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“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, T. A., Laurier, E., Reeves, S., & Dunkley, R. A. (2019). “Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12336

The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Res... Read More about “Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland.

A Novel Autonomous Perceptron Model for Pattern Classification Applications (2019)
Journal Article
Sagheer, A., Zidan, M., & Abdelsamea, M. M. (2019). A Novel Autonomous Perceptron Model for Pattern Classification Applications. Entropy, 21(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080763

Pattern classification represents a challenging problem in machine learning and data science research domains, especially when there is a limited availability of training samples. In recent years, artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms have demon... Read More about A Novel Autonomous Perceptron Model for Pattern Classification Applications.

Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Agrawal, U., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J. M., & Soria, D. (2019). Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858821

Aggregation operators are mathematical functions that enable the fusion of information from multiple sources. Fuzzy Integrals (FIs) are widely used aggregation operators, which combine information in respect to a Fuzzy Measure (FM) which captures the... Read More about Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures.

Measuring Inter-group Agreement on zSlice Based General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Navarro, J., & Wagner, C. (2019). Measuring Inter-group Agreement on zSlice Based General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets

Recently, there has been much research into modelling of uncertainty in human perception through Fuzzy Sets (FSs). Most of this research has focused on allowing respondents to express their (intra) uncertainty using intervals. Here, depending on the... Read More about Measuring Inter-group Agreement on zSlice Based General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets.

Modelling the home health care nurse scheduling problem for patients with long-term conditions in the UK (2019)
Conference Proceeding
He, F., Chaussalet, T., & Qu, R. (2019). Modelling the home health care nurse scheduling problem for patients with long-term conditions in the UK

In this work, using a Behavioural Operational Research (BOR) perspective, we develop a model for the Home Health Care Nurse Scheduling Problem (HHCNSP) with application to renal patients taking Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) at their own homes as treatment... Read More about Modelling the home health care nurse scheduling problem for patients with long-term conditions in the UK.

From Cubes to Twisted Cubes via Graph Morphisms in Type Theory (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Pinyo, G., & Kraus, N. (2019, June). From Cubes to Twisted Cubes via Graph Morphisms in Type Theory. Paper presented at TYPES 2019, Oslo, Norway

Cube categories are used to encode higher-dimensional categorical structures. They have recently gained significant attention in the community of homotopy type theory and univalent foundations, where types carry the structure of such higher groupoids... Read More about From Cubes to Twisted Cubes via Graph Morphisms in Type Theory.

Paid Crowdsourcing, Low Income Contributors, and Subjectivity (2019)
Book Chapter
Haralabopoulos, G., Wagner, C., McAuley, D., & Anagnostopoulos, I. (2019). Paid Crowdsourcing, Low Income Contributors, and Subjectivity. In I. Maglogiannis, J. MacIntyre, L. Iliadis, & E. Pimenidis (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations: AIAI 2019 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops: MHDW and 5G-PINE 2019, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 24–26, 2019, Proceedings (225-231). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19909-8_20

Scientific projects that require human computation often resort to crowdsourcing. Interested individuals can contribute to a crowdsourcing task, essentially contributing towards the project's goals. To motivate participation and engagement, scientist... Read More about Paid Crowdsourcing, Low Income Contributors, and Subjectivity.

Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles (2019)
Journal Article
Agrawal, U., Soria, D., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J., Ellis, I. O., Bartlett, J. M. S., …Green, A. R. (2019). Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 97, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2019.05.002

Breast Cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death in women, representing a very complex disease with varied molecular alterations. To assist breast cancer prognosis, the classification of patients into biological groups is of great signi... Read More about Combining clustering and classification ensembles: A novel pipeline to identify breast cancer profiles.

Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Vedhara, K., Ayling, K., Sunger, K., Caldwell, D. M., Halliday, V., Fairclough, L., …Royal, S. (2019). Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review. Vaccine, 37(25), 3255-3266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.04.091

Objectives: The effectiveness of vaccines is known to be altered by a range of psychological factors. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the effects of psychological interventions on the ability of vaccines to protect against disease, as me... Read More about Psychological interventions as vaccine adjuvants: A systematic review.

Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Vallejos, E. P., Nilsson, T., Siebers, O., Siebert, P., Craven, M., & Fuentes, C. (2019). Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare

Digital mental healthcare constitutes a complex area for development of novel technological solutions. Designers are frequently forced to deal with requirements posed by a range of different stakeholders with particular needs, goals and interests whi... Read More about Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare.

New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Verdezoto, N., Herskovic, V., …Takayama, L. (2019). New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299000

As the IoT is taking hold in the home, in healthcare, factories, and industry, new challenges and approaches arise for HCI research and design. For example, HCI is exploring agency delegation and automation to support the user in managing the deluge... Read More about New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care.

Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey (2019)
Journal Article
Stringer, P., Sharples, S., Thomson, B. J., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2019). Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey. BMC Medical Genomics, 12, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-019-0499-2

Background Genomic services are increasingly accessible to young adults starting their independent lives with responsibility for their self-care, yet their attitudes to sharing genomic information remain under-researched. This study explored attitud... Read More about Young adults' attitudes to sharing whole-genome sequencing information: a university-based survey.

Measuring similarity between discontinuous intervals : challenges and solutions (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Kabir, S., Wagner, C., Havens, T. C., & Anderson, D. T. (2019). Measuring similarity between discontinuous intervals : challenges and solutions. In Proceedings of 2019 IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Discontinuous intervals (DIs) arise in a wide range of contexts, from real world data capture of human opinion to ?-cuts of non-convex fuzzy sets. Commonly, for assessing the similarity of DIs, the latter are converted into their continuous form, fol... Read More about Measuring similarity between discontinuous intervals : challenges and solutions.

A multi-aperture optical flow estimation method for an artificial compound eye (2019)
Journal Article
Wu, S., Zhang, G., Neri, F., Zhu, M., Jiang, T., & Kuhnert, K. D. (2019). A multi-aperture optical flow estimation method for an artificial compound eye. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 26(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.3233/ICA-180593

© 2019 IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. An artificial compound eye (ACE) is a bio-inspired vision sensor which mimics a natural compound eye (typical of insects). This artificial eye is able to visualize large fields of the outside wor... Read More about A multi-aperture optical flow estimation method for an artificial compound eye.

Cloud-assisted secure eHealth systems for tamper-proofing EHR via blockchain (2019)
Journal Article
Cao, S., Zhang, G., Liu, P., Zhang, X., & Neri, F. (2019). Cloud-assisted secure eHealth systems for tamper-proofing EHR via blockchain. Information Sciences, 485, 427-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2019.02.038

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. The wide deployment of cloud-assisted electronic health (eHealth) systems has already shown great benefits in managing electronic health records (EHRs) for both medical institutions and patients. However, it also causes critical... Read More about Cloud-assisted secure eHealth systems for tamper-proofing EHR via blockchain.

Three-dimensional Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Intensity In-homogeneous Medical Images (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bukenya, F., Awwad, A., Duan, J., Ehling, J., Faas, H., & Bai, L. (2018). Three-dimensional Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Intensity In-homogeneous Medical Images. In 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (1508-1514). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2018.8628675

Blood vessel segmentation helps to know the progress of the disease during diagnosis. The presence of intensity in-homogeneity, conglutination tissue and noise in medical images has led to difficulty in extraction of different sizes of blood vessels,... Read More about Three-dimensional Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Intensity In-homogeneous Medical Images.

Transforming big data into smart data: An insight on the use of the k-nearest neighbors algorithm to obtain quality data (2018)
Journal Article
Triguero, I., Garcia-Gil, D., Maillo, J., Luengo, J., Garcia, S., & Herrera, F. (2019). Transforming big data into smart data: An insight on the use of the k-nearest neighbors algorithm to obtain quality data. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 9(2), Article e1289. https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1289

The k-nearest neighbours algorithm is characterised as a simple yet effective data mining technique. The main drawback of this technique appears when massive amounts of data -likely to contain noise and imperfections - are involved, turning this algo... Read More about Transforming big data into smart data: An insight on the use of the k-nearest neighbors algorithm to obtain quality data.