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ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 39th IFIP International Conference, SEC 2024, Edinburgh, UK, June 12–14, 2024, Proceedings (2024)
Book
Pitropakis, N., Katsikas, S., Furnell, S., & Markantonakis, K. (Eds.). (2024). ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 39th IFIP International Conference, SEC 2024, Edinburgh, UK, June 12–14, 2024, Proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65175-5

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 39th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2024, held in Edinburgh, UK, during June 12–14, 2024.

The 34 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and sel... Read More about ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 39th IFIP International Conference, SEC 2024, Edinburgh, UK, June 12–14, 2024, Proceedings.

ABCNN-IDS: Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks (2024)
Journal Article
Momand, A., Jan, S. U., & Ramzan, N. (in press). ABCNN-IDS: Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks. Wireless Personal Communications, 136(4), 1981-2003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-024-11260-7

This paper proposes an attention-based convolutional neural network (ABCNN) for intrusion detection in the Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed ABCNN employs an attention mechanism that aids in the learning process for low-instance classes. On the... Read More about ABCNN-IDS: Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks.

Participatory Explorations in the Techno-Spiritual (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grandison, T. (2024, June). Participatory Explorations in the Techno-Spiritual. Presented at The 22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Rimini, Italy

This exploratory paper presents a pilot study conducted with 64 undergraduate students at Edinburgh Napier University in November 2023. The aim of this study was to understand how people who do not necessarily identify as religious engaged in what th... Read More about Participatory Explorations in the Techno-Spiritual.

Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drummond, R., Guiver, C., & Turner, M. C. (2024, July). Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm. Presented at 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, Oxford, England

With neural networks being used to control safety-critical systems, they increasingly have to be both accurate (in the sense of matching inputs to outputs) and robust. However, these two properties are often at odds with each other and a trade-off ha... Read More about Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm.

A Comparison of the Efficiencies of various Structured and Semi- Structured Data Formats in Data Analysis and Big Data Analytic Development (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, T., & Graham, H. (2024, July). A Comparison of the Efficiencies of various Structured and Semi- Structured Data Formats in Data Analysis and Big Data Analytic Development. Presented at DATA 2024: 13th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications, Dijon, France

As data volumes grow, so too does our need and ability to analyse it. Cloud computing technologies offer a wide variety of options for analysing big data and make this ability available to anyone. However, the monetary implications for doing this in... Read More about A Comparison of the Efficiencies of various Structured and Semi- Structured Data Formats in Data Analysis and Big Data Analytic Development.

How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Orme, M., Yu, Y., & Tan, Z. (2024, May). How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy

This paper concerns the pressing need to understand and manage inappropriate language within the evolving human-robot interaction (HRI) landscape. As intelligent systems and robots transition from controlled laboratory settings to everyday households... Read More about How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction.

Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W., Grierson, S., & Uribe, D. (2024, February). Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode. Presented at 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Rome, Italy

Biometric data is often highly sensitive, and a leak of this data can lead to serious privacy breaches. Some of the most sensitive of this type of data relates to the usage of DNA data on individuals. A leak of this type of data without consent could... Read More about Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode.

Eco-friendly 3D Printing Mortar with Low Cement Content: Investigation on Printability and Mechanical Properties (2024)
Journal Article
Sukontasukkul, P., Komkham, S., Jamnam, S., Zhang, H., Fujikake, K., Puttiwongrak, A., & Hansapinyo, C. (2024). Eco-friendly 3D Printing Mortar with Low Cement Content: Investigation on Printability and Mechanical Properties. Civil Engineering Journal, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.28991/CEJ-2024-010-03-010

The conventional approach to achieving optimal printability and buildability in 3D printing mortar relies heavily on cement, which is both costly and environmentally detrimental due to substantial carbon emissions from its production. This study aims... Read More about Eco-friendly 3D Printing Mortar with Low Cement Content: Investigation on Printability and Mechanical Properties.

Digital Twins: Towards an Overarching Framework for the Built Environment (2024)
Journal Article
Bagireanu, A., Bros-Williamson, J., Duncheva, M., & Currie, J. (2024). Digital Twins: Towards an Overarching Framework for the Built Environment. Architectural and Environmental Engineering, 18(1), 1-11

Digital Twins (DTs) have entered the built environment from more established industries like aviation and manufacturing, although there has never been a common goal for utilising DTs at scale. Their assimilation into the built environment lacked its... Read More about Digital Twins: Towards an Overarching Framework for the Built Environment.

Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata (2024)
Journal Article
Gnoli, C., Golub, K., Haynes, D., Salaba, A., Shiri, A., & Slavic, A. (2024). Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata. Knowledge Organization, 51, 169-186. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2024-3-169

This article addresses the underutilization of knowledge organization systems (KOS) elements in online library catalogues, hindering effective subject-based search and discovery. It highlights the International Society for Knowledge Organization's in... Read More about Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata.

Merging Fact & Fiction in War Comics: Diversity, Identity and Social Injustice (2024)
Book Chapter
Donald, I., Austin, H., & Pittner, F. Merging Fact & Fiction in War Comics: Diversity, Identity and Social Injustice. In Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics since 1914

This abstract discusses how war comics portray the historical record through a theoretical and conceptual textual model - the 3A Framework (3AF) which considers the representation of historical accuracy, authenticity and account (Donald & Reid, 2023)... Read More about Merging Fact & Fiction in War Comics: Diversity, Identity and Social Injustice.

