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Creating a healthy work environment through sustainable practices : Future challenges (2008)
Book Chapter
Bichard, E. (2008). Creating a healthy work environment through sustainable practices : Future challenges. In S. Cartwright, & C. Cooper (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well Being (542-562). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211913.003.0022

The concept of sustainability, and sustainable development, is based on the premiss that human society is able to find a way to fulfil its aspirations without undermining the environmental context that supports all life on the planet, or by exploitin... Read More about Creating a healthy work environment through sustainable practices : Future challenges.

Using mRNA secondary structure predictions improves recognition of known yeast functional uORFs (2008)
Book Chapter
Selpi, S., Bryant, C., & Kemp, G. (2008). Using mRNA secondary structure predictions improves recognition of known yeast functional uORFs. In L. Wehenkel, P. Geurts, Y. Moreau, & F. d'Alche-Buc (Eds.), Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology (85-94). University of Liege

We are interested in using inductive logic programming ILP)to generate rules for recognising functional upstream open reading frames (uORFs) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This paper empirically investigates whether providing an ILP system wi... Read More about Using mRNA secondary structure predictions improves recognition of known yeast functional uORFs.

From building information models to semantic process driven interoperability : the journey continues (2008)
Book Chapter
Rezgui, Y., Boddy, S., Cooper, G., & Wetherill, M. (2008). From building information models to semantic process driven interoperability : the journey continues. In A. Zarli, & R. Scherer (Eds.), Ework and ebusiness in architecture, engineering and construction: ECPPM 2008 (661-672). London, UK: CRC Press

The paper is based on the authors' involvement in several EU and UK funded collaborative research projects addressing areas ranging from information and knowledge management, CAD-based decision support environments, ontology development, to advanced... Read More about From building information models to semantic process driven interoperability : the journey continues.

The evolution of sustainable development (2008)
Book Chapter
Sexton, M., Barrett, P., & Lu, S. (2008). The evolution of sustainable development. In M. Murray, & A. Dainty (Eds.), Corporate social responsibility in the construction industry (191-213). London: Taylor and Francis

Enhancement of project collaboration among virtual construction stakeholders (2008)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Khosrowshahi, F. (2008). Enhancement of project collaboration among virtual construction stakeholders. In V. Ahmed, M. Casensky, E. Eaton, & M. Sutrisna (Eds.), Proceedings of the BUHU 8th international postgraduate research conference 2008. Czech Technical University Publishing House

The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education (2008)
Book Chapter
Wood, G. (2008). The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education. In R. Haigh, & D. Amaratunga (Eds.), Building resilience, CIB W89 international conference on building education and research, in conjunction with CIB, W113, CIB TG53, CIB TG63, CIB TG67, CIB TG68, and CIB TG69 (364-375). Salford, UK: University of Salford

The research-teaching nexus debate is a complex and often contentious one which has received a good deal of attention in the UK in recent years. Based on an international survey of built environment academics and practitioners this study explores the... Read More about The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education.

Interoperable knowledge: achievements and future challenges (2008)
Book Chapter
Barresi, S., & Rezgui, Y. (2008). Interoperable knowledge: achievements and future challenges. In P. Brandon, & T. Kocatürk (Eds.), Virtual futures for design, construction and procurement. USA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing

Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres (2008)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Khosrowshahi, F. (2008). Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres. In R. Haigh, & R. Amaratunga (Eds.), Building Resilience, CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research (1979-1987). Salford, UK: University of Salford

Governments, NGOs and International organisations must work together and contribute towards strategic disaster recovery planning process of countries. Emergency management plans should be in place and tested fully well ahead of any adverse situations... Read More about Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres.

Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector (2008)
Book Chapter
Cooper, I., Crowhurst, D., Platt, S., & Woodall, R. (2008). Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector. In J. Yang, P. Brandon, & A. Sidwell (Eds.), Smart and sustainable built environments (289-299). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470759493.ch26

This chapter contains sections titled: Summary, Sustainability and continuous improvement in UK construction, How was MaSC developed, What is MaSC, Benchmarking current progress on sustainability in UK construction, The performance o... Read More about Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector.

Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain (2008)
Book Chapter
Barresi, S., Rezgui, Y., Lima, C., & Meziane, F. (2008). Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain. In Y. Manolopoulos, J. Filipe, P. Constantopoulos, & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Enterprise Information Systems (336-347). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77581-2

Semantic resources, such as ontologies and taxonomies, are used in various domains to facilitate information exchange between people and software applications. However, in many cases, accessing a single semantic resource is no longer adequate. Conseq... Read More about Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain.

A decision support system for trust formalisation (2008)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2008). A decision support system for trust formalisation. In V. Sugumaran (Ed.), Distributed artificial intelligence, agent technology and collaborative applications (47-64). New York, USA: IGI Global

L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning (2008)
Book Chapter
Mamer, T., Bryant, C., & McCall, J. (2008). L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning. In F. Zelezny, & N. Lavrac (Eds.), Inductive logic programming (176-191). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85928-4_16

We identify a shortcoming of a standard positive-only clause evaluation function within the context of learning biological grammars. To overcome this shortcoming we propose L-modification, a modification to this evaluation function such that the leng... Read More about L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning.

A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment (2008)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., & Linge, N. (2008). A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment. In M. Guo, Z. Wang, F. Tang, & C. Xu (Eds.), IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. EUC '08 (565-570). Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUC.2008.100

Context maintenance and discovery, which aim to represent, manage and share context information, have been discussed since context-awareness was presented in the 1990s. These become more challenging when being applied to a ubiquitous environment wher... Read More about A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment.

The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England (2008)
Book Chapter
Booth, K., Takruri-Rizk, H., Welamedage, L., & Mansi, K. (2008). The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England. In E. O'Doherty (Ed.), The Fourth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Book 2007 (331-352). Santa Rosa, California, USA: Informing Science Press

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) have been at the heart of government policy priorities for many decades because of its contribution to the economy and exploitation of the science base is key to improving productivity and growing the market... Read More about The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England.