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Toward a Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things (2019)
Journal Article
Jan, S. U., Ahmed, S., Shakhov, V., & Koo, I. (2019). Toward a Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things. IEEE Access, 7, 42450-42471. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2907965

Integration of the Internet into the entities of the different domains of human society (such as smart homes, health care, smart grids, manufacturing processes, product supply chains, and environmental monitoring) is emerging as a new paradigm called... Read More about Toward a Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things.

The efficacy of Euler diagrams and linear diagrams for visualizing set cardinality using proportions and numbers (2019)
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Stapleton, G., Chapman, P., Rodgers, P., Touloumis, A., Blake, A., & Delaney, A. (2019). The efficacy of Euler diagrams and linear diagrams for visualizing set cardinality using proportions and numbers. PLOS ONE, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211234

This paper presents the first empirical investigation that compares Euler and linear diagrams when they are used to represent set cardinality. A common approach is to use area-proportional Euler diagrams but linear diagrams can exploit length-proport... Read More about The efficacy of Euler diagrams and linear diagrams for visualizing set cardinality using proportions and numbers.

Beam‐scanning leaky‐wave antenna based on CRLH‐metamaterial for millimetre‐wave applications (2019)
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Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Shukla, P., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Khalily, M., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2019). Beam‐scanning leaky‐wave antenna based on CRLH‐metamaterial for millimetre‐wave applications. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 13(8), 1129-1133. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2018.5101

This paper presents empirical results of an innovative beam scanning leaky-wave antenna (LWA) which enables scanning over a wide angle from -35o to +34.5o between 57 GHz and 62 GHz, with broadside radiation centered at 60 GHz. The proposed LWA design... Read More about Beam‐scanning leaky‐wave antenna based on CRLH‐metamaterial for millimetre‐wave applications.

A triple-win scenario for horizontal collaboration in logistics: determining enabling and key success factors. (2019)
Journal Article
Palmieri, A., Pomponi, F., & Russo, A. (2019). A triple-win scenario for horizontal collaboration in logistics: determining enabling and key success factors. Business Strategy and the Environment, 28(6), 1166-1178. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2309

Horizontal collaborations emerged as a new strategic option in the logistics sector during the last decade. However, successful implementation of horizontal collaborations is far from a developed issue due to several barriers that exist or emerge whe... Read More about A triple-win scenario for horizontal collaboration in logistics: determining enabling and key success factors..

IoT Forensics: Amazon Echo as a Use Case (2019)
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Li, S., Li, S., Choo, K. R., Sun, Q., Buchanan, W. J., & Cao, J. (2019). IoT Forensics: Amazon Echo as a Use Case. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2019.2906946

Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly common in our society, and can be found in civilian settings as well as sensitive applications such as battlefields and national security. Given the potential of these devices to be targeted by attackers, the... Read More about IoT Forensics: Amazon Echo as a Use Case.

Intelligent swarm firefly algorithm for the prediction of China's national electricity consumption (2019)
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Zhang, G., Chen, Y., Li, Y., Yu, H., Hu, H., & Wu, S. (2019). Intelligent swarm firefly algorithm for the prediction of China's national electricity consumption. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 13(2), 111-118. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbic.2019.098407

China's energy consumption is the world's largest and is still rising, leading to concerns of energy shortage and environmental issues. It is, therefore, necessary to estimate the energy demand and to examine the dynamic nature of the electricity con... Read More about Intelligent swarm firefly algorithm for the prediction of China's national electricity consumption.

Stochastic optimization of trigeneration systems for decision-making under long-term uncertainty in energy demands and prices (2019)
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Onishi, V. C., Antunes, C. H., Fraga, E. S., & Cabezas, H. (2019). Stochastic optimization of trigeneration systems for decision-making under long-term uncertainty in energy demands and prices. Energy, 175, 781-797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.03.095

Combined heating, cooling and power (CHCP) systems, so-called trigeneration, are widely accepted as more energy-efficient and environment-friendly alternatives to traditional separate energy generation. Nevertheless, the tasks of synthesis and optimi... Read More about Stochastic optimization of trigeneration systems for decision-making under long-term uncertainty in energy demands and prices.

Random Occlusion Recovery for Person Re-identification (2019)
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Wu, D., Zhang, K., Zheng, S., Hao, Y., Liu, F., Qin, X., Cheng, F., Zhao, Y., Liu, Q., Yuan, C., & Huang, D. (2019). Random Occlusion Recovery for Person Re-identification. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 63(3), 30405(1)-30405(9). https://doi.org/10.2352/j.imagingsci.technol.2019.63.3.030405

As a basic task of multi-camera surveillance system, person re-identification aims to re-identify a query pedestrian observed from non-overlapping multiple cameras or across different time with a single camera. Recently, deep learning-based person re... Read More about Random Occlusion Recovery for Person Re-identification.

Influence of between-joists bridging elements on static and dynamic response of wood joisted floors (2019)
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Khokhar, A., Chui, Y. H., & Smith, I. (2019). Influence of between-joists bridging elements on static and dynamic response of wood joisted floors. Engineering Structures, 188, 362-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.03.039

Excessive vertical vibration of lightweight floors caused by walking or similar activities can be annoying to building occupants. Previous studies have shown that the vibrational performance of floors having wood joists is enhanced by installing one... Read More about Influence of between-joists bridging elements on static and dynamic response of wood joisted floors.

Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey (2019)
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Azmi, A. M., Al-Qabbany, A. O., & Hussain, A. (2019). Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 52(2), 1369-1414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09692-w

Hadith is one of the most celebrated resources of Classical Arabic text. The hadiths, or Prophetic traditions (tradition for short), are narrations originating from the sayings and conduct of Prophet Muhammad. For Muslims, hadiths are the second most... Read More about Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey.

Optimization of multistage membrane distillation system for treating shale gas produced water (2019)
Journal Article
Carrero-Parreño, A., Onishi, V. C., Ruiz-Femenia, R., Salcedo-Díaz, R., Caballero, J. A., & Reyes-Labarta, J. A. (2019). Optimization of multistage membrane distillation system for treating shale gas produced water. Desalination, 460, 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2019.03.002

Thermal membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology to desalinate high-salinity wastewaters, including shale gas produced water to reduce the corresponding water footprint of fracturing operations. In this work, we introduce a rigorous optim... Read More about Optimization of multistage membrane distillation system for treating shale gas produced water.

Whole-life design and resource reuse of a solar water heater in the UK (2019)
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Saint, R. M., Pomponi, F., Garnier, C., & Currie, J. I. (2019). Whole-life design and resource reuse of a solar water heater in the UK. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 172(3), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.17.00068

Passive solar systems are often designed primarily with efficiency in mind, and research efforts are concentrated towards gaining an increase in performance. However, due to the multiple materials used, their manufacturing processes, a lifespan that... Read More about Whole-life design and resource reuse of a solar water heater in the UK.

Effects of minimal quantity lubricants reinforced with nano-particles on the performance of carbide drills for drilling nickel-titanium alloys (2019)
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Rosnan, R., Murad, M. N., Azmi, A. I., & Shyha, I. (2019). Effects of minimal quantity lubricants reinforced with nano-particles on the performance of carbide drills for drilling nickel-titanium alloys. Tribology International, 136, 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2019.03.029

Drilling of NiTi alloys under two lubricant-coolant strategies; namely flood and minimal quantity nanolubricant; two types of carbides drills, and three cutting speeds was investigated. Progressive tool wear, tool-life, drilling thrust force, surface... Read More about Effects of minimal quantity lubricants reinforced with nano-particles on the performance of carbide drills for drilling nickel-titanium alloys.

Bi-level multi-objective evolution of a Multi-Layered Echo-State Network Autoencoder for data representations (2019)
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Chouikhi, N., Ammar, B., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2019). Bi-level multi-objective evolution of a Multi-Layered Echo-State Network Autoencoder for data representations. Neurocomputing, 341, 195-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.03.012

The Multi-Layered Echo-State Network (ML-ESN) is a recently developed, highly powerful type of recurrent neural network. It has succeeded in dealing with several non-linear benchmark problems. On account of its rich dynamics, ML-ESN is exploited in t... Read More about Bi-level multi-objective evolution of a Multi-Layered Echo-State Network Autoencoder for data representations.

Development of a reduced four-component (toluene/n-heptane/iso-octane/ethanol) gasoline surrogate model (2019)
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Li, Y., Alfazazi, A., Mohan, B., Alexandros Tingas, E., Badra, J., Im, H. G., & Mani Sarathy, S. (2019). Development of a reduced four-component (toluene/n-heptane/iso-octane/ethanol) gasoline surrogate model. Fuel, 247, 164-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.03.052

The prospect of blending gasoline fuel with ethanol is being investigated as a potential way to improve the knock residence of the base gasoline. However, one of the drawbacks is a lack of proper understanding of the reason for the non-linear respons... Read More about Development of a reduced four-component (toluene/n-heptane/iso-octane/ethanol) gasoline surrogate model.

Optimal and Fast Real-Time Resource Slicing With Deep Dueling Neural Networks (2019)
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Van Huynh, N., Thai Hoang, D., Nguyen, D. N., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2019). Optimal and Fast Real-Time Resource Slicing With Deep Dueling Neural Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37(6), 1455-1470. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2019.2904371

Effective network slicing requires an infrastructure/network provider to deal with the uncertain demands and real-time dynamics of the network resource requests. Another challenge is the combinatorial optimization of numerous resources, e.g., radio,... Read More about Optimal and Fast Real-Time Resource Slicing With Deep Dueling Neural Networks.

An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system (2019)
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Al Siyabi, I., Khanna, S., Mallick, T., & Sundaram, S. (2019). An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system. Journal of Energy Storage, 23, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.03.010

The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the melting characteristics of a PCM cylindrical thermal storage system using experimental and numerical approaches. Three inclination positions are considered from vertical to horizontal. Paraf... Read More about An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system.

How commuting affects subjective wellbeing (2019)
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Clark, B., Chatterjee, K., Martin, A., & Davis, A. (2020). How commuting affects subjective wellbeing. Transportation, 47, 2777–2805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-019-09983-9

Commuting between home and work is routinely performed by workers and any wellbeing impacts of commuting will consequently affect a large proportion of the population. This paper presents findings from analyses of the impact of commuting (time and mo... Read More about How commuting affects subjective wellbeing.

SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application. (2019)
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Jan, M. A., Zhang, W., Usman, M., Tan, Z., Khan, F., & Luo, E. (2019). SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 137, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2019.02.023

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform communities around the globe into smart cities. The massive deployment of sensor-embedded devices in the smart cities generates voluminous amounts of data that need to be stored and processe... Read More about SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application..

Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Extension to nearly incompressible implicit and explicit elastodynamics in finite strains (2019)
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Kadapa, C. (2019). Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Extension to nearly incompressible implicit and explicit elastodynamics in finite strains. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 119(2), 75-104. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6042

We present a novel unified finite element framework for performing computationally efficient large strain implicit and explicit elastodynamic simulations using triangular and tetrahedral meshes that can be generated using the existing mesh generators... Read More about Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Extension to nearly incompressible implicit and explicit elastodynamics in finite strains.