Browsing by Author "Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos"
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A budget feasible mechanism for hiring doctors in e-healthcare
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Open AccessThroughout the past decade, there has been an extensive research on scheduling the hospital resources such as the operation theatre(s) (OTs) and the experts (such as nurses, doctors etc.) inside the hospitals. With the ... -
A budget feasible peer graded mechanism for iot-based crowdsourcing
(Springer, 2020-04)
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Open AccessWe develop and extend a line of recent works on the design of mechanisms for heterogeneous tasks assignment problem in ’crowdsourcing’. The budgeted market we consider consists of multiple task requesters and multiple IoT ... -
A C++ implementation of a skeleton for Tabu Search method
(2000-09)
Research report
Open AccessWe present a C++ implementation of a skeleton for Tabu Search method. Tabu Search method is a well-known meta-heuristic that has proved successful for sub-optimally solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. ... -
A C++ Implementation of of Tabu Search for k-cardinality tree problem based on generic programming and component reuse
(2000-09)
Research report
Open AccessWe present a C++ implementation of Tabu Search method for the Minimum k-Cardinality Tree problem. Tabu Search is a well known heuristic for sub-optimally solving optimization problems. This method applies also to Minimum ... -
A cluster head decision system for sensor networks using fuzzy logic and number of neighbor nodes
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
Conference report
Open AccessCluster formation and cluster head selection are important problems in sensor network applications and can drastically affect the network’s communication energy dissipation. However, the selection of cluster head is not ... -
A cluster head selection method for wireless sensor networks based on fuzzy logic
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007)
Conference report
Open AccessSensor networks supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities are emerging as a critically important computer class that enable ... -
A collective intelligence approach for building student's trustworthiness profile in online learning
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Open AccessInformation and communication technologies have been widely adopted in most of educational institutions to support e-Learning through different learning methodologies such as computer supported collaborative learning, which ... -
A comparison study between two fuzzy-based trustworthiness systems for P2P networks
(2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn P2P systems, evaluation of trustworthiness of the peers is very important for a safe communication. In order to decide the peer trustworthiness different parameters are needed. In this paper, we propose two fuzzy-based ... -
A comparison study for two fuzzy-based systems: improving reliability and security of JXTA-overlay P2P platform
(Springer, 2016-07-01)
Article
Open AccessThe reliability of peers is very important for safe communication in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. The reliability of a peer can be evaluated based on the reputation and interactions with other peers to provide different ... -
A comparison study of different algorithms for energy-aware placement of virtual machines
(Springer, 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyCloud Computing services are essential to modern society. The increasing number of people and organisations using these types of services results in a higher demand in datacenters, which in turn, is raising energy consumption ... -
A comparison study of two fuzzy-based handover systems for avoiding ping-pong effect in Wireless Cellular Networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
Conference report
Open AccessWireless mobile networks and devices are becoming increasingly popular to provide users the access anytime and anywhere. The mobile systems are based on cellular approach and the area is covered by cells that overlap each ... -
A comparison study on meta-heuristics for ground station scheduling problem
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Open AccessIn ground station scheduling problem the aim is to compute an optimal planning of communications between Spacecrafts (SCs) and operations teams of Ground Stations (GSs). While such allocation of tasks to ground stations ... -
A data visualization approach for trustworthiness in social networks for on-line learning
(2015)
Conference report
Open AccessUp to now, the problem of ensuring collaborative activities in e-Learning against dishonest students' behaviour has been mainly tackled with technological security solutions. Over the last years, technological security ... -
A distributed hybrid index for processing continuous range queries over moving objects
(Springer, 2019-05)
Article
Open AccessCentral to many location-based services is the problem of processing concurrent continuous range queries over a large scale of moving objects. Most relevant works to this problem mainly investigate the centralized search ... -
A distributed QoS Routing and CAC framework: performance evaluation of its SSRA and InterD Agents
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007)
Conference report
Open AccessIn order to support multimedia communication, it is necessary to develop routing algorithms which use for routing more than one QoS parameters. This is because new services such as video on demand and remote meeting systems ... -
A Docker-based federated learning framework design and deployment for multi-modal data stream classification
(2023-05-11)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn the high-performance computing (HPC) domain, federated learning has gained immense popularity. Especially in emotional and physical health analytics and experimental facilities. Federated learning is one of the most ... -
A federated learning method for real-time emotion state classification from multi-modal streaming
(Elsevier, 2022-08)
Article
Open AccessEmotional and physical health are strongly connected and should be taken care of simultaneously to ensure completely healthy persons. A person’s emotional health can be determined by detecting emotional states from various ... -
A Framework for allocation of IoT devices to the fog service providers in strategic setting
(Springer, 2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn the IoT+Fog+Cloud architecture, with the ever increasing growth of IoT devices, allocation of IoT devices to the Fog service providers will be challenging and needs to be addressed properly in both the strategic and ... -
A fuzzy based call admission control scheme for wireless cellular networks considering priority of on-going connections
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
Conference report
Open AccessThe mobile cellular systems are expected to support multiple services with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS).But, the ability of wireless systems to accommodate expected growth of traffic load and broadband services is ... -
A fuzzy-based approach for classifying students' emotional states in online collaborative work
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
Conference report
Open AccessEmotion awareness is becoming a key aspect in collaborative work at academia, enterprises and organizations that use collaborative group work in their activity. Due to pervasiveness of ICT's, most of collaboration can be ...
