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Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Penaranda Valdivia, K. (2022, December). Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages. Presented at 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Christchurch, N

Audio messaging and voice-based interactions are growing in popularity. Lexical features of a manually-curated dataset of real-world audio tweets, as well as text and video/image tweets from the same user accounts, are analyzed to explore how user-ge... Read More about Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages.

Formulations and Algorithms to Find Maximal and Maximum Independent Sets of Graphs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heal, M., Dashtipour, K., & Gogate, M. (2022). Formulations and Algorithms to Find Maximal and Maximum Independent Sets of Graphs. In Proceedings, 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022 (516-520).

We propose four algorithms to find maximal and maximum independent sets of graphs. Two of the algorithms are non-polynomial in time, mainly binary programming and non-convex multi-variable polynomial programming algorithms. Two other algorithms run i... Read More about Formulations and Algorithms to Find Maximal and Maximum Independent Sets of Graphs.

Factors Inhibiting Digital Transformation of Indigenous Construction Firms in Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
Okpo, A. H., Ikediashi, D., & Ansa, O. A. (2022). Factors Inhibiting Digital Transformation of Indigenous Construction Firms in Nigeria. Covenant Journal of Research in the Built Environment, 10(2), 1-12

Despite the inherent benefits that digitalisation brings to businesses across sectors, indigenous construction firms in developing countries like Nigeria seem unprepared and reluctant to embrace the digital trend. Qualitative research technique was a... Read More about Factors Inhibiting Digital Transformation of Indigenous Construction Firms in Nigeria.

The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jiang, Y., Xu, Y., Zhan, Y., He, W., Wang, Y., Xi, Z., …Yu, Y. (2022). The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation

We describe a new freely available Chinese multi-party dialogue dataset for automatic extraction of dialogue-based character relationships. The data has been extracted from the original TV scripts of a Chinese sitcom called “I Love My Home” with comp... Read More about The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues.

A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunson, N., Garcia, D. H., Sieińska, W., Addlesee, A., Dondrup, C., Lemon, O., …Yu, Y. (2022). A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (645-6

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have the potential to play an increasingly important role in a variety of contexts including healthcare, but most existing systems have very limited interactive capabilities. We will demonstrate a robot receptionist t... Read More about A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist.

5G in the Wild: Performance of C-Band 5G-NR in Rural Low-Power Fixed Wireless Access (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, E., Chung, A., Broadbent, M., Macleod, A., & Race, N. (2022). 5G in the Wild: Performance of C-Band 5G-NR in Rural Low-Power Fixed Wireless Access. In 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) (18-23). https://doi.org/10.1109/fnwf55208.2022.00

In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of one of the first community-led rural applications of standalone 5G for fixed wireless access on the n77 band in the UK. This was achieved through a full-stack holistic monitoring platform, evaluatin... Read More about 5G in the Wild: Performance of C-Band 5G-NR in Rural Low-Power Fixed Wireless Access.

InnEO'Space PhD: Preparing Young Researchers for a successful career on Earth Observation applications (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mothe, J., Bayer, A., Castello, V., Ciaccio, V., Del Frate, F., De Santis, D., …Voinea, M. (2022). InnEO'Space PhD: Preparing Young Researchers for a successful career on Earth Observation applications. In International Conference on Innovation in Avia

InnEO'Space PhD project is preparing young researchers for a successful career by developing modernised and transferable PhD courses and learning resources based on innovation skills and employers' needs as well as in-depth knowledge of high stakes a... Read More about InnEO'Space PhD: Preparing Young Researchers for a successful career on Earth Observation applications.

Exploring strategic alignment of business strategy and information systems/technology strategies using a middle management perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kachale, T. (2022, March). Exploring strategic alignment of business strategy and information systems/technology strategies using a middle management perspective. Presented at 15th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2022, Online

Information Systems/Information Technologies (IS/IT) have become an integral part of modern organisations. However, there are still challenges presented to business leaders on how they may achieve strategic alignment (SA) of business and IS/IT strate... Read More about Exploring strategic alignment of business strategy and information systems/technology strategies using a middle management perspective.

Excel-VBA: From Solving Mathematical Puzzles to Analysing Complex Engineering Problems (2022)
Book
Muneer, T., & Ivanova, S. (2022). Excel-VBA: From Solving Mathematical Puzzles to Analysing Complex Engineering Problems. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94085-0

This compact text is a powerful introduction to the Excel/VBA computing environment. The book presents some of the most useful features of Excel. First by introducing mathematical puzzles that will grab the reader’s attention with the reader invited... Read More about Excel-VBA: From Solving Mathematical Puzzles to Analysing Complex Engineering Problems.

Developing a Digital ForensicsTerminology Using Natural Language Processing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le Gall, M., Cole, C., Haynes, D., & Nic Daeid, N. (2022). Developing a Digital ForensicsTerminology Using Natural Language Processing. In M. Lykke, T. Svarre, D. Haynes, M. Skov, M. Thellesfsen, & D. Martinez-Avila (Eds.), Knowledge Organization across D

Deep Pre-trained Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning: A Cyberbullying Detection Approach with Augmented Datasets (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alharigy, L. M., Al-Nuaim, H. A., & Moradpoor, N. (2022). Deep Pre-trained Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning: A Cyberbullying Detection Approach with Augmented Datasets. In 2022 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communica

Cyberbullying is a widespread problem that has only increased in recent years due to the massive dependence on social media. Although, there are many approaches for detecting cyberbullying they still need to be improved upon for more accurate detecti... Read More about Deep Pre-trained Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning: A Cyberbullying Detection Approach with Augmented Datasets.

Direct entrants as route guides to the higher education landscape (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Meharg, D., & Fabian, K. (2022). Direct entrants as route guides to the higher education landscape. In SRHE International Conference 2022

Students who study for an HND at further education college and then join the university directly into the 3 rd year of their honours degree are a valuable segment of our academic community. This route provides opportunities for more people to gain HE... Read More about Direct entrants as route guides to the higher education landscape.

Selected poems: Lorna Lloyd (2022)
Book
Ryan, B., & Hall, H. (Eds.). (2022). Selected poems: Lorna Lloyd. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University

This volume comprises 37 poems by Lorna Lloyd (1914-1942) arranged by date of composition: 1928-1930 (11); early 1930s (11); mid to late 1930s (10); early 1940s (5). It was produced as an output of the AHRC Creative Informatics 'Platform to platform'... Read More about Selected poems: Lorna Lloyd.

Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services and Technologies: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference 6–8 July 2022 Aalborg, Denmark (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2022). Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services and Technologies: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference 6–8 July 2022 Aalborg, Denmark. In M. Lykke, T. Svarre, D. Haynes, M. Skov, M. Thellefsen, & D. Martínez

This book explores the latest advances in how knowledge organisation can both draw upon and inform diverse disciplines and technological developments. It explores how best to combine theory and practice, with its contents considering practical soluti... Read More about Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services and Technologies: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference 6–8 July 2022 Aalborg, Denmark.

Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems for Cyber Threat Intelligence (2022)
Book
Maleh, Y., Alazab, M., Tawalbeh, L., & Romdhani, I. (Eds.). (2022). Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems for Cyber Threat Intelligence. Gistrup, Denmark: River Publishers

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted to cyber-threat protection of computer systems which is one of the most critical cybersecurity tasks for single users and businesses since even a single attack can result in compromise... Read More about Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems for Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Post Quantum Cryptography Analysis of TLS Tunneling on a Constrained Device (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barton, J., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W., Sayeed, S., & Abramson, W. (2022). Post Quantum Cryptography Analysis of TLS Tunneling on a Constrained Device. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICI

Advances in quantum computing make Shor’s algorithm for factorising numbers ever more tractable. This threatens the security of any cryptographic system which often relies on the difficulty of factorisation. It also threatens methods based on discret... Read More about Post Quantum Cryptography Analysis of TLS Tunneling on a Constrained Device.

The Coming of Age of Solar and Wind Power (2022)
Book
Muneer, T., Jadraque Gago, E., & Etxebarria Berrizbeitia, S. (2022). The Coming of Age of Solar and Wind Power. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92010-4

This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and describing both technologies in detail. Four regions of the world, with dist... Read More about The Coming of Age of Solar and Wind Power.

Enhancing the appearance of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) through the application of Traditional Symbols: A Case Study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Awuku, S. A., Bennadji, A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Sellami, N. (2022). Enhancing the appearance of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) through the application of Traditional Symbols: A Case Study. In AIP Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.106

Over the past years, advanced renewable technologies such as Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) has transformed to become more efficient, reliable, less costly and attractive. A migration to Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) and push for Green B... Read More about Enhancing the appearance of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) through the application of Traditional Symbols: A Case Study.

Nature Inspired Optimisation for Delivery Problems: From Theory to the Real World (2022)
Book
Urquhart, N. (2022). Nature Inspired Optimisation for Delivery Problems: From Theory to the Real World. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98108-2

This book explains classic routing and transportation problems and solutions, before offering insights based on successful real-world solutions. The chapters in Part I introduce and explain the traveling salesperson problem (TSP), vehicle routing pro... Read More about Nature Inspired Optimisation for Delivery Problems: From Theory to the Real World.