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Published: 15 November 2018

Sir Robin Saxby officially opens the new labs and meets students working in them (see captions below)

The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the Future Worlds Startup Accelerator have celebrated the opening of new student project laboratories and an entrepreneurship space. The opening event represents the culmination of a six-month renovation project and a multi-million pound investment by the University, to transform two campus buildings (Buildings 1 and 16) into state-of-the-art facilities for current and future students.

The opening was attended by Sir Robin Saxby, founding CEO of Arm, who also gave a seminar on technology and entrepreneurship to a select group of senior undergraduate and postgraduate students from across the University. Partners from industry were given tours of the new spaces and met with students already working in the labs.

Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi, Dean of Faculty, Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS), said: âAfter months of hard work by many dedicated colleagues from across the University, I am delighted that these new state of the art teaching, learning and innovation hub facilities are ready to open. The facilities have been designed to enable creativity, team work and entrepreneurship and I am certain, students and staff alike will benefit.â?

The new spaces include hardware and software laboratories that will allow project students to gain experience across the full product lifecycle, from concept and design to prototyping and testing. Future Worldsâ new Accelerator Space forms a component of the Faculty Innovation Hub and will host startups from across the University, enhancing the already-vibrant culture of entrepreneurship being developed on campus.

Using cutting-edge equipment and in connection with industrial partners, the new laboratories will allow students to develop skills highly-prized by graduate employers.

Sir Robin Saxby said: âI have had the pleasure of hiring many past graduates of ECS at ES2, Arm and in some of my startups. These people have contributed greatly towards global technology and business success. I am delighted and honoured to be opening these new facilities, which bring together the best technologists with employers. Entrepreneurship with technology are key ingredients for tomorrowâs engineers to be able to solve some of the worldâs most pressing problems. I wish the next generation all the best in their future careers.â?

Professor Paul Lewin, Head of ECS, added: âI am proud of the education that ECS offers its talented students and the opening of these new facilities will further enhance our curriculum. The laboratories will ensure undergraduates and Masters students, now and in the future, will leave Southampton fully prepared for graduate employment and successful careers in their chosen field.â?

Discover further information on the new ECS facilities and Future Worlds space.

Take a tour of our new laboratories

Image captions

Top left: Professor Mark French, Professor Bashir Al Hashimi CBE, Sir Robin Saxby, Professor Sir Christopher Snowden
Top right: Electrical and Electronic Engineering student Jemma Watson demonstrates her maze-solving robot
Bottom left: Sir Robin Saxby views the printed circuit board manufacturing area
Bottom right: Budding entrepreneurs showcase their projects in the Future Worlds accelerator space

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Publications

Townsend, R.J., Harris, N.R., Wenn, D., Brennan, D. and Grabham, N.J. (2008) Design and construction of a micro-milled fluidic device as part of a DNA biosensor. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 222, 847-853. (doi:10.1243/09544062JMES715).

Chambers, P., Grabham, N.J., Swabey, M.A., Lutman, M.E., White, N.M., Chad, J.E. and Beeby, S.P. (2011) A comparison of verification in the temporal and cepstrum-transformed domains of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions for biometric identification. International Journal of Biometrics, 3 (3), 246-264. (doi:10.1504/IJBM.2011.040818).

Grabham, NJ, White, NM and Beeby, SP (2000) Thick-film magnetostrictive material for MEMS. Electronics Letters, 36 (4), 332-334.

Beeby, SP, White, NM and Grabham, N J (2000) Combined thick-film PZT/micromachined silicon accelerometer with self-test. pp. 577-580 .

Beeby, S P, Grabham, N J and White, N M (2001) Micromachined accelerometer with microprocessor controlled self-test procedure. Sensor Review, 21 (1), 33-37.

Beeby, S P, Grabham, N J and White, N M (2001) Microprocessor implemented self validation of thick-film PZT/Silicon accelerometer. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 92, 168-174. (doi:10.1016/S0924-4247(01)00559-3).

Grabham, NJ, Beeby, SP and White, NM (2002) The formulation and processing of a thick-film magnetostrictive material. Measurement Science and Technology, 13 (1), 59-64.

Grabham, NJ and White, NM (2001) Development of a Magnetostrictive Thick-Film Material for MEMS Applications. Proceedings of Sensors and their Applications XI. pp. 297-301 .

Grabham, N.J., Beeby, S.P. and White, N.M. (2002) Development of a Magnetostrictive Thick-Film Material for MEMS Devices. Proceedings of Eurosensors XVI.

Grabham, Neil J., Beeby, Steve P. and White, Neil M. (2004) Effects of the binder material on the mechanical properties of thick-film magnetostrictive materials. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 110 (1-3), 365-370. (doi:10.1016/j.sna.2003.09.005).

Grabham, Neil, Beeby, Steve and White, Neil (2003) Evaluation of glass frit binder materials for use in thick-film magnetostrictive actuators. Prosser, S.J. and Lewis, E. (eds.) Sensors and their Applications XII, Limerick. 01 - 03 Sep 2003. pp. 63-69 .

Grabham, Neil, Torah, Russel, Beeby, Steve, Harris, Nick and White, Neil (2006) Thick-Film Actuation Technologies For MEMS Applications. 17th MicroMechanics Workshop Europe (MME06), Southampton, UK, United Kingdom. 02 - 04 Sep 2006. pp. 61-64 .

Beeby, S, Torah, R, Tudor, M, Grabham, N and White, N (2004) Thick film piezoelectric materials for high temperature applications. Ferroelectrics.

Weddell, Alex S., Grabham, Neil J., Harris, Nick R. and White, Neil M. (2008) Flexible Integration of Alternative Energy Sources for Autonomous Sensing. Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference, Greenwich, United Kingdom. 31 Aug - 03 Sep 2008. pp. 597-600 . (Submitted)

Grabham, Neil and White, Neil (2008) Use of a novel keypad biometric for enhanced user identity verification. FMTC 2008 – IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Victoria, Canada. 11 - 14 May 2008. pp. 12-16 .

Weddell, Alex, Grabham, Neil, Harris, Nick and White, Neil (2008) Energy-Harvesting Sensor Nodes. Wireless Sensing Demonstrator Showcase, NPL. (In Press)

Teacy, W. T. L., Farinelli, A., Grabham, N. J., Padhy, P., Rogers, A. and Jennings, N. J. (2008) Max-Sum Decentralised Coordination for Sensor Systems. 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal. 11 - 15 May 2008. pp. 1697-1698 .

Weddell, Alex S., Grabham, Neil J., Harris, Nick R. and White, Neil M. (2009) Modular Plug-and-Play Power Resources for Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Nodes. Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks - SECON 2009, Rome, Italy. 21 - 25 Jun 2009. (Submitted)

Weddell, A. S., Teacy, W. T. L., Grabham, N. J., Merrett, G. V., Harris, N. R., Rogers, A., White, N. M. and Jennings, N. R. (2009) Plug-and-Play Power Resources and Agent-Based Coordination for Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Nodes. WiSIG Wireless Sensing Showcase 2009, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom.

Zhu, Dibin, Beeby, Steve, Tudor, John, Grabham, Neil, White, Neil and Harris, Nick (2011) Performance of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester under Vibrations Taken from a Helicopter. PowerMEMS 2011, Seoul, Korea. 15 - 18 Nov 2011.

Grabham, N.J., Swabey, M.A., Chambers, P., Lutman, M.E., White, N.M., Chad, J.E. and Beeby, S.P. (2013) Evaluation of otoacoustic emissions as a biometric. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 8 (1), 1-10. (doi:10.1109/TIFS.2012.2228854).

Berzosa, J., Mabe, J., Grabham, N. J. and Tudor, M. J. (2012) Social issues of power harvesting as key enables of WSN in pervasive computing. 2012 IEEE: International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), Lugano, Switzerland. 19 - 23 Mar 2012. pp. 920-924 . (doi:10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197645).

