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Tracking changes in user activity from unlabelled smart home sensor data using unsupervised learning methods (2020)
Journal Article
Caleb-Solly, P., Gupta, P., & McClatchey, R. (2020). Tracking changes in user activity from unlabelled smart home sensor data using unsupervised learning methods. Neural Computing and Applications, 32(16), 12351 - 12362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-04737-6

© 2020, The Author(s). This paper investigates the utility of unsupervised machine learning and data visualisation for tracking changes in user activity over time. This is done through analysing unlabelled data generated from passive and ambient smar... Read More about Tracking changes in user activity from unlabelled smart home sensor data using unsupervised learning methods.

NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses (2019)
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Munir, K., Arshad, B., McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., & Khan, Z. (2019). NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses. Journal of Computer Languages, 52, 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cola.2019.04.004

© 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.

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.

Data provenance tracking as the basis for a biomedical virtual research environment (2017)
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McClatchey, R. (2018). Data provenance tracking as the basis for a biomedical virtual research environment. Proceedings of Science, 293,

In complex data analyses it is increasingly important to capture information about the usage of data sets in addition to their preservation over time to ensure reproducibility of results, to verify the work of others and to ensure appropriate conditi... Read More about Data provenance tracking as the basis for a biomedical virtual research environment.

Cloud provider capacity augmentation through automated resource bartering (2017)
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Goher, S. Z., Bloodsworth, P., Rasool, R. U., & McClatchey, R. (2018). Cloud provider capacity augmentation through automated resource bartering. Future Generation Computer Systems, 81, 203-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.09.080

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Growing interest in Cloud Computing places a heavy workload on cloud providers which is becoming increasingly difficult for them to manage with their primary data centre infrastructures. Resource scarcity can make providers vulne... Read More about Cloud provider capacity augmentation through automated resource bartering.

Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution (2017)
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Hasham, K., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2018). Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 799-820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.07.015

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The emergence of Cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for scientific workflow execution. It provides dynamic, on-demand and scalable resources that enable the processing of complex workflow-based experiments. With th... Read More about Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution.

Preface: From the coordinating editor (2016)
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Furze, J. N., Swing, K., Gupta, A. K., McClatchey, R., & Reynolds, D. M. (2016). Preface: From the coordinating editor. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43901-3

This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive needs. The volume unites multiple subject areas within sustainability, enabling t... Read More about Preface: From the coordinating editor.

Development of a large-scale neuroimages and clinical variables data atlas in the neuGRID4You (N4U) project (2015)
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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.

Analysis traceability and provenance for HEP (2015)
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Kovács, Z., McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & Kovacs, Z. (2015). Analysis traceability and provenance for HEP. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 664(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/664/3/032028

This paper presents the use of the CRISTAL software in the N4U project. CRISTAL was used to create a set of provenance aware analysis tools for the Neuroscience domain. This paper advocates that the approach taken in N4U to build the analysis suite i... Read More about Analysis traceability and provenance for HEP.

Facilitating evolution during design and implementation (2014)
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McClatchey, R. (2015). Facilitating evolution during design and implementation. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 29(2), 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-014-0324-1

The volumes and complexity of data that companies need to handle are increasing at an accelerating rate. In order to compete effectively and ensure their commercial sustainability, it is becoming crucial for them to achieve robust traceability in bot... Read More about Facilitating evolution during design and implementation.

CRISTAL: A practical study in designing systems to cope with change (2014)
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Branson, A., McClatchey, R., Goff, J. L., & Shamdasani, J. (2014). CRISTAL: A practical study in designing systems to cope with change. Information Systems, 42, 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2013.12.009

Software engineers frequently face the challenge of developing systems whose requirements are likely to change in order to adapt to organizational reconfigurations or other external pressures. Evolving requirements present difficulties, especially in... Read More about CRISTAL: A practical study in designing systems to cope with change.

Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments (2014)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Adapting scientific workflow structures using multi-objective optimization strategies (2013)
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Habib, I., Anjum, A., McClatchey, R., & Rana, O. (2013). Adapting scientific workflow structures using multi-objective optimization strategies. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1145/2451248.2451252

Scientific workflows have become the primary mechanism for conducting analyses on distributed computing infrastructures such as grids and clouds. In recent years, the focus of optimization within scientific workflows has primarily been on computation... Read More about Adapting scientific workflow structures using multi-objective optimization strategies.

Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL (2012)
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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.

Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC (2012)
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Adler, V., Wickens, J., Wang, J., Vanlaer, P., Vander Velde, C., Thomas, L., …McClatchey, R. (2012). Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 716(1), 30-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021

Results are presented from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s=7 and 8 TeV in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 fb-1 at 7... Read More about Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC.

Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach (2012)
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Anjum, A., Hill, R., McClatchey, R., Branson, A., & Bessis, N. (2012). Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach. International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 8(3), 248-265. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049169

Scientific communities are actively developing services to exploit the capabilities of service-oriented distributed systems. This exploitation requires services to be specified and developed for a range of activities such as management and scheduling... Read More about Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach.

An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing (2012)
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Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., McClatchey, R., & Anjum, A. (2012). An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 1(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-113X-1-1

With the emergence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the applicat... Read More about An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing.