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Optical Element (2022)
Patent
Ramirez-Iniguez, R., Muhammad Sukki, F., McMeekin, S., & Stewart, B. (2022). Optical Element. EP2795388B1

The present invention relates to an optical element, such as a concentrator lens for a system using solar energy. The present invention also relates to associated methods of generating and producing an optical element and/or solar collection or energ... Read More about Optical Element.

Morpho-evolution with learning using a controller archive as an inheritance mechanism (2022)
Journal Article
Le Goff, L. K., Buchanan, E., Hart, E., Eiben, A. E., Li, W., De Carlo, M., Winfield, A. F., Hale, M. F., Woolley, R., Angus, M., Timmis, J., & Tyrrell, A. M. (2023). Morpho-evolution with learning using a controller archive as an inheritance mechanism. I

Most work in evolutionary robotics centres on evolving a controller for a fixed body-plan. However, previous studiessuggest that simultaneously evolving both controller and body-plan could open up many interesting possibilities. However... Read More about Morpho-evolution with learning using a controller archive as an inheritance mechanism.

Sustainable Engineering higher education in Oman-lessons learned from the pandemic (COVID-19), improvements, and suggestions in the teaching, learning and administrative framework (2022)
Journal Article
Honnurvali, M. S., El-Saleh, A. A., Sheikh, A. M., Goh, K., Gupta, N., & Umar, T. (2022). Sustainable Engineering higher education in Oman-lessons learned from the pandemic (COVID-19), improvements, and suggestions in the teaching, learning and administra

This research study has investigated the challenges faced due to the pandemic (COVID-19). This paper further provides recommendations that can be adopted by academics, learners, and administrators to make the education system more robust and sustaina... Read More about Sustainable Engineering higher education in Oman-lessons learned from the pandemic (COVID-19), improvements, and suggestions in the teaching, learning and administrative framework.

Leveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Han, X., Cheng, R., Grubenmann, T., Maniu, S., Ma, C., & Li, X. (2022). Leveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks. In A. Banerjee, Z. Zhou, E. E. Papalexakis, & M. Riondato (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 SIAM I

Road network applications, such as navigation, incident detection, and Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, make extensive use of network edge weights (e.g., traveling times). Some of these weights can be missing, especially in a road network wher... Read More about Leveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks.

Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle (2022)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Li, M., Saint, R., Lenzen, M., & D'Amico, B. (2022). Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30, 1044-1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/

Over a million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute, 20,000 every second. While there is agreement that single-use plastics should be phased out, records of plastic pollution point in the opposite direction. Until the phasing-out... Read More about Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle.

Flexibility-Based Stress-Driven Nonlocal Frame Element: Formulation and Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Limkatanyu, S., Sae-Long, W., Sedighi, H. M., Rungamornrat, J., Sukontasukkul, P., Zhang, H., & Chindaprasirt, P. (2023). Flexibility-Based Stress-Driven Nonlocal Frame Element: Formulation and Applications. Engineering with Computers, 39(1), 399-417. htt

In the present work, a novel flexibility-based nonlocal frame element for size-dependent analyses of nano-sized frame-like structures is proposed. The material small-scale effect is consistently represented by the stress-driven nonlocal integral mode... Read More about Flexibility-Based Stress-Driven Nonlocal Frame Element: Formulation and Applications.

Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines (2022)
Journal Article
Fahim, M., Sharma, V., Cao, T., Canberk, B., & Duong, T. Q. (2022). Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines. IEEE Access, 10, 14184-14194. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3147602

Wind turbines are one of the primary sources of renewable energy, which leads to a sustainable and efficient energy solution. It does not release any carbon emissions to pollute our planet. The wind farms monitoring and power generation prediction is... Read More about Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines.

Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images (2022)
Journal Article
Ghandorh, H., Boulila, W., Masood, S., Koubaa, A., Ahmed, F., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 613. https://doi.org/10.3390/r

Road detection technology plays an essential role in a variety of applications, such as urban planning, map updating, traffic monitoring and automatic vehicle navigation. Recently, there has been much development in detecting roads in high-resolution... Read More about Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images.

A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution (2022)
Journal Article
Arif, J., Khan, M. A., Ghaleb, B., Ahmad, J., Munir, A., Rashid, U., & Al-Dubai, A. Y. (2022). A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution. IEEE Access, 10, 12966-12982. https://doi.org/10

Privacy is a serious concern related to sharing videos or images among people over the Internet. As a method to preserve images’ privacy, chaos-based image encryption algorithms have been used widely to fulfil such a requirement. However, these algor... Read More about A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution.

Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services (2022)
Journal Article
McDonald, G., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Ahmad, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services. Sensors, 22(3), Article 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030953

Ransomware has become an increasingly popular type of malware across the past decade and continues to rise in popularity due to its high profitability. Organisations and enterprises have become prime targets for ransomware as they are more likely to... Read More about Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services.

F-Shape Dual-Band MIMO Antenna System for Next- Generation Smartphone Applications (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ullah, A., Parchin, N. O., Mannan, W., Al-Yasir, I. A., See, C. H., Hu, Y. F., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2021, September). F-Shape Dual-Band MIMO Antenna System for Next- Generation Smartphone Applications. Presented at 2nd International Multi-disciplinary C

In this paper, a new F-shape 6-element dual-band multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna operating in a 5G band for smartphone mobile is presented. The antenna contains six antenna elements covering a dual-frequency range including 3.42-3.77 GH... Read More about F-Shape Dual-Band MIMO Antenna System for Next- Generation Smartphone Applications.

Spatial concept learning and inference on geospatial polygon data (2022)
Journal Article
Westphal, P., Grubenmann, T., Collarana, D., Bin, S., Bühmann, L., & Lehmann, J. (2022). Spatial concept learning and inference on geospatial polygon data. Knowledge-Based Systems, 241, Article 108233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108233

Geospatial knowledge has always been an essential driver for many societal aspects. This concerns in particular urban planning and urban growth management. To gain insights from geospatial data and guide decisions usually authoritative and open data... Read More about Spatial concept learning and inference on geospatial polygon data.

Double-Layered Metamaterial Resonator Operating At Millimetre Wave FOR Detection Of Dengue Virus (2022)
Journal Article
Qureshi, S. A., Abidin, Z., Majid, H. A., Ashyap, A. Y., & See, C. H. (2022). Double-Layered Metamaterial Resonator Operating At Millimetre Wave FOR Detection Of Dengue Virus. International journal of electronics and communications = Archiv fur Elektronik

In this paper, a metamaterial-based resonator is proposed for the detection of dengue infection. The replaceable top layer can measure the dielectric characteristics of blood samples to detect the dengue virus. The sensor observed a shift in the reso... Read More about Double-Layered Metamaterial Resonator Operating At Millimetre Wave FOR Detection Of Dengue Virus.

The Effect of Occupants’ Behaviour on the Building Performance Gap: UK Residential Case Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Bahadori-Jahromi, A., Salem, R., Mylona, A., Hasan, A. U., & Zhang, H. (2022). The Effect of Occupants’ Behaviour on the Building Performance Gap: UK Residential Case Studies. Sustainability, 14(3), Article 1362. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031362

Studies have shown that the assumptions used to create dynamic thermal models of buildings do not reflect their actual energy use. Bridging the energy performance gap is vital in ensuring that a designed or retrofitted building meets the energy perfo... Read More about The Effect of Occupants’ Behaviour on the Building Performance Gap: UK Residential Case Studies.

Embedding artificial intelligence in society: looking beyond the EU AI master plan using the culture cycle (2022)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Lehtola, V. V., Nex, F., Yang, M. Y., Augustijn, E., Bagheriye, L., Brune, C., Kounadi, O., Li, J., Moreira, J., Van Der Nagel, J., Veldkamp, B., Le, D. V., Wang, M., Wijnhoven, F., Wolterink, J. M., & Zurita-Milla, R. (2023). Embedding artifi

The European Union (EU) Commission’s whitepaper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) proposes shaping the emerging AI market so that it better reflects common European values. It is a master plan that builds upon the EU AI High-Level Expert Group guidelin... Read More about Embedding artificial intelligence in society: looking beyond the EU AI master plan using the culture cycle.

A Bibliometric Study and Science Mapping Research of Intelligent Decision (2022)
Journal Article
Li, B., Xu, Z., Hong, N., & Hussain, A. (2022). A Bibliometric Study and Science Mapping Research of Intelligent Decision. Cognitive Computation, 14, 989-1008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-09993-3

Intelligent decision (ID) has received a great deal of attention and has been integrated into various fields, such as machine learning, fuzzy inference system, and natural language processing. The advanced technologies have become hot topics and have... Read More about A Bibliometric Study and Science Mapping Research of Intelligent Decision.

Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods (2022)
Journal Article
Seminara, P., Vand, B., Sajjadian, S. M., & Tupenaite, L. (2022). Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods. Sustainability, 14(3), Article 1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031242

Buildings are one of the largest contributors to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the world. There is an increased interest in building performance evaluation as an essential practice to design a sustainable building. Building... Read More about Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods.

Multiple Participants’ Discrete Activity Recognition in a Well-Controlled Environment Using Universal Software Radio Peripheral Wireless Sensing (2022)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Yaseen Shah, S., Aziz Shah, S., Liu, H., Alhumaidi Alotaibi, A., Althobaiti, T., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2022). Multiple Participants’ Discrete Activity Recognition in a Well-Controlled Environment Using Universal Software Radio Peripheral Wireless

Wireless sensing is the utmost cutting-edge way of monitoring different health-related activities and, concurrently, preserving most of the privacy of individuals. To meet future needs, multi-subject activity monitoring is in demand, whether it is fo... Read More about Multiple Participants’ Discrete Activity Recognition in a Well-Controlled Environment Using Universal Software Radio Peripheral Wireless Sensing.