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Mobile Phone Tools with Ambient Intelligence for the Management of Life-Threatening Allergies (2013)
Book Chapter
Hernandez-Munoz, L. U., & Woolley, S. I. (2013). Mobile Phone Tools with Ambient Intelligence for the Management of Life-Threatening Allergies. In Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (153-172). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-018-8_10

This chapter describes the unmet needs of people with anaphylactic allergies and considers how pervasive technologies and ambient intelligence might support them in allergy management tasks. A working prototype solution, PervaLaxis Touchscreen, is pr... Read More about Mobile Phone Tools with Ambient Intelligence for the Management of Life-Threatening Allergies.

QoS-Aware Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks (2013)
Journal Article
De Paola, A., Lo Re, G., Milazzo, F., & Ortolani, M. (2013). QoS-Aware Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/165732

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a fundamental building block of many pervasive applications. Nevertheless the use of such technology raises new challenges regarding the development of reliable and fault-tolerant systems. One of the most critical... Read More about QoS-Aware Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Defect detection in reinforced concrete using random neural architectures (2013)
Journal Article
Butcher, J., Day, C., Austin, J., Haycock, P., Verstraeten, D., & Schrauwen, B. (2014). Defect detection in reinforced concrete using random neural architectures. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 29(3), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12039

Detecting defects within reinforced concrete is vital to the safety and durability of our built infrastructure upon which we heavily rely. In this work a non-invasive technique, ElectroMagnetic Anomaly Detection (EMAD), is used which provides informa... Read More about Defect detection in reinforced concrete using random neural architectures.

A systematic review of systematic review process in software engineering (2013)
Journal Article
(2013). A systematic review of systematic review process in software engineering. Information and Software Technology, 2049 -2075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.07.010

Context
Many researchers adopting systematic reviews (SRs) have also published papers discussing problems with the SR methodology and suggestions for improving it. Since guidelines for SRs in software engineering (SE) were last updated in 2007, we b... Read More about A systematic review of systematic review process in software engineering.

Green's Kernels and Meso-Scale Approximations in Perforated Domains (2013)
Book
Maz'ya, V., Movchan, A., & Nieves, M. (2013). Green's Kernels and Meso-Scale Approximations in Perforated Domains. (1). Springer

This book addresses the needs of mathematicians, physicists and engineers, as well as research students interested in asymptotic analysis and numerical computations for solutions to partial differential equations.

Statin Use and Osteoarthritis (2013)
Journal Article
Kadam, U. T., Blagojevic, M., & Belcher, J. (2013). Statin Use and Osteoarthritis. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 28(9), 1135-1135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2478-1

The Authors’ Reply—We thank Dr Rashid for highlighting the importance our findings,1 as well as the wider generic implications that relate to common treatment pathways and shared mechanisms in the pathogenesis of chronic diseases such as cardiovascul... Read More about Statin Use and Osteoarthritis.

Towards a New Picture of Wave Turbulence (2013)
Book Chapter
Shrira, V. I., & Annenkov, S. Y. (2013). Towards a New Picture of Wave Turbulence. In Advances in Wave Turbulence (239-281). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814366946_0007

The existing wave turbulence paradigm assumes, in particular, a proximity to stationarity and spatial homogeneity of the wave field under consideration, which is often violated in nature. In this review, we outline a new theoretical approach free fro... Read More about Towards a New Picture of Wave Turbulence.

Smart electric vehicle charging: Security analysis. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mustafa, M., Zhang, N., Kalogridis, G., & Fan, Z. (2013, February). Smart electric vehicle charging: Security analysis. Presented at 2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington, DC, USA

Rayleigh waves of arbitrary profile in anisotropic media (2013)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, D. (2013). Rayleigh waves of arbitrary profile in anisotropic media. Mechanics Research Communications, 50, 83 -86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.03.009

The paper deals with surface wave propagation in an orthorhombic elastic half-plane. The general profile of the wave is considered, incorporating the anisotropy effects within the known representation in terms of a single plane harmonic function.

Radio resource management in coordinated antenna system deployments. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bheemesh, V., Kulkarni, P., Cao, F., & Fan, Z. (2013, March). Radio resource management in coordinated antenna system deployments. Presented at SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, New York, NY, United States

Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1002-1017. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2012.76

Context: Several text books and papers published between 2000 and 2002 have attempted to introduce experimental design and statistical methods to software engineers undertaking empirical studies. Objective: This paper investigates whether there has b... Read More about Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment.

A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension. (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension. PloS one, e48710 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048710

Particle swarm optimization is a popular method for solving difficult optimization problems. There have been attempts to formulate the method in formal probabilistic or stochastic terms (e.g. bare bones particle swarm) with the aim to achieve more ge... Read More about A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension..

Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments. Information and Software Technology, 804 -819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2011.11.008

Context
During systematic literature reviews it is necessary to assess the quality of empirical papers. Current guidelines suggest that two researchers should independently apply a quality checklist and any disagreements must be resolved. However, t... Read More about Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments.

Capturing Browsing Interests of Users into Web Usage Profiles (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Kabir, S., Mudur, S., & Shiri, N. (2012, July). Capturing Browsing Interests of Users into Web Usage Profiles. Presented at 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

We present a new weighted session similarity measure to capture the browsing interests of users in web usage profiles discovered from web log data. We base our similarity measure on the reasonable assumption that when users spend longer times on page... Read More about Capturing Browsing Interests of Users into Web Usage Profiles.

Fast Magnetic Flux Leakage Signal Inversion for the Reconstruction of Arbitrary Defect Profiles in Steel Using Finite Elements (2012)
Journal Article
Priewald, R. H., Magele, C., Ledger, P. D., Pearson, N. R., & Mason, J. S. D. (2013). Fast Magnetic Flux Leakage Signal Inversion for the Reconstruction of Arbitrary Defect Profiles in Steel Using Finite Elements. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 49(1), 506-516. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2012.2208119

This paper proposes a fast and effective method for reconstructing arbitrary defect profiles in steel plates from magnetic flux leakage (MFL) measurements widely used in nondestructive testing (NDT) of oil storage tanks and pipelines. The inverse rec... Read More about Fast Magnetic Flux Leakage Signal Inversion for the Reconstruction of Arbitrary Defect Profiles in Steel Using Finite Elements.