Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016 (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A. (2017, September). Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016. Presented at 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17), Edinburgh, UK

This paper presents the co-authorship network of the DAFx conference series, from its inception in 1998 to the present, along with subsequent analysis. In total 1,281 unique authors have contributed 1,175 unique submissions to this conference series.... Read More about Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016.

An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

This paper reports an experimental study on the influence of chloride contamination on the polarization resistance, concrete resistivity, and the potential shift of concrete reinforcement under different cathodic protection (CP) current densities. Re... Read More about An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete.

Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

Cathodic protection (CP) has been approved in practice to be an effective technique to protect steel reinforcement in concrete from corrosion under severe environmental conditions. Using constant current for CP is the most popular approach in practic... Read More about Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water.

A quantitative evaluation of drive pattern selection for optimizing EIT-based stretchable sensors (2017)
Journal Article
Russo, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., Carbonaro, N., & Tognetti, A. (2017). A quantitative evaluation of drive pattern selection for optimizing EIT-based stretchable sensors. Sensors, 17(9), 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17091999

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a medical imaging technique that has been recently used to realize stretchable pressure sensors. In this method, voltage measurements are taken at electrodes placed at the boundary of the sensor and are used t... Read More about A quantitative evaluation of drive pattern selection for optimizing EIT-based stretchable sensors.

Proceedings of the international conference on advanced intelligent systems and informatics 2017 (2017)
Book
Gaber, T., Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., & Tolba, M. (2017). Proceedings of the international conference on advanced intelligent systems and informatics 2017. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3

This book gathers the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI2017), which took place in Cairo, Egypt from September 9 to 11, 2017. This international and interdisciplinary conference,... Read More about Proceedings of the international conference on advanced intelligent systems and informatics 2017.

Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Sudarsono, A., Lam, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment. Presented at INTER-NOISE 2017, Hong Kong

Previous studies have shown relationships between sound objects by grouping general sound objects according to how people perceive them (i.e. positively or negatively), but not according to how specific sound objects and their interaction affect so... Read More about Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment.

Detecting crypto-ransomware in IoT networks based on energy consumption footprint (2017)
Journal Article
energy consumption footprint. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 9(4), 1141-1152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0558-5

An Internet of Things (IoT) architecture generally consists of a wide range of Internet-connected devices or things such as Android devices, and devices that have more computational capabilities (e.g., storage capacities) are likely to be targeted by... Read More about Detecting crypto-ransomware in IoT networks based on energy consumption footprint.

Acoustics of multiscale sorptive porous materials (2017)
Journal Article
Venegas, R., Boutin, C., & Umnova, O. (2017). Acoustics of multiscale sorptive porous materials. Physics of Fluids, 29(8), 082006. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4999053

This paper investigates sound propagation in multiscale rigid-frame porous materials that support mass transfer processes, such as sorption and different types of diffusion, in addition to the usual visco-thermo-inertial interactions. The two-scale a... Read More about Acoustics of multiscale sorptive porous materials.

A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage (2017)
Journal Article
Sheikh, A., Vadera, S., Ravey, M., Lovatt, G., & Kelly, G. (2017). A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage. Health Education, 117(6), 530-539. https://doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2017-0006

Purpose: Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several auth... Read More about A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage.

Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Yousif, K., & Li, F. (2017, August). Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach. Presented at 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017), Luton, UK

Speaker recognition has been developed into a relatively mature state over the past few decades through continuous research and development work. Existing methods typically use the robust features extracted from noise and reverberation free speech si... Read More about Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach.

SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling (2017)
Journal Article
Zahedi, E., & Saraee, M. (2018). SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling. Soft Computing, 22(23), 7989-8000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-017-2746-9

Abstract In recent years people want to express their opinion on every online service or product, and there are now a huge number of opinions on the social media, online stores and blogs. However, most of the opinions are presented in plain text and... Read More about SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling.

Congenital amusics use a secondary pitch mechanism to identify lexical tones (2017)
Journal Article
Bones, O., & Wong, P. (2017). Congenital amusics use a secondary pitch mechanism to identify lexical tones. Neuropsychologia, 104, 48-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.004

Amusia is a pitch perception disorder associated with deficits in processing and production of both musical and lexical tones, which previous reports have suggested may be constrained to fine-grained pitch judgements. In the present study speakers of... Read More about Congenital amusics use a secondary pitch mechanism to identify lexical tones.

Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Francombe, J., Mason, R., Jackson, P., Brookes, T., Hughes, R., Woodcock, J., …Pike, C. (2017, August). Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction. Presented at AM '17: Audio Mostly 2017, London, United Kingdom

Whilst it is possible to create exciting, immersive listening experiences with current spatial audio technology, the required systems are generally difficult to install in a standard living room. However, in any living room there is likely to already... Read More about Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction.

CloudMe forensics : a case of big-data investigation (2017)
Journal Article
Teing, Y., Dehghantanha, A., & Raymond Choo, K. (2017). CloudMe forensics : a case of big-data investigation. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 30(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4277

The significant increase in the volume, variety and velocity of data complicates cloud forensic efforts, as such big data will, at some point, become computationally expensive to be fully extracted and analyzed in a timely manner. Thus, it is importa... Read More about CloudMe forensics : a case of big-data investigation.

Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., Jemai, A., & Attia, R. (2017, July). Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications. Presented at SECRYPT 2017 : 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Madrid, Spain

In this paper, we propose a novel constant-size threshold attribute-based signcryption scheme for securely sharing data through public clouds. Our proposal has several advantages. First, it provides flexible cryptographic access control, while prese... Read More about Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications.

An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bones, O., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2017, July). An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration ICSV24, London, UK

In an attempt to cultivate standardization in soundscape reporting Brown, Kang and Gjestland offered an influential schema by which the acoustic environment is divided initially into indoor and outdoor environments, and within each into further cate... Read More about An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy.

Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Tansey, N., Waddington, D., & Davies, W. (2017, July). Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration ICSV24, London

The aim of this paper is to review current research on materials and methods that can be incorporated within local environment and building design concepts to mitigate noise due to deliveries. The use of innovative materials, design and master planni... Read More about Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments.

Eliminating wind noise contamination of wind turbine noise amplitude modulation ratings - first validation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
von Hünerbein, S., Kendrick, P., Kerscher, M., & Bradley, S. (2017, July). Eliminating wind noise contamination of wind turbine noise amplitude modulation ratings - first validation. Presented at The 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV24), London, UK

Microphone wind noise can corrupt outdoor measurements and recordings. It is a particular problem for wind turbine measurements because these cannot be carried out when the wind speed is low. Previous studies simulated the effect that microphone wi... Read More about Eliminating wind noise contamination of wind turbine noise amplitude modulation ratings - first validation.

A distributed joint sentiment and topic modeling using spark for big opinion mining (2017)
Book Chapter
Zahedi, E., Saraee, M., & Baniasadi, Z. (2017). A distributed joint sentiment and topic modeling using spark for big opinion mining. In Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2017 (1475-1480). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IranianCEE.2017.7985276

Opinion data are produced rapidly by a large and uncontrolled number of opinion holders in different domains (public, business, politic and etc). The volume, variety and velocity of such data requires an opinion mining model to be also adopted with t... Read More about A distributed joint sentiment and topic modeling using spark for big opinion mining.

Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., Bass, J., Ghavimi, H., & Adam, P. (2017). Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study. . https://doi.org/10.23919/i-Society.2017.8354664

This paper describes the innovation processes used in a partnership between a company that provides asset integrity and maintenance management consulting services in the energy sector and a university. The challenge faced by the company is to make th... Read More about Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study.