The amount of information in medical publications continues to increase at a tremendous rate. Systematic reviews help to process this growing body of information. They are fundamental tools for evidence-based medicine. In this paper, we show that automatic text classification can be useful in building systematic reviews for medical topics to speed up the reviewing process. We propose a perquest...

The emergence of the Open-IE paradigm has given way to domain independent techniques for information extraction. Its capability of extraction new relations from text shows potential towards the task of building a knowledge base. However, its advantages also come with its disadvantages such as the lack of context expressed by the relations extracted by Open-IE systems. This research attempts to ...

The internet can be a dark and dangerous place; featuring viruses and cyber attacks. This project aims to uncover some of these threats and reveal just how vulnerable the internet can be. The project involves creating a honeypot a device designed to attract cyber attackers and to analyse cyber attacks to see what’s going on in the dark underworld of the internet. This interim report introduces ...

After a program has crashed, it can be difficult to reconstruct why the failure occurred, or what actions led to the error. We propose a family of analysis techniques that use the evidence left behind by a failed program to build a time line of its possible actions from launch through termination. Our design can operate with zero run time instrumentation, or can flexibly incorporate a wide vari...

We want, on one hand, to introduce survival analysis techniques for being used in building maintenance and, on the other hand, to apply this methodology for analyzing a large building stock in order to obtain information for maintenance strategies and/or prevention policies. For the time being, building follow-up is based on inspections. Data coming from building inspections are always censored...

High-rise buildings are commonly built in densely populated countries or urban areas. A balanced floor construction cycle is critical for construction of the frame structures. The objectives in scheduling the floor cycle are to ensure smooth flows of resources and to optimise the use of formwork and other materials. The floor area is usually divided into zones to allow the labour force and form...

Ontologies have become widely accepted as the main method for representing knowledge in Knowledge Management (KM) applications. Given the continuous and rapid change and dynamic nature of knowledge in all fields, automated methods for constructing ontologies are of great importance. All ontologies or taxonomies currently in use have been hand built and require considerable manpower to keep up t...

Improving the detection of thermal insulation failures in buildings includes the development of models for heating process and fabric gain -heat flux through exterior walls in the building-. Thermal insulation standards are now contractual obligations in new buildings, the energy efficiency in the case of buildings constructed before the regulations adopted is still an open issue, and the assum...

Domain-speci c search engines are growing in popularity because they o er increased accuracy and extra functionality not possible with the general, Web-wide search engines. For example, www.campsearch.com allows complex queries by age-group, size, location and cost over summer camps. Unfortunately these domain-speci c search engines are di cult and timeconsuming to maintain. This paper proposes...

The authors have been involved in the use of generative techniques for building envelope design since 1968 and the use of genetic algorithms since 1990. Recent work has focused on incorporating optimisation functions into form generating processes in order for new forms responding to varied design environments to be created and determined. This paper will summarise the authors’ previous work in...