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Sensors and Machine Learning Models to Prevent Cooktop Ignition and Ignore Normal Cooking

March 18, 2021
Author(s)
Amy Mensch, Anthony Hamins, Andy Tam, John Lu, Kathryn Markell, Christina You, Matthew Kupferschmid
Cooking equipment is involved in nearly half of home fires in the United States, with cooktop fires the leading cause of deaths and injuries in cooking-related fires. In this study, we evaluate 16 electrochemical, optical, temperature and humidity sensors

The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) perspectives

March 3, 2021
Author(s)
Mohamed H. Karray, Neil Otte, Rahul Rai, Farhad Ameri, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Barry Smith, Dimitris Kiritsis, Chris Will, Rebecca Arista
In recent years there has been a number of promising technical and institutional developments regarding use of ontologies in industry. At the same time, however, most industrial ontology development work remains within the realm of academic research and is

Trust and Artificial Intelligence (Draft)

March 2, 2021
Author(s)
Brian Stanton, Theodore Jensen
WITHDRAWN January 4, 2023 The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us, with the promise of advances such as driverless cars, smart buildings, automated health diagnostics and improved security monitoring. Many current efforts are aimed to

Towards Deep Transfer Learning in Industrial Internet of Things

February 26, 2021
Author(s)
Xing Liu, Wei Yu, Fan Liang, David Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
In this paper, we propose a general framework to adopt transfer learning in IIoT systems. Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that fully uses the knowledge from pre- trained models to reduce the computing requirements for the training process

Designing Trojan Detectors in Neural Networks Using Interactive Simulations

February 20, 2021
Author(s)
Peter Bajcsy, Nicholas J. Schaub, Michael P. Majurski
This paper addresses the problem of designing trojan detectors in neural networks (NNs) using interactive simulations. Trojans in NNs are defined as triggers in inputs that cause misclassification of such inputs into a class (or classes) unintended by the

TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection

February 19, 2021
Author(s)
Ellen Voorhees, Ian Soboroff, Tasmeer Alam, William Hersh, Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kyle Lo, Lucy L. Wang, Steven Bedrick
TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific literature during a pandemic. One of the key characteristics of pandemic search is the accelerated

On Deep Reinforcement Learning Security for Industrial Internet of Things

February 15, 2021
Author(s)
Xing Liu, Wei Yu, Fan Liang, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also known as Industry 4.0, empowers manufacturing and production processes by leveraging automation and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. In IIoT, the information communication technologies enabled by IoT could

Predicting Flashover Occurrence using Surrogate Temperature Data

February 9, 2021
Author(s)
Andy Tam, Eugene Yujun Fu, Richard Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jun Wang, Grace Ngai, Hong Va Leong, Thomas Cleary
Fire fighter fatalities and injuries in the U.S. remain too high and fire fighting too hazardous. Until now, fire fighters rely only on their experience to avoid life-threatening fire events, such as flashover. In this paper, we describe the development of

Technical Language Processing: Unlocking Maintenance Knowledge

December 11, 2020
Author(s)
Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Alden A. Dima, Sarah Lukens
Out-of-the-box natural-language processing (NLP) pipelines need re-imagining to understand and meet the requirements of the engineering sector. Text-based documents account for a significant portion of data collected during the life cycle of asset

Fan-out and Fan-in properties of superconducting neuromorphic circuits

December 4, 2020
Author(s)
Michael Schneider, Segall Kenneth
Neuromorphic computing has the potential to further the success of software-based artificial neural networks (ANNs) by designing hardware from a different perspective. Current research in neuromorphic hardware targets dramatic improvements to ANN

Temporal Memory with Magnetic Racetracks

December 1, 2020
Author(s)
Hamed Vakili, Mohammed N. Sakib, Samiran Ganguly, Mircea Stan, Matthew Daniels, Advait Madhavan, Mark D. Stiles, Avik W. Ghosh
Race logic is a relative timing code that represents information in a wavefront of digital edges on a set of wires in order to accelerate dynamic programming and machine learning algorithms. Skyrmions, bubbles, and domain walls are mobile magnetic

Six-sigma Quality Management of Additive Manufacturing

November 26, 2020
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Hui Yang, Paul Witherell
Quality is a key determinant in deploying new processes, products or services, and influences the adoption of emerging manufacturing technologies. The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) as a manufacturing process has the potential to revolutionize a

On-the-fly closed-loop materials discovery via Bayesian active learning

November 24, 2020
Author(s)
Aaron Gilad Kusne, Heshan Yu, Huairuo Zhang, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Brian DeCost, Albert Davydov, Leonid A. Bendersky, Apurva Mehta, Ichiro Takeuchi
Active learning—the field of machine learning (ML) dedicated to optimal experiment design—has played a part in science as far back as the 18th century when Laplace used it to guide his discovery of celestial mechanics. In this work, we focus a closed-loop

2018 Media Forensics Challenges (MFC18): Summary and Results

November 12, 2020
Author(s)
Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Haiying Guan, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Daniel Zhou
The interest of forensic techniques capable of detecting many different manipulation types has been growing, and system developments with machine learning technology have been evolving in recent years. There has been, however, a lack of diverse data

The joint automated repository for various integrated simulations (JARVIS) for data-driven materials design

November 12, 2020
Author(s)
Kamal Choudhary, Kevin Garrity, Andrew C. Reid, Brian DeCost, Adam Biacchi, Angela R. Hight Walker, Zachary Trautt, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Aaron Kusne, Andrea Centrone, Albert Davydov, Francesca Tavazza, Jie Jiang, Ruth Pachter, Gowoon Cheon, Evan Reed, Ankit Agrawal, Xiaofeng Qian, Vinit Sharma, Houlong Zhuang, Sergei Kalinin, Ghanshyam Pilania, Pinar Acar, Subhasish Mandal, David Vanderbilt, Karin Rabe
The Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations (JARVIS) is an integrated infrastructure to accelerate materials discovery and design using density functional theory (DFT), classical force-fields (FF), and machine learning (ML) techniques

Prognostics and Health Management to Improve Resilient Manufacturing

October 23, 2020
Author(s)
Michael P. Brundage, Brian A. Weiss
Manufacturers need to be resilient to effectively mitigate substantial disruptions to manufacturing operations so they may remain competitive. Disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic have caused manufacturers to experience new challenges

An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction

October 22, 2020
Author(s)
Mitsuhiro Hatada, Matthew A. Scholl
In the era of the Internet of Things, botnet threats are rising, which has prompted many studies on botnet detection and measurement. In contrast, this study aims to predict botnet attacks, such as massive spam emails and distributed denial-of-service

International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding

October 21, 2020
Author(s)
Keith Curtis, George Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian Soboroff
This is the introduction paper to the International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding. In recent years, a growing trend towards working on understanding videos (in particular movies) in a more deeper level started to motivate researchers working in

Augmenting Deep Learning Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

October 19, 2020
Author(s)
Ram Sriram, Dinesh Manocha, Sarala Padi
We present a Multi-Window Data Augmentation (MWA-SER) approach for speech emotion recognition. MWA-SER is a unimodal approach that focuses on two key concepts; designing the speech augmentation method and building the deep learning model to recognize the

Cognitive Automation and its Impact on Additive Manufacturing

October 15, 2020
Author(s)
Albert T. Jones, Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu
The English word manufacturing firstly appeared in 1683 and it was derived from Latin manu factus, meaning making by hand. For more than thousands of years now, and four Industrial Revolutions, the physical, and mostly mechanical processes, associated with
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