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Continuous integration for web-based software infrastructures: lessons learned on the webinos project. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
SU, T., LYLE, J., ATZENI, A., FAILY, S., VIRJI, H., NTANOS, C. and BOTSIKAS, C. 2013. Continuous integration for web-based software infrastructures: lessons learned on the webinos project. In Bertacco, V. and Legay, A. (eds.) Hardware and software: verification and testing: proceedings of the 9th International Haifa verification conference (HVC 2013), 5-7 November 2013, Haifa, Israel. Lecture notes in computer science, 8244. Cham: Springer [online], pages 145-150. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03077-7_10

Testing web-based software infrastructures is challenging. The need to interact with different services running on different devices, with different expectations for security and privacy contributes not only to the complexity of the infrastructure, b... Read More about Continuous integration for web-based software infrastructures: lessons learned on the webinos project..

Personal PKI for the smart device era. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LYLE, J., PAVERD, A., KING-LACROIX, J., ATZENI, A., VIRJI, H., FLÉCHAIS, I. and FAILY, S. 2013. Personal PKI for the smart device era. In De Capitani di Vimercati, S. and Mitchell, C. (eds.) Public key infrastructures, services and applications: revised selected papers from the 9th European workshop on public key infrastructures, services and applications (EuroPKI 2012), 13-14 September 2012, Pisa, Italy. Lecture notes in computer science, 7868. Heidelberg: Springer [online], pages 69-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40012-4_5

As people use an increasing number of smart devices for their everyday computing, it is surprising that these powerful, internet-enabled devices are rarely connected together to create personal networks. The webinos project is an attempt to make this... Read More about Personal PKI for the smart device era..

Volumetric and space requirements of the offshore workforce: the effects of donning a survival suit. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LEDINGHAM, R.J. and STEWART A.D. 2013. Volumetric and space requirements of the offshore workforce: the effects of donning a survival suit. In Proceedings of the 4th International conference on 3D body scanning technologies (3DBST 2013), 19-20 November 2013, Long Beach, USA. Ascona: Hometrica Consulting [online], pages 317-322. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15221/13.317

Confined space working is common place within the offshore oil and gas infrastructure and it is a persons absolute size that governs their fit within this built environment. The design and adjustability of the environment must be based on the assumed... Read More about Volumetric and space requirements of the offshore workforce: the effects of donning a survival suit..

Reproducibility of body volume assessments in survival clothing in fixed and portable scanning systems. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LEDINGHAM, R.J., NEVILL, A.M. and STEWART, A.D. 2013. Reproducibility of body volume assessments in survival clothing in fixed and portable scanning systems. In Proceedings of the 4th International conference on 3D body scanning technologies (3DBST 2013), 19-20 November 2013, Long Beach, USA. Ascona: Hometrica Consulting [online], pages 355-359. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15221/13.355

The recent development of portable 3D scanning systems for industries such as animation and museum artefact digitisation have considerable potential for applications involving human body measurement. However, this requires a system for validation of... Read More about Reproducibility of body volume assessments in survival clothing in fixed and portable scanning systems..

Proceedings of the 2013 Energy policy conference: energy projects and social license of energy projects in Scotland, 14-15 November 2013, Aberdeen, UK. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MAULET, N. (ed.) 2013. Proceedings of the 2013 Energy policy conference: energy projects and social license of energy projects in Scotland, 14-15 November 2013, Aberdeen, UK. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

Attracting investments for renewing infrastructure, developing onshore gas activity or carbon capture and storage are just a few of the policy entries in the United Kingdom's long list of priorities for enhancing the country's energy security. With t... Read More about Proceedings of the 2013 Energy policy conference: energy projects and social license of energy projects in Scotland, 14-15 November 2013, Aberdeen, UK..

Anomaly monitoring framework based on intelligent data analysis. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
RATTADILOK, P., PETROVSKI, A. and PETROVSKI, S. 2013. Anomaly monitoring framework based on intelligent data analysis. In Yin, H., Tang, K., Gao, Y., Klawonn, F., Lee, M., Weise, T., Li, B. and Yao, X. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International conference on intelligent data engineering and automated learning (IDEAL 2013), 20-23 October 2013, Hefei, China. Lecture notes in computer science, 8206. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 134-141. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41278-3_17

Real-time data processing has become an increasingly important challenge as the need for faster analysis of big data widely manifests itself. In this research, several Computational Intelligence methods have been applied for identifying possible anom... Read More about Anomaly monitoring framework based on intelligent data analysis..

