• Technological disruptions in Services: lessons from Tourism and Hospitality 

  Buhalis, Dimitrios; Harwood, Tracy; Bogicevic, Vanja; Viglia, Giampaolo; Beldona, Srikanth; Hofhacker, Charles (Article)

  Purpose – Technological disruptions such as the Internet of Things and autonomous devices, enhanced analytical capabilities (artificial intelligence) and rich media (virtual and augmented reality) are creating smart ...

• A Self-Management Mechanism to Manage Non-cooperative Behaviors in LGDM-Based Supply Chain Risk Mitigation 

  Zhao, Sihai; Dong, Yucheng; Zhang, Hengjie; Chiclana, Francisco; Herrera-Viedma, Enrique (Conference)

  Large-scale group decision making (LGDM) is becoming more and more common, and how to assure the security and quality of the decision making process has become a hot topic. Supply chain risk mitigation is a complex LGDM ...

• Neutrosophic approach for enhancing quality of signals 

  Jha, S.; Kumar, Raghavendra; Le Hoang, Son; Chiclana, Francisco; Puri, V.; Priyadarshini, I. (Article)

  Information in a signal is often followed by undesirable disturbance which is termed as noise. Preventing noise in the signal leads to signal integrity, which also leads to better signal quality. The previous related works ...

• An Influence-Driven Feedback System for Preference Similarity Network Clustering Based Consensus Group Decision Making Model 

  Hanimah Kamis, Nor; Chiclana, Francisco; Levesley, Jeremy (Article)

  Consensus group decision making (CGDM) allows the integration within this area of study of other advanced frameworks such as Social Network Analysis (SNA), Social Influence Network (SIN), clustering and trust-based concepts, ...

• Real-Time 3D Head Pose Tracking Through 2.5D Constrained Local Models with Local Neural Fields 

  Ackland, Stephen; Chiclana, Francisco; Istance, Howell; Coupland, Simon (Article)

  Tracking the head in a video stream is a common thread seen within computer vision literature, supplying the research community with a large number of challenging and interesting problems. Head pose estimation from monocular ...

• Aerodynamic Modeling for Post-Stall Flight Simulation of a Transport Airplane 

  Abramov, Nikolay; Goman, M. (Mikhail G.); Khrabrov, A. N. (Alexander N.); Soemarwoto, B. (Article)

  The principles of aerodynamic modeling in the extended flight envelope, which is characterized by the development of separated flow, are outlined and illustrated for a generic transport airplane. The importance of different ...

• Smart Cities and Cyber Security: Are We There Yet? A Comparative Study on the Role of Standards, Third Party Risk Management and Security Ownership 

  Vitunskaite, M.; He, Ying; Brandstetter, T.; Janicke, Helge (Article)

  Smart cities have brought a variety of benefits aiming to revolutionise people’s lives. Those include but are not limited to, increasing economic e ciency, reducing cost and decreasing environmental output. However, the ...

• Improving the drug discovery process by using multiple classifier systems 

  Ruano-Ordas, D.; Yevseyeva, Iryna; Fernandes, Vitor Basto; Mendez, J. R.; Emmerich, Michael T. M. (Article)

  Machine learning methods have become an indispensable tool for utilizing large knowledge and data repositories in science and technology. In the context of the pharmaceutical domain, the amount of acquired knowledge about ...

• Using the LM3 method to evaluate economic impacts of an on-line retailer of local food in an English market town 

  Lemon, Mark; Mitchell, Andrew (Article)

  The paper presents a case study of an on-line retailer of locally-sourced food and drink to explore its local economic impacts on an English East Midland market town. The analysis is based on the LM3 survey method which ...

• A Multiobjective Optimization Approach for COLREGs-compliant Path Planning of Autonomous Surface Vehicles Verified on Networked Bridge Simulators 

  Hu, Liang; Naeem, Wasif; Rajabally, Eshan; Watson, Graham; Mills, Terry; Bhuiyan, Zakirul; Raeburn, Craig; Salter, Ivor; Pekcan, Claire (Article)

  This paper presents a multiobjective optimisation approach for path planning of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). A unique feature of the technique is the unification of the Convention on the International Regulations ...

• Powder die filling under gravity and suction fill mechanisms 

  Baserinia, R.; Sinka, I. C. (Article)

  In pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing, the powder formulation is filled into a die and compacted into a tablet using rigid punches. Die fill is important because it limits the productivity of tablet presses and determines ...

• Canonical variate residuals-based contribution map for slowly evolving faults 

  Li, Xiaochuan; Yang, Xiaoyu; Yang, Yingjie; Bennett, Ian; Collop, Andy; Mba, David (Article)

  The superior performance of canonical variate analysis (CVA) for fault detection has been demonstrated by a number of researchers using simulated and real industrial data. However, applications of CVA to fault identification ...

• Canonical Variate Residuals-Based Fault Diagnosis for Slowly Evolving Faults 

  Li, Xiaochuan; Mba, David; Diallo, Demba; Delpha, Claude (Article)

  This study puts forward a novel diagnostic approach based on canonical variate residuals (CVR) to implement incipient fault diagnosis for dynamic process monitoring. The conventional canonical variate analysis (CVA) fault ...

• A knee-point-based evolutionary algorithm using weighted subpopulation for many-objective optimization 

  Zou, Juan; Ji, Chunhui; Yang, Shengxiang; Zhang, Yuping; Zheng, Jinhua; Li, Ke (Article)

  Among many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs), the proportion of nondominated solutions is too large to distinguish among different solutions, which is a great obstacle in the process of solving MaOPs. Thus, this paper ...

• A RBF-based differential quadrature method for solving two-dimensional variable-order time fractional advection-diffusion equation 

  Liu, Jianming; Li, X. K.; Hu, X. (Article)

  Numerical simulation technique of two-dimensional variable-order time fractional advection-diffusion equation is developed in this paper using radial basis function-based differential quadrature method (RBF-DQ). To the ...

• Practising creativity to develop students in marketing 

  Liu, Wen-Ling; Harwood, Tracy (Article)

  This paper presents the findings of a ‘client-based’ experiential learning innovation introduced into the curriculum of a postgraduate marketing and advertising programme at a UK higher education institution. Based on ...

• Convergence markets: Virtual Corpo[reality] 

  Harwood, Tracy; Garry, Tony; Belk, Russell (Article)

• Hybrid of memory andprediction strategies for dynamic multiobjective optimization 

  Liang, Zhengping; Zheng, Shunxiang; Zhu, Zexuan; Yang, Shengxiang (Article)

  Dynamic multiobjective optimization problems (DMOPs) are characterized by a time-variant Pareto optimal front (PF) and/or Pareto optimal set (PS). To handle DMOPs, an algorithm should be able to track the movement of the ...

• A scalable test suite for dynamic multiobjective optimization 

  Jiang, Shouyong; Kaiser, Marcus; Yang, Shengxiang; Kollias, Stefanos; Krasnogor, Natalio (Article)

  Dynamic multiobjective optimization (DMO) has gained increasing attention in recent years. Test problems are of great importance in order to facilitate the development of advanced algorithms that can handle dynamic ...

• Interactive subjective study on picture-level just noticeable difference of compressed stereoscopic images 

  Fan, Chunling; Zhang, Yun; Hamzaoui, Raouf; Jiang, Qingshan (Conference)

  The Just Noticeable Difference (JND) reveals the minimum distortion that the Human Visual System (HVS) can perceive. Traditional studies on JND mainly focus on background luminance adaptation and contrast masking. ...

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