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In this paper, we are analyzing the interactivity time, defined as the duration between two consecutive tasks such as sending emails, collecting friends and followers and writing comments in online social networks (OSNs). The distributions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Norbert Blenn , Piet Van Mieghem

The current paper studies a protective mission to defend a domain called the safe zone from a rogue drone invasion. We consider a one attacker and one defender drone scenario where only a noisy observation of the attacker at every time step…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Minjun Sung , Christophe Johannes Hiltebrandt-McIntosh , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan

Generative control policies have recently unlocked major progress in robotics. These methods produce action sequences via diffusion or flow matching, with training data provided by demonstrations. But existing methods come with two key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vince Kurtz , Joel W. Burdick

Human flourishing is often severely limited by persistent violence. Quantitative conflict research has found common temporal and other statistical patterns in warfare, but very little is understood about its general spatial patterns. While…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Weisi Guo , Xueke Lu , Guillem Mosquera Donate , Samuel Johnson

We propose a novel framework for swarm-based drone delivery services with in-flight energy recharging. The framework aims to enhance the delivery time of multiple packages by reducing the number of stops and recharging times at intermediate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Balsam Alkouz , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

This paper studies the feasibility of supporting drone operations using existent cellular infrastructure. We propose an analytical framework that includes the effects of base station (BS) height and antenna radiation pattern, drone antenna…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Sofie Pollin

The study of population dynamics originated with early sociological works but has since extended into many fields, including biology, epidemiology, evolutionary game theory, and economics. Most studies on population dynamics focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Noah Golowich , Elad Hazan , Zhou Lu , Dhruv Rohatgi , Y. Jennifer Sun

There is emerging interest in performing regression between distributions. In contrast to prediction on single instances, these machine learning methods can be useful for population-based studies or on problems that are inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Connie Kou , Hwee Kuan Lee , Jorge Sanz , Teck Khim Ng

Aerial drones offer a distinct potential to reduce the delivery time and energy consumption for the delivery of time-sensitive and small products. However, there is still a need in the relevant industry to understand the performance of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Tanveer Hossain Bhuiyan , Mohammad Roni , Victor Walker

Recent huge technological development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest firefighting system based on the use of a swarm of hundreds of UAVs able to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Elena Ausonio , Patrizia Bagnerini , Marco Ghio

For networked control systems, cyber-security issues have gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider the so-called zero dynamics attacks, which form an important class of false data injection attacks, with a special…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Kosuke Kimura , Hideaki Ishii

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu

As drones are getting more and more entangled in our society, more untrained users require the capability to operate them. This scenario is to be achieved through the development of artificial intelligence capabilities assisting the human…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being used in a variety of traditional radiofrequency (RF) problems. Previous work has shown that while DNN classifiers are typically more accurate than traditional signal processing algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Roman A. Sandler , Peter K. Relich , Cloud Cho , Sean Holloway

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have…

Adversarial attacks can generate adversarial inputs by applying small but intentionally worst-case perturbations to samples from the dataset, which leads to even state-of-the-art deep neural networks outputting incorrect answers with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shorya Sharma

We characterize the connectivity structure of feed-forward, deep neural networks (DNNs) using network motif theory. To address whether a particular motif distribution is characteristic of the training task, or function of the DNN, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Olivia T. Zahn , Thomas L. Daniel , J. Nathan Kutz

As AI advances, broader consensus is needed to determine research priorities. This endeavor discusses offensive AI and provides guidance by leveraging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and interpretability techniques. The objective is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ryan Marinelli

Our goal is to train control policies that generalize well to unseen environments. Inspired by the Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) framework, we propose DRAGEN - Distributionally Robust policy learning via Adversarial Generation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Allen Z. Ren , Anirudha Majumdar

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a novel approach to generative modelling, a task whose goal it is to learn a distribution of real data points. They have often proved difficult to train: GANs are unlike many techniques in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Samuel A. Barnett