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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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Security patterns considered harmful? (2013)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. 2013. Security patterns considered harmful? In Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on cyberpatterns (Cyberpatterns 2013): unifying design patterns with security, attack and forensic patterns, 8-9 July 2013, Abingdon, UK. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, pages 108-109.

While a useful source of repeatable security knowledge, ambiguity about what security patterns are and how they might be applied call into question their reliability as a design tool. To provoke discussion about their usefulness, this paper claims th... Read More about Security patterns considered harmful?.

Visual documentation process of historic building refurbishment: improving energy efficiency by insulating wall cavity. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
BENNADJI, A. 2013. Visual documentation process of historic building refurbishment: improving energy efficiency by insulating wall cavity. 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 91-96. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-91-2013

The North East of Scotland's construction method is similar to most popular building typologies in the UK. This typology can vary in term of external material (Granite, brick or stone) but with a secondary, usually timber sub frame with a lining on i... Read More about Visual documentation process of historic building refurbishment: improving energy efficiency by insulating wall cavity..

Proceedings of the Workshop on web applications and secure hardware (WASH 2013). (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LYLE, J., FAILY, S. and WINANDY, M. (eds.) 2013. Proceedings of the Workshop on web applications and secure hardware (WASH 2013), co-located with the 6th International conference on trust and trustworthy computing (TRUST 2013), 20 June 2013, London, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 1011. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online]. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1011/

Web browsers are becoming the platform of choice for applications that need to work across a wide range of different devices, including mobile phones, tablets, PCs, TVs and in-car systems. However, for web applications which require a higher level of... Read More about Proceedings of the Workshop on web applications and secure hardware (WASH 2013)..

User perceptions of relevance and its effect on retrieval in a smart textile archive. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
HORSBURGH, B., CRAW, S., WILLIAMS, D., BURNETT, S., MORRISON, K. and MARTIN, S. 2013. User perceptions of relevance and its effect on retrieval in a smart textile archive. 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 149-163. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39056-2_11

The digitisation of physical textiles archives is an important process for the Scottish textiles industry. This transformation creates an easy access point to a wide breadth of knowledge, which can be used to understand historical context and inspire... Read More about User perceptions of relevance and its effect on retrieval in a smart textile archive..

Metaphors in design: an analysis of how we represent design expertise. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
GULARI, M.N. 2013. Metaphors in design: an analysis of how we represent design expertise. In Nirmkulrat, N., Niedderer, K. and Evans, M. Proceedings of the 2013 International Design Research Society (DRS) special interest group on experiential knowledge conference: knowing inside out; experimental knowledge expertise and connoisseurship (eksig 2013), 4-5 July 2013, London, UK. London: Loughborough University, pages 289-302. Available from: http://experientialknowledge.org.uk/proceedings_2013.html

Design and design expertise are often argued about and rarely agreed upon by the design community, which is a result of their multifaceted nature and existing underlying assumptions, theoretical anomalies and fragmented knowledge in the field. Lakoff... Read More about Metaphors in design: an analysis of how we represent design expertise..

Generating space to articulate the value of an artists' practice. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
SMITH, H. 2013. Generating space to articulate the value of an artists' practice. In Nimkulrat, N., Niedderer, K. and Evans, M. (eds.) EKSIG 2013: knowing inside out: experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship; proceedings of the 2013 International Design Research Society (DRS) special interest group on experiential knowledge conference (EKSIG 2013), 4-5 July 2013, Loughborough, UK. Loughborough: Loughborough University, pages 147-157. Available from: https://eksig.org/PDF/EKSIG2013Proceedings.pdf

The expertise of the artist, as a relational and social practice, is unstated in the sense that it is present but not articulated. Donald A. Schön's structure for the making of generative metaphor offers a theoretical and analytical framework for mov... Read More about Generating space to articulate the value of an artists' practice..

Investigation into the personal epistemology of computer science students. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R., PIRIE, I., CAJANDER, A., DANIELS, M. and LAXER, C. 2013. Investigation into the personal epistemology of computer science students. In Proceedings of the 18th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Innovation and technology in computer science education conference (ITiCSE 2013), 1-3 July 2013, Canterbury, UK. New York: ACM [online], pages 231-236. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2462476.2465589

In this paper, we investigate the personal epistemology of computing students, that is, their conceptions of knowledge and learning. We review some models of personal epistemological development and describe one of the questionnaire tools that have b... Read More about Investigation into the personal epistemology of computer science students..

Effect of the shape of stator blades on the performance output of a vertical axis marine current turbine. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
ASIM, T., MISHRA, R. and UBBI, K.S. 2013. Effect of the shape of stator blades on the performance output of a vertical axis marine current turbine. In Proceedings of 26th Condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering management international congress 2013 (COMADEM 2013), 11-­13 June 2013, Helsinki, Finland. Birmingham: COMADEM International.

Due to the diminishing reserves of fossil fuels and increased pollution from exploitation of these fuels, the world is focusing on the renewable energy sources. Energy from tidal waves is one of the most exciting forms of renewable energy because of... Read More about Effect of the shape of stator blades on the performance output of a vertical axis marine current turbine..

Effect of blade faults on the performance characteristics of a vertical axis wind turbine. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
PARK, K.-S., ASIM, T. and MISHRA, R. 2013. Characteristics of a vertical axis wind turbine. In Proceedings of 26th Condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering management international congress 2013 (COMADEM 2013), 11­-13 June 2013, Helsinki, Finland. Birmingham: COMADEM International.

Due to the diminishing reserves of fossil fuels and increased pollution from exploitation of these fuels, the world is focusing on the renewable energy sources. Wind is being considered as one of the prime next generation energy sources. Considerable... Read More about Effect of blade faults on the performance characteristics of a vertical axis wind turbine..

Computational fluid dynamics based analysis of a closed thermo-siphon hot water solar system. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
FREEGAH, B., ASIM, T. and MISHRA, R. 2013. Computational fluid dynamics based analysis of a closed thermo­siphon hot water solar system. In Proceedings of 26th Condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering management international congress 2013 (COMADEM 2013), 11-­13 June 2013, Helsinki, Finland. Birmingham: COMADEM International.

One of the alternative sources of energy is solar energy which is available in abundance throughout the world. The energy contained within the solar rays is capable of starting natural convection within closed mechanical systems containing a suitable... Read More about Computational fluid dynamics based analysis of a closed thermo-siphon hot water solar system..

Guidelines for integrating personas into software engineering tools. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. and LYLE, J. 2013. Guidelines for integrating personas into software engineering tools. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on engineering interactive computing systems (EICS 2013), 24-27 June 2013, London, UK. New York: ACM [online], pages 69-74. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2494603.2480318

Personas have attracted the interest of many in the usability and software engineering communities. To date, however, there has been little work illustrating how personas can be integrated into software tools to support these engineering activities.... Read More about Guidelines for integrating personas into software engineering tools..

Exploration of RTP circuit breaker with applications to video streaming. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
FOUGH, N., VERDICCHIO, F. and FAIRHURST, G. 2013. Exploration of RTP circuit breaker with applications to video streaming. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual postgraduate symposium on the convergence of telecommunications, networking and broadcasting 2013 (PGNET 2013), 24-25 June 2013, Liverpool, UK. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University. Hosted on Academia [online]. Available from: https://www.academia.edu/5546559/Exploration_of_RTP_Circuit_Breaker_with_Applications_to_Video_Streaming

Live multimedia streaming is becoming one of the dominant sources of internet traffic, much of which is sent over best-effort networks, i.e. along paths with a wide variety of characteristics. The multimedia traffic should be transmitted using a robu... Read More about Exploration of RTP circuit breaker with applications to video streaming..

Stress effects on flow partitioning in fractured reservoirs: equivalent porous media versus poro-elasticity coupled modeling. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
SANAEE, R., OLUYEMI, G.F., HOSSAIN, M. and OYENEYIN, M.B. 2013. Stress effects on flow partitioning in fractured reservoirs: equivalent porous media versus poro-elasticity coupled modeling. In Pyrak-Nolte, L.J., Morris, J., Chan, A., Rostami, J. and Dershowitz, W. (eds.) Proceedings of the 47th U.S. rock mechanics/geomechanics American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) symposium 2013, 23-26 June 2013, San Francisco, USA. Alexandira, VA: American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), 3, pages 2329-2337.

In this paper the effects of overburden stress on fracture-matrix flow partitioning were numerically analyzed using two different numerical approaches; the analysis was validated using a fractured Clashach core flood laboratory experimental data. In... Read More about Stress effects on flow partitioning in fractured reservoirs: equivalent porous media versus poro-elasticity coupled modeling..