All Outputs (116)

Monitoring the performance of petrochemical organizations in Saudi Arabia using data envelopment analysis (2019)
Journal Article

The petrochemical industry plays a crucial role in the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the effectiveness and efficiency of this industry is of high importance. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is found to be more acceptable in measu... Read More about Monitoring the performance of petrochemical organizations in Saudi Arabia using data envelopment analysis.

FABIoT: A Flexible Agent-Based Simulation Model for IoT Environments (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Internet of Things aims to digitize everyday physical objects by connecting them to the internet. As a result, cyber-physical environments of multiple sizes emerge, imposing new requirements on applications and software systems in regards support... Read More about FABIoT: A Flexible Agent-Based Simulation Model for IoT Environments.

Tools and techniques for improving cyber situational awareness of targeted phishing attacks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 IEEE. Phishing attacks continue to be one of the most common attack vectors used online today to deceive users, such that attackers can obtain unauthorised access or steal sensitive information. Phishing campaigns often vary in their level of... Read More about Tools and techniques for improving cyber situational awareness of targeted phishing attacks.

Efficient and interpretable real-time malware detection using random-forest (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 IEEE. Malicious software, often described as malware, is one of the greatest threats to modern computer systems, and attackers continue to develop more sophisticated methods to access and compromise data and resources. Machine learning methods... Read More about Efficient and interpretable real-time malware detection using random-forest.

What makes for effective visualisation in cyber situational awareness for non-expert users? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 IEEE. As cyber threats continue to become more prevalent, there is a need to consider how best we can understand the cyber landscape when acting online, especially so for non-expert users. Satellite navigation systems provide the de facto stan... Read More about What makes for effective visualisation in cyber situational awareness for non-expert users?.

Reliable data analysis through blockchain based crowdsourcing in mobile ad-hoc cloud (2019)
Journal Article

Mobile Ad-hoc Cloud (MAC) is the constellation of nearby mobile devices to serve the heavy computational needs of the resource constrained edge devices. One of the major challenges of MAC is to convince the mobile devices to offer their limited resou... Read More about Reliable data analysis through blockchain based crowdsourcing in mobile ad-hoc cloud.

An explanation-based approach for experiment reproducibility in recommender systems (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. The offline evaluation of recommender systems is typically based on accuracy metrics such as the Mean Absolute Error and the Root Mean Squared Error for error rating prediction and Precisi... Read More about An explanation-based approach for experiment reproducibility in recommender systems.

Belousov-Zhabotinsky liquid marbles in robot control (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. We show how to control the movement of a wheeled robot using on-board liquid marbles made of Belousov-Zhabotinsky solution droplets coated with polyethylene powder. Two stainless steel, iridium coated electrodes were inserted in... Read More about Belousov-Zhabotinsky liquid marbles in robot control.

Venue2Vec: An efficient embedding model for fine-grained user location prediction in geo-social networks (2019)
Journal Article

Geo-Social Networks (GSN) significantly improve location-aware capability of services by offering geo-located content based on the huge volumes of data generated in the GSN. The problem of user location prediction based on user-generated data in GSN... Read More about Venue2Vec: An efficient embedding model for fine-grained user location prediction in geo-social networks.

Towards an evolvable cancer treatment simulator (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. The use of high-fidelity computational simulations promises to enable high-throughput hypothesis testing and optimisation of cancer therapies. However, increasing realism comes at the cost of increasing computational requirements... Read More about Towards an evolvable cancer treatment simulator.

Probabilistic resource-bounded alternating-time temporal logic (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper extends resource-bounded ATL (RB-ATL)
with probabilistic reasoning and provides the syntax and semantics of the resulting logic, probabilistic resource-bounded ATL (pRB-ATL).

OpenCL vs: Accelerated finite-difference digital synthesis (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. Digital audio synthesis has become an important component of modern music production with techniques that can produce realistic simulations of real instruments. Physica... Read More about OpenCL vs: Accelerated finite-difference digital synthesis.

The aesthetics of volumetric photography for virtual reality (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Volumetric imaging (true 3D image capture, as opposed to left/right stereo imaging) is being recognised as a new arena for recording images of the real world. Much of the current work in this arena investigates the technical aspects of volumetric mov... Read More about The aesthetics of volumetric photography for virtual reality.

Pedagogical Approach to Effective Cybersecurity Teaching (2019)
Book Chapter

© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Initial research ruled out many factors that were thought may correlate to student academic performance. Finally, a strong correlation was found between their academic performance and the... Read More about Pedagogical Approach to Effective Cybersecurity Teaching.

Video-based evidence analysis and extraction in digital forensic investigation (2019)
Journal Article

As a result of the popularity of smart mobile devices and the low cost of surveillance systems, visual data are increasingly being used in digital forensic investigation. Digital videos have been widely used as key evidence sources in evidence identi... Read More about Video-based evidence analysis and extraction in digital forensic investigation.

NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Visualisation underpins the understanding of scientific data both through exploration and explanation of analysed data. Provenance strengthens the understanding of data by showing the process of how a result has been achieved. Wit... Read More about NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses.

The natural connectivity of autonomous systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The concept of enaction, or embodied cognition, de- scribed by Varela et al., aims to resolve the the dilemma of Cartesian mind-body dualism by re-casting these categories as complementary explanations of the same phenomena. This paper explores Varel... Read More about The natural connectivity of autonomous systems.

Secure Social Media Spaces for Communities of Vulnerable People (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 IEEE. This paper presents a proposal for developing secure social media spaces for groups of people that could be vulnerable to external influences. These could be refuges from war torn or politically unstable countries that could be persecute... Read More about Secure Social Media Spaces for Communities of Vulnerable People.

Model checking ontology-driven reasoning agents using strategy and abstraction (2019)
Journal Article

We present a framework for the modelling, specification and verification of ontology-driven multi-agent rule-based systems (MASs). We assume that each agent executes in a separate process and that they communicate via message passing. The proposed ap... Read More about Model checking ontology-driven reasoning agents using strategy and abstraction.

Embedding geographic locations for modelling the natural environment using flickr tags and structured data (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Meta-data from photo-sharing websites such as Flickr can be used to obtain rich bag-of-words descriptions of geographic locations, which have proven valuable, among others, for modelling and predicting ecological features. One important insight from... Read More about Embedding geographic locations for modelling the natural environment using flickr tags and structured data.