Using artificially generated pictures in customer-facing systems: an evaluation study with data-driven personas by Joni Salminen (7434770)

“…</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Behaviour & Information Technology<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2020.1838610" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2020.1838610</a></p>…”

Mixed precision iterative refinement with adaptive precision sparse approximate inverse preconditioning by Noaman Khan (19810050)

“…<p dir="ltr">Hardware trends have motivated the development of mixed precision algorithms in numerical linear algebra, which aim to decrease runtime while maintaining acceptable accuracy. …”

STEM: spatial speech separation using twin-delayed DDPG reinforcement learning and expectation maximization by Muhammad Salman Khan (7202543)

“…Additionally, it reduces the required training data by 39 times, training time by 36 times, model size by 6 times, real time factor (RTF) by 1 point, and multiply-accumulate operations (MACs) by 9 times compared to a recently proposed lightweight transformer-based encoder-decoder framework, while offering a slight decrease in PESQ score (by 0.45 points).</p><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Applied Acoustics<br> License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2025.111022" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2025.111022</a></p>…”

Analyzing the Influence of Climate and Anthropogenic Development on Vegetation Cover in the Coastal Ecosystems of GCC by Abhilash Dutta Roy (22466830)

“…The spatiotemporal analysis showed trends in land cover changes, with agricultural areas generally increasing (21.6%) and bareland steadily decreasing (− 21.2%). Dense vegetation declined by 35% from 2003 to 2023, while mangroves increased by 6%. …”

Machine learning in crime prediction by Karabo Jenga (17788496)

“…We consider that this research paves the way for further research to help governments and countries fight crime and decrease this for better safety and security.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12652-023-04530-y" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12652-023-04530-y</a></p>…”

Do near-bedtime usage of smartphones and problematic internet usage really impact sleep? A study based on objectively recorded usage data by Aftab Alam (5158601)

“…Our results confirm and elaborate on concerns about technology overuse near bedtime and call for specialised interventions to help healthier technology design and usage styles.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Behaviour & Information Technology<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2023.2279648" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2023.2279648</a></p>…”

Leveraging sentiment analysis of Arabic Tweets for the 2022 FIFA World Cup insights, incorporating the gulf region by Wadih Ishac (18061304)

“…These insights hold the potential to inform future decisions related to the hosting of major sporting events, providing a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of sentiment within this demographic.…”

Exponential Particle Swarm Optimization for Global Optimization by Khelil Kassoul (18441114)

“…The leaping strategy is integrated into the velocity equation and a new linear decreasing cognitive parameter (including a dynamic inertia weight strategy) is integrated into the proposed method. …”

Psychological inoculation against problematic social media use among adolescents: An experimental study by Sameha Alshakhsi (17032311)

“…The passive inoculation group showed a significant decrease in deception only. No changes were observed in the control group. …”

Electric vehicles charging management using deep reinforcement learning considering vehicle-to-grid operation and battery degradation by Mostafa M. Shibl (17821382)

“…<p>EVs are becoming more popular and widely used worldwide due to their environmentally friendliness as part of the world efforts to decrease the effects of climate change. Moreover, more users are buying EVs due to governmental incentives, development of charging technologies and cheaper maintenance costs. …”

A survey on communication technologies and requirements for internet of electric vehicles by Islam Safak Bayram (18421482)

“…<p>Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming a more attractive transportation option, as they offer great cost savings, decrease foreign oil dependency, and reduce carbon emissions. …”

Prediction of biogas production from chemically treated co-digested agricultural waste using artificial neural network by Fares Almomani (12585685)

“…The CMP was the highest for the substrate with moisture content (%MC) in the range of 34% to 48%, and it decreased for %MC > 50%. The chemical treatment with NaHCO₃ improved the biodegradability of the substrate and increased the CMP by at least 43% with reference to the untreated substrate. …”

Deep Learning-Based Fault Diagnosis of Photovoltaic Systems: A Comprehensive Review and Enhancement Prospects by Majdi Mansouri (16869885)

“…These faults may affect the different system components such as PV modules, connection lines, converters/inverters, which can lead to a decrease in the efficiency, performance, and further system collapse. …”

Retinal imaging based glaucoma detection using modified pelican optimization based extreme learning machine by Debendra Muduli (20748758)

“…The combined feature reduction techniques named as principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis, have been applied to generate prominent features and decrease the feature vector dimension. Lastly, a newly improved learning algorithm encompasses a modified pelican optimization algorithm (MOD-POA) and an extreme learning machine (ELM) for classification tasks. …”

Enhancing Security and Performance in Live VM Migration: A Machine Learning‐Driven Framework With Selective Encryption for Enhanced Security and Performance in Cloud Computing Envi... by Raseena M. Haris (17773470)

“…Rigorous experiments demonstrate its effectiveness, showcasing an average 51.82% reduction in downtime and an average 72.73% decrease in total migration time across diverse workloads. …”

Fast Sampling of Score-Based Models With Cyclical Diffusion Sampling by Karimul Makhtidi (21401540)

“…We have shown, via empirical assessments, that cyclical diffusion sampling significantly enhances image quality and markedly decreases inference time. Notably, the method preserves simplicity and requires no alterations to the network architecture, which promotes straightforward reproducibility and seamless integration with current methodologies.…”

Reinforced steering Evolutionary Markov Chain for high-dimensional feature selection by Atiq ur Rehman (3044409)

“…(iv) Agents moving in the right way are rewarded with an increase in their associated transition probability, while the agents going in the wrong direction are discouraged with a decrease in their associated transition probabilities; this promotes the establishment of an equilibrium state and leads to convergence. …”

Diesel engine vibration analysis using artificial neural networks method: Effect of NH₃ additive in biodiesels by Raja Mazuir Raja Ahsan Shah (17541516)

“…The ANN models indicated that a 5 % NH₃ additive decreased engine vibration for HD and PD. In comparison, 10 % and 15 % NH3 additive ratios increased engine vibration for HD, PD, and WD due to low combustion quality. …”

Data-Efficient Wheat Disease Detection Using Shifted Window Transformer: Enhancing Accuracy, Sustainability, and Global Food Security by Muhammad Khubaib (22927822)

“…<p dir="ltr">Wheat is an essential crop that plays a vital role in global food security, but is susceptible to a variety of diseases, which have the potential to drastically decrease crop productivity. Detection of disease at an early stage and in an accurate manner is crucial to minimize crop losses. …”

Effective non-intrusive load monitoring of buildings based on a novel multi-descriptor fusion with dimensionality reduction by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…The latter can not only reduce feature dimensionality, but it can also effectively decrease the intra-class distances and increase the extra-class distances of appliance features; and (iii) a powerful decision bagging tree classifier is implemented to accurately classify electrical devices using the reduced features. …”