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Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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). h

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zakir, U., Hussain, A., Ali, L., & Luo, B. (2013). Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11,

This paper describes an efficient approach towards road sign detection, and recognition. The proposed system is divided into three sections namely: Road Sign Detection where Colour Segmentation of the road traffic signs is carried out using HSV colou... Read More about Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter.

Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Yang, P., Hussain, A., Huang, K., MacRae, C., Eckl, C., & Slack, W. (2013). Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data. In 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE) (2

Clinical decision making frequently involves making decisions under uncertainty because of missing key patient data (e.g, demographics, episodic and clinical diagnosis details) - this information is essential for modern clinical decision support syst... Read More about Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data.

Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Krishnan, R., Hussain, A., & Sherimon, S. P. C. (2013). Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proce

In Information retrieval, Keyword based retrieval is unsatisfactory for user needs since it can’t always retrieve relevant words according to the concept. Since different words can represent the same concept (polysemy) and one word can represent diff... Read More about Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation.

Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A. (2013). Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions. In The 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2013.6706716

Cognitive computation is an emerging discipline linking together neurobiology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. Springer Neuroscience has launched a journal in this exciting multidisciplinary topic, which seeks to publish biologicall... Read More about Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions.

A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Minhas, S., Poria, S., Hussain, A., & Hussainey, K. (2013). A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th I

Indisputably, financial reporting has a key role to play in the efficient workings of capitalist economies. Problems related to agency and asymmetric information (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) would abound and cripple financial markets, as it has done w... Read More about A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure.

A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Atassi, H., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2013). A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, C

Rapid access chest pain clinics (RACPC) enable clinical risk assessment, investigation and arrangement of a treatment plan for chest pain patients without a long waiting list. RACPC Clinicians often experience difficulties in the diagnosis of chest p... Read More about A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment.

A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge (2013)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Ru, A., Sun, J., & Hussain, A. (2013). A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 142, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIER13062403

This paper proposes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) vehicle target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. The proposed algorithm firstly obtains the general classification of SAR image with a Markov Random Field (MRF)-based segmentation... Read More about A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge.

A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, E., Hussain, A., & Gurney, K. (2013). A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China,

This paper presents a new brain-inspired, switching control approach for a car-like autonomous vehicle using a basal ganglia (BG) model as an action selection mechanism. The problem domain has challenging nonholonomic and state constraints which impl... Read More about A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle.

Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., Janarthanam, S., & Lemon, O. (2013). Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (115-124)

We describe a statistical Natural LanguageGeneration (NLG) method for summarisa-tion of time-series data in the context offeedback generation for students. In thispaper, we initially present a method forcollecting time-series data f... Read More about Generating student feedback from time-series data using Reinforcement Learning.

‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK (2013)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2013). ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK. In M. Cortazzi, & L. Jin (Eds.), Researching Intercultural Learning (135-151). Palgrave Macmillan. https://d

In contrast to students in many countries, British university students are often older than the common 18–22 age range; some are ‘non-traditional’ students who may have had experience of work in industrial or professional contexts before they study.... Read More about ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK.

Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. (2013)
Journal Article
AbouAlmal, A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Al-Ansari, K., AlAhmad, H., See, C. H., Jones, S. M. R., & Noras, J. M. (2013). Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61(12)

In this communication, nine years of local radiosonde meteorological data, from 1997 to 2005, have been used to calculate the vertical refractivity gradient, ΔΝ, in the lowest atmospheric layer above the ground surface. The values obtained are used t... Read More about Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region..

Management in Social Care: A Cause for Concern or an Adapting Professional Identity? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stewart-Steele, R., & Hallier, J. (2013). Management in Social Care: A Cause for Concern or an Adapting Professional Identity?. In BAM2013 Conference Proceedings

In this paper our aim is to provide an understanding of the changes that have affected managers in social care in the UK over the last 30 years by exploring from both a professional and political perspective how these changes have impacted upon manag... Read More about Management in Social Care: A Cause for Concern or an Adapting Professional Identity?.

A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai (2013)
Book
Stanley, P. (2013). A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai. London: Routledge

Tens of thousands of Western ‘teachers’, many of whom would not be considered teachers elsewhere, are employed to teach English in public and private education in China. Little has previously been known, except anecdotally, about their experiences, a... Read More about A critical ethnography of 'Westerners' teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai.

Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want (2013)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2013). Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want. English Australia Journal : the Australian Journal of English Language Teaching, 28(2), 38-52

Students from the People's Republic of China are the single largest cohort of international students in Australia, and although attempts have been made to understand their needs and desires in situ, few scholars have considered the recently reformed... Read More about Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want.

Genetics and Inheritance of Synaesthesia (2013)
Book Chapter
Asher, J. E., & Carmichael, D. A. (2013). Genetics and Inheritance of Synaesthesia. In J. Simner, & E. M. Hubbard (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia (23-45). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603329.013.0002

Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by anomalous sensory perceptions and associated alterations in cognitive function. This chapter summarises what is known about the familial transmission of synaesthesia and its genetic unde... Read More about Genetics and Inheritance of Synaesthesia.

Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand (2013)
Book
Hofman, C., & Keates, S. (2013). Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5580-5

The rise of the Internet and social media in particular offer great opportunities for brand owners to increase business and brand recognition. While this has clearly been of benefit to brand owners, who have seen a consequent rise in the value of the... Read More about Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand.

The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Sapeluk, A. (2013). The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering. In S. Constantine, & M. Antona (Eds.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services for Quality of Life:

Technology is advancing at a fast pace while the shape and nature of computers continues to evolve, with tablets and smartphones illustrating the move away from the traditional notion of a laptop or desktop computer. Similarly, networking and sensing... Read More about The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering.

eHealth and the internet of things (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ball, L., Szymkowiak, A., Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Brownsell, S. (2013). eHealth and the internet of things. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (139-142). https://doi.org/10.5220

To respond to an ageing population, eHealth strategies offer significant opportunities in achieving a balanced and sustainable healthcare infrastructure. Advances in technology both at the sensor and device levels and in respect of information techno... Read More about eHealth and the internet of things.