All Outputs (52)

The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics (2017)
Journal Article
Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Munir, K., Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O. O., Owolabi, H. A., & Alaka, H. A. (2017). The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 11, 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2016.12.004

© 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
Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Qadir, J., Munir, K., Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O. O., …Pasha, M. (2016). Big Data in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 30(3), 500-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2016.07.001

© 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
Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O., Oyedele, L., Munir, K., Bilal, M., Owolabi, H. A., …Bello, S. A. (2016). Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework. International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development, 7(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/2093761X.2016.1152203

© 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.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
Journal Article
Javed, B., Bloodsworth, P., Rasool, R. U., Munir, K., & Rana, O. (2016). Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users. Future Generation Computer Systems, 54, 52-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.06.004

© 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.

Re-provisioning of cloud-based execution infrastructure using the cloud-aware provenance to facilitate scientific workflow execution reproducibility (2016)
Book Chapter
Khawar, H., Munir, K., McClatchey, R., & Shamdasani, J. (2016). Re-provisioning of cloud-based execution infrastructure using the cloud-aware provenance to facilitate scientific workflow execution reproducibility. In M. Helfert, V. M. Munoz, & D. Ferguson (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Services Science (74-94). Springer

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.

Analysis of critical features and evaluation of BIM software: towards a plug-in for construction waste minimization using big data (2015)
Journal Article
Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Qadir, J., Munir, K., Akinade, O. O., Ajayi, S. O., …Owolabi, H. A. (2015). Analysis of critical features and evaluation of BIM software: towards a plug-in for construction waste minimization using big data. International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development, 6(4), 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/2093761X.2015.1116415

© 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
Munir, K., Ahmad, K. H., & McClatchey, R. (2015). Development of a large-scale neuroimages and clinical variables data atlas in the neuGRID4You (N4U) project. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 57, 245-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2015.08.004

© 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
Soomro, K., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2015, July). Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems. Paper presented at IEEE Science and Information Conference 2015, London, UK

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
McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., Munir, K., & Kovács, Z. (2015, June). Traceability and provenance in big data medical systems. Paper presented at IEEE Conference on Computer Based Medical Systems, Sao Carlos, Brazil

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
Munir, K., & Rahmouni, H. (2015). Semantic generation of clouds privacy policies. In H. Markus, D. Frédéric, F. Donald, & L. Frank (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Services Sciences (15-30). Springer International Publishing Switzerland

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
Arshad, B., Munir, K., McClatchey, R., & Liaquat Kiani, S. (2014, December). Position paper: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analysis. Paper presented at 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2014), Islamabad, Pakistan

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
Ahmad, K., McClatchey, R., Munir, K., & Shamdasani, J. (2014, December). Scientific workflow repeatability through cloud-aware provenance. Paper presented at Recomputability 2014 Workshop of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014), London, UK

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
McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & Munir, K. (2014, June). Provenance support for medical research. Poster presented at 5th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW2014), Koln, Germany

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
McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., Munir, K., & Liaquat Kiani, S. (2014, May). Analysis traceability for biomedical researchers. Paper presented at Computer Based Medical Systems 2014, New York

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
Munir, K., & Rahmouni, H. (2014, April). A SWRL bridge to XACML for clouds privacy compliant policies. Paper presented at CLOSER 2014 - 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, Barcelona, Spain

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
Munir, K., Kiani, S. L., Hasham, K., McClatchey, R., Branson, A., & Shamdasani, J. (2014). Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 16(3), 150-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSIT-01-2014-0004

© 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.

Intelligent grid enabled services for neuroimaging analysis (2013)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Habib, I., Anjum, A., Munir, K., Branson, A., Bloodsworth, P., & Kiani, S. L. (2013). Intelligent grid enabled services for neuroimaging analysis. Neurocomputing, 122, 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2013.01.042

This paper reports our work in the context of the neuGRID project in the development of intelligent services for a robust and efficient Neuroimaging analysis environment. neuGRID is an EC-funded project driven by the needs of the Alzheimer's disease... Read More about Intelligent grid enabled services for neuroimaging analysis.

Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses (2013)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Branson, A., Anjum, A., Bloodsworth, P., Habib, I., Munir, K., …Green, S. (2013). Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82(9), 882-894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.05.005

Introduction: With the increasingly digital nature of biomedical data and as the complexity of analyses in medical research increases, the need for accurate information capture, traceability and accessibility has become crucial to medical researchers... Read More about Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses.

Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses (2013)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Branson, A., Anjum, A., Bloodsworth, P., Habib, I., Munir, K., …Soomro, K. (2013). Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82(9), 882-894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.05.005

Introduction With the increasingly digital nature of biomedical data and as the complexity of analyses in medical research increases, the need for accurate information capture, traceability and accessibility has become crucial to medical researchers... Read More about Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses.

Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL (2012)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Odeh, M., Munir, K., Munir, K., Odeh, M., & McClatchey, R. (2012). Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL. Knowledge-Based Systems, 35, 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2012.04.020

This work investigates the extent to which domain knowledge, expressed in a domain ontology, can assist end-users in formulating relational queries that can be executed over a complex relational database. In this regard, an ontology-driven query form... Read More about Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL.