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Development of a Small Solar Thermal Power Plant for Heat and Power Supply to Domestic and Small Business Buildings (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahkamov, K., Pili, P., Manca, R., Leroux, A., Mintsa, A. C., Lynn, K., …Makhkamova, I. (2018). Development of a Small Solar Thermal Power Plant for Heat and Power Supply to Domestic and Small Business Buildings. In Proceedings of the ASME 2018 Power C

The small solar thermal power plant is being developed with funding from EU Horizon 2020 Program. The plant is configured around a 2-kWel Organic Rankine Cycle turbine and solar field, made of Fresnel mirrors. The solar field is used to heat thermal... Read More about Development of a Small Solar Thermal Power Plant for Heat and Power Supply to Domestic and Small Business Buildings.

Solar Salt Latent Heat Thermal Storage for a Small Solar Organic Rankine Cycle Plant (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Costa, S., Mahkamov, K., Kenisarin, M., Lynn, K., Halimic, E., & Mullen, D. (2018). Solar Salt Latent Heat Thermal Storage for a Small Solar Organic Rankine Cycle Plant. In Proceedings of the ASME 2018. https://doi.org/10.1115/es2018-7326

The design of the Latent Heat Thermal Storage System (LHTESS) was developed with thermal capacity of about 100 kWh as a part of small solar plant, based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC). The phase change material (PCM) used is Solar salt with the m... Read More about Solar Salt Latent Heat Thermal Storage for a Small Solar Organic Rankine Cycle Plant.

From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, C., & Varey, A. (2018). From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices. In Proceedings of the 3rdInternational Research Symposium on Cooperative and Wor

Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) degrees bring new collaborations between universities and employers and new opportunities for apprentices—to gain a university degree, while also being in formal employment. In 2017, Scotland introduced funding for GAs: s... Read More about From work-integrated learning to learning-integrated work: motivations and apprehensions of Graduate Apprentices.

Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., & Cruickshank, P. (2018). Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces. In 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC). https://d

Smart Spaces currently benefits from Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures in order to realise its objectives. In many cases, it demonstrates this through certain automated applications that relies on sensor streams that comes with some uncertaint... Read More about Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces..

Enhancing Robotic Swarms With Fractal Behaviours to Explore Unknown Enclosed Areas (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eissa, H., Melis, W. J. C., Keates, S., & Doncheva, R. (2018, June). Enhancing Robotic Swarms With Fractal Behaviours to Explore Unknown Enclosed Areas. Paper presented at 3rd Medway Engineering Conference: Systems: Efficiency, Sustainability and Modellin

Swarm robotics coordinates multiple interacting robots for which it takes inspiration from nature. It has been used in different engineering applications, such as: food searching, path planning, and communication between robots. Additionally, when ro... Read More about Enhancing Robotic Swarms With Fractal Behaviours to Explore Unknown Enclosed Areas.

Towards reducing complexity of multi-agent simulations by applying model-driven techniques (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoffman, B., Chalmers, K., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2018). Towards reducing complexity of multi-agent simulations by applying model-driven techniques. In Y. Demazeau, B. An, J. Bajo, & A. Fernández-Caballero (Eds.), Advances in Practi

Creating multi-agent simulations is a challenging task often requiring programming skills at the professional software developer level. Model driven methods of software development are an appropriate tool for reducing the complexity of the developmen... Read More about Towards reducing complexity of multi-agent simulations by applying model-driven techniques.

Social media for learning and teaching: Examining the landscape (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. M. (2018, June). Social media for learning and teaching: Examining the landscape. Presented at University of Strathclyde's 4th Annual Learning and Teaching in an International Technological University Conference, Glasgow

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"Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, June). "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision. Paper presented at The U2 Conference 2018 - POPVision, Belfast

Semantic ambiguity complicates finding desired information. Additionally, the same music elicits different emotions in different people, which makes it difficult to find music online that meets our emotional desires. I operationalise this as “musical... Read More about "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision.

Array Antenna for Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating in X and Ku-Bands: A Study to Enhance Isolation Between Radiation Elements (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Limiti, E., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Falcone, F. (2018). Array Antenna for Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating in X and Ku-Bands: A Study to Enhance Isolation Between Radiation Elements.

Modern synthetic aperture radars (SAR) require a system bandwidth of greater than 1 GHz. Waveguide slot antennas are popular for use in SAR applications because of their inherent advantages, namely high efficiency and power handling capability, but s... Read More about Array Antenna for Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating in X and Ku-Bands: A Study to Enhance Isolation Between Radiation Elements.

An experimental study of the amphibious robot inspired by biological duck foot (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kashem, S. B. A., Jawed, S., Ahmed, J., & Iqbal, A. (2018). An experimental study of the amphibious robot inspired by biological duck foot. In 2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG

A lot of issues are faced in the exploration due to complexity of terrain and/or unexpected environment, due to which many places are left unmapped. The aim of this project is to design and develop an amphibious robot which uses webbed duck feet desi... Read More about An experimental study of the amphibious robot inspired by biological duck foot.

Toward's Arabic multi-modal sentiment analysis (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alqarafi, A., Adeel, A., Gogate, M., Dashitpour, K., Hussain, A., & Durrani, T. (2019). Toward's Arabic multi-modal sentiment analysis. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6571-2_290

In everyday life, people use internet to express and share opinions, facts, and sentiments about products and services. In addition, social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat etc., have become important information shari... Read More about Toward's Arabic multi-modal sentiment analysis.

A comparative study of Persian sentiment analysis based on different feature combinations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Adeel, A., Hussain, A., Alqarafi, A., & Durrani, T. (2017, July). A comparative study of Persian sentiment analysis based on different feature combinations. Presented at International Conference in Communications, Signal Proces

In recent years, the use of internet and correspondingly the number of online reviews, comments and opinions have increased significantly. It is indeed very difficult for humans to read these opinions and classify them accurately. Consequently, there... Read More about A comparative study of Persian sentiment analysis based on different feature combinations.

Demand Response of Space Heating and Ventilation – Impact on Indoor Environmental Quality (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martin, K., Jokisalo, J., Kosonen, R., & Alimohammadisagvand, B. (2018). Demand Response of Space Heating and Ventilation – Impact on Indoor Environmental Quality. In Proceedings of Roomvent & Ventilation 2018 (133-138)

Demand response can be utilized within heating and ventilation of buildings to reduce CO2 emissions and energy costs on both utility and consumer level. During demand response control, some of the indoor environmental parameters (room air temperature... Read More about Demand Response of Space Heating and Ventilation – Impact on Indoor Environmental Quality.

When Universal Access does not go to plan: Lessons to be learned (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S. (2018). When Universal Access does not go to plan: Lessons to be learned. In M. Antona, & C. Stephanidis (Eds.), 12th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2018), Proceedings, Part I (75-90). https://

While the theory of designing for Universal Access is increasingly understood, there remain persistent issues over realising products and systems that meet the goal of being accessible and usable by the broadest possible set of users. Clearly product... Read More about When Universal Access does not go to plan: Lessons to be learned.

Construction 4.0: Towards Delivering of Sustainable Houses in South Africa (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osunsanmi, T., Aigbavboa, C., Oke, A., & Ohiomah, I. (2018, June). Construction 4.0: Towards Delivering of Sustainable Houses in South Africa. Presented at CCC 2018: Creative Construction Conference 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Housing is a major challenge for most African countries including South Africa which is characterized by numerous backlog of housing provision. This study seeks the adoption of construction 4.0 principles for reducing the housing backlog experienced... Read More about Construction 4.0: Towards Delivering of Sustainable Houses in South Africa.

Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2018). Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study. In J. Johansson, F. Sadlo, & T. Schreck (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 Eurograp

Task classifications are widely purported to be useful in the design process, with various suggestions having been made for their use at the different stages. However, little has been written regarding the actual use of task classifications in these... Read More about Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study.

Myo Mapper: a Myo armband to OSC mapper (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., Bullock, J., & Tanaka, A. (2018). Myo Mapper: a Myo armband to OSC mapper. In D. Bowman, & L. Dahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (138-143). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.130270

Myo Mapper is a free and open source cross-platform application to map data from the gestural device Myo armband into Open Sound Control (OSC) messages. It represents a ‘quick and easy’ solution for exploring the Myo’s potential for realising new int... Read More about Myo Mapper: a Myo armband to OSC mapper.