• Synthesis and Characterization of a Thermoresponsive Copolymer with an LCST–UCST-like Behavior and Exhibiting Crystallization 

      Gjerde, Natalie Solfrid; Giudice, Alessandra Del; Zhu, Kaizheng; Knudsen, Kenneth Dahl; Galantini, Luciano; Schillén, Karin; Nyström, Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this work, the diblock copolymer methoxy-poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) (MPEG–b-PCL) was synthesized with a block composition that allows this polymer in aqueous media to possess both an upper critical ...
    • SysML modeling of service-oriented system-of-systems 

      Delsing, Jerker; Kulcsár, Géza; Haugen, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The success of the ongoing fourth industrial revolution largely depends on our ways to cope with the novel design challenges arising from a combination of an enormous increase in process and product complexity, as well as ...
    • A Systematic Review on Social Robots in Public Spaces: Threat Landscape and Attack Surface 

      Oruma, Samson Ogheneova; Sánchez-Gordón, Mary; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Gkioulos, Vasileios; Hansen, Joakim K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There is a growing interest in using social robots in public spaces for indoor and outdoor applications. The threat landscape is an important research area being investigated and debated by various stakeholders. Objectives: ...
    • Task grouping and optimized deep learning based VM sizing for hosting containers as a service 

      Patra, Manoj Kumar; Sahoo, Bibhudatta; Turuk, Ashok Kumar; Misra, Sanjay (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Containers as a service (CaaS) are a kind of services that permits the organization to handle the containers more effectively. Containers are lightweight, require less computing resources, portable, and facilitate better ...
    • Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust 

      Danaher, John; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Technologies can have profound efects on social moral systems. Is there any way to systematically investigate and anticipate these potential efects? This paper aims to contribute to this emerging feld on inquiry through a ...
    • To Each Technology Its Own Ethics: The Problem of Ethical Proliferation 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Danaher, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Ethics plays a key role in the normative analysis of the impacts of technology. We know that computers in general and the processing of data, the use of artificial intelligence, and the combination of computers and/or ...
    • TONTA: Trend-based Online Network Traffic Analysis in ad-hoc IoT networks 

      Shahraki, Amin; Taherkordi, Amir; Haugen, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a system of interconnected heterogeneous smart devices communicatingwithout human intervention. A significant portion of existing IoT networks is under the umbrella of ad-hoc andquasi ...
    • Tourism Well-Being and Transitioning Island Destinations for Sustainable Development 

      Agrusa, Jerome; Linnes, Cathrine; Lema, Joseph; Min, Jihye (Ellie); Henthorne, Tony; Itoga, Holly; Lee, Harold (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The unprecedented growth of tourism over the last century has led to increasing concerns over the sustainable development of many popular tourism destinations throughout the globe. High concentrations of tourists and ...
    • Towards a User-centred Security Framework for Social Robots in Public Spaces 

      Oruma, Samson O. (Chapter, 2023)
      The use of social robots in public spaces is becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to provide personalized services to users. However, the convergence of different technologies and software applications has ...
    • Towards the Neuroevolution of Low-level artificial general intelligence 

      Pontes Filho, Sidney; Olsen, Kristoffer; Yazidi, Anis; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål; Nichele, Stefano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this work, we argue that the search for Artificial General Intelligence should start from a much lower level than human-level intelligence. The circumstances of intelligent behavior in nature resulted from an organism ...
    • A Transformerless Non-Isolated Multi-Port DC- DC Converter for Hybrid Energy Applications 

      Aravind, R.; Chokkalingam, Bharatiraja; Mihet-Popa, Lucian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper presents a novel high-gain non-isolated Four Port DC-DC converter (FPC) topology for hybrid energy applications. The proposed four-port dc-dc converter interfaces four power ports of three input ports and one ...
    • Uav-based bridge inspection via transfer learning 

      Aliyari, Mostafa; Droguett, Enrique Lopez; Ayele, Yonas Zewdu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-14)
      As bridge inspection becomes more advanced and more ubiquitous, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, such as machine and deep learning, could offer suitable solutions to the nation’s problems of overdue bridge inspections. ...
    • UMUTeam at EmoEvalEs 2021: Emosjon Analysis for Spanish based on Explainable Linguistic Features and Transformers 

      García-Díaz, José Antonio; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Valencia-Garcia, Rafael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Emotion Analysis extends the idea of Sentiment Analysis by shifting from plain positive or negative sentiments to a rich variety of emotions to get better understanding of the users’ thoughts and appraisals. The move from ...
    • UMUTeam at EXIST 2021: Sexist Language Identification based on Linguistic Features and Transformers in Spanish and English 

      García-Díaz, José Antonio; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Valencia-García, Rafael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Sexism is harmful behaviour that can make women feel worthless promoting self-censorship and gender inequality. In the digital era, misogynists have found in social networks a place in which they can spread their oppressive ...
    • The use of accessibility metadata in e‑learning environments: a systematic literature review 

      Sánchez-Gordón, Mary; Ingavélez‑Guerra, Paola; Otón‑Tortosa, Salvador; Hilera‑González, José; Sánchez-Gordón, Mary (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      E-learning environments constitute an essential element in education, as they help students to ensure their pass their courses and graduate on time. Although guidelines, techniques, and methods have been presented in some ...
    • User and Professional Aspects for Sustainable Computing Based on the Internet of Things in Europe 

      Pospelova, Vera; López-Baldominos, Inés; Fernandez-Sanz, Luis; Castillo-Martínez, Ana; Misra, Sanjay (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The commonly accepted definition of sustainability considers the availability of relevant resources to make an activity feasible and durable while also recognizing users’ support as an essential part of the social side of ...
    • User experience in social robots 

      Shourmasti, Elaheh Shahmir; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Holone, Harald; Demi, Selina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Social robots are increasingly penetrating our daily lives. They are used in various domains, such as healthcare, education, business, industry, and culture. However, introducing this technology for use in conventional ...
    • User‑centered AI‑based voice‑assistants for safe mobility of older people in urban context 

      Bokolo, Anthony Junior (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Voice-assistants are becoming increasingly popular and can be deployed to ofers a low-cost tool that can support and potentially reduce falls, injuries, and accidents faced by older people within the age of 65 and older. ...
    • Using Padlet to Enable Online Collaborative Mediation and Scaffolding in a Statistics Course 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Students often perceive statistics as a difficult subject, and it is frequently named as one of the primary causes of high dropout rates in economics educations in Norway. In order to support the learning process in ...
    • Visual Analytics for Decision Support: A Supply Chain Perspective 

      Khakpour, Alireza; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Martini, Antonio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-03)
      Supply chain (SC) activities generate huge amount of data that can be used in decision making processes. However, proper data analytics techniques are required to combine, organize, and analyze data from different sources ...