• Moving object tracking in clinical scenarios: application to cardiac surgery and cerebral aneurysm clipping 

  Amira, Abbes; Dakua, S.P.; Abinahed, J.; Zakaria, A.; Balakrishnan, S.; Younes, G.; Navkar, N.; Al-Ansari, A.; Zhai, X.; Bensaali, F. (Article)

  Surgical procedures such as laparoscopic and robotic surgeries are popular since they are invasive in nature and use miniaturized surgical instruments for small incisions. Tracking of the instruments (graspers, needle ...

• Evolutionary dynamic constrained optimization: Test suite construction and algorithm comparisons 

  Wang, Yong; Yu, Jian; Yang, Shengxiang; Jiang, Shouyong; Zhao, Shuang (Article)

  Many real-world applications can be modelled as dynamic constrained optimization problems (DCOPs). Due to the fact that objective function and/or constraints change over time, solving DCOPs is a challenging task. Although ...

• Characterisation of food service establishment wastewater and its implication for treatment 

  Gurd, Caroline; Villa, R.; Jefferson, B. (Article)

  Essential for the selection of a reliable treatment system is the characterisation of the effluent to treat. Kitchen wastewater (KWW) from food service establishments (FSEs) is a strong organic and fat-rich effluent ...

• Antibacterial Properties of Stainless Steel Coated on Ti6Al4V Alloy 

  Yamanoglu, Ridvan; Khoshnaw, Fuad; Kolayli, Fetiye; Uzuner, Huseyin (Article)

  Titanium alloys and stainless steeltype 316Lare used in biomedical applications due to their high corrosion resistance and good biocompatibility properties. In this study, a functionally graded material composed of titanium ...

• Technical Images and Visual Art in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: From GOFAI to GANs 

  Poltronieri, Fabrizio Augusto; Hanska Ahy, Maximillian (Conference)

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) and art share a common past, where artists employed AI algorithms to generate art. This paper explores the early days of AI-generated images, using Harold Cohen’s AARON software as a paradigm ...

• Potential Economic Benefits of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Reduction Due to Renewable Energy and Electrolytic Hydrogen Fuel deployment under current and Long Term Forecasting of the Social Carbon Cost (SCC) 

  Rahil, Abdullah; Gammon, Rupert; Brown, Neil; Udie, Justin; Akram, Muhammad Usman; Khattak, Sanober (Article)

  The 2016 Paris Agreement (UNFCCC Authors, 2015) is the latest of initiative to create an international consensus on action to reduce GHG emissions. However, the challenge of meeting its targets lies mainly in the intimate ...

• ‘Each one teach one’ Visualising Black intellectual life in Handsworth beyond the epistemology ‘white sociology’ 

  Palmer, Lisa Amanda (Article)

  Handsworth, a suburb in north-west Birmingham, became an important generative epistemic location that produced a number of contested discourses on race and racism in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s. Using archival ...

• Roboethics as a Research Puzzle 

  Zawieska, Karolina; Vermuelen, Ben (Conference)

  This position paper discusses the question of incorporating roboethics into the roboticists' thinking about their research. On the one hand, there has been a growing recognition of the need to develop and advance the field ...

• Human-Robot Dichotomy 

  Zawieska, Karolina; Sorenson, Jessica; Hasse, Cathrine; Madsen, Sebastian; Davis, Kate; Gomez, Alejandra (Conference)

  This paper belongs to the area of roboethics and responsible robotics. It discusses the conceptual and practical separation of humans and robots in designing and implementing robots into real-world environments. We argue ...

• Immense intimacy: acousmatic compositional techniques in sound and installation art as ‘something to hold onto’ 

  Batchelor, Peter (Article)

  This article explores the accessibility of acousmatic compositional approaches to sound and installation art. Principally of concern is the consideration of intimacy to create a means of ‘connecting’ with an audience. ...

• A comprehensive meta-analysis of cryptographic security mechanisms for cloud computing 

  Kiraz, Mehmet Sabir (Article)

  The concept of cloud computing offers measurable computational or information resources as a service over the Internet. The major motivation behind the cloud setup is economic benefits, because it assures the reduction in ...

• k-strong privacy for radio frequency identification authentication protocols based on physically unclonable functions 

  Celik, Serkan; Kiraz, Mehmet Sabir; Levi, Albert; Bingol, M.A.; Demirci, H.; Kardas, S. (Article)

  This paper examines Vaudenay’s privacy model, which is one of the first and most complete privacy models that featured the notion of different privacy classes. We enhance this model by introducing two new generic adversary ...

• Cloud Computing in the Quantum Era 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa; Sezer, Sakir; Khalid, Ayesha (Conference)

  Cloud computing has become the prominent technology of this era. Its elasticity, dynamicity, availability, heterogeneity, and pay as you go pricing model has attracted several companies to migrate their businesses' services ...

• A Cloud-based Architecture for Mitigating Privacy Issues in Online Social Networks 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa; Iliyasu, Auwal; Wazan, Ahmad; Habbal, Adib; Muhammad, Yusuf (Article)

  Online social media networks have revolutionized the way information is shared across our societies and around the world. Information is now delivered for free to a large audience within a short period of time. Anyone can ...

• Trust Management for Public Key Infrastructures: Implementing the X.509 Trust Broker 

  Wazan, Ahmad Samer; Laborde, Romain; Chadwick, David W.; Barrere, Francois; Benzekri, Abdelmalek; Kaiiali, Mustafa; Habbal, Adib (Article)

  A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is considered one of the most important techniques used to propagate trust in authentication over the Internet. This technology is based on a trust model defined by the original X.509 ...

• A Multi-Classifier Network-Based Crypto Ransomware Detection System: A Case Study of Locky Ransomware 

  O. Almashhadani, Ahmad; Kaiiali, Mustafa; Sezer, Sakir; O’Kane, Philip (Article)

  Ransomware is a type of advanced malware that has spread rapidly in recent years, causing significant financial losses for a wide range of victims, including organizations, healthcare facilities, and individuals. Modern ...

• Designing a Secure Exam Management System (SEMS) for M-Learning Environments 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa; Ozkaya, Armagan; Altun, Halis; Haddad, Hatem; Alier, Marc (Article)

  M-learning has enhanced the e-learning by making the learning process learner-centered. However, enforcing exam security in open environments where each student has his/her own mobile/tablet device connected to a Wi-Fi ...

• Designing a VM-level vertical scalability service in current cloud platforms: A new hope for wearable computers 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa (Article)

  Public clouds are becoming ripe for enterprise adoption. Many companies, including large enterprises, are increasingly relying on public clouds as a substitute for, or a supplement to, their own computing infrastructures. ...

• A community-scale hybrid energy system integrating biomass for localised solid waste and renewable energy solution: Evaluations in UK and Bulgaria 

  Tiwary, Abhishek; Williams, Ian; Spasova, Stanislava (Article)

  Growing pace of urban living is expected to simultaneously aggravate both the waste and the energy crises. This study presents feasibility assessment of a community scale hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) utilising ...

• A secure data outsourcing scheme based on Asmuth – Bloom secret sharing 

  I. M., Yusuf; Kaiiali, Mustafa; Habbal, Adib; Wazan, A. S.; S. I., Auwal (Article)

  Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm for data management in which a database is provided as a service by third-party service providers. One of the major benefits of offering database as a service is to provide ...

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