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Semantically inspired electronic healthcare records (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2012, July). Semantically inspired electronic healthcare records. Presented at BICS: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Shenyang, China

The adoption of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) holds the key for the success of next generation intelligent healthcare systems to improve the quality of healthcare and patient safety by facilitating the exchange of critical patient’s episodic i... Read More about Semantically inspired electronic healthcare records.

Road sign detection and recognition from video stream using HSV, contourlet transform and local energy based shape histogram (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zakir, U., Edirishinghe, E., & Hussain, A. (2012, July). Road sign detection and recognition from video stream using HSV, contourlet transform and local energy based shape histogram. Presented at 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China

This paper describes an efficient approach towards road sign detection and recognition. The proposed system is divided into three sections namely; Colour Segmentation of the road traffic signs using the HSV colour space considering varying lighting c... Read More about Road sign detection and recognition from video stream using HSV, contourlet transform and local energy based shape histogram.

Retrieval of semantic concepts based on analysis of texts for automatic construction of ontology (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Krishnan, R., Hussain, A., & Sherimon, P. (2012, November). Retrieval of semantic concepts based on analysis of texts for automatic construction of ontology. Presented at 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar

Ontology together with Semantic Web has a vital role in knowledge management on a global scale. Since manual construction of ontology leads to complex, time consuming and inconsistent results, automatic construction of ontology is more preferred. Thi... Read More about Retrieval of semantic concepts based on analysis of texts for automatic construction of ontology.

Off-line handwritten Arabic word recognition using SVMs with normalized poly kernel (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alalshekmubarak, A., Hussain, A., & Wang, Q.-F. (2012, November). Off-line handwritten Arabic word recognition using SVMs with normalized poly kernel. Presented at ICONIP: International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Doha, Qatar

Handwriting recognition is a complicated process that many applications rely on, such as mail sorting, cheque processing, digitalisation and translation. The recognition of handwritten Arabic is still an ongoing challenge mainly due to the similarity... Read More about Off-line handwritten Arabic word recognition using SVMs with normalized poly kernel.

Neurobiologically-inspired soft switching control of autonomous vehicles (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, E., Hussain, A., & Gurney, K. (2014, July). Neurobiologically-inspired soft switching control of autonomous vehicles. Presented at BICS: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Shenyang, China

A novel soft switching control approach is presented in this paper for autonomous vehicles by using a new functional model for Basal Ganglia (BG). In the proposed approach, a family of fundamental controllers is treated as each of a set of basic cont... Read More about Neurobiologically-inspired soft switching control of autonomous vehicles.

Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poria, S., Gelbukh, A., Cambria, E., Yang, P., Hussain, A., & Durrani, T. (2012, October). Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis

SenticNet is currently one of the most comprehensive freely available semantic resources for opinion mining. However, it only provides numerical polarity scores, while more detailed sentiment-related information for its concepts is often desirable. A... Read More about Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis.

Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, M., Travalin, D., & Hussain, A. (2012, November). Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach. Presented at 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar

Cognition is one of the main capabilities of mammal brain and understanding it thoroughly requires decoding brain’s information processing pathways which are composed of networks formed by complex connectivity between neurons. Mostly, scientists rely... Read More about Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach.

Clustering social networks using interaction semantics and sentics (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chandra, P., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2012, July). Clustering social networks using interaction semantics and sentics. Presented at 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China

The passage from a static read-only Web to a dynamic read-write Web gave birth to a huge amount of online social networks with the ultimate goal of making communication easier between people with common interests. Unlike real world social networks, h... Read More about Clustering social networks using interaction semantics and sentics.

Analysis of pesticide application practices using an intelligent Agriculture Decision Support System (ADSS) (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, A., Barnawi, A., & Hussain, A. (2012, July). Analysis of pesticide application practices using an intelligent Agriculture Decision Support System (ADSS). Presented at 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China

Pesticides are used for controlling pests, but at the same time they have impacts on the environment as well as the product itself. Although cotton covers 2.5% of the world’s cultivated land yet uses 16% of the world’s insecticides, more than any oth... Read More about Analysis of pesticide application practices using an intelligent Agriculture Decision Support System (ADSS).

