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Epsilon-Near-Zero Nanoantennas (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Spada, L. (2014). Epsilon-Near-Zero Nanoantennas. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks. https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257015

In this paper the design of Epsilon Near Zero (ENZ) antennas, working in the infrared and optical regime, is presented. Two different structures are considered: the classical PEC antenna and the dielectric dipole covered by ENZ material antenna. The... Read More about Epsilon-Near-Zero Nanoantennas.

Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2014, October). Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers. Presented at 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2014,

Laser system industry is a complex network entity that includes laser component manufacturer, laser manufacturer, system integrator, laser job shop, laser process developer and end product manufacturer. Currently this market segment is predominately... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers.

Estimation of the power electronic converter lifetime in fully rated converter wind turbine for onshore and offshore wind farms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Givaki, K., Jamieson, P., & Parker, M. (2014, April). Estimation of the power electronic converter lifetime in fully rated converter wind turbine for onshore and offshore wind farms. Presented at 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Mach

A comparison has been made of the converter lifetime for a 3MW fully rated converter horizontal axis wind turbine located onshore and offshore. Simulated torque and speed of the turbine shaft were used to calculate voltage and current time series, th... Read More about Estimation of the power electronic converter lifetime in fully rated converter wind turbine for onshore and offshore wind farms.

Adoption of information and communication technologies in the hotel and associated business in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demeke, W. (2014, February). Adoption of information and communication technologies in the hotel and associated business in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa. Presented at The 7th IADIS International Conference, Information Systems, Madrid, Spain

Many international organisations assert that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play an important role as a facilitator and as one of the critical determinants for economic growth and poverty reductions in the developing countries. For... Read More about Adoption of information and communication technologies in the hotel and associated business in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa.

Employing Neural Networks for the Detection of SQL Injection Attack (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheykhkanloo, N. M. (2014, September). Employing Neural Networks for the Detection of SQL Injection Attack. Presented at 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks - SIN '14, Glasgow, UK

Structured Query Language Injection (SQLI) attack is a code injection technique in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into the SQL database by simply using web browsers. SQLI attack can cause severe damages on a given SQL database such as lo... Read More about Employing Neural Networks for the Detection of SQL Injection Attack.

Finding middle ground? Multi-objective Natural Language Generation from time-series data (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., & Lemon, O. (2014). Finding middle ground? Multi-objective Natural Language Generation from time-series data. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume

A Natural Language Generation (NLG) system is able to generate text from nonlinguistic data, ideally personalising the content to a user’s specific needs. In some cases, however, there are multiple stakeholders with their own individual goals, needs... Read More about Finding middle ground? Multi-objective Natural Language Generation from time-series data.

Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., & Lemon, O. (2014). Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data. In Proceedings of the Conference Volume 1: Long Papers (1231-1240). https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/p14-1116

We present a novel approach for automatic report generation from time-series data, in the context of student feedback generation. Our proposed methodology treats content selection as a multi-label (ML) classification problem, which takes as input ti... Read More about Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data.

Using Code Generation to Build a Platform for Developing and Testing Dialogue Games. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yuan, T., Manandhar, S., & Wells, S. (2014). Using Code Generation to Build a Platform for Developing and Testing Dialogue Games.

Despite increasing research into their use as a vehicle for Human- Computer Dialogue and Inter-Agent Communication, Dialogue Games have not seen good uptake in industry. One of the reasons for this is the lack of methodologies and tooling for the... Read More about Using Code Generation to Build a Platform for Developing and Testing Dialogue Games..

Argument Mining: Was Ist Das? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S. (2014). Argument Mining: Was Ist Das?.

Argument Mining has become an increasingly popular term over the last few years but it is unclear to what exactly the term refers. It definitely refers to an area of endeavour within argumentation theory and within computational argumentation and... Read More about Argument Mining: Was Ist Das?.

Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Sripada, S. G., Mellish, C., Melero, Y., Arts, K., Lambin, X., & Wal, R. V. D. (2014). Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study. In INLG 2014

If an NLG system needs to be put in place as soon as possible it is not always possible to know in advance who the us-ers of a system are or what kind of in-formation will interest them. This paper describes the development of a system and contextual... Read More about Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study..

