AI book

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Data Science Books

Yet another good collection of free data science books

Procurement assessment

The Art of Service's Procurement Standard Requirements Excel Dashboard and accompanying eBook is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Procurement assessment. You can see it here

AIST-SUP 2017

Supplementary Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts (AIST-SUP 2017), Moscow, Russia, July 27 - 29, 2017

SAS on ML

Which machine learning algorithm should I use?

P.S. see more posts about machine learning

IoT education

Our new paper:

Namiot D., Sneps-Sneppe M., Daradkeh Y. On internet of things education // Open Innovations Association (FRUCT), 2017 20th Conference of. — Piscataway, NJ, United States: Piscataway, NJ, United States, 2017.

In this paper, we discuss educational courses for Internet of Things and related areas such as Machine to Machine communications and Smart Cities. The Internet of Things models introduce many new business prospects and, of course, they should be presented in the university curriculum. The purpose of the discussed educational program is to examine issues related to information and communication technologies used in Internet of Things projects and related areas based on them, such as Smart Cities. The educational course proposed in this paper aims to introduce students to modern information technology, standing for such areas as Machine to Machine communications, Internet of Things, and Smart Cities

ICTIR 2017

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is The 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Amsterdam 2017

Twitter Live Feed: ICTIR 2017

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Mobility on demand

An interesting paper: Data-Driven Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

On Search Services for Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) data services are designed to be available to other services and users by demand. In other words, in practice, the services should be available at any time and at any location. But the big question here is how the other parties become aware of existing services. Sure, for some use cases we could have a static map of available services. But of course, it does not cover all the possible IoT deployment scenarios. So, the search (discovery) should be one of the keys for Internet of Things. And we can see here the whole analogue with the Internet itself. But for Internet of things, we will face a lot of challenges for search services. For example, we will see a lot of resources (billions of devices), heterogeneity, dynamic nature of services, streaming data, etc. In this paper, we discuss existing approaches for implementing IoT search, as well as approaches for setting standards in this area. See our new paper here.

On Mobile Cloud Computing

Our new paper: On context-aware proxy in Mobile Cloud computing for emergency services

In this paper, we discuss a new model for context-aware computing in 5G networks in the context of emergency services. Our intention is to present a new model for mobile services (mobile web applications) that effectively harnesses the power of 5G networks. The true power of 5G networks is to enable applications that were previously not possible. In our model, we create a mirror (duplicate copy) for mobile sensing data and allow server-side processing effectively use context information during the processing. As a result, we propose a cloud-based context-aware proxy targeting proximity related applications and services.

On Internet of Things education

Our new paper On Internet of Things and Big Data in University Courses

In this paper, we discuss Internet of Things educational programs for universities. Our final goal is to provide a structure for a new educational course for Internet of Things and related areas such as Machine to Machine communications and Smart Cities. The Internet of Things skills are in high demands nowadays and, of course, Internet of Things models, as well as appropriate Big Data proceedings elements should have a place in the university courses. The purpose of the proposed educational course is to cover information and communication technologies used in Internet of Things systems and related areas, such as Smart Cities. The educational course proposed in this paper aims to introduce students to modern information and communication technologies and create the formation of competencies needed for such areas as Machine to Machine communications, Internet of Things, and Smart Cities. Also, we discuss Big Data issues for IoT course and explain the importance of data engineering.

RTUWO 2017

Conference on Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications 2017 http://rtuwo.org

Riga, Latvia
2-3 November 2017

Call for papers

Proceedings of the Conference will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and indexed by SCOPUS.

The need for a new communication systems to cope with the demand of new services demanding higher performance, larger throughput, wider bandwidth and lower bit-error-rates, requires the development of new methodologies and techniques. Scientific conference RTUWO'17 is focused on the new techniques extending limits of currently used communication systems. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government institutions presenting novel research on wireless and optical communication systems. Conference calls for papers describing practical implementation activities, results and issues. Papers describing novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives are also encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Wireless communications

1.A. Technologies:

Software-defined radio and cognitive radio
Signal processing for wireless communications
Energy efficiency and power management
Smart and mobile antennas and propagation
Practical implementation issues and performance evaluation
Spectrum management and regulatory issues
Electromagnetic energy harvesting
Global and local positioning systems in wireless networks

1.B. Networking:

Intelligent transportation system and vehicular communications
Wireless sensor networks
Machine-to-machine communications
MAC layer and routing protocols
Ad-hoc and cell-based networking
Multiple access and scheduling
Cooperative and distributed communications
Radio resource allocation, bit allocation, power allocation
Performance analysis, QoS and network management
Cross-layer optimization
Advanced wireless network technologies, architectures
Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking
Traffic analysis of wireless networks

1.C. Wireless PHY:

Advanced MIMO techniques
Ultra-wideband communications
Multicarrier communications
Channel characterization
Channel coding
Acoustic communication systems
Physical layer security

2. Optical communications

Optical Signal Processing
Advances in Optical Networking
Photonic Communications Systems and Networks
High-speed Optical Communications systems and devices
All-Optical Communication Systems
Passive optical networks
Active optical networks
Energy-Efficient and Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems
Microwave Photonics
Optical MIMO
Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Wireless over Fiber (WoF) systems
Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices for Optical Communications
Optical Amplifiers
Modeling and Optimization of Optical Communication Networks
Optical sensors technologies
Optical network management
Software-defined networks
Visible light communication

Important dates

Paper submission due: August 1, 2017
Notification to authors: September 10, 2017
Camera ready due: October 8, 2017

Registration fee

Participation in the conference and publication of the accepted paper in IEEE Xplore Digital Library is free of charge. The financial sponsor of the conference is Riga Technical University. Venue

Conference will be held at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications of Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia. Riga is a wonderful ancient Hanseatic city on the coast of Baltic sea. Conference event on the vital combination of wireless and optical communications offers an excellent opportunity to network with specialists and forge new friendships and cooperation with colleagues in Europe, Asia and worldwide.

History

RTUWO is held annually from 2015. Each year in the conference more than 50 high quality papers are presented.

Contact

Please direct all correspondence to Dr. Arturs Aboltins, Riga Technical University,
Azenes 12, Riga, Latvia, LV-1048
Email: rtuwo@rtu.lv
Tel: +371 26 557 340.
As more information becomes available, it will be published at the RTUWO'17 Conference web page rtuwo.org.

ANN & Applications

A good reading - Overview of Artificial Neural Networks and its Applications

On Mobile Crowdsensing

Our new paper: On Data Persistence Models for Mobile Crowdsensing Applications

In this paper, we discuss various models and solutions for saving data in crowdsensing applications. A mobile crowdsensing is a relatively new sensing paradigm based on the power of the crowd with the sensing capabilities of mobile devices, such as smartphones, wearable devices, cars with mobile equipment, etc. This conception (paradigm) becomes quite popular due to huge penetration of mobile devices equipped with multiple sensors. The conception enables to collect local information from individuals (they could be human persons or things) surrounding environment with the help of sensing features of the mobile devices. In our paper, we provide a review of the data persistence solutions (back-end systems, data stores, etc.) for mobile crowdsensing applications. The main goal of our research is to propose a software architecture for mobile crowdsensing in Smart City services. The deployment for such kind of applications in Russia has got some limitations due to legal restrictions also discussed in our paper.