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The nomenclature of geotechnical error traps as a theoretical framework for assessing financial risk in transportation infrastructure projects. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
AMADI, A. and OMOTAYO, T. 2017. The nomenclature of geotechnical error traps as a theoretical framework for assessing financial risk in transportation infrastructure projects. In Pathirage, C., Kulatunga, U., Ji, Y., Gameson, R.N., Udeaja, C.E., Trillo, C., Takhtravanchi, M. and Allali, B. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International postgraduate research conference, 14-15 September 2017, Salford, UK. Salford: University of Salford [online], paper number ID 004, pages 403-414. Available from: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/43913

Engineering and re-engineering issues related to ground conditions, have being consistently discussed in the technical press, as the cause of significant cost and time overruns in highway projects located in different parts of the world. The literatu... Read More about The nomenclature of geotechnical error traps as a theoretical framework for assessing financial risk in transportation infrastructure projects..

Wireless chest wearable vital sign monitoring platform for hypertension. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
JANJUA, G., GULDENRING, D., FINLAY, D. and MCLAUGHLIN, J. 2017. Wireless chest wearable vital sign monitoring platform for hypertension. In Proceedings of the 39th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society annual international conference 2017 (EMBC 2017): smarter technology for a healthier world, 11-15 July 2017, Jeju, South Korea. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 821-824. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036950

Hypertension, a silent killer, is the biggest challenge of the 21 st century in public health agencies worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) statistic shows that the mortality rate of hypertension is 9.4 million per year and causes 55.3% of tota... Read More about Wireless chest wearable vital sign monitoring platform for hypertension..

Novel non-invasive pressure-volume loop measurement for local pulse wave velocity estimation. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
JANJUA, G.M., FINLAY, D.D., GULDENRING, D., HADIA, R. and MCLAUGHLIN, J. 2017. Novel non-invasive pressure-volume loop measurement for local pulse wave velocity estimation. In Proceedings of 2017 Computing in cardiology, 24-27 September 2017, Rennes, France. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 44, pages 1-4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2017.217-385

In the last four decades, hypertension doubled to 1.13 billion patients. High blood pressure (BP) is the main risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Arterial stiffness (AS) is a key component and poorly understood part of cardiac vit... Read More about Novel non-invasive pressure-volume loop measurement for local pulse wave velocity estimation..

Morphology-based detection of premature ventricular contractions (2017)
Conference Proceeding
HADIA, R., GULDENRING, D., FINLAY, D.D., KENNEDY, A., JANJUA, G., BOND, R. and MCLAUGHLIN, J. 2017. Morphology-based detection of premature ventricular contractions. In Proceedings of 2017 Computing in cardiology, 24-27 September 2017, Rennes, France. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 44, pages 1-4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2017.211-260

Premature ventricular contraction (PVC) is the type of ectopic heartbeat, commonly found in the healthy population and is often considered benign. However, they are reported to adversely affect the accuracy of R-R variability based electrocardiograph... Read More about Morphology-based detection of premature ventricular contractions.

Partial discharge localization based on received signal strength. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
MOHAMED, H., LAZARIDIS, P., UPTON, D., KHAN, U., MISTRY, K., SAEED, B., MATHER, P., VIEIRA, M.F.Q., BARLEE, K.W., ATKINSON, D.S.W., and GLOVER, I.A. 2017. Partial discharge localization based on received signal strength. In Proceedings of the 23rd International conference on automation and computing 2017 (ICAC 2017), 7-8 September 2017, Huddersfield, UK. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 8082028. Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2017.8082028

Partial Discharge (PD) occurs when insulation containing defects or voids is subject to high voltages. If left untreated PD can degrade insulation until, eventually, catastrophic insulation failure occurs. The detection of PD current pulses, however,... Read More about Partial discharge localization based on received signal strength..

Managing information security risk using integrated governance risk and compliance. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
NICHO, M., KHAN, S. and RAHMAN, M.S.M.K. 2017. Managing information security risk using integrated governance risk and compliance. In Proceedings of the 2017 International conference on computer and applications (ICCA 2017), 6-7 September 2017, Dubai, UAE. New York: IEEE [online], article number pages 8079741, 56-66. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMAPP.2017.8079741

This paper aims to demonstrate the building blocks of an IT Governance Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) model as well the phased stages of the optimal integration of IT GRC frameworks, standards and model through a longitudinal study. A qualitative longi... Read More about Managing information security risk using integrated governance risk and compliance..

Space4Inspiration: survival lab: designing countermeasures for natural disasters. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
DOMINONI, A., QUAQUARO, B. and FAIRBURN, S. 2017. Space4Inspiration: survival lab: designing countermeasures for natural disasters. The design journal [online], 20(Sup1): proceedings of the 12th European Academy of Design conference: design for next, 12-14 April 2017, Sapienza, Italy, pages S1927-S1937. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352710

The advances made for spaceflight have influenced almost every aspect of modern life on Earth through spin-off technologies. Looking at the Space environmental context and the crew dynamics we can gain insights and inspiration into how to manage stre... Read More about Space4Inspiration: survival lab: designing countermeasures for natural disasters..