It's not interaction, it's make believe. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Carruthers, L. (2014). It's not interaction, it's make believe. In Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637248.2637266

A principal, but largely unexplored, use of our cognition when using interacting technology involves pretending. To pretend is to believe that which is not the case, for example, when we use the desktop on our personal computer we are pretending, tha... Read More about It's not interaction, it's make believe..

Evaluating the Perceived Similarity Between Audio-Visual Features Using Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A. (2014). Evaluating the Perceived Similarity Between Audio-Visual Features Using Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis. In Proceedings of the Internation Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

This paper presents the findings of two exploratory studies. In these studies participants performed a series of image-sound association and detection tasks. The aim of the studies was to investigate the perceived similarity and the effectiveness of... Read More about Evaluating the Perceived Similarity Between Audio-Visual Features Using Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis..

Developing a fuzzy new -generation whole-life cost model for medium-sized office buildings. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tokede, O. O., D'Amico, B., Gupta, N. K., & Wamuziri, S. (2014). Developing a fuzzy new -generation whole-life cost model for medium-sized office buildings.

Purpose of this paper The purpose of this paper is to explore the investment appraisal aspects of the new-generation whole-life cost (NWLC) model and develops a fuzzy new-generation whole-life cost model for 25 simulated configurations of a steel-ty... Read More about Developing a fuzzy new -generation whole-life cost model for medium-sized office buildings..

Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Ijsselsteijn, W. (2014). Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. In Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14 (737-746). https://doi.org/10.1145/26

With ubiquitous mobile computing devices spreading throughout the urban environment of everyday life, there is a growing need to better understand person-place relationships and how technology can play a role in this urban experience. To this end, we... Read More about Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience..

From employability attributes to professional identity: students transitioning to the workplace. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Sobolewska, E., & Smith, I. (2014). From employability attributes to professional identity: students transitioning to the workplace. In 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings (1197-1204)

In order to realize the employment ambitions of graduates we can work with students to facilitate the construction of their identity as members of a global engineering profession. Of particular interest is whether (and, if so, how) students reconstru... Read More about From employability attributes to professional identity: students transitioning to the workplace..

Towards a framework for emerging technology management. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rudman, H. (2014). Towards a framework for emerging technology management. In iFutures 2014 Conference Proceedings

Digital technologies are creating new opportunities for us to participate in, and engage with, traditional and new forms of art, culture, and heritage. Never before has there been such reach, and scale, and access to the arts. Information Technology... Read More about Towards a framework for emerging technology management..

The AmbITion Approach: examining action research into organisational practice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rudman, H. (2014). The AmbITion Approach: examining action research into organisational practice. In iFutures 2014 Conference Proceedings

Digital technologies have had profound impacts on the whole value chain of the creative sector. Arts, cultural, and heritage organisations and practices are under pressure to adapt to digitisation rapidly, so that they are fit for business in a digit... Read More about The AmbITion Approach: examining action research into organisational practice.

Adaptive learning in computing for non-native speakers. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rimbaud, Y., McEwan, T., Lawson, A., & Cairncross, S. (2014). Adaptive learning in computing for non-native speakers. In 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044142

A significant proportion of e-Learning resources for engineering and computing education appear to be exclusively in English, requiring many learners to adapt themselves to learning within an English language context. Adaptive learning has a role to... Read More about Adaptive learning in computing for non-native speakers..

An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., & McGregor, I. (2014). An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. In Proceedings of invisible places:sounding cities 2014 (13-38)

This is an introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape and is part of an even bigger project. It introduces a soundscape diced with traditional sounds which still echo in the present and mutate and conflict with the modern sounds that are becoming p... Read More about An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape..

A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Keefe, B., Benyon, D., Chandwani, G., & Menon, M. (2014). A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling. . https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.10

This paper explores the role of Blending Theory, as a framework, to aid in design decisions while deploying mobile experiences for heritage storytelling. Blending Theory provides a structured way of thinking about how digital and physical spaces ca... Read More about A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling..