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Management of Invasive Insect Species using Optimal Control Theory (2018)
Journal Article
Edholm, C., Tenhumberg, B., Guiver, C., Jin, Y., Townley, S., & Rebarber, R. (2018). Management of Invasive Insect Species using Optimal Control Theory. Ecological Modelling, 381, 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.04.011

We discuss the use of optimal control theory to determine the most cost-effective management strategies for insect pests. We use a stage-structured linear population projection model where the modeled control action increases the mortality in one of... Read More about Management of Invasive Insect Species using Optimal Control Theory.

Helmet non-use by users of bikeshare programs, electric bicycles, racing bicycles, and personal bicycles: An observational study in Taipei, Taiwan. (2018)
Journal Article
Chi, C.-F., Chen, P.-L., Saleh, W., Tsai, S.-H., & Pai, C.-W. (2018). Helmet non-use by users of bikeshare programs, electric bicycles, racing bicycles, and personal bicycles: An observational study in Taipei, Taiwan. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 13(2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2018.1441470

The bikeshare program in Taipei City and New Taipei City, called U-bike, was launched in August 2012 and has more than 7500 bicycles operating out of 769 stations. Research has suggested that bicycle helmet use is a means of reducing morbidity and mo... Read More about Helmet non-use by users of bikeshare programs, electric bicycles, racing bicycles, and personal bicycles: An observational study in Taipei, Taiwan..

Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers (2018)
Journal Article
Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. J. (2018). Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 50(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769965

Networking is considered an integral feature of job search, yet its behavioural manifestation has received little attention in the extant literature. Here this is addressed in a study of young job-seekers that adopted an egocentric network approach u... Read More about Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers.

On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (2018)
Journal Article
Mocanu, E., Mocanu, D. C., Nguyen, P. H., Liotta, A., Webber, M. E., Gibescu, M., & Slootweg, J. G. (2019). On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(4), 3698-3708. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2018.2834219

Unprecedented high volumes of data are becoming available with the growth of the advanced metering infrastructure. These are expected to benefit planning and operation of the future power systems and to help customers transition from a passive to an... Read More about On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.

A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Li, S., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018). A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment. International Journal of Embedded Systems, 10(3), 248-256. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijes.2018.091788

Home energy management (HEM) and smart home have been popular among people; HEM collects and analyses the electric load data to make the power use safe, reliable, economical, efficient and environmentally friendly. Without the correct data, the corre... Read More about A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment.

Social learning in repeated cooperation games in uncertain environments (2018)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2018). Social learning in repeated cooperation games in uncertain environments. Cognitive Systems Research, 51, 24-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.04.013

Cooperation and social learning are fundamental mechanisms that maintain social organisation among animals and humans. Social institutions can be conceptualised abstractly as cooperation games with social learning. In some cases potential cooperation... Read More about Social learning in repeated cooperation games in uncertain environments.

A Data Fusion-Based Hybrid Sensory System for Older People’s Daily Activity and Daily Routine Recognition (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2018). A Data Fusion-Based Hybrid Sensory System for Older People’s Daily Activity and Daily Routine Recognition. IEEE Sensors Journal, 18(16), 6874-6888. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2018.2833745

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has received considerable attention due to its wide applications in health care. Each sensor modality has its advantages and limitations. Single sensor modalities sometimes may not cope with complex situa... Read More about A Data Fusion-Based Hybrid Sensory System for Older People’s Daily Activity and Daily Routine Recognition.

A control theoretical view of cloud elasticity: taxonomy, survey and challenges (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Li, J., Shen, Y., & Hussain, A. (2018). A control theoretical view of cloud elasticity: taxonomy, survey and challenges. Cluster Computing, 21(4), 1735-1764. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-018-2807-6

The lucrative features of cloud computing such as pay-as-you-go pricing model and dynamic resource provisioning (elasticity) attract clients to host their applications over the cloud to save up-front capital expenditure and to reduce the operational... Read More about A control theoretical view of cloud elasticity: taxonomy, survey and challenges.

Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2019). Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(4), 950-961. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769966

The purpose of the research was to investigate the practices of elected, yet unpaid, community councillors in Scotland as they exploit information channels for democratic engagement with citizens. Its focus is both novel and significant in that it co... Read More about Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement.

Dynamic structural design of offshore direct-drive wind turbine electrical generators. (2018)
Journal Article
Jaen-Sola, P., McDonald, A. S., & Oterkus, E. (2018). Dynamic structural design of offshore direct-drive wind turbine electrical generators. Ocean Engineering, 161, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.04.074

Direct-drive permanent magnet generators for multi-MW wind turbines are low speed high torque electrical machines requiring large, heavy and robust structures to maintain the airgap clearance open and stable. The structural mass of radial-flux genera... Read More about Dynamic structural design of offshore direct-drive wind turbine electrical generators..

Investigating the online and offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces. (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E., & Smith, C. F. (2019). Investigating the online and offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces. Information, Communication and Society, 22(13), 1853-1870. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2018.1469656

Citizen-led participation in democracy is explored through studying the online and offline spaces where people work together to influence those in power and improve their communities. The concept of a participation space is introduced to describe the... Read More about Investigating the online and offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces..

A survey on rainfall forecasting using artificial neural network (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zou, Y., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019). A survey on rainfall forecasting using artificial neural network. International Journal of Embedded Systems, 11(2), 240-249. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijes.2018.10016095

Rainfall has a great impact on agriculture and people’s daily travel, so accurate prediction of precipitation is well worth studying for researchers. Traditional methods like numerical weather prediction (NWP) models or statistical models can’t provi... Read More about A survey on rainfall forecasting using artificial neural network.

Youth mental health and information engagement (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, May). Youth mental health and information engagement. Paper presented at Engage 2018: Digital Health Citizen Engagement Network: Changing Care Together, Glasgow

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Meta-surface wall suppression of mutual coupling between microstrip patch antenna arrays for THz-band applications (2018)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B., Shukla, P., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018). Meta-surface wall suppression of mutual coupling between microstrip patch antenna arrays for THz-band applications. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 75, 105-111. https://doi.org/10.2528/pierl18021908

This paper presents a novel 2D meta-surface wall to increase the isolation between microstrip patch radiators in an antenna array that is operating in the teraherz (THz) band of 139-141 GHz for applications including communications, medical and secur... Read More about Meta-surface wall suppression of mutual coupling between microstrip patch antenna arrays for THz-band applications.

The relationship between formal and informal institutions for governance of public transport (2018)
Journal Article
Rye, T., Monios, J., Hrelja, R., & Isaksson, K. (2018). The relationship between formal and informal institutions for governance of public transport. Journal of Transport Geography, 69, 196-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.025

The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between the formal (governance established in law) and informal institutions (governance not established in law) that underpin the planning, operation and improvement of local and regional p... Read More about The relationship between formal and informal institutions for governance of public transport.

Equipping ourselves for future forests and timber. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2018, May). Equipping ourselves for future forests and timber. Presented at Institute of Chartered Foresters National Conference

Presentation to the Institute of Chartered Foresters National Conference, "Innovation for change - New drivers for tomorrow’s forestry" Edinburgh 2-3 May 2013

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Empowerment and embodiment for collaborative mixed reality systems: Empowerment and Embodiment (2018)
Journal Article
Pan, Y., Sinclair, D., & Mitchell, K. (2018). Empowerment and embodiment for collaborative mixed reality systems: Empowerment and Embodiment. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 29(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.1838

We present several mixed‐reality‐based remote collaboration settings by using consumer head‐mounted displays. We investigated how two people are able to work together in these settings. We found that the person in the AR system will be regarded as th... Read More about Empowerment and embodiment for collaborative mixed reality systems: Empowerment and Embodiment.

Detection and prevention of Black Hole Attacks in IOT & WSN (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, S., Khan, M. A., Ahmad, J., Malik, A. W., & ur Rehman, A. (2018, April). Detection and prevention of Black Hole Attacks in IOT & WSN. Presented at 2018 Third International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), Barcelona, Spain

Wireless Sensor Network is the combination of small devices called sensor nodes, gateways and software. These nodes use wireless medium for transmission and are capable to sense and transmit the data to other nodes. Generally, WSN composed of two typ... Read More about Detection and prevention of Black Hole Attacks in IOT & WSN.

Cloud Computing & Cyber Security (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manoussos, B. (2018, April). Cloud Computing & Cyber Security. Presented at The Law Society of Scotland - Law & Technology Roadshow, Glasgow

Presentation on Cloud Computing and Cyber Security in relation to Law Firms in Scotland.