smART socIal media eCOsytstem in a blockchaiN Federated environment

Project Information

ARTICONF

Grant agreement ID: 825134

DOI

10.3030/825134

Project closed

EC signature date 21 November 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 30 June 2022

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 4 166 877,50

EU contribution

€ 4 166 877,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET KLAGENFURT
Austria

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (20)

Revision of the ARTICONF testing procedure, infrastructure, software management, deployment and validation plan

D73 is a revision of the characteristics of the testbed for ARTICONF and the platform for the four pilot use cases outcome of T71

Pilot use cases preparation and evaluation

D72 summarises the requirements and objectives to deploy and validate the four pilot use cases

TIC permissioned blockchain with Cloud storage

D31 details the development of the TIC blockchain protocol with enabled Cloud storage

CONF monitoring framework and adaptation strategies

D42 details the monitoring and adaptation framework and provides an initial specification of the adaptation strategies used by CONF

SMART framework design, conceptualization, and human-agent role discovery and staging models

D51 provides an overview of the SMART framework with abstraction level specification for humanagent collective role and discovery in an anonymous social media

Revision of the pilot use cases preparation and evaluation

D74 is a revision of D72 summarising the requirements and objectives to deploy and validate the four pilot use cases

TIC certification authority and information relationship system

D32 details the development of the certification authority and relationship system

Project handbook

Project handbook ensures consistent implementation of project management, easily accessible to all partners.

Decentralised decision making and reputation mechanism

D53 provides an overview of the novel decisionmaking algorithms and deep details on the incentivized reputation mechanism

Software testing and validation of ARTICONF platform

D75 summarises the results obtained by applying the ARTICONF platform on the pilot use cases and outlines the guidelines to apply it on new use cases

ARTICONF architecture and interfaces definition

D2.2 presents of the first version of the overall ARTICONF platform architecture and its services, interfaces and interaction workflows, gathering all requirements, assumptions, and scientific choices.

Final ARTICONF requirements and architecture

D23 presents the final version of the ARTICONF architecture functional services interfaces and interactions as a refinement of D22

ARTICONF platform requirements and use cases

D2.1 describes the pilot use cases and their key requirements, identifies the fundamental limitations and the envisaged innovations, and includes a market perspective on the main project objectives.

Augmented cognition and reasoning model

D63 describes the cognition and reasoning model for social media platforms

ARTICONF testing procedure, infrastructure, software management, deployment, and validation plan

D7.1 describes the characteristics of the testbed, testing procedure, software management and deployment of the ARTICONF environment, as well as validation procedures for the four pilot use cases (outcome of T7.1).

CONF architecture design and planning algorithms

D41 provides an overall architectural design for CONF and a specification of the CONF planners main algorithms

Anonymised trace abstraction and community detection

D52 provides a detailed algorithmic description of finding relevant communities using activity traces in an anonymized social media

Geospatial, social, contextual, and temporal data aggregation

D61 provides the detailed overview design and implementation details of the contextualised geospatial and temporal data aggregation

Optimised Pareto-trust heuristics

D33 details the trustbased heuristics algorithm development and implementation and modelling of Paretotrust metric for collaborative social media

Guided analytics for improved ROC

D62 provides the adopted and developed guided analytics approach and methodologies with collaborative economy perspective

Other (4)

TAC service software release

D65 releases the final fully documented TAC software service

CONF service software release

D43 releases the final fully documented CONF software service

TIC service software release

D34 releases the final fully documented TIC software service

SMART service software release

D54 releases final fully documented SMART service

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

ARTICONF user interface with integrated monitoring tool-set

D64 provides a detailed design of the ARTICONF ecosystem portal with graphical monitoring tools

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Project website

D8.1 represents the project website comprising the main dissemination and exploitation channels for promoting and communicating the project, relevant activities and achievements.

Communication materials

D8.2 creates the digital ARTICONF dissemination and communication templates, such as project factsheets, leaflets, posters, and newsletters, updated and released as described in Section 2.2.8. The project wiki will serve as a collaborative environment between the project partners for collecting and exchanging relevant content. It will exploit popular Web 2.0 channels and social media for further enhancing the project image, and will engage the Web 2.0 community as multiplier of the diffused knowledge, making ARTICONF dissemination tied to the “real-world” commercial community.

Publications

Conference proceedings (42)

SMART: a Tool for Trust and Reputation Management in Social Media

Author(s): Manuel Herold; Nishant Saurabh; Radu Prodan
Published in: Euro-Par 2019: Parallel Processing Workshops, Issue LNCS 13098, 2019
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6607158

An Adaptable Framework for Entity Matching Model Selection in Business Enterprises

Author(s): Boyko, Alex; Farshidi, Siamak; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: 2022 IEEE 24th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), Issue 2, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CBI54897.2022.00017

Tools for Analytics and Cognition Framework for a Car-Sharing Use Case

Author(s): A. Karadimce, D. Capeska Bogatinoska, M. Sefidansoki, N. Paunkoska Dimoska, N. Marina
Published in: 2020 43rd International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO), 2020, Page(s) 954-959, ISBN 978-953-233-099-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/mipro48935.2020.9245127

A Trustworthy Blockchain-based Decentralised Resource Management System in the Cloud

Author(s): Zhiming Zhao, Chunming Rong, Martin Gilje Jaatun
Published in: 2020 IEEE 26th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2020, Page(s) 617-624, ISBN 978-1-7281-9074-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS51040.2020.00086

Transactive Energy on Hyperledger Fabric

Author(s): Nikita Karandikar, Antorweep Chakravorty, Chunming Rong
Published in: 2019 Sixth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), 2019, Page(s) 539-546, ISBN 978-1-7281-2949-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iotsms48152.2019.8939271

A Customizable dApp Framework for User Interactions in Decentralized Service Marketplaces

Author(s): Ivankovic,Veno; Shi, Zeshun; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: 6th International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SmartIoT55134.2022.00043

An Adaptable Indexing Pipeline for Enriching Meta Information of Datasets from Heterogeneous Repositories

Author(s): Farshidi, Siamak; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: PAKDD 2022: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05936-0_37

ComplexCTTP: Complexity Class Based Transcoding Time Prediction for Video Sequences Using Artificial Neural Network

Author(s): Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Prateek Agrawal, Roland Matha, Christian Timmerer, Radu Prodan
Published in: 2020 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), 2020, Page(s) 316-325, ISBN 978-1-7281-9325-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/bigmm50055.2020.00056

An Auction and Witness Enhanced Trustworthy SLA Model for Decentralized Cloud Marketplaces

Author(s): Zeshun Shi, Siamak Farshidi, Huan Zhou, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: GoodIT '21: Proceedings of the Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, 2021, Page(s) 109–114
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3462203.3475876

Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective

Author(s): Anandhakumar Palanisamy, Mirsat Sefidanoski, Spiros Koulouzis, Carlos Rubia, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan
Published in: 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2020, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-7281-8086-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iscc50000.2020.9219617

RenewLedger : Renewable energy management powered by Hyperledger Fabric

Author(s): Nikita Karandikar, Antorweep Chakravorty, Chunming Rong
Published in: 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2020
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iscc50000.2020.9219651

A new approach to crowd journalism using a blockchain-based infrastructure

Author(s): Leonardo Teixeira, Ivone Amorim, Alexandre Ulisses Silva, João Correia Lopes, Vasco Filipe
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia, 2020, Page(s) 170-178, ISBN 9781450389242
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3428690.3429159

SPIRIT: A microservice-based framework for interactive Cloud infrastructure planning

Author(s): Spiros Koulouzis, Riccardo Bianchi, Robin van der Linde, Yuandou Wang, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Euro-Par 2021: Parallel Processing Workshops, 2022, Page(s) 405-416
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06156-1_32

CBProf: Customisable Blockchain-as-a-Service Performance Profiler in Cloud Environments

Author(s): Xin, Ruyue; Mohazzab, Jardenna; Shi, Zeshun; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: Blockchain – ICBC 2021, Issue LNCS 12991, 2021
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96527-3_9

A Fake News Detection and Credibility Ranking Platform for Portuguese Online News

Author(s): Rito Lima, Ines; Pinto, Marcia; Amorim, Ivone; Marreiros, Goreti; Ulisses, Alexandre
Published in: WorldCIST 2022: Information Systems and Technologies, Issue LNCS 468, 2022
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5_53

Multi-Objective Robust Workflow Offloading in Edge-to-Cloud Continuum

Author(s): Liu, Hongyun; Xin, Ruyue; Chen, Peng; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: IEEE Cloud 2022, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD55607.2022.00070

TOTEM : Token for controlled computation: Integrating Blockchain with Big Data

Author(s): Dhanya Therese Jose, Antorweep Chakravorty, Chunming Rong
Published in: 2019 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2019, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-5386-5906-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icccnt45670.2019.8944855

A Decentralized Service Control framework for Decentralized Applications in Cloud Environments

Author(s): Hoogenkamp, Bram; Farshidi, Siamak; Xin, Ruyue; Shi, Zeshun; Chen, Peng; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: ESOCC 2022: Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, Issue LNCS 13226, 2022
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04718-3_4

DWH-DIM: A Blockchain Based Decentralized Integrity Verification Model for Data Warehouses

Author(s): Jeroen Bergers, Zeshun Shi, Ken Korsmit, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: IEEE Blockchain, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/blockchain53845.2021.00037

Towards A Robust Meta-Reinforcement Learning-Based Scheduling Framework for Time Critical Tasks in Cloud Environments

Author(s): Hongyun Liu, Peng Chen, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2021 IEEE 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2021, Page(s) 637-647
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cloud53861.2021.00082

Decentralized workflow management on software defined infrastructures

Author(s): Yuandou Wang, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2020 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES), 2020, Page(s) 265-268, ISBN 978-1-7281-8203-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/services48979.2020.00059

ALLSTAR: a blockchain based joint ecosystem for the decentralized cloud and edge computing environment

Author(s): Zhou, Huan; Ouyang, Xue; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing, 2020
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jcc49151.2020.00018

Semantics-Aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds

Author(s): Saurabh, Nishant; Remmers, Julian; Kimovski, Dragi; Prodan, Radu; Barbosa, Jorge G.
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Issue 6, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3581091

A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications

Author(s): Samani, Zahra Najafabadi; Lercher, Alexander; Saurabh, Nishant; Prodan, Radu
Published in: Euro-Par 2019 Parallel Processing Workshops, Issue 4, 2019
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3581080

ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment

Author(s): Prodan, Radu; Saurabh, Nishant; Zhao, Zhiming; Orton-Johnson, Kate; Chakravorty, Antorweep; Karadimce, Aleksandar; Ulisses, Alexandre
Published in: Euro-Par 2019 Parallel Processing Workshops, Issue 2, 2019
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3580715

An Automated Customization and Performance Profiling Framework for Permissioned Blockchains in a Virtualized Environment

Author(s): Zeshun Shi, Huan Zhou, Jayachander Surbiryala, Yang Hu, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2019, Page(s) 404-410, ISBN 978-1-7281-5011-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cloudcom.2019.00069

Co-located and Orchestrated Network Fabric (CONF): An Automated Cloud Virtual Infrastructure for Social Network Applications

Author(s): Shi, Zeshun; Zhou, Huan; Hu, Yang; Koulouzis, Spiros; Rubia, Carlos; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, EuroPar 2019, 2019
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3679385

A Blockchain based Witness Model for Trustworthy Cloud Service Level Agreement Enforcement

Author(s): Huan Zhou, Xue Ouyang, Zhijie Ren, Jinshu Su, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2019, Page(s) 1567-1575, ISBN 978-1-7281-0515-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/infocom.2019.8737580

Learning Workflow Scheduling on Multi-Resource Clusters

Author(s): Yang Hu, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), 2019, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-7281-4409-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/nas.2019.8834720

Linking provenance with system logs: a context aware information integration and exploration framework for analyzing workflow execution

Author(s): el Khaldi Ahanach, Elias; Koulouzis, Spiros; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: 11th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG19),, 2019
Publisher: IWSG
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3466766

Large Distributed Virtual Infrastructure Partitioning and Provisioning Across Providers

Author(s): Huan Zhou, Zeshun Shi, Yang Hu, Pieter Donkers, Andrey Afanasyev, Spiros Koulouzis, Arie Taal, Alexandre Ulisses, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), 2019, Page(s) 56-63, ISBN 978-1-7281-3488-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/smartiot.2019.00018

Knowledge-as-a-Service: A Community Knowledge Base for Research Infrastructures in Environmental and Earth Sciences

Author(s): Zhiming Zhao, Xiaofeng Liao, Paul Martin, Jordan Maduro, Peter Thijsse, Dick Schaap, Markus Stocker, Doron Goldfarb, Barbara Magagna
Published in: 2019 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES), 2019, Page(s) 127-132, ISBN 978-1-7281-3851-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/services.2019.00041

Multi-objective Container Deployment on Heterogeneous Clusters

Author(s): Yang Hu, Cees De Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2019 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), 2019, Page(s) 592-599, ISBN 978-1-7281-0912-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid.2019.00076

Contextual linking between workflow provenance and system performance logs

Author(s): Ahanach, Elias el Khaldi; Koulouzis, Spiros; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: IEEE eScience, tool and infrastructure, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/escience.2019.00093

Operating Permissioned Blockchain in Clouds: A Performance Study of Hyperledger Sawtooth

Author(s): Zeshun Shi, Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Surbiryala Jayachander, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2019 18th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2019, Page(s) 50-57, ISBN 978-1-7281-3801-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ispdc.2019.00010

Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement

Author(s): Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan
Published in: 2021 IEEE 5th International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC), 2021, Page(s) 9-18, ISBN 978-1-6654-0291-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icfec51620.2021.00010

State-of-the-Art Instance Matching Methods for Knowledge Graphs

Author(s): Alex Boyko; Siamak Farshidi; Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2021 16thInternational Workshop on Ontology Matching, Issue 2, 2022
Publisher: Sun SITE Central Europe
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6547684

Blockchain for Reliable and Secure Distributed Communication Channel

Author(s): Jovan Karamacoski, Natasa Paunkoska, Ninoslav Marina, Magdalena Punceva
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, and Communications Technology (IAICT), 2019, Page(s) 91-97, ISBN 978-1-7281-3745-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICIAICT.2019.8784853

Sharing digital object across data infrastructures using Named Data Networking (NDN)

Author(s): Kees de Jong, Cas Fahrenfort, Anas Younis, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2020 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2020, Page(s) 873-880, ISBN 978-1-7281-6095-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid49817.2020.00013

A new approach to Crowd Journalism using a blockchain based infrastructure

Author(s): Leonardo Teixeira; Ivone Amorim; Alexandre Ulisses Silva; João Correia Lopes; Vasco Filipe
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia, Issue 1, 2020
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4333625

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Data Quality Control

Author(s): Lex Poon; Siamak Farshidi; Na Li; Zhiming Zhao
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9671672

Social Data Analytics for Enhancing the Collaborative Economy

Author(s): Mirsat Sefidanoski; Atanas Hristov; Aleksandar Karadimce; Natasha Paunkoska Dimoska; Ninoslav Marina
Published in: 2021 5th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (ISMSIT), Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ismsit52890.2021.9604730

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Eectively Detecting Operational Anomalies in Large-scale IoT Data Infrastructures by using a GAN-based Predictive Model

Author(s): Chen, Peng; Liu, Hongyun; Xin, Ruyue; Carval, Thierry; Zhao, Jiale; Xia, Yunni; Zhao, Zhiming
Published in: The Computer Journal, 2022, ISSN 1460-2067
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxac085

Scaling Notebooks as Re-configurable Cloud Workflows

Author(s): Yuandou Wang, Spiros Koulouzis, Riccardo Bianchi, Na Li, Yifang Shi, Joris Timmermans, W. Daniel Kissling, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Data Intelligence, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 409–425, ISSN 2641-435X
Publisher: MIT Press Direct
DOI: 10.1162/dint_a_00140

Blockchain-based prosumer incentivization for peak mitigation through temporal aggregation and contextual clustering.1

Author(s): Nikita Karandikar, Rockey Abhishek, Nishant Saurabh, Zhiming Zhao, Alexander Lercher, Ninoslav Marina, Radu Prodan, Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty
Published in: Blockchain: Research and Applications, 2021, Page(s) 100016, ISSN 2096-7209
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcra.2021.100016

A Cost-Quality Beneficial Cell Selection Approach for Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing with Diverse Sensing Costs

Author(s): Zhengqiu Zhu, Bin Chen, Wenbin Liu, Yong Zhao, Zhong Liu, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/jiot.2020.3024833

Blockchain Imaginaries and Their Metaphors: Organising Principles in Decentralised Digital Technologies

Author(s): Pedro Jacobetty and Kate Orton-Johnson
Published in: Social Epistemology, 2022, ISSN 1464-5297
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2022.2086086

Blockchain-Based Application for Certification Management

Author(s): Jovan Karamachoski, Ninoslav Marina, Pavel Taskov
Published in: Tehnički glasnik, Issue 14 2020/4, 2020, Page(s) 488-492, ISSN 1848-5588
Publisher: Technical Journal
DOI: 10.31803/tg-20200811113729

MCred: multi-modal message credibility for fake news detection using BERT and CNN

Author(s): Pawan Kumar Verma, Prateek Agrawal, Vishu Madaan, Radu Prodan
Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2022, ISSN 1868-5145
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-022-04338-2

The ARTICONF Approach to Decentralized Car-Sharing

Author(s): Nishant Saurabh, Carlos Rubia, Anandakumar Palanisamy, Spiros Koulouzis, Mirsat Sefidanoski, Antorweep Chakravorty, Zhiming Zhao, Aleksandar Karadimce, Radu Prodan
Published in: Blockchain: Research and Applications, 2021, Page(s) 100013, ISSN 2096-7209
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcra.2021.100013

Building a blockchain-based decentralized ecosystem for cloud and edge computing: an ALLSTAR approach and empirical study

Author(s): Huan Zhou; Zeshun Shi; Xue Ouyang; Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Issue 14, 2021, Page(s) 3578–3594, ISSN 1936-6450
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s12083-021-01198-z

Expelliarmus: Semantic-centric virtual machine image management in IaaS Clouds

Author(s): Nishant Saurabh, Shajulin Benedict, Jorge G. Barbosa, Radu Prodan
Published in: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Issue 146, 2020, Page(s) 107-121, ISSN 0743-7315
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.08.001

Short‐text feature expansion and classification based on nonnegative matrix factorization

Author(s): Ling Zhang, Wenchao Jiang, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2020, ISSN 0884-8173
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/int.22290

Notebook-as-a-VRE (NaaVRE): from private notebooks to a collaborative cloud virtual research environment

Author(s): Zhiming Zhao; Spiros Koulouzis; Riccardo Bianchi; Siamak Farshidi; Zeshun Shi; Ruyue Xin; Yuandou Wang; Na Li; Yifang Shi; Joris Timmermans; W. Daniel Kissling
Published in: Software: Practice and Experience, Issue 52, 2022, Page(s) 1947-1966, ISSN 1097-024X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.12785

Distributed service‐level agreement management with smart contracts and blockchain

Author(s): Rafael Brundo Uriarte, Huan Zhou, Kyriakos Kritikos, Zeshun Shi, Zhiming Zhao, Rocco De Nicola
Published in: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2020, ISSN 1532-0626
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5800

AWESOME: an auction and witness enhanced SLA model for decentralized cloud marketplaces

Author(s): Zeshun Shi; Veno Ivankovic; Siamak Farshidi; Jayachander Surbiryala; Huan Zhou; Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Journal of Cloud Computing, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 2192-113X
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.1186/s13677-022-00292-8

Unsupervised Approaches for Textual Semantic Annotation, A Survey

Author(s): Xiaofeng Liao, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: ACM Computing Surveys, Issue 52/4, 2019, Page(s) 1-45, ISSN 0360-0300
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3324473

A Column Styled Composable Schema Matcher for Semantic Data-Types

Author(s): Xiaofeng Liao, Jordy Bottelier, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Data Science Journal, Issue 18, 2019, ISSN 1683-1470
Publisher: Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) International Council for Science (ICSU)
DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2019-025

Profiling the scheduling decisions for handling critical paths in deadline-constrained cloud workflows

Author(s): Arie Taal, Junchao Wang, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 100, 2019, Page(s) 237-249, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2019.05.002

Optimizing Service Placement for Microservice Architecture in Clouds

Author(s): Yang Hu, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 9/21, 2019, Page(s) 4663, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app9214663

Enforcing trustworthy cloud SLA with witnesses: A game theory–based model using smart contracts

Author(s): Huan Zhou, Xue Ouyang, Jinshu Su, Cees Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2019, ISSN 1532-0626
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5511

Concurrent container scheduling on heterogeneous clusters with multi-resource constraints

Author(s): Yang Hu, Huan Zhou, Cees de Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 102, 2020, Page(s) 562-573, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2019.08.025

CloudsStorm: A framework for seamlessly programming and controlling virtual infrastructure functions during the DevOps lifecycle of cloud applications

Author(s): Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Xue Ouyang, Jinshu Su, Spiros Koulouzis, Cees Laat, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Software: Practice and Experience, Issue 49/10, 2019, Page(s) 1421-1447, ISSN 0038-0644
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/spe.2741

Automated bank cheque verification using image processing and deep learning methods

Author(s): Prateek Agrawal, Deepak Chaudhary, Vishu Madaan, Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Radu Prodan, Dragi Kimovski, Christian Timmerer
Published in: Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020, ISSN 1380-7501
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-020-09818-1

WELFake: Word Embedding Over Linguistic Features for Fake News Detection

Author(s): Pawan Kumar Verma, Prateek Agrawal, Ivone Amorim, Radu Prodan
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2021, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 2329-924X
Publisher: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
DOI: 10.1109/tcss.2021.3068519

A dynamic evolutionary multi-objective virtual machine placement heuristic for cloud data centers

Author(s): Ennio Torre, Juan J. Durillo, Vincenzo de Maio, Prateek Agrawal, Shajulin Benedict, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 128, 2020, Page(s) 106390, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106390

XCOVNet: Chest X-ray Image Classification for COVID-19 Early Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Vishu Madaan, Aditya Roy, Charu Gupta, Prateek Agrawal, Anand Sharma, Cristian Bologa, Radu Prodan
Published in: New Generation Computing, 2021, ISSN 0288-3635
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00354-021-00121-7

Book chapters (3)

Virtual Infrastructure Optimisation

Author(s): Spiros Koulouzis, Paul Martin, Zhiming Zhao
Published in: Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences - A Reference Model Guided Approach for Common Challenges, Issue 12003, 2020, Page(s) 192-207, ISBN 978-3-030-52828-7
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52829-4_11

Guided Analytics Software for Smart Aggregation, Cognition, and Interactive Visualisation

Author(s): Aleksandar Karadimce, Natasa Paunkoska, Dijana Capeska Bogatinoska, Ninoslav Marina, Amita Nandal
Published in: Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision - Proceedings of ICICV 2020, Issue 1189, 2021, Page(s) 521-528, ISBN 978-981-15-6066-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6067-5_59

Tools for Analytics and Cognition for Crowd Journalism Application

Author(s): N. Paunkoska Dimoska; A. Hristov; A. Karadimce; N. Marina; M. Sefidanoski
Published in: 2021 International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, Issue LNCS 443, 2021
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06374-9_16

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USER CONTROLLED, DECENTRALIZED, DISTRIBUTED, AND SECURE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION

Application/Publication number: 18 700453
Date: 2018-01-03
Applicant(s): BITUNITOR AS

DECENTRALISED DATA MANAGEMENT

Application/Publication number: 20 19066900
Date: 2019-06-25
Applicant(s): BITUNITOR AS