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Evolving Staff Training Schedules using an Extensible Fitness Function and a Domain Specific Language (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N., & Hunter, K. (2024, April). Evolving Staff Training Schedules using an Extensible Fitness Function and a Domain Specific Language. Presented at 27th European Conference, EvoApplications 2024, Aberystwyth, UK

When using a meta-heuristic based optimiser in some industrial scenarios, there may be a need to amend the objective function as time progresses to encompass constraints that did not exist during the development phase of the software. We propose a me... Read More about Evolving Staff Training Schedules using an Extensible Fitness Function and a Domain Specific Language.

PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yaqub, Z., Yigit, Y., Maglaras, L., Tan, Z., & Wooderson, P. (2024, April). PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme. Presented at The 20th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) play a critical role in enhancing road safety and traffic flow. However, VANETs face significant security and privacy challenges due to... Read More about PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme.

Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search (2024)
Journal Article
Arza, E., Le Goff, L. K., & Hart, E. (online). Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653024

Lengthy evaluation times are common in many optimization problems such as direct policy search tasks, especially when they involve conducting evaluations in the physical world, e.g. in robotics applications. Often when evaluating solution over a fixe... Read More about Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search.

DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation (2024)
Journal Article
Zhai, C., Yang, L., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2024). DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 73, Article 2512316. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2024.3379418

In the early prevention stage of colorectal cancer, the utilization of automatic polyp segmentation techniques from colonoscopy images has demonstrated efficacy in mitigating the misdiagnosis rate. Nonetheless, accurate polyp segmentation is always a... Read More about DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation.

Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks (2024)
Journal Article
Bhatti, D. S., Saleem, S., Ali, Z., Park, T., Suh, B., Kamran, A., Buchanan, W. J., & Kim, K. (2024). Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Access, 12, 41499-41516. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3377144

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are deployed on a large scale and require protection from malicious energy drainage attacks, particularly those directed at the routing layer. The complexity increases during critical operations like cluster head select... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Using Frequency B-Splines for an accurate and faster calculation of adaptive transforms for electric machines diagnosis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Quijano-López, A., Bonet-Jara, J., & Vedreño-Santos, F. (2024, May). Using Frequency B-Splines for an accurate and faster calculation of adaptive transforms for electric machines diagnosis. Presented at Electrimacs 2024, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

Early detection of faults in electric motors is crucial to prevent unplanned downtime and expensive repairs. Transient analysis through time-frequency transforms reveals important information on the motor condition. Computational time of these transf... Read More about Using Frequency B-Splines for an accurate and faster calculation of adaptive transforms for electric machines diagnosis.

A Novel RFID Tag's Antenna for Mounting on Metallic Objects (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gharbia, I., Aldelemy, A., Elmegri, F., Ismail, . A. S., Darwish, M., See, C. H., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2024, May). A Novel RFID Tag's Antenna for Mounting on Metallic Objects. Presented at 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEENG), Cairo, Egypt

Gain-Enhanced/End-Fire Phased Array Antenna for Future Cellular Networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Basherlou, H. J., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Manjakkal, L., See, C. H., Amar, A., & Salama, A. (2024, May). Gain-Enhanced/End-Fire Phased Array Antenna for Future Cellular Networks. Presented at 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEENG), Cairo, Egypt

Novel Aperture Antenna Array Design for Indoor Localisation UWB Radar Technologies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmed, I., Aldelemy, A., Ismail, A. S., See, C. H., Ghareeb, M. F., Nafea,, S., Oda, E., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2024, May). Novel Aperture Antenna Array Design for Indoor Localisation UWB Radar Technologies. Presented at 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEENG), Cairo, Egypt

Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning (2024)
Journal Article
Farou, Z., Wang, Y., & Horváth, T. (2024). Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 22, Article 200357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200357

Class imbalance learning is challenging in various domains where training datasets exhibit disproportionate samples in a specific class. Resampling methods have been used to adjust the class distribution, but they often have limitations for small dis... Read More about Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning.

PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mckeown, S., Aaby, P., & Steyven, A. PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework. Presented at DFRWS EU 2024, Zaragoza, Spain

The automated comparison of visual content is a contemporary solution to scale the detection of illegal media and extremist material, both for detection on individual devices and in the cloud. However, the problem is difficult, and perceptual similar... Read More about PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework.

Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richter, H., & Thomson, S. L. (2024, June). Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks. Presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), Yokohama, Japan

We propose a new way of looking at local optima networks (LONs). LONs represent fitness landscapes; the nodes are local optima, and the edges are search transitions between them. Many metrics computed on LONs have been proposed and shown to be linked... Read More about Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks.

Wideband Endfire Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Terminals (2024)
Journal Article
Zidour, A., Ayad, M., Alibakhshikenari, M., See, C. H., Lai, Y., Ma, Y., Guenad, B., Livreri, P., Khan, S., Pau, G., & Denidni, T. A. (2024). Wideband Endfire Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Terminals. IEEE Access, 12, 39926-39935. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.0322000

In this paper, a compact endfire antenna array with low-profile, small clearance, and wideband operation is proposed for millimeter-wave (mmWave) fifth-generation (5G) mobile terminals. The wideband operation is achieved by exciting two identical bow... Read More about Wideband Endfire Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Terminals.

A Probability Mapping-Based Privacy Preservation Method for Social Networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, Q., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Tan, Z., & Wang, C. (2023, November). A Probability Mapping-Based Privacy Preservation Method for Social Networks. Presented at The 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Security 2023 (UbiSec-2023), Exeter

The mining and analysis of social networks can bring significant economic and social benefits. However, it also poses a risk of privacy leakages. Differential privacy is a de facto standard to prevent such leaks, but it suffers from the high sensitiv... Read More about A Probability Mapping-Based Privacy Preservation Method for Social Networks.

Job-seeking narratives: in search of graduate capitals acquired during student placements (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, S., & Smith, C. (in press). Job-seeking narratives: in search of graduate capitals acquired during student placements. British Journal of Sociology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2328125

Being a graduate is no longer sufficient to secure a fulfilling and rewarding graduate role. This paper drew on Tomlinson’s Graduate Capital Model to analyse the job-seeking narratives of recent computing graduates searching for a graduate job. Parti... Read More about Job-seeking narratives: in search of graduate capitals acquired during student placements.

A Stiffness Approach for Coupling Structural and Magnetic Models for the Sustainable Design, Optimisation and Real-Time Structural Integrity Assessment of Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Generators for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines (2024)
Journal Article
McDonald, A., & Jaen-Sola, P. (2024). A Stiffness Approach for Coupling Structural and Magnetic Models for the Sustainable Design, Optimisation and Real-Time Structural Integrity Assessment of Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Generators for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines. Sustainability, 16(6), Article 2393. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16062393

The mass of a direct-drive generator is often defined by the requirements for structural stiffness to meet the magnetic stiffness between the rotor and stator surfaces. This paper analyses this magnetic stiffness and estimates the structural stiffnes... Read More about A Stiffness Approach for Coupling Structural and Magnetic Models for the Sustainable Design, Optimisation and Real-Time Structural Integrity Assessment of Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Generators for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines.

A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Pan, L., Cao, X., Gan, J., Huang, X., & Liu, X. (2024). A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 36(13), Article e8060. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.8060

As the edge nodes of the Internet of Smart Grids (IoSG), smart sockets enable all kinds of power load data to be analyzed at the edge, which create conditions for edge calculation and real-time (RT) load forecasting. In this article, an edge-cloud co... Read More about A spatio-temporal graph convolutional approach to real-time load forecasting in an edge-enabled distributed Internet of Smart Grids energy system.

Utilizing the Ensemble Learning and XAI for Performance Improvements in IoT Network Attack Detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kalutharage, C. S., Liu, X., Chrysoulas, C., & Bamgboye, O. (2023, September). Utilizing the Ensemble Learning and XAI for Performance Improvements in IoT Network Attack Detection. Presented at The 4th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection (CPS4CIP 2023) - in conjunction with ESORICS 2023, The Hague, Netherlands

Opto-electrochemical variation with gel polymer electrolytes in transparent electrochemical capacitors for ionotronics (2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, C., Sebastian, A. K., Markapudi, P. R., Beg, M., Sundaram, S., Hussain, A., & Manjakkal, L. (2024). Opto-electrochemical variation with gel polymer electrolytes in transparent electrochemical capacitors for ionotronics. Applied Physics Letters, 124(11), Article 111603. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0190801

Advanced flexible ionotronic devices have found excellent applications in the next generation of electronic skin (e-skin) development for smart wearables, robotics, and prosthesis. In this work, we developed transparent ionotronic-based flexible elec... Read More about Opto-electrochemical variation with gel polymer electrolytes in transparent electrochemical capacitors for ionotronics.