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Big data technology in education: Advantages, implementations, and challenges (2018)
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Brohi, S. N., Bamiah, M. A., & Brohi, M. N. (2018). Big data technology in education: Advantages, implementations, and challenges. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 13(7 Special Issue on ICCSIT 2018), 229-241

This study provides an in-depth review of Big Data Technology (BDT) advantages, implementations, and challenges in the education sector. BDT plays an essential role in optimizing education intelligence by facilitating institutions, management, educat... Read More about Big data technology in education: Advantages, implementations, and challenges.

Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians (2018)
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Brown, D., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2018). Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians. Digital Creativity, 29(2-3), 129-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2018.1510841

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In a New Interface for Musical Expression (NIME), the design of the relationship between a musician’s actions and the instrument’s sound response is critical in creating instrume... Read More about Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians.

Exploiting GPU parallelism in improving bees swarm optimization for mining big transactional databases (2018)
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Djenouri, Y., Djenouri, D., Belhadi, A., Fournier-Viger, P., Chun-Wei Lin, J., & Bendjoudi, A. (2019). Exploiting GPU parallelism in improving bees swarm optimization for mining big transactional databases. Information Sciences, 496, 326-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.06.060

© 2018 This paper investigates the use of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in improving the bees swarm optimization metaheuristic performance for solving the association rule mining problem. Although this metaheuristic proved its effectiveness, it requ... Read More about Exploiting GPU parallelism in improving bees swarm optimization for mining big transactional databases.

Local spatial obesity analysis and estimation using online social network sensors (2018)
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Sun, Q., Wang, N., Li, S., & Zhou, H. (2018). Local spatial obesity analysis and estimation using online social network sensors. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 83, 54-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2018.03.010

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Recently, the online social networks (OSNs) have received considerable attentions as a revolutionary platform to offer users massive social interaction among users that enables users to be more involved in their own healthcare. T... Read More about Local spatial obesity analysis and estimation using online social network sensors.

Predicting user confidence during visual decision making (2018)
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Smith, J., Legg, P., Matovis, M., & Kinsey, K. (2018). Predicting user confidence during visual decision making. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 8(2), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3185524

© 2018 ACM People are not infallible consistent “oracles”: their confidence in decision-making may vary significantly between tasks and over time. We have previously reported the benefits of using an interface and algorithms that explicitly captured... Read More about Predicting user confidence during visual decision making.

Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations (2018)
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Hai, H., Lo, W. H., Ng, H. H., Brailsford, T., & O'Malley, C. (2018). Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations

In this study we examine the effect that several technological affordances have upon the experiences of children while visiting a museum, focusing upon engagement, discussion and reflection. The museum is the Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum in Malacca, M... Read More about Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations.

From product recommendation to cyber-attack prediction: generating attack graphs and predicting future attacks (2018)
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Polatidis, N., Pimenidis, E., Pavlidis, M., Papastergiou, S., & Mouratidis, H. (2020). From product recommendation to cyber-attack prediction: generating attack graphs and predicting future attacks. Evolving Systems, 11(2), 479-490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-018-9234-z

Modern information society depends on reliable functionality of information systems infrastructure, while at the same time the number of cyber-attacks has been increasing over the years and damages have been caused. Furthermore, graphs can be used to... Read More about From product recommendation to cyber-attack prediction: generating attack graphs and predicting future attacks.

ExpandNet: A deep convolutional neural network for high dynamic range expansion from low dynamic range content (2018)
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Marnerides, D., Bashford-Rogers, T., Hatchett, J., & Debattista, K. (2018). ExpandNet: A deep convolutional neural network for high dynamic range expansion from low dynamic range content. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(2), 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13340

© 2018 The Author(s) and 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. High dynamic range (HDR) imaging provides the capability of handling real world lighting as opposed to the traditional low dynamic range (LDR) which struggles to... Read More about ExpandNet: A deep convolutional neural network for high dynamic range expansion from low dynamic range content.

A Cilia-inspired Closed-loop Sensor-actuator Array (2018)
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Whiting, J., Mayne, R., Melhuish, C., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). A Cilia-inspired Closed-loop Sensor-actuator Array. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 15(3), 526-532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-018-0043-7

© 2018, Jilin University. Cilia are finger-like cell-surface organelles that are used by certain varieties of aquatic unicellular organisms for motility, sensing and object manipulation. Initiated by internal generators and external mechanical and ch... Read More about A Cilia-inspired Closed-loop Sensor-actuator Array.

Modelling microbial fuel cells using Lattice Boltzmann methods (2018)
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Tsompanas, M. A., Adamatzky, A., Ieropoulos, I., Phillips, N., Sirakoulis, G., & Greenman, J. (2019). Modelling microbial fuel cells using Lattice Boltzmann methods. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 6(16), 2035-2045. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCBB.2018.2831223

An accurate modelling of bio-electrochemical processes that govern Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) and mapping their behaviour according to several parameters will enhance the development of MFC technology and enable their successful implementation in we... Read More about Modelling microbial fuel cells using Lattice Boltzmann methods.

Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP) (2018)
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Hasham, K., & Munir, K. (2018). Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP). Computing, 100(12), 1299-1333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-018-0617-6

© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Provenance of scientific workflows has been considered a mean to provide workflow reproducibility. However, the provenance approaches adopted so far are not applicable in the context of C... Read More about Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP).

A parallel modular biomimetic cilia sorting platform (2018)
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Whiting, J. G., Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). A parallel modular biomimetic cilia sorting platform. Biomimetics, 3(2), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics3020005

The aquatic unicellular organism Paramecium caudatum uses cilia to swim around its environment and to graze on food particles and bacteria. Paramecia use waves of ciliary beating for locomotion, intake of food particles and sensing. There is some evi... Read More about A parallel modular biomimetic cilia sorting platform.

Studying users’ adaptation to Android's run-time fine-grained access control system (2018)
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Andriotis, P., Stringhini, G., & Sasse, A. (2018). Studying users’ adaptation to Android's run-time fine-grained access control system. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 40, 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2018.02.004

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The advent of the sixth Android version brought a significant security and privacy advancement to its users. The platform's security model has changed dramatically, allowing users to grant or deny access to resources when requeste... Read More about Studying users’ adaptation to Android's run-time fine-grained access control system.

Design mining microbial fuel cell cascades (2018)
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Preen, R., You, J., Bull, L., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2019). Design mining microbial fuel cell cascades. Soft Computing, 23(13), 4673-7643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3117-x

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) perform wastewater treatment and electricity production through the conversion of organic matter using microorganisms. For practical applications, it has been suggested that greater efficiency can be achieved by arranging... Read More about Design mining microbial fuel cell cascades.

Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition (2018)
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Vallverdú, J., Castro, O., Mayne, R., Talanov, M., Levin, M., Baluška, F., …Adamatzky, A. (2018). Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition. BioSystems, 165, 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.12.011

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been used in developing unconventional computing devices for in which the slime mould played a role of a sensing, actuating, and computing device. These devices treated the slime mould as... Read More about Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition.

Toxicity and Applications of Internalised Magnetite Nanoparticles Within Live Paramecium caudatum Cells (2018)
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Mayne, R., Whiting, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). Toxicity and Applications of Internalised Magnetite Nanoparticles Within Live Paramecium caudatum Cells. BioNanoScience, 8(1), 90-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12668-017-0425-z

© 2017, The Author(s). The nanotechnology revolution has allowed us to speculate on the possibility of hybridising nanoscale materials with live substrates, yet significant doubt still remains pertaining to the effects of nanomaterials on biological... Read More about Toxicity and Applications of Internalised Magnetite Nanoparticles Within Live Paramecium caudatum Cells.

MIAEC: Missing data imputation based on the evidence Chain (2018)
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Xu, X., Chong, W., Li, S., & Arabo, A. (2018). MIAEC: Missing data imputation based on the evidence Chain. IEEE Access, 6, 12983-12992. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2803755

© 2013 IEEE. Missing or incorrect data caused by improper operations can seriously compromise security investigation. Missing data can not only damage the integrity of the information but also lead to the deviation of the data mining and analysis. Th... Read More about MIAEC: Missing data imputation based on the evidence Chain.

Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing (2018)
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Fullarton, C., Draper, T., Phillips, N., Mayne, R., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing. Langmuir, 34(7), 2573-2580. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04196

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Liquid marbles (LMs) have recently attracted interest for use as cargo carriers in digital microfluidics and have successfully been implemented as signal carriers in collision-based unconventional computing circuits.... Read More about Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing.

An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities (2018)
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Javed, B., Khan, Z., & McClatchey, R. (2018). An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities. Informatics, 5(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics5010003

© 2018 by the authors. Government policies aim to address public issues and problems and therefore play a pivotal role in people’s lives. The creation of public policies, however, is complex given the perspective of large and diverse stakeholders’ in... Read More about An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities.

CompleX-Machine: An automated testing tool using X-Machine theory (2018)
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Ogunshile, E. (2018). CompleX-Machine: An automated testing tool using X-Machine theory. https://doi.org/10.1999/1307-6892/10008653

This paper is aimed at creating an Automatic Java X-Machine testing tool for software development. The nature of software development is changing. Thus, the type of software testing tools required is also changing. Software is growing increasingly co... Read More about CompleX-Machine: An automated testing tool using X-Machine theory.