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Investigating the antecedents to the adoption of SCRM technologies by start-up companies (2016)
Journal Article
Hasani, T., Jamil, B., & Dehghantanha, A. (2016). Investigating the antecedents to the adoption of SCRM technologies by start-up companies. Telematics and Informatics, 34(5), 655-675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.12.004

Despite their fairly recent emergence, start-up companies now play an important role in the economic development of countries around the globe. These companies have fewer tangible assets and capital, and therefore, the efficient delivery of services... Read More about Investigating the antecedents to the adoption of SCRM technologies by start-up companies.

On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on Internet of Things devices (2016)
Journal Article
AMbrosin, M., Anzanpour, A., Conti, M., Dargahi, T., Rahimi Moosavi, S., Rahmani, A., & Liljeberg, P. (2016). On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on Internet of Things devices. IEEE Micro, 36(6), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2016.101

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) could be an effective cryptographic tool for the secure management of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but its feasibility in the IoT has been under-investigated thus far. This article explores such feasibility for... Read More about On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on Internet of Things devices.

Experimental Study on the Optimization of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor for NOx Treatment (2016)
Journal Article
Talebizadeh, P., Rahimzadeh, H., Javadi Anaghizi, S., Ghomi, H., Babaie, M., & Brown, R. (2016). Experimental Study on the Optimization of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor for NOx Treatment. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 23(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2016.005690

In this paper, a comprehensive study of a DBD reactor is conducted to investigate the optimum operating conditions of the reactor for NOx treatment. For each parameter, the objective is to find the maximum NOx removal efficiency with the minimum cons... Read More about Experimental Study on the Optimization of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor for NOx Treatment.

A two-layer dimension reduction and two-tier classification model for anomaly-based intrusion detection in IoT backbone networks (2016)
Journal Article
Haddad Pajouh, H., Javadian, R., Khayami, R., Dehghantanha, A., & Choo, R. (2019). A two-layer dimension reduction and two-tier classification model for anomaly-based intrusion detection in IoT backbone networks. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 7(2), 314-323. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2016.2633228

With increasing reliance on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services, the capability to detect intrusions and malicious activities within IoT networks is critical for resilience of the network infrastructure. In this paper, we present a novel mo... Read More about A two-layer dimension reduction and two-tier classification model for anomaly-based intrusion detection in IoT backbone networks.

Forensic investigation of cooperative storage cloud service : Symform as a case study (2016)
Journal Article
Yee Yang, T., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, R., Conti, M., & Dargahi, T. (2016). Forensic investigation of cooperative storage cloud service : Symform as a case study. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 62(3), 641-654. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13271

Researchers envisioned the Storage as a Service (StaaS) as an effective solution
to the distributed management of digital data, since it provides an inexpensive
and reliable online storage which is accessible by different types of computer
devices... Read More about Forensic investigation of cooperative storage cloud service : Symform as a case study.

Toward an evidence-based taxonomy of everyday sounds (2016)
Journal Article
Bones, O., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2016). Toward an evidence-based taxonomy of everyday sounds. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 140(4), 3266-3266. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970357

An organizing account of everyday sounds could greatly simplify the management of audio data. The job of an audio database manager will typically involve assigning a combination of textual descriptors, and perhaps allocating to a predefined category.... Read More about Toward an evidence-based taxonomy of everyday sounds.

Segmentation of brain tumors in MRI images using three-dimensional active contour without edge (2016)
Journal Article
Hasan, A., Meziane, F., Aspin, R., & Jalab, H. (2016). Segmentation of brain tumors in MRI images using three-dimensional active contour without edge. Symmetry, 8(11), 132. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym8110132

Brain tumor segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is considered a complex procedure because of the variability of tumor shapes and the complexity of determining the tumor location, size, and texture. Manual tumor segmentation is a time-con... Read More about Segmentation of brain tumors in MRI images using three-dimensional active contour without edge.

One-dimensional vs. two-dimensional based features: Plant identification approach (2016)
Journal Article
Tharwat, A., Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2017). One-dimensional vs. two-dimensional based features: Plant identification approach. Journal of Applied Logic, 24(Part B), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2016.11.021

The number of endangered species has been increased due to shifts in the agricultural production, climate change, and poor urban planning. This has led to investigating new methods to address the problem of plant species identification/classification... Read More about One-dimensional vs. two-dimensional based features: Plant identification approach.

Progression towards high efficiency perovskite solar cells via optimisation of the front electrode and blocking layer (2016)
Journal Article

The effects of fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode, titanium dioxide (TiO2-x) blocking layer (BL) and perovskite (methyl ammonium lead triiodide) preparation on the overall properties of the photovoltaic cells have been studied. The FTO electro... Read More about Progression towards high efficiency perovskite solar cells via optimisation of the front electrode and blocking layer.

A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts (2016)
Book Chapter
Yee Yang, T., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, R., Muda, Z., Taufik, A., & Wee-Chait, C. (2016). A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts. In Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (342-357). SpaCCS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49145-5_34

In this paper, we seek to determine the residual artefacts of forensic value on Windows and Ubuntu client machines of using Syncany private cloud storage service. We demonstrate the types and the locations of the artefacts that can be forensically re... Read More about A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts.

A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering (2016)
Journal Article
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2016). A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering. ACM transactions on Asian language information processing, 16(2), Art. 11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2988238

The treatment of complex questions with explanatory answers involves searching for arguments in texts. Because of the prominent role that discourse relations play in reflecting text-producers’ intentions, capturing the underlying structure of text co... Read More about A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering.

Energy conversion under conjugate conduction, magneto-convection, diffusion and nonlinear radiation over a non-linearly stretching sheet with slip and multiple convective boundary conditions (2016)
Journal Article
Uddin, M., Beg, A., & Uddin, M. (2016). Energy conversion under conjugate conduction, magneto-convection, diffusion and nonlinear radiation over a non-linearly stretching sheet with slip and multiple convective boundary conditions. Energy, 115(Part 1), 1119-1129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.05.063

Energy conversion under conduction, convection, diffusion and radiation has been studied for MHD free convection heat transfer of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow past a moving permeable non-linearly extrusion stretching sheet. The nonlinear Ross... Read More about Energy conversion under conjugate conduction, magneto-convection, diffusion and nonlinear radiation over a non-linearly stretching sheet with slip and multiple convective boundary conditions.

A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Nuaimi, R. (2016, October). A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM), UK

In wireless sensor networks, minimising energy consumption is the most important challenge that should be considered in their design. Routing consumes a considerable amount of energy in the communication to perform various functions such as clusterin... Read More about A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).

Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Meziane, F., & Jalab, H. (2016, October). Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Medical imaging technologies have an important role in the care of all human’s organs and disease entities, where they are used widely for the effective diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of the disease. The MRI has been among the most important of... Read More about Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study.

Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wu, J., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Aspin, R., & Hope, T. (2016, October). Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling. Presented at 2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM), Reggio Calabria, Italy

Crime surveys are conducted to record crimes by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom every year. They contain rich information about crime. They record the crimes that are not reported to the police. However, their exploitat... Read More about Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling.

Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2016, October). Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE),, Newcastle UK

The aim of this paper is to describe the design of a
soft, wearable splint for wrist joint rehabilitation, based on
pneumatic soft actuators. The extensor bending and the
contraction types of pneumatic soft actuators have been adopted in this stud... Read More about Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators.

3D position mapping of continuum arm (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2016, October). 3D position mapping of continuum arm. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering, ICSAE 2016, Newcastle UK

Modelling a continuum arm is one of the major
challenges in soft robotic researches. An accurate position model allows wider use of continuum robot arms in industrial and medical applications. Furthermore, accurate control can be achieved. This pape... Read More about 3D position mapping of continuum arm.

Forensic investigation of social media and instant messaging services in Firefox OS : Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Telegram, OpenWapp, and Line as case studies (2016)
Book Chapter
Najvadi, Y., & Dehghantanha, A. (2016). Forensic investigation of social media and instant messaging services in Firefox OS : Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Telegram, OpenWapp, and Line as case studies. In Contemporary Digital Forensic Investigations Of Cloud And Mobile Applications. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805303-4.00004-6