http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~dcm/Teaching/COT4810-Spring2011/Literature/SensorNetworksSurvey.pdf

Wireless sensor networks: a survey

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

We will review some of the major results in random graphs and some of the more challenging open problems. We will cover algorithmic and structural questions. We will touch on newer models, including those related to the WWW.

Random graphs

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1994, Vol 39(2), 225. Reviews the book, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John Zaller (1992). The author's commendable effort to specify a model of mass opinion formation offers readers an introduction to the prevailing vi

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.

During the past several years, there have been increasing research activities in the field of stability analysis and switching stabilization for switched systems. This paper aims to briefly survey recent results in this field. First, the stability analysis for switched systems is reviewed. We focus on the stability analysis for switched linear systems under arbitrary switching, and we highlight necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability. After a brief review of the stability analysis under restricted switching and the multiple Lyapunov function theory, the switching stabilization problem is studied, and a variety of switching stabilization methods found in the literature are outlined. Then the switching stabilizability problem is investigated, that is under what condition it is possible to stabilize a switched system by properly designing switching control laws. Note that the switching stabilizability problem has been one of the most elusive problems in the switched systems literature. A necessary and sufficient condition for asymptotic stabilizability of switched linear systems is described here.

Stability and Stabilizability of Switched Linear Systems: A Survey of Recent Results

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Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories?

The concept of a three layer distributed sensor network for patient monitoring and care is introduced. The envisioned network has a leaf node layer (consisting of patient sensors), an intermediate node layer (consisting of the supervisory processor residing with each patient) and the root node processor (residing at a central monitoring facility). The paradigm has the capability of dealing with the bandwidth bottleneck at the wireless patient-root node link and the processing bottleneck at the central processor or root node of the network.

The mobile patient: wireless distributed sensor networks for patient monitoring and care

A necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of time-variant interval matrices is presented. This condition allows stability to be tested by checking only products of vertex (extreme) matrices. The implementation of the test in the form of an algorithm and two illustrative examples are provided. >

A necessary and sufficient condition for robust asymptotic stability of time-variant discrete systems

Conditioning and updating evidence

Fusion of hard data with soft data is an issue that has attracted recent attention. An effective fusion strategy requires an analytical framework that can capture the uncertainty inherent in hard and soft data. For instance, computational linguistic parsing of text-based data generates logical propositions that inherently possess significant semantic ambiguity. An effective fusion framework must exploit the respective advantages of hard and soft data while mitigating their particular weaknesses. In this paper, we describe a Dempster-Shafer theoretic approach to hard and soft data fusion that relies upon the novel conditional approach to updating. The conditional approach engenders a more flexible method that allows for tuning and adapting update strategies. When computational complexity concerns are taken into account, it also provides guidance on how evidence could be ordered for updating. This has important implications in working with models that convert propositional logic statements from text into Dempster-Shafer theoretic form.

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Kamal Premaratne

Papers

Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories?

The mobile patient: wireless distributed sensor networks for patient monitoring and care

A necessary and sufficient condition for robust asymptotic stability of time-variant discrete systems

Conditioning and updating evidence

A Dempster-Shafer theoretic conditional approach to evidence updating for fusion of hard and soft data