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An exploration of issues and limitations in current methods of TOPSIS and fuzzy TOPSIS (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Madi, E., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2016). An exploration of issues and limitations in current methods of TOPSIS and fuzzy TOPSIS.

Decision making is an important process for organizations. Common practice involves evaluation of prioritized alternatives based on a given set of criteria. These criteria conflict with each other and commonly no solution can satisfy all criteria sim... Read More about An exploration of issues and limitations in current methods of TOPSIS and fuzzy TOPSIS.

Evolutionary undersampling for extremely imbalanced big data classification under apache spark (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Triguero, I., Galar, M., Merino, D., Maillo, J., Bustince, H., & Herrera, F. (2016). Evolutionary undersampling for extremely imbalanced big data classification under apache spark.

The classification of datasets with a skewed class distribution is an important problem in data mining. Evolutionary undersampling of the majority class has proved to be a successful approach to tackle this issue. Such a challenging task may become e... Read More about Evolutionary undersampling for extremely imbalanced big data classification under apache spark.

Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Atweh, B., & Swanson, D. M. (2016). Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics. In G. Kaiser (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (531–535). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62597-3_60

This paper discusses three distinct, yet overlapping and often exchangeable discourses of equity, diversity and social justice in mathematics education. Like all discourses in education, they are social constructs and have been subjected to developm... Read More about Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics.

Search literacy: learning to search to learn (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. L., Ye, C., Twidale, M. B., Grasse, H., Rosenthal, J., & McKittrick, M. (2016). Search literacy: learning to search to learn.

People can often find themselves out of their depth when they face knowledge-based problems, such as faulty technology, or medical concerns. This can also happen in everyday domains that users are simply inexperienced with, like cooking. These are co... Read More about Search literacy: learning to search to learn.

Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Greensmith, J., Jackson, A. M., & Spendlove, I. (2016). Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems. In Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion - GECCO '16 Companion (7-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2908962

One of the key properties of the human immune system is to detect the presence of pathogens, and as such there are numberous immune algorithm which perform anomaly detection and pattern recognition. An additional facet of the human immune system is t... Read More about Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems.

Automatically designing more general mutation operators of Evolutionary Programming for groups of function classes using a hyper-heuristic (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hong, L., Drake, J. H., Woodward, J. R., & Özcan, E. (2016). Automatically designing more general mutation operators of Evolutionary Programming for groups of function classes using a hyper-heuristic. In Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO '16 (725-732). https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908958

In this study we use Genetic Programming (GP) as an offline hyper-heuristic to evolve a mutation operator for Evolutionary Programming. This is done using the Gaussian and uniform distributions as the terminal set, and arithmetic operators as the fun... Read More about Automatically designing more general mutation operators of Evolutionary Programming for groups of function classes using a hyper-heuristic.

Recent passive technologies of greenhouse systems: a review (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Harjunowibowo, D., Cuce, E., Omer, S. A., & Riffat, S. B. (2016). Recent passive technologies of greenhouse systems: a review.

There are 130 countries produces greenhouse vegetables commercially with more than 1.1 million acres in 2016. Most of the greenhouses deal with high operating costs due to the great energy needs. The high heat loss because of the greenhouse envelope... Read More about Recent passive technologies of greenhouse systems: a review.

Digital Funds of Identity: Funds of Knowledge 2.0 for the digital generation? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Poole, A. (2016). Digital Funds of Identity: Funds of Knowledge 2.0 for the digital generation?.

This paper is a theoretically orientated analysis that synthesises the literature on Funds of Identity with the literature on digital identities. It makes the case for considering Funds of Identity as more than just an enrichment of the Funds of Know... Read More about Digital Funds of Identity: Funds of Knowledge 2.0 for the digital generation?.

Smoking in pregnancy: who makes quit attempts whilst pregnant and what types of cessation support do they prefer? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Brotherton, E., Orton, S., & Coleman, T. (2016). Smoking in pregnancy: who makes quit attempts whilst pregnant and what types of cessation support do they prefer?.

Background Smoking in pregnancy is strongly associated with adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes. In England, 26% of women smoke at some point during pregnancy, and 12% smoke throughout. Reducing smoking during pregnancy is therefore an NHS priority... Read More about Smoking in pregnancy: who makes quit attempts whilst pregnant and what types of cessation support do they prefer?.

Study on bidirectional-charger for electric vehicle applied to power dispatching in smart grid (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Fang, Y., Cao, S., Xie, Y., & Wheeler, P. (in press). Study on bidirectional-charger for electric vehicle applied to power dispatching in smart grid.

It will be one of the most important content to take the electric vehicle batteries as distributed energy storage units which can accept the power dispatching, and now bidirectional charger is the key power electronic device that has been used to con... Read More about Study on bidirectional-charger for electric vehicle applied to power dispatching in smart grid.

True mid-infrared Pr3+ absorption cross-section in a selenide-chalcogenide host-glass (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Seddon, A. B., Furniss, D., Tang, Z., Sójka, L., Benson, T. M., Caspary, R., & Sujecki, S. (2016). True mid-infrared Pr3+ absorption cross-section in a selenide-chalcogenide host-glass. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550709

The mid-infrared (MIR) spans the 3-25 m wavelength range. Rare-earth-ion doped selenide-chalcogenide glasses are being developed for direct-emission MIR fibre lasers. The true Pr3+ absorption cross-section in the 3.5-6 µm wavelength region of a Pr3+... Read More about True mid-infrared Pr3+ absorption cross-section in a selenide-chalcogenide host-glass.

Numerical modeling of lathanide-ion doped fibre lasers operating within mid-infrared wavelength region (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Sójka, L., Furniss, D., Tang, Z., Sakr, H., Barney, E. R., Benson, T. M., …Fuhrberg, P. (2016). Numerical modeling of lathanide-ion doped fibre lasers operating within mid-infrared wavelength region.

We discuss the numerical modelling of lanthanide-ion doped chalcogenide glass fibre lasers for operation in the mid-infrared wavelength region. We extract the modelling parameters from emission and absorption measurements using Judd-Ofelt and McCumbe... Read More about Numerical modeling of lathanide-ion doped fibre lasers operating within mid-infrared wavelength region.

Monitoring capabilities of a mobile mapping system based on navigation qualities (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Jing, H., Slatcher, N., Meng, X., & Hunter, G. (in press). Monitoring capabilities of a mobile mapping system based on navigation qualities. . https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B1-625-2016

Mobile mapping systems are becoming increasingly popular as they can build 3D models of the environment rapidly by using a laser scanner that is integrated with a navigation system. 3D mobile mapping has been widely used for applications such as 3D c... Read More about Monitoring capabilities of a mobile mapping system based on navigation qualities.

Occupant satisfaction in LEED and BREEAM-certified office buildings (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Altomonte, S., Saadouni, S., & Schiavon, S. (2016). Occupant satisfaction in LEED and BREEAM-certified office buildings.

Green certification schemes, such as LEED in US and BREEAM in UK, are contributing to promote the sustainability agenda in the design and operation of office buildings. However, the role of rating tools towards improved workplace experience is still... Read More about Occupant satisfaction in LEED and BREEAM-certified office buildings.

The case for hybrid ventilated primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Vi Le, T. H., Gillott, M. C., & Rodrigues, L. T. (2016). The case for hybrid ventilated primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

This study investigates indoor environmental quality and users’ perception in 14 classrooms of a mixed-mode ventilated primary school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during the rainy season by qualitative and quantitative research methods. Spot and lon... Read More about The case for hybrid ventilated primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

The effect of shading, infiltration and ventilation levels on overheating and heating demands in UK residential buildings: case study: Trent Basin Regeneration (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Abdulla, Z., & Rodrigues, L. (2016). The effect of shading, infiltration and ventilation levels on overheating and heating demands in UK residential buildings: case study: Trent Basin Regeneration

Overheating in UK buildings is gradually becoming a widely addressed issue due to two main factors. The first being the climate change which is causing mean temperatures to rise all over the world, and the second being design methods used in low ener... Read More about The effect of shading, infiltration and ventilation levels on overheating and heating demands in UK residential buildings: case study: Trent Basin Regeneration.

Cross-system Recommendation: User-modelling via Social Media versus Self-Declared Preferences (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Alanazi, S., Goulding, J., & McAuley, D. (2016). Cross-system Recommendation: User-modelling via Social Media versus Self-Declared Preferences. In HT '16: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (183-188). https://doi.org/10.1145/2914586.2914640

© 2016 ACM. It is increasingly rare to encounter aWeb service that doesn't engage in some form of automated recommendation, with Collaborative Filtering (CF) techniques being virtually ubiquitous as the means for delivering relevant content. Yet seve... Read More about Cross-system Recommendation: User-modelling via Social Media versus Self-Declared Preferences.

The association between treatment adherence to nicotine patches and smoking cessation in pregnancy (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Vaz, L. R., Aveyard, P., Cooper, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., & Coleman, T. (2016). The association between treatment adherence to nicotine patches and smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Background: In non-pregnant “quitters,” adherence to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) increases smoking cessation. We investigated relationships between adherence to placebo or NRT patches and cessation in pregnancy, including an assessment of reve... Read More about The association between treatment adherence to nicotine patches and smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Constructions with Non-Recursive Higher Inductive Types (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Kraus, N. (2016). Constructions with Non-Recursive Higher Inductive Types. In LICS '16: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (595-604). https://doi.org/10.1145/2933575.2933586

© 2016 ACM. Higher inductive types (HITs) in homotopy type theory are a powerful generalization of inductive types. Not only can they have ordinary constructors to define elements, but also higher constructors to define equalities (paths). We say tha... Read More about Constructions with Non-Recursive Higher Inductive Types.