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Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vargheese, J. P., Harrison, R., Balbontin, M. M., Aldea, A., & Brown, D. (2015). Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients. In Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes: 1st ECAI Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Diabet

Self-management of type 1 diabetes is a challenging and complex task due the constant need for self monitoring and the diverse range of factors to consider in order to effectively regulate blood glucose levels. Recommender systems have been demonstra... Read More about Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients.

Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, S. U., Lee, Y., & Koo, I. (2015). Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications. In 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET). https://doi.org/10.1109/icet.2015.7389192

Visible Light Communications (VLC) uses solid-state light sources for data transmission in addition to its primary function of illumination. The dual functionality of light source provokes some challenges for VLC including dimming control and perceiv... Read More about Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications.

Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
White, M., & Howcroft, D. M. (2015). Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus. In Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) (28-37). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4704

We describe an algorithm for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture. An experiment pairing lexicalized text plans from the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus with logical forms obtained by parsing the... Read More about Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus.

Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework. In 2015 7th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT). https://doi.org/10.1109/icumt.2

The behavior composition problem consists in the automatic synthesis of a controller being able to realize a desired target behavior by coordinating a set of available behaviors. Although many frameworks have been proposed for this problem, one of th... Read More about Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework.

Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2015.33

With the evolution of software engineering since the advent of structured programming until now, software engineers are faced with tremendous challenges mostly due to the development of large software programs that behave as open systems. Multi-agent... Read More about Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control.

A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, J. S., ur Rehman, A., Ahmad, J., & Habib, Z. (2015). A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes. In 2015 Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security (CIACS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ciacs.2015.7395

Due to development in Internet and networking technology, multimedia data is broadly transmitted via wired and wireless medium. Thus security is a major concern in modern communication systems. Encryption is one of the pre-eminent ways to guarantee s... Read More about A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes.

Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaiser, S., Chowdhury, Z. I., Mamun, S., Hussain, A., & Mahmud, M. (2015). Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal. In 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (833-836). https://doi.org/10.1109

This paper presents the design of low cost solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people. The signals necessary to maneuver the wheel chair are acquired from different muscles of the hand using surface Electromyography (sEMG) technique.... Read More about Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal.

Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., & Ivanovic, M. (2015). Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.

The 4th International Conference on Electronic, Communications and Networks (CECNet2014) inherits the fruitfulness of the past three conferences and lays a foundation for the forthcoming next year in Shanghai. CECNet2014 was hosted by Hubei Universit... Read More about Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.

A novel ontology and machine learning inspired hybrid cardiovascular decision support framework (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Farooq, K., Luo, B., & Slack, W. (2015). A novel ontology and machine learning inspired hybrid cardiovascular decision support framework. In 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (824-832). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.201

Healthcare information management systems (HIMS) have a substantial amount of limitations such as rigidity and nonconformity to complex clinical processes like Electronic Healthcare records and effective utilisation of clinical practice guidelines to... Read More about A novel ontology and machine learning inspired hybrid cardiovascular decision support framework.

Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaffiro, G., Melissa, B., Brynskov, M., & Smyth, M. (2015). Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. In 13th International Conference on e-Society 2015 (249-254)

Urban Interaction Design addresses the question of how we, as physical beings, will interact with the technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments that increasingly characterize cities. As an emergent field very little analysis has been co... Read More about Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis..

CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Beel, D. E., Mellish, C., Wallace, C. D., & Pan, J. (2015). CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (639-648).

The CURIOS project explores how digital archives for rural community heritage groups can be made more sustainable so that volunteer members can maintain a lasting digital presence. It is developing software tools to help remote rural communities to c... Read More about CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data..

Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Hart, E., & Judson, A. (2015, July). Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment

An urban environment provides a number of challenges and opportunities for organisations faced with the task of scheduling a mobile workforce. Given a mixed set of public and private transportation and a list of scheduling constraints, we seek to... Read More about Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment..

Enhancing the ‘Employability Journey’ for Year 3 direct entrant computing students. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C. F., & Durkin, P. (2015, June). Enhancing the ‘Employability Journey’ for Year 3 direct entrant computing students. Presented at QAA Enhancement Themes

This paper addresses the theme of transitions during study through the experience of college students as they become 3rd year direct entrants on computing degree programmes, and as they prepare to undertake either graduate work or summer placement at... Read More about Enhancing the ‘Employability Journey’ for Year 3 direct entrant computing students..

Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salah, A., & Hart, E. (2015). Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO Companion '15 (1475-1476). https:/

We present a novel diversity method named Grid Diversity Operator (GDO) that can be incorporated into multiple population-based optimization algorithms that guides the containing algorithm in creating new individuals in sparsely visited areas of... Read More about Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms..

Review of e-Health Frameworks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prajapati, B., Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., Macfarlane, R., & Spyra, G. (2015). Review of e-Health Frameworks. In Health Informatics Conference 2015

In order to improve the quality of health care and widen the accessibility, health care providers are consistently looking to inject information and communication technology to the traditional health care system (Mair, et al., 2012). This process can... Read More about Review of e-Health Frameworks..

Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piotrowska, B., Willis, A., MacLean, R., Murray, J., & Kerridge, J. (2015). Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia. In Proceedings European Conference on Visual Perception

Dyslexia is a common condition characterized by difficulties with reading and writing despite adequate intelligence, education and motivation. Many individuals with dyslexia also have problems integrating visual information over space and time, and /... Read More about Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia.

Genetic Programming (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Machado, P., Heywood, M. I., McDermott, J., Castelli, M., García-Sánchez, P., Burelli, P., …Sim, K. (2015). Genetic Programming. In Genetic Programming. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16501-1

The 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) took place during April 8–10, 2015. Copenhagen, Denmark was the setting, and the Nationalmuseet was the venue. EuroGP is the only conference exclusively devoted to the evolutionary gener... Read More about Genetic Programming.

Opportunities and Challenges of Internet-Based Health Interventions in the Future Internet. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lim Jumelle, A. K., & Thuemmler, C. (2015). Opportunities and Challenges of Internet-Based Health Interventions in the Future Internet. In 2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (567-573). https://doi.org/10.1109/I

Internet-based health interventions are behavioral treatments aim at changing behaviors to promote healthy living and prevent diseases and illness. This paper first discusses the benefits and effectiveness of Internet-based health interventions. It c... Read More about Opportunities and Challenges of Internet-Based Health Interventions in the Future Internet..

Future Internet in Surgical Operating Theatre (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, A. E., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., & Thuemmler, C. (2015). Future Internet in Surgical Operating Theatre. In 2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (580-585). https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2015.97

Developing of Future Internet creates opportunities for new applications to adopt the use of the internet. Many initiatives like FI-WARE and FI-STAR are working on promoting and supporting the use of Future Internet efficiently in different fields. H... Read More about Future Internet in Surgical Operating Theatre.