Negotiating sustainability with sustainability assessment
(2015)
Book Chapter
Hayes, S. (2015). Negotiating sustainability with sustainability assessment. In J. Condie, & A. Cooper (Eds.), Dialogues of sustainable urbanisation : social science research and transitions to urban contexts (28-31). University of Western Sydney
All Outputs (553)
Community participation as a gate to new Egyptian society (2015)
Book Chapter
Kenawy, I., & Ehab, A. (2015). Community participation as a gate to new Egyptian society. In PLEA 2015 Conference Proceedings. PLEA 2015The Neighbourhoods problem in Egypt is affected by socioeconomic and physical factors that are integrated in different degrees and levels. These socioeconomic factors reflect the role of community participation in the problem. The role of the communi... Read More about Community participation as a gate to new Egyptian society.
An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Fu, Z., Shen, J., & Linge, N. (2015). An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment. In 2015 9th International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) (9-12). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FGCN.2015.9MapReduce is a popular programming model for the purposes of processing large data sets. Speculative execution known as an approach for dealing with the above problems works by backing up those tasks running on a low performance machine to a higher o... Read More about An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment.
Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region (2015)
Book Chapter
Lundie, M., Slivancanin, Z., & Tomic, S. (2015). Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (1-4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355661The controlled and patterned reduction of graphene oxide offers a promising method to tune the electronic and optical properties of the material through a wide range. Using ab initio calculations in which the exact exchange energy from Hartree-Fock t... Read More about Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region.
Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration (2015)
Book Chapter
Tomic, S., Sogabe, T., & Okada, Y. (2015). Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (1-3). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356067Laterally coupled semiconductor quantum dot (QD) arrays emerged recently as promising structures for the next generation of high efficiency intermediate band solar cell (IBSC).We present here a method based on multi-band k·p Hamiltonian combined with... Read More about Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration.
Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training (2015)
Book Chapter
Al-Noori, A., Al-Karawi, K., & Li, F. (2015). Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training. In 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (180-180). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EISIC.2015.20Speaker recognition can be used as a security means to authenticate the speaker or as a forensic tool to determine who is likely to be the talker. For such critical applications, robustness or reliability of the system is crucial. In spite of the dev... Read More about Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training.
Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain (2015)
Book Chapter
Nasir, M., Sultan, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Manzoor, U. (2015). Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain. In 2015 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA) (1-7). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSA.2015.7166137The energy sector has been actively looking into cyber risk assessment at a global level, as it has a ripple effect; risk taken at one step in supply chain has an impact on all the other nodes. Cyber-attacks not only hinder functional operations in a... Read More about Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain.
Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns (2015)
Book Chapter
Adewojo, A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. (2015). Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns. In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (53-58). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366858Multi-tenancy is a vital cloud computing property that enables multiple tenants of an application to be served concurrently while guaranteeing isolation between the tenants. Current cloud deployment patterns catalogue for implementing multi-tenancy l... Read More about Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns.
Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Omar, A., Bass, J., & Lowit, P. (2015). Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach. In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (91-96). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366866This study explores the effectiveness of insourcing in the Malaysian Government. The research discusses the factors and issues of insourcing in a Malaysian government agency in the context of post contract termination of an outsourcing agreement. A q... Read More about Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach.
A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Wang, W., Jackson, P., & Cox, T. (2015). A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio. In 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (1088-1092). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUSIPCO.2015.7362551Representing a complex acoustic scene with audio objects is desirable but challenging in object-based spatial audio production and reproduction, especially when concurrent sound signals are present in the scene. Source separation (SS) provides a pote... Read More about A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio.
Re-writing the city (2015)
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Abel, P., Schliwa, G., Lindley, J., Turner, S., Devitt, J., MacDonald, J., …Barraclough, R. (2015). Re-writing the city. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference on - British HCI '15 (147-156). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783562This paper is an output of a two day 'Festival Lab' held at the Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 2015. The Festival Lab invited a team of academic researchers to develop a model of public engagement during the festival that would exp... Read More about Re-writing the city.
