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Cloud-based software services delivery from the perspective of scalability (2019)
Journal Article
Al-Said Ahmad, A., & Andras, P. (2021). Cloud-based software services delivery from the perspective of scalability. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 36(2), 53-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2019.1617864

Measuring and testing the scalability and performance of cloud-based software services is critical for the delivery of such services, and the development of cloud computing. There are three interconnected Cloud-based software services’ performance as... Read More about Cloud-based software services delivery from the perspective of scalability.

PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System (2019)
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Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2019). PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.05.003

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are frequently used in manufacturing and critical infrastructures like water treatment, chemical plants, and transportation schemes. Citizens tend to take modern-day conveniences such as trains, planes or tap water fo... Read More about PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System.

A Novel Multi-Input Bidirectional LSTM and HMM Based Approach for Target Recognition from Multi-Domain Radar Range Profiles (2019)
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Gao, F., Huang, T., Wang, J., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2019). A Novel Multi-Input Bidirectional LSTM and HMM Based Approach for Target Recognition from Multi-Domain Radar Range Profiles. Electronics, 8(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8050535

Radars, as active detection sensors, are known to play an important role in various intelligent devices. Target recognition based on high-resolution range profile (HRRP) is an important approach for radars to monitor interesting targets. Traditional... Read More about A Novel Multi-Input Bidirectional LSTM and HMM Based Approach for Target Recognition from Multi-Domain Radar Range Profiles.

Mobile-Phone Antenna Array with Diamond-Ring Slot Elements for 5G Massive MIMO Systems (2019)
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Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Alibakhshikenari, M., Ojaroudi Parchin, Y., Al-Yasir, Y. I. A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Limiti, E. (2019). Mobile-Phone Antenna Array with Diamond-Ring Slot Elements for 5G Massive MIMO Systems. Electronics, 8(5), Article 521. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8050521

A design of mobile-phone antenna array with diamond-ring slot elements is proposed for fifth generation (5G) massive multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The configuration of the design consists of four double-fed diamond-ring slot antenna... Read More about Mobile-Phone Antenna Array with Diamond-Ring Slot Elements for 5G Massive MIMO Systems.

Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework (2019)
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Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019). Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 14(1), 102-111. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2019.099748

With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual appliance’s energy consumption instead of the whole-house energy consumpti... Read More about Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework.

The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening (2019)
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Olorisade, B. K., Brereton, P., & Andras, P. (2019). The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 94, Article 103202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103202

Context Citation screening (also called study selection) is a phase of systematic review process that has attracted a growing interest on the use of text mining (TM) methods to support it to reduce time and effort. Search results are usually imbalan... Read More about The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening.

Authentication and Authorization for Mobile IoT Devices Using Biofeatures: Recent Advances and Future Trends (2019)
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Ferrag, M. A., Maglaras, L., & Derhab, A. (2019). Authentication and Authorization for Mobile IoT Devices Using Biofeatures: Recent Advances and Future Trends. Security and Communication Networks, 2019, Article 5452870. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5452870

Biofeatures are fast becoming a key tool to authenticate the IoT devices; in this sense, the purpose of this investigation is to summarise the factors that hinder biometrics models’ development and deployment on a large scale, including human physiol... Read More about Authentication and Authorization for Mobile IoT Devices Using Biofeatures: Recent Advances and Future Trends.

Getting in, getting on: fragility in student and graduate identity (2019)
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Smith, S., Sobolewska, E., & Hunter, D. (2019). Getting in, getting on: fragility in student and graduate identity. Higher Education Research and Development, 38(5), 1046-1060. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1612857

Over a period of three years this longitudinal study explored new approaches to consider student identity during the transition from university to employment. Students were followed through a new portfolio-based final year course and beyond universit... Read More about Getting in, getting on: fragility in student and graduate identity.

A Multi-UAV Clustering Strategy for Reducing Insecure Communication Range (2019)
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Wu, J., Zou, L., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Min, G. (2019). A Multi-UAV Clustering Strategy for Reducing Insecure Communication Range. Computer Networks, 158, 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.04.028

Multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight formations can be deployed to monitor large areas. Individual UAVs communicate and exchange information while formation flying. but, such communication presents a security risk. The area between the UAV group... Read More about A Multi-UAV Clustering Strategy for Reducing Insecure Communication Range.

An empirical survey of the perceived benefits of executing BIM and sustainability practices in the built environment (2019)
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Olawumi, T., & Chan, D. W. (2019). An empirical survey of the perceived benefits of executing BIM and sustainability practices in the built environment. Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, 19(3), 321-342. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-08-2018-0065

Purpose The increasing urbanization of the built environment has bolstered the need to promote green Building Information Modeling (BIM) initiative in new construction projects and the rehabilitation of old premises. This study aims to explore and e... Read More about An empirical survey of the perceived benefits of executing BIM and sustainability practices in the built environment.

Speech Enhancement Based on Adaptive Noise Cancellation and Particle Swarm Optimization (2019)
Journal Article
Taha, T. M., Wajid, S. K., & Hussain, A. (2019). Speech Enhancement Based on Adaptive Noise Cancellation and Particle Swarm Optimization. Journal of Computer Science, 15(5), 691-701. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2019.691.701

Speech enhancement is used in almost all modern communication systems. This is due to the quality of speech being degraded by environmental interference factors, such as: Acoustic additive noise, acoustic reverberation or white Gaussian noise. This p... Read More about Speech Enhancement Based on Adaptive Noise Cancellation and Particle Swarm Optimization.

Study of the Accessibility Inequalities of Cordon-Based Pricing Strategies Using a Multimodal Theil Index (2019)
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Comporeale, R., Caggiani, L., Fonzone, R., & Ottomanelli, M. (2019). Study of the Accessibility Inequalities of Cordon-Based Pricing Strategies Using a Multimodal Theil Index. Transportation Planning and Technology, 42(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2019.1609222

The implementation of an appropriate pricing policy in an urban area could alleviate both environmental and congestion problems by encouraging a shift towards more sustainable modes of transportation. However, any positive net social welfare balance... Read More about Study of the Accessibility Inequalities of Cordon-Based Pricing Strategies Using a Multimodal Theil Index.

Optimal and Low-Complexity Dynamic Spectrum Access for RF-Powered Ambient Backscatter System With Online Reinforcement Learning (2019)
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Van Huynh, N., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., Dutkiewicz, E., Niyato, D., & Wang, P. (2019). Optimal and Low-Complexity Dynamic Spectrum Access for RF-Powered Ambient Backscatter System With Online Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 67(8), 5736-5752. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2019.2913871

Ambient backscatter has been introduced with a wide range of applications for low power wireless communications. In this paper, we propose an optimal and low-complexity dynamic spectrum access framework for the RF-powered ambient backscatter system.... Read More about Optimal and Low-Complexity Dynamic Spectrum Access for RF-Powered Ambient Backscatter System With Online Reinforcement Learning.

Particle-scale interaction in sand-rubber mixtures and their influence on energy dissipation mechanisms (2019)
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Fonseca, J., Riaz, A., Bernal-Sanchez, J., Barreto Gonzalez, D., McDougall, J., Miranda Manzanares, M., Marinelli, A., & Dimitriadi, V. (2019). Particle-scale interaction in sand-rubber mixtures and their influence on energy dissipation mechanisms. Géotechnique Letters, 9(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.18.00221

Sand-rubber mixture (SRm) behaviour is affected by rubber content (RC) whilst dissipation in sands is caused by inter-particle sliding. Dissipation in SRm is as, or more significant than in sands. However, the mechanisms of dissipation in SRm are not... Read More about Particle-scale interaction in sand-rubber mixtures and their influence on energy dissipation mechanisms.

Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics (2019)
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Day, J., Senthilarasu, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 199, 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.04.013

A major challenge facing silicon solar cells used in building-integrated concentrator photovoltaics (BICPV) is their reduced electrical response when exposed to light of short or long wavelengths. In an attempt to tackle this problem, single cell sta... Read More about Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics.

TAFFO: Tuning Assistant for Floating to Fixed Point Optimization (2019)
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Cherubin, S., Cattaneo, D., Chiari, M., Bello, A. D., & Agosta, G. (2020). TAFFO: Tuning Assistant for Floating to Fixed Point Optimization. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 12(1), 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/les.2019.2913774

While many approximate computing methods are quite application-dependent, reducing the size of the data representation used in the computation has a more general applicability. We present a tuning assistant for floating to fixed point optimization (T... Read More about TAFFO: Tuning Assistant for Floating to Fixed Point Optimization.

Evaluating information security core human error causes (IS-CHEC) technique in public sector and comparison with the private sector (2019)
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Evans, M., He, Y., Maglaras, L., Yevseyeva, I., & Janicke, H. (2019). Evaluating information security core human error causes (IS-CHEC) technique in public sector and comparison with the private sector. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 127, 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.04.019

Background The number of reported public sector information security incidents has significantly increased recently including 22% related to the UK health sector. Over two thirds of these incidents pertain to human error, but despite this, there are... Read More about Evaluating information security core human error causes (IS-CHEC) technique in public sector and comparison with the private sector.

Particle loss: An initial investigation into size effects and stress-dilatancy (2019)
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McDougall, J., Kelly, D., & Daniel, B. (2019). Particle loss: An initial investigation into size effects and stress-dilatancy. Soils and Foundations, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sandf.2019.03.002

Drained triaxial tests have been performed to explore the effect of particle loss on shearing behaviour and critical states in granular mixtures. The mixtures comprise Leighton Buzzard sand (d50 = 0.8 mm), to which was added 15% by mass of salt parti... Read More about Particle loss: An initial investigation into size effects and stress-dilatancy.

A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care (2019)
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Wang, Y., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2019). A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care. Expert Systems with Applications, 137, 167-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.04.057

Increased life expectancy coupled with declining birth rates is leading to an aging population structure. Aging-caused changes, such as physical or cognitive decline, could affect people's quality of life, result in injuries, mental health or the lac... Read More about A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care.

A novel visual attention method for target detection from SAR images (2019)
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Gao, F., Liu, A., Liu, K., Yang, E., & Hussain, A. (2019). A novel visual attention method for target detection from SAR images. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 32(8), 1946-1958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cja.2019.03.021

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems have been widely used in civil and military fields due to their all-weather and all-day abilities and various other advantages. However, due to image data exponentially increasing, there is a need for no... Read More about A novel visual attention method for target detection from SAR images.