Outputs (101)

Federated blockchained supply chain management: A cybersecurity and privacy framework (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The complete transformation of the supply chain in a truly integrated and fully automated process, presupposes the continuous and endless collection of digital information from every stage of the production scale. The aim is not only to investigate t... Read More about Federated blockchained supply chain management: A cybersecurity and privacy framework.

Geo-AI to aid disaster response by memory-augmented deep reservoir computing (2021)
Journal Article

It is a fact that natural disasters often cause severe damage both to ecosystems and humans. Moreover, man-made disasters can have enormous moral and economic consequences for people. A typical example is the large deadly and catastrophic explosion i... Read More about Geo-AI to aid disaster response by memory-augmented deep reservoir computing.

Blockchain and artificial intelligence -Managing a secure and sustainable supply chain (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Supply chain management is often the most challenging part of any business that manufactures, sells goods, or provides services nowadays. Regardless of whether the operations are mostly physical or online, managing supply chains relies entirely on be... Read More about Blockchain and artificial intelligence -Managing a secure and sustainable supply chain.

Automatic for the people: Two pieces of crowd-driven music (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

A video presenting excepts from two pieces of live generative works developed for BBC Music Day 2018, performed continuously throughout the day on the busy main platform of Bristol railway station. Both pieces are generated (and played) live using th... Read More about Automatic for the people: Two pieces of crowd-driven music.

Standards and regulations for physically assistive robots**Research supported by Lloyds Register Foundation, under the Assuring Antonomy International Programme (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we consider the regulations that currently exist in relation to supporting people in the home and in different care settings. Using existing standards and guidelines that relate to assistive technology and care in the UK, we consider wh... Read More about Standards and regulations for physically assistive robots**Research supported by Lloyds Register Foundation, under the Assuring Antonomy International Programme.

A generic provenance framework to document public policy making processes (2021)
Thesis

Public policies impact the day to day activities of individuals. Effective public policy outcomes result in general acceptance among the community. The transparency in policy making process and participation during policy creation holds significant p... Read More about A generic provenance framework to document public policy making processes.

Creativity in children's digital music composition (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Composing is a neglected area of music education. To increase participation, many technologies provide open-ended interfaces to motivate child autodidactic use, drawing influence from Papert’s LOGO philosophy to support children’s learning through pl... Read More about Creativity in children's digital music composition.

Context-aware multi-user offloading in mobile edge computing: A federated learning-based approach (2021)
Journal Article

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides an effective solution to help the Internet of Things (IoT) devices with delay-sensitive and computation-intensive tasks by offering computing capabilities in the proximity of mobile device users. Most of the exist... Read More about Context-aware multi-user offloading in mobile edge computing: A federated learning-based approach.

A reflection on the design and user acceptance of Tamil talk (2021)
Journal Article

Tamil talk is a speech to text application and was designed from a perspective of language and philosophy. This paper takes an indigenous approach in reflecting on the design and user acceptance of Tamil talk. The paper makes use of literature in cri... Read More about A reflection on the design and user acceptance of Tamil talk.

Audio Anywhere with Faust (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces \emph{Audio Anywhere} (\emph{AA}), a framework for working with audio plugins that are compiled once and run anywhere. At the heart of Audio Anywhere is an audio engine whose Digital Signal Processing (DSP) components are writte... Read More about Audio Anywhere with Faust.

The natural connectivity of autonomous systems (2020)
Journal Article

The principle of biological autonomy, introduced by Francisco J. Varela, addresses the dilemma of Cartesian mind-body dualism by re-casting mind and body, or subject and object, observer and observed, not as irreconcilable categories, but as compleme... Read More about The natural connectivity of autonomous systems.

The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how the business model of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry has evolved and the general differences that evolution has made to information management. Design/methodology/approac... Read More about The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers.

Big data for design options repository: Towards a DFMA approach for offsite construction (2020)
Journal Article

A persistent barrier to the adoption of offsite construction is the lack of information for assessing prefabrication alternatives and the choices of suppliers. This study integrates three aspects of offsite construction, including BIM, DFMA and big d... Read More about Big data for design options repository: Towards a DFMA approach for offsite construction.

Topologies #1 (2020)
Exhibition / Performance

A new installation artwork that continues UVA’s explorations of sensory experiences through the lenses of technology.

The first of a new series of works, Topologies #1 consists of five kinetic sculptures that project planes of light stretching acr... Read More about Topologies #1.

Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper details technologies and artistic approaches to crowd-driven music, discussed in the context of a live public installation in which activity in a public space (e.g. a busy railway platform) is used to drive the automated composition and pe... Read More about Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan.

Security properties of light clients on the ethereum blockchain (2020)
Journal Article

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain, known as being the second most popular public blockchain after Bitcoin. Since Ethereum is decentralised the canonical state is determined by the Ethereum network participants via a consensus mechanism without a... Read More about Security properties of light clients on the ethereum blockchain.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses a PhD research project testing the hypothesis that using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) [18] as explicit inputs to drive the Software Requirements Engineering process will result in requirements with impro... Read More about The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements.

Surface tessellation_Hexagon Planarization (2020)
Report

After trying to simulate beehive flashing diffusion pattern both in computer and physical prototype, Hive is somehow telling that it needs to be expanded in its size, form and other parameters.

We are now ready to develop the project; however, we... Read More about Surface tessellation_Hexagon Planarization.

Automated screening of patients for dietician referral (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Critical Care Units (CCU) in a hospital treat the severely sick patients that need constant monitoring and close medical attention. Feeding patients, enteral feeding in particular, is a critical and continuous process. Monitoring patients, managing t... Read More about Automated screening of patients for dietician referral.

OntoSoS.BPA.ChM: A semantically-enriched and business process architecture-driven framework for change management in system of systems context (2020)
Thesis

The interaction and collaboration between the constituent systems in System of Systems (SoS) context entail more complex and new challenges that face the application of Change Management (ChM) frameworks. Some of these challenges include: (i) the ins... Read More about OntoSoS.BPA.ChM: A semantically-enriched and business process architecture-driven framework for change management in system of systems context.