List of Publications - Huber Flores

Journal articles and magazines

[ACM-TOSN] Z. Yin, M. Radeta, M. Liyanage, M. Olapade, A. Ottun, A. Zuniga, P. Hui, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: SNAKE: Harnessing Human Touch for Produce Quality Estimation to Foster Sustainable Retail Practices, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2025, DOI: 10.1145/3733720. [author's copy]

[ACM-TIOT] F. Dar, M. Olapade, A. Ottun, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, U. Norbisrath, M. Radeta, F. A. Silva, X. Su, J. Edinger, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: TOAD: Profiling and Evaluating 3D printed IoT Rapid Prototype Designs, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2025, DOI: 10.1145/3724128. [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] P. Ngoy, F. Dar, M. Liyanage, Z. Yin, U. Norbisrath, A. Zuniga, J. Pestana, M. Radeta, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Supporting Sustainable Computing by Repurposing E-waste Smartphones as Tiny Data Centers, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2025.3541558. [author's copy]

[IEEE-Computer] A. Ottun, A. Akintola, M. Liyanage, M. Boerger, P. Hui, S. Tarkoma, N. Tchotchev, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: AI Robustness against Attacks in City-Scale Autonomous Drone Deployments, IEEE Computer Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MC.2024.3461841. [author's copy]

[JMIR] N. H. Motlagh, A. Zuniga,N. T. Nguyen, H. Flores, J. Wang, S. Tarkoma, M. Prosperi, S. Helal, P. Nurmi: Population Digital Health: Continuous Health Monitoring and Profiling at Scale, Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, DOI: 10.2196/60261. [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] A. Zuniga, M. Olapade, N. H. Motlagh, M. Liyanage, Z. Yin, F. Dar, N. T. Nguyen, A. Akintola, M. Radeta, S. Tarkoma, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Low-cost Sensing for Environmental Sustainability, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2024.3448199. [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] A. Akintola, M. Liyanage, R. Machado, U. Norbisrath, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Smart Plants on Wheels: Enhancing Indoor Productivity using Smart Plants and Autonomous Ground Drones, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2024.3416677 [author's copy]

[IEEE-Computer] H. Flores: AI Sensors and Dashboards, IEEE Computer Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MC.2024.3394056. [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] H. Flores: The Role of Micro-Mobility in Environmental Monitoring: Reflections and Opportunities on the Use of Pervasive Sensing, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2024.3391906. [author's copy]

[IEEE-IoT-Magazine] H. Flores: Opportunistic Multi-Drone Networks: Filling the Spatiotemporal Holes of Collaborative and Distributed Applications, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/IOTM.001.2300169. [author's copy]

[ACM-TiiS] M. Radeta, R. Freitas, C. Rodrigues, A. Zuniga, N. T. Nguyen, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Man and the Machine: Effects of AI-assisted Human Labeling on Interactive Annotation of Real-Time Video Streams, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, DOI: 10.1145/3649457. [author's copy]

[IEEE-TCSS] N. Thin Nguyen, M. Zubair, A. Zuniga, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, H. Lee, S. T. Perrault, M. Ammar, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: The Price is Right? The Economic Value of Sensor Sharing, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2023.3330071. [author's copy]

[IEEE-IC] A. Ottun, P. C. Mane, Z. Yin, S. Paul, M. Liyanage, J. Pridmore, A. Yi Ding, R. Sharma, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Social-aware Federated Learning: Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Data Training, IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2022.3219263, 2022. [author's copy]

[ACM-TIOT] F. Dar, M. Liyanage, M. Radeta, Z. Yin, A. Zuniga, S. Kosta, S. Tarkoma, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Upscaling Fog Computing in Oceans for Underwater Pervasive Data Science using Low-Cost Micro-Clouds, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2022. [author's copy] [Presented in ACM SenSys 2023 in the Journal track, [slides]]

[IEEE-PC] A. Zuniga, N. H. Motlagh, M. Hoque, S. Tarkoma, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: See No Evil: Discovering Covert Surveillance Devices using Thermal Imaging , IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, 2022, (IF: 4.95). [author's copy]

[PMC] F. Dar, H. Emenike, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, R. Sharma, A. Zuniga, M. A. Hoque, M. Radeta, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: The MIDAS Touch: Thermal Dissipation Resulting From Everyday Interactions as a Sensing Modality, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), 2022, (IF:2.72), [author's copy]

[IEEE-IoT-Journal] A. Zuniga, N. H. Motlagh, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Smart Plants: Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Indoor Environments , IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022, (IF: 9.93). [author's copy]

[IEEE-CEMAG] N. H. Motlagh, M. Irjala, A. Zuniga, E. Lagerspetz, V. Rantala, H. Flores, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma: Toward Blue Skies: City-Scale Air Pollution Monitoring using UAVs, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine [author's copy]

[IEEE-Computer] M. Radeta, A. Zuniga, N. H. Motlagh, M. Liyanage, R. Freitas, M. Youssef, S. Tarkoma, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Deep Learning and the Oceans, IEEE Computer Magazine, 2022 (IF: 3.56) [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] Z. Yin, M. Olapade, M. Liyanage, F. Dar, A. Zuniga, N. H. Motlagh, X. Su, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Toward City-Scale Litter Monitoring using Autonomous Ground Vehicles, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, (IF: 4.95). [author's copy]

[IEEE-Computer] H. Flores, A. Zuniga, L. Tonetto, T. Braud, P. Hui, Y. Li, S. Tarkoma, M. Ammar, P. Nurmi: Collaboration Stability: Quantifying the Success and Failure of Opportunistic Collaboration, IEEE Computer Magazine, (IF: 3.56). [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] A. Zuniga, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Ripe or Rotten? Low-Cost Produce Quality Estimation using Reflective Green Light Sensing, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, 2021, (IF: 4.95), [author's copy]

[PMC] M. Liyanage, F. Dar, R. Sharma, H. Flores: GEESE: Edge Computing Enabled by Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), 2021, (IF: 2.72), [author's copy]

[IEEE-IoT-Magazine] H. Flores, N. H. Motlagh, A. Zuniga, M. Liyanage, M. Passananti, S. Tarkoma, M. Youssef, P. Nurmi: Toward Large-Scale Autonomous Marine Pollution Monitoring, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. [author's copy]

[CCF-TPC] Z. Tu, H. Cao, E. Lagerspetz, Y. Fan, H. Flores, S. Tarkoma, P. Nurmi, Y. Li: Demographics of Mobile App Usage: Long-term Analysis of Mobile App Usage, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (Springer), 2021. [author's copy]

[ACM-HEALTH] N. Mäkitalo, D. Flores-Martin, H. Flores, E. Lagerspetz, F. Christophe, P. Ihantola, M. Babazadeh, P. Hui, J. M. Murillo, S. Tarkoma, T. Mikkonen: Human Data Model: Improving Programmability of Health and Well-Being Data for Enhanced Perception and Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2020. [author's copy]

[ACM-GetMobile] H. Flores, J. Hamberg, X. Lin, T. Malmivirta, A. Zuniga, E. Lagerspetz, P. Nurmi: Estimating Energy Footprint using Thermal Imaging, ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, GetMobile Magazine, 2020. [author's copy]

[IEEE-PC] E. Lagerspetz, J. Hamberg, X. Lin, H. Flores, P. Nurmi, N. Davies, S. Helal: Pervasive Data Science on the Edge, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, 2019, (IF: 3.02), [author's copy]

[PUC] C. Luo, A. Visuri, S. Klakegg, N. van Berkel, Z. Sarsenbayeva, A. Möttönen, J. Goncalves, T. Anagnostopoulos, D. Ferreira, H. Flores, E. Velloso, V. Kostakos: Energy-Efficient Prediction of Smartphone Unlocking , Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, 2019, (IF: 2.39)

[IEEE-TMC] H. Flores, P. Hui, P. Nurmi, E. Lagerspetz, S. Tarkoma, J. Manner, V. Kostakos, Y. Li, X. Su: Evidence-aware Mobile Computational Offloading, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2017, doi:10.1109/TMC.2017.2777491 (IF: 3.822). [author's copy]

[PMC] H. Flores, R. Sharma, D. Ferreira, V. Kostakos, J. Manner, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, Y. Li: Social-aware Hybrid Mobile Offloading, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), 2016, doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.09.014 (IF: 2.07). [author's copy]

[IEEE-COMMAG] H. Flores, P. Hui, S. Tarkoma, Y. Li, S. N. Srirama, R. Buyya: Mobile Code Offloading: From Concept to Practice and Beyond, IEEE Communications Magazine, volume 53, pages 80-88, 2015, doi:10.1109/MCOM.2015.7060486 (IF: 4.007) [author's copy]

[JSS] H. Flores, S. N. Srirama: Mobile Cloud Middleware , Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), volume 92, pages 82-94, 2014, doi:10.1016/j.jss.2013.09.012 (IF: 1.424). [author's copy]

Book chapters

[Mobile-Big-Data] H. Flores, V. Kostakos, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui and Y. Li: Evidence-aware Mobile Cloud Architectures, In: Skourletopoulos G., Mastorakis G., Mavromoustakis C., Dobre C., Pallis E. (editors), Mobile Big Data - A Roadmap from Models to Technologies, volume 10, Springer, 2017, ISBN:978-3-319-67924-2.

Conference, symposium and workshop papers

[HotMobile] K. Post, R. Kuchida, M. Olapade, Z. Yin, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: ContextLLM: Meaningful Context Reasoning from Multi-Sensor and Multi-Device Data Using LLMs, In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2025), La Quinta, Palm Spring, CA, USA, 2025.

[INFOCOM][Adjunct] R. Kuchida, M. Olapade, K. Post, A. H. Ahmed, H. Flores: Assembling Edge Intelligence and Decentralized Infrastructure on Command using LLMs, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM Workshops 2025), London, United Kingdom, 2025.

[ICDCS] A. Ottun, R. Marasinghe, T. Elemosho, M. Liyanage, M. Ragab, P. Bagave, M. Westberg, M. Asadi, M. Boerger, C. Sandeepa, T. Senevirathna, B. Siniarski, M. Liyanage, V. H. La, M-D, Nguyen, E. M. Oca, T. Oomen, J. F. F. Goncalves, I. Tanaskovic, S. Klopanovic, N. Kourtellis, C. Soriente, J. Pridmore, A. R. Cavalli, D. Draskovic, S. Marchal, S. Wang, D. S. Noguero, N. Tcholtchev, A. Y. Ding, H. Flores: The SPATIAL Architecture: Design and Development Experiences from Gauging and Monitoring the AI Inference Capabilities of Modern Applications, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2024), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, July 23 - 26, 2024. (acceptance rate 21%); [slides]

[UMAP] M. Olapade, T. Hasanli, A. Ottun, A. Akintola, M. Liyanage, H. Flores: Pervasive Chatbots: Investigating Chatbot Interventions for Multi-Device Applications, In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2024), Cagliari, Italy, 2024. (acceptance rate 22.6%), [slides]

[SenSys][IoTDI] H. Flores, A. Zuniga, M. Radeta, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, N. H. Motlagh, N. T. Nguyen, S. Tarkoma, M. Youssef, P. Nurmi: SEAGULL: Low-Cost Pervasive Sensing for Monitoring and Analysing Underwater Plastics, In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2024), CPS-IoT Week, Hong Kong, May 13-16, 2024. [slides]

[SenSys][IoTDI] F. Dar, M. Olapade, A. Ottun, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, A. Zuniga, M. Passanantti, S. Tarkoma, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: LIZARD: Pervasive Sensing for Autonomous Plastic Litter Monitoring, In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2024), CPS-IoT Week, Hong Kong, May 13-16, 2024. [slides]

[HotMobile] N. T. Nguyen, A. Zuniga, M. Radeta, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Life is Plastic? Detecting the Presence of Micro-Plastics in Food and Drink Containers, In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2024), 2024.

[IoT] O. Mayowa, A. Ottun, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, A. Makarov, H. Flores: Low-Cost Produce Quality Monitoring at Scale: A Practical Re-purposing Framework for Pervasive Agriculture, In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2023), Nagoya, Japan, November, 2023. [slides][preprint]

[BigData][Adjunct] A. Ottun, M. Asadi, M. Boerger, N. Tcholtchev, J. F. F. Goncalves, D. Borovĉanin, B. Siniarski, H. Flores: One to Rule them All: A Study on Requirement Management Tools for the Development of Modern AI-based Software, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data Workshops (Big Data Workshops 2023), Sorrento, Italy, December 15-18, 2023, [slides]

[UbiComp][IMWUT] M. Radeta, C. Rodrigues, F. Silva, P. Abreu, J. Pestana, N. T. Nguyen, A. Zuniga, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Lost in the Deep? Performance Evaluation of Dead Reckoning Techniques in Underwater Environments, In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2023.[slides]

[HotMobile] Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, A. Zuniga, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Hedgehog: Detecting Drink Spiking on Wearables, In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2023), 2023. [slides]

[UbiComp][IMWUT] Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, A. Ottun, S. Paul, A. Zuniga, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: HIPPO: Pervasive Hand-grip Estimation from Everyday Interactions, In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2022. [slides]

[UbiComp][IMWUT] M. Juhani Rinta-Homi, N. H. Motlagh, A. Zuniga, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: How low can you go? Performance Trade-offs in Low-Resolution Thermal Sensors for Occupancy Detection: A Systematic Evaluation, In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), September 21-26, 2021.

[UMAP] N. T. Nguyen, A. Zuniga, H. Flores, H. Lee, S. Perrault, P. Nurmi: Intelligent Shifting Cues: Increasing the Awareness of Multi-Device Interaction Opportunities, In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2021), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2021, (acceptance rate 23.3%)

[PerCom] H. Emenike, F. Dar, M. Liyanage, R. Sharma, A. Zuniga, M. Hoque, M. Radeta, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Characterizing Everyday Objects using Human Touch: Thermal Dissipation as a Sensing Modality, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2021), Kassel, Germany, 2021, (acceptance rate 14.8%)[slides]

[MobiSys][Adjunct] H. Flores, A. Zuniga, N. H. Motlagh, M. Liyanage, M. Passananti, S. Tarkoma, M. Youssef, P. Nurmi: PENGUIN: Aquatic Plastic Pollution Sensing Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys Workshops: DroNet 2020), Toronto, Canada, June 15-19, 2020. [slides]

[UbiComp][IMWUT] N. T. Nguyen, A. Zuniga, H. Lee, P. Hui, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: (M)ad to see me? Intelligent Advertisement Placement: Balancing User Annoyance and Advertising Effectiveness, In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Cancun, Mexico, September 12-17, 2020.

[PerCom] H. Flores, A. Zuniga, F. Faghihi, X. Li, S. Hemminki, S. Tarkoma, Pan Hui, P. Nurmi: COSINE: Collaborator Selector for Cooperative Multi-Device Sensing and Computing, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2020), Austin, Texas, USA, March 23-27, 2020. (acceptance rate 14.2%)[slides]

[WWW] A. Zuniga, H. Flores, E. Lagerspetz, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, J. Manner: Tortoise or Hare? Quantifying the Effects of Performance on Mobile App Retention, In Proceedings of the ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2019), San Francisco, USA, May 13-17, 2019. (acceptance rate 18%)

[HotMobile] H. Flores, J. Hamberg, X. Lin, T. Malmivirta, A. Zuniga, E. Lagerspetz, P. Nurmi: Evaluating Energy-Efficiency using Thermal Imaging, In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2019), Santa Cruz, California, USA, February 27-28, 2019. [slides][ACM video talk]

[PerCom] T. Malmivirta, J. Hamberg, E. Lagerspetz, X. Lin, E. Peltonen, H. Flores, P. Nurmi: Hot or Not? Robust and Accurate Continuous Thermal Imaging on FLIR cameras, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019), Kyoto, Japan, March 11-15, 2019. (acceptance rate 16.6%)

[MMSys] H. Flores, P. Hui, S. Tarkoma, Y. Li, T. Anagnostopoulos, V. Kostakos, C. Luo, X. Su: SensorClone: A Framework for Harnessing Smart Devices with Virtual Sensors, In Proceedings of ACM International Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2018), Amsterdam, June 12-15, 2018. [slides] (acceptance rate 26%)

[PerCom] X. Su, P. Li, J. Riekki, X. Liu, J. Kiljander, J. Soininen, C. Prehofer, H. Flores, Y. Li: Distribution of Semantic Reasoning on the Edge of Internet of Things, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018), Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018. (acceptance rate 16.5%)

[PerCom][Adjunct] E. Lagerspetz, H. Flores, N. Mäkitalo, P. Hui, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma, A. Passarella, J. Ott, P. Reichl, M. Conti, M. Fiedler, J. Singh, T. Strufe, T. Hossfeld, A. Lindgren, D. Quercia: Pervasive Communities in the Internet of People, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018): PerCrowd Workshop, Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018.

[UbiComp][IMWUT] C. Luo, M. Kuutila, S. Klakegg, D. Ferreira, H. Flores, J. Goncalves, M. Mäntylä, V. Kostakos: TestAWARE: A Laboratory-Oriented Testing Tool for Mobile Context-Aware Applications, In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2017.

[ICDCS] H. Flores, X. Su, V. Kostakos, J. Riekki, E. Lagerspetz, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, Y. Li, J. Manner: Modeling Mobile Code Acceleration in the Cloud, In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA, June 5-8, 2017. (acceptance rate 16.9%) [slides]

[ICC] Y. Li, Y. Huang, X. Su, J. Riekki, H. Flores, C. Sun, H. Wei, H. Wang, L. Han, A Gamma-modulated Wavelet Model for Internet of Things Traffic, In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017), Paris, France, May 21-25, 2017.

[PerCom][Adjunct] H.Flores, X. Su, V. Kostakos, A. Yi Ding, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, Y. Li: Large-scale Offloading in the Internet of Things, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2017): PerIoT Workshop, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, March 13-17, 2017.

[UbiComp][Adjunct] H. Flores, R. Sharma, D. Ferreira, C. Luo, V. Kostakos, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui, Y. Li: Social-aware Device to Device Communication: A Contribution for Edge and Fog Computing? In Proceedings of the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016): WMSC Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, September 12-16, 2016.

[CHI] S. Hosio, D. Ferreira, J. Goncalves, N. van Berkel, C. Luo, M. Ahmed, H. Flores, V. Kostakos: Monetary Assessment of Battery Life on Smartphones ,In Proceedings of the Annual ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016), San Jose, CA, USA, May 7 -12, 2016. (acceptance rate 23%)

[MUM] J. Mass, S. N. Srirama, H. Flores, C. Chang: Proximal and social-aware device-to-device communication via audio detection on cloud., In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2014), Melbourne, Australia, November 25 - 28, 2014.

[MobiSys][Adjunct] H. Flores, S. N. Srirama: Adaptive Code Offloading for Mobile Cloud Applications: Exploiting Fuzzy Sets and Evidence-based Learning, In Proceedings of the Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2013): MCS Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-28, 2013.

[MobiSys][Adjunct] H. Flores, S. N. Srirama: Mobile Cloud Messaging Supported by XMPP Primitives, In Proceedings of the Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2013): MCS Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-28, 2013.

[MoMM] H. Flores, S. N. Srirama, C. Paniagua:

A Generic Middleware Framework for Handling Process Intensive Hybrid Cloud Services from Mobiles, In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2011), Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, December 5-7, 2011.

Prototype demonstrations and posters

[HotMobile][Poster] K. Post, R. Kuchida, M. Olapade, Z. Ying, H. Flores: Making Sensing Interactive and Descriptive with LLMs: Context Reasoning from Multi-Sensor Data, In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2025), La Quinta, Palm Spring, CA, USA, 2025.

[ICDCS][Demo] A. Ottun, R. Marasinghe, T. Elemosho, M. Liyanage, A. H. Ahmed,..., H. Flores: SPATIAL: Practical Trustworthiness with Human Oversight, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2024), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, July 23 - 26, 2024.

[IoTDI][Demo] F. Dar, M. Liyanage, M. Olapade, A. Ottun, A. Akintola, F. A. Silva, H. Flores: PRINCE: Device Energy Estimation with a Single Photo, In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2024), 2024.

[SenSys][Demo] Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, A. Ottun, F. Dar, M. Olapade, H. Flores: A Smart Ring Monitoring Your Health using Hand-grip Strength, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2023), 2023.

[IoT][Demo] M. Olapade, A. Ottun, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, A. Akintola, H. Flores: Seamless Integration of Nano-Drones and Sensors for Agriculture Monitoring at Scale, (IoT 2023), 2023.

[HotMobile][Demo] Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, H. Flores: Protecting Yourself against Drink Spiking using Wearables, In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2023), 2023. [Best demo runner-up]

[UbiComp][Poster] H. Flores, P. Nurmi, S. Tarkoma, P. Hui: MobileCloudSim: A Context-aware Simulation Toolkit for Mobile Computational Offloading, In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2018 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC 2018), Singapore, Singapore, October 8-12, 2018.

[MobiSys][Poster] H. Flores, S. N. Srirama: Mobile code offloading: should it be a local decision or global inference?, In Proceedings of the Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2013), Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-28, 2013. [poster version]

[MASS][Poster] H. Flores, S. N. Srirama: Dynamic Re-configuration of Mobile Cloud Middleware based on Traffic, In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2012), Las Vegas Nevada, USA, October 8-11, 2012. [poster version]

Patents

[Patent pending] H. Flores, M. Liyanage, Z. Yin: A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENSING DRINKS, 2023

Keynote talks and panels

[Talk] Video: AI Sensors and Dashboards: Gauging and Monitoring the Inference Capabilities of AI, Data Science Seminar - Trustworthy and Responsible AI, March 2024.

[Talk] Video: Low-cost sensing for environmental sustainability, Data Science Seminar - Sustainable Development, October 2023.

[Talk] Video: Sensors for daily life interactions, IT Academy Summit, May 2023.

[Talk] Video:Mega-scale environmental monitoring for future smart cities in conference natural scientists on sustainable development: what colour is the future?, ERR (Estonian Public Broadcasting Science Portal Novaator), November 2022

[Talk] Video: Foundations of Autonomous Pervasive Sensing, ICT means Business Conference, Tartu, Estonia, November 2021

[Panel] PerCrowd Panel 2020: Edge Intelligence Enabled by Multi-Device Systems. Moderator: Tristan Braud (HKUST, Hong Kong), Panelists: Huber Flores (University of Tartu, Estonia), Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki, Finland), Stephen Sigg (Aalto University, Finland) and Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Tech, USA)

[Panel] PerCrowd Panel 2019: AI-powered Multi-device Systems and Applications. Moderator: Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland), Panelists: Pan Hui (HKUST, Hong Kong), Thomas Silverstone (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan), Petteri Nurmi (Lancaster University, UK) and Andreas Jacobsson (Malmo University, Sweden)

Misc

Technical reports, white papers, and research deliverables

[Technical report] K. Post, Z. Yin, M. Olapade, F. Valiyev, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Sensor Data Co-Pilots: Enabling Human-Centric Pervasive Environments, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, January, 2025

[Technical report] R. Kuchida, M. Olapade, K. Post, A. Hussain Ahmed, H. Flores: Assembling Edge Intelligence and Decentralized Infrastructure on Command using LLMs, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, August, 2024

[Horizon SPATIAL][EU Deliverable] A. Ottun, M. Asadi, N. Tchotchev, M. Boerger, S. Park, D. S. Noguero, N. Kourtellis, D. Draskovic, I. Tanaskovic, S. Klopanovic, A. Y. Ding, H. Flores: SPATIAL-D3.1:Detection mechanisms to identify data biases and exploratory studies about different data quality trade-offs for AI-based systems, April 2023.

[Technical report] A. Ottun, Z. Yin, M. Liyanage, M. Boerger, M. Asadi, P. Hui, S. Tarkoma, N. Tcholtchev, P. Nurmi, H. Flores: Toward Trustworthy and Responsible Deployment of Autonomous Drones in Future Smart Cities, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, November 01, 2022

[Technical report] M. Liyanage, F. Dar, R. Sharma, H. Flores: Edge Computing Enabled by Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, June 01, 2020

[Technical report] H. Flores, A. Zuniga, N. H. Motlagh, M. Liyanage, M. Passananti, S. Tarkoma, M. Youssef, P. Nurmi: Toward Large-Scale Autonomous Monitoring and Sensing of Underwater Pollutants, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, May 15, 2020.

[Finland-Hong Kong Summit] T. Braud, H. Flores, P. Hui, P. Luk, A. Luo, S. Tarkoma, C. Xu: Finland-Hong Kong White Paper on AI and 5G for Smart and Sustainable Cities, Hong Kong, March 5, 2019.

[FP7 REMICS][EU Deliverable] S. N. Srirama, H. Flores, M. Vassar, M.Mazzucco: REMICS Deliverable - Performance testing of cloud applications

Interim Release (D6.6), REMICS EU FP7 project, 2012, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Final Release (D6.7), REMICS EU FP7 project, 2013, Berlin, Germany.

[FP7 REMICS][EU Deliverable] A. Abherve, A. Sadovykh, N. Ferry, W. Nowakowski, P. Jakovits, H. Flores, REMICS Migrate Principles and Methods, Final Release (D4.5), REMICS EU FP7 project, 2013, Berlin, Germany.

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