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Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Favre, B., Cheung, K., Kazemian, S., Lee, A., Liu, Y., Munteanu, C., …Zeller, F. (2013). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. In Proc. Interspeech 2013 (3463-3467). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeec

We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial... Read More about Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?.

Understanding the concept of outsourcing for facilities management (FM) services using structural equation modeling (SEM) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, O., & Bowles, G. (2013, April). Understanding the concept of outsourcing for facilities management (FM) services using structural equation modeling (SEM). Presented at IPGRC International Post Graduate Research Conference, Manc

Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, B., Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013). Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (OS12A-06)

One of the concerns of employing CCS at engineering scale is the risk of leakage of storage CO2 on the environment and especially on the marine life. QICS, a scientific research project was launched with an aim to study the effects of a potential lea... Read More about Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment.

Numerically modelling the sea-water and bubble plume dynamics found from the QICS project in Ardmucknish Bay (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Chen, B., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013). Numerically modelling the sea-water and bubble plume dynamics found from the QICS project in Ardmucknish Bay. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (OS13A--1695)

Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baig, H., Sellami, N., Bahaidarah, H., & Mallick, T. (2013). Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia. In Proceedings of the 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (653-657). h

Saudi Arabia receives an average insolation of 6 kWh/m2/day, making it one of the most likely candidates for a country to be using solar energy for meeting its energy needs in the near future. The energy from the sun can be directly converted into el... Read More about Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia.

Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, S., Li, R., & Hillenbrand, D. (2013). Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform. In 2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2013). https://doi.org/10.1109/nano.2013.6720

Designing nanoplasmonic devices presents a number of unique challenges. The time domain modelling and simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave interaction with nanoplasmonic devices, at high spatial and time resolution, requires high computational pow... Read More about Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12) (

Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insufficiently holistic approach to the assessment of the sustainable performance of... Read More about Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance.

The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems. In International Conference on Adapt

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Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context. In Proceedings of IPGRC 2013: International post graduate research conference (1106-1113)

Thermal comfort is a complicatedsubjectand is thus hard to quantify generally and specificallyandthe existing quantification methods are unlikely to be reliable for naturally ventilated houses. The challenge for designers is to produce a com... Read More about Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context.

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. In 2013 8th IEEE Design and Test Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/idt.2013.6727088

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.