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Decoupled Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Volpi, N. C., Smith, S. C., Pascoal, A. M., Simetti, E., Turetta, A., Alibani, M., & Polani, D. (2018). Decoupled Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles. In OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston. https://doi.org/10.1109/oceans.2

There is increasing interest in the deployment and operation of multiple autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) for a number of challenging scientific and commercial operational mission scenarios. Some of the missions, such as geotechnical surveying and 3... Read More about Decoupled Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles.

Make restaurants pay your server bills (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grubenmann, T., Dell’Aglio, D., Bernstein, A., Moor, D., & Seuken, S. (2018). Make restaurants pay your server bills.

So far, the Web of Data (WoD) has only marginally considered the problem of financing itself. In most of the cases, research funds (either public or private) and donations are supporting the creation and maintenance of WoD services. Applying typical... Read More about Make restaurants pay your server bills.

Offloading Energy Efficiency with Delay Constraint for Cooperative Mobile Edge Computing Networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vu, T. T., Huynh, N. V., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2018). Offloading Energy Efficiency with Delay Constraint for Cooperative Mobile Edge Computing Networks. In 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). https://doi.org/10

We propose a novel edge computing network architecture that enables edge nodes to cooperate in sharing computing and radio resources to minimize the total energy consumption of mobile users while meeting their delay requirements. To find the optimal... Read More about Offloading Energy Efficiency with Delay Constraint for Cooperative Mobile Edge Computing Networks.

Reinforcement Learning Approach for RF-Powered Cognitive Radio Network with Ambient Backscatter (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huynh, N. V., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., Dutkiewicz, E., Niyato, D., & Wang, P. (2018). Reinforcement Learning Approach for RF-Powered Cognitive Radio Network with Ambient Backscatter. In 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). https://d

For an RF-powered cognitive radio network with ambient backscattering capability, while the primary channel is busy, the RF-powered secondary user (RSU) can either backscatter the primary signal to transmit its own data or harvest energy from the pri... Read More about Reinforcement Learning Approach for RF-Powered Cognitive Radio Network with Ambient Backscatter.

An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, L., & Pennington, D. (2018). An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints. In Twelfth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, HAISA 2018, Dundee, Scotland, UK, August 29-31, 2018, Proceedings

The ability to allow users to create online communities of interest and to share a variety of personal information, collectively referred to as social media, is gradually being built into an expanding range of applications. Some of these applications... Read More about An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints.

Flexible RFID Patch for Food Spoilage Monitoring (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yuan, M., Ghannam, R., Karadimas, P., & Heidari, H. (2018). Flexible RFID Patch for Food Spoilage Monitoring. In 2018 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PrimeAsia) (68-71). https://doi.org/10.1109/p

When food is reversed under an inappropriate situation, for example inadequate temperature, foodstuff would turn rotten as a result of the rapid breed of food spoilage bacteria under warm and wet circumstances where bacteria can be easily generated,... Read More about Flexible RFID Patch for Food Spoilage Monitoring.

Performance Analysis of Support Vector Machine-Based Classifier for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, S. U., Vu, V. H., & Koo, I. S. (2018). Performance Analysis of Support Vector Machine-Based Classifier for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks. In 2018 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery

In this work, the performance of support vector machine (SVM)-based classifier, applied for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) networks, is analyzed. A single observation given input to classifier is composed of three statistical features extra... Read More about Performance Analysis of Support Vector Machine-Based Classifier for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks.

Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Neumann, G., Fu, Q., Pearson, S., & Yu, H. (2018). Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot. In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2018.8594322

Vibro-driven robotic (VDR) systems use stick-slip motions for locomotion. Due to the underactuated nature of the system, efficient design and control are still open problems. We present a new energy preserving design based on a spring-augmented pendu... Read More about Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot.

Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2018). Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments. In ALIFE 2018: The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (404-411). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00078

Cooperation among selfish individuals provides the fundamentals for social organization among animals and humans. Cooperation games capture this behavior at an abstract level and provide the tools for the analysis of the evolution of cooperation. Her... Read More about Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments.

Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Amplifying the Integration of BIM and Sustainability Principles in Construction Projects: A Delphi Study (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olawumi, T. O., & Chan, D. W. (2018, April). Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Amplifying the Integration of BIM and Sustainability Principles in Construction Projects: A Delphi Study. Presented at RICS Cobra 2018, London

In recent years, there have been significant calls for a more technologically driven construction sector which would not meet the expected standards in quality, time and cost but also integrate sustainable principles in delivering its final products.... Read More about Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Amplifying the Integration of BIM and Sustainability Principles in Construction Projects: A Delphi Study.

Beneficial Factors of Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Sustainability Practices in Construction Projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olawumi, T. O., & Chan, D. W. (2018, January). Beneficial Factors of Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Sustainability Practices in Construction Projects. Presented at Hong Kong International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science

The concepts of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and sustainability are relatively new concepts in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. This paper aims to investigate the perceived benefits of integrating BIM and susta... Read More about Beneficial Factors of Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Sustainability Practices in Construction Projects.

Zero-Liquid Discharge Desalination of Hypersaline Shale Gas Wastewater: Challenges and Future Directions (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Onishi, V. C., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2018). Zero-Liquid Discharge Desalination of Hypersaline Shale Gas Wastewater: Challenges and Future Directions. In Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surroun

Unconventional natural gas extraction from tight shale reservoirs, or “shale gas”, has recently emerged as an attractive energy resource to face the rising worldwide demand.

Multi-Port Power Conversion Systems for the More Electric Aircraft (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gu, C., Zhang, H., Buticchi, G., Sala, G., Galassini, A., Papadopoulos, S., & Degano, M. (2018). Multi-Port Power Conversion Systems for the More Electric Aircraft. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iecon.2018.8592915

In the framework of the More Electric Aircraft (MEA), weight reduction and energy efficiency constitute the key figures. In addition to these requirements, the safety and the continuity of operation is of critical importance. These sets of desired fe... Read More about Multi-Port Power Conversion Systems for the More Electric Aircraft.

Preface (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ren, J., Hussain, A., Zheng, J., Liu, C., Luo, B., Zhao, H., & Zhao, X. (2018). Preface. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (V-VI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4

Learning from limited datasets: Implications for Natural Language Generation and Human-Robot Interaction (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Belakova, J., & Gkatzia, D. (2018). Learning from limited datasets: Implications for Natural Language Generation and Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Workshop on NLG for Human–Robot Interaction (8-11)

One of the most natural ways for human robot communication is through spoken language. Training human-robot interaction systems require access to large datasets which are expensive to obtain and labour intensive. In this paper, we des... Read More about Learning from limited datasets: Implications for Natural Language Generation and Human-Robot Interaction.

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLG for Human–Robot Interaction (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2018). Proceedings of the Workshop on NLG for Human–Robot Interaction. In M. Ellen Foster, H. Buschmeier, & D. Gkatzia (Eds.),

Ellen Foster, M., H. Buschmeier, & D. Gkatzia (Eds.) (2018). Proceedings of the Workshop on NLG for Human–Robot Interaction.

The benefits of contextual information for speech recognition systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kinch, M. W., Melis, W. J., & Keates, S. (2018, September). The benefits of contextual information for speech recognition systems. Presented at The 10th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CEEC'18), University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

This paper demonstrates the significance of using contextual information in machine learning and speech recognition. While the benefits of contextual information in human communication are widely known, their significance is rarely explored or discus... Read More about The benefits of contextual information for speech recognition systems.

A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclachlan, R., Wodehouse, A., & Vasantha, G. (2018). A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects. In Design Education: Diversity or Conformity? Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design E

This paper presents a new philosophy for patent use in student design projects; patents are more valuable when viewed as creative and learning resources rather than as a list of prior art to be considered for infringement. A practical approach to pat... Read More about A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Sherlock, A., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2018). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index. In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

The benefits of being able to create a number of product variations from a limited range of components, or sub-assemblies, are widely recognized. Indeed it is clear that companies who can effectively reuse elements of existing designs when creating n... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index.