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Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling (2013)
Journal Article
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., …Hutchison, D. (2013). Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(8), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6576348

Conventional television services have been increasingly challenged by the more interactive and user-centric video sharing applications. With the growing popularity of social networks and video services, users are becoming the editors and broadcasters... Read More about Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling.

Tables and chairs go au naturel (2013)
Journal Article
Hussain, A. (2013). Tables and chairs go au naturel. InTents, 20,

Functional and aesthetic—tables and chairs provide structure and warmth to an event. Tables and chairs are the bones of an event. They provide the foundation upon which the rest of the event can be built. While glitz and glam still have their place,... Read More about Tables and chairs go au naturel.

A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge (2013)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Ru, A., Sun, J., & Hussain, A. (2013). A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 142, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIER13062403

This paper proposes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) vehicle target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. The proposed algorithm firstly obtains the general classification of SAR image with a Markov Random Field (MRF)-based segmentation... Read More about A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge.

Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment (2013)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Burrows, L. (2013). Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment. International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support, 1, 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCPS.2013.053554

This study took as its starting point the premise that a high degree of realism is not a necessary condition for the creation of a ‘sense of place’ in mediated experiences such as those presented through virtual reality. A sense of place is the sense... Read More about Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment.

Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal (2013)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal. Information Polity, 18, 367-370. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318

Jose Marichal’s investigation into Facebook, as a setting for democracy and potential influence on the public sphere, identifies something special about Facebook that both makes it popular and unique, even among social networking sites. This enables... Read More about Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal.

Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. (2013)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. Information Polity, 18, 93-96. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130298

Brian Loader and Dan Mercea rally a group of political/social/media scientists to shed light on social media and democracy. Is social media supporting transformations of democratic power or merely inspiring the latest round of cyber-utopian hype? Cur... Read More about Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds..

A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System. (2013)
Journal Article
Reilly, C., & Chalmers, K. (2013). A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System. The Computer Games Journal, 2, 125

The games industry is a broad, multi-discipline industry, which continues to grow in terms of revenue and cultural significance. Despite the accolades of this “recession-proof” industry, video game projects often fail either to deliver on time and on... Read More about A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System..

MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Li, C. (2013). MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection. International journal of computers & technology, 5, 144-157

Driven by the continuous expansions of software applications and the increases in component varieties and sizes, the so-called component mismatch problem has become a more severe hurdle for component selection and integration. Although many component... Read More about MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection..

MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer. (2013)
Journal Article
Craig, P., Cannon, A., Kukla, R., & Kennedy, J. (2013). MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer. BMC Bioinformatics, 14, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S19-S1

Background High throughput gene expression time-course experiments provide a perspective on biological functioning recognized as having huge value for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases. There are however significant challenges to... Read More about MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer..

Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds (2013)
Journal Article
Wei, H., Wang, Z., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Cheng, G. (2013). Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds. Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 1(1), 6-9.

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach to solve Software Service Evolution problems in Computing Clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns... Read More about Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds.

Effects of real-time visual feedback on pre-service teachers' singing: Effect of real-time visual feedback (2013)
Journal Article
Leong, S., & Cheng, L. (2014). Effects of real-time visual feedback on pre-service teachers' singing: Effect of real-time visual feedback. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 30(3), 285-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12046

This pilot study focuses on the use real-time visual feedback technology (VFT) in vocal training. The empirical research has two aims: to ascertain the effectiveness of the real-time visual feedback software ‘Sing & See’ in the vocal training of pre-... Read More about Effects of real-time visual feedback on pre-service teachers' singing: Effect of real-time visual feedback.

Organizational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: Towards the Freiraum model (2013)
Journal Article
Auernhammer, J. M., & Hall, H. (2014). Organizational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: Towards the Freiraum model. Journal of Information Science, 40(2), 154-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551513508356

This paper draws on findings from an in-depth case study of practices related to the meeting of organisational goals pertinent to knowledge creation, creativity and innovation performance. Overall a mixed methods approach that used both quantitative... Read More about Organizational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: Towards the Freiraum model.

A novel mortality model for acute alcoholic hepatitis including variables recorded after admission to hospital (2013)
Journal Article
Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., Hussain, S., & Shah, A. A. (2014). A novel mortality model for acute alcoholic hepatitis including variables recorded after admission to hospital. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 44, 132-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbio

Severe forms of alcoholic hepatitis in patients with alcoholic liver disease are associated with high mortality; it is therefore vital to identify those patients at greatest risk of mortality in 28 days as they may benefit from aggressive interventio... Read More about A novel mortality model for acute alcoholic hepatitis including variables recorded after admission to hospital.

Blue sky thinking? (2013)
Journal Article
Hamoudi, J., & Cruickshank, P. (2013). Blue sky thinking?. The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 18-22

Review of the results of research into the factors that influence legal firms considering whether to adopt cloud-based IT solutions. The article can be read for free here: http://www.journalonline.co.uk/Magazine/58-11/1013300.aspx

Activity profiles of soccer players during the 2010 world cup. (2013)
Journal Article
Clemente, F. M., Couceiro, M. S., Lourenço Martins, F. M., Ivanova, M. O., & Mendes, R. (2013). Activity profiles of soccer players during the 2010 world cup. Journal of Human Kinetics, 38, 201-211. https://doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2013-0060

The main objective of this study was to analyse the distance covered and the activity profile that players presented at the FIFA World Cup in 2010. Complementarily, the distance covered by each team within the same competition was analysed. For the p... Read More about Activity profiles of soccer players during the 2010 world cup..

Novel Two-Stage Audiovisual Speech Filtering in Noisy Environments (2013)
Journal Article
Abel, A., & Hussain, A. (2014). Novel Two-Stage Audiovisual Speech Filtering in Noisy Environments. Cognitive Computation, 6(2), 200-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-013-9231-2

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, we build on previous work by the authors and present a novel two-stage a... Read More about Novel Two-Stage Audiovisual Speech Filtering in Noisy Environments.

Facets of DREaM: a social network analysis exploring network development in the UK LIS research community. (2013)
Journal Article
Cooke, L., & Hall, H. (2013). Facets of DREaM: a social network analysis exploring network development in the UK LIS research community. Journal of Documentation, 69(6), 786-806. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2012-0124

Purpose: This paper reviews the value of Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a method appropriate to LIS research. SNA is used to investigate the effectiveness of a framework of methods adopted by the DREaM project to develop researcher-practitioner net... Read More about Facets of DREaM: a social network analysis exploring network development in the UK LIS research community..

Approaches to the classification of high entropy file fragments. (2013)
Journal Article
Penrose, P., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2013). Approaches to the classification of high entropy file fragments. Digital Investigation, 10(4), 372-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2013.08.004

In this paper we propose novel approaches to the problem of classifying high entropy file fragments. We achieve 97% correct classification for encrypted fragments and 78% for compressed. Although classification of file fragments is central to the sci... Read More about Approaches to the classification of high entropy file fragments..

Evolution pattern verification for services evolution in clouds with model driven architecture. (2013)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., Chalmers, K., & Liu, X. (2013). Evolution pattern verification for services evolution in clouds with model driven architecture. International Journal for e-Learning Security, 3, 340-349. https://doi.org/10.20533/ijels.2046.4568.2013.0042

In this paper we will provide some discovered evolution patterns and its detailed underlying constitution components. Following the featured orientated model driven product line engineering approach for service evolution in clouds, an analysis on... Read More about Evolution pattern verification for services evolution in clouds with model driven architecture..