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    A scaled dirichlet-based predictive model for occupancy estimation in smart buildings

    In this study, we introduce a predictive model leveraging the scaled Dirichlet mixture model (SDMM). This data-driven approach offers enhanced accuracy in predictions, especially with a limited training datase...

    Jiaxun Guo, Manar Amayri, Wentao Fan, Nizar Bouguila in Applied Intelligence (2024)

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    Non intrusive load monitoring using additive time series modeling via finite mixture models aggregation

    Energy disaggregation, or Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), involves different methods aiming to distinguish the individual contribution of appliances, given the aggregated power signal. In this paper, the...

    Soudabeh Tabarsaii, Manar Amayri in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humani… (2024)

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    A novel non-intrusive load monitoring technique using semi-supervised deep learning framework for smart grid

    Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a technique which extracts individual appliance consumption and operation state change information from the aggregate power consumption made by a single residential or c...

    Mohammad Kaosain Akbar, Manar Amayri, Nizar Bouguila in Building Simulation (2024)

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    Occupancy estimation in smart buildings using predictive modeling in imbalanced domains

    This paper introduces a novel approach for occupancy estimation in smart buildings. In particular, we focus on the challenging yet common situation where the amount of training data is small and imbalanced (i....

    Jiaxun Guo, Manar Amayri, Fatma Najar in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humani… (2023)

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    Cross-collection latent Beta-Liouville allocation model training with privacy protection and applications

    Cross-collection topic models extend previous single-collection topic models, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to multiple collections. The purpose of cross-collection topic modeling is to model docu...

    Zhiwen Luo, Manar Amayri, Wentao Fan, Nizar Bouguila in Applied Intelligence (2023)

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    Deep Learning Based Solution for Appliance Operational State Detection and Power Estimation in Non-intrusive Load Monitoring

    This paper introduces a novel NILM algorithm that utilizes deep learning Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCN) for the regression and classification NILM tasks. The deep TCN layers in the proposed architecture...

    Mohammad Kaosain Akbar, Manar Amayri in Advances and Trends in Artificial Intellig… (2023)

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    A Selective Supervised Latent Beta-Liouville Allocation for Document Classification

    We propose a novel model, selective supervised Latent Beta-Liouville (ssLBLA), that improves the performance and generative process of supervised probabilistic topic models with a more flexible prior and simpl...

    Zhiwen Luo, Manar Amayri, Wentao Fan in Advances and Trends in Artificial Intellig… (2023)

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    Enhanced Energy Characterization and Feature Selection Using Explainable Non-parametric AGGMM

    In this paper, we propose an asymmetric generalized Gaussian mixture model (AGGMM) with simultaneous feature selection for efficient and interpretable energy characterization in the context of demand response ...

    Hussein Al-Bazzaz, Muhammad Azam in Recent Challenges in Intelligent Informati… (2023)

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    Novel Topic Models for Parallel Topics Extraction from Multilingual Text

    In this work, we propose novel topic models to extract topics from multilingual documents. We add more flexibility to conventional LDA by relaxing some constraints in its prior. We apply other alternative prio...

    Kamal Maanicshah, Narges Manouchehri in Intelligent Information and Database Syste… (2023)

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    A Novel Continuous Hidden Markov Model for Modeling Positive Sequential Data

    As positive data are often encountered in a variety of real-life applications, research on modeling positive data vectors has increasingly drawn attention. The focus of this chapter is to tackle the problem of...

    Wenjuan Hou, Wentao Fan, Manar Amayri in Hidden Markov Models and Applications (2022)

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    Bounded Asymmetric Gaussian Mixture-Based Hidden Markov Models

    Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been widely applied in machine learning to model diversified and heterogeneous time series data. In this chapter, integration of the bounded asymmetric Gaussian mixture model (...

    Zixiang **an, Muhammad Azam, Manar Amayri in Hidden Markov Models and Applications (2022)

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    Stochastic Expectation Propagation Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection

    We introduce a statistical procedure for the simultaneous clustering and feature selection of positive vectors. The proposed method is based on well-principled infinite generalized inverted Dirichlet (GID) mix...

    Wentao Fan, Manar Amayri, Nizar Bouguila in Advances in Computational Collective Intel… (2022)

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    A Generalized Inverted Dirichlet Predictive Model for Activity Recognition Using Small Training Data

    In this paper, we develop the predictive distribution of the generalized inverted Dirichlet (GID) mixture model using local variational inference. The main goal is to be able to tackle classification problems ...

    Jiaxun Guo, Manar Amayri, Wentao Fan in Advances and Trends in Artificial Intellig… (2022)

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    Multivariate Beta-Based Hidden Markov Models Applied to Human Activity Recognition

    Over the past decades, human activity recognition has become an attention-grabbing topic of research. Various algorithms have been proposed and applied for activity recognition. Proposing a robust method is st...

    Narges Manouchehri, Oumayma Dalhoumi, Manar Amayri in Hidden Markov Models and Applications (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Interactive Generalized Dirichlet Mixture Allocation Model

    A lot of efforts have been put in recent times for research in the field of natural language processing. Extracting topics is undoubtedly one of the most important tasks in this area of research. Latent Dirich...

    Kamal Maanicshah, Manar Amayri in Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pat… (2022)

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    Unsupervised Learning Using Variational Inference on Finite Inverted Dirichlet Mixture Models with Component Splitting

    Unsupervised learning has been one of the essentials of pattern recognition and data mining. The role of Dirichlet family of mixture models in this field is inevitable. In this article, we propose a finite Inv...

    Kamal Maanicshah, Manar Amayri, Nizar Bouguila in Wireless Personal Communications (2021)

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    Machine Learning for Activity Recognition in Smart Buildings: A Survey

    Machine learning and data mining techniques have been widely used recently in several smart buildings applications. This is mainly due to the huge amount of data generated continuously by the smart sensors and...

    Manar Amayri, Samer Ali, Nizar Bouguila, Stephane Ploix in Towards Energy Smart Homes (2021)

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    Towards Energy Smart Homes

    Algorithms, Technologies, and Applications

    Stephane Ploix, Manar Amayri (2021)

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    Characterization of Energy Demand and Energy Services Using Model-Based and Data-Driven Approaches

    This chapter describes the state-of-the-art methods to forecast energy consumption and energy services in residential buildings. The review spans from model-based approaches—like building thermal simulation to...

    Carlos A. Santos Silva, Manar Amayri, Kaustav Basu in Towards Energy Smart Homes (2021)