All Outputs (632)

Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Hydrogen-Air Premixed Flames at Preheated and Diluted Donditions (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, W., Hernandez Perez, F. E., Tingas, S., & Im, H. (2019, November). Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Hydrogen-Air Premixed Flames at Preheated and Diluted Donditions. Paper presented at 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynami

Moderate or intense low-oxygen dilution (MILD) combustion is a promising concept to achieve high-performance and low-emission combustion simultaneously. In this study, we investigate the front propagation and burning characteristics in the MILD mode... Read More about Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Hydrogen-Air Premixed Flames at Preheated and Diluted Donditions.

Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems (2019)
Journal Article
Goh, K., Gupta, N., Honnuravali, M., & Umar, T. (2020). Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems. Proceedings of the ICE - Energy, 173(3), 94-100. https://doi.org/10.1680/jener.19.00061

Generating energy needs by means of renewable sources is a vital strategy for all the GCC countries. Photovoltaic systems in the GCC have been a primary choice of renewable sources due to regional weather and high levels of irradiance. However, the u... Read More about Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems.

Algorithmic Analysis of Chemical Dynamics of the Autoignition of NH3–H2O2/Air Mixtures (2019)
Journal Article
Khalil, A. T., Manias, D. M., Tingas, E., Kyritsis, D. C., & Goussis, D. A. (2019). Algorithmic Analysis of Chemical Dynamics of the Autoignition of NH3–H2O2/Air Mixtures. Energies, 12(23), Article 4422. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12234422

The dynamics of a homogeneous adiabatic autoignition of an ammonia/air mixture at constant volume was studied, using the algorithmic tools of Computational Singular Perturbation. Since ammonia combustion is characterized by both unrealistically long... Read More about Algorithmic Analysis of Chemical Dynamics of the Autoignition of NH3–H2O2/Air Mixtures.

Personalized Micro-Service Recommendation System for Online News (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asenova, M., & Chrysoulas, C. (2019). Personalized Micro-Service Recommendation System for Online News. Procedia Computer Science, 160, 610-615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.11.039

In the era of artificial intelligence and high technology advance our life is dependent on them in every aspect. The dynamic environment forces us to plan our time with conscious and every minute is valuable. To help individuals and corporations see... Read More about Personalized Micro-Service Recommendation System for Online News.

A Secure and Robust Image Hashing Scheme Using Gaussian Pyramids (2019)
Journal Article
Bashir, I., Ahmed, F., Ahmad, J., Boulila, W., & Alharbi, N. (2019). A Secure and Robust Image Hashing Scheme Using Gaussian Pyramids. Entropy, 21(11), Article 1132. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21111132

Image hash is an alternative to cryptographic hash functions for checking integrity of digital images. Compared to cryptographic hash functions, an image hash or a Perceptual Hash Function (PHF) is resilient to content preserving distortions and sens... Read More about A Secure and Robust Image Hashing Scheme Using Gaussian Pyramids.

UrbanIxD: From Ethnography to Speculative Design Fictions for the Hybrid City (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Mival, O. (2019). UrbanIxD: From Ethnography to Speculative Design Fictions for the Hybrid City. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363486

This paper presents research in the field of Urban Interaction Design which seeks to understand how people's personal, emotional relationships with urban places could potentially inform the design of new technological devices and services. A Speculat... Read More about UrbanIxD: From Ethnography to Speculative Design Fictions for the Hybrid City.

How Can We Balance Research, Participation and Innovation as HCI Researchers? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lechelt, S., Elsden, C., Helgason, I., Panneels, I., Smyth, M., Speed, C., & Terras, M. (2019). How Can We Balance Research, Participation and Innovation as HCI Researchers?. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019. https://doi.org/10.

This paper reflects upon the growing expectation for HCI research projects to collaborate closely with partners in industry and civil society. Specifically, we suggest that this type of engagement is often prefigured around the agendas, needs and cap... Read More about How Can We Balance Research, Participation and Innovation as HCI Researchers?.

Intermediated Reality (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L. (2019, November). Intermediated Reality. Presented at SA '19: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

This thesis explores technical solutions to address the gap between the virtual and physical worlds towards photo-realistic interactive Augmented Reality (AR). As mobile network bandwidth increases, latencies reduce and graphics processing power beco... Read More about Intermediated Reality.

A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Zhou, M., Liu, H., & Hussain, A. (2020). A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle. Cognitive Computation, 12(1), 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09692-6

This paper introduces the functional system architecture of the Mengshi intelligent vehicle, winner of the 2018 World Intelligent Driving Challenge (WIDC). Different from traditional smart vehicles, a cognitive module is introduced in the system arch... Read More about A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle.

Architectural design studio environment and student satisfaction: case studies of Jordanian universities (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ibrahim, A., Jaradat, S., & Alatoom, M. (2019). Architectural design studio environment and student satisfaction: case studies of Jordanian universities. In Architectural Technology, Facing The Renovation And Refurbishment Challenge: Conference Proceedin

The built environment plays a significant role in shaping users’ behaviour and has an impact on their comfort and satisfaction. Of particular interest, the conditions of the built environment in educational places significantly affect the process of... Read More about Architectural design studio environment and student satisfaction: case studies of Jordanian universities.

The Role of the Architectural Technologist in BIM Environments (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaradat, S. (2019). The Role of the Architectural Technologist in BIM Environments. In Architectural Technology, Facing The Renovation And Refurbishment Challenge: Conference Proceedings Of The Eight International Congress Of Architectural Technology (17

Built environment professionals are expected to work in Building Information Modelling (BIM)-enabled environments. (BIM)-enabled design is examined within the context of interdisciplinary architectural practices from a professionalism perspective. A... Read More about The Role of the Architectural Technologist in BIM Environments.

Recycling a Landmark Dataset for Real-time Facial Capture and Animation with Low Cost HMD Integrated Cameras (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dos Santos Brito, C. J., & Mitchell, K. (2019). Recycling a Landmark Dataset for Real-time Facial Capture and Animation with Low Cost HMD Integrated Cameras. In VRCAI '19: The 17th International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Application

Preparing datasets for use in the training of real-time face tracking algorithms for HMDs is costly. Manually annotated facial landmarks are accessible for regular photography datasets, but introspectively mounted cameras for VR face tracking have in... Read More about Recycling a Landmark Dataset for Real-time Facial Capture and Animation with Low Cost HMD Integrated Cameras.

O-ADPI: Online Adaptive Deep-Packet Inspector Using Mahalanobis Distance Map for Web Service Attacks Classification (2019)
Journal Article
Kakavand, M., Mustapha, A., Tan, Z., Foroozana, S., & Arulsamy, L. (2019). O-ADPI: Online Adaptive Deep-Packet Inspector Using Mahalanobis Distance Map for Web Service Attacks Classification. IEEE Access, 7, 167141-167156. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2

Most active research in Host and Network Intrusion Detection Systems are only able to detect attacks of the computer systems and attacks at the network layer, which are not sufficient to counteract SOAP/REST or XML/JSON-related attacks. In dealing wi... Read More about O-ADPI: Online Adaptive Deep-Packet Inspector Using Mahalanobis Distance Map for Web Service Attacks Classification.

The 'Skills Gap' in Animation/VFX industry in Scotland (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mortimer, J., Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2019, November). The 'Skills Gap' in Animation/VFX industry in Scotland. Presented at Educating Animators Conference, University of Salford, Manchester

This presentation outlines the perceptions of professionals from the animation/vfx industry in Scotland regarding the teaching of animation in Further and Higher Education. The concept of a possible 'Skills Gap' was explored through questions posed t... Read More about The 'Skills Gap' in Animation/VFX industry in Scotland.

CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kawano, M., Yonezawa, T., Tanimura, T., Giang, N. K., Broadbent, M., Lea, R., & Nakazawa, J. (2019). CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications. In 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (

A growing trend in smart cities is the use of machine learning techniques to gather city data, formulate learning tasks and models, and use these to develop solutions to city problems. However, although these processes are sufficient for theoretical... Read More about CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications.

Fully Probabilistic Design for Stochastic Discrete System with Multiplicative Noise (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, Y., Herzallah, R., & Zafar, A. (2019). Fully Probabilistic Design for Stochastic Discrete System with Multiplicative Noise. In 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA). https://doi.org/10.1109/icca.2019.8899607

In this paper, a novel algorithm based on fully probabilistic design (FPD) is proposed for a class of linear stochastic dynamic processes with multiplicative noise. Compared with the traditional FPD, the new procedure is presented to deal with multip... Read More about Fully Probabilistic Design for Stochastic Discrete System with Multiplicative Noise.

Silicon-Based 0.450-0.475 THz Series-Fed Double Dielectric Resonator On-Chip Antenna Array Based on Metamaterial Properties for Integrated-Circuits (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2019, September). Silicon-Based 0.450-0.475 THz Series-Fed Double Dielectric Resonator On-Chip Antenna Array Based on Metamaterial Properties for Integrated-Circuit

The antenna array designed to operate over 0.450-0.475 Terahertz comprises two dielectric resonators (DRs) that are stacked vertically on top of each other and placed on the surface of the slot antenna fabricated on a silicon substrate using standard... Read More about Silicon-Based 0.450-0.475 THz Series-Fed Double Dielectric Resonator On-Chip Antenna Array Based on Metamaterial Properties for Integrated-Circuits.

High-Performance 50μm Silicon-Based On-Chip Antenna with High Port-To-Port Isolation Implemented by Metamaterial and SIW Concepts for THz Integrated Systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2019, September). High-Performance 50μm Silicon-Based On-Chip Antenna with High Port-To-Port Isolation Implemented by Metamaterial and SIW Concepts for THz Integra

A novel 50μm Silicon-based on-chip antenna is presented that combines metamaterial (MTM) and substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technologies for integration in THz circuits operating from 0.28 to 0.30 THz. The antenna structure comprises a square p... Read More about High-Performance 50μm Silicon-Based On-Chip Antenna with High Port-To-Port Isolation Implemented by Metamaterial and SIW Concepts for THz Integrated Systems.

Expanding the portfolio of tribo-positive materials: aniline formaldehyde condensates for high charge density triboelectric nanogenerators (2019)
Journal Article
Zhao, P., Soin, N., Kumar, A., Shi, L., Guan, S., Tsonos, C., …Luo, J. (2020). Expanding the portfolio of tribo-positive materials: aniline formaldehyde condensates for high charge density triboelectric nanogenerators. Nano Energy, 67, Article 104291. h

The rapid uptake of energy harvesting triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) for self-powered electronics requires the development of high-performance tribo-materials capable of providing large power outputs. This work reports on the synthesis and use... Read More about Expanding the portfolio of tribo-positive materials: aniline formaldehyde condensates for high charge density triboelectric nanogenerators.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT). https://doi.org/10.110

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) the use of Mobile Sink Nodes (MSNs) has been proposed in order to negate the ”hotspot” issue. This where nodes closest to the sink node shall run out of energy fastest, affecting network lifetime. However, in using... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.