All Outputs (140)

Engaging university students in hands on learning practices and social media collaboration (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hina, S., & Dominic, P. (2016, August). Engaging university students in hands on learning practices and social media collaboration. Presented at 2016 3rd International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This manuscript emphasizes on incorporating the hands on learning practices using information communication technology (ICT) tools and collaborative learning using social media technologies, in university educational courses such as Statistics & Empi... Read More about Engaging university students in hands on learning practices and social media collaboration.

Information security policies: investigation of compliance in universities (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hina, S., & Dominic, P. (2016, August). Information security policies: investigation of compliance in universities. Presented at 2016 3rd International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Information security awareness (ISA) is signified as a state of consciousness and acquaintance about the potential security issues/breaches and is found to have an association with security policies compliance in organizations. Many information secur... Read More about Information security policies: investigation of compliance in universities.

An experimental study of the concrete using polymer and metakaolin as additives (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al Menhosh, A., Wang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2016, August). An experimental study of the concrete using polymer and metakaolin as additives. Presented at SCMT4, Las Vegas, USA

Environmental friendly and high performance concrete is very import for the applications in sewage and water treatment industry. Using mineral additives such as fly ash and silica fume has been proven an effective approach to improve concrete propert... Read More about An experimental study of the concrete using polymer and metakaolin as additives.

Challenges during disaster response planning resulting from war operations and terrorism in Iraq (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Dahash, H., Thayaparan, M., & Kulatunga, U. (2016, August). Challenges during disaster response planning resulting from war operations and terrorism in Iraq. Presented at 12th International conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction, Kandy Sri Lanka

Disasters, including man-made ones, are an ever-present threat and are occurring at an increasing rate worldwide. Continuing terrorist attacks worldwide are likely to sustain attention to disaster planning, particularly in Middle Eastern countries. S... Read More about Challenges during disaster response planning resulting from war operations and terrorism in Iraq.

A resilience framework for critical infrastructure (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Thayaparan, M., Ingirige, B., Pathirage, C., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2016, August). A resilience framework for critical infrastructure. Presented at 12th International conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction, Kandy Sri Lanka

Infrastructures facilitate economic growth, protect human health and the environment and promote welfare and prosperity. Modern societies, therefore, rely heavily on continuous and reliable services provided critical infrastructure. Destructions to t... Read More about A resilience framework for critical infrastructure.

Digital public health & is sitting the new smoking? (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Clarke-Cornwell, A., & Cooper-Ryan, A. (2016, August). Digital public health & is sitting the new smoking?. Presented at Manchester Science Festival, Library of Ideas at Victoria Station, Manchester

The social life of data (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ochu, E. (2016, August). The social life of data. Presented at The Repository Fringe, Edinburgh, UK

Citizen science is a participatory research practice whereby members of the public contribute to research through sensing, collecting and analysing data. Often citizen science is facilitated by the internet and digital technology including apps and w... Read More about The social life of data.

Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2016, August). Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design. Presented at DIGRA and FDG First Joint International Conference, Dundee, Scotland

The experimental development of game prototypes has been gaining attention in academic circles as a valid research method to understand this medium and its potential for historical representation and learning. In spite that in recent years advances i... Read More about Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design.

Coastal zone adaptation in Trinidad and Tobago : a review of literature (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Johnson, C., & Kulatunga, U. (2016, July). Coastal zone adaptation in Trinidad and Tobago : a review of literature. Presented at The 5th World Construction Symposium 2016, Sri Lanka

Empirical evidence supports that anthropogenic activities have brought about significant changes in our climate. In the instance of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) there is a potentially significant impact from the effects of climate change as... Read More about Coastal zone adaptation in Trinidad and Tobago : a review of literature.

Re-thinking post-contract cost controlling techniques in the Nigerian construction industry (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Omotayo, T., & Kulatunga, U. (2016, July). Re-thinking post-contract cost controlling techniques in the Nigerian construction industry. Presented at The 5th World Construction Symposium 2016, Sri Lanka

The challenges of cost and time overruns, construction disputes and client dissatisfaction have plagued the construction industry in Nigeria. This may be as a result of the approaches used in monitoring construction costs. The execution phase of a co... Read More about Re-thinking post-contract cost controlling techniques in the Nigerian construction industry.

PAbAC : a privacy preserving attribute based framework for fine grained access control in clouds (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Jemai, A., Laurent, M., & Attia, R. (2016, July). PAbAC : a privacy preserving attribute based framework for fine grained access control in clouds. Presented at 13th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - SECRPYT 2016, Lisbon, Portugal

Several existing access control solutions mainly focus on preserving confidentiality of stored data from unauthorized access and the storage provider. Moreover, to keep sensitive user data confidential against untrusted servers, existing solutions u... Read More about PAbAC : a privacy preserving attribute based framework for fine grained access control in clouds.

