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Metadata can kill (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2021, October). Metadata can kill. Paper presented at DCMI Virtual 2021 - Metadata Innovation, Online

A number of events in the recent years have raised concerns about how private companies and government institutions collect and use metadata about their clients and citizens, from the highly-mediatized National Security Agency and Cambridge Analytica... Read More about Metadata can kill.

Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Driss, M., Hasan, D., Boulila, W., & Ahmad, J. (2021, September). Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions. Presented at 25th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Szczecin, Poland

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has led to the emergence of multiple smart applications in different vital sectors including healthcare, education, agriculture, energy management, etc. IoT aims to interconnect several intelli... Read More about Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions.

Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., Mcgregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2021). Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts. In AM '21: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Audio Mostly (72-80). https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478390

This study investigates the design and evaluation of a sonification designed to detect any planets orbiting within an asteroid belt of an exosolar system. The interface was designed for an astronomer who studies this phenomenon. User centered design... Read More about Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts.

Several cases of backward erosion/liquefaction piping from Hungary (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Koch, E., Nagy, L., Illés, Z., Hortobágyi, Z., & Barreto, . D. (2021, September). Several cases of backward erosion/liquefaction piping from Hungary. Presented at 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Online

Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Chen, X. (2021). Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021 (69-78). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6269-0_6

Architectural designers and technologists are able to make an assessment on buildability, thermal and hygrothermal performance of design details. To process drawings, human vision segments, classifies and distinguishes the drawing objects on the basi... Read More about Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

The good, the bad and the ugly: Real live stories of end-user engagement evaluation in energy efficiency projects. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bull, R., Morton, A., & Reeves, A. (2021, June). The good, the bad and the ugly: Real live stories of end-user engagement evaluation in energy efficiency projects. Presented at eceee Summer Study on energy efficiency: a new reality?, Online

Evaluating engagement for energy efficiency projects often uncovers barriers around end-users’ understanding and acceptance, or issues of trust surrounding interventions, technological advances, and new policies. Monitoring and evaluating end-user en... Read More about The good, the bad and the ugly: Real live stories of end-user engagement evaluation in energy efficiency projects..

Examination of saturated hydraulic conductivity using grading curve functions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Bálint, E. Á., Nagy, L., Lőrincz, J., Illés, Z., Barreto, D., Casini, F., Guida, G., & Feng, S. (2021, September). Examination of saturated hydraulic conductivity using grading curve functions. Presented at 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation, Budapest

In a previous research program 74 artificial soil mixtures of natural fluvial soils were prepared in 4 series of measurements for falling head permeability testing, differing in d 10. The conclusions drawn from the original investigations were as fol... Read More about Examination of saturated hydraulic conductivity using grading curve functions.

Modelling Individual Preferences to Study and Predict Effects of Traffic Policies (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Powers, S., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2021, October). Modelling Individual Preferences to Study and Predict Effects of Traffic Policies. Presented at PAAMS: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain

Traffic can be viewed as a complex adaptive system in which systemic patterns arise as emergent phenomena. Global behaviour is a result of behavioural patterns of a large set of individual travellers. However, available traffic simulation models lack... Read More about Modelling Individual Preferences to Study and Predict Effects of Traffic Policies.

Using AGADE Traffic to Analyse Purpose-driven Travel Behaviour (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Powers, S. T., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2021, October). Using AGADE Traffic to Analyse Purpose-driven Travel Behaviour. Presented at PAAMS: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain

AGADE Traffic is an agent-based traffic simulator that can be used to analyse purpose-driven travel behaviour of individuals that leads to the emergence of systemic patterns in mobility. The simulator uses semantic technology to model knowledge of in... Read More about Using AGADE Traffic to Analyse Purpose-driven Travel Behaviour.

Identifying Roles, Requirements and Responsibilities in Trustworthy AI Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barclay, I., & Abramson, W. (2021, September). Identifying Roles, Requirements and Responsibilities in Trustworthy AI Systems. Presented at UbiComp '21: The 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Online

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are being deployed around the globe in critical fields such as healthcare and education. In some cases, expert practitioners in these domains are being tasked with introducing or using such systems, but have littl... Read More about Identifying Roles, Requirements and Responsibilities in Trustworthy AI Systems.

Interactivity in Linear Diagrams (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chapman, P. (2021, September). Interactivity in Linear Diagrams. Presented at Diagrams: International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Online

Linear diagrams have been shown to be an effective method for representing set-based data. Moreover, design principles have been empirically developed that, when followed, improve the efficacy of linear diagrams. These principles are task-independent... Read More about Interactivity in Linear Diagrams.

Information Literacy Workshops: Trials and tribulations of Public Engagement within a pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brazier, D., Salzano, R., & Ryan, B. (2021, September). Information Literacy Workshops: Trials and tribulations of Public Engagement within a pandemic. Poster presented at European Conference on Information Literacy 2021, Bamberg, Germany

Project Aim: This internally funded Public Engagement| project was aimed at engaging the public of Edinburgh to provide learning opportunities on Information Literacy and online search best practice. Two in-person workshops were organised for March 2... Read More about Information Literacy Workshops: Trials and tribulations of Public Engagement within a pandemic.

Geolog: Scalable Logic Programming on Spatial Data (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grubenmann, T., & Lehmann, J. (2021). Geolog: Scalable Logic Programming on Spatial Data. In Proceedings ICLP 2021 (191-204). https://doi.org/10.4204/eptcs.345.34

Spatial data is ubiquitous in our data-driven society. The Logic Programming community has been investigating the use of spatial data in different settings. Despite the success of this research, the Geographic Information System (GIS) community has r... Read More about Geolog: Scalable Logic Programming on Spatial Data.

Position Paper (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. (2021, July). Position Paper. Presented at 17th Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems for PhDs, PostDocs & New Researchers, Singapore [Online]

Numerical Analysis on hot water storage tank integrated with phase change materials (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
D'Oliveira, E. J., Costa Pereira, C., & Azimov, U. (2021). Numerical Analysis on hot water storage tank integrated with phase change materials. In Energy and Sustainability IX

The combination of solar collectors with latent heat thermal energy storage system (LHTESS) has been employed to utilise solar energy more effectively, as this technology can provide a balancing function to match the variability in supply and demand,... Read More about Numerical Analysis on hot water storage tank integrated with phase change materials.

Coronabot: A conversational ai system for tackling misinformation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunson, N., Sieińska, W., Yu, Y., Hernandez Garcia, D., Part, J. L., Dondrup, C., & Lemon, O. (2021, September). Coronabot: A conversational ai system for tackling misinformation. Presented at Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Roma, Italy

Covid-19 has brought with it an onslaught of information for the public, some true and some false, across virtually every platform. For an individual, the task of sifting through the deluge for reliable, accurate facts is significant and potentially... Read More about Coronabot: A conversational ai system for tackling misinformation.

Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, M. F., Fonzone, A., & Fountas, G. (2021, June). Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts. Presented at 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), Heraklion, Greece

Due to higher smartphone uptake and Internet penetration rate, Ubiquitous Real-time Passenger Information (URTPI) has become available to and required by larger segments of the public transit passenger population. URTPI can influence perceptions rega... Read More about Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts.

A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, August). A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), Barcelona, Spain

Recent years have seen an increase in medical big data, which can be attributed to a paradigm shift experienced in medical data sharing induced by the growth of medical technology and the Internet of Things. The evidence of this potential has been pr... Read More about A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data.

Empowering Citizens in a Smart City Project One Step at a Time: a Norwegian Case Study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Senior, C., Jowkar, M., Temeljotov-Salaj, A., & Johansen, A. (2021, March). Empowering Citizens in a Smart City Project One Step at a Time: a Norwegian Case Study. Presented at 2021 IEEE European Technology and Engineering Management Summit (E-TEMS), Dortmund, Germany

Considering public participation as one of the key components of “smart cities”, efforts have been made by local governments to provide opportunities for citizens to take an active role in smart cities planning. This paper presents preliminary result... Read More about Empowering Citizens in a Smart City Project One Step at a Time: a Norwegian Case Study.

Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marchand, B., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2021, September). Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection. Presented at TrustBus 2021: Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, Online

Web addresses, or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), represent a vector by which attackers are able to deliver a multitude of unwanted and potentially harmful effects to users through malicious software. The ability to detect and block access to such... Read More about Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection.