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Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Singh Jamnal, G., Liu, X., & Fan, L. (2017). Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space. In Proceedings of The 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

In this paper, we proposed a new type of decision making system to achieve the intelligent goal for automated smart environments. The artificial intelligence techniques, used as building blocks to understand inhabitant activity patterns. The collecte... Read More about Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space.

Performance Evaluation of RPL Protocol under Mobile Sybil Attacks (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medjek, F., Tandjaoui, D., Romdhani, I., & Djedjig, N. (2017). Performance Evaluation of RPL Protocol under Mobile Sybil Attacks. In 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS. https://doi.org/10.1109/trustcom/bigdatase/icess.2017.351

In Sybil attacks, a physical adversary takes multiple fabricated or stolen identities to maliciously manipulate the network. These attacks are very harmful for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this paper we implemented and evaluated the... Read More about Performance Evaluation of RPL Protocol under Mobile Sybil Attacks.

The role of culture in entrepreneurship (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osowska, R. (2017, August). The role of culture in entrepreneurship

Presented at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.

Electroless co-deposition of gelatine microgels with nickel-phosphorous coatings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rumbles, M., & Stankiewicz, A. (2017, September). Electroless co-deposition of gelatine microgels with nickel-phosphorous coatings. Presented at Eurocorr 2017: 2nd International Corrosion Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

NiP\gelatine microgel coatings were produced using the electroless co-deposition technique. Gelatine performed as a corrosion inhibitor for steel alloy substrate when exposed to 3.5 wt% NaCl solution. The NiP\gelatine microgel coating was compared wi... Read More about Electroless co-deposition of gelatine microgels with nickel-phosphorous coatings.

Electroless Ni-P\alginate microgels coatings with self-healing properties (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stankiewicz, A., Winiarski, J., Zielinska, K., & Barker, M. (2017). Electroless Ni-P\alginate microgels coatings with self-healing properties. In Proceedings of EuroCorr 2017

Self-healing coatings, offering corrosion protection on an alloy steel substrate, were fabricated by electroless co-deposition of a Ni-P matrix together with alginate microgels incorporating nickel saltsand sodium hypophosph... Read More about Electroless Ni-P\alginate microgels coatings with self-healing properties.

Physically Derived Sound Synthesis Model of a Propeller (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Selfridge, R., Moffat, D., & Reiss, J. (2017, August). Physically Derived Sound Synthesis Model of a Propeller. Presented at AM '17: Audio Mostly 2017, London United Kingdom

A real-time sound synthesis model for propeller sounds is presented. Equations obtained from fluid dynamics and aerodynamics research are utilised to produce authentic propeller- powered aircraft sounds. The result is a physical model in which the ge... Read More about Physically Derived Sound Synthesis Model of a Propeller.

Robust Source-Filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Barker, J., Torralba, O. S., & Hain, T. (2017). Robust Source-Filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain. In Proc. Interspeech 2017 (414-418). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2017-210

In earlier work we proposed a framework for speech source-filter separation that employs phase-based signal processing. This paper presents a further theoretical investigation of the model and optimisations that make the filter and source representat... Read More about Robust Source-Filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain.

Channel Compensation in the Generalised Vector Taylor Series Approach to Robust ASR (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Barker, J., & Hain, T. (2017). Channel Compensation in the Generalised Vector Taylor Series Approach to Robust ASR. In Proc. Interspeech 2017 (2466-2470). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2017-211

Vector Taylor Series (VTS) is a powerful technique for robust ASR but, in its standard form, it can only be applied to log-filter bank and MFCC features. In earlier work, we presented a generalised VTS (gVTS) that extends the applicability of VTS to... Read More about Channel Compensation in the Generalised Vector Taylor Series Approach to Robust ASR.

Building a C++CSP Channel Using C++ Atomics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2017, August). Building a C++CSP Channel Using C++ Atomics. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2017, Malta

Mutex-based implementations of synchronous channels are slow. This work investigates atomic operations as a technique to improve communication efficiency between two threads via a busy channel. Such a channel provides faster communication than a mute... Read More about Building a C++CSP Channel Using C++ Atomics.

What are Communicating Process Architectures? Towards a Framework for Evaluating Message-passing Concurrency Languages (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2017, August). What are Communicating Process Architectures? Towards a Framework for Evaluating Message-passing Concurrency Languages. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2017, Malta

What does it mean to be a message-passing concurrent language? This work attempts to build a framework for classifying such languages by judging four in regards to features and performance. Features of process calculi are used to evaluate Go, Rust, E... Read More about What are Communicating Process Architectures? Towards a Framework for Evaluating Message-passing Concurrency Languages.

A systematic mapping study of empirical studies on software cloud testing methods (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, A. A., Brereton, P., & Andras, P. (2017, July). A systematic mapping study of empirical studies on software cloud testing methods. Presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C), Prague, Czech Republic

Context: Software has become more complicated, dynamic, and asynchronous than ever, making testing more challenging. With the increasing interest in the development of cloud computing, and increasing demand for cloud-based services, it has become ess... Read More about A systematic mapping study of empirical studies on software cloud testing methods.

An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, July). An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Presented at 22017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hadoop is a famous distributed computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data. "Straggling tasks" have a serious impact on Hadoop performance due to imbalance of slow tasks distribution. Speculative execution (SE) presents a way to d... Read More about An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment.

IRIT-QFR: IRIT Query Feature Resource (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Molina, S., Mothe, J., Roques, D., Tanguy, L., & Ullah, M. Z. (2017, September). IRIT-QFR: IRIT Query Feature Resource. Presented at 8th International Conference of the CLEF Association, Dublin, Ireland

In this paper, we present a resource that consists of query features associated with TREC adhoc collections. We developed two types of query features: linguistics features that can be calculated from the query itself, prior to any search although som... Read More about IRIT-QFR: IRIT Query Feature Resource.

Maximum Entropy in Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kane, T. B. (1989, August). Maximum Entropy in Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic. Presented at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic is a set theoretic mechanism for reasoning with uncertainty. We propose a new way of looking at the probability constraints enforced by the framework, which allows the expert to include conditional probabilities in the s... Read More about Maximum Entropy in Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic.

Defining the UK information worker: the CILIP-ARA Workforce Mapping Project (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2017, August). Defining the UK information worker: the CILIP-ARA Workforce Mapping Project. Presented at McMaster Library Symposium 2017, Hamilton, Canada

In 2014 the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and the Archives and Records Association (ARA) made a call to commission a team to undertake a workforce mapping project. The purpose of this work was to enhance underst... Read More about Defining the UK information worker: the CILIP-ARA Workforce Mapping Project.

A physical activity referral program improves risk factors in those who have completed cardiac rehabilitation. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hanson, C., Neubeck, L., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2017, August). A physical activity referral program improves risk factors in those who have completed cardiac rehabilitation. Presented at 65th Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting, Perth, Australia

Background: On completion of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), participants may be referred to community-based physical activity programs. There is limited data to determine additional benefits of these programs supplemental to CR.

Methods: Using longi... Read More about A physical activity referral program improves risk factors in those who have completed cardiac rehabilitation..

Performance bonds under English law: A journey from a strictly ‘narrow’ fraud exception to an overly broad ‘breach of good faith’ exception (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chhina, R. K. (2017, August). Performance bonds under English law: A journey from a strictly ‘narrow’ fraud exception to an overly broad ‘breach of good faith’ exception. Paper presented at 4th Annual International Conference on Law and policy

This paper critically examines the approach in English law to the application of the fraud exception to the principle of the autonomy of performance bonds. It establishes that the failure of the English courts to clearly differentiate between commerc... Read More about Performance bonds under English law: A journey from a strictly ‘narrow’ fraud exception to an overly broad ‘breach of good faith’ exception.

Partnership working between operators and public transport authorities. Qualities and working practices for functioning collaboration (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rye, T., Hrelja, R., & Mullen, C. (2017, August). Partnership working between operators and public transport authorities. Qualities and working practices for functioning collaboration. Paper presented at International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport

Recent research on public transport has seen more focus on issues like coordination, collaboration and steering in complex governance settings. One of the themes in this field of research is related to various partnership approaches, as one way of st... Read More about Partnership working between operators and public transport authorities. Qualities and working practices for functioning collaboration.

Research into social media information practices, and social media information practices for research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2017, August). Research into social media information practices, and social media information practices for research. Presented at DeGroote Business School, McMaster University, research seminar series, Hamilton, Canada

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland has built a track record for its research into information behaviours and social media use. Early projects completed in the mid-noughties focused on the value of soci... Read More about Research into social media information practices, and social media information practices for research.