Smart Applications for Smart Live

A Lightweight Privacy-preserving Authenticated Key Exchange Scheme for Smart Grid Communications

Smart grid concept is introduced to modify the power grid by utilizing new information and communication technology. Smart grid needs live power consumption monitoring to provide required services and for this issue, bi-directional communication is essential. Security and privacy are the most important requirements that should be provided in the communication. Because of the complex design of s...

A Mobile and Fog-based Computing Method to Execute Smart Device Applications in a Secure Environment

With the rapid growth of smart device and Internet of things applications, the volume of communication and data in networks have increased. Due to the network lag and massive demands, centralized and traditional cloud computing architecture are not accountable to the high users' demands and not proper for execution of delay-sensitive and real time applications. To resolve these challenges, we p...

Answering Live Questions from Heterogeneous Data Sources SMART in Live QA at TREC 2016

A significant portion of information is today available in a digital format. However, users still face difficulties in accessing it. A big portion of the challenge consists in designing efficient approaches for reasoning over heterogeneous data sources. In this paper, we describe the participation of the Semantic Search and Question Answering group (SMART) in Live QA track at TREC 2016. SMART s...

Advances in Research and Applications of Smart Hydrogels Part I: Preparation Methods and Classification

Group Recommendation for Smart Applications: A Multi-agent View of the Problem

The widespread use of social networks is modifying our way to live our cities and to plan/decide our activities. The long-term goal of our research is to provide users with group recommendation and decision support systems for smart city applications that rely on the analysis of the users’ behaviors on social networks/media. In this paper, we provide an overview of the group recommendation lite...