All Outputs (173)

SimConnector: An approach to testing disaster-alerting systems using agent based simulation models (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Niazi, M., Siddique, Q., Hussain, A., & Fortino, G. (2011, September). SimConnector: An approach to testing disaster-alerting systems using agent based simulation models. Presented at 2011 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Szczecin, Poland

The design, development and testing of intelligent disaster detection and alerting systems pose a set of non-trivial problems. Not only are such systems difficult to design as they need to accurately predict real-world outcomes using a distributed se... Read More about SimConnector: An approach to testing disaster-alerting systems using agent based simulation models.

Ontology-driven cardiovascular decision support system (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., & Slack, W. (2011, May). Ontology-driven cardiovascular decision support system. Presented at 2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops, Dublin, Ireland

We discuss work-in-progress and propose an ontology driven framework for the development of a clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. The framework has the following key components: adaptive questionnaire, patient medical history, risk... Read More about Ontology-driven cardiovascular decision support system.

A side-effects mapping model in patients with lung, colorectal and breast cancer receiving chemotherapy (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mazzocco, T., & Hussain, A. (2011, June). A side-effects mapping model in patients with lung, colorectal and breast cancer receiving chemotherapy. Presented at 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Columbia, MO, USA

Cancer treatments are now more effective than ever and, as a consequence, cancer is becoming a chronic disease. Chemotherapy is a frequently used treatment in people with cancer and it can cause a number of side-effects which if not properly managed... Read More about A side-effects mapping model in patients with lung, colorectal and breast cancer receiving chemotherapy.

Social network analysis of trends in the consumer electronics domain (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Niazi, M. A., & Hussain, A. (2011). Social network analysis of trends in the consumer electronics domain. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) (219-220). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE.2011.5722549

We present a study of the trends in the consumer electronics domain using Complex Social Network Analysis (SNA) of citation data retrieved from the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge. Our findings include the identification of the most influential pape... Read More about Social network analysis of trends in the consumer electronics domain.

Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony - Preface (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esposito, A., Campbell, N., Vogel, C., Hussain, A., & Nijholt, A. (2009, March). Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony - Preface. Presented at Second COST 2102 International Training School, Dublin, Ireland

This volume brings together, through a peer-revision process, the advanced research results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, primarily discussed for the first time at the Se... Read More about Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony - Preface.

Do not feel the trolls (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Chandra, P., Sharma, A., & Hussain, A. (2010). Do not feel the trolls. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010)

The passage from a read-only to a read-write Web gave people the possibility to freely interact, share and collaborate through social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis and other online collaborative media. The democracy of the Web is what ma... Read More about Do not feel the trolls.

Emotional vocal expressions recognition using the COST 2102 Italian database of emotional speech (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atassi, H., Riviello, M. T., Smékal, Z., Hussain, A., & Esposito, A. (2009, March). Emotional vocal expressions recognition using the COST 2102 Italian database of emotional speech. Presented at Second COST 2102 International Training School, Dublin, Ireland

The present paper proposes a new speaker-independent approach to the classification of emotional vocal expressions by using the COST 2102 Italian database of emotional speech. The audio records extracted from video clips of Italian movies possess a c... Read More about Emotional vocal expressions recognition using the COST 2102 Italian database of emotional speech.

Sentic computing: Exploitation of common sense for the development of emotion-sensitive systems (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Havasi, C., & Eckl, C. (2009, March). Sentic computing: Exploitation of common sense for the development of emotion-sensitive systems. Presented at Second COST 2102 International Training School, Dublin, Ireland

Emotions are a fundamental component in human experience, cognition, perception, learning and communication. In this paper we explore how the use of Common Sense Computing can significantly enhance computers’ emotional intelligence i.e. their capabil... Read More about Sentic computing: Exploitation of common sense for the development of emotion-sensitive systems.

SenticNet: A publicly available semantic resource for opinion mining (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Speer, R., Havasi, C., & Hussain, A. (2010). SenticNet: A publicly available semantic resource for opinion mining. In Commonsense knowledge: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium (14-18)

Today millions of web-users express their opinions about many topics through blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks. For sectors such as e-commerce and e-tourism, it is very useful to automatically analyze the huge amount of social information... Read More about SenticNet: A publicly available semantic resource for opinion mining.

SenticSpace: Visualizing opinions and sentiments in a multi-dimensional vector space (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Havasi, C., & Eckl, C. (2010). SenticSpace: Visualizing opinions and sentiments in a multi-dimensional vector space. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15384-6_41

In a world in which millions of people express their feelings and opinions about any issue in blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks, the distillation of knowledge from this huge amount of unstructured information is a challenging task. In thi... Read More about SenticSpace: Visualizing opinions and sentiments in a multi-dimensional vector space.

Sentic computing for patient centered applications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Durrani, T., Havasi, C., Eckl, C., & Munro, J. (2010, October). Sentic computing for patient centered applications. Presented at IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing, Beijing, China

Next-generation patients are far from being peripheral to health-care. They are central to understanding the effectiveness and efficiency of services and how they can be improved. Today a lot of patients are used to reviewing local health services on... Read More about Sentic computing for patient centered applications.

Modeling and design of MPPT controller for a PV module using PSCAD/EMTDC (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gupta, R., Gupta, G., Kastwar, D., Hussain, A., & Ranjan, H. (2010, October). Modeling and design of MPPT controller for a PV module using PSCAD/EMTDC. Presented at 2010 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe), Gothenberg, Sweden

This paper presents a modeling of photovoltaic (PV) module in PSCAD/EMTDC and design of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) using boost converter. The model can be used for simulation studies of grid interface applications using voltage source conver... Read More about Modeling and design of MPPT controller for a PV module using PSCAD/EMTDC.

Verification & validation of an agent-based forest fire simulation model (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Niazi, M. A., Siddique, Q., Hussain, A., & Kolberg, M. (2010, April). Verification & validation of an agent-based forest fire simulation model. Presented at SpringSim '10 - Spring Simulation Multiconference, Orlando, Florida

In this paper, we present the verification and validation of an agent-based model of forest fires. We use a combination of a Virtual Overlay Multi-Agent System (VOMAS) validation scheme with Fire Weather Index (FWI) to validate the forest fire Simula... Read More about Verification & validation of an agent-based forest fire simulation model.

A novel implicit adaptive pole-placement PID controller (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zayed, A., El-Fandi, M., Hussain, A., & El-Fllah, A. (2009). A novel implicit adaptive pole-placement PID controller.

In this paper, a new computationally efficient multivariable self-tuning controller with a proportional plus integral plus derivative (PID) is derived. The algorithm features a combination of the self-tuning property, in which the controller paramete... Read More about A novel implicit adaptive pole-placement PID controller.

An investigation into audiovisual speech correlation in reverberant noisy environments (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cifani, S., Abel, A., Hussain, A., Squartini, S., & Piazza, F. (2008, October). An investigation into audiovisual speech correlation in reverberant noisy environments. Presented at COST Action 2102 International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

As evidence of a link between the various human communication production domains has become more prominent in the last decade, the field of multimodal speech processing has undergone significant expansion. Many different specialised processing method... Read More about An investigation into audiovisual speech correlation in reverberant noisy environments.

Common sense computing: From the society of mind to digital intuition and beyond (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Havasi, C., & Eckl, C. (2009, September). Common sense computing: From the society of mind to digital intuition and beyond. Presented at BioID: European Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management, Madrid, Spain

What is Common Sense Computing? And why is it so important for the technological evolution of humankind? This paper presents an overview of past, present and future efforts of the AI community to give computers the capacity for Common Sense reasoning... Read More about Common sense computing: From the society of mind to digital intuition and beyond.

Controlled and automatic processing in animals and machines with application to autonomous vehicle control (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gurney, K., Hussain, A., Chambers, J., & Abdullah, R. (2009, September). Controlled and automatic processing in animals and machines with application to autonomous vehicle control. Presented at ICANN: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Limassol, Cyprus

There are two modes of control recognised in the cognitive psychological literature. Controlled processing is slow, requires serial attention to sub-tasks, and requires effortful memory retrieval and decision making. In contrast automatic control is... Read More about Controlled and automatic processing in animals and machines with application to autonomous vehicle control.

Maximising audiovisual correlation with automatic lip tracking and vowel based segmentation (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abel, A., Hussain, A., Nguyen, Q., Ringeval, F., Chetouani, M., & Milgram, M. (2009, September). Maximising audiovisual correlation with automatic lip tracking and vowel based segmentation. Presented at BioID: European Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management, Madrid, Spain

In recent years, the established link between the various human communication production domains has become more widely utilised in the field of speech processing. In this work, a state of the art Semi Adaptive Appearance Model (SAAM) approach develo... Read More about Maximising audiovisual correlation with automatic lip tracking and vowel based segmentation.

Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abel, A., & Hussain, A. (2008, April). Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox. Presented at COST Action 2102 and euCognition International School, Vietri sul Mare, Italy

This paper presents an overview of the main multi-modal speech enhancement methods reported to date. In particular, a new MATLAB based Toolbox developed by Barbosa et al (2007) for processing audio-visual data is reviewed and its performance potentia... Read More about Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox.

Speech recognition system and formant based analysis of spoken Arabic vowels (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alotaibi, Y., & Hussain, A. (2009). Speech recognition system and formant based analysis of spoken Arabic vowels. In Future Generation Information Technology (50-60). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10509-8_7

Arabic is one of the world’s oldest languages and is currently the second most spoken language in terms of number of speakers. However, it has not received much attention from the traditional speech processing research community. This study is specif... Read More about Speech recognition system and formant based analysis of spoken Arabic vowels.