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A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2014). A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI. In 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ecce.2014.6953779

Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distortion. In this paper, the main converter is a medium voltage NPC inverter and... Read More about A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI.

Power flow control for power and voltage management in future smart energy communities (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fazeli, A., Sumner, M., Christopher, E., & Johnson, C. M. (2014). Power flow control for power and voltage management in future smart energy communities.

The Community Power Flow Control (CPFC) Algorithm has been proposed as a technique for managing electrical power and energy within small communities. The CPFC manages the resources in the community (DSM, energy storage, RES) in order to control the c... Read More about Power flow control for power and voltage management in future smart energy communities.

A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Bayliss, C. D., de Maere, G., Atkin, J., & Paelinck, M. (2014). A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty.

Airlines operate in an uncertain environment for many reasons, for example due to the efects of weather, traffic or crew unavailability (due to delay or sickness). This work focuses on airline reserve crew scheduling under crew absence and journey ti... Read More about A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty.

Interactive knowledge-based kernel PCA (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Oglic, D., Paurat, D., & Gartner, T. (2014). Interactive knowledge-based kernel PCA. In T. Calders, F. Esposito, E. Hüllermeier, & R. Meo (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases.European Conference, ECML PKDD 2014, Nancy, France, September 15-19, 2014. Proceedings, Part II (501-516). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44851-9_32

Data understanding is an iterative process in which domain experts combine their knowledge with the data at hand to explore and confirm hypotheses. One important set of tools for exploring hypotheses about data are visualizations. Often, however, tra... Read More about Interactive knowledge-based kernel PCA.

Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Shipp, V., Coughlan, T., Martindale, S., Ng, K. H., Evans, E., Mortier, R., & Reeves, S. (2014). Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. In UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (931-938). https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641558

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Ramchurn, S. D., Colley, J. A., & Rodden, T. (2014). Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty.

We present an ethnographic study of energy advisors working for a charity that provides support, particularly to people in fuel poverty. Our fieldwork comprises detailed observations that reveal the collaborative, interactional work of energy advisor... Read More about Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty.

Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Victoria, S., Tim, C., Sarah, M., Kher Hui, N., Elizabeth, E., Richard, M., & Stuart, R. (2014). Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. In UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication (931-938). https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets in supplier selection (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Turk, S., John, R., & Özcan, E. (2014). Interval type-2 fuzzy sets in supplier selection. In 2014 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI). https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2014.6930168

Selection of an appropriate supplier is a crucial and challenging task in the effective management of a supply chain. This study introduces a model for solving the supplier selection problem using interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Moreover, the influence o... Read More about Interval type-2 fuzzy sets in supplier selection.

Fuzzy adaptive parameter control of a late acceptance hyper-heuristic (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jackson, W. G., Özcan, E., & John, R. I. (2014). Fuzzy adaptive parameter control of a late acceptance hyper-heuristic. In 2014 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)

A traditional iterative selection hyper-heuristic which manages a set of low level heuristics relies on two core components, a method for selecting a heuristic to apply at a given point, and a method to decide whether or not to accept the result of t... Read More about Fuzzy adaptive parameter control of a late acceptance hyper-heuristic.

An approach to produce a GIS database for road surface monitoring (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fendi, K. G., Adam, S. M., Kokkas, N., & Smith, M. J. (in press). An approach to produce a GIS database for road surface monitoring. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcbee.2014.01.042

Road Surface Monitoring (RSM) is the process of detecting the distress on paved or unpaved road surfaces. The primary aim of this process is to detect any distress (such as road surface cracks) at early stages in order to apply maintenance on time. E... Read More about An approach to produce a GIS database for road surface monitoring.

Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jing, H., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2014). Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning.

As the scope of location-based applications and services further reach into our everyday lives, the demand for more robust and reliable positioning becomes ever more important. However indoor positioning has never been a fully resolved issue due to i... Read More about Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning.

Analysing fuzzy sets through combining measures of similarity and distance (2014)
Conference Proceeding
McCulloch, J., Wagner, C., & Aickelin, U. (2014). Analysing fuzzy sets through combining measures of similarity and distance.

Reasoning with fuzzy sets can be achieved through measures such as similarity and distance. However, these measures can often give misleading results when considered independently, for example giving the same value for two different pairs of fuzzy se... Read More about Analysing fuzzy sets through combining measures of similarity and distance.

The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pinchin, J., Smith, G., Hill, C., Moore, T., & Loram, I. (2014). The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation.

This paper reports on research to explore the potential for using electromyography (EMG) measurements in pedestrian navigation. The aim is to investigate whether the relationship between human motion and the activity of skeletal muscles in the leg mi... Read More about The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation.

Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid.

This paper investigates the synergies between a GNSS Avionics Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA) system and a novel Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Sense-and-Avoid (SAA) architecture for cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios. The integration of ABI... Read More about Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid.

Design and simulation of high-speed nanophotonic electro-optic modulators (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Kaunga-Nyirenda, S. N., Dias, H. K., Lim, J. J., Bull, S., Malaguti, S., Bellanca, G., & Larkins, E. C. (2014). Design and simulation of high-speed nanophotonic electro-optic modulators. In Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/nusod.2014.6935329

In this work, an ultracompact electro-optic modulator based on refractive index modulation by plasma dispersion effect in PhC all-optical gate (AOG) is proposed. The index modulation is achieved by applying a time-varying bias voltage across the elec... Read More about Design and simulation of high-speed nanophotonic electro-optic modulators.

Comparison of distance metrics for hierarchical data in medical databases (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hassan, D., Aickelin, U., & Wagner, C. (2014). Comparison of distance metrics for hierarchical data in medical databases.

Distance metrics are broadly used in different research areas and applications, such as bio-informatics, data mining and many other fields. However, there are some metrics, like pg-gram and Edit Distance used specifically for data with a hierarchical... Read More about Comparison of distance metrics for hierarchical data in medical databases.

An Introduction to Delay-Coupled Reservoir Computing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Schumacher, J., Toutounji, H., & Pipa, G. (2014). An Introduction to Delay-Coupled Reservoir Computing. In Artificial Neural Networks: Methods and Applications in Bio-/Neuroinformatics (63-90). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09903-3_4

Reservoir computing has been successfully applied in difficult time series prediction tasks by injecting an input signal into a spatially extended reservoir of nonlinear subunits to perform history-dependent nonlinear computation. Recently, the netwo... Read More about An Introduction to Delay-Coupled Reservoir Computing.

Generating summary documents for a variable-quality PDF document collection (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hughes, J., Brailsford, D. F., Bagley, S. R., & Adams, C. E. (2014). Generating summary documents for a variable-quality PDF document collection.

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group’s Register of studies details all aspects of the effects of treating people with schizophrenia. It has been gathered over the last 20 years and consists of around 20,000 documents, overwhelmingly in PDF. Document coll... Read More about Generating summary documents for a variable-quality PDF document collection.

A new weighting scheme and discriminative approach for information retrieval in static and dynamic document collections (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Ibrahim, O. A. S., & Landa-Silva, D. (2014). A new weighting scheme and discriminative approach for information retrieval in static and dynamic document collections.

This paper introduces a new weighting scheme in information retrieval. It also proposes using the document centroid as a threshold for normalizing documents in a document collection. Document centroid normalization helps to achieve more effective inf... Read More about A new weighting scheme and discriminative approach for information retrieval in static and dynamic document collections.