Energy conservation improvement of the existing building park, constraints and challenges: case of granite traditional constructions in the United Kingdom.

Bennajdi, A.; Scott, J.; Taylor, B.

Extending RSS to meet central bank needs. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ASMAN, P., CANNON, S. and SOMMO, C. 2010. Extending RSS to meet central bank needs. Proceedings of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications [online], 2010: proceedings of the 10th DCMI international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications (DC-2010), 20-22 October 2010, Pittsburgh, USA, pages 115-127. Available from: https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/1005

The Federal Reserve wanted to use RSS to represent not only news, such as press releases, but also data, such as exchange rates. The Fed hoped to use one set of feeds to accommodate two different audiences for RSS; human readers (at one remove) and s... Read More about Extending RSS to meet central bank needs..

Automatic features characterization from 3d facial images. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ELYAN, E. and UGAIL, H. 2010. Automatic features characterization from 3d facial images. In Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L. and Solo, A.M.G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International computer graphics and virtual reality conference (CGVR 2010), 12-15 July 2010, Las Vegas, USA. Georgia, USA: CSREA Press, pages 67-73.

This paper presents a novel and computationally fast method for automatic identification of symmetry profile from 3D facial images. The algorithm is based on the concepts of computational geometry which yield fast and accurate results. In order to de... Read More about Automatic features characterization from 3d facial images..

The NDLTD and ETDs in the global context. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
COPELAND, S. 2010. The NDLTD and ETDs in the global context. Presented at the 2010 Annual conference of the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européenes de Recherche / Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER 2010): re-inventing the library: the challenges of the new information environment, 29 June - 1 July 2010, Aarhus, Denmark [online]. Available from: https://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/liber2010/presentations/Susan_Copeland.pdf

“The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of digital theses and dissertations. The NDLTD supports universitie... Read More about The NDLTD and ETDs in the global context..

Developing tools to encourage reflection in first year students blogs. (2010)
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MCDERMOTT, R., BRINDLEY, G. and ECCLESTON, G. 2010. Developing tools to encourage reflection in first year students blogs. In Proceedings of the 15th Innovation and technology in computer science education annual conference (ITiCSE '10), 26-30 June 2010, Ankara, Turkey. New York: ACM [online], pages 147-151. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822132

The pedagogical basis of a project aimed at encouraging students to engage in reflective activities using blogs to document their learning experiences is described. It also gives some details of the practical implementation of this work. Activities w... Read More about Developing tools to encourage reflection in first year students blogs..

Copyright and "facts": issues in licensing and redistribution for social science data professionals. (2010)
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CANNON, S. 2010. Copyright and "facts": issues in licensing and redistribution for social science data professionals. Presented at the 36th Annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST 2010): social data and social networking: connecting social science communities across the globe, 1-4 June 2010, Ithaca, USA. Hosted on Zenodo [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3781768

While data and statistics have always been the backbone of empirical research, they are now important intellectual property even outside the halls of academia. Everything from the global financial system to shipping gifts for the holidays depends on... Read More about Copyright and "facts": issues in licensing and redistribution for social science data professionals..

Puzzles in financial development and economic growth. [Presentation] (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GHIMIRE, B. 2010. Puzzles in financial development and economic growth. [Presentation]. Presented at the 2010 Poznań University of Economics PhD symposium, 12 May 2010, Poznań, Poland.

This presentation covers the author's PhD research into financial development and economic growth from the perspective of two specific puzzles. The first puzzle relates to the finding that banks have a positive effect upon economic growth in the long... Read More about Puzzles in financial development and economic growth. [Presentation].

A meta-model for usable secure requirements engineering. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2010. A meta-model for usable secure requirements engineering. In Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE workshop on software engineering for secure systems (SESS '10): co-located with the 32nd ACM/IEEE international conference on software engineering (ICSE 2010), 2-8 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa. New York: ACM [online], pages 29-35. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1809100.1809105

There is a growing recognition of the need for secure software engineering approaches addressing both technical and human factors. Existing approaches to secure software engineering focus on the need for technical security to the detriment of usabili... Read More about A meta-model for usable secure requirements engineering..

Analysing and visualising security and usability in IRIS. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2010. Analysing and visualising security and usability in IRIS. In Proceedings of the 5th International conference on availability, reliability and security (ARES 2010), 15-18 February 2010, Krakow, Poland. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 543-548. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ares.2010.28

Despite a long-standing need to incorporate human factors into security risk analysis, taking a balanced approach to analysing security and usability concerns remains a challenge. Balancing security and usability is difficult due to human biases in s... Read More about Analysing and visualising security and usability in IRIS..

Improving secure systems design with security culture. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2010. Improving secure systems design with security culture. Presented at the Human factors in information security conference (HFIS 2010), 22-24 February 2010, London, UK.

This poster summarises how the concept of security culture can be used to improve systems security and secure systems design. It highlights: the use of personas and user-centred design; environment modeling and understanding a system's context; and t... Read More about Improving secure systems design with security culture..

A hybrid approach to solving coarse-grained DisCSPs. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEE, D., ARANA, I., AHRIZ, H. and HUI, K.-Y. 2009. A hybrid approach to solving coarse-grained DisCSPs. In Proceedings of the 8th International conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems (AAMAS 2009), 10-15 May 2009, Budapest, Hungary. Richland, South Carolina: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) [online], pages 1235-1236. Available from: http://www.aamas-conference.org/Proceedings/aamas09/pdf/02_Extended_Abstract/C_SP_0555.pdf

A coarse-grained Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DisCSP) consists of several loosely connected constraint satisfaction subproblems, each assigned to an individual agent. We present Multi-Hyb, a two-phase concurrent hybrid approach for so... Read More about A hybrid approach to solving coarse-grained DisCSPs..

Empathetic consultancy: a reflective approach to ICTD. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BASS, J.M. 2009. Empathetic consultancy: a reflective approach to ICTD. In Byrne, E., Nicholson, B. and Salem, F. (eds.) Assessing the contribution of ICT to development goals: proceedings of the 10th International conference on social implications of computers in developing countries (ICT4D 2009), 26-28 May 2009, Dubai, UAE. Dubai: International Federation for Information Processing, pages 315-324.

Empathetic Consulting articulates positive characteristics of long-term ICT capacity building engagements using external advisors. Consultants need to demonstrate commitment to capacity building rather than service delivery, flexibility in adaptation... Read More about Empathetic consultancy: a reflective approach to ICTD..

Analysing the effect of demand uncertainty in dynamic pricing with EAs. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SHAKYA, S., OLIVEIRA, F. and OWUSU, G. 2009. Analysing the effect of demand uncertainty in dynamic pricing with EAs. In Bramer, M., Petridis, M. and Coenen, F. (eds.) Research and development in intelligent systems XXV: proceedings of the 28th British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) international conference on innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI-2008), 9-11 December 2008, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 77-90. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-171-2_6

Dynamic pricing is a pricing strategy where a firm adjust the price for their products and services as a function of its perceived demand at different times. In this paper, we show how Evolutionary algorithms (EA) can be used to analyse the effect of... Read More about Analysing the effect of demand uncertainty in dynamic pricing with EAs..

Jane Jacobs and the nature of (practice and research) work in public. (2009)
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DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2009. Jane Jacobs and the nature of (practice and research) work in public. Presented at Public and participative art: performance in everyday life, 14-15 December 2009, Helsinki, Finland.

Jacobs argues that economies follow the same rules as ecological systems. They behave in the same way as systems in nature: as dynamic systems of interdependency. The core of Jacobs' argument is energy, whether it is manifest in ecological systems or... Read More about Jane Jacobs and the nature of (practice and research) work in public..

Multi-Hyb: a hybrid algorithm for solving DisCSPs with complex local problems. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEE, D., ARANA, I., AHRIZ, H. and HUI, K.-Y. 2009. Multi-Hyb: a hybrid algorithm for solving DisCSPs with complex local problems. In Baeza-Yates, R., Lang, J., Mitra, S., Parsons, S. and Pasi, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on intelligent agent technology (IAT 2009), co-located with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on web intelligence (WI 2009), and the joint conference workshops (WI-IAT Workshops 2009), 15-18 September 2009, Milan, Italy. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], volume 2, article number 5284811, pages 379-382. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.181

A coarse-grained Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DisCSP) is a constraint problem where several agents, each responsible for solving one part (a complex local problem), cooperate to determine an overall solution. Thus, agents solve the ov... Read More about Multi-Hyb: a hybrid algorithm for solving DisCSPs with complex local problems..

Interactive surface design and manipulation using PDE-method through Autodesk Maya plug-in. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ELYAN, E. and UGAIL, H. 2009. Interactive surface design and manipulation using PDE-method through Autodesk Maya plug-in. In Ugail, H., Qahwaji, R.S.R, Earnshaw, R.A. and Willis, P.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 International conference on Cyberworlds (CYBERWORLDS 2009), 7-11 September 2009, Bradford, UK. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 5279653, pages 119-125. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2009.49

This paper aims to propose a method for geometric design, modelling and shape manipulation using minimum input design parameters. Here, we address the method for the construction of 3D geometry based on the use of Elliptic Partial Differential Equati... Read More about Interactive surface design and manipulation using PDE-method through Autodesk Maya plug-in..

Automatic 3D face recognition using Fourier descriptors. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ELYAN, E. and UGAIL, H. 2009. Automatic 3D face recognition using Fourier descriptors. In Ugail, H., Qahwaji, R.S.R, Earnshaw, R.A. and Willis, P.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 International conference on Cyberworlds (CYBERWORLDS 2009), 7-11 September 2009, Bradford, UK. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 5279600, pages 246-252. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2009.48

3D face recognition is attracting more attention due to the recent development in 3D facial data acquisition techniques. It is strongly believed that 3D Face recognition systems could overcome the inherent problems of 2D face recognition such as faci... Read More about Automatic 3D face recognition using Fourier descriptors..

From words to ambience: towards an architectural daylighting design based on users' perceptions and behaviours. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BELAKEHAL, A., BENNADJI, A. and TABET AOUL, K. 2009. From words to ambience: towards an architectural daylighting design based on users' perceptions and behaviours. Presented at the 11th European lighting conference (LuxEuropa 2009), 9-11 September 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.

This paper presents an investigation aiming to demonstrate the possible move from words to ambience in order to achieve an architectural daylighting design. This latter is mainly based on the users’ perceptions and behaviours. It was assumed that the... Read More about From words to ambience: towards an architectural daylighting design based on users' perceptions and behaviours..

Context-sensitive requirements and risk analysis. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. 2009. Context-sensitive requirements and risk analysis. Presented at the Doctoral symposium of the 17th IEEE international requirements engineering conference (RE2009), 1 September 2009, Atlanta, USA.

When a system's context of use changes, the security impact may be felt in other contexts. Risks mitigated for one operational context may continue to pose a danger in others due to contextual differences in assets, threats and vulnerabilities. The r... Read More about Context-sensitive requirements and risk analysis..

Context-sensitive requirements and risk management with IRIS. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2009. Context-sensitive requirements and risk management with IRIS. Presented at the 17th IEEE international requirements engineering conference (RE2009), 31 August - 4 September 2009, Atlanta, USA.

Many systems are not designed for their contexts of operation. Subtle changes to context may lead to an increase in severity and likelihood of vulnerabilities and threats. The IRIS framework integrates the notion of context into requirements and risk... Read More about Context-sensitive requirements and risk management with IRIS..

Energy conservation improvement of the existing building park, constraints and challenges: case of granite traditional constructions in the United Kingdom. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BENNAJDI, A., SCOTT, J. and TAYLOR, B. 2009. Energy conservation improvement of the existing building park, constraints and challenges: case of granite traditional constructions in the United Kingdom. In Demers, C.M.H. and Potvin, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Passive low energy architecture international conference (PLEA 2009): architecture, energy and the occupant's perspective, 22-24 June 2009, Quebec City, Canada. Boisbriand: Presses de l'Université Laval [online], paper number 3.2.6. Available from: http://www.plea2009.arc.ulaval.ca/Papers/3.IMPLEMENTATION/3.2%20Integration%20and%20certification%20tools/ORAL/3-2-06-PLEA2009Quebec.pdf

The increase in energy price has sparked a debate in the UK as to what would be the best way to address this problem. The British Prime Minister gave a straightforward and radical answer, suggesting that, existing building stock should be improved to... Read More about Energy conservation improvement of the existing building park, constraints and challenges: case of granite traditional constructions in the United Kingdom..

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