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Information Literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Ryan, B. Information Literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors. Presented at ISIC 2020 The Information Behaviour Conference, Pretoria University, Tshwane,

*Introduction: This paper addresses the information practices of hyperlocal democratic representatives, and their acquisition and application of information literacy skills. *Method: 1034 Scottish community councillors completed an online questio... Read More about Information Literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors.

Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries. Presented at ISIC (Information Seeking In Context) 20

Introduction - Library researchers are often concerned with the factors that affect individual use of public library resources. To date, culture as a determinant of public library use has not been fully explored across all public library populations.... Read More about Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries.

Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buschmeier, H., Ellen Foster, M., & Gkatzia, D. (2020, March). Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

This workshop is the second in a series bringing together the Natural Language Generation and Human-Robot Interaction communities to discuss topics of mutual interest with the goal of developing an HRI-inspired NLG shared task. The workshop website i... Read More about Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction.

Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, L., Guo, C., Li, C., He, Q., Zhang, K., & Cai, Z. (2019, August). Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs. Presented at International Conference on Applied Energy 2019, Västerås, Sweden

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is one of the promising methods to store the surplus solar and wind energy in a grid scale . In this study, we used a non-isothermal multiphase flow simulator to model a field-scale study o... Read More about Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs.

Understanding Personal Online Risk To Individuals Via Ontology Development (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2020, July). Understanding Personal Online Risk To Individuals Via Ontology Development. Presented at International Societey for Knowledge Organziation (ISKO) 2020, Aalborg, Denmark

The concept of risk is widely misunderstood because of the different contexts in which it is used. This paper describes the development of an ontology of risk as a way of better understanding the nature of the potential harms individuals are exposed... Read More about Understanding Personal Online Risk To Individuals Via Ontology Development.

Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings (2020)
Journal Article
Cruickshank, P., & Hall, H. (2020). Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings. Information Research, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.47989/irpaper880

Introduction. Prior research in Information Science often uses constructs from Social Exchange Theory to explain online information sharing. Exchange theories have a strong focus on reciprocity, yet in some communities, such as elected democratic rep... Read More about Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings.

Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D. (2020, December). Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020), Online

Commonsense is vital for human communication, as it allows us to make inferences without explicitly mentioning the context. Equipping robots with commonsense knowledge would lead to better communication between humans and robots and will allow robots... Read More about Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction.

Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerrouche, A., Lithgow, J., & Alwis, L. (2020). Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology. In G. Cranch, A. Wang, M. Digonnet, & P. Dragic (Eds.), Optical Fiber Sensors Conference 2020 Special Edition. https://doi.org

Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be a ongoing concern. The act to provide clean water by filtration is effective although has concerns. Previous methods for detection and removal of pathogens consist of a... Read More about Design a Monitoring System For Pathogen Detection Using Microfluidic Technology.

Feasibility Study on the Potential of Fibre Bragg Gratings for Thermal Monitoring of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alcock, K., Grammel, M., Binetti, L., Gonzales Vila, A., Goh, K., & Alwis, L. (2020, June). Feasibility Study on the Potential of Fibre Bragg Gratings for Thermal Monitoring of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th International c

Bragg Gratings were used to monitor thermal fluctuations of a Lithium-Ion battery by attaching the sensors outside the casing of the battery. Results are comparable to that obtained from thermo-couples and thus verifies its potential.

Evaluation of the potential of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2020, June). Evaluation of the potential of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th Internation

The paper presents an evaluation on the structural and operational potential of fiber optic sensors (FOSs) to be utilized for real-time continuous structural health monitoring (SHM) of fiber-reinforced carbon concrete composites (C3).

Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., & Roth, B. (2020, June). Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications. Presented at OFS 2020 (27th International

The work presents an investigation on the utilization of an etched Graded-Index (GI)-Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) for mode-multiplexed Fiber Optic Sensor (FOS) applications and the simultaneous measurement of the Surrounding Refractive Index (SRI) The work... Read More about Investigation on the sensitivity of an etched graded-index multi-mode fiber to refractive index and temperature for mode-multiplexed fiber optic sensor applications.

Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bowditch, W., Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Pitropakis, N., & Hall, A. J. (2020, February). Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Security Systems and Privacy (ICISS

Data analysis and machine learning methods often involve the processing of cleartext data, and where this could breach the rights to privacy. Increasingly, we must use encryption to protect all states of the data: in-transit, at-rest, and in-memory.... Read More about Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption.

Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Christou, O., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Mckeown, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, February). Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach. Presented at ICISSP 2020, Valletta, Malta

Phishing is considered to be one of the most prevalent cyber-attacks because of its immense flexibility and alarmingly high success rate. Even with adequate training and high situational awareness, it can still be hard for users to continually be awa... Read More about Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach.

Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation (2020)
Journal Article
Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Mora, L. (2020). Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. Journal of Urban Technology, 27(4), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2020.1868738

This paper closes a gap in the literature on smart cities relating to the metrics of future Internet-based developments. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case study that overcomes the methodological shortcomings that otherwise exist i... Read More about Smart cities: the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation.

Athos: An Extensible DSL for Model Driven Traffic and Transport Simulation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoffmann, B., Urquhart, N., Chalmers, K., & Guckert, M. (2020, February). Athos: An Extensible DSL for Model Driven Traffic and Transport Simulation. Presented at Modelling 2020, Vienna

Multi-agent systems may be considered appropriate tools for simulating complex systems such as those based around traffic and transportation networks. Modelling traffic participants as agents can reveal relevant patterns of traffic flow. Upsurging tr... Read More about Athos: An Extensible DSL for Model Driven Traffic and Transport Simulation.

The Impact of Mobile DIS and Rank-Decreased Attacks in Internet of Things Networks (2020)
Journal Article
Mitchel, C., Ghaleb, B., Ghaleb, S. M., Jaroucheh, Z., & Al-rimy, B. A. S. (2020). The Impact of Mobile DIS and Rank-Decreased Attacks in Internet of Things Networks. International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 10(2), 66-72. https://doi.

With a predicted 50 billion devices by the end of 2020, the Internet of things has grown exponentially in the last few years. This growth has seen an increasing demand for mobility support in low power and lossy sensor networks, a type of network cha... Read More about The Impact of Mobile DIS and Rank-Decreased Attacks in Internet of Things Networks.

Do High Visibility Crosswalks Improve Pedestrian Safety? A Correlated Grouped Random Parameters Approach Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data (2020)
Journal Article
Sonduru Pantangi, S., Shahriar Ahmed, S., Fountas, G., Majka, K., & Ch. Anastasopoulos, P. (2021). Do High Visibility Crosswalks Improve Pedestrian Safety? A Correlated Grouped Random Parameters Approach Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data. Analytic Met

In this study, the effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks (HVCs) in improving pedestrian safety at urban settings is assessed using SHRP2 (Second Strategic Highway Research Program) Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data. Various HVCs located at... Read More about Do High Visibility Crosswalks Improve Pedestrian Safety? A Correlated Grouped Random Parameters Approach Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data.

On the advantages of mixed formulation and higher-order elements for computational morphoelasticity (2020)
Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Li, Z., Hossain, M., & Wang, J. (2021). On the advantages of mixed formulation and higher-order elements for computational morphoelasticity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 148, Article 104289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.20

In this paper, we present a mixed displacement–pressure finite element formulation that can successively model compressible as well as truly incompressible behaviour in growth-induced deformations significantly observed in soft materials. Inf–sup sta... Read More about On the advantages of mixed formulation and higher-order elements for computational morphoelasticity.

Integration of a Combined Cycle Power Plant with MED-RO Desalination Based on Conventional and Advanced Exergy, Exergoeconomic, and Exergoenvironmental Analyses (2020)
Journal Article
Khoshgoftar Manesh, M. H., Ghadikolaei, R. S., Modabber, H. V., & Onishi, V. C. (2021). Integration of a Combined Cycle Power Plant with MED-RO Desalination Based on Conventional and Advanced Exergy, Exergoeconomic, and Exergoenvironmental Analyses. Proce

The ever-increasing world population, change in lifestyle, and limited natural water and energy resources have made industrial seawater desalination plants the leading contenders for cost-efficient freshwater production. In this study, the integratio... Read More about Integration of a Combined Cycle Power Plant with MED-RO Desalination Based on Conventional and Advanced Exergy, Exergoeconomic, and Exergoenvironmental Analyses.

A Fast Classification Approach to Upper-Limb Posture Recognition (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wu, X., Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Wu, H., & Liu, X. (2020, November). A Fast Classification Approach to Upper-Limb Posture Recognition. Presented at IEEE International Conferences on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom2020), Rhodes, Greece