Contemplations on results from investigating the personal epistemology of computing students. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R., PIRIE, I., LAXER, C., CAJANDER, A. and DANIELS, M. 2013. Contemplations on results from investigating the personal epistemology of computing students. In Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2013): energizing the future, 23-26 October 2013, Oklahoma City, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 6684941, pages 825-831. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2013.6684941

'Personal Epistemology' is the analysis of the ways in which an individual perceives what constitutes knowledge, its boundaries, how it is justified, and how it is related to learning. While investigation of metacognitive strategies used by students... Read More about Contemplations on results from investigating the personal epistemology of computing students..

Empowering information literacy and continuing professional development of librarians: new paradigms for learning. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2013. Empowering information literacy and continuing professional development of librarians: new paradigms for learning. In Kurbanoglu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. and Špiranec, S. (eds.) Worldwide commonalities and challenges in information literacy research and practice: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 2013 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2013), 22-25 October 2013, Istanbul, Turkey. Communications in computer and information science, 397. Cham: Springer [online], pages 647-654. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_87

Information professionals play a key role in facilitating and advocating the development of information literacy in educational, organizational and everyday life contexts. However, their information literacy continuing professional needs have not att... Read More about Empowering information literacy and continuing professional development of librarians: new paradigms for learning..

My cost runneth over: data mining to reduce construction cost overruns. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
AHIAGA-DAGBUI, D.D. and SMITH, S.D. 2013. My cost runneth over: data mining to reduce construction cost overruns. In Smith, S.D. and Ahiaga-Dagbui, D.D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) annual conference, 2-4 September 2013, Reading, UK. Reading: ARCOM [online], pages 559-568. Available from: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2013-0559-0568_Ahiaga-Dagbui_Smith.pdf

Most construction projects overrun their budgets. Among the myriad of explanations giving for construction cost overruns is the lack of required information upon which to base accurate estimation. Much of the financial decisions made at the time of d... Read More about My cost runneth over: data mining to reduce construction cost overruns..

Partial structure learning by subset Walsh transform. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
CHRISTIE, L.A., LONIE, D.P. and MCCALL, J.A.W. 2013. Partial structure learning by subset Walsh transform. In Jin, Y. and Thomas, S.A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th UK workshop on computational intelligence (UKCI 2013), 9-11 September 2013, Guildford, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6651297, pages 128-135. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651297

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) use structure learning to build a statistical model of good solutions discovered so far, in an effort to discover better solutions. The non-zero coefficients of the Walsh transform produce a hypergraph rep... Read More about Partial structure learning by subset Walsh transform..

Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
GERRARD, C.E., MCCALL, J., MACLEOD, C. and COGHILL, G.M. 2013. Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system. In Jin, Y. and Thomas, S.A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th UK workshop on computational intelligence (UKCI 2013), 9-11 September 2013, Guildford, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6651281, pages 8-15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651281

The Artificial Reaction Network (ARN) is an Artificial Chemistry representation inspired by cell signaling networks. The ARN has previously been applied to the simulation of the chemotaxis pathway of Escherichia coli and to the control of limbed robo... Read More about Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system..

Investigation of the effectiveness of video quality metrics in video pre-processing. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
CHILUKAMARI, J., KANNANGARA, S. and MAXWELL, G. 2013. Investigation of the effectiveness of video quality metrics in video pre-processing. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE international conference on consumer electronics (ICCE-Berlin 2013), 9-11 September 2013, Berlin, Germany. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6698005. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2013.6698005

This paper presents an investigation of the effectiveness of current video quality measurement metrics in measuring variations in perceptual video quality of pre-processed video. The results show that full-reference video quality metrics are not effe... Read More about Investigation of the effectiveness of video quality metrics in video pre-processing..

A DCT based in-focus visual saliency detection algorithm. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
CHILUKAMARI, J., KANNANGARA, S. and MAXWELL, G. 2013. A DCT based in-focus visual saliency detection algorithm. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE international conference on consumer electronics (ICCE-Berlin 2013), 9-11 September 2013, Berlin, Germany. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6698003. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2013.6698003

A novel low-complexity visual saliency detection algorithm for detecting visually salient regions in images based on camera focus is presented. This fast in-focus region detection algorithm detects salient-frequencies present in in-focus areas using... Read More about A DCT based in-focus visual saliency detection algorithm..

Is specialist designer an oxymoron? (2013)
Conference Proceeding
GULARI, M.N. and FAIRBURN, S. 2013. Is specialist designer an oxymoron? The value of specialisation in the design field. In Bohemia, E., Ion, W., Kovacevic, A., Lawlor, J., McGrath, M., McMahon, C., Parkinson, B., Reilly, G., Ring, M., Simpson, R. and Tormey, D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International on engineering and product design education conference (E&PDE13): design education - growing our future, 5-6 September 2013, Dublin, Ireland. Glasgow: The Design Society/Institution of Engineering Designers [online], pages 246-251. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/34720.

Jack-of-all-trades, master of none is a figure of speech that suits generalists well. Having special knowledge is usually confused with being an expert. Does it mean that a non-specialist or a generalist is not an expert? Curriculums of many design s... Read More about Is specialist designer an oxymoron?.

Agile method tailoring in distributed enterprises: product owner teams. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
BASS, J.M. 2013. Agile method tailoring in distributed enterprises: product owner teams. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE international conference on global software engineering (ICGSE 2013), 26-29 August 2013, Bari, Italy. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 6613080, pages 154-163. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2013.27

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the product owner role is discussed. The product owner identifies and prioritizes customer r... Read More about Agile method tailoring in distributed enterprises: product owner teams..

A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm fitness function for case-base maintenance. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LUPIANI, E., CRAW, S., MASSIE, S., JUAREZ, J.M. and PALMA, J.T. 2013. A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm fitness function for case-base maintenance. In Delany, S.J. and Ontañón, S. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 21st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2013), 8-11 July 2013, Saratoga Springs, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 7969. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 218-232. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39056-2_16

Case-Base Maintenance (CBM) has two important goals. On the one hand, it aims to reduce the size of the case-base. On the other hand, it has to improve the accuracy of the CBR system. CBM can be represented as a multi-objective optimization problem t... Read More about A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm fitness function for case-base maintenance..

The critical incident technique as a tool for gathering data as part of a qualitative study of information seeking behaviour. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MARCELLA, R., ROWLANDS, H. and BAXTER, G. 2013. The critical incident technique as a tool for gathering data as part of a qualitative study of information seeking behaviour. In Ramos, I. and Mesquita, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th European conference on research methodology for business and management studies (ECRM 2013), 4-5 July 2013, Guimaraes, Portugal. Sonning Common: Academic Conferences and Publishing International, pages 247-253.

Since devised by Flanagan in 1954 as a tool to explore what people do to achieve an organisational aim, the critical incident technique (CIT) has been used in various disciplines as a method of understanding human behaviour. This paper provides an ov... Read More about The critical incident technique as a tool for gathering data as part of a qualitative study of information seeking behaviour..

Inferential measurements for situation awareness: enhancing traffic surveillance by machine learning. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
RATTADILOK, P. and PETROVSKI, A. 2013. Inferential measurements for situation awareness: enhancing traffic surveillance by machine learning. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE international conference on computational intelligence and virtual environments for measurement systems and applications (CIVEMSA 2013), 15-17 July 2013, Milan, Italy. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6617402, pages 93-98. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2013.6617402

The paper proposes a generic approach to building inferential measurement systems. The large amount of data needed to be acquired and processed by such systems necessitates the use of machine learning techniques. In this study, an inferential measure... Read More about Inferential measurements for situation awareness: enhancing traffic surveillance by machine learning..

Values and assumptions in the concept of cultural leadership. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
PRICE, J., HARRIS, P. and DOUGLAS, A. 2013. Values and assumptions in the concept of cultural leadership. In Proceedings of the 1st European conference on arts and humanities (ECAH 2013), 18-21 July 2013, Brighton, UK. Nagoya: International Academic Forum [online], paper number 049, pages 398-412. Available from: http://papers.iafor.org/wp-content/uploads/conference-proceedings/ECAH/ECAH2013_proceedings.pdf

Cultural leadership is still a young concept in cultural policy and academic study. Emerging as a sectoral concern in the UK around 2002, its early development as both practice and discourse took place during a time of notable growth and optimism for... Read More about Values and assumptions in the concept of cultural leadership..

A risk based methodology to assess the energy efficiency improvements in traditionally constructed buildings. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
HERRERA, D. and BENNADJI, A. 2013. A risk based methodology to assess the energy efficiency improvements in traditionally constructed buildings. In Grussenmeyer, P. (ed.) Proceedings of the 24th International Comité International de la Photogrammétrie Architecturale (CIPA) symposium, 2-6 September 2013, Strasbourg, France. International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, XL-5/W2. Göttingen: Copernicus Publications [online], pages 337-342. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-337-2013

In order to achieve the CO2 reduction targets set by the Scottish government, it will be necessary to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings. Within the total Scottish building stock, historic and traditionally constructed buildings are... Read More about A risk based methodology to assess the energy efficiency improvements in traditionally constructed buildings..