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Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2020, September). Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries. Presented at ISIC (Information Seeking In Context) 2020, Pretoria, South Africa

Introduction - Library researchers are often concerned with the factors that affect individual use of public library resources. To date, culture as a determinant of public library use has not been fully explored across all public library populations.... Read More about Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries.

Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buschmeier, H., Ellen Foster, M., & Gkatzia, D. (2020, March). Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

This workshop is the second in a series bringing together the Natural Language Generation and Human-Robot Interaction communities to discuss topics of mutual interest with the goal of developing an HRI-inspired NLG shared task. The workshop website i... Read More about Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction.

Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, L., Guo, C., Li, C., He, Q., Zhang, K., & Cai, Z. (2019, August). Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs. Presented at International Conference on Applied Energy 2019, Västerås, Sweden

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is one of the promising methods to store the surplus solar and wind energy
in a grid scale . In this study, we used a non-isothermal multiphase flow simulator to model a field-scale study o... Read More about Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs.

Understanding Personal Online Risk To Individuals Via Ontology Development (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2020, July). Understanding Personal Online Risk To Individuals Via Ontology Development. Presented at International Societey for Knowledge Organziation (ISKO) 2020, Aalborg, Denmark

The concept of risk is widely misunderstood because of the different contexts in which it is used. This paper describes the development of an ontology of risk as a way of better understanding the nature of the potential harms individuals are exposed... Read More about Understanding Personal Online Risk To Individuals Via Ontology Development.

Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D. (2020, December). Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020), Online

Commonsense is vital for human communication, as it allows us to make inferences without explicitly mentioning the context. Equipping robots with commonsense knowledge would lead to better communication between humans and robots and will allow robots... Read More about Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction.

Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerrouche, A., Lithgow, J., & Alwis, L. (2020, June). Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th International conference on Optical Fiber Sensors), Washington, DC, US

Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be a ongoing concern. The act to provide clean water by filtration is effective although has concerns. Previous methods for detection and removal of pathogens consist of a... Read More about Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology.

Feasibility Study on the Potential of Fibre Bragg Gratings for Thermal Monitoring of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alcock, K., Grammel, M., Binetti, L., Gonzales Vila, A., Goh, K., & Alwis, L. (2020, June). Feasibility Study on the Potential of Fibre Bragg Gratings for Thermal Monitoring of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th International conference on Optical Fiber Sensors), Washington, DC, US

Bragg Gratings were used to monitor thermal fluctuations of a Lithium-Ion battery by attaching the sensors outside the casing of the battery. Results are comparable to that obtained from thermo-couples and thus verifies its potential.

Evaluation of the potential of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2020, June). Evaluation of the potential of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th International conference on Optical Fiber Sensors), Washington, DC, US

The paper presents an evaluation on the structural and operational potential of fiber optic sensors (FOSs) to be utilized for real-time continuous structural health monitoring (SHM) of fiber-reinforced carbon concrete composites (C3).

Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., & Roth, B. (2020, June). Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th International conference on Optical Fiber Sensors), Washington, DC United States

The work presents an investigation on the utilization of an etched Graded-Index (GI)-Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) for mode-multiplexed Fiber Optic Sensor (FOS) applications and the simultaneous measurement of the Surrounding Refractive Index (SRI) The work... Read More about Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications.

Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bowditch, W., Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Pitropakis, N., & Hall, A. J. (2020, February). Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Security Systems and Privacy (ICISSP), Valletta, Malta

Data analysis and machine learning methods often involve the processing of cleartext data, and where this could breach the rights to privacy. Increasingly, we must use encryption to protect all states of the data: in-transit, at-rest, and in-memory.... Read More about Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption.

Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Christou, O., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Mckeown, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, February). Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach. Presented at ICISSP 2020, Valletta, Malta

Phishing is considered to be one of the most prevalent cyber-attacks because of its immense flexibility and alarmingly high success rate. Even with adequate training and high situational awareness, it can still be hard for users to continually be awa... Read More about Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach.

Athos: An Extensible DSL for Model Driven Traffic and Transport Simulation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoffmann, B., Urquhart, N., Chalmers, K., & Guckert, M. (2020, February). Athos: An Extensible DSL for Model Driven Traffic and Transport Simulation. Presented at Modelling 2020, Vienna

Multi-agent systems may be considered appropriate tools for simulating complex systems such as those based around traffic and transportation networks. Modelling traffic participants as agents can reveal relevant patterns of traffic flow. Upsurging tr... Read More about Athos: An Extensible DSL for Model Driven Traffic and Transport Simulation.

Why Do we Like Commenting and Sharing in Social Media? An Online Approach of Luxury Brand Communication (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lu, X., & Rahman, M. (2020). Why Do we Like Commenting and Sharing in Social Media? An Online Approach of Luxury Brand Communication. In 2018 Global Marketing Conference at Tokyo Proceedings (282-286). https://doi.org/10.15444/GMC2018.03.03.01

Using the framework of social support, we aim to examine factors influencing social Word-of-Mouth (WOM) adoption. The proposed research model will be tested among customers who are active in the existing active social media platforms and have had exp... Read More about Why Do we Like Commenting and Sharing in Social Media? An Online Approach of Luxury Brand Communication.

Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoffrichter, A., Zacharis, E., Katsifaraki, A., Morton, A., Calleja, G., Fuligni, F., Batic, M., Dorokhova, M., Castelli, N., Kanellos, K., & Nguyen, T. (2020, October). Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools. Presented at The 8th Annual International Sustainable Places Conference (SP 2020), Online

Due to end-users’ habit being one of the prominent factors influencing building performance, changing user behavior to encourage energy efficient habits has tremendous potential to facilitate energy savings. Four ongoing European projects, eTeacher,... Read More about Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools.

A Fast Classification Approach to Upper-Limb Posture Recognition (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wu, X., Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Wu, H., & Liu, X. (2020, November). A Fast Classification Approach to Upper-Limb Posture Recognition. Presented at IEEE International Conferences on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom2020), Rhodes, Greece

Feasibility, Sizing and Economic Analysis of Solar Energy System for Green Swinburne Campus (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Riphque, M. A., Nabipour-Afrouzi, H., Wooi, C., Liew, S., Mehranzamir, K., & Ahmed, J. (2020, October). Feasibility, Sizing and Economic Analysis of Solar Energy System for Green Swinburne Campus. Presented at 2020 13th International UNIMAS Engineering Conference (EnCon), Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

In 2011 alone, Malaysia has spent a hefty RM14.5 billion in buying fossil fuels to generate electricity. With the cost of fossil fuels rising each year, the nation is looking to rely on more sustainable energy sources. One way to decrease the relianc... Read More about Feasibility, Sizing and Economic Analysis of Solar Energy System for Green Swinburne Campus.

Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., Rana, O., & Theodorakopoulos, G. (2020, October). Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services. Presented at 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Montreal, QC, Canada

Cloud-hosted business processes require access to customer data to complete a transaction, to improve a customer's on-line experience or provide useful product recommendations. However, privacy concerns associated with the use of this data have led t... Read More about Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services.

TikTok as a tool for providing pastoral and academic support to student (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerr, G. (2020, December). TikTok as a tool for providing pastoral and academic support to student. Presented at Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde [Online]

This presentation explores TikTok as a platform for personal tutors in the higher education setting to provide pastoral and academic support to students. Young people are increasing using TikTok as a social media tool, but there is more to this app t... Read More about TikTok as a tool for providing pastoral and academic support to student.

Quantification of Particle Breakage & its Evolution using Statistical Entropy- A Grading Entropy Approach (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leak, J., Barreto, D., Dimitriadi, V., & Imre, E. (2020, December). Quantification of Particle Breakage & its Evolution using Statistical Entropy- A Grading Entropy Approach. Paper presented at 17th Annual Geomechanics From Micro to Macro Conference, Online

These slides were presented at the 17th annual geomechanics from micro to macro conference in 2020. They detail the comparison of the well known, and commonly used, relative breakage parameter used to assess the degree of particle breakage in soils.... Read More about Quantification of Particle Breakage & its Evolution using Statistical Entropy- A Grading Entropy Approach.

Counterfactual Explanation and Causal Inference In Service of Robustness in Robot Control (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S. C., & Ramamoorthy, S. (2020, October). Counterfactual Explanation and Causal Inference In Service of Robustness in Robot Control. Presented at 10th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics 2020 - Virtual conference, Chile, Valparaiso, Chile

We propose an architecture for training generative models of counterfactual conditionals of the form, `can we modify event A to cause B instead of C?', motivated by applications in robot control. Using an `adversarial training' paradigm, an image-bas... Read More about Counterfactual Explanation and Causal Inference In Service of Robustness in Robot Control.