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The influence of procurement methods on dispute resolution mechanism choice in construction. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
MANTE, J., NDEKUGRI, I., ANKRAH, N. and HAMMOND, F. 2012. The influence of procurement methods on dispute resolution mechanism choice in construction. In Smith, S.D. (ed.) Proceedings of 28th annual Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) conference, 3-5 September 2012, Edinburgh, UK. Edinburgh: ARCOM [online], pages 979-988. Available from: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2012-0979-0988_Mante_Ndekugri_Ankrah_Hammond.pdf

The success of major infrastructure projects is crucial to economic development. Clients' expectations that infrastructure projects will meet their objectives are however confronted by hackneyed construction and engineering challenges relating to cos... Read More about The influence of procurement methods on dispute resolution mechanism choice in construction..

Looking for genre: the use of structural features during search tasks with Wikipedia. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
CLARK, M., RUTHVEN, I., O'BRIAN HOLT, P. and SONG, D. 2012. Looking for genre: the use of structural features during search tasks with Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 4th Information interaction in context symposium (IIIX'12), 21-24 August 2012, Nijmegen, Netherlands. New York: ACM [online], pages 145-154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362751

This paper reports on our task-based observational, logged, questionnaire study and analysis of ocular behavior pertaining to the interaction of structural features of text in Wikipedia using eye tracking. We set natural and realistic tasks searching... Read More about Looking for genre: the use of structural features during search tasks with Wikipedia..

Cross-platform access control for mobile web applications. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
LYLE, J., MONTELEONE, S., FAILY, S., PATTI, D. and RICCIATO, F. 2012. Cross-platform access control for mobile web applications. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE international symposium on policies for distributed systems and networks (POLICY 2012), 16-18 July 2012, Chapel Hill, USA. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 37-44. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/POLICY.2012.9

Web browsers are a common platform for delivering cross-platform applications. However, they currently fail to provide consistent access control for security and privacy sensitive JavaScript APIs, such as geolocation and local storage. This problem i... Read More about Cross-platform access control for mobile web applications..

Music-inspired texture representation. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
HORSBURGH, B., CRAW, S. and MASSIE, S. 2012. Music-inspired texture representation. In Proceedings of the 26th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI-12), co-located with the 2012 Symposium on educational advances in artificial intelligence (EAAI-12), 22-26 July 2012, Toronto, Canada. Palo Alto: AAAI Press [online], pages 52-58. Available from: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI12/paper/view/5041

Techniques for music recommendation are increasingly relying on hybrid representations to retrieve new and exciting music. A key component of these representations is musical content, with texture being the most widely used feature. Current technique... Read More about Music-inspired texture representation..

Embedded workbench application of GPS sensor for agricultural tractor. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
SARKER, M.M.K., PARK, D., HAM, W., TUMENJARGAL, E. and LEE, J. 2012. Embedded workbench application of GPS sensor for agricultural tractor. In Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L. and Solo, A.M.G. (eds) Proceedings of the 2012 Embedded systems and applications international conference (ESA'12), 25-28 July 2012, Las Vegas, USA. Athens, GA: CSREA Press. Hosted by WorldComp proceedings [online], pages 40-45. Available from: http://www.worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/proc2012/esa/papers.pdf

This paper presents a design of an embedded workbench application of Global Positioning System (GPS) for agricultural tractor. Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor using IAR (IAR Embedded Workbench) and an open sour... Read More about Embedded workbench application of GPS sensor for agricultural tractor..

Tool-supported premortems with attack and security patterns. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S., LYLE, J. and PARKIN, S. 2012. Tool-supported premortems with attack and security patterns. In Proceedings of the 1st International workshop on cyberpatterns (Cyberpatterns 2012): unifying design patterns with security, attack and forensic patterns, 9-10 July 2012, Abingdon, UK. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, pages 10-11.

Security patterns are a useful technique for packaging and applying security knowledge. However, because patterns represent partial knowledge of a problem and solution space, there is little certainty that addressing the consequences of one problem w... Read More about Tool-supported premortems with attack and security patterns..

Abstract book for the proceedings of the 1st International conference on structural nano composites (NANOSTRUC 2012), 02-04 July 2012, Cranfield, UK. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
SACHSE, S. and NJUGUNA, J. (eds.) 2012. Abstract book for the proceedings of the 1st International conference on structural nano composites (NANOSTRUC 2012), 02-04 July 2012, Cranfield, UK.

