Applied Computing and Informatics: Volume 17 Issue 2 , Open Access

Graph node rank based important keyword detection from Twitter

Mukesh Kumar, Palak Rehan

Social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp etc. are most commonly used medium for sharing news, opinions and to stay in touch with peers. Messages on twitter are…

A novel reference model for ambient assisted living systems' architectures

Amina El murabet, Anouar Abtoy, Abdellah Touhafi, Abderahim Tahiri

AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) is lacking a RM (Reference Model) to serve as an abstraction of the domain. Therefore, to help implement new architectures established on the prior…

Independent component analysis: An introduction

Alaa Tharwat

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a widely-used blind source separation technique. ICA has been applied to many applications. ICA is usually utilized as a black box, without…

Fast iterative algorithms for birefringent filter design

Abdelhak Boukharouba

Fast iterative algorithms for designing birefringent filters with any specified spectral response are proposed. From the Jones formalism, we derive two polynomials representing…

Using the hierarchical temporal memory spatial pooler for short-term forecasting of electrical load time series

E.N. Osegi

In this paper, an emerging state-of-the-art machine intelligence technique called the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is applied to the task of short-term load forecasting…

Occupancy detection in non-residential buildings – A survey and novel privacy preserved occupancy monitoring solution

J. Ahmad, H. Larijani, R. Emmanuel, M. Mannion, A. Javed

Buildings use approximately 40% of global energy and are responsible for almost a third of the worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. They also utilise about 60% of the world’s…

Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning techniques applied to Ground Penetrating Radar: A review

Xisto L. Travassos, Sérgio L. Avila, Nathan Ida

Ground Penetrating Radar is a multidisciplinary Nondestructive Evaluation technique that requires knowledge of electromagnetic wave propagation, material properties and antenna…