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Li, Z. (author), Sun, W. (author), Hai, R. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author)The proliferation of pre-trained ML models in public Web-based model zoos facilitates the engineering of ML pipelines to address complex inference queries over datasets and streams of unstructured content. Constructing optimal plan for a query is hard, especially when constraints (e.g. accuracy or execution time) must be taken into consideration...conference paper 2023
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Shen, C. (author), Zhang, P. (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Zoeteman, A. (author), Li, Z. (author)While various train-borne techniques have been developed for measuring railway track stiffness, differentiating stiffness at different track layers remains a challenge. This study proposes a digital twin framework for the vehicle–track interaction system, which enables track stiffness evaluations based on axle box accelerations (ABA). The...journal article 2023
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Li, Z. (author), Hai, R. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Machine learning (ML) researchers and practitioners are building repositories of pre-trained models, called model zoos. These model zoos contain metadata that detail various properties of the ML models and datasets, which are useful for reporting, auditing, reproducibility, and interpretability. Unfortunately, the existing metadata...conference paper 2023
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Li, Z. (author), Kant, Henk (author), Hai, R. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author), Brambilla, Marco (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Machine learning (ML) practitioners and organizations are building model repositories of pre-trained models, referred to as model zoos. These model zoos contain metadata describing the properties of the ML models and datasets. The metadata serves crucial roles for reporting, auditing, ensuring reproducibility, and enhancing interpretability....journal article 2023
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Liu, Z. (author), Baluchová, S. (author), Frota Sartori, A. (author), Li, Z. (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Schreck, Matthias (author), Buijnsters, J.G. (author)In this work, three distinct heteroepitaxial single-crystal boron-doped diamond (SC-BDD) electrodes were fabricated and subjected to detailed surface analysis and electrochemical characterization. Specifically, the heteroepitaxy approach allowed to synthesize large-area (1 cm<sup>2</sup>) and heavily-doped (100)-oriented SC-BDD electrodes....journal article 2023
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Zhang, P. (author), Li, S. (author), Li, Z. (author)Short pitch corrugation is a quasi-periodic rail defect that induces a high level of noise and accelerates track degradation. This paper proposes a methodology to mitigate short pitch corrugation by rail constraint design, including four steps. In Step 1, corrugation is numerically reproduced by employing a three-dimensional (3D) finite...journal article 2023
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Li, Hongyan (author), Li, Z. (author), Qiu, Liangsheng (author), Dong, Sufen (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Dong, Xufeng (author), Han, Baoguo (author)This study aims to understand the effects and mechanisms of length, diameter, and functional group of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on rheological behaviors of cementitious composites. The experimental results show that the addition of CNTs decreases the flow index and increases the critical shear rate of cementitious composites. CNTs with a sub...journal article 2023
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Li, Z. (author), Homborg, A.M. (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Visser, Peter (author), Soleimani, M. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)The influence of ageing under ambient conditions on the corrosion protective behaviour of a lithium-based conversion layer on AA2024-T3 is studied in this work. Conversion layers aged at ambient conditions for relatively short times (0 h and 4 h), show an initial high degree of corrosion inhibition but a much lower protectiveness after the...journal article 2023
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Li, Z. (author), Rajan, R.T. (author)Affine formation control of multiagent systems has recently received increasing attention in various applications. The distributed control of these agents, under single integrator dynamics, relies on the observations of relative positions of the neighboring agents, which when unavailable is detrimental to the mission. In this paper, we...conference paper 2023
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Pore, Ameya (author), Li, Z. (author), Dall'Alba, Diego (author), Hernansanz, Albert (author), De Momi, Elena (author), Menciassi, Arianna (author), Casals Gelpi, Alicia (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Fiorini, Paolo (author), Poorten, Emmanuel Vander (author)Increased demand for less invasive procedures has accelerated the adoption of Intraluminal Procedures (IP) and Endovascular Interventions (EI) performed through body lumens and vessels. As navigation through lumens and vessels is quite complex, interest grows to establish autonomous navigation techniques for IP and EI for reaching the target...journal article 2023
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Liu, C. (author), Liang, X. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)In this study, the impacts of tap water immersion on the pore solution, phase assemblages, gel chemistry and structure, and pore structure of alkali-activated slag (AAS) pastes were studied. AAS degrades under such condition and the potential mechanisms can be concluded as lower reaction rates, gel decomposition and carbonation. The leaching...journal article 2023
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Jin, J. (author), Li, Z. (author)Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) lacks a strong theoretical support although extensively applied. We propose a theoretical framework for a succinct EMD in this work, with the assumption of invariant extrema locations for one IMF extraction. We define the envelope mean filter (EMF) and prove that the filter matrix satisfies five properties....journal article 2023
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Shi, Weibo (author), Niu, Dongyu (author), Li, Z. (author), Niu, Yanhui (author)The surface texture of asphalt pavement has a significant effect on skid resistance performance. However, its contribution to the performance of skid resistance is non-homogeneous and subjects to local validity. There are also a few deep learning models that take into account the effective contact texture region. This paper proposes a...journal article 2023
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Li, Z. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Provis, John L. (author), Cizer, Özlem (author), Ye, G. (author)This paper provides a critical review on autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag (AAS). It is reported that AAS paste, mortar, and concrete generally show larger autogenous shrinkage than Portland cement (PC) counterparts. Self-desiccation is the main driving force of the autogenous shrinkage of hardened AAS, but other mechanisms also...review 2023
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Lu, T. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author)This study experimentally investigated the effects of surfactants and water-repelling agents on the hydration process, relative humidity, and mechanical properties of Portland cement pastes. Based on the measurement results, the degree of hydration, degree of saturation, capillary tension of autogenous shrinkage, and magnitude of autogenous...journal article 2023
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Li, Z. (author), Schonfeld, Mariette (author), Hai, R. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Katsifodimos, A (author)Given a set of pre-trained Machine Learning (ML) models, can we solve complex analytic tasks that make use of those models by formulating ML inference queries? Can we mitigate different tradeoffs, e.g., high accuracy, low execution costs and memory footprint, when optimizing the queries? In this work we present different multi-objective ML...conference paper 2023
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Zeng, Y. (author), Shen, C. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Zhang, Weihua (author), Li, Z. (author)Operational modal analysis (OMA) enables the identification of modal characteristics under operational loads and conditions. Traditional frequency-domain methods cannot directly capture modal changes over time, while existing time-frequency representations are not sufficiently interpretable due to spurious modes and implicit parameter design....journal article 2023
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Arcondoulis, E.J.G. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Rubio Carpio, A. (author), Sedaghatizadeh, N. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author)Vortex shedding in the wake of a cylinder in uniform flow can be suppressed via the application of a porous coating; however, the suppression mechanism is not fully understood. The internal flow field of a porous coated cylinder (PCC) can provide a deeper understanding of how the flow within the porous medium affects the wake development. A...journal article 2023
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Yi, Yangtian (author), Lu, Chao (author), Wang, Boyang (author), Cheng, Long (author), Li, Z. (author), Gong, Jianwei (author)Accurate recognition of driver behaviours is the basis for a reliable driver assistance system. This paper proposes a novel fusion framework for driver behaviour recognition that utilises the traffic scene and driver gaze information. The proposed framework is based on the graph neural network (GNN) and contains three modules, namely, the...journal article 2023
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Liu, Chaoyang (author), Li, Xueyuan (author), Liu, Qi (author), Yang, Fan (author), Li, Z. (author), Li, Mengkai (author)With the development of unmanned vehicle technology, unmanned vehicles have played a huge role in logistics transportation, emergency rescue and disaster relief, etc., so the research on unmanned vehicles is becoming more and more important. Road detection is an important part of environmental perception and an important factor in the...conference paper 2023