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Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment (2022)
Conference Proceeding
(2022). Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment. In M. D. Wood, C. E. Mothersill, G. Tsakanova, T. Cresswell, & G. E. Woloschak (Eds.), Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2101-9

This proceedings volume results from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment (BRITE)’. The BRITE workshop discussed insights from cancer research, epigenetics, non-human and... Read More about Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment.

A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Mbabu, A., Underwood, J., & Munir, M. (2022). A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin. In ECPPM 2022 - eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2022. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003354222-31

The construction industry is committed to improving whole-life performance and minimising waste in building delivery and operations. The construction industry continues to explore Lean and now the digital twin concept from more productive cross-secto... Read More about A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin.

Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Ardo, A., Bass, J., & Gaber, T. (2022). Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model. In 2022 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA56994.2022.00031

Agile methods are a well-established paradigm in the software development field. Agile adoption has contributed to improving software quality. However, software products are vulnerable to security challenges and susceptible to cyberattacks. This stud... Read More about Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model.

An Advanced Refurbishment Evaluation Methodology for Modernist Office Buildings (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Duran, O., & Lomas, K. J. (2021). An Advanced Refurbishment Evaluation Methodology for Modernist Office Buildings.

The energy used in non-domestic buildings accounts for 18 \% of the energy use in the UK. Modernist office buildings, typically defined as those built between 1945 and 1985, represent a promising sector for refurbishment and energy demand reduction.... Read More about An Advanced Refurbishment Evaluation Methodology for Modernist Office Buildings.

A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Neudecker, C., Baierer, K., Gerber, M., Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2021). A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics. In HIP '21: The 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476887.3476888

The millions of pages of historical documents that are digitized in libraries are increasingly used in contexts that have more specific requirements for OCR quality than keyword search. How to comprehensively, efficiently and reliably assess the qual... Read More about A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics.

Living Labs in a Lean Perspective (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Awwal, S., Engler Bridi, M., Tzortzopoulos, P., Denis Granja, A., Koskela, L., & Gomes, D. (2021). Living Labs in a Lean Perspective. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (484-493). https://doi.org/10.24928/2021/0176

Living Labs (LLs) consist of social and dynamic environments that enable end-users and stakeholders to collaborate towards an innovation. This paper presents the concept of LLs and analysis on how it can foster communication and collaboration from a... Read More about Living Labs in a Lean Perspective.

Strengthening Target Value Design Benefits in Real Estate Market Through Living Labs (2021)
Conference Proceeding
A. Oliva, C., Denis Granja, A., Engler Bridi, M., Soliman-Junior, J., Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2021). Strengthening Target Value Design Benefits in Real Estate Market Through Living Labs. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (634-643). https://doi.org/10.24928/2021/0202

The Target Value Design (TVD) is a collaborative process where value drives the design process to achieve the client’s expectations while maintaining the costs and schedule under control. Its application has been successful in several construction pr... Read More about Strengthening Target Value Design Benefits in Real Estate Market Through Living Labs.

Proposing a Meta-Heuristic Approach for the Long Tail Problem of Recommender Systems (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Hosseini, S. Z., & Mohammadi, A. (2021). Proposing a Meta-Heuristic Approach for the Long Tail Problem of Recommender Systems. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWR51868.2021

Recommendation systems are a solution for providing appropriate suggestions to users and helping them in the decision-making process. In the most recommendation systems, the purpose is to offer items tailored to the user's interests based on the past... Read More about Proposing a Meta-Heuristic Approach for the Long Tail Problem of Recommender Systems.

Designing the Future to Predict the Future (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Jenkins, A., Keeffe, G., Lee Martin, C., van den Dobbelsteen, A., Broersma, S., & Pulselli, R. (2020). Designing the Future to Predict the Future.

The natural ecotone between people, community and carbon reduction is the zero-carbon community. Over recent decades, the design of zero-carbon communities has focussed too greatly on carbon emissions and not enough on building communities. Anthropog... Read More about Designing the Future to Predict the Future.

Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Parise Baldauf, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., kagioglou, M., S. Humphreys, J., & T. Formoso, C. (2020). Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools. . https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032003

It is well known that the quality of healthcare facilities can contribute to health and wellbeing. Healthcare design is complex due to the large amount of information involved, with sometimes conflicting requirements which evolve over time. Therefore... Read More about Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools.

An empirical taxonomy of DevOps in practice (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Macarthy, R., & Bass, J. (2020). An empirical taxonomy of DevOps in practice. . https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA51224.2020.00046

DevOps is described as a software engineering culture and philosophy that utilises cross-functional teams to build, test and release software faster and more reliably through automation. Research shows that its adoption speeds up software deliver... Read More about An empirical taxonomy of DevOps in practice.

DS-OLSR – Disaster Scenario Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Aliyu, U., Takruri, H., Hope, M., & Halilu, A. G. (2020). DS-OLSR – Disaster Scenario Optimized Link State Routing Protocol. . https://doi.org/10.1109/csndsp49049.2020.9249639

The success of disaster recovery and rescue operations depends largely on effective communication between rescue teams (RT) and victims. Unfortunately, certain disasters go beyond crippling/impairing communication infrastructures as it equally crippl... Read More about DS-OLSR – Disaster Scenario Optimized Link State Routing Protocol.

The Relationship Between Requirements Subjectivity and Semantics for Healthcare Design Support Systems (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Pedo, B., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2020). The Relationship Between Requirements Subjectivity and Semantics for Healthcare Design Support Systems. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51295-8_55

Subjectivity exists in requirements described in the healthcare regulatory framework. This is mainly due to the nature of regulatory requirements and the uniqueness of the design process. Past research identified that subjectivity in regulations is a... Read More about The Relationship Between Requirements Subjectivity and Semantics for Healthcare Design Support Systems.

Exploring Mistakeproofing in Healthcare Design (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2020). Exploring Mistakeproofing in Healthcare Design. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC28) (193-204). https://doi.org/10.24928/2020/0034

The process of verifying the compliance of design solutions to regulations is critical in healthcare design due to the complexity of the requirements present in healthcare settings. The majority of previews research concentrates on “mistake-searching... Read More about Exploring Mistakeproofing in Healthcare Design.

Information and Communication Technologies for Development (2020)
Conference Proceeding
(2020). Information and Communication Technologies for Development. In J. M. Bass, & P. J. Wall (Eds.), IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1

This book presents the collection of papers selected for presentation at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.4 16th International Conference organized under the banner of the Third European Conference on the... Read More about Information and Communication Technologies for Development.

Conference proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019 : contemporary and future directions in the Built Environment (2019)
Conference Proceeding
(2019). Conference proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019 : contemporary and future directions in the Built Environment. In A. Marshall-Ponting, Y. Ji, K. Keraminiyage, A. Lee, T. Poppelreuter, W. Swan, …H. van Dijk (Eds.),

Conference Proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019: Contemporary and Future Directions in the Built Environment

A cloud-hosted MapReduce architecture for syntactic parsing (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Woldemariam, Y., Pletschacher, S., Clausner, C., & Bass, J. (2019). A cloud-hosted MapReduce architecture for syntactic parsing. In Kallithea, Greece. https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2019.00024

Syntactic parsing is a time-consuming task innatural language processing particularlywherea largenumber of text files are beingprocessed. Parsingalgorithms are conventionally designed to operate on a single machine in a sequenti... Read More about A cloud-hosted MapReduce architecture for syntactic parsing.