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The Importance and Art of Articulating Thanks: Lessons From Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) (2016)
Book Chapter
de Quincey, E. (2016). The Importance and Art of Articulating Thanks: Lessons From Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). In #FuturePRoof: Edition Two

Thanking helps organisations to build relationships. In particular, charities need to thank as they build up coalitions of interest around issues, and because in many cases they raise income. So what can be learned from some professional thankers, an... Read More about The Importance and Art of Articulating Thanks: Lessons From Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

Detecting Similarities in Mobility Patterns (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cottone, P., Ortolani, M., & Pergola, G. (2016, August). Detecting Similarities in Mobility Patterns. Presented at 8th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS 2016), The Hague, the Netherlands

The wide spread of low-cost personal devices equipped with GPS sensors has paved the way towards the creation of customized services based on user mobility habits and able to track and assist users in everyday activities, according to their current l... Read More about Detecting Similarities in Mobility Patterns.

Gaining insight by structural knowledge extraction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cottone, P., Gaglio, S., Lo Re, G., & Ortolani, M. (2016, August). Gaining insight by structural knowledge extraction. Presented at ECAI'16: Proceedings of the Twenty-second European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The availability of increasingly larger and more complex datasets has boosted the demand for systems able to analyze them automatically. The design and implementation of effective systems requires coding knowledge about the application domain inside... Read More about Gaining insight by structural knowledge extraction.

Learner Analytics; The Need for User-Centred Design in Learning Analytics (2016)
Journal Article
Kyriacou, & De Quincey. (2016). Learner Analytics; The Need for User-Centred Design in Learning Analytics. https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.23-8-2016.151643

The interaction and interface design of Learning Analytics systems is often based upon the ability of the developer to extract information from disparate sources and not on the types of data and interpretive needs of the user. Current systems also te... Read More about Learner Analytics; The Need for User-Centred Design in Learning Analytics.

Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE1 Workshop in York (2016)
Journal Article
Channon. (2016). Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE1 Workshop in York. Artificial Life, 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00210

We describe the content and outcomes of the First Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution: Recent Progress and Future Milestones (OEE1), held during the ECAL 2015 conference at the University of York, UK, in July 2015. We briefly summarize the content of th... Read More about Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE1 Workshop in York.

Data Mining for Learning Analytics: does lack of engagement always mean what we think it does? (2016)
Journal Article
Kyriacou, T., & de Quincey, E. (2016). Data Mining for Learning Analytics: does lack of engagement always mean what we think it does?. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, 101-109

Context and Objectives Learning Analytics (LA) has the potential to utilise student data to further the advancement of a personalized, supportive system of HE (Johnson et al., 2013). A number of LA systems are now being developed but there have been... Read More about Data Mining for Learning Analytics: does lack of engagement always mean what we think it does?.

On the problem of a thin rigid inclusion embedded in a Maxwell material (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). On the problem of a thin rigid inclusion embedded in a Maxwell material. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-016-0700-9

We consider a plane viscoelastic body, composed of Maxwell material, with a crack and a thin rigid inclusion. The statement of the problem includes boundary conditions in the form of inequalities, together with an integral condition describing the eq... Read More about On the problem of a thin rigid inclusion embedded in a Maxwell material.

SocioGlass: Social interaction assistance with face recognition on google glass (2016)
Journal Article
Mandal, B. (2016). SocioGlass: Social interaction assistance with face recognition on google glass. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41070-016-0011-8

We present SocioGlass - a system built on Google Glass paired with a mobile phone that provides a user with in-situ information about an acquaintance in face-to-face communication. The system can recognize faces from the live feed of visual input. Ac... Read More about SocioGlass: Social interaction assistance with face recognition on google glass.

Follow #eHealth2011: Measuring the Role and Effectiveness of Online and Social Media in Increasing the Outreach of a Scientific Conference (2016)
Journal Article
Winandy, M., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E., St Louis, C., & Szomszor, M. (2016). Follow #eHealth2011: Measuring the Role and Effectiveness of Online and Social Media in Increasing the Outreach of a Scientific Conference. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(7), Article e191. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.4480

Background: Social media promotion is increasingly adopted by organizers of industry and academic events; however, the success of social media strategies is rarely questioned or the real impact scientifically analyzed. Objective: We propose a framewo... Read More about Follow #eHealth2011: Measuring the Role and Effectiveness of Online and Social Media in Increasing the Outreach of a Scientific Conference.

An Efficient Consumption Optimisation for Dense Neighbourhood Area Demand Management (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhu, Z., & Fan, Z. (2016, April). An Efficient Consumption Optimisation for Dense Neighbourhood Area Demand Management. Presented at IEEE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONFERENCE (ENERGYCON)., Leuven, Belgium

Enabled by the information and communication technology (ICT), both system operators and consumers are able to make informed decisions on electricity demand management. Recent advances in theWide Area Measurement System (WAMS) provides better observa... Read More about An Efficient Consumption Optimisation for Dense Neighbourhood Area Demand Management.

Short term forecast of wind power generation based on SVM with pattern matching (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhu, Z., Zhou, D., & Fan, Z. (2016, April). Short term forecast of wind power generation based on SVM with pattern matching. Paper presented at 2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONFERENCE (ENERGYCON), Leuven, Belgium

This paper investigates short term forecast of wind power generation using Support Vector Machine (SVM) methods. We propose a similar pattern matching technique for data pre-processing. The proposed technique is able to select the most appropriate se... Read More about Short term forecast of wind power generation based on SVM with pattern matching.

From Uruk to Ur: Automated Matching of Virtual Tablet Fragments (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gehlken, E., Collins, T., Woolley, S., Hanes, L., Lewis, A., Hernandez Munoz, L., & Ch’ng, E. (2016, July). From Uruk to Ur: Automated Matching of Virtual Tablet Fragments. Paper presented at 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 2016, Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE, Philadelphia

Observations of meteotsunami on the Louisiana shelf: a lone soliton with a soliton pack (2016)
Journal Article
Sheremet, A., Gravois, U., & Shrira, V. (2016). Observations of meteotsunami on the Louisiana shelf: a lone soliton with a soliton pack. Natural Hazards, 84, 471-492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2446-2

The paper reports unique high-resolution observations of meteotsunami by a large array of oceanographic instruments deployed on the Atchafalaya Shelf (Louisiana, USA) in 2008 with the primary aim to study wave dissipation in muddy environments. The m... Read More about Observations of meteotsunami on the Louisiana shelf: a lone soliton with a soliton pack.

Neuroevolution of Feedback Control for Object Manipulation by 3D Agents (2016)
Book Chapter
Stanton, A., & Channon, A. (2016). Neuroevolution of Feedback Control for Object Manipulation by 3D Agents. In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016 (144-151)

Carlos Gershenson, Tom Froese, Jesus M. Siqueiros, Wendy Aguilar, Eduardo J. Izquierdo and Hiroki Sayama

Nonlinearity and Endogeneity in Continuous-Time Regime-Switching Diffusion Models for Market Volatility (2016)
Journal Article
Bu, R., Cheng, J., & Hadri, K. (2016). Nonlinearity and Endogeneity in Continuous-Time Regime-Switching Diffusion Models for Market Volatility. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/snde-2016-0047

We examine model specification in regime-switching continuous-time diffusions for modeling S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX). Our investigation is carried out under two nonlinear diffusion frameworks, the NLDCEV and the CIRCEV frameworks, and our focus... Read More about Nonlinearity and Endogeneity in Continuous-Time Regime-Switching Diffusion Models for Market Volatility.