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Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Ju, W. (2016, March). Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction. Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, Palo Alto, USA

Methods and materials are described for employing a human-shaped robot as a lecturer in automated remote instruction. Video segments from the stimuli of a 2 (participant substrate: VR or non-VR) x 2 (robot embodiment: copresent or screen) balanced be... Read More about Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction.

Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016, September). Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings. Presented at 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Los Angeles, US

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework - Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS... Read More about Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings.

An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016). An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system). In Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (120-121)

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic, and bi-directional grammar framework – Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Re... Read More about An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Language (demonstration system).

Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Lemon, O., & Eshghi, A. (2016). Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors. In Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (44-54)

We address the problem of interactively learning perceptually grounded word meanings in a multimodal dialogue system. Human tutors can correct, question, and confirm the statements of a dialogue agent which is trying to interactively learn the meanin... Read More about Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors.

Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2016). Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language (48-53)

We present a multi-modal dialogue system for interactive learning of perceptually grounded word meanings from a human tutor. The system integrates an incremental, semantic parsing/generation framework - Dynamic Syntax and Type Theory with Records (DS... Read More about Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor.

Core-selecting payment rules for combinatorial auctions with uncertain availability of goods (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moor, D., Seuken, S., Grubenmann, T., & Bernstein, A. (2016, July). Core-selecting payment rules for combinatorial auctions with uncertain availability of goods. Presented at Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York

In some auction domains, there is uncertainty regarding the final availability of the goods being auctioned off. For example, a government may auction off spectrum from its public safety network, but it may need this spectrum back in times of emergen... Read More about Core-selecting payment rules for combinatorial auctions with uncertain availability of goods.

An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual Data Centers (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nam, T. M., Huynh, N. V., Dai, L. Q., & Thanh, N. H. (2016). An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual Data Centers. In 2016 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28). https://doi.org/10.1109/itc-28.2016.112

Cloud computing has emerged in the recent years as a promising paradigm that facilitates such new service models as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). As the number of cloud service prov... Read More about An Energy-Aware Embedding Algorithm for Virtual Data Centers.

An Experimental Investigation into Passive Temperature Regulation of a Novel WICPV System with Phase Change Material (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharma, S., Sellami, N., Tahir, A., & Mallick, T. (2016, June). An Experimental Investigation into Passive Temperature Regulation of a Novel WICPV System with Phase Change Material. Presented at 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Munich, Germany

A novel Window-Integrated Concentrated Photovoltaic (WICPV) system proposed suitable for window integration, has been fabricated and characterised at 1000 Wm-2 (higher irradiance)and 500 Wm-2 (lower irradiance). This paper investigates the use of a c... Read More about An Experimental Investigation into Passive Temperature Regulation of a Novel WICPV System with Phase Change Material.

Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of a crossed compound parabolic concentrator with PV cell (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, W., Paul, M., Sellami, N., Mallick, T., & Knox, A. (2016, July). Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of a crossed compound parabolic concentrator with PV cell. Presented at 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Malaga, Spain

Crossed compound parabolic concentrator (CCPC) is a solar energy device used to increase the photovoltaic (PV) cell electrical power output. CCPC’s thermal and optical performance issues are equally important for a PV cell or module to work under a f... Read More about Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of a crossed compound parabolic concentrator with PV cell.

The Infiniteness of Open Ended Evolution (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2016). The Infiniteness of Open Ended Evolution. In OEE2: The Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution

Biological and social systems are considered as a flux of interacting components that transiently participate in interactions with other system components as part of the system. This suggests that any simulated system undergoing open ended evolution... Read More about The Infiniteness of Open Ended Evolution.

Viscoelastic and Mechanical Properties of Multi-layered Graphene Polyester Composites (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saharudin, M., Shyha, I., & Inam, F. (2016). Viscoelastic and Mechanical Properties of Multi-layered Graphene Polyester Composites. In ICAME2016 - 2nd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering

In this study, multi-layered-graphene (MLG) reinforced unsaturated polyester (UP) were prepared by adding different weight percentage of graphene in polyester resin and subsequently cross linked using mixture of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide. The mech... Read More about Viscoelastic and Mechanical Properties of Multi-layered Graphene Polyester Composites.

Interactive Ray-Traced Area Lighting with Adaptive Polynomial Filtering (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., Moon, B., & Mitchell, K. (2016). Interactive Ray-Traced Area Lighting with Adaptive Polynomial Filtering. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2016)

Area lighting computation is a key component for synthesizing photo-realistic rendered images, and it simulates plausible soft shadows by considering geometric relationships between area lights and three-dimensional scenes, in some cases even account... Read More about Interactive Ray-Traced Area Lighting with Adaptive Polynomial Filtering.

Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., MacLachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016, June). Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation. Presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Glasgow, UK

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation.

The Design and Evaluation of a Modern C++ Library (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2016, August). The Design and Evaluation of a Modern C++ Library. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Although many CSP inspired libraries exist, none yet have targeted modern C++ (C++11 onwards). The work presented has a main objective of providing a new C++ CSP library which adheres to modern C++ design principles and standards. A secondary objecti... Read More about The Design and Evaluation of a Modern C++ Library.

Fibre Grating-based Sensor Design for Humidity Measurement in Chemically Harsh Environment (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L. S. M., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2016, September). Fibre Grating-based Sensor Design for Humidity Measurement in Chemically Harsh Environment. Presented at 30th anniversary Eurosensors Conference – Eurosensors 2016, Budapest, Hungary

A temperature compensated Relative Humidity (RH) sensor incorporating Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs) has been developed to be tested in extremely harsh gaseous acidic environment. One FBG is coated with moisture sensitive polymer while the other was use... Read More about Fibre Grating-based Sensor Design for Humidity Measurement in Chemically Harsh Environment.

A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Pahl, C. (2016, April). A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services. Presented at Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

Requirements ontology offers a mechanism to map requirements for cloud computing services to cloud computing resources. Multiple stakeholders can capture and map knowledge in a flexible and efficient manner. The major contribution of the paper is the... Read More about A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services.

Protecting Documents with Sticky Policies and Identity-Based Encryption (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spyra, G., & Buchanan, W. J. (2016). Protecting Documents with Sticky Policies and Identity-Based Encryption. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/FTC.2016.7821719

Documents are increasingly being held in public cloud-based systems, and there thus increasingly exposed to accesses from malicious entities. This paper focuses on the integration of sticky policies that are embedded into OOXML (Open Office XML) pr... Read More about Protecting Documents with Sticky Policies and Identity-Based Encryption.

Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016, September). Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective. Presented at ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Zadar, Croatia

Introduction. The means by which individuals evaluate the personal reputations of others, and manage their own personal reputations, as determined by information shared on social media platforms, is investigated from an information science perspectiv... Read More about Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective..