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A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclachlan, R., Wodehouse, A., & Vasantha, G. (2018, September). A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects. Presented at 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, UK

This paper presents a new philosophy for patent use in student design projects; patents are more valuable when viewed as creative and learning resources rather than as a list of prior art to be considered for infringement. A practical approach to pat... Read More about A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Sherlock, A., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2018, August). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index. Presented at ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), Quebec, Canada

The benefits of being able to create a number of product variations from a limited range of components, or sub-assemblies, are widely recognized. Indeed it is clear that companies who can effectively reuse elements of existing designs when creating n... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index.

A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackamul, E. B., & Esteves, A. (2018, October). A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task. Presented at 6th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Berlin, Germany

This paper presents a comparative study between two popular AR systems during a collocated collaborative task. The goal of the study is to start a body of knowledge that describes the effects of different AR approaches in users' experience and perfor... Read More about A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task.

Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal (2018)
Journal Article
Warner, K. S., & Wäger, M. (2019). Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal. Long Range Planning, 52(3), 326-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2018.12.001

In this qualitative study, we explore how incumbent firms in traditional industries build dynamic capabilities for digital transformation. Digital transformation has been defined as the use of new digital technologies, such as mobile, artificial inte... Read More about Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal.

NgramPOS: A Bigram-based Linguistic and Statistical Feature Process Model for Unstructured Text Classification (2018)
Journal Article
Yazdania, S., Tan, Z., Kakavand, M., & Lau, S. (2022). NgramPOS: A Bigram-based Linguistic and Statistical Feature Process Model for Unstructured Text Classification. Wireless Networks, 28(3), 1251-1261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-01909-0

Research in financial domain has shown that sentiment aspects of stock news have a profound impact on volume trades, volatility, stock prices and firm earnings. With the ever growing social inetworking and online marketing sites, the reviews obtained... Read More about NgramPOS: A Bigram-based Linguistic and Statistical Feature Process Model for Unstructured Text Classification.

"We're coming from different worlds" : exploring student identity during transition (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., Varey, A., & Cairncross, S. (2018, December). "We're coming from different worlds" : exploring student identity during transition. Presented at SRHE Newer and Early Career Conference 2018, Newport, Wales

This study presents empirical work examining the student journey from further to higher education in computing degrees in Scotland and seeks to understand the complex formation of identity, from the student perspective, during transition. In Scotlan... Read More about "We're coming from different worlds" : exploring student identity during transition.

Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems (2018)
Journal Article
Andras, P., Esterle, L., Guckert, M., Anh Han, T., Lewis, P. R., Milanovic, K., Payne, T., Perret, C., Pitt, J., Powers, S. T., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2018). Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems. IEEE technology & society magazine, 37(4), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2018.2876107

Intelligent machines have reached capabilities that go beyond a level that a human being can fully comprehend without sufficiently detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The choice of moves in the game Go (generated by Deep Mind?s Alpha... Read More about Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems.

Interference graphs to monitor and control schedules in low-power WPAN (2018)
Journal Article
van der Lee, T., Liotta, A., & Exarchakos, G. (2019). Interference graphs to monitor and control schedules in low-power WPAN. Future Generation Computer Systems, 93, 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.10.014

Highlights
• This study presents the complete and slotted interference graph model.
• The service uses the complete interference graph to evaluate the network.
• Slotted interference graphs are used to reschedule problematic connections.
• Rea... Read More about Interference graphs to monitor and control schedules in low-power WPAN.

How do we use information to help us learn to innovate in the workplace? A case study of a Scottish University. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Middleton, L. (2018, October). How do we use information to help us learn to innovate in the workplace? A case study of a Scottish University. Poster presented at ISIC 2018

Introduction. The use of information in the workplace is an established topic in information science research (Weiner, 2011). The focus has often fallen on the development of skills in the workplace. Specifically, the relationship between information... Read More about How do we use information to help us learn to innovate in the workplace? A case study of a Scottish University..

Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Zhang, S., Yang, X., Qiao, H., Huang, K., & Hussain, A. (2019). Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection. Information Fusion, 50, 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.015

Multispectral pedestrian detection is an emerging solution with great promise in many around-the-clock applications, such as automotive driving and security surveillance. To exploit the complementary nature and remedy contradictory appearance between... Read More about Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection.

Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities (2018)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.019

Bibliometrics is a powerful tool for analyzing knowledge domains and revealing their cognitive-epistemological structure. Different mathematical models and statistical techniques have been proposed and tested to carry out bibliometric analyses and de... Read More about Combining Co-Citation Clustering and Text-Based Analysis to Reveal the Main Development Paths of Smart Cities.

Democratic Participation through Crocheted Memes. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, C. F., & Smyth, M. (2018, July). Democratic Participation through Crocheted Memes. Presented at 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society - SMSociety '18

In a UK city, various crocheted protest banners have appeared, containing political statements concerning planned developments in their locations. Photos of these banners are shared across social media, raising awareness and potentially playing a rol... Read More about Democratic Participation through Crocheted Memes..

Creating optimised employee travel plans (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N., & Hart, E. (2015, September). Creating optimised employee travel plans. Presented at EuroGen 2015

The routing of employees who provide services such as home health or social care is a complex problem. When sending an employee between two addresses , there may exist more than one travel option, e.g. public transport or car. In this paper we examin... Read More about Creating optimised employee travel plans.

University library introduces bibliotherapy for student wellbeing (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Ennis, L. (2018). University library introduces bibliotherapy for student wellbeing. Australia

At least one in three people will struggle with their mental health at some point in their lives but reading can help bring relief, explains Laura Ennis.

Developing an Evaluation Framework for Knowledge Management Systems in SMEs (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bratton, A., & Thomson, A. (2018, June). Developing an Evaluation Framework for Knowledge Management Systems in SMEs. Paper presented at International Institute for Applied KM 2018 : Knowledge Management: Research, Organization, and Applied Innovation, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

This paper develops an evaluation framework for knowledge management systems (KMS) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An embedded research approach was used to develop an evaluation framework for KMS in a small, UK-based, information techn... Read More about Developing an Evaluation Framework for Knowledge Management Systems in SMEs.

Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science (2018)
Journal Article
Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Stone, P., Nguyen, P. H., Gibescu, M., & Liotta, A. (2018). Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 2383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04316-3

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g. sparsity, scale-... Read More about Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science.

Securing Cloud Hypervisors: A Survey of the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures (2018)
Journal Article
Barrowclough, J. P., & Asif, R. (2018). Securing Cloud Hypervisors: A Survey of the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures. Security and Communication Networks, 2018, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1681908

The exponential rise of the cloud computing paradigm has led to the cybersecurity concerns, taking into account the fact that the resources are shared and mediated by a ‘hypervisor’ that may be attacked and user data can be compromised or hacked. In... Read More about Securing Cloud Hypervisors: A Survey of the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures.

An Edge-Based Architecture to Support Efficient Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0 (2018)
Journal Article
Pace, P., Aloi, G., Gravina, R., Caliciuri, G., Fortino, G., & Liotta, A. (2019). An Edge-Based Architecture to Support Efficient Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(1), 481-489. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2018.2843169

Edge computing paradigm has attracted many interests in the last few years as a valid alternative to the standard cloud-based approaches to reduce the interaction timing and the huge amount of data coming from Internet of Things (IoT) devices toward... Read More about An Edge-Based Architecture to Support Efficient Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0.

Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena. (2018)
Journal Article
Cleverley, P., & Muir, L. (2018). Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena. Knowledge Organization, 45(2), 152-169. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2018-2-152

The study investigates whether existing Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for strong and hesitant forward-looking sentiment could be improved to detect social phenomena.
Five judges identified examples of strong/hesitant forward-looking sentiment... Read More about Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena..