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Using Semantic Technology to Model Persona for Adaptable Agents (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Powers, S., & Urquhart, N. (2021, June). Using Semantic Technology to Model Persona for Adaptable Agents. Presented at ECMS 2021

In state of the art research a growing interest in the application of agent models for the simulation of road traffic can be observed. Software agents are particularly suitable for the representation of travellers and their goal-oriented behaviour. A... Read More about Using Semantic Technology to Model Persona for Adaptable Agents.

Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zhang, J., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., Khosravi, M., & Bilal, M. (2022). Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks. Physical Communication, 51, Article 101584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2021.101584

The intensification of the greenhouse effect is driving the implementation of energy saving and emission reduction policies, which lead to a wide variety of energy saving solutions benefiting from the advancement of emerging technologies such as Wire... Read More about Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks.

An Edge-Assisted Cloud Framework Using a Residual Concatenate FCN Approach to Beam Correction in the Internet of Weather Radars (2021)
Journal Article
Wu, H., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Yang, Z. (2022). An Edge-Assisted Cloud Framework Using a Residual Concatenate FCN Approach to Beam Correction in the Internet of Weather Radars. World Wide Web, 25, 1923-1949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-021-00988-y

Internet of Things (IoT) has been rapidly developed in recent years, being well applied in the fields of Environmental Surveillance, Smart Grid, Intelligent Transportation, and so on. As one of the typical earth-based meteorological observation metho... Read More about An Edge-Assisted Cloud Framework Using a Residual Concatenate FCN Approach to Beam Correction in the Internet of Weather Radars.

Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps (2021)
Book Chapter
Jaachimma Chinenyeze, S., & Liu, X. (2021). Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps. In C. Calero, M. Á. Moraga, & M. Piattini (Eds.), Software Sustainability (183-214). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69970-3_8

With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices, and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimization techniques have been proposed by the green computing research community. Prominent techniques and unique methods... Read More about Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps.

Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yazdaninia, M., Lo, D., & Sami, A. (2021, May). Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow. Presented at 2021 IEEE/ACM 29th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Madrid, Spain

A fast and effective approach to obtain information regarding software development problems is to search them to find similar solved problems or post questions on community question answering (CQA) websites. Solving coding problems in a short time is... Read More about Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow.

Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-agent Systems (2021)
Journal Article
Zheng, C., Yang, S., Parra-Ullauri, J., Garcia-Dominguez, A., & Bencomo, N. (2022). Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-agent Systems. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 6(3), 479 - 488. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2021.3082204

Multi-agent systems deliver highly resilient and adaptable solutions for common problems in telecommunications, aerospace, and industrial robotics. However, achieving an optimal global goal remains a persistent obstacle for collaborative multi-agent... Read More about Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-agent Systems.

An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verdi, M., Sami, A., Akhondali, J., Khomh, F., Uddin, G., & Karami Motlagh, A. (2021, May). An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples. Presented at 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering, Online

Software developers share programming solutions in Q&A sites like Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Android forum, and so on. The reuse of crowd-sourced code snippets can facilitate rapid prototyping. However, recent research shows that the shared code... Read More about An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples.

How Do Users Answer MATLAB Questions on Q&A Sites? A Case Study on Stack Overflow and MathWorks (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naghashzadeh, M., Haghshenas, A., Sami, A., & Lo, D. (2021, March). How Do Users Answer MATLAB Questions on Q&A Sites? A Case Study on Stack Overflow and MathWorks. Presented at 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering 2021 (SANER 2021), Honolulu, HI, USA

MATLAB is an engineering programming language with various toolboxes that has a dedicated Question and Answer (Q&A) platform on the MathWorks website, which is similar to Stack Overflow (SO). Moreover, some MATLAB users ask their questions on SO. Thi... Read More about How Do Users Answer MATLAB Questions on Q&A Sites? A Case Study on Stack Overflow and MathWorks.

A Conceptual Framework for Establishing Trust in Real World Intelligent Systems (2021)
Journal Article
Guckert, M., Gumpfer, N., Hannig, J., Keller, T., & Urquhart, N. (2021). A Conceptual Framework for Establishing Trust in Real World Intelligent Systems. Cognitive Systems Research, 68, 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.04.001

Intelligent information systems that contain emergent elements often encounter trust problems because results do not get sufficiently explained and the procedure itself can not be fully retraced. This is caused by a control flow depending either on s... Read More about A Conceptual Framework for Establishing Trust in Real World Intelligent Systems.

A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for predicting PM2.5 in Beijing based on spatiotemporal correlation (2021)
Journal Article
Ding, C., Wang, G., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2021). A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for predicting PM2.5 in Beijing based on spatiotemporal correlation. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 128(3), 503-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-021-00501-8

Long-term exposure to air environments full of suspended particles, especially PM2.5, would seriously damage people's health and life (i.e., respiratory diseases and lung cancers). Therefore, accurate PM2.5 prediction is important for the government... Read More about A hybrid CNN-LSTM model for predicting PM2.5 in Beijing based on spatiotemporal correlation.

“MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education (2021)
Journal Article
Abuhammad, A., Falah, J., Alfalah, S. F. M., Abu-Tarboush, M., Tarawneh, R. T., Drikakis, D., & Charissis, V. (2021). “MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 5(3), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5030010

Medicinal chemistry (MC) is an indispensable component of the pharmacy curriculum. The pharmacists’ unique knowledge of a medicine’s chemistry enhances their understanding of the pharmacological activity, manufacturing, storage, use, supply, and hand... Read More about “MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education.

A fully connected deep learning approach to upper limb gesture recognition in a secure FES rehabilitation environment (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Wu, X., Jiang, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., & Qi, L. (2021). A fully connected deep learning approach to upper limb gesture recognition in a secure FES rehabilitation environment. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36(5), 2387-2411. https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22383

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. The rehabilitation of Patients' limb functions has great medical value, for example, the therapy of functional electrical stimulation (FES) systems, but suffers from effective... Read More about A fully connected deep learning approach to upper limb gesture recognition in a secure FES rehabilitation environment.

Employing emerging technologies to develop and evaluate in-vehicle intelligent systems for driver support: infotainment AR HUD case study (2021)
Journal Article
Charissis, V., Falah, J., Lagoo, R., Alfalah, S. F. M., Khan, S., Wang, S., Altarteer, S., Bram Larbi, K., & Drikakis, D. (2021). Employing emerging technologies to develop and evaluate in-vehicle intelligent systems for driver support: infotainment AR HUD case study. Applied Sciences, 11(4), Article 1397. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041397

The plurality of current infotainment devices within the in-vehicle space produces an unprecedented volume of incoming data that overwhelm the typical driver, leading to higher collision probability. This work presents an investigation to an alternat... Read More about Employing emerging technologies to develop and evaluate in-vehicle intelligent systems for driver support: infotainment AR HUD case study.

A renewable energy forecasting and control approach to secured edge-level efficiency in a distributed micro-grid (2021)
Journal Article
Anaadumba, R., Liu, Q., Marah, B. D., Nakoty, F. M., Liu, X., & Zhang, Y. (2021). A renewable energy forecasting and control approach to secured edge-level efficiency in a distributed micro-grid. Cybersecurity, 4, Article 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42400-020-00065-3

Energy forecasting using Renewable energy sources (RESs) is gradually gaining weight in the research field due to the benefits it presents to the modern-day environment. Not only does energy forecasting using renewable energy sources help mitigate th... Read More about A renewable energy forecasting and control approach to secured edge-level efficiency in a distributed micro-grid.