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Leaf segmentation in plant phenotyping: a collation study (2015)
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Scharr, H., Minervini, M., French, A. P., Klukas, C., Kramer, D. M., Liu, X., …Tsaftaris, S. A. (2016). Leaf segmentation in plant phenotyping: a collation study. Machine Vision and Applications, 27(4), 585-606. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-015-0737-3

Image-based plant phenotyping is a growing application area of computer vision in agriculture. A key task is the segmentation of all individual leaves in images. Here we focus on the most common rosette model plants, Arabidopsis and young tobacco. Al... Read More about Leaf segmentation in plant phenotyping: a collation study.

Visual tracking for the recovery of multiple interacting plant root systems from X-ray ?CT images (2015)
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Mairhofer, S., Johnson, J., Sturrock, C., Bennett, M. J., Mooney, S. J., & Pridmore, T. P. (2016). Visual tracking for the recovery of multiple interacting plant root systems from X-ray ?CT images. Machine Vision and Applications, 27(5), 721-734. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-015-0733-7

We propose a visual object tracking framework for the extraction of multiple interacting plant root systems from three-dimensional X-ray micro computed tomography images of plants grown in soil. Our method is based on a level set framework guided by... Read More about Visual tracking for the recovery of multiple interacting plant root systems from X-ray ?CT images.

"I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy (2015)
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Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., Valchovska, S., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Greenhalgh, C. (2015). "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0890-8

This paper reports on a study of 4CG, a cooperative enterprise located in rural Wales. 4CG operates for the good of the local economy and seeks to diversify its commercial portfolio through the creation of an online shop retailing goods and services... Read More about "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy.

Refining adverse drug reaction signals by incorporating interaction variables identified using emergent pattern mining (2015)
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Reps, J. M., Aickelin, U., & Hubbard, R. B. (2016). Refining adverse drug reaction signals by incorporating interaction variables identified using emergent pattern mining. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.11.014

Purpose: To develop a framework for identifying and incorporating candidate confounding interaction terms into a regularised cox regression analysis to refine adverse drug reaction signals obtained via longitudinal observational data. Methods: We co... Read More about Refining adverse drug reaction signals by incorporating interaction variables identified using emergent pattern mining.

The effects of pushback delays on airport ground movement (2015)
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Stergianos, C., Atkin, J., Schittekat, P., Nordlander, T. E., Gerada, C., & Morvan, H. (in press). The effects of pushback delays on airport ground movement

With the constant increase in air traffic, airports are facing capacity problems. Optimisation methods for specific airport processes are starting to be increasingly utilised by many large airports. However, many processes do happen in parallel, and... Read More about The effects of pushback delays on airport ground movement.

Extracting multiple interacting root systems using X-ray microcomputed tomography (2015)
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Mairhofer, S., Sturrock, C., Mooney, S. J., Pridmore, T. P., & Bennett, M. J. (2015). Extracting multiple interacting root systems using X-ray microcomputed tomography. Plant Journal, 84(5), 1034-1043. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13047

© 2015 The Authors The Plant Journal published by Society for Experimental Biology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Root system interactions and competition for resources are active areas of research that contribute to our understanding of how roots perc... Read More about Extracting multiple interacting root systems using X-ray microcomputed tomography.

Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval (2015)
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Ibrahim, O., & Landa-Silva, D. (2016). Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval. Soft Computing, 20(8), 3045-3061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1935-7

In the context of Information Retrieval (IR) from text documents, the term-weighting scheme (TWS) is a key component of the matching mechanism when using the vector space model (VSM). In this paper we propose a new TWS that is based on computing the... Read More about Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval.

Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding (2015)
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Schnädelbach, H., Sun, X., Kefalidou, G., Coughlan, T., Meese, R., Norris, J., & McAuley, D. (2016). Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.10.006

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a novel mechanism to develop research proposals and distribute funding: Creativity Greenhouse (CG). Building on an established funding sandpit mechanism for co-located participants, communication tech... Read More about Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding.

Spherical harmonics for surface parametrisation and remeshing (2015)
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Nortje, C. R., Ward, W. O., Neuman, B. P., & Bai, L. (in press). Spherical harmonics for surface parametrisation and remeshing. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, Article 82870. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/582870

This paper proposes a novel method for parametrisation and remeshing incomplete and irregular polygonal meshes. Spherical harmonics basis functions are used for parametrisation. This involves least squares fitting of spherical harmonics basis functio... Read More about Spherical harmonics for surface parametrisation and remeshing.

Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus: validation of a clinical decision making tool in breast cancer in an independent series (2015)
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Green, A. R., Soria, D., Stephen, J., Powe, D. G., Nolan, C. C., Kunkler, I., …Ellis, I. O. (2016). Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus: validation of a clinical decision making tool in breast cancer in an independent series. Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, 2, https://doi.org/10.1002/cjp2.32

The Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus (NPI+)is a clinical decision making tool in breast cancer (BC) that aims to provide improved patient outcome stratification superior to the traditional NPI. This study aimed to validate the NPI+ in an independent... Read More about Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus: validation of a clinical decision making tool in breast cancer in an independent series.

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Similarity Measures and Their Role in Classification (2015)
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Baccour, L., Alimi, A., & John, R. (2016). Intuitionistic Fuzzy Similarity Measures and Their Role in Classification. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2015-0086

We present some similarity and distance measures between intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs). Thus, we propose two semi-metric distance measures between IFSs. The measures are applied to classification of shapes and handwritten Arabic sentences describe... Read More about Intuitionistic Fuzzy Similarity Measures and Their Role in Classification.

Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research (2015)
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Kendall, G., Bai, R., Blazewicz, J., De Causmaecker, P., Gendreau, M., John, R., …Yee, A. (2016). Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 67(4), 676-689. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2015.77

Good Laboratory Practice has been a part of non-clinical research for over 40 years yet. Optimization Research, despite having many papers discussing standards being published over the same period of time, has yet to embrace standards that underpin i... Read More about Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research.

Is there a role for publication consultants and how should their contribution be recognized? (2015)
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Kendall, G., Yee, A., & McCollum, B. (2016). Is there a role for publication consultants and how should their contribution be recognized?. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(5), 1553-1560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-015-9710-9

When a scientific paper, dissertation or thesis is published the author(s) have a duty to report who has contributed to the work. This recognition can take several forms such as authorship, relevant acknowledgments and by citing previous work. There... Read More about Is there a role for publication consultants and how should their contribution be recognized?.

Computing Nash Equilibria and Evolutionarily Stable States of Evolutionary Games (2015)
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Li, J., Kendall, G., & John, R. (2016). Computing Nash Equilibria and Evolutionarily Stable States of Evolutionary Games. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 20(3), 460-469. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2015.2490076

© 2015 IEEE. Stability analysis is an important research direction in evolutionary game theory. Evolutionarily stable states have a close relationship with Nash equilibria of repeated games, which are characterized by the folk theorem. When applying... Read More about Computing Nash Equilibria and Evolutionarily Stable States of Evolutionary Games.

The General Universal Property of the Propositional Truncation (2015)
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Kraus, N. (2015). The General Universal Property of the Propositional Truncation. LIPIcs, 39, 111-145. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2014.111

In a type-theoretic fibration category in the sense of Shulman (representing a dependent type theory with at least 1, Sigma, Pi, and identity types), we define the type of constant functions from A to B. This involves an infinite tower of coherence c... Read More about The General Universal Property of the Propositional Truncation.

L 2, 1-based regression and prediction accumulation across views for robust facial landmark detection (2015)
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Martinez, B., & Valstar, M. F. (2016). L 2, 1-based regression and prediction accumulation across views for robust facial landmark detection. Image and Vision Computing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2015.09.003

We propose a new methodology for facial landmark detection. Similar to other state-of-the-art methods, we rely on the use of cascaded regression to perform inference, and we use a feature representation that results from concatenating 66 HOG descript... Read More about L 2, 1-based regression and prediction accumulation across views for robust facial landmark detection.

A hybrid GRASP-VNS for Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows (2015)
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Armas, J. D., Lalla-Ruiz, E., Expósito-Izquierdo, C., Landa-Silva, D., & Melián-Batista, B. (2015). A hybrid GRASP-VNS for Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.013

This paper addresses the Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows. Being one of the most relevant and challenging problems faced by decision makers from shipping companies, this tramp shipping problem lies in determining the... Read More about A hybrid GRASP-VNS for Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows.

Calculating correct compilers (2015)
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Bahr, P., & Hutton, G. (2015). Calculating correct compilers. Journal of Functional Programming, 25, Article e14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796815000180

© 2016 Cambridge University Press. In this article, we present a new approach to the problem of calculating compilers. In particular, we develop a simple but general technique that allows us to derive correct compilers from high-level semantics by sy... Read More about Calculating correct compilers.

An iterated multi-stage selection hyper-heuristic (2015)
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Kheiri, A., & Özcan, E. (2016). An iterated multi-stage selection hyper-heuristic. European Journal of Operational Research, 250(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.09.003

There is a growing interest towards the design of reusable general purpose search methods that are applicable to di?erent problems instead of tailored solutions to a single particular problem. Hyper-heuristics have emerged as such high level methods... Read More about An iterated multi-stage selection hyper-heuristic.