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The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing Performance (2018)
Book
Papadimitriou, D., Baltag, D., & Surubaru, N. (Eds.). (2018). The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing Performance. Abingdon / New York: Routledge

The role of the European Union (EU) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and its ‘near abroad’ has attracted much scholarly attention over the past few years. Notwithstanding the successes of the EU’s eastwards enlargement, the ‘transfor... Read More about The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing Performance.

Building a new research framework for social evolution: intralocus caste antagonism (2018)
Journal Article
Pennell, T. M., Holman, L., Morrow, E. H., & Field, J. (2018). Building a new research framework for social evolution: intralocus caste antagonism. Biological Reviews, 93(2), 1251-1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12394

The breeding and non‐breeding ‘castes’ of eusocial insects provide a striking example of role‐specific selection, where each caste maximises fitness through different morphological, behavioural and physiological trait values. Typically, queens are lo... Read More about Building a new research framework for social evolution: intralocus caste antagonism.

An approach to optimise resource provision with energy-awareness in datacentres by combating task heterogeneity. (2018)
Journal Article
Panneerselvam, J., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). An approach to optimise resource provision with energy-awareness in datacentres by combating task heterogeneity. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2018.2794328

Cloud workloads are increasingly heterogeneous such that a single Cloud job may encompass one to several tasks, and tasks belonging to the same job may behave distinctively during their actual execution. This inherent task heterogeneity imposes incre... Read More about An approach to optimise resource provision with energy-awareness in datacentres by combating task heterogeneity..

Leaf-based Routing Mechanism for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (2018)
Patent
Ghaleb, B., & Al-Dubai, A. (2018). Leaf-based Routing Mechanism for Low-Power and Lossy Networks. 1800668.4. Intellectual Property Office, UK

Unlike existing solutions, our invention provides a “Leaf-Based” mechanism for establishing the Downward routes in Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) that seeks to provide a novel, scalable and efficient routing solution for LLNs, which are the back... Read More about Leaf-based Routing Mechanism for Low-Power and Lossy Networks.

The stage of soil development modulates rhizosphere effect along a High Arctic desert chronosequence (2018)
Journal Article
Mapelli, F., Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Scaglia, B., Tsiamis, G., Rolli, E., Fodelianakis, S., Bourtzis, K., Ventura, S., Tambone, F., Adani, F., Borin, S., & Daffonchio, D. (2018). The stage of soil development modulates rhizosphere effect along a High Arctic desert chronosequence. ISME Journal, 12(5), 1188-1198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-017-0026-4

In mature soils, plant species and soil type determine the selection of root microbiota. Which of these two factors drives rhizosphere selection in barren substrates of developing desert soils has, however, not yet been established. Chronosequences o... Read More about The stage of soil development modulates rhizosphere effect along a High Arctic desert chronosequence.

Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public (2018)
Journal Article
Kerr, A., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public. Library Hi Tech, 36(2), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2017-0091

Purpose – The purpose of this research was to examine current public library apps in Scotland and assess Scottish public library users’ opinions of those apps. Design/methodology/approach – Two qualitative and quantitative surveys were conducted. One... Read More about Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public.

SAMADroid: A Novel 3-Level Hybrid Malware Detection Model for Android Operating System (2018)
Journal Article
Arshad, S., Shah, M. A., Wahid, A., Mehmood, A., Song, H., & Yu, H. (2018). SAMADroid: A Novel 3-Level Hybrid Malware Detection Model for Android Operating System. IEEE Access, 6, 4321-4339. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2792941

For the last few years, Android is known to be the most widely used operating system and this rapidly increasing popularity has attracted the malware developer's attention. Android allows downloading and installation of apps from other unofficial mar... Read More about SAMADroid: A Novel 3-Level Hybrid Malware Detection Model for Android Operating System.

An enhanced adaptive P&O MPPT for fast and efficient tracking under varying environmental conditions (2018)
Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2018). An enhanced adaptive P&O MPPT for fast and efficient tracking under varying environmental conditions. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 9(3), 1487-1496. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2018.2791968

This paper proposes an enhanced adaptive perturb and observe (EA-P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for the photovoltaic system. The objective is to mitigate the limitations of the conventional P&O namely, the steady-state oscillation... Read More about An enhanced adaptive P&O MPPT for fast and efficient tracking under varying environmental conditions.

Employing machine learning techniques for detection and classification of phishing emails (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moradpoor, N., Clavie, B., & Buchanan, B. (2017, July). Employing machine learning techniques for detection and classification of phishing emails. Presented at 2017 Computing Conference, London, UK

A phishing email is a legitimate-looking email which is designed to fool the recipient into believing that it is a genuine email, and either reveals sensitive information or downloads malicious software through clicking on malicious links contained i... Read More about Employing machine learning techniques for detection and classification of phishing emails.