Rethinking water: a CAAS (city as a spaceship) design approach. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
FAIRBURN, S., IMHOF, B. and MOHANTY, S. 2017. Rethinking water: a CAAS (city as a spaceship) design approach. The design journal [online], 20(Sup1): proceedings of the 12th European Academy of Design conference: design for next, 12-14 April 2017, Sapienza, Italy, pages S1904-S1915. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352708

Water is ubiquitous and essential, yet we struggle to understand it from a systems perspective. Water is a terrestrial closed-loop system involving individuals, communities, cities and geographies, and as such, might it serve as a metaphor for sustai... Read More about Rethinking water: a CAAS (city as a spaceship) design approach..

Application of acoustic emission to predict corrosion. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
DROUBI, M.G. and FAISAL, N.H. 2017. Application of acoustic emission to predict corrosion. In Proceedings of the 14th International conference of the Slovenian Society for Non-Destructive Testing: application of contemporary non-destructive testing in engineering (NDT-Slovenia 2017), 4-6 September 2017, Bernardin, Slovenia. Mayen: NDT.net [online], pages 271-278. Available from: https://www.ndt.net/article/ndt-slovenia2017/papers/271.pdf

Non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques used for petroleum pipelines and offshore wind-turbines can only detect corrosion after it has occurred. Therefore, intrusive inspections are required regularly, potentially causing disruption to operation and... Read More about Application of acoustic emission to predict corrosion..

Exploring visual asset management collaboration: learning from the oil and gas sector. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
LEON, M., AHIAGA-DAGBUI, D., FLEMING, C. and LAING, R. 2017. Exploring visual asset management collaboration: learning from the oil and gas sector. In Chan, P.W. and Neilson, C.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 33rd Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) annual conference, 4-6 September 2017, Cambridge, UK. Manchester: ARCOM [online], pages 765-774. Available from: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/5f524baa70ec1d0c7cdfafec96acc7e9.pdf

Visual Asset Management (VAM) is defined as a visual, collaborative and cloud-based database application for project sharing, viewing, delivery, operation and maintenance. VAM provides a platform that contains multiple visual data sources of an infra... Read More about Exploring visual asset management collaboration: learning from the oil and gas sector..

Taxonomic corpus-based concept summary generation for document annotation. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
NKISI-ORJI, I., WIRATUNGA, N., HUI, K.-Y., HEAVEN, R. and MASSIE, S. 2017. Taxonomic corpus-based concept summary generation for document annotation. In Kampus, J., Tsakonas, G., Manolopoulos, Y., Iliadis, L. and Karydis, I. (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st International conference on theory and practice of digital libraries (TPDL 2017): research and advanced technology for digital libraries, 18-21 September 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece. Lecture notes in computer science, 10450. Cham: Springer [online], pages 49-60. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_5

Semantic annotation is an enabling technology which links documents to concepts that unambiguously describe their content. Annotation improves access to document contents for both humans and software agents. However, the annotation process is a chall... Read More about Taxonomic corpus-based concept summary generation for document annotation..

Lexicon induction for interpretable text classification. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
CLOS, J. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2017. Lexicon induction for interpretable text classification. In Kampus, J., Tsakonas, G., Manolopoulos, Y., Iliadis, L. and Karydis, I. (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st International conference on theory and practice of digital libraries (TPDL 2017): research and advanced technology for digital libraries, 18-21 September 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece. Lecture notes in computer science, 10450. Cham: Springer [online], pages 498-510. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_39

The automated classification of text documents is an active research challenge in document-oriented information systems, helping users browse massive amounts of data, detecting likely authors of unsigned work, or analyzing large corpora along predefi... Read More about Lexicon induction for interpretable text classification..

Implementation and validation of an event-based real-time nonlinear model predictive control framework with ROS interface for single and multi-robot systems. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
DENTLER, J., KANNAN, S., OLIVARES-MENDEZ, M.A. and VOOS, H. 2017. Implementation and validation of an event-based real-time nonlinear model predictive control framework with ROS interface for single and multi-robot systems. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Conference on control technology and applications 2017 (CCTA 2017), 27-30 August 2017, Kohala Coast, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 1000-1007. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CCTA.2017.8062590

This paper presents the implementation and experimental validation of a central control framework. The presented framework addresses the need for a controller, which provides high performance combined with a low-computational load while being on-line... Read More about Implementation and validation of an event-based real-time nonlinear model predictive control framework with ROS interface for single and multi-robot systems..

Power sector development reforms in Nigeria: the roots to the challenges. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
ABDULLAHI, D., SURESH, S., RENUKAPPA, S. and OLOKE, D. 2017. Power sector development reforms in Nigeria: the roots to the challenges. In Laryea, S. and Ibem, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the WABER (West Africa built environment research) conference: knowledge, interaction, people and leadership, 16-18 August 2017, Accra, Ghana. Johannesburg: WABER [online], pages 1111-1122. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/f6897nsn

Nigerian socioeconomic development has been threatening persistently with severe power shortage and they are currently experiencing growth in demand for electricity. Various factors are responsible for the challenging situations such as oil pipeline... Read More about Power sector development reforms in Nigeria: the roots to the challenges..

Wireless sensor network for radiometric detection and assessment of partial discharge in HV equipment. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
UPTON, D.W., SAEED, B.I., KHAN, U., JABER, A., MOHAMED, H., MISTRY, K., MATHER, P.J., LAZARIDIS, P., VIEIRA, M.F.Q., ATKINSON, R., TACHTATZIS, C., IORKYASE, E., JUDD, M. and GLOVER, I.A. 2017. Wireless sensor network for radiometric detection and assessment of partial discharge in HV equipment. In Proceedings of 32nd Union Radio Science international (URSI) General assembly and scientific symposium 2017 (URSI GASS 2017), 19-26 August 2017, Montreal, Canada. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 8104973. Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIGASS.2017.8104973

Monitoring of partial discharge (PD) activity within high voltage electrical environments is frequently used for the assessment of insulation condition. Traditional measurement techniques employ technologies that require either offline installation o... Read More about Wireless sensor network for radiometric detection and assessment of partial discharge in HV equipment..

Quick response code secure: a cryptographically secure anti-phishing tool for QR code attacks. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
MAVROEIDIS, V. and NICHO, M. 2017. Quick response code secure: a cryptographically secure anti-phishing tool for QR code attacks. In Rak, J., Bay, J., Kotenko, I., Popyack, L., Skormin, V. and Szczypiorski, K. (eds.) Computer network security: Proceedings of the 7th International Mathematical methods, models and architectures for computer network security conference (MMM-ACNS 2017), 28-30 August 2017, Warsaw, Poland. Lecture notes in computer science, 10466. Cham: Springer [online], pages 313-324. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65127-9_25

The two-dimensional quick response (QR) codes can be misleading due to the difficulty in differentiating a genuine QR code from a malicious one. Since, the vulnerability is practically part of their design, scanning a malicious QR code can direct the... Read More about Quick response code secure: a cryptographically secure anti-phishing tool for QR code attacks..

Heuristics-based detection to improve text/graphics segmentation in complex engineering drawings. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2017. Heuristics-based detection to improve text/graphics segmentation in complex engineering drawings. In Boracchi, G., Iliadis, L., Jayne, C. and Likas, A. (eds.) Engineering applications of neural networks: proceedings of the 18th International engineering applications of neural networks (EANN 2017), 25-27 August 2017, Athens, Greece. Communications in computer and information science, 744. Cham: Springer [online], pages 87-98. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_8

The demand for digitisation of complex engineering drawings becomes increasingly important for the industry given the pressure to improve the efficiency and time effectiveness of operational processes. There have been numerous attempts to solve this... Read More about Heuristics-based detection to improve text/graphics segmentation in complex engineering drawings..

Applying contextual integrity to open data publishing. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
HENRIKSEN-BULMER, J. and FAILY, S. 2017. Applying contextual integrity to open data publishing. In Hall, L., Flint, T., O'Hara, S. and Turner, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st International BCS human computer interaction conference (HCI 2017), 3-6 July 2017, Sunderland, UK. Swindon: BCS, paper number 95. Hosted on ScienceOpen [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.95

Open data publishing by both corporate and public bodies has increased significantly in recent years and this type of data could soon be developing into a real commodity. However, not all organisations pay sufficient heed to privacy as part of the de... Read More about Applying contextual integrity to open data publishing..

Cooperative localization of unmanned aerial vehicles in ROS: the atlas node. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
KREMNER, P., DENTLER, J., KANNAN, S. and VOOS, H. 2017. Cooperative localization of unmanned aerial vehicles in ROS: the atlas node. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on industrial informatics 2017 (INDIN 2017), 24-26 July 2017, Emden, Germany. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 319-235. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2017.8104792

This paper is presenting the implementation and experimental validation of the cooperative robot localization framework "Atlas". For ease of application, Atlas is implemented as a package for the Robot Operating System (ROS). ATLAS is based on dynami... Read More about Cooperative localization of unmanned aerial vehicles in ROS: the atlas node..

Learning deep and shallow features for human activity recognition. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
SANI, S., MASSIE, S., WIRATUNGA, N. and COOPER, K. 2017. Learning deep and shallow features for human activity recognition. In Li, G., Ge, Y, Zhang, Z., Jin, Z. and Blumenstein, M. (eds.) Knowledge science, engineering and management: proceedings of the 10th International knowledge science, engineering and management conference (KSEM 2017), 19-20 August 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Lecture notes in computer science, 10412. Cham: Springer [online], pages 469-482. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63558-3_40

selfBACK is an mHealth decision support system used by patients for the self-management of Lower Back Pain. It uses Human Activity Recognition from wearable sensors to monitor user activity in order to measure their adherence to prescribed physical a... Read More about Learning deep and shallow features for human activity recognition..