All Outputs (150)

Rationalising decision-making about risk: a normative approach. (2018)
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M'MANGA, A., FAILY, S., MCALANEY, J. and WILLIAMS, C. 2018. Rationalising decision-making about risk: a normative approach. In Clarke, N.L. and Furnell, S.M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th International symposium on human aspects of information security and assurance (HAISA 2018), 29-31 August 2018, Dundee, UK. Plymouth: University of Plymouth, pages 263-271. Hosted on the CSCAN Archive [online]. Available from: https://www.cscan.org/?page=openaccess&eid=20&id=395

Techniques for determining and applying security decisions typically follow risk-based analytical approaches where alternative options are put forward and weighed in accordance to risk severity metrics based on goals and context. The reasoning or val... Read More about Rationalising decision-making about risk: a normative approach..

Sand failure: effect of biocide on the geomechanical properties of outcrop carbonate rock under static conditions. (2018)
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WUYEP, E., OLUYEMI, G., YATES, K. and AKISANYA, A. 2019. Sand failure: effect of biocide on the geomechanical properties of outcrop carbonate rock under static conditions. In Kallel A., Erguler, Z.A., Cui, Z.-D., Karrech, A., Karakus, M., Kulatilake, P. and Shukla, S.K. (eds.) Recent advances in geo-environmental engineering, geomechanics and geotechnics, and geohazards: proceedings of the 1st Springer conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), 12-15 November 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia. Advances in science, technology and innovation: IEREK interdisciplinary series for sustainable development. Cham: Springer [online], pages 183-185. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01665-4_43

The effects of chemical interaction of a biocide with formation rocks on the rock geomechanical strength were examined. A combination of analytical tests (Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Analysis-SEM/EDX, X-Ray Powder Diffraction... Read More about Sand failure: effect of biocide on the geomechanical properties of outcrop carbonate rock under static conditions..

An Eulerian–Eulerian formulation for erosion modelling: an alternate approach. (2018)
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TANDON, M.P., MOHAN, S.J., KARNIK, A.U. and GADA, V.H. 2018. An Eulerian–Eulerian formulation for erosion modelling: an alternate approach. Presented at the 7th International and 45th National fluid mechanics and fluid power conference (FMFP 2018), 10-12 December 2018, Mumbai, India.

Sand is commonly produced besides petroleum fluids and it presents a major erosional hazard leading to pipe failures. Particle erosion is a complex process in which material is removed due to the repeated particle impacts. Conventionally, a CFD flow... Read More about An Eulerian–Eulerian formulation for erosion modelling: an alternate approach..

Generalized small-signal modelling of dual active bridge DC/DC converter. (2018)
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HEBALA, O.M., ABOUSHADY, A.A., AHMED, K.H., BURGESS, S. and PRABHU, R. 2018. Generalized small-signal modelling of dual active bridge DC/DC converter. In Proceedings of the 7th International conference on renewable energy research and applications (ICRERA 2018), 14-17 October 2018, Paris, France. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 8567014, pages 914-919. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2018.8567014

This paper presents a novel generalised approach of the small-signal modelling of dual active bridge (DAB) DC/DC converter. The adopted analysis is based on a per-unit fundamental frequency representation of the DAB. The outcome of the proposed model... Read More about Generalized small-signal modelling of dual active bridge DC/DC converter..

A holistic metric approach to solving the dynamic location-allocation problem. (2018)
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ANKRAH, R., LACROIX, B., MCCALL, J., HARDWICK, A. and CONWAY, A. 2018. A holistic metric approach to solving the dynamic location-allocation problem. In Bramer, M. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Artificial intelligence xxxv: proceedings of the 38th British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) International conference on innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI-2018), 11-13 December 2018, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, 11311. Cham: Springer [online], pages 433-439. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04191-5_35

In this paper, we introduce a dynamic variant of the Location-Allocation problem: Dynamic Location-Allocation Problem (DULAP). DULAP involves the location of facilities to service a set of customer demands over a defined horizon. To evaluate a soluti... Read More about A holistic metric approach to solving the dynamic location-allocation problem..

Context extraction for aspect-based sentiment analytics: combining syntactic, lexical and sentiment knowledge. (2018)
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BANDHAKAVI, A., WIRATUNGA, N., MASSIE, S. and LUHAR, R. 2018. Context extraction for aspect-based sentiment analytics: combining syntactic, lexical and sentiment knowledge. In Bramer, M. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Artificial intelligence xxxv: proceedings of the 38th British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) International conference on innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI-2018), 11-13 December 2018, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, 11311. Cham: Springer [online], pages 357-371. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04191-5_30

Aspect-level sentiment analysis of customer feedback data when done accurately can be leveraged to understand strong and weak performance points of businesses and services and also formulate critical action steps to improve their performance. In this... Read More about Context extraction for aspect-based sentiment analytics: combining syntactic, lexical and sentiment knowledge..

GramError: a quality metric for machine generated songs. (2018)
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DAVIES, C., WIRATUNGA, N. and MARTIN, K. 2018. GramError: a quality metric for machine generated songs. In Bramer, M. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Artificial intelligence XXXV: proceedings of the 38th British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) International conference on innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI-2018), 11-13 December 2018, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 11311. Cham: Springer [online], pages 184-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04191-5_16

This paper explores whether a simple grammar-based metric can accurately predict human opinion of machine-generated song lyrics quality. The proposed metric considers the percentage of words written in natural English and the number of grammatical er... Read More about GramError: a quality metric for machine generated songs..

Risk information recommendation for engineering workers. (2018)
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MARTIN, K., LIRET, A., WIRATUNGA, N., OWUSU, G. and KERN, M. 2018. Risk information recommendation for engineering workers. In Bramer, M. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Artificial intelligence XXXV: proceedings of the 38th British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) International conference on innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI-2018), 11-13 December 2018, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 11311. Cham: Springer [online], pages 311-325. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04191-5_27

Within any sufficiently expertise-reliant and work-driven domain there is a requirement to understand the similarities between specific work tasks. Though mechanisms to develop similarity models for these areas do exist, in practice they have been cr... Read More about Risk information recommendation for engineering workers..

Informed pair selection for self-paced metric learning in Siamese neural networks. (2018)
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MARTIN, K., WIRATUNGA, N., MASSIE, S. and CLOS, J. 2018. Informed pair selection for self-paced metric learning in Siamese neural networks. In Bramer, M. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Artificial intelligence XXXV: proceedings of the 38th British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) International conference on innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence (AI-2018), 11-13 December 2018, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 11311. Cham: Springer [online], pages 34-49. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04191-5_3

Siamese Neural Networks (SNNs) are deep metric learners that use paired instance comparisons to learn similarity. The neural feature maps learnt in this way provide useful representations for classification tasks. Learning in SNNs is not reliant on e... Read More about Informed pair selection for self-paced metric learning in Siamese neural networks..

Simulating the annual energy yield of a rotationally asymmetrical optical concentrator. (2018)
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FREIER, D., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., ABU-BAKAR, S.H., RAMIREZ-INIGUEZ, R., MUNIR, A.B., YASIN, S.H.M., BANI, N.A., MAS'UD, A.A., ARDILA-REY, J.A., KARIM, M.E. and YUSOFF, Z. 2018. Simulating the annual energy yield of a rotationally asymmetrical optical concentrator. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE international conference on photonoics (ICP 2018), 9-11 April 2018, Langkawi, Malaysia. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [online], article ID 8533197. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICP.2018.8533197

This paper simulates the annual energy yield of a concentrator called the rotationally asymmetrical dielectric totally internally reflective concentrator (RADTIRC). One specific design of the RADTIRC is assumed to be installed in Berlin/Brandenburg,... Read More about Simulating the annual energy yield of a rotationally asymmetrical optical concentrator..

Greenhouse Britain: losing ground, gaining wisdom (2006-09): case study. (2018)
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FREMANTLE, C. 2018. Greenhouse Britain: losing ground, gaining wisdom (2006-09): case study. Presented at 2018 Valuing nature annual conference, 13-14 November 2018, Cardiff, UK. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-249255

Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom (2006-09) was a project resulting in a touring exhibition. It was created by the artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (the Harrisons) and funded by DEFRA’s Climate Challenge Fund (£186,500... Read More about Greenhouse Britain: losing ground, gaining wisdom (2006-09): case study..

Overlap-based undersampling for improving imbalanced data classification. (2018)
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VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P., ELYAN, E., PETROVSKI, A. and JAYNE, C. 2018. Overlap-based undersampling for improving imbalanced data classification. In Yin, H., Camacho, D., Novais, P. and Tallón-Ballesteros, A. (eds.) Intelligent data engineering and automated learning: proceedings of the 19th International intelligent data engineering and automated learning conference (IDEAL 2018), 21-23 November 2018, Madrid, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 11341. Cham: Springer [online], pages 689-697. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03493-1_72

Classification of imbalanced data remains an important field in machine learning. Several methods have been proposed to address the class imbalance problem including data resampling, adaptive learning and cost adjusting algorithms. Data resampling me... Read More about Overlap-based undersampling for improving imbalanced data classification..

A pilot study of malnutrition among elderly in a Malaysia elderly care centre - part I: assessment of handgrip strength measurement. (2018)
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BANI, N.A., HASSAN, M.Z., MAD KAIDI, H., HASHIM, N.F.M., DZIYAUDDIN, R.A., MUSA, R., SUHOT, M.A., USMAN, S., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., ABU-BAKAR, S.H. and MAS'UD, A.A. 2018. A pilot study of malnutrition among elderly in a Malaysia elderly care centre - part I: assessment of handgrip strength measurement. In Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on biosignal analysis, processing and systems (ICBAPS), 24-26 July 2018, Kuching, Malaysia. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [online], pages 119-122. Available from: https://doi.org/ 10.1109/ICBAPS.2018.8527416

The number of elderly population in Malaysia of aged 60 years and above is expected to increase every year. Apart from that, the life expectancy of the elderly population is also estimated to rise up with female tend to live longer than male. These u... Read More about A pilot study of malnutrition among elderly in a Malaysia elderly care centre - part I: assessment of handgrip strength measurement..

Barrières à l'utilisation des méthodes d'aide à la décision murltcirétres [sic] dans le secteur de la construction en Algérie. (2018)
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SEDDIKI, M. and BENNADJI, A. 2018. Barrières à l'utilisation des méthodes d'aide à la décision murltcirétres [sic] dans le secteur de la construction en Algérie. Presented at the Colloque international sur les villes intelligentes (CIVIC 2018), 6-8 November 2018, Constantine, Algeria.

The construction sector is a sector where making the right decisions can be very difficult, because of the large number of criteria to be taken into consideration (e.g. quality, cost, deadlines, regulations, impact on the environment, etc.). A bad de... Read More about Barrières à l'utilisation des méthodes d'aide à la décision murltcirétres [sic] dans le secteur de la construction en Algérie..

Sustainable energy for emerging nations development: a case study on Togo renewable energy. (2018)
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KANSONGUE, N., NJUGUNA, J. and VERTIGANS, S. 2018. Sustainable energy for emerging nations development: a case study on Togo renewable energy. In Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES) and Industrial Applications Society (IAS) PowerAfrica 2018 conference, 26-29 June 2018, Cape Town, South Africa. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [online], pages 137-141. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerAfrica.2018.8521054

This paper explores the need for an appropriate energy delivery, placing emphasis on the role of the indigenous people in developing their future needs. The case study is based on Togo renewable energy sustainability and employs qualitative and quant... Read More about Sustainable energy for emerging nations development: a case study on Togo renewable energy..

A unified global investigation on the spectral effects of soiling losses of PV glass substrates: preliminary results. (2018)
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MICHELI, L., FERNÁNDEZ, E.F., SMESTAD, G.P., ALRASHIDI, H., SARMAH, N., SELLAMI, N., HASSAN, I.A.I., KASRY, A., NOFUENTES, G., SOOD, N., PESALA, B., SENTHILARASU, S., ALMONACID, F., REDDY, K.S., MULLER, M. and MALLICK, T.K. 2018. A unified global investigation on the spectral effects of soiling losses of PV glass substrates: preliminary results. In the Proceedings of the 44th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) photovoltaic specialist conference 2017 (2017 IEEE PVSC-44), 25-30 June 2017, Washinghton, USA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [online], article ID 8366317. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366317

The present work reports on the initial results of an international collaboration aiming to investigate the spectral effects of soiling losses. Identical glass coupons have been exposed outdoors for eight weeks in different locations worldwide, and w... Read More about A unified global investigation on the spectral effects of soiling losses of PV glass substrates: preliminary results..

Neutron scattering study of strain behaviour of porous rocks subjected to heating and unconfined uniaxial compression. (2018)
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FAISAL, N.H., SANAEE, R., SINGH, R.M., MURRAY, J., MCLAUGHLIN, A., HEALY, D. and LEE, T.-L. 2018. Neutron scattering study of strain behaviour of porous rocks subjected to heating and unconfined uniaxial compression. Journal of physics: conference series [online], 1106: proceedings of the 2018 Modern practice in stress and vibration analysis (MPSVA 2018), 2-4 July 2018, Cambridge, UK, article ID 012011. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1106/1/012011

Neutron scattering (at ENGIN-X) was used to examine strain distributions in two hydrocarbon reservoir rock types (i.e. sandstone and chalk) under uniaxial stress (up to 35 MPa) at temperature as high as 70 °C to utilise the advantages of neutron scat... Read More about Neutron scattering study of strain behaviour of porous rocks subjected to heating and unconfined uniaxial compression..

Translating contextual integrity into practice using CLIFOD. (2018)
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HENRIKSEN-BULMER, J., FAILY, S. and KATOS, V. 2018. Translating contextual integrity into practice using CLIFOD. Presented at the 2018 Networked privacy workshop: privacy in context: critically engaging with theory to guide privacy research and design, part of the 21st ACM conference on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing (CSCW 2018), 3 November 2018, Jersey City, USA.

Public open data increases transparency, but raises questions about the privacy implications of affected individuals. We present a case for using CLIFOD (ContextuaL Integrity for Open Data), a step-by-step privacy decision framework derived from cont... Read More about Translating contextual integrity into practice using CLIFOD..

Ghost seeing in dark places: the allure of dark tourism. (2018)
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IRONSIDE, R. 2018. Ghost seeing in dark places: the allure of ghost tourism. Presented at 2018 Spiritualism and the supernatural symposium, 31 October 2018, Manchester, UK.

A talk given at the Spritualism and the Supernatural Event hosted by the Research in Arts and Humanities Department at Manchester Metropolitan University. This presentation explores the rise of ghost tourism, and the continued allure of the supernatu... Read More about Ghost seeing in dark places: the allure of dark tourism..

Building intercultural competence through virtual team collaboration across global classrooms. (2018)
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SWARTZ, S., LUCK, S., BARBOSA, B. and CRAWFORD, I. 2018. Building intercultural competence through virtual team collaboration across global classrooms. Presented at the 83rd Association for Business Communication (ABC) annual international conference: celebrating diversity and culture in business communication, 24-27 October 2018, Miami, USA.

Instructors in four countries (the USA, Scotland, Germany and Portugal) ran a 6 week cross-cultural virtual teams project. Responses before and after the project were analyzed according to five tendencies of intercultural sensitivity and communicatio... Read More about Building intercultural competence through virtual team collaboration across global classrooms..