Harris, Nick, Grabham, Neil, Tudor, M.J., Beeby, Steve and White, Neil M. (2012) Practical implementation of a novel wind energy harvesting network. Eurosensors XXVI 2012: The 26th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, Krakow, Poland. 08 - 11 Sep 2012.

Dymarski, Piotr, Grabham, Neil J., Beeby, S.P. and Tudor, M.J. (2011) Survey of potential energy harvesting solutions for use in the built environment. ICT for Sustainable Homes Conference 2011, Nice, France. 23 - 24 Oct 2011.

Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil J., Beeby, Steve P. and Tudor, John (2013) Energy harvesting from solar cells under typical illumination conditions in buildings. Nano Energy 2013, Perugia, Italy. 10 - 13 Jul 2013.

Matiko, J.W., Grabham, N.J., Beeby, S.P. and Tudor, M.J. (2014) Review of the application of energy harvesting in buildings. Measurement Science and Technology, 25 (1), 012002-[25pp]. (doi:10.1088/0957-0233/25/1/012002).

Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil J., Torah, Russel N., Tudor, M.J. and Beeby, Steve P. (2014) Screen printed flexible coils for wearable wireless power transfer systems. Manufacturing for Printed Electronics, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil J., Beeby, Steve P. and Tudor, John (2015) The effect of the type of illumination on the energy harvesting performance of solar cells. Solar Energy, 111, 21-29. (doi:10.1016/j.solener.2014.10.024).

Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil, Torah, Russel, Tudor, John and Beeby, Stephen (2015) Data for the figures in Smart Textile Based Flexible Coils for Wireless Inductive Power Transmission. University of Southampton [Dataset]

Zhu, Dibin, Grabham, Neil, Clare, Lindsay, Stark, Bernard and Beeby, Steve (2015) Inductive power transfer in e-textile applications: reducing the effects of coil Misalignment. In 2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC). IEEE. 4 pp . (doi:10.1109/WPT.2015.7140116).

Li, Yi, Torah, Russel, Yang, Wei, Grabham, Neil and Tudor, John (2016) Dataset for dispenser printed sound emitting fabrics for applications in the creative fashion and smart architecture industry. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/388764 [Dataset]

Matiko, Joseph W, Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Grabham, Neil, Paul, Gordon, Beeby, Stephen and Tudor, John (2015) Wearable EEG headband using printed electrodes and powered by energy harvesting for emotion monitoring in ambient assisted living. Smart Materials and Structures, 24 (12), [125028]. (doi:10.1088/0964-1726/24/12/125028).

Grabham, N.J., Harden, C., Vincent, D. and Beeby, S.P. (2016) A design study of a wireless power transfer system for use to transfer energy from a vibration energy harvester. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 773 (1), 1-4. (doi:10.1088/1742-6596/773/1/012100).

Yang, Kai, Meadmore, Katie, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Grabham, Neil, Spraggs, Matthew, Freeman, Christopher, Beeby, Stephen, Torah, Russel and Tudor, John (2016) Low-cost personalised instrumented clothing with integrated FES electrodes for upper limb rehabilitation. Researcher Links Workshop on Healthcare Technologies for Aging Populations, Chengdu, China. 06 - 08 Dec 2016.

Meadmore, Katie, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Grabham, Neil, Spraggs, Matthew, Freeman, Christopher, Beeby, Stephen, Tudor, John and Yang, Kai (2017) Understanding the relationship between engagement in upper limb activity and expectation of motor recovery. RehabWeek 2017: Translation and Clinical Delivery: Rehab Week London 2017, , London, United Kingdom. 17 - 21 Jul 2017.

Yang, Kai, Meadmore, Katie, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Grabham, Neil, Spraggs, Matthew, Freeman, Christopher, Beeby, Stephen, Torah, Russel and Tudor, John (2017) Fabric based wearable technology for stroke rehabilitation. International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, , London, United Kingdom. 17 - 21 Jul 2017.

Clare, L. R., Burrow, S. G., Stark, B. H., Grabham, N. J. and Beeby, S. P. (2015) Design of an inductive power transfer system with flexible coils for body-worn applications. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 660. (doi:10.1088/1742-6596/660/1/012135).

Fafoutis, Xenofon, Clare, Lindsay, Grabham, Neil, Beeby, Stephen, Stark, Bernard, Piechocki, Robert and Craddock, Ian (2016) Energy neutral activity monitoring: Wearables powered by smart inductive charging surfaces. In 2016 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON). IEEE.. (doi:10.1109/SAHCN.2016.7732986).

Grabham, Neil J., Li, Yi, Clare, Lindsay R., Stark, Bernard H. and Beeby, Stephen P. (2018) Fabrication techniques for manufacturing flexible coils on textiles for inductive power transfer. IEEE Sensors Journal, 18 (6), 2599-2606. (doi:10.1109/JSEN.2018.2796138).

Meadmore, Katie, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Freeman, Christopher, Grabham, Neil, Beeby, Stephen, Tudor, Michael and Yang, Kai (2017) Restoring arm movement post stroke using electrical stimulation technology in clothing. STEM for Britain: Exhibition of Posters by early-career research scientists, engineers and mathematicians, Westminster, London, United Kingdom. 13 Mar 2017. (In Press)

Meadmore, Katie, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Lundrigan, Kelly, Spraggs, Matthew, Freeman, Christopher, Grabham, Neil, Beeby, Stephen, Tudor, John and Yang, Kai (2018) Exploring stroke patients' expectations for upper limb motor recovery and the barriers to achieving those expectations. 10th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation, Renaissance, Mumbai Convention Centre Hotal, Mumbai, India. 07 - 10 Feb 2018.

Meadmore, Katie, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Spraggs, Matthew, Freeman, Christopher, Grabham, Neil, Beeby, Stephen, Tudor, John (Michael) and Yang, Kai (2017) Engagement in upper limb activity and expectation of motor recovery. Sensing our World - Southampton Neuroscience Group Conference, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom. 13 Sep 2017.

Li, Yi, Torah, Russel, Wei, Yang, Grabham, Neil and Tudor, John (2018) Dispenser-printed sound-emitting fabrics for applications in the creative fashion and smart architecture industry. Journal of the Textile Institute, 1-9. (doi:10.1080/00405000.2018.1453685).

Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil, Torah, Russel, Tudor, M John and Beeby, Steve (2018) Textile-based flexible coils for wireless inductive power transmission. Applied Sciences, 8 (6), 1-19, [912]. (doi:10.3390/app8060912).

Yang, Kai, Meadmore, Katie, Freeman, Christopher, Grabham, Neil, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Glanc-Gostkiewicz, Monika, Beeby, Stephen and Tudor, Michael (2018) Wearable electronic sleeve for muscle stimulation. In Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society 2018. (In Press)

Yang, Kai, Meadmore, Katie, Freeman, Chris, Grabham, Neil, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Glanc-Gostkiewicz, Monika, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2018) Development of user-friendly wearable electronic textiles for healthcare applications. Sensors, 18 (8), [2410]. (doi:10.3390/s18082410).

Freeman, Christopher, Spraggs, Matthew W., Hughes, Ann-Marie, Yang, Kai, Tudor, Michael and Grabham, Neil (2018) Multiple model adaptive ILC for human movement assistance. IFAC European Control Conference 2018, , Limassol, Cyprus. 12 - 15 Jun 2018. pp. 1-6 .

Torah, Russel, Wei, Yang, Grabham, Neil, Li, Yi, de Vos, Marc, Todorov, Todor, Popov, Boris, Marinov, Vlad, Stoyanov, Svetlozar, Todorov, Vlad and Tudor, John (2019) Enabling platform technology for smart fabric design and printing. Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics, 14. (doi:10.1177/1558925019845903).

