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Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance? (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Favre, B., Cheung, K., Kazemian, S., Lee, A., Liu, Y., Munteanu, C., …Zeller, F. (2013). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. In Proc. Interspeech 2013 (3463-3467). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2013-610

We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial... Read More about Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?.

Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN) (2013)
Journal Article
Forchuk, C., Edwards, B., Rudnick, A., Osuch, E., Hoch, J., Norman, R., …McKillop, M. (2013). Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN). International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 5(1&2), 1-10

This research study introduces, delivers, and evaluates the benefits of using web and mobile technology to provide consistent supportive health care to individuals living within London, Ontario and the surrounding area who have been diagnosed with a... Read More about Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN).

Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging (2013)
Journal Article
Desrochers, N., Quan-Haase, A., Pennington, D. R., Laplante, A., Martin, K., & Spiteri, L. (2013). Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 50(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001014

Social tagging has become a common practice across a variety of platforms on the Web. In this panel, we propose to start with one title, Casino Royale, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and the other cultural products that emanated from it (e.g., tw... Read More about Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging.

Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling (2013)
Journal Article
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., …Hutchison, D. (2013). Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(8), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6576348

Conventional television services have been increasingly challenged by the more interactive and user-centric video sharing applications. With the growing popularity of social networks and video services, users are becoming the editors and broadcasters... Read More about Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling.

Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, B., Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013). Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (OS12A-06)

One of the concerns of employing CCS at engineering scale is the risk of leakage of storage CO2 on the environment and especially on the marine life. QICS, a scientific research project was launched with an aim to study the effects of a potential lea... Read More about Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment.

Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Baig, H., Sellami, N., Bahaidarah, H., & Mallick, T. (2013). Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia. In Proceedings of the 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (653-657). https://doi.org/10.4229/28thEUPVSEC2013-1CV.6.42

Saudi Arabia receives an average insolation of 6 kWh/m2/day, making it one of the most likely candidates for a country to be using solar energy for meeting its energy needs in the near future. The energy from the sun can be directly converted into el... Read More about Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia.

Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon (2013)
Book Chapter
Pakhira, A., & Andras, P. (2013). Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon. In S. Tilley, & T. Parveen (Eds.), Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (252-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch012

Testing is a critical phase in the software life-cycle. While small-scale component-wise testing is done routinely as part of development and maintenance of large-scale software, the system level testing of the whole software is much more problematic... Read More about Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon.

Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Yang, S., Li, R., & Hillenbrand, D. (2013). Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform. In 2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2013). https://doi.org/10.1109/nano.2013.6720891

Designing nanoplasmonic devices presents a number of unique challenges. The time domain modelling and simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave interaction with nanoplasmonic devices, at high spatial and time resolution, requires high computational pow... Read More about Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12) (903-912). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36645-1_80

Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insufficiently holistic approach to the assessment of the sustainable performance of... Read More about Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance.

The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems. In International Conference on Adaptation and Movement (ICAM) (476-484)

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Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context. In Proceedings of IPGRC 2013: International post graduate research conference (1106-1113)

Thermal comfort is a complicatedsubjectand is thus hard to quantify generally and specificallyandthe existing quantification methods are unlikely to be reliable for naturally ventilated houses. The challenge for designers is to produce a com... Read More about Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context.

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. In 2013 8th IEEE Design and Test Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/idt.2013.6727088

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.

Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application (2013)
Journal Article
Zebiri, C., Ney, M., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Benabdelaziz, F., Lashab, M., & See, C. H. (2013). Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 41, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERL13050107

This work presents a novel broadband monopole antenna for digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) application. The proposed antenna consists of a grating zigzag patch and a concave rectangular ground plane. The zigzag patch is used to enable t... Read More about Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application.

Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. (2013)
Journal Article
Ramli, K., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2013). Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. Progress in electromagnetics research B: PIER B, 133, 117-136

A new hybrid method of moments (MoM)/finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), with a sub-gridded finite-difference time-domain (SGFDTD) approach is presented. The method overcomes the drawbacks of homogeneous MoM and FDTD simulations, and so permits acc... Read More about Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction..

Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Mahmud, M., & Hussain, A. (2013). Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation. In Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications: 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, Mexico City, Mexico, November 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II (413-422). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45111-9_36

Rapid development in highly parallel neurophysiological recording techniques along with sophisticated signal processing tools allow direct communication with neuronal processes at different levels. One important level from the point of view of Rehabi... Read More about Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation.

Tables and chairs go au naturel (2013)
Journal Article
Hussain, A. (2013). Tables and chairs go au naturel. InTents, 20,

Functional and aesthetic—tables and chairs provide structure and warmth to an event. Tables and chairs are the bones of an event. They provide the foundation upon which the rest of the event can be built. While glitz and glam still have their place,... Read More about Tables and chairs go au naturel.

Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Poria, S., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Howard, N. (2013). Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach. In Pattern Recognition: 5th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2013, Querétaro, Mexico, June 26-29, 2013. Proceedings (254-263). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38989-4_26

Music genres can be seen as categorical descriptions used to classify music basing on various characteristics such as instrumentation, pitch, rhythmic structure, and harmonic contents. Automatic music genre classification is important for music retri... Read More about Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach.

Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, D., Alippi, C., Zhao, D., & Hussain, A. (2013). Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, held in Beijing, China in June 2013. The 45 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68... Read More about Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface.