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Towards Autonomous Robot Evolution (2020)
Book Chapter
Eiben, A. E., Hart, E., Timmis, J., Tyrrell, A. M., & Winfield, A. F. (2021). Towards Autonomous Robot Evolution. In A. Cavalcanti, B. Dongol, R. Hierons, J. Timmis, & J. Woodcock (Eds.), Software Engineering for Robotics (29-51). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66494-7_2

We outline a perspective on the future of evolutionary robotics and discuss a long-term vision regarding robots that evolve in the real world. We argue that such systems offer significant potential for advancing both science and engineering. For scie... Read More about Towards Autonomous Robot Evolution.

Graphene as a pre-illumination cooling approach for a concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system (2020)
Journal Article
Alzahrani, M., Roy, A., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2021). Graphene as a pre-illumination cooling approach for a concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 222, Article 110922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110922

The concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system has a high potential in increasing the power output, propelling further the concentration ratio generating excessive heat that significantly deteriorates the solar cell efficiency and reliability. To thoroug... Read More about Graphene as a pre-illumination cooling approach for a concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system.

Persuasive dialogue understanding: The baselines and negative results (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Ghosal, D., Majumder, N., Hussain, A., & Poria, S. (2021). Persuasive dialogue understanding: The baselines and negative results. Neurocomputing, 431, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.11.040

Persuasion aims at forming one’s opinion and action via a series of persuasive messages containing persuader’s strategies. Due to its potential application in persuasive dialogue systems, the task of persuasive strategy recognition has gained much at... Read More about Persuasive dialogue understanding: The baselines and negative results.

Quantification of Particle Breakage & its Evolution using Statistical Entropy- A Grading Entropy Approach (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leak, J., Barreto, D., Dimitriadi, V., & Imre, E. (2020, December). Quantification of Particle Breakage & its Evolution using Statistical Entropy- A Grading Entropy Approach. Paper presented at 17th Annual Geomechanics From Micro to Macro Conference, Online

These slides were presented at the 17th annual geomechanics from micro to macro conference in 2020. They detail the comparison of the well known, and commonly used, relative breakage parameter used to assess the degree of particle breakage in soils.... Read More about Quantification of Particle Breakage & its Evolution using Statistical Entropy- A Grading Entropy Approach.

Counterfactual Explanation and Causal Inference In Service of Robustness in Robot Control (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S. C., & Ramamoorthy, S. (2020, October). Counterfactual Explanation and Causal Inference In Service of Robustness in Robot Control. Presented at 10th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics 2020 - Virtual conference, Chile, Valparaiso, Chile

We propose an architecture for training generative models of counterfactual conditionals of the form, `can we modify event A to cause B instead of C?', motivated by applications in robot control. Using an `adversarial training' paradigm, an image-bas... Read More about Counterfactual Explanation and Causal Inference In Service of Robustness in Robot Control.

The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2020, September). The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland. Presented at ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2020, Pretoria, South Africa

Introduction - Individuals’ cultural backgrounds influence their use of societal resources, including those offered in public libraries. Well-established in library research are explorations of the benefits of public library use to new-comer communit... Read More about The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland.

Asymmetric Private Set Intersection with Applications to Contact Tracing and Private Vertical Federated Machine Learning (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Angelou, N., Benaissa, A., Cebere, B., Clark, W., Hall, A. J., Hoeh, M. A., Liu, D., Papadopoulos, P., Roehm, R., Sandmann, R., Schoppmann, P., & Titcombe, T. (2020, December). Asymmetric Private Set Intersection with Applications to Contact Tracing and Private Vertical Federated Machine Learning. Poster presented at NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML 2020), Online

We present a multi-language, cross-platform, open-source library for asymmetric private set intersection (PSI) and PSI-Cardinality (PSI-C). Our protocol combines traditional DDH-based PSI and PSI-C protocols with compression based on Bloom filters th... Read More about Asymmetric Private Set Intersection with Applications to Contact Tracing and Private Vertical Federated Machine Learning.

Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective (2020)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2020). Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective. In C. Curtis (Ed.), Handbook of Sustainable Transport (48-57). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900477.00016

Starting in an era where three quantifiable impacts of road transport were viewed as the sum total of impacts – casualties and air and noise pollution – from the embryo of the evolving transport and health interdisciplinary field is charted from the... Read More about Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective.

A Traffic Analysis on Serverless Computing Based on the Example of a File Upload Stream on AWS Lambda (2020)
Journal Article
Muller, L., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Barclay, P. J. (2020). A Traffic Analysis on Serverless Computing Based on the Example of a File Upload Stream on AWS Lambda. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 4(4), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc4040038

The shift towards microservisation which can be observed in recent developments of the cloud landscape for applications has led towards the emergence of the Function as a Service (FaaS) concept, also called Serverless. This term describes the event-d... Read More about A Traffic Analysis on Serverless Computing Based on the Example of a File Upload Stream on AWS Lambda.

A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things (2020)
Journal Article
Latif, S., Idrees, Z., Ahmad, J., Zheng, L., & Zou, Z. (2021). A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 21, Article 100190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2020.100190

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) plays an important role in the industrial sector, where secure, scalable, and easily adopted technologies are being implemented for the smart industry. The traditional IIoT architectures are generally based on... Read More about A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things.