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Predictive maintenance analytics and implementation for aircraft: Challenges and opportunities (2022)
Journal Article
Stanton, I., Munir, K., Ikram, A., & El-Bakry, M. (2023). Predictive maintenance analytics and implementation for aircraft: Challenges and opportunities. Systems Engineering, 26(2), 216-237. https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21651

The increase in available data from sensors embedded in industrial equipment has led to a recent rise in the use of industrial predictive maintenance. In the aircraft industry, predictive maintenance has become an essential tool for optimizing mainte... Read More about Predictive maintenance analytics and implementation for aircraft: Challenges and opportunities.

Modern stylometry: A review & experimentation with machine learning (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Muldoon, C., Ikram, A., & Khan Mirza, Q. A. (2021). Modern stylometry: A review & experimentation with machine learning. In 2021 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), 2021 (293-298). https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud49777.2021.00049

The problem of authorship attribution has applications from literary studies (such as the great Shakespeare/Marlowe debates) to counter-intelligence. The field of stylometry aims to offer quantitative results for authorship attribution. In this paper... Read More about Modern stylometry: A review & experimentation with machine learning.

Automated essay scoring (AES); A semantic analysis inspired machine learning approach: An automated essay scoring system using semantic analysis and machine learning is presented in this research (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Ikram, A., & Castle, B. (2021). Automated essay scoring (AES); A semantic analysis inspired machine learning approach: An automated essay scoring system using semantic analysis and machine learning is presented in this research. In ICETC '20: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (147-151). https://doi.org/10.1145/3436756.3437036

With the advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), ‘Automated Essay Scoring’ (AES) systems have become more and more prevalent in recent years. This research proposes an extension to the Coh-Metrix algorithm AES, with a focus on feature lists. Te... Read More about Automated essay scoring (AES); A semantic analysis inspired machine learning approach: An automated essay scoring system using semantic analysis and machine learning is presented in this research.

A cloud resource management model for the creation and orchestration of social communities (2014)
Journal Article
Ikram, A., Anjum, A., & Bessis, N. (2015). A cloud resource management model for the creation and orchestration of social communities. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 50, 130-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2014.05.003

Managing resources, context and data in mobile clouds is a challenging task. Specific aspects of spontaneity, large interaction space and dynamic interaction share a metaphorical resemblance to chemistry, chemical reactions and solutions. In this pap... Read More about A cloud resource management model for the creation and orchestration of social communities.

Approaching the internet of things (IoT): A modelling, analysis and abstraction framework (2013)
Journal Article
Ikram, A., Anjum, A., Hill, R., Antonopoulos, N., Liu, L., & Sotiriadis, S. (2015). Approaching the internet of things (IoT): A modelling, analysis and abstraction framework. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(8), 1966-1984. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3131

The evolution of communication protocols, sensory hardware, mobile and pervasive devices, alongside social and cyber-physical networks, has made the Internet of things (IoT) an interesting concept with inherent complexities as it is realised. Such co... Read More about Approaching the internet of things (IoT): A modelling, analysis and abstraction framework.

Chemistry for context awareness (C2A) (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ikram, A., & Baker, N. (2011). Chemistry for context awareness (C2A). In 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments (346-349). https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.69

Awareness is a necessary aspect of interaction of present day devices and communications in pervasive environments. Awareness is dependant on the information of surroundings that is seen as 'Context'. The sources of context have grown exponentially i... Read More about Chemistry for context awareness (C2A).

An artificial chemistry based framework for personal and social context aware smart spaces (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ikram, A., Baker, N., Knappmeyer, M., Reetz, E. S., & Tonjesy, R. (2011). An artificial chemistry based framework for personal and social context aware smart spaces. In 2011 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (2009-2014). https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC.2011.5982843

Supporting context-aware services and applications that are delivered to a user as they move through a smart space is a challenge. The complexity of awareness and interaction requires an efficient interaction and adaptation model. Most research proto... Read More about An artificial chemistry based framework for personal and social context aware smart spaces.

A chemical model to enable context awareness (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ikram, A., Baker, N., Knappmeyer, M., & Tönjes, R. (2011). A chemical model to enable context awareness. In 2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security. https://doi.org/10.1109/ntms.2011.5721147

Modeling ad-hoc context-aware services and applications that are delivered to a user as they move through a smart space has always been fraught with difficulty. It requires representation, management and inference of context, dynamic update of both c... Read More about A chemical model to enable context awareness.

Survey on evaluation of context provisioning middleware (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Knappmeyer, M., Kiani, S. L., Baker, N., Ikram, A., & Tönjes, R. (2011, February). Survey on evaluation of context provisioning middleware. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Context-Systems Design, Evaluation and Optimisation in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Como, Italy

Multicast/broadcast network convergence in next generation mobile networks (2008)
Journal Article
Aguiar, R. L., Santos, J., Gomes, D., Sargento, S., Baker, N., Zafar, M., & Ikram, A. (2008). Multicast/broadcast network convergence in next generation mobile networks. Computer Networks, 52(1), 228-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2007.09.002

The 3GPP Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) aims to introduce group communications into the 3G networks. One of the current key challenges is how to evolve these incipient features towards the "beyond 3G vision" of a converged global netwo... Read More about Multicast/broadcast network convergence in next generation mobile networks.