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Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, Q.-F., Cambria, E., Liu, C.-L., & 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)
Journal Article
Faundez-Zanuy, M., Hussain, A., Mekyska, J., Sesa-Nogueras, E., Monte-Moreno, E., Esposito, A., Chetouani, M., Garre-Olmo, J., Abel, A., Smekal, Z., & Lopez-de-Ipiña, K. (2013). Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security. Cognitive Computation, 5(1), 136-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-012-9169-9

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.

Water quality reliability based design of water distribution networks (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gupta, R., Hussain, A., & Bhave, P. R. (2012, May). Water quality reliability based design of water distribution networks. Presented at World Environmental And Water Resources Congress 2012, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

The performance of a water distribution network is affected by several factors, pipe failure being a major one of them. Several methodologies have been suggested for optimal design of water distribution networks (WDNs) to meet reliability criteria re... Read More about Water quality reliability based design of water distribution networks.

Sentic Album: Content-, Concept-, and Context-Based Online Personal Photo Management System (2012)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.120

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.

Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Song, Y., Wang, H., & Hussain, A. (2011, December). Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining. Presented at 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The ability to understand natural language text is far from being emulated in machines. One of the main hurdles to overcome is that computers lack both the common and the common sense knowledge humans normally acquire during the formative years of th... Read More about Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining.

Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, R., Hussain, A., Bron, J. E., & Shinn, A. P. (2011, November). Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques. Presented at 2011 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Cordoba, Spain

This study explores the use of multi-stage machine learning based classifiers and feature selection techniques in the classification and identification of fish parasites. Accurate identification of pathogens is a key to their control and as a proof o... Read More about Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques.

Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hupont, I., Hussain, A., Cerezo, E., & Baldassarri, S. (2010, March). Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense. Presented at Third COST 2102 International Training School, Caserta, Italy

The capability of perceiving and expressing emotions through different modalities is a key issue for the enhancement of human-computer interaction. In this paper we present a novel architecture for the development of intelligent multimodal affective... Read More about Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense.

Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Eckl, C. (2011, May). Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space. Presented at ISNN 2011: 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Guilin, China

Existing approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms and affect words. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitl... Read More about Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space.

Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Durrani, T. (2010, September). Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning. Presented at COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Emotions are different Ways to Think that our mind triggers to deal with different situations we face in our lives. Our ability to reason and make decisions, in fact, is strictly dependent on both our common sense knowledge about the world and our in... Read More about Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning.

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.

Novel logistic regression models to aid the diagnosis of dementia (2011)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.