All Outputs (572)

Multiply and conquer: A replication framework for building fault tolerant industrial applications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
de Sousa, M., Chrysoulas, C., & Homay, A. E. (2015, July). Multiply and conquer: A replication framework for building fault tolerant industrial applications. Presented at 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Cambridge, United Kingdom

TIEC 61499 defines an execution model for distributed industrial control applications, i.e. a single application distributed among several devices. In such an environment partial failures are likely to occur. In order to avoid probable system malfunc... Read More about Multiply and conquer: A replication framework for building fault tolerant industrial applications.

Intermodal transport as a regional development strategy: the case of Italian freight villages. (2015)
Journal Article
Monios, J. (2015). Intermodal transport as a regional development strategy: the case of Italian freight villages. Growth and Change, 47(3), 363-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12129

This paper examines the development of intermodal transport operations at freight villages in Italy. Quantitative data on public and private investment and ownership in each of the 25 Italian freight villages are analysed to identify relevant issues,... Read More about Intermodal transport as a regional development strategy: the case of Italian freight villages..

Comparing attribute classifiers for interactive language grounding (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, Y., Eshghi, A., & Lemon, O. (2015, September). Comparing attribute classifiers for interactive language grounding. Presented at Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language, Lisbon, Portugal

We address the problem of interactively learning perceptually grounded word meanings in a multimodal dialogue system. We design a semantic and visual processing system to support this and illustrate how they can be integrated. We then focus on compar... Read More about Comparing attribute classifiers for interactive language grounding.

Loos: the fallen fourth (2015)
Digital Artefact
Donald, I., Demuth, A., & Cook, T. (2015). Loos: the fallen fourth. [Interactive documentary]

Loos: The Fallen Fourth was created as an interactive documentary as part of the Great War Dundee project. Please visit www.greatwardundee.com for more details on the overall project

Loos: The Fallen Fourth focuses on the story of the 4th Black Wa... Read More about Loos: the fallen fourth.

Influence of energy demand response actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in electrically heated residential houses (2015)
Journal Article
Alimohammadisagvand, B., Alam, S., Ali, M., Degefa, M., Jokisalo, J., & Sirén, K. (2017). Influence of energy demand response actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in electrically heated residential houses. Indoor and Built Environment, 26(3), 298-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x15608514

This study has two aims to investigate the energy demand response (DR) actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in detached residential houses (1960, 2010 and passive) in a cold climate. The first one is to find out the acceptable range of indoor a... Read More about Influence of energy demand response actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in electrically heated residential houses.

An interactive tool for semi-automated leaf annotation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Minervini, M., Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. (2015, September). An interactive tool for semi-automated leaf annotation. Presented at Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping Workshop 2015, Swansea

High throughput plant phenotyping is emerging as a necessary step towards meeting agricultural demands of the future. Central to its success is the development of robust computer vision algorithms that analyze images and extract phenotyping informati... Read More about An interactive tool for semi-automated leaf annotation.

Design and analysis of a simple UHF passive RFID tag for liquid level monitoring applications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Abd-Alhameed, R., Rajamani, H., McEwan, N., See, C., & Excell, P. (2015, September). Design and analysis of a simple UHF passive RFID tag for liquid level monitoring applications. Presented at 2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA), Wrexham, United Kingdom

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems has gained increasing popularity with multiple deployments to existing wireless sensors in a view to achieve energy and overall operational efficiency at a much lower cost. This paper presents the design... Read More about Design and analysis of a simple UHF passive RFID tag for liquid level monitoring applications.

Reconfigurable neurons - making the most of configurable logic blocks (CLBs) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghani, A., See, C. H., Migdadi, H., Asif, R., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Noras, J. M. (2015, September). Reconfigurable neurons - making the most of configurable logic blocks (CLBs). Presented at 2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA), Wrexham, United Kingdom

An area-efficient hardware architecture is used to map fully parallel cortical columns on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is presented in this paper. To demonstrate the concept of this work, the proposed architecture is shown at the system leve... Read More about Reconfigurable neurons - making the most of configurable logic blocks (CLBs).

Compact size uni-planer small Metamaterial-Inspired antenna for UWB applications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, N., Elmegri, F., Bin-Melha, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., Lashab, M., & See, C. (2015, September). Compact size uni-planer small Metamaterial-Inspired antenna for UWB applications. Presented at 2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA), Wrexham, United Kingdom

In this paper, low profile planar Metamaterial-Inspired coplanar fed waveguide antenna is presented for WLAN and Ultra-Wideband applications. The antenna is based on a simple strip loaded to a rectangular patch and zigzag E-shape metamaterial-inspire... Read More about Compact size uni-planer small Metamaterial-Inspired antenna for UWB applications.

