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Design of a smart security registration plate for seagoing motorized non-mechanical crafts. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
AMABDIYIL, S., JOSE, S., PILLAI, V.P.M. and PRABHU, R. 2017. Design of a smart security registration plate for seagoing motorized non-mechanical crafts. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8084868, pages 1755-1761. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084868

Unauthorized and uncertified small seagoing fishing crafts are being widely used for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, especially in the Indian sub-continent. Nevertheless, the registration is mandatory; the display of the registration mar... Read More about Design of a smart security registration plate for seagoing motorized non-mechanical crafts..

Energy efficient operation of photocatalytic reactors based on UV LEDs for pollution remediation in water. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
PRABHU, R., HEWITT, F., GEORGIEVA, G., MEENAKSHI, H.N., LAWTON, L.A. and ROBERTSON, P.K.J. 2017. Energy efficient operation of photocatalytic reactors based on UV LEDs for pollution remediation in water. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8085011, pages 2623-2627. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8085011

Photocatalytic technology using TiO2 is one of the emerging approaches for water treatment, especially as a final step to remove complex organics such as pesticides, hormones or humic acids. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a semiconductor material with st... Read More about Energy efficient operation of photocatalytic reactors based on UV LEDs for pollution remediation in water..

Design of optical fibre based highly sensitive acoustic sensor for underwater applications. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
JOHNY, J., SMITH, T., BHAVSAR, K. and PRABHU, R. 2017. Design of optical fibre based highly sensitive acoustic sensor for underwater applications. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8084974, pages 2393-2397. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084974

Fibre optic sensing is a key technology for a variety of underwater sensing and monitoring applications. Fibre optic acoustic sensors are mainly based on interferometric detection approach where the acoustic pressure-induced phase shift of light has... Read More about Design of optical fibre based highly sensitive acoustic sensor for underwater applications..

Theoretical design and analysis of a sensing system for high pressure and temperature measurement in subsea underwater applications. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
AMOS, S., PRABHU, R. and NJUGUNA, J. 2017. Theoretical design and analysis of a sensing system for high pressure and temperature measurement in subsea underwater applications. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8085023, pages 2680-2686. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8085023

The theoretical design and analysis of a metal coated hybrid sensing system of Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) and Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometer (EFPI) cavity for high pressure high temperature (HPHT) measurement in subsea underwater applications is... Read More about Theoretical design and analysis of a sensing system for high pressure and temperature measurement in subsea underwater applications..

Theoretical investigation of positional influence of FBG sensors for structural health monitoring of offshore structures. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
JOHNY, J., SUMMERS, J., BHAVSAR, K., JOSEPH, G.P., FUNG, W.-K. and PRABHU, R. 2017. Theoretical investigation of positional influence of FBG sensors for structural health monitoring of offshore structures. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8084976, pages 2406-2410. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084976

Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) is a key technology for condition monitoring of different offshore oil and gas structures. FBG sensors are used to sense different physical parameters such as strain, temperature, vibration, etc. This paper investigates the... Read More about Theoretical investigation of positional influence of FBG sensors for structural health monitoring of offshore structures..

Fibre optic sensor to detect heavy metal pollutants in water environments. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
BHAVSAR, K., HURSTON, E., PRABHU, R. and JOSEPH, G.P. 2017. Fibre optic sensor to detect heavy metal pollutants in water environments. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8084982, pages 2441-2444. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084982

Heavy metal ion pollution emerges as a potential threat to humankind and the ecosystem due to their increased spreading into the environment. Detection of highly toxic heavy metal ions requires rapid, simple, sensitive and selective detection methods... Read More about Fibre optic sensor to detect heavy metal pollutants in water environments..

Integrated self-healing of the composite offshore structures. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
GUPTA, R., PANCHOLI, K., PRABHU, R., PANCHOLI, M., HUO, D., JHA, V. and LATTO, J. 2017. Integrated self-healing of the composite offshore structures. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8084828, pages 1514-1517. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084828

The self-repairing composite materials integrated with sensing is way forward to reduce maintenance cost and increase consumer safety. In this work, the novel self-healing carbon fibre reinforced unidirectional bulk tape of simple architecture is pre... Read More about Integrated self-healing of the composite offshore structures..

A critical analysis of open protocol for subsea production controls system communication. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
IYALLA, I., ARULLIAH, E. and INNES, D. 2017. A critical analysis of open protocol for subsea production controls system communication. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8084938, pages 2177-2183. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084938

Production control system communication protocols used in subsea fields are primarily proprietary to the subsea vendor. Due to the proprietary nature of this communication system, the operators encounter many challenges including obsolescence managem... Read More about A critical analysis of open protocol for subsea production controls system communication..

Area exploration with a swarm of UAVs combining deterministic chaotic ant colony mobility with position MPC. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
ROSALIE, M., DENTLER, J.E., DANOY, G., BOUVRY, P., KANNAN, S., OLIVARES-MENDEZ, M.A. and VOOS, H. 2017. Area exploration with a swarm of UAVs combining deterministic chaotic ant colony mobility with position MPC. In Proceedings of 2017 International conference on unmanned aircraft systems (ICUAS 2017), 13-16 June 2017, Miami, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1392-1397. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991418

The recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology permit to develop new usages for them. One of the current challenges is to operate UAVs as an autonomous swarm. In this domain we already proposed a new mobility model using Ant Colony... Read More about Area exploration with a swarm of UAVs combining deterministic chaotic ant colony mobility with position MPC..

Comparison of wear performance of thermal sprayed cermet (WC-Co) coatings from suspension and feedstock powders. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
ALI, O., AHMED, R., ALAWADHI, H., SHAMEER, M., FAISAL, N., AL-ANAZI, N. and GOOSEN, M. 2017. Comparison of wear performance of thermal sprayed cermet (WC-Co) coatings from suspension and feedstock powders. In Proceedings of the 2017 International thermal spray conference and exposition (ITSC 2017), 7-9 June 2017, Düsseldorf, Germany. Düsseldorf: DVS Media, pages 681-686.

WC-Co coatings were deposited using conventional High Velocity Oxy-Fuel Jet-Kote (HVOF-JK) and Suspension HVOF (S-HVOF) methods. Microstructural and mechanical properties along with the wear resistance of coatings were investigated. Reciprocating sli... Read More about Comparison of wear performance of thermal sprayed cermet (WC-Co) coatings from suspension and feedstock powders..

Estimation of distribution algorithms for the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
AYODELE, M., MCCALL, J. and REGNIER-COUDERT, O. 2017. Estimation of distribution algorithms for the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2017), 5-8 June 2017, San Sebastian, Spain. New York: IEEE [online], article number 7969491, pages 1579-1586. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2017.7969491

Multi-Mode Resource Constrained Project Problem (MRCPSP) is a multi-component problem which combines two interacting sub-problems; activity scheduling and mode assignment. Multi-component problems have been of research interest to the evolutionary co... Read More about Estimation of distribution algorithms for the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem..

A random key based estimation of distribution algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
AYODELE, M., MCCALL, J., REGNIER-COUDERT, O. and BOWIE, L. 2017. A random key based estimation of distribution algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2017), 5-8 June 2017, San Sebastian, Spain. New York: IEEE [online], article number 7969591, pages 2364-2371. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2017.7969591

Random Key (RK) is an alternative representation for permutation problems that enables application of techniques generally used for continuous optimisation. Although the benefit of RKs to permutation optimisation has been shown, its use within Estima... Read More about A random key based estimation of distribution algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem..

An elemental approach for predicting embodied carbon of office buildings. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
VICTORIA, M. and PERERA, S. 2017. An elemental approach for predicting embodied carbon of office buildings. In Proceedings of the 2017 World sustainable built environment conference (WORLDSBE 2017): transforming our built environment through innovation and integration: putting ideas into action, 5-7 June 2017, Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong: Construction Industry Council [online], pages 522-527. Available from: http://wsbe17hongkong.hk/download/WSBE17%20Hong%20Kong%20-%20Conference%20Proceedings.pdf

Embodied Carbon (EC) in buildings is increasingly becoming an important factor in carbon management. There are numerous tools and methods to estimate EC right from the beginning of a construction project. However, each tool has its own pros and cons.... Read More about An elemental approach for predicting embodied carbon of office buildings..

Neural induction of a lexicon for fast and interpretable stance classification. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
CLOS, J. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2017. Neural induction of a lexicon for fast and interpretable stance classification. In Gracia, J., Bond, F., McCrae, J.P., Buitelaar, P., Chiarcos, C. and Hellmann, S. (eds.) Language, data and knowledge: proceedings of the 1st International conference on language, data and knowledge (LDK 2017), 19-20 June 2017, Galway, Ireland. Lecture notes in computer science, 10318. Cham: Springer [online], pages 181-193. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_16

Large-scale social media classification faces the following two challenges: algorithms can be hard to adapt to Web-scale data, and the predictions that they provide are difficult for humans to understand. Those two challenges are solved at the cost o... Read More about Neural induction of a lexicon for fast and interpretable stance classification..

Characterization of hydroxyapatite layer on AISI 316L stainless steel. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
HLINKA, J., LASEK, S., SIOSTRZONEK, R. and FAISAL, N. 2017. Characterization of hydroxyapatite layer on AISI 316L stainless steel. In Proceedings of the 26th International conference on metallurgy and materials (METAL 2017), 24-26 May 2017, Brno, Czech Republic. Ostrava: Tanger, pages 1292-1297.

Bioactive coatings can be divided into two main groups - organic and inorganic coatings. Hydroxyapatite (HA) is well known as one of inorganic part of mammal's bone structure and is highly recommended for use in implantology. This paper is mainly foc... Read More about Characterization of hydroxyapatite layer on AISI 316L stainless steel..

Stokes coordinates. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
SAVOYE, Y. 2017. Stokes coordinates. In Spencer, S.N. (ed.) Proceedings of the 33rd Spring conference on computer graphics (SCCG'17), 15-17 May 2017, Mikulov, Czech Republic. New York: ACM [online], article number 5. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3154353.3154354

Cage-based structures are reduced subspace deformers enabling non-isometric stretching deformations induced by clothing or muscle bulging. In this paper, we reformulate the cage-based rigging as an incompressible Stokes problem in the vorticity space... Read More about Stokes coordinates..

Deep reward shaping from demonstrations. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
HUSSEIN, A., ELYAN, E., GABER, M.M. and JAYNE, C. 2017. Deep reward shaping from demonstrations. In Proceedings of the 2017 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN 2017), 14-19 May 2017, Anchorage, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 7965896, pages 510-517. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7965896

Deep reinforcement learning is rapidly gaining attention due to recent successes in a variety of problems. The combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning allows for a generic learning process that does not consider specific knowledge of... Read More about Deep reward shaping from demonstrations..

An edit distance between graph correspondences. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., SERRATOSA, F. and JIANG, X. 2017. An edit distance between graph correspondences. In Foggia, P., Liu, C.-L. and Vento, M (eds.) 2017. Graph-based representations in pattern recognition: proceedings of the 11th Image analysis in patter recognition technical committee 15th (IAPR-TC-15) international workshop (GbRPR 2017), 16-18 May 2017, Anacapri, Italy. Cham: Springer [online], pages 232-241. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58961-9_21

The Hamming Distance has been largely used to calculate the dissimilarity of a pair of correspondences (also known as labellings or matchings) between two structures (i.e. sets of points, strings or graphs). Although it has the advantage of being sim... Read More about An edit distance between graph correspondences..

Comparison of artificial neural network and multiple regression for partial discharge sources recognition. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
MAS'UD, A.A., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., ALBARRACIN, R., ARDILA-REY, J.A., ABU-BAKAR, S.H., AZIZ, N.F.A., BANI, N.A. and MUHTAZARUDDIN, M.N. 2017. Comparison of artificial neural network and multiple regression for partial discharge sources recognition. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE-GCC conference and exhibition 2017 (GCCCE 2017), 8-11 May 2017, Manama, Bahrain. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8448033, pages 519-522. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2017.8448033

This paper compares the capabilities of the artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) for recognizing and discriminating partial discharge (PD) defects. Statistical fingerprints obtained from a several PD measurement were a... Read More about Comparison of artificial neural network and multiple regression for partial discharge sources recognition..

Gertrude Bell and the evolution of the library tradition in Iraq. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
JOHNSON, I.M. 2017. Gertrude Bell and the evolution of the library tradition in Iraq. In Collins, P. and Tripp, C. (eds.) Gertrude Bell and Iraq: a life and legacy. Proceedings of the British Academy, 205: proceedings of Gertrude Bell: a life and legacy, 11-13 September 2013, London, UK. Oxford: Oxford University Press [online], pages 257-271. Available from: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gertrude-bell-and-iraq-9780197266076

This paper discusses Gertrude Bell's involvement in the foundation of the Baghdad Public Library and the Iraq Museum Library, shedding light on issues that have surrounded their creation and development. It identifies Muriel Jesse Forbes as the perso... Read More about Gertrude Bell and the evolution of the library tradition in Iraq..