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A study of the Scrum Master’s role (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Noll, J., Razzak, M., Bass, J., & Beecham, S. (2017). A study of the Scrum Master’s role. In M. Felderer, D. Méndez Fernández, B. Turhan, M. Kalinowski, F. Sarro, & D. Winkler (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29–December 1, 2017, Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4

Scrum is an increasingly common approach to software development adopted by organizations around the world. However, as organizations transition from traditional plan-driven development to agile development with Scrum, the question arises as to which... Read More about A study of the Scrum Master’s role.

ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017 (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Derrick, T., & Pletschacher, S. (2017). ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2017.230

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page analysis and recognition methods for historical documents with text mainly in Bengali language and script. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodolog... Read More about ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017.

ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017 (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2017). ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2017.229

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page segmentation and region classification methods for documents with complex layouts. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodology) held in the context o... Read More about ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017.

The application of wireless sensor networks and wearable technologies for educational purposes: A scoping review (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Iyawa, G., Herselman, M., & Botha, A. (2017). The application of wireless sensor networks and wearable technologies for educational purposes: A scoping review. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3231830.3231839

Past researches in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and wearable technologies have mostly been conducted in the field of healthcare for the purpose of patients' health monitoring. However, recent studies in WSNs and wearable technologies suggest that... Read More about The application of wireless sensor networks and wearable technologies for educational purposes: A scoping review.

Creating a complete workflow for digitising historical census documents : considerations and evaluation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Hayes, J., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2017). Creating a complete workflow for digitising historical census documents : considerations and evaluation. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3151509.3151525

The 1961 Census of England and Wales was the first UK census to make use of computers. However, only bound volumes and microfilm copies of printouts remain, locking a wealth of information in a form that is practically unusable for research. In this... Read More about Creating a complete workflow for digitising historical census documents : considerations and evaluation.

A scoping review of digital health innovation ecosystems in developed and developing countries (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Iyawa, G. E., Herselman, M., & Botha, A. (2017). A scoping review of digital health innovation ecosystems in developed and developing countries. . https://doi.org/10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2017.8102325

Digital health innovation ecosystems describe the need to incorporate the components of digital health, innovation and digital ecosystems in administering healthcare services. Reviewing the evidence of digital health, innovation and digital ecosystem... Read More about A scoping review of digital health innovation ecosystems in developed and developing countries.

Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., Bass, J., Ghavimi, H., & Adam, P. (2017). Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study. . https://doi.org/10.23919/i-Society.2017.8354664

This paper describes the innovation processes used in a partnership between a company that provides asset integrity and maintenance management consulting services in the energy sector and a university. The challenge faced by the company is to make th... Read More about Product innovation with Scrum : a longitudinal case study.

Unearthing the recent past : digitising and understanding statistical information from census tables (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Hayes, J., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2017). Unearthing the recent past : digitising and understanding statistical information from census tables. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage - DATeCH2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3078081.3078106

Censuses comprise a wealth of information at a large (national) scale that allow governments (who commission them) and the public to have a detailed snapshot of how people live (geographical distribution and characteristics). In addition to underpinn... Read More about Unearthing the recent past : digitising and understanding statistical information from census tables.

Rheumatology occupational therapists’ views of participating in a randomised controlled trial of arthritis gloves (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Hammond, A., Arafin, N., Adams, J., Hough, Y., & Jacklin, A. (2017). Rheumatology occupational therapists’ views of participating in a randomised controlled trial of arthritis gloves. . https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kex062.121

Background: Arthritis gloves are provided by NHS rheumatology occupational therapists (OTs) to people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) to reduce hand pain and stiffness and improve hand function. However, there is little evidence to support their eff... Read More about Rheumatology occupational therapists’ views of participating in a randomised controlled trial of arthritis gloves.

Experimenting with docker: Linux container and baseos attack surfaces (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Mohallel, A. A., Bass, J., & Dehghantaha, A. (2017). Experimenting with docker: Linux container and baseos attack surfaces. . https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854163

Linux containers showed great superiority when compared to virtual machines and hypervisors in terms of networking, disk and memory management, start-up and compilation speed, and overall processing performance. In this research, we are questioning w... Read More about Experimenting with docker: Linux container and baseos attack surfaces.

Optimizing the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2017). Optimizing the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation. . https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854180

The sharing of components of a cloud-hosted application and the underlying cloud resources between tenants have the potential to reduce resource consumption and running cost per tenant. However, this sharing may allow the behaviour of one component t... Read More about Optimizing the deployment of cloud-hosted application components for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation.

Development of efficient small scale axial turbine for solar driven organic rankine cycle (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Al Jubori, A., Al-Dadah, R. K., Mahmoud, S., Khalil, K. M., & Bahr Ennil, A. S. (2016). Development of efficient small scale axial turbine for solar driven organic rankine cycle. . https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2016-57845

Recently, the increase in fossil fuel consumption and associated adverse impact on the environment led to significant interest in renewable energy sources like solar. This paper presents a new methodology that integrates the ORC cycle analysis with m... Read More about Development of efficient small scale axial turbine for solar driven organic rankine cycle.

Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2016). Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system. In Services Computing (SCC), 2016 IEEE International Conference on 27 June-2 July 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCC.2016.56

Implementing the required degree of isolation between tenants is one of the significant challenges for deploying a multitenant application on the cloud. In this paper, we applied COMITRE (COmponent-based approach to Multitenancy Isolation Through req... Read More about Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system.

On the CO2 and noise emissions forecast in future aviation scenarios in the UK (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Torija, A. J., Self, R., & Flindell, I. (2016). On the CO2 and noise emissions forecast in future aviation scenarios in the UK.

Aircraft operations have a significant impact on local air quality, climate change, fuel consumption and noise around airports. In order to reach emission targets set by aviation agencies (e.g. ACARE), to reduce environmental impact and to ensure a s... Read More about On the CO2 and noise emissions forecast in future aviation scenarios in the UK.

Perception and automated assessment of audio quality in user generated content (2016)
Conference Proceeding
quality in user generated content. In Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2016 Eighth International Conference on 6-8 June 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX.2016.7498974

Technology to record sound, available in personal devices such as smartphones or video recording devices, is now ubiquitous. However, the production quality of the sound on this user-generated content is often very poor: distorted, noisy, with garble... Read More about Perception and automated assessment of audio quality in user generated content.

Quality prediction system for large-scale digitisation workflows (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2016). Quality prediction system for large-scale digitisation workflows. . https://doi.org/10.1109/das.2016.82

The feasibility of large-scale OCR projects can so far only be assessed by running pilot studies on subsets of the target document collections and measuring the success of different workflows based on precise ground truth, which can be very costly to... Read More about Quality prediction system for large-scale digitisation workflows.

Large-scale offshore agile tailoring : exploring productand service organisations (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. (2016). Large-scale offshore agile tailoring : exploring productand service organisations. In Proceedings of the Scientific Workshop Proceedings of XP2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/2962695.2962703

This paper uses empirical data to compare large-scale agile method tailoring in two types of global software development programme: offshore outsourced services and offshore captive development centres. This research forms part of a larger study and... Read More about Large-scale offshore agile tailoring : exploring productand service organisations.