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Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., M. Bass, J., & Petrovski, A. (2015). Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iccac.2015.17

Multitenancy is an essential cloud computing property where a single instance of an application serves multiple tenants. Multitenancy introduces significant challenges when deploying application components to the cloud due to the demand for different... Read More about Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools.

Europeana newspapers OCR workflow evaluation (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Pletschacher, S., Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2015). Europeana newspapers OCR workflow evaluation. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2809544.2809554

This paper summarises the final performance evaluation results of the OCR workflow which was employed for large-scale production in the Europeana Newspapers project. It gives a detailed overview of how the involved software performed... Read More about Europeana newspapers OCR workflow evaluation.

Virtual teams and employability in global software engineering education (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., McDermott, R., & Lalchandani, J. (2015). Virtual teams and employability in global software engineering education. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2015.21

Universities face many challenges when creating opportunities for student experiences of global software engineering. We provide a model for introducing global software engineering into the computing curriculum. Our model is based on a three year col... Read More about Virtual teams and employability in global software engineering education.

The learner experience of student-led international group project work in software engineering (2015)
Conference Proceeding
McDermott, R., Bass, J., & Prakash Lalchandani, J. (2015). The learner experience of student-led international group project work in software engineering. . https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044181

Software development has become increasingly globalized because of technological innovation, the evolution of work and business processes, as well as prevailing educational systems and national policies [1]. This paper addresses the challenges faced... Read More about The learner experience of student-led international group project work in software engineering.

Cloud computing adoption in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis using institutions and capabilities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Dahiru, A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. K. (2015). Cloud computing adoption in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis using institutions and capabilities. . https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2014.7009019

Cloud computing can provide remote access to computing resources via the internet. It has the potential to transform economic activities considering its inherent pay-per usage model, flexibility and scalability features. This paper uses a socio-techn... Read More about Cloud computing adoption in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis using institutions and capabilities.

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.