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Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Fazel, A., Saraee, M., & Shamsinejad, P. (2010, June). Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry. Presented at The 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Mining, Chengdu, China

Analyzing and predicting with Time series is a method which used in different fields, including consumption pattern analyzing and predicting. In this paper, required amount of inventory items have been predicted with time series. At first, desired da... Read More about Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry.

Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., Hodgkinson, T., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2010, June). Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP), Karlsruhe, Germany

We present the first detailed account of modelling pulses in Helmholtz-type nonlinear systems with both temporal and spatial dispersion. Exact analytical solitons will be reported, and their stability examined through mathematical analysis and comput... Read More about Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light.

Kaleidoscope lasers - Complexity in simple optical systems (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Huang, J. (2010, June). Kaleidoscope lasers - Complexity in simple optical systems. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP), Karlsruhe, Germany

We present the first detailed account of modelling kaleidoscope laser modes where the equivalent Fresnel number Neq and magnification M may assume arbitrary values. The convergence toward circularity is also investigated through extensive numerical c... Read More about Kaleidoscope lasers - Complexity in simple optical systems.

Helmholtz dark solitons at nonlinear defocusing interfaces (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sanchez Curto, J., Chamorro-Posada, P., & McDonald, G. (2010, June). Helmholtz dark solitons at nonlinear defocusing interfaces. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP, Karlsruhe, Germany

Dark Kerr soliton refraction at planar boundaries is analysed and simulated for the first time. A universal law of Kerr spatial soliton refraction is derived. Strong parameter sensitivity of gray soliton refraction is also uncovered.

Estimation of critical occupancy values for UK motorways from traffic loop detectors (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Obaedi, J., & Yousif, S. (2010, June). Estimation of critical occupancy values for UK motorways from traffic loop detectors. Presented at Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference, The University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

Occupancy is the percent of time a traffic loop detector embedded in the road pavement is occupied by vehicles. This term is usually used as a substitution for the traffic density which is not feasible to obtain from detectors. One of the recent a... Read More about Estimation of critical occupancy values for UK motorways from traffic loop detectors.

Social networking approach for building trust in e-commerce (2010)
Journal Article
Saraee, M., Shahghlian, A., & Mazrooei, P. (2010). Social networking approach for building trust in e-commerce. Journal of communication and computer, 7(6), 49-53

E-commerce has played a major role for most business functions in today's competitive enterprises. In general, E-commerce has enabled online transactions while the most important factor in a transaction between two individuals is the degree of trust... Read More about Social networking approach for building trust in e-commerce.

Design of a magnetorheological robot gripper for handling of delicate food products with varying shapes (2010)
Journal Article
Pettersson, A., Davis, S., Gray, J., & Ohlsson, T. (2010). Design of a magnetorheological robot gripper for handling of delicate food products with varying shapes. Journal of Food Engineering, 98(3), 332-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.11.020

Natural food products are often variable in shape and easily bruised, making them difficult to handle for a robot. In this paper, a novel robot gripper that utilizes the effects of a magnetorheological (MR) fluid is described and evaluated. In the... Read More about Design of a magnetorheological robot gripper for handling of delicate food products with varying shapes.

Sustainable Flood Retention Basins (SFRB) as adaptive measures (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Yang, Q., Shao, J., McMinn, W., & Scholz, M. (2010, May). Sustainable Flood Retention Basins (SFRB) as adaptive measures. Presented at Strategic Alliance for Integrated Water Management Actions (SAWA) conference, Gothenburg, Sweden

ARO: a new model-free optimization algorithm inspired from asexual reproduction (2010)
Journal Article
Farasat, A., Menhaj, M., Mansouri, T., & Moghadam, M. (2010). ARO: a new model-free optimization algorithm inspired from asexual reproduction. Applied Soft Computing, 10(4), 1284-1292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2010.05.011

This paper proposes a new individual based optimization algorithm, which is inspired from asexual reproduction known as a remarkable biological phenomenon, called as Asexual Reproduction Optimization (ARO). ARO can be essentially considered as an evo... Read More about ARO: a new model-free optimization algorithm inspired from asexual reproduction.

The use of genetic algorithm for feature selection in video concept detection (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Momtazpour, M., Saraee, M., & Palhang, M. (2010, May). The use of genetic algorithm for feature selection in video concept detection. Presented at The 18th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2010, Isfahan Iran

Video semantic concept detection is considered as an important research problem by the multimedia industry in recent years. Classification is the most accepted method used for concept detection, where, the output of the classification system is inter... Read More about The use of genetic algorithm for feature selection in video concept detection.

Application of data mining in traffic management: case of city of Isfahan (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Zamani, Z., Pourmand, M., & Saraee, M. (2010, May). Application of data mining in traffic management: case of city of Isfahan. Presented at 2010 International Conference on Electronic Computer Technology (ICECT), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This paper describes the work investigating the application of data mining tools to aid in the development of traffic signal timing plans. A case study was conducted to illustrate that the use of hierarchical cluster analysis. This approach can be us... Read More about Application of data mining in traffic management: case of city of Isfahan.

The use of treatment trains to manage urban runoff: A case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bastien, N., Arthur, S., Wallis, S., & Scholz, M. (2010, May). The use of treatment trains to manage urban runoff: A case study. Presented at First European Congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research, Edinburgh, Scotland

Assessment and classification of Scottish water bodies as sustainable adaptive hydraulic structures for flood risk management planning in response to climate change. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Yang, Q., McMinn, W., & Scholz, M. (2010, May). Assessment and classification of Scottish water bodies as sustainable adaptive hydraulic structures for flood risk management planning in response to climate change. Presented at First European Congress of the International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering, Edinburgh

Bistable dark solitons of a cubic-quintic Helmholtz equation (2010)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2010). Bistable dark solitons of a cubic-quintic Helmholtz equation. Physical Review A, 81(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053831

We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first exact analytical bistable dark spatial solitons of a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with a cubic-quintic refractive-index model. Our analysis begins with an investigation of the modulational instabili... Read More about Bistable dark solitons of a cubic-quintic Helmholtz equation.

CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm (2010)
Journal Article
Vadera, S. (2010). CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm. ACM transactions on knowledge discovery from data, 4(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/1754428.1754429

This article presents a new decision tree learning algorithm called CSNL that induces Cost-Sensitive Non-Linear decision trees. The algorithm is based on the hypothesis that nonlinear decision nodes provide a better basis than axis-parallel decision... Read More about CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm.

Modelling ramp metering at motorway merges (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Obaedi, J., & Yousif, S. (2010, May). Modelling ramp metering at motorway merges. Poster presented at Celebration of Research, Faculty of Science, Engineering & environment, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester

Traffic congestion has increased rapidly in the past decades mainly due to a sharp increase in vehicles using the road networks. Recently, and to deal with motorway congestion, traffic signal devices (ramp metering) installed on motorway entrances w... Read More about Modelling ramp metering at motorway merges.