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Identifying Best Practice in National Tourism Organisations: Towards Stakeholder Relationship Management (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wight, C. (2012, May). Identifying Best Practice in National Tourism Organisations: Towards Stakeholder Relationship Management. Presented at 2nd Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing and Management (AHTMM) Conference, Corfu, Greece

The UK Leisure and Tourism sector is uniquely fragmented at government and industry level and comprises of a wide and diverse range of products and services. Tourist boards and strategic authorities are important for the thousands of small enterprise... Read More about Identifying Best Practice in National Tourism Organisations: Towards Stakeholder Relationship Management.

A web based application to enhance medical data visualisation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alfalah, S., Harrison, D., Charissis, V., & Evans, D. (2012, September). A web based application to enhance medical data visualisation. Presented at 10th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2012), Birmingham

The fragmentation of medical data and the limitation of the current way for medical data visualisation were solved by: Firstly, integrating different types of media (Graphs, Imagery, Patient records, Text files, Spreadsheets etc.) in an Electronic Me... Read More about A web based application to enhance medical data visualisation.

The role of 3D simulation to aid podiatry diagnosis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alfalah, S., Harrison, D., Charissis, V., & Evans, D. (2012, March). The role of 3D simulation to aid podiatry diagnosis. Presented at 6th Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2012 (SW12), Worcester

An extensive amount of medical data is recorded daily from patients with walking difficulties. Due to the volume and segmentation of derived data, it is becoming increasingly difficult for health professionals to interpret the collected data and diag... Read More about The role of 3D simulation to aid podiatry diagnosis.

Distal patellar tape placement and removal affects electrical muscle activity and limb flexion at walk (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valentin, S., Zsoldos, R. R., Peham, C., & Licka, T. (2012, July). Distal patellar tape placement and removal affects electrical muscle activity and limb flexion at walk. Presented at XIXth Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK12), Brisbane, Australia

Indoor-indoor and indoor-outdoor propagation trial results at 2.6 GHz (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, C., Allen, B., Liu, E., Karadimas, P., Zhang, J., Glazunov, A. A., & Tufvesson, F. (2012, November). Indoor-indoor and indoor-outdoor propagation trial results at 2.6 GHz. Presented at 2012 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, UK

This paper presents delay spread, coherence bandwidth, and angle-of-arrival statistics derived from an extensive MIMO channel measurement campaign carried out at a central frequency of 2.6GHz. The measurement scenarios include indoor-indoor, indoor-o... Read More about Indoor-indoor and indoor-outdoor propagation trial results at 2.6 GHz.

60 GHz time-domain propagation measurement system (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karadimas, P., Allen, B., & Okon, E. (2012, November). 60 GHz time-domain propagation measurement system. Presented at 2012 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, UK

We present a measurement system and method for characterising the 60 GHz time-domain wireless propagation channel using commercially available and cost effective equipment. Our measurements campaign focuses on characterizing shadowing attenuation due... Read More about 60 GHz time-domain propagation measurement system.

A Generalized Analysis of Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Scattering in Mobile Wireless Channels-Part II: Second-Order Statistical Characterization (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karadimas, P., & Zhang, J. (2012, September). A Generalized Analysis of Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Scattering in Mobile Wireless Channels-Part II: Second-Order Statistical Characterization. Presented at 2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), Quebec City, QC, Canada

In a recent paper [1], we presented a generalized theoretical analysis for the diffuse multipath power in mobile wireless channels accounting for three-dimensional (3-D) multi-modal (i.e., clustered) scattering. In this paper, a parameterized case-st... Read More about A Generalized Analysis of Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Scattering in Mobile Wireless Channels-Part II: Second-Order Statistical Characterization.

Aimbot detection in online fps games using a heuristic method based on distribution comparison matrix (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, S.-Y., Hammerla, N., Yan, J., & Andras, P. (2012, November). Aimbot detection in online fps games using a heuristic method based on distribution comparison matrix. Presented at 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar

Online gaming is very popular and has gained some recognition as the so called e-sport over the last decade. However, in particular First Person Shooter (FPS) games suffer from the development of sophisticated cheating methods such as aiming robots (... Read More about Aimbot detection in online fps games using a heuristic method based on distribution comparison matrix.

Computer Anxiety and the Big Five (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabbe, S. J., & Andras, P. (2012, November). Computer Anxiety and the Big Five. Presented at PPIG 2012 - 24th Annual Workshop, London

This paper explores the relationship between personality traits, as described by the Big Five Factors model, and the likelihood of someone suffering from computer anxiety. The research sample was a cohort of Business School Undergraduates. It was fou... Read More about Computer Anxiety and the Big Five.

Renewable heat incentive for solar thermal systems in the United Kingdom: The next big thing? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abu-Bakar, S. H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., Burek, S., Mallick, T. K., McLennan, C., Munir, A. B., & Yasin, S. H. M. (2012, December). Renewable heat incentive for solar thermal systems in the United Kingdom: The next big thing?. Presented at 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

This paper focuses on the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme in the United Kingdom (UK); and in particular, on its implications in relation to solar thermal systems. First, a short review on the UK's energy demand is provided. Then, a brief explan... Read More about Renewable heat incentive for solar thermal systems in the United Kingdom: The next big thing?.

Tackling the sheer scale of subjective QoE (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menkovski, V., Exarchakos, G., & Liotta, A. (2011, September). Tackling the sheer scale of subjective QoE. Presented at 7th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2011, Cagliari, Italy

Maximum Likelihood Difference Scaling (MLDS) used as a method for subjective assessment of video quality alleviates the inconveniencies associated with high variation and biases common in rating methods. However, the number of tests in a MLDS study r... Read More about Tackling the sheer scale of subjective QoE.

Farewell to deterministic networks (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liotta, A. (2012, November). Farewell to deterministic networks. Presented at 2012 19th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), Eindhoven, Netherlands

As communication networks become increasingly complex and dynamic, the three functions known as monitoring, control and management prove to be ineffective. It is increasingly difficult to operate large networks, perform diagnostics, prevent cascading... Read More about Farewell to deterministic networks.

Towards a Chinese common and common sense knowledge base for sentiment analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Durrani, T., & Zhang, J. (2012, June). Towards a Chinese common and common sense knowledge base for sentiment analysis. Presented at 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012, Dalian, China

To date, the majority of sentiment analysis research has focused on English language. Recent studies, however, show that non-native English speakers heavily support the growing use of Internet. Chinese, specifically, is poised to outpace English as t... Read More about Towards a Chinese common and common sense knowledge base for sentiment analysis.

Towards IMACA: Intelligent multimodal affective conversational agent (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Grassi, M., Wang, Q.-F., & Durrani, T. (2012, November). Towards IMACA: Intelligent multimodal affective conversational agent. Presented at International Conference on Neural Information Processing: ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar

A key aspect when trying to achieve natural interaction in machines is multimodality. Besides verbal communication, in fact, humans interact also through many other channels, e.g., facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and voice tone. S... Read More about Towards IMACA: Intelligent multimodal affective conversational agent.

The use of ASM feature extraction and machine learning for the discrimination of members of the fish ectoparasite genus gyrodactylus (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, R., Hussain, A., Bron, J. E., & Shinn, A. P. (2012, November). The use of ASM feature extraction and machine learning for the discrimination of members of the fish ectoparasite genus gyrodactylus. Presented at ICONIP 2012: 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Doha, Qatar

Active Shape Models (ASM) are applied to the attachment hooks of several species of Gyrodactylus, including the notifiable pathogen G. salaris, to classify each species to their true species type. ASM is used as a feature extraction tool to select in... Read More about The use of ASM feature extraction and machine learning for the discrimination of members of the fish ectoparasite genus gyrodactylus.

The hourglass of emotions (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Livingstone, A., & Hussain, A. (2011, February). The hourglass of emotions. Presented at COST 2102 International Training School on Cognitive Behavioural Systems, Dresden, Germany

Human emotions and their modelling are increasingly understood to be a crucial aspect in the development of intelligent systems. Over the past years, in fact, the adoption of psychological models of emotions has become a common trend among researcher... Read More about The hourglass of emotions.

Single LFP sorting for high-resolution brain-chip interfacing (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, M., Travalin, D., Hussain, A., Girardi, S., Maschietto, M., Felderer, F., & Vassanelli, S. (2012, July). Single LFP sorting for high-resolution brain-chip interfacing. Presented at BICS 2012: 5th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Shenyang, China

Understanding cognition has fascinated many neuroscientists and made them put their efforts in deciphering the brain’s information processing capabilities for cognition. Rodents perceive the environment through whisking during which tactile informati... Read More about Single LFP sorting for high-resolution brain-chip interfacing.

SenticNet 2: A semantic and affective resource for opinion mining and sentiment analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Havasi, C., & Hussain, A. (2012, May). SenticNet 2: A semantic and affective resource for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Presented at 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25, Florida, US

Web 2.0 has changed the ways people communicate, collaborate, and express their opinions and sentiments. But despite social data on the Web being perfectly suitable for human consumption, they remain hardly accessible to machines. To bridge the cogni... Read More about SenticNet 2: A semantic and affective resource for opinion mining and sentiment analysis.

Sentic neural networks: A novel cognitive model for affective common sense reasoning (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mazzocco, T., Cambria, E., Hussain, A., & Wang, Q.-F. (2012, July). Sentic neural networks: A novel cognitive model for affective common sense reasoning. Presented at BICS: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Shenyang, China

In human cognition, the capacity to reason and make decisions is strictly dependent on our common sense knowledge about the world and our inner emotional states: we call this ability affective common sense reasoning. In previous works, graph mining a... Read More about Sentic neural networks: A novel cognitive model for affective common sense reasoning.

Sentic maxine: Multimodal affective fusion and emotional paths (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hupont, I., Cambria, E., Cerezo, E., Hussain, A., & Baldassarri, S. (2012, July). Sentic maxine: Multimodal affective fusion and emotional paths. Presented at ISNN: International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China

The capability of perceiving and expressing emotions through different modalities is a key issue for the enhancement of human-agent interaction. In this paper, an architecture for the development of intelligent multimodal affective interfaces is pres... Read More about Sentic maxine: Multimodal affective fusion and emotional paths.