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Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS) (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2015). Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS). In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366859

One of the key concerns of implementing multitenancy (i.e., serving multiple tenants with a single instance of an application) on the cloud is how to enable the required degree of isolation between tenants, so that the required performance of one ten... Read More about Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS).

Cloud Computing: A Comparison Of Adoption Issues Between Uk And Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Dahiru, A. A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. (2014). Cloud Computing: A Comparison Of Adoption Issues Between Uk And Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs.

Cloud computing can provide remote access to computing resources via the internet. This paper analyses and compares the adoption of cloud computing by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SS-Afr... Read More about Cloud Computing: A Comparison Of Adoption Issues Between Uk And Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs.

Document representation refinement for precise region description (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2014). Document representation refinement for precise region description. In A. Antonacopoulos, & K. Schulz (Eds.), DATeCH '14: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/2595188.2595198

Precise description of layout entities (content regions on a page) is crucial for all but the most trivial document analysis and recognition applications. The output of layout analysis methods and state-of-the-art OCR systems varies significantly, fr... Read More about Document representation refinement for precise region description.

Multi-casting in mountainous regions of developing countries: Analysis through ICT, institutions, and capabilities perspectives (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. M., & Thapa, D. (2014). Multi-casting in mountainous regions of developing countries: Analysis through ICT, institutions, and capabilities perspectives. . https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.412

Overcoming shortages of teachers or teachers with required skills and experience is a major challenge in rural schools in the global south. We investigate a classroom video conference multi-casting project under development by the Nepal Wireless Netw... Read More about Multi-casting in mountainous regions of developing countries: Analysis through ICT, institutions, and capabilities perspectives.

Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Bogoi, A., Marie Seynhaeve, J., Rugescu, R. D., Sugar, O., & Giot, M. (2013). Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows. . https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-65838

A genuine mathematical model for one dimensional, unsteady, two phase (liquid-gas) flows is presented that intends to solve the complex problem of two phase behavior of fluids. The mechanism of the model describes the fluid flow characteristics of th... Read More about Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows.

Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams (2013)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2013). Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icgse.2013.27

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the product owner role is discussed. The product owner identifies and prioritizes customer r... Read More about Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams.

The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2013). The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2013.141

Reading order detection and representation is an important task in many digitisation scenarios involving the preservation of the logical structure of a document. The corresponding need for the evaluation of reading order results generated by layout a... Read More about The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation.

Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Othman, O., & Bryant, C. (2013). Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods. In P. Perner (Ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (209-218). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39712-7_16

A new prepruning technique for rule induction is presented which applies instance reduction before rule induction. An empirical evaluation records the predictive accuracy and size of rule-sets generated from 24 datasets from the UCI Machine Learning... Read More about Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods.

Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Rahman, M. A., Mahmud, P., & Mashuk, M. (2013). Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training. In 2013 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEV.2013.6572714

Continuing development in surgical techniques has elevated the level of sophistication in surgery. In order to reduce trauma to healthy tissue of the patient body, scientists are continuously trying different technologies in surgery. Minimally Invasi... Read More about Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training.

Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. (2012). Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development. . https://doi.org/10.1109/AgileIndia.2012.15

Agile development projects have become a reality in large enterprises using offshore development models. A case study involving seven international companies with offices in Bangalore, India, and London, UK was conducted, including interviews with 19... Read More about Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development.

Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Kalantari, R., & Bryant, C. (2012). Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity. In L. MacKinnon (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th British National Conference on Databases. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25704-9_8

This is the first published work to compare the performance of object and object relational database systems based on the object's complexity. The findings of this research show that the performance of object and object relational database systems ar... Read More about Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity.

Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2011). Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments. In 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.19

Large-scale digitisation has led to a number of new possibilities with regard to adaptive and learning based methods in the field of Document Image Analysis and OCR. For ground truth production of large corpora, however, there is still a gap in terms... Read More about Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments.

Automatic detection of Bangla characters in Bangladeshi car registration plates (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Mashuk, M., Majid, M., Basher, N., & Rahman, T. (2011). Automatic detection of Bangla characters in Bangladeshi car registration plates. In 2010 Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSiM.2010.73

This paper presents a technique that intends to recognize bangla characters from Bangladeshi automobile registration plates. Even though the recognition of characters from registration plates are nothing new but the conditions and circumstances surro... Read More about Automatic detection of Bangla characters in Bangladeshi car registration plates.

Restoration of arbitrarily warped historical document images using flow lines (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Rahnemoonfar, M., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2011). Restoration of arbitrarily warped historical document images using flow lines. In 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.184

Historical documents frequently suffer from arbitrary geometric distortions (warping and folds) due to storage conditions, use and to, some extent, the printing process of the time. In addition, page curl can be prominent due to the scanning tech... Read More about Restoration of arbitrarily warped historical document images using flow lines.

The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2010). The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework. In 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2010.72

There is a plethora of established and proposed document representation formats but none that can adequately support individual stages within an entire sequence of document image analysis methods (from document image enhancement to layout analysis to... Read More about The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework.

Word-Based adaptive OCR for historical books (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Kluzner, V., Tzadok, A., Shimony, Y., Walach, E., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2009). Word-Based adaptive OCR for historical books. In 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2009.133

The aim of this work is to propose a new approach to the recognition of historical texts by providing an adaptive mechanism that automatically tunes itself to a specific book. The system is based on clustering together all the similar words in a book... Read More about Word-Based adaptive OCR for historical books.

Inferring the function of genes from synthetic lethal mutations (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Ray, O., & Bryant, C. (2008). Inferring the function of genes from synthetic lethal mutations. In F. Xhafa, & L. Barolli (Eds.), Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (667-671). https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2008.124

Techniques for detecting synthetic lethal mutations in double gene deletion experiments are emerging as powerful tool for analysing genes in parallel or overlapping pathways with a shared function. This paper introduces a logic-based approach that us... Read More about Inferring the function of genes from synthetic lethal mutations.

A developmental model of basic ICT skills for pre-service trainee teachers (2007)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2007). A developmental model of basic ICT skills for pre-service trainee teachers. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ictd.2007.4937404

Resource limitations present several challenges to diffusion of ICT skills in developing (non-OECD) countries. Trainee teachers join colleges of teacher education with little or no prior exposure to technologies such as mobile phones or computers. Di... Read More about A developmental model of basic ICT skills for pre-service trainee teachers.