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Optimising linear regression for modelling the dynamic thermal behaviour of electrical machines using NSGA-II, NSGA-III and MOEA/D. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BANDA, T.M., ZĂVOIANU, A.-C., PETROVSKI, A., WÖCKINGER, D. and BRAMERDORFER, G. 2024. Optimising linear regression for modelling the dynamic thermal behaviour of electrical machines using NSGA-II, NSGA-III and MOEA/D. In Stratulat, S., Marin, M., Negru, V. and Zaharie, D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th International symposium on symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific computing (SYNASC 2023), 11-14 September 2023, Nancy, France. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 186-193. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SYNASC61333.2023.00032

For engineers to create durable and effective electrical assemblies, modelling and controlling heat transfer in rotating electrical machines (such as motors) is crucial. In this paper, we compare the performance of three multi-objective evolutionary... Read More about Optimising linear regression for modelling the dynamic thermal behaviour of electrical machines using NSGA-II, NSGA-III and MOEA/D..

Agriculture in Africa: the emerging role of artificial intelligence. (2023)
Book Chapter
ADEBOLA, T. and IBEKE, E. 2023. Agriculture in Africa: the emerging role of artificial intelligence. In Ncube, C., Oriakhogba, D., Rutenberg, I. and Schonwetter, T. (eds.) Artificial intelligence and the law in Africa. Johannesburg: Lexis Nexis [online], Chapter 14. Available from: https://myacademic.co.za/product/artificial-intelligence-and-the-law-in-africa/

This chapter critically considers the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to agriculture in Africa. It contends that, while African countries can utilise AI to address agricultural challenges, realising the full potential of AI in agriculture... Read More about Agriculture in Africa: the emerging role of artificial intelligence..

One of the biggest threats to modern civilisation? The weaponisation of "wokeness" in the UK press and political discourses. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SMITH, D.S. 2023. One of the biggest threats to modern civilisation? The weaponisation of "wokeness" in the UK press and political discourses. Presented at the 2023 International PhD scholar conference: researching sensitive subjects and fragile lives, 5-7 December 2023, [virtual conference].

Though the term originated in the early twentieth century, it is only recently "wokeness" has become a staple of British media discourse. Typically, the concept features in commentaries and exchanges about institutional power, censorship, minority ri... Read More about One of the biggest threats to modern civilisation? The weaponisation of "wokeness" in the UK press and political discourses..

Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability. (2023)
Journal Article
CROSS, K., MESJAR, L., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2025. Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability. International journal of fashion design, technology and education [online], 18(1): conscious communities: exploring contemporary research and practice within fashion and textiles higher education, pages 15-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2023.2277264

Textile and fashion brands convey core values through marketing, and in slow-fashion heritage brands this often includes skilled craftsmanship, authenticity, sustainability and provenance. As industry digitalisation continues, brands are employing im... Read More about Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability..

Empowering nursing students' digital literacy skills: the digital literacy project. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTZOUKOU, K., LUDERS, E.S., JOHNSON, N. and WORK, F. 2023. Empowering nursing students' digital literacy skills: the digital literacy project. Presented at the 6th International research symposium of the National Institute of Library and Information Sciences, University of Colombo (NILIS 2023): research excellence in library and information science, 15 November 2023, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The "Digital Literacy project" is an ongoing research project at Robert Gordon University, the aim of which is to drive and support the development of digital literacy skills among students in different discipline areas (e.g. nursing, law, library sc... Read More about Empowering nursing students' digital literacy skills: the digital literacy project..

Maddie is online: a creative learning path to digital literacy for young people. (2023)
Journal Article
MARTZOUKOU, K., PANAYIOTAKIS, I., HERBERT, N., GREY, E. and MACDONALD, N. 2023. Maddie is online: a creative learning path to digital literacy for young people. Computers in the schools [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2023.2276736

This paper explores young people's development of digital literacy and resilience and discusses how teachers and librarians can play an important role in supporting young people to become digital citizens: informed, active, ethical, safe and responsi... Read More about Maddie is online: a creative learning path to digital literacy for young people..

Maddie is online. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2023. Maddie is online. Presented at the 2023 Aberdeen Business School women entrepreneurship week (ABS WEW 2023), 30 October - 3 November 2023, Aberdeen, UK.

This poster presents Dr. Konstantina Martzoukou's perspective on incorporating entrepreneurship into her teaching and research practice. It uses the "Maddie is Online" project as an example of how Dr. Martzoukou has achieved this.

Maintaining privacy for a recommender system diagnosis using blockchain and deep learning. (2023)
Journal Article
MANTEY, E.A., ZHOU, C., MANI, V., ARTHUR, J.K. and IBEKE, E. 2023. Maintaining privacy for a recommender system diagnosis using blockchain and deep learning. Human-centric computing and information science [online], 13, article number 47. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22967/HCIS.2023.13.047

The healthcare sector has been revolutionized by Blockchain and AI technologies. Artificial intelligence uses algorithms, recommender systems, decision-making abilities, and big data to display a patient's health records using blockchain. Healthcare... Read More about Maintaining privacy for a recommender system diagnosis using blockchain and deep learning..

BRIDGE project: information and digital literacy at primary school. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SALES, D., KURBANOĞLU, S., KOSTAGIOLAS, P., MARTZOUKOU, K., GOLDSTEIN, S., PAVEY, S., HIRVONEN, N., AKKOYUNLU, B., MURAT, S., ANTONIAZZI, A., MORELLI, M. and ŞENCAN, İ. 2023. BRIDGE project: information and digital literacy at primary school. Presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

This poster describes the BRIDGE project ("Information and Digital Literacy at School: A Bridge to Support Critical Thinking and Equality Values for Primary Education Using Children's Literature and Transmedia"), which aims to review current legislat... Read More about BRIDGE project: information and digital literacy at primary school..

Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTZOUKOU, K. and TRAMANTZA, E. 2023. Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece. Presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

There is a growing need to design creative teaching methods for early in the school curriculum to empower children with information literacy (IL) skills. This will prepare them for battling mis/disinformation, so that they can be safe, understand the... Read More about Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece..

Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SALES, D., MARTZOUKOU, K., GOLDSTEIN, S., PAVEY, S., HIRVONEN, N., SARAN, M. and ŞENCAN, İ. 2023. Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges. Panel presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

The aftermath of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic - and the dangerous infodemic that has emerged in parallel - has made the importance of fostering information literacy even more evident. Information literacy is fundamental in all ages t... Read More about Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges..

"Smart contracts" versus "smart legal contracts": shifting terminology. [Blog post] (2023)
Digital Artefact
MANTE, J. and MAK, C. 2023. "Smart contracts" versus "smart legal contracts": shifting terminology. [Blog post]. Posted on the RGU Law School Blog [online], 2nd October 2023. Available from: https://rgulaw.blog/2023/10/02/smart-contracts-versus-smart-legal-contracts-shifting-terminology/

The notion that smart contracts are not actually contracts is a common assertion found in various writings on the subject. Lawyers can be forgiven for being confused, given that "smart contracts" do not qualify as contracts in the conventional sense.... Read More about "Smart contracts" versus "smart legal contracts": shifting terminology. [Blog post].

Towards feasible counterfactual explanations: a taxonomy guided template-based NLG method. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SALIMI, P., WIRATUNGA, N., CORSAR, D. and WIJEKOON, A. 2023. Towards feasible counterfactual explanations: a taxonomy guided template-based NLG method. In Gal, K., Nowé, A., Nalepa, G.J., Fairstein, R. and Rădulescu, R. (eds.) ECAI 2023: proceedings of the 26th European conference on artificial intelligence (ECAI 2023), 30 September - 4 October 2023, Kraków, Poland. Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, 372. Amsterdam: IOS Press [online], pages 2057-2064. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230499

Counterfactual Explanations (cf-XAI) describe the smallest changes in feature values necessary to change an outcome from one class to another. However, many cf-XAI methods neglect the feasibility of those changes. In this paper, we introduce a novel... Read More about Towards feasible counterfactual explanations: a taxonomy guided template-based NLG method..

A novel and innovative blockchain-empowered federated learning approach for secure data sharing in smart city applications. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HAI, T., WANG, D., SEETHARAMAN, T., AMELESH, M, SREEJITH, P.M., SHARMA, V., IBEKE, E. and LIU, H. 2023. A novel and innovative blockchain-empowered federated learning approach for secure data sharing in smart city applications. In Iwendi, C., Boulouard, Z. and Kryvinska, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 International conference on advances in communication technology and computer engineering (ICACTCE'23): new artificial intelligence and the Internet of things based perspective and solutions, 23-24 February 2023, Bolton UK. Lecture notes in networks and systems, 735. Cham: Springer [online], pages 105-118. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37164-6_9

The very existence of smart cities forms the stepping stone in the evolution of many technological advancements in the future era. While smart cities have already grown in their way, the tremendous amount of data generated from them paves the way for... Read More about A novel and innovative blockchain-empowered federated learning approach for secure data sharing in smart city applications..

COVID-19 in the UK: sentiment and emotion analysis of Tweets over time. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
AMUJO, O., IBEKE, E., IWENDI, C. and BOULOUARD, Z. 2023. COVID-19 in the UK: sentiment and emotion analysis of Tweets over time. In Iwendi, C., Boulouard, Z. and Kryvinska, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 International conference on advances in communication technology and computer engineering (ICACTE'23): new artificial intelligence and the Internet of things based perspective and solutions, 23-24 February 2023, Bolton UK. Lecture notes in networks and systems, 735. Cham: Springer [online], pages 519-535. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37164-6_38

We performed an analysis of tweets concerning the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK over a two-year period, selecting fifteen timelines. Over 110,000 tweets were obtained from Twitter and analysed using BERT and Text2Emotions for sentiment and emotion anal... Read More about COVID-19 in the UK: sentiment and emotion analysis of Tweets over time..

Towards expert systems for improved customer services using ChatGPT as an inference engine. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
EZENKWU, C.P. 2023. Towards expert systems for improved customer services using ChatGPT as an inference engine. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on digital applications, transformation and economy (ICDATE 2023), 14-16 July 2023, Miri, Malaysia, article 10248647. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDATE58146.2023.10248647

By harnessing both implicit and explicit customer data, companies can develop a more comprehensive understanding of their consumers, leading to better customer engagement and experience, and improved loyalty. As a result, businesses have embraced man... Read More about Towards expert systems for improved customer services using ChatGPT as an inference engine..

Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., JAYNE, C., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2023. Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation. Porcedia computer science [online], 222: selected papers from the 2023 International Neural Network Society workshop on deep learning innovations and applications (INNS DLIA 2023), co-located with the 2023 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 18-23 June 2023, Gold Coast, Australia, pages 114-126. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.08.149

Systematic Review (SR) presents the highest form of evidence in research for decision and policy-making. Nonetheless, the structured steps involved in carrying out SRs make it demanding for reviewers. Many studies have projected the abstract screenin... Read More about Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation..

Enhancing the drilling efficiency through the application of machine learning and optimization algorithm. (2023)
Journal Article
BOUKREDERA, F.S., YOUCEFI, M.R., HADJADJ, A., EZENKWU, C.P., VAZIRI, V. and APHALE, S.S. 2023. Enhancing the drilling efficiency through the application of machine learning and optimization algorithm. Engineering applications of artificial intelligence [online], 126(part C), article 107035. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.107035

This article presents a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) workflow to enhance drilling performance by mitigating the adverse impact of drill-string vibrations on drilling efficiency. The study employs three supervised machine learning (ML) algorithm... Read More about Enhancing the drilling efficiency through the application of machine learning and optimization algorithm..

CBR driven interactive explainable AI. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WIJEKOON, A., WIRATUNGA, N., MARTIN, K., CORSAR, D., NKISI-ORJI, I., PALIHAWADANA, C., BRIDGE, D., PRADEEP, P., AGUDO, B.D. and CARO-MARTÍNEZ, M. 2023. CBR driven interactive explainable AI. In MASSIE, S. and CHAKRABORTI, S. (eds.) 2023. Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 31st International conference on case-based reasoning 2023, (ICCBR 2023), 17-20 July 2023, Aberdeen, UK. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS), 14141. Cham: Springer [online], pages169-184. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40177-0_11

Explainable AI (XAI) can greatly enhance user trust and satisfaction in AI-assisted decision-making processes. Numerous explanation techniques (explainers) exist in the literature, and recent findings suggest that addressing multiple user needs requi... Read More about CBR driven interactive explainable AI..

Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 31st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2023). (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MASSIE, S. and CHAKRABORTI, S. (eds.) 2023. Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 31st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2023), 17-20 July 2023, Aberdeen, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 14141. Cham: Springer [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40177-0

This volume contains the papers presented at the 31st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2023), which was held on July 17–20, 2023, at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. ICCBR is the premier annual meeting of the... Read More about Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 31st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2023)..