Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system. . https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00047

Multi-tenancy in cloud computing describes the extent to which resources can be shared while guaranteeing isolation among components (tenants) using these resources. There are three multi-tenancy patterns: shared, tenant-isolated and dedicated compon... Read More about Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system.

A general numerical unsteady nonlinear lifting line model for engineering aerodynamics studies (2018)
Journal Article
Sugar-Gabor, O. (2018). A general numerical unsteady nonlinear lifting line model for engineering aerodynamics studies. Aeronautical Journal, 122(1254), 1199-1228. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2018.57

The lifting line theory is widely used for obtaining aerodynamic performance results in various engineering fields, from aircraft conceptual design to wind power generation. Many different models were proposed, each tailored for a specific purpose, t... Read More about A general numerical unsteady nonlinear lifting line model for engineering aerodynamics studies.

A reconfigurable hybrid wheel-track mobile robot based on Watt II six-bar linkage (2018)
Journal Article
Luo, Z., Shang, J., Wei, G., & Ren, L. (2018). A reconfigurable hybrid wheel-track mobile robot based on Watt II six-bar linkage. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 128(10), 16-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2018.04.020

This paper presents the design and development of a novel reconfigurable hybrid wheel-track mobile robot (RHMBot). This new reconfigurable mobile robot is constructed based on a Watt II six-bar linkage; through structure reconfiguration, it can provi... Read More about A reconfigurable hybrid wheel-track mobile robot based on Watt II six-bar linkage.

A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector (2018)
Book Chapter
Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2018). A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector. In Intelligent systems : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications (1050-1067). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5643-5.ch044

Data mining has a tremendous contribution for researchers to extract the hidden knowledge and information which have been inherited in the raw data. This study has proposed a brand new and practical fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) based weighte... Read More about A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector.

Biomimetic deployable structures (2018)
Thesis
Fenci, G. Biomimetic deployable structures. (Thesis). University of Salford

Modern architectural designs aim at creating dynamic and flexible spaces, able to adapt to the ever-changing environment by virtue of temporary and convertible structures. Biomimetics is the applied science that, through the imitation of nature, find... Read More about Biomimetic deployable structures.

Scrum for product innovation : a longitudinal embedded case study (2018)
Journal Article
Bass, J., Abdul, A., Ghavimi, H., MacRae, N., & Adam, P. (2018). Scrum for product innovation : a longitudinal embedded case study. International Journal of Multimedia and Image Processing, 8(2), 414-424. https://doi.org/10.20533/ijmip.2042.4647.2018.0051

This article describes the innovation processes used in a partnership between Add Latent Ltd., an asset integrity and maintenance management consulting services provider in the energy sector and University of Salford. The challenge faced by the compa... Read More about Scrum for product innovation : a longitudinal embedded case study.

Design and control of a novel variable stiffness soft arm (2018)
Journal Article
Hao, L., Chaoqun, X., Giannaccini, M., Cheng, H., Zhang, Y., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018). Design and control of a novel variable stiffness soft arm. Advanced robotics : the international journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 32(11), 605-622. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2018.1476179

Soft robot arms possess such characteristics as light weight, simple structure and good adaptability to the environment, among others. On the other hand, robust control of soft robot arms presents many difficulties. Based on these reasons, this pap... Read More about Design and control of a novel variable stiffness soft arm.

Natural language processing and information systems : 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2018, Proceedings (2018)
Book
(2018). M. Silberztein, F. Atigui, E. Kornyshova, E. Métais, & F. Meziane (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems : 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2018, Proceedings. Switzerland: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, held in Paris, France, in June 2018. The 18 full papers, 26 short papers, and 9 poster pape... Read More about Natural language processing and information systems : 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2018, Proceedings.

Emergency access control management via attribute based encrypted QR codes (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Gochhayat, S., Conti, M., & Russello, G. (2018, May). Emergency access control management via attribute based encrypted QR codes. Presented at IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (IEEE CNS 2018 workshop: SPC 2018), Beijing, China

In dynamic environments such as disaster management, mechanisms for the controlled override of access restrictions, a.k.a. break-glass need to be supported. These access control mechanisms should ensure access to facilities, for example, an office b... Read More about Emergency access control management via attribute based encrypted QR codes.

Robust speaker recognition in reverberant condition : toward greater biometric security (2018)
Thesis
Al-Karawi, K. (in press). Robust speaker recognition in reverberant condition : toward greater biometric security. (Thesis). University of Salford

Automatic speaker recognition systems have developed into an increasingly relevant technology for security applications in modern times. The primary challenge for automatic speaker recognition is to deal with the variability of the environments and c... Read More about Robust speaker recognition in reverberant condition : toward greater biometric security.

Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., & Noll, J. (2018). Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods. In CESI '18 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry (13-20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3193965.3193967

This research comprises a methodological comparison of two independent empirical case studies in industry: Case Study A and Case Study B. Case Study A, is a multiple-case study involving a set of short-duration data collections with 46 practitioners... Read More about Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods.

Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., Canna, C., & Noll, J. (2018). Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195066

The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of “done.” There is a paucity of detail about how POs... Read More about Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum.

Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., & Noll, J. (2018). Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3196369.3196375

Poor employee retention (high staff turnover) has a negative impact on software development productivity and product quality. Further, offshore outsourcing has a widely held reputation for particularly poor employee retention. Interestingly, in-house... Read More about Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing.

Shear behaviour of lightweight concrete beams strengthened with CFRP composite (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Allaf, M., Weekes, L., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (2019). Shear behaviour of lightweight concrete beams strengthened with CFRP composite. Magazine of Concrete Research, 71(18), 949-964. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmacr.17.00488

This paper presents the experimental results obtained from lightweight and normal concrete beams with closed and U-shaped configurations of epoxy bonded Carbon FRP (CFRP) reinforcement in order to compare the shear resisting mechanisms between lightw... Read More about Shear behaviour of lightweight concrete beams strengthened with CFRP composite.

Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Demonte, P., Tang, Y., Hughes, R., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Shirley, B. (2018, May). Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen. Presented at 144th International Pro Audio Convention (AES Milan 2018), Milan, Italy

Can externalizing dialogue when in the presence of stereo background noise improve speech intelligibility? This has been investigated for audio over headphones using head-tracking in order to explore potential future developments for small-screen dev... Read More about Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen.

Design, kinematics, and controlling a novel soft robot arm with parallel motion (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018). Design, kinematics, and controlling a novel soft robot arm with parallel motion. Robotics, 7(2), 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7020019

This article presents a novel design for a double bend pneumatic muscle actuator (DB-PMA) inspired by snake lateral undulation. The presented actuator has the ability to bend in opposite directions from its two halves. This behavior results in horizo... Read More about Design, kinematics, and controlling a novel soft robot arm with parallel motion.

Annoyance from wind turbine noise? Review of wind turbine noise studies of the last two decades (2018)
Presentation / Conference
von Hünerbein, S. (2018, May). Annoyance from wind turbine noise? Review of wind turbine noise studies of the last two decades. Presented at 3rd Wind Turbine Acoustic Day, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus, Roskilde, DK

In agreement with other environmental noise literature, most work on the annoyance from wind turbines has focussed on noise. Notable work has been carried out in Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, China, Canada and the US. Their results seem to show tha... Read More about Annoyance from wind turbine noise? Review of wind turbine noise studies of the last two decades.

Building a causation annotated corpus : the Salford Arabic Causal Bank-proclitics (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2018, May). Building a causation annotated corpus : the Salford Arabic Causal Bank-proclitics. Presented at The 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, Miyazaki, Japan

We introduce the Salford Arabic Causal Bank (SACB) corpus, a new corpus dedicated to Arabic Causal relations. Causality as a linguistic phenomenon can be expressed using different elements and grammatical expressions. In Arabic language, causal parti... Read More about Building a causation annotated corpus : the Salford Arabic Causal Bank-proclitics.

Unsteady nonlinear lifting line model for applied aerodynamics studies (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sugar-Gabor, O. (2018, May). Unsteady nonlinear lifting line model for applied aerodynamics studies. Presented at Advances in Aerospace Structures, Systems and Technology (AASST 2018), London, UK

The lifting line theory is widely used for obtaining aerodynamic performance results in various engineering fields, from aircraft conceptual design to wind power generation. Many different models were proposed, each tailored for a specific purpose, t... Read More about Unsteady nonlinear lifting line model for applied aerodynamics studies.

Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention. Intelligent Service Robotics, 11(3), 247-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-018-0250-4

This article presents the development of a soft material power augmentation wearable robot using novel bending soft artificial muscles. This soft exoskeleton was developed as a human hand power augmentation system for healthy or partially hand disabl... Read More about Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention.