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The relationship between corporate social responsibility and company competitiveness from the perspective of the construction industry (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ulutas, D., Giritli, H., & McDermott, P. (2014, May). The relationship between corporate social responsibility and company competitiveness from the perspective of the construction industry. Presented at CIB International Conference 2014: W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/74/81/83 Construction in a Changing World, Sri Lanka

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has evolved to an important agenda for many industries and its scope has been widened from the responsible business to strategic decisions. The increasing importance of CSR affects business relations because orga... Read More about The relationship between corporate social responsibility and company competitiveness from the perspective of the construction industry.

A systems approach to assessing organisational viability – an oil and gas project based organisation case study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Awuzie, B., & McDermott, P. (2014, May). A systems approach to assessing organisational viability – an oil and gas project based organisation case study. Presented at CIB International Conference 2014: W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/74/81/83 Construction in a Changing World, Sri Lanka

Extant literature highlights the increasing inability of Project-Based Organisations (PBOs) to meet infrastructure client’s expectations, particularly as it concerns the delivery of socio-economic outcomes during the delivery process. Viability is de... Read More about A systems approach to assessing organisational viability – an oil and gas project based organisation case study.

Audio information mining pragmatic review, outlook and a universal open architecture (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Duncan, P., Mohammed, D., & Li, F. (2014, April). Audio information mining pragmatic review, outlook and a universal open architecture. Presented at Audio Engineering Society 136th Convention, Berlin

There is an immense amount of audio data available currently whose content is unspecified and the problem of classification and generation of metadata poses a significant and challenging research problem. We present a review of past and current work... Read More about Audio information mining pragmatic review, outlook and a universal open architecture.

A new biologically plausible supervised learning method for spiking neurons (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2014, April). A new biologically plausible supervised learning method for spiking neurons. Presented at 22st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN) Computational Intelligence And Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium

STDP is believed to play an important role in learning and memory. Additionally, experimental evidence shows that a few strong neural inputs can drive a neuron response and subsequently affect the learning of other inputs. Furthermore, recent studies... Read More about A new biologically plausible supervised learning method for spiking neurons.

Professional doctorate research methodologies: new possibilities from beyond the social sciences (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Chynoweth, P. (2014, April). Professional doctorate research methodologies: new possibilities from beyond the social sciences. Presented at 4th International Conference on Professional Doctorates, Cardiff, UK

The methodological approaches used by professional doctorate students often mirror those used by full-time academics within their fields of study. Costley & Armsby (2007) found that these are often dominated by a narrow range of social science approa... Read More about Professional doctorate research methodologies: new possibilities from beyond the social sciences.

Soap based thermal insulation: A sustainable alternative to petroleum (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Read, L., & Arayici, Y. (2014, April). Soap based thermal insulation: A sustainable alternative to petroleum. Presented at International Postgraduate Research Conference, Salford, UK

The thermal insulation market is dominated by petroleum insulations. A gap has been identified for the manufacture of “green” insulations. These insulations must perform to the same levels of heat transfer resistance as their petroleum based counte... Read More about Soap based thermal insulation: A sustainable alternative to petroleum.

Railway vehicle optimisation to using the concept of design for control (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, C., Mei, T., Hubbard, P. D., & Mirzapour, M. (2014, April). Railway vehicle optimisation to using the concept of design for control. Presented at The Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance ,, Ajaccio

Design for control is an axiom extensively used in the aerospace and automotive industries that has proven highly beneficial both in terms of performance benefits but also in reducing unit costs and reducing maintenance burdens. To date, in the railw... Read More about Railway vehicle optimisation to using the concept of design for control.

Applications of p53 interactome analysis to personalised drug discovery (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hussain, M., Stutchbury, B., Tian, K., Atalay, R., Schwartz, J., & Krstic-Demonacos, M. (2014, April). Applications of p53 interactome analysis to personalised drug discovery. Presented at Conference: International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2014), Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

The stress responsive transcription factor p53 is a powerful tumor suppressor implicated in over 50 % of all human cancers. The complexity and nonlinear dynamics of p53 network coupled with extensive literature is challenging. Sys-tems biology method... Read More about Applications of p53 interactome analysis to personalised drug discovery.

