Risk assessment for mobile systems through a multilayered hierarchical Bayesian network. (2016)
Journal Article
Li, S., Tryfonas, T., Russell, G., & Andriotis, P. (2016). Risk assessment for mobile systems through a multilayered hierarchical Bayesian network. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 46(8), 1749-1759. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2016.2537649

Mobile systems are facing a number of application vulnerabilities that can be combined together and utilized to penetrate systems with devastating impact. When assessing the overall security of a mobile system, it is important to assess the security... Read More about Risk assessment for mobile systems through a multilayered hierarchical Bayesian network..

Rich Pictures : building a resilient community. (2016)
Book
Bell, S., Berg, T., & Morse, S. (2016). Rich Pictures : building a resilient community. Routledge

Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential fut... Read More about Rich Pictures : building a resilient community..

The ecology of the ePundit: surveying the new opinion-making landscape. (2016)
Journal Article
Forrest, E., & Duff, A. S. (2016). The ecology of the ePundit: surveying the new opinion-making landscape. First Monday, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i4.6351

This paper explores hybrid forms of contemporary political opinion-making online, which we name ePunditry. The ePundit utilizes Web 2.0 technologies and networks to distribute their work: changing and challenging the boundaries and hierarchies of the... Read More about The ecology of the ePundit: surveying the new opinion-making landscape..

Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report. (2016)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2016). Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report

This report covers a workshop on digital engagement for Community Councils supported by the School of Computing's public engagement fund. It was held in Glasgow on 22 March 2016. The workshop combined presentations by subject experts with attendee-... Read More about Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report..

When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours: Effects of group size on evolution of helping (2016)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., & Lehmann, L. (2017). When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours: Effects of group size on evolution of helping. Biological Reviews, 92(2), 902-920. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12260

Understanding the evolution of sociality in humans and other species requires understanding how selection on social behaviour varies with group size. However, the effects of group size are frequently obscured in the theoretical literature, which ofte... Read More about When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours: Effects of group size on evolution of helping.

Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource Provisioning (2016)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Li, J., Hussain, A., & Yang, E. (2016). Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource Provisioning. Cognitive Computation, 8(5), 992-1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-016-9391-y

Cloud elasticity augments applications to dynamically adapt to changes in demand by acquiring or releasing computational resources on the fly. Recently, we developed a framework for cloud elasticity utilizing multiple feedback controllers simultaneou... Read More about Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource Provisioning.

A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures (2016)
Journal Article
Fowley, F., Pahl, C., Jamshidi, P., Fang, D., & Liu, X. (2016). A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6(2), 358-371. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2016.2537333

Cloud service brokerage and related management and marketplace concepts have been identified as key concerns for future cloud technology development and research. Cloud service management is an important building block of cloud architectures that can... Read More about A Classification and Comparison Framework for Cloud Service Brokerage Architectures.

A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis (2016)
Thesis
Tsiros, A. A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463438

The present research sought to investigate the correspondence between auditory and visual feature dimensions and to utilise this knowledge in order to inform the design of audio-visual mappings for visual control of sound synthesis. The first stage o... Read More about A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis.

Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees. (2016)
Thesis
Shaw, P. D. Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463271

Ensuring food security in a world with an increasing population and demand on natural resources is becoming ever more pertinent. Plant breeders are using an increasingly diverse range of data types such as phenotypic and genotypic data to identify pl... Read More about Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees..

A New Image Encryption Scheme Based on Dynamic S-Boxes and Chaotic Maps (2016)
Journal Article
Rehman, A. U., Khan, J. S., Ahmad, J., & Hwang, S. O. (2016). A New Image Encryption Scheme Based on Dynamic S-Boxes and Chaotic Maps. 3D research, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-016-0084-9

Substitution box is a unique and nonlinear core component of block ciphers. A better designing technique of substitution box can boost up the quality of ciphertexts. In this paper, a new encryption method based on dynamic substitution boxes is propos... Read More about A New Image Encryption Scheme Based on Dynamic S-Boxes and Chaotic Maps.

5G empowering vertical industries (2016)
Report
Thuemmler, C. (2016). 5G empowering vertical industries. Brussels: European Commission

Supported by the 5G empowering vertical industries With 5G, networks will be transformed into intelligent orchestration platforms. By cementing strong relationships between vendors, operators and verticals, 5G will open the field to new business valu... Read More about 5G empowering vertical industries.

Unsupervised Commonsense Knowledge Enrichment for Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Ofek, N., Poria, S., Rokach, L., Cambria, E., Hussain, A., & Shabtai, A. (2016). Unsupervised Commonsense Knowledge Enrichment for Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis. Cognitive Computation, 8(3), 467-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-015-9375-3

Sentiment analysis in natural language text is a challenging task involving a deep understanding of both syntax and semantics. Leveraging the polarity of multiword expressions—or concepts—rather than single words can mitigate the difficulty of such a... Read More about Unsupervised Commonsense Knowledge Enrichment for Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis.

Morpheme (2016)
Digital Artefact
Tsiros, A. (2016). Morpheme. [MaxMSP 5 32 bit software]

This is a MaxMSP 5 32 bit software, Morpheme allows the control of a concatenative synthesis module (IMTR CataRT) through the act of sketching on a digital canvas. The aim is to enable synthesis of sound and the expression of compositional intention... Read More about Morpheme.

An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System (2016)
Book Chapter
Aizeboje, J., & Peng, T. (2016). An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System. In Enterprise Information Systems; Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (476-495). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_23

As modern day technologies advance, so have different methods in which users can interact with computers. Computers are currently being used in combination with devices like projectors for teaching and presentations, in which the mouse and the USB wi... Read More about An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System.

Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations (2016)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2016). Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations. Scotland: Scottish Government

In October and November 2015 Edinburgh Napier University (Napier) hosted a series of workshops on digital engagement for Community Councillors and representatives of Registered Tenants Organisations. These ‘#digiCC’ workshops were held in Ayr, Elgin,... Read More about Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations.

Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm (2016)
Journal Article
Ambusaidi, M. A., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016). Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(10), 2986-2998. https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.2016.2519914

Redundant and irrelevant features in data have caused a long-term problem in network traffic classification. These features not only slow down the process of classification but also prevent a classifier from making accurate decisions, especially when... Read More about Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm.

Integrating twitter traffic information with kalman filter models for public transportation vehicle arrival time prediction (2016)
Book Chapter
Abidin, A. F., Kolberg, M., & Hussain, A. (2016). Integrating twitter traffic information with kalman filter models for public transportation vehicle arrival time prediction. In M. Trovati, R. Hill, A. Anjum, S. Ying Zhu, & L. Liu (Eds.), Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Applications (67-82). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25313-8_5

Accurate bus arrival time prediction is key for improving the attractiveness of public transport, as it helps users better manage their travel schedule. This paper proposes a model of bus arrival time prediction, which aims to improve arrival time ac... Read More about Integrating twitter traffic information with kalman filter models for public transportation vehicle arrival time prediction.

Video stream analysis in clouds: An object detection and classification framework for high performance video analytics (2016)
Journal Article
Tariq, M., Anjum, A., Abdullah, T., Tariq, M. F., Baltaci, Y., & Antonopoulos, N. (2016). Video stream analysis in clouds: An object detection and classification framework for high performance video analytics. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.2016.2517653

Object detection and classification are the basic tasks in video analytics and become the starting point for other complex applications. Traditional video analytics approaches are manual and time consuming. These are subjective due to the very involv... Read More about Video stream analysis in clouds: An object detection and classification framework for high performance video analytics.

EU-China joint white paper on the Internet of Things (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
(CAICT), C. A. O. I. A. C. T., & DG Connect, E. C. EU-China joint white paper on the Internet of Things

This paper reflects the outcome of several years of the IoT international cooperation between the EU and China and documents the state-of-the-art on IoT development in both regions and future cooperation avenues.