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Managing project knowledge in delivering sustainable retrofitted buildings: A decision support framework (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Maduka, N., Greenwood, D., & Udeaja, C. (2015). Managing project knowledge in delivering sustainable retrofitted buildings: A decision support framework. In 12th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2015 Proceedings (791-804)

This paper highlights the significance of knowledge management in construction activities, focusing particularly in the case of sustainable retrofitted building projects. It has been acknowledged that the industry has a poor attitude to project learn... Read More about Managing project knowledge in delivering sustainable retrofitted buildings: A decision support framework.

A variant of connected dominating set in unit disk graphs for applications in communication networks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Bagaa, M. (2015). A variant of connected dominating set in unit disk graphs for applications in communication networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2015.7293384

© 2015 IEEE. This paper considers a variant of the connected dominating set (CDS) problem in a unit disk graph G = (V, E). The considered problem consists in minimizing the number of CDS vertices that belong to a subset V' ⊆V. As far as we know, this... Read More about A variant of connected dominating set in unit disk graphs for applications in communication networks.

The construction of complex networks from linear and nonlinear measures - Climate networks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Deza, J. I., & Ihshaish, H. (2015). The construction of complex networks from linear and nonlinear measures - Climate networks. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.260

© The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. During the last decade the techniques of complex network analysis have found application in climate research. The main idea consists in embedding the characteristics of climate variables, e.g., temperature, p... Read More about The construction of complex networks from linear and nonlinear measures - Climate networks.

The use of exploratory research in addressing knowledge issues in delivering sustainable retrofitted building projects (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Maduka, N., Greenwood, D., & Udeaja, C. (in press). The use of exploratory research in addressing knowledge issues in delivering sustainable retrofitted building projects. In PROCEEDINGS OF ARCOM Doctoral Workshop Research Methodology (13-22)

This paper describes a proposed strategy of exploring the role of knowledge management (KM) in delivering retrofitted building projects. This is based on an on-going PhD project whose primary objective is to develop a decision support system (DSS) fo... Read More about The use of exploratory research in addressing knowledge issues in delivering sustainable retrofitted building projects.

Analysis of flexible pavement materials with image analyzer (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T., & Wamuziri, S. C. (2015). Analysis of flexible pavement materials with image analyzer. In Eighth International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC-8) (338-345)

Future demand to study and understand properties of flexible pavement materials to enhance its performance and durability and to increase its life is huge. Keeping these points in mind, this study presents the work to assess the distribution of aspha... Read More about Analysis of flexible pavement materials with image analyzer.

Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Falguieres, M., Kumar, V., Lim, M. K., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumari, A., Lim, M. K., & Rocha-Lona, L. (2015). Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain. In IFAC-PapersOnLine (2226-2232). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.419

© 2015, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Recent financial crisis had severe impact on many economies around the globe. In Spain, it has resulted in increasing job loss, increasing shor... Read More about Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain.

Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, M. K., Rocha-Lona, L., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., & Lim, M. K. (2015). Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. , (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093844

© 2015 IEEE. This paper discusses the suitability for Business Excellence Models (BEMs) to include Corporate Sustainability on business model criteria. The conceptual paper brings discussion of what sort of measures are required to fit organizations'... Read More about Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence.

Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, M. K., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Garza-Reyes, J., Zisis, S., Kumar, V., & Rocha-Lona, L. (2015). Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. , (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093947

© 2015 IEEE. This paper presents an initial research that explores the awareness and adoption of Lean Manufacturing (LM), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) and Theory Of Constraints (TOC) in the Greek engineering sector. An exp... Read More about Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector.

Not all days are equal: Investigating the meaning in the digital calendar (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Buzzo, D., & Merendino, N. (2015). Not all days are equal: Investigating the meaning in the digital calendar. In B. Begole, J. Kim, K. Inkpen, & W. Woo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. , (489-498). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732512

Copyright © 2015 ACM. The electronic calendar is a common tool used by large numbers of people to reect and shape their daily activities. It's function and structure is rooted in legacy representations dating back thousands of years. Collaborating wi... Read More about Not all days are equal: Investigating the meaning in the digital calendar.

Growth, change and decay: Plants and interaction possibilities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Steer, C., Robinson, S., & Jones, M. (2015). Growth, change and decay: Plants and interaction possibilities. In CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2037-2042). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732765

Our work explores using plants as an interaction material to extend and disrupt existing notions of HCI. We focus in particular on how the affordances and properties of plants can be utilised for enhanced physical and emotional interaction between pe... Read More about Growth, change and decay: Plants and interaction possibilities.

A comparison of urban tree populations in four UK towns and cities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Rumble, H., Rogers, K., Doick, K., & Hutchings, T. (2015). A comparison of urban tree populations in four UK towns and cities. In Trees, People and the Built Environment II - Conference Proceedings

Trees are a valuable asset to cities and towns, providing numerous services that sustain and support human life. They store carbon, filter airborne pollutants and intercept rainwater. The structure of urban tree populations and how resilient urban tr... Read More about A comparison of urban tree populations in four UK towns and cities.

Classifying smart objects using capabilities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Perez Hernandez, M., & Reiff-Marganiec, S. (2015). Classifying smart objects using capabilities. In 2014 International Conference on Smart Computing (309-316). https://doi.org/10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2014.7043873

The Internet Of Things has emerged, providing an umbrella for the increasing number of heterogeneous Smart Objects that are becoming part of our daily activities. In this scenario, classification approaches are useful to understand differences and id... Read More about Classifying smart objects using capabilities.

Virtualization security combining mandatory access control and virtual machine introspection (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Win, T. Y., Tianfield, H., & Mair, Q. (in press). Virtualization security combining mandatory access control and virtual machine introspection. In 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (1004-1009). https://doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2014.165

Virtualization has become a target for attacks in cloud computing environments. Existing approaches to protecting the virtualization environment against the attacks are limited in protection scope and are with high overheads. This paper proposes a no... Read More about Virtualization security combining mandatory access control and virtual machine introspection.

Cognitive access point to handle delay sensitive traffic in WLANs (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M., Malik, M. H., Aydin, M. E., & Awais, Q. (2015). Cognitive access point to handle delay sensitive traffic in WLANs. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (317-322). https://doi.org/10.1109/CICT.2015.137

© 2015 IEEE. Over the last few years, the widespread use of wireless local area networks (WLANs) continues to gain more and more impetus. Due to the increase in variety of multimedia applications such as voice, video and gaming traffic, it is paramou... Read More about Cognitive access point to handle delay sensitive traffic in WLANs.

Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2015). Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '15 (255-262). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696496

© 2015 ACM. Emphasis, by means of either pitch accents or beat gestures (rhythmic co-verbal gestures with no semantic meaning), has been shown to serve two main purposes in human communication: syntactic disambiguation and salience. To use beat gestu... Read More about Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison.

A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ma, S., Manoj, S., Yu, H., Ren, J., & Weerasekera, R. (2015). A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS. In 2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2015.7166838

© 2015 IEEE. A full-rate energy-efficient forwarded-clock (FC) receiver is demonstrated in this paper. A current sampler with continuous-time equalization is realized with 20 GHz bandwidth in sampling for data recovery. Moreover, a phase interpolator... Read More about A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS.