African University of Science and Technology: Recent submissions
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Spiking Neural Network Architecture Design and Performance Exploration towards the Design of a Scalable Neuro-Inspired System for Complex Cognition Applications
(2017-12-09)Research into artificial neural networks (ANNs) is inspired by how information is dynamically and massively processed by biological neurons. Conventional ANNs research has received a wide range of applications including ...
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Trust Aware Recommender System for Social Coding Platforms (GitHub Case Study)
(2017-11-12)Social networking systems have found their way into all sectors of life. With the advent of social coding platform like GitHub, networks of developers can be inferred based on the projects they participated in. When a new ...
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Observatory System for Monitoring Road Accidents in Nigeria
(2017-11-12)Road Accidents are on the rise due to the high amount of migration from the rural area to the urban areas, Urbanization people are now finding it easier to own cars and use it for their day to day activities. Due to that ...
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A Predictive Model for Electricity Consumption in University Campuses Using Artificial Neural Networks (A Case Study)
(2017-12-09)Energy efficiency is paramount in the quest to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century. Statistics in recent research have shown that in many sectors in any nation’s economy, which include buildings, industries ...
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Applying Emerging Data Techniques and Advanced Analytics to Combat Cyber Threat
(2017-12-09)Cyber threats are currently on the rise, which has caused individuals, industrial control systems (ICSs), critical infrastructures (CIs), and nations to be subjected to attacks with great losses. Among the cyber threats ...
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Adaptive Multimedia Learning Framework with Facial Recognition
(2017-12-09)Recent breakthrough in mobile technology, wireless communication and sensing ability of smart devices promote the ease to detect real-world learning status of students as well as the context aware for learning. Targeted ...
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A Real Time Data Stream Processing Model for a Smart City Application Leveraging Intelligent Internet of Things (Iot) Concept
(2017-12-09)Due to the vast amount of data that is being generated by the sensors through the smart devices in smart cities, streams of data must be processed in real time to gain insight quickly and to make decisions that are in most ...
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Deep Learning for Filter Extractions
(2017-12-09)With the exponential growth of the information technology, nowadays tremendous amounts of data including images, audio, text and videos, up to millions or billions, are collected for training machine learning models. Deep ...
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Applying Deep Learning Methods for Short Text Analysis in Disease Control
(2017-12-09)Developing countries have been plagued by recurrent cases of infectious disease outbreaks;coupled with the limitation of traditional disease control strategies, other approaches have been explored for disease control, with ...
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A shear assay study of single normal/breast cancer cell deformation and detachment from poly-di-methyl-siloxane (PDMS) surfaces
(Elsevier, 2018-11-12)This paper presents the results of a combined experimental and analytical/computational study of viscoelastic cell deformation and detachment from poly-di-methyl-siloxane (PDMS) surfaces. Fluid mechanics and fracture ...
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A Cloud-Based C/C++ Compiler for Smart Devices
(2017-11-12)The foundation of many of today’s programming languages is the C/C++ language, due to its success and directives that span across several programming paradigms, conceptual models and runtime environments. Smart devices ...
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A Framework for Nation-Wide Integration of Biometric Information
(2017-12-12)Having a central database for Nigeria which organizations can rely on for identification/verification purposes has been a plan in the pipeline for many years now. This has become urgent because of the nation’s current ...
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Study and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks to Manage Energy in a Smart Home
(2017-12-09)Many studies have shown that smart homes can use energy more efficiently than traditional buildings. Thus, several researchers have advocated building a smart home in order to reduce energy consumption. In the literature, ...
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Development and Design Space Exploration of Deep Convolution Neural Network for Image Recognition
(2017-11-22)Deep Neural Networks are now deployed for many modern artificial Intelligence applications including computer vision, speech recognition, self-driving cars, cancer detection, gaming and robotics. Inspired by the mammalian ...
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Enhancing Prediction Accuracy of a Multi-Criteria Recommender System using Adaptive Genetic Algorithm
(2017-12-12)Recommender systems are powerful intelligent systems considered to be the solution to the problems of information overload. They provide users with personalized lists of recommended items, using some machine learning ...
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Gen: A General-Purpose Probabilistic Programming System with Programmable Inference
(2018-11-26)Probabilistic modeling and inference are central to many fields. A key challenge for wider adoption of probabilistic programming languages is designing systems that are both flexible and performant. This paper introduces ...
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The Calderón problem for connections
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical StatisticsTrinity College, 2017-10-03)This thesis is concerned with the inverse problem of determining a unitary connection $A$ on a Hermitian vector bundle $E$ of rank $m$ over a compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) ...
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Symmetry in monotone Lagrangian Floer theory
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical StatisticsTrinity College, 2017-10-01)In this thesis we study the self-Floer theory of a monotone Lagrangian submanifold $L$ of a closed symplectic manifold $X$ in the presence of various kinds of symmetry. First we consider the group $\mathrm{Symp}(X, L)$ ...
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Fano Varieties in Mori Fibre Spaces
(International Mathematics Research Notices, 2016-01-01)
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Bounding cohomology for low rank algebraic groups
(University of CambridgeDPMMSHomerton, 2017-08-01)Let G be a semisimple linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of prime characteristic. In this thesis we outline the theory of such groups and their cohomology. We then concentrate on algebraic groups in ...