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A Double Auction for Querying the Web of Data (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Moor, D., Grubenmann, T., Seuken, S., & Bernstein, A. (2015). A Double Auction for Querying the Web of Data. In The Third Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.8-8-2015.2260632

Currently, the Web of Data (WoD) suffers from a lack of incentives for data providers. In this paper, we address this issue by designing a double auction to allocate answers (from data providers) to queries in the WoD. However, our domain exhibits a... Read More about A Double Auction for Querying the Web of Data.

Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Donald, I., Meyer, K. A., Brengman, J., Gillespie, S., & Bowness, R. (2015). Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem. In 2015 7th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games) (52--59). https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2015.7295782

Collaborative projects between Industry and Academia provide excellent opportunities for learning. Throughout the academic year 2014-2015 undergraduates from the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay University worked with academics fro... Read More about Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem.

500x CPV Receiver with Integrated Micro-Finned Heat Sink (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Micheli, L., Sundaram, S., Reddy, K., & Mallick, T. K. (2015). 500x CPV Receiver with Integrated Micro-Finned Heat Sink. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications & Technology Conference (PVSAT-11)

Introduction The main aim of concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) is reducing the amount of the expensive semicondutive material by replacing part of it with a reflecting optics and, thus, increasing the density of the sunlight hitting a smaller cell. C... Read More about 500x CPV Receiver with Integrated Micro-Finned Heat Sink.

Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Vargheese, J. P., Harrison, R., Balbontin, M. M., Aldea, A., & Brown, D. (2015). Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients. In Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes: 1st ECAI Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Diabetes, Proceedings (26-27)

Self-management of type 1 diabetes is a challenging and complex task due the constant need for self monitoring and the diverse range of factors to consider in order to effectively regulate blood glucose levels. Recommender systems have been demonstra... Read More about Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients.

Interactive progressive-based approach to aid the human interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Cairns, A. W., Bond, R. R., Finlay, D. D., Breen, C. J., Guldenring, D., Gaffney, R., …Peace, A. J. (2015). Interactive progressive-based approach to aid the human interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram. In 2015 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC). https://doi.org/10.1109/cic.2015.7408620

The 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important diagnostic support tool but is frequently incorrectly interpreted. This is partly due to the fact that even expert clinicians can impulsively provide a diagnosis based on first impression/intuition.... Read More about Interactive progressive-based approach to aid the human interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram.

Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Jan, S. U., Lee, Y., & Koo, I. (2015). Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications. In 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET). https://doi.org/10.1109/icet.2015.7389192

Visible Light Communications (VLC) uses solid-state light sources for data transmission in addition to its primary function of illumination. The dual functionality of light source provokes some challenges for VLC including dimming control and perceiv... Read More about Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications.

A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2015). A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia. In 2015 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA). https://doi.org/10.1109/skima.2015.7399989

This paper presents a systematic mapping study based on literature and industrial survey related to assistive technologies for people with dementia. The world population of the ageing people is increasing both in developed and developing countries, s... Read More about A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia.

Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Siviter, J., Ashraf, A., Mullen, P., Montecucco, A., Knox, A., Selami, N., & Mallick, T. (2015). Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference, PVSAT-11 University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th April 2015 - Conference Proceedings

The use of a solar source simulator in obtaining experimental data for a PV cell is well documented and current solar source technology is advanced in closely reproducing natural light in a laboratory setting. A test system is proposed by the authors... Read More about Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices.

Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Li, W., Paul, M. C., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Knox, A. R. (2015). Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference, PVSAT-11 University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th April 2015 - Conference Proceedings

In reality, a solar panel with concentrator is subject to variable sunlight radiation, wind speed and environmental air temperature in a day, accordingly the solar output power is changed in a wide range of 2W-13W, causing a degraded electric perform... Read More about Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell.

Why Do People Choose to Drive Over Other Travel Modes? Modelling Driving Motivation with SAS (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Neoh, J., & Chipulu, M. (2015). Why Do People Choose to Drive Over Other Travel Modes? Modelling Driving Motivation with SAS. In SAS Global Forum 2015 Proceedings

We demonstrate a method of using SAS® 9.4 to supplement the interpretation of dimensions of a Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) model, a process that could be difficult without SAS®. In our paper, we examine why do people choose to drive to work (over o... Read More about Why Do People Choose to Drive Over Other Travel Modes? Modelling Driving Motivation with SAS.

Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus (2015)
Conference Proceeding
White, M., & Howcroft, D. M. (2015). Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus. In Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) (28-37). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4704

We describe an algorithm for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture. An experiment pairing lexicalized text plans from the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus with logical forms obtained by parsing the... Read More about Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus.

Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework. In 2015 7th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT). https://doi.org/10.1109/icumt.2015.7382395

The behavior composition problem consists in the automatic synthesis of a controller being able to realize a desired target behavior by coordinating a set of available behaviors. Although many frameworks have been proposed for this problem, one of th... Read More about Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework.

Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2015.33

With the evolution of software engineering since the advent of structured programming until now, software engineers are faced with tremendous challenges mostly due to the development of large software programs that behave as open systems. Multi-agent... Read More about Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control.

Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bani, N., Abdul-Malek, Z., Ahmad, H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2015). Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency. In Z. Mohamed, F. Saeed, I. A. Hamid-Mosaku, M. K. A. Hamid, A. Abdulwareth, I. Hassan, …L. Mohammed (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st ICRIL international conference on innovation in science and technology (IICIST 2015) (803-806)

Electroluminescence (EL) method has been used by several researchers to observe the behaviour of an aged polymeric material. EL is a phenomenon that occurs when the atoms of a material are being excited due to the application of and external high ele... Read More about Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency.

Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Mas'ud, A. A., Eltayeb, M. E., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Bani, N. A. (2015). Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates. In 2015 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization And Development In Engineering and Technology (CSUDET). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSUDET.2015.7446217

This paper compares the statistical error tolerances of the single neural network (SNN) and the ensemble neural network (ENN) recognition efficiencies, when both the SNN and ENN are applied to recognize partial discharge (PD) patterns. Statistical fi... Read More about Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates.

A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Khan, J. S., ur Rehman, A., Ahmad, J., & Habib, Z. (2015). A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes. In 2015 Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security (CIACS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ciacs.2015.7395561

Due to development in Internet and networking technology, multimedia data is broadly transmitted via wired and wireless medium. Thus security is a major concern in modern communication systems. Encryption is one of the pre-eminent ways to guarantee s... Read More about A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes.

Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Kaiser, S., Chowdhury, Z. I., Mamun, S., Hussain, A., & Mahmud, M. (2015). Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal. In 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (833-836). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2015.123

This paper presents the design of low cost solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people. The signals necessary to maneuver the wheel chair are acquired from different muscles of the hand using surface Electromyography (sEMG) technique.... Read More about Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal.

Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Hussain, A., & Ivanovic, M. (2015). Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.

The 4th International Conference on Electronic, Communications and Networks (CECNet2014) inherits the fruitfulness of the past three conferences and lays a foundation for the forthcoming next year in Shanghai. CECNet2014 was hosted by Hubei Universit... Read More about Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.