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Sustainability in a climate of austerity: Responses from UK city-regions (2012)
Conference Proceeding
De Laurentis, C., Eames, M., Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2012). Sustainability in a climate of austerity: Responses from UK city-regions. In Smart, Creative, Sustainable, Inclusive: Territorial Development Strategies in the Age of Austerity: Regional Studies Association One Day Winter Conference 2012 (63--66)

The application of laser sintering for archaeological model-making (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Soe, S., Eyers, D. R., Potter, A. T., Jones, T., & Nayling, N. (2012). The application of laser sintering for archaeological model-making. In P. J. Bartolo (Ed.), Innovative Developments in Virtual and Physical Prototyping. , (757-762)

Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, E., Anderson, S. R., Assaf, T., Pearson, M., Walters, P., Prescott, T. J., …Porrill, J. (2012). Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots. In G. Herrmann, M. Studley, M. Pearson, A. Conn, C. Melhuish, M. Witkowski, …J. H. Kim (Eds.), Advances in Autonomous Robotics: Joint Proceedings of the 13th Annual TAROS Conference and the 15th Annual FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Bristol, UK, August 20-23, 2012, Proceedings (424-425). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_42

The emerging field of soft robotics offers the prospect of replacing existing hard actuator technologies with new soft-smart materials [7]. Such materials have the potential to form a key component of safer, more compliant and light-weight robots. So... Read More about Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots.

Towards an efficient and secure educational platform on cloud infrastructure (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Brohi, S., Bamiah, M. A., Chuprat, S., & Ab Manan, J. L. (2012). Towards an efficient and secure educational platform on cloud infrastructure. In Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management, ICCCTAM 2012 (145-150). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488088

Existing educational platforms are highly cost-consuming and inefficient in-terms of scalability, flexibility of infrastructures, availability, recovery, accessibility and security. Cloud computing is considered as a flexible business and technologic... Read More about Towards an efficient and secure educational platform on cloud infrastructure.

Identifying and analyzing security threats to virtualized cloud computing infrastructures (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Brohi, S., Bamiah, M. A., Brohi, M. N., & Kamran, R. (2012). Identifying and analyzing security threats to virtualized cloud computing infrastructures. In 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management (ICCCTAM) (151-155). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488089

A multi-tenant Cloud Computing Infrastructure (CCI) consists of several Virtual Machines (VMs) running on same physical platform by using virtualization techniques. The VMs are monitored and managed by kernel based software i.e. Virtual Machine Monit... Read More about Identifying and analyzing security threats to virtualized cloud computing infrastructures.

Cloud implementation security challenges (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Bamiah, M., Brohi, S., Chuprat, S., & Brohi, M. N. (2012). Cloud implementation security challenges. In Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management, ICCCTAM 2012 (174-178). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488093

Cloud computing offers significant features such as resource pooling, scalability, on-demand self service, availability, and reliability to organizations to improve their quality of services. For example by using cloud computing services in healthcar... Read More about Cloud implementation security challenges.

A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sector (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Bamiah, M., Brohi, S., Chuprat, S., & Ab Manan, J. L. (2012). A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sector. In Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management (65-68). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488073

Healthcare sector is information critical industry that deals with human lives. Transforming from traditional paper-based to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) was not efficient enough since EHRs require resources, integration, maintenance and high cos... Read More about A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sector.

Debond resisting composite stringers (2012)
Conference Proceeding
O'Donnell, M. P., Weaver, P. M., & Cosentino, E. (2012). Debond resisting composite stringers. In 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Forensic analysis of wireless networking evidence of Android smartphones (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Andriotis, P., Oikonomou, G., & Tryfonas, T. (2012). Forensic analysis of wireless networking evidence of Android smartphones. In 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). , (109-114). https://doi.org/10.1109/WIFS.2012.6412634

This paper introduces a method for acquiring forensic-grade evidence from Android smartphones using open source tools. We investigate in particular cases where the suspect has made use of the smartphone's Wi-Fi or Bluetooth interfaces. We discuss the... Read More about Forensic analysis of wireless networking evidence of Android smartphones.

A novel dynamic Q-learning-based scheduler technique for LTE-advanced technologies using neural networks (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Sorin Comsa, I., Zhang, S., Aydin, M., Kuonen, P., & Wagen, J. F. (2012). A novel dynamic Q-learning-based scheduler technique for LTE-advanced technologies using neural networks. In 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks. , (332-335). https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2012.6423642

The tradeoff concept between system capacity and user fairness attracts a big interest in LTE-Advanced resource allocation strategies. By using static threshold values for throughput or fairness, regardless the network conditions, makes the scheduler... Read More about A novel dynamic Q-learning-based scheduler technique for LTE-advanced technologies using neural networks.

Green infrastructures as a potential strategy for balancing supply and demand in water stressed regions (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Farmani, R., Atkinson, S., Butler, D., Cheng, V., Echenique, M., Grinevich, V., …Zachariadis, V. (2012). Green infrastructures as a potential strategy for balancing supply and demand in water stressed regions

An integrated (socio-economic, technical) approach based on land use and water demand management is proposed in order to adapt to the challenges of growing water stress and supply vulnerability. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is examin... Read More about Green infrastructures as a potential strategy for balancing supply and demand in water stressed regions.

Prolong the stack life of PEM fuel cell system via higher order sliding mode control (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Rakhtala, S. M., Ghaderi, R., & Ranjbar, N. A. (2012). Prolong the stack life of PEM fuel cell system via higher order sliding mode control. In The 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation (13-18). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCIAutom.2011.6356623

Fuel cells are electrochemical generators where produce electrical energy from chemical reactants. It is why these are good candidates to provide clean energy generation. This paper presents a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dynamic model of polymer... Read More about Prolong the stack life of PEM fuel cell system via higher order sliding mode control.

Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room. https://doi.org/10.1615/ICHMT.2012.CHT-12.730

Numerical simulation of airflow in an indoor environment has been carried out for forced, natural and mixed convection modes respectively, by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach of solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations.... Read More about Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room.

Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Castagna, J., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-98

Simulation of a turbulent °ow over an axisymmetric hill has been carried out to study three-dimensional °ow separation and reattachment that occur on the lee-side of the geome-try. A total of four simulations are considered at low Reynolds number of... Read More about Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill.

Emotions for intelligent agents in crisis management simulations: A survey (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Loizou, M., Hartley, T., Slater, S., Newman, R., & Pannese, L. (2012). Emotions for intelligent agents in crisis management simulations: A survey. In Q. Mehdi, A. Elmaghraby, I. Marshall, R. Moreton, R. Ragade, B. G. Zapirain, …N. L. Zhigiang (Eds.), 2012 17th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES) (213-219). https://doi.org/10.1109/CGames.2012.6314578

Intelligent agents or non-player characters (NPCs) in human interaction scenarios are required to react in ways that are consistent to the training scenario. In many cases these NPCs are controlled by a simple state machine and scripts. The use of th... Read More about Emotions for intelligent agents in crisis management simulations: A survey.

FDAP: Fast data aggregation protocol in wireless sensor networks (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Boulkaboul, S., Djenouri, D., & Badache, N. (2012). FDAP: Fast data aggregation protocol in wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32686-8_38

This paper focuses on data aggregation latency in wireless sensors networks. A distributed algorithm to generate a collision-free schedule for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on maximal indepe... Read More about FDAP: Fast data aggregation protocol in wireless sensor networks.

The new visual journalism (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Embury, G. (2012). The new visual journalism

Opportunities for illustrators have vastly increased over the last few years partly due to new technologies and the growth and easy availability of visual material. There is a theory we are approaching an era of
new visual literacy, (Kress & Van Le... Read More about The new visual journalism.