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A context-aware recommender system (CARS) applies sensing and analysis of user context to provide personalized services. The contextual information can be driven from sensors in order to improve the accuracy of the recommendations. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Amit Livne , Eliad Shem Tov , Adir Solomon , Achiya Elyasaf , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

In this paper, we aim to design the optimal sensor collaboration strategy for the estimation of time-varying parameters, where collaboration refers to the act of sharing measurements with neighboring sensors prior to transmission to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Sijia Liu , Swarnendu Kar , Makan Fardad , Pramod K. Varshney

We propose a Context Aware Sensor Configuration Model (CASCoM) to address the challenge of automated context-aware configuration of filtering, fusion, and reasoning mechanisms in IoT middleware according to the problems at hand. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Charith Perera , Arkady Zaslavsky , Michael Compton , Peter Christen , Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

In this article we consider the problems of distributed detection and estimation in wireless sensor networks. In the first part, we provide a general framework aimed to show how an efficient design of a sensor network requires a joint…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Pre-trained transformers exhibit the capability of adapting to new tasks through in-context learning (ICL), where they efficiently utilize a limited set of prompts without explicit model optimization. The canonical communication problem of…

Multi-agent language systems can exhibit a failure mode where a shared dominant context progressively absorbs individual semantics, yielding near-uniform behavior across agents. We study this effect under the name Asymptotic Semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Faruk Alpay , Bugra Kilictas

In recent years, how to strike a good trade-off between accuracy and inference speed has become the core issue for real-time semantic segmentation applications, which plays a vital role in real-world scenarios such as autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Guangwei Gao , Guoan Xu , Yi Yu , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Dong Yue

We consider a small extent sensor network for event detection, in which nodes take samples periodically and then contend over a {\em random access network} to transmit their measurement packets to the fusion center. We consider two…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Premkumar Karumbu , Venkata K. Prasanthi M. , Anurag Kumar

In this paper, we propose an efficient coding scheme for the two-link binary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) problem under logarithmic loss criterion. The exact rate-distortion bound for a two-link binary CEO problem under the logarithmic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Mahdi Nangir , Reza Asvadi , Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari , Jun Chen

This paper studies the fastest distributed consensus averaging problem on branches of an arbitrary connected sensor network. In the previous works full knowledge about the sensor network's connectivity topology was required for determining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Saber Jafarizadeh , Abbas Jamalipour

The problem of determining the best achievable performance of arbitrary lossless compression algorithms is examined, when correlated side information is available at both the encoder and decoder. For arbitrary source-side information pairs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Effective resource allocation in sensor networks, IoT systems, and distributed computing is essential for applications such as environmental monitoring, surveillance, and smart infrastructure. Sensors or agents must optimize their resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Daniel S. Menasché , Don Towsley

In the context of distributed estimation, we consider the problem of sensor collaboration, which refers to the act of sharing measurements with neighboring sensors prior to transmission to a fusion center. While incorporating the cost of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-22 Sijia Liu , Swarnendu Kar , Makan Fardad , Pramod K. Varshney

The problem of cooperative data censoring in battery-powered multihop sensor networks is analyzed in this paper. We are interested in scenarios where nodes generate messages (which are related to the sensor measurements) that can be graded…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jesus Fernandez-Bes , Rocío Arroyo-Valles , Jesús Cid-Sueiro

The Shannon lower bound has been the subject of several important contributions by Berger. This paper surveys Shannon bounds on rate-distortion problems under mean-squared error distortion with a particular emphasis on Berger's techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Michael Gastpar , Erixhen Sula

This paper considers the semantics-aware remote state estimation of an asymmetric Markov chain with prioritized states. Due to resource constraints, the sensor needs to trade between estimation quality and communication cost. The aim is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

In the worst-case distributed source coding (DSC) problem of [1], the smaller cardinality of the support-set describing the correlation in informant data, may neither imply that fewer informant bits are required nor that fewer informants…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-13 Samar Agnihotri , Rajesh Venkatachalapathy

In recent years, decentralized sensor networks have garnered significant attention in the field of state estimation owing to enhanced robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance. Optimal fusion performance can be achieved under fully…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Ruifeng Dong , Ming Wang , Ning Liu , Tong Guo , Jiayi Kang , Xiaojing Shen , Yao Mao

The amount of data for processing and categorization grows at an ever increasing rate. At the same time the demand for collaboration and transparency in organizations, government and businesses, drives the release of data from internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jan Neerbek

This paper demonstrates how new principles of compressed sensing, namely asymptotic incoherence, asymptotic sparsity and multilevel sampling, can be utilised to better understand underlying phenomena in practical compressed sensing and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Bogdan Roman , Anders Hansen , Ben Adcock