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Welcome to Edinburgh Napier Research Repository

The ‘Research Repository’ is the open access institutional repository of Edinburgh Napier University. It contains examples of research outputs produced by staff and research students, as well as related information about the university's funded projects and staff research interests.

Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format, and hyperlinks to standard published versions will be provided. Any questions about submissions to the repository or problems with access to any of its content should be sent to the Repository Team at repository@napier.ac.uk



Latest Additions

Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial) (2023)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Kelly, J., Taylor, C. D., Williams, B., Emsley, R., Alexander, C. H., …Woodrow, A. (in press). Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial). Pilot and Feasibility Studies,

Background: A high proportion of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders will at some point in their lives be assessed as not having the capacity to make their own decisions about pharmacological treatment or inpatient care (‘capaci... Read More about Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial).

A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zeng, L., Bilal, M., Song, H., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Cao, X. (in press). A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, https://doi.org/10.1109/tgcn.2023.3283509

Supply chain management is a vital part of ensuring service quality and production efficiency in industrial applications. With the development of cloud computing and data intelligence in modern industries, datacenters have become an important basic s... Read More about A Multi-Swarm PSO Approach to Large-Scale Task Scheduling in a Sustainable Supply Chain Datacenter.

TSA: A Truthful Mechanism for Social Advertising (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Grubenmann, T., Cheng, R. C., & Lakshmanan, L. V. (2020). TSA: A Truthful Mechanism for Social Advertising. In WSDM '20: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (214-222). https://doi.org/10.1145/3336191.3371809

Social advertising exploits the interconnectivity of users in social networks to spread advertisement and generate user engagements. A lot of research has focused on how to select the best subset of users in a social network to maximize the number of... Read More about TSA: A Truthful Mechanism for Social Advertising.