5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector (2015)
Report
Thuemmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Paulin, A., Sadique, A., Schneider, A., Fedell, C., Abraham, D., Trossen, D., Strinati, E. C., Cavallo, F., Feussner, H., Hay, I., Bedo, J.-S., Micocci, S., Nunziata, S., Gallelli, T., & Covaci, S. (2015). 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector. Brussels: EU Commission

Gaston Crommenlaan 1 PO box: 101 9050 Gent Belgium www.5g-ppp.eu 5G and e-Health 1 Socioeconomic drivers of e-Health in Horizon 2020 Although socioeconomically the sector addressed by this white paper is the health sector, the detailed analysis will... Read More about 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector.

Towards an Emotionally Intelligent Interaction Strategy for Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents acting as Companions (2015)
Thesis
Roa Seïler, N. Towards an Emotionally Intelligent Interaction Strategy for Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents acting as Companions. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/462318

Existing Human Computer Interaction (HCI) strategies are seriously limited by current technologies. These are neither sensitive nor accurate enough to respond to users’ emotional states, the fundamental basis for effective communication in real time.... Read More about Towards an Emotionally Intelligent Interaction Strategy for Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents acting as Companions.

Poverty mapping and sustainable transport: A neglected dimension (2015)
Journal Article
Grieco, M. (2015). Poverty mapping and sustainable transport: A neglected dimension. Research in Transportation Economics, 51, 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2015.07.002

Building upon work conducted for the UNHabitat on the social sustainability of urban mobility and for UNECLAC on transport poverty in Latin America, this paper identifies the utility of poverty mapping in developing sustainable transport systems. The... Read More about Poverty mapping and sustainable transport: A neglected dimension.

Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wang, Z., & Cheng, G. (2015). Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement. In E-Health and Telemedicine : Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (1606-1634). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8756-1.ch080

The authors present an analysis which concludes that most e-health system are packaged for large-scale access through cloud-based services shared in a real-time service deployment environment. The service, which has already been deployed in the cloud... Read More about Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement..

Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2015, September). Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. Presented at Hybrid Cities - Data to the People 3rd International Biennial Conference

The study of cities has risen to the top of research agendas in the last decade, raising the question of how to study something as vast and eclectic as cities. This paper proposes a return to a focus on the local as an appropriate scale to investigat... Read More about Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban..

The manufacture of gas turbine compressor components by Metal Injection Moulding (2015)
Thesis
Russell, A. D. The manufacture of gas turbine compressor components by Metal Injection Moulding. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9827

Gas turbine compressor components manufactured from nickel base alloys have traditionally been precision die forged in sequential thermo-mechanical processing operations in order to achieve the desired geometry and mechanical properties.
Metal Injec... Read More about The manufacture of gas turbine compressor components by Metal Injection Moulding.

A BIM platform for offsite timber construction. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Patlakas, P., Livingstone, A., & Hairstans, R. (2015, September). A BIM platform for offsite timber construction. Presented at Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vienna, Austria

This paper discusses the potential of a BIM platform for offsite timber construction within the context of the UK construction industry. It examines the benefits, limitations, and challenges that BIM brings for offsite timber. Proof-of-concept projec... Read More about A BIM platform for offsite timber construction..

Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management (2015)
Journal Article
Irvine, R., & Hall, H. (2015). Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management. Information Research, 20(3),

INTRODUCTION We provide a critical evaluation of the literature on success factors in information systems projects, with a particular focus on organisational information systems development. This responds to recent editorial comment on the need for l... Read More about Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management.

Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images (2015)
Journal Article
Hunter, D. W., & Hibbard, P. B. (2015). Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images. Journal of Vision, 15(13), 6. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.13.6

An influential theory of the function of early processing in the visual cortex is that it forms an efficient coding of ecologically valid stimuli. In particular, correlations and differences between visual signals from the two eyes are believed to be... Read More about Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images.

Comparing usefulness of acoustic measurements on standing trees for segregation by timber stiffness. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gil-Moreno, D., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2015, September). Comparing usefulness of acoustic measurements on standing trees for segregation by timber stiffness. Presented at 19th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

The paper presents a comparison of standard procedures to measure acoustic stiffness of standing trees and logs. The aim is to see how useful they are for predicting the properties of dry, sawn, timber for the purposes of resource segregation in indu... Read More about Comparing usefulness of acoustic measurements on standing trees for segregation by timber stiffness..

Optical and heat transfer performance of a novel non-imaging concentrator (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellami, N., Meng, X.-L., Xia, X.-L., Knox, A. R., & Mallick, T. K. (2015, December). Optical and heat transfer performance of a novel non-imaging concentrator. Presented at 11th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems: CPV-11, Aix-les-Bains, France

In this study, the Crossed Compound Parabolic Concentrator CCPC is modified to demonstrate for the first time a new generation of solar concentrators working simultaneously as an electricity generator and thermal collector. It is designed to have two... Read More about Optical and heat transfer performance of a novel non-imaging concentrator.