Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (27)

Understanding the diverse needs of subtitle users in a rapidly evolving media landscape. (2016)
Journal Article
ARMSTRONG, M., BROWN, A., CRABB, M., HUGHES, C., JONES, R. and SANDFORD, J. 2016. Understanding the diverse needs of subtitle users in a rapidly evolving media landscape. SMPTE motion imaging journal [online], 125(9), pages 33-41. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2016.2614919

Audiences are increasingly using services, such as video on demand and the Web, to watch television programs. Broadcasters need to make subtitles available across all these new platforms. These platforms also create new design opportunities for subti... Read More about Understanding the diverse needs of subtitle users in a rapidly evolving media landscape..

Human aspects of digital rights management: the perspective of content developers. [Journal Article] (2016)
Journal Article
FAVALE, M., MCDONALD, N., FAILY, S. and GATZIDIS, C. 2016. Human aspects of digital rights management: the perspective of content developers. SCRIPTed [online], 13(3), pages 289-304. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.130316.289

Legal norms and social behaviours are some of the human aspects surrounding the effectiveness and future of DRM security. Further exploration of these aspects would help unravel the complexities of the interaction between rights protection security a... Read More about Human aspects of digital rights management: the perspective of content developers. [Journal Article].

Lexicon based feature extraction for emotion text classification. (2016)
Journal Article
BANDHAKAVI, A., WIRATUNGA, N., DEEPAK, P. and MASSIE, S. 2017. Lexicon based feature extraction for emotion text classification. Pattern recognition letters [online], 93, pages 133-142. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2016.12.009

General Purpose Emotion Lexicons (GPELs) that associate words with emotion categories remain a valuable resource for emotion analysis of text. However the static and formal nature of their vocabularies make them inadequate for extracting effective fe... Read More about Lexicon based feature extraction for emotion text classification..

Development of a flood warning simulation system: a case study of 2007 Tewkesbury flood. (2016)
Journal Article
WANG, C., JIANG, Y., XIE, H., MILLER, D. and BROWN, I. 2016. Development of a flood warning simulation system: a case study of 2007 Tewkesbury flood. In Lang, M., Klijn, F. and Samuels, P. (eds.) E3S web of conferences [online], 7: proceedings of the 3rd European flood risk management conference (FLOODrisk 2016), 17-21 October 2016, Lyon, France, article ID 18021. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160718021.

Many flood warning systems were developed for 2D environments and limited on specific flood hazard. With the purpose of overcoming these disadvantages, it is necessary to propose new methodologies and techniques for 3D real time flood simulation. In... Read More about Development of a flood warning simulation system: a case study of 2007 Tewkesbury flood..

IT controls in the public cloud: success factors for allocation of roles and responsibilities. (2016)
Journal Article
KHAN, S., NICHO, M. and TAKRURI, H. 2016. IT controls in the public cloud: success factors for allocation of roles and responsibilities. Journal of information technology case and application research [online], 18(3): big data analytics, pages 155-180. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/15228053.2016.1237218

The rapid adoption of cloud computing by organizations has resulted in the transformation of the roles and responsibilities of staff in managing the information technology (IT) resources (via IT governance controls) that have migrated to the cloud. H... Read More about IT controls in the public cloud: success factors for allocation of roles and responsibilities..

Wireless information and energy transfer in nonregenerative OFDM AF relay systems. (2016)
Journal Article
HUANG, G. and TU, W. 2017. Wireless information and energy transfer in nonregenerative OFDM AF relay systems. Wireless personal communications [online], 94(4), pages 3131-3146. Available from: https://10.1007/s11277-016-3768-9

Energy harvesting (EH) is a promising strategy to prolong the operation of energy-constrained wireless systems. Simultaneous wireless information and energy transfer (SWIET) is a potential EH technique which has recently drawn significant attention.... Read More about Wireless information and energy transfer in nonregenerative OFDM AF relay systems..

Obtaining the consensus of multiple correspondences between graphs through online learning. (2016)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2017. Obtaining the consensus of multiple correspondences between graphs through online learning. Pattern recognition letters [online], 87, pages 79-86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2016.09.003

In structural pattern recognition, it is usual to compare a pair of objects through the generation of a correspondence between the elements of each of their local parts. To do so, one of the most natural ways to represent these objects is through att... Read More about Obtaining the consensus of multiple correspondences between graphs through online learning..

Ethical and professional complications in the construction of multi-developer hobbyist games. (2016)
Journal Article
HERON, M.J. 2016. Ethical and professional complications in the construction of multi-developer hobbyist games. Computer games journal [online], 5(3), pages 115-129. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-016-0025-0

The modern availability of powerful video game development frameworks has resulted in something of an indie renaissance. Within this blossoming of small scale development are numerous hobbyist developers who build games for their own inherent satisfa... Read More about Ethical and professional complications in the construction of multi-developer hobbyist games..

A genetic algorithm approach to optimising random forests applied to class engineered data. (2016)
Journal Article
ELYAN, E. and GABER, M.M. 2017. A genetic algorithm approach to optimising random forests applied to class engineered data. Information sciences [online], 384, pages 220-234. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2016.08.007

In numerous applications and especially in the life science domain, examples are labelled at a higher level of granularity. For example, binary classification is dominant in many of these datasets, with the positive class denoting the existence of a... Read More about A genetic algorithm approach to optimising random forests applied to class engineered data..

Gulfs of expectation: eliciting and verifying differences in trust expectations using personas (2016)
Journal Article
FAILY, S., POWER, D. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2016. Gulfs of expectation: eliciting and verifying differences in trust expectations using personas. Journal of trust management [online], 3, article number 4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40493-016-0025-9

Personas are a common tool used in Human Computer Interaction to represent the needs and expectations of a system's stakeholders, but they are also grounded in large amounts of qualitative data. Our aim is to make use of this data to anticipate the d... Read More about Gulfs of expectation: eliciting and verifying differences in trust expectations using personas.

Truck and trailer scheduling in a real world, dynamic and heterogeneous context. (2016)
Journal Article
REGNIER-COUDERT, O., MCCALL, J., AYODELE, M. and ANDERSON, S. 2016. Truck and trailer scheduling in a real world, dynamic and heterogeneous context. Transportation research, part E: logistics and transportation review [online], 93, pages 389-408. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2016.06.010

We present a new variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem based on a real industrial scenario. This VRP is dynamic and heavily constrained and uses time-windows, a heterogeneous vehicle fleet and multiple types of job. A constructive solver is develope... Read More about Truck and trailer scheduling in a real world, dynamic and heterogeneous context..

The evaluation of i-SIDRA - a tool for intelligent feedback - in a course on the anatomy of the locomotor system. (2016)
Journal Article
FERNANDEZ-ALEMAN, J.L., LOPEZ-GONZALEZ, L., GONZALEZ-SEQUEROS, O., JAYNE, C., LOPEZ-JIMENEZ, J.J. and TOVAL, A. 2016. The evaluation of i-SIDRA - a tool for intelligent feedback - in a course on the anatomy of the locomotor system. International journal of medical informatics [online], 94, pages 172-181. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.07.008.

Objective This paper presents an empirical study of a formative mobile-based assessment approach that can be used to provide students with intelligent diagnostic feedback to test its educational effectiveness. Method An audience response system calle... Read More about The evaluation of i-SIDRA - a tool for intelligent feedback - in a course on the anatomy of the locomotor system..

Classifying Arabic text using KNN classifier. (2016)
Journal Article
AL-BADARENAH, A., AL-SHAWAKFA, E., AL-RABABAH, K., SHATNAWI, S. and BANI-ISMAIL, B. 2016. Classifying Arabic text using KNN classifier. International journal of advanced computer science and applications [online], 7(6), pages 259-268. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070633

With the tremendous amount of electronic documents available, there is a great need to classify documents automatically. Classification is the task of assigning objects (images, text documents, etc.) to one of several predefined categories. The selec... Read More about Classifying Arabic text using KNN classifier..

Region-based memetic algorithm with archive for multimodal optimisation. (2016)
Journal Article
LACROIX, B., MOLINA, D. and HERRERA, F. 2016. Region-based memetic algorithm with archive for multimodal optimisation. Information sciences [online], 367-368, pages 719-746. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2016.05.049

In this paper we propose a specially designed memetic algorithm for multimodal optimisation problems. The proposal uses a niching strategy, called region-based niching strategy, that divides the search space in predefined and indexable hypercubes wit... Read More about Region-based memetic algorithm with archive for multimodal optimisation..

Contextual sentiment analysis for social media genres. (2016)
Journal Article
MUHAMMAD, A., WIRATUNGA, N. and LOTHIAN, R. 2016. Contextual sentiment analysis for social media genres. Knowledge-based systems [online], 108, pages 92-101. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.032

The lexicon-based approaches to opinion mining involve the extraction of term polarities from sentiment lexicons and the aggregation of such scores to predict the overall sentiment of a piece of text. It is typically preferred where sentiment labelle... Read More about Contextual sentiment analysis for social media genres..

Optimal resource allocation in wireless-powered OFDM relay networks. (2016)
Journal Article
HUANG, G. and TU, W. 2016. Optimal resource allocation in wireless-powered OFDM relay networks. Computer networks [online], 104, pages 94-107. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2016.05.006

This paper studies resource allocation in wireless-powered orthogonal-frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) amplify-and-forward (AF) or decode-and-forward (DF) relay networks with time-switching (TS) based relaying. Our objective is to maximize end-... Read More about Optimal resource allocation in wireless-powered OFDM relay networks..

Efficient wireless multimedia multicast in multi-rate multi-channel mesh networks. (2016)
Journal Article
TU, W. 2016. Efficient wireless multimedia multicast in multi-rate multi-channel mesh networks. IEEE transactions on signal and information processing over networks [online], 2(3), 376-390. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSIPN.2016.2550806

Devices in wireless mesh networks can operate on multiple channels (MC) and automatically adjust their transmission rates for the occupied channels. This paper shows how to improve performance-guaranteed multicasting transmission coverage for wireles... Read More about Efficient wireless multimedia multicast in multi-rate multi-channel mesh networks..

Clustering and nearest neighbour based classification approach for mobile activity recognition. (2016)
Journal Article
BASHIR, S.A., DOOLAN, D.C. and PETROVSKI, A. 2016. Clustering and nearest neighbour based classification approach for mobile activity recognition. Journal of mobile multimedia [online], 12(1-2), pages 110-124. Available from: https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JMM/article/view/4487

We present a hybridized algorithm based on clustering and nearest neighbour classifier for mobile activity recognition. The algorithm transforms a training dataset into a more compact and reduced representative set that lessens the computational cost... Read More about Clustering and nearest neighbour based classification approach for mobile activity recognition..

A review of air-fuel mixing and alternative methods in scramjets and scramjet-like engines. (2016)
Journal Article
MACLEOD, C. and GERRARD, C.E. 2016. A review of air-fuel mixing and alternative methods in scramjets and scramjet-like engines. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society [online], 69(4), pages 116-126. Available from: http://www.jbis.org.uk/paper/2016.69.116

This paper reviews work on two aspects of scramjet and similar ducted hypersonic propulsion. The first of these is air-fuel mixing techniques - the problem of mixing is considered the most intractable in scramjet design. The second aspect is the use... Read More about A review of air-fuel mixing and alternative methods in scramjets and scramjet-like engines..

Unsupervised machine learning application to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research. (2016)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ACEVES-MARTINS, M. and SERRATOSA, F. 2016. Unsupervised machine learning application to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research. Computación y sistemas [online], 20(1), pages 7-17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.13053/CyS-20-1-2360

When trying to synthesize information from multiple sources and perform a statistical review to compare them, particularly in the medical research field, several statistical tools are available, most common are the systematic review and the meta-anal... Read More about Unsupervised machine learning application to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research..