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Combining heterogeneous classifiers via granular prototypes. (2018)
Journal Article
NGUYEN, T.T., NGUYEN, M.P., PHAM, X.C., LIEW, A. W.-C. and PEDRYCZ, W. 2018. Combining heterogeneous classifiers via granular prototypes. Applied soft computing [online], 73, pages 795-815. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2018.09.021

In this study, a novel framework to combine multiple classifiers in an ensemble system is introduced. Here we exploit the concept of information granule to construct granular prototypes for each class on the outputs of an ensemble of base classifiers... Read More about Combining heterogeneous classifiers via granular prototypes..

A framework for achieving the required degree of multitenancy isolation for deploying components of a cloud-hosted service. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C., PETROVSKI, A. and BASS, J.M. 2018. A framework for achieving the required degree of multitenancy isolation for deploying components of a cloud-hosted service. International journal of cloud computing [online], 7(3-4), pages 248-281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCC.2018.095396

Multitenancy allows multiple tenants to access a single instance of a cloud offering. While several approaches exist for implementing multitenancy, little attention has been paid to implementing the required degree of isolation since there are varyin... Read More about A framework for achieving the required degree of multitenancy isolation for deploying components of a cloud-hosted service..

Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences. (2018)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., SERRATOSA, F. and XIAOYI, J. 2020. Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences. Pattern recognition letters [online], 134, pages 29-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2018.08.027

Given a pair of data structures, such as strings, trees, graphs or sets of points, several correspondences (also referred in literature as labellings, matchings or assignments) can be defined between their local parts. The Hamming distance has been l... Read More about Correspondence edit distance to obtain a set of weighted means of graph correspondences..

New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. (2018)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2019. New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings. Neural computing and applications [online], 31(6): selected papers from the proceedings of the 18th Engineering applications of neural networks conference (EANN 2017), 25-27 August 2017, Athens, Greece, pages 1695-1712. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3583-1

Engineering drawings are commonly used across different industries such as oil and gas, mechanical engineering and others. Digitising these drawings is becoming increasingly important. This is mainly due to the legacy of drawings and documents that m... Read More about New trends on digitisation of complex engineering drawings..

Evaluating the effect of locking on multitenancy isolation for components of cloud-hosted services. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C. and EJIOFOR, C.I. 2018. Evaluating the effect of locking on multitenancy isolation for components of cloud-hosted services. Advances in science, technology and engineering systems journal [online], 3(3), pages 92-99. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25046/aj030312

Multitenancy isolation is a way of ensuring that the performance, stored data volume and access privileges required by one tenant and/or component does not affect other tenants and/or components. One of the conditions that can influence the varying d... Read More about Evaluating the effect of locking on multitenancy isolation for components of cloud-hosted services..

Non-traditional skills in undergraduate medical education: the development of a teaching programme. (2018)
Journal Article
BRADY, C. and ZARB, M. 2018. Non-traditional skills in undergraduate medical education: the development of a teaching programme. Scottish medical journal [online], 63(3), pages 80-81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0036933018776837

As a junior doctor in what is an increasingly struggling healthcare system, I am concerned to see that many of my junior and senior colleagues have opted not to continue onto the next stage of training. Whilst entrepreneurship, leadership and managem... Read More about Non-traditional skills in undergraduate medical education: the development of a teaching programme..

Coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopes. (2018)
Journal Article
CHEN, Z.-Y., GOGOI, A., LEE, S.-Y., TSAI-LIN, Y., YI, P.-W.Y., LU, M.-K., HSIEH, C.-C., REN, J., MARSHALL, S. and KAO, F.-J. 2019. Coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopes. IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics [online], 25(1), article 7100707. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2836959

In this work, we report the successful implementation of a coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopy applications. An RGB laser module that provides much higher luminosity than traditional incoherent white light sources is used for il... Read More about Coherent narrow-band light source for miniature endoscopes..

Sparse representation-based augmented multinomial logistic extreme learning machine with weighted composite features for spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images. (2018)
Journal Article
CAO, F., YANG, Z., REN, J., LING, W.-K., ZHAO, H., SUN, M. and BENEDIKTSSON, J.A. 2018. Sparse representation-based augmented multinomial logistic extreme learning machine with weighted composite features for spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 56(11), pages 6263-6279. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2018.2828601

Although extreme learning machine (ELM) has successfully been applied to a number of pattern recognition problems, only with the original ELM it can hardly yield high accuracy for the classification of hyperspectral images (HSIs) due to two main draw... Read More about Sparse representation-based augmented multinomial logistic extreme learning machine with weighted composite features for spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images..

W3C accessibility guidelines for mobile games. (2018)
Journal Article
WILSON, A. and CRABB, M. 2018. W3C accessibility guidelines for mobile games. Computer games journal [online], 7(2), pages 49-61. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-018-0058-7

In the past decade, video games have become one of the fastest growing forms or entertainment around the world. In particular, mobile gaming has continued to evolve, becoming increasingly popular for billions of people worldwide. An ongoing issue wit... Read More about W3C accessibility guidelines for mobile games..

Meeple centred design: a heuristic toolkit for evaluating the accessibility of tabletop games. (2018)
Journal Article
HERON, M.J., BELFORD, P.H., REID, H. and CRABB, M. 2018. Meeple centred design: a heuristic toolkit for evaluating the accessibility of tabletop games. Computer games journal [online], 7(2), pages 97-114. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-018-0057-8

Evaluation of accessibility within a tabletop context is much more complicated than it is within a video game environment. There is a considerable amount of variation in game systems, game mechanisms, and interaction regimes. Games may be entirely ve... Read More about Meeple centred design: a heuristic toolkit for evaluating the accessibility of tabletop games..

Eighteen months of Meeple Like Us: an exploration into the state of board game accessibility. (2018)
Journal Article
HERON, M.J., BELFORD, P.H., REID, H. and CRABB, M. 2018. Eighteen months of Meeple Like Us: an exploration into the state of board game accessibility. Computer games journal [online], 7(2), pages 75-95. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-018-0056-9

The study of game accessibility to date has largely focused on the topic of accessibility within a video game context. Largely underexplored in the academic and professional literature is accessibility in the domain of tabletop games, especially thos... Read More about Eighteen months of Meeple Like Us: an exploration into the state of board game accessibility..

Aggregation of classifiers: a justifiable information granularity approach. (2018)
Journal Article
NGUYEN, T.T., PHAM, X.C., LIEW, A.W.-C. and PEDRYCZ, W. 2019. Aggregation of classifiers: a justifiable information granularity approach. IEEE transactions on cybernetics [online], 49(6), pages 2168-2177. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2018.2821679

In this paper, we introduced a new approach of combining multiple classifiers in a heterogeneous ensemble system. Instead of using numerical membership values when combining, we constructed interval membership values for each class prediction from th... Read More about Aggregation of classifiers: a justifiable information granularity approach..

Medical students opinions on the inclusion of non-traditional skills in the curriculum. (2018)
Journal Article
BRADY, C. and ZARB, M. 2018. Medical students opinions on the inclusion of non-traditional skills in the curriculum. Journal of entrepreneurship education [online], 21(2), article number 152. Available from: https://www.abacademies.org/articles/medical-students-opinions-on-the-inclusion-of-nontraditional-skills-in-the-curriculum-7099.html

Background: Up to 50% of foundation year 2 doctors do not proceed directly into speciality training. This change in direction of our profession places increasing demands on an already stretched NHS. In the UK, medical school teaching is understandabl... Read More about Medical students opinions on the inclusion of non-traditional skills in the curriculum..

A model for optimising the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation. (2018)
Journal Article
OCHEI, L.C. and EJIOFOR, C.I. 2018. A model for optimising the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation. Advances in science, technology and engineering systems journal [online], 3(2), pages 174-183. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25046/aj030220

Tenants associated with a cloud-hosted application seek to reduce running costs and minimize resource consumption by sharing components and resources. However, despite the benefits, sharing resources can affect tenant’s access and overall performance... Read More about A model for optimising the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation..

Multi-objective optimal design of obstacle-avoiding two-dimensional Steiner trees with application to ascent assembly engineering. (2018)
Journal Article
ZAVOIANU, A.-C., SAMINGER-PLATZ, S., ENTNER, D., PRANTE, T., HELLWIG, M., SCHWARZ, M. and FINK, K. 2018. Multi-objective optimal design of obstacle-avoiding two-dimensional Steiner trees with application to ascent assembly engineering. Journal of mechanical design [online], 140(6), article number 061401. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039009

We present an effective optimization strategy that is capable of discovering high-quality cost-optimal solution for two-dimensional (2D) path network layouts (i.e., groups of obstacle-avoiding Euclidean Steiner trees) that, among other applications,... Read More about Multi-objective optimal design of obstacle-avoiding two-dimensional Steiner trees with application to ascent assembly engineering..

A compressive survey on different image processing techniques to identify the brain tumor. (2018)
Journal Article
BHAGAVAN, K., IMAMBI, S.S. and BANO, S. 2018. A compressive survey on different image processing techniques to identify the brain tumor. International journal of engineering and technology (Science Publishing Corporation) [online], 7(2.7): proceedings of the 2018 International conference on Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber security (ICICS 2018), 22-23 March 2018, Vijayawada, India, pages 1081-1084. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.7.12232

Medical imaging technology has revolutionized health care over the past three decades, allowing doctors to detect, cure and improve patient outcomes. Medicinal imaging involves pictures - of internal organs, parts, tissues and bones - for therapeutic... Read More about A compressive survey on different image processing techniques to identify the brain tumor..

Optimizing webpage relevancy using page ranking and content based ranking. (2018)
Journal Article
BABU, J.S., KUMAR, T.R. and BANO, S. 2018. Optimizing webpage relevancy using page ranking and content based ranking. International journal of engineering and technology (Science Publishing Corporation) [online], 7(2.7): proceedings of the 2018 International conference on Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber security (ICICS 2018), 22-23 March 2018, Vijayawada, India, pages 1025-1029. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.7.12220

Systems for web information mining can be isolated into a few classifications, depending on the type of target data and the purposes of the activity: Web structure mining; Web utilization mining; and Web Content Mining. This paper proposes another We... Read More about Optimizing webpage relevancy using page ranking and content based ranking..

A process model for implementing information systems security governance. (2018)
Journal Article
NICHO, M. 2018. A process model for implementing information systems security governance. Information and computer security [online], 26(1), pages 10-38. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/ICS-07-2016-0061

Purpose: The frequent and increasingly potent cyber-attacks due to lack of an optimal mix of technical as well as non-technical IT controls, has led to increased adoption of security governance controls by organizations. The paper thus seeks to const... Read More about A process model for implementing information systems security governance..

Unsupervised image saliency detection with Gestalt-laws guided optimization and visual attention based refinement. (2018)
Journal Article
YAN, Y., REN, J., SUN, G., ZHAO, H., HAN, J., LI, X., MARSHALL, S. and ZHAN, J. 2018. Unsupervised image saliency detection with Gestalt-laws guided optimization and visual attention based refinement. Pattern recognition [online], 79, pages 65-78. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.02.004

Visual attention is a kind of fundamental cognitive capability that allows human beings to focus on the region of interests (ROIs) under complex natural environments. What kind of ROIs that we pay attention to mainly depends on two distinct types of... Read More about Unsupervised image saliency detection with Gestalt-laws guided optimization and visual attention based refinement..

Improving e-learning recommendation by using background knowledge. (2018)
Journal Article
MBIPOM, B., CRAW, S. and MASSIE, S. 2021. Improving e-learning recommendation by using background knowledge. Expert systems [online], 38(7): artificial intelligence/EDMA 2017, article e12265. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12265

There is currently a large amount of e-Learning resources available to learners on the Web. However, learners often have difficulty finding and retrieving relevant materials to support their learning goals because they lack the domain knowledge to cr... Read More about Improving e-learning recommendation by using background knowledge..