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Circular economy in construction: a review of existing policies, strategies and standards in Scotland and Europe. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
VICTORIA, M. and CHAWLA, V. 2025. Circular economy in construction: a review of existing policies, strategies and standards in Scotland and Europe. In Kouider, T. and Galiano Garrigós, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International congress on architectural technology 2025 (ICAT 2025): buildings fit for climate change, 15-17 May 2025, Alicante, Spain. San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante [online], pages 37-52. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/154562

The built environment (that includes all the constructed artificial structures like buildings and infrastructure) is essential for the economic development of a country. The demolition of assets at the end of their useful life cycle generates large v... Read More about Circular economy in construction: a review of existing policies, strategies and standards in Scotland and Europe..

Direct embodied water management for sustainable construction: a case of India. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CHAWLA, V., JAFARIFAR, N., VICTORIA, M., SALMAN, H. and DEVECI, G. 2025. Direct embodied water management for sustainable construction: a case of India. In Kouider, T. and Galiano Garrigós, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International congress on architectural technology 2025 (ICAT 2025): buildings fit for climate change, 15-17 May 2025, Alicante, Spain. San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante [online], pages 213-224. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/154592

Growing concerns surrounding water scarcity have spiked an interest in Embodied Water (EW) studies globally. The EW of a building is the amount of water needed to manufacture all the materials that constitute the building (Indirect EW) plus the amoun... Read More about Direct embodied water management for sustainable construction: a case of India..

Health and wellbeing lens of the national existing building database in Scotland. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BLAZUSIAK, M. and SCOTT, J. 2025. Health and wellbeing lens of the national existing building database in Scotland. In Kouider, T. and Galiano Garrigós, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International congress on architectural technology 2025 (ICAT 2025): buildings fit for climate change, 15-17 May 2025, Alicante, Spain. San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante [online], pages 185-197. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/154590

Reliability of data is one of the most important factors determining cost and successful project planning in the social and public sector. Understanding condition, construction methods, trigger points and contextual environmental, climatic and depriv... Read More about Health and wellbeing lens of the national existing building database in Scotland..

Thriving communities: salutogenic approach to neighbourhood scale retrofit in the UK. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BLAZUSIAK, M., SCOTT, J. and SEDDIKI, M. 2025. Thriving communities: salutogenic approach to neighbourhood scale retrofit in the UK. In Kouider, T. and Galiano Garrigós, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International congress on architectural technology 2025 (ICAT 2025): buildings fit for climate change, 15-17 May 2025, Alicante, Spain. San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante [online], pages 275-289. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/154595

Evidence based research identifies effects of buildings on human health and wellbeing. Poor living conditions too often result in adverse physical and mental health, where energy efficiency improvements are a major factor in enhancing people's comfor... Read More about Thriving communities: salutogenic approach to neighbourhood scale retrofit in the UK..

Assessing whole life carbon impacts of retrofitting Canada's 19th and early 20th century homes towards net-zero. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MANCINI, A., SEDIKKI, M. and SCOTT, J. 2025. Assessing whole life carbon impacts of retrofitting Canada's 19th and early 20th century homes towards net-zero. In Kouider, T. and Galiano Garrigós, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International congress on architectural technology 2025 (ICAT 2025): buildings fit for climate change, 15-17 May 2025, Alicante, Spain. San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante [online], pages 355-369. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/154581

The ongoing climate crisis provides a unique challenge within the residential sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in response to Canada's net-zero goal. Although legislation has been put in place to address the decarbonisation of the ex... Read More about Assessing whole life carbon impacts of retrofitting Canada's 19th and early 20th century homes towards net-zero..

The adoption of a circular economy approach to pedagogical learning in architectural technology. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SCOTT, J. and SEDDIKI, M. 2025. The adoption of a circular economy approach to pedagogical learning in architectural technology. In Kouider, T. and Galiano Garrigós, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International congress on architectural technology 2025 (ICAT 2025): buildings fit for climate change, 15-17 May 2025, Alicante, Spain. San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante [online], pages 241-254. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/154594

The construction industry is undergoing a significant shift towards sustainability, with circular economy emerging as a key strategy to address resource depletion, waste management, and carbon emissions. This paper explores the integration of circula... Read More about The adoption of a circular economy approach to pedagogical learning in architectural technology..

Competency, understanding and the role of explanation in AI-driven education. (2025)
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MCDERMOTT, R., BROWN, J.N.A., DANIELS, M. and CAJANDER, Å. 2025. Competency, understanding and the role of explanation in AI-driven education. In Smith, B.K. and BORGE, M. (eds.) Learning and collaboration technologies: proceedings of the 12th International conference Learning and collaboration technologies 2025 (LCT 2025) held as part of the 27th International conference on Human-computer interaction 2025 (HCII 2025), 22-27 June 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lecture notes in computer science, 15807. Cham: Springer [online], part II, pages 304-323. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93567-1_21

The increasing use of artificial intelligence within educational practice raises many important questions about the future role of pedagogical concepts long considered fundamental. One such example is the notion that understanding comes about through... Read More about Competency, understanding and the role of explanation in AI-driven education..

Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
VIRGO, I. 2025. Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students. Information research [online], 30(CoLIS): proceedings of the 12th International conference on conceptions of library and information science (CoLIS 2025), 2-5 June 2025, Glasgow, UK, pages 567-573. Available from: https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS51925

This paper outlines two tentative themes identified in the initial findings of a project focusing on the information behaviour of a particular group of incarcerated university students. These students are released on licence to attend lectures and st... Read More about Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students..

Near miss: behavior and effect. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
AIGBOKHAI, U., AL BALUSHI, A.A., AL BARWANI, S., AL WADHAHI, T., AL YARUBI, S.A. and OSOBAJO, O. 2025. Near miss: behavior and effect. In Proceedings of the 2025 SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Conference at Oman petroleum and energy show (OPES 2025), 12-14 May 2025, Muscat, Oman. Richardson, TX: SPE [online], paper number SPE-224918-MS. Hosted on OnePetro. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2118/224918-MS

Near miss plays an important role in providing insights and are also leading indicators of potential hazards within a system, one could argue that they are attributed to safety behaviours, human or organisational factors, and are underreported. The s... Read More about Near miss: behavior and effect..

From geothermal brine to battery: balancing technological innovation with environmental and social responsibility: a case study from Lithium Valley. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALGAIAR, M. 2025. From geothermal brine to battery: balancing technological innovation with environmental and social responsibility: a case study from Lithium Valley. Presented at the 16th Workshop of the Society of petrophysicists and well log analysts Saudi Arabia chapter 2025 (SPWLA-SAC 16th Workshop) , 7-8 May 2025, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

This study synthesizes current research on lithium extraction, focusing on technological advances, the growing demand for lithium in the energy transition, and the environmental and social challenges associated with its production. It uses the Lithiu... Read More about From geothermal brine to battery: balancing technological innovation with environmental and social responsibility: a case study from Lithium Valley..

Assessing the research scene of green AI via bibliometric analysis. (2025)
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ABDULMALIK, M.R., IBEKE, E., EZENKWU, C.P. and IWENDI, C. [2025]. Assessing the research scene of green AI via bibliometric analysis. In Iwendi, C., Boulouard, Z. and Kryvinska, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International conference on advances in communication technology and computer engineering (ICACTCE'24): transforming industries: harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and the internet of things, 29-30 November 2024, Marrakech, Morocco. Lecture notes in networks and systems (LNNS), 1313. Cham: Springer [online], volume 2, (forthcoming). To be made available from: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031946226

The environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise as more people embrace the technology. The optimization of AI models to be more efficient, use less energy, and emit low carbon is essential. This bibliometric study presents... Read More about Assessing the research scene of green AI via bibliometric analysis..

No land is an island, even actual islands: servitudes' benefits and burdens in Scottish law. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ODUSANYA, T. 2025. No land is an island, even actual islands: servitudes' benefits and burdens in Scottish law. Presented at the Meeting of the Dundee Law School Scottish Property Law Discussion Group, 30 April 2025, Dundee, UK.

This presentation reflects on the treatment of land ownership rights and law within the context of Scotland. It focuses in particular on "servitudes", i.e. legal rights that allow one property to benefit from another.

Optimising public transport through the integration of micro and macro-level simulations. (2025)
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HAN, K., CHRISTIE, L.A., ZĂVOIANU, A.-C. and MCCALL, J.A.W. 2025. Optimising public transport through the integration of micro and macro-level simulations. In Quesada-Arencibia, A., Affenzeller, M. and Moreno-Díaz, R. (eds.) Computer aided systems theory - EUROCAST 2024: revised selected papers of the 19th International conference on Computer-aided systems theory (EUROCAST 2024), 25 February - 1 March 2024, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 15172. Cham: Springer [online], part 1, pages 107-121. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82949-9_10

The European Commission and the UK aim for net zero emissions in transportation by 2050. This work explores the potential of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to support this goal by enhancing public transport (PT) via strategic deployment wit... Read More about Optimising public transport through the integration of micro and macro-level simulations..

A feature transformation technique for improving ensemble learning systems. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
NGUYEN, T.T., VU, H., DANG, T., ELYAN, E., VU, T.S. and NGUYEN, T.T. 2025. A feature transformation technique for improving ensemble learning systems. In Nguyen, N.T., Matsuo, T., Gaol, F.L. et al (eds.) Intelligent information and database systems: proceedings of the 17th Asian conference on intelligent information database systems 2025 (ACIIDS 2025), 23-25 April 2025, Kitakyushu, Japan. Lecture notes in computer science, 15684. Singapore: Springer [online], part II, pages 292-306. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6005-6_21

In this study, we propose a feature transformation approach to improve the performance of Ensemble Learning Systems. Our method operates on the predictions of base classifiers within an ensemble system, known as meta-data, which are produced by apply... Read More about A feature transformation technique for improving ensemble learning systems..

Enhancing network intrusion detection with stacked deep and reinforcement learning models. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KALPANI, N., RODRIGO, N., SENEVIRATNE, D., ARIYADASA, S. and SENANAYAKE, J. 2025. Enhancing network intrusion detection with stacked deep and reinforcement learning models. In Proceedings of the 8th International research conference on Smart computing and systems Engineering 2025 (SCSE 2025), 3 April 2025, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1-7. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSE65633.2025.11031023

This study investigates the effectiveness of Ensemble Learning (EL) techniques by integrating reproducible Deep Learning (DL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) models to enhance network intrusion detection. Through a systematic review of the literature... Read More about Enhancing network intrusion detection with stacked deep and reinforcement learning models..

Integrating large language models for automated vulnerability scanning and reporting in network hosts. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SANDARUWAN, M.T., WIJAYANAYAKE, J. and SENANAYAKE, J. 2025. Integrating large language models for automated vulnerability scanning and reporting in network hosts. In Proceedings of the 8th International research conference on Smart computing and systems Engineering 2025 (SCSE 2025), 3 April 2025, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1-7. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSE65633.2025.11031059

This research explores integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 into cybersecurity vulnerability scanning to enhance automation and effectiveness. Current tools' reliance on manual updates and human expertise is highlighted.... Read More about Integrating large language models for automated vulnerability scanning and reporting in network hosts..

Assessing security vulnerabilities in Sri Lankan banking mobile applications: challenges and solutions. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
RAVICHANDRAN, L., PIYUMANTHA, K., WICKRAMASINGHE, W.S., WEERASINGHE, M. and SENANAYAKE, J. 2025. Assessing security vulnerabilities in Sri Lankan banking mobile applications: challenges and solutions. In Proceedings of the 8th International research conference on Smart computing and systems Engineering 2025 (SCSE 2025), 3 April 2025, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1-6. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSE65633.2025.11031031

Mobile banking plays a crucial role in Sri Lanka's financial sector, offering convenience through self-service technologies. Despite its rapid adoption, concerns about security continue to affect customer trust, underscoring the critical need for enh... Read More about Assessing security vulnerabilities in Sri Lankan banking mobile applications: challenges and solutions..

Advanced DDoS attack detection and mitigation in software-defined networking (SDN) environments: an integrated machine learning approach. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GAYANTHA, N., RAJAPAKSE, C. and SENANAYAKE, J. 2025. Advanced DDoS attack detection and mitigation in software-defined networking (SDN) evironments: an integrated machine learning approach. In Proceedings of the 8th International research conference on Smart computing and systems Engineering 2025 (SCSE 2025), 3 April 2025, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1-6. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSE65633.2025.11030982

The increasing sophistication of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks poses critical challenges to network security, necessitating advanced detection and mitigation strategies. This research presents a machine learning-based framework that ef... Read More about Advanced DDoS attack detection and mitigation in software-defined networking (SDN) environments: an integrated machine learning approach..

DroidKey: a practical framework and analysis tool for API key security in Android applications. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PIYUMANTHA, K., SENANAYAKE, J. and WIJAYASIRIWARDHNE, K. 2025. DroidKey: a practical framework and analysis tool for API key security in android applications. In Proceedings of the 8th International research conference on Smart computing and systems Engineering 2025 (SCSE 2025), 3 April 2025, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1-6. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSE65633.2025.11030956

The reliance on mobile applications has amplified concerns about Application Programming Interface (API) key security in Android platforms. Serving as essential authentication mechanisms, API keys ensure secure communication with external services. H... Read More about DroidKey: a practical framework and analysis tool for API key security in Android applications..

Assuring privacy of AI-powered community driven Android code vulnerability detection. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SENANAYAKE, J., KALUTARAGE, H., PIRAS, L., AL-KADRI, M.O. and PETROVSKI, A. 2025. Assuring privacy of AI-powered community driven Android code vulnerability detection. In Garcia-Alfaro, J., Kalutarage, H., Yanai, N. et al. (eds.) Computer security: ESORICS 2024 international workshops: revised selected papers from the proceedings of eleven international workshops held in conjunction with the 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2024), 16-20 September 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Part II. Lecture notes in computer science, 15264. Cham: Springer [online], pages 457-476. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82362-6_27

The challenge of training AI models is heightened by the limited availability of data, particularly when public datasets are insufficient. While obtaining data from private sources may seem like a viable solution, privacy concerns often prevent data... Read More about Assuring privacy of AI-powered community driven Android code vulnerability detection..