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Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Ju, W., & Nass, C. (2015, March). Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Portland, USA

How people view relationships between humans and robots is an important consideration for the design and acceptance of social robots. Two studies investigated the effect of relational behavior in a human-robot dyad. In Study 1, participants watched v... Read More about Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships.

Interactive learning through dialogue for multimodal language grounding (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Lemon, O., & Eshghi, A. (2015). Interactive learning through dialogue for multimodal language grounding. In SemDial 2015, Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Gothenburg, Sweden (214-215)

A Double Auction for Querying the Web of Data (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moor, D., Grubenmann, T., Seuken, S., & Bernstein, A. (2015). A Double Auction for Querying the Web of Data. In The Third Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.8-8-2015.2260632

Currently, the Web of Data (WoD) suffers from a lack of incentives for data providers. In this paper, we address this issue by designing a double auction to allocate answers (from data providers) to queries in the WoD. However, our domain exhibits a... Read More about A Double Auction for Querying the Web of Data.

Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Donald, I., Meyer, K. A., Brengman, J., Gillespie, S., & Bowness, R. (2015). Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem. In 2015 7th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games) (52--59

Collaborative projects between Industry and Academia provide excellent opportunities for learning. Throughout the academic year 2014-2015 undergraduates from the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay University worked with academics fro... Read More about Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem.

500x CPV Receiver with Integrated Micro-Finned Heat Sink (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Micheli, L., Sundaram, S., Reddy, K., & Mallick, T. K. (2015). 500x CPV Receiver with Integrated Micro-Finned Heat Sink. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications & Technology Conference (PVSAT-11)

Introduction The main aim of concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) is reducing the amount of the expensive semicondutive material by replacing part of it with a reflecting optics and, thus, increasing the density of the sunlight hitting a smaller cell. C... Read More about 500x CPV Receiver with Integrated Micro-Finned Heat Sink.

Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vargheese, J. P., Harrison, R., Balbontin, M. M., Aldea, A., & Brown, D. (2015). Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients. In Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes: 1st ECAI Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Diabet

Self-management of type 1 diabetes is a challenging and complex task due the constant need for self monitoring and the diverse range of factors to consider in order to effectively regulate blood glucose levels. Recommender systems have been demonstra... Read More about Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients.

Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, S. U., Lee, Y., & Koo, I. (2015). Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications. In 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET). https://doi.org/10.1109/icet.2015.7389192

Visible Light Communications (VLC) uses solid-state light sources for data transmission in addition to its primary function of illumination. The dual functionality of light source provokes some challenges for VLC including dimming control and perceiv... Read More about Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications.

A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2015). A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia. In 2015 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA). https://doi.org/10.1109/ski

This paper presents a systematic mapping study based on literature and industrial survey related to assistive technologies for people with dementia. The world population of the ageing people is increasing both in developed and developing countries, s... Read More about A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia.

Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siviter, J., Ashraf, A., Mullen, P., Montecucco, A., Knox, A., Selami, N., & Mallick, T. (2015). Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technol

The use of a solar source simulator in obtaining experimental data for a PV cell is well documented and current solar source technology is advanced in closely reproducing natural light in a laboratory setting. A test system is proposed by the authors... Read More about Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices.

Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, W., Paul, M. C., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Knox, A. R. (2015). Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference, PVSAT-11 Univ

In reality, a solar panel with concentrator is subject to variable sunlight radiation, wind speed and environmental air temperature in a day, accordingly the solar output power is changed in a wide range of 2W-13W, causing a degraded electric perform... Read More about Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell.

Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
White, M., & Howcroft, D. M. (2015). Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus. In Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) (28-37). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4704

We describe an algorithm for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture. An experiment pairing lexicalized text plans from the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus with logical forms obtained by parsing the... Read More about Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus.

Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework. In 2015 7th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT). https://doi.org/10.1109/icumt.2

The behavior composition problem consists in the automatic synthesis of a controller being able to realize a desired target behavior by coordinating a set of available behaviors. Although many frameworks have been proposed for this problem, one of th... Read More about Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework.

Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2015.33

With the evolution of software engineering since the advent of structured programming until now, software engineers are faced with tremendous challenges mostly due to the development of large software programs that behave as open systems. Multi-agent... Read More about Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control.

Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani, N., Abdul-Malek, Z., Ahmad, H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2015). Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency. In Z. Mohamed, F. Saeed, I. A. Hamid-Mosak

Electroluminescence (EL) method has been used by several researchers to observe the behaviour of an aged polymeric material. EL is a phenomenon that occurs when the atoms of a material are being excited due to the application of and external high ele... Read More about Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency.

Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mas'ud, A. A., Eltayeb, M. E., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Bani, N. A. (2015). Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates. In 2015 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization And Development In Engineering and Technology (CSUDET). https

This paper compares the statistical error tolerances of the single neural network (SNN) and the ensemble neural network (ENN) recognition efficiencies, when both the SNN and ENN are applied to recognize partial discharge (PD) patterns. Statistical fi... Read More about Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates.

A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, J. S., ur Rehman, A., Ahmad, J., & Habib, Z. (2015). A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes. In 2015 Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security (CIACS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ciacs.2015.7395

Due to development in Internet and networking technology, multimedia data is broadly transmitted via wired and wireless medium. Thus security is a major concern in modern communication systems. Encryption is one of the pre-eminent ways to guarantee s... Read More about A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes.

Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaiser, S., Chowdhury, Z. I., Mamun, S., Hussain, A., & Mahmud, M. (2015). Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal. In 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (833-836). https://doi.org/10.1109

This paper presents the design of low cost solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people. The signals necessary to maneuver the wheel chair are acquired from different muscles of the hand using surface Electromyography (sEMG) technique.... Read More about Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal.

Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., & Ivanovic, M. (2015). Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.

The 4th International Conference on Electronic, Communications and Networks (CECNet2014) inherits the fruitfulness of the past three conferences and lays a foundation for the forthcoming next year in Shanghai. CECNet2014 was hosted by Hubei Universit... Read More about Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.