Kamran Munir's Outputs (55)

Big data application in manufacturing industry (2018)
Book Chapter

Proliferation of modes of communication today also implies that people are generating a wide variety of data by themselves. At the same time the value of organisations has become increasingly dependent on the amount and type of data that it holds abo... Read More about Big data application in manufacturing industry.

Encyclopedia of big data technologies (2018)
Book Chapter

In the field of computer science, data is considered as the main raw material which is produced by abstracting the world into categories, measures and other representational forms (e.g., characters, numbers, relations, sounds, images, electronic wave... Read More about Encyclopedia of big data technologies.

The use of ontologies for effective knowledge modelling and information retrieval (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The dramatic increase in the use of knowledge discovery applications requires end users to write complex database search requests to retrieve information. Such users are not only expected to grasp the structural complexity of complex databases... Read More about The use of ontologies for effective knowledge modelling and information retrieval.

Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The emergence of Cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for scientific workflow execution. It provides dynamic, on-demand and scalable resources that enable the processing of complex workflow-based experiments. With th... Read More about Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution.

The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Predicting and designing out construction waste in real time is complex during building waste analysis (BWA) since it involves a large number of analyses for investigating multiple waste-efficient design strategies. These analyse... Read More about The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics.

Big Data in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The ability to process large amounts of data and to extract useful insights from data has revolutionised society. This phenomenon—dubbed as Big Data—has applications for a wide assortment of industries, including the construction... Read More about Big Data in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends.

Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study identifies evaluation criteria with the goal of appraising the performance of existing construction waste management tools and employing the results in the development of a ho... Read More about Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework.

Re-provisioning of cloud-based execution infrastructure using the cloud-aware provenance to facilitate scientific workflow execution reproducibility (2016)
Book Chapter

Provenance has been considered as a means to achieve sci- entific workflow reproducibility to verify the workflow processes and results. Cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for the workflow execution by o↵ering a dynamic and scalable en... Read More about Re-provisioning of cloud-based execution infrastructure using the cloud-aware provenance to facilitate scientific workflow execution reproducibility.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this investment, a suitable pricing strategy is requi... Read More about Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users.

Analysis of critical features and evaluation of BIM software: towards a plug-in for construction waste minimization using big data (2015)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. The overall aim of this study is to investigate the potential of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction waste minimization. We evaluated the leading BIM design software products and concluded that none of the... Read More about Analysis of critical features and evaluation of BIM software: towards a plug-in for construction waste minimization using big data.

Development of a large-scale neuroimages and clinical variables data atlas in the neuGRID4You (N4U) project (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc.. Exceptional growth in the availability of large-scale clinical imaging datasets has led to the development of computational infrastructures that offer scientists access to image repositories and associated clinical variables dat... Read More about Development of a large-scale neuroimages and clinical variables data atlas in the neuGRID4You (N4U) project.

Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recommender systems are used to enable decision support. Using them to assist users when designing scientific workflows introduces a number of challenges. These include selecting appropriate components and specifying correct parameter values. Pattern... Read More about Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems.

Traceability and provenance in big data medical systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Providing an appropriate level of accessibility to and tracking of data or process elements in large volumes of medical data, is an essential requirement in the Big Data era. Researchers require systems that provide traceability of information throug... Read More about Traceability and provenance in big data medical systems.

Semantic generation of clouds privacy policies (2015)
Book Chapter

The governance of privacy and personal information on cloud envi- ronments is challenging and complex. Usually many regulatory frameworks intervene to reflect diverse privacy wishes from several stakeholders. This includes data owners, data and servi... Read More about Semantic generation of clouds privacy policies.

Position paper: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Visualisation facilitates the understanding of scientific data both through exploration and explanation of visualised data. Provenance contributes to the understanding of data by containing the contributing factors behind a result. With the significa... Read More about Position paper: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analysis.

Scientific workflow repeatability through cloud-aware provenance (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The transformations, analyses and interpretations of data in scientific workflows are vital for the repeatability and reliability of scientific workflows. This provenance of scientific workflows has been effectively carried out in Grid based scientif... Read More about Scientific workflow repeatability through cloud-aware provenance.

Provenance support for medical research (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This poster paper introduces a system known as CRISTAL [1] and the experience using it for medical research, primarily in the neuGRID [2] and neuGridforUsers (N4U) projects. These projects aim to provide detailed tracea-bility for research analysis p... Read More about Provenance support for medical research.

Analysis traceability for biomedical researchers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With the recent increase in data volumes and algorithnm complexity, clinical researchers are increasingly facing problems associated with information tracking, analysis reproducibility and the verification of scientific outputs. Systems are required... Read More about Analysis traceability for biomedical researchers.

A SWRL bridge to XACML for clouds privacy compliant policies (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The management of privacy and personal information within multi-cultural domain such as clouds and other universal collaborative systems requires intrinsic compliance-checking and assurance modules in order to increase social trust and acceptance. Fo... Read More about A SWRL bridge to XACML for clouds privacy compliant policies.

Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments (2014)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated analysis base to facilitate computational neuroscience experiments, following a user-led approach to provide access to the integrated neuroscience dat... Read More about Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments.