All Outputs (651)

A tool for generating synthetic data (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, T., & Telle, A. (2018, October). A tool for generating synthetic data. Presented at DATA '18 First International Conference on Data Science, E-learning and Information Systems, Madrid, Spain

It is popular to use real-world data to evaluate data mining techniques. However, there are some disadvantages to use real-world data for such purposes. Firstly, real-world data in most domains is difficult to obtain for several reasons, such as budg... Read More about A tool for generating synthetic data.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Brechin, S., & Currie, J. Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019. Performed at Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. 31 December 2018 - 31 December 2018

Experience the best of Scotland at the Ceilidh under the Castle. Whirl or jig, fling or be flung under Edinburgh Castle. Join hands with old friends and new to dance in the New Year with a full ceilidh band and plenty of local food and drink to keep... Read More about Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019.

A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Liu, Q., & Sun, M. (2018). A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network. Computers, Materials & Continua, 57(2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2018.04025

In a home energy management system (HEMS), appliances are becoming diversified and intelligent, so that certain simple maintenance work can be completed by appliances themselves. During the measurement, collection and transmission of electricity load... Read More about A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network.

An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment (2018)
Journal Article
Jin, D.-D., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019). An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Journal of Computers, 30(3), 130-142. https://doi.org/10.3966/199115992019063003010

Hadoop is a famous parallel computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data, but there exists such a task in hadoop framework, which is called “Straggling task” and has a serious impact on Hadoop. Speculative execution (SE) is an effe... Read More about An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment.

Applications of Evolutionary Computation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2018, April). Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Presented at 21st International Conference, EvoApplications 2018, Parma, Italy

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in April 2018, collocated with the Evo* 2018 events EuroGP, Ev... Read More about Applications of Evolutionary Computation.

A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackamul, E. B., & Esteves, A. (2018, October). A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task. Presented at 6th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Berlin, Germany

This paper presents a comparative study between two popular AR systems during a collocated collaborative task. The goal of the study is to start a body of knowledge that describes the effects of different AR approaches in users' experience and perfor... Read More about A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task.

Assessing correlation of human response to vibration through vibrotactile threshold shift with vibration exposure determined on the subject (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maeda, S., Taylor, M. D., Anderson, L., & Mclaughlin, J. (2018, September). Assessing correlation of human response to vibration through vibrotactile threshold shift with vibration exposure determined on the subject. Presented at 53rd UK Conference on Human Responses to Vibration (UK HRV), Ascot, United Kingdom

Existing risk assessment methodologies are based on fixed tool vibration magnitude emission data and tool usage time. The research evaluates the relationship between vibration dose assessment on subjects using wearable sensors with temporary threshol... Read More about Assessing correlation of human response to vibration through vibrotactile threshold shift with vibration exposure determined on the subject.

A study of cyclists hand-arm vibration exposure. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, M., Oliver, C., & Bayram, J. (2018, September). A study of cyclists hand-arm vibration exposure. Presented at 53rd United Kingdom Conference on Human Responses to Vibration, Ascot, UK

Cycling infrastructure and, in particular, a well maintained pavement surface contributes to a safe and comfortable ride. However, defective pavement surfaces and insufficient maintenance can expose cyclists to excessive hand-arm vibration. Limited... Read More about A study of cyclists hand-arm vibration exposure..

Influence of parameters affecting the racking strength of partially anchored timber framed walls (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, B., Dohnju, R., Kermani, A., Porteous, J., & D'Amico, B. (2018, August). Influence of parameters affecting the racking strength of partially anchored timber framed walls. Presented at World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) 2018, Seoul, Korea

A test-based assessment of the racking performance of partially anchored timber framed walls is described in this paper. The tested wall specimens were constructed and tested at the Centre for Timber Engineering (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) cons... Read More about Influence of parameters affecting the racking strength of partially anchored timber framed walls.

Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mcneill, M., Lawson, A., Raeside, R., & Peisl, T. (2018, July). Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns. Presented at 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018), Belfast

Creating a good crowdfunding campaign is difficult. By understanding why people contribute to crowdfunding campaigns we can make campaigns better and raise more money. Crowdfunding websites allow entrepreneurs to make a pitch, which is watched by pot... Read More about Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns.

