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An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays (2015)
Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2015). An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 11(6), 1378-1387. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2489579

For a photovoltaic (PV) system, it is widely assumed that the peaks of a partially shaded P-V curve are located at the multiples of 0.8V oc , where V oc is the open-circuit voltage of the PV module. However, this assumption - known as the of 0.8V oc... Read More about An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays.

Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Salam, Z., Ramli, Z., Ahmed, J., & Amjad, M. (2015). Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques. International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 6(4), 712-722. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijpeds.

This paper is aimed to provide a holistic understanding on the issues related to partial shading: its causes, the theoretical and physical reasons behind it, its implications on the BIPV system. Furthermore the possible mitigation techniques using t... Read More about Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques.

Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siviter, J., Ashraf, A., Mullen, P., Montecucco, A., Knox, A., Selami, N., & Mallick, T. (2015). Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technol

The use of a solar source simulator in obtaining experimental data for a PV cell is well documented and current solar source technology is advanced in closely reproducing natural light in a laboratory setting. A test system is proposed by the authors... Read More about Four-axis test platform to emulate solar azimuth and elevation for accurate measurement of PV devices.

Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, W., Paul, M. C., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Knox, A. R. (2015). Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell. In 11th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference, PVSAT-11 Univ

In reality, a solar panel with concentrator is subject to variable sunlight radiation, wind speed and environmental air temperature in a day, accordingly the solar output power is changed in a wide range of 2W-13W, causing a degraded electric perform... Read More about Unsteady optical and thermal behaviour of crossed compound parabolic concentrator with solar cell.

Handbuch Angewandter Filmdramaturgie: Vom Geheimnis des filmischen Erzaehlens - Film, TV Und Games (2015)
Book
Stutterheim, K. (2015). Handbuch Angewandter Filmdramaturgie: Vom Geheimnis des filmischen Erzaehlens - Film, TV Und Games. Peter Lang

Dramaturgie hat eine lange Tradition, auch im Bereich von Film- und Fernsehen. Kenntnisse der Dramaturgie ermoglichen es, einem Werk zu seiner bestmoglichen Entfaltung zu verhelfen, ohne diesem standardisierte Grenzen einer Formatvorlage aufzuerlegen... Read More about Handbuch Angewandter Filmdramaturgie: Vom Geheimnis des filmischen Erzaehlens - Film, TV Und Games.

Why Do People Choose to Drive Over Other Travel Modes? Modelling Driving Motivation with SAS (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neoh, J., & Chipulu, M. (2015). Why Do People Choose to Drive Over Other Travel Modes? Modelling Driving Motivation with SAS. In SAS Global Forum 2015 Proceedings

We demonstrate a method of using SAS® 9.4 to supplement the interpretation of dimensions of a Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) model, a process that could be difficult without SAS®. In our paper, we examine why do people choose to drive to work (over o... Read More about Why Do People Choose to Drive Over Other Travel Modes? Modelling Driving Motivation with SAS.

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.

Big Data: Big Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection (2015)
Journal Article
Bakar Munir, A., Hajar Mohd Yasin, S., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2015). Big Data: Big Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection. International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering, 9(1),

This paper seeks to analyse the benefits of big data and more importantly the challenges it pose to the subject of privacy and data protection. First, the nature of big data will be briefly deliberated before presenting the potential of big data in t... Read More about Big Data: Big Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection.

Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani, N., Abdul-Malek, Z., Ahmad, H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2015). Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency. In Z. Mohamed, F. Saeed, I. A. Hamid-Mosak

Electroluminescence (EL) method has been used by several researchers to observe the behaviour of an aged polymeric material. EL is a phenomenon that occurs when the atoms of a material are being excited due to the application of and external high ele... Read More about Modelling of electroluminescence in polymeric material using dimensional analysis method: effect of applied voltage and frequency.

Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mas'ud, A. A., Eltayeb, M. E., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Bani, N. A. (2015). Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates. In 2015 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization And Development In Engineering and Technology (CSUDET). https

This paper compares the statistical error tolerances of the single neural network (SNN) and the ensemble neural network (ENN) recognition efficiencies, when both the SNN and ENN are applied to recognize partial discharge (PD) patterns. Statistical fi... Read More about Statistical error tolerances of partial discharge recognition rates.

Future proofing UK sustainable homes under conditions of climatic uncertainty (2015)
Thesis
Sajjadian, S. M. (2015). Future proofing UK sustainable homes under conditions of climatic uncertainty. (Thesis). University of Liverpool. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2702653

Research relating to the potential impacts of climate change on UK housing has increased in recent years. The future performance of dwellings that are currently considered sustainable may change under a changing climate. For example, well insulated,... Read More about Future proofing UK sustainable homes under conditions of climatic uncertainty.

Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Masso, J., Tverdostrup, M., Sheehan, M., McNamara, A., Ortlieb, R., Weiss, S., …Fohrbeck, A. (2015). Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report. Brighton: European Union

Part of this research project (Task 1) provided an overview of the policy literature on selfemployment and entrepreneurship in Europe where emphasis was placed on differentiating between self-employment and entrepreneurship, the key policies at EU an... Read More about Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report.

Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD Research (2015)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., Saunders, M. N., & Wang, C. L. (2015). Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD Research. In M. N. Saunders, & P. Tosey (Eds.), Handbook of research methods on human resource developmentEdward Elgar Publishing

As Human Resource Development (HRD) research has developed, a growing variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection procedures and analysis techniques have been adopted; research designs now include mono, multiple and mixed methods. This Ha... Read More about Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD Research.

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.