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Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering. In Internet Science (123-132). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In... Read More about Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering.

Using Information Theory to Improve the Robustness of Trust Systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, D., Muller, T., Irissappane, A. A., Zhang, J., & Liu, Y. (2015, May). Using Information Theory to Improve the Robustness of Trust Systems. Presented at AAMAS'15: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Istanbul Turkey

Unfair rating attacks to trust systems can affect the accuracy of trust evaluation when trust ratings (recommendations) about trustee agents are sought by truster agents from others (advisor agents). A robust trust system should remain accurate, even... Read More about Using Information Theory to Improve the Robustness of Trust Systems.

Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dowthwaite, L., Houghton, R., & Mortier, R. (2015). Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share. In Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015 (355-362). https://doi.org/10.1201/b18293

Online social networks are complex systems that are traditionally discussed in several different ways, often revolving around either the technology and design of the platforms themselves, or the behaviour and social interactions of the communities th... Read More about Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share.

The Fallacy of Endogenous Discounting of Trust Recommendations (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muller, T., Liu, Y., & Zhang, J. (2015). The Fallacy of Endogenous Discounting of Trust Recommendations. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (563-572). https://doi.org/10.5555/2772879.2772951

Recommendations are widely used in recommender systems, reputation systems, and trust-based security systems. Some existing reputation systems and trust-based security systems use the flawed notion of endogenous discounting. Endogenous discounting is... Read More about The Fallacy of Endogenous Discounting of Trust Recommendations.

Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., McGrath, S., & Benford, S. (2015). Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud.

Social media technologies have meant that people’s mu- sic consumption and production practices have rapidly changed and evolved. In this paper, we start to explore and present some of our initial findings in respect to this growing area of research... Read More about Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud.

Sonifying the Scene: re-framing and manipulating meaning through audio augmentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., & Hazzard, A. (2015). Sonifying the Scene: re-framing and manipulating meaning through audio augmentation.

Digital locative music technologies are transforming the ways in which we are able to manipulate and re-frame the meaning of architecture, landscape and art. In this note we explore and outline some of the key features that are associated with this.... Read More about Sonifying the Scene: re-framing and manipulating meaning through audio augmentation.

Visual tracking for the recovery of multiple interacting plant root systems from X-ray μCT images (2015)
Journal Article
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 μCT 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 μCT images.

Leaf segmentation in plant phenotyping: a collation study (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Applying interval type-2 fuzzy rule based classifiers through a cluster-based class representation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Navarro, J., Wagner, C., & Aickelin, U. (2015). Applying interval type-2 fuzzy rule based classifiers through a cluster-based class representation.

Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification Systems (FRBCSs) have the potential to provide so-called interpretable classifiers, i.e. classifiers which can be introspective, understood, validated and augmented by human experts by relying on fuzzy-set based rules.... Read More about Applying interval type-2 fuzzy rule based classifiers through a cluster-based class representation.

"I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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 first Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge: benchmark and results (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shen, J., Zafeiriou, S., Chrysos, G. G., Kossaifi, J., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2015). The first Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge: benchmark and results.

Detection and tracking of faces in image sequences is among the most well studied problems in the intersection of statistical machine learning and computer vision. Often, tracking and detection methodologies use a rigid representation to describe the... Read More about The first Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge: benchmark and results.

The effects of pushback delays on airport ground movement (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Constantino, A. A., Tozzo, E., Pinheiro, R. L., Landa-Silva, D., & Romão, W. (2015). A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem widely tackled in the literature. Recently, a new variant of this problem was proposed, called nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction (NSPBPS). This pa... Read More about A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Digital records and the Digital Replay System (2015)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tennent, P., Brundell, P., & Knight, D. (2015). Digital records and the Digital Replay System. In P. Halfpenny, & R. Procter (Eds.), Innovations in Digital Research Methods. SAGE Publications

Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.