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How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Orme, M., Yu, Y., & Tan, Z. (2024, May). How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy

This paper concerns the pressing need to understand and manage inappropriate language within the evolving human-robot interaction (HRI) landscape. As intelligent systems and robots transition from controlled laboratory settings to everyday households... Read More about How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction.

Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W., Grierson, S., & Uribe, D. (2024, February). Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode. Presented at 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Rome, Italy

Biometric data is often highly sensitive, and a leak of this data can lead to serious privacy breaches. Some of the most sensitive of this type of data relates to the usage of DNA data on individuals. A leak of this type of data without consent could... Read More about Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode.

Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata (2024)
Journal Article
Gnoli, C., Golub, K., Haynes, D., Salaba, A., Shiri, A., & Slavic, A. (2024). Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata. Knowledge Organization, 51, 169-186. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2024-3-169

This article addresses the underutilization of knowledge organization systems (KOS) elements in online library catalogues, hindering effective subject-based search and discovery. It highlights the International Society for Knowledge Organization's in... Read More about Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata.

Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drummond, R., Guiver, C., & Turner, M. C. (2024, July). Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm. Presented at 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, Oxford, England

With neural networks being used to control safety-critical systems, they increasingly have to be both accurate (in the sense of matching inputs to outputs) and robust. However, these two properties are often at odds with each other and a trade-off ha... Read More about Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm.

A True Random Number Generator Based On Race Hazard And Jitter Of Braided And Cross-Coupled Logic Gates Using FPGA (2024)
Journal Article
Ahmed, H. O., Kim, D., & Buchanan, B. (online). A True Random Number Generator Based On Race Hazard And Jitter Of Braided And Cross-Coupled Logic Gates Using FPGA. IEEE Access, 13. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3512419

In the contemporary digital landscape, security has become a vital element of our existence. The growing volume of sensitive information being stored and transmitted over networks necessitates the implementation of robust security measures. Cryptogra... Read More about A True Random Number Generator Based On Race Hazard And Jitter Of Braided And Cross-Coupled Logic Gates Using FPGA.

Thought Experiments in Design Ethics (2024)
Journal Article
Buwert, P., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Thought Experiments in Design Ethics. Temes de Disseny, 40, 54-73. https://doi.org/10.46467/tdd40.2024.54-73

How is the designer to approach questions of responsibility, obligation, or right and wrong in relation to their role in creating, sustaining and altering the complex worlds which we inhabit together? Every design decision stands as the first teeteri... Read More about Thought Experiments in Design Ethics.

A mixed passivity/small-gain theorem for Sobolev input-output stability (2024)
Journal Article
Guiver, C., Logemann, H., & Opmeer, M. R. (2024). A mixed passivity/small-gain theorem for Sobolev input-output stability. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 62(6), 3042-3075. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1643128

A stability theorem for the feedback connection of two (possibly infinite-dimensional) time-invariant linear systems is presented. The theorem is formulated in the frequency domain and is in the spirit of combined passivity/small-gain results. It pla... Read More about A mixed passivity/small-gain theorem for Sobolev input-output stability.

An Enhanced and Robust Data Publishing Scheme for Private and Useful 1:M Microdata (2024)
Journal Article
Rizwan, M., Hawbani, A., Xingfu, W., Anjum, A., Angin, P., Sever, Y., Chen, S., Zhao, L., & Al-Dubai, A. (online). An Enhanced and Robust Data Publishing Scheme for Private and Useful 1:M Microdata. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, https://doi.org/10.1109/TBDATA.2024.3495497

A data publishing deal conducted with anonymous microdata can preserve the privacy of people. However, anonymizing data with multiple records of an individual (1:M dataset) is still a challenging problem. After anonymizing the 1:M microdata, the vert... Read More about An Enhanced and Robust Data Publishing Scheme for Private and Useful 1:M Microdata.

CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Mao, C., Wan, S., Hawbani, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Min, G., & Zomaya, A. Y. (online). CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2024.3492148

As a promising vehicular communication technology, Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) is expected to ensure the safety and convenience of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) by providing global road information. However, it is difficult to o... Read More about CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems.

Hybrid Servicescapes in Tourism and Hospitality (2024)
Book Chapter
Urquhart, E. (2024). Hybrid Servicescapes in Tourism and Hospitality. In N. Stylos, R. Rahimi, & P. Robinson (Eds.), Contemporary Marketing Management for Tourism and Hospitality (99-132). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65049-9_5

Bitner (1992, p. 65) defined the servicescape as “all of the objective physical factors that can be controlled by the firm to enhance (or constrain) employee and customer actions.” These include a series of environmental dimensions, namely ambient co... Read More about Hybrid Servicescapes in Tourism and Hospitality.

IoT Authentication Protocols: Challenges, and Comparative Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Alsheavi, A., Hawbani, A., Othman, W., Wang, X., Qaid, G. R. S., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., Liu, Z., Ismail, A., Haveri, R. H., Alsamhi, S. H., & Al-Qaness, M. A. A. (in press). IoT Authentication Protocols: Challenges, and Comparative Analysis. ACM computing surveys, https://doi.org/10.1145/3703444

In the ever-evolving information technology landscape, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a groundbreaking concept that bridges the physical and digital worlds. It is the backbone of an increasingly sophisticated interactive environment, yet it is a sub... Read More about IoT Authentication Protocols: Challenges, and Comparative Analysis.

A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Li, S., Tan, Z., Hawbani, A., Timotheou, S., & Yu, K. (online). A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization. IEEE Transactions on Computers, https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.2024.3483636

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been considered a promising technology for advancing terrestrial mobile computing in the dynamic environment. In this research field, throughput, the number of completed tasks and latency are critical evaluation indi... Read More about A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization.

Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J. (2024, October). Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX. Presented at BINUS Business School International Lecture Week 2024, Jakarta, Indonesia and online

This lecture by Dr Jackie Cameron, an experienced digital marketing lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, provides a comprehensive overview of user experience (UX) principles and their application in digital marketing contexts. Covering key defini... Read More about Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX.

Leg ulceration in venous and arteriovenous insufficiency: assessment and management with compression therapy as part of a holistic wound‑healing strategy (2024)
Journal Article
Nair, H. K., Mosti, G., Atkin, L., Aburn, R., Ali Hussin, N., Govindarajanthran, N., Narayanan, S., Ritchie, G., Samuriwo, R., Sandy-Hodgetts, K., Smart, H., Sussman, G., Ehmann, S., Lantis, J., Moffatt, C., Naude, L., Probst, S., & White, W. (2024). Leg ulceration in venous and arteriovenous insufficiency: assessment and management with compression therapy as part of a holistic wound‑healing strategy. Journal of Wound Care, 33(Sup10b), S1-S31. https://doi.org/10.12968/jowc.2024.33.sup10b.s1

Introduction
This international consensus document presents the outcomes of an expert panel discussion, convened in October 2023. The discussion aimed to provide best-practice recommendations on the assessment and management of venous and arterioven... Read More about Leg ulceration in venous and arteriovenous insufficiency: assessment and management with compression therapy as part of a holistic wound‑healing strategy.

Automated Human-Readable Label Generation in Open Intent Discovery (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anderson, G., Hart, E., Gkatzia, D., & Beaver, I. (2024, September). Automated Human-Readable Label Generation in Open Intent Discovery. Presented at Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece

The correct determination of user intent is key in dialog systems. However, an intent classifier often requires a large, labelled training dataset to identify a set of known intents. The creation of such a dataset is a complex and time-consuming task... Read More about Automated Human-Readable Label Generation in Open Intent Discovery.

A linear dissipativity approach to incremental input-to-state stability for a class of positive Lur’e systems (2024)
Journal Article
Piengeon, V., & Guiver, C. (online). A linear dissipativity approach to incremental input-to-state stability for a class of positive Lur’e systems. International Journal of Control, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2024.2403473

Incremental stability properties are considered for certain systems of forced, nonlinear differential equations with a particular positivity structure. An incremental stability estimate is derived for pairs of input/state/output trajectories of the L... Read More about A linear dissipativity approach to incremental input-to-state stability for a class of positive Lur’e systems.

Circular Solutions: Assessing the Viability of Photovoltaic Waste Recycling in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Ganpatsinh Parmar, D., Muhammad Sukki, F., Abu-Bakar, S. H., Mas’ud, A. A., & Kamarudin, M. K. A. (2024). Circular Solutions: Assessing the Viability of Photovoltaic Waste Recycling in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, 15(5), 240-249. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2024.15.5.1492

The demand for the generation of energy using photovoltaics (PV) has risen exponentially in recent times all over the world. The United Kingdom (UK) has also made a rapid increase in PV installations and is implementing more developing plans in the f... Read More about Circular Solutions: Assessing the Viability of Photovoltaic Waste Recycling in the United Kingdom.