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A Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2021, August). A Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes. Presented at 8th International Conference & Exhibition on Advanced & Nano Materials (ICANM2021), Ottawa, Canada [Online]

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and their effects have been a matter of global concern over the past decade. With growing energy demands to support developing economies, there has been a challenge of harnessing and utilizing sustainable forms of ener... Read More about A Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes.

A brief look at alternative species in the UK
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adams, S. H., & Ridley-Ellis, D. J. (2020, December). A brief look at alternative species in the UK. Presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering – WSE2020, Online (Helsinki)

A case study of timber demolition recycling in the UK
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramer, M., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2020, December). A case study of timber demolition recycling in the UK. Presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering – WSE2020, Online (Helsinki)

Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gil-Moreno, D., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Harte, A. M. (2021, August). Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber. Presented at WCTE 2021: World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile [Online]

This paper investigates if the relationship between the global and local moduli of elasticity (MoE), measured in bending tests, is affected by the test machines employed, and how that may influence strength grading. The ultimate aim is to study the p... Read More about Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber.

Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Ceallaigh, C., Gil-Moreno, D., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Harte, A. M. (2021, August). Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK. Presented at WCTE 2021: World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile [Online]

A survey was carried out to examine the perception of timber in construction among industry stakeholders within northwest Europe. The survey received responses from 17 countries in total. The total results of all respondents are presented along with... Read More about Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK.

Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2018, July). Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments. Presented at ALIFE 2018: The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, Tokyo, Japan

Cooperation among selfish individuals provides the fundamentals for social organization among animals and humans. Cooperation games capture this behavior at an abstract level and provide the tools for the analysis of the evolution of cooperation. Her... Read More about Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments.

Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Idowu, O. (2005, December). Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics. Presented at WSOM 2005, Paris

Correct and efficient text classification is a major challenge in today’s world of rapidly increasing amount of accessible electronic text data. Kohonen networks have been applied to document classification with comparable success to other document c... Read More about Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics.

Detecting communities of methods using dynamic analysis data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Duffee, B. (2015, May). Detecting communities of methods using dynamic analysis data. Presented at 2015 IEEE/ACM 6th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics, Florence, Italy

Maintaining large-scale software is difficult due to the size and variable nature of such software. Network analysis is a promising approach to extract useful knowledge from network representations of large and complex systems. Community detection is... Read More about Detecting communities of methods using dynamic analysis data.

Privacy Preserving Demand Forecasting to Encourage Consumer Acceptance of Smart Energy Meters
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Briggs, C., Fan, Z., & Andras, P. (2020, December). Privacy Preserving Demand Forecasting to Encourage Consumer Acceptance of Smart Energy Meters. Presented at NeurIPS 2020 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, Online

In this proposal paper we highlight the need for privacy preserving energy demand forecasting to allay a major concern consumers have about smart meter installations. High resolution smart meter data can expose many private aspects of a consumer’s ho... Read More about Privacy Preserving Demand Forecasting to Encourage Consumer Acceptance of Smart Energy Meters.

Environmental Factors and the Emergence of Cultural – Technical Innovations
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2015, July). Environmental Factors and the Emergence of Cultural – Technical Innovations. Presented at ECAL 2015: the 13th European Conference on Artificial Life, York

Environmental factors that determine ecological niches, for
example natural boundaries formed by mountains, rivers,
deserts, contribute to the speciation among animals. Similar
factors have been proposed to be important for the... Read More about Environmental Factors and the Emergence of Cultural – Technical Innovations.

Management from the perspective of systems theory
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2004, July). Management from the perspective of systems theory. Presented at Practising Philosophy of Management, Oxford

Usual management theories focus on phenomenological aspects of organisations and management. Abstract communication systems theory offers a different approach, which can be used to analyze social systems, uncover their internal logic and structure, a... Read More about Management from the perspective of systems theory.

Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wennekers, T., Ay, N., & Andras, P. (2005, August). Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems. Presented at 6th Neural Coding Workshop, Marburg, Germany

Brains are information processing systems evolutionary adapted since millions of years. It seems plausible therefore that they follow information theoretic optimization principles. In the early visual system mutual information maximization (Infomax)... Read More about Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems.

Environmental risk
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., Lazarus, J., Roberts, G., & Lynden, S. J. (2005, April). Environmental risk. Presented at AISB’05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, Hatfield

Environmental risk is an important factor that influences social evolution in natural and artificial environments. Here we analyse environmental risk and we define objective, subjective and effective environmental risk, which are important aspects of... Read More about Environmental risk.

Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parkin, S., Andras, P., & Morgan, G. (2006, May). Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments. Presented at 12th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments, Lisbon, Portugal

A scalable distributed virtual environment (DVE) may be achieved by ensuring virtual world objects communicate their actions to only those objects that fall within their influence, reducing the need to send and process unnecessary messages. A missed... Read More about Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments.

Reporting Statistical Validity and Model Complexity in Machine Learning based Computational Studies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olorisade, B. K., Brereton, P., & Andras, P. (2017, June). Reporting Statistical Validity and Model Complexity in Machine Learning based Computational Studies. Presented at EASE'17: 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, Karlskrona, Sweden

Background:: Statistical validity and model complexity are both important concepts to enhanced understanding and correctness assessment of computational models. However, information about these are often missing from publications applying machine lea... Read More about Reporting Statistical Validity and Model Complexity in Machine Learning based Computational Studies.

The trade-off between usability and security in the context of eGovernment: a mapping study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alshamsi, A., Williams, N., & Andras, P. (2016, July). The trade-off between usability and security in the context of eGovernment: a mapping study. Presented at HCI '16: 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference: Fusion!, Poole

Most governments implement the latest information communication technology (ICT) to improve the online experience of their citizens and businesses. Governments put great effort into providing user-focused services that are usable, secure and accessib... Read More about The trade-off between usability and security in the context of eGovernment: a mapping study.

The Infiniteness of Open Ended Evolution
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2016, July). The Infiniteness of Open Ended Evolution. Presented at OEE2: The Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, Cancún, Mexico

Biological and social systems are considered as a flux of interacting components that transiently participate in interactions with other system components as part of the system. This suggests that any simulated system undergoing open ended evolution... Read More about The Infiniteness of Open Ended Evolution.

Reproducibility in machine Learning-Based studies: An example of text mining
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olorisade, B. K., Brereton, P., & Andras, P. (2017, August). Reproducibility in machine Learning-Based studies: An example of text mining. Presented at ICML 2017 RML Workshop: Reproducibility in Machine Learning, Sydney, Autralia

Reproducibility is an essential requirement for computational studies including those based on machine learning techniques. However, many machine learning studies are either not reproducible or are difficult to reproduce.
In this paper, we consider... Read More about Reproducibility in machine Learning-Based studies: An example of text mining.

A measure to assess the behavior of method stereotypes in object-oriented software
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., Pakhira, A., Moreno, L., & Marcus, A. (2013, May). A measure to assess the behavior of method stereotypes in object-oriented software. Presented at 2013 4th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM), San Francisco, CA, USA

The implementation of software systems should ideally follow the design intentions of the system. However, this is not always the case - the design and implementation of software systems may diverge during software evolution. In this paper we propose... Read More about A measure to assess the behavior of method stereotypes in object-oriented software.