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Poor air quality can have a significant impact on human health. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) air quality forecasting guidance is challenged by the increasing presence of extreme air quality events due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Sophia Hamer , Jennifer Sleeman , Ivanka Stajner

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for the development of several health applications using smartphone as a platform for data acquisition, analysis and presentation. Such areas where mhealth systems have been extensively…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Chinazunwa Uwaoma , Gunjan Mansingh

Modelling realistic human behaviours in simulation is an ongoing challenge that resides between several fields like social sciences, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Human movement is a special type of behaviour driven by intent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-14 A. Zonta , S. K. Smit , A. E. Eiben

We present a novel trajectory prediction algorithm for pedestrians based on a personality-aware probabilistic feature map. This map is computed using a spatial query structure and each value represents the probability of the predicted…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Chaochao Li , Pei Lv , Mingliang Xu , Xinyu Wang , Dinesh Manocha , Bing Zhou , Meng Wang

The economic and social impact of poor air quality in towns and cities is increasingly being recognised, together with the need for effective ways of creating awareness of real-time air quality levels and their impact on human health. With…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Yuchao Zhou , Suparna De , Gideon Ewa , Charith Perera , Klaus Moessner

Air pollution is a worldwide issue that affects the lives of many people in urban areas. It is considered that the air pollution may lead to heart and lung diseases. A careful and timely forecast of the air quality could help to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Iryna Talamanova , Sabri Pllana

Chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, are a serious health crisis, affecting a large number of people globally and inflicting major costs on the economy. Current methods for assessing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Rohan Tan Bhowmik

As terrestrial resources become increasingly depleted, the demand for deep-sea resource exploration has intensified. However, the extreme conditions in the deep-sea environment pose significant challenges for underwater operations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yinyi Lai , Jiaqi Shang , Zenghui Liu , Zheyu Jiang , Yuyang Li , Longchao Chen

We consider the problem of individual-specific medication level recommendation (initiation, removal, increase, or decrease) for asthma sufferers. Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in both adults and children, affecting 8% of…

Applications · Statistics 2017-05-22 Curtis B Storlie , Megan E Branda , Michael R Gionfriddo , Nilay D Shah , Matthew A Rank

The increased availability of large-scale trajectory data around the world provides rich information for the study of urban dynamics. For example, New York City Taxi Limousine Commission regularly releases source-destination information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Hongjian Wang , Zhenhui Li , Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Dan Kifer

We present Neural A*, a novel data-driven search method for path planning problems. Despite the recent increasing attention to data-driven path planning, machine learning approaches to search-based planning are still challenging due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ryo Yonetani , Tatsunori Taniai , Mohammadamin Barekatain , Mai Nishimura , Asako Kanezaki

People are increasingly concerned with understanding their personal environment, including possible exposure to harmful air pollutants. In order to make informed decisions on their day-to-day activities, they are interested in real-time…

Path planning is typically considered in Artificial Intelligence as a graph searching problem and R* is state-of-the-art algorithm tailored to solve it. The algorithm decomposes given path finding task into the series of subtasks each of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Konstantin Yakovlev , Egor Baskin , Ivan Hramoin

Studying the association between mixtures of environmental exposures and health outcomes can be challenging due to issues such as correlation among the exposures and non-linearities or interactions in the exposure-response function. For…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-15 Jacob Englert , Stefanie Ebelt , Howard Chang

Heuristic search-based motion planning algorithms typically discretise the search space in order to solve the shortest path problem. Their performance is closely related to this discretisation. A fine discretisation allows for better…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Dhruv Mauria Saxena , Tushar Kusnur , Maxim Likhachev

This work presents an algorithm for determining the parameters of a nonlinear dynamic model of the respiratory system in patients undergoing assisted ventilation. Using the pressure and flow signals measured at the mouth, the model's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Diego A. Riva , Carolina A. Evangelista , Paul F. Puleston , Luis Corsiglia , Nahuel Dargains

Dealing with meteorological uncertainty poses a major challenge in air traffic management (ATM). Convective weather (commonly referred to as storms or thunderstorms) in particular represents a significant safety hazard that is responsible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Daniel Hentzen , Maryam Kamgarpour , Manuel Soler , Daniel González-Arribas

Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao

Asthma is a common, usually long-term respiratory disease with negative impact on global society and economy. Treatment involves using medical devices (inhalers) that distribute medication to the airways and its efficiency depends on the…

In countries that enabled patients to choose their own providers, a common problem is that the patients did not make rational decisions, and hence, fail to use healthcare resources efficiently. This might cause problems such as overwhelming…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Lichin Chen , Yu Tsao , Ji-Tian Sheu