Sharding is a promising technique to tackle the critical weakness of scalability in blockchain-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)search and rescue(SAR)*** breaking up the blockchain network into smaller partitions cal...
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Sharding is a promising technique to tackle the critical weakness of scalability in blockchain-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)search and rescue(SAR)*** breaking up the blockchain network into smaller partitions called shards that run independently and in parallel,shardingbased UAV systems can support a large number of search and rescue UAVs with improved scalability,thereby enhancing the rescue ***,the lack of adaptability and interoperability still hinder the application of sharded blockchain in UAV SAR *** refers to making adjustments to the blockchain towards real-time surrounding situations,while interoperability refers to making cross-shard interactions at the mission *** address the above challenges,we propose a blockchain UAV system for SAR missions based on dynamic sharding *** from the benefits in scalability brought by sharding,our system improves adaptability by dynamically creating configurable and mission-exclusive shards,and improves interoperability by supporting calls between smart contracts that are deployed on different *** implement a prototype of our system based on Quorum,give an analysis of the improved adaptability and interoperability,and conduct experiments to evaluate the *** results show our system can achieve the above goals and overcome the weakness of blockchain-based UAV systems in SAR scenarios.
This paper introduces an enhanced YOLOv5 algorithm tailored for real-world traffic sign detection applications. Through the incorporation of Coordinate Attention after the SPPF module of the YOLOv5 backbone, the YOLOv...
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Automatic crack detection of cement pavement chiefly benefits from the rapid development of deep learning,with convolutional neural networks(CNN)playing an important role in this ***,as the performance of crack detect...
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Automatic crack detection of cement pavement chiefly benefits from the rapid development of deep learning,with convolutional neural networks(CNN)playing an important role in this ***,as the performance of crack detection in cement pavement improves,the depth and width of the network structure are significantly increased,which necessitates more computing power and storage *** limitation hampers the practical implementation of crack detection models on various platforms,particularly portable devices like small mobile *** solve these problems,we propose a dual-encoder-based network architecture that focuses on extracting more comprehensive fracture feature information and combines cross-fusion modules and coordinated attention mechanisms formore efficient feature ***,we use small channel convolution to construct shallow feature extractionmodule(SFEM)to extract low-level feature information of cracks in cement pavement images,in order to obtainmore information about cracks in the shallowfeatures of *** addition,we construct large kernel atrous convolution(LKAC)to enhance crack information,which incorporates coordination attention mechanism for non-crack information filtering,and large kernel atrous convolution with different cores,using different receptive fields to extract more detailed edge and context ***,the three-stage feature map outputs from the shallow feature extraction module is cross-fused with the two-stage feature map outputs from the large kernel atrous convolution module,and the shallow feature and detailed edge feature are fully fused to obtain the final crack prediction *** evaluate our method on three public crack datasets:DeepCrack,CFD,and *** results on theDeepCrack dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method compared to state-of-the-art crack detection methods,which achieves Precision(P)87.2%,Recall(R)87.7%,and F-score(F1)87.4%.Thanks to our lightweight cr
In pursuit of enhancing the Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)energy efficiency and operational lifespan,this paper delves into the domain of energy-efficient routing ***,the limited energy resources of Sensor Nodes(SNs)a...
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In pursuit of enhancing the Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)energy efficiency and operational lifespan,this paper delves into the domain of energy-efficient routing ***,the limited energy resources of Sensor Nodes(SNs)are a big challenge for ensuring their efficient and reliable *** data gathering involves the utilization of a mobile sink(MS)to mitigate the energy consumption problem through periodic network *** mobile sink(MS)strategy minimizes energy consumption and latency by visiting the fewest nodes or predetermined locations called rendezvous points(RPs)instead of all cluster heads(CHs).CHs subsequently transmit packets to neighboring *** unique determination of this study is the shortest path to reach *** the mobile sink(MS)concept has emerged as a promising solution to the energy consumption problem in WSNs,caused by multi-hop data collection with static *** this study,we proposed two novel hybrid algorithms,namely“ Reduced k-means based on Artificial Neural Network”(RkM-ANN)and“Delay Bound Reduced kmeans with ANN”(DBRkM-ANN)for designing a fast,efficient,and most proficient MS path depending upon rendezvous points(RPs).The first algorithm optimizes the MS’s latency,while the second considers the designing of delay-bound paths,also defined as the number of paths with delay over bound for the *** methods use a weight function and k-means clustering to choose RPs in a way that maximizes efficiency and guarantees network-wide *** addition,a method of using MS scheduling for efficient data collection is *** simulations and comparisons to several existing algorithms have shown the effectiveness of the suggested methodologies over a wide range of performance indicators.
Deep learning has become an important computational paradigm in our daily lives with a wide range of applications,from authentication using facial recognition to autonomous driving in smart vehicles. The quality of th...
Deep learning has become an important computational paradigm in our daily lives with a wide range of applications,from authentication using facial recognition to autonomous driving in smart vehicles. The quality of the deep learning models, i.e., neural architectures with parameters trained over a dataset, is crucial to our daily living and economy.
Session-based recommendation(SBR)and multibehavior recommendation(MBR)are both important problems and have attracted the attention of many researchers and *** from SBR that solely uses one single type of behavior sequ...
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Session-based recommendation(SBR)and multibehavior recommendation(MBR)are both important problems and have attracted the attention of many researchers and *** from SBR that solely uses one single type of behavior sequences and MBR that neglects sequential dynamics,heterogeneous SBR(HSBR)that exploits different types of behavioral information(e.g.,examinations like clicks or browses,purchases,adds-to-carts and adds-to-favorites)in sequences is more consistent with real-world recommendation scenarios,but it is rarely *** efforts towards HSBR focus on distinguishing different types of behaviors or exploiting homogeneous behavior transitions in a sequence with the same type of ***,all the existing solutions for HSBR do not exploit the rich heterogeneous behavior transitions in an explicit way and thus may fail to capture the semantic relations between different types of ***,all the existing solutions for HSBR do not model the rich heterogeneous behavior transitions in the form of graphs and thus may fail to capture the semantic relations between different types of *** limitation hinders the development of HSBR and results in unsatisfactory *** a response,we propose a novel behavior-aware graph neural network(BGNN)for *** BGNN adopts a dual-channel learning strategy for differentiated modeling of two different types of behavior sequences in a ***,our BGNN integrates the information of both homogeneous behavior transitions and heterogeneous behavior transitions in a unified *** then conduct extensive empirical studies on three real-world datasets,and find that our BGNN outperforms the best baseline by 21.87%,18.49%,and 37.16%on average correspondingly.A series of further experiments and visualization studies demonstrate the rationality and effectiveness of our *** exploratory study on extending our BGNN to handle more than two types of behaviors show that our BGNN can e
The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread rapidly around the world and caused overwhelming effects on the health and economy of the world. It first appeared in Wuhan city of China and was declared a pandemic by the Worl...
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To solve the problem of grid coarse-grained reconfigurable array task mapping under multiple constraints,we propose a Loop Subgraph-Level Greedy Mapping(LSLGM)algorithm using parallelism and processing element *** the...
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To solve the problem of grid coarse-grained reconfigurable array task mapping under multiple constraints,we propose a Loop Subgraph-Level Greedy Mapping(LSLGM)algorithm using parallelism and processing element *** the constraint of a reconfigurable array,the LSLGM algorithm schedules node from a ready queue to the current reconfigurable cell array *** mapping a node,its successor’s indegree value will be dynamically *** its successor’s indegree is zero,it will be directly scheduled to the ready queue;otherwise,the predecessor must be dynamically *** the predecessor cannot be mapped,it will be scheduled to a blocking *** dynamically adjust the ready node scheduling order,the scheduling function is constructed by exploiting factors,such as node number,node level,and node *** with the loop subgraph-level mapping algorithm,experimental results show that the total cycles of the LSLGM algorithm decreases by an average of 33.0%(PEA44)and 33.9%(PEA_(7×7)).Compared with the epimorphism map algorithm,the total cycles of the LSLGM algorithm decrease by an average of 38.1%(PEA_(4×4))and 39.0%(PEA_(7×7)).The feasibility of LSLGM is verified.
Multilabel learning is an emergent topic that addresses the challenge of associating multiple labels with a single instance simultaneously. Multilabel datasets often exhibit high dimensionality with noisy, irrelevant,...
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1 Introduction Recommender systems can effectively alleviate the problem of information ***,traditional recommendation methods cannot capture users’dynamic *** recommendation methods model user sequences to obtain mo...
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1 Introduction Recommender systems can effectively alleviate the problem of information ***,traditional recommendation methods cannot capture users’dynamic *** recommendation methods model user sequences to obtain more accurate and dynamic user ***,deep learning-based sequential recommendation methods have achieved great *** is proposed to capture the sequential information[1,2].Attention-based methods[3]use attention mechanisms to learn relationships between ***-based methods[4−6]transform sequences into graph structures to capture relationships of ***,they have the following two limitations.
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