All Outputs (285)

An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing. In 2015 6th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NOF). https://doi.org/10.1109/nof.2015.7333293

One of the open issues in cloud computing is service discovery. Another issue, which has received less attention by practitioners in the cloud computing industry, is service composition based on formal methods, particularly those based on automata an... Read More about An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing.

Efficient text localization in born-digital images by local contrast-based segmentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, K., Yin, F., Hussain, A., & Liu, C. (2015). Efficient text localization in born-digital images by local contrast-based segmentation. In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (291-295). https://doi.org/10.11

Text localization in born-digital images is usually performed using methods designed for scene text images. Based on the observation that text strokes in born-digital images mostly have complete contours and the pixels on the contours have high contr... Read More about Efficient text localization in born-digital images by local contrast-based segmentation.

Analysis of strip foundation performance on liquefied ground with limited ground improvement (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dimitriadi, V., & Bouckovalas, G. (2015). Analysis of strip foundation performance on liquefied ground with limited ground improvement. In Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechn

According to modern seismic codes, the use of shallow foundations on liquefiable soils is only acceptable after proper ground improvement underneath and around the foundation. Still, there are no widely acceptable guidelines for choosing the required... Read More about Analysis of strip foundation performance on liquefied ground with limited ground improvement.

Numerical analysis of liquefaction affected shallow foundations performance on improved ground. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dimitriadi, V., Bouckovalas, G., & Chaloulos, Y. (2015). Numerical analysis of liquefaction affected shallow foundations performance on improved ground. In Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mecha

A novel numerical methodology is presented and used to simulate the seismic response of footings on liquefiable ground, locally improved in order to reduce settlements and increase the bearing capacity of the foundation. The numerical simulation adop... Read More about Numerical analysis of liquefaction affected shallow foundations performance on improved ground..

A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaen Sola, P., Mcdonald, A. S., & Oterkus, E. (2015, November). A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains. Presented at European Wind Energy Association, EWEA 2015

Buoyant airborne wind turbines are devices capable of harnessing stronger winds at higher altitudes and with their automated and rapidly deployable system they are suited to niche applications such as emergency power generation. Although much of the... Read More about A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains.

Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Obead Ahmed, R. (2015, November). Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study). Presented at The IRES 16th International Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Humanity faces many challenges in this era. One of these challenges is the ability of people to satisfy their needs for living without consuming the resources for the coming generation. Through sustainability, societies can reduce their use of reso... Read More about Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study).

Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miller, M., Holden, D., Al-Ashqar, R., Dubach, C., Mitchell, K., & Komura, T. (2015). Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain. In MIG '15 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games. https://doi.org/10.1145/2822013.

We propose a type of relationship descriptor based on carpet unrolling that computes the joint positions of a character based on the sum of relative vectors originating from a local coordinate system embedded on the surface of a carpet. Given a terra... Read More about Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain.

Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammeloot, A. (2015, November). Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies. Presented at 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces

The combination of personal and mobile technologies (Bring Your Own Device) with technology-augmented spaces designed for collaboration offers new design challenges for the HCI community. This paper is a summary of a doctoral work-in-progress aiming... Read More about Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies.

Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dionisio, M., Gujaran, A., Pinto, M., & Esteves, A. (2015). Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces (401-404). https://doi.org/10.1145

This paper illustrates how transmedia storytelling can help introduce players to interactive tabletop games. To do so, we developed Fall of Humans (FoH), an experience that takes place over two games: Meat factory, a physical card game where players... Read More about Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling..

Strategic positioning of IT business Incubators within Universities - a comparative study of the United Kingdom and India. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Kannabiran, G., & Laing, S. (2015, November). Strategic positioning of IT business Incubators within Universities - a comparative study of the United Kingdom and India. Paper presented at Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Advances in Information Technology (IT) offers various innovation opportunities. Incubation of IT innovation, with a focus on promoting entrepreneurship, has been a strategic priority of many leading universities across the world. Incubation of IT in... Read More about Strategic positioning of IT business Incubators within Universities - a comparative study of the United Kingdom and India..

High-dimensional function approximation using local linear embedding (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2015). High-dimensional function approximation using local linear embedding. In 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280370

Neural network approximation of high-dimensional nonlinear functions is difficult due to the sparsity of the data in the high-dimensional data space and the need for good coverage of the data space by the `receptive fields' of the neurons. However, h... Read More about High-dimensional function approximation using local linear embedding.

A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015, September). A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are usually used as a key effective solution to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. Despite many works on clustering in WSNs, this issue is still, however, in its infan... Read More about A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.

On Blind Source Camera Identification (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farinella, G. M., Giuffrida, M. V., Digiacomo, V., & Battiato, S. (2015). On Blind Source Camera Identification. In Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (464-473). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_40

An interesting and challenging problem in digital image forensics is the identification of the device used to acquire an image. Although the source imaging device can be retrieved exploiting the file's header e.g., EXIF, this information can be easil... Read More about On Blind Source Camera Identification.

A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition. In 2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA). https://doi.org/10.1109/itecha.2015.7317380

The behavior composition problem consists in the synthesis of a controller that coordinates a set of available behaviors with the aim of realizing a desired target behavior. This problem suffers from a serious drawback because, for many instances, th... Read More about A semantic-based flexible framework for automatic behavior composition.

On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2015). On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model. In 2015 21st International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). https://doi.org/10.1109/iconac.2015.7313936

This paper investigates the locomotion principles and nonlinear dynamics of the periodically pendulum-driven (PD) systems using the case of a 2-DOF viscoelastic jointed model. As a mechanical system with underactuation degree one, the proposed system... Read More about On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model.

Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zünd, F., Ryffel, M., Magnenat, S., Marra, A., Nitti, M., Kapadia, M., …Sumner, R. W. (2015). Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play. In SA '15 SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Application

Augmented Reality (AR) holds unique and promising potential to bridge between real-world activities and digital experiences, allowing users to engage their imagination and boost their creativity. We propose the concept of Augmented Creativity as empl... Read More about Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play.

Managing cloud-generated logs using big data technologies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lemoudden, M., & El Ouahidi, B. (2015). Managing cloud-generated logs using big data technologies. In 2015 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM). https://doi.org/10.1109/wincom.2015.7381334

Cloud computing is a fast-growing paradigm that has forcefully emerged and established itself in the next generation of IT industry and business, performing massive-scale and complex computing. As cloud technology adoption continues to progress, mass... Read More about Managing cloud-generated logs using big data technologies.

Wooden construction - Innovation and creativity (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kermani, A. (2015, October). Wooden construction - Innovation and creativity. Presented at 8th International Conference DECO

Wooden construction - innovation and creativity.

Making co-op work: An exploration of student attitudes to co-op programs (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Berg, T., & Smith, C. (2015). Making co-op work: An exploration of student attitudes to co-op programs. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015. 32614 2015. IEEE (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/fie.2015.7344173

Engineering and computing at university both have a long tradition of co-operative education which plays a vital role in developing students' applied skills and giving confidence to both students and potential employers. Co-op education refers to rel... Read More about Making co-op work: An exploration of student attitudes to co-op programs.

Maths and Mobile Technologies: Student Attitudes and Perceptions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fabian, K. (2015). Maths and Mobile Technologies: Student Attitudes and Perceptions. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Elearning (696)

Approaches that advocate the contextualized teaching of mathematics have been around for years but the ubiquity of mobile devices together with the potential to bridge classroom learning to real-world has added a new angle to contextualizing mathemat... Read More about Maths and Mobile Technologies: Student Attitudes and Perceptions.