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Designing the Future to Predict the Future (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Geospatial dashboards for mapping and tracking of novel Coronavirus pandemic (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In mid of December 2019, Wuhan sea food, China a new mysterious illness was reported lately called Coronavirus
(COVID-19, The virus triggered a severe respiratory disease, rapidly speeded to many other states of China and
around the world. COVID-19... Read More about Geospatial dashboards for mapping and tracking of novel Coronavirus pandemic.

Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Organisations that manage legacy systems at scale, such as those found within large government agencies and commercial enterprises, face a set of unique challenges. They manage complex software landscapes that have evolved over decades. Current conce... Read More about Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective.

Improving healthcare design with BIM-based tools (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Investigation into the effects of the geometry in cone driven midrange horns & phase plugs (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Midrange horn loudspeakers are usually used in professional audio applications to improve efficiency and control directivity. Because traditional lumped parameter circuits do not model phase plugs or complexities of horn geometry after the expansion,... Read More about Investigation into the effects of the geometry in cone driven midrange horns & phase plugs.

A New Method for Detecting Altered Text in Document Images (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As more and more office documents are captured, stored, and shared in digital format, and as image editing software becomes increasingly more powerful, there is a growing concern about document authenticity. For example, texts in property documents c... Read More about A New Method for Detecting Altered Text in Document Images.

A New DCT-FFT Fusion Based Method for Caption and Scene Text Classification in Action Video Images (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Achieving better recognition rate for text in video action images is challenging due to multi-type texts with unpredictable backgrounds. We propose a new method for the classification of captions (which is edited text) and scene texts (which is part... Read More about A New DCT-FFT Fusion Based Method for Caption and Scene Text Classification in Action Video Images.

Graduate programs in acoustics at the University of Salford, United Kingdom (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Salford is one of the UK's leading centers for research and teaching in acoustics and audio. The courses are delivered by a research-active academic team at the very pinnacle of the profession, with an attractive staff to student ratio. Our taught co... Read More about Graduate programs in acoustics at the University of Salford, United Kingdom.

Acoustic properties of additive manufactured porous material (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Acoustic porous materials are extensively used in many engineering applications like building, automobile, aviation, and marine. The health risk factor and environmental claims, associated with traditional materials such as glass wool, mineral fibers... Read More about Acoustic properties of additive manufactured porous material.

Investigations on Salp Swarm Algorithm to Solve Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Combined heat and power economic dispatch is an important optimization problem in a power system integrated with cogeneration units. In addition to the optimal solution satisfying the power balance equality constraint and the bounds of the thermal un... Read More about Investigations on Salp Swarm Algorithm to Solve Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch.

An empirical taxonomy of DevOps in practice (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Towards Cyber-User Awareness: Design and Evaluation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Human reliance on interconnected devices has given rise to a massive increase in cyber activities. There are about 17 billion interconnected devices in our World of about 8 billion people. Like the physical world, the cyber world is not void of entit... Read More about Towards Cyber-User Awareness: Design and Evaluation.

Spotify tailoring for architectural governance (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Organisations usually tailor Agile methods to fit their needs best. Spotify has developed its own Agile culture to facilitate software development for hundreds of developers across multiple cities. The Spotify model has become influential among agile... Read More about Spotify tailoring for architectural governance.

Information and Communication Technologies for Development (2020)
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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.

Implementation of agile methodology in developing countries : case study in Lebanon (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Researchers have become interested in agile approaches to information systems development, because of their potential to improve product quality and increase productivity. While
often associated with project orchestration in software development, ag... Read More about Implementation of agile methodology in developing countries : case study in Lebanon.

The Operation of the Informal Urban Development System in Nigeria. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study examines the operation of the informal urban development system in Nigeria using two case studies of Nyikangbe and Ugbo Odogwu in Minna and Enugu respectively to determine whether it could be leveraged to deliver sustainable urban developm... Read More about The Operation of the Informal Urban Development System in Nigeria..

A text-context-aware CNN network for multi-oriented and multi-language scene text detection (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The existing deep learning based state-of-theart scene text detection methods treat scene texts a type of general objects, or segment text regions directly. The latter category achieves remarkable detection results on arbitrary orientation and large... Read More about A text-context-aware CNN network for multi-oriented and multi-language scene text detection.