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ProMe: A Mentoring Platform for Older Adults Using Machine Learning Techniques for Supporting the “Live and Learn” Concept (2018)
Journal Article
Kostopoulos, G., Neureiter, K., Papatoiu, D., Tscheligi, M., & Chrysoulas, C. (2018). ProMe: A Mentoring Platform for Older Adults Using Machine Learning Techniques for Supporting the “Live and Learn” Concept. Mobile Information Systems, 2018, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9723268

It is well known what an important role employment plays in our lives and how it influences our everyday life. With the help of employment, all of us as individuals manage to create our personal and social net that not only gives meaning and financia... Read More about ProMe: A Mentoring Platform for Older Adults Using Machine Learning Techniques for Supporting the “Live and Learn” Concept.

How universities can better engage with the animation/VFX sector in Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Mortimer, J. (2018). How universities can better engage with the animation/VFX sector in Scotland. Animation Practice, Process & Production, 7(1), 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1386/ap3.7.1.157_1

This research explores how universities can better engage with the animation/VFX industry in Scotland, by examining what skills current industry requires of graduates, and how institutes can better collaborate with working studios. Given the unknown... Read More about How universities can better engage with the animation/VFX sector in Scotland.

SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data (2018)
Journal Article
Xiao, B., Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2018). SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data. Computers, Materials & Continua, 56(3), 365-379. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmc.2018.01830

In recent years, the rapid development of big data technology has also been favored by more and more scholars. Massive data storage and calculation problems have also been solved. At the same time, outlier detection problems in mass data have also co... Read More about SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data.

Assessment of health status of the elderly and pre-elderly at a Malaysia elderly care centre (2018)
Journal Article
Bani, N. A., Hassan, M. Z., Kaidi, H. M., Hashim, N. F. M., Dziyauddin, R. A., Musa, R., Suhot, M. A., Usman, S., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Abu-Bakar, S. H., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2018). Assessment of health status of the elderly and pre-elderly at a Malaysia elderly care centre. International Journal of Integrated Engineering, 10(7), 10-22. https://doi.org/10.30880/ijie.2018.10.07.002

They were once called the baby boomers, born between 1946 to 1964, but now aged above 50 years old, they contribute to the increasing number of elderly population in Malaysia. Age classification for elderly people varies between countries but commonl... Read More about Assessment of health status of the elderly and pre-elderly at a Malaysia elderly care centre.

Investigation of the turbulent flame structure and topology at different Karlovitz numbers using the tangential stretching rate index (2018)
Journal Article
Manias, D. M., Tingas, E., Hernández Pérez, F. E., Malpica Galassi, R., Paolo Ciottoli, P., Valorani, M., & Im, H. G. (2019). Investigation of the turbulent flame structure and topology at different Karlovitz numbers using the tangential stretching rate index. Combustion and Flame, 200, 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.11.023

Turbulent premixed flames at high Karlovitz numbers exhibit highly complex structures in different reactive scalar fields to the extent that the definition of the flame front in an unambiguous manner is not straightforward. This poses a significant c... Read More about Investigation of the turbulent flame structure and topology at different Karlovitz numbers using the tangential stretching rate index.

Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States (2018)
Journal Article
Julien, S.-A., Cowie, J., & Monios, J. (2020). Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 22(2), 239-264. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-018-0115-y

This paper investigates the evolutionary technical efficiency and productivity of ports in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The focus is primarily on Caribbean SIDS, benchmarked against two comparator groups: major top ports and ports in other... Read More about Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States.

Self-healing nanocoatings for protection against steel corrosion (2018)
Book Chapter
Stankiewicz, A. (2018). Self-healing nanocoatings for protection against steel corrosion. In Nanotechnology in Eco-efficient Construction: Materials, Processes and Applications (303-335). (2nd). Elsevier

This chapter deals with the issue of corrosion protection of steel surfaces. The corrosion process and approaches to corrosion protection are presented. The chapter presents a critical review of recent research and developments on protective nanocoat... Read More about Self-healing nanocoatings for protection against steel corrosion.

Psychogeography With Technology (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T., Grandison, T., & Barrett, H. (2018, November). Psychogeography With Technology. Poster presented at Engage 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland

No abstract available.

Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing (2018)
Journal Article
Alrashidi, H., Ghosh, A., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing. Materials Letters, 237, 332-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.11.128

Solar and luminous light transmission control using Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) based PV glazing systems (15cm × 15cm × 0.6cm) were evaluated in this work. Indoor spectral characterisation showed that average solar transmission for investigated three di... Read More about Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing.

Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching (2018)
Journal Article
Lin, C., Lu, W., Huang, X., Liu, K., Sun, W., Lin, H., & Tan, Z. (2019). Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(21), 30081-30096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6922-4

Recently, the research of Internet of Things (IoT) and Multimedia Big Data (MBD) has been growing tremendously. Both IoT and MBD have a lot of multimedia data, which can be tampered easily. Therefore, the research of multimedia forensics is necessary... Read More about Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching.

BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning (2018)
Journal Article
Vogogias, A., Kennedy, J., Archambault, D., Bach, B., Smith, V. A., & Currant, H. (2018). BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning. ACM transactions on intelligent systems and technology, 10(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3230623

We address the problem of exploring, combining and comparing large collections of scored, directed networks for understanding inferred Bayesian networks used in biology. In this feld, heuristic algorithms explore the space of possible network solutio... Read More about BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning.

Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance (2018)
Journal Article
Cauteruccio, F., Fortino, G., Guerrieri, A., Liotta, A., Mocanu, D. C., Perra, C., Terracina, G., & Torres Vega, M. (2019). Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance. Information Fusion, 52, 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.11.010

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks are a source of large amount of different information representing environmental aspects such as light, temperature, and humidity. A very important research problem related to the analysis of the sensor data is... Read More about Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance.

Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges (2018)
Journal Article
Ferrag, M. A., Derdour, M., Mukherjee, M., Derhab, A., Maglaras, L., & Janicke, H. (2019). Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges. IEEE Internet of Things, 6(2), 2188-2204. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2018.2882794

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the existing blockchain protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. We start by describing the blockchains and summarizing the existing surveys that deal with blockchain technologies. Then, we pr... Read More about Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges.

Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study (2018)
Journal Article
Cheng, L. (2018). Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2018.10.01.10

Live coding is a relatively new performance practice that emphasizes the expressive possibilities afforded by computer programming. Live coding has often been associated with contemporary musical styles such as electronic dance music (EDM), which fav... Read More about Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study.

A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, S., Li, X., Tan, Z., Peng, T., & Wang, G. (2019). A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services. Future Generation Computer Systems, 94, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.10.053

With the rapid pervasion of location-based services (LBSs), protection of location privacy has become a significant concern. In most continuous LBSs' privacy-preserving solutions, users need to transmit the location query data to an untrusted locatio... Read More about A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services.

Cycle & Mountain Biking Industries Innovation Summit (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, M. (2018, November). Cycle & Mountain Biking Industries Innovation Summit. Presented at Scottish Mountain Biking Conference Innovation Summit, Aviemore, Scotland,

The partners and companies of Cycle Industries
Europe (CIE), Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland
(MTBCoS) and Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland
(DMBinS) invitation to attend the Cycle & Mountain Biking
Industries’ Innovation Summit to be held i... Read More about Cycle & Mountain Biking Industries Innovation Summit.

Keys to their own voices: Social tags for a dementia ontology as a human right (2018)
Book Chapter
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). Keys to their own voices: Social tags for a dementia ontology as a human right. In L. Spiteri, & D. Rasmussen Pennington (Eds.), Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment. London: Facet Publishing

Dementia encompasses a range of incurable brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, which affected 47 million people worldwide in 2015, a figure that is expected to triple by 2050. It is therefore a worldwide public health priority (World Health... Read More about Keys to their own voices: Social tags for a dementia ontology as a human right.

The Nature of Risk and the Privacy Calculus (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2018, November). The Nature of Risk and the Privacy Calculus. Poster presented at Royal Academy of Engineering Annual Research Forum, London

Haynes, D. (2018, November). The Nature of Risk and the Privacy Calculus. Poster presented at Royal Academy of Engineering Annual Research Forum, London.