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Sticky-Policy enabled authenticated OOXML for Health Care (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2015). Sticky-Policy enabled authenticated OOXML for Health Care. In Proceedings of BCS Health Informatics Scotland 2015 Conference. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.3

This paper proposes a secure medical document sharing construction, which addresses confidentiality and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data protection issues. The paper extends the popular Office Open XML (OOXML) document format with eX... Read More about Sticky-Policy enabled authenticated OOXML for Health Care.

Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Darzentas, D. P., & Urquhart, L. (2015). Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values. In CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (805-810). https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810259

We explore the interaction between digital games and human values. HCI as a field is increasingly focused on the importance of engaging with broader discussions around human values. Games are an ideal medium for reflecting on social, ethical and poli... Read More about Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values.

Women in ICT: exploring professional Identity on an executive masters program (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Smith, C. F., & Varey, A. (2015, October). Women in ICT: exploring professional Identity on an executive masters program. Paper presented at 6th Annual Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology (CSEIT 2015), Singapore

Despite years of purposeful activity there is still a shortfall in the numbers of women enrolling onto computing courses in the UK and elsewhere, while many who join the profession then leave. This ‘leaky-pipeline’ phenomenon is a concern for employe... Read More about Women in ICT: exploring professional Identity on an executive masters program.

Multiply and conquer: A replication framework for building fault tolerant industrial applications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
de Sousa, M., Chrysoulas, C., & Homay, A. E. (2015). Multiply and conquer: A replication framework for building fault tolerant industrial applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/indin.2015.7281930

TIEC 61499 defines an execution model for distributed industrial control applications, i.e. a single application distributed among several devices. In such an environment partial failures are likely to occur. In order to avoid probable system malfunc... Read More about Multiply and conquer: A replication framework for building fault tolerant industrial applications.

An interactive tool for semi-automated leaf annotation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Minervini, M., Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. (2015). An interactive tool for semi-automated leaf annotation. In Proceedings of the Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping Workshop 2015 (6.1-6.13). https://doi.org/10.5244/c.29.cvppp.6

High throughput plant phenotyping is emerging as a necessary step towards meeting agricultural demands of the future. Central to its success is the development of robust computer vision algorithms that analyze images and extract phenotyping informati... Read More about An interactive tool for semi-automated leaf annotation.

5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector (2015)
Report
Thuemmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Paulin, A., Sadique, A., Schneider, A., Fedell, C., Abraham, D., Trossen, D., Strinati, E. C., Cavallo, F., Feussner, H., Hay, I., Bedo, J., Micocci, S., Nunziata, S., Gallelli, T., & Covaci, S. (2015). 5G-PPP White Paper

Gaston Crommenlaan 1 PO box: 101 9050 Gent Belgium www.5g-ppp.eu 5G and e-Health 1 Socioeconomic drivers of e-Health in Horizon 2020 Although socioeconomically the sector addressed by this white paper is the health sector, the detailed analysis will... Read More about 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector.

Towards an Emotionally Intelligent Interaction Strategy for Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents acting as Companions (2015)
Thesis
Roa Seïler, N. Towards an Emotionally Intelligent Interaction Strategy for Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents acting as Companions. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/462318

Existing Human Computer Interaction (HCI) strategies are seriously limited by current technologies. These are neither sensitive nor accurate enough to respond to users’ emotional states, the fundamental basis for effective communication in real time.... Read More about Towards an Emotionally Intelligent Interaction Strategy for Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agents acting as Companions.

Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wang, Z., & Cheng, G. (2015). Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement. In E-Health and Telemedicine : Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (1606-1634). Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. https://doi

The authors present an analysis which concludes that most e-health system are packaged for large-scale access through cloud-based services shared in a real-time service deployment environment. The service, which has already been deployed in the cloud... Read More about Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement..

Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2015). Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. In Hybrid Cities - data to the people. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3740.2083

The study of cities has risen to the top of research agendas in the last decade, raising the question of how to study something as vast and eclectic as cities. This paper proposes a return to a focus on the local as an appropriate scale to investigat... Read More about Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban..

Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management (2015)
Journal Article
Irvine, R., & Hall, H. (2015). Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management. Information Research, 20(3),

INTRODUCTION We provide a critical evaluation of the literature on success factors in information systems projects, with a particular focus on organisational information systems development. This responds to recent editorial comment on the need for l... Read More about Factors, frameworks and theory: a review of the information systems literature on success factors in project management.

Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images (2015)
Journal Article
Hunter, D. W., & Hibbard, P. B. (2015). Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images. Journal of Vision, 15(13), 6. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.13.6

An influential theory of the function of early processing in the visual cortex is that it forms an efficient coding of ecologically valid stimuli. In particular, correlations and differences between visual signals from the two eyes are believed to be... Read More about Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images.

A Novel Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Based Spatiotemporal Cognition Study of the Human Brain Using Clustering (2015)
Journal Article
Abdullah, A., Khan, I. H., Basuhail, A., & Hussain, A. (2015). A Novel Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Based Spatiotemporal Cognition Study of the Human Brain Using Clustering. Cognitive Computation, 7(6), 693-705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-015-9358-4

In this study, we investigate how the two hemispheres of the brain are involved spatiotemporally in a cognitive-based setup when people relate different colors with different concepts (for example, the color ‘blue’ associated with the word ‘dependabl... Read More about A Novel Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Based Spatiotemporal Cognition Study of the Human Brain Using Clustering.

ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Imed, R., & Yassien, M. B. (2015). ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things. In ICEMIS '15 Proceedings of the The International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/283298

Energy is a precious resource in Internet of Things (IoT) especially with battery operated nodes, the overhead that consumes the battery power of the sensor nodes is a fundamental problem. This overhead is mainly caused by the frequent update message... Read More about ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things.

Exploratory information searching in the enterprise: A study of user satisfaction and task performance (2015)
Journal Article
Cleverley, P. H., Burnett, S., & Muir, L. (2017). Exploratory information searching in the enterprise: A study of user satisfaction and task performance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(1), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1

No prior research has been identified which investigates the causal factors for workplace exploratory search task performance. The impact of user, task and environmental factors on user satisfaction and task performance was investigated through a mix... Read More about Exploratory information searching in the enterprise: A study of user satisfaction and task performance.

From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., Bartie, P., & Mackaness, W. (2015). From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (1936-1942). http

Predicting the success of referring expressions (RE) is vital for real world applications such as navigation systems. Traditionally, research has focused on studying Referring Expression Generation (REG) in virtual, controlled environments. In this p... Read More about From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes.

Creating optimised employee travel plans. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., & Hart, E. (2015, September). Creating optimised employee travel plans. Paper presented at International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societa

A load-balancing cluster based protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassien, M. B. (2015, September). A load-balancing cluster based protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN'15)

Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cercas Curry, A., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2015). Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (90-94). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1

Referring to landmarks has been identified to lead to improved navigation instructions. However, a previous corpus study suggests that human “wizards” also choose to refer to street names and generate user-centric instructions. In this paper, we cond... Read More about Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments.

A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014 (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., & Mahamood, S. (2015). A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014. . https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4708

In this paper we present a snapshot of endto-end NLG system evaluations as presented in conference and journal papers1 over the last ten years in order to better understand the nature and type of evaluations that have been undertaken. We find that re... Read More about A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014.