White, Neil, Beeby, Stephen and Grabham, Neil (2005) Thick-film piezoelectric and magnetostrictive devices. In, Setter, Nava (ed.) Electroceramic-Based MEMS: Fabrication-Technology and Applications. (Electronic Materials: Science and Technology) Springer, pp. 49-79.

Beeby, Stephen, Torah, Russel, Tudor, John, Grabham, Neil, Yong, Sheng, Arumugam, Sasikumar, Li, Yi and Shi, Junjie (2019) Energy harvesting power supplies for electronic textiles. In FLEPS 2019 - IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. (doi:10.1109/FLEPS.2019.8792260).

Ward, Tyler, Grabham, Neil, Freeman, Christopher, Wei, Yang, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Power, Conor, Tudor, Michael and Yang, Kai (2020) Multichannel biphasic muscle stimulation system for post stroke rehabilitation. Electronics, 9 (7), 1-13, [1156]. (doi:10.3390/electronics9071156).

Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil, Komolafe, Abiodun and Tudor, John (2020) Battery free smart bandage based on NFC RFID technology. IEEE FLEPS 2020: IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, , Manchester, United Kingdom. 16 - 19 Aug 2020.

Grabham, Neil (2010) Case Study: adaptive energy-aware sensor networks. In, Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems. Artech House, pp. 253-276.

Zaghari, Bahareh, Stuikys, Aleksas, Weddell, Alexander, Grabham, Neil, White, Neil, Harvey, Terence and Wang, Ling (2022) A TEG-excited switched reluctance generator for self-powered sensing in next generation aircraft. In 2023 AIAA SciTech. 0-10 . (In Press)

Contact

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Publications

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2012) A novel fabrication process for capacitive cantilever structures for smart fabric applications. Symposium on Design, Test, Integration & Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS 2012, Cannes, France. 24 - 26 Apr 2012. pp. 136-139 .

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, Michael John (2012) Screen printed capacitive free-standing cantilever beams used as a motion detector for wearable sensors. Eurosensors XXVI 2012: The 26th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, Krakow, Poland. 08 - 11 Sep 2012. 5 pp .

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2012) A novel fabrication process to realise piezoelectric cantilever structures for smart fabric sensor applications. IEEE Sensors 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. 27 - 31 Oct 2012. 4 pp .

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2012) Screen printed capacitive free-standing cantilever beams used as a motion detector for wearable sensors. [in special issue: 26th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, EUROSENSOR 2012] Procedia Engineering, 47, 165-169. (doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2012.09.110).

Wei, Yang, Torah, R., Yang, Kai, Beeby, S.P. and Tudor, John (2013) Screen printing of a capacitive cantilever-based motion sensor on fabric using a novel sacrificial layer process for smart fabric applications. Measurement Science and Technology, 24 (7), 075104-[11pp]. (doi:10.1088/0957-0233/24/7/075104).

Wei, Yang, Torah, R.N., Yang, Kai, Beeby, S.P. and Tudor, John (2013) A novel fabrication process to release a valveless micropump on a flexible substrate. The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '2013), Barcelona, Spain. 15 - 19 Jun 2013. 4 pp .

Yang, Kai, Torah, Russel, Wei, Yang, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2013) Waterproof and durable screen printed silver conductive tracks on textiles. Textile Research Journal. (doi:10.1177/0040517513490063).

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2013) A screen printable sacrificial fabrication process to realise a cantilever on fabric using a piezoelectric layer to detect motion for wearable applications. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 203, 241-248. (doi:10.1016/j.sna.2013.08.041).

Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Wei, Yang, Li, Yi, de Vos, Marc, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2013) Screen and inkjet printed electronics on fabrics – the next generation of E-textiles. Plastic Electronics Conference 2013, Dresden, Germany. 07 - 09 Oct 2013.

Torah, R., Yang, Kai, Wei, Yang, Beeby, S.P. and Tudor, M.J. (2013) MICROFLEX project: microfabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles. Micro Nano MEMS Exhibition, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 24 - 25 Sep 2013.

Wei, Yang (2013) Screen printable sacrificial and structural pastes and processes for textile printing. University of Southampton, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Doctoral Thesis, 203pp.

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2014) A novel fabrication process to realize a valveless micropump on a flexible substrate. Smart Materials and Structures, 23 (2), 25034. (doi:10.1088/0964-1726/23/2/025034).

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Li, Yi and Tudor, John (2015) Dispenser printed proximity sensor on fabric for creative smart fabric applications. 2015 Symposium on Design Test Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, Montpellier, France. 26 - 29 Apr 2015. 4 pp .

Wei, Yang, Li, Yi, Torah, Russel and Tudor, John (2015) Laser curing of screen and inkjet printed conductors on flexible substrates. 2015 Symposium on Design Test Integration and Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS, Montpellier, France. 26 - 29 Apr 2015. 4 pp .

Torah, Russel, Wei, Yang, Li, Yi, Yang, Kai, Beeby, Steve and Tudor, John (2015) Printed textile-based electronic devices. In, Tao, Xiaoming (ed.) Handbook of Smart Textiles. Singapore, SG. Springer-Verlag Singapur, pp. 653-687.

Ahmed, Zeeshan, Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel and Tudor, Michael (2016) Data from actively actuated all dispenser printed thermochromic smart fabric device. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/389347 [Dataset]

Matiko, Joseph W, Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Grabham, Neil, Paul, Gordon, Beeby, Stephen and Tudor, John (2015) Wearable EEG headband using printed electrodes and powered by energy harvesting for emotion monitoring in ambient assisted living. Smart Materials and Structures, 24 (12), [125028]. (doi:10.1088/0964-1726/24/12/125028).

Wei, Yang, Torah, Russel, Li, Yi and Tudor, John (2016) Dispenser printed capacitive proximity sensor on fabric for applications in the creative industries. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 247, 239-246. (doi:10.1016/j.sna.2016.06.005).

Wei, Yang, Ahmed, Zeeshan, Torah, Russel and Tudor, Michael (2016) Dispenser printed actively controlled thermochromic colour changing device on fabric for smart fabric applications. CIMTEC 2016: 5th International Conference Smart and Multifunctional materials Structures & Systems 2016, Perugia, Italy. 04 - 08 Jun 2016.

Ahmed, Z., Wei, Y., Torah, R. and Tudor, J. (2016) Actively actuated all dispenser printed thermochromic smart fabric device. Electronics Letters, 52 (19), 1601-1603. (doi:10.1049/el.2016.1073).

White, Neil M., Ash, Jordan, Wei, Yang and Akerman, Harry (2017) A planar respiration sensor based on a capaciflector structure. IEEE Sensor Letters, 1 (4), 1-4. (doi:10.1109/LSENS.2017.2722481).

Wei, Y., Wang, X., Torah, R. and Tudor, J. (2017) Dispenser printing of electrochromic display on textiles for creative applications. Electronics Letters, 53 (12), 779-781. (doi:10.1049/el.2017.0119).

Wei, Yang, Wu, Yue and Tudor, Michael (2017) A real-time wearable emotion detection headband based on EEG measurement. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 263, 614-621. (doi:10.1016/j.sna.2017.07.012).

Balsamo, Domenico, Merrett, Geoff V., Zaghari, Bahareh, Wei, Yang, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Stein, Sebastian, Weddell, Alexander and Beeby, Stephen (2017) Wearable and autonomous computing for future smart cities: open challenges. In 25th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM). IEEE. 5 pp . (doi:10.23919/SOFTCOM.2017.8115596).

Wagih, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang, Yong, Sheng and Beeby, Stephen (2018) Connecting and powering flexible IoT, an insole case study. Arm Research Summit 2018, Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 17 - 19 Sep 2018.

Mohamed, Mahmoud Ashraf Hassan Wagih, Wei, Yang and Beeby, Stephen (2018) Dataset for Flexible 2.4 GHz Node for Body Area Networks with a Compact High-Gain Planar Antenna. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D0702 [Dataset]

Mohamed, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang and Beeby, Steve (2019) Flexible 2.4 GHz node for body area networks with a compact high-gain planar antenna. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 18 (1), 49-53. (doi:10.1109/LAWP.2018.2880490).

Torah, Russel, Komolafe, Abiodun, Li, Menglong, Tudor, John, Ojuroye, Olivia, Olamide, Wei, Yang, Beeby, Stephen, Hardy, Dorothy, Dias, Tilak, Nunes Matos, Helga and Nashed, M. Nour (2018) FETT: Novel manufacturing methods for functional electronic textiles. 1 pp .

Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel, Wei, Yang and Li, Menglong (2019) Dataset for Integrating Flexible Filament Circuits for E‐Textile Applications. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D0365 [Dataset]

Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel, Wei, Yang, Nunes‐matos, Helga, Li, Menglong, Hardy, Dorothy, Dias, Tilak, Tudor, Michael and Beeby, Stephen (2019) Integrating flexible filament circuits for e‐textile applications. Advanced Materials Technologies, 1900176. (doi:10.1002/admt.201900176).

Wagih, Mahmoud, Wei, Yang, Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Stephen (2020) Reliable UHF long-range textile-integrated RFID tag based on a compact flexible antenna filament. Sensors, 20 (12), 1-15, [3435]. (doi:10.3390/s20123435).

Ward, Tyler, Grabham, Neil, Freeman, Christopher, Wei, Yang, Hughes, Ann-Marie, Power, Conor, Tudor, Michael and Yang, Kai (2020) Multichannel biphasic muscle stimulation system for post stroke rehabilitation. Electronics, 9 (7), 1-13, [1156]. (doi:10.3390/electronics9071156).

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Research

Research interests

Natural Language Processing

My research interest lies in the natural language processing area of information extraction and human-in-the-loop NLP, developing novel algorithms to discover and exploit patterns in free text and metadata to extract actionable human intelligence and machine-readable knowledge. In a juxtaposition to big data approaches, my research has focussed on developing novel solutions to problems where training sets are small, sparse or fragmented in nature. This is very common in areas such as social media posts during breaking news events, emerging topics within online community forums, criminal marketplaces exhibiting deliberate obfuscation, and historical datasets where information can be inaccurately recorded, corrupted or lost over time. I am interested in investigating socio-technical NLP approaches promoting explainable and trustworthy AI, human-in-the-loop approaches and information extraction based on techniques such as few/zero-shot learning, graph-based models, sentence embeddings, domain adaption and argument mining.

Research outputs

open source software github

geoparsepy PyPI

Research projects

ProTechThem : an ESRC funded project. ProTechThem will explore sharenting (parents sharing online information about minors). Motivation for sharenting and automated detection of risk behaviours online will be explored through online ethnography, criminological analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to support improvement to cybersecurity behaviours.

SafeSpacesNLP - an UKRI TAS Hub funded project. Behaviour classification NLP in a socio-technical AI setting for online harmful behaviours for children and young people. Exploring human-in-the-loop graph-based and few shot NLP models for behaviour classification of online forum posts.

GloSAT - an UK NERC platform grant. Global Surface Air Temperature (GloSAT) aims to improve understanding of climate variability and change. Objectives include information extraction and data rescue of climate change sensors data from historical texts.

Multimodal audio-textual argumentation mining of political debates : a Web Science Institute grant. Development of a multimodel dataset for training NLP models to perform argument mining of political debates.

CYShadowWatch - Aa UK DSTL funded project. Automated Multilingual Information Extraction for Online Cybercrime Sites. CYShadowWatch will explore statistical machine translation and information extraction of online Russian cybercrime forums.

LPLP - Legal and property language processing : UK Innovate UK funded project. LPLP will develop cutting-edge AI techniques to extract and analyse legal rights and obligations related to property and land, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to extract legal rights and obligations from HM Land Registry documents.

FloraGuard project : an UK ESRC funded project. FloraGuard will examine and map from a multidisciplinary perspective the criminal market in endangered plants affecting the UK. Quantitative evidence will come from a combination of surface (web forums, social media) and dark web (TOR forums) crawling of cyber-criminal activity; natural language and machine learning used to socio-economically map this activity at a community level.

Intel-Analysis DSTL : a UK DSTL funded project. Intel-Analysis DSTL uses argumentation schemes and evidential reasoning to support teams of analysts trying to evaluate conflicting hypotheses during real-time events. Evidence is obtained in real-time from a combination of human intelligence reports and information extraction from social media via natural language processing.

REVEAL project : an EU funded FP7 project. REVEAL aims to advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Focussed on social media verification, including digita ltext forensics, trust and credibility analytics and decision support for journalists verifying user generated content.

Teaching

ECS Deputy Examinations Officer and Prizes

Module Leader COMP3225 Natural Language Processing

Teaching Team COMP3222/COMP6246 Machine Learning Technologies; COMP3208 Social Computing Techniques; COMP6214 Open Data Innovation

If you are a student interested in a PhD in NLP then have a look at my research projects and contact me to discuss ideas.

Publications

Middleton, Stuart Edward (2001) Interface agents: A review of the field University of Southampton

Middleton, Stuart Edward, Roure, David C. De and Shadbolt, Nigel R. (2001) Capturing knowledge of user preferences: ontologies in recommender systems. conference; 2001-10-01.

Middleton, Stuart E., Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel R. and Roure, David C. De (2002) Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems. Semantic Web Workshop 2002 At the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference Hawaii, USA.

Middleton, Stuart E. (2003) Capturing knowledge of user preferences with recommender systems. University of Southampton, ECS, Doctoral Thesis.

Middleton, Stuart E., Shadbolt, N.R. and De Roure, D.C. (2004) Ontological User Profiling in Recommender Systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 22 (1), 54-88.

Middleton, Stuart E., Shadbolt, N.R. and De Roure, D.C. (2003) Capturing Interest Through Inference and Visualization: Ontological User Profiling in Recommender Systems. K-CAP2003, Sundial Beach Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, United States.

Benkner, S, Englebrecht, G, Backfrieder, G.W., Berti, G, Fingberg, J, Kohring, G, Schmidt, J.G, Middleton, Stuart E., Jones, D and Fenner, J (2003) Numerical Simulation for eHealth: Grid-enabled Medical Simulation Services. PARCO2003, Dresden, Germany.

Benkner, S, Berti, G, Engelbrecht, G, Fingberg, J, Kohring, G, Middleton, Stuart E. and Schmidt, R (2004) GEMSS: Grid-infrastructure for Medical Service Provision. HealthGRID 2004, Clermont-Ferrand, France. 29 - 30 Jan 2004.

Berti, G, Benker, S, Fenner, J.W., Fingberg, J, Lonsdale, G, Middleton, Stuart E. and Surridge, M (2003) Medical Simulation Services via the Grid. HealthGrid Workshop 2003, Lyon, France.

Middleton, Stuart E., Shadbolt, N.R. and De Roure, D.C. (2003) Ontology-based Recommender Systems. In, Staab, S and Studer, R (eds.) Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems. Springer.

Herveg, J, Crazzolara, F, Middleton, Stuart E., Marvin, D.J. and Poullet, Y (2004) GEMSS: Privacy and security for a Medical Grid. HealthGRID 2004, Clermont-Ferrand, France. 29 - 30 Jan 2004.

Fenner, J. W, Mehrem, R. A, Ganesan, V, Riley, S, Middleton, S. E., Potter, K and Walton, L (2005) Radiosurgery Planning Supported by the GEMSS Grid. HealthGRID 2005, Oxford, United Kingdom. 06 - 08 Apr 2005.

Beales, R. M., Addis, M. J. and Middleton, S. E. (2006) Ambient Multi-Camera Personal Documentary. Memories for Life Workshop, British Library, London. 11 - 12 Dec 2006.

Choi, F., Beales, R. M., Hearn, J., Middleton, S. E., Addis, M. J. and Mangos, C. (2006) A Feature-Augmented Grammar for Automated Media Production. AXMEDIS 2006: 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, ICSRiM - University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom. 12 - 15 Dec 2006. pp. 315-318 .

Anagnostopoulos, V., Chatzis, S., Lalos, C., Doulamis, A., Kosmopoulos, D., Varvarigou, T., Neuschmied, H., Thallinger, G., Middleton, S. E., Addis, M.J., Bustos, E. and Giorgini, F. (2006) A Cross Media Platform for Personalized Leisure & Entertainment: The POLYMNIA Approach. AXMEDIS 2006: 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, ICSRiM - University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom. 12 - 15 Dec 2006.

Beales, R. M., Middleton, S. E. and Addis, M. J. (2007) Ambient multi-camera personal documentaries. Fifth IEE International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics, 1-1.

Middleton, Stuart E, Surridge, Mike, Benkner, Siegfried and Engelbrecht, Gerhard (2007) Quality of Service Negotiation for Commercial Medical Grid Services. Journal of Grid Computing 2007, 5 (4), 429-447.

Zlatev, Z., Middleton, S.E. and Veres, G. (2009) Ordinary kriging for on-demand average wind interpolation of in-situ wind sensor data. EWEC 2009, Marseille, France. 16 - 19 Mar 2009. 7 pp .

Kosmopoulos, D.I., Doulamis, A., Makris, A., Doulamis, N., Chatzis, S. and Middleton, S.E. (2009) Vision-Based Production of Personalized Video. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 24, 158-176.

Middleton, S.E., Surridge, M., Nasser, B.I. and Yang, X (2009) Bipartite electronic SLA as a business framework to support cross-organization load management of real-time online applications. Real Time Online Interactive Applications on the Grid (ROIA 2009), Europar 2009.

Berti, G., Lonsdale, G, Schmidt, J.G., Benkner, S., Hose, D.R., Fenner, J.W., Jones, D.M., Middleton, S.E. and Wollny, G. (2008) Grid simulation services for the medical community. International Journal of Computational Intelligence.

Benkner, S., Engelbrecht, G., Middleton, S.E., Brandic, I and Schmidt, R (2007) End-to-End QoS Support for a Medical Grid Service Infrastructure. Journal of New Generation Computing.

Middleton, S.E., De Roure, D.C. and Shadbolt, N.R. (2002) Foxtrot Recommender System: User profiling, Ontologies and the World Wide Web. The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Hawaii, United States. (Submitted)

Benkner, S., Brandic, I., Engelbrecht, G., Middleton, S.E. and Schmidt, R. (2006) Application-Level QoS Support for a Medical Grid Infrastructure. Grid Computing in Life Sciences, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Life Science Grid, LSGrid.

Middleton, Stuart, Servin, Arturo, Zlatev, Zlatko, Nasser, Bassem, Papay, Juri and Boniface, Mike (2010) Experiences using the UML profile for MARTE to stochastically model postproduction interactive applications. eChallenges 2010 Conference Proceedings, Warsaw, Poland. (Submitted)

Zlatev, Zlatko, Middleton, Stuart and Veres, Galina (2010) Benchmarking Knowledge-assisted Kriging for Automated Spatial Interpolation of Wind Measurements. Fusion 2010, Edinburgh. (Submitted)

Middleton, Stuart and Sabeur, Zoheir (2011) Knowledge-based service architecture for multi-risk environmental decision support applications. ISESS 2011, Czech Republic.

Zlatev, Zlatko, Middleton, Stuart, Veres, Galina, Salvo, Nicola and Sabeur, Zoheir (2010) Generic sensor data fusion services for Web-enabled environmental risk management and decision-support systems. EGU General Assembly. 1 pp . (Submitted)

Oliveros, Eduardo, Movilla, Jesus, Menychtas, Andreas, Keubert, Roland, Braitmaier, Michael, Middleton, Stuart, Phillips, Stephen, Boniface, Mike and Nasser, Bassem (2011) Web service specifications relevant for service oriented infrastructures. In, Kyriazis, Dimosthenis P., Varvarigou, Theodora A. and Konstanteli, Kleopatra (eds.) Achieving Real-Time in Distributed Computing: From Grids to Clouds. Hershey, US. IGI Global.

Oliveros, E., Cucinotta, T., Phillips, Stephen, Yang, X., Middleton, Stuart and Voith, T. (2011) Monitoring and metering on the cloud. In, Kyriazis, Dimosthenis, Varvarigou, Theodora A. and Konstanteli, Kleopatra (eds.) Achieving Real-Time in Distributed Computing: From Grids to Clouds. Hershey, US. IGI Global.

Sabeur, Zoheir, Middleton, S.E., Zlatev, Zlatko, Wachter, J., Haner, R., Hammitzsch, M. and Loewe, P. (2012) Knowledge base and sensor bus messaging service architecture for critical tsunami warning and decision-support. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 14 (EGU2012-12265-1).

Yang, Xiaoyu, Nasser, Bassem, Surridge, Mike and Middleton, Stuart (2012) A business-oriented Cloud federation model for real-time applications. [in special issue: Including Special sections SS: Trusting Software Behavior and SS: Economics of Computing Services] Future Generation Computer Systems, 28 (8), 1158-1167. (doi:10.1016/j.future.2012.02.005).

Bleier, Thomas, Bozic, Bojan, Bumerl-Lexa, Roman, da Costa, Alexandre, Costes, Sophie, Iosifescu, Ionut, Martin, Olivier, Frysinger, Steven, Havlik, Denis, Hilbring, Désirée, Jacques, Patrick, Klopfer, Martin, Kunz, Siegbert, Kutschera, Peter, Lidstone, Mark, Middleton, Stuart E., Roberts, Zoe, Sabeur, Zoheir, Schabauer, Johannes, Schlobinski, Sascha, Shu, Tingting, Simonis, Inigo, Stevenot, Bernard, Usländer, Thomas, Watson, Kym and Wittamore, Ken , Klopfer, Martin and Simonis, Ingo (eds.) (2009) SANY: an open service architecture for sensor networks , SANY Consortium

Middleton, Stuart E., Sabeur, Zoheir, Lowe, Peter, Chaves, Fernando and Siamak, Tavakoli (2011) Multi-disciplinary approaches to intelligently sharing large-volumes of real-time sensor data during natural disasters. 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Honolulu, United States. 20 - 27 May 2011.

Middleton, Stuart E., Sabeur, Zoheir, Lowe, Peter, Hammitzsch, Martin, Tavakoli, Siamak and Poslad, Stefan (2013) Multi-disciplinary approaches to intelligently sharing large-volumes of real-time sensor data during natural disasters. [in special issue: Special Issue of the Proceedings of the 1st WDS Conference in Kyoto 2011,2013] Data Science Journal, 12, 109-113.

Middleton, Stuart, Zlatev, Z., Mossgraber, Jurgen, Chaves, Fernando and Tao, Ran (2013) The seven main challenges of an early warning system architecture. 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2013), Badem Badem, Germany. 11 - 14 May 2013.

Middleton, Stuart E., Zielinski, Andrea, Tokarchuk, Laurissa N. and Wang, Xinyne (2013) Social-media text mining and network analysis to support decision support for natural crisis management. ISCRAM 2013, Baden-Baden, Germany. 11 - 14 May 2013.

Zielinski, Andrea, Middleton, Stuart E., Necmioglu, Ocal and Hammitzsch, Martin (2014) Spatio-temporal decision support system for natural crisis management with tweetComP1. Exploring New Directions for Decisions in the Internet Age (EWG-DSS 2013), Thessalonaki, Greece. 28 - 30 May 2013.

Middleton, Stuart E., Middleton, Lee and Modafferi, Stefano (2014) Real-time crisis mapping of natural disasters using social media. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 29 (2), 9-17. (doi:10.1109/MIS.2013.126).

Middleton, Stuart E., Gottron, Thomas and Schmitz, Johannes (2014) Focused exploration of geospatial context on linked open data. 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy. 19 Oct 2014.

Havlik, Denis, Soriano, Javier, Granell, Carolos, Middleton, Stuart E., van der Schaaf, Hylke, Berre, Arne and Pielorz, Jasmin (2013) Future internet enablers for VGI applications. EnviroInfo 2013, Hamburg, Germany. 01 - 03 Sep 2013.

Middleton, Stuart E. (2014) Social media analytics are evolving: from twitter-based crisis mapping to large-scale real-time situation assessment with trust and credibility analysis Bonn, DE. REVEAL Project Consortium

Middleton, Stuart E. (2014) TRIDEC and REVEAL projects: geoparsing and geosemantic knowledge model for trust and credibility analysis. Open Geospatial Consortium GeoSemantics DWG, OGC TC meeting, Geneva, Switzerland.

Middleton, Stuart E., Zielinski, Andrea, Necmioglu, Ocal and Hammeritzsch, Martin (2014) Spatio-temporal decision support system for natural crisis management with TweetComP1. [in special issue: Euro Working Group Workshops, EWG-DSS 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 29-31, 2013, and Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013, Revised Selected and Extended Papers] Decision Support Systems III - Impact of Decision Support Systems for Global Environments, 184, 11-21. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11364-7_2).

Middleton, Stuart E. (2015) REVEAL Project overview - trust and credibility analysis. RDSM-2015 Workshop at WWW-2015, Florence, Italy. 18 May 2015. 17 pp .

Poslad, Stefan, Middleton, Stuart E., Chaves, Fernando, Tao, Ran, Necmioglu, Ocal and Bügel, Ulrich (2015) A semantic IoT early warning system for natural environment crisis management. [in special issue: Advances in Semantic Computing] IEEE Transaction on Emerging Topics in Computing, 3 (2), 246-257. (doi:10.1109/TETC.2015.2432742).

Middleton, Stuart E. and Modafferi, Stefano (2015) Experiences monitoring and managing QoS using SDN on testbeds supporting different innovation stages. 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), London, United Kingdom. 12 - 16 Apr 2015. pp. 1-5 . (doi:10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116136).

Middleton, Stuart (2015) Extracting attributed verification and debunking reports from social media: MediaEval-2015 trust and credibility analysis of image and video. MediaEval 2015, Wurzen, Germany. 13 - 14 Sep 2015. 3 pp .

Hooper, Clare, Middleton, Stuart, van Hardeveld, Gert and Surridge, Michael (2015) The Digital Police Officer using linguistic analysis to identify cybercriminals. Web Science Institute One Year On: Privacy and Trust in the Era of Big Data Analytics. Web Science Institute Workshop 2015, London, United Kingdom. 08 Jun 2015.

van Hardeveld, Gert, Webber, Craig, Hooper, Clare and Middleton, Stuart (2015) The Digital Police Officer: using natural language processing to identify cybercriminals. Eurocrim 2015, Porto, Portugal. 01 - 04 Sep 2015.

Middleton, Stuart (2015) Semi-automated extraction of attributed verification and debunking reports from social media Southampton, GB. University of Southampton 6pp.

Middleton, Stuart (2015) Visualization for social media verification. ICT 2015 Lisbon, 20-22 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. 19 - 21 Sep 2015.

Middleton, Stuart E. and Krivcovs, Vadims (2016) Geoparsing and geosemantics for social media: spatio-temporal grounding of content propagating rumours to support trust and veracity analysis during breaking news. [in special issue: Trust and Veracity of Information in Social Media] ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 34 (3), part Article 16, 1-27, [16]. (doi:10.1145/2842604).

Wiegand, Stefanie and Middleton, Stuart (2016) Veracity and velocity of social media content during breaking news: analysis of November 2015 Paris shootings. In WWW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web. ACM Press.. (doi:10.1145/2872518.2890095).

Biasotti, Silvia, Cerri, Andrea, Catalano, Chiara, Falcidieno, Bianca, Torrente, Maria, Middleton, Stuart, Dorst, Leo, Shimshoni, Ilan, Tal, Ayellet and Oldman, Dominic (2016) Report on shape analysis and matching and on semantic matching (GRAVITATE, D3.1) Southampton, GB. CNR-IMATI & members of GRAVITATE Consortium 91pp. (In Press)

Middleton, Stuart and Modafferi, Stefano (2016) Scalable classification of QoS for real-time interactive applications from IP traffic measurements. Computer Networks, 107 (1), 121-132. (doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2016.04.017).

Middleton, Stuart (2016) Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content. REVEAL.

Middleton, Stuart (2016) Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content?

Middleton, Stuart, Papadopoulos, Symeon and Kompatsiaris, Yiannis (2018) Social computing for verifying social media content in breaking news. IEEE Internet Computing, 22 (2), 83-89. (doi:10.1109/MIC.2018.112102235).

Boididou, Christina, Middleton, Stuart E., Jin, Zhiwei, Papadopoulos, Symeon, Dang-Nguyen, Duc-Tien, Boato, Giulia and Kompatsiaris, Yiannis (2017) Verifying information with multimedia content on twitter: A comparative study of automated approaches. Multimedia Tools and Applications. (doi:10.1007/s11042-017-5132-9).

Middleton, Stuart, Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos, Papadopoulos, Symeon and Kompatsiaris, Yiannis (2018) Location extraction from social media: geoparsing, location disambiguation and geotagging. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 36 (4), 1-27, [40]. (doi:10.1145/3202662).

Cerutti, Federico, Norman, Timothy J., Toniolo, Alice and Middleton, Stuart E. (2018) CISpaces.org: from fact extraction to report generation. In Computational Models of Argument - Proceedings of COMMA 2018. vol. 305, IOS Press. pp. 269-280 . (doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-906-5-269).

Middleton, Stuart, Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos, Papadopoulos, Symeon and Kompatsiaris, Yiannis (2019) Location extraction from social media: geoparsing, location disambiguation and geotagging. 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, , Paris, France. 22 - 24 Jul 2019.

Lavorgna, Anita, Middleton, Stuart, Pickering, Brian and Neumann, Geoffrey (2020) FloraGuard: tackling the online illegal trade in endangered plants through a cross-disciplinary ICT-enabled methodology. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 36 (3), 428-450. (doi:10.1177/1043986220910297).

Middleton, Stuart, Lavorgna, Anita, Neumann, Geoffrey K and Whitehead, David (2020) Information extraction from the long tail: A socio-technical AI approach for criminology investigations into the online illegal plant trade. 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical AI Systems for Defence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity: Hosted by WebSci'20: 12TH ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2020, , Southampton, United Kingdom. 07 Jul 2020. pp. 82-88 .

Middleton, Stuart, Lavorgna, Anita and McAlister, Ruth (2020) STAIDCC20: 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical AI Systems for Defence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical AI Systems for Defence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity: Hosted by WebSci'20: 12TH ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2020, , Southampton, United Kingdom. 07 Jul 2020. pp. 78-79 .

T. Revi, Ashwathy, Millard, David and Middleton, Stuart (2020) A systematic analysis of user experience dimensions for interactive digital narratives. Bosser, A.G., Millard, D.E. and Hargood, C. (eds.) In Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2020. vol. 12497, Springer. pp. 58-74 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_5).

Beal, Ryan James, Middleton, Stuart, Norman, Timothy and Ramchurn, Sarvapali (2021) Combining machine learning and human experts to predict match outcomes in football: A baseline model. The Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, , Virtual. 02 - 09 Feb 2021. 5 pp .

Middleton, Stuart and Ziomek, Juliusz (2021) GloSAT Historical Measurement Table Dataset: Enhanced table structure recognition annotation for downstream historical data rescue. International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, , Lausanne, Switzerland. 05 - 06 Sep 2021. 6 pp .

Middleton, Stuart and Ziomek, Juliusz (2021) GloSAT Historical Measurement Table Dataset. University of Southampton doi:10.5281/zenodo.5363457 [Dataset]

Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Middleton, Stuart, McAuley, Derek, Webb, Helena, Hyde, Richard and Lisinska, Justyna (2021) A Response to Draft Online Safety Bill: A call for evidence from the Joint Committee 9pp. (doi:10.18742/pub01-060).

Mestre, Rafael, Milicin, Razvan, Middleton, Stuart and Ryan, Matthew (2021) M-Arg: MultiModal Argument Mining Dataset for Political Debates with Audio and Transcripts. University of Southampton doi:10.5281/zenodo.5653503 [Dataset]

Middleton, Stuart (2021) Use of Artificial Intelligence to support cybercrime research. In, Lavorgna, Anita and Holt, Thomas (eds.) Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches. 1 ed. Palgarave Macmillan, pp. 213-232. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1).

Mestre, Rafael, Milicin, Razvan, Middleton, Stuart, Ryan, Matthew, Zhu, Jiatong and Norman, Timothy (2021) M-Arg: multimodal argument mining dataset for political debates with audio and transcripts. 8th Workshop on Argument Mining. 9 pp . (doi:10.18653/v1/2021.argmining-1.8).

Middleton, Stuart, Letouzé, Emmanuel, Hossaini, Ali and Chapman, Age (2022) Trust, regulation, and human-in-the-loop AI: within the European region. Communications of the ACM, 65 (4), 64–68. (doi:10.1145/3511597).

Whitehead, David, Cowell, Carly, Lavorgna, Anita and Middleton, Stuart (2021) Countering plant crime online: cross-disciplinary collaboration in the FloraGuard study. Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments, 1, [100007]. (doi:10.1016/j.fsiae.2021.100007).

Azim, Tayyaba, Loitongbam, Gyanendro Singh and Middleton, Stuart (2022) Detecting moments of shange and suicidal risks in longitudinal user texts using multi-task learning. Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2022 (NAACL-2022), , Seattle, United States. 15 Jul 2022. (In Press)

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Publications

Gondal, Ali, Poppleton, Mike and Snook, Colin (2009) Feature composition - towards product lines of event-B models. 1st International Workshop on Model-Driven Product Line Engineering (MDPLE'09), , Enschede, Netherlands. 8 pp .

Sorge, Jennifer, Poppleton, Michael and Butler, Michael (2009) A Basis for feature-oriented modelling in Event-B s.n.

Poppleton, Michael and Banach, Richard (2002) Controlling control systems: an application of evolving retrenchment. Bert, Didier, Bowen, Jonathan P., Henson, Martin C. and Robinson, Ken (eds.) ZB2002: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B, Grenoble, France. pp. 42-61 .

Banach, Richard and Poppleton, Michael , Loucopoulos, Peri and Mylopoulos, John (eds.) (2003) Retrenching partial requirements into system definitions: A simple feature interaction case study. Requirements Engineering Journal, 8 (4), 266-288.

Poppleton, Michael R, and Banach, Richard N. (2003) Structuring Retrenchments in B by Decomposition. Araki, Keijiro, Gnesi, Stefania and Mandrioli, Dino (eds.) FME2003: International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, Pisa, Italy. pp. 814-833 .

Banach, Richard and Poppleton, Michael (2001) Model Based Engineering of Specifications by Retrenching Partial Requirements. Menzies, Tim (ed.) IEEE Model Based Requirements Engineering Workshop, San Diego, CA..

Banach, Richard, Poppleton, Michael, Jeske, Czeslaw and Stepney, Susan (2005) Retrenching the Purse: Finite Sequence Numbers, and the Tower Pattern. Fitzgerald, John, Hayes, Ian and Tarlecki, Andrzej (eds.) FM 2005: International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, Newcastle, United Kingdom. 17 - 21 Jul 2005. pp. 382-398 .

Snook, Colin, Poppleton, Michael and Johnson, Ian (2005) Towards a methodology for rigorous development of generic requirements patterns. Butler, M, Jones, C, Romanovsky, A and Troubitsyna, E (eds.) Workshop on Rigorous Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems, Newcastle, United Kingdom. pp. 17-27 .

Snook, Colin, Poppleton, Michael and Johnson, Ian (2005) The engineering of generic requirements for failure management. Kamsties, Erik, Gervasi, Vincenzo and Sawyer, Pete (eds.) Eleventh International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Oporto. 12 - 13 Jun 2005. pp. 145-160 .

Poppleton, Michael and Groves, Lindsay (2006) Formal perspectives on software evolution: from refinement to retrenchment. In, Madhavji, Nadim, Fernandez-Ramil, Juan and Perry, Dewayne (eds.) Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice. John Wiley, pp. 313-338.

Poppleton, Michael R. and Banach, Richard N. (2004) Requirements Validation by Lifting Retrenchments in B. Bellini, Pierfrancesco, Bohner, Shawn and Steffen, Bernhard (eds.) ICECCS2004: IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Florence, Italy. pp. 87-96 .

Banach, Richard, Jeske, Czeslaw, Poppleton, Michael and Stepney, Susan , Skowron, A, Bartol, W, Polkowski, L and Rasiowa, H (eds.) (2007) Retrenching the purse: The balance enquiry quandary, and generalised and (1, 1) forward refinements. Fundamenta Informaticae, 77 (1-2), 29-69.

Yang, Letu and Poppleton, Michael (2007) Automatic Translation from Combined B and CSP specification to Java Programs. Juilland, Jacques and Kouchnarenko, Olga (eds.) 7th International B Conference, Besancon, France. 17 - 19 Jan 2007. pp. 64-78 .

Razali, R, Snook, C. F., Poppleton, M. R., Garratt, P. W. and Walters, R. J. (2007) Experimental Comparison of the Comprehensibility of a UML-based Formal Specification versus a Textual One. Kitchenham, B, Brereton, P and Turner, M (eds.) 11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'07), Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. 01 - 02 Apr 2007. pp. 1-11 .

Banach, Richard, Poppleton, Michael, Jeske, Czeslaw and Stepney, Susan , Bergstra, J. (ed.) (2007) Engineering and theoretical underpinnings of retrenchment. Science of Computer Programming, 67, 301-329.

Yang, Letu and Poppleton, Michael (2007) JCSProB: Implementing Integrated Formal Specifications in Concurrent Java. McEwan, A.A., Schneider, S., Ifill, W. and Welch, P.H. (eds.) Communicating Process Architectures, Surrey. pp. 67-88 .

Poppleton, Michael (2007) Towards Feature-Oriented Specification and Development with Event-B. Sawyer, Peter, Paech, Barbara and Heymans, Patrick (eds.) REFSQ 2007: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Trondheim, Norway. pp. 367-381 .

Razali, R, Snook, C, Poppleton, M and Garratt, P (2007) Comprehensibility of UML-B - A Series of Controlled Experiments s.n.

Joochim, Tossaporn and Poppleton, Mike (2007) Transforming timing diagrams into knowledge acquisition in automated specification. IAIT2007: The 2nd International Conference on Advances in Information Technology 2007, Thailand.

Razali, R, Snook, C. F. and Poppleton, M. R. (2007) Comprehensibility of UML-based Formal Model – A Series of Controlled Experiments. 1st ACM International Workshop on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Languages and Technologies (WEASELTech) 2007, Atlanta, US, Georgia. pp. 25-30 .

Razali, Rozilawati, Snook, Colin, Poppleton, Michael and Garratt, Paul (2008) Usability Assessment of a UML-based Formal Modelling Method Using Cognitive Dimensions Framework. Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments. (In Press)

Poppleton, Michael (2008) The composition of Event-B models. Abstract State Machines, B and Z: First International Conference (ABZ 2008), London, United Kingdom. 15 - 17 Sep 2008. pp. 209-222 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87603-8_17).

Snook, Colin, Poppleton, Michael and Johnson, Ian (2008) Rigorous engineering of product-line requirements: a case study in failure management. [in special issue: Section 1: Most-cited software engineering articles in 2001. Section 2: Requirement engineering: Foundation for software quality] Information and Software Technology, 50 (1-2), 112-129. (doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2007.10.010).

Banach, R., Jeske, C. and Poppleton, M. (2008) Composition mechanisms for retrenchment. Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, 75 (2), 209-229. (doi:10.1016/j.jlap.2007.11.001).

Joochim, Tossaporn and Poppleton, Michael (2008) Timing diagrams add Requirements Engineering capability to Event-B Formal Development. 16th IEEE INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, Barcelona, Spain. 07 - 11 Sep 2008. (In Press)

Poppleton, M., Fischer, B., Franklin, C., Gondal, A., Snook, C. and Sorge, J. (2008) Towards Reuse with "Feature-Oriented Event-B". McGPLE: Workshop on Modularization, Composition, and Generative Techniques for Product Line Engineering, Nashville, TN. pp. 1-6 .

Sorge, Jennifer, Poppleton, Mike and Butler, Michael (2010) A Basis for Feature-Oriented Modelling in Event-B. ABZ2010, Orford, Canada. 23 - 25 Feb 2010.

Joochim, Tossaporn, Snook, Colin, Poppleton, Mike and Gravell, Andrew (2010) Timing diagrams requirements modeling using Event-B formal methods. IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering (SE2010), Innsbruck, Austria. 16 - 18 Feb 2010.

Gondal, Ali, Poppleton, Mike, Butler, Michael and Snook, Colin (2010) Feature-Oriented Modelling Using Event-B. International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10), Orlando, FL., United States. 11 - 13 Jul 2010.

Yang, Letu and Poppleton, Michael (2009) Java implementation platform for the integrated state- and event-based specification in PROB. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 22 (8), 1007-1022. (doi:10.1002/cpe.1425).

Gondal, Ali, Poppleton, Mike and Butler, Michael (2011) Composing Event-B Specifications - Case-Study Experience. Apel, S and Jackson, E (eds.) 10th International Conference on Software Composition, Zurich, Switzerland. 29 - 30 Jun 2011. pp. 100-115 .

Poppleton, Michael R. and Merrett, Geoff V. (2012) Towards a Principled and Evolvable Approach to Software Development for Future Wireless Sensor Networks. Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications, Zurich, Switzerland. 2 pp .

Poppleton, Michael and Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi (2012) Modelling the pacemaker in event-B: towards methodology for reuse Southampton, GB. University of Southampton 16pp.

Mery, Dominique and Poppleton, Michael (2013) Formal modelling and verification of population protocols. iFM 2013: 10th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods, Turku, Finland. 09 - 13 Jun 2013. 15 pp . (In Press)

Intana, Adisak, Poppleton, Michael R. and Merrett, Geoff V. (2013) Adding value to WSN simulation through formal modelling and analysis. Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA), 2013, San Francisco, United States. 17 - 25 May 2013.

Intana, Adisak, Poppleton, Michael R. and Merrett, Geoff V. (2013) Proof-based formal methods for WSN development with Simulation Approach. 2013 Rodin Workshop, Turku, Finland. 09 - 10 Jun 2013.

Intana, Adisak, Poppleton, Michael R. and Merrett, Geoff V. (2014) A formal co-simulation approach for wireless sensor network development. Electronic Communications of the EASST, 70, 1-15.

Sulskus, Gintautas, Poppleton, Michael and Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi (2015) An Interval-Based Approach to Modelling Time in Event-B. In Fundamentals of Software Engineering. vol. 9392, pp. 292-307 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24644-4_20).

Intana, Adisak, Poppleton, Michael R. and Merrett, Geoff V. (2015) A model-based trace testing approach for validation of formal co-simulation models. Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation 2015, Spring Simulation Multi-Conference 2015, Alexandria, United States. 11 - 14 Apr 2015. 8 pp .

Birch, Geoff, Fischer, Bernd and Poppleton, Michael (2015) Fast model-based fault localisation with test suites. In Tests and Proofs: 9th International Conference, TAP 2015, Held as Part of STAF 2015, L’Aquila, Italy, July 22-24, 2015. Proceedings. vol. 9154, Springer. pp. 38-57 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21215-9_3).

Mery, Dominique and Poppleton, Michael (2015) Towards an integrated formal method for verification of liveness properties in distributed systems: with application to population protocols. Software and Systems Modeling, 1-33. (doi:10.1007/s10270-015-0504-y).

Sulskus, Gintautas, Poppleton, Michael and Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi (2016) Modelling complex timing requirements with refinement. In Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2016 IEEE 17th International Conference on. IEEE. 9 pp .

Birch, Geoff, Fischer, Bernd and Poppleton, Michael (2016) Using fast model-based fault localisation to aid students in self-guided program repair and to improve assessment. In ITiCSE '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ACM Press. pp. 168-173 . (doi:10.1145/2899415.2899433).

Dghaym, Dana, Poppleton, Michael and Snook, Colin (2018) ERTMS Hybrid Level 3 - model using iUML-B/Event-B. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D0403 [Dataset]

Dghaym, Dana, Poppleton, Michael and Snook, Colin (2018) Diagram-led formal modelling using iUMLB for Hybrid ERTMS Level 3. In Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z: ABZ 2018. vol. 10817, Springer. pp. 338-352 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91271-4_23).

Birch, Geoff, Fischer, Bernd and Poppleton, Michael (2019) Fast test suite-driven model-based fault localisation with application to pinpointing defects in student programs. Software and Systems Modeling, 18 (1), 445-471. (doi:10.1007/s10270-017-0612-y).

Dghaym, Dana and Snook, Colin (2019) Dataset for: Formalising the Hybrid ERTMS Level 3 specification in iUML-B and Event-B. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D0991 [Dataset]

Dghaym, Dana, Dalvandi, Mohammad Sadegh, Poppleton, Michael and Snook, Colin (2019) Formalising the hybrid ERTMS level 3 specification in iUML-B and Event-B. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer. (doi:10.1007/s10009-019-00548-w).

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Graham, James, Essex, Jonathan and Khalid, Syma (2017) PyCGTOOL: automated generation of coarse-grained molecular dynamics models from atomistic trajectories. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 57 (4), 650-656. (doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00096).

Hall, Wendy, Cox, Adrian, Crouch, Stephen, Schueler, Mark and Graham, James (2019) PETRAS-IoT data management and sharing infrastructure: an evolution of IoT observatory (PEDASI) (Harnessing economic value, Privacy & Trust, Safety & Security) 21pp.

Schueler, Mark, Crouch, Steven, Cox, Adrian, Graham, James and Hall, Wendy (2019) Enhanced interface for PEDASI-IoT data sources 30pp.

Schueler, M., Cox, A., Sha Yuan, , Crouch, S., Graham, J. and Hall, W. (2019) From observatory to laboratory: a pathway to data evolution. In Proceedings of Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). IET Conference Publications. pp. 1-12 . (doi:10.1049/cp.2019.0137).

Graham, James (2019) Software for the automated generation of coarse-grained molecular dynamics models. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis, 83pp.

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