Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 25th European Conference, EvoApplications 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20–22, 2022, Proceedings

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-02462-7

EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Azouji, N., Sami, A., & Taheri, M. (2022). EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 16(7), 1991-1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-022-02160-z

Today, we are facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, properly wearing face masks has become vital as an effective way to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. This research develops an Efficient Mask-Net method for low-power devices, such as mobi... Read More about EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic.

Environmental Geotechnics (2022)
Journal Article
McDougall, J. (2022). Environmental Geotechnics. Environmental Geotechnics, 9(2), 66-67. https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.2022.9.2.66

I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets (2022)
Journal Article
Aleksanyan, M., Danbolt, J., Siganos, A., & Wu, B. (2022). I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets. Journal of Empirical Finance, 67, 318-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2022.04.004

We study how target firm insiders respond to Wall Street Journal articles referring to illegal insider trading in past mergers. Such articles lead to target insider share purchases before bid announcement to drop by 75%. This effect is stronger neare... Read More about I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets.

The 'Cacophony' of life and death: the impact of the pandemic on persons with disabilities in Ukraine (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharapov, K. (2022, April). The 'Cacophony' of life and death: the impact of the pandemic on persons with disabilities in Ukraine. Paper presented at BSA Virtual Annual Conference 2022: Building Equality and Justice Now, Online

As of January 2021, about 2.7 million persons in Ukraine were officially registered as having a disability. The Ukrainian Government policies in relation to the economic and social wellbeing of people with disabilities (PWDs) could be, at best, descr... Read More about The 'Cacophony' of life and death: the impact of the pandemic on persons with disabilities in Ukraine.

Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform (2022)
Journal Article
Abd, M. H., Al-Suhail, G. A., Tahir, F. R., Ali Ali, A. M., Abbood, H. A., Dashtipour, K., Jamal, S. S., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform. Remote Sensing, 14(9), Article 1984. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14091984

There is no doubt that chaotic systems are still attractive issues in various radar applications and communication systems. In this paper, we present a new 0.3 GHz mono-static microwave chaotic radar. It includes a chaotic system based on a time-dela... Read More about Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform.

Effective and Meaningful Involvement of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Research (2022)
Other
Davey, J. (2022). Effective and Meaningful Involvement of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Research

PhD proposal on FindAPhD.com This research proposal has gone live (as of 20/04/22) to recruit a PhD student to undertake research with myself, Professor Jill Stavart & Jessica Maclaren. It is the first research proposal that seeks to recruit a pe... Read More about Effective and Meaningful Involvement of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Research.

Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Challenges (2022)
Book Chapter
Rice, S., & Maglaras, L. (2022). Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Challenges. In M. Ahmed, S. Rabiul Islam, A. Anwar, N. Moustafa, & A. Khan Pathan (Eds.), Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (59-71). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96630-0_3

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) is used everywhere in daily life from speech recognition on our phones, targeted marketing strategies & face recognition without the majority of society even realising it. The power of technology a... Read More about Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Challenges.

On the inhomogeneous Vinogradov system (2022)
Journal Article
Brandes, J., & Hughes, K. (2022). On the inhomogeneous Vinogradov system. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 106(3), 396-403. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0004972722000284

We show that the system of equations ∑_{i=1}^{s} (x_i^j−y_i^j) = a_j (1⩽j⩽k) has appreciably fewer solutions in the subcritical range s

Relationship between Green Financing and Investment Logic and Effectiveness Evaluation of Financing Decisions (2022)
Journal Article
Kong, L., Lei, Y., Zhang, Q., Zhang, J., Guo, X., & Shi, D. (2022). Relationship between Green Financing and Investment Logic and Effectiveness Evaluation of Financing Decisions. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022, Article 4051379. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4051379

Green financing diverts more funds to green industries such as environmental protection, and clean energy, enabling the industries to realize structural adjustment. On green financing, the existing studies at home and abroad mainly focus on the defin... Read More about Relationship between Green Financing and Investment Logic and Effectiveness Evaluation of Financing Decisions.

Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions (2022)
Journal Article
Kumaresan, T., Ponniyan, D., Chandran, M., Ramasamy, J., Venkatachalam, V., Palaniswamy, K., & Sundaram, S. (2022). Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions. Materials Letters, 319, Article 132283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.132283

A direct methanol fuel cell with an active area of 100 cm2 was tested experimentally under a variety of operating situations to determine its overall performance. Different operational parameters, such as anode flow rate (1–5 ml/min), cathode reactan... Read More about Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions.

Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2023). Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis. Online Information Review, 47(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2021-0208

Purpose The study aimed to examine how different communities concerned with dementia engage and interact on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach A dataset was sampled from 8,400 user profile descriptions, which was labelled into five categories a... Read More about Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis.

Can Developmental Trauma Disorder be Distinguished from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Test of Four Structural Models (2022)
Journal Article
Ford, J. D., Shevlin, M., Karatzias, T., Charak, R., & Spinazzola, J. (2022). Can Developmental Trauma Disorder be Distinguished from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Test of Four Structural Models. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50, 1207-1218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00916-2

Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) is a proposed child psychopathology diagnosis with emotion/somatic, attention/behavioral, and self/relational dysregulation symptoms extending beyond posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Confirmatory factor analys... Read More about Can Developmental Trauma Disorder be Distinguished from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Test of Four Structural Models.

What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cui, T., & Aulton, K. (2022, April). What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects. Paper presented at IRSPM 2022, Online

Public Service Logic (PSL) theory has undergone considerable development over the past years. Initially established as a challenge to the hegemony of New Public Management (NPM), PSL researchers proposed to explore public services as ‘services’ and i... Read More about What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects.

The circle criterion for a class of sector-bounded dynamic nonlinearities (2022)
Journal Article
Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2022). The circle criterion for a class of sector-bounded dynamic nonlinearities. Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 34, 461-492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-022-00324-3

We present a circle criterion which is necessary and sufficient for absolute stability with respect to a natural class of sector-bounded nonlinear causal operators. This generalized circle criterion contains the classical result as a special case. F... Read More about The circle criterion for a class of sector-bounded dynamic nonlinearities.

A New Multistage Encryption Scheme Using Linear Feedback Register and Chaos-Based Quantum Map (2022)
Journal Article
Alharbi, A. R., Ahmad, J., Arshad, Shaukat, S., Masood, F., Ghadi, Y. Y., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). A New Multistage Encryption Scheme Using Linear Feedback Register and Chaos-Based Quantum Map. Complexity, 2022, Article 7047282. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7047282

With the increasing volume of data transmission through insecure communication channels, big data security has become one of the important concerns in the cybersecurity domain. To address these concerns and keep data safe, a robust privacy-preserving... Read More about A New Multistage Encryption Scheme Using Linear Feedback Register and Chaos-Based Quantum Map.

Optimal Pitch Angle Controller for DFIG-Based Wind Turbine System Using Computational Optimization Techniques (2022)
Journal Article
Khurshid, A., Mughal, M. A., Othman, A., Al-Hadhrami, T., Kumar, H., Khurshid, I., Arshad, & Ahmad, J. (2022). Optimal Pitch Angle Controller for DFIG-Based Wind Turbine System Using Computational Optimization Techniques. Electronics, 11(8), Article 1290. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081290

With the advent of high-speed and parallel computing, the applicability of computational optimization in engineering problems has increased, with greater validation than conventional methods. Pitch angle is an effective variable in extracting maximum... Read More about Optimal Pitch Angle Controller for DFIG-Based Wind Turbine System Using Computational Optimization Techniques.

Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies (2022)
Journal Article
Back, J., Johnson, U., Svedberg, P., McCall, A., & Ivarsson, A. (2022). Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 61, Article 102205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102205

During the last decades, an increased drop-out rate in adolescents' team sport participation is observed. Given the potential adverse consequences of drop-out from team sport more information about risk factors for drop-out is warranted. The objectiv... Read More about Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.

Single-Element and MIMO Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas with Negligible Back Radiation for 5G Mid-Band Handsets (2022)
Journal Article
Alnahwi, F. M., Al-Yasir, Y. I. A., See, C. H., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2022). Single-Element and MIMO Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas with Negligible Back Radiation for 5G Mid-Band Handsets. Sensors, 22(8), Article 3067. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22083067

In this paper, single-element and MIMO microstrip antenna with two pairs of unequal slits is proposed as a circularly polarized antenna with negligible back radiation for 5G mid-band handsets. The unequal pairs of slits are engraved on the antenna pa... Read More about Single-Element and MIMO Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas with Negligible Back Radiation for 5G Mid-Band Handsets.

Directed Undersampling Using Active Learning for Particle Identification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farou, Z., Ouaari, S., Domian, B., & Horváth, T. (2021, May). Directed Undersampling Using Active Learning for Particle Identification. Presented at 4th International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC-2021), Central University of Jammu

Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 25th European Conference, EvoApplications 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20–22, 2022, Proceedings (2022)
Book
Jiménez Laredo, J. L., Hidalgo, J. I., & Babaagba, K. O. (Eds.). (2022). Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 25th European Conference, EvoApplications 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20–22, 2022, Proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02462-7

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2022, held as part of Evo*2022, in April 2022, co-located with the Evo*2022 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and Ev... Read More about Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 25th European Conference, EvoApplications 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20–22, 2022, Proceedings.

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