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The problem of identifying the source of a propagation based on limited observations has been studied significantly in recent years, as it can help reducing the damage caused by unwanted infections. In this paper we present an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Shabnam Behzad , Arman Sepehr , Hamid Beigy , Mohammadzaman Zamani

We develop a real-time anomaly detection algorithm for directed activity on large, sparse networks. We model the propensity for future activity using a dynamic logistic model with interaction terms for sender- and receiver-specific latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Wesley Lee , Tyler H. McCormick , Joshua Neil , Cole Sodja , Yanran Cui

Robust change-point detection for large-scale data streams has many real-world applications in industrial quality control, signal detection, biosurveillance. Unfortunately, it is highly non-trivial to develop efficient schemes due to three…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-18 Ruizhi Zhang , Yajun Mei , Jianjun Shi

We consider a strategic network monitoring problem involving the operator of a networked system and an attacker. The operator aims to randomize the placement of multiple protected sensors to monitor and protect components that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Jezdimir Milosevic , Mathieu Dahan , Saurabh Amin , Henrik Sandberg

Identifying anomalies and contamination in datasets is important in a wide variety of settings. In this paper, we describe a new technique for estimating contamination in large, discrete valued datasets. Our approach considers the normal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Matthew L. Malloy , Scott Alfeld , Paul Barford

Topological data analysis has recently been applied to the study of dynamic networks. In this context, an algorithm was introduced and helps, among other things, to detect early warning signals of abnormal changes in the dynamic network…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Bouchaib Azamir , Driss Bennis , Bertrand Michel

Like natural complex systems such as the Earth's climate or a living cell, semiconductor lithography systems are characterized by nonlinear dynamics across more than a dozen orders of magnitude in space and time. Thousands of sensors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Errol Zalmijn , Tom Heskes , Tom Claassen

Most studies that consider the problem of estimating the location of a point source in wireless sensor networks assume that the source location is estimated by a set of spatially distributed sensors, whose locations are fixed. Motivated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammad Fanaei , Matthew C. Valenti , Natalia A. Schmid

The use of mobile robotics in radioactive source seeking has become an important part of modern radiation-safety practices, supporting timely mitigation of contamination risks and helping protect public health. However, measuring radiation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Lysander Miller , Joshua Keene , Jeremy M. C. Brown , Airlie Chapman

This paper proposes to leverage the emerging~learning techniques and devise a multi-agent online source {seeking} algorithm under unknown environment. Of particular significance in our problem setups are: i) the underlying environment is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Bin Du , Kun Qian , Christian Claudel , Dengfeng Sun

Dynamic watermarking, as an active intrusion detection technique, can potentially detect replay attacks, spoofing attacks, and deception attacks in the feedback channel for control systems. In this paper, we develop a novel dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Jiacheng Tang , Jiguo Song , Abhishek Gupta

We study an efficient dynamic blind source separation algorithm of convolutive sound mixtures based on updating statistical information in the frequency domain, andminimizing the support of time domain demixing filters by a weighted least…

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Recent findings suggest that abnormal operating conditions of equipment in the oil and gas supply chain represent a large fraction of anthropogenic methane emissions. Thus, effective mitigation of emissions necessitates rapid identification…

Applications · Statistics 2021-09-06 Amir Montazeri , Xiaochi Zhou , John D. Albertson

Wireless sensor networks consisting of great number of cheap and tiny sensor nodes which are used for military environment controlling, natural events recording, traffic monitoring, robot navigation, and etc. Such a networks encounter with…

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Air pollution remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the modern era, significantly impacting human health, ecosystems, and climate. While traditional air quality monitoring systems provide critical data, their high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Elie Azeraf , Audrey Wagner , Emilie Bialic , Samia Mellah , Ludovic Lelandais

Many offline unsupervised change point detection algorithms rely on minimizing a penalized sum of segment-wise costs. We extend this framework by proposing to minimize a sum of discrepancies between segments. In particular, we propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Aurélien Serre , Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

In this article, we consider the detection of a localized source emitting a signal using a wireless sensor network (WSN). We consider that geographically distributed sensor nodes obtain energy measurements and compute cooperatively and in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Juan Augusto Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega

We study the inverse problem of locating point sources from far-field data under plane wave incidence. A direct computational method is developed based on multiple scattering theory, using a novel indicator function to avoid iterative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Nana Meng

We present a detection problem where several spatially distributed sensors observe Poisson signals emitted from a single source of unknown position. The measurements at each sensor are modeled by independent inhomogeneous Poisson processes.…

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