Technical Program

DETAILED PROGRAM

Program at a glance available here. 
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
07:30 – 08:30: Registration
08:30 – 17:00: Workshops
15:30 - 17:00 SmartComp Workshops Common Panel
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How to Build Smart and Connected Communities: Challenges and Approaches
Moderator: Dr. Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University 
 
Panelists:
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine
Ben Levine, Metrolab Network
Meghan Houghton, NSF
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
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17:00 – 19:00: Ph.D. Forum, Poster, WIP, and Demo Sessions
17:00 – 19:00: Joint IEEE SMARTCOMP and IEEE WoWMoM Welcome Reception 
Thursday, June 13th, 2019
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07:30 – 08:30: Registration
08:30 – 09:00: Opening Remarks
09:00 – 10:00: Dinesh Verma keynote (Session Chair: Dr. Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00: Best paper session (Session Chair: Raghu Ganti, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA & Julie McCann, Imperial College London, UK)
  • Sanchita Basak, Saptarshi Sengupta and Abhishek Dubey. Mechanisms for Integrated Feature Normalization and Remaining Useful Life Estimation Using LSTMs Applied to Hard-Disks
  • Ajay Pratap, Ragini Gupta, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla and Sajal K. Das. On Maximizing Task Throughput in IoT-enabled 5G Networks under Latency and Bandwidth Constraints
  • Benedetto Girgenti, Pericle Perazzo, Carlo Vallati, Francesca Righetti, Gianluca Dini and Giuseppe Anastasi. On the Feasibility of Attribute-Based Encryption on constrained IoT devices
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 15:00: Deep learning (Session Chair: Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
  • Prince Abudu and Andrew Markham. Distributed Communicating Neural Network Architecture for Smart Environments
  • Fabrizio De Vita and Dario Bruneo. On the use of LSTM networks for Predictive Maintenance in Smart Industries
  • Avisek Naug, Ibrahim Ahmed and Gautam Biswas. Online Energy Management in Commercial Buildings using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Md Moniruzzaman, Zhaozheng Yin and Ruwen Qin. Spatial Attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Fire and Traffic Accident Scene Classification
13:00 – 15:00: Urban Mobility (Session Chair: Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky, USA)
  • Luca Bartoli, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Federico Corò, Cristina M. Pinotti and Anil Shende. Exact and Approximate Drone Warehouse for a Mixed Landscape Delivery System
  • Michael Wilbur and Abhishek Dubey. A Decentralized Approach For Real Time Anomaly Detection In Transportation Networks
  • Chinmaya Samal, Abhishek Dubey and Lillian Ratliff. An Integrated simulation framework for evaluating urban mobility
  • Van Quyet Nguyen, Huu Duy Nguyen, Quyet Thang Huynh, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Kyungbaek Kim. A Scalable Approach for Dynamic Evacuation Routing in Large Smart Buildings
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00: Smart Systems and Edge Computing  (Session Chair: Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy)
  • Nathan Vance, Md Tahmid Rashid, Yue Zhang and Dong Wang. Towards Reliability in Online High-Churn Edge Computing: A Deviceless Pipelining Approach
  • Salvatore Gaglio, Leonardo Giuliana, Giuseppe Lo Re, Gloria Martorella, Antonio Montalto and Daniele Peri. Interoperable Real-Time Symbolic Programming for Smart Environments
  • Gautham Santhosh, Fabrizio De Vita, Francesco Longo, Dario Bruneo and Antonio Puliafito. Towards Trustless Prediction-as-a-Service
 15:30 – 17:00: Mobile Crowdsensing (Session Chair: Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
  • ​Christine Bassem. Redefining Node Centrality for Task Allocation in Mobile CrowdSensing Platforms
  • Nirmit Desai, Wendy Chong, Heather Achilles, Shahrokh Daijavad and Thomas La Porta. Large-scale hybrid ad hoc network for mobile platforms: Challenges and Experiences
  • Fangqi Liu, Qiuxi Zhu, Yusuf Sarwar, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Cheng-Hsin Hsu. Cost-Effective Sensor Data Collection from Internet-of-Things Zones Using Existing Transportation Fleets
17:15 – 18:45: Transfer to Banquet: The docking location is 580 Water St SW, Washington, DC 20024
19:00 onwards: Dinner Cruise
 Friday, June 14th, 2019
 
09:00 – 10:00: Wendy Nilsen keynote (Session Chair: Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00: Social Sensing and Data Analytics (Session Chair: Abhishek Mukherji, Cisco Systems)​
  • Amrita Anam, Aryya Gangopadhyay and Nirmalya Roy. Identifying the Context of Hurricane Posts on Twitter using Wavelet Features
  • Federico Concone, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco Morana and Claudio Ruocco. Assisted Labeling for Spam Account Detection on Twitter
  • Iyanuoluwa Odebode and Aryya Gangopadhyay. Analyzing rhabdomyosarcoma using Multimodal clustering approach (DReiM)
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 15:00: Industry Track (Session Chair: Abhishek Mukherji, Cisco Systems)
  • Invited Talk by Prof. Jonathan Fink, Title: Digital City Testbed Center: Using campus testbeds to help cities, companies and residents assess smart city innovation (13:00-13:30)
  • Invited Talk by Dr. Julien Stamatakis, Title: The Power of the Internet of Things: Harnessing IoT for Building Efficiency (13:30-14:00)
  • Seraphin Calo, Maroun Touma, Franck Le, Douglas Freimuth, Erich Nahum and Dinesh Verma. A Smart System for Characterizing IoT Devices on Enterprise Networks
  • Sm Hasan, Stanislava Soro, David Davenport and Matthew Pekarske. Multi Frequency Protocol with Adaptive Frequency Hopping for Reliable Wireless Patient Monitoring
  • Nachiket Tapas, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Longo and Antonio Puliafito. Blockchain-based Publicly Verifiable Cloud Storage
  • Urjaswala Vora, Peeyush Chomal and Avani Vakharwala. Precept-Based Framework for Using Crowdsourcing in IoT-based Systems
13:00 – 15:00: Activity recognition (Session Chair: Fred Jiang, Columbia University, USA)
  • Yoshiki Honda, Hirozumi Yamaguchi and Teruo Higashino. Enabling Low Cost Elderly Monitoring for Connected Communities in Depopulated Area
  • Enrico Casella, Atieh R. Khamesi and Simone Silvestri. Smartwatch Application for Horse Gaits Activity Recognition
  • Jose Clemente, Wenzhan Song, Maria Valero, Fangyu Li and Xiangyang Li. Indoor Person Identification and Fall Detection through Non-Intrusive Floor Seismic Sensing
  • Sili Wang, Fangyu Li, Maria Valero, Jose Clemente and Wenzhan Song. Tracking Underground Moving Targets with Wireless Seismic Networks
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00: Short papers (n/time each – save questions end of 3 papers etc) (Session Chair: Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
  • Md Hossain and John Dogan. A Novel Two-Step Fall Detection Method Using Smartphone Sensors
  • Ana Cristina Franco Da Silva, Pascal Hirmer and Bernhard Mitschang. Model-based Operator Placement for Data Processing in IoT Environments
  • Ronald Doku and Danda Rawat. LightChain: On the Lightweight Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things
  • Jiyao Li and Vicki Allan. A Ride-Matching Strategy For Large Scale Dynamic Ridesharing Services Based on Polar Coordinates
  • Naima Khan, Nirmalya Roy and Nilavra Pathak. Detecting Common Insulation Problems in Built Environments using Thermal Images
  • Weiling Chen and Chai Kiat Yeo. Unauthorized Parking Detection using Deep Networks at Real Time