An ontology driven and Bayesian Network based cardiovascular decision support framework (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2012, July). An ontology driven and Bayesian Network based cardiovascular decision support framework. Presented at 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China

Clinical risk assessment of chronic illnesses in the cardiovascular domain is quite a challenging and complex task which entails the utilization of standardized clinical practice guidelines and documentation procedures to ensure clinical governance,... Read More about An ontology driven and Bayesian Network based cardiovascular decision support framework.

An intelligent multiple-controller framework for the integrated control of autonomous vehicles (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Abdullah, R., Yang, E., & Gurney, K. (2012, July). An intelligent multiple-controller framework for the integrated control of autonomous vehicles. Presented at 5th International Conference, BICS 2012, Shenyang, China

This paper presents an intelligent multiple-controller framework for the integrated control of throttle, brake and steering subsystems of realistic validated nonlinear autonomous vehicles. In the developed multiple-controller framework, a fuzzy logic... Read More about An intelligent multiple-controller framework for the integrated control of autonomous vehicles.

Affective common sense knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Xia, Y., & Hussain, A. (2012, May). Affective common sense knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis. Presented at International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Thanks to the advent of Web 2.0, the potential for opinion sharing today is unmatched in history. Making meaning out of the hugeamount of unstructured information available online, however, is extremely difficult as web-contents, despite being perfe... Read More about Affective common sense knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis.

A novel road traffic sign detection and recognition approach by introducing CCM and LESH (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zakir, U., Usman, A., & Hussain, A. (2012, November). A novel road traffic sign detection and recognition approach by introducing CCM and LESH. Presented at 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar

A real time road sign detection and recognition system can provide an additional level of driver assistance leading to an improved safety to passengers, road users and other vehicles. Such Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) can be used to aler... Read More about A novel road traffic sign detection and recognition approach by introducing CCM and LESH.

Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2012, September). Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2012)

Concept generation plays a vital role in establishing a broader foundation in the design process to create novel products. In globalized, collaborative, designing scenario, unambiguous representation of captured ideas to explicate designer‘s thoughts... Read More about Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation.

Building Loyalty in E-Tailing: The Role of Perceived Relationship Investment and Relationship Quality (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rafiq, M., Fulford, H., & Lu, X. (2012, May). Building Loyalty in E-Tailing: The Role of Perceived Relationship Investment and Relationship Quality. Presented at European Marketing Academy Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

This paper examines the role of perceived relationship investment and relationship quality (RQ) in the formation of customer loyalty in internet retailing. RQ is treated as a disaggregated multi-dimensional, rather than a global, construct consisting... Read More about Building Loyalty in E-Tailing: The Role of Perceived Relationship Investment and Relationship Quality.

The Future of Music Festivals: Play, Technology and Glastonbury 2050 (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yeoman, I., Robertson, M., McMahon-Beattie, U., & Musarurwam, N. (2012, June). The Future of Music Festivals: Play, Technology and Glastonbury 2050. Presented at International Conference on Tourism and Events: Opportunities, Impacts and Change

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Is there a pedagogy of e-learning? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fotheringham, J. (2012, December). Is there a pedagogy of e-learning?. Paper presented at Dundee University InspireEd series

No abstract available.

Empowering students as online educators (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fotheringham, J., & MacDonald, R. (2012, December). Empowering students as online educators. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Staff Conference

No abstract available.

Peer-to-peer, the full cycle: investigating online peer assessment (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fotheringham, J., & Mowat, E. (2012, October). Peer-to-peer, the full cycle: investigating online peer assessment. Presented at 11th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2012)

The value of peer assessment lies in its potential to offer meaningful and engaging learning experiences to students through their involvement as active participants in marking and feedback (Falchikov, 2005). However, the design and facilitation of p... Read More about Peer-to-peer, the full cycle: investigating online peer assessment.