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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Building a Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem Framework through Design Science Research (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Iyawa, G. E., Herselman, M., & Botha, A. (2019). Building a Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem Framework through Design Science Research. . https://doi.org/10.1109/NEXTCOMP.2019.8883650

Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem is a relatively new concept, with studies describing it as an ecosystem that allows patients and other healthcare stakeholders take part in the healthcare delivery process using digital health technologies with the... Read More about Building a Digital Health Innovation Ecosystem Framework through Design Science Research.

Crowdsourcing historical tabular data : 1961 census of England and Wales (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Hayes, J., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2019). Crowdsourcing historical tabular data : 1961 census of England and Wales. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing - HIP '19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3352631.3352643

This paper describes how crowdsourcing can be incorporated as an integral part of a comprehensive technical workflow to identify, extract and validate data from large volumes of printed tabular statistics, and transform them into operable digital dat... Read More about Crowdsourcing historical tabular data : 1961 census of England and Wales.

Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development (2019)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2019). Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30126-2_9

This workshop explored the main research challenges in conducting agile software development in large-scale software development. We considered multi-site companies with projects that include a large number of teams which develop sophisticated system... Read More about Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development.

Automatic recognition of feeding and non-nutritive feeding behaviour in pigs using deep learning (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Alameer, A., Dalton, H., & Kyriazakis, I. (2019). Automatic recognition of feeding and non-nutritive feeding behaviour in pigs using deep learning. . https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-890-2

Automated vision-based early warning systems have been developed to detect behavioural changes in groups of pigs to monitor their health and welfare status. However, automatic feed detection remains a problem in precision pig farming due to problems... Read More about Automatic recognition of feeding and non-nutritive feeding behaviour in pigs using deep learning.

BEM for low Reynolds number flow past a steady circular cylinder in an unbounded domain (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Dang, B., & Chadwick, E. (2019). BEM for low Reynolds number flow past a steady circular cylinder in an unbounded domain. In C. Fresneda-Portillo (Ed.),

Consider a two dimensional steady low Reynolds number flow past a circular cylinder. The theoretical treatment in Chadwick [1] is detailed and elaborated. A Boundary Integral representation that matches an outer Oseen flow and inner Stokes flow is gi... Read More about BEM for low Reynolds number flow past a steady circular cylinder in an unbounded domain.

The leading order equivalence of Oseen’s and Imai’s representations (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Adamu, H., & Chadwick, E. The leading order equivalence of Oseen’s and Imai’s representations. In C. Fresneda-Portillo (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods UKBIM12

Consider the far-field behind a body in a steady, two-dimensional uniform flow field. In the far-field the Oseen linearisation is valid, and in the far-field wake Imai’s asymptotic expansion is applicable. The fundamental solution Green’s function o... Read More about The leading order equivalence of Oseen’s and Imai’s representations.