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On the comparison of initialisation strategies in differential evolution for large scale optimisation (2017)
Journal Article
Segredo, E., Paechter, B., Segura, C., & González-Vila, C. I. (2018). On the comparison of initialisation strategies in differential evolution for large scale optimisation. Optimization Letters, 12(1), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-017-1107-z

Differential Evolution (DE) has shown to be a promising global opimisation solver for continuous problems, even for those with a large dimensionality. Different previous works have studied the effects that a population initialisation strategy has on... Read More about On the comparison of initialisation strategies in differential evolution for large scale optimisation.

Health 4.0: Application of Industry 4.0 Design Principles in Future Asthma Management (2017)
Book Chapter
Thuemmler, C., & Bai, C. (2017). Health 4.0: Application of Industry 4.0 Design Principles in Future Asthma Management. In C. Thuemmler, & C. Bai (Eds.), Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (23-37). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_2

Industry 4.0 is a well-known industrial concept leveraging individualization and virtualization across different industrial domains. At its core Industry 4.0 empowers industries to evolve from manufacturers to service providers. Recently design princ... Read More about Health 4.0: Application of Industry 4.0 Design Principles in Future Asthma Management.

Case for Health 4.0 (2017)
Book Chapter
Thuemmler, C. (2017). Case for Health 4.0. In C. Thuemmler, & C. Bai (Eds.), Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (1-22). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_1

Demographic and socio-economic changes in large parts of the world enforcing change to health care systems as we know them. While our societies are ageing and thus require more health services the number of hospital beds, at least in Europe, is decre... Read More about Case for Health 4.0.

Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (2017)
Book
Thuemmler, C., & Bai, C. (Eds.). (2017). Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9

This book describes how the creation of new digital services—through vertical and horizontal integration of data coming from sensors on top of existing legacy systems—that has already had a major impact on industry is now extending to healthcare. The... Read More about Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare.

Analysis of Stationary and Dynamic Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fountas, G., Sarwar, M. T., Anastasopoulos, P., Blatt, A., & Majka, K. (2017, January). Analysis of Stationary and Dynamic Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence. Presented at Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States

Traditional accident analysis typically explores non-time-varying (stationary) factors that affect accident occurrence on roadway segments. However, the impact of time-varying (dynamic) factors is not thoroughly investigated. This paper seeks to simu... Read More about Analysis of Stationary and Dynamic Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence.

Performance evaluation of well-insulated versions of contemporary wall systems—A case study of London for a warmer climate (2017)
Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M. (2017). Performance evaluation of well-insulated versions of contemporary wall systems—A case study of London for a warmer climate. Buildings, 7(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7010006

Climate change and its consequences are of a great concern and the likely increasing temperature would add more dilemmas for the choice of passive design options. The performance of building envelopes is one of the key determinants of energy use and... Read More about Performance evaluation of well-insulated versions of contemporary wall systems—A case study of London for a warmer climate.

On Constructing Ensembles for Combinatorial Optimisation (2017)
Journal Article
Hart, E., & Sim, K. (2018). On Constructing Ensembles for Combinatorial Optimisation. Evolutionary Computation, 26(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00203

Although the use of ensemble methods in machine-learning is ubiquitous due to their proven ability to outperform their constituent algorithms, ensembles of optimisation algorithms have received relatively little attention. Existing approaches lag beh... Read More about On Constructing Ensembles for Combinatorial Optimisation.

Educational affordances and learning design in music software development (2017)
Journal Article
Cheng, L., & Leong, S. (2017). Educational affordances and learning design in music software development. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 26(4), 395-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939x.2016.1267037

Although music software has become increasingly affordable and widely adopted in today’s classrooms, concerns have been raised about a lack of consideration for users’ needs during the software development process. This paper examines intra- and inte... Read More about Educational affordances and learning design in music software development.

Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants (2017)
Journal Article
Minervini, M., Giuffrida, M. V., Perata, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2017). Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants. Plant Journal, 90(1), 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13472

Phenotyping is important to understand plant biology, but current solutions are costly, not versatile or are difficult to deploy. To solve this problem, we present Phenotiki, an affordable system for plant phenotyping that, relying on off-the-shelf p... Read More about Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants.

Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Gruyter, C., Rose, G., Currie, G., & Rye, T. (2017, January). Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review. Presented at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

Travel plans, also known as Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans, can be required for new infill and greenfield developments through the land use planning and approvals process. They aim to manage car use through delivering a package of trans... Read More about Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review.

A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L. S. M., Bustamante, H., Bremer, K., Roth, B., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2016, October). A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment. Presented at 2016 IEEE SENSORS

Research has identified that humidity plays a fundamental role on the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphuric acid during corrosion of concrete in gravity sewers and that potentially minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. The... Read More about A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment.

A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., Li, X., Chen, G., & Min, G. (2017). A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 61, 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.12.031

Current networking technologies are not perfectly equipped to support Quality of Service (QoS), which is vital for real-time multimedia applications in Wireless Community Mesh Networks (WCNs). Therefore, there is a need to devise innovative routing a... Read More about A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks.

Faculty perceptions on publishing research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pennington, D. R., Swanson, A., Akwaowo, E., & Zobisch, P. (2016, September). Faculty perceptions on publishing research. Presented at 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Belfast

Today’s researchers have not only the traditional publications, but the open access publishing method whereby research papers can be published via the Internet as well as print publications. Researchers must carefully scrutinize the open access publi... Read More about Faculty perceptions on publishing research.

Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms (2017)
Book Chapter
Buchanan, W., Thuemmler, C., Spyra, G., Smales, A., & Prajapati, B. (2017). Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (219-231). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_11

The way we are sharing health and care data will be changing considerably over the years to come. One of the reasons is an increasing move towards patient-centric approaches where services are built around the citizens, rather than citizens integrate... Read More about Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms.

Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare (2017)
Book Chapter
Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2017). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (233-251). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12

The great leap forward of cyber-physical systems has made provision for future personalized medicine. However, these systems are prone to cyber attacks. To provide patients with secure and reliable healthcare experience, the security issues of cyber-... Read More about Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare.

Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682243

Results of questionnaire emailed to all Community Council Liaison Officers (1) in Scotland. Questions were around their Community Councils' use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy.

(1) Com... Read More about Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016.

Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682227

Results of online survey of Community Councillors around Scotland. Most questions were around their use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy, but some questions were about their general roles a... Read More about Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016.