• On achieving intelligent traffic-aware consolidation of virtual machines in a data center using Learning Automata 

      Jobava, Akaki; Yazidi, Anis; Oommen, John; Begnum, Kyrre (Journal of Computational Science;Volume 24, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01)
      Unlike the computational mechanisms of the past many decades, that involved individual (extremely powerful) computers or clusters of machines, Cloud Computing (CC) is becoming increasingly pertinent and popular. Computing ...
    • On automated cloud bursting and hybrid cloud setups using Apache Mesos 

      Haugerud, Hårek; Xue, Noha; Yazidi, Anis (Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience;Volume 32, Issue 17, Special Issue: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques for Industrial and Medical Applications (CITIMA2018). Special Issue on Cloud Computing, IoT, and Big Data: Technologies and Applications (CloudTech17), e5662, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-05)
      Hybrid cloud technology is becoming increasingly popular as it merges private and public clouds to bring the best of two worlds together. However, due to the heterogeneous cloud installation, facilitating a hybrid cloud ...
    • On Converting Crisp Failure Possibility into Probability for Reliability of Complex Systems 

      Sahin, Bekir; Yazidi, Anis; Roman, Dumitru; Uddin, Md Zia; Soylu, Ahmet (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems;Volume 308, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-24)
      The reliability of complex systems is analyzed based on several systematic steps using many safety engineering methods. The most common technique for safety system analysis and reliability, vulnerability and criticality ...
    • On Cooperation Versus Competition Between Autonomous Resource Management Agents 

      Fagernes, Siri; Couch, Alva L. (Norsk informatikkonferanse (NIK);2013, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-03-13)
      A common issue in distributed systems is how to optimize resource sharing when several resource management agents have access to the same resource pool. When the total resource demand reaches max capacity of the common ...
    • On deformations of C*-algebras by actions of Kahlerian Lie groups 

      Tuset, Lars; Gayral, Victor; Bieliavsky, Pierre; Neshveyev, Sergey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We show that two approaches to equivariant strict deformation quantization of C∗-algebras by actions of negatively curved Kählerian Lie groups, one based on oscillatory integrals and the other on quantizations maps defined ...
    • On Distinguishing between Reliable and Unreliable Sensors Without a Knowledge of the Ground Truth 

      Yazidi, Anis; Oommen, John; Goodwin, Morten (Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2015)
      In many applications, data from different sensors are aggregated in order to obtain more reliable information about the process that the sensors are monitoring. However, the quality of the aggregated ...
    • On English Speakers Ability to Communicate Emotion in Mandarin 

      Jian, Hua-Li (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The ability of Mandarin learners to express emotion in Mandarin has received little attention. This study examines how English L1 users express emotions in Mandarin and how this expression differs from that of Mandarin ...
    • On evaluation metrics for medical applications of artificial intelligence 

      Hicks, Steven A.; Strumke, Inga; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hammou, Malek; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Halvorsen, Pål (Scientific Reports;12, Article number: 5979 (2022), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04-08)
      Clinicians and software developers need to understand how proposed machine learning (ML) models could improve patient care. No single metric captures all the desirable properties of a model, which is why several metrics ...
    • On Neural Associative Memory Structures: Storage and Retrieval of Sequences in a Chain of Tournaments 

      Abolpour Mofrad, Asieh; Abolpour Mofrad, Samaneh; Yazidi, Anis; Parker, Matthew Geoffrey (Neural Computation;Volume 33, Issue 9, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-19)
      Associative memories enjoy many interesting properties in terms of error correction capabilities, robustness to noise, storage capacity and retrieval performance and their usage spans over a large set of applications. In ...
    • On Online Banking Authentication for All: A Comparison of BankID Login Efficiency Using Smartphones Versus Code Generators 

      Vinbæk, Ellen Opsahl; Pettersen, Frida Margrethe Borge; Carlsen, Jonas Ege; Fremstad, Karl; Edvinsen, Nikolai; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence;volume 11572, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Authentication is an essential component of any digital service. In Norway, such authentication is often relying on BankID using either mobile BankID or a code generator. This study set out to explore the efficiency of ...
    • On optimizing firewall performance in dynamic networks by invoking a novel swapping window-based paradigm 

      Mohan, Ratish; Yazidi, Anis; Feng, Boning; Oommen, John (International Journal of Communication Systems;Volume 31, Issue 15 October 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-24)
      Designing and implementing efficient firewall strategies in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) is far from trivial. This is because, as time proceeds, an increasing number of devices will be connected, accessed and ...
    • On PBW-Deformations of Braided Exterior Algebras 

      Matassa, Marco (Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras;29:8, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-26)
      We classify PBW-deformations of quadratic-constant type of certain quantizations of exterior algebras. These correspond to the fundamental modules of quantum slN, their duals, and their direct sums. We show that the first ...
    • On second cohomology of duals of compact quantum groups 

      Tuset, Lars; Neshveyev, Sergey (International Journal of Mathematics;22 (9), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-09)
      We show that for any compact connected group G the second cohomology group de ned by unitary invariant 2-cocycles on ^G is canonically isomorphic to H2(\Z(G); T). This implies that the group of autoequivalences of the C ...
    • On solving the SPL problem using the concept of probability flux 

      Abolpour Mofrad, Asieh; Yazidi, Anis; Hammer, Hugo Lewi (Applied intelligence;Volume 49, Issue 7, July 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-02)
      The Stochastic Point Location (SPL) problem [20] is a fundamental learning problem that has recently found a lot of research attention. SPL can be summarized as searching for an unknown point in an interval under faulty ...
    • On Taiwanese pupils’ ability to differentiate between English /l/ and /r/: A study of L1/L2 cross-language effects 

      Eika, Evelyn; Hsieh, Yining (First language;Vol 37, Issue 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Students in South East Asia often struggle with English /l/ and /r/. This study therefore set out to examine how Taiwanese pupils’ perception of these sounds is influenced by cross language effects. Most Taiwanese ...
    • On the analysis of a random walk-jump chain with tree-based transitions and its applications to faulty dichotomous search 

      Yazidi, Anis; Oommen, John (Sequential Analysis;Volume 37, 2018 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-08)
      Random Walks (RWs) have been extensively studied for more than a century [1]. These walks have traditionally been on a line, and the generalizations for two and three dimensions, have been by extending the random steps to ...
    • On the Classification of Dynamical Data Streams Using Novel “Anti–Bayesian” Techniques 

      Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Yazidi, Anis; Oommen, John (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The classification of dynamical data streams is among the most complex problems encountered in classification. This is, firstly, because the distribution of the data streams is non-stationary, ...
    • On the Convenience of Speeding Up Lecture Recordings: Increased Playback Speed Reduces Learning 

      Ness, Ida; Sandnes, Frode Eika; Opdal, Kathinka (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 13117, Conference object, 2021-11-23)
      Audio and video lectures give students much freedom to study where and when they like. These digital media formats usually also give students flexibility to choose the playback speed. In this study we conducted a simple ...
    • On the Effects of Omitting Information Exchange between Autonomous Resource Management Agents 

      Fagernes, Siri (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;7943, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      We study the problem of information exchange between coordinated autonomous resource management agents. We limit information to that which can be directly observed by each agent. While exchanging all relevant observables ...
    • On the existence and characterization of extreme events in wind data 

      Garcia, Constantino; Lind, Pedro; Wächter, Matthias; Otero, Antonio; Peinke, Joachim (Conference object, 2019)
      We present evidence that quantitative definitions of extreme events in wind, so called gusts, may be flawed and unable to grasp true extreme situations of wind velocity in short time intervals. In particular, we show that ...