In recent years, we have witnessed a major expansion of wireless communications,
extending from terrestrial to aerial spaces to facilitate novel user services. While aerial …

Marine debris is a problem both for the health of marine environments and for the human
health since tiny pieces of plastic called “microplastics” resulting from the debris …

Maritime pollution poses significant risks to marine ecosystems and human health,
necessitating effective monitoring and management strategies. Integrating emerging …

We contribute a novel model evaluation technique that divides available measurements into
training and testing sets in a way that adheres to the requirements imposed on professional …

Underwater environments are emerging as a new frontier for data science thanks to an
increase in deployments of underwater sensor technology. Challenges in operating …

Advances in sensing and communication technologies have enabled emerging applications
in ocean research. The stringent resource limitations, however, hinder local task processing …

Underwater plastic pollution is a significant global concern, affecting everything from marine
ecosystems to climate change and even human health. Currently, obtaining accurate …

Littering is a significant environmental concern that causes significant damage to the natural
ecosystem and contributes adversely to human health. Monitoring litter accumulation is …

We contribute MIDAS as a novel sensing solution for characterizing everyday objects using
thermal dissipation. MIDAS takes advantage of the fact that anytime a person touches an …

Aiming at the problem that Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is subject primarily to the
parameters, we propose a hybrid algorithm SOA-ACO-2Opt to optimize the ACO parameter …