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cs.AR2021★ 30 cited

Dynamic hardware system for cascade SVM classification of melanoma

Shereen Afifi, Hamid GholamHosseini, Roopak Sinha

Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer, which is responsible for the majority of skin cancer-related deaths. Early diagnosis of melanoma can significantly reduce mortal…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 6 cited

Graph-Theoretic Models of Resource Distribution for Cyber-Physical Systems of Disaster-Affected Regions

Kenneth Johnson, Samaneh Madanian, Roopak Sinha

We propose a tool-supported framework to reason about requirements constraining resource distributions and devise strategies for routing essential services in a disaster-affected r…

eess.IV2021★ 58 cited

QU-BraTS: MICCAI BraTS 2020 Challenge on Quantifying Uncertainty in Brain Tumor Segmentation - Analysis of Ranking Scores and Benchmarking Results

Raghav Mehta, Angelos Filos, Ujjwal Baid +89

Deep learning (DL) models have provided state-of-the-art performance in various medical imaging benchmarking challenges, including the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenges.…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 11 cited

The polarization of the drifting sub-pulses from PSR B1919+21

N. Primak, C. Tiburzi, W. van Straten +2

Aims. We aim to expand our understanding of radio wave emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere by studying the polarization of drifting sub-pulses in highly sensitive…

cs.LG2021★ 64 cited

A system on chip for melanoma detection using FPGA-based SVM classifier

Shereen Afifi, Hamid GholamHosseini, Roopak Sinha

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a robust machine learning model that shows high accuracy with different classification problems, and is widely used for various embedded application…

quant-ph2021★ 8 cited

Semiclassical bifurcations and quantum trajectories: a case study of the open Bose-Hubbard dimer

Andrus Giraldo, Stuart J. Masson, Neil G. R. Broderick +1

We consider the open two-site Bose-Hubbard dimer, a well-known quantum mechanical model that has been realised recently for photons in two coupled photonic crystal nanocavities. Th…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 4 cited

Routing Emergency Vehicles in Arterial Road Networks using Real-time Mixed Criticality Systems*

Subash Humagain, Roopak Sinha

Reducing the response time of Emergency Vehicles (EVs) has an undoubted advantage in saving life and property. Implementing pre-emption can aid in achieving it. EVs get unobstructe…

eess.IV2021★ 32 cited

SVM Classifier on Chip for Melanoma Detection

Shereen Afifi, Hamid GholamHosseini, Roopak Sinha

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a common classifier used for efficient classification with high accuracy. SVM shows high accuracy for classifying melanoma (skin cancer) clinical im…

cs.SE2021★ 4 cited

Janus: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Design of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Dennis Jarvis, Jacqueline Jarvis, Chen-Wei Yang +2

The benefits that arise from the adoption of a systems engineering approach to the design of engineered systems are well understood and documented. However , with software systems,…

cs.SE2021★ 13 cited

The True Role of Active Communicators: An Empirical Study of Jazz Core Developers

Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell

Context: Interest in software engineering (SE) methodologies and tools has been complemented in recent years by research efforts oriented towards understanding the human processes…

cs.SE2021★ 5 cited

How do Globally Distributed Agile Teams Self-organise? Initial Insights from a Case Study

Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell

Agile software developers are required to self-organize, occupying various informal roles as needed in order to successfully deliver software features. However, previous research h…

cs.SE2021★ 6 cited

Differences in Jazz Project Leaders' Competencies and Behaviors: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell

Studying the human factors that impact on software development, and assigning individuals with specific competencies and qualities to particular software roles, have been shown to…

cs.SD2021★ 1 cited

Towards the Objective Speech Assessment of Smoking Status based on Voice Features: A Review of the Literature

Zhizhong Ma, Chris Bullen, Joanna Ting Wai Chu +3

In smoking cessation clinical research and practice, objective validation of self-reported smoking status is crucial for ensuring the reliability of the primary outcome, that is, s…

cs.SE2021★ 7 cited

Self-organising Roles in Agile Globally Distributed Teams

Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell

The ability to self-organise is posited to be a fundamental requirement for successful agile teams. In particular, self-organising teams are said to be crucial in agile globally di…

cs.SE2021★ 36 cited

A Taxonomy of Data Quality Challenges in Empirical Software Engineering

Michael Franklin Bosu, Stephen G. MacDonell

Reliable empirical models such as those used in software effort estimation or defect prediction are inherently dependent on the data from which they are built. As demands for proce…

cs.SE2021★ 9 cited

Adopting Softer Approaches in the Study of Repository Data: A Comparative Analysis

Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell

Context: Given the acknowledged need to understand the people processes enacted during software development, software repositories and mailing lists have become a focus for many st…

cs.SE2021★ 10 cited

Packaged Software Implementation Requirements Engineering by Small Software Enterprises

Issam Jebreen, Robert Wellington, Stephen G. MacDonell

Small to medium sized business enterprises (SMEs) generally thrive because they have successfully done something unique within a niche market. For this reason, SMEs may seek to pro…

cs.SE2021★ 23 cited

Towards the statistical construction of hybrid development methods

Paolo Tell, Jil Klünder, Steffen Küpper +6

Hardly any software development process is used as prescribed by authors or standards. Regardless of company size or industry sector, a majority of project teams and companies use…

cs.SE2021★ 10 cited

A Critical Evaluation of Failure in a Nearshore Outsourcing Project: What dilemma analysis can tell us

Tony Clear, Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell

Global Software Engineering (GSE) research contains few examples consciously applying what Glass and colleagues have termed an 'evaluative-critical' approach. In this study we appl…

cs.SE2021★ 31 cited

Data Quality in Empirical Software Engineering: A Targeted Review

Michael Franklin Bosu, Stephen G. MacDonell

Context: The utility of prediction models in empirical software engineering (ESE) is heavily reliant on the quality of the data used in building those models. Several data quality…

cs.SE2021★ 6 cited

What can developers' messages tell us? A psycholinguistic analysis of Jazz teams' attitudes and behavior patterns

Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell

Reports that communication and behavioral issues contribute to inadequately performing software teams have fuelled a wealth of research aimed at understanding the human processes e…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT III: Giant pulse characteristics of PSR J05406919

Marisa Geyer, Maciej Serylak, Federico Abbate +8

PSR J05406919 is the second-most energetic radio pulsar known and resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Like the Crab pulsar it is observed to emit giant radio pulses (GPs). We…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Examining and Mitigating Kernel Saturation in Convolutional Neural Networks using Negative Images

Nidhi Gowdra, Roopak Sinha, Stephen MacDonell

Neural saturation in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been studied extensively, but remains relatively unexplored in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Understanding and alleviat…

cs.NE2021★ 9 cited

Examining convolutional feature extraction using Maximum Entropy (ME) and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for image classification

Nidhi Gowdra, Roopak Sinha, Stephen MacDonell

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) specialize in feature extraction rather than function mapping. In doing so they form complex internal hierarchical feature representations, the…