Electrical spiking activity of proteinoids-ZnO colloids (2024)
Journal Article
Mougkogiannis, P., Raeisi Kheirabadi, N., Cholerio, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2024). Electrical spiking activity of proteinoids-ZnO colloids. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 4(1), Article 014007. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/ad2afb

We are studying the remarkable electrical properties of Proteinoids-ZnO microspheres with the aim of exploring their potential for a new form of computing. Our research has revealed that these microspheres exhibit behavior similar to neurons, generat... Read More about Electrical spiking activity of proteinoids-ZnO colloids.

Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Lo, C., Win, T. Y., Rezaeifar, Z., Khan, Z., & Legg, P. (2024). Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security. In Proceedings of the IEEE Smart World Congress 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/swc57546.2023.10449147

The increased adoption of sophisticated Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in critical infrastructure and various aspects of Industry 4.0 has exposed vulnerabilities stemming from legacy CPS and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices. The interconnec... Read More about Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security.

Electrical properties of proteinoids for unconventional computing architectures (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mougkogiannis, P., & Adamatzky, A. (2023). Electrical properties of proteinoids for unconventional computing architectures. In NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3611315.3633264

Proteinoids are peptide-like molecules that arise from the combination of amino acids in pre-biotic environments. Recent studies have revealed distinctive electrical characteristics of proteinoids, such as the presence of voltage-gated ion channels,... Read More about Electrical properties of proteinoids for unconventional computing architectures.

Development and evaluation of a mobile app to support reading education (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mthethwa, L. C., & Matthews, P. (2023). Development and evaluation of a mobile app to support reading education. In AfriCHI '23: Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference (58-63). https://doi.org/10.1145/3628096.3628751

We report on the design, development and evaluation of an app to support teachers in the teaching of reading at primary level. The app was developed with two main features: book levelling, where a book photograph, OCR and a simple machine learning mo... Read More about Development and evaluation of a mobile app to support reading education.

Predicting social trust from implicit feedback (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Oshodin, E. (2023). Predicting social trust from implicit feedback. In Artificial Intelligence XL (228-233). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47994-6_20

Element of trust exists in every network structure of diverse fields, but suitable computational methods for evaluating the trust remain a problem since there are different definitions of trust in diverse fields where several entities interact with e... Read More about Predicting social trust from implicit feedback.

SACRO: Semi-Automated Checking Of Research Outputs (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, J., Preen, R., Albashir, M., Ritchie, F., Green, E., Davy, S., …Bacon, S. (2023, September). SACRO: Semi-Automated Checking Of Research Outputs. Paper presented at UNECE Expert meeting on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Wiesbaden, Germany

Output checking can require significant resources, acting as a barrier to scaling up the research use of confidential data. We report on a project, SACRO, that is developing a general-purpose, semi-automatic output checking systems that works across... Read More about SACRO: Semi-Automated Checking Of Research Outputs.

Listening to all the stakeholders? The UN Sustainable Development Goals as requirements in Systems Engineering (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I. (2023, September). Listening to all the stakeholders? The UN Sustainable Development Goals as requirements in Systems Engineering. Presented at SustainabilITy2030: 2 Internationale Konferenz Für Digitalisierung Und Nachhaltigkeit, Brugg, Switzerland

The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global agreement on 'the world we want' by 2030. Many businesses have identified SDGs that they contribute towards. Can we also use them as requirements in Systems Engineering? This talk will... Read More about Listening to all the stakeholders? The UN Sustainable Development Goals as requirements in Systems Engineering.

Reproducing "Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention" (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, H., & Brailsford, T. (2023). Reproducing "Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention". Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2589(1), Article 012012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2589/1/012012

This paper replicates the experiment presented in the work of Xu et al. [1], and examines errors in the generated captions. The analysis of the identified errors aims to provide deeper insight into the underlying causes. This study also encompass... Read More about Reproducing "Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention".

No ultrasounds detected from fungi when dehydrated (2023)
Journal Article
Phillips, N., Remedios, S. W., Nikolaidou, A., Baracskai, Z., & Adamatzky, A. (2023). No ultrasounds detected from fungi when dehydrated. Ultrasonics, 135, Article 107111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2023.107111

Many organisms (including certain plant species) can be observed to emit sounds, potentially signifying threat alerts. Sensitivity to such sounds and vibrations may also play an important role in the lives of fungi. In this work, we explore the poten... Read More about No ultrasounds detected from fungi when dehydrated.

Enhancing software fault prediction with deep neural networks: An empirical analysis of error-type metrics (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Phung, K., Ogunshile, E., & Aydin, M. E. (in press). Enhancing software fault prediction with deep neural networks: An empirical analysis of error-type metrics.

In the context of software quality assurance, Software Fault Prediction (SFP) serves as a critical technique to optimise costs and efforts by classifying software modules as faulty or not, using pertinent project characteristics. Despite considerable... Read More about Enhancing software fault prediction with deep neural networks: An empirical analysis of error-type metrics.

Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites (2023)
Journal Article
Arshad, S., Akinade, O., Bello, S., & Bilal, M. (2023). Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites. Journal of Building Engineering, 76, Article 107049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107049

Aims: Perform a systematic review of current literature to evaluate and summarise the health and safety hazards on construction sites. Methods: Science Direct, SCOPUS and web of science databases were searched for research articles published from 201... Read More about Computer vision and IoT research landscape for health and safety management on construction sites.

Evaluating the graphics processing unit for digital audio synthesis and the development of HyperModels (2023)
Thesis
Renney, H. Evaluating the graphics processing unit for digital audio synthesis and the development of HyperModels. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9271061

The extraordinary growth in computation in single processors for almost half a century is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Future computational growth is expected from parallel processors, as seen in the increasing number of tightly coup... Read More about Evaluating the graphics processing unit for digital audio synthesis and the development of HyperModels.

Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Eagle, R. (2023). Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual. In D. Villa, & F. Zuccoli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Images and Imagination (355-363). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_39

With the proliferation of devices that display augmented reality (AR), now is the time for scholars and practitioners to evaluate and engage critically with emerging applications of the medium. AR mediates the way users see their bodies, hear their e... Read More about Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual.

Error-type -A novel set of software metrics for software fault prediction (2023)
Journal Article
Phung, K., Ogunshile, E., & Aydin, M. (2023). Error-type -A novel set of software metrics for software fault prediction. IEEE Access, 11, 30562-30574. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3262411

In software development, identifying software faults is an important task. The presence of faults not only reduces the quality of the software, but also increases the cost of development life cycle. Fault identification can be performed by analysing... Read More about Error-type -A novel set of software metrics for software fault prediction.

Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism (2023)
Journal Article
Shum, L. C., Rosunally, Y., Scarle, S., & Munir, K. (2023). Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism. Education and Information Technologies, 28(10), 13077-13108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11695-8

When the traditional "one size fits all" approach is used in designing educational games, the game context is usually arranged in a fixed sequence. However, the designated content may not effectively support the diversity of players. The player's abi... Read More about Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism.

Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue (2023)
Thesis
Duran, N. Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10021806

Current methods of dialogue modelling for Conversational AI (CAI) bear little resemblance to the manner in which humans organise conversational interactions. The way utterances are represented, interpreted, and generated are determined by the necessi... Read More about Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue.

Fast and accurate evaluation of collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Polatidis, N., Kapetanakis, S., Pimenidis, E., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2022). Fast and accurate evaluation of collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms. In N. Thanh Nguyen, T. Khoa Tran, U. Tukayev, T. Hong, B. Trawiński, & E. Szczerbicki (Eds.), ACIIDS 2022: Intelligent Information and Database Systems (623-634). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21743-2_50

Collaborative filtering are recommender systems algorithms that provide personalized recommendations to users in various online environments such as movies, music, books, jokes and others. There are many such recommendation algorithms and, regarding... Read More about Fast and accurate evaluation of collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms.

The nonequilibrium potential today: A short review (2022)
Journal Article
Wio, H. S., Deza, J. I., Sánchez, A. D., García-García, R., Gallego, R., Revelli, J. A., & Deza, R. R. (2022). The nonequilibrium potential today: A short review. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 165(Part 1), 112778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112778

A brief review is made of the birth and evolution of the “nonequilibrium potential” (NEP) concept. As if providing a landscape for qualitative reasoning were not helpful enough, the NEP adds a quantitative dimension to the qualitative theory of diffe... Read More about The nonequilibrium potential today: A short review.

Developing concept system for robotics open heart surgery (2022)
Digital Artefact
Farzadnia, F., D’Agnano, F., & Jorgensen, T. (in press). Developing concept system for robotics open heart surgery. [Website article]

Research interests in the healthcare field have for some time been growing within CFPR. A connection with Dr Muhammad Bilal from UWE’s Big Data Enterprise and Artificial Intelligence Lab is, in particular, developing some promising healthcare researc... Read More about Developing concept system for robotics open heart surgery.

Development of communicating stream x-machine tool for modeling and generating test cases for automated teller machine (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Adewale Sanusi, B., Ogunshile, E., Aydin, M., Olatunde Olabiyisi, S., & Oyedepo Oyediran, M. (2022, August). Development of communicating stream x-machine tool for modeling and generating test cases for automated teller machine. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT 2022), Chennai, India

The improvement of this paper takes advantage of the existing formal method called Stream X-Machine by optimizing the theory and applying it to practice in a large-scale system. This optimized formal approach called Communicating Stream X-Machine (CS... Read More about Development of communicating stream x-machine tool for modeling and generating test cases for automated teller machine.