Cyclist exposure to hand-arm vibration and pavement surface improvement in the City of Edinburgh (2018)
Other
Taylor, M., Edgar, A., & Raine, M. (2018). Cyclist exposure to hand-arm vibration and pavement surface improvement in the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh

Cyclist exposure to hand/arm vibration

Napier University's Dr Mark Taylor used an instrumented bike to assess the effect of setts and other road surfaces on hand-arm vibration. Setts were found to be a severe problem, with some cyclists even e... Read More about Cyclist exposure to hand-arm vibration and pavement surface improvement in the City of Edinburgh.

Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2018, June). Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning. Presented at 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2018, Edinburgh

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2018, June). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Presented at Diagrams: International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Edinburgh

Dynamic behaviour of shredded rubber soil mixtures (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bernal-Sanchez, J., McDougall, J., Barreto Gonzalez, D., Miranda, M., & Marinelli, A. (2018, June). Dynamic behaviour of shredded rubber soil mixtures. Presented at 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki

Residential buildings in high population density areas are seismically vulnerable to the action of major seismic events. The high cost and technical difficulties related to the use of advanced seismic isolations systems precludes its installation to... Read More about Dynamic behaviour of shredded rubber soil mixtures.

Eidolon360 – A VR Experience (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hood, B., & Flint, T. (2018, July). Eidolon360 – A VR Experience. Presented at 6th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Madrid, Spain

Eidolon360 is a virtual reality artwork and experience that is interacted with through VR headsets. The viewer, reclining on a bed within the exhibition space, experiences a 360 film, shot within a medical simulation centre, that mimics clinical hosp... Read More about Eidolon360 – A VR Experience.

A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lalla-Ruiz, E., Segredo, E., & Voß, S. (2018, June). A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem. Presented at Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION12), Kalamata, Greece

The Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP) is a well-known optimization problem aimed to maximize a quadratic objective function subject to linear capacity constraints. It has several applications in different fields such as telecommunications, graph theor... Read More about A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem.

Experimental and numerical thermal analysis of multi-layered microchannel heat sink for concentrating photovoltaic application (2018)
Journal Article
Al Siyabi, I., Khanna, S., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. (2018). Experimental and numerical thermal analysis of multi-layered microchannel heat sink for concentrating photovoltaic application. Energies, 12(1), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12010122

Concentrating photovoltaic has a major challenge due to the high temperature raised during the process which reduces the efficiency of the solar cell. A multi-layered microchannel heat sink technique is considered more efficient in terms of heat remo... Read More about Experimental and numerical thermal analysis of multi-layered microchannel heat sink for concentrating photovoltaic application.

Measuring passive engagement with health information on social media (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2018, April). Measuring passive engagement with health information on social media. Presented at IEEE Saudi Section 21st Saudi Computer Society National Computer Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Little to no consensus exists on the definition of “engagement” on social media platforms. A myriad of management tools are available to measure behavioral interactions with social media. However, the majority of social media users engage with the co... Read More about Measuring passive engagement with health information on social media.

Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2018, August). Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Technology Trends, Babahoyo, Ecuador

Critical infrastructures such as nuclear plants or water supply systems are mainly managed through electronic control systems. Such systems comprise of a number of elements, such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), networking devices, and actua... Read More about Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System.

Flexible ZnO Nanowires-Graphene Stack by Hot Lamination Method (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shakthivel, D., Yogeswaran, N., Manjakkal, L., & Dahiva, R. (2018, October). Flexible ZnO Nanowires-Graphene Stack by Hot Lamination Method. Presented at 2018 IEEE Sensors, New Delhi, India

Inorganic nanostructures on flexible substrates form key components for high performance flexible electronics. 1D (Nanowires) and 2D (graphene) nanostructures are inherently flexible, in addition to having attractive electronic properties. The utilit... Read More about Flexible ZnO Nanowires-Graphene Stack by Hot Lamination Method.