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A critical analysis of the combined usage of protein localization prediction methods: Increasing the number of independent data sets can reduce the accuracy of predicted mitochondrial localization (2010)
Journal Article
Lythgow, K. T., Hudson, G., Andras, P., & Chinnery, P. F. (2011). A critical analysis of the combined usage of protein localization prediction methods: Increasing the number of independent data sets can reduce the accuracy of predicted mitochondrial localization. Mitochondrion, 11(3), 444-449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2010.12.016

In the absence of a comprehensive experimentally derived mitochondrial proteome, several bioinformatic approaches have been developed to aid the identification of novel mitochondrial disease genes within mapped nuclear genetic loci. Often, many class... Read More about A critical analysis of the combined usage of protein localization prediction methods: Increasing the number of independent data sets can reduce the accuracy of predicted mitochondrial localization.

Localized Multistreams for P2P Streaming (2010)
Journal Article
Alhaisoni, U. O. E., Ghanbari, M., & Liotta, A. (2010). Localized Multistreams for P2P Streaming. International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2010, Article 843574. https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/843574

Streaming video over the Internet, including cellular networks, has now become a commonplace. Network operators typically use multicasting or variants of multiple unicasting to deliver streams to the user terminal in a controlled fashion. P2P streami... Read More about Localized Multistreams for P2P Streaming.

Machine Learning approach for Quality of Experience aware networks (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menkovski, V., Exarchakos, G., & Liotta, A. (2010). Machine Learning approach for Quality of Experience aware networks. . https://doi.org/10.1109/INCOS.2010.86

Efficient management of multimedia services necessitates the understanding of how the quality of these services is perceived by the users. Estimation of the perceived quality or Quality of Experience (QoE) of the service is a challenging process due... Read More about Machine Learning approach for Quality of Experience aware networks.

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.

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.

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.

Multiple description transform image coder using correlating transforms (2010)
Journal Article
Khelil, K., Hussain, A., Berrezzek, F., & Djebbari, A. (2010). Multiple description transform image coder using correlating transforms. International Review on Computers and Software, 5(2), 150-155

The objective of multiple description coding (MDC) is to represent a source into multiple descriptions such that various reconstruction qualities are obtained from different subsets of the descriptions. In this paper, we report an application of a pr... Read More about Multiple description transform image coder using correlating transforms.

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.

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.

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.

Analysis of elevated liver enzymes in an acute medical setting: Jaundice may indicate increased survival in elderly patients with bacterial sepsis (2010)
Journal Article
Shah, A. A., Patton, M., Chishty, W. H., & Hussain, A. (2010). Analysis of elevated liver enzymes in an acute medical setting: Jaundice may indicate increased survival in elderly patients with bacterial sepsis. Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 16(4), 260-263. https://doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.70609

BACKGROUND /AIM: It has been shown previously that in primary care settings in UK abnormal liver enzymes are not adequately investigated and followed up; hence potentially treatable chronic liver diseases remain undiagnosed. No such published data... Read More about Analysis of elevated liver enzymes in an acute medical setting: Jaundice may indicate increased survival in elderly patients with bacterial sepsis.

Towards more humane calendar applications (2010)
Book Chapter
Engemand, S., & Keates, S. (2010). Towards more humane calendar applications. In H. Khalid, A. Hedge, & T. Z. Ahram (Eds.), Advances in Ergonomics Modeling and Usability Evaluation (412-421). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/EBK1439835036-45

This paper describes a study about how people currently use computer-based calendar applications and examines which features do not meet their needs and expectations. Survey data was collected from 88 participants based in 6 organisations using 3 dif... Read More about Towards more humane calendar applications.

Case study methodology (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demeke, W. (2010, December). Case study methodology. Paper presented at West London University, School of Hospitality and Tourism

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A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Jia, W., & Yeh, W. (2010, December). A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method. Presented at 12th International Conference, ICICS 2010, Barcelona, Spain

The reliability and availability of network services are being threatened by the growing number of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Effective mechanisms for DoS attack detection are demanded. Therefore, we propose a multivariate correlation analysis... Read More about A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method.

Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs) (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moradpoor, N., Parr, G., Mcclean, S., Scotney, B., Sivalingam, K., & Madras, I. (2010, December). Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs). Paper presented at OPNETWORK 2010

Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) has been considered for access networks for quite some time to provide high-speed and high-capacity services. As a novel type of network, EPON presents many challenges so one main aim of this paper is to provid... Read More about Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs).

Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks (2010)
Book Chapter
Leach, M., & Benyon, D. (2010). Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks. In M. Wachowicz (Ed.), Movement-Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility (229-242). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-769-5.ch014

The Speckled Computing project is a large multisite research project based in Scotland, UK. The aim of the project is to investigate, prototype, and produce tiny (1mm3) computational devices, called Specks, that can be configured into wireless sensor... Read More about Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks.

The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yassein, M. B., Nimer, S. F., & Al-Dubai, A. (2010). The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of ITA 2010 (1462-1467). https://doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2010.261

Broadcasting is an essential operation in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) to transmit the message (data packet) from the sender to all other nodes in the network. Flooding is the simplest mechanism for broadcast operations, where each node retransmit... Read More about The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks..