Browsing by Author "Veneziano, Vito"

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    • A Comparison Between Convolutional and Transformer Architectures for Speech Emotion Recognition 

      Iyer, Shreyah; Glackin, Cornelius; Cannings, Nigel; Veneziano, Vito; Sun, Yi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09-30)
      Creating speech emotion recognition models com-parable to the capability of how humans recognise emotions is a long-standing challenge in the field of speech technology with many potential commercial applications. As ...

    • Employability Skills in Engineering: Towards a Broader Redefinition of Professional Identities 

      Veneziano, Vito; Mahmud, Imran (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-07-08)
      This paper undertakes a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted challenges and opportunities intrinsic to the integration of employability skills, particularly those of a non-technical nature, into the knowledge ...

    • Improving the MXFT Scheduling Algorithm for a Cloud Computing Context 

      Moggridge, Paul; Helian, Na; Sun, Yi; Lilley, Mariana; Veneziano, Vito; Eaves, Martin (2019-08-09)
      In this paper, the Max-Min Fast Track (MXFT) scheduling algorithm is improved and compared against a selection of popular algorithms. The improved versions of MXFT are called Min-Min Max-Min Fast Track (MMMXFT) and Clustering ...

    • Instance Weighted Clustering: Local Outlier Factor and K-Means 

      Moggridge, Paul; Helian, Na; Sun, Yi; Lilley, Mariana; Veneziano, Vito (Springer Nature Link, 2020-05-28)
      Clustering is an established unsupervised learning method. Substantial research has been carried out in the area of feature weighting, as well instance selection for clustering. Some work has paid attention to instance ...

    • Investigating HuBERT-based Speech Emotion Recognition Generalisation Capability 

      Li, Letian; Glackin, Cornelius; Cannings, Nigel; Veneziano, Vito; Barker, Jack; Oduola, Olakunle; Woodruff, Chris; Laird, Thea; Laird, James; Sun, Yi (2024-06-20)
      Transformer-based architectures have made significant progress in speech emotion recognition (SER). However, most published SER research trained and tested models on data from the same corpus, resulting in poor generalisation ...

    • Is finding a Black Swan (Popper, 1936) possible in software development? 

      Smith, Lindsay; Wernick, Paul; Veneziano, Vito (2011)

    • Machine code and metaphysics : a perspective on software engineering 

      Smith, Lindsay; Veneziano, Vito; Wernick, Paul (2016-01)
      A major, but too-little-considered problem for Software Engineering (SE) is a lack of consensus concerning Computer Science (CS) and how this relates to developing unpredictable computing technology. We consider some ...

    • Machine Code and Metaphysics : A Perspective on Software Engineering 

      Smith, Lindsay; Wernick, Paul; Veneziano, Vito (2014-07-02)

    • Meeting stakeholder expectations of software, or looking for the “Black Swan” in software requirements 

      Smith, Lindsay; Wernick, Paul; Veneziano, Vito (UAB, 2009)

    • Proceedings of Abstracts Engineering and Computer Science Research Conference 2019 

      Nwawe, Richard; Grasso, Marzio; CHEN, Yong Kang; Klusak, Jan; Rosiello, Vincenzo; Counsell, Nathan; Herfatmanesh, Mohammad Reza; Partou, Helen; Menon, Catherine; Barker, Trevor; Veneziano, Vito; Kirner, Raimund; Tveretina, Olga; Verma, Alok; Lane, Peter; Lilley, Mariana; Canoville, Paul; Robinson, Matthew; Crook, Brian; Hall, Samantha; Kaye, Richard; Johnston, Ian; McCluskey, Daniel; Tracey, Mark; Munro, Ian; Wang, Yuan; Suckow, Bjorn; Klaholz, Ingo; Drix, Damien; Hafner, Verena Vanessa; Schmuker, Michael; Sinha, Ankur; Metzner, Christoph; Davey, Neil; Adams, Roderick; Steuber, Volker; Miko, Rebecca; Toffe, Gilles; Ren, Guogang; Montalvão, Diogo; Ismail, Sikiru O.; Newman, James; Dhakal, Hom; Sunmola, Funlade; Panday, Deepak; Helian, Na; Amafabia, Daerefa-a; David-West, Opukuro; Haritos, George; Schirmer, Pascal; Mporas, Iosif; Skaltsas, Grigorios; Siadati, Rana; Wernick, Paul; Sutton, Samuel; Lekkala, Himayasri Rao; Sayers, Paul; Khan, Imran; Cañamero, Lola; Hassan, Eheda; Denai, Mouloud; Pissanidis, Georgios; Goncharenko, Julia; Schilstra, Maria; Beka, Nathan; te Boekhorst, Rene; Bonivart, Agnes; Nehaniv, Chrystopher; Kadir, Shabnam; Bhavsar, Ronakben; Sun, Yi; Mayor, David; Steffert, Tony; CHEN, Yong Kang; Chrysanthou, Andreas; Johnston, Ian; Kirner, Raimund; Kourtessis, Pandelis; McCluskey, Daniel; Polani, Daniel; Steuber, Volker; Sun, Yichuang (University of Hertfordshire, 2019-09-01)
      This book is the record of abstracts submitted and accepted for presentation at the Inaugural Engineering and Computer Science Research Conference held 17th April 2019 at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. This ...

    • Requirements Engineering: A Tube-Map. 

      Veneziano, Vito (2010)
      In this paper, a diagrammatic representation of the main processes occurring in Requirements Engineering has been introduced. Adopted style has been derived by the notorious London Tube Map: it allows practitioners, academics ...

    • Revising Max-min for Scheduling in a Cloud Computing Context 

      Moggridge, Paul; Helian, Na; Sun, Yi; Lilley, Mariana; Veneziano, Vito; Eaves, Martin (IEE, 2017-08-18)
      Adoption of Cloud Computing is on the rise[1] and many datacenter operators adhere to strict energy efficiency guidelines[2]. In this paper a novel approach to scheduling in a Cloud Computing context is proposed. The ...

    • Software development : Out of the black box 

      Smith, Lindsay; Veneziano, Vito; Wernick, Paul (2010)

    • Spatio-temporal Environmental Monitoring Systems : A data management and delivery approach based on PostGIS database and Google Maps mashup 

      Crestaz, Ezio; Veneziano, Vito; Gibin, Maurizio (2011)
      A considerable amount of data, including spatial data referring to monitoring locations together with their related attribute time series (as in, for example, rainfall or contaminant concentrations), is usually collected ...

    • Usability Analysis in Military Settings : How Advanced Wearable Computers Could Affect Communication, Decision Making and Operations 

      Veneziano, Vito; Mahmud, Imran (2012-08)
      Both the market and academia strongly encourage the development of usable systems, and they do so by relying on a number of standards, guide-lines, research and good practice streams. Unfortunately, the military sector, ...

    • Using Speech Act theory to Analyse Activities in the Software Development Process 

      Wernick, Paul; Baillie, Jean; Veneziano, Vito (UAB, 2009)