The purpose of the 2012 International Conference on Structural Nano Composites (NanoStruc 2012) is to promote activities in various areas of materials and structures by providing a forum for exchange of ideas, presentation of technical achievements a... Read More about Abstract book for the proceedings of the 1st International conference on structural nano composites (NANOSTRUC 2012), 02-04 July 2012, Cranfield, UK..

MinkApp: generating spatio-temporal summaries for nature conservation volunteers. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
TINTAREV, N., MELERO, Y., SRIPADA, S., TAIT, E., VAN DER WAL, R. and MELLISH, C. 2012. MinkApp: generating spatio-temporal summaries for nature conservation volunteers. In Proceedings of the 7th International natural language generation conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 June 2012, Utica, USA. Stroudsburg:ACL [online], pages 17-21. Available from: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-1505

We describe preliminary work on generating contextualized text for nature conservation volunteers. This Natural Language Generation (NLG) differs from other ways of describing spatio-temporal data, in that it deals with abstractions on data across la... Read More about MinkApp: generating spatio-temporal summaries for nature conservation volunteers..

The webinos project. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
FUHRHOP, C., LYLE, J. and FAILY, S. 2012. The webinos project. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual conference on World Wide Web companion (WWW 2012 Companion), 16-20 April 2012, Lyon, France. New York: ACM [online], pages 263-266. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188024

This poster paper describes the webinos project and presents the architecture and security features developed in webinos. It highlights the main objectives and concepts of the project and describes the architecture derived to achive the objectives.

Crafting revivals? (2012)
Conference Proceeding
PEACH, A. 2013. Crafting revivals? An investigation into the craft revival of the 1970's: can contemporary comparisons be drawn? In MacDonald, J. and Rossi, C. (eds.) Ideas of the handmade: histories and theories of making. Selected papers from a symposium held on 20 April 2012, Edinburgh, UK. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University [online], pages 46-56. Available from: http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/10770782/final_craftscotland1_1_.pdf

This paper originates from PhD research which I am currently undertaking on craft in the 1970s, a time which craft historians and theorists generally acknowledge as one of revival and reinvention of craft practice across Britain. Today we are experie... Read More about Crafting revivals?.

Build Our Nation international project: an innovative educational model for systems thinking in design. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
BASSANESE, S., ESPANYOL, A., RODEGHIERO, B. and TADI, M. 2012. Build Our Nation international project: an innovative educational model for systems thinking in design. In Gómez Chova, L., López Martínez, A. and Candel Torres, I. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International technology, education and development conference (INTED 2012), 5-7 March 2012, Valencia, Spain. Valencia: IATED, pages 4849-4858.

Ethical decision-making models grounded in ethical frameworks comprehend elements of systems thinking such as holistic language and value-guided systems. This paper proposes an innovative educational model for systems thinking in architectural design... Read More about Build Our Nation international project: an innovative educational model for systems thinking in design..

User interface design for situation-aware decision support systems. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
NWIABU, N., ALLISON, I., HOLT, P., LOWIT, P. and OYENEYIN, B. 2012. User interface design for situation-aware decision support systems. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE international multi-disciplinary conference on cognitive methods in situation awareness and decision support (CogSIMA 2012), 6-8 March 2012, New Orleans, USA. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6188405, pages 332-339. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CogSIMA.2012.6188405

Information recall about general situations incurs memory and cognitive loads on operators. Recognition of information for specific situations identified with users context and the state of the world is helpful to operators in performing tasks in com... Read More about User interface design for situation-aware decision support systems..

Case-based situation awareness. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
NWIABU, N., ALLISON, I., HOLT, P., LOWIT, P. and OYENEYIN, B. 2012. Case-based situation awareness. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE international multi-disciplinary conference on cognitive methods in situation awareness and decision support (CogSIMA 2012), 6-8 March 2012, New Orleans, USA. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6188388, pages 22-29. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CogSIMA.2012.6188388

Situation-aware case-based decision support (SACBDS) systems comprise two distinct parts: situation awareness (SA) and case-based reasoning (CBR). The SA part keeps a finite history of the time space information of the domain and uses rules to interp... Read More about Case-based situation awareness..

Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
BASS, J.M. 2012. Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development. In Proceedings of Agile India 2012, 17-19 February 2012, Bengaluru, India. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 6170020, pages 1-9. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/AgileIndia.2012.15

Agile development projects have become a reality in large enterprises using offshore development models. A case study involving seven international companies with offices in Bangalore, India, and London, UK was conducted, including interviews with 19... Read More about Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development..