Mining malware command and control traces (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLaren, P., Russell, G., & Buchanan, B. (2018). Mining malware command and control traces. In Proceedings of the SAI Computing Conference 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2017.8252185

Detecting botnets and advanced persistent threats is a major challenge for network administrators. An important component of such malware is the command and control channel, which enables the malware to respond to controller commands. The detection o... Read More about Mining malware command and control traces.

Exploring the market appeal of Indigenous tourism: A netnographic perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Holder, A., & Ruhanen, L. (2019). Exploring the market appeal of Indigenous tourism: A netnographic perspective. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 25(2), 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356766717750423

Indigenous tourism in Australia continues to decline in spite of the global marketing efforts of the country’s national tourism organization. One suggestion is that social desirability bias in previous visitor demand studies has been masking the unde... Read More about Exploring the market appeal of Indigenous tourism: A netnographic perspective.

Computational Intelligence Techniques for Mobile Network Optimization [Guest Editorial] (2018)
Journal Article
Qadir, J., Hussain, A., Yau, K., Imran, M., & Wolisz, A. (2018). Computational Intelligence Techniques for Mobile Network Optimization [Guest Editorial]. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 13(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2017.2773799

Modern society has become increasingly reliant on mobile networks for their communication needs. Such networks are characterized by their dynamic, heterogeneous, complex, and data intensive nature, which makes them more amenable to automated mobile n... Read More about Computational Intelligence Techniques for Mobile Network Optimization [Guest Editorial].

Towards a Security Enabled and SOA-based QoS (for the Smart Grid) Architecture (2018)
Journal Article
Chrysoulas, C., & Pitropakis, N. (2018). Towards a Security Enabled and SOA-based QoS (for the Smart Grid) Architecture. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 4(12), 153551. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.10-1-2018.153551

QoS and Security features are playing an important role in modern network architecures. Dynamic selection of services and by extension of service providers are vital in today’s liberalized market of energy. On the other hand it is equally important f... Read More about Towards a Security Enabled and SOA-based QoS (for the Smart Grid) Architecture.

Big data and data science in health care: What nurses and midwives need to know (2018)
Journal Article
O'Connor, S. (2018). Big data and data science in health care: What nurses and midwives need to know. Journal of Clinical Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14164

The evolution of technology in contemporary society has been accelerating in recent decades, with smaller, more interconnected hardware devices and software applications becoming the norm. As desktop computing paved the way for mobile platforms, whic... Read More about Big data and data science in health care: What nurses and midwives need to know.

The development and trial of an unmanned aerial system for the measurement of methane flux from landfill and greenhouse gas emission hotspots (2018)
Journal Article
Allen, G., Hollingsworth, P., Kabbabe, K., Pitt, J. R., Mead, M. I., Illingworth, S., Roberts, G., Bourn, M., Shallcross, D. E., & Percival, C. J. (2019). The development and trial of an unmanned aerial system for the measurement of methane flux from landfill and greenhouse gas emission hotspots. Waste Management, 87, 883-892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.12.024

This paper describes the development of a new sampling and measurement method to infer methane flux using proxy measurements of CO2 concentration and wind data recorded by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The flux method described and trialed here is a... Read More about The development and trial of an unmanned aerial system for the measurement of methane flux from landfill and greenhouse gas emission hotspots.

Effectiveness, acceptability and usefulness of mobile applications for cardiovascular disease self-management: Systematic review with meta-synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data (2018)
Journal Article
Coorey, G. M., Coorey, G. M., Neubeck, L., Mulley, J., & Redfern, J. (2018). Effectiveness, acceptability and usefulness of mobile applications for cardiovascular disease self-management: Systematic review with meta-synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 25(5), 505-521. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487317750913

Background: Mobile technologies are innovative, scalable approaches to reducing risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) but evidence related to effectiveness and acceptability remains limited. We aimed to explore the effectiveness, acceptability and us... Read More about Effectiveness, acceptability and usefulness of mobile applications for cardiovascular disease self-management: Systematic review with meta-synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data.

Managing association of information system outsourcing: A case of information technology (IT) service provider (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehmood, K., & Hussain, A. (2018). Managing association of information system outsourcing: A case of information technology (IT) service provider. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAI.2017.8248558

Managing relationship is vital fundamental realistic concern in the accomplishment development of outsourcing information system (IS) and also begins to be a realistic dilemma that epidemic business of firms' information system. while the information... Read More about Managing association of information system outsourcing: A case of information technology (IT) service provider.

Knowledge-oriented leadership and innovation: A mediating role of knowledge creation: A case of software industry (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehmood, K., & Hussain, A. (2018). Knowledge-oriented leadership and innovation: A mediating role of knowledge creation: A case of software industry. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAI.2017.8248548

This study describes the mediating role of knowledge creation between knowledge-oriented leadership and innovation. We investigate 150 respondents in the software industry of Pakistan. The path analysis demonstrates that knowledge creation mediates t... Read More about Knowledge-oriented leadership and innovation: A mediating role of knowledge creation: A case of software industry.