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The marginalisation of bicycling in Modernist urban transport planning (2014)
Journal Article
Koglin, T., & Rye, T. (2014). The marginalisation of bicycling in Modernist urban transport planning. Journal of transport & health, 1(4), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2014.09.006

This article deals with the scientific factors that have contributed to the dominance of motorised transport and the development of theoretical approaches in transport planning. Connections are made to modernism and to the theories within the field o... Read More about The marginalisation of bicycling in Modernist urban transport planning.

Spray deposited copper zinc tin sulphide (Cu2ZnSnS4) film as a counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cells (2014)
Journal Article
Swami, S. K., Chaturvedi, N., Kumar, A., Chander, N., Dutta, V., Kumar, D. K., Ivaturi, A., Senthilarasu, S., & Upadhyaya, H. M. (2014). Spray deposited copper zinc tin sulphide (Cu2ZnSnS4) film as a counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16(43), 23993-23999. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CP03312D

Stoichiometric thin films of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) were deposited by the spray technique on a FTO coated glass substrate, with post-annealing in a H2S environment to improve the film properties. CZTS films were used as a counter electrode (CE) in Dye-Sens... Read More about Spray deposited copper zinc tin sulphide (Cu2ZnSnS4) film as a counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cells.

Dependency tree-based rules for concept-level aspect-based sentiment analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poria, S., Ofek, N., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., & Rokach, L. (2014, May). Dependency tree-based rules for concept-level aspect-based sentiment analysis. Presented at SemWebEval 2014 at ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece

Over the last few years, the way people express their opinions has changed dramatically with the progress of social networks, web communities, blogs, wikis, and other online collaborative media. Now, people buy a product and express their opinion in... Read More about Dependency tree-based rules for concept-level aspect-based sentiment analysis.

Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods (2014)
Journal Article
Jarman, D., Theodoraki, E., Hall, H., & Ali-Knight, J. (2014). Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 5(3), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijefm-11-2013-0034

Social network analysis (SNA) is an under-utilised framework for research into festivals and events. This paper reflects upon the history of SNA, and explores its key concepts, in order that they might be applied to festivals and their environments.... Read More about Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods.

PGCert-2014 Academic Paper and Pedagogy model outline (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheykhkanloo, N. M. (2014, October). PGCert-2014 Academic Paper and Pedagogy model outline. Paper presented at Teaching and Learning Enhancement Conference

This paper aims to explore the development of the Abertay Graduate Attributes (AGAs) into one of the computing modules, Issues in Network Security, for third year digital forensic students in school of Science Engineering and Technology (SET) at Univ... Read More about PGCert-2014 Academic Paper and Pedagogy model outline.

Rotationally asymmetric compound parabolic concentrator for concentrating photovoltaic applications (2014)
Journal Article
Abu-Bakar, S. H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., Kumar Mallick, T., Munir, A. B., Yasin, S. H. M., & Rahim, R. A. (2014). Rotationally asymmetric compound parabolic concentrator for concentrating photovoltaic applications. Applied Energy, 136, 363-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.09.053

This paper describes a novel type of solar concentrator - a rotationally asymmetrical compound parabolic concentrator (RACPC). The RACPC aims at addressing the following objectives: (i) to increase the electrical output of a concentrating photovoltai... Read More about Rotationally asymmetric compound parabolic concentrator for concentrating photovoltaic applications.

Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D., & Popescu, C.-M. (2014, September). Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics. Presented at WoodMusiCK (FP1302) conference ‘multidisciplinary approach to wooden musical instrument identification’

The performance of musical instruments is sensitive to several wood properties that are affected by aging. These wood properties also change with temperature and humidity in ways that interact with (and change as a result of) aging processes. This of... Read More about Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics..

Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency (2014)
Journal Article
Vedreno-Santos, F., Riera-Guasp, M., Henao, H., Pineda-Sanchez, M., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2014). Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(9), 4947-4959. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2013.2288192

This paper proposes a methodology to improve the reliability of diagnosis of different types of faults in wound-rotor induction generators which work under variable load conditions, as in wind turbine applications; the method is based on the extracti... Read More about Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency.

Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Acur, N., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014, June). Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland. Presented at International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Management Study - SEM 2014, London, United Kingdom

Various surveys mentioned that the commercial benefits of Internet crowdsourcing are reaped largely by people located in metro areas and smaller cities. The impact of crowdsourcing on the rural population is questionable. The aim of this research is... Read More about Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland.

Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection (2014)
Journal Article
Tan, Z., Nagar, U. T., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Wang, S., & Hu, J. (2014). Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection. IEEE cloud computing, 1(3), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcc.2014.53

Big data, often stored in cloud networks, is changing our business models and applications. Rich information residing in big data is driving business decision making to be a data-driven process. The security and privacy of this data, however, have al... Read More about Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection.

AGADE how individual guidance leads to group behaviour and how this can be simulated (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Hoffmann, B., & Urquhart, N. B. (2014, September). AGADE how individual guidance leads to group behaviour and how this can be simulated. Presented at 12th German Conference, MATES 2014, Stuttgart, Germany

In this paper we will demonstrate how BDI agents can be used to model individuals as participants in social structures where they act as potential buyers in a simple mobile phone market simulation. The simulation presented here is run in AGADE (Agile... Read More about AGADE how individual guidance leads to group behaviour and how this can be simulated.

Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Riera-Guasp, M., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., & Vedreno-Santos, F. (2014, September). Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)

Induction generators used in windmills usually work in non-stationary conditions, due to the varying speed of the wind. Therefore, in order to perform its diagnosis through the stator current analysis, adequate time-frequency transforms must be used.... Read More about Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms.

An evaluation of the use of combination techniques in improving forecasting accuracy for commercial property cycles in the UK (2014)
Thesis
Jadevicius, A. An evaluation of the use of combination techniques in improving forecasting accuracy for commercial property cycles in the UK. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7558

In light of the financial and property crisis of 2007-2013 it is difficult to ignore the existence of cycles in the general business sector, as well as in building and property. Moreover, this issue has grown to have significant importance in the UK,... Read More about An evaluation of the use of combination techniques in improving forecasting accuracy for commercial property cycles in the UK.

A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2014, September). A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall. Presented at 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications

In this paper, we propose a novel connection tracking mechanism for Tree-rule firewall which essentially organizes firewall rules in a designated Tree structure. A new firewall model based on the proposed connection tracking mechanism is then develop... Read More about A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall.

Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, W., Meng, W., Tan, Z., & Xiang, Y. (2014, September). Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning. Presented at 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications

The goal of email classification is to classify user emails into spam and legitimate ones. Many supervised learning algorithms have been invented in this domain to accomplish the task, and these algorithms require a large number of labeled training d... Read More about Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning.

A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, M. A., Nanda, P., He, X., Tan, Z., & Liu, R. P. (2014, September). A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment. Presented at 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications

The Internet of Things is a vision that broadens the scope of the internet by incorporating physical objects to identify themselves to the participating entities. This innovative concept enables a physical device to represent itself in the digital wo... Read More about A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment.

Arrowhead compliant virtual market of energy (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ferreira, L. L., Siksnys, L., Pedersen, P., Stluka, P., Chrysoulas, C., le Guilly, T., Albano, M., Skou, A., Teixeira, C., & Pedersen, T. (2014, September). Arrowhead compliant virtual market of energy. Presented at 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA), Barcelona, Spain

Industrial processes use energy to transform raw materials and intermediate goods into final products. Many efforts have been done on the minimization of energy costs in industrial plants. Apart from working on “how” an industrial process is implemen... Read More about Arrowhead compliant virtual market of energy.