Professor Dhaval Thakker's Outputs (21)

Tailored Risk Assessment and Forecasting in Intermittent Claudication: A Proof of Concept Decision Support Tool (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ravindhran, B., Prosser, J., Lim, A., Mishra, B., Lathan, R., Hitchman, L., Smith, G., Carradice, D., Thakker, D., Pymer, S., & Chetter, I. (2024, June). Tailored Risk Assessment and Forecasting in Intermittent Claudication: A Proof of Concept Decision Support Tool. Presented at The European Society for Vascular Surgery Translational Spring Meeting 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

Machine learning and deep learning prediction models for time-series: a comparative analytical study for the use case of the UK short-term electricity price prediction (2024)
Journal Article
Mishra, B. K., Preniqi, V., Thakker, D., & Feigl, E. (2024). Machine learning and deep learning prediction models for time-series: a comparative analytical study for the use case of the UK short-term electricity price prediction. Discover Internet of Things, 4(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43926-024-00075-4

Electricity price prediction has an imperative role in the UK energy market among energy trading organisations. The price prediction directly impacts organisational policy for profitable electricity trading, better bidding plans, and the optimisation... Read More about Machine learning and deep learning prediction models for time-series: a comparative analytical study for the use case of the UK short-term electricity price prediction.

Digital Health and Indoor Air Quality: An IoT- Driven Human-Centred Visualisation Platform for Behavioural Change and Technology Acceptance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kureshi, R. R., Mazumdar, S., Mishra, B. K., Li, X., & Thakker, D. (2023, December). Digital Health and Indoor Air Quality: An IoT- Driven Human-Centred Visualisation Platform for Behavioural Change and Technology Acceptance. Presented at 4th International Conference on Distributed Sensing and Intelligent Systems (ICDSIS 2023), Dubai, UAE

The detrimental effects of air pollutants on human health have prompted increasing concerns regarding indoor air quality (IAQ). The emergence of digital health interventions and citizen science initiatives has provided new avenues for raising awarene... Read More about Digital Health and Indoor Air Quality: An IoT- Driven Human-Centred Visualisation Platform for Behavioural Change and Technology Acceptance.

Measuring AI Fairness in a Continuum Maintaining Nuances: A Robustness Case Study (2024)
Journal Article
Paxton, K., Aslansefat, K., Thakker, D., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2024). Measuring AI Fairness in a Continuum Maintaining Nuances: A Robustness Case Study. IEEE Internet Computing, 28(5), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2024.3450815

As machine learning is increasingly making decisions about hiring or healthcare, we want AI to treat ethnic and socioeconomic groups fairly. Fairness is currently measured by comparing the average accuracy of reasoning across groups. We argue that im... Read More about Measuring AI Fairness in a Continuum Maintaining Nuances: A Robustness Case Study.

Devising a Responsible Framework for Air Quality Sensor Placement (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Westcarr, J., Gunturi, V. M. V., Cabaneros, S. M., Raja, R., Thakker, D., & Porter, A. (2024, July). Devising a Responsible Framework for Air Quality Sensor Placement. Presented at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), London, United Kingdom

A major challenge faced when developing smart, sustainable urban environments is the reduction of air pollutants that adversely impact citizens' health. The UK has implemented strategies such as clean air zones (CAZs) coupled with the use of sensor t... Read More about Devising a Responsible Framework for Air Quality Sensor Placement.

Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England (2024)
Journal Article
Roychowdhury, S., Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Checco, A., Lanfranchi, V., & Goodchild, B. (2024). Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England. Land, 13(6), Article 831. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060831

This study explores the correlation between residents’ subjective assessments of urban neighbourhoods, obtained through virtual walkthroughs, and objective measures of deprivation. Our study was set within a specific city in the United Kingdom, with... Read More about Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England.

Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication (2024)
Journal Article
Ravindhran, B., Prosser, J., Lim, A., Lathan, R., Mishra, B., Hitchman, L., Smith, G. E., Carradice, D., Thakker, D., Chetter, I. C., & Pymer, S. (2024). Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication. BJS Open, 8(1), Article zrad166. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrad166

Background: Guidelines recommend cardiovascular risk reduction and supervised exercise therapy as the first line of treatment in intermittent claudication, but implementation challenges and poor patient compliance lead to significant variation in man... Read More about Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication.

Evaluating Asthma Symptoms in Relation to Indoor Air Quality: Insights from IoT-enabled Monitoring (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mishra, B. K., Thakker, D., John, R., Kureshi, R. R., Ahmad, B., Jones, W., & Li, X. (2023, December). Evaluating Asthma Symptoms in Relation to Indoor Air Quality: Insights from IoT-enabled Monitoring. Presented at 4th International Conference on Distributed Sensing and Intelligent Systems (ICDSIS 2023), Dubai, UAE

Air pollution appears in the form of outdoor air quality and indoor air quality (IAQ). Particulate Matters (PM2.5 and PM10) and CO2, among many air pollutants, are responsible for worsening IAQ. IAQ has been linked to lung illnesses such as asthma, c... Read More about Evaluating Asthma Symptoms in Relation to Indoor Air Quality: Insights from IoT-enabled Monitoring.

Ontology Development for Detecting Complex Events in Stream Processing: Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring (2023)
Journal Article
Yemson, R., Kabir, S., Thakker, D., & Konur, S. (2023). Ontology Development for Detecting Complex Events in Stream Processing: Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring. Computers, 12(11), Article 238. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12110238

With the increasing amount of data collected by IoT devices, detecting complex events in real-time has become a challenging task. To overcome this challenge, we propose the utilisation of semantic web technologies to create ontologies that structure... Read More about Ontology Development for Detecting Complex Events in Stream Processing: Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring.

Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning (2023)
Journal Article
Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Hayes, J., Matos, N., & Bate, P. (2023). Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning. Futures: for the interdisciplinary study of futures, visioning, anticipation and foresight, 152, Article 103197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103197

In light of severe risks of extreme conditions arising out of global warming, the push towards sustainable development and management of our resources has been a topic of immense interest globally. The UK's recent promise of reducing all greenhouse g... Read More about Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning.

From Raising Awareness to a Behavioural Change: A Case Study of Indoor Air Quality Improvement Using IoT and COM-B Model (2023)
Journal Article
Kureshi, R. R., Thakker, D., Mishra, B. K., & Barnes, J. (2023). From Raising Awareness to a Behavioural Change: A Case Study of Indoor Air Quality Improvement Using IoT and COM-B Model. Sensors, 23(7), Article 3613. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073613

The topic of indoor air pollution has yet to receive the same level of attention as ambient pollution. We spend considerable time indoors, and poorer indoor air quality affects most of us, particularly people with respiratory and other health conditi... Read More about From Raising Awareness to a Behavioural Change: A Case Study of Indoor Air Quality Improvement Using IoT and COM-B Model.

Emerging Exploration Strategies of Knowledge Graphs (2023)
Journal Article
Al-Tawil, M., Dimitrova, V., Thakker, D., & Abu-Salih, B. (2023). Emerging Exploration Strategies of Knowledge Graphs. IEEE Access, 11, 94713-94731. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3308514

The utilization of semantic web technologies has led to the development of knowledge graphs represented as triples that allow for the exploration of specific and cross-domains. Despite the advantages of semantic links between entities in facilitating... Read More about Emerging Exploration Strategies of Knowledge Graphs.

Understanding Urban Planning Outcomes in the UK: Practitioner Perspectives in Outcome Assessment (2023)
Journal Article
Mazumdar, S., Qi, J., Thakker, D., & Goodchild, B. (2023). Understanding Urban Planning Outcomes in the UK: Practitioner Perspectives in Outcome Assessment. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 12(1), 1-40. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.326126

The planning process in the UK is a highly complex system, developed over many decades, and is in the process of rapid transitions into digital planning. Among these transformations is a desire to move from an outputs-based assessment to an outcomes-... Read More about Understanding Urban Planning Outcomes in the UK: Practitioner Perspectives in Outcome Assessment.

FedMSA: A Model Selection and Adaptation System for Federated Learning (2022)
Journal Article
Sun, R., Li, Y., Shah, T., Sham, R. W., Szydlo, T., Qian, B., Thakker, D., & Ranjan, R. (2022). FedMSA: A Model Selection and Adaptation System for Federated Learning. Sensors, 22(19), Article 7244. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22197244

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a shared model collaboratively without sharing any personal data. However, selecting a model and adapting it quickly to meet user expectations in a large-scale FL application with heterogeneou... Read More about FedMSA: A Model Selection and Adaptation System for Federated Learning.

Dynamic Data Streams for Time-Critical IoT Systems in Energy-Aware IoT Devices Using Reinforcement Learning (2022)
Journal Article
Habeeb, F., Szydlo, T., Kowalski, L., Noor, A., Thakker, D., Morgan, G., & Ranjan, R. (2022). Dynamic Data Streams for Time-Critical IoT Systems in Energy-Aware IoT Devices Using Reinforcement Learning. Sensors, 22, Article 2375. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062375

Thousands of energy-aware sensors have been placed for monitoring in a variety of scenarios, such as manufacturing, control systems, disaster management, flood control and so on, requiring time-critical energy-efficient solutions to extend their life... Read More about Dynamic Data Streams for Time-Critical IoT Systems in Energy-Aware IoT Devices Using Reinforcement Learning.

Data-Driven Techniques for Low-Cost Sensor Selection and Calibration for the Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring (2022)
Journal Article
Kureshi, R., Mishra, B., Thakker, D., John, R., Walker, A., Simpson, S., Thakkar, N., & Wante, A. (2022). Data-Driven Techniques for Low-Cost Sensor Selection and Calibration for the Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring. Sensors, 22(3), Article 1093. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22031093

With the emergence of Low-Cost Sensor (LCS) devices, measuring real-time data on a large scale has become a feasible alternative approach to more costly devices. Over the years, sensor technologies have evolved which has provided the opportunity to h... Read More about Data-Driven Techniques for Low-Cost Sensor Selection and Calibration for the Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring.

Using citizen science to complement IoT data collection: a survey of motivational and engagement factors in technology-centric citizen science projects (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, M. U., Mishra, B. K., Thakker, D., Mazumdar, S., & Simpson, S. (2021). Using citizen science to complement IoT data collection: a survey of motivational and engagement factors in technology-centric citizen science projects. IoT, 2(2), 275--309. https://doi.org/10.3390/iot2020015

A key aspect of the development of Smart Cities involves the efficient and effective management of resources to improve liveability. Achieving this requires large volumes of sensors strategically deployed across urban areas. In many cases, however, i... Read More about Using citizen science to complement IoT data collection: a survey of motivational and engagement factors in technology-centric citizen science projects.

Towards design and implementation of Industry 4.0 for food manufacturing (2021)
Journal Article
Konur, S., Lan, Y., Thakker, D., Morkyani, G., Polovina, N., & Sharp, J. (2023). Towards design and implementation of Industry 4.0 for food manufacturing. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(33), 23753–23765. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05726-z

Today’s factories are considered as smart ecosystems with humans, machines and devices interacting with each other for efficient manufacturing of products. Industry 4.0 is a suite of enabler technologies for such smart ecosystems that allow transform... Read More about Towards design and implementation of Industry 4.0 for food manufacturing.

A Semantic Knowledge-Based Framework for Information Extraction and Exploration (2021)
Journal Article
Aljamel, A., Osman, T., & Thakker, D. (2021). A Semantic Knowledge-Based Framework for Information Extraction and Exploration. International Journal of Decision Support System Technology, 13(2), 85--109. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDSST.2021040105

The availability of online documents that describe domain-specific information provides an opportunity in employing a knowledge-based approach in extracting information from web data. This research proposes a novel comprehensive semantic knowledge-ba... Read More about A Semantic Knowledge-Based Framework for Information Extraction and Exploration.

An Internet of Things-enabled decision support system for circular economy business model (2020)
Journal Article
Mboli, J. S., Thakker, D., & Mishra, J. L. (2022). An Internet of Things-enabled decision support system for circular economy business model. Software: Practice and Experience, 52(3), 772--787. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.2825

The traditional linear economy using a take-make-dispose model is resource intensive and has adverse environmental impacts. Circular economy (CE) which is regenerative and restorative by design is recommended as the business model for resource effici... Read More about An Internet of Things-enabled decision support system for circular economy business model.