AI-Based Sensor Information Fusion for Supporting Deep Supervised Learning.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and its subarea of deep learning have drawn the attention of many researchers. At the same time, advances in technologies enable the generation or collection of large amounts of valuable data (e.g., sensor data) from various sources in different applications, such as those for the Internet of Things (IoT), which in turn aims towards the development of smart cities. With the availability of sensor data from various sources, sensor information fusion is in demand for effective integration of big data. In this article, we present an AI-based sensor-information fusion system for supporting deep supervised learning of transportation data generated and collected from various types of sensors, including remote sensed imagery for the geographic information system (GIS), accelerometers, as well as sensors for the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and global positioning system (GPS). The discovered knowledge and information returned from our system provides analysts with a clearer understanding of trajectories or mobility of citizens, which in turn helps to develop better transportation models to achieve the ultimate goal of smarter cities. Evaluation results show the effectiveness and practicality of our AI-based sensor information fusion system for supporting deep supervised learning of big transportation data.

SPPOLAP: Computing Privacy-Preserving OLAP Data Cubes Effectively and Efficiently Algorithms, Complexity Analysis and Experimental Evaluation.

This paper provides significant contributions in the line of the so-called privacy-preserving OLAP research area, via extending the previous SPPOLAP's results provided recently. SPPOLAP is a state-of-the-art algorithm whose main goal consists in computing privacy-preserving OLAP data cubes effectively and efficiently. The main innovations carried-out by SPPOLAP are represented by the novel privacy OLAP notion and the flexible adoption of sampling-based techniques in order to achieve the final privacy-preserving data cube. In line with the main SPPOLAP's results, this paper significantly extends the previous research efforts by means of the following contributions: (i) complete algorithms of the whole SPPOLAP algorithmic framework; (ii) complexity analysis and results; (iii) comprehensive experimental analysis of SPPOLAP against real-life multidimensional data cubes, according to several experimental parameters. These contributions nice-fully complete the state-of-the-art SPPOLAP's results.

Predictive analytics on open big data for supporting smart transportation services.

In the current era of big data, huge quantities of valuable data, which may be of different levels of veracity, are being generated at a rapid rate. Embedded into these big data are implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information and valuable knowledge that can be discovered by data science solutions, which apply techniques like data mining. There has been a trend that more and more collections of these big data have been made openly available in science, government and non-profit organizations so that people could collaboratively study and analysis these open big data. In this article, we focus on open big data for public transit because public transit (e.g., bus) as a means of transportation is a vital part of many people's lives. As time is a precious resource, bus delays could negatively affect commuters' plans. Unfortunately, they are inevitable. Hence, many existing works focused on predicting bus delays. However, predicting on-time or early buses is also important. For instance, commuters who come to a bus stop on time may still miss their buses if the buses leave early. So, in this article, we examine open big data about bus performance (e.g., early, on-time, and late stops). We analyze the data with frequent pattern mining and make predictions with decision-tree based classification. For illustration, we perform predictive analytics on real-life open big data available on Winnipeg Open Data Portal, about bus performance from Winnipeg Transit. It shows the benefits of predictive analytics on open big data for supporting smart transportation services.