Insight into lying behaviour with priming effect : three studies of using French politicians and presidents as primers (2016)
Presentation / Conference
three studies of using French politicians and presidents as primers. Presented at The 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Tokyo, Japan

Priming is a non-conscious memory effect, in which exposure to one stimulus affects the response to another. Following priming theories, we propose an innovative view that people who perceived politicians as being dishonest (lying) are likely to li... Read More about Insight into lying behaviour with priming effect : three studies of using French politicians and presidents as primers.

Progressive collapse resisting mechanisms of reinforced concrete structures (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alogla, K., Weekes, L., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (2016, July). Progressive collapse resisting mechanisms of reinforced concrete structures. Presented at New Trends on Integrity, Reliability and Failure, Porto/Portugal

Reinforced concrete (RC) buildings may be vulnerable to progressive collapse due to lack of sufficient continuous reinforcement. Progressive collapse is a situation when local failure is followed by collapse of adjoining members, which in turn caus... Read More about Progressive collapse resisting mechanisms of reinforced concrete structures.

Invisible text (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Isherwood, T. (2016, July). Invisible text. Presented at XXI Congress - International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, Austria

Typography, specifically typefaces themselves, are an ever present in our society, a vital tool in our means of communication, and a seemingly invisible partner in conveying and understanding written texts. All typefaces are designed to have a uniqu... Read More about Invisible text.

The challenge for future sustainable development in power sector (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Mohamad, M., & Anuge, J. (2016, July). The challenge for future sustainable development in power sector. Presented at 14th International Annual Conference, King’s College London

In recent times, the global pressure on the environment has been a major intercontinental issue that call for concern about attaining future sustainable development. Sustainable development, according to World Bank, is the development that meets the... Read More about The challenge for future sustainable development in power sector.

Benefits of visual management in the transportation sector (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Tezel, B., Aziz, Z., Koskela, L., & Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P. (2016, July). Benefits of visual management in the transportation sector. Presented at 24th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction., Boston, USA

This paper explores the benefits of Visual Management (VM), a fundamental sensory information management strategy in the lean production system, in the transportation sector in England. Lean construction and VM have recently gained momentum in Englan... Read More about Benefits of visual management in the transportation sector.

Visual management condition in highways construction projects in England (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Tezel, B., Aziz, Z., Koskela, L., & Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P. (2016, July). Visual management condition in highways construction projects in England. Presented at 24th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Boston, USA

Lean construction has recently gained momentum in England’s highways construction supply chain. The literature indicates that the current view to Visual Management (VM) within those lean implementations is limited to some VM tools. This paper explore... Read More about Visual management condition in highways construction projects in England.

Towards the development of an EIT-based stretchable sensor for multi-touch industrial human-computer interaction systems (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Russo, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., Gulrez, T., Carbonaro, N., & Tognetti, A. (2016, July). Towards the development of an EIT-based stretchable sensor for multi-touch industrial human-computer interaction systems. Presented at 8th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, Toronto, Canada

In human-computer interaction studies, an interaction is often considered as a kind of information or discrete internal states of an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computing interfaces (or robotic interfaces)... Read More about Towards the development of an EIT-based stretchable sensor for multi-touch industrial human-computer interaction systems.

A new strategy for case-based reasoning retrieval using classification based on association (2016)
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Aljuboori, A., Meziane, F., & Parsons, D. (2016, July). A new strategy for case-based reasoning retrieval using classification based on association. Presented at 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York, USA

This paper proposes a novel strategy, Case-Based Reasoning Using Association Rules (CBRAR) to improve the performance of the Similarity base Retrieval SBR, classed frequent pattern trees FP-CAR algorithm, in order to disambiguate wrongly retrieved ca... Read More about A new strategy for case-based reasoning retrieval using classification based on association.

Semantic aware Bayesian network model for actionable knowledge discovery in linked data (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alharbi, H., & Saraee, M. (2016, July). Semantic aware Bayesian network model for actionable knowledge discovery in linked data. Presented at 12th International Conference, MLDM 2016, New York, NY, USA

The majority of the conventional mining algorithms treat the mining process as an isolated data-driven procedure and overlook the semantic of the targeted data. As a result, the generated patterns are abundant and end users cannot act upon them seaml... Read More about Semantic aware Bayesian network model for actionable knowledge discovery in linked data.