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Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor, N., Hurley, U., & Connolly, P. (2016). Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life. In Proceedings of CHI 2016 (Human-Computer Interaction conference) (1415-1425). https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858073

Makerspaces—public workshops where makers can share tools and knowledge—are a growing resource for amateurs and professionals alike. While the role of makerspaces in innovation and peer learning is widely discussed, we attempt to look at the wider ro... Read More about Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life.

Enhanced cloud patterns: a case study of multi-tenancy patterns (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Adewojo, A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. Enhanced cloud patterns: a case study of multi-tenancy patterns. . https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366858

Multi-tenancy is a vital cloud computing property that enables multiple tenants of an application to be served concurrently while guaranteeing isolation between the tenants. Current cloud deployment patterns catalogue for implementing multi-tenancy l... Read More about Enhanced cloud patterns: a case study of multi-tenancy patterns.

Changing pivoting technique reduces knee valgus moments (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Jones, P., Barber, O., & Smith, L. (2015). Changing pivoting technique reduces knee valgus moments. . https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2015.1110236

Changing direction is a common action involved in non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in female athletes (Faude et al. [2005]. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 33, 1694-1700), as such actions involve lower limb postures that increase... Read More about Changing pivoting technique reduces knee valgus moments.

Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for Post-War office buildings (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Duran, Ö., Taylor, S. C., & Lomas, K. J. (2015). Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for Post-War office buildings.

Multiple combinations of energy saving refurbishment measures were applied to representative models of post-war office buildings using EnergyPlus. Based on energy consumption, thermal comfort and costs, a range of heating and cooling refurb... Read More about Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for Post-War office buildings.

A comparative analysis of two globally distributed group projects: A perspective from CSCW/CSCL research (2015)
Conference Proceeding
McDermott, R., Daniels, M., Cajander, A., Bass, J., & Lalchandani, J. (2015). A comparative analysis of two globally distributed group projects: A perspective from CSCW/CSCL research. . https://doi.org/10.1109/fie.2015.7344344

Globally distributed group projects are becoming an attractive and increasingly common feature in computer science education. They provide opportunities for students to engage in activities that enhance both their technical skills and wider professio... Read More about A comparative analysis of two globally distributed group projects: A perspective from CSCW/CSCL research.

Cloud deployment patterns: Migrating a database driven application to the cloud using design patterns (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Adewojo, A., Bass, J., Allison, I., & Hui, K. (2015). Cloud deployment patterns: Migrating a database driven application to the cloud using design patterns.

Cloud computing provides scalable and reliable computing services that can be beneficial to software organizations that intend to migrate their existing or new applications to the cloud. However, migration is potentially complex, so cloud computi... Read More about Cloud deployment patterns: Migrating a database driven application to the cloud using design patterns.

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.

Participation in Valued Life Activities in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comparison between the UK and Sweden (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Ahlstrand, I., & Bjork, M. (2015). Participation in Valued Life Activities in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comparison between the UK and Sweden. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-eular.2634

Background The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) is a measure of difficulties in participation and daily activities1. Originally developed in the USA, this measure was linguistically and culturally adopted for use in people with rheumatoid arthriti... Read More about Participation in Valued Life Activities in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comparison between the UK and Sweden.

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.

Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Khan-Perez, J., Harkness, E., Mercer, C., Bydder, M., Sergeant, J., Morris, J., …Astley, S. M. (2014). Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_38

The detection of breast cancer relies on high-quality images from digital mammography. Optimal levels of compression force are unknown, and UK national guidelines recommend forces of less than 200N. However, large variations in compression forces exi... Read More about Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters.

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.