COVID-19 has disrupted normal life and has enforced a substantial change in the policies,
priorities and activities of individuals, organisations and governments. These changes are …

Pandemics often cause dramatic losses of human lives and impact our societies in many
aspects such as public health, tourism, and economy. To contain the spread of an epidemic …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 6 million deaths since 2020. To contain the
spread of the virus, social distancing is one of the most simple yet effective approaches …

Intelligent buildings are among the most active Internet-of-Things (IoT) verticals,
encompassing various IoT-enabled devices and sensing technologies for digital …

Maximizing Influence (Max-Inf) query is a fundamental operation in spatial data
management. This query returns an optimal site from a candidate set to maximize its …

In large venues like shop** malls and airports, knowledge on the indoor populations fuels
applications such as business analytics, venue management, and safety control. In this …

In the world of autonomous robots, achieving complete accuracy remains a challenge,
underscoring the importance of human intervention, especially regarding safety. In Human …

With the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing and social distance monitoring
have been increasingly popular due to their capability of avoiding the spread of infectious …

Many important societal problems are naturally modeled as algorithms over temporal
graphs. To date, however, most graph processing systems remain inefficient as they rely on …

CAPRIO is an indoor-outdoor pedestrian path rec-ommendation system that optimizes for
shortest distance. Its path-finding algorithm, ASTRO, takes into account a set of user …