A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach (2015)
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Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., Shen, J., Xiao, B., & Linge, N. (2015). A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach. In 2015 17th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) (133-137). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACT.2015.7224772Monitoring and controlling microclimate in a greenhouse becomes one of the research hotspots in the field of agrometeorology, where the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) recently attracts more attentions due to its features of self-adapti... Read More about A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach.
Cloud storage forensic : HubiC as a case-study (2015)
Book Chapter
Blakele, B., Cooney, C., Dehghantanha, A., & Aspin, R. (2015). Cloud storage forensic : HubiC as a case-study. In 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) (536-541). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2015.24In today’s society where we live in a world of constant connectivity, many people are now looking to cloud services in order to store their files so they can have access to them wherever they are. By using cloud services, users can access files a... Read More about Cloud storage forensic : HubiC as a case-study.
The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster (2015)
Book Chapter
Kinn, M., & Abbott, C. (2015). The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster. In Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2015 (1-26). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)The overarching purpose of this paper is to address the challenges facing the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 in a holistic way. The emphasis will be on Thematic Research Area 8, which concentrates on what can be done to mi... Read More about The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster.
Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction (2015)
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Retsinas, G., Gatos, B., Antonacopoulos, A., Louloudis, G., & Stamatopoulos, N. (2015). Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2015) (31-38). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2809544.2809559Recognition of low-quality historical typewritten documents can still be considered as a challenging and difficult task due to several issues i.e. the existence of faint and degraded characters, stains, tears, punch holes etc. In this paper, we explo... Read More about Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction.
ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015 (2015)
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Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Papadopoulos, C., & Pletschacher, S. (2015). ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015. In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (1151-1155). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333941This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page segmentation and region classification methods for documents with complex layouts. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodology) held in the context o... Read More about ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015.
Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood (2015)
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Bevilacqua, C., Trillo, C., Pizzimenti, P., & Maione, C. (2015). Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood. In Plan Together - Right Now - Overall From Vision to Reality for Vibrant Cities and Regions 20th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (651-659). CORPContemporary cities are affected by several challenges. Rapid urbanisation processes combined with unstable economic conditions, uncontrolled physical development and social exclusion, political instability make difficult the understanding of “securi... Read More about Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood.
A new evolutionary approach to geotechnical and geo-environmental modelling (2015)
Book Chapter
Hussain, M., Ahangar Asr, A., Chen, Y., & Javadi, A. (2015). A new evolutionary approach to geotechnical and geo-environmental modelling. In A. Gandomi Conor Ryan, A. Alavi, & R. Conor (Eds.), Handbook of Genetic Programming Applications (483-499). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20883-1_19In many cases, models based on certain laws of physics can be developed to describe the behaviour of physical systems. However, in case of more complex phenomena with less known or understood contributing parameters or variables the physics-based mod... Read More about A new evolutionary approach to geotechnical and geo-environmental modelling.
The multi-level governance of science policy in England - selected reading (2015)
Book Chapter
Perry, B. (2015). The multi-level governance of science policy in England - selected reading. In I. Bache (Ed.), Multi-level Governance : Essential Readings. Edward ElgarThe term ‘multi-level governance’ (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering... Read More about The multi-level governance of science policy in England - selected reading.
Introducing and analysis of the Windows 8 event log for forensic purposes (2015)
Book Chapter
Talebi, J., Dehghantanha, A., & Ramlan, M. (2015). Introducing and analysis of the Windows 8 event log for forensic purposes. In Computational Forensics (145-162). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20125-2_13All operating systems are employing some sort of logging mechanism to track and note users activities and Microsoft Windows is not an exception. Log Analysis is one of the important parts of Windows forensics process. The Windows event log system int... Read More about Introducing and analysis of the Windows 8 event log for forensic purposes.