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Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heyman, I., & Spassiani, N. (2025, January). Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health. Presented at Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research PhD Series, Online

People with neurodiversity or a neurodisability are overly represented in policing interactions. Yet, knowledge to support meaningful and positive impacts on criminal justice systems to support people with neurodiversity/neurodisability are sparse.... Read More about Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health.

Internationalisation-at-home in Chinese Universities: Contradictions and Potential Changes (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Luo, L., Cruickshank, P., Chita, P., & Richards, K. (2024, November). Internationalisation-at-home in Chinese Universities: Contradictions and Potential Changes. Presented at The Barcelona Conference on Education (BCE2024), Barcelona, Spain

Introduction: Internationalisation at Home (IaH) is a new trend in Internationalisation of Higher Education (IoHE). Starting with China’s emergence as a major international education player, the study evaluates the student experience of IaH in two Ch... Read More about Internationalisation-at-home in Chinese Universities: Contradictions and Potential Changes.

A Systematic Review of the Blockchain Technology Security Challenges and Threats Classification (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M. A., Onyeashie, B. I., Wadhaj, I., Leimich, P., Ali, H., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024, November). A Systematic Review of the Blockchain Technology Security Challenges and Threats Classification. Presented at 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2024), Dubai, UAE

This study provides a comprehensive overview of blockchain technology, discusses its characteristics, and explains the hierarchical structure of the blockchain. Additionally, the study provides an in-depth analysis of various security threats and vul... Read More about A Systematic Review of the Blockchain Technology Security Challenges and Threats Classification.

Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and source of music recommendations (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vargheese, J. P., Wilson, M., Stephen, K., Salzano, R., & Brazier, D. (2025, April). Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and source of music recommendations. Presented at The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Lucca, Tuscany

Music recommender systems are utilised by many music streaming platforms to provide new artist and song recommendations on a person-alised basis to listeners. By applying dynamic data modelling techniques, music recommender systems add to the current... Read More about Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and source of music recommendations.

What mechanism(s) underpin successful risk reduction and lifestyle modification in atrial fibrillation: A realist qualitative study (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pearsons, A., Hanson, C., Hendriks, J., & Neubeck, L. (2025, January). What mechanism(s) underpin successful risk reduction and lifestyle modification in atrial fibrillation: A realist qualitative study. Poster presented at Symposium on the Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, Newcastle, UK

Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common abnormal sustained heart rhythm disorder and increases risk of severe disabling stroke fivefold. Those with AF are often highly co-morbid, and a previous realist review by the authors identifi... Read More about What mechanism(s) underpin successful risk reduction and lifestyle modification in atrial fibrillation: A realist qualitative study.

Into the Black Box: Mining Variable Importance with XAI (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hunter, K., Thomson, S. L., & Hart, E. (2025, April). Into the Black Box: Mining Variable Importance with XAI. Presented at Evostar 2025, Trieste, Italy

Recent works have shown that the idea of mining search spaces to train machine learning models can facilitate increasing understanding of variable importance in optimisation problems. However , so far, the problems studied have typically either been... Read More about Into the Black Box: Mining Variable Importance with XAI.

Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for any Algorithm (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, S. L., Renau, Q., Vermetten, D., Hart, E., van Stein, N., & Kononova, A. V. (2025, April). Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for any Algorithm. Paper presented at EvoStar 2025, Trieste, Italy

Network-based representations of fitness landscapes have grown in popularity in the past decade; this is probably because of growing interest in explainability for optimisation algorithms. Local optima networks (LONs) have been especially dominant in... Read More about Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for any Algorithm.

Algorithm Selection with Probing Trajectories: Benchmarking the Choice of Classifier Model (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Renau, Q., & Hart, E. (2025, April). Algorithm Selection with Probing Trajectories: Benchmarking the Choice of Classifier Model. Presented at EvoSTAR 2025, Trieste, Italy

Recent approaches to training algorithm selectors in the black-box optimisation domain have advocated for the use of training data that is 'algorithm-centric' in order to encapsulate information about how an algorithm performs on an instance, rather... Read More about Algorithm Selection with Probing Trajectories: Benchmarking the Choice of Classifier Model.

Beyond the Hype: Benchmarking LLM-Evolved Heuristics for Bin Packing (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., Hart, E., & Renau, Q. (2025, April). Beyond the Hype: Benchmarking LLM-Evolved Heuristics for Bin Packing. Presented at EvoSTAR 2025, Trieste, Italy

Coupling Large Language Models (LLMs) with Evolutionary Algorithms has recently shown significant promise as a technique to design new heuristics that outperform existing methods, particularly in the field of combinatorial optimisation. An escalating... Read More about Beyond the Hype: Benchmarking LLM-Evolved Heuristics for Bin Packing.

Qualitative thinking and writing with whisky: Malt metaphors and island hopping (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P., & Clarke, D. (2025, January). Qualitative thinking and writing with whisky: Malt metaphors and island hopping. Presented at 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Edinburgh

The aim of this workshop is to radically situate the participants in the stories and senses of Scottish single malt whiskies, exploring meanings and metaphors that whisky suggests and considering its place in different aspects of Scottish life (beari... Read More about Qualitative thinking and writing with whisky: Malt metaphors and island hopping.

Munro bagging and the conquering logic of conquest: Why do we hike? (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2025, January). Munro bagging and the conquering logic of conquest: Why do we hike?. Paper presented at 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Edinburgh

This paper presents an autoethnographic narrative about the social constructedness of ‘nature’ (e.g. Macfarlane, 2003) and the mobilities systems (Urry, 2007) that undergird a binary: bodies that are conventionally read as legitimately ‘outdoorsy’ ve... Read More about Munro bagging and the conquering logic of conquest: Why do we hike?.

A Computational Study of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Turbofan Engine Hybrid Propulsion System Fueled by Ammonia and Hydrogen (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wagner, L., & Tingas, E.-A. (2025, January). A Computational Study of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Turbofan Engine Hybrid Propulsion System Fueled by Ammonia and Hydrogen. Presented at AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, Orlando, Florida

This study presents the theoretical evaluation of a hybrid aero-propulsion system that combines a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) with a commercial turbofan engine (JT9D), fuelled by an ammonia and hydrogen fuel blend, the latter produced by an onboard... Read More about A Computational Study of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Turbofan Engine Hybrid Propulsion System Fueled by Ammonia and Hydrogen.

Computational Investigation of Laminar Premixed Hydrogen/Ammonia Flames at Sub-Atmospheric Conditions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tule, D., & Tingas, E.-A. (2025, January). Computational Investigation of Laminar Premixed Hydrogen/Ammonia Flames at Sub-Atmospheric Conditions. Presented at AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, Orlando, Florida

The increasing urgency to address global warming has highlighted the need to explore alternative fuels for the transport sector, a significant contributor to carbonemissions. Hydrogen and ammonia have emerged as promising candidates, each with distin... Read More about Computational Investigation of Laminar Premixed Hydrogen/Ammonia Flames at Sub-Atmospheric Conditions.

An Evaluation of Domain-agnostic Representations to Enable Multi-task Learning in Combinatorial Optimisation (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stone, C., Renau, Q., Miguel, I., & Hart, E. (2024, June). An Evaluation of Domain-agnostic Representations to Enable Multi-task Learning in Combinatorial Optimisation. Presented at 18th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference, Ischia, Italy

We address the question of multi-task algorithm selection in combinatorial optimisation domains. This is motivated by a desire to simplify the algorithm-selection pipeline by developing a more general classifier that does not require specialised info... Read More about An Evaluation of Domain-agnostic Representations to Enable Multi-task Learning in Combinatorial Optimisation.

Beam Alignment for IEEE 802.11be Powered by Task Oriented Indoor UWB Localization (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karakaya, S. S., Sarı, T., Ak, E., Canberk, B., & Seçinti, G. (2024, September). Beam Alignment for IEEE 802.11be Powered by Task Oriented Indoor UWB Localization. Presented at 2024 IEEE 35th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Valencia, Spain

Coordinated beamforming is one of the crucial improvements for WiFi7. However, to provide sufficient Quality of Service, the corresponding beams have to be aligned accurately. Conventional approaches search for optimal beams in the available codebook... Read More about Beam Alignment for IEEE 802.11be Powered by Task Oriented Indoor UWB Localization.