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Previous methods that predict system-wide travel time, predominantly grounded in graph neural networks, remain limited to typical and recurring demand patterns. While they successfully predict future congestion following daily commute, they…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Łukasz Gorczyca , Kacper Drozd , Michał Bujak , Rafał Kucharski

We present a conformal prediction method for time series using the Transformer architecture to capture long-memory and long-range dependencies. Specifically, we use the Transformer decoder as a conditional quantile estimator to predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Junghwan Lee , Chen Xu , Yao Xie

Predicting motion of surrounding agents is critical to real-world applications of tactical path planning for autonomous driving. Due to the complex temporal dependencies and social interactions of agents, on-line trajectory prediction is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jingwen Zhao , Xuanpeng Li , Qifan Xue , Weigong Zhang

Accurate forecasts of segment-level sailing durations are fundamental to enhancing maritime schedule reliability and optimizing long-term port operations. However, conventional estimated time of arrival (ETA) models are primarily designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nairui Liu , Fang He , Xindi Tang , Yineng Wang

To boost energy saving for the general delay-tolerant IoT networks, a two-stage and single-relay queueing communication scheme is investigated. Concretely, a traffic-aware $N$-threshold and gated-service policy are applied at the relay. As…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Nan Qi , Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Ming Xiao , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Rugui Yao , Shi Jin

In this paper, proactive resource allocation based on user location for point-to-point communication over fading channels is introduced, whereby the source must transmit a packet when the user requests it within a deadline of a single time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Antonious M. Girgis , Amr El-Keyi , Mohammed Nafie , Ramy Gohary

We propose and experimentally evaluate a novel method that dynamically changes the contention window of access points based on system load to improve performance in a dense Wi-Fi deployment. A key feature is that no MAC protocol changes,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Thomas Sandholm , Bernardo Huberman , Belal Hamzeh , Scott Clearwater

This paper presents an on-board advance warning system for vehicles based on a probabilistic prediction model that advises them on when to change lanes to reach a highway diverge on time. The system is based on a model that estimates the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Goodarz Mehr , Azim Eskandarian

Lane changes of preceding vehicles have a great impact on the motion planning of automated vehicles especially in complex traffic situations. Predicting them would benefit the public in terms of safety and efficiency. While many research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Francesco De Cristofaro , Felix Hofbaur , Aixi Yang , Arno Eichberger

Understanding the behavior of road users is of vital importance for the development of trajectory prediction systems. In this context, the latest advances have focused on recurrent structures, establishing the social interaction between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 A. Quintanar , D. Fernández-Llorca , I. Parra , R. Izquierdo , M. A. Sotelo

Predicting pedestrian motion trajectories is crucial for path planning and motion control of autonomous vehicles. Accurately forecasting crowd trajectories is challenging due to the uncertain nature of human motions in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yu Liu , Yuexin Zhang , Kunming Li , Yongliang Qiao , Stewart Worrall , You-Fu Li , He Kong

We aim to improve the energy efficiency of train climate control architectures, with a focus on a specific class of regional trains operating throughout Switzerland, especially in Zurich and Geneva. Heating, Ventilation, and Air…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Ahmed Aboudonia , Johannes Estermann , Keith Moffat , Manfred Morari , John Lygeros

Due to the significance of transportation planning, traffic management, and dispatch optimization, predicting passenger origin-destination has emerged as a crucial requirement for intelligent transportation systems management. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Pouria Golshanrad , Hamid Mahini , Behnam Bahrak

Urban mobility is on the cusp of transformation with the emergence of shared, connected, and cooperative automated vehicles. Yet, for them to be accepted by customers, trust in their punctuality is vital. Many pilot initiatives operate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Carolin Schmidt , Mathias Tygesen , Filipe Rodrigues

In the elevator industry, reducing passenger journey time in an elevator system is a major aim. The key obstacle to optimising elevator dispatching is the unpredictable traffic flow of passengers. To address this difficulty, two main…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shaher Ahmed , Mohamed Shekha , Suhaila Skran , Abdelrahman Bassyouny

Deep learning at scale is dominated by communication time. Distributing samples across nodes usually yields the best performance, but poses scaling challenges due to global information dissemination and load imbalance across uneven sample…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shigang Li , Tal Ben-Nun , Giorgi Nadiradze , Salvatore Di Girolamo , Nikoli Dryden , Dan Alistarh , Torsten Hoefler

In this research, we propose a series of methodologies to mine transit riders travel pattern and behavioral preferences, and then we use these knowledges to adjust and optimize the transit systems. Contributions are: 1) To increase the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Yongxin Liu

Airport performance prediction with a reasonable look-ahead time is a challenging task and has been attempted by various prior research. Traffic, demand, weather, and traffic management actions are all critical inputs to any prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Liya Wang , Alex Tien , Jason Chou

With parallelizable attention networks, the neural Transformer is very fast to train. However, due to the auto-regressive architecture and self-attention in the decoder, the decoding procedure becomes slow. To alleviate this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Biao Zhang , Deyi Xiong , Jinsong Su

The ability to reliably predict the future quality of a wireless channel, as seen by the media access control layer, is a key enabler to improve performance of future industrial networks that do not rely on wires. Knowing in advance how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Gabriele Formis , Stefano Scanzio , Gianluca Cena , Adriano Valenzano