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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). Single LFP sorting for high-resolution brain-chip interfacing. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (329-337). https://doi.org/10.1007/9

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,

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. (2012). Sentic neural networks: A novel cognitive model for affective common sense reasoning. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (12-21). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_2

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). Sentic maxine: Multimodal affective fusion and emotional paths. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012 (555-565). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31362-2_61

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.

Semantically inspired electronic healthcare records (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2012). Semantically inspired electronic healthcare records. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (42-51). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_5

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). Road sign detection and recognition from video stream using HSV, contourlet transform and local energy based shape histogram. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (411-419). https://doi.org/10

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). Retrieval of semantic concepts based on analysis of texts for automatic construction of ontology. In Neural Information Processing (524-532). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_63

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. (2012). Off-line handwritten Arabic word recognition using SVMs with normalized poly kernel. In Neural Information Processing (85-91). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34481-7_11

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. (2012). Neurobiologically-inspired soft switching control of autonomous vehicles. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (82-91). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_9

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). Merging SenticNet and WordNet-Affect emotion lists for sentiment analysis. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICoSP.2012.6491803

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.

Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, A. (2012). Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup. InTents, 19,

Long before the U.S. and European teams could begin their match play for the 2012 Ryder Cup, the course had to be prepared with temporary environments that could accommodate players and fans. The popular, biennial golf event—held in 2012 at Medinah C... Read More about Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup.

Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, M., Travalin, D., & Hussain, A. (2012). Decoding network activity from LFPS: A computational approach. In Neural Information Processing (584-591). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_70

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). Clustering social networks using interaction semantics and sentics. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012 (379-385). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31346-2_43

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). Analysis of pesticide application practices using an intelligent Agriculture Decision Support System (ADSS). In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (382-391). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-315

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). An ontology driven and Bayesian Network based cardiovascular decision support framework. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (31-41). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3

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). An intelligent multiple-controller framework for the integrated control of autonomous vehicles. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (92-101). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_

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). Affective common sense knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis.

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). A novel road traffic sign detection and recognition approach by introducing CCM and LESH. In Neural Information Processing (629-636). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34487-9_76

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.

Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics (2012)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2012). Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics. In L. Hernandez (Ed.), China and the West : encounters with the other in culture, arts, politics and everyday life (73-92). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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