All Outputs (63)

Privacy Preserving Attribute Based Encryption for Multiple Cloud Collaborative Environment (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Komninos, N., & Junejo, A. K. (2015, December). Privacy Preserving Attribute Based Encryption for Multiple Cloud Collaborative Environment. Presented at 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, Cyprus

In a Multiple Cloud Collaborative Environment (MCCE), cloud users and cloud providers interact with each other via a brokering service to request and provision cloud services. The brokering service considers several pieces of data to broker the best... Read More about Privacy Preserving Attribute Based Encryption for Multiple Cloud Collaborative Environment.

Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model (2015)
Journal Article
Huang, X., & Cheng, J. (2015). Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (IJAMAS), 53(4),

Some real discrete time-series counts can be considered as the random variables which follow Poisson distribution governed by Hidden Markov Chain. In this paper, a Poisson-Hidden Markov Model is employed to capture the switching between two states in... Read More about Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model.

Multi-parametric analysis of the lowest natural frequencies of strongly inhomogeneous elastic rods (2015)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, D., Kaplunov, J., & Sergushova, O. (2016). Multi-parametric analysis of the lowest natural frequencies of strongly inhomogeneous elastic rods. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 366, 264-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2015.12.008

The results of a multi-parametric analysis of the near-rigid body motions of a three-component strongly inhomogeneous elastic rod are presented. It is demonstrated that the values of the associated lowest natural frequencies tend to zero at large/sma... Read More about Multi-parametric analysis of the lowest natural frequencies of strongly inhomogeneous elastic rods.

Addressing the Deployment Challenges of Health Monitoring Devices for a Dementia Study (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Collins, T., Aldred, S., Woolley, S., & Rai, S. (2015, October). Addressing the Deployment Challenges of Health Monitoring Devices for a Dementia Study

Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor (2015)
Journal Article
Ledger, P. D., & Lionheart, W. R. B. (2016). Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(5), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2015.2507169

The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into the properties of the rank 2 polarizability tensor M̆ proposed by Ledger and Lionheart for describing the perturbation in the magnetic field caused by the presence of a conducting object in the ed... Read More about Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor.

DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (2015)
Journal Article
Fan, Z., Mustafa, M. A., Zhang, N., & Kalogridis, G. (2015). DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure. IEEE Access, 3, 2828-2846. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2506198

This paper proposes a novel solution, called a decentralized, efficient, privacy-preserving, and selective aggregation (DEP2SA) scheme, designed to support secure and user privacy-preserving data collection in the advanced metering infrastructure. DE... Read More about DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure.

Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia (2015)
Journal Article
Elishakoff, I., Kaplunov, J., & Nolde, E. (2015). Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 67(6), Article ARTN 060802. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4031965

This study revisits Timoshenko beam theory (TBT). It discusses at depth a more consistent and simpler governing differential equation. The so-called second spectrum is also addressed. Then, we provide the asymptotic justification of the aforementione... Read More about Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia.

Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids. (2015)
Journal Article
Pichugin, A., & Prikazchikov, D. (2016). Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 69(1), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbv017

We present a set of explicit conditions, involving the components of the elastic stiffness tensor, which are necessary and sufficient to ensure the strong ellipticity of an orthorhombic incompressible medium. The derivation is based on the procedure... Read More about Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids..

Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization. (2015)
Journal Article
Gilfellon, O., Honorato-Zimmer, R., Pocock, M., Madsen, C., Waites, W., Cavaliere, M., Misirli, G., Zuliani, P., Danos, V., & Wipat, A. (2015). Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization. Bioinformatics, 908 - 917. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv660

MOTIVATION: Biological systems are complex and challenging to model and therefore model reuse is highly desirable. To promote model reuse, models should include both information about the specifics of simulations and the underlying biology in the for... Read More about Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization..

An asymptotic analysis of the period-doubling secondary bifurcation in a film/substrate bilayer (2015)
Journal Article
Fu, Y., & Cai, Z. (2015). An asymptotic analysis of the period-doubling secondary bifurcation in a film/substrate bilayer. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2381-2395. https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1027103

It has previously been observed experimentally and simulated numerically that when a thin film bonded to a much softer substrate is subjected to a uni-axial compression parallel to the interface, the initial buckled pattern will suffer a secondary bi... Read More about An asymptotic analysis of the period-doubling secondary bifurcation in a film/substrate bilayer.

Localized standing waves in a hyperelastic membrane tube and their stabilization by a mean flow (2015)
Journal Article
Fu, Y. B., & Il'ichev, A. T. (2015). Localized standing waves in a hyperelastic membrane tube and their stabilization by a mean flow. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 20(10), 1198-1214. https://doi.org/10.1177/1081286513517129

We first give a complete analysis of the dispersion relation for travelling waves propagating in a pre-stressed hyperelastic membrane tube containing a uniform flow. We present an exact formula for the so-called pulse wave velocity, and demonstrate t... Read More about Localized standing waves in a hyperelastic membrane tube and their stabilization by a mean flow.

Bifurcation of a dielectric elastomer balloon under pressurized inflation and electricactuation (2015)
Journal Article
Fu, Y., Xie, Y., & Liu, J. (2015). Bifurcation of a dielectric elastomer balloon under pressurized inflation and electricactuation. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 182-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2015.08.027

It is previously known that under inflation alone a spherical rubber membrane balloon may bifurcate into a pear shape when the tension in the membrane reaches a maximum, but the existence of such a maximum depends on the material model used: the maxi... Read More about Bifurcation of a dielectric elastomer balloon under pressurized inflation and electricactuation.

Issues and Challenges in Dense WiFi Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhong, Z., Kulkarni, P., Cao, F., Fan, Z., & Armour, S. (2015, August). Issues and Challenges in Dense WiFi Networks. Presented at 2015 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC, Dubrovnik, Croatia

The IEEE 802.11 Working Group has initiated a new study group known as IEEE 802.11ax which is aiming to devise ways to improve spectrum efficiency, in particular to enhance the system throughput in highly dense scenarios, frequently referred to as Ov... Read More about Issues and Challenges in Dense WiFi Networks.

Whole space subclass discriminant analysis for face recognition (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mandal, B., Li, L., Chandrasekhar, V., & Lim, J. H. (2015, September). Whole space subclass discriminant analysis for face recognition. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Quebec City, QC, Canada

In this work, we propose to divide each class (a person) into subclasses using spatial partition trees which helps in better capturing the intra-personal variances arising from the appearances of the same individual. We perform a comprehensive analys... Read More about Whole space subclass discriminant analysis for face recognition.

Improved Eigenfeature Regularization for Face Identification (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mandal, B. (2015, September). Improved Eigenfeature Regularization for Face Identification. Paper presented at ICIP 2015 - IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

In this work, we propose to divide each class (a person) into subclasses using spatial partition trees which helps in better capturing the intra-personal variances arising from the appearances of the same individual. We perform a comprehensive analys... Read More about Improved Eigenfeature Regularization for Face Identification.

ISOLATING INFORMATIVE BLOCKS FROM LARGE WEB PAGES USING HTML TAG PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT BASED APPROACH (2015)
Journal Article
Kabir, R., Kabir, S., & Amin, S. (2015). ISOLATING INFORMATIVE BLOCKS FROM LARGE WEB PAGES USING HTML TAG PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT BASED APPROACH. Electrical & Computer Engineering: An International Journal (ECIJ), 4(3),

Searching useful information from the web, a popular activity, often involves huge irrelevant contents or noises leading to difficulties in extracting useful information. Indeed, search engines, crawlers and information agents may often fail to separ... Read More about ISOLATING INFORMATIVE BLOCKS FROM LARGE WEB PAGES USING HTML TAG PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT BASED APPROACH.

The edge waves on a Kirchhoff plate bilaterally supported by a two-parameter elastic foundation (2015)
Journal Article
Kaplunov. (2015). The edge waves on a Kirchhoff plate bilaterally supported by a two-parameter elastic foundation. Journal of Vibration and Control, 2014-2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077546315606838

In this paper, the bending waves propagating along the edge of a semi-infinite Kirchhoff plate resting on a two-parameter Pasternak elastic foundation are studied. Two geometries of the foundation are considered: either it is infinite or it is semi-i... Read More about The edge waves on a Kirchhoff plate bilaterally supported by a two-parameter elastic foundation.

Development and validation of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic conditions (2015)
Journal Article
O'Brien, A., Bosworth, A., Cox, M., Jones, P., Sargeant, I., Elliot, A., & Bukhari, M. (2015). Development and validation of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic conditions. Current Rheumatology Reviews, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.2174/1573397111666150522093712

Methods: Focus groups were held with RA patients to identify key elements of the patient experience. These were mapped against the UK Department of Health Patient Experience Framework and a PREM questionnaire developed with questions specifically rel... Read More about Development and validation of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic conditions.

Multistage PMU Placement Scheduling for Robust State Estimation in Power Systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hao, J., Piechocki, R., Kaleshi, D., Chin, W., & Fan, Z. (2015, June). Multistage PMU Placement Scheduling for Robust State Estimation in Power Systems. Presented at 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP (ICCW), London, UK

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) play a significant role in modern and future power grids. Since these advanced devices can provide accurate synchronous voltage phasor measurements, more robust power system state estimation (SE) can be achieved by usi... Read More about Multistage PMU Placement Scheduling for Robust State Estimation in Power Systems.

Final-year projects using open source OpenEEG (2015)
Journal Article
Collins, T., Woolley, S. I., Rawson, N. C., & Haroon, L. (2016). Final-year projects using open source OpenEEG. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 24(1), 156 - 164. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.21682

Electronic Engineering undergraduates are increasingly interested in final-year individual projects that involve brain–computer interfacing. This paper outlines the challenges of resourcing these types of medical instrumentation projects and describe... Read More about Final-year projects using open source OpenEEG.