Application Papers

Best Application Paper

Detect, Decide, Explain: An Intelligent Framework for Zero-Day Network Attack Detection
S. Alzubi (University of Exeter, UK), F. Stahl (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany), and M. Al-Khafajiy (University of Lincoln, UK)

Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary Optimization of Autonomous Agents for Decreasing Resource Intensity on Geographically Located Interdependent Task Sets
M.Fyvie and A.-C. Zavoianu (Robert Gordon University, UK), J.A.W.McCall (Robert Gordon University, UK & PlanSea Solutions, UK)

Explaining Recommender Systems’ Performance via User Behaviour Patterns
GianCarlo A.P.I. Catalano (University of Stirling), Klaudia Dynak (University of Wrocław), Alexander E.I. Brownlee (University of Stirling) Piotr Lipinski (University of Wrocław)

Machine Learning

Soft Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Reactive Current Injection Protocols
M.Fathollahi (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) A.Camacho (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) C.Angulo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) J.Hampton (Siemens Energy AG)

Car Drag Coefficient Prediction from 3D Point Clouds Using a Slice-Based Surrogate Model
Utkarsh Singh (Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India), Absaar Ali (Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India), Adarsh Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)

A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Job Shop Scheduling with Tool Management
R. Maharjan, P.-A. Andersen and L.Jiao (University of Agder, Norway)

HAD-QC: A Hybrid AI Approach for Automated Quality Control of Argo Float Data
S.Aiwale and L.Sun (University of Reading, UK), F.Stahl (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI),Germany)

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Modeling Astrocyte-Neuron Interactions in Neural Microenvironments
Zhen Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) Shufan Yang (University of Leeds)

Transformer-Based and Generative Classifiers for Mining Imbalanced Datasets
Piotr Jedrzejowicz and Iza Wierzbowska (Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland)

DeLSTM-AE: A Decomposition-Driven Framework for Univariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
M. Albalushi and S. Alzubi (University of Exeter, UK)

Forecasting Uranium Prices Using LSTM and VMD-Based Ensemble Models
S.Gopalakrishnakone (University of London, UK)

Neural Networks

Evaluation of Explanations for Object Detection using Transformers with Sonar Data
Christoph Manss Tarek A. El-Mihoub

Predicting London`s Precipitation: A Spatio-Temporal Neural Network Approach
Huma Zafar (Distributed Analytics Solutions, USA), Stelios Kapetanakis (Distributed Analytics Solutions, USA), Giacomo Nalli (Middlesex University, UK) Khuong Nguyen (Royal Holloway University , UK)

Medical Computing and Health Informatics

Generation, Use and Effects of Synthetic Data to Train Medical AI`s: Examined Using the Example of Knee Arthroplasty
T. Neiss-Theuerkauff and A. Schierbaum and Y. Korte-Wagner and T. Luhmann and T. Sieberth and Frank Wallhoff(Jade University, Oldenburg)

Synthetic Patient Simulation and Model Stacking for Early Disease Detection: An EHR-focused AI Framework for Diagnostic Accuracy and Generalization
Sathish Kumar Natarajan (Prabhu International Research Institute (PIRI), Yamanashi, Japan), Azween Abdullah (HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Prabhu Natarajan (Prabhu International Research Institute (PIRI), Yamanashi, Japan)

How AI is Changing Medicine: a Simple Matter of Time?
Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro (University of Manchester, UK), Chloe Henson (Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia), Manoj Kulshrestha (Midcheshire Hospital Foundation Trust, UK), Muhammad Waleed Iqbal (University of Buckingham, UK), Nava Maroto (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Maria Jesus Fernandez Prieto (University of Salford, UK), Julio Des Diz (Hospital do Salnés, Spain), Tim Furmston (University of Manchester, UK), John Keane (University of Manchester, UK), Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK) and Chris Wroe (BMJ, UK)

Large Language Models

Multimodal Sarcasm Dataset Generation for a Low-Resource Language: Swahili
Eugene Kariba (University of Leeds,Leeds, UK) Noorhan Abbas (University of Leeds,Leeds, UK)

Enhancing Voice-Controlled Drone Navigation: A Hybrid Approach Using ASR and NLP for UAV Command Interpretation
Yassir Alkasim (University of Leeds ,UK) and Abdulrahman Altahhan (University of Leeds ,UK)

Neuro-Symbolic AI: Combining Neural and Symbolic AI for UK Syndromic Surveillance
Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro (University of Manchester, UK), Nava Maroto (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Maria Jesus Fernandez Prieto (University of Salford, UK), Yuan Wei (Civil Aviation Flight University of China, China), Peter John Noble (University of Liverpool, UK), Alan David Radford (University of Liverpool, UK) and Goran Nenadic (University of Manchester, UK)

Bi-Resolution: A Logic Reasoning Enhancement Method for Large Language Models Based on Resolution and Bidirectional Reasoning Fusion
Yifei Wang (East China Normal University,China) and Yixiang Chen(East China Normal University and Shanghai Normal University TIANHUA College,China)

Natural Language Processing and Machine Vision

From the Laboratory to Real-World Application: Evaluating Zero-Shot Scene Interpretation on Edge Devices for Mobile Robotics
Nicolas Schuler (Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Lea Dewald (Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Nick Baldig (Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and Jürgen Graf (Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Unsupervised Learning for Industrial Defect Detection: A Case Study on Shearographic Data
J. Plassmann (Trier University of Applied Science, Germany and Department of Physics and research center OPTIMAS, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany) and N. Schuler (Trier University of Applied Science, Germany and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and Georg von Freymann (Department of Physics and research center OPTIMAS, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Germany) and Michael Schuth (Trier University of Applied Science, Germany)

Data Science Approaches to Evaluating Honours Candidates
F. von Braun-Bates (Ministry of Justice, UK) S. Sen (Arndit Ltd., Cambridge, UK) I. Talukdar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) A. Lahiri (Kainos, London, UK)

Applications of Artificial Intelligence

A Fuzzy-logic Based Cognitive Walkthrough to Assess the Degrees of Soft Skills Targeted in an Intelligent Educational Adventure Game
K.Chrysafiadi (University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece), S.Papadimitriou (University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece), M.Virvou (University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece)

Streamlining Municipal Governance: Detecting Redundancy in Regulation Plans using Text Embeddings in Local Government
K. A. Borgersen (University of Agder, Norway), M. Goodwin (University of Agder, Norway), A. S. Nossum (Norkart, Norway)

Exam Timetabling Problem Using Cooperative Hyper-heuristics: A Case Study of the ITC2007 Dataset
Kate Han(Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester, UK), Evelyn Oginni(Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester, UK) , John A. W. McCall (School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, Robert Gordon University), Aberdeen, UK, Paul McMullan (School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, UK),Yun Chen (Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester, UK)

Carbon Crest: A Personal Carbon Credit Model for Sustainable Transport Behaviour in Greater Manchester
Kate Han(Salford Business School, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK; The Centre for Sustainable Innovation (CSI), University of Salford), Meropi Tzanetakis Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria), and Evelyn Oginni (Salford Business School, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK.) and Arun Matthew (The Carboncrest Network Ltd,, Bartle House 9 Oxford Court,, Manchester,M2 3WQ) and Bobin Joseph (The Carboncrest Network Ltd,, Bartle House 9 Oxford Court,, Manchester,M2 3WQ)

Short Application Papers

A Transformer-Based Framework for Thematic Analysis of University Reading Lists
Rawan Bin Shiha (University of Leeds, UK), Eric Atwell (University of Leeds, UK), Noorhan Abbas (University of Leeds, UK)

Early Stroke Prediction Using a Convolutional Neural Network on Temporal Electronic Health Records
Chia-Hui Chien and Xiaohong W. Gao (Middlesex University, UK), Yung-Chun Chang and Yu-Chuan Li (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT Memory and an External Conversational Memory Architecture
L.Pelissero-Witoslawski, S.Aubry and A.Oslati (Aphelior, Lille, France)

Automatic Detection of Public Speaking Anxiety Through Linguistic Analysis
M. Almutairi and M. Chollet (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)

Identifying Employee Potential in Logistics using AI-Supported HR Analytics
Frank Wallhoff, Fenja T. Hesselmann, Yves Korte-Wagner (Jade Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Annelie Lorber, Hannah Louisa Krüger, Julian Decius (University of Bremen, Germany)

Generative AI as a Learning Partner: Structural Insights from a VR–GPT Educational Platform
L.Fang (School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), X.Zhou (School of Marketing and Strategy, University of Leicester, United Kingdom), D.J.Shen and A.Nurgissayeva (Soqqle Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong), U.Techanamurthy (Department of Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia), R.Lopez-Ozieblo (Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

TrafficSim: A Simulation Framework for the Scottish Rail Network in ROS2
Rebekah Leslie, Calvin Earnshaw, Favour Jam, Kacper Komnata, Andreas Maita and Rafael C. Cardoso (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Deep Learning-Driven Identification of Lycra in Textile Blends
G. L. Liu (Middlesex University, UK), S. G. Kazarian (Imperial College London), F. Gao (Nottingham Trent University), X. W. Gao (Middlesex University, UK)

Evaluation of Raw Signal and Feature-Based Deep Learning Models for Multi-Label ECG Diagnosis on PTB-XL
Calvin Holloway (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom), Lakshmi Babu Saheer (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom), Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Mitigating Western Bias in Music Genre Classification: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Greek Music
George Kritsovas, Lorenzo Garbagna, Lakshmi Babu Saheer, Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Toolbelt-MCP: Exploring the Model Context Protocol for Tool-Use of Large Language Models utilizing Graphs with Relational Databases
J. Agater (Jade Hochschule, Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth, Germany) L. Herradi (Université de Bordeaux, France) M. Mimouni (Université de Bordeaux, France) A. Memari (Jade Hochschule, Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth, Germany) J. Marx Gómez (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany)

Comparative Assessment of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Human Reviewers for Full-Text Screening in Systematic Reviews on the Impact of Air Pollution in Respi
Amja Manullang, Xiaohong Gao, Christophe Viavattene (Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom), Annisa Ristya Rahmanti (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)