Image De-noising Based on WMF Technique for Electrical Trees Structure in High Voltage Cable Insulation (2024)
Journal Article
Rohani, M. N. K. H., Abdulah, C. S. K., Ismail, B., Mohd Isa, M. A., Rosmi, A. S., Jamil, M. K., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Mas’ud, A. A. (2025). Image De-noising Based on WMF Technique for Electrical Trees Structure in High Voltage Cable Insulation. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 53(1), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.37934/araset.53.1.5772

Electrical treeing is a common problem during the pre-breakdown phenomenon in solid insulations due to the damage caused by Partial Discharge (PD) that progresses through stressed insulation via chemical degradation, which resembles the shape of a tr... Read More about Image De-noising Based on WMF Technique for Electrical Trees Structure in High Voltage Cable Insulation.

EV-IRP Manager: An Electric Vehicle Incident Response Playbook Manager and Visualizer Toolkit (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alpdag, K., Moradpoor, N., Hasina Andriambelo, N., Wooderson, P., & Maglaras, L. (2024, December). EV-IRP Manager: An Electric Vehicle Incident Response Playbook Manager and Visualizer Toolkit. Presented at SINCONF 2024: 17th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Online

In the rapidly evolving realm of electric vehicle technology, safeguarding the cybersecurity of both electric vehicles and their charging infrastructure has become fundamental. The integration of electric vehicles and their charging stations into the... Read More about EV-IRP Manager: An Electric Vehicle Incident Response Playbook Manager and Visualizer Toolkit.

Sound design ideation: a structured and systematic analysis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Selfridge, R., Delle Monache, S., & Pauletto, S. (2024, September). Sound design ideation: a structured and systematic analysis. Paper presented at AM '24: Audio Mostly 2024 - Explorations in Sonic Cultures, Milan, Italy

Recent research identified sixteen dimensions along which sound designers make decisions when ideating and sketching sounds. These 16 dimensions can be grouped into “Overarching strategies”, “Design Strategies” and “Approaches to sound”. In this pape... Read More about Sound design ideation: a structured and systematic analysis.

Auditory Occlusion Based on the Human Body in the Direct Sound Path: Measured and Perceivable Effects (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McSeveney, S., Tamariz, M., McGregor, I., Koniaris, B., & Mitchell, K. (2024, September). Auditory Occlusion Based on the Human Body in the Direct Sound Path: Measured and Perceivable Effects. Presented at Audio Mostly 2024 - Explorations in Sonic Cultures, Milan, Italy

Audio plays a key role in the sense of immersion and presence in VR, as it correlates to improved enjoyment of content. We share results of a perception study on the ability of listeners to recognise auditory occlusion due to the presence of a human... Read More about Auditory Occlusion Based on the Human Body in the Direct Sound Path: Measured and Perceivable Effects.

Transparent RFID tag wall enabled by artificial intelligence for assisted living (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, M. Z., Usman, M., Tahir, A., Farooq, M., Qayyum, A., Ahmad, J., Abbas, H., Imran, M., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2024). Transparent RFID tag wall enabled by artificial intelligence for assisted living. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 18896. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64411-y

Current approaches to activity-assisted living (AAL) are complex, expensive, and intrusive, which reduces their practicality and end user acceptance. However, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and wireless communications offer new... Read More about Transparent RFID tag wall enabled by artificial intelligence for assisted living.

Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: A preliminary empirical study (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, B., & Webster, G. (2024). Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: A preliminary empirical study. Information Research, 29(3), https://doi.org/10.47989/ir293701

Introduction. People with Type 1 diabetes need to collect data to calculate their own insulin doses, and collect information about potential complications. However, information avoidance may be a barrier to such activities.
Method. A preliminary stu... Read More about Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: A preliminary empirical study.

MTFDN: An image copy‐move forgery detection method based on multi‐task learning (2024)
Journal Article
Liang, P., Tu, H., Hussain, A., & Li, Z. (online). MTFDN: An image copy‐move forgery detection method based on multi‐task learning. Expert Systems, https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13729

Image copy-move forgery, where an image region is copied and pasted within the same image, is a simple yet widely employed manipulation. In this paper, we rethink copy-move forgery detection from the perspective of multi-task learning and summarize t... Read More about MTFDN: An image copy‐move forgery detection method based on multi‐task learning.

Novel Lagrange Multipliers-Driven Adaptive Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Li, T., Meng, G., Hawbani, A., Min, G., Al-Dubai, A., & Zomaya, A. (online). Novel Lagrange Multipliers-Driven Adaptive Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computers, https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2024.3457729

Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is a transportation-specific version of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) designed for vehicular scenarios. Task offloading allows vehicles to send computational tasks to nearby Roadside Units (RSUs) in order to reduce the co... Read More about Novel Lagrange Multipliers-Driven Adaptive Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing.

Transition-aware human activity recognition using an ensemble deep learning framework (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, S. I., Dawood, H., Khan, M., F. Issa, G., Hussain, A., Alnfiai, M. M., & Adnan, K. M. (2025). Transition-aware human activity recognition using an ensemble deep learning framework. Computers in Human Behavior, 162, Article 108435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108435

Understanding human activities in daily life is of utmost importance, especially in the context of personalized and adaptive ubiquitous learning. Although existing HAR systems perform well-identifying activities based on their inter-spatial and tempo... Read More about Transition-aware human activity recognition using an ensemble deep learning framework.