Academic Articles & Research Papers

Integrated crop-livestock-forest systems: a path to improved agro-economic performance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado

Diversified sustainable agricultural systems, such as integrated crop-livestock-forest systems (ICLFs), offer substantial potential for enhancing food production to meet the increasing global demand for agricultural goods while, simultaneou...

Drivers of respiratory health care demand in Acre state, Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background The scarce knowledge about the drivers of demand for respiratory health care in the Brazilian Amazon, where the gap of human and physical health care resources is wide, is expanded with two surveys conducted in the west ...

Accesses to water, electricity, and sustainable development: evidence from the Amazonian State of Parà

According to the UN's Sustainable Development Agenda, to effectively achieve sustainable development, strategies for building economic growth should also address social needs, including access to essential services. Sustainable integrated m...

Distributed systems meet economics: pricing in the cloud

Cloud computing allows users to perform computation in a public cloud with a pricing scheme typically based on incurred resource consumption. While cloud comput-ing is often considered as merely a new application for classic distributed sys...

GluonCV and GluonNLP: Deep Learning in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

We present GluonCV and GluonNLP, the deep learning toolkits for computer vision and natural language processing based on Apache MXNet (incubating). These toolkits provide state-of-the-art pre-trained models, training scripts, and training l...

Research on Personalized Recommendation Algorithm Integrating Cross-Grained Sentiment and Rating Interaction Features

To investigate the impact of cross-grained sentiments on user feature representation and address the issue of data sparsity, this paper proposes a Personalized Recommendation Algorithm Integrating Cross-Grained Sentiment and Rating Interact...

An introduction to Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing: Models, techniques, and tools

A Model-Driven Approach Employing DSL and Generation Templates to Accelerate the Development of Conversational Agents for Smart Tourism

Conversational agents are intelligent, ubiquitous software applications widely used across various sectors, such as commerce, tourism, and more. Their key benefits include automating tasks, improving customer service, and ensuring service a...

Quantifying the Unseen Dengue Burden: A Municipality‐Level Ascertainment Surface for Pará State, Brazilian Amazon.

Deep Learning for the Internet of Things

How can the advantages of deep learning be brought to the emerging world of embedded IoT devices? The authors discuss several core challenges in embedded and mobile deep learning, as well as recent solutions demonstrating the feasibility of...

A Survey on Deep Learning for Human Mobility

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS t...

Recurrent Neural Networks Based Online Behavioural Malware Detection Techniques for Cloud Infrastructure

Several organizations are utilizing cloud technologies and resources to run a range of applications. These services help businesses save on hardware management, scalability and maintainability concerns of underlying infrastructure. Key clou...

The Effects of Gender Signals and Performance in Online Product Reviews

This work quantifies the effects of signaling gender through gender specific user names, on the success of reviews written on the popular amazon.com shopping platform. Highly rated reviews play an important role in e-commerce since they are...

Stealing Hyperparameters in Machine Learning

Hyperparameters are critical in machine learning, as different hyperparameters often result in models with significantly different performance. Hyperparameters may be deemed confidential because of their commercial value and the confidentia...

Teens, Tech, and Talk: Adolescents’ Use of and Emotional Reactions to Snapchat’s My AI Chatbot

Due to technological advancements such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models, chatbots enable increasingly human-like, real-time conversations through text (e.g., OpenAI’s ChatGPT) and voice (e.g., Amazon’s Al...