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ICFHR 2018 Competition on recognition of historical Arabic scientific manuscripts - RASM2018 (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., McGregor, N., & Wilson-Nunn, D. (2018). ICFHR 2018 Competition on recognition of historical Arabic scientific manuscripts - RASM2018. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR-2018.2018.00088

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page analysis and recognition methods for historical scientific manuscripts with text in Arabic language and script. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation metho... Read More about ICFHR 2018 Competition on recognition of historical Arabic scientific manuscripts - RASM2018.

S9 Piecing Together the Jigsaw: Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with COPD (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Swift, E., O’Brien, M., Peters, S., & Kelly, C. (2018). S9 Piecing Together the Jigsaw: Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with COPD. . https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2018-212555.15

Introduction and objectives There is a sound evidence base which highlights that pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an effective management strategy for patients with respiratory disease, in particular COPD. The National PR audit (2015) highlighted a l... Read More about S9 Piecing Together the Jigsaw: Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with COPD.

Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2018.8466315

A multitenant cloud-application that is designed to use several components needs to implement the required degree of isolation between the components when the workload changes. The highest degree of isolation results in high resource consumption and... Read More about Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Component Deployment with Multitenancy Isolation in Cloud-hosted Applications.

Hierarchical multi-tenancy in business to businesssoftware services (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Hierarchical multi-tenancy in business to businesssoftware services. . https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2018.00085

The introduction of cloud computing has changed the provisioning and consumption of IT resources. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications provide functionality using internet connectivity and enable centralised management of executable code resourc... Read More about Hierarchical multi-tenancy in business to businesssoftware services.

Development of an online self-management platform for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Sammut, L., & Vasilica, C. (2018). Development of an online self-management platform for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-eular.7164

Background Patient information and education have been shown to improve pain and self-efficacy and increase overall quality of life in people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions (MSCs). Informed patients are better able to distinguish and manage... Read More about Development of an online self-management platform for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions.

A smart phone based multi-floor indoor positioning system for occupancy detection (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mashuk, M., Pinchin, J., Siebers, P., & Moore, T. (2018). A smart phone based multi-floor indoor positioning system for occupancy detection. In 2018 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS)

At present there is significant research interest in simulating building environment with artificial agents and predicting energy usage and other building performance related factors that helps to promote understanding of more sustainable buildings.... Read More about A smart phone based multi-floor indoor positioning system for occupancy detection.

Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (2018). Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system. . https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00047

Multi-tenancy in cloud computing describes the extent to which resources can be shared while guaranteeing isolation among components (tenants) using these resources. There are three multi-tenancy patterns: shared, tenant-isolated and dedicated compon... Read More about Evaluating the effect of multi-tenancy patterns in containerized cloud-hosted content management system.

Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., & Noll, J. (2018). Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods. In CESI '18 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry (13-20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3193965.3193967

This research comprises a methodological comparison of two independent empirical case studies in industry: Case Study A and Case Study B. Case Study A, is a multiple-case study involving a set of short-duration data collections with 46 practitioners... Read More about Experience of industry case studies : a comparison of multi-case and embedded case study methods.

Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., & Noll, J. (2018). Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3196369.3196375

Poor employee retention (high staff turnover) has a negative impact on software development productivity and product quality. Further, offshore outsourcing has a widely held reputation for particularly poor employee retention. Interestingly, in-house... Read More about Employee retention and turnover in global software development : comparing in-house offshoring and offshore outsourcing.

Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., Canna, C., & Noll, J. (2018). Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195066

The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of “done.” There is a paucity of detail about how POs... Read More about Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum.

A performance evaluation of multi-tenant data tier design patterns in a containerized environment (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul, A., Bass, J., Ghavimi, H., & Adam, P. (2018). A performance evaluation of multi-tenant data tier design patterns in a containerized environment. In 2017 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society). https://doi.org/10.23919/i-Society.2017.8354684

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become one of de facto approach for deploying cloud base services or applications for many businesses. At the core of SaaS is Multi-tenancy; multi-tenancy gives customers (i.e. tenants) and software provider vast oppo... Read More about A performance evaluation of multi-tenant data tier design patterns in a containerized environment.

Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2018). Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods. . https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS.2018.46

We present a metadata labelling framework for datasets, software tools, and workflows. An ontology for document image analysis was developed with deep support for historical data. An accompanying open source software framework was implemented to enab... Read More about Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods.

A Validity of Transparency Optimized 4-Channel Architecture in Bilateral Teleoperation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Saleem, M. H., & Uddin, R. (2018). A Validity of Transparency Optimized 4-Channel Architecture in Bilateral Teleoperation.

In order to perform any task remotely using teleoperation system, transparency is considered as an important performance measure. There are many teleoperation architectures, which are used in several applications of teleoperation. In this research,... Read More about A Validity of Transparency Optimized 4-Channel Architecture in Bilateral Teleoperation.

Rocker outsole shoes and margin of stability during walking: A preliminary study (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ghomian, B., Mehdizadeh, S., Aghili, R., Naemi, R., Jafari, H., Machado, J., …Saeedi, H. (2018). Rocker outsole shoes and margin of stability during walking: A preliminary study. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279949

Rocker outsole shoes are commonly prescribed to diabetic patients to redistribute peak plantar pressures at high risk areas such as forefoot thereby decreasing risks of plantar ulceration. However, there are evidences of postural destabilizing effect... Read More about Rocker outsole shoes and margin of stability during walking: A preliminary study.