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Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zakir, U., Hussain, A., Ali, L., & Luo, B. (2013, June). Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

This paper describes an efficient approach towards road sign detection, and recognition. The proposed system is divided into three sections namely: Road Sign Detection where Colour Segmentation of the road traffic signs is carried out using HSV colou... Read More about Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter.

Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Yang, P., Hussain, A., Huang, K., MacRae, C., Eckl, C., & Slack, W. (2013, April). Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data. Presented at 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), Singapore, Singapore

Clinical decision making frequently involves making decisions under uncertainty because of missing key patient data (e.g, demographics, episodic and clinical diagnosis details) - this information is essential for modern clinical decision support syst... Read More about Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data.

Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Krishnan, R., Hussain, A., & Sherimon, S. P. C. (2013, June). Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation. Presented at BICS 2013: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

In Information retrieval, Keyword based retrieval is unsatisfactory for user needs since it can’t always retrieve relevant words according to the concept. Since different words can represent the same concept (polysemy) and one word can represent diff... Read More about Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation.

Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A. (2013). Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions. In The 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2013.6706716

Cognitive computation is an emerging discipline linking together neurobiology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. Springer Neuroscience has launched a journal in this exciting multidisciplinary topic, which seeks to publish biologicall... Read More about Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions.

A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Minhas, S., Poria, S., Hussain, A., & Hussainey, K. (2013, June). A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

Indisputably, financial reporting has a key role to play in the efficient workings of capitalist economies. Problems related to agency and asymmetric information (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) would abound and cripple financial markets, as it has done w... Read More about A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure.

A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Atassi, H., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2013, June). A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

Rapid access chest pain clinics (RACPC) enable clinical risk assessment, investigation and arrangement of a treatment plan for chest pain patients without a long waiting list. RACPC Clinicians often experience difficulties in the diagnosis of chest p... Read More about A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment.

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.

A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, E., Hussain, A., & Gurney, K. (2013, June). A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

This paper presents a new brain-inspired, switching control approach for a car-like autonomous vehicle using a basal ganglia (BG) model as an action selection mechanism. The problem domain has challenging nonholonomic and state constraints which impl... Read More about A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle.

Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., Janarthanam, S., & Lemon, O. (2013). Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (115-124)

We describe a statistical Natural LanguageGeneration (NLG) method for summarisa-tion of time-series data in the context offeedback generation for students. In thispaper, we initially present a method forcollecting time-series data f... Read More about Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning.

‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK (2013)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2013). ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK. In M. Cortazzi, & L. Jin (Eds.), Researching Intercultural Learning (135-151). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291646_8

In contrast to students in many countries, British university students are often older than the common 18–22 age range; some are ‘non-traditional’ students who may have had experience of work in industrial or professional contexts before they study.... Read More about ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK.

Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. (2013)
Journal Article
AbouAlmal, A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Al-Ansari, K., AlAhmad, H., See, C. H., Jones, S. M. R., & Noras, J. M. (2013). Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61(12), 6250-6254. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2013.2279999

In this communication, nine years of local radiosonde meteorological data, from 1997 to 2005, have been used to calculate the vertical refractivity gradient, ΔΝ, in the lowest atmospheric layer above the ground surface. The values obtained are used t... Read More about Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region..

Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand (2013)
Book
Hofman, C., & Keates, S. (2013). Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5580-5

The rise of the Internet and social media in particular offer great opportunities for brand owners to increase business and brand recognition. While this has clearly been of benefit to brand owners, who have seen a consequent rise in the value of the... Read More about Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand.

The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Sapeluk, A. (2013, July). The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering. Presented at 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Technology is advancing at a fast pace while the shape and nature of computers continues to evolve, with tablets and smartphones illustrating the move away from the traditional notion of a laptop or desktop computer. Similarly, networking and sensing... Read More about The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering.

eHealth and the internet of things (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ball, L., Szymkowiak, A., Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Brownsell, S. (2013, February). eHealth and the internet of things. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain

To respond to an ageing population, eHealth strategies offer significant opportunities in achieving a balanced and sustainable healthcare infrastructure. Advances in technology both at the sensor and device levels and in respect of information techno... Read More about eHealth and the internet of things.

Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection (2013)
Journal Article
Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2013). Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection. Advances in nanoparticles, 02(03), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2013.23036

Metallic nanoparticles play an important role in the design of sensing platforms. In this paper, a new electromagnetic study for conical metal nanoparticles, working in the Near Infrared and Visible frequency regime, is proposed. The structures consi... Read More about Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection.

Computing the incomputable with human processing units (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corney, J., Vasantha, G. A., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Acur, N., Smith, M., & Agarwal, A. (2013, March). Computing the incomputable with human processing units. Presented at International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia IITM 2013, Allahabad, India

Initially commercial crowdsourcing services (such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) were focused largely on providing micro-labor services for tasks such as image labeling and text processing. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that these servic... Read More about Computing the incomputable with human processing units.

IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches (2013)
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Erkoyuncu, J. A. (2013). IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches. In Y. Shimomura, & K. Kimita (Eds.), The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability (411-416). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32847-3_69

Although the merits of Industrial product-service systems (IPS2) have been widely reported in the literature, the methodologies currently used to design IPS2 are not yet mature in either academia or industry. The objective of this paper is to determi... Read More about IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches.

Strategy Choice in Transit Networks (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fonzone, A., Schmöcker, J. D., Kurauchi, F., & Hassan, S. (2013). Strategy Choice in Transit Networks. In 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)