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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.

Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Bana, A., & Jankovic, L. (2020). Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization. . https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210914

Hempcrete is increasingly used as a construction material, as it provides stable temperature and relative humidity conditions in buildings. In addition to low energy operations, buildings built from hempcrete possess negative embodied CO2, absorbed i... Read More about Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization.

A simulation method for measuring building physics properties (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2020). A simulation method for measuring building physics properties. . https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210213

Designing building energy performance with confidence requires accurate information on the properties of building materials and on assemblies of these materials. However, thermal properties of the building in use are rarely compared to manufacturers’... Read More about A simulation method for measuring building physics properties.

Conference proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019 : contemporary and future directions in the Built Environment (2019)
Conference Proceeding
(2019). Conference proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019 : contemporary and future directions in the Built Environment. In A. Marshall-Ponting, Y. Ji, K. Keraminiyage, A. Lee, T. Poppelreuter, W. Swan, …H. van Dijk (Eds.),

Conference Proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019: Contemporary and Future Directions in the Built Environment

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.

A Green’s integral representation for the two-dimensional steady Navier-Stokes equation (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Chadwick, E. (2019). A Green’s integral representation for the two-dimensional steady Navier-Stokes equation. In . C. Fresneda-Portillo (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods UKBIM12

Consider steady uniform flow past a fixed, closed body in an unbounded domain governed
by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. A velocity representation is given as an integral
distribution of Green’s functions of the Navier-Stokes equations... Read More about A Green’s integral representation for the two-dimensional steady Navier-Stokes equation.

Learning Control of Tandem-Wing Tilt-Rotor UAV with Unsteady Aerodynamic Model (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Govdeli, Y., Bin Muzaffar, S. M., Raj, R., Elhadidi, B., & Kayacan, E. (2019). Learning Control of Tandem-Wing Tilt-Rotor UAV with Unsteady Aerodynamic Model. . https://doi.org/10.1109/fuzz-ieee.2019.8859023

This paper presents a novel transition flight mathematical model of tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles and demonstrates an application of a novel learning controller on the developed model. Instead of conventional steady aerodynamic models, an unste... Read More about Learning Control of Tandem-Wing Tilt-Rotor UAV with Unsteady Aerodynamic Model.

The Role of Building Information Modelling on Assessing Healthcare Design (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Soliman-Junior, J., Parise Baldauf, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., T. Formoso, C., & kagioglou, M. (2019). The Role of Building Information Modelling on Assessing Healthcare Design.

The design of healthcare projects is complex and presents a number of difficulties related to requirements management, e.g. conflicting requirements by stakeholders and changes of requirements over time. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been... Read More about The Role of Building Information Modelling on Assessing Healthcare Design.

CASE1 PRESENTATION: FACILITATING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE IN FIBROMYALGIA: A CASE STUDY FROM THE UK (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y. (2019). CASE1 PRESENTATION: FACILITATING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE IN FIBROMYALGIA: A CASE STUDY FROM THE UK. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.8566

Background: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition which, is commonly accompanied by the symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbance, low mood and cognitive dyscognition. EULAR Revised Recommendations for the management of Fibromyalgia suggests initial... Read More about CASE1 PRESENTATION: FACILITATING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE IN FIBROMYALGIA: A CASE STUDY FROM THE UK.

Multiple Modeling and Fuzzy Switching Control of Fixed-Wing VTOL Tilt-Rotor UAV (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Govdeli, Y., Tran, A. T., & Kayacan, E. (2019). Multiple Modeling and Fuzzy Switching Control of Fixed-Wing VTOL Tilt-Rotor UAV. In Fuzzy Techniques: Theory and Applications (270-284). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21920-8_25

This paper presents a detailed aerodynamic modeling technique along with a fuzzy switching multi-model guidance and control strategy for a custom blended wing-body tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The tilt-rotor configuration affects the ove... Read More about Multiple Modeling and Fuzzy Switching Control of Fixed-Wing VTOL Tilt-Rotor UAV.

THU0642  Eular points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications for self-management in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Najm, A., Nikiphorou, E., Kostine, M., Richez, C., Pauling, J., Finckh, A., …Berenbaum, F. (2019). THU0642  Eular points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications for self-management in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.1592

Background In the expanding era of e-health, a wide range of mobile health applications (apps) have become available to enable people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to better self-manage their health. However, guidance on the deve... Read More about THU0642  Eular points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications for self-management in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

Towards the extraction of statistical information from digitised numerical tables - the Medical Officer of Health reports scoping study (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Henshaw, C., & Hayes, J. (2019). Towards the extraction of statistical information from digitised numerical tables - the Medical Officer of Health reports scoping study. In DATeCH2019 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322905.3322932

Numerical data of considerable significance is present in historical documents in tabular form. Due to the challenges involved in the extraction of this data from the scanned documents it is not available to researchers in a useful representation tha... Read More about Towards the extraction of statistical information from digitised numerical tables - the Medical Officer of Health reports scoping study.