Assessing the use of advanced daylight simulation modelling tools in enhancing students’ learning experience (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Almaiyah, S., & Elkadi, H. (2014, March). Assessing the use of advanced daylight simulation modelling tools in enhancing students’ learning experience. Presented at The Seventh International Conference of the Arab Society of Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

In architecture schools, where the ‘studio culture’ lies at the heart of students’ learning, taught courses, particularly technology ones, are often seen as secondary or supplementary units. Successful delivery of such courses, where students can act... Read More about Assessing the use of advanced daylight simulation modelling tools in enhancing students’ learning experience.

Detecting price manipulation in the financial market (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Cao, Y., Li, Y., Coleman, S., Belatreche, A., & McGinnity, T. (2014, March). Detecting price manipulation in the financial market. Presented at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, London

Market abuse has attracted much attention from financial regulators around the world but it is difficult to fully prevent. One of the reasons is the lack of thoroughly studies of the market abuse strategies and the corresponding effective market abus... Read More about Detecting price manipulation in the financial market.

Detecting wash trade in the financial market (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Cao, Y., Li, Y., Coleman, S., Belatreche, A., & McGinnity, T. (2014, March). Detecting wash trade in the financial market. Presented at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, London

Wash trade refers to the activities of traders who utilise deliberately designed collusive transactions to increase the trading volumes for creating active market impression. Wash trade can be damaging to the proper functioning and integrity of capit... Read More about Detecting wash trade in the financial market.

Pre-processing online financial text for sentiment classification : A natural language processing approach (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Fan, S., Belatreche, A., Coleman, S., McGinnity, T., & Li, Y. (2014, March). Pre-processing online financial text for sentiment classification : A natural language processing approach. Presented at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, London

Online financial textual information contains a large amount of investor sentiment, i.e. subjective assessment and discussion with respect to financial instruments. An effective solution to automate the sentiment analysis of such large amounts of onl... Read More about Pre-processing online financial text for sentiment classification : A natural language processing approach.

Multi-agent pre-trade analysis acceleration in FPGA (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Gerlein, E., McGinnity, T., Belatreche, A., Coleman, S., & Li, Y. (2014, March). Multi-agent pre-trade analysis acceleration in FPGA. Presented at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, London

Electronic trading in global markets and exchanges requires sophisticated communication and data management systems. Novel computational infrastructures and trading strategies are required to support the massive amount of incoming streaming data, whe... Read More about Multi-agent pre-trade analysis acceleration in FPGA.

A comparison of forecasting approaches for capital markets (2014)
Presentation / Conference
McDonald, S., Coleman, S., McGinnity, T., Li, Y., & Belatreche, A. (2014, March). A comparison of forecasting approaches for capital markets. Presented at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, London

In recent years, machine learning algorithms have become increasingly popular in financial forecasting. Their flexible, data-driven nature makes them ideal candidates for dealing with complex financial data. This paper investigates the effectiveness... Read More about A comparison of forecasting approaches for capital markets.

Forecasting stock price directional movements using technical indicators : investigating window size effects on one-step-ahead forecasting (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Shynkevich, Y., McGinnity, T., Coleman, S., Li, Y., & Belatreche, A. (2014, March). Forecasting stock price directional movements using technical indicators : investigating window size effects on one-step-ahead forecasting. Presented at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, London

Accurate forecasting of directional changes in stock prices is important for algorithmic trading and investment management. Technical analysis has been successfully used in financial forecasting and recently researchers have explored the optimization... Read More about Forecasting stock price directional movements using technical indicators : investigating window size effects on one-step-ahead forecasting.

Digital evidence challenges in the Internet of Things (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hegarty, R., Lamb, D., & Attwood, A. (2014, January). Digital evidence challenges in the Internet of Things. Presented at 9th International Workshop on Digital Forensics & Incident Analysis (WDFIA), Plymouth

The implementation of the Internet of Things will result in the connection of tens of billions of wireless devices to the Internet. These devices will form an intelligent substrate pervading all aspects of life. From intelligent home control to advan... Read More about Digital evidence challenges in the Internet of Things.