contains more than 3 Trillion triangles. This workload certainly exceeds the AWS Lambda limit for personal usage. We are looking at ways to fit this monster-size graph into AWS Lambda with a more sophisticated algorithmic engineering, if possible. Future Work. We would like to extend distributed triangle enumeration to directed graphs. In those graphs we do not talk about triangles but “triads” (cf.

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[22]). There are 7 types of triads in directed graphs, and extending distributed enumeration to them might prove to be challenging. We would also like to extend our work to distributed enumeration of fournode graphlets [23]. This is a more challenging problem but it is based on forming triangles and wedges (open triangles) first and then extending them to four-node graphlets. As such, we believe the techniques outlined in this paper could prove to be useful for enumeration of four-node graphlets as well. One of the main applications of triangle enumeration is computing truss decomposition. In this problem we need to compute the number of triangles supporting each edge of the graph (cf. [24,25]). Extending distributed triangle enumeration to an algorithm for distributed truss decomposition is also another avenue for our future research.

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Abstract. Conversational systems are growing their success among users thanks to their ability to collect and rank users’ preferences and provide them relevant information in a simple way. In this paper we present C’Meal, a chatbot-based conversational framework which, given some ingredients and other requests entered by the user as input, researches the most appropriate recipe. Two categories of people are addressed in the program: those who want to discover new recipes, and those who want to create a recipe with the few ingredients left in the fridge to reduce food waste. The user must formulate his request in both cases by inserting the desired ingredients and other specific requests as a meal type or method of cooking.

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In this paper we present C’Meal [1], a conversational system [2,3] based on a chatbot, which researches the most relevant recipe, given some ingredients and other requests entered by the user as input. The program addresses to two categories of people: the ones that want to discover new recipes, and the ones who want to create a recipe with the few ingredients left in the fridge, in order to reduce the food waste. In both cases the user has to formulate his request by inserting the desired ingredients and other particular requests, as meal type or cooking methods. The program was entirely designed in Python 3. It performs text manipulation in two different phases: the first phase manage text belonging to the knowledge base through the aid of some libraries for semantic text processing; subsequently, the second phase regards the interaction with a chatbot [4,5] which receives user requests, makes the research and gives in output the recipe.

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The semantic text processing represents the fulcrum of the whole program, inasmuch it’s crucial for the creation of a search engine. In fact this processing makes possible to the calculator to extract information and knowledge from a text and simulate the human behavior. About that, the following libraries have been used: • nltk, for tokenization, lemmatization and normalization of the text2 ; • string, for manipulating the strings3 ; • os, for files handling. The first step was to create a communication between the knowledge base and the Python IDE; in order to do this it’s been created a list in which each element contains a single recipe:

Subsequently the semantic text processing begins. The first manipulation has been the creation of the tokens, removing all the stopwords from the text; in this way the program sees the knowledge base as a list of words:

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The next step was the implementation of the chatbot algorithm, which communicates with the user giving him as answer the recipe that comes closest to his requests. Personalised responses exploits data gathered from user’s interaction with the system or social networks [6–8] improve the customer satisfaction [9]. First the user’s input was taken and added to the knowledge base of the chatbot; this new knowledge base has been structured into a matrix, in which each row represents a phrase and each column represents a lemma. Then the user’s response is placed as the last row of this matrix.

Subsequently, the cosine similarity coefficient between the entire knowledge base and the user’s response was calculated; the sentences were then sorted by increasing index of similarity, so that the sentence which corresponds to the highest coefficient is placed in position [0][−2]. Subsequently the matrix is flattened into an array, and the operations about sorting by cosine similarity are repeated. At this point it’s possible to compare the given response to the knowledge base.

At the end of this process, a simple interface was implemented; the latter begins to communicate with the user. It requires the user to insert which ingredients he would like to use and if he has some other requests, it searches the most relevant recipe into its database and gives it in output to the user; after this first research, the user can make another one or leave the program giving a negative response or inserting a word contained in the exit codes.

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Thanks to their ability to collect and rank user preferences and provide them relevant information in a simple way, conversational systems are increasing their success among users. In this paper we presented C’Meal, a chatbot-based conversational system that looks for the most suitable recipe, provided some ingredients and other requests entered by the user as input. The program addresses the desire of discovering new recipes, and the necessity to reduce food waste. The presented framework addresses the aforementioned issue by exploiting semantic and Natural Language Processing techniques. These techniques can be enhanced with the exploitation of semantic technologies [10–12], that can bring the correlation process to higher level, thanks to the inferential engine processing. Acknowledgement. This paper has been produced with the financial support of the Project financed by Campania Region of Italy ‘REMIAM - Rete Musei intelligenti ad avanzata Multimedialit` a’. CUP B63D18000360007.

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A Study on the Effect of Triads on the Wigner’s Semicircle Law of Networks Toyoaki Taniguchi(B) and Yusuke Sakumoto School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan {toyoaki-taniguchi,sakumoto}@kwansei.ac.jp

Abstract. Spectral graph theory is widely used to analyze network characteristics. In spectral graph theory, the network structure is represented with a matrix, and its eigenvalues and eigenvectors are used to clarify the characteristics of the network. However, it is difficult to accurately represent the structure of a social network with a matrix. We derived the Wigner’s semicircle law that appears in the universality for the eigenvalue distribution of the normalized Laplacian matrix representing the structure of social networks, and proposed the analysis method to apply the spectral graph theory to social networks using the Wigner’s semicircle law. In previous works, we assume that nodes in a network are connected independently. However, in actual social networks, there are dependent structures called triads where link connections cannot be independent. For example, a triad is generated when a person makes a new friend via the introduction by its friend. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the effect of triads on the Wigner’s semicircle law, and clarify how effectively the Wigner’s semicircle law can be used for the analysis of networks with triads.

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With the spread of social media (e.g., Twitter and Facebook), people take a growing interest in the phenomenon of social networks. Social media has been used as a tool not only to distribute information from individual to individual, but also to encourage participation in collective activities such as political demonstration. For deeply understanding these phenomena on social media, it is important to clarify the characteristics of social networks. Spectral graph theory is widely used to analyze the characteristics of network structure [1–3]. In spectral graph theory, a network structure is represented as a matrix, its eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix are used to analyze the characteristics of the network. In order to apply this theory to analyze a social network, it is necessary to represent the social network structure with a matrix. To perform such a representation, all the elements of the matrix must be estimated so that they accurately reflect the structure of the real social network. Since the social network is large, the number of the matrix elements is huge. Hence, it is impractical from a computational point of view to estimate the c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 245–255, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_24

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matrix elements to reflect the reality. Also, since the data of the social network has privacy issues, it is difficult to collect the data needed to estimate the matrix elements. Therefore, even if the computational problem can be solved, the matrix elements cannot be accurately estimated due to the privacy issues. Therefore, before applying the spectral graph theory to the social network analysis, the difficulties of representing the social network the structure should be solved. Random matrix theory studies the universality related to eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a random matrix whose elements are given by random variables. The universalities of random matrices are used in various fields such as atomic physics, financial engineering, and ecology [4–6]. A random matrix was first introduced to analyze the excited states of giant atoms such as uranium [4]. In order to analyze the excited states of an atom, in general, the matrix that represents the structure of the atom is used. However, since uranium has many electrons, it is difficult to represent its structure with a matrix. To avoid the difficulty, they utilized the universality of the eigenvalues of the random matrix, and succeeded in clarifying the characteristics of the excite states. In [7], we have clarified the universality (i.e., the Wigner’s semicircle law) related to the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix that represents the structure of a social network. The Wigner’s semicircle law is a limit theorem that the eigenvalue distribution of the normalized Laplacian matrix converges to a semicircle distribution. In [8], we have shown that the clarified universality is useful to avoid representing the social network structure with a matrix, and tehrefor it needs to accomplish the social network analysis based on the spectral graph theory. However, the universality clarified in [7] assumes that nodes in a network are connected independently. In the actual social network, there are dependent structures called triads (e.g., Fig. 1) where link connections cannot be independent. For example, a triad is generated when a person makes a new friend via the introduction by its friend. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify how the network triads affect Wigner’s semicircle law clarified in [7]. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the effect of network triads on the Wigner’s semicircle lawIn the experiment, we generate a network with triads using the network model proposed in [9]. While we change the number of triads in the network, we evaluate the error between the eigenvalue distribution of the normalized Laplacian matrix and the semicircle distribution in the Wigner’s

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semicircle law. As the result, we show that Wigner’s semicircle law holds for networks with not so much number of triads. This paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2 describes spectral graph theory and the Wigner’s semicircle law In Sect. 3, we explain the network generation model and the experiment method. In Sect. 4, we show the experimental results. Finallyin Sect. 5 we conclude this paper and discuss future works.

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We denote a network with n nodes by G(V, E) where V and E are the sets of nodes and links, respectively. Link (i, j) ∈ E has weight wij where wij = wji and wij > 0. Let ∂i be the set of adjacent nodes of node i. The degree and the weighted degree of node i is denoted by ki and di , respectively. Degree ki is given by |∂i|, which is the number of adjacent nodes of node i. Weighted degree di is defined by  di := w(i, j). (1) j∈∂i

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Random matrix theory discusses the universality of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a random matrix where its elements are given by random variables. A notable universality in random matrix theory is the Wigner semicircle law that eigenvalues of a random matrix follows the semicircle distribution [4]. In [3], Chung et al., introduced the pioneering work in random matrix theory for unweighted networks where wij = 1 for all links (i, j) ∈ E, and found the Wigner’s semicircle law for N . In [7], we generalized the Wigner’s semicircle law for N in [3] to weighted networks. We describe the Wigner’s semicircle law [7] as follow. Let fn (λ) be the eigenvalue distribution fn (λ) of normalized Laplacian matrix N for weighted network G with n nodes is defined by n

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where kavg is the average degree, and E W m is the m-th moment of link weights. However, in order to satisfy the Wigner’s semicircle law [7], G should fulfill the following conditions: independence condition Link (i, j) ∈ E are independently connected according n to probability pij = ρ ki kj , where ρ = 1/ i=1 ki and 1/ρ ≥ (maxi∈V ki ) for pij < 1. 2 2 and average degree kavg fulfill kmin  degree condition Minimum degree kmin

2 2 kavg wmax /E W where wmax is the maximum of link weights. With the Wigner’s semicircle law [7], we can analyze social networks on the basis of spectral graph theory using eigenvalues λl without accurately estimating all the element of normalized Laplacian matrix N . However, before analyzing social networks using the Wigner’s semicircle law, we should confirm the acceptance of the independence condition and the degree condition. In [7], we well investigated the acceptance of the degree condition, but have not been discussed that of the independence condition. In actual social networks, there are dependent structures called triads (see Fig. 1) where link connections cannot be independent. For example, a triad is generated when a person makes a new friend via the introduction by its friend. Hence, such social networks may not satisfy the independence condition, and we should confirm that Wigner’s semicircle law holds in network G with triads.

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In our experiment, we use the network generation model proposed in [9]. The model [9] is a variant of the BA model (Barab´ asi-Albert), and can generate scale-free networks with triads. Since social networks are scale-free networks with triads, the model [9] is suitable to investigate the acceptance of the conditions for the Wigner’s semicircle law [7]. In this paper, we refer to the model [9] as the CBA model. Similarly to the BA model, the CBA model generates a network by adding one node for each time step. When a new node is added in a network, the BA model makes new m links using the preferential attachment. On the other hand, the CBA model uses not only the preferential attachment but also the triad formation to make a triad in network G. In the preferential attachment performed at time t, node i are randomly selected as the adjacent node of the added node by using selection probability pPA (t, i), which is defined by pPA (t, i) = t

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The number of triads in network G is highly related to the clustering coefficient. Before the experiment, we confirm how parameter mTF affects the clustering coefficient in G. Figure 3 shows the clustering coefficient in G when varying parameter mTF . According to Fig. 3, the clustering coefficient increases linearly when mTF is small, but the clustering coefficient increases sharply as mTF approaches m, regardless of n. In the Twitter network that has 4,165 million users, the clustering coefficient is 0.000846 [10]. Hence, the number of triads in real social networks are not zero, but there are not many triads. 3.2

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To evaluate the effect of the triads on the Wigner semicircle law, we discuss the relative error of distribution fn (λ) of the normalized Laplacian matrix N .

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This section describes the results of an experiment with the method described in Sect. 3. In the experiment, average degree kavg is set to a sufficiently large value, and so the acceptance of the independence condition corresponds to that of the Wigner’s semicircular law. We use the parameter configuration shown in Table 1 as a default parameter configuration. 4.1

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We investigate how the triads affect the acceptance of the Wigner semicircle law. Figure 4 shows relative error εn (mTF ) of eigenvalue distribution fn (λ) when varying the number of nodes n and parameter mTF . According to Fig. 4, when mTF is relatively small (mTF = 0, 5), relative error εn (mTF ) of the eigenvalue distribution decreases as n increases.

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ratio with mTF ≤ 2 is almost same as that with mTF = 0. Hence, eigenvalue distribution fn (λ) for mTF ≤ 2 should converge to the semicircle distribution f ∗ (λ) in the limit of n → ∞. Since the relative error ratio with mTF ≤ 5 is less than or equal to 1, the Wigner semicircle law hold. According to the above results, the Wigner’s semicircle law holds even if network G has a small number of triads. 4.2

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First, we visually investigate the effect of the triads on relative error εn (mTF ). Figure 6 shows eigenvalue distribution fn (λ) and semicircle distribution f ∗ (λ) of the normalized Laplacian matrix N with parameters mTF = 0, 5 and 10. According to Fig. 6, we can visually see that eigenvalue distributions fn (λ) with mTF = 0 and mTF = 5 are close to semicircle distribution f ∗ (λ).

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Next, we quantitatively investigate the effect of the triads on relative error εn (mTF ). Figure 7 shows relative error εn (mTF ) of eigenvalue distribution fn (lambda) when varying parameter mTF . According to Fig. 7, relative error εn (mTF ) may not be changed when parameter mTF is small. On the other hand, relative error epsilonn (mTF ) increases significantly when mTF is large. For a more detailed discussion, we examine relative error ratio εn (mTF )/εn (0). Figure 8 shows relative error ratio εn (mTF )/εn (0) of eigenvalue distribution fn (λ) when varying parameter mTF . According to Fig. 8, the relative error is minimized with mTF = 2. According to the above results, the small number of triads in network G should affect the acceptance of the Wigner’s semicircle law in the good direction. Hence, if the social networks has some triads, we can analyze them using the Wigner’s semicircle laws.

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In this paper, we experimentally investigated the effect of network triads on the Wigner’s semicircle law. In the experiment, we generated a network with triads

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using the model [9], and investigated how the triads affect the acceptance of the Wigner’s semicircle law. According to the experiment results, the small number of triads in a network should affect the acceptance of the Wigner’s semicircle law in the good direction. Hence, if the social networks has some triads, we can analyze them using the Wigner’s semicircle laws. As future work, we are planning to investigate the acceptance of the Wigner’s semicircular law in a more realistic social network model, and to analyze social networks based on real social network data. Acknowledgement. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K11927.

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COVID-19-FAKES: A Twitter (Arabic/English) Dataset for Detecting Misleading Information on COVID-19 Mohamed K. Elhadad, Kin Fun Li(&), and Fayez Gebali Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada {melhaddad,kinli,fayez}@uvic.ca

Abstract. This paper aims to aid the ongoing research efforts for combating the Infodemic related to COVID-19. We provide an automatically annotated, bilingual (Arabic/English) COVID-19 Twitter dataset (COVID-19-FAKES). This dataset has been continuously collected from February 04, 2020, to March 10, 2020. For annotating the collected dataset, we utilized the shared information on the official websites and the official Twitter accounts of the WHO, UNICEF, and UN as a source of reliable information, and the collected COVID19 pre-checked facts from different fact-checking websites to build a groundtruth database. Then, the Tweets in the COVID-19-FAKES dataset are annotated using 13 different machine learning algorithms and employing 7 different feature extraction techniques. We are making our dataset publicly available to the research community (https://github.com/mohaddad/COVID-FAKES). This work will help researchers in understanding the dynamics behind the COVID-19 outbreak on Twitter. Furthermore, it could help in studies related to sentiment analysis, the analysis of the propagation of misleading information related to this outbreak, the analysis of users’ behavior during the crisis, the detection of botnets, the analysis of the performance of different classification algorithms with various feature extraction techniques that are used in text mining. It is worth noting that, in this paper, we use the terms of misleading information, misinformation, and fake news interchangeably.

1 Introduction The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has considerably impacted our lives. Although the significant role of various digital technologies and social network platforms in fighting against COVID-19 is apparent, it has also offered a ground for the exploitation of many social behavior vulnerabilities (e.g., the spread of different kinds of misinformation (fake news, propaganda, hoaxes, etc.) [1], stigma, hatred, racism [2], and Cybercrimes [3]). Some organizations may profit from the spread of such misleading information [4]. Whereas, once the misleading information is published, it becomes a rumor that attracts many users. Later, when this information becomes a trending topic, it is used by advertising organizations and companies to promote products or ideas and gain huge financial profits [5]. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 256–268, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_25

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Therefore, the fight against the spread of any kind of misleading information, and the need to find a system that assists in verifying the integrity of the shared information surrounding COVID-19 arises. The WHO is doing a great effort in facing, not only the medical consequences related to the COVID-19 but also the spread of Infodemic on it [6]. The WHO is working closely with different technology companies and social network platforms such as, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Microsoft, to endorse critical updates from reliable sources, and to point out the shared misleading information on their platforms [7]. To develop an automated misleading-information detection systems is very challenging, especially with the lack of available standards and information related to the virus, which makes the consequences of wrong decisions dire [8]. All misleadinginformation detection systems utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) [9], Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), and Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) [10]. These techniques are used to assist users in filtering the information they are viewing [11]. Moreover, they help in classifying whether a piece of information is misleading or not. This is done by comparing a piece of given information with some pre-known dataset that contains both misleading and truthful information [12]. In this paper, to aid all the work related to the detection of misinformation surrounding COVID-19, we introduce an automatically annotated, bilingual (Arabic/ English) COVID-19 Twitter dataset (COVID-19-FAKES). This dataset has been continuously collected since February 04, 2020, four days after the outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, by the WHO, on January 30, 2020, till March 10, 2020, one day before the outbreak was declared a Pandemic. For performing the automated annotation task, we collect a set of ground-truth data, related to COVID-19, by scraping the shared information, in both Arabic and English languages, from the official websites and the official Twitter accounts of the WHO, UNICEF, and UN as a source of reliable information. Besides, we collect COVID-19 pre-checked facts from different fact-checking websites (e.g., “poynter.org”, “snopes.com”, “factcheck. org”, etc.). We use these ground-truth data in building detection models of 13 different machine learning algorithms, employing 7 different feature extraction techniques with each. Then, we use these models to automatically annotate our dataset into either Real or Misleading. Section 2 shows the related work about the available COVID-19 datasets. Section 3 introduces the dataset collection and annotation process. The exploratory data analysis on the collected dataset is discussed in Sect. 4, while Sect. 5 concludes and gives directions for future work.

2 Related Work Recently, several studies have emerged that aim by studying the shared COVID-19 related information on different social network platforms and collecting datasets for enabling research in different domains. To the best of our knowledge, all these works depend on a list of hashtags related to COVID-19 and focus on a given period. Moreover, all the available datasets are general-purpose ones, with no clear assigned annotation to the data. Also, all the available datasets are to study and analyze the human and social behavior, and information consumption surrounding COVID-19.

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Chen et al. [13] collected a multilingual coronavirus dataset of 67M million English Tweets and 101M non-English Tweets intending to study online conversation dynamics. They used Twitter’s streaming API [14] for collecting Tweets from January 22 to April 23, 2020. Also, Lopez et al. [15] collected around 6.5M multilingual dataset to identify public responses to the pandemic and analyze the information related to it. They used Twitter API for collecting their data from January 22 to March 13, 2020. Singh et al. [16] collected around 2.8M Tweets in multiple languages to investigate the amount of shared information and discussions on social network platforms, specifically Twitter, related to COVID-19, myths shared about the virus, and how much of it is connected to other high and low-quality information on the Internet through shared URL links. They used Twitter API for collecting their data from January 16 to March 15, 2020. Sharma et al. [17] collected 30.8M Tweets in multiple languages to design a dashboard for visualizing discussions around Coronavirus and identifying the quality of its related information shared on Twitter. They used Twitter API for collecting their data from March 1 to March 30, 2020. Alqurashi et al. [18] collected nearly 4M Arabic language Tweets on COVID-19 to study the pandemic from a social perspective, and analyze human behavior, and information spread with special consideration to Arabic speaking countries. They used Hydrator [19] and TWARC [20] tools to retrieve the full object of the Tweet, covering the period of (March 1, 2020–March 30, 2020). Haouari et al. [21] collected 748k Arabic language Tweets in addition to propagation networks of a subset of 65k Tweets to enable the research related to natural language processing, information retrieval, and social network analysis. They used Twitter search API to retrieve the data daily, covering the period of (January 27, 2020–March 31, 2020). Zarei et al. [22] collected social media content from Instagram using hashtags related to COVID-19. They collected 5.3K posts, 18.5K comments, and 329K likes with the aim of identifying and analyzing social behavior on their collected data. They used the official Instagram API [23] for collecting their data from January 5 to March 30, 2020. Cul et al. [24] collected 1,896 news, 183,564 related user engagements, 516 social platform posts about COVID-19 to call out for public attention to the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19 and to assist ongoing research to develop misinformation-detection systems.

3 Data-Collection The latest statistics and facts of Twitter in 2019 showed that Twitter has almost 23 percent of Internet users on it, with 336 million monthly active users who published around 6,000 Tweets every second with a total of almost 500 million daily posted Tweets [25]. In 2014 Twitter introduced a project called Twitter Data Grants (TDG), through which it allows researchers to access Twitter’s public and historical data with some limitations. This access allows researchers to get insights from its massive set of data [26]. Twitter is one of the most popular and commonly used social network platform. On Twitter, users can easily communicate with each other or share emotions, stories, concerns, and provide better means to get quick response and feedback on different global issues in the form of short blogs of at most 280 words length [27, 28].

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The default configurations of Twitter accounts keep all the posted Tweets public, although any post owner has the authority to make them accessible only by his approved followers or by certain group members. However, more than 90% of all Twitter accounts are public [29, 30]. These publicly available Tweets, including the user information/ retweet/replies/mentions, are available in JSON format through Twitter’s provided API. Twitter API allows access to both historic and real-time feeds. As for the search API, it allows the query of Twitter for recent Tweets containing specific keywords and requires an authorized application before obtaining results from the API. While for the streaming API, it allows the filtering of live streaming Tweets by many identifiers such as user ID, keyword, geographic location, or random sampling [26]. To use this API, users must register with their research project information, then Twitter will provide the project with an application unique ID and then produce a set of credentials to access the API. Then the user can use these credentials to set up a connection and query Twitter’s Tweets database either its historic data or its real-time feeds. 3.2

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After establishing the connection, we used the following search keywords, which are the trendings related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to collect the corresponding shared Tweets (“Coronavirus”, “Corona_virus”, “Corona-virus”, “Novel_Coronavirus”, “2019-nCoV”, “Novel-Coronavirus”, “NovelCoronavirus”, “2019_nCoV”, “nCoV”, “COVID-19”, “SARS-CoV-2”, “covid19”). We used the streaming options of the API to collect real-time data. For our current release of the COVID-19-FAKES dataset, we started our streaming process on February 04 till March 10, 2020. We collected 5,224,912 Tweets in 66 different languages, in addition to all the metadata associated with these Tweets. We stored the collected data in real-time to our MySQL database. For the current work, we only consider the collected Tweets in both Arabic and English Languages with a total of 3,263,464 Tweets. Figure 1 shows the distribution of Tweets over the top-10 collected Tweets’ languages.

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It could be remarked that Twitter API allows only the return of 3,200 Tweets per query at most. Moreover, due to some technical issues (connection errors, Internet problems, or power issues, etc.) we missed collecting some Tweets for sometimes during some days or for a few days. 3.3

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For assigning labels to the collected Tweets and building different annotation models, we collected a set of ground-truth information related to COVID-19 disease. We rely on the published information on the official websites and official Twitter accounts of the WHO, UNICEF, and UN as we perceived as trusted information sources. Additionally, we enriched the collected ground truth with the pre-checked facts from various fact-checking websites. The annotation process is divided into two phases as shown in Fig. 2(a, b). The first is the model-building phase, which is designed to train a binary classification model for 13 different machine learning algorithms while using 7 different feature extraction techniques with each of the used algorithms. While the second phase is the annotation phase. For the data in both phases, they are passed through the same preparation, preprocessing, and feature engineering steps (feature selection and feature extraction). For generalization, we are reporting the obtained class of each Tweet with each of the 7 feature extraction techniques (Term Frequency (TF), Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)-(unigram, bigram, trigram, N-gram, character level), and Word Embedding), for each of the used 13 machine learning algorithms (Decision Tree (DT), k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN), Logistic Regression (LR), Linear Support Vector Machines (LSVM), Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB), Bernoulli Naive Bayes (BNB), Perceptron, Neural Network (NN), Ensemble Random Forest (ERF), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Bagging Meta-Estimator (BME), AdaBoost, and Gradient Boosting (GB)).

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4 Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) EDA provides an in-depth understanding of the data. Moreover, the visual representation of text documents’ is considered one of the most important tasks in the field of text mining [31]. Its aim is not only exploring the content of documents from different aspects and at different levels of details, but also summarizing a single document, showing the words and topics, detecting events, and creating storylines [32]. However, there are still some gaps between visualizing unstructured textual data and structured data. For example, many text visualizations do not represent the text directly, they represent an output of a language model (word count, character length, word sequences, etc.). In this section, we will give insights on the collected Tweets; not only exploring the Tweets but also, visualizing numeric and categorical features in them. We will try to explore and visualize as much as we can, using Plotly’s Python graphing library [33] and the Bokeh visualization library [34]. After a brief inspection of the collected Tweets data, we found there are a series of steps that we must perform first, as follows: • Remove the Tweet’s String Id column as it is the same as its Tweet’s Id. • Remove rows where the Tweet’s text is empty (if exists). • Perform cleaning on the Tweet’s textual data for all the Tweets. For English written data, regular expressions are used to remove non-English words and the words that contain symbolic characters and by using a mechanism that takes only the words that match the expression and discard those which do not match [11]. • Use TextBlob python library [35] for English Tweets, and TextBlob_ar python library [36] for Arabic Tweets to create a new feature for the Tweets’ sentiment by calculating sentiment polarity which lies in the range of [−1, 1] where 1 means positive sentiment and −1 means negative sentiment. • Create new feature TweetCountry for the country that corresponds to the stored Tweet’s location belongs to, and to put standard country names for each Tweet. • Create new feature UserCountry for the country that corresponds to the stored user’s, and to put standard country names for each user. • Create a new feature for the length of the Tweet’s text. • Create a new feature for the word count of the Tweet’s text. • Create two new features, one for the Tweet date, while the other one for the hour of the day the Tweets been posted. We get these by processing the associated timestamp with each Tweet the Tweet’s text. For the collected English Tweets, we found that we have 3,047,026 Tweets. These Tweets were published by 993,320 users. Only around 2.2% (21,867 users) of these users are verified users on Twitter. Almost 32.523% (32,3058 users) of these users have incomplete profile information. The complete data indicate they are from 285 countries and 118,247 locations, in addition to 64,259 undefined locations. While for the collected Arabic Tweets, we found that we have 276,774 Tweets. These Tweets were published by 112,340 users. Only around 20.7% (23,241 users) of these users are verified users on Twitter. Almost 53.604% (60,219 users) of these users have

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incomplete profile information. The complete data indicate they are from 307 countries and 20,225 different locations, in addition to 9,787 undefined locations. After calculating the sentiment polarity score of the collected Tweets, we found that they are mostly neutral and deviated to the positive for both the Arabic and the English Tweets, as shown in Fig. 3(a, b), respectively. Most of the sentiment polarities are greater than or equal to 0, which means most of the Tweets are positive. For investigating the rate of Tweeting every day along the collection period, Fig. 4(a, b) shows the distribution of the Tweet’s publishing distribution over the collection period.

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Figure 5(a, b) shows the distribution of Tweets over the top-10 countries that engaged in publishing Tweets in both languages.

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It could be noticed that the most active users are located in The United States of America and Saudi Arabia, while the next active group for both Arabic and English Tweets comes from undefined countries (e.g., “The Kingdom of God”, “???”, “the planet of Kashyyyk”, “Somewhere in this world”, “Nowhere”, “ ”, “ ”, “ ”, “ , etc.”). Figure 6(a, b) shows the Tweet’s text length distribution for both Arabic and English Tweets.

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In Fig. 6, despite the character limit for a tweet is 280 characters as imposed by Twitter, the calculated Tweet length has shown many Tweets exceed this limit. After further investigation of the collected Tweets, we found that the URLs and HTML encoding (e.g., &, <, >, etc.) are affecting the character count although they are excluded from the Tweets’ length limit. This data need cleaning to remove all the noise from the collected Tweets. Figure 7(a, b) shows the Tweet’s text length distribution for both Arabic and English Tweets after noise removal, while Fig. 8(a, b) shows the distribution of the Tweet’s word count.

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Fig. 7. Cleaned Tweets’ length distribution

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Form Fig. 7(a) and Fig. 8(a), we notice that the length of most of Arabic Tweets 100 to 180 characters in length with 20–42 words. While from Fig. 7(b) and Fig. 8(b), we notice that the length of most English Tweets 90 to 120 characters in length with 22 to 44 words. This means that there were some users like to leave long Tweets, and most of the Tweets are short ones. Then, we investigated the relationship between the Tweet’s sentiment polarity and its text length as shown in Fig. 9(a, b).

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Fig. 9. Distribution of sentiment polarity score by Tweets’ text length

While Fig. 10(a, b) shows the relation between the Tweet’s sentiment polarity and their word count.

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There are relatively few documents that are very positive or very negative. Tweets that have neutral to positive scores are more likely to be with text length greater than 50 and with word count more than 26 words. Probably with this number of words users can give a good impression. For further analysis of the Tweets, we investigated the top-10 Unigrams, Bigrams, and Trigrams before and after removing the stop words for both Arabic and English data. Figure 11(a, b) and Fig. 12(a, b) show the Unigram analysis, as a sample of our syntactic analysis on the collected data.

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It is clear from Fig. 11 and Fig. 12 that, many stop words have high frequencies, which could affect badly the detection results and will lead to an increase in the size of the extracted feature vector. Hence, stop words removal and data cleaning task are mandatory for that reason. This syntactic analysis gives a good indication of what are the most frequent words and the effect of removing unnecessary words from the used feature vector to serve in the goal of dimensionality reduction.

5 Conclusion and Future Work In this paper, we present COVID-19-FAKES, an automatically annotated misleading Information dataset about COVID-19 from Twitter. The dataset has been collected over a period of 36 days from February 4 to March 10, 2020. It consists of 3.263M Arabic and English Tweets. We described in detail our data collection steps and how we conducted our annotation process. Our EDA showed the main features of the COVID19-FAKES dataset. This work could help researchers in understanding the dynamics behind the COVID-19 outbreak on Twitter. Furthermore, it could help in studies related to sentiment analysis, the analysis of the propagation of misleading information related to this outbreak, the analysis of users’ behavior during the crisis, the detection of botnets, the analysis of the performance of different classification algorithms with various feature extraction techniques that are used in text mining. For future work directions, we could extend our proposed dataset to cover data from other languages, such as French, Spanish, Chinees, etc., also, to continuously update the dataset to cover dates after March 10, 2020.

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Precision Dosing Management with Intelligent Computing in Digital Health Hong Lu1, Sara Rosenbaum2, and Wei Lu3(&) 1

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 2 College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA 3 Department of Computer Science, Keene State College, USNH, Keene, NH, USA [email protected]

Abstract. Pediatric dosing is not only critical for successful pediatric trials in drug development but also paramount to safety and effective treatment at bedside. Due to the complex pharmacokinetic of children compared to adults, several challenges are posed in managing dosing precisely during drug development and after drug approval to clinicians. In particular, given the real-world practice, understanding the impact of development on the dose-exposureresponse relationship is essential in optimizing the dosing to children of different ages. In this paper we propose a novel intelligent computing framework to examine how the growth and maturation create size- and age- dependent variability in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and summarize the use of modeling-based approaches for dose finding in pediatric drug development, allowing clinicians to anticipate probable treatment effects and to have a higher likelihood of achieving optimal dose regimens early, as well as reducing the drug development cycling time and cost.

1 Introduction From birth onward, neonates, young infants and children develops with important agedependent changes in body composition, in size (weight and height) and in maturation of hepatic and renal function [1]. These processes all have a major impact on the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of a drug from its absorption and distribution properties to metabolism and elimination. As a result, the developmental changes in pharmacokinetics require an age-dependent adjustment of dosing regimens in children to achieve the target systemic exposure of a drug [2], which is measured by the areaunder-the-plasma-concentration, AUC, or steady state plasma concentration, Css. The total exposure of a drug is determined by the efficiency of the elimination processes (Eq. 1). The apparent drug clearance (CL/F) is the principle PK process determining age-dependent differences in drug dosage regimens. Simple allometric approaches can be applied to the estimation of pediatric clearance based on the adult clearance and the power function of body weight (Eq. 2).

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2 Selection of Model Drugs Probe substrates for cytochrome P450 phase I metabolism, and renal excretion are selected according to the following criteria: (1) The primary pathway of elimination due to one process in healthy adults was >80% of an oral dose. (2) Complete absorption (or >90%) from gastrointestinal tract after oral administration (po); for compounds showing incomplete absorption, only IV data were used. (3) Probe choice is routinely administered for clinical indications in ill neonates, infants and children. Model drugs also need to have the established clinical use in adults and pediatric patients of all ages, the availability of published data on in vivo clearance for different age groups and, adequate published data on their in vivo absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) study, namely the contribution of each clearance

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pathway to total clearance. The list of drugs and major clearance mechanisms were shown in Table 1. Clearance mechanisms were identified from pharmacology textbook [9], a key review article [10], drug label, as well as primary literature for individual compounds. Table 1. Elimination pathways for probe substrates in healthy adult volunteers. Drug Alfentanil Midazolam Caffeine Theophylline Gentamicin Vancomycin

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Table 1 provides an estimate of the percentage of parent compound processed by the major fate pathways. These compounds are grouped according to the primary process of clearance, which include the process of renal, CYP3A4 and CYP1A2 elimination. Alfentanil and midazolam are metabolized by CYP3A as the primary route of disposition. Alfentanil is extensively oxidized via two major N-dealkylation pathways both of which are mediated via CYP3A4 in human liver microsomes. Human in vivo studies have shown that more than 80% of an iv dose is recovered in the urine of healthy adult volunteers as CYP3A4 metabolites [11]. Midazolam metabolism is mediated by CYP3A4 to 1-hydroxy and 4-hydroxy derivative corresponds to the main metabolite and a minimum of 70% of an oral dose and 77% of an iv dose is recovered in the urine within 24 h as this metabolite [11]. The predominant biotransformation of theophylline and caffeine are catalyzed by CYP1A2. Caffeine is primarily transformed via three major N-demethylation reactions (1-, 3- or 7-N-demethylation) producing theobromine, paraxaanthine or theophylline. N3-demthylation pathway is catalyzed by CYP1A2 with high affinity and accounts for 80% of the metabolism of caffeine in humans [12]. Theophylline undergoes C-8oxidation as the major metabolite route accounting for 49.1% of the total urinary excretion, together with oxidative 1- and 3-N-demethylation (17.5% and 24.5%, respectively). These reactions are mediated by the CYP1A2 isoform at pharmacological concentrations. Over 90% of gentamicin is predominantly excreted unchanged in urine through glomerular filtration [13]. Similarly, over 80% of vancomycin is mainly eliminated into the urine as unchanged [9].

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3 Compilation of Child Clearance Database After drug model selection, computerized literature searches (PubMed, 1970-present) were conducted to find references or publications describing pharmacokinetics of probe substrates in children, using words such as, newborn, neonate, infant, children and crossing these with terms such as probe drug names, pharmacokinetics. Additionally, a variety of pediatric pharmacology reviews [14–19] were examined to identify drugs for which PK datasets exists for children. Next, the primary PK studies in published literature were evaluated to extract key data including weight, gender, age, drug administration route, the number of does (single or multiple doses), the number of subjects, and PK findings such as total clearance or apparent volume of distribution. Through these sources, a database of age-dependent observed clearances for 6 therapeutic probes were compiled, based upon the availability of data for pertinent age groups (especially very early life stages), and being able to obtain the primary data sources (CL and body weight), having a reasonable number of subjects (at least 3 per age group). A scan of the database shows that for these model compounds the weight normalized clearance in neonates and young infants appears different from the adults. Table 2 was extracted from the database to illustrate this pattern and to show how the data has been compiled and organized. The observed adult clearance value was the weighted mean and only the mean adult clearance value was regarded in this study. Table 2. Some instances of children’s clearance database (n = number of subjects in study; GA = gestational age; PNA = postnatal age; BW = body weight; CL = plasma clearance) Pathway CYP3A4 [26] CYP3A4 [26] CYP3A4 [26] CYP3A4 [11]

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6 Drug and System Specific Input Table 3 listed the drug specific parameters that are obtained from the literature [9, 11– 13, 23], such as CLadult, fu, CB/CP. The adult plasma clearance values are geometric means from different PK studies in which drugs were administered by i.v. injections. The CL of alfentanil in healthy adult volunteers was obtained from total 241 healthy adult volunteers in 9 studies after intravenous administration and the geometric mean CL was 4.7 ml/min/kg (SD: 2.3) [11]. The typical clearance of midazolam in adults was estimated from total 198 healthy adult volunteers of 4 studies, which was 7.7 ml/min/kg (SD: 3.7) [11].

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7 Computing Framework with Model Evaluation and Simulation The model was compiled as a function package in R. Figure 3 illustrates our intelligent computing framework called iDose, including GUI, dose data visualization, children’s clearance database, regression modules and their correlation components. Clearance predictions were compared against literature values. To determine the ability of the ontogeny models to predict the observed clearances, the correlation between observed and predicted clearances for the model compounds was determined, as well as a measure of precision (the percentage of prediction values within 2-fold of the observed values). The Person’s correlation coefficient between observations and predictions were calculated with R. Simulations were performed using 500 virtual pediatric subjects with age ranging from birth to 18 years. The cubic spline curves of predicted clearance versus age were generated and evaluated against observed in vivo clearance values for probe substrates in children.

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Clearance predictions for each of the model compounds were plotted against the observations in Fig. 4. For CYP3A4 substrates, 82% (89/108) of predicted values were within 2-fold of the observed values of alfentanil while 78% (26/38) were within 2-fold of the observed values of midazolam. For CYP1A2 probe substrate, 77% (41/53) of predicted values were within 2-fold of the observed values of caffeine and 68% (125/183) were within 2-fold of the observed values of theophylline. About 62% of predicted values were within 2-fold of the observed values of gentamicin (58/94) and 66% for vancomycin (47/77). There was good correlation between the observed versus predicted values for each of the model drugs as illustrated in Table 6. The overall coefficients of correlation were 0.883, 0.909 and 0.962, respectively, for CYP1A2, CYP3A4 metabolized elimination and GFR-mediated renal excretion.

8 Conclusions and Future Work The physiology-based scaling model predicts an age-and elimination pathway-specific clearance for the ontogeny of renal clearance, and metabolic clearance of CYP1A2 and CYP3A4. As developed with an open program R, the model provides a valuable source for informed individuals to understand the physiological based clearance scaling approach and to use it, without having to use the “black-box” kind of simulation software. In the future we will deploy the R based computing models running on the back-end server and develop a front-end client apps on mobile platform, allowing clinicians to anticipate probable treatment effects and to have a higher likelihood of achieving optimal dose regimens early, as well as reducing the drug development cycling time and cost.

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Recently, communication technologies have been developed in order to satisfy the requirements of many users. Especially, mobile communication technologies continue to develop rapidly and has facilitated the use of laptops, tablets and smart phones in public spaces [4]. In addition, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) [1] are becoming on important network infrastructure. These networks are made up of wireless nodes organized in a mesh topology, where mesh routers are interconnected by wireless links and provide Internet connectivity to mesh clients. WMNs are attracting attention from many researchers in order to provide cost efficient broadband wireless connectivity. The main issue of WMNs is to improve network connectivity and stability in terms of user coverage. This problem is very closely related to the family of node placement problems in WMNs [5,8,10]. In these papers are assumed that routers move by themselves or by using network simulator moving models. In this paper, we consider a moving robot as network device. In order to realize a moving access point, we implemented a moving omnidirectional access c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 281–290, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_27

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point robot (called MOAP robot). It is important that the MOAP robot moves to an accurate position in order to have a good connectivity. Thus, the MOAP robot can provide good communication and stability for WMNs. In this work, we consider silhouette theory to decide the optimal number of MOAP robots. The rest of this paper is structured as follows. In Sect. 2, we introduce the related work. In Sect. 3, we present our implemented moving omnidirectional access point robot. In Sect. 4, we use silhouette theory to decide optimal number of MOAP robots. In Sect. 5, we show the simulation results. Finally, conclusions and future work are given in Sect. 6.

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Many different techniques are developed to solve the problem of moving robots position. One of important research area is indoor position detection, because the outdoor position can be detected easily by using GPS (Global Positioning System). However, in the case of indoor environment, we can not use GPS. So, it is difficult to find the target position. Asahara et al. [2] proposed to improve the accuracy of the self position estimation of a mobile robot. A robot measures a distance to an object in the mobile environment by using a range sensor. Then, the self position estimation unit estimates a self position of the mobile robot based on the selected map data and range data obtained by the range sensor. Wang et al. [11] proposed the ROS (Robot Operating System) platform. They designed a WiFi indoor initialize positioning system by triangulation algorithm. The test results show that the WiFi indoor initialize position system combined with AMCL (Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization) algorithm can be accurately positioned and has high commercial value. Nguyen et al. [9] proposed a low speed vehicle localization using WiFi fingerprinting. In general, these researches rely on GPS in fusion with other sensors to track vehicle in outdoor environment. However, as indoor environment such as car park is also an important scenario for vehicle navigation, the lack of GPS poses a serious problem. They used an ensemble classification method together with a motion model in order to deal with the issue. Experiments show that proposed method is capable of imitating GPS behavior on vehicle tracking. Ban et al. [3] proposed indoor positioning method integrating pedestrian Dead Reckoning with magnetic field and WiFi fingerprints. Their proposed method needs WiFi and magnetic field fingerprints, which are created by measuring in advance the WiFi radio waves and the magnetic field in the target map. The proposed method estimates positions by comparing the pedestrian sensor and fingerprint values using particle filters. Matsuo et al. [6,7] implemented and evaluated a small size omnidirectional wheelchair.

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Performance Evaluation of a Recovery Method for Vehicular DTN Considering Different Reset Thresholds Yoshiki Tada1 , Makoto Ikeda2(B) , and Leonard Barolli2 1

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In our previous works [7,13], we have proposed a message relaying method with an Enhanced Dynamic Timer (EDT) considering both grid road and real map scenarios in Vehicular DTN. From these works, we could not reduce storage usage when vehicle density was low because the method used a fixed threshold. In this paper, we evaluate the network performance of the message relaying method with proposed EDT considering different Rest Thresholds (RTs) for Vehicular DTN. The structure of the paper is as follows. In Sect. 2, we give the related work. In Sect. 3 is described the message relaying method considering the EDT. In Sect. 4, we provide the description of the evaluation system and the results. Finally, conclusions and future work are given in Sect. 5.

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Survey of UAV Autonomous Landing Based on Vision Processing Liu Yubo1(&), Bei Haohan1, Li Wenhao2, and Huang Ying2 1

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Abstract. At present, with the rapid development of UAV technology, UAV has begun to play an important role in the field of military and civilian applications, which has attracted more and more attention. In the context of automation, there are more and more attention on how UAV achieves autonomous landing. In this paper, it is to describe the research situation of autonomous landing of UAV based on visual processing at home and abroad first, and then introduce several technologies of image processing, target tracking, position estimation and autonomous control according to the process. Based on these three process components, the existing shortcomings are put forward. Finally combined with the actual situation, the research ideas are proposed.

1 Introduction In recent years, with the continuous development of society, the use of UAV has become more frequent and been involved into more fields, which include scientific exploration and data collection, commercial services, military reconnaissance and law enforcement, search and rescue, patrols, and entertainment. At present, the landing mode of UAV can be divided into two ways which are the manual landing and autonomous landing. In the field of military aviation, new UAV with autonomous landing capabilities have received more and more attention at home and abroad. In the field of civil aviation, the autonomous landing technology of UAV has also received extensive attention, especially for vehicle-mounted UAV, autonomous landing is a very important technical advantage. For achieving efficient and repeated use of UAV, it is necessary to realize the autonomous landing technology of UAV [1]. Navigation technology has formed many mature and complete systems in the longterm development process. Common navigation technologies include GPS navigation [2, 3], inertial navigation [4], and later DGPS navigation and SNIS/GPS navigation [5], etc. which are technologies the traditional UAV autonomous landing positioning relies on. However, due to the high requirements for external signal conditions, as well as the error of the technology itself and some human factors, traditional navigation technology is difficult to meet the accuracy requirements of UAV autonomous landing. This paper first analyzes and summarizes the research situation at home and abroad, then introduces relevant technologies in accordance with the three stages of image processing, target tracking, position estimation and autonomous control, and © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 300–311, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_29

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a target tracking algorithm to select the two-dimensional code area, which prevents the number of pixels from being traversed during image processing and improves the realtime performance of the cooperative two-dimensional code algorithm. They use the pnp feature and take the method of completing missing vertices to improve the robustness of the QR code. Jia Peiyang and others [15] of the Space Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a tracking and landing algorithm based on Apriltags, which uses a combination of size and code to improve recognition performance. In reference [16], Ma Xiaodong, et al. of China Flight Test Research Institute complete target recognition based on contour geometric features and SVM classifier. It is to perform grid sampling on the target image, and track the sampling points based on the pyramid L-K optical flow method based on the improvement of the front-back bidirectional tracking error and the similarity constraint of the local area image of the adjacent frame, and to design target re-search algorithm, finally, to extract sub-pixellevel feature corner points, complete relative position estimation based on perspective projection theory, and perform binocular mean fusion. In reference [17], Wang Zhaozhe and others of Harbin Institute of Technology analyze the target recognition algorithm to optimize its ROI. They design the membership function and fuzzy control rate in the control aspect, and use fuzzy rules to modify the PID parameters and carried out simulation verification. Xu Xiaobing and others [18] from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics apply convex hull transformation to select feature markers, and remove redundant markers by interference elimination. For the incomplete marking, they adopt the method of feature prediction for prediction. Yuan Suzhe et al. of the Twenty Research Institute of CLP Technology [19] use some cooperative Apriltag tags for joint positioning for some problems of large positioning error and many missing recognition at the single sign point under outdoor conditions. They obtain the relative position of the UAV relative to the edge label and then synthesize it. Chen Feiyu and others from Shandong University, based on the TLD framework, propose an algorithm for autonomously determining landing targets based on target shape features [20], which improves the autonomy of the landing process; they use the kernel correlation filter to implement the tracker in the TLD framework, which improves the real-time, accuracy and robustness of the target tracking algorithm.

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3.1.1 Common Edge Detection Algorithms At present, there are many mature edge detection methods. According to order classification, common detection methods can be divided into Roberts operator Sobel operator and Prewitt operator based on first order and Laplacian operator based on second order. Among them, the second-order operator is susceptible to noise interference, so it is not considered here. Roberts operator is also called cross differential algorithm, it is a gradient algorithm based on cross difference, which detects edge lines by local difference calculation. This algorithm is commonly used to process images with steep low noise, and its operators are as follows:
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layers are set to the same value. For example: RGB (60, 60, 60) represents a grayscale of 60. According to different processing methods, grayscale processing can be divided into: component method, maximum value method, average value method and weighted average method. Among them, the component method is to use the brightness of the three components as the gray value of the three gray images, and select one of them according to the application needs. The maximum value method is to use the maximum value of the three-component brightness in the color image as the gray value of the gray image. The average method is to average the three-component brightness to obtain the gray value. While the weighted average method is to weight the three components with different weights according to the importance and other indicators, according to the sensitivity of the human eye to different colors, and then obtains a more reasonable image. The calculation formula is as follows: Grayði; jÞ ¼ 0:299  Rði; jÞ þ 0:578  Gði; jÞ þ 0:114  Bði; jÞ The grayscale image reflects the distribution and characteristics of the overall and local chroma and brightness levels of the entire image as well as the color image. However, it reduces the amount of calculation for upper-layer operations, so grayscale processing of images is generally used as a preprocessing step for image processing. (2) Thresholding image segmentation is a relatively common method. The principle is to first convert the image into a mode with only two gray levels, then to extract the required elements as the foreground display and separate them from the background. Thresholding is very significant for the extraction of physical characteristics such as the geometry and texture of the target area, and it is used for preprocessing for the next image discrimination. According to different threshold selection methods, the thresholding method can be divided into: simple threshold method, adaptive threshold method and Otsu’s thresholding method. The characteristic of the simple algorithm is to choose a global threshold, and then divide the whole image into binary images that are either black or white. The adaptive threshold method can treat the threshold as a local value, it is to determine the situation of this pixel by setting a region size and comparing the size relationship between this point and the average value (or other characteristics) of the pixels in the region size. The basic principles of the two are the same, and the formula of the thresholding segmentation is as follows:  pðx; yÞ ¼

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caused by the artificially specified threshold value. Therefore, Otsu’s is very suitable for the case where the image grayscale histogram has double peaks (as shown below). Conversely, for the case where the image grayscale histogram has no double peaks, this method is not okay to use. 3.2

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After image processing, we can extract the feature points contained in the designed ground sign, and track the feature points through the algorithm to prevent the UAV from losing the identified targets during flight, and leading to navigation failure. Most of the current target tracking techniques are based on the theory of optical flow method. Optical flow is the instantaneous velocity of a moving object in space on the pixel of the observation imaging plane. Optical flow method is a method to find the corresponding relation between the previous frame and the current frame by using the change of pixels in the time domain of image sequence and the correlation between adjacent frames, so as to calculate the motion information of objects between adjacent frames. Generally speaking, the optical flow is caused by the movement of the object itself or the movement of the camera, or both. The following figure shows the result of object motion mapping in three-dimensional space to two-dimensional imaging plane (Fig. 1).

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What we will get is a two-dimensional vector describing the change in position. When the motion interval is small enough, we can regard it as a two-dimensional vector u = (u, v) describing the instantaneous velocity at that point, that is, the optical flow vector. The two-dimensional volume field of optical flow field is to reflect the velocity vector message of the instantaneous motion of each image point through the change trend of the gray level of each point. But there are two basic conditions for optical flow method: 1. The brightness is constant; 2. The time is continuous or the movement is “small movement”. When using the optical flow method, it is necessary to pay attention to these two. 3.2.1 Target Tracking Based on LK Optical Flow Method Lucas-Kanade (LK) [21] optical flow method was proposed in 1981. It added the assumption of “spatial consistency” to the two basic assumptions of the original optical

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flow method, that is, there are three conditions for its establishment. Among them, the assumption that all adjacent pixel points have similar actions just conforms to the characteristics between feature points extracted after graphics processing. The assumptions of the LK optical flow algorithm satisfy the number of constraints required to solve the two variables u and v, which enables us to find the velocity vector corresponding to each set of conditions. However, the constraints of the LK algorithm are not easily satisfied. When the object moves too fast, the assumption will be destroyed, resulting in a large error in the result. Therefore, we adopt the method of introducing pyramid sampling space and adopt the method of approximate sampling layer by layer to make it conform to the assumption of “small motion”. At this time, we can use the LK algorithm to calculate the optical flow of the target to avoid large errors. In order to meet the tracking effect, it is necessary to use the front and rear tracking errors and local regions of adjacent frames to improve, to avoid the effects of blur and lighting changes [22]. We carry out two-way tracking on a certain point of the image, and then compare the two tracking trajectories generated. The same results in success, otherwise, the different results in failure, it can be defined by the following formula: FB ¼ jjxt  ^xt jj This is the Euclidean distance between two points, the smaller the value, the more similar the trajectory. In addition, due to the short time interval and the similarity of local images, we can adopt normalized correlation coefficient for matching, whose definition is as follows: P 0 0 0 0 x0 ;y0 ðTðx ; y Þ  Iðx ; y ÞÞ ffi NCC ¼ qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi P P 0 ; y0 Þ 2  0 ; y0 Þ2 Tðx Iðx 0 0 0 0 x ;y x ;y This formula is based on the region image captured at the tracking point xt at time t and the corresponding point xt + 1 at time t + 1, where T(x, y) and I(x, y) are the gray levels of the points (x, y) in the images T and I, respectively. Finally, we set thresholds for the results FB and NCC respectively, and ensure the tracking success through threshold comparison. 3.2.2 Target Tracking Based on TLD Algorithm The TDL algorithm consists of three modules based on the tracking module using the optical flow method tracker, which are: tracking module, detection module and learning module [23]. In order to obtain stable tracking points, the TLD algorithm introduces a failure detection mechanism based on NCC (Normal Cross Correlation) [24] similarity calculation and forward-backward tracking method, finally, takes the median value of displacement and scale change between stable tracking points as the output of the tracking module (Fig. 2). The detection module is to conduct a global scan with multiple scales for each frame, and sequentially pass the obtained detection window through a cascade

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classifier, and use the finally passed window as the output of the detection module. The tracking module and detection module will process each frame independently and in parallel, and the results of the two will be fused according to a certain fusion strategy to obtain the final tracking position. The learning module is to sample the positive and negative samples of the current frame according to the tracking results, and adopt the PN learning strategy [25] to learn and update the target model. 3.3

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3.3.1 Kalman Filter After obtaining the information of the tracked target, we can predict and analyze the motion trajectory and state of the UAV body accordingly. Kalman filtering (Kalman filtering) is an algorithm that uses the linear system state equation to observe the data through the system input and output to optimally estimate the state of the system. It can estimate the state of the dynamic system from a series of data with measurement noise when the measurement variance is known. Because it is convenient for computer programming and real-time update processing of on-site collected data, it is widely used in the field of UAV. The principles of Kalman can be understood as the update of the predicted value and the observed value to the state value, and its process can be divided into two steps of prediction and update. Where, the predicted value is our prediction of the future state quantity based on the previous state quantity, and its formula can be expressed as: T P t ¼ FPt1 F þ Q

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Finally, combined with the Kalman coefficient, we update the state. ^xt ¼ ^x x t þ Kt ðzt  H^ t Þ Pt ¼ ðI  Kt HÞP t Although Kalman filtering has many advantages, the nature of its linear equations makes it prone to errors when dealing with nonlinear problems, which is the problem that needs to be overcome. 3.3.2 PID Control Technology Through position estimation, we can obtain the parameters we need to complete the autonomous landing. At this time, we can use the classic PID control theory to complete the landing of the UAV platform. Because of the simple algorithm, good robustness and high reliability, PID control is widely used in industrial production, unmanned vehicles and UAV. The conventional PID control system is shown in the figure below. The system consists of PID controllers and the controlled objects. As a linear controller, PID controller forms a deviation according to the given value r(t) and the actual output value c(t): e(t) = r(t) − c(t). It uses the linear combination of the proportional (P), integral (I) and differential (D) deviations to form a controlled variable to control the controlled object. The control law is as follows: uðtÞ ¼ KP ½eðtÞ þ

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4 Challenges and Research Ideas of Visual Navigation in the Field of Autonomous Landing of UAV Through the analysis of the research status at home and abroad and the common methods involved in the process, we present the current deficiencies and research ideas from three aspects: (1) For image processing, in view of the limited image processing hardware that the UAV platform can carry, in the traditional image processing technology, there is a

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general problem that the overhead is too large and the real-time performance cannot be met. In order to reduce such problems, on the one hand, we can start with ground signs, reduce the edge contours needed for positioning, or adopt improved algorithms to increase the processing rate. At the same time, when extracting image features, due to the threshold segmentation method, the extracted feature points or edge contours are often disturbed by image noise, which makes the extracted data inaccurate. Finally, we find that there are few methods to deal with the rapid change of light in the process of target image recognition. For this reason, the ground with auxiliary light sources such as fluorescence or infrared can be considered to enhance the robustness of the recognition system. (2) In the process of target tracking, we need to consider the influence of the identified target being blocked and the light changes on the algorithm adaptation parameters to prevent the loss of the tracking target. In view of the fast moving speed of the UAV, when performing image tracking, we need to ensure the real-time nature of the algorithm. While now most algorithms adopt iterative calculation, so it is necessary to adopt a suitable regression algorithm. At the same time, GPS navigation and SNIS navigation can be combined to provide continuous navigation signals when the target is lost. Finally, we can also introduce artificial intelligence to transform a large-scale traversal search into intelligent recognition, thus greatly improving the rate of positioning targets. (3) For position prediction, although the traditional Kalman filter can estimate the future motion state of the system in the presence of multiple noises, but the nature of its linear system makes it produce errors when dealing with nonlinear problems. In this regard, on the one hand, we can use a better parameter tuning method to obtain accurate parameters. There are existing methods of the critical proportion method and the attenuation curve method. With the continuous development of computer technology and the introduction of new control methods, we can also adopt a compound control method that combines PID control with fuzzy control, deep neural network control, etc. to improve its accuracy and the robustness of the control method.

5 Conclusion The ultimate purpose of autonomous landing of UAV based on visual processing is to achieve autonomous and accurate landing of UAV in order to complete the recovery of the UAV platform. Compared with traditional navigation methods, visual navigation has the advantages of low communication environment requirements and no assistance from external devices during navigation. Therefore, it is very meaningful to study the autonomous landing technology of UAV based on visual processing. This paper first summarizes several traditional navigation methods and points out their shortcomings, then introduces the research status at home and abroad by platform, introduces several algorithms respectively according to the three stages of autonomous landing process, and puts forward its advantages and disadvantages, and finally points out the challenges and research ideas of autonomous landing of UAV.

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Improved Sentiment Urgency Emotion Detection for Business Intelligence Tariq Soussan(&) and Marcello Trovati School of Computing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. The impact of social media on people’s lives has significantly grown over the last decade. Individuals use it to promote discussions and a way of acquiring data. Industries use social media to market their goods and facilities, advise and inform clients about future offers, and follow up on their direct market. It also offers vital information concerning the general emotions and sentiments directly connected to welfare and security. In this work, an improved model called Improved Sentiment Urgency Emotion Detection (ISUED) has been created based on previous work for opinion and social media mining implemented with Multinomial Naive Bayes algorithm and based on three classifiers which are sentiment analysis, urgency detection, and emotion classification. The model will be trained to improve its accuracy and F1 score so that the precision and percentage of correctly predicted texts is elevated. This model will be applied on the same data set of previous work acquired from a general business Twitter account of one of the largest chains of supermarkets in the United Kingdom to be able to see what sentiments and emotions can be detected and how urgent they are.

1 Introduction Social Networking has unraveled innovative capacities for businesses to connect with their customers and employees by providing them the option to send messages out quickly and to obtain real-time response [11]. Social media has opened many new prospects for the B2B sector due to its features that can enhance communication, interaction, education and partnership which can convey substantial profits to institutes [8]. While social media was initially released for online networking and flow of content across the Web, it then became a supreme area for societies for providing feedback with goods and services [9]. Social Media offers prospects for institutions to participate, to grow a relationship with their clients, and to promote an environment in order to push sales and awareness. From the institute perception, social media offers the means whereby businesses can directly interact with their customers [15]. Clients’ own feedback on goods, amenities, and brands are really valued among online spectators [2]. Also, clients have been eager and open to express their dissatisfaction with goods and services through social network [17]. In this work, an improved learning model called Improved Sentiment Urgency Emotion Detection (ISUED) will be deployed as a combination of sentiment analysis, © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 312–318, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_30

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urgency detection, and emotion classification in order to enhance the model from previous work [13]. Similarly, this model will also be trained on a training dataset having text samples from multiple Twitter accounts which will be followed by running the model on the same general business Twitter account. The purpose is to classify tweets on sentiments, urgency and emotions. Thus, the model will discover if the tweets have a sentiment, will realize if there are emotions in them, and will detect if they are urgent. Therefore, this will assist in determining the gratification or the dissatisfaction of online communities around the brand being examined. Knowledge that is mined when turning data into decisions is crucial since it will aid stakeholders handling the institute to evaluate the topics and issues that were mostly emphasized. In the coming sections, Sect. 2 will give a literature review about social media, sentiment analysis, urgency detection, and emotion classification. Section 3 will discuss the model used along with its training. Section 4 will discuss the results and analysis of the results. Lastly, Sect. 5 will give a conclusion from the results.

2 Literature Review One of the most prevalent and most currently used social media platforms is Twitter, which was developed by Obvious Corporation in 2006 [4]. Users can communicate with each other, ask questions and guidance, as well as take part in open-ended debates [4]. By combining individual publishing and communication, Twitter was able to create a new kind of instantaneous publishing [4]. Twitter’s effect on businesses has been widely investigated. Some work focused on the word-of-mouth discussion on Twitter and the results showed that about one fifth of all tweets hold the name of a brand, good, or facility [6]. In addition, one fifth of these word-of-mouth tweets showed few sentiments. Also, the study showed that the positive tweets are more than half of the branded tweets while the negative tweets are only one third of them [6]. This study concluded that the linguistic assembly of tweets is related to the linguistic patterns of natural language expressions and it showed that Twitter is a rich word-of-mouth site for institutes to explore as part of their global branding policy [6]. Twitter is a good platform to extract data for text categorization. Automatic text classification is hard for a computer due to the huge number of words. The categorization of tweets is even more difficult due to the restriction on the number of words in a tweet [7]. Classifying emotions in text is very hard for two reasons. First, feelings can be implied and activated by precise actions or circumstances. Second, gathering different emotions based on keywords can be very difficult to detect [7, 16]. Classifying urgency in text might not be easy. Previous work shows a social network-based solution that can observe multiple social networks to detect keywords, urgency ratings, the request owner’s identity, date, and time [3]. It also governs which posts or chats are crucial and prioritize or rank pending urgent concerns [3].

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3 Methodology Throughout this work, a custom model is going to be developed using Monkey Learn platform [12] based on several classifiers. The three classifiers to be joint into a single model are sentiment analysis, urgency detection, and emotion classification. This model is based on Multinomial Naive Bayes algorithm. This algorithm has been broadly utilized in text classification and uses a parameter learning method called Frequency Estimate (FE), which approximates word probabilities by computing suitable frequencies from data [14]. It undertakes that a document is a bag of words and takes word frequency and information into consideration [1]. The main benefit of FE is that it is easy to use, often delivers rational forecast performance, and is effective [14]. Thus, Multinomial Naive Bayes is considered as a supervised learning method using a probabilistic technique [5]. The N-gram range sets the type of features to be used to characterize texts [12]. The N-gram used for this model is Unigrams or words (n-gram size = 1) and Bigrams or terms compounded by two words (n-gram size = 2) [12]. The next step after creating the model is to create the categories associated with the three classifiers which are sentiment analysis, urgency detection, and emotion classification. Some categories were gathered from existing classifiers and others were created and they have been put all together into one custom model as shown in Table 1. This model will be trained on many test tweets extracted from many Twitter accounts; thus, the model will be learning to link the input to the matching output (category) based on the training of the test tweets data [12] which will help enhance accuracy and F1 Score. The model will be run on the same dataset of previous work [13] for verification to check the results of the learning mechanisms along with the categories’ confidence numbers. The feedback categories can be from the customers which can be customer service reviews, product reviews, or proposals to enhance their Table 1. Categories for the ISUED model Categories Anger Features Complaint Positive Negative Pricing Feedback Request Happiness Sadness Hate Surprise Love Worry

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service. At the same time, the model can categorize the institute’s reply feedbacks that either the customer service gave, or other individuals issued. The same experimental environment will be used for this work [13], which is a Windows 10 Enterprise laptop with a processor of Intel® Core ™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60 GHz 1.80 GHz. The installed memory (RAM) is 8.00 GB. The System type is 64bit Operating System, x64-based processor. The data size for a data set is 2795 recent Tweets where the store chain has been mentioned up until 17th of February 2020. 3.1

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A training data set having 735 tweets from different Business Twitter accounts is fed to the model. Each tweet must be labelled to the suitable category or categories as this is the crucial for training the model [12]. By classifying and retagging the test tweet data, the machine learning algorithm gains knowledge such that for each input having precise keywords, an explicit output category or categories is expected [12]. The metrics used to enhance the model are accuracy and F1 Score (precision and recall). The accuracy is defined as the percentage of test tweets that were matched with the right category and it is the quotient of the correctly classified tweets by the overall tweets in test data set. The F1 score combines both precision and recall [10, 12]. Recall is the proportion of positive sentiments which are correctly acknowledged while precision is the ratio between the correct sentiments predicted to the total number of matches predicted [10]. The result of training the model is seen in Fig. 1 as the accuracy was raised to 73% and the F1 Score was raised to 77%. Training the model also resulted in a keyword list shown in Fig. 2 that provides an outline on how the training data is being evaluated. It is displaying the most correlated keywords [12].

Fig. 1. Accuracy and F1 Score metrics for training the ISUED Model

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4 Statement of Results and Analysis After the ISUED model’s training was finished, it was run on the same data set from previous work for verification [13]. 2795 tweets were imported to the model as a batch. Processing the dataset shows the category or categories for each tweet and its/their respective confidence value(s) such that 219 different single or combined categories have been produced. Figure 3 shows the top 20 categories containing the largest group of tweets using the ISUED Model. Figure 4 displays the top 10 categories percentages out of the overall. It is shown that most of the tweets have been classified as “Feedback” category. Customer Service for this institute can benefit from this model since it provides them knowledge about the classifications of the tweets, the urgent complaints that might need assistance, the requests coming from customers, and the feedback. The model also provides the sentiment of the customer service feedback to any complaints. Some difficulties were noted. In Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, 17 tweets which constitute 0.61% of the entire dataset could not be categorized to any of the categories of the model which might be due to the model not being able to match the keywords in the tweets to any of the groups. Still, this is less than the number of tweets that were not able to be categorized in previous work [13]. Other challenges faced were tweets that may have not been properly grouped due to false positive or false negative in the tweets. Another problem faced as well was that 23 tweets which constitute around 1% of the dataset showed irrelevant confidence numbers, however this is still less than the number of tweets that showed irrelevant confidence numbers in previous work [13]. For every tweet, the ISUED model computes the confidence value for each single category that matches it. Furthermore, the average confidence values of all the categories for each tweet is then calculated. Based on this, the average confidence value of each of the top 10 categories from Fig. 3 can be reached. This is defined as the average of the average confidences for all the tweets belonging to the same category. Comparing the average confidence of the top 10 categories from Table 2 to the average confidence of the top 10 categories from previous work [13], we notice that two of the top 3 categories had their average confidence improved. Table 2. Average confidence of the Top 10 categories Categories Feedback Feedback: Positive Feedback: Complaint Features Features: Not Urgent: Love Positive: Feedback Positive: Feedback: Request Feedback: Complaint: Sadness Feedback: Positive: Request Complaint: Feedback

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5 Conclusion In this work, an improved learning model for sentiment, urgency, and emotion detection has been built for social media mining and opinion mining. The model was trained on text samples from many twitter accounts to improve its accuracy and F1 Score. The model was run on the same general business Twitter account of a supermarket chain from previous work to measure the confidence of its categorization. Tweets were successfully classified into one or multiple categories. Future work can involve training the model with more metrics tuning to improve accuracy and F1 Score. Further work can also include taking time as metric to monitor how sentiments vary over time.

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Knowledge-Based Networks for Artificial Intuition Olayinka Johnny and Marcello Trovati(B) Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK {24023868,trovatim}@edgehill.ac.uk

Abstract. The ability to carry out automated decision making from large data sets with potentially large quantities of parameters presents a major challenge in decision making systems. Moreover, this involves the need for deeper analysis to allow their investigation of their corresponding scenarios in other to perform knowledge discovery, which is usually associated with high computational complexity. In this article, we discuss a knowledge-based network approach to facilitate the identification and extraction of information for a novel Artificial Intuition approach which is currently being developed by the authors.

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Artificial intuition plays an important role in the process of intelligence extraction and the decision-making. Some of the earlier studies took a philosophical and cognitive approach [1]. However, the effects of artificial intuition on decisionmaking have not been addressed. To the best of our knowledge, only few studies discussed in [2] attempt to study artificial intuition from the computational point of view. In [3], the authors have considered the computational model of artificial intuition. However, they do not represent the algorithms in details or show the use intuitive entities in their respective processes that they modelled. In [2], the authors reviewed the researches on artificial intuition and recognise that knowledge and past experience are very important for intuition to be accurate. Furthermore, the authors argue that the early studies of artificial intuition focus largely on the concept itself, rather than on the representation and use of entities in the process. The aim of this article is to provide an initial discussion and implementation which models an Artificial Intuition approach based on semantic networks to improve a decision system. Specifically, this research hypothesises that a computational model that correctly implement the requirements defined above can potentially obtain accurate and optimal result and improve the overall performance of human decision making systems. The article is structured as follows: in Sect. 2, the main concepts of Network theory and semantic networks were discussed in context of the proposed model. In Sect. 3, the essential components that are crucial to the development of the model are discussed. In Sect. 4, the knowledge-based network model is introduced. Finally, Sect. 5 provides a conclusion and discusses future research directions. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 319–325, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_31

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This section introduces the theory and models of networks as the suitable approaches to be used in the definition and implementation of the model in this paper. It provides a discussion of semantic networks since this constitute the representation model we have chosen to implement our model. 2.1

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A network is a set of objects, called nodes or vertices that are connected together. Many of the systems in nature can be described by models of these complex networks, which are structures consisting of the connected nodes. The connections between the nodes are called edges or links. More specifically, any patterns of interactions in a given system can be represented as a network, the individual parts of the system being denoted by nodes and their interaction by edges [4]. Numerous examples of networks exist. For example, the Internet is a network of routers or domains, the World Wide Web (WWW) is a network of Web pages connected by hyperlinks, and the human brain is a network of neurons. Network theory is the study of graphs as a representation of symmetric or asymmetric relations between discrete objects. In computer science and network science, network theory is a part of graph theory, where networks are defined as a graphs in which nodes and/or edges have attributes. Formally, networks consist of a collection of nodes, called the node set V = {vi }ni=1 , which are connected as specified by the edge set E = {e(vi , vj )}vi =vj ∈V [4], excluding self-loops, that is a single edge starting and ending at the same node. We say that there is a path P (vi , vj ) between the nodes vi and vj , if we have a sequences of edges which connect a sequence of distinct nodes, such that it starts from vi and ends at vj . The topology of different networks has been extensively investigated to identify crucial information on the corresponding system, which can provide a set of predictive tools to investigate its properties [5]. In particular, stochastic topological features can successfully model systems based on unknown parameters. The networks features have been categorised into small-world, random and scalefree network [4]. The small-world and scale-free features are common to many real-world complex networks. 2.2

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Semantic networks are specific types of graph data structure. They are graphical knowledge representation of concepts and their mutual connections within the context of the domain that is described by the concepts [2]. In a semantic network, knowledge is expressed in the form of directed binary relations, represented by edges, and concepts, represented by nodes. Fundamentally, the process of building a semantic network requires that documents are all restricted to a domain that can be characterised by well-defined, inter-related concepts. These concepts then form the basis for the scientific terminology of the domain [2]. Each concept in the network is represented by a node and the hierarchical relationship between concepts is depicted by connecting appropriate concept nodes via is-a or instance-of links. Nodes at the lowest level in the is-a hierarchy denote tokens while nodes at higher levels denote classes or categories of types. Properties in the network are also represented by nodes and the fact that a property applies to a concept is represented by connecting the concept and property nodes via an appropriately labelled link. Typically, it is attached at the highest concept in the conceptual hierarchy to which the property applies, and if a property is attached to a node, it is assumed that it applies to all its descendants. Succinctly put, subtypes inherit properties from supertypes. By suitable definition of a set of binary relations on a set of nodes, the network corresponds to a predicate logic with binary relations. An important issue with semantic network is that it does not make a distinction between links that constitute relation and links that are structural in nature in the network. For example, a link may have two meanings in a network, thereby causing ambiguity. Moreover, a semantic network can have nodes pointing to themselves, a situation commonly known self-loops. Therefore, the meanings of links in the network is limited by the user or experts. In both cases, additional knowledge and work are required to understand and make meaningful distinction of the links. However, we can argue that this limitation can be seen as a strength as it allows experts to have different perspectives to the same dataset that is modelled by real-world semantic network and also the different meanings that can be derived from the resulting networks. In fact, the ability to reason over the concepts in the network provide useful modelling frameworks and an entry point into how the mind works to make intuitive decision. In particular, we will not allow cycles or self-loops, that is a single edge starting and ending at the same node in our implementation. The above discussion demonstrates that semantic networks have a high representational and expressive power to represent knowledge as networks of concepts, allowing a problem space to be explored by using efficient graph algorithm. In fact, semantic networks have been key in modelling diverse phenomenon from reasoning, creativity to human cognition and decision making. In this study, we are particularly interested in using efficient model of intuition that incorporate scenarios captured by semantic networks to improve a decision system.

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Another important aspect to consider in our approach is the similarities and relatedness measurements of the concepts. More specifically, how do the concepts compare with respect to their semantic attributes, properties or features. There are fundamental differences between similarities and relatedness [7]. Some concepts in a network can be related without being similar. For example, Palm and tree are similar concepts and can be substituted for each other in a context. This may not necessarily be the same for semantically related concepts [7].

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We define artificial intuition as the ability of a system to assess a problem context and use pattern recognition or properties from a dataset to choose a course of action or aid the decision process in an automatic manner. More specifically, by using intuitive models, a system is able to take subsets from networks and pass them through a process to determine relationship that can be used to predict future decision without a deep understanding of a scenario and its corresponding parameters This proposed approach is based on the following essential components. 1. Semantic network representation of existing and common sense knowledge. This includes some initial and existing knowledge regarding the relationships between the corresponding concepts within a specific setting is present and captured in a semantic network. These relationships are the significant patterns and properties as well as variables, which have been acquired over time from experience. This is the central data structure that have been created and held in the mental model about the subject of interest. In other words, these are associative-semantic network that forms its long-term memory featuring the conceptual nodes and the associated links. Human memory can be represented as a semantic network of associations where a node represents a semantic concept and these concepts are connected by directed links. The strength of these influence links varies, and these links allow for association and serves as cues to recognise and act rapidly during intuitive decision making scenarios [2]. 2. Semantic network associated with the contextualised knowledge. 3. Analysis of the network dynamics. The dynamical properties captured by the networks are investigated to provide an assessment of the reliability of the initial knowledge on a specific scenario. Additional information is then obtained iteratively via appropriate network analysis of subset of the networks. 4. Assessment of the concepts relatedness in their respective categories and similarity measurements. 5. Assessment of the intuitive decision making process. If the overall knowledge is consistent with the initial assessment, then we assume it is accurate and no further analysis is suggested.

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ConceptNet is a large semantic network of common sense knowledge, which consists of assertions related to several aspects of everyday life [8]. Its overall topology is defined by connected words and phrases of natural language with labeled edges. Version 5.7 of ConceptNet has been recently been published and it is derived from several sources including the Mind Common Sense corpus, a crowd-sourced knowledge project. The network is designed to represent the general knowledge involved in understanding language, improving natural language applications by allowing the application to better understand the meanings behind the words people use. ConceptNet contains over 8 million nodes and over 21 million edges with an associated positive or negative weight. The more positive the weight, the more likely that the assertion is true. On the other hand, a negative weight indicates that the corresponding assertion is not true [8]. Each node is defined by a core set of 36 asymmetric and symmetric relations such as is_a, Used_For, Part_Of, Capable_Of, Similar_To, Located_Near, Related_To, which are language independent.

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To test the ConceptNet network, the offline copy was downloaded as it provides the complete dataset in locally accessible and highly efficient SQLite database format. Furthermore, this ensured a substantially faster access to the relevant data compared with the online version. In order to investigate the topology of this network, the topic of weather modelling and prediction was chosen. Therefore, ConceptNet was queried based on the following concepts: • • • • • • • •

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This identified a total of 5495 relations from ConceptNet database with the lowest weight in the relations retrieved was 0.1 while the highest weight was 10.472. Suitable data cleansing was carried out by removing any assertion with a weight less than 1 and any non-English concept or assertion. The resulting dataset was saved as a CSV file to allow easy access via Python Pandas and NumPy libraries and to perform some analysis of the network. Since ConceptNet contains millions of edges and nodes, an important decision to make when building a knowledge graph from ConceptNet, is on what concepts to use and relations that are involved in these concepts. Note that an important characteristic of ConceptNet is that a given pair of concepts can be linked by multiple relation types, and relations can have multi-word arguments of diverse semantic types. These places relations in close vicinity in semantic space, making relation prediction a hard task. On average this applies to 5.37% of instances per relation [2]. The relations in ConceptNet can be as deep as the representation requires within the semantic network. Because the size of the network can grow exponentially, we used parameters to limit the size of the network. In other words, we prune the resultant semantic network. Limiting the sizes of the relation structures reduces the noise and improves the performance and efficiency of the resultant network. Moreover, the reduced semantic network makes it easier and simpler to work with. Given the relation structures of each of the concepts in the dataset, we can define the depth of the relation structure. The more the depth, the higher number of the related concepts are retrieved. In our experiment, we used relation grouping and weight importance. We found that the weight importance of between 1 and 4 were reasonable choices in our implementation using ConceptNet dataset. The query runs in approximately 30 s on reduced ConceptNet and in 60 min on the full ConceptNet. 4.2

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on the World Wide Web and it contains unstructured textual data. An important requirement of our model is to represent knowledge as a network. This was achieved by using spaCy to build an appropriate graph representation of knowledge from Wikipedia pages. The resulting network was integrated and combined with ConceptNet to provide the appropriate knowledge discovery for the given scenarios modelled by our approach. By using spaCy libraries, we were able to perform named entity recognition (NER). We applied natural Language Processing (NLP) such as sentence segmentation, Part of speech (POS) to extract pairs of entities and their relations from Wikipedia pages in order to build the knowledge network. The same concepts as above were used to identify the suitable Wikipedia sub-network, which resulted in a combined network of over 8, 000 edges and approximately 3, 500 nodes.

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In this article, a knowledge-based network approach to Artificial Intuition was introduced. To achieve this, a large semantic network was designed based on a suitable textual analysis of ConceptNet and Wikipedia. This is part of ongoing research in this field and it will be used a large knowledge network to initiate a comprehensive analysis and implementation of Artificial Intuition.

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Research on Foreign Anti-terrorism Intelligence Early Warning Based on Visual Measurement Xiang Pan1(&), Zhiting Xiao1, Xuan Guo2, and Yuan Chen1 1 Information and Communication College, National University of Defense Technology, Wuhan, China [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2 Officers’ College of PAP, Chengdu, China [email protected]

Abstract. Based on the core database of Web of Science, 146 foreign effective literatures on anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research are extracted, and the research status, hotpots and frontiers of foreign anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research are objectively analyzed by means of title analysis tool SATI, social network analysis software Ucinet, citation visualization analysis tool Citespace and visualization software NetDraw. The research status, hot spots and frontiers of foreign anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research are objectively analyzed by using software such as topic analysis tool SATI, social network analysis software Ucinet, citation visualization analysis tool Citespace and visualization software NetDraw.

1 Introduction In recent years, the reshaping of the global order has been further carried out: major forces have fluctuated and interacted in a complex way; changes in international mechanisms and rules have accelerated; geopolitical competition among the three major powers has intensified; and multiple challenges have highlighted the urgency of global governance reform. Terrorism in the war, instability, geopolitics and ethnic tensions complex areas by entrenched, organizational structure to the multicenter, flat, decentralized evolution, presents a smaller, faster, more information, stronger specialization degree and attack means more and more violence, influential country broader, more difficult to prevent the new situation. The successful implementation of violent terrorist activities, to a large extent, is due to the loopholes in prevention. In the process of summing up the lessons of failure, countries around the world have gradually shifted the focus of anti-terrorism work from emergency response after attacks to anti-terrorism intelligence and early warning, resulting in a large number of academic research literatures. In view of this, this paper makes a visual econometric analysis of domestic and foreign anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research literature to grasp the research status, research hotpots and progress of domestic and foreign antiterrorism intelligence early warning, so as to clarify the future research direction.

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2 Research Data and Methods Only by econometric analysis of representative literature with sufficient sample size can valuable statistical conclusions be obtained. This paper adopts literature measurement method to conduct quantitative analysis on domestic and foreign anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research literature, and objectively analyzes the research status and hot areas of domestic and foreign anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research with the help of journal analysis tool SATI, social network analysis software Ucinet, citation visualization analysis tool Citespace and visualization software NetDraw. The Data source of The English literature is the core database of Web of Science, AND the retrieval conditions are TS = (anti-Terrorism AND intelligence) OR TS = (anti-Terrorism AND early-warning) OR TS = (terrorism AND early-warning), the retrieval strategy is advanced retrieval, AND the language is English. The literature type was Article, the time span was 2000–2020, retrieved on April 8, 2020. After eliminating duplicates and irrelevant literatures, 146 valid English literatures were obtained.

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The number of published documents reflects to a certain extent the research level and development trend of relevant research in this field at a given time. As can be seen from Fig. 1, the amount of foreign research literature also shows a slow growth trend on the whole and is closely related to the global terrorism governance situation. The “9.11” incident in 2001 caused academic circles in various countries to reflect on the shortcomings of intelligence work one after another. The amount of research literature increased rapidly and reached its first peak in 2004. From 2005 to 2008, with the decrease of the popularity of the “9.11” incident, the amount of research literature decreased year by year. From 2008 to 2011, as al-Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden and other important leaders were successively killed by U.S. Troops, al-Qaeda and the Taliban launched many major retaliatory terrorist attacks, and the amount of research literature showed an increasing trend. The heat of relevant research from 2012 to 2014 is not high. The rapid rise of the “Islamic State” from 2015 to 2017 has once again triggered an upsurge in anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research. Since 2018, terrorism has continued to spread to the social and political fields, resulting in increasingly prominent and deadly extreme right-wing terrorism. Western Europe, North America and Oceania have been attacked successively. At the same time, the rapid development of the Internet has also brought new changes to the spread of terrorism, thus making the heat of foreign anti-terrorism intelligence early warning research continue to this day.

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Journals generally have a fixed theme. Through the collation of high-frequency journals, we can focus on a certain research field, quickly grasp the research hotspots in this field, and accurately grasp the academic frontier. Visualization and centrality analysis of periodicals cited in foreign anti-terrorism early warning research are carried out, as shown in Fig. 3 and Table 1. Through the analysis of periodical intermediary centrality, we can see that RISK ANALYSIS, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTERS SCIENCE have higher intermediary centrality, which are 0.47, 0.47 and 0.39 respectively, covering computer, criminology, international relations and other fields. RISK ANALYSIS is a research journal in the field of interdisciplinary application of mathematics published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing House in the United States. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM is a research journal in the field of computer science and information systems published by the American Computer Association. The journal focuses on the practical impact of information technology progress and related management issues. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTERS SCIENCE is a research-level professional literature on computer science published by SPRINGER Publishing House in Germany. It collects the proceedings of major international conferences on computer science in the world, mainly involving the fields of computers, information technology, automatic control, artificial intelligence, etc. The high centrality of intermediary indicates that the research papers published in these three journals have been highly recognized by research scholars in the field of anti-terrorism intelligence and early warning, and also shows the important influence of the three journals in the field of anti-terrorism intelligence and early warning research.

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Abstract. The core problem of the credit rating is how to build an efficient and accurate classifier on the imbalanced datasets. The ensemble learning and resampling technology have rich results in this field, but the efficiency of the classifier is limited when dealing with high imbalanced credit data. In this paper, we propose a credit rating model based on hybrid sampling and dynamic ensemble technique. Hybrid sampling can contribute to build a rich base classifier pool and improve the accuracy of the integrated learning model. The combination of hybrid sampling and dynamic ensemble can apply to various imbalanced data and obtain better classification results. In the resampling phase, synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) and boundary-sensitive under-sampling techniques are used to process the training data set, and the clustering technique is used to improve the under-sampling and make it more adaptable to high imbalanced credit data, by generating more samples and more representative training subset to enhance the diversity of the basic classifier. A dynamic selection method is used to select one or more classifiers from the basic classifier pool for each test sample. Experiments on three credit data sets prove that the combination of hybrid sampling and dynamic ensemble can effectively improve the performance of the classification.

1 Introduction Credit risk management is a perennial topic in financial field. Due to the subprime crisis appeared in the US in 2007 and some international agreements released since 2010 (such as Basel III), credit rating has attracted more researchers’ attentions from the academic and industry. Recently, with the development of network technique and artificial intelligence, digital payment and peer-to-peer lending are widely used in our daily lives. Credit risk is often hidden in above-mentioned financial platforms; therefore, credit risk assessment is a crucial issue, and credit scoring based on machine learning algorithm is becoming researchers’ first-choice solution. In the era of big data, vast and cross-domain data, more and more data types and high speed will bring about new challenge for credit scoring in financial field. Manual credit risk management is obviously impossible, it needs automatic credit scoring by using machine learning © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 338–347, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_33

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algorithm. Moreover, high-performance credit scoring could help reduce the cost of credit risk assessment, make optimal loan decision, and help financial institution pursuing larger profit margins. As Thomas et al. [1] said: credit scoring is “a set of decision models and their underlying techniques that aid credit lenders in the granting of credit”, consequently, credit scoring model often refers to statistical analysis. Through analyzing users’ historical loan records, we will extract some important features, which have significant impact on risk assessment, such as gender, age, occupation and income, and construct an appropriate model to predict users’ credit scoring. The model of credit scoring is often a classifier, which could divide users into two group, namely, trustworthy users and non-trustworthy users. Financial institution will decide to make leans to users in terms of their credit scoring. In an increasingly complex financial market, the performance of credit scoring model usually affects the market position of financial institution, therefore, constructing a high-performance credit scoring model is crucial. With the great progress of artificial intelligence and deep learning, exploiting machine learning technique to construct credit scoring model has gradually become the mainstream, including k-nearest neighbor (KNN), artificial neural network (ANN), decision tree (DT), support vector machine (SVM). Recently, many researches [2–4] demonstrate that ensemble learning technique has obtained a good performance on credit scoring. Thus, in this paper, we introduce dynamic ensemble learning and hybrid resampling technique to construct credit scoring model.

2 Related Works As an useful tool in financial risk management, credit scoring has attracted lots of researchers’ attention over the past decades, and some interesting research results have been achieved. We divide previous works into two group in terms of the classifier used in credit scoring model, which includes statistical method and machine learning method. Statistical method is the earliest solutions used in credit scoring model, despite the breakthrough of artificial intelligence nowadays, due to their easy implement and accuracy, many statistical methods are still popular, including discriminant analysis (DA) [5–7], logistic regression (LR) [8, 9], Naïve Bayes (NB) [10], rough set theory [3, 11]. For example, Eisenbeis et al. [5] review the early methodological approaches which exploit discriminant analysis technique for credit scoring in 1960s, and point out that the statistical scoring models tend to focusing primarily on the minimization of default rates, ignore other optimization objectives, such as the lender profit maximization and cost minimization. William et al. [6] propose a descriptive example and empirical analysis to show how linear programming might be used to solve discriminant type problems. Mircea et al. [7] propose a specific credit score model based on discriminant analysis, which can make financial diagnoses on particular predefined classes. Patra et al. [8] propose a maximum margin logistic regression with a modified logistic loss function, which has the classification capability of SVM with low computational cost. Sohn et al. [9] propose a fuzzy credit scoring model with fuzzy input and output, which can be used to predict the default possibility of loan for a firm.

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Vedala et al. [10] propose a multi relational Bayesian classification method to predict the default probabilities of users in online P2P platform. Capotorti et al. [11] propose a credit scoring model based on conditional probability assessments, which incorporates fuzzy rough set theory with uncertain reasoning. Maldonado et al. [3] propose a twostep credit scoring approach based on 3-way decisions theory. Machine learning method is another popular technique by used in credit scoring over past years, and many achievements have demonstrated that machine learning method is alternative and effective solution for credit scoring. According to the integration of the algorithm used in credit scoring, machine learning methods can be roughly categorized into two groups: single classification method and ensemble method. The single classification algorithms used in credit scoring model include KNN [12, 13], DT [14, 15], SVM [16, 17], ANN [18] and generative model [19]. For example, Mukid et al. [13] review the weighted k nearest neighbor algorithms for credit scoring and the experimental results show that the Gaussian kernel and rectangular kernel outperform others. Nie et al. [14] propose a misclassification cost measurement by considering two type error and the economic sense, which is applied to logistic regression and decision tree. Sohn et al. [15] propose a rather simple credit scoring model based on decision tree, which can serve as a-replacement for the complicated models currently used for start-up firms. Li et al. [16] propose a reject inference based on semi-supervised SVM for credit scoring, which can deal with labelled and unlabeled data. Luo et al. [17] design a golden-section algorithm based on a unsupervised kernelfree quadratic surface SVM model, which can generate the appropriate classifier for balanced and imbalanced data. Zhou et al. [18] propose a credit scoring model based on multi-layer perceptron neural networks, and prove that the optimization of dataset structure can improve a model’s performance. Mancisidor et al. [19] present two Bayesian models for reject inference in credit scoring, which combines Gaussian mixtures and auxiliary variables in a semi-supervised framework with generative models. Above-mentioned methods almost refer to a single classification algorithm, they probably have good performance on a small dataset. However, current credit risk assessment tends to deal with cross-domain complex datasets. A single classification algorithm is no longer a considerable solution to credit scoring in the big data scenario. Consequently, researchers around the world increasingly exploit ensemble methods for credit scoring. Ensemble methods can be divided into two groups according to their structure: parallel methods [20, 21] and sequential methods. The representatives of the former are bagging [20] and random forest [21], the representative of the latter is boosting [22, 23]. For example, Sun et al. [20] design a decision tree ensemble model based on the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) and the Bagging algorithm, which assign different degrees to new positive samples and different numbers of negative samples are drawn with differentiated sampling rates in iterations. Arora et al. [21] propose a Bolasso enabled random forest algorithm to classify borrower as defaulter or legitimate. Xia et al. [22] propose a sequential ensemble credit scoring model based on extreme gradient boosting (XGboost), which tunes the hyperparameter of XGboost with Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization. Chang et al. [23] construct a credit risk assessment model based on XGboost, which achieve better experimental results than single-stage classification algorithms, such as LR, SVM.

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Recently, few researchers [24, 25] put forward dynamic ensemble method for credit scoring. In this paper, we incorporate hybrid sampling into dynamic ensemble method, propose a novel credit scoring framework, which can be applied to various imbalanced datasets.

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(1) oversampling minority class by using SMOTE technique To denotes the original skewed dataset, TN is the set of majority class, jTN j ¼ NumN , TP is the set of minority class, jTP j ¼ NumP . We use SMOTE algorithm to generate new minority class samples. For randomly selected sample xi 2 TP , i 2 ½1; NumP , we find out its k nearest neighbors fxi;j jj 2 ½1; k g, where the distance measurement is Euclidean distance. Randomly select a sample xi;j0 from fxi;j jj 2 ½1; k g, the new synthetic sample xi;n is:
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5 Conclusion Credit risk is often hidden in above-mentioned financial platforms; therefore, credit risk assessment is a crucial issue, and credit scoring based on machine learning algorithm is becoming researchers’ first-choice solution. In this paper, we propose a credit rating model based on hybrid sampling and dynamic ensemble technique. Hybrid sampling can contribute to build a rich base classifier pool and enhance the performance of the integrated learning model. The combination of hybrid sampling and dynamic ensemble can apply to various imbalanced data and obtain better classification results. Experiments on three credit data sets prove that the combination of hybrid sampling and dynamic ensemble can effectively improve the performance of the classification. Acknowledgments. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61602518, 71872180, 71974202) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (2722 020JCT033).

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Low Infrared Emission Hybrid Frequency Selective Surface with Low-Frequency Transmission and High-Frequency Low Reflection in Microwave Region Yiming Xu(&), Yu Yang, and Xiao Li Brigade Engineering, University of PAP, Xi’an 710086, China [email protected]

Abstract. In this essay, we put forward a mixed structure with the properties of low emission at infrared region and scattering-transmission integrated at microwave region. This hybrid structure is mainly consisted of three portions: a frequency selective surface (FSS), a checkerboard metasurface and a metal patches layer. The FSS displays low-pass and high-stop characteristic, which bounces microwaves at higher frequencies and enables microwaves to be transmitted at lower frequencies. The checkerboard metasurface, with reflective substrate, can minimize reflection at higher frequencies by the method of scattering elimination. Owing to the high-stop properties of the FSS and the it serves as the reflective substrate, the combination of FSS and metasurface can realize broadband reflection reduction at high frequencies. At the same time, the transmission window of FSS in low frequencies can be maintained. At infrared region, the metal patches layer on the top produces the high reflectivity, which makes the whole structure to achieve low infrared emission. Meanwhile, the metal patches layer as the superstrate is transparent for the microwaves, which provides conditions for the radar-infrared compatible design. Simulation results indicate that the value of the reflection reduction is above −10 dB in the frequency range of 6.8–11.6 GHz as well as the transmission band appears around 4 GHz. At the same time, the whole hybrid structure’s emissivity is less than 0.3 in the infrared region. Finally, the experimental measurement is carried out and a good demonstration is supplied. We hope that our proposed structure can seek out a potential applications of multispectral stealth radomes.

1 Introduction With the continuous development of detection technique, the threat of aircrafts in electronic warfare becomes more and more serious. Radar and infrared detection systems have greatly increased the probability of target being detected. Regarding these, it’s desired that radar cross section (RCS) reduction and low infrared emission can be achieved simultaneously. However, the implementations of these two properties are opposite. RCS reduction can mainly be summed up as three points: shaping of target [1], loading absorbing materials [2–6] and cancellation [7–13]. At the same time, according to the law of Kirchhoff, a good absorber is a good emitter, so the object with © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 348–360, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_34

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high reflectivity can meet the low emission requirements. To be more specific, radar stealth needs high absorption and low reflection, while infrared stealth are low absorption and high reflection. Therefore, the implementation of a material or structure achieving compatible stealth at microwave and infrared region simultaneously needs more consideration. In earlier research, radar absorbing materials (RAM) are widely used in radar stealth. Since the high emission of RAM, researchers have added an additional structure with low infrared emission as superstrate [14, 15]. However, the infrared layer will inevitably cause a little deterioration of the performance of radar absorber. Metasurface, which is a two-dimensional metamaterial with a thickness much smaller than the wavelength, emerges as the time required. Because of its unique physical characteristics, metasurface has great potential in stealth [16, 17], antenna [18, 19] and microwave devices [20, 21]. The appearance of metasurface makes it possible for radar-infrared stealth. For instance, radar-infrared stealth compatible composite structure have been achieved by loading a radar transparent metasurface with low infrared radiation on the upper apex of a broadband radar absorber [14, 15]. Furthermore, the scattering cancellation replaced absorption to achieve reflection reduction in the microwave region, while the infrared emission reduction is still obtained owing to the high reflectivity metasurface [22]. Considering the transmission properties is intensely required in the practical application, we would like to introduce it on the basis of the radar-infrared stealth compatible composite structure. In doing so, we propose a mixed structure comprising of a checkerboard metasurface, a bandpass FSS and a high reflectivity metal patches layer. The high duty-cycle metal patches layer on the top is transparent for the microwaves while it has high reflectivity properties to achieve low emission in the infrared region. At microwave band, the bandpass FSS is used as the reflective substrate for the checkerboard metasurface and the mixed structure can reduce broadband reflection at higher frequencies. At lower frequencies, Checkerboard metal has almost no unfavorable effect on FSS transmission, so it can form a transmission window like FSS. The simulation results display that the value of reflection reduction is less than −10 dB in the frequency range of 6.8–11.6 GHz and the transmission band appears around 4 GHz. Finally, the sample was manufactured for experimental verification. According to the experimental test, the emissivity of the proposed structure is less than 0.3 from 5 to 14 lm. The measurement agreed with the simulation results, and the rationality of the design is verified effectively.

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Noting that this just a qualitative design for the mixed structure. A coupling among the multilayer structures in the actual design process is required, so each layer cannot be designed independently. Considering this factor, a bandpass FSS working at low frequencies was intended to be designed first, and a checkerboard metasurface was then designed. Finally, we designed the metal patches layer. By optimizing the whole arrangement, the ideal performance of mixed structure can be obtained Now we design the bandpass FSS. In this design process, we used metal/dielectric/metal/dielectric/metal structure to achieve low-pass and high-stop properties. The structural unit cell is illustrated in Fig. 2(a). The yellow portion is presumed as copper, which is 0.017 mm thick and the conductivity is 5.8
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Rapid Detection of Crowd Abnormal Behavior Based on the Hierarchical Thinking Xiao Li1, Yu Yang1(&), Yiming Xu1, Linyang Li2, and Chao Wang3 1

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Abstract. In view of current algorithms for the crowd abnormal behavior detection are not suitable for different scenarios, a hierarchical detection algorithm is proposed. First, the target area is extracted using the Gaussian mixture model. According to the pixel ratio, decide which type the group belongs to: individualism behaviors, social interaction behaviors or leadership-led behaviors. Then divide the video according to the category of the crowd, calculate HOG-LBP for the crowd with individualism to judge the abnormal appearance. For other categories, calculate the trajectory and entropy in the divided image to obtain the speed, deviation from the trajectory and variance of the trajectory. Then compare with the corresponding thresholds to determine whether an abnormality occurs. The value of the entropy and its first-order function are used to judge the abnormal extent. When the entropy does not exceed 3/2 of the threshold, the optical flow is extracted to calculate CMI, and the peak value is used to detect anomalies. After experiments, our algorithm is verified to be rapid and accurate in different scenarios.

1 Introduction Abnormal crowd behavior has been a hotspot in the research of video and image processing in recent years. The detection of crowd abnormal behavior has problems such as inconsistent definition of abnormalities, difficulty in real-time detection, and serious occlusion problems. Feature extraction algorithm is the key point. Clustering is used to classify the abnormal features and normal features. The commonly used clustering algorithms include K-means clustering [1], SVM [2], and neural networks [3]. Methods using only traditional models such as WEI [4] introduces local optical flow, proposes a crowd abnormal behavior detection algorithm based on the average kinetic energy change magnification, and improves the crowd density detection method based on pixel statistics and texture features to achieve crowd density rating. Liu [5] uses SVM to detect the abnormal behavior of the group as a binary classification © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 361–371, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_35

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problem, while Bertini [6] uses the clustering method to finally divide the normal or abnormal events by threshold. Zhou [7] combines the gray value and the distribution of the optical flow field to extract the motion area. Then extract the local H gradient direction histogram G and the local H The histogram F feature of the optical flow direction. At present, there are many algorithms that combine traditional models and deep learning models. Luo [8] proposed a crowd abnormal behavior recognition algorithm based on YOLO_v3 and sparse optical flow, by detecting small group anomalies to provide sufficient time for group anomaly warning and corresponding emergency measures. Chen [9] proposed a Bayesian fusion-based spatio-temporal stream abnormal behavior detection model. For two reconstruction errors, they used Bayesian criterion fusion reconstruction error to detect anomalies. Wilbert [10] proposed a low computational cost approach based on moved pixel density modelling. Hamidreza [11] proposed two descriptors, one is based on the direction and size of the short trajectory, and the second descriptor is used to locate the abnormal behavior area sequence in the video.

2 Proposed Method This article defines anomalies as “abrupt changes in speed”, “abrupt changes in entropy value”, “abnormalities in related parameter values”. Our proposed algorithm consists of three main parts: determine the target area, feature extraction, and determine anomaly. The overall flow chart of the algorithm is shown in Fig. 1.

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4 Experimental Results and Analysis Two datasets were used in the experiment. One is the BBC news dataset: a total of 2,225 text files on five topical areas published on the BBC news website. Text documents were arranged into folders containing five labels: business, entertainment, politics, sports, and technology. The sample sizes were 510, 386, 417, 511, 401, respectively. The other dataset consists of data sourced from 20 newsgroup; it is a collection of approximately 20,000 newsgroup documents, partitioned evenly across the 20 different newsgroups. We selected 3000 of them as the experimental dataset, whereby the sample sizes of 20 groups were 140, 167, 159, 148, 152, 157, 152, 161, 133, 166, 166, 166, 132, 165, 162, 168, 134, 156, 122, 94 respectively. Following tokenization, stop-words removal and TF-IDF, the feature dimension of the BBC news dataset is 11,227 and that of the 20-newsgroups dataset is 130,107. In a comparative study of Laplacian Eigenmaps, Random Projection and SRP, we used these algorithms to reduce the dimensionality of the high-dimensional text feature vectors, and then applied spectral clustering and CFDP in order to compare their lowdimensional data clustering. In this experiment, we used the three cluster indice-ARI (Adjusted Rand Index), NMI (Normalized Mutual Information) and FMI (FowlkesMallows Index) to evaluate the performance of the clustering algorithm. It should be noted that spectral clustering selects the eigenvectors corresponding to the K maximum eigenvalues by decomposing the Laplace matrix to form a lowdimensional space corresponding to the original data. Spectral clustering can efficiently process the high-dimensional data. Our dataset dimensions are greater than 10,000. If the dataset dimensions from the BBC news (11,227) and 20-newsgroups (130,107) datasets are reduced to about 100 dimensions, the resulting clustering effect is poor. Therefore, before applying spectral clustering, the Laplacian Eigenmaps, Random Projection and SRP dimensionality reduction methods are also used to reduce the

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Fig. 6. The CFDP of the BBC dataset following dimensionality reduction by SRP.

Fig. 7. The CFDP of 20-newsgroups dataset following dimensionality reduction by SRP.

The DPI of Random Projection, Laplacian Eigenmaps and SRP were calculated in accordance with the proposed dimensionality reduction evaluation index. A smaller DPI value indicates that the dimensionality reduction method performs better in terms of distance retention. The results of our comparative study are shown in Table 2. For the two datasets, the indexes calculated by the SRP method are smaller than those calculated using Random Projection and Laplacian Eigenmaps, an indication that the structure of SRP can retain distance information better than that the Random Projection and Laplacian Eigenmaps method following dimension reduction.

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5 Conclusions This study proposes a Stacked-Random Projection dimension reduction framework based on deep networks. In our experiment we used Random Projection, StackedRandom Projection and Laplacian Eigenmaps to reduce the dimensionality of highdimensional data, and applied spectral clustering and fast search and find density peak clustering to compare the clustering results. It was found that Stacked-Random Projection was superior to the other dimensionality reduction methods in terms of ARI, NMI and FMI, and enables spectral clustering and fast search and find density peak clustering to be used to process high-dimensional data. Finally, we proposed a dimensionality reduction quantitative evaluation index (DPI) to quantitatively evaluate the dimensionality reduction effects of Random Projection, Stacked-Random Projection and Laplacian Eigenmaps. Our results show that the performance of StackedRandom Projection is better than that of the other two dimensionality-reducing methods. The experimental results show that the Stacked-Random Projection dimensionality reduction framework is an effective dimensionality reduction method which can significantly improve the clustering performance.

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Adaptive Monitoring in Multiservice Systems Luk´ aˇs R´evay1(B) and Sanja Tomi´c2 1

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Abstract. Understanding of complex systems is a key problem in the IT industry. Such systems can be imagined as a network of micro-services communicating among themselves. After the initial setup the configuration of such system changes with time. It is hard to follow the changes and always know configuration of the system. It is hard to detect errors in its processes and more important it is difficult to evaluate in a real time whether the system still works as designed. Aim of this paper is to provide a solution to evaluate the quality of processes conducted by the system in real-time. We offer complete fully automated solution, which can be easily implemented. This paper also briefly covers the problem of data normalisation, streaming and batch processing which is important for model creation and further validations. This kind of topology is known as lambda architecture. Furthermore we provide solution for graphical representation of the system. The system can be envisioned as a directed graph with micro-services as its nodes and communication between micro-services as its edges. We strive to graphically represent the system as a directed graph and also represent errors our solution detected. Therefore our work covers back-propagation together with model persistence and changes tracking over time.

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The prevalence of web services used for (sub)system integration which become a big topic nowadays [16]. All kinds of services which are responsible for specific domains. All data sent to these services in different formats and also protocols. To avoid business services direct integration problems related to facts mentioned in previous sentences, additional layer needed for integration has been introduced [2]. It is clear that we think about systems functionalities from service point of view. For our purpose the services are also tightly connected with processes this monitored system covers. This additional integration layer gives additional complexity and also increases errors likelihoods. System errors become our concern for this paper. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 402–412, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_39

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It is hard to monitor whole information system when error occurs. This is caused by the complexity of systems which are highly available. With all these replicated services it is hard to find what is the error root cause. Because we monitor a lot of services it is necessary for us to define precisely if the processes finished correctly. These problems put us on path which is described in this paper. The most important thing is to gather the data from all services. When services are replicated it is hard to find on which server even service the process is failing. Coexistence of monitoring is necessary for system definition and its fault analysis. “While building a fault-free system of such complexity is unrealistic, it is very desirable to have effective fault detection and isolation methods in operational system management” [16]. For better understanding and modelling the complex system it is necessary to mine data. In this work we utilize Markov Chain model [10] above which we do predictions and validations. We compare process traces compared to predictions computed upon the model. Because during model creation we know what is the input for process and what shall be the expected result activity when the whole chain ends. We are also able to mark events. Because we exactly know about inputs, labels and also expected outputs it is clear that this machine learning is supervised [11].

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Nowadays when systems become more complex and the complexity is still increasing (Fig. 1) it is important to monitor and check the functionality. Complexity itself on one side decreases system understanding especially in error scenarios, which are not covered during its analysis, implementation and testing. The most important question is, how to find out that erroneous scenario happened. To be able to make such decisions it is necessary to understand the systems. It is also proven that users(managers, analysts, ...) of systems are overestimate the knowledge of processes [14]. This overestimation tend to lead to bad conclusions. It is not possible to avoid all of these problems, but at least it is possible to understand what the processes are doing. To make it understandable for users variety of techniques are usable. There are already techniques like BPMN [7], Petri Nets [3] or Neural Networks [12] which are used for process discovery. Unluckily, it is hard to visualise Neural Network that will fully describe the system. All business processes are visualised especially by BPMN or Petri Nets. Both methods are usable for processes visualisation. Visualisation is the last instance of process discovery utilisation. Each visualisation is of course persisted. For example graph data structures, data tables or neural networks. This data structures are then used for further investigations, normalisations comparing with new version of model and others.

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What is also important nowadays related to such models makes tight coupling between process mining and process discovery [7,14]. To improve the system functionalities and effectiveness, mining brings another insight. It utilizes models which are created in discovery phase. Use cases like, system monitoring, reverse engineering are fully connected with human interaction and work. All events gathered via monitoring and displayed to human via graphs still make only a part of picture. To make the decisions (how to react on some system behaviour) and understanding of system better discovery and mining of processes are crucial.

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It is hard to fully understand processes systems are take care. Those are compound from services which together fulfill the needs system was created. It is hard to remember all the services interactions. For those purposes we utilize modeling of complex systems [9]. All interconnected parts in system define it’s behaviour. With increasing number of services, system complexity raises [6]. Complexity is proven in cases of system failures because everyone is searching for root cause this error was caused. This negative feedback can be sometimes viable before it happens. When we look before system had failed it can be seen in lot of cases that some patterns related to failure repeats.

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When we think about processes which are composed from a lot of steps. Information systems we use are support these processes with services these systems are composed from. Processes mirrored to the information systems which fully obey and supplement such processes create a big interconnect network of service calls. Complete service calls can be understand as traces via whole system. Each trace then corresponds to the appropriate process this information system covers. Important thing which we need to focus is that each invocation of service is initiated by another service in this information system. This kind of bonds are interesting for us in this work. We mostly focus our intention into request, response calls which are base parts for further investigations. High level view of services interactions, provides introspection for processes which is the critical part in process analysis. More about services definition in relation to processes can be found also here. For our work is important that each process is composed from activities. But from monitoring point of view activities are attracted to processes. Because we monitor services for events (Fig. 2) they invoke it can be stated that activity refers to it’s specific event which is caught and grouped as request and response. This makes events sending and its monitoring important for further investigation.

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Process-aware information systems need to be configured based on process models specifying the order in which process steps are to be executed. Creating such models is a complex and time-consuming task for which different approaches exist. The most traditional one is to analyze and design the processes explicitly making use of a business process modeling tool. However, this approach has often resulted in discrepancies between the actual business processes and the ones as perceived by designers [13] therefore, very often, the initial design of a process model is incomplete, subjective, and at a too high level. Instead of starting with an explicit process design, process discovery aims at extracting process knowledge from “process execution logs”. When we think about process discovery in this context, we need to clarify that our aim is preparation of whole process chain based on service calls. Each service call can be tracked and used for further process definition. As we mentioned in previous chapter services which can be understand as process building blocks are used for process definition. From our perspective it does not matter if the service is micro-service, or in some cases we can also cover, method calls (monolithic systems). It is hard to understand whole system and all processes it covers. This work primary brings insight into problems linked with processes overview. It is our primary aim because it is necessary to see current system status all services which define each process this system is covering. Whole process discovery is possible when all necessary services log appropriate data. Based on data from logs we are able to connect services and fully construct the call pipeline which defines the process. 4.1

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Our first technical problem is to get data. Because we focus mostly on already existing systems the only think which is important are log data with appropriate format and required information. Important think in monitored system is logging of service calls. When this condition is successfully accomplished then it is possible stream the logged data for further processing. Raw data from logs are not suitable for processing. Before model creation or predictions it is necessary preprocess data. This is better described in Sect. 4.3 about preprocessing. What is more important that the normalised logged events flowing through monitoring needs to be splitted for batches computation and for streamed real time normalised events. This kind of architecture is know as lambda architecture [8]. 4.3

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It is important to understand that the quality data is a key issue when we are going to mining from it. Nearly 80% of mining efforts often spend to improve the quality of data [1]. The data which is obtained from the logs may be incomplete, noisy and inconsistent. The attributes that we can look for in quality data includes accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, believability, interpretability and accessibility. There is a need to preprocess data to make it have the above mentioned attributes and to make it easier to mine for knowledge. In the following subsections we discuss about the data cleaning and data reduction algorithms [13]. In this work we preprocess data from it’s raw logged form and transform them. During preprocessing all raw logged data are normalized to the form which is suitable for further processing and model creation. We prepared minimal requirements definition for data which are necessary for processing part as described in Sect. 4.1. 4.4

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Adaptive monitoring at its core is binary clustering problem. The processes are sorted into two categories, successful and failed. Because of this, it makes sense

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to make model entirely of good patterns. Our model of the system processes is consisted of three components: Markov Chain, evaluation of transition time and absolute number of observed transitions. After the bad patterns are filtered out of each component, we merge them and create the model. The constraints we use for filtering are learned through iterative process. After the model is created it is stored in a database as structured table. The table contains 4 columns, the first and the second represent transitions (From-To), third and forth represent time interval (Minimum Time and Maximum Time) (Table 1). Table 1. An example of the model

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2. Do predictions for streamed events based on model 3. Compare reality with prediction 4. Persist false marked trace. Based on these events it is possible to create different statistical graphs views or trends that can be used for system error predictions. Related visualisation representing model (Fig. 5b) is crucial for system understanding. Can be also used for reverse engineering and control if services needed for business processes events are there. Added value of this model is easy visualisation and clear understanding which processes are important during run time of system. Traces prediction and comparison with real time traces provides possibility to see if any of trace is not as expected compared to prediction. Visualisation (Fig. 6) of such negative traces also brings another added value related to this solution. 5.3

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To understand modeled system from database table is not possible. To be able to see all calls and present them in understandable way. We graphically (Fig. 5b) represent the model (Table 1) as directed graph [4].

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In our research we developed a machine learned approach related to process mining and discovery. This kind of solution is based on Markov Chain algorithm that can be replaced or combined with another algorithms. To do such decision we need to do a lot of testing and validations on real data. Current work is tested for now only on small chunks of data which also do not cover the performance problems that can come when there is large amount of events. We also think about model changes that can be persisted in time series manner. This kind of persisting can provide us also another point of view during the time. Further we want also predict each step in long term processes that is also crucial. We still miss possibility to update the model by human supervisor which in case of error from our prediction can update the model in a way the. These are also directions for future research. Acknowledgment. The following grants are acknowledged for the financial support provided for this research: Grant of SGS No. SP2020/78, VSB Technical University of Ostrava.

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Towards Faster Matching Algorithm Using Ternary Tree in the Area of Genome Mapping Rostislav Hˇrivˇna´ k(B) , Petr Gajdoˇs , and V´aclav Sn´asˇel VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic {rostislav.hrivnak.st,petr.gajdos,vaclav.snasel}@vsb.cz

Abstract. In area of precision medicine there is a need to map long sequences of DNA, which are represented as strings of characters or numbers. Most of the computer programs used for genome mapping use suffix-based data structures, but those are much more suitable for mapping of short DNA sequences represented as strings over small alphabets. The most crucial parameters of data structure used for DNA mapping are time to fill the data structure, search time and system resources needed, especially memory, as the amount of data from scanning process can be really large. This article will describe implementation of memory optimized Ternary Search Tree (TST) for indexing of positions of labels obtained by Bionano Genomics DNA imaging device. BNX file parser with alphabet encoding functions is described and performance results from experiments with presented software solution on real data from Bionano Genomics Saphyr device are also included.

1 Motivation Precision medicine requires human genome to be sequenced and then mapped to reference genome to find differences between them. This enables pinpointing of the disease with greater accuracy. Majority of techniques and methods used today were developed to sequence the human genome by short-read sequencing. For clinical genomics, long-read sequencing methods are needed [1], and are being developed for example by company Bionano Genomics [2, 3]. Availability and possibility to use new methods in clinical practice are directly connected to performance of computation systems which are used to analyze scanned genetic data. From bioinformatics stand point this means that majority of tools used were developed and optimized for short-read genome assembly, which differs significantly from long-read genome mapping. Figure 1 shows schema of DNA scanning process using Bionano Genomics Saphyr Genome Imaging Instrument which produces such longreads. Process can be divided into 3 phases. The first phase is scanning itself - prepared solution containing DNA is injected into Saphyr chip (module), which consists from up to 3 flowcells with 2 channels each (inlet and outlet channels). Large fragments of DNA molecules flows from one channel to the other through the banks on each side of the channel while laser is scanning them. Sites on the DNA molecules which were labeled with fluorescent markers during the preparation phase reflects laser beam more c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 413–424, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_40

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than parts of the DNA fragments where no fluorescent markers are present. This results in output image of one column in the bank. Each sample is scanned ∼50 times. There are 4 banks in each flowcell, each bank is further divided into 137 columns. In phase two resulting image of whole scanning process must be assembled. This is done by Saphyr software. Raw scan input for image assembly consists of 137 columns× 4 banks × 50 scans × 2 channels = 54 800 images. Each input image has ∼16 Mb. This multiplied by the total number of scans, columns, banks and chips gives ∼877 Gb of raw images per flowcell. This means that Saphyr device in 3 flowcells configuration is able to produce ∼ 3T b resulting image, in which all source images are assembled together. During phase three, software analyses resulting image based on color and intensity of points in the image. Resulting model which contains positions of the marked labeled sites on DNA molecules relative to the beginning of the molecules is computed and saved into raw text data file named BNX [2, 17]. Positions of label sites and distances between them are measured in base pairs. Data from BNX files are source for genome mapping onto reference genome. But first, label positions stored in the BNX file has to be read and indexed to computer memory together with metadata about the part of DNA molecule, from which they originate. Indexing data structure must enable fast searching for given string and return all occurrences of matched strings held in the index. Most genome assemblers are using suffix-based data structures which are much more suitable for storing short strings over short alphabets [4, 5]. This article describes novelty approach how to process, encode and store label position data from Bionano Genomics BNX file into memory optimized ternary search tree (TST). Main emphasis was put on memory optimization by modifying TST structure with possibility to parameterize some of the data structure properties. Described BNX

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parser and data structure will be used as one of the building block for new genome mapper which is being developed.

2 Data Preprocessing As was stated in Sect. 1, BNX file is a raw data text file and content of the file has to be preprocessed for use in genome mapping. For simplification, in this chapter the term molecule denotes the set of label positions or distances between them (depending on the phase of parsing process), not the DNA double helix molecule itself (or its fragments). Preprocessing takes place in so called BNX parser which has following functions: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Read and parse BNX file according to the documentation [16] Filter out molecules by labels count Calculate distances between the labels Encode distances by selected function to a new (numerical) alphabet

Reading the data from the file according to specification is a necessary step to proceed and is really only a technical step. Each set of label positions represents one scanned part of DNA and hugely varies in lengths - there can be sets several hundreds of labels long, but also there can be molecules covered with only five or ten labels. This can be caused by error, but it can also mean that molecule doesn’t have any matching sites where fluorescent mark can adhere to, i.e. it is correct. Experience shows that molecules with too few values is good to left out from further processing - it doesn’t contain enough information for assembly and mapping and filtering such molecules out also saves some system resources. So the second step of the BNX file parsing is to filter molecules which doesn’t surpass given labels count threshold (parameter of BNX parser). Because label positions in BNX files are given as absolute position of labels from the beginning of the scanned DNA molecule fragment, it’s very convenient to calculate distances between the labels. This transformation not only doesn’t lose any information and saves one number per molecule, but also allows comparison of DNA fragments (aligning them to form larger molecules called contigs and then mapping onto reference genome) as distances between the labels are key information. Absolute label positions, thus also distances between them, are integer values (measured in base pairs as was stated before). From information theory point of view - resulting set of all distinct distances between labels forms the alphabet and each molecule is a string over this alphabet. Last step is to compress the alphabet by encoding label distances by selected conversion function. From perspective of data indexing it is good to have smallest possible alphabet as it leads to smaller data structures needed. Some information contained in label distance strings is obviously lost during the process of alphabet compression. This is not necessarily a bad thing as the data which are processed by the parser are not, and can’t be, absolutely correct. Label distances encoding can be also beneficial and can bring error tolerance into the solution. DNA fragments which are being scanned can be for example tangled. This leads to position shift of the labels. If the shift is small, then

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encoding function can map label distance to correct one. Careful selection and parameterization of this function is necessary and require further research, testing and fine tuning. Our parser currently supports linear, logarithmic and polynomial functions.

3 Data Structures Suffix-based data structures is a set of data structures optimized for storing and searching among suffixes of string(s) stored. Main representatives of suffix-based data structures are: • Suffix Trees (ST) • Suffix Arrays (SA) • Directed Acyclic Word Graph (DAWG) Suffix Tree is commonly used data structure for string indexing. ST is a trie used to find all possible suffixes of stored string [8, 9]. Variant used to store multiple strings in one data structure is called Generalized Suffix Tree [10]. Time complexity of ST construction is O(n) and the number of ST nodes is at most 2n, where n is length of the string for which ST is constructed. Suffix Array [11] is a sorted array of all string suffixes. SA is more space efficient than suffix trees, it occupies approximately 4 × n bytes in memory for n characters stored. FM-index [12] is even more space efficient data structure based on suffix arrays. It uses Burrows-Wheeler transform to compress the data. SA can be constructed in O(n log n) time and search time complexity is O(p), where p is length of the string we are searching for. Directed Acyclic Word Graph [14] is an automaton which stores all sub-strings in a graph where vertices are reused by allowing multiple edges to connect vertices. DAWG can be constructed in O(n) time and search time for string of length p is O(p). More space efficient, and very often used, variation of DAWG data structure is a compressed DAWG (CDAWG) [13]. Ternary Search Tree (TST) [6, 7] is a memory optimization of R-way trie data structure. Each node doesn’t contain list of all possible values from the alphabet of R characters, as in R-way trie, but only three pointers to its child nodes. This is similar to binary search tree where each node has only two child nodes. TST is data structure used to store sets of strings. TST can be also used to store suffixes of given string, but those suffixes has to be generated and inserted into the TST as original strings. Pointers of a TST node will be denoted as le f t, equal and right, node of the TST as N and child nodes of the node N as Nle f t , Nequal and Nright . TST is then constructed based on following rules: If node N[S[i]] contains i − th character of string S, then node Nequal [S[i]] contains S[i + 1] character of the string S. Node Nle f t [S[i]] (and Nright [S[i]]) contains character which meet relation S[i] < Nle f t [S[i]] (S[i] > Nright [S[i]] respectively). Each node in TST must contain one last information, and that is, if the node represents end of the string. Average time complexity for searching in TST is O(log n), where n is number of nodes in the TST. Height of the tree is proportional to log3 N and so average search time complexity is O(log N). Construction of TST has at worst time complexity of O(n), where n is the length of inserted string.

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Worst case space complexity of TST is O(p), where p is a sum of lengths of all strings stored in the TST. This can happen only in the situation when each string contains character from the alphabet only once and each character is used only in one string (super-linear TST). Real-life strings doesn’t have such characteristics, so some nodes of the TST can be reused, thus saving the space required to store the TST. This especially applies to strings which has common prefixes. Rigorously it can be described as relation of space complexity (number of nodes) on entropy of the input set 3n/H, where n is a number of strings in the input set and H is entropy of the input set [6]. Big benefit of TST is its ability to easily implement partial-match search algorithm which allows to search TST for strings by not fully defined keys (i.e. some characters in the search key are replaced by wild cards) or for searching against keys with given tolerance function (i.e. search for key abc with diff factor ±1 will match strings like bcd, bbc, aab, ... in the TST).

4 Ternary Search Tree Improvements Main thought behind presented optimization of TST is to save memory on unnecessary “technical” parts of the tree [15]. Classic, not optimized, implementation of TST needs following data fields per tree node: • Key data (char/integer/pointer; for calculations in this Section 4 Bytes integer will be used) • 3 pointers to child nodes (depends on the system architecture; for calculations in this Section 8 Bytes pointers will be used) • Boolean flag indicating if the node is end of the word (for calculations in this Section 1 Byte will be used) • 1 pointer to value data if the TST serves as an index (not needed if TST only stores keys and queries for presence of given key string in the TST) This gives us total of 37 Bytes of memory. Please note here that this is only theoretical value. In specific implementation this number varies quite a lot depending on the platform, programming language, concrete data types used, computer architecture and compiler. Second thought is not to create tree nodes from certain depth of the tree at all, but rather store key string from some depth just as sequence of keys linked to the last tree node. This is based on the observation that branching in the tree happens just at the beginning of the string which is being indexed. This is highly empirical and differs a lot depending on the alphabet size and entropy of the strings indexed. When this parameter is too low, then optimized TST will become array of arrays as there will be only one node, root, and all data will be stored in the arrays. Node classes which are used to represent optimized TST can be categorized as follows: • Base nodes (4 + 8 = 12 Bytes) • Inner nodes (12 + 16 = 28 Bytes)

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• End nodes (28 + 17 = 45 Bytes) All node types contain pointer to it’s center child and key value. This minimal form of node is used for Base node. Inner nodes have two more pointers, one for left and second for right child node. End node is an extension of Inner node and contains data fields for storing end of the string - collection of pointers to metadata which are linked to the stored word, pointer to Residual Data object (which will be described later on) and boolean flag signaling end of the string. Base and Inner nodes are used to build the TST and are unable to hold any data apart from the key value and End Nodes are data storage nodes. This optimization of course comes with some cost - there is a need to evaluate what type of node is needed when new node is linked to the optimized TST. Nodes are only “upgraded” during the insertion and can be “downgraded” during the deletion of node according to the relation BaseNode < InnerNode < EndNode - End Node is the most universal kind of node, but requires most memory to represent. Further optimization is introduction of Residual Data object. It consists of two arrays - first stores pointers to collection of keys and second contains pointers to metadata which are linked to respective key sequence. Optimized TST has a parameter which specifies key sequence depth from which keys are no longer stored as nodes, but are put into Residual Data collection. Metadata which are connected to that key are stored on the same array index in the Residual Data object.

Fig. 2. Optimized TST example

Figure 2 illustrates structure of optimized TST which stores words “ABAC”, “ACC”, “ACCD” and “ABACDDD”. MP denotes Metadata Pointer for respective word (for simplicity only one metadata pointer is shown, but as was mentioned above there is a collection of pointers). Parameter for use of Residual Data object is set to 4, i.e.

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sub string “DDD” from “ABACDDD” won’t be stored as TST nodes, but is placed into Residual Data structure. Optimized TST is constructed as regular TST. All nodes starts as base nodes. Inner nodes are created only in case when branching is needed but there is no need to store data in the node (i.e. node with key value “B” from the example). In case there is a end of key sequence (word), the type of node is changed to end node. This also happens when newly added key sequence ends in the middle of TST where we have only base node (i.e. word “ABA” will be added to the example).

5 Experiments and Achieved Results This section describes experiments with current implementation of BNX parser and optimized TST data structure and presents achieved results. All experiments were done on computer with Intel Core i7 CPU, 32GB RAM, NVMe SSD hard drive and Windows 10 operating system. Implementation was done in C++ and compiled with g++ compiler. Source data file containing 4 546 748 molecules has size of 2 496 MB Tables 1, 2 and 3 shows measured performance data and legend is as follows: • • • • • • • • •

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Measured data shows how size of the TST decreases with count of tree nodes. Comparison with not optimized TST was done on theoretical level. In our implementation of TST size of nodes is 24B for base node, 40B for inner node and 64B for end node. Not optimized TST would have all nodes represented as end nodes. This leads to assumption, when also accounting for some technical specific constants, that not optimized TST would be ten times larger than optimized TST with node stop creation depth parameter set to 10. Difference between real sizes of nodes and theoretical are caused for example by memory alignment of data fields in structures and objects when allocated. Data also shows that the presented optimization has improved TST build time: 15, 5% improvement for 4,5M molecules between without node creation stop depth and with node creation stop depth = 10. This is caused by not doing decisions needed for node creation when finding correct place in the TST where the new node should be inserted. Figure 3 shows count of nodes in the TST in relation on count of molecules parsed from BNX file for three values of nodes stop creation depth parameter.

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Figure 4 shows sizes of TST in relation on count of molecules parsed from BNX file for three values of nodes stop creation depth parameter. Chart uses logarithmic axis scale to better display the relation.

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Table 5 shows confusion matrix for our parser with optimized TST. It was tested by parsing 190362 molecules from BNX file. Distances between labels were encoded with logarithmic (with base 10) encoder and then inserted into the TST together with all their suffixes. This resulted in total of 5 371 720 strings stored in the TST. Optimized TST was configured with node stop creation depth parameter = 10. Test engine tried to search for all molecules, resulting in total of 190 362 searches. Performing this amount of searches took approximately 673[ms]. Searching was done in that way, that for true-positives and false-negatives original (source) molecules were used as we know, that those molecules were added into the TST. Distances between the labels were encoded and then passed to the search function. For testing of true-negatives and false-positives new set of molecules is needed, so those were generated by “deformation” of original ones. All source label distances were multiplied with some deformation factor D f , encoded and then passed to search function. Search function returns all strings from TST which were matched with the searched string. Table 6 shows calculated quality scores from confusion matrix for different values of D f . For set of molecules which were not deformed (D f = 0) all molecules were found in the TST. This was expected as distance encoding function always encode to same resulting values. When molecules are very similar (low D f values) to molecules inserted into the TST, then more matches occurs. This is again expected. Table 6. Confusion matrices - results D f = 0% D f = 1% D f = 2% D f = 5% Precision

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6 Conclusion In this article novel implementation of BNX file parser with memory optimized TST indexing data structure was described. Main goal is to shorten time needed to align DNA molecules to reference genome and to find differences between them. This is much needed in precision medicine as the whole process now takes up to several days

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and large part of the time required is spent just in data processing. There, quality and speed of DNA mapping software plays significant role. Hopefully improvement in efficiency and speed of DNA mapping software will lead to greater expansion of precision medicine into clinical practice. Thorough performance and quality testing of presented solution was done. Results show that the TST can be build in reasonable times even for quite large amounts of data on mediocre computer so much better performance can be expected on more powerful machines. Memory optimization shows significant savings in memory consumption on real-life data. Search performance was also improved by saving unnecessary comparisons when searching for data in the TST. Further work is definitely needed and can be divided into three parts - parameter optimization, technical improvements and further testing. Presented solution has several parameters which should be optimized and tested on real-life data, especially node stop creation depth parameter for TST and choice of alphabet encoding function for molecule parser. Whole solution can be further improved with technical improvements such as use of low level programming in certain areas or better memory allocation of arrays needed to store residual data in TST End Nodes. BNX parser, TST building and searching can also be parallelized for better utilization of system resources on modern computers. Further testing should be done on more powerful server class computers on much larger input data-sets. Also finding impact of different alphabet sizes on performance should be analyzed. Acknowledgements. This work is supported by SGS project, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, under the grant no. SP2020/161 and Celgene Research Grant-CZ-102.

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Preprocessing COVID-19 Radiographic Images by Evolutionary Column Subset Selection Jana Nowakov´ a , Pavel Kr¨ omer(B) , Jan Platoˇs, and V´ aclav Sn´ aˇsel VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu, 2172/15 Ostrava, Czech Republic {jana.nowakova,pavel.kromer,jan.platos,vaclav.snasel}@vsb.cz

Abstract. Column subset selection is a hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in operations research, data analysis, and machine learning. It involves the search for fixed–length subsets of columns from large data matrices and can be used for low–rank approximation of high–dimensional data. It can be also used to preprocess data for image classification. In this work, we study column subset selection in the context of radiography image analysis and concentrate on the detection of COVID-19 from chest X–ray imagery.

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Radiographic image analysis is an important part of diagnostic imaging. It is a field within modern medicine that deals with the representation, communication, and analysis of visual (image) information [23]. The analysis is nowadays typically done by human experts and aided by computers (e.g., decision support systems) but the need for accurate, robust, and efficient methods to automate this task is obvious. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in medical image analysis allows not only the use of intelligent classification and prediction methods, but also the application of advanced data pre– and post– processing techniques common in this field. Column subset selection (CSS) [4] is a combinatorial optimization problem well-known for its empirically demonstrated hardness and a wide range of real– world applications. One of its potential uses is unsupervised feature and variable selection selection [31] that has been previously used as preprocessing for image classification [21,31]. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a severe disease caused by coronavirus SARS-COV2 [28]. By June 2020, COVID-19 is a global pandemy with several epicenters around the world and death toll of nearly 500,000. Accurate and efficient diagnostic methods are needed to detect [8] and/or assess [3] COVID-19 in patients. In this work, we use differential evolution (DE) to find column subsets useful for the classification of COVID-19 radiographic images and evaluate the effect of this reduction on machine learning–based classification of COVID-19 positive and negative patients. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 425–436, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_41

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CSS is a combinatorial optimization problem that consists in the search of k columns out of the total of n columns of a (potentially large) matrix, Am×n , k < n. From a top–level point of view, it is a form of knowledge extraction that aims at an automated identification of useful features from large sets of variables. In image classification [21,31], CSS has been used as a dimensionality reduction method. It was applied to collections of images to extract a subset of pixels for further processing by different machine learning and classification models. CSS for image classification has been in the past tackled by kernel–based [31] and genetic [21] algorithms. Without regard to a particular application, CSS is defined as [4]: Definition 1 (CSS). For a matrix, A ∈ Rm×n , and a positive integer, k < n, select k columns out of A to form another matrix, C ∈ Rm×k , so that the residual A − PC Aξ (1) n is minimized over all possible k column subsets of A. In Eq. 1, PC = CC † denotes a projection of A into a k-dimensional space spanned by the columns of C, ξ = {2, F } is spectral or Frobenius norm, respectively [4], and C † is the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of C [12]. The goal of CSS is to find the combination of k columns (out of all n columns of A) that would minimize (1). It is a hard problem that can be solved by deterministic methods only in a limited number of cases. Although a formal proof has not been provided yet, CSS is assumed to be NP–hard. So far, it has been shown unique games (UG) hard. A UG hard problem is a problem that is NP–hard in case the unique games conjecture holds [6]. This is strong support to the expected NP–hardness of CSS. The problem can be solved by deterministic, approximate (stochastic, randomized), and mixed–type (hybrid) algorithms. Small and medium–sized CSSP instances have been solved by deterministic methods based on a sparse approximation of singular value decomposition [7], randomized 2–stage algebraic selection algorithm [4], pseudoinverse–based methods [1], greedy algorithms [11], and others. Recently, an increased amount of research has been devoted to the application of nature–inspired metaheuristics to CSS [21] and other hard subset selection (combination) problems [29].

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Radiology is an area of medicine highly relying on image analysis. X-ray images of different parts of bodies are routinely taken and analyzed either by human experts (medical doctors), with the help of digital image analysis and, in recent times, using image retrieval, artificial intelligence, and machine learning [13]. The primary task of medical image analysis is pattern recognition such as finding the anomalies, nodule markings, bones fractures’ detection, etc. [18].

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The current abilities and future use of AI and machine learning in radiology are still often discussed [26]. Radiology is at the forefront of medical areas that have the potential to be transformed using AI. However, the adoption of AI in medicine, including radiology, is not straightforward. Medical experts, and even medical students who are young and use AI in their lives on a daily basis, are often skeptical about its role in diagnostics and treatment [14]. It has been pointed out that, in the beginning, radiologists have to extend their knowledge of statistics and data science to be able to efficiently use, validate, and interpret the results obtained by machine learning [19], even when used as decision support systems [13]. On the other hand, the adoption of modern, AI–driven data analytic methods in radiology can significantly decrease the time needed to accomplish individual tasks. This can lead to cost reductions and make the healthcare available to more patients [32]. The applications of the machine learning in radiology can be divided into six basic groups [35]: medical image segmentation, registration, computer–aided detection and diagnosis, brain function or activity analysis and neurological disease diagnosis, content–based image retrieval systems, and text analysis of radiology reports using natural language processing and natural language understanding. In the last couple of years, interesting machine learning applications can be found in, e.g., the classification of radiology reports [25]. It involved active learning for optimization and classification performance improvement. Another application is the annotation of radiology reports, i.e., automated identification of findings in the reports [36]. A special challenge for machine learning in medical image analysis is the question of big data. The availability of big medical data can overcome the lack of AI. The combination of the advantages of big data approaches and machine learning methods has great potential for medical image analysis. It can contribute to the advent of personalized medicine at a high level [10]. In light of current events, the scope of many ongoing researcher efforts is focused on the analysis of chest radiographs in conjunction with COVID-19. 3.1

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In relation to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, great attention is nowadays paid to chest radiography as a substitute or complement of RT–PCR (Reverse Transcription – Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests in COVID-19 early screening [5], diagnostics, or as treatment support method. A radiograph (X-ray) is the fundamental non–invasive method in the treatment of many lung diseases. In COVID19 radiographic image analysis, it is necessary to differentiate the radiographs of COVID-19 positive subjects from subjects suffering by other respiratory diseases such as Influenza–A viral pneumonia and healthy (test) subjects. By June 2020, large quantities of new methods to accomplish this task have been introduced. In this section, we provide only a short overview of selected recent ones. An overview of AI and non–AI methods addressing COVID-19 in various ways is provided, e.g., in [33]. Analysis of computer tomography (CT) images by

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support vector machines (SVM) is proposed in [2]. The CT images were divided into 32 × 32 sized blocks (patches). Each patch was transformed by Grey Level Size Zone Matrix into a 1 × 13 feature vector, processed by Discrete Wavelet Transform, and classified by an SVM. Essentially, positive and negative samples were in this approach separated by a high margin hyperplane. Another system combining 2D and 3D image analysis for COVID-19 detection was introduced in [15]. It is a combination of commercial off–the–shelf software for the 3D subsystem and pre–trained neural network for segmentation, i.e., search for the region of the interest in the 2D subsystem. A rather small data set of 50 chest X-ray images was used to develop deep convolutional neural classifiers [17] based on modified Visual Geometry Group Network and on Google MobileNet. A side–by–side comparison of several deep neural networks addressing COVID-19 screening problem was provided in [9]. The authors compared the performance of 8 models (SqueezeNet, MobileNetv2, ResNet18, InceptionV3, ResNEt101, CheXNet, DenseNet201, VGG19) on two variants of radiographic images – with and without additional augmentation. In another research, a COVNet–based deep learning framework (RestNet50) with the ability to detect COVID-19, pneumonia, and non–pneumonia patients was proposed for the classification of 2D, and 3D CT scans [22]. The availability of reliable and good–quality radiography data is essential for the development of AI models for COVID-19 detection. The authors of [24] combined several public data sets to create a collection of 5,000 chest X-ray images. The collection was split (2,000 for training, 3,000 for test) and used for the training of several convolutional neural networks, in particular ResNet18, ResNet50, SqueezeNet, and DenseNet–121. A new network called VB–Net was introduced in [30] and trained using a human–in–the–loop strategy. Another system to tackle the disease named COVID-Net [34] was based on a custom deep conventional neural design. Networks with a weakly–supervised deep learning were proposed in [37]. Apparently, major effort is devoted to the design of deep learning and neural methods to analyze COVID-19 image data. In this work, we put emphasis on image preprocessing, important feature selection, and its effects on the classification by different traditional machine learning classifiers.

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The DE [27] is an evolutionary optimization algorithm that evolves a population of real–valued vectors representing the solutions to the solved problem. It facilitates an artificial evolution of a population of candidate solutions by an iterative application of the differential mutation and crossover operators. The DE starts with an initial population of M randomly generated (or carefully initialized) real–valued vectors. During the optimization, the algorithm perturbs selected base vectors with the scaled difference of two (or more) other population vectors to produce so–called trial vectors. The trial vectors compete with other members of the current population with the same index called the target

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vectors. If a trial vector represents a better solution than the corresponding target vector, it takes its place in the population [27]. The two most important DE parameters are scaling factor and mutation probability [27]. The scaling factor, F ∈ [0, ∞), controls the rate at which the population evolves and the crossover probability, C ∈ [0, 1], determines the ratio of elements that are transferred to the trial vector from its opponent. The standard DE is a continuous metaheuristic optimization method. However, in this work, it is used to solve a combinatorial optimization problem. In order represent column subsets by real–valued vectors, the DE uses a decoding algorithm first introduced in [20]. Each column subset is represented by a real–valued vector, c, of the size k. The vector is decoded into a set of column indices, K, |K| = k, using the following decoding algorithm: every coordinate in the candidate vector, ci , is truncated and added to K. If j = trunc(ci ) already exists in K, next available column index that is not included in K yet, is added to the set. The fitness function that is minimized by the DE is fcss = ||A − CC † A||F , C = {cij }, i = {0, . . . , m}, j = {c1 , . . . ck }.

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In order to evaluate the suitability of CSS as an unsupervised preprocessing step in the analysis of COVID-19 radiographs, a series of computational experiments was performed over the Covid Radiography Database (CRD) [9]. The CRD data set was downloaded from Kaggle1 and contained 219 chest radiographs of patients with COVID-19, 1345 chest radiographs of patients with viral pneumonia, and 1341 radiographs of patients with neither disease (normal). All images had resolution 1 MP (i.e., 1024 × 1024 pixels). In this work, only COVID19 positive and normal images were used and a binary classification problem was considered. An example of images from the database is shown in Fig. 1. For the purpose of the computational experiments, the images were converted to grayscale and scaled–down by factor 4 (i.e., to 256 × 256 pixels) by Lanczos resampling. Then, three test data sets were created. COV4-50 was assembled from 50 randomly selected COVID-19 and 50 randomly selected normal images, COV4-100 was composed of 100 COVID-19 and 100 normal images, and COV4219 was composed of all 219 COVID-19 images and 219 randomly selected normal images. Each data sets was represented by a single matrix with images as rows and individual image pixels as columns. 1

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A battery of traditional machine learning classifiers, was used to distinguish COVID-19 chest radiographs from radiographs of healthy patients. The models included the k-Nearest Neighbour classifier with k = 3 (kNN3), linear support vector machine (SVM), classification and regression tree (CART) [16], and a shallow neural network (i.e., multilayer perceptron) with a single hidden layer of 100 neurons (MLP). The methods were selected because of their frequent use in data mining and machine learning and because similar classifiers were recently used for CSS–aided image classification [21,31]. All classifiers were set up with parameters corresponding to best practices and initial trial–and–error runs. COVID-19 positive subjects

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To evaluate their ability to detect COVID-19 from chest radiographs, they were first evaluated on the full COV4-50, COV4-100, and COV4-219 data sets. The data sets were first split into training (60%) and test (40%) subsets and then processed by the classification algorithms. Each classifier was first trained on the trainig subset and then evaluated on the test subset. The results of the initial evaluation are summarized in Table 1.

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The table shows a very good ability of the classifiers to detect positive COVID-19 patients from even downscaled radiographs. Next, the effect of (random) column sampling on the accuracy of the classification was investigated. From each data set, 51 random column subsets of size k, k ∈ {6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384}, were taken and the ability of the classifiers to detect COVID-19 positive patients from such reduced data was evaluated. The average classification accuracy on data with randomly sampled columns (i.e., image pixels) is shown in Table 2. The table clearly illustrates how column sampling reduces classification accuracy. It also shows that the reduction in training accuracy differs among classifiers (training of CART and MLP is less affected than the training of kNN3 and SVM). The drop in test accuracy is for different classifiers different, too. This fact points out the different ability of the investigated classifiers to learn and generalize. Another interesting observation is the different sensitivity of the classification algorithms to the amount of dimensionality reduction (i.e., the value of k). kNN3 is from this point of view in many cases less sensitive than SVM and MLP when the dimensionality is reduced to lowest values and achieves better accuracy for small ks. This trend is, however, more pronounced in training (training precision) than in generalization (test precision). Then, the DE was used to learn column subsets of size k. The implemented DE was the traditional /DE/rand/1 version of differential evolution with scaling factor, F = 0.9, crossover probability, C = 0.9, population size 20, and maximum number of DE generations set to 2000. The values of F and C were selected on the basis of best practices and initial trial–and–error runs. Population size and the maximum number of generations were chosen with regard to the computational complexity of the algorithm. For smaller data sets, COV4-50 and COV4-100, column subsets for certain ks were not computed due to the numerical precision of the pseudoinverse of C computation. The evolutionary search for column subsets by the DE was for each data set and each value of k repeated 51 times, independently. Results of this experiment are shown in Table 3. The table clearly illustrates that CSS as a dimensionality reduction procedure contributes to the accuracy of COVID-19 detection in the investigated collection of chest X-ray images. The use of column subsets, obtained through DE–powered evolutionary CSS, increased the average training accuracy on the reduced data for all but one classifier to over 0.9 (i.e., 90%). The only exception was SVM that achieved on the smallest data set, COV4-50, and for the smallest column

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Table 2. Average training and test accuracy on data sets with randomly selected column subsets. k

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subset size, k = 6, training accuracy 0.85. The reduction of the data to column subsets evolved by the DE also clearly improved the average generalization ability of the classifiers on reduced data sets. The average accuracy of the worst classifier increased from 0.53 (CART on COV4-50 with k = 6) to 0.83 (CART on COV4-50 with k = 6). The best average training accuracy was in this case obtained by CART and MLP while the best average test accuracy was achieved by MLP. However, kNN3 and MLP showed a good ability to detect COVID-19 on previously unseen radiographic images, too.

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Table 3. Average training and test accuracy on data sets with columns learned by evolutionary CSS. k

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Conclusions

In this work, differential evolution was used to solve the column subset selection problem. The column subsets found by the DE were used to obtain a compressed (low–rank) representation of a collection of chest radiographs collected during the medical treatment of 219 COVID-19 positive patients. The compressed representation of radiographs was used to train and evaluate several machine learning–based classifiers. The computational experiments clearly illustrated that the average column subsets evolved by the proposed evolutionary method for CSS allowed for more accurate classification by the majority of the classification algorithms. The classification results summarized in Table 3 are indeed impressive. However, they in fact raise questions about the data in Covid Radiography Database. The results actually suggest that only 6 pixels out of the total 65536 pixels in the downscaled images (24 pixels out of the 1048576 pixels in the original

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radiographs) are needed to achieve fully automated COVID-19 detection with accuracy of 92% and more. That is an interesting result that demands further scientific investigation. Future work on this topic will include evaluation of more machine learning– based classifiers (e.g., deep neural networks) and an efficient (parallel) implementation of the proposed algorithm. Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in project “Metaheuristics Framework for Multi-objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems (META MO-COP)”, reg. no. LTAIN19176, and in part by the grants of the Student Grant System no. SP2020/108 and SP2020/161, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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Transmission Scheduling for Tandemly-Connected Sensor Networks with Heterogeneous Packet Generation Rates Ryosuke Yoshida(B) , Masahiro Shibata, and Masato Tsuru Computer Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan [email protected], {shibata,tsuru}@cse.kyutech.ac.jp

Abstract. A tandemly-connected multi-hop wireless sensor network model is studied. Each node periodically generates packets in every cycle and relays the packets in a store-and-forward manner on a lossy wireless link between two adjacent nodes. To cope with a considerable number of packet losses, we previously proposed a packet transmission scheduling framework, in which each node transmits its possessing packets multiple times according to a static time-slot allocation to recover or avoid packet losses caused either by physical conditions on links or by interference of simultaneous transmissions among near-by nodes. However, we assumed that the packet generation rate is identical over all nodes, which is not always realistic. Therefore, in this paper, we enhance our work to the case of heterogeneous packet generation rates. We derive a static timeslot allocation maximizing the probability of delivering all packets within one cycle period. By using an advanced wireless network simulator, we show its effectiveness and issues to be solved.

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We focus on a multi-hop wireless network model in which network nodes are tandemly arranged and serially connected by unreliable lossy links. Each node generates a certain number of packets in every one cycle period and also relays them in a store-and-forward manner on a low-cost wireless link between two adjacent nodes. Generated packets are finally forwarded to one of gateways located at both ends of the network and sent to a central server via Internet. This type of configuration is often seen in sensor networks to monitor facilities (e.g., a power transmission tower’s network) in a geographically elongated field without a wide-area infrastructural network. A problem in such networks is frequent happening of packet losses caused either by attenuation and fading in environmental conditions (e.g., restricted placement of nodes) or by interference of simultaneous data transmissions among near-by nodes especially with omnidirectional antenna. This problem is common in multi-hop wireless networks, and a wide range of studies have been c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 437–446, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_42

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devoted over decades In this paper, to mitigate interference of simultaneous transmissions, we adopt a Time Division Media Access (TDMA)-based scheduling because it is efficient and suitable in centrally-managed stationary network configurations. On TMDA scheduling, there are a number of studies. A conflictfree TDMA scheduling for multi-hop wireless networks to minimize an end-toend delay was discussed [1]. Two centralized algorithms for the shortest schedules for sensor networks with a few central data collectors were proposed [2]. Wireless mesh networks with multiple gateway nodes were studied [3] to maximize the traffic volume transferred between the mesh network and the central server via gateways. An online and distributed scheduling for lossy networks was studied [4] to provide hard end-to-end delay guarantees. Most of them focused on avoiding interference of simultaneous data transmissions on general network topologies by using the conflict graph or some heuristics. However, they do not explicitly consider retransmissions. On the other hand, our previous work [5,6] proposed a packet transmission scheduling framework to derive an optimal number of retransmissions for each packet on each link while being restricted to tandemlyconnected topologies with two gateways at the edges; which has not been well studied. We analytically derived a static time-slot allocation that maximizes the probability of delivering all packets in one cycle period but only in the case that each node generates one packet every cycle. Therefore, in this paper, we deal with a transmission scheduling with heterogeneous packet generation rates.

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In this study, we assume a tandemly-connected multi-hop wireless network model in which nodes are tandemly arranged and serially connected by unreliable lossy links. Each node is a sensor node that periodically generates packets and also relays those packets in a store-and-forward manner between two adjacent nodes. Packets generated by each sensor node are finally forwarded to one of gateways located at both ends of the network and are sent to a central server via Internet. The model consists of n nodes and two gateways X, Y at both ends as illustrated in Fig. 1. The sensor nodes and wireless links are separately numbered from left to right. Each link is lossy and half-duplex. A transmission of packet

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by a node affects both links connected to that node. Therefore, to avoid transmission interference, two nodes within two-hop distance should not transmit packets in the same direction simultaneously (i.e., on the same time-slot). The data-link layer does not provide any advanced packet loss recovery scheme such as Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ) and any advanced transmission power adaptation, in which a proactive redundant packet transmission by each node is required to cope with packet losses. Therefore, each packet from an upstream node is stored and redundantly transmitted to a downstream node in scheduled slots. The packet loss rate of link j is defined as qj (0 < qj < 1), and the packet generation rate of node i is defined as integer ri . Node i generates ri packets at (or before) the beginning of a cycle period D and those packets are forwarded to the gateway either X or Y , which are sent to the central server S. The central server S knows the values qj and ri for any j and i, and designs a global static timeslot allocation to schedule the packet transmission at each node based on these values. Thus, it can consider not only the loss rates of links but also the packet generation rates of nodes while avoiding interference among near-by nodes based on a static interference avoidance policy considering the hop distance between nodes. The goal of the scheduling is to deliver all generated packets to either one of gateways along the lossy links during a cycle period D with a high success probability and fairness among packets from different nodes. To design a time-slot allocation, we need to decide a routing direction of packets (i.e., to which direction the packets are transmitted on each link). We call it a path model. In this paper, we adopt the model “the dual separated (DS) path model” to determine the gateway for each node to forward packets to. In the DS path model, two independent paths are separated at a separation (unused) link. Any node at the left of the separation link will forward packets to the left gateway X and any node at the right of the separation link will forward to the right gateway Y . It is called l-r model where l and r are the number of nodes located at the left and the right of the separation link, respectively. In Fig. 1, there are 7 candidates as the separation link for the DS path model. For example, if the link between nodes 3 and 4 is the separation link, the path model is 3-5 model (3-5 model and 4-4 model are focused on in this paper.). On a path model, based on the method explained in the next subsection, an optimal static time-slot allocation is derived by computing the theoretical probability that all packets are successfully delivered to either one of gateways. To find the optimal static time-slot allocation including a path model selection, we examine all reasonable path models one by one in such a manner. Finally we choose a best combination of a path model and a slot allocation in terms of maximizing the above success delivery probability. 2.2

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total time-slots. According to the allocation, each node redundantly transmits possessed packets (that is originally generated by node i) on downstream link j in sij times in the following order. The packet generated by itself is sent first in the allocated times, then the packets generated by other nodes located at closer upstream are forwarded earlier in the allocated times. If a packet is lost in upstream and does not reach the node, the slots allocated to the packet is used for the next packet. The derived time-slot allocation is optimal in the sense that it theoretically maximizes the success probability of delivering all packets within one cycle period, to cope with packet losses on links by redundantly transmitting each packet allocated times. To be more exact, let Mk be the success probability of delivery for packets from node k, i.e., the probability that all rk packets generated by node k are successfully delivered to either one of two gateways in T time-slots. Then the derived time-slot allocation aims to maximize the n  product Mk . This is the maximization of the logarithmic sum of the success k=1

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Figure 3 shows the slot allocation of the right part of 3-5 model at the number of slots T = 75 in Case 2. The number beside the arrow indicates how many times the packet is sent on the current link. Nodes G and H are transmitting simultaneously. Figure 4 shows the total packet delivery ratios of all cases (T = 75). I, II and III in the figure show TUB value, COM value, MES value. The blue bar graph shows the total packet delivery ratios of 4-4 model and the red bar graph shows the total packet delivery ratios of 3–5 model.

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Case 1 gets higher total packet delivery ratio of 4-4 model than 3-5 model in all of TUB value, COM value, and MES value. The difference in packet loss rates between the left and right sides separated by the link j = 5 is small, and the minimum number of transmissions when considering the packet generation rate of each node is close between the left and right sides. As a result, the total packet delivery ratio of the 4-4 model becomes high. Case 2 gets higher total packet delivery ratio of 3-5 model than 4-4 model in contrast to Case 1. The packet loss rate on the left side and the packet generation rate of each node are high with the link j = 4 as a boundary. However, since the 3–5 model can reduce the number of hops of packets exchanged on the left side, the 3-5 model achieves a higher total packet delivery ratio than the 4-4 model. The fact that a node having a high packet generation rate is not arranged near the upstream of the right side portion also contributes to this

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delivery ratio. When a large number of nodes with a high generation rate are arranged upstream of a flow, it is necessary to transmit all different packets of the nodes for each hop, and as a result, a finite number of slots is compressed. It is considered appropriate not to arrange a large number of nodes having a high packet generation rate near the separation point. Case 3 gets higher total packet delivery ratio of 4-4 model than 3-5 model. This result follows from the fact that weight of the overall packet generation rate and the weight of the packet loss rate are not biased to one. The success delivery probability for all packets degrades in order of TUB value (I), COM value (II), and MES value (III) in all cases. It is natural that COM value is always lower than TUB value because TUB value is the theoretically maximum value of the objective function allowing a real-number solution and COM value is a value of the same objective function with an optimal integernumber solution that generally differs from the real-number optimal solution. Furthermore, MES value in simulation is always lower than COM value since an interference of simultaneous transmissions actually happens around the separation link between the most upstream nodes of the left-side and right-side flows. Figure 5 shows the relationship between the total packet delivery ratio and the packet generation rate of each node. The packet generation rate of each node is indicated in parenthesis. As shown in the figures, the total packet delivery ratios of the upstream nodes are generally lower than those of the downstream nodes. This is because the packets generated by a node at upper-side should traverse more number of lossy links. However, node G in Fig. 5a shows an exception. The total packet delivery ratio of node G, whose packet generation rate is higher than upstream node F , is lower than that of node F . In addition, nodes B and C in Fig. 5b suffer from significantly low total packet delivery ratios compared with the nodes D to H in the right-hand side despite that the link loss rates are not very different from the left-hand side. This comes from our slot allocation policy. It aims to maximize the probability of delivering all packets from all nodes without distinguishing between different packets generated by the same node and different packets generated by different nodes. Assuming that each generated

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In this paper, we considered a TDMA-based packet transmission scheduling for tandemly-connected sensor networks with lossy links. We have enhanced our previous work to derive a static time-slot allocation maximizing the success delivery probability for packets, even if the packet generation rates are heterogeneous over nodes. As future work, we introduce an inter-packet XOR coding in transmitting multiple packets by multiple times, which was shown to be beneficial [6] but is not trivial in our case of heterogeneous packet generation rates. Acknowledgement. The research results have been achieved by the “Resilient Edge Cloud Designed Network (19304),” NICT, and by JSPS KAKENHI JP20K11770, Japan.

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Smart Watering System Based on Framework of Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in Cloud Computing Nurdiansyah Sirimorok1(B) , Mansur As2 , Kaori Yoshida3 , and Mario K¨ oppen4 1

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Abstract. The estimation of soil moisture content is required for agriculture, mainly to build the irrigation scheduling model. In this study, we present a smart watering system to deal with various factors derived from the stochastic information in the agricultural operational, i.e., air temperature, air humidity, soil moisture, soil temperature, and light intensity. The methodology consists of exploiting the Internet of Things (IoT) using Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in cloud computing to integrate the real data sets collected by the several sensor technologies. We conducted experiments for the watering system used two types of soil and different plant. Here, the Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) approach in deep learning techniques used to build smart decisions concerning watering requirements and deal with heterogeneous information coming from agricultural environments. Results show that our models can effectively improve the prediction accuracy for the watering system over various soil and plants.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provides recommendations that all agricultural sectors need to be managed using innovative technology. The concept of agricultural development that has been developed at this time is the concept of intelligent farming and is also commonly called smart agriculture [25]. This concept refers to the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the modern c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 447–459, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_43

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farming system. The system of this technology makes it possible to obtain data from the agricultural environment, process the data, and manipulate the state of the farm environment. The primary purpose of the application of the technology is to carry out optimization in the form of increased yield (quality and quantity) and efficient use of resources [24,25]. Meanwhile, one of the crucial factors for producing high-quality agriculture products is required careful management in every production stage, including field management practices in the watering system. The watering system is an automated watering schedule that uses information about environmental conditions like soil moisture to ensure your plants get the optimum amount of water [17]. Naturally, the lack of in the watering system is an important production factor and that delaying irrigation may result in loss of water and crop yield [8,24]. Due to the various devices of sensor have been developed and are commercially available to measure the soil moisture rapidly. In recent year, several studies used a sensor based smart irrigation controller’s technologies to measure soil moisture content has shown significant progress in modern agriculture [7]. In their studies, the sensor installed in the soil (land) and root area of plants or trees, the sensors diagnose the moisture level in the soil and send the reading data to the server. The studies have shown that type of the soil moisture measurement devices has its benefits in terms of precision and reliability for determining soil water content [3,23]. Also, their model was able to diagnose when and how much water is needed the plants on the soil periodically [14,18]. Thus, Information of soil moisture as the primary focus for assessing plants water requirement, water absorption, water storage capacity of the soil, and quantity of water movement. Munir, M.S, and Bajwa, I.S [18], researched the amount of water concerning the consumption level of water in the medium-scale area is known as Smart Watering System (SWS) for controlling and watering the garden automatically. A server-side application was built with a web-based interface to deal with the proposed model. Then, the decision support system based on fuzzy logic was used in making intelligent decisions on data achieved from the sensors. This study focused on the relationship between plants and environmental conditions such as soil moisture content, light intensity, air humidity, and temperature. Their studies have succeeded in providing a watering system with the flexibility and efficiency to deal with the environmental conditions. However, they suggested using more types of plants and implanting more sensors to generate more precise predictions. In the other study, a smart system for monitoring and managing irrigation has designed and implemented [14], by focusing on the real data collected from sensors, and the data are processed using two-class boosted decision tree algorithm (train and process the data). The model successfully produces the weather forecast system and providing a decision to the farmer when the watering is necessary. Moreover, a smart conceptual architecture is proposed in [20] with a control system on the farming irrigation using arduino devices [1], the study proposed a persuasive technique on the Internet of Things (IoT) as being the

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gateway for communication between the sensor and other devices to develop smart farming. Furthermore, the study involved the concept of the kalman filtering algorithm to remove inaccuracies in the physical data from one sensor to another sensor for obtaining more accurate values [20] and then using the decision tree model to decide when it is suitable to start watering using specific standards [14]. In general, most of the approaches presented above have been intended to build a smart watering system mainly used environmental conditions, sensor devices, and IoT technology. With this model, provide better control of time on the farmer watering system, save water, and as decision support. However, in those prototype, different soil samples and various plants for calibration at various moisture levels have not been tested [18]. Besides, Susha Lekshmi et al., [23] reported that the requirements for fast, reliable and spatially distributed in the soil moisture measurement we have to consider soil specific parameters i.e., sunlight, rainfall, ambient temperature, presence of the organic matter, type of soil, etc. [18,21]. Likewise the characteristics of plants on water consumption like the type of plants, plants age, leaf width, etc. are not being fulfilled by the currently available techniques. On the other hand, Deep Learning (DL) techniques have shown the progress to examine the stochastic of ecosystems like evaporation processes, soil moisture, and temperature in modern agriculture [2,11]. An essential advantage of DL techniques implemented in agriculture is feature learning, i.e., the automatic feature extraction from real data, with features from higher levels of the hierarchy being formed by the composition of lower-level components [24]. DL techniques be able to deal with more complex problems, particularly adequately and quickly, due to more complex models used, which allow extensive parallelization [17]. These advanced models employed in DL techniques can improve the classification/prediction performance or decrease errors value on the stochastic data problems in heterogeneous agricultural environments [15]. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to propose a smart watering system based on the framework of Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in cloud computing. We presented a distributed application in the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in terms of inter-dependencies application to make it a low-bandwidth system and enable it to use in real-life agriculture. In our proposed model, the data is collected through a collection of sensors that have a better diagnose of the soil moisture level, light intensity, air humidity, and temperature. The information is then transformed using The Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) methods in deep learning techniques to build the watering system. Next, the remaining paper is organized as follows: In Sect. 2, the materials and methods, the problem will be addressed and algorithm that we used; In Sect. 3, results and discussion includes data visualization and results of prediction; In Sect. 4, we summarized the solution and the limitations that follow the future work.

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The first challenge that will be addressed is the varying soil moisture for different types of plants. Each variety of plant typically requires a different amount of water, temperature, and soil content to optimize growth. Thus, they need an unusual amount of watering time and regularity. So, soil water content is an extensive variable, it’s changes with size and situation and type of plants [18,21]. Therefore, to find the characteristics of soil content, two typical plants were selected with different growing environments, i.e., lettuce and chili that cultivated on the peat and loam soil in 95 cm pots with soil pH are slightly acidic to neutral 6.5 to 7.0 and spacing plants 18 to 25 cm without fertilizer with aims to keep constant of soil content. Then, we used the sun exposure directly and for the watering, we treated the same method for both plants (Fig. 1).

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As shown in Table 1, we did not attempt to choose plants with similar variety, since that was important for testing the soil moisture characteristics in each different plants. In this experiment, the chili plants had a height of approximately 45 cm, with the more 30 leaves count and six branches. In addition, for the lettuce plants reaching up to 20 cm tall, with age 15 days and leaf width approximately 7 cm. While the moisture sensors were installed in soil, the environmental conditions in the experiment area monitored using a temperature/relative humidity sensor (light sensor tag) and an ultraviolet light sensor (UVB Sensor). Then we tracking the soil moisture relative [6] to present a smart management rule which defines moisture condition; Soil moisture >=21%: Wet, Soil moisture >=18%: Medium wet, Soil moisture >=12%: Optimal, Soil moisture >=9%: Medium stress and Soil moisture < 9%: Extreme stress. The goal is to keep moisture in the optimal section, then the next that the soil moisture level will be used to predict the next watering cycle.

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Since, the light intensity and soil temperature are two environmental factors that have major effects on plant growth [21]. Therefore in this study, we also investigate the light intensity using an ultraviolet light sensor (UVB Sensor) and use that information to predict soil moisture in each plants. The results obtained in the morning peak (09:00–12:00), Midday (12:00–14:00) and afternoon peak (14:00–17:00) the average of light intensity 19.8%, 40.6% and 20.5%, respectively. Table 1. Plants and material experiment Type plants

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Meanwhile, almost the soil sensors commercial has its default factory calibration. The existence of the calibration model usually was taken from the average of many different soil types or of a specific soil type [7]. So, to avoid the possibility if the calibrated value in the sensor will not match the soil type [12], we used two kinds of soil, i.e., first, the loam soil, this soil is a combination of sand, silt, and clay such that the beneficial properties from each are included. For instance, it can retain moisture and nutrients; hence, it is more suitable for farming. Second, the peat soil, this soil is high in organic matter and maintains a large amount of moisture [4,5]. Table 1 shows the types of plants and materials that we used in this experiment. 2.2

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Firstly in the standalone scenario, the data collection consists of three types of sensors devices was installed. The output of these sensors has obtained the information of soil moisture, humidity, and temperature in https://my.wirelesstag.net and output of UV light sensor is the information of light intensity are provided by Vernier Data Share in which is synched with web service. Then we built a web service an automated line for deploying the Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in the cloud computing, which includes a decentralized protocol for self-configuring the virtual application machines [13]. The web service is written in PHP with a light weighted REST APIs to communicate the data between the Wireless Tag data, the cloud computing and OpenSimulator based virtual worlds. Next, to handle the best options in automatic learning systems for the soil moisture prediction that tends to be heterogeneous, as discussed in Sect. 2.1, the Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) is a part of artificial Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) architecture was implemented [9]. Here, we briefly introduce the Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) methods that were used to build the soil moisture content prediction. The LSTMs

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In order to verify the prediction performance of our model, the average of daily data, i.e., air temperature, air humidity, soil moisture, soil temperature, and light intensity are used as input data. Then, the soil moisture prediction target is classified as follows: Extreme Stress, Medium Stress, Optimal, Medium Wet, and Wet. Meanwhile, the trained network using a separate test data set, which is usually referred to as a generation test data. So, in this work has retrained using the full training set (i.e., 1498 record data from 64 days and each day contains 24 h average data) with the proportion 60% for training and 40% for testing. Next, we implemented the prediction model based on the framework of LowBandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in cloud computing. The framework is a part of a cloud computing that enables fog communication between the application program interfaces (APIs) and data services to reduce the traffic bandwidth in IoT technologies [19]. Therefore, for communication between the client and the server, we built an application LBDA server in IoT devices, where the LBDA become flexible proxying services to minimize the communication capacities by efficiently encoding binary message content and adapting application protocol operation to affect the number of exchanged messages; it further reduces the traffic for the end device.

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Since we considered the characteristics of soil moisture based on air temperature, air humidity, soil temperature, and light intensity. The first stage is to analyze soil moisture information that has been taken from a moisture sensor in the soil on each plants (soil pot). These parameters are considered for analyzing the soil moisture in each pot based on the pattern of soil moisture in Sect. 2.1 and then apply learning systems in Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) method to predict the watering system. Here, we have investigated the water consumption in each plants type based on the moisture (%) and temperature (C) of soil from day to day for 24 h. Figures 2 and 3 shows the soil temperature, and soil moisture level tends to vary in each pot throughout for 64 days. Although the soil temperature tends to vary in day to day, between two pots (lettuce and chili), there is no significant difference. However, the interesting thing is the soil moisture (water content) between two pots due to there is a significant difference in the water content. This can be seen in Fig. 2 the lettuce plants in pot 1 for the soil moisture tends stable become dry in day to day. While for the chili plants in pot 2, the soil moisture tends wet, and this proves that the water consumption of the lettuce plants tends to be more than the chili plants. In this case, similar results have been previously reported that the patterns of time-varying consumption of water for different plants. The growth rate and leaf number are impacting the amount of water consumption over a day in each plants type significantly [5]. So, applying daily data of soil moisture per hour for 64 days, the water consumption of plants

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could then be determined. Additionally, different variety of plants need a different quantity of water, so that a smart system is required for efficient utilization of the watering system for more efficient plants growth.

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On the other hand, several studies have noted that the effect of variation air temperature and humidity on soil moisture (water content) has a very high correlation [21]. While In Japan between March, April and May is spring season wherein the temperature increases with large short-term fluctuations. Sunlight duration is long in the second half of spring due to the predominance of anticyclonic rules as well the stormy season begins in early May [10]. Therefore, in this study, we also investigate the variations of air temperature and humidity. Figure 4 shows the results that the significant change in air temperature and humidity tends to vary in each day. It is also observed, during the air temperature decrease, the soil moisture also reduces; this can be seen in Figs. 2 and 3. Particularly in May, when the variation air temperature significantly increases, the average of soil temperature also change and soil moisture in each pot tends to vary.

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In Table 2 shows the results performance of the soil temperature in each pot, it can be seen that for classification of pot 1 lettuce plants obtained performance accuracy 91.71%, while pot 2 chili plants obtained 87.32%. Also, it has been observed here that for lettuce plants, in classification performance, provide better results than chili plants. However, as we discussed in Sect. 2.1 that lettuce has a relatively high water requirement and very risky for changes in temperature and air humidity. Table 2. Accuracy classification of smart watering system Plants type

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In order to get the most accurate configuration for the plants watering system, a smart system has been developed to automatically detect the type of the plants, which is based on deep learning techniques, especially the Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) approach. The implementation is based on the following tools and environments: air temperature and air humidity sensor, soil temperature and moisture sensor, and light intensity. Moreover, we employed the Internet of Things (IoT) and Low-Bandwidth Distributed Applications (LBDA) in cloud computing for collecting and processing data. Then, two typical plants were selected with different growing environments, i.e., lettuce plants using peat

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soil and chili plants using loam soil. The results providing excellent accuracy in terms of soil moisture classification and have the potential for improving the smart watering system. Moreover, in our study has obtained the better performance in the two different testing datasets, as mentioned above in Table 2, accuracy prediction of lettuce plants (91.71%) and accuracy prediction of chili plants lower values (87.32%) have been reported. These show that the LSTMs method was able to generalize well to different datasets. However, more comparisons between the method in DL techniques are necessary, due to a considerable drawback and barrier is the need for large datasets, which would serve as the input during the training procedure. So, more complex architectures and tasks would appear, comparing various DL techniques and classifiers together, or combining with an automatic method by using various models, will improve the overall result [11]. In addition, due to the experiment lasted three months, the weather each year is unpredictable. We also noted the land area has to be considered because particles and water absorption by the soil are highly correlated with the depth and width of the land [4].

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The soil moisture is a crucial parameter for building a smart watering system. The soil moisture is affected significantly by several environmental variables, e.g., air temperature, air humidity, light intensity, soil temperature, and type of soil and plants. With the advancement in sensor and IoT technologies, the smart watering system accuracy has improved significantly and data can be used for the prediction of changes in the soil moisture. For future work, more complex experimental studies may compare more plants varieties, metabolism, photosynthesis and gene expression.

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Abstract. Software Defined Networking (SDN) has attracted widespread attention due to its architectural challenges to flexibly and dynamically control network switches and packets traversing them. Recently the programmability on the data plane becomes an active area of research. For example, Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors (P4) was introduced as a language to enable packet-level processing by the data plane and supported by not only on software but on a variety of hardware of switches and devices. Motivated by this shift, we provide a P4-based implementation of the MTQ/QTL that is a dynamic advanced Active Queue Management (AQM) scheme previously proposed by the authors. In this paper, we report a P4-based MTQ/QTL implementation and its evaluation on software switches by Mininet emulator. Through the emulation, we verify that the effects of MTQ/QTL to benefit delay-sensitive application flows are similar to the previous simulation results, which suggests that the data plane programming using P4 in advanced AQM is feasible and promising as a next generation SDN enabler.

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Recently, P4 framework has been supported by a variety of software-based and hardware-based switches and devices, and thus a number of studies appear on data plane programming using P4. For example, in [4], an on-switch mechanisms named SQR (Shared Queue Ring), in which enabling caching of small number of recently transmitted packets and retransmit them on the appropriate backup network path, is proposed to reduce FCT (Flow Completion Time) in the presence of link failures in datacenter networks. The performance evaluation on a hardware testbed using a Barefoot Tofino switch shows that their approach is effective and practical. In [5], the congestion avoidance scheme, in which congestion is detected via monitoring of both operation delay of packets and queueing delay and affected flows are re-routed, is implemented in both software and hardware switches. [6] implements the CoDel, targeting the bufferbloat problem, in software switch and confirm the effectiveness of CoDel which is a kind of Active Queue Management (AQM) scheme. In [7], we proposed a dynamic user-oriented AQM scheme named MTQ/QTL and evaluated its performances via simulation. For the MTQ/QTL scheme, non-standard functions to process the queues and the packet header should be implemented on each switch. Therefore, in this paper, we report a P4-based MTQ/QTL implementation and its evaluation on software switch (BMv2) [8] by Mininet emulator [9].

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The MTQ (Maximum Transmission Queue)/QTL (Queue To Live) is an adaptive early packet discarding scheme for delay-sensitive application flows that was previously proposed by the authors [7]. There are four types of delays experienced by each packet in the network: the propagation delay, the transmission delay, the queueing delay, and the processing delay. MTQ and QTL work based on the queueing delay (the time a packet will spend in a queue or the total time a packet will spend in all queues they will pass) to proactively discard some packets that are likely to become useless for the application. The MTQ and/or QTL parameters are set in the header of each packet at the sender node of an application flow, and those packets are forwarded to intermediate nodes. Every time a packet arrives at an intermediate node, it is queued or discarded according to the MTQ and/or QTL mechanisms as shown in Fig. 1. Packets with the MTQ parameter are managed based on a local queuing delay limit at each intermediate node. Packets with the QTL parameter, on the other hand, are managed based on a global (total) queuing delay limit throughout the end-to-end network path. In the MTQ/QTL scheme, both of MTQ and QTL parameters can be set in the header jointly and both values are examined sequentially (i.e., MTQ value is first examined and then QTL value is checked and updated if necessary) at each intermediate node. Note that, as a flow performance metric to be improved, we consider Effective Packet Loss Rate (EPLR), an application-aware packet loss rate considering both the packets discarded at a queue due to buffer overflow or MTQ/QTL and the packets

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discarded by the receiver due to an experienced end-to-end delay exceeding the maximum allowable end-to-end delay. Since an end-to-end delay consists of a fixed part (depending on the packet size and the network path) assumed to be known and a total queuing delay, we adopt an maximum allowable total queuing delay called “the allowable queuing delay”, instead of an maximum allowable end-to-end delay. As demonstrated by simulation in [7], MTQ or QTL alone can improve the EPLR of flows differently, but a proper combination is more beneficial.

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We implemented MTQ/QTL algorithms by referring to the P4 programming samples available in VM [10] to evaluate its feasibility using SDN Emulator Mininet [9]. We used the software switch BMv2 (behavioral model version 2) in the simple switch as a target of BMv2 as shown in Fig. 2. In parser, packets are parsed based on defined protocols in the header, then the control for each packets (e.g., deciding the destination, modification to the packet (including adding or removing the header) and discarding packets etc. in ingress and egress parts. In BMv2 simple switch model, the queue exists between ingress and egress parts. Various parameters including such as queue length and an output rate of the queue (e.g. packet per sec) can be set via simple switch model CLI provided by BMv2. MTQ/QTL parameters we implemented in option fields in IP header are shown in Table 1 and its implementation in P4 code and class definitions needed in Scapy [13], which is used as a generater/receiver of packets, are shown in Fig. 3 Statistics at switches including the number of arriving packets, discarded packets and the length of the queue can be measured using counters or/and registers implemented in BMv2. As explained in Sect. 2, MTQ/QTL scheme refers the queue length and estimates the queueing delay when each packet arrives at the ingress part of the queue. In original BMv2 implementation, the queue length can not be referred at ingress part of the queue. Namely, the queue length

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is available when the packet arrives at the egress part [14]. Therefore, we modified the BMv2 implementation so that the queue length can be monitored when each packet arrives at ingress of the queue. Note that, in the implementation of BMv2 on Mininet, the processing time to transmit one packet is specified by a packet-per-sec setting of output rate of the queue regardless of the size of the packet. Based on the architecture, we implement MTQ/QTL algorithms in BMv2 architecture.

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The network model to evaluate our P4-based MTQ/QTL is illustrated in Fig. 4. Three constant bit rate (CBR) UDP flows, f1 , f2 and f3 , are generated by Scapy; each flow consists of 1000 packets with a size of 100 [Byte]. On each (output) link, the length of queuing buffer is 64 packets and the packet transmission rate is 30 [pps], thus the transmission time of one packet on link is 1/30 = 0.033[s]. As a congested network scenario, flow f1 competes with other flows at two queues (on s1 and s2 ) and may experience a longer end-to-end delay in the network, while flows f2 and f3 compete with another flow at a only single queue on s1 and s2 , respectively. As a performance metric for delay-sensitive application flows with an application-aware maximum allowable total queuing delay (we call it “the allowable queuing delay”), we adopt EPLR introduced in Sect. 2. The allowable queuing delay is set to 3 [s] in the following evaluation.

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arriving packet will experience a delay of n/30 [sec] on the switch when the queue length is n packets. Depending on the number of congested queues on each flow, the packets on flow f1 will experience at most the delay of 1/30×64×2 = 4.26 [s], while the packets on f2 or f3 will experience at most the delay of 1/30 × 64 × 1 = 2.13 [s]. In this network configuration, we consider an application that requires the allowable queuing delay of 3 [s] (3000 [ms]), and examine the effects of MTQ/QTL on flows of the application.

Fig. 5. Queue length distribution at s1 .

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Figure 7 compares the packet loss rates of flows f1 , f2 , f3 at queues, at the application, and in total (i.e., EPLR). Packets on flow f1 often experience a total queuing delay exceeding the allowable queuing delay and thus are discarded by the application even if they are received at h3. On the other hand, packets on flows f2 or f3 are never discarded by the application. 4.3

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Figures 8 and 9 provide experimental queue length histograms of s1 and s2 switches with MTQ value of 1500 [ms]. In response to this MTQ value, the queue length is strongly limited to 45 packets that is around 70% of the original length of 64 packets. In other words, when the queue length is 45, a newly arriving packet is discarded by MTQ although the queuing buffer is not overflowed. Figure 10 compares the packet loss rates of flows f1 , f2 , f3 with MTQ values of 1200 and 1500 [ms] at queues, at the application, and in total (EPLR). When the MTQ value is set to 1200 [ms], there is no packet loss by the application. This is because, even on flow f1 (h1 to h3; competing at two switches), the queuing delay is limited to 2400 (1200 × 2) [ms] by MTQ, which is shorter than the allowable queuing delay (3000 [ms]). However, there are considerable packet losses at queues due to this strong limitation on queue length.

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In contrast, with the MTQ value of 1500 [ms], the packet losses at queues are mitigated due to a weaker limitation on queue length. However, there are considerable packet losses by the application on flow f1 , although the queuing delay is expected to be up to 3000 (1500 × 2) [ms] that does not exceed the allowable queuing delay. We investigate the cause of this happening. Figures 11 and 12 provide experimental histograms of queuing delay experienced by each packet (measured when a packet departs the queue) at s1 and s2 with MTQ value of 1500 [ms]. Contrary to our expectation, the experienced delay in queue

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sometimes exceeds 1500 [ms] limited by MTQ. In our P4-based MTQ implementation, when a new packet arrives, the expected queuing delay is computed based on the current queue length. Then, if the expected delay is less than the MTQ value (1500 [ms] in this case), the packet is queued, otherwise discarded. Those results suggest that a packet experiences not only a queuing delay but also an additional processing delay up to 40 [ms] queued. In the following experiment scenarios, based on this observation, we set MTQ and QTL values conservatively, i.e., smaller than the allowable queuing delay of the application.

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Figure 13(a) shows the effect of the early packet discarding of MTQ on the effective packet loss rate (EPLR) of each of three flows. A too small MTQ value causes unnecessary early packet discarding while a too large MTQ value provides very little effect. With MTQ value of 1400 [ms], the EPLR of flow f1 is minimized while the EPLRs of flows f2 and f3 are a little larger than those with MTQ value of 1000 or 1200. In other words, by MTQ with an appropriate setting, the flow in the most severe condition benefits significantly in terms of EPLR while other flows are not damaged. Similarly, Fig. 13(b) shows the effect of QTL on the EPLR of each of three flows. The EPLR of flow f1 is significantly improved by QTL especially with QTL value of 2500 [ms]. On switch s2 , a packet on flow f1 is discarded before being queued if it is expected to experience a total queuing delay (on s1 and s2 ) exceeding the QTL value; and this early discarding helps other packets on s2 . For flow f2 , the QTL has very little effect on the EPLR. This is because f2 competes only with f1 at s1 and the maximum queuing delay at s1 is 2133 [ms]. Therefore, the packets on flow f2 always experience a queuing delay less than 2133 and thus are not discarded by QTL with a value larger than 2133. In contrast, for flow f3 , the QTL achieves 0 EPLR. This is because f3 competes only with f1 at s2 but some of competing packets on f1 are discarded by QTL. Therefore, the congestion on s2 is mitigated and the packet losses on f3 can be avoided. Finally, Fig. 13(c) shows the combined effect of MTQ+QTL on the EPLR of each of three flows. It is suggested that effective combinations of (MTQ, QTL) are (1200, 2800), (1400, 2800), and (1500, 2500) in this scenario. Compared with

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MTQ allows a sender of application flows to set a time in its packets depending on the application to limit the queuing delay in each queue they will pass. QTL allows a sender to set a time in its packets to limit the total queuing delay over queues they will pass. In this sense, MTQ/QTL is a good example of useroriented dynamic AQM, and this motivates us to try a P4-based implementation. All experimental results are consistent with our simulation-based evaluation of MTQ/QTL in the previous paper. This consistency suggests the validity of our P4-based implementation of MTQ/QTL and the feasibility of the data plane programming using P4 in advanced AQM. Acknowledgements. The research results have been achieved by the “Resilient Edge Cloud Designed Network (19304),” NICT, and by JSPS KAKENHI JP20K11770, Japan.

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Matching Based Content Discovery Method on Geo-Centric Information Platform Kaoru Nagashima1(B) , Yuzo Taenaka2 , Akira Nagata3 , Hitomi Tamura4 , Kazuya Tsukamoto1 , and Myung Lee5 1

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Abstract. We have proposed a concept of new information platform, Geo-Centric information platform (GCIP), that enables IoT data fusion based on geolocation. GCIP produces new and dynamic contents by combining cross-domain data in each geographic area and provides them to users. In this environment, it is difficult to find appropriate contents requested by a user because the user cannot recognize what contents are created in each area beforehand. In this paper, we propose a content discovery method for GCIP. This method evaluates the relevancy between topics specified in user requests and topics representing IoT data used for creating contents, called matching, and presents the candidates for the desired contents based on the relevancy. Simulation results showed that appropriate contents can reliably be discovered in response to user’s request.

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The cross-domain (horizontal-domain) IoT data fusion attracts much attention. To create contents based on local cross-domain IoT data, linking geolocation to IoT data is essential. Even though, as each of network is managed without the consideration of the physical location, the feasibility of the cross-domain data fusion is quite low in the practical environment. So far, we have proposed Geo-Centric Information Platform (GCIP) [1] that conducts a geolocation-oriented IoT data collection/processing. Although each IoT device is supposed to dedicate to a particular service, GCIP collects data created at the physical proximity and produces contents from them as for secondary use by nearby edge servers. GCIP introduces two kinds of edge servers, c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 470–479, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_45

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a data store (DS) server and data fusion (DF) servers, for these processing. A DS server, which is assumed to be arranged for a particular area and managed by local organization like mall-owner or municipality, stores the collected IoT data. A DF server(s) deployed by contents service providers produces new and dynamic contents using cross-domain IoT data stored in the DS server. In this paper, we define contents created by DF server(s) as spatio-temporal content (STC). As IoT data like sensor data dynamically changes their number, sensing preciseness, existence, etc. by various reasons, such as movement and sleep cycle of IoT devices, DF server may accordingly produce different STCs depending on the observable IoT data at that point. Therefore, users hardly recognize variable STCs created in a timely manner. Moreover, as the number of DF servers (contents providers) may differ between geographical areas, it is quite difficult to identify every DF servers as well as recognize what STC is created in which DF server. Therefore, GCIP needs to provide users with a mechanism that finds appropriate STCs they are interested in. In this paper, we propose a content discovery method that finds the candidates for STCs the user is requesting. Specifically, in the method, a DS server evaluates the relevancy between topics specified in user requests and topics representing IoT data used for creating STCs, and then selects a DF server having the highest potential to have appropriate STCs. The designated DF server searches for appropriates STCs from its own STC database and presents a list of STC candidates to users. We evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed discovery method on GCIP through simulation. The rest of this paper is organized as follows, we first review the existing studies in Sect. 2. Then, we describe the requirements for STC management on the GCIP in Sect. 3. Proposed method is described in Sect. 4 and simulation environment and simulation results are explained in Sect. 5. Finally, the conclusion is provided in Sect. 6.

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In this section, we review the existing studies focusing on geo-location based cross-domain data fusion and IoT contents discovery. Reference [2] summarizes the existing studies focusing on smart city applications, which use IoT data for users in some city. Various sensors are deployed on the platform in which IoT data obtained from these sensors are used for a specific application only. On the other hand, as our proposed GCIP is designed for cross-domain IoT data fusion, variety of purposes are aimed to be supported even in a smart city constructed by multiple service providers. Therefore, our study flexibly produces contents without any limitations on the purpose of sensors and networks. References [3] and [4] show examples for smart city application using cloud platform. In these papers, all IoT data are sent to the cloud, processed, and then delivered to the user from the cloud. On the other hand, GCIP processes the collected IoT data at edge servers; there is no need to carry them to the cloud,

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so that people can benefit from local use in terms of not only a few load on the network but also a low latency. Reference [5] summarizes the existing studies focusing on the contents search method from various perspectives (e.g., event-based [6], metadata-based [7], and location-based [8]). Although none of existing studies tries to find the contents dynamically created from the collected IoT data, the proposed method can achieve it. Information Centric Network (ICN) is a promising concept that brings us efficient content search and distribution. As the ICN operated in a contentbased, not an IP-based [9], users can directly search for a content by using content name without knowing the location of the content. However, since the contents are created from cross-domain IoT data observable at that time, the user cannot know their name at the retrieval timing in the ICN, which makes us extremely difficult to search for the contents. As a result, we can say that the proposed contents discovery method is novel.

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the DF servers have spatio-temporal characteristics. In such a case, users who want to get a STC on the GCIP hardly discover which DF server has what STCs. Therefore, we need to consider a new STC discovery method that can satisfy the following requirements: (1) support for geolocation-aware discovery, (2) support for fuzzy search and (3) support for exploration of new findings. Note that, as we already proposed a geolocation-oriented communication, we already satisfy the requirement (1).

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Since we assume that each of DF servers sends a subscribe message including desired topics to the DS server for creating a STC, the DS server can grasp the statistics on the number of topics included in all of subscription messages. On the other hand, users need to send a request message with desired topics to the DS server because they cannot directly identify which DF server has what STCs. Therefore, we try to evaluate the relevance matching between the user request and statistical information of subscriptions at the DS server. Through this evaluation, the DS server identifies a DF server that has the most appropriate STCs created by relevant topics with the user’s request, and forwards the user request message to have the DF server search for appropriate STCs in response to the user’s request. In the proposed method, a user is supposed to specify mesh-code, topic, and priority of each topic in a request message. Regarding topics, a request message contains up to three topics, each of which is allocated with the variable weight. The weight of each topic is different depending on the user preferences, but the total must be 100. For example, if the three topics are called T1 , T2 , and T3 , a user specifies the weight 70 for T1 , 20 for T2 , and 10 for T3 . In this way, even if a user has no knowledge about STCs, the user sends a request including topics with their weight (priority), not any particular identifier of STCs, thereby achieving requirement (2). As the DS server obtains the statistics on subscription messages transmitted from every DF servers, we use the statistics for STC discovery. The DS server calculates a subscription probability Pi,j of topic j for each DF server i as follows, Pi,j =

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thereby providing unconscious users’ interest. Specifically, as we have 10 sets of possible combinations out of three topics in total, i.e., 3 C1 + 3 C2 + 1 = 10, we choose several combinations, a set of partial combinations C, for searching. That is once, the DS server receives a user request, it calculates total weight for every possible combinations of topics based on weight specified in the request, and then only selects combinations whose total weight exceeds the predetermined threshold α. That is, these combinations are the partial combinations C. To identify an appropriate DF server, the DS server calculates the expected value, Ei , of the number of STCs satisfying the threshold for each DF server i.  (Gi (c) × Ni ) (2) Ei = c∈C

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the popularity of topics used for STC production on a DF server. That is, if the subscription bias of a certain topic is set to 1, the DF server must include the topic in all of the subscriptions sent to the DS server. This case is called subscription bias 1. If it is set to 0.5, every DF server uses a particular topic in 50% possibility to produce STCs. We define this condition as subscription bias 0.5. Note, each DF server randomly sets the number of topics up to maximum of 5 in addition to a topic determined by the subscription bias. We assume that up to three topics characterizing the desired STCs are included in a user request. Since the topics have different weight, we introduce the user request bias, in addition to the subscription bias, as shown in Table 2. We use two patterns for user request bias: request bias 1 (imbalanced) and request bias 2 (relatively balanced). In each simulation, we send 10 user requests in one round and then conduct the experiment for 10 rounds.

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We have proposed the Geo-Centric Information Platform (GCIP) that can provide Spatio-temoral Contents (STC) for specific area. However, from the view point of user, since the STC is dynamically created on the GCIP, a method of STC discovery is necessary. In this paper, we proposed a method that matches topics specified in user requests and topics representing IoT data used for creating STCs. Through simulation, we showed that the user can retrieve the relatively larger number of STCs including both required and non conscious (but beneficial) topics.

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Network resource management, such as route selection, is one of key technologies to make multiple applications coexist in a network with reliable performance. Our previous study tackled the efficient resource utilization to keep required throughput for every flows [1]. However, as many kinds of applications coexist in a realistic network, throughput is not the best performance metric for some applications. To keep application performance of any kind of application flows, Quality of Experience (QoE) could be a common performance metric for them. To use QoE as a metric for a route selection, we need to track QoE for every flows by exploiting in-network information. Our previous study proposed SDN-based in-network QoE measurement method for video streaming flows [2]. However, the standard QoE calculation model requires at least 8 s for collecting flow information from the network, and thus QoE-based route selection is quite difficult at the time of a new flow arrival. Although there is a very few information c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 480–492, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_46

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we can obtain for an arrival flow, predicting QoE and accordingly handling the flow are essential to keep good QoE. Therefore, we propose an early QoE prediction method on SDN-enabled multi-path network. Specifically, we predict video QoE metric by exploiting not only packet loss rate measured regularly but also the number of arrival bytes for very short period at the OFC, and then select an appropriate route for the video flow.

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Network management aimed at improving video QoE has been studied so far [3–5]. To achieve a network-wide QoE fairness, paper [4] allocated network resource for heterogeneous applications dynamically by using SDN. In order to improve the quality of video streaming and file download, they took buffering time and throughput into consideration. However, since they do not use a common metric for these applications, the method cannot improve the performance of any applications except video and file download. By using QoE as a metric for network management, the same management policy for controlling any applications can be applied even when various applications coexist. Therefore, measuring QoE by using in-network information and performing QoE-based control make network management elastic. Paper [5] proposed a QoE-based route optimization for multimedia services to maximize end users’ QoE. To identify the best route for each flow in SDN controller, they made Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server mediate between client and media server, and obtained media parameters, such as video codec, from SIP server. However, all multimedia services do not use intermediate node such as SIP server in real Internet. Therefore, in this paper, we consider the way of predicting not only network parameters but also media parameters based on available in-network information.

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QoEFT is ranged from 1 to 4.5. R is the goodput of flow. R+ is the maximum transmission speed in network without packet losses. In this study, we use 100 Mbps, which is the maximum transmission speed in our experimental network, as R+ . On the other hand, as the lowest bandwidth provided by AT&T’s DSL service is 0.8 Mbps [8], we set the minimum transmission speed, which are referred to as R− , to 0.8 Mbps. a and b are determined by fitting the approximate curve in the Eq. (7). As a result, a and b are calculated as following: a = 1.67, b = 4.97.

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In this section, we propose an early QoE prediction method and a route selection method. To predict video QoE for arrival flow, we transmit a new flow on a temporary route for very short period and calculate QoE from the network information measured during that period. After the QoE prediction, we switch the flow to an appropriate route based on the predicted QoE. 4.1

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As explained in Sect. 3.1, 6 parameters are required for QoE calculation of video flow. However, the average number of consecutive packet losses and PLC cannot be obtained in a network because OpenFlow cannot count the consecutive number of packet losses and PLC is an application parameter invisible on network. Thus, in this study, we set these parameters to fixed value, considering the case bringing the worst QoE, as does the previous study [2]. Although other 4 parameters have to be obtained, obtaining the precise information is extremely difficult at the time of flow arrival. Therefore, we predict these parameters by combining the information of network condition collected before the flow arrival and shortperiod measurement after the flow arrival. Our QoE prediction method consists of two functions: (1) packet loss rate prediction and (2) video settings prediction. 4.1.1 Packet Loss Rate Prediction As packet losses are basically measured from flows which have been transmitting already, it is essentially difficult to obtain it before start of new flow transmission. However, we can assume the packet loss ratio (PLR) is the same for any flows on a same network. Hence, we measure the PLR on existing (ongoing) traffic regularly and use the value as the PLR for QoE prediction of new arrival flow. Here, we have one more assumption in which the arrival flow will not suffer from overload if it is forwarded on the network. To measure the PLR of existing traffic, we use the statistic information, called PortStats, of OpenFlow. PortStats can be collected from OpenFlow Switches (OFSs) by OpenFlow Controller (OFC). Since PortStats includes the number of transmitted packets and received packets on each network interface (not each flow), the OFC can calculate the PLR of existing traffic by the difference of the number of transmitted and received packets between neighboring two OFSs.

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However, PLR may contain measurement errors because PortStats cannot be collected at the exact same time between two OFSs. We handle this measurement error at the same way with our previous study [2]. Briefly explaining, if the number of received packets at the receiver-side OFS is larger than the transmitted packets at the sender-side OFS, we can clearly treat them as measurement errors. We then hold the difference as the accumulated number of surplus packets for correcting subsequent errors. After that, when the number of transmitted packets at the sender-side is larger than the received packets at the receiver-side, we can expect that the difference is the measurement error if we have remaining surplus packets at that time. In such case, we subtract the accumulated number of surplus packets from the difference and then treat the result as the number of packet losses. To conduct the PLR measurement with error correction, we collect PortStats every 1 s in this study. 4.1.2 Video Settings Prediction Although it is possible to identify video bitrate based on the measured throughput [2], we cannot measure the throughput before the start of flow transmission. In order to get video bitrate, we need to temporarily forward a new flow on a route with the largest residual bandwidth, which has less possibility for packet losses, for very short period, and measure the number of packets or bytes during the transmission on that route. Figure 1 shows the number of packets measured for every 0.1 s after the flow transmission starts. Note we only transmit a single video flow on a stable network in this experiment. We vary the video bitrate from 3,250 kbps to 10,000 kbps. Besides, “Theoretical” means the theoretical number of packets that can be transmitted for 0.1 s. Since the video buffering function works at the beginning, the number of packets is significantly different from the theoretical value, irrespective of video bitrate. This causes the overestimation of video bitrate, and thus it is hard to use that value for identifying video bitrate. Due to this throughput fluctuation, QoE measurement method for on-going flows proposed in our previous study used the measurement results for 8 s from

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We conduct experiments to evaluate the proposed method. The goal of this experiment is to show effectiveness of the QoE prediction. At first, we compare predicted QoE with actual QoE that can be obtained at end hosts. Then, we show that the QoE-based route selection method successfully improves QoE of all flows transmitted on the SDN-enabled network. 5.1

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PLR indicates more than 1% larger than the true value. The gaps are caused by miss-correction of errors introduced in Sect. 4.1.1. Specifically, measurement errors cannot be corrected because of a mistake in judgement of packet loss and measurement error. Thus, the predicted QoE is degraded by this measurement error. Next, focusing on video bitrate, the predicted video bitrate of 3,250 kbps is almost same with the true value, while 10,000 kbps is lower than the true value at all. This is because there is limitation on the number of bytes measured in OFC due to its processing delay. However, the difference between the true value and median/max. Predicted value is only around 0.3, that is almost same with the true value because video bitrate has the less impact on QoE [2]. From these results, we can demonstrate that the proposed method can improve video QoE by switching to the route based on predicted QoE. In addition, since the predicted QoE value shows the almost same value independent of the change in the video bitrates, we can say that the proposed method has video bitrate tolerance characteristics. 5.3.2 Scenario 2: Evaluation in Case of Multiple Flows In this scenario, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, using predicted QoE for the route selection, in case of multiple new flow arrivals. We transmit three flows in the order of video flow 1, video flow 2, and File transfer (FT) flow every 5 s. The video bitrate of both video 1 and video 2 is set to 2,500 kbps and the FT flow is a simple TCP file transfer. Here, we assume that OFC can precisely predict QoE of FT, and use the true value of QoE for route selection of FT. We conduct this experiment at 9 times, but here show the result of the median value.

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Figure 5 shows true value of QoE in the proposed method in the time series. The video 1 flow is temporarily transmitted on Route 1 as with the conventional method, but decides to keep the route on the same one based on the QoE prediction. The video 2 is temporarily transmitted on Route 2 at arrival timing because Route 2 has the largest residual bandwidth at that time. Thus, QoE of video 2 is low at the flow arrival. However, since the proposed method switches the video 2 flow to Route 1 in accordance with its predicted QoE, QoE of the video 2 flow is clearly improved after 1 s. Finally, FT is first temporarily transmitted on Route 2, which has the largest residual bandwidth, and then does not change the transmission route. Hence, QoE of FT is kept around 3.5 because QoE of FT strongly depends on throughput performance. As a result, the proposed method can keep QoE of every flows excellent level. Therefore, we can remark that the predicted QoE-based route selection successfully improves QoE for multiple new flow arrivals. However, the proposed method still has the following limitations: it does not consider that QoE of existing flows may drop due to transmission of a new flow. If the route selection for a new flow causes the exceed of available bandwidth, QoE

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As G.1071 requires the network measurement of at least 8 s to calculate QoE, a QoE-based route selection is quite difficult at the arrival timing of new flow. To resolve this problem, we proposed a early QoE prediction method for new arrival video flow. As both PLR and video settings are required for the QoE calculation, we predicted PLR by exploiting existing traffic, and video settings by exploiting the measurement result of very-short period (0.9 s) immediately after the video start while alleviating the effects of video buffering. The proposed method then selected an appropriate route for every flows in accordance with the predicted QoE. In our experiments, we showed that the proposed method can predict QoE precisely irrespective of the change in the video bitrate. We also demonstrated that the route selection for arrival video and file transfer flows based on predicted QoE successfully improved their QoE. As a next step, we are going to collaborate the QoE prediction method, which initially selected an appropriate route, and our proposed QoE estimation method for ongoing flows [2] in order to catch up with the change of network conditions in the timely manner. Acknowledgements. This paper was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18H03234, NICT Grant Number 19304, USA Grant number NSF 1818884 and 1827923.

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Reliable Network Design Considering Cost to Decrease Failure Probability of Simultaneous Failure Yuma Morino and Hiroyoshi Miwa(B) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen, Sanda-shi, Hyogo 669–1337, Japan {morino-m,miwa}@kwansei.ac.jp

Abstract. It is important to design a reliable information network that is resistant to network failures. Protection to decrease failure probability by both backup mechanism and fast recovery mechanism is an approach to design such an information network. However, enormous cost is required, if the failure probability of all network elements must be decreased. Therefore, it is practical to preferentially protect only some highly required network elements so that the reliability of the entire information network is improved. In this paper, we assume that the failure probability of a failure set, a set of network elements that simultaneously fails at a single disaster, can be decreased according to cost for protection. Since failure probability of each failure set is decreased according to cost assigned to the failure set, the network failure probability defined as the probability that the entire information network is not connected, is decreased. We define a network design problem that determines cost assigned to each failure set so that the sum of the cost assigned to each failure set is minimized under the constraint that the network failure probability must be within a threshold. First, we formulate the network design problem as a 0–1 integer programming problem, when the relationship between cost and probability decreased according to cost is a step function. In addition, we evaluate the performance by using the topology of some actual information networks.

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There are many cases in which a single disaster triggers simultaneous failures of many network elements such as nodes and links in an information network. It is not realistic to completely prevent failures of nodes and links in the event of a disaster, and we must assume that failures will occur. Let a failure set be a set of the simultaneously broken network elements at a single disaster. Even if all the nodes and all the links in a failure set are broken, it is desirable that all nodes must be connected each other in a remained information network. It is important to design such a reliable information network that is resistant to network failures. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 493–502, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_47

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Protection to decrease failure probability by both backup resource reserved in advance and fast recovery mechanism is an approach to design such an information network. However, since protection needs much network resource, enormous cost is required, if the failure probability of all network elements must be decreased. Therefore, it is practical to preferentially protect only some highly required network elements so that the reliability of the entire information network is improved. The failure probability of a network element can be decreased according to cost for protection of the network element. Since the failure probability of each network element is decreased according to cost assigned to the network element, the network failure probability defined as the probability that an entire information network is not connected, is decreased. In this paper, we assume that the initial failure probability of a failure set is given for all failure sets. The initial failure probability of a failure set corresponds to the probability that a single disaster occurs and all the network elements included in the failure set are broken by the disaster. In addition, the relationship between cost and probability decreased according to cost is given. We define a network design problem that determines cost assigned to each failure set so that the sum of the cost assigned to each failure set is minimized under the constraint that the network failure probability must be within a threshold. In the information network improved by using the solution of this network design problem, even if all the nodes and all the links in any failure set are broken, the probability that all nodes are connected each other in a remained information network is sufficiently large. We formulate the network design problem as a 0–1 integer programming problem, when the relationship between cost and probability decreased according to cost is a step function. In addition, we evaluate the performance by using the topology of some actual information networks.

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Connectivity used in a graph is often used as a measure of network reliability. When the connectivity of a network is too small, the algorithm to increase the connectivity by adding edges to the graph are applied. This corresponds to addition of links to an information network. This is known as the connectivity augmentation problem that determines augmented edges so that the graph does not become disconnected against any removal of edges. Some theoretical results for this problem are known; a set of the minimum number of edges for increasing the edge-connectivity of a graph to an arbitrary value can be determined in polynomial time; on the other hand, for the vertex-connectivity, the problem is generally NP-hard [1–3]. As another measure for evaluating reliability of a network, there is the number of the connected components of the network resulting from disconnection by failures [4]. The reference [4] addresses an optimization problem for maximizing the number of connected components disconnected due to the failure of nodes. When each edge has the probability that an edge is removed, the network reliability is defined as the probability so that an entire network is connected. The

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Let G = (V, E) where V is a set of vertices and E is a set of edges be a connected undirected graph representing an information network. Each vertex corresponds to a node such as a router, and each edge corresponds to a link between nodes. Let Fi (i = 1, 2, . . . , t) be a set of vertices and edges. Each set of Fi (i = 1, 2, . . . , t) is called a removal set. Let K = {F1 , F2 , . . . , Ft } be a set of the removal sets. We call K a set of the removal sets. A removal set corresponds to a set of nodes and links broken simultaneously in a single disaster, and a set of the removal sets corresponds to a set of possible disasters. For G = (V, E) and F ∈ K, let GF be the resulting graph that all edges in F are removed and that all vertices included in F and all edges incident to the vertices are removed. For removal set F (∈ K), let p(F ) be the probability that F is removed, in other words, the probability that graph G is converted to graph GF . For graph G = (V, E) and a set of the removal sets K, let an improved failure probability function be h : K × R+ → R+ . Let an assigned cost function be c : K → R+ . When assigning cost c(F ) to F (∈ K), the probability that F is removed decreases from h(F, 0) (= p(F )) to h(F, c(F )). We call p(F ) and h(F, c(F )) failure probabilities for the sake of simplicity. In the rest of this paper, we assume that an improved failure probability function h is a step function. For graph G = (V, E), a set of the removal sets K, improved failure probability function h, assigned cost function c, let P (G, K, h, c) be the probability that the graph is not connected. We call P (G, K, h, c) graph failure probability. Problem CADP Input: Graph G = (V, E), a set of the removal sets K, improved failure probability function h, a positive real number ε. Constraint: P (G, K, h, c) ≤ ε Objective: F ∈K c(F ) (minimization) Output: Assigned cost function c   For the sake of simplicity, we define the sum of costs assigned to removed sets as the objective function, although, in general, the total cost is not necessarily a linear function of costs assigned to removed sets. An example of this problem is shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3, and Fig. 4. We assume that, for graph G = (V, E), a removal set R(e) is {e} (e ∈ E) and that a set of the removal sets is K = {R(e)|e ∈ E}. The improved failure probability function h is the step function in Fig. 4. When the value of the horizontal axis is x and the value of the vertical axis is y, the failure probability is decreased by y after assigning cost x.

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In Fig. 1, the graph failure probability is 0.832. In Fig. 2, the failure probability of R(e1 ), R(e2 ), and R(e3 ) is decreased by 0.1, respectively. Consequently, the graph failure probability becomes 0.72. On the other hand, in Fig. 3, the failure probability of R(e2 ) is decreased by 0.1 and that of R(e3 ) is decreased by 0.2. As a result, the graph failure probability becomes 0.706, which is smaller than the result in Fig. 2. Although the total cost is 3 both in Fig. 2 and in Fig. 3, the graph failure probability of Fig. 3 is less than that of Fig. 2. Thus, when appropriately assigning cost to the removal sets, the graph failure probability can be decreased. The purpose of the problem is to find the optimum assigned cost function.

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Beacon-Less Autonomous Transmission Control Method for Spatio-Temporal Data Retention Ichiro Goto1(B) , Daiki Nobayashi1 , Kazuya Tsukamoto1 , Takeshi Ikenaga1 , and Myung Lee2 1

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Abstract. With the development and spread of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the number of devices connected to the Internet is increasing, and various kinds of data are now being generated from IoT devices. Some data generated from IoT devices depends on geographical location and time. We refer to such data as spatio-temporal data (STD). Since the “local production and consumption” of STD is effective for locationdependent applications, we have proposed a STD retention system using vehicles equipped with storage modules, computing resources, and shortrange wireless communication equipment. In this previous system, each vehicle controls the data transmission probability based on the neighboring vehicle density in order to achieve effective data retention. However, since the overhead of beacon messages required for estimation of the neighboring vehicle density becomes a critical problem with the increase in the number of vehicles, thereby preventing the effective data retention. In this paper, we propose a new data transmission control method to realize effective and reliable STD retention without beacon. Simulation results showed that our proposed scheme can achieve effective data retention.

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With the development and spread of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the number of devices connected to the Internet is increasing. According to Cisco Systems, Inc., the number of IoT devices is growing year by year and is expected to grow to approximately 28 billion by 2022 [1]. Therefore, various kinds of data are now being generated from IoT devices and are mostly collected, analyzed and distributed by Internet cloud servers. Here, when we pay attention to data content generated from IoT devices, some data content such as traffic information, weather information and disaster information are highly dependent on location and time. We define such data content as “spatio-temporal data (STD).” STD can be effectively utilized by c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021  L. Barolli et al. (Eds.): INCoS 2020, AISC 1263, pp. 503–513, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_48

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distributing it directly to the user from generation place of it. For example, when a traffic accident occurs, the driver distributes the information about traffic accident to other neighboring drivers directly. As a result, these drivers can passively acquire the information about traffic accident without any kind of active actions, so that drivers can take an action to avoid a route where a traffic jam occurs. In other words, we suppose that “local production and consumption of data” brings us effective utilization of STD. Therefore, we have proposed a novel Geo-Centric Information Platform (GCIP) for collecting, analyzing, and delivering STD based on physical space [2]. As a fundamental element of GCIP, we have also proposed a STD retention system usig vehicles equipped with storage modules, computer resources, and short-range wireless communication equipment [3–5]. In this system, vehicles capable of wireless communication are defined as regional information hub (InfoHub), and the purpose of this system is to retain STD within a target area. However, in the data retention method using a vehicular ad hoc networks, since all vehicles use the same radio band, radio interference occur frequently when the number of vehicles increases. Therefore, in the previous study, in order to solve this problem, we proposed a transmission control method according to the data transmission situation of neighboring vehicles [3–5]. Those methods control the transmission probability based on the density of neighboring vehicles. However, since the beacon messages periodically transmitted from each vehicles are used for estimation of the vehicle density, the overhead of beacon transmission can become a crucial problem especially in a high vehicle density environment, thereby causing frequent radio interference. In this paper, we propose a new beacon-less transmission control method. In the proposed method, we first introduce transmission zones in which vehicles can transmit data for data retention. Next, we introduce time division mechanism of the transmission timing among neighboring transmission zones to avoid radio interference. Finally, we control the transmission based on the signal strength of packet received from neighboring vehicles in order to distribute the data to the entire retention area with minimum data transmission. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method by simulation and verify its effectiveness. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we briefly review studies related to data retention, while we outline our previous STD retention system and discuss the problems to be addressed in Sect. 3. In Sect. 4, we describe our new transmission control method for STD retention, while simulation models and evaluation results are provided in Sect. 5. Finally, we give our conclusions in Sect. 6.

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Maihofer et al. proposed an abiding geocast, which distributes and retains data to all vehicles within the geocast target area for a certain period of time [6]. Maihofer et al. also proposed three methods for distributing and retaining data to vehicles in the target area. The first is a server approach where a particular server

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retains the data and periodically distributes it based on the geocast routing protocol. In this method, not only the specific server distributes the data but also the location information of all vehicles in the target area needs to be exchanged in order to distribute the data, so that the load to the specific server is increased. The second is an election approach in which selected vehicles in the target area retain data and distribute it periodically. These two approaches increase the processing load for a particular server and vehicle, which result in more frequent failures. In addition, when these devices fail, data cannot be distributed. The third is a neighboring approach in which each vehicles within the target area hold data and vehicle location information, and deliver data when they sense vehicles entering the target area. This approach requires no infrastructure because it is a vehicle-only system. Therefore, the range of practical use is wide, and many studies have been conducted. Rizzo et al. proposed a method to exchange information between vehicles based on the assumption that the infrastructure could not be used due to a disaster [7]. Leontiadis et al. proposed a method in which a vehicle exchanges navigation information with neighboring vehicles and distributes data to a vehicle heading to a target area [8]. In the Floating Content [9] and Locus [10], vehicles have a data list and exchange the list with neighboring vehicles. When the vehicle does not retain the data, the vehicle makes a transmission request, and the vehicle retaining the data transmits the data. At this time, the vehicle determines whether to transmit the data based on the data transmission probability set according to the distance from the center of the target area. Therefore, the further the vehicle is from the center, the lower the data acquisition probability is. On the other hand, when many vehicles are located near the center, channel competition occurs because the transmission probability of all vehicles is high, and communication quality deteriorates. Furthermore, since the user has to send a query to acquire these data, there is an overhead in acquiring the data, which is inefficient for acquiring realtime information (For example, traffic information). Therefore, in this study, we propose a new network infrastructure that retains STD at the generation place and effectively distributes it to users in order to promote local production and consumption of data.

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To achieve data retention, the entire retention area must be covered by sum of the communication range of InfoHub vehicles. Further, in order to realize the quick data distribution to users, the data must be transmitted from InfoHub vehicles to the entire retention area at regular intervals so that users can receive the data in a short time (at least once every transmission interval d). In this paper, we defined coverage rate as an indicator of the data retention performance in a certain period. The coverage rate formula is as follows: Coverage Rate =

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Previous method controls the data transmission probability using simple information, such as the number of neighboring vehicles and the data reception number. Each vehicle periodically transmits a beacon in order to estimate the number of neighboring vehicles based on the number of beacons received from the neighboring vehicles, and sets a data transmission probability based on the number of beacons and data received at each data transmission interval d. As a result, the previous method achieved a high coverage rate while reducing the number of data transmissions. 3.4

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In the previous method, since each vehicle estimates the number of neighboring vehicles from the number of received beacons, all vehicles in the retention area must transmit beacons. Therefore, the number of beacon transmissions inherently increases in proportion to the increase in the number of vehicles. That is, although the previous method can reduce the number of data transmissions effectively even in the high dense environment, the effects of overhead of beacon messages and collisions between data and beacons are not taken into consideration at all. Therefore, in order to realize effective data retention, it is necessary to beacon-less data transmission control.

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In this study, first, we defined the minimum required transmission position (hereinafter called “optimal transmission point”) that covers the entire retention area based on the communication range of one vehicle. Since not only the origin point of STD but also the range of communication coverage are predetermined, we can know the optimal transmission points in advance. Therefore, as shown in Fig. 2, we set the optimal transmission points determined based on these information. If only vehicles located at the optimal transmission points transmit data, the number of data transmissions can be minimized. However, in the real environment, since vehicles freely move with high mobility, the reliable transmission from the optimal point is impossible. Therefore, we introduce the transmission zone whose center is the optimal transmission point as shown in the Fig. 3, and only vehicles within the transmission zone transmit data, aiming to maintain a high coverage rate. 4.2

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We set the transmission timing according to the following procedure so that the vehicle closer to the optimum transmission point transmits data preferentially within the transmission zone. Initially, we assume that all vehicles synchronize time, and data transmission cycle using GPS. First, each vehicle acquires its own current position at every data transmission cycle, and confirms whether its own position is located within the transmission zone. When the vehicle is in the transmission zone, the vehicle calculates the distance to the nearest optimal transmission point and sets the transmission timing by following the formula. N ext T ransmission T iming =

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interference, we treat the neighboring 9 transmission zones as one group and one transmission interval is allocated to each of transmission zone within one data transmission cycle, as shown in Fig. 4. Then, the vehicles in transmission zone set the transmission timing described in Sect. 4.2 within the transmission interval assigned to each transmission zone. Thus, since the transmission timings of the neighboring transmission zones are different from each other, radio interference can be prevented. 4.4

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In the previous section, each vehicle decided the transmission timing based on the distance from optimal transmission point. Next, each vehicle determines whether to transmit data based on the surrounding transmission situation. The ideal environment for this system is to transmit data at the optimal transmission point in free space. Thus, by comparing the received signal strength in this ideal environment with the actual received signal strength, we can determine whether transmission is required at that location. When the received signal strength of the data is higher than the ideal received signal strength, the vehicle does not need to transmit the data because the space around the vehicle has a sufficient signal strength. On the other hand, when the received signal strength of the data is lower than the ideal received signal strength, since the propagation environment around the vehicle is poor and areas where radio waves do not reach occur, the vehicle needs to transmit data. Therefore, the vehicle in the transmission zone controls transmission according to the following procedure.

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1. When the vehicle receives the data, the vehicle acquires the current position information. 2. The vehicle confirms whether the received data is data transmitted from the same transmission zone as itself. a. When the transmission zones are the same, the vehicle calculates a distance to the optimal transmission point, and calculates an ideal received signal strength at the current position by using the Friis transmission equation. λ 2 ) (3) Pr = Gt Gr pt ( 4πr where Pr is the received power, Gt is the transmission gain, Gr is the receive gain, Pt is the transmission power, λ is the wavelength and r is the distance from transmission point. Next, the vehicle compares the calculated value with the measured value. When the measured value is large, the vehicle does not transmit the data in the current data transmission cycle and waits until the next data transmission cycle. b. When the transmission zones are different, the vehicle waits until the transmission timing.

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the Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) road traffic simulator [13]. To show the effectiveness of our proposed method, we used random topology (Fig. 5) that vehicles with randomly generated starting and ending points drive on a road. A traffic signal was installed at the intersection. The distance between intersections w was 50 m. In our simulations, we set each parameter to evaluate our proposed method based on the previous method [3]. The retention area radius R was set to 750 m, the auxiliary area length r was set to 250 m, the communication range of the vehicle was set to 300 m, the speed was set to 40 km/h, and the transmission interval d was set to 5 s. We created 10 mobility models for vehicles with randomly generated starting and ending points, and evaluated them by changing the number of vehicles in each model from 250 to 1000. As comparison methods, we used a naive method that a vehicle always sends data at least once during the transmission interval d, the previous method [3], the proposed method without the time division scheduling (TDS) of Sect. 4.3, and the proposed method with the scheduling. In the previous method, the beacon transmission interval was set to 5 s, the moving average coefficient α was set to 0.5, and the target value of the number of received data β was set to 4 in addition to the above parameter setting. 5.2

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First, we evaluate the coverage rate. Figure 6 shows the coverage rate of the four comparison methods. From this graph, the proposed method achieve a coverage rate approximately 100% as the previous method regardless of the number of vehicles. This result shows that the proposed method can distribute STD to the entire retention area without beacon transmissions regardless of the number of vehicles. Next, we evaluate the number of retained STD transmissions as shown in Fig. 7. From this graph, the proposed method can suppress the number of retained STD transmissions to around 100, which is the same as the previous method, even in an environment with high vehicle density. This result shows that the proposed method can realize the same reduction of the number of data transmission as the previous method by controlling the transmission according to the signal strength of the received data. On the other hand, Fig. 8 shows the total number of data transmissions to the retention area. This means the number of transmissions of all data, including the beacons, not just the retained STD. From this result, since all vehicles in the previous method transmit beacons, the total number of data transmissions to the retention area is larger than that of the naive method. As a result, the previous method is difficult to achieve effective data retention because the frequency of radio interference may increase. On the other hand, since the proposed method does not transmit beacons, the total number of data transmissions to the retention area is significantly smaller than other methods. These results indicate that the proposed method can achieve data retention with minimum data transmission. Finally, we evaluate the radio interference. Figure 9 shows the number of occurrence of radio interference. From this graph, the performance of the pro-

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of data. Simulation evaluation revealed that our proposed method can significantly reduce the number of data transmissions and radio interference while achieving a coverage rate of approximately 100% regardless of the number of vehicles. In our future work, we will evaluate using a vehicle traffic model that simulates a real environment such as LuST [11]. Acknowledgements. This work supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18H03234, NICT Grant Number 19304, and NSF award number 1818884 (JUNO2), 1827923 (COSMOS).

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Author Index

A Abouali, Meryem, 161 Ahmed, Aly, 89 Ahmed, Kazi J., 216 Ajayi, Oluwaseyi, 161 Amato, Alessandra, 194, 238 Ampririt, Phudit, 1, 15, 26 As, Mansur, 447 Avino, Ilaria, 44 B Barolli, Admir, 1, 26 Barolli, Leonard, 1, 15, 26, 36, 281, 291 Batiha, Tarek, 149, 204 Braun, Nicholas A., 133 Bylykbashi, Kevin, 15 C Canonico, Roberto, 112 Chen, Xu, 338 Chen, Yuan, 326 Chen, Yubo, 133 Cozzolino, Giovanni, 112, 194, 238 Cuka, Miralda, 36 D Duolikun, Dilawaer, 101 E Elhadad, Mohamed K., 256 Elmazi, Donald, 36 Enokido, Tomoya, 101

F Fenza, Giuseppe, 44 Fiore, Nicola, 183 Fuccio, Graziano, 44 Fujihara, Akihiro, 121 G Gajdoš, Petr, 413 Gebali, Fayez, 256 Genovese, Alessia, 44 Goto, Ichiro, 503 Guo, Xuan, 326 H Haohan, Bei, 300 Hernandez, Marco, 216 Hřivňák, Rostislav, 413 Hryhoruk, Connor C. J., 133 I Iizumi, Rui, 67 Ikeda, Makoto, 36, 291 Ikenaga, Takeshi, 503 Iwai, Yuutaro, 121 J Jain, Prakhar, 133 Johnny, Olayinka, 319 K Kimoto, Kenta, 78 Köppen, Mario, 447

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516 Krömer, Pavel, 149, 204, 425 Kumazoe, Kazumi, 460 L Lee, Myung, 216, 470, 480, 503 Leung, Carson K., 133 Levesque, Denis L., 133 Li, Jiangtao, 382 Li, Kin Fun, 256 Li, Linyang, 361 Li, Qiong, 382 Li, Xiao, 348, 361 Liu, Shudong, 338 Loia, Vincenzo, 44 Lu, Hong, 269 Lu, Wei, 269 M Maisto, Alessandro, 173 Martorelli, Giandomenico, 173 Matsuo, Keita, 1, 15, 36, 281 Mitsugi, Kenshiro, 281 Miwa, Hiroyoshi, 56, 78, 493 Morino, Yuma, 493 N Nagashima, Kaoru, 470 Nagata, Akira, 470 Nakamura, Shigenari, 67 Nakamura, Yasuto, 56 Nobayashi, Daiki, 503 Noguchi, Kaiya, 101 Nowaková, Jana, 425 O Ogiela, Lidia, 145 Ogiela, Marek R., 145 Ohara, Seiji, 1 Okamoto, Shusuke, 26 Orciuoli, Francesco, 44 P Pan, Xiang, 326 Paone, Antonietta, 173 Parente, Gaetano, 183 Pelosi, Serena, 173 Platoš, Jan, 391, 425 Polito, Massimiliano, 183 Q Qafzezi, Ermioni, 15

Author Index R Révay, Lukáš, 402 Rosenbaum, Sara, 269 S Saadawi, Tarel, 161 Saito, Takumi, 67, 101 Sakamoto, Shinji, 26 Sakumoto, Yusuke, 245 Seth, Nitya, 133 Shang, Siyuan, 133 Shibata, Masahiro, 437 Shimokawa, Shumpei, 480 Sichao, Liao, 56 Sirimorok, Nurdiansyah, 447 Snášel, Václav, 413, 425 Soussan, Tariq, 312 Sperlì, Giancarlo, 112 Srinivasan, Venkatesh, 226 Stingo, Michele, 183 Su, Lili, 382 Sun, Yujia, 391 T Tada, Yoshiki, 291 Taenaka, Yuzo, 470, 480 Takizawa, Makoto, 1, 15, 36, 67, 101 Tamura, Hitomi, 470 Taniguchi, Toyoaki, 245 Thomo, Alex, 89, 226 Tomić, Sanja, 402 Toyama, Atushi, 281 Trovati, Marcello, 312, 319 Tsukamoto, Kazuya, 216, 470, 480, 503 Tsuru, Masato, 437, 460 W Wang, Chao, 361 Wang, Chuang, 338 Wang, Xu An, 338 Wang, Zhifeng, 372 Wei, Jiamin, 338 Wen, Yan, 133 Wenhao, Li, 300 X Xiao, Zhiting, 326 Xu, Yiming, 348, 361 Y Yang, Yao, 372 Yang, Yu, 348, 361 Ying, Huang, 300

Author Index Yoshida, Kaori, 447 Yoshida, Ryosuke, 437 Yu, Tengkai, 226 Yubo, Liu, 300

517 Z Zeng, Chunyan, 372 Zhao, Yanyan, 382 Zhu, Dongliang, 372