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Wireless Mesh Network is presented as an appealing solution for bridging the digital divide between developed and under-developed regions. But the planning and deployment of these networks are not just a technical matter, since the success…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Jean Louis Ebongue Kedieng Fendji , Jean Michel Nlong

In this paper, we have proposed a new smartphone based system for health care, monitoring and diagnosis, which is specially designed to efficiently increase the public health care system in the distant, rural, unreached areas of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Shadman Sakib , Rakibul Haq , Tariq Wazed

Drones are an exciting technology that is quickly being adopted in the global consumer market. Africa has become a center of deployment with the first drone airport established in Rwanda and drones currently being used for applications such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Anna Wojciechowska , Foad Hamidi , Andrés Lucero , Jessica R. Cauchard

The growing demand for cognitive remediation therapy, combined with limited speech therapist availability, has accelerated the adoption of remote rehabilitation tools. These systems generate large volumes of interaction data that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yongxin Zhou , Fabien Ringeval , François Portet

Globally distributed groups require collaborative systems to support their work. Besides being able to support the teamwork, these systems also should promote well-being and maximize the human potential that leads to an engaging system and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Irawan Nurhas , Jan Pawlowski , Stefan Geisler , Maria Kovtunenko , Bayu Rima Aditya

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

Very often in some censorious healthcare scenario, there may be a need to have some expert consultancies (especially by doctors) that are not available in-house to the hospital. With the advancement in technologies (such as video…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Vikash Kumar Singh , Sajal Mukhopadhyay , Aniruddh Sharma , Arpan Roy

As deep learning technologies advance, increasingly more data is necessary to generate general and robust models for various tasks. In the medical domain, however, large-scale and multi-parties data training and analyses are infeasible due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Lohendran Baskaran , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Tong Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The lack of sufficiently large open medical databases is one of the biggest challenges in AI-powered healthcare. Synthetic data created using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) appears to be a good solution to mitigate the issues with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-03 Sandra Carrasco Limeros , Sylwia Majchrowska , Mohamad Khir Zoubi , Anna Rosén , Juulia Suvilehto , Lisa Sjöblom , Magnus Kjellberg

Access to healthcare facilities is a critical issue in developing countries, where limited resources and significant challenges hinder progress toward universal health coverage, one of the targets pursued by the United Nations. As a result,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Laura Davila-Pena , Maria Paola Scaparra , Dick den Hertog

This paper addresses the limitations of multi-node perception and delayed scheduling response in distributed systems by proposing a GNN-based multi-node collaborative perception mechanism. The system is modeled as a graph structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Wenxuan Zhu , Qiyuan Wu , Tengda Tang , Renzi Meng , Sheng Chai , Xuehui Quan

Remote medical response systems are increasingly being deployed to support emergency care in disaster-affected and infrastructure-limited environments. Enabled by GeoVision capabilities, this paper presents a Digital Twin architecture for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Parham Kebria , Soheil Sabri , Laura J Brattain

Spectrum Scarcity is a global problem across the world. This paper emphasizes on the fact that a global problem has to be dealt on global basis, not just locally by applying the principle of global cognitive radio,Global Opportunistic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Dr. G. Rama Murthy , M. Srikanth , K. Viswanadh

This paper considers the problem of distributed state estimation using multi-robot systems. The robots have limited communication capabilities and, therefore, communicate their measurements intermittently only when they are physically close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reza Khodayi-mehr , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

We introduce a reduced-communication distributed optimization scheme based on estimating the solution to a proximal minimization problem. Our proposed setup involves a group of agents coordinated by a central entity, altogether operating in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Giorgos Stathopoulos , Colin N. Jones

Regional planning processes and associated redevelopment projects can be complex due to the vast amount of diverse data involved. However, all of this data shares a common geographical reference, especially in the renaturation of former…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yves Annanias , Daniel Wiegreffe

Spectrum is a scarce commodity, and considering the spectrum scarcity faced by the wireless-based service providers led to high congestion levels. Technical inefficiencies from pooled spectrum (this is nothing but the "common carrier…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-30 Santosh Kumar Singh

We study a delay-constrained grant-free random access system with a multi-antenna base station. The users randomly generate data packets with expiration deadlines, which are then transmitted from data queues on a first-in first-out basis.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jianan Bai , Zheng Chen , Erik. G. Larsson

In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), the central question is how the conversational agent can naturally ask for user preferences and provide suitable recommendations. Existing works mainly follow the hierarchical architecture,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xian Li , Hongguang Shi , Yunfei Wang , Yeqin Zhang , Xubin Li , Cam-Tu Nguyen

Critical infrastructures face demanding challenges due to natural and human-generated threats, such as pandemics, workforce shortages or cyber-attacks, which might severely compromise service quality. To improve system resilience,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 David Carramiñana , Ana M. Bernardos , Juan A. Besada , José R. Casar