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Query execution for RDF data on row and column store (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Padiya, T., Bhise, M., Vasani, S., & Pandey, M. (2015). Query execution for RDF data on row and column store. In Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 11th International Conference, ICDCIT 2015, Bhubaneswar, India, February 5-8, 2015. Proceedings 11 (403-408). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14977-6_43

This paper shows experimental comparison between various data storage techniques to manage RDF data. The work represents evaluation of query performance in terms of query execution time and data scalability, using row and column store for various dat... Read More about Query execution for RDF data on row and column store.

Energy management of the organ fraction of the municipal solid waste. Case study: Metropolitan area of Medellin, Colombia (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Morales Maya, C., Valencia Morales, M. V., González Castaño, A., & Penagos Garcia, G. L. (2015). Energy management of the organ fraction of the municipal solid waste. Case study: Metropolitan area of Medellin, Colombia. In M. Cucinella (Ed.), 15 PLEA: Architecture in (R)Evolution : 31st International PLEA Conference, Bologna 9-11 September 2015 : Book of Abstracts

The global problem of production and final disposal of the municipal solid waste, has today a greater environmental impact due to economic growth, the industrial development and the increase of population in urban areas. In the case of Colombia, the... Read More about Energy management of the organ fraction of the municipal solid waste. Case study: Metropolitan area of Medellin, Colombia.

Ice jam flood hazard assessment and mapping of the Peace River at the Town of Peace River (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lindenschmidt, K., Das, A., Rokaya, P., Chun, K., & Chu, T. (2015). Ice jam flood hazard assessment and mapping of the Peace River at the Town of Peace River. In 18th Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers (18-21)

Efforts are underway in Canada to develop, update and extend flood risk assessments and mapping for river sections prone to flooding. However, most of these previous works are limited to the open-water case. Very little has been done to include flood... Read More about Ice jam flood hazard assessment and mapping of the Peace River at the Town of Peace River.

A new design of membraneless microbial fuel cell: Anode and cathode share the same self-stratified electrolyte of urine (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Walter, X., Gajda, I., Forbes, S., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). A new design of membraneless microbial fuel cell: Anode and cathode share the same self-stratified electrolyte of urine. In M. Chianella, C. Barchiesi, & V. Cigolotti (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th European Fuel Cell - Piero Lunghi Conference, EFC 2015. , (315-316)

Regardless of architecture, microbial fuel cell technology requires a plurality of units to achieve exploitable electrical power. This implies that each unit needs a simple design allowing the production of the needed multiplicity. Here, we present a... Read More about A new design of membraneless microbial fuel cell: Anode and cathode share the same self-stratified electrolyte of urine.

Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCS treating urine (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Merino-Jimenez, I., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCS treating urine. In V. Cigolotti, M. Chianella, & C. Barchiesi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th European Fuel Cell - Piero Lunghi Conference, EFC 2015. , (311-312)

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) offer a promising technology for electricity production. In the anodic chamber, an anaerobic biofilm breaks down the organic compounds present in the urine to generate electricity. In the cathodic chamber, the oxygen reduc... Read More about Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCS treating urine.

Influence of expansive minerals on the self-healing of cement paste and mortar systems (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Qureshi, T., & Al-Tabbaa, A. (2015). Influence of expansive minerals on the self-healing of cement paste and mortar systems. In Fifth International Conference of Self-healing Materials, Durham, NC (U.S.A.)

Expansive minerals have great prospects for improving the self-healing capacity of concrete. Once a crack start propagating, an embedded unhydrated expansive mineral could hydrate and expand hence bridging and healing the cracks. This study investiga... Read More about Influence of expansive minerals on the self-healing of cement paste and mortar systems.

Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Romli, A., Setchi, R., Soe, S., & Prickett, P. (2015). Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design. In SDM'2015: 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (145-158)

A major challenge for any manufacturer is including aspects of sustainable development in product design. These are related to the social, environmental and economic impacts of the proposed product. This paper proposes the development of an eco- case... Read More about Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design.

When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Hood, D., Lemaignan, S., & Dillenbourg, P. (2015). When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference. , (83-90). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696479

© 2015 ACM. This article presents a novel robotic partner which children can teach handwriting. The system relies on the learning by teaching paradigm to build an interaction, so as to stimulate meta-cognition, empathy and increased self-esteem in th... Read More about When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting.

Observer-based control design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs: LMI approach (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Delshad, S. S., S. Delshad, I., Gustafsson, T., Karimi, H. R., & Zemouche, A. (2015). Observer-based control design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs: LMI approach. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAS.2015.7364768

© 2015 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems - ICROS. This paper deals with the problem of observer-based controller design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs. A novel method is presented to design a controller using esti... Read More about Observer-based control design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs: LMI approach.

Effect of influential users on recommendation (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Oshodin, E., & Chiclana, F. (2015). Effect of influential users on recommendation. In 2015 SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) (731-732). https://doi.org/10.1109/IntelliSys.2015.7361221

Relevant information stored in boundless pool of data source are required for the recommendation provided for users in recommender systems. Current recommender systems still suffer from inaccurate or erroneous predictions for users. This may be due t... Read More about Effect of influential users on recommendation.

Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wiele, P. V., Khalid, F., Ribiere, V., & Ermine, J. (2015). Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions. In V. Ribière, & L. Worasinchai (Eds.), Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning ICICKM 2015 (309-315)

Over the last 2 decades employability has worldwide become a key item on the public agenda due to changing labour market requirements and changing career perspectives. This has sparked a strong debate around Higher Educational Institutions’ (HEIs) fi... Read More about Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions.

Modeling and verifying context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Rakib, A., & Haque, H. M. U. (2015). Modeling and verifying context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents. In 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE) (61-69). https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMCOD.2015.7340471

© 2015 IEEE. This paper complements our previous work on formal modeling of resource-bounded context-aware systems, which handle inconsistent context information using defeasible reasoning, by focusing on automated analysis and verification. A case s... Read More about Modeling and verifying context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents.

Social trust in a familiar community (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Oshodin, E., Chiclana, F., & Ahmadi, S. (2015). Social trust in a familiar community. In M. Bramer, & M. Petridis (Eds.), SGAI 2015: Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXII (119-132). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25032-8_8

Most computation of social trust have been used for maintaining communities of individuals, based on their past activities. The behaviour of idle individuals or non-contributors to the communities have been totally ignored in the computation as they... Read More about Social trust in a familiar community.

Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Perez Hernandez, M., & Reiff-Marganiec, S. (2015). Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet. In 2015 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (301-308). https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2015.89

Development of IoT applications relies heavily on middleware architectures. Multiple solutions have been proposed using service and agent paradigms, which consequently impose a specific application development model. We observe a trend towards a data... Read More about Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet.

Intellibility assessment in a square shaped preschool classroom according to the grouping of children of 3 to 5 year of age (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Marin Restrepo, L., Morales Maya, C., Guerrero Teran, G., Gracia Cardona, A., & Waldron Toro, J. (2015). Intellibility assessment in a square shaped preschool classroom according to the grouping of children of 3 to 5 year of age. In T. Ahram, W. Karwowski, & D. Schmorrow (Eds.), Procedia Manufacturing: 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015) and the Affiliated Conferences, AHFE 2015 (6206-6213)

Architecture and Acoustic are intimately related, been sound an extremely important part of the human natural environment. Sounds give specific qualities to spaces establishing whether or not a hearing condition is pleasant or annoying to those who i... Read More about Intellibility assessment in a square shaped preschool classroom according to the grouping of children of 3 to 5 year of age.

Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Insaurralde, C., Short, M., & Dawood, M. (2015). Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301470

© 2015 IEEE. The liberalization of the energy markets, combined with the drive towards a low-carbon economy, has led to the development of the concept of the smart grid. The smart grid is an energy distribution network that enables real-time informat... Read More about Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network.

Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Insaurralde, C. C. (2015). Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301566

© 2015 IEEE. Many Factory Automation Systems (FASs) are been increasingly required to provide 24/7 in-service operation. This demands increasingly-higher levels of autonomy, and makes FAS control architectures include extra regulating capabilities in... Read More about Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors.