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Degrees of tenant isolation for cloud-hosted software services: a cross-case analysis. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C., BASS, J.M. and PETROVSKI, A. 2018. Degrees of tenant isolation for cloud-hosted software services: a cross-case analysis. Journal of cloud computing [online], 7, article ID 22. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-018-0121-8

A challenge, when implementing multi-tenancy in a cloud-hosted software service, is how to ensure that the performance and resource consumption of one tenant does not adversely affect other tenants. Software designers and architects must achieve an o... Read More about Degrees of tenant isolation for cloud-hosted software services: a cross-case analysis..

X-FDR: a cross-layer routing protocol for multi-hop full-duplex wireless networks. (2018)
Journal Article
AL-KADRI, M.O., AIJAZ, A. and NALLANATHAN, A. 2019. X-FDR: a cross-layer routing protocol for multi-hop full-duplex wireless networks. IEEE wireless communications [online], 26(2), pages 70-77. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.1700243

The recent developments in self-interference (SI) cancellation techniques have led to the practical realization of FD radios that can perform simultaneous transmission and reception. FD technology is attractive for various legacy communications stand... Read More about X-FDR: a cross-layer routing protocol for multi-hop full-duplex wireless networks..

Real-time relative permeability prediction using deep learning. (2018)
Journal Article
ARIGBE, O.D., OYENEYIN, M.B., ARANA, I. and GHAZI, M.D. 2019. Real-time relative permeability prediction using deep learning. Journal of petroleum exploration and production technologies [online], 9(2), pages 1271-1284. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-018-0578-5

A review of the existing two and three phase relative permeability correlations shows a lot of pitfalls and restrictions imposed by (a) their assumptions (b) generalization ability and (c) difficulty with updating in real time for different reservoir... Read More about Real-time relative permeability prediction using deep learning..

Ranking of geostatistical models and uncertainty quantification using signal detection principle (SDP). (2018)
Journal Article
ANI, M., OLUYEMI, G., PETROVSKI, A. and REZAEI-GOMARI, S. 2019. Ranking of geostatistical models and uncertainty quantification using signal detection principle (SDP). Journal of petroleum science and engineering [online], 174, pages 833-843. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2018.11.024

The selection of an optimal model from a set of multiple realizations for dynamic reservoir modelling and production forecasts has been a persistent issue for reservoir modelers and decision makers. Current evidence has shown that many presumably goo... Read More about Ranking of geostatistical models and uncertainty quantification using signal detection principle (SDP)..

Emotion-aware polarity lexicons for Twitter sentiment analysis. (2018)
Journal Article
BANDHAKAVI, A., WIRATUNGA, N., MASSIE, S. and P, D. 2021. Emotion-aware polarity lexicons for Twitter sentiment analysis. Expert systems [online], 38(7): artificial intelligence/EDMA 2017, article e12332. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12332

Theoretical frameworks in psychology map the relationships between emotions and sentiments. In this paper we study the role of such mapping for computational emotion detection from text (e.g. social media) with a aim to understand the usefulness of a... Read More about Emotion-aware polarity lexicons for Twitter sentiment analysis..

Combining heterogeneous classifiers via granular prototypes. (2018)
Journal Article
NGUYEN, T.T., NGUYEN, M.P., PHAM, X.C., LIEW, A. W.-C. and PEDRYCZ, W. 2018. Combining heterogeneous classifiers via granular prototypes. Applied soft computing [online], 73, pages 795-815. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2018.09.021

In this study, a novel framework to combine multiple classifiers in an ensemble system is introduced. Here we exploit the concept of information granule to construct granular prototypes for each class on the outputs of an ensemble of base classifiers... Read More about Combining heterogeneous classifiers via granular prototypes..

A framework for achieving the required degree of multitenancy isolation for deploying components of a cloud-hosted service. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C., PETROVSKI, A. and BASS, J.M. 2018. A framework for achieving the required degree of multitenancy isolation for deploying components of a cloud-hosted service. International journal of cloud computing [online], 7(3-4), pages 248-281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCC.2018.095396

Multitenancy allows multiple tenants to access a single instance of a cloud offering. While several approaches exist for implementing multitenancy, little attention has been paid to implementing the required degree of isolation since there are varyin... Read More about A framework for achieving the required degree of multitenancy isolation for deploying components of a cloud-hosted service..

Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences. (2018)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., SERRATOSA, F. and XIAOYI, J. 2020. Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences. Pattern recognition letters [online], 134, pages 29-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2018.08.027

Given a pair of data structures, such as strings, trees, graphs or sets of points, several correspondences (also referred in literature as labellings, matchings or assignments) can be defined between their local parts. The Hamming distance has been l... Read More about Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences..

New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. (2018)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2019. New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. Neural computing and applications [online], 31(6): selected papers from the proceedings of the 18th Engineering applications of neural networks conference (EANN 2017), 25-27 August 2017, Athens, Greece, pages 1695-1712. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3583-1

Engineering drawings are commonly used across different industries such as oil and gas, mechanical engineering and others. Digitising these drawings is becoming increasingly important. This is mainly due to the legacy of drawings and documents that m... Read More about New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings..

Evaluating the effect of locking on multitenancy isolation for components of cloud-hosted services. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C. and EJIOFOR, C.I. 2018. Evaluating the effect of locking on multitenancy isolation for components of cloud-hosted services. Advances in science, technology and engineering systems journal [online], 3(3), pages 92-99. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25046/aj030312

Multitenancy isolation is a way of ensuring that the performance, stored data volume and access privileges required by one tenant and/or component does not affect other tenants and/or components. One of the conditions that can influence the varying d... Read More about Evaluating the effect of locking on multitenancy isolation for components of cloud-hosted services..

Non-traditional skills in undergraduate medical education: the development of a teaching programme. (2018)
Journal Article
BRADY, C. and ZARB, M. 2018. Non-traditional skills in undergraduate medical education: the development of a teaching programme. Scottish medical journal [online], 63(3), pages 80-81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0036933018776837

As a junior doctor in what is an increasingly struggling healthcare system, I am concerned to see that many of my junior and senior colleagues have opted not to continue onto the next stage of training. Whilst entrepreneurship, leadership and managem... Read More about Non-traditional skills in undergraduate medical education: the development of a teaching programme..

Coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopes. (2018)
Journal Article
CHEN, Z.-Y., GOGOI, A., LEE, S.-Y., TSAI-LIN, Y., YI, P.-W.Y., LU, M.-K., HSIEH, C.-C., REN, J., MARSHALL, S. and KAO, F.-J. 2019. Coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopes. IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics [online], 25(1), article 7100707. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2836959

In this work, we report the successful implementation of a coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopy applications. An RGB laser module that provides much higher luminosity than traditional incoherent white light sources is used for il... Read More about Coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopes..

Sparse representation-based augmented multinomial logistic extreme learning machine with weighted composite features for spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images. (2018)
Journal Article
CAO, F., YANG, Z., REN, J., LING, W.-K., ZHAO, H., SUN, M. and BENEDIKTSSON, J.A. 2018. Sparse representation-based augmented multinomial logistic extreme learning machine with weighted composite features for spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 56(11), pages 6263-6279. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2018.2828601

Although extreme learning machine (ELM) has successfully been applied to a number of pattern recognition problems, only with the original ELM it can hardly yield high accuracy for the classification of hyperspectral images (HSIs) due to two main draw... Read More about Sparse representation-based augmented multinomial logistic extreme learning machine with weighted composite features for spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images..

W3C accessibility guidelines for mobile games. (2018)
Journal Article
WILSON, A. and CRABB, M. 2018. W3C accessibility guidelines for mobile games. Computer games journal [online], 7(2), pages 49-61. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-018-0058-7

In the past decade, video games have become one of the fastest growing forms or entertainment around the world. In particular, mobile gaming has continued to evolve, becoming increasingly popular for billions of people worldwide. An ongoing issue wit... Read More about W3C accessibility guidelines for mobile games..

Meeple centred design: a heuristic toolkit for evaluating the accessibility of tabletop games. (2018)
Journal Article
HERON, M.J., BELFORD, P.H., REID, H. and CRABB, M. 2018. Meeple centred design: a heuristic toolkit for evaluating the accessibility of tabletop games. Computer games journal [online], 7(2), pages 97-114. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-018-0057-8

Evaluation of accessibility within a tabletop context is much more complicated than it is within a video game environment. There is a considerable amount of variation in game systems, game mechanisms, and interaction regimes. Games may be entirely ve... Read More about Meeple centred design: a heuristic toolkit for evaluating the accessibility of tabletop games..

Eighteen months of Meeple Like Us: an exploration into the state of board game accessibility. (2018)
Journal Article
HERON, M.J., BELFORD, P.H., REID, H. and CRABB, M. 2018. Eighteen months of Meeple Like Us: an exploration into the state of board game accessibility. Computer games journal [online], 7(2), pages 75-95. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-018-0056-9

The study of game accessibility to date has largely focused on the topic of accessibility within a video game context. Largely underexplored in the academic and professional literature is accessibility in the domain of tabletop games, especially thos... Read More about Eighteen months of Meeple Like Us: an exploration into the state of board game accessibility..

Aggregation of classifiers: a justifiable information granularity approach. (2018)
Journal Article
NGUYEN, T.T., PHAM, X.C., LIEW, A.W.-C. and PEDRYCZ, W. 2019. Aggregation of classifiers: a justifiable information granularity approach. IEEE transactions on cybernetics [online], 49(6), pages 2168-2177. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2018.2821679

In this paper, we introduced a new approach of combining multiple classifiers in a heterogeneous ensemble system. Instead of using numerical membership values when combining, we constructed interval membership values for each class prediction from th... Read More about Aggregation of classifiers: a justifiable information granularity approach..

Medical students opinions on the inclusion of non-traditional skills in the curriculum. (2018)
Journal Article
BRADY, C. and ZARB, M. 2018. Medical students opinions on the inclusion of non-traditional skills in the curriculum. Journal of entrepreneurship education [online], 21(2), article number 152. Available from: https://www.abacademies.org/articles/medical-students-opinions-on-the-inclusion-of-nontraditional-skills-in-the-curriculum-7099.html

Background: Up to 50% of foundation year 2 doctors do not proceed directly into speciality training. This change in direction of our profession places increasing demands on an already stretched NHS. In the UK, medical school teaching is understandabl... Read More about Medical students opinions on the inclusion of non-traditional skills in the curriculum..

A model for optimising the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C. and EJIOFOR, C.I. 2018. A model for optimising the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation. Advances in science, technology and engineering systems journal [online], 3(2), pages 174-183. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25046/aj030220

Tenants associated with a cloud-hosted application seek to reduce running costs and minimize resource consumption by sharing components and resources. However, despite the benefits, sharing resources can affect tenant’s access and overall performance... Read More about A model for optimising the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation..

Multi-objective optimal design of obstacle-avoiding two-dimensional Steiner trees with application to ascent assembly engineering. (2018)
Journal Article
ZAVOIANU, A.-C., SAMINGER-PLATZ, S., ENTNER, D., PRANTE, T., HELLWIG, M., SCHWARZ, M. and FINK, K. 2018. Multi-objective optimal design of obstacle-avoiding two-dimensional Steiner trees with application to ascent assembly engineering. Journal of mechanical design [online], 140(6), article number 061401. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039009

We present an effective optimization strategy that is capable of discovering high-quality cost-optimal solution for two-dimensional (2D) path network layouts (i.e., groups of obstacle-avoiding Euclidean Steiner trees) that, among other applications,... Read More about Multi-objective optimal design of obstacle-avoiding two-dimensional Steiner trees with application to ascent assembly engineering..