Research Highlights

Journal Articles

McLachlan, Schafer, Dube et al (2022)

Scott McLachlan, Burkhard Schafer, Kudakwashe Dube, Evangelia Kyrimi and Norman Fenton (2022). Tempting the Fate of the furious: cyber security and autonomous cars. International review of Law, Computers and Technology, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/13600869.2022.2060466

Mclachlan, Neil, Dube et al (2022)

McLachlan, S., Neil, M., Dube, K., Bogani, R., Fenton, N., & Schaffer, B. (2022). Smart automotive technology adherence to the law: (de)constructing road rules for autonomous system development, verification and safety. International Journal of Law and Information Technology. eaac002, 1-41. DOI: 10.1093/ijlit/eaac002

McLachlan, Kyrimi, Dube et al (2022)

McLachlan, S., Kyrimi, E., Dube, K. et al. (2022) Lawmaps: enabling legal AI development through visualisation of the implicit structure of legislation and lawyerly process. Artif Intell Law. DOI: 10.1007/s10506-021-09298-0

Kyrimi, Dube, Fenton et al (2021)

Evangelia Kyrimi, Scott McLachlan, Kudakwashe Dube, Mariana R. Neves, Ali Fahmi, Norman Fenton, A comprehensive scoping review of Bayesian networks in healthcare: Past, present and future, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 117, 2021, 102108, ISSN 0933-3657, DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2021.102108, Article PPI: S0933365721001019

Kyrimi et al (2021)

Evangelia Kyrimi, Kudakwashe Dube, Norman Fenton, Ali Fahmi, Mariana Raniere Neves, William Marsh, Scott McLachlan, Bayesian networks in healthcare: What is preventing their adoption?, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 116, 2021, Article Number: 102079, ISSN 0933-3657, DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2021.102079, PII: S0933365721000725

Kambarami et al (2021)

Kambarami, F., McLachlan, S., Bozic, B., Dube, K., & Chimhundu, H. (2021). Computational Modeling of Agglutinative Languages: The Challenge for Southern Bantu Languages. Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics. 3(1), 52-81. Publisher Link

McLachlan et al (2020)

McLachlan, S., Dube, K., Hitman, G.A., Fenton, N.E., & Kyrimi, E. (2020). Bayesian Networks in Healthcare: Distribution by Medical Condition. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Volume 107, July 2020, Article: 101912. ISSN: 0933-3657, DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101912 [Preprint]

Osman et al (2020)

Magda Osman, Norman E. Fenton, Scott McLachlan, Peter Lucas, Kudakwashe Dube, Graham A. Hitman, Evangelia Kyrimi, Martin Neil (2020); The thorny problems of Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps: The need for a holistic approach; Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Vol. 4, COVID-19 Special Issue, pp.43-48. [PDF] [Publisher URL]

McLachlan et al (2020)

McLachlan, S., Kyrimi, E., Dube, K., Hitman, G.A., Simmonds, J., & Fenton, N.E. (2020). Towards Standardisation of evidence-based clinical care process specifications. SAGE Health Informatics Journal, DOI: 10.1177/1460458220906069

McLachlan, Dube et al (2019)

McLachlan, S., Dube, K., Kyrimi, E. and Fenton, N. (2019). LAGOS: Learning Health Systems and how they can integrate with Patient Care. BMJ Health and Care Informatics (BMJ-HCI), 2019; 0:e100037. DOI: 10.1136/bmjhci-2019-100037. Publisher URL

Kavu, Dube and Raeth (2019)

Tatenda D. Kavu, Kudakwashe Dube, and Peter G. Raeth (2019). Holistic User Context-Aware Recommender Algorithm. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, Article ID 3965845, DOI:10.1155/2019/3965845

McLachlan, Dube, et al (2019)

Scott McLachlan, Kudakwashe Dube, Owen Johnson, Derek Buchanan, Henry W.W. Potts, Thomas Gallagher, Norman Fenton: A Framework for Analysing Learning Health Systems: Are we removing the most impactful barriers? Learning Health Systems, Wiley: e10189, 03/2019, DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.10189

McLachlan et al (2018)

Scott Mclachlan, Henry W W Potts, Kudakwashe Dube, Derek Buchanan, Stephen Lean, Thomas Gallagher, Owen Johnson, Bridget Daley, William Marsh, Norman Fenton: The Heimdall Framework for Supporting Characterisation of Learning Health Systems. The Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics 05/2018; 25(2). DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v25i2.996

McLachlan, Dube et al (2018)

Scott McLachlan, Kudakwashe Dube, Derek Buchanan, Stephen Lean, Owen Johnson, Henry W. W. Potts, Thomas Gallagher, William Marsh, Norman Elliot Fenton: Learning Health Systems: The research community awareness challenge. BMJ Health and Care Informatics 03/2018; 25(1):038. DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v25i1.981

Walonoski et al (2017)

Jason Walonoski, Mark Kramer, Joseph Nichols, Andre Quina, Chris Moesel, Dylan Hall, Carlton Duffett, Kudakwashe Dube, Thomas Gallagher, Scott McLachlan: Synthea: An approach, method, and software mechanism for generating synthetic patients and the synthetic electronic health care record. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 09/2017; DOI:10.1093/jamia/ocx079

Kavu, Dube et al (2017)

Tatenda D. Kavu, Kudakwashe Dube, Peter G. Raeth, Gilford T. Hapanyengwi: A Characterisation and Framework for User-Centric Factors in Evaluation Methods for Recommender Systems. 01/2017; International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East (IJICTRAME), 6(1):1-16. DOI: 10.4018/IJICTRAME.2017010101

Dube and Wu (2009)

Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu: A Generic Approach to Computer-based Clinical Practice Guideling Managment using the ECA Rule Paradigm and Active Databases. International Journal of Technology Management, Inderscience, Geneva, 03/2009; 47(1/2/3): pp.75 - 95. DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2009.024115 (PDF)

Nugent, Dube and Wu (2003)

D. Nugent, K. Dube, B. Wu: DAAS: A web-based system for user-specific dietary analysis and advice for the public healthcare domain. High-Tech Communication: English Edition (High Technology Letters), Vol 9, Issue 4 (2003):78-82. [Publisher PDF Access] [ Author URL ]

Dube and Wu (2001)

Kudakwashe Dube and Bing Wu: Supporting clinical laboratory test-ordering protocol specification, execution and management: An event-condition-action rule and database approach. Health Informatics Journal 03/2001; 7(1):20-28. DOI: 10.1177/146045820100700105

Conference Papers

Kavu et al (2021)

Kavu T.D., Dube K., Raeth P.G., Hapanyengwi G. (2021) Characterisation of User-Contexts for Context-Aware Recommendation Systems. In: Arai K. (eds) (2022) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 1. FTC 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 358. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89906-6_7. Preprint DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34963.50727

Dube et al (2020)

K. Dube, S. McLachlan, N. Zanamwe, E. Kyrimi, J. S. Thomson and N. Fenton, "Managing Knowledge in Computational Models for Global Food, Nutrition and Health Technologies," 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2020, pp. 1-8, DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342880. Preprint DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.05.20122952

McLachlan et al (2020)

Scott Mclachlan, Haydn Paterson, Kudakwashe Dube, Evangelia Kyrimi, Eugene Dementiev, Martin Neil, Bridget J Daley, Graham A Hitman, and Norman E Fenton (2020). Real-time Online Probabilistic Medical Computation using Bayesian Networks. IEEE ICHI 2020; 30 Nov - 3 Dec, 2020; Oldeburg, Germany. DOI: 10.1109/ICHI48887.2020.9374378 (EasyChair Preprint)

McLachlan et al (2020)

McLachlan, S., Kyrimi, E., Daley, B., Dube, K., Marsden, M., & Fenton, N. (2020). Incorporating clinical decisions into Standardised Caremaps. IEEE ICHI 2020; 30 Nov - 3 Dec, 2020; Oldeburg, Germany. DOI: 10.1109/ICHI48887.2020.9374381 (EasyChair Preprint)

Daley et al (2020)

Daley, B., Kyrimi, E., Dube, K., Fenton, N., Hitman, G.A., & McLachlan, S. (2020). Data visualisation in midwifery: The challenge of seeing what datasets hide. Short Paper. 30^th Medical Informatics Europe conference (MIE 2020), 28 April - 1 May, 2020, Geneva, Switzerland. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI200381

McLachlan et al (2019)

McLachlan, S.; Kyrimi, E.; Dube, K. and Fenton, N. (2019). Clinical Caremap Development: How Can Caremaps Standardise Care When They Are Not Standardised?.In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, ISBN 978-989-758-353-7, pages 123-134; DOI:10.5220/0007522601230134

McLachlan, Dube, et al (2018)

Scott Mclachlan, Kudakwashe Dube, Thomas Gallagher, Bridget Daley, Jason A. Walonoski: The ATEN Framework for Creating the Realistic Synthetic Electronic Health Record. 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, LDA., pages 220-230. ISBN: 978-989-758-281-3, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; 01/2018, DOI: 10.5220/0006677602200230

Zanamwe, Dube, et al (2018)

Ngonidzashe Zanamwe, Kudakwashe Dube, Jasmine S Thomson: Manageability Challenges for Knowledge Incorporation in Genetic Algorithms: A Study Using the Meal Planning Problem. EAI International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa(ACRID 2017), June 20-21, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; 04/2018, DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270664

Kavu, Dube, et al (2018)

Tatenda Kavu, Kudakwashe Dube, Peter Raeth, Gilford Hapanyengwi: A Novel, Serendipitous and Dynamic User-Centric Recommender Algorithm. EAI International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa (ACRID 2017), Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; 04/2018, DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270015

McLachlan et al (2016)

Scott McLachlan, Thomas Gallagher, Kudakwashe Dube: Using the CareMap with Health Incidents Statistics for Generating the Realistic Synthetic Electronic Healthcare Record. 2016 IEEE Conference on Health Informatics (IEEE-ICHI 2016); 10/2016, DOI: 10.1109/ICHI.2016.83

Babu, Dube et al (2016)

Arun Babu, Kudakwashe Dube, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Hemant Ghayvat, Jithin Kumar M.V: Accelerometer based human activities and posture recognition. 2016 International Conference on Data Mining and Advanced Computing (SAPIENCE); 03/2016, DOI:10.1109/SAPIENCE.2016.7684120

McLachlan, Dube et al (2015)

Scott McLachlan, Kudakwashe Dube, Thomas Gallagher, Jennifer A. Simmonds: Supporting Preliminary Decisions on Patient Requests for Access to Health Records: An Integrated Ethical and Legal Framework. International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2015, Dallas, TX, USA; 10/2015, DOI: 10.1109/ICHI.2015.31

Dube et al (2014)

Kudakwashe Dube, Deshendran Moodley, Bill Thies, JaneW.S. Liu, Joseph Cafazzo, Oleg Sokolsky: Panel Position Statements. International Symposium on Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems; 01/2014, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53956-5_2

Dube and Gallagher (2014)

Dube K. and Gallagher T. (2014) Approach and Method for Generating Realistic Synthetic Electronic Healthcare Records for Secondary Use. In: Gibbons J., MacCaull W. (eds) Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems. FHIES 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53956-5_6

Zanamwe, Dube et al (2014)

Ngonidzashe Zanamwe, Kudakwashe Dube, Jasmine S Thomson, FredrickJ. Mtenzi, GilfordT. Hapanyengwi: Characterisation of Knowledge Incorporation into Solution Models for the Meal Planning Problem. International Symposium on Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems; 01/2014, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53956-5_17

Lean et al (2010)

Stephen Lean, Hans W. Guesgen, Inga Hunter, Kudakwashe Dube: Computational Confidence for Decision Making in Health. Annual International Academic Conference on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing; 07/2010, DOI: 10.5176/978-981-08-6308-1_D-033

Wu, Dube and Mansour (2008)

Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube, Essam Mansour: The Motion Picture Paradigm for Managing Information - A Framework and Approach to Supporting the Play and Replay of Information in Computerised Information Systems.. ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume DISI, Barcelona, Spain, June 12-16, 2008; 01/2008, DOI: 10.5220/0001715305150518

Mansour, Dube and Wu (2007)

Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu: AIM: An XML-Based ECA Rule Language for Supporting a Framework for Managing Complex Information. Advances in Rule Interchange and Applications, International Symposium, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007, Proceedings; 10/2007, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75975-1_23

Wu, Mansour and Dube (2007)

Bing Wu, Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube: Complex Information Management Using a Framework Supported by ECA Rules in XML. Advances in Rule Interchange and Applications, International Symposium, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007, Proceedings; 10/2007, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75975-1_22

Mansour, Dube and Wu (2007)

Mansour E.; Dube K.; Wu B. and (2007). Managing complex information in reactive applications using an active temporal XML database approach.In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 520-523. DOI: 10.5220/0002385005200523

Mansour, Wu and Dube (2006)

Essam Mansour, Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube, Jian Xing Li: An Event-Driven Approach to Computerizing Clinical Guidelines Using XML. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Services Computing Workshops (SCW 2006), 18-22 September 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 09/2006, DOI: 10.1109/SCW.2006.3

Wu and Dube (2006)

Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube: Diet and Lifestyle Analysis, Advice and Monitoring for the Public Healthcare Domain: A Framework and a Prototype System for Supporting Diet and Lifestyle Guidelines. 1st International Workshop on Health Pervasive Systems, HPS 2006 (In conjunction with the IEEE ICPS 2006), Lyon, France; 06/2006 [PDF]

Dube and Wu (2006)

Kudakwashe Dube and Wu Bing. (2006). An Active Database Approach to Computerised Clinical Guideline Management . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-53-5, pages 107-115. DOI: 10.5220/0002474001070115

Dube, Mansour and Wu (2005)

K. Dube, E. Mansour, B. Wu: Supporting collaboration and information sharing in computer-based clinical guideline management. Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 18th IEEE Symposium on; 07/2005, DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2005.95

Jones, Dube and Wu (2003)

Richard Jones, Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu: TOPME: An XML-Based Client-Server Front-End for the Distributed Management of Clinical Protocols for TOPS. In: Exploring the New Generation Computing Technology: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS 2003), Harbin, China; 8-10 August 2003: pp. 368 - 371. ISBN: 7-5062-6084-0/TP81 [PDF]

Dube, Wu and Grimson (2002)

Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu, Jane B. Grimson: Using ECA Rules in Database Systems to Support Clinical Protocols. Database and Expert Systems Applications, 13th International Conference, DEXA 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, September 2-6, 2002, Proceedings; 09/2002, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46146-9_23

Dube, Wu and Grimson (2002)

Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu, Jane Grimson: Framework and Architecture for the Management of Event-Condition-Action (ECA) Rule-Based Clinical Protocols. Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2002. (CBMS 2002). Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on; 02/2002, DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2002.1011391

Wu and Dube (2001)

Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube: Applying Event-Condition-Action Mechanism in Healthcare; A Computerized Clinical Test-Ordering protocol System (TOPS).. Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2001. CODAS 2001. The Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on; 06/2001, DOI: 10.1109/CODAS.2001.945143

Wu and Dube (2001)

Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube: PLAN: A Framework and Specification Language with an Event-Condition-Action (ECA) Mechanism for Clinical Test Request Protocols.. System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on; 01/2001, DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2001.926554

Book Chapters

McLachlan et al (2020)

McLachlan S., Kyrimi E., Dube K., Fenton N. (2020) Standardising Clinical Caremaps: Model, Method and Graphical Notation for Caremap Specification. In: Roque A. et al. (eds) Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1211. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46970-2_21

McLachlan, Dube et al (2019)

Scott McLachlan, Kudakwashe Dube, Thomas Gallagher, Jennifer A Simmonds and Norman Fenton (2019). Realistic Synthetic Data Generation: The ATEN Framework. In book: A. Cliquet Jr. et al. (Eds.), Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC) 2018, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Volume 1024: pp. 497 ‐ 523. Springer Nature, Switzerland, AG. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29196-9_25

Alavizadeh et al (2017)

Hooman Alavizadeh, Hootan Alavizadeh, Kudakwashe Dube, Dong Seong Kim, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Hans W. Guesgen: A Secure Server-Based Pseudorandom Number Generator Protocol for Mobile Devices. In Book: Liu, Joseph K., Samarati, Pierangela (Eds.), Information Security Practice and Experience, 12/2017: pages 860-876; ISBN: 978-3-319-72358-7, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-72359-4_54

Dube and Wu (2001)

Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu (2001). Specification, Execution and Management of Clinical Test Ordering Protocols: a Database Approach. In Book Series: Barbara Heller, Markus Loffler, Mark Musen, Mario Stefanelli (eds); Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 83: Computer-Based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols, pp.: 31 - 42. ISBN: 978-1-58603-193-0 (print) | 978-1-60750-927-1 (online) DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-927-1-31 [ Publisher URL ] [ PDF ]

Books

Shoniregun, Dube and Mtenzi (2010)

Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, Fredrick Mtenzi: Electronic Healthcare Information Security. 01/2010; Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-84817-4, DOI:10.1007/978-0-387-84919-5

Dube (2010)

Kudakwashe Dube (2010), Managing Computerised Clinical Practice Guidelines. 1^st Edition, 01/2010; ISBN: 978-3-8383-3985-6 [PDF]

Internet Publications

McLachlan, Osman, Dube et al (2021)

Scott Mclachlan, Magda Osman, Kudakwashe Dube, Patience Penny Chiketero, Yvonne Choi and Norman Elliott Fenton (2021), Analysis of COVID-19 vaccine death reports from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) Database: Interim Results and Analysis. Pre-print DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26987.26402

McLachlan, Lucas, Dube et al (2020)

McLachlan, S., Lucas, P., Dube, K., Hitman, G., Osman, M., Kyrimi, E., Neil, M., & Fenton, N. (2020). The fundamental limitations of COVID-19 contact tracing methods and how to resolve them with a Bayