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Toward a Formal, Visual Framework of Emergent Cognitive Development of Scholars (2013)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., & Niazi, M. (2014). Toward a Formal, Visual Framework of Emergent Cognitive Development of Scholars. Cognitive Computation, 6(1), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-013-9219-y

Understanding the cognitive evolution of researchers as they progress in academia is an important but complex problem; one that belongs to a class of problems, which often require the development of models to gain further understanding of the intrica... Read More about Toward a Formal, Visual Framework of Emergent Cognitive Development of Scholars.

Application of multi-dimensional scaling and artificial neural networks for biologically inspired opinion mining (2013)
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Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., & Hussain, A. (2013). Application of multi-dimensional scaling and artificial neural networks for biologically inspired opinion mining. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 4, 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bica.2013

The way people express their opinions has radically changed in the past few years thanks to the advent of online collaborative media. The distillation of knowledge from this huge amount of unstructured information can be a key factor for marketers wh... Read More about Application of multi-dimensional scaling and artificial neural networks for biologically inspired opinion mining.

Enhanced SenticNet with affective labels for concept-based opinion mining (2013)
Journal Article
Poria, S., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., Howard, N., Das, D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2013). Enhanced SenticNet with affective labels for concept-based opinion mining. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 28(2), 2-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2013.4

SenticNet 1.0 is one of the most widely used, publicly available resources for concept-based opinion mining. The presented methodology enriches SenticNet concepts with affective information by assigning an emotion label.

Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, A. (2012). Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup. InTents, 19,

Long before the U.S. and European teams could begin their match play for the 2012 Ryder Cup, the course had to be prepared with temporary environments that could accommodate players and fans. The popular, biennial golf event—held in 2012 at Medinah C... Read More about Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup.

Service oriented architecture based web application model for collaborative biomedical signal analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Mahmud, M., Rahman, M. M., Travalin, D., Raif, P., & Hussain, A. (2012). Service oriented architecture based web application model for collaborative biomedical signal analysis. Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, 57(S1), 780-783. https://doi

The rapid growth in availability of new biomedical systems and devices capable of acquiring biosignals for disease diagnosis and health monitoring require rigorous processing. Biomedical research by nature depends on integrated problem solving softwa... Read More about Service oriented architecture based web application model for collaborative biomedical signal analysis.

Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition (2012)
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Wang, Q., Cambria, E., Liu, C., & Hussain, A. (2013). Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition. Cognitive Computation, 5(2), 234-242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-012-9183-y

Compared to human intelligence, computers are far short of common sense knowledge which people normally acquire during the formative years of their lives. This paper investigates the effects of employing common sense knowledge as a new linguistic con... Read More about Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition.

Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security (2012)
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Faundez-Zanuy, M., Hussain, A., Mekyska, J., Sesa-Nogueras, E., Monte-Moreno, E., Esposito, A., …Lopez-de-Ipiña, K. (2013). Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security. Cognitive Computation, 5(1), 136-151. https://doi

The use of biometrics has been successfully applied to security applications for some time. However, the extension of other potential applications with the use of biometric information is a very recent development. This paper summarizes the field of... Read More about Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security.

Sentic Album: Content-, Concept-, and Context-Based Online Personal Photo Management System (2012)
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Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic Album: Content-, Concept-, and Context-Based Online Personal Photo Management System. Cognitive Computation, 4(4), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-012-9145-4

The world of online personal photo management has come a long way in the past few years, but today, there are still huge gaps in annotating, organizing, and retrieving online pictures in such a way that they can be easily queried and visualized. Exis... Read More about Sentic Album: Content-, Concept-, and Context-Based Online Personal Photo Management System.

Sentic PROMs: Application of sentic computing to the development of a novel unified framework for measuring health-care quality (2012)
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Cambria, E., Benson, T., Eckl, C., & Hussain, A. (2012). Sentic PROMs: Application of sentic computing to the development of a novel unified framework for measuring health-care quality. Expert Systems with Applications, 39(12), 10533-10543. https://doi.or

Barriers to use health related quality of life measuring systems include the time needed to complete the forms and the need for staff to be trained to understand the results. An ideal system of health assessment needs to be clinically useful, timely,... Read More about Sentic PROMs: Application of sentic computing to the development of a novel unified framework for measuring health-care quality.

Novel logistic regression models to aid the diagnosis of dementia (2011)
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Mazzocco, T., & Hussain, A. (2012). Novel logistic regression models to aid the diagnosis of dementia. Expert Systems with Applications, 39(3), 3356-3361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.023

Clinicians often experience difficulties in the diagnosis of dementia due to the intrinsic complexity of the process and lack of comprehensive diagnostic tools. Different models have been proposed to provide medical decision support in dementia diagn... Read More about Novel logistic regression models to aid the diagnosis of dementia.

Cognitive Computation Special Issue on Cognitive Behavioural Systems (2011)
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Esposito, A., Vinciarelli, A., Haykin, S., Hussain, A., & Faundez-Zanuy, M. (2011). Cognitive Computation Special Issue on Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Cognitive Computation, 3(3), 417-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-011-9107-2

Cognitive processes, such as inference, categorization, and memory, are not independent from their physical instantiations. Individuals’ choices, perception, and actions emerge and are dynamically affected and enhanced by the interaction between sens... Read More about Cognitive Computation Special Issue on Cognitive Behavioural Systems.

Agent-based computing from multi-agent systems to agent-based models: A visual survey (2011)
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Niazi, M., & Hussain, A. (2011). Agent-based computing from multi-agent systems to agent-based models: A visual survey. Scientometrics, 89, 479-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0468-9

Agent-based computing is a diverse research domain concerned with the building of intelligent software based on the concept of “agents”. In this paper, we use Scientometric analysis to analyze all sub-domains of agent-based computing. Our data consis... Read More about Agent-based computing from multi-agent systems to agent-based models: A visual survey.

A discrete event system specification (DEVS)-based model of consanguinity (2011)
Journal Article
Akhtar, N., Niazi, M., Mustafa, F., & Hussain, A. (2011). A discrete event system specification (DEVS)-based model of consanguinity. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 285(1), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.038

Consanguinity or inter-cousin marriage is a phenomenon quite prevalent in certain regions around the globe. Consanguineous parents have a higher risk of having offspring with congenital disorders. It is difficult to model large scale consanguineous p... Read More about A discrete event system specification (DEVS)-based model of consanguinity.

Sentic Web: A New Paradigm for Managing Social Media Affective Information (2011)
Journal Article
Grassi, M., Cambria, E., Hussain, A., & Piazza, F. (2011). Sentic Web: A New Paradigm for Managing Social Media Affective Information. Cognitive Computation, 3(3), 480-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-011-9101-8

The recent success of media-sharing services caused an exponential growth of community-contributed multimedia data on the Web and hence a consistent shift of the flow of information from traditional communication channels to social media ones. Retrie... Read More about Sentic Web: A New Paradigm for Managing Social Media Affective Information.

Sentic Computing for social media marketing (2011)
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Cambria, E., Grassi, M., Hussain, A., & Havasi, C. (2012). Sentic Computing for social media marketing. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 59(2), 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0815-0

In a world in which millions of people express their opinions about commercial products in blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks, the distillation of knowledge from this huge amount of unstructured information can be a key factor for marketer... Read More about Sentic Computing for social media marketing.

Improved multiple description wavelet based image coding using subband uniform quantization (2011)
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Khelil, K., Hussain, A., Bekka, R. E., & Berrezzek, F. (2011). Improved multiple description wavelet based image coding using subband uniform quantization. International journal of electronics and communications = Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstec

The objective of multiple description coding (MDC) is to encode a source into multiple descriptions supporting different quality levels of reconstruction. In this paper, we use the multiple description transform coding (MDTC) algorithm based on the w... Read More about Improved multiple description wavelet based image coding using subband uniform quantization.

Sensing emergence in complex systems (2011)
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Niazi, M. A., & Hussain, A. (2011). Sensing emergence in complex systems. IEEE Sensors Journal, 11(10), 2479-2480. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2011.2142303

We propose the Sensing of Emergent behavior in a Complex Adaptive System (SECAS), as an extension of our previous work Formal Agent-Based Simulation Framework (FABS). Using aggregated data from an array of proximity sensors, SECAS allows for the dete... Read More about Sensing emergence in complex systems.