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Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vargheese, J. P., Harrison, R., Balbontin, M. M., Aldea, A., & Brown, D. (2015). Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients. In Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes: 1st ECAI Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Diabet

Self-management of type 1 diabetes is a challenging and complex task due the constant need for self monitoring and the diverse range of factors to consider in order to effectively regulate blood glucose levels. Recommender systems have been demonstra... Read More about Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients.

Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, S. U., Lee, Y., & Koo, I. (2015). Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications. In 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET). https://doi.org/10.1109/icet.2015.7389192

Visible Light Communications (VLC) uses solid-state light sources for data transmission in addition to its primary function of illumination. The dual functionality of light source provokes some challenges for VLC including dimming control and perceiv... Read More about Comparative analysis of DIPPM scheme for Visible Light Communications.

Replication-based cost scheduling strategy for fault tolerance in distributed knowledge management systems (2015)
Journal Article
Bamgboye, O. O., Folorunso, O., Akinwale, A. T., & Adebayo, G. A. (2015). Replication-based cost scheduling strategy for fault tolerance in distributed knowledge management systems. Journal of Natural Sciences Engineering and Technology, 14(1), https://do

Distributed Knowledge Management Systems (DKMS) often depends on the Semantic Web Peer-to-Peer (SW-P2P) model. The reason for this is based on its support for autonomy of knowledge node, ease of accessibility and scalability. The susceptibility to fa... Read More about Replication-based cost scheduling strategy for fault tolerance in distributed knowledge management systems.

Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
White, M., & Howcroft, D. M. (2015). Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus. In Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) (28-37). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4704

We describe an algorithm for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture. An experiment pairing lexicalized text plans from the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus with logical forms obtained by parsing the... Read More about Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: A Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus.

Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework. In 2015 7th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT). https://doi.org/10.1109/icumt.2

The behavior composition problem consists in the automatic synthesis of a controller being able to realize a desired target behavior by coordinating a set of available behaviors. Although many frameworks have been proposed for this problem, one of th... Read More about Optimal control in a value-based automatic behavior composition framework.

Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015). Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2015.33

With the evolution of software engineering since the advent of structured programming until now, software engineers are faced with tremendous challenges mostly due to the development of large software programs that behave as open systems. Multi-agent... Read More about Behavior Composition Meets Supervisory Control.

Risk and Regulation of Access to Personal Data on Online Social Networking Services in the UK (2015)
Thesis
Haynes, D. (2015). Risk and Regulation of Access to Personal Data on Online Social Networking Services in the UK. (Thesis). City University London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2458208

This research investigates the relative effectiveness of different modes of regulation of access to personal data on social networking services in the UK. A review of the literature demonstrated that there was a gap in research comparing different re... Read More about Risk and Regulation of Access to Personal Data on Online Social Networking Services in the UK.

A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, J. S., ur Rehman, A., Ahmad, J., & Habib, Z. (2015). A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes. In 2015 Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security (CIACS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ciacs.2015.7395

Due to development in Internet and networking technology, multimedia data is broadly transmitted via wired and wireless medium. Thus security is a major concern in modern communication systems. Encryption is one of the pre-eminent ways to guarantee s... Read More about A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes.

Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaiser, S., Chowdhury, Z. I., Mamun, S., Hussain, A., & Mahmud, M. (2015). Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal. In 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (833-836). https://doi.org/10.1109

This paper presents the design of low cost solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people. The signals necessary to maneuver the wheel chair are acquired from different muscles of the hand using surface Electromyography (sEMG) technique.... Read More about Solar powered wheel chair for physically challenged people using surface EMG signal.

Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., & Ivanovic, M. (2015). Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.

The 4th International Conference on Electronic, Communications and Networks (CECNet2014) inherits the fruitfulness of the past three conferences and lays a foundation for the forthcoming next year in Shanghai. CECNet2014 was hosted by Hubei Universit... Read More about Electronics, communications and networks IV: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on electronics, communications and networks, 12-15 December 2014, Beijing, China.

Cognitively Inspired Audiovisual Speech Filtering: Towards an Intelligent, Fuzzy Based, Multimodal, Two-Stage Speech Enhancement System (2015)
Book
Abel, A., & Hussain, A. (2015). Cognitively Inspired Audiovisual Speech Filtering: Towards an Intelligent, Fuzzy Based, Multimodal, Two-Stage Speech Enhancement System. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13509-0

This book presents a summary of the cognitively inspired basis behind multimodal speech enhancement, covering the relationship between audio and visual modalities in speech, as well as recent research into audiovisual speech correlation. A number of... Read More about Cognitively Inspired Audiovisual Speech Filtering: Towards an Intelligent, Fuzzy Based, Multimodal, Two-Stage Speech Enhancement System.

A novel ontology and machine learning inspired hybrid cardiovascular decision support framework (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Farooq, K., Luo, B., & Slack, W. (2015). A novel ontology and machine learning inspired hybrid cardiovascular decision support framework. In 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (824-832). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.201

Healthcare information management systems (HIMS) have a substantial amount of limitations such as rigidity and nonconformity to complex clinical processes like Electronic Healthcare records and effective utilisation of clinical practice guidelines to... Read More about A novel ontology and machine learning inspired hybrid cardiovascular decision support framework.

Impact of 5g telematics (2015)
Journal Article
Thuemmler, C., Jell, T., Nunna, S., & Jumelle, A. K. L. (2015). Impact of 5g telematics. Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management,

New technologies such as wearable wireless medical devices are transforming the way healthcare is delivered. As these devices become more powerful and numerous, the daunting challenge is whether the existing communications infrastructure can meet the... Read More about Impact of 5g telematics.

Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. (2015)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Benyon, D., McCall, R., O’Neill, S., & Carroll, F. (2015). Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. In M. Lombard, F. Biocca, J. Freeman, W. IJsselsteijn, & R. J. Schaevitz (Eds

This chapter describes an approach to the development of virtual representations of real places. The work was funded under the European Union’s €20 m Future and Emerging Technologies theme of the 5th Framework Programme, “Presence”. The aim of the pr... Read More about Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments..

Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaffiro, G., Melissa, B., Brynskov, M., & Smyth, M. (2015). Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. In 13th International Conference on e-Society 2015 (249-254)

Urban Interaction Design addresses the question of how we, as physical beings, will interact with the technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments that increasingly characterize cities. As an emergent field very little analysis has been co... Read More about Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis..

CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Beel, D. E., Mellish, C., Wallace, C. D., & Pan, J. (2015). CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (639-648).

The CURIOS project explores how digital archives for rural community heritage groups can be made more sustainable so that volunteer members can maintain a lasting digital presence. It is developing software tools to help remote rural communities to c... Read More about CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data..

An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., & Cheng, G. (2015). An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing, 4, 177. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCC.2015.069275

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach on software service evolution in computing clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns. An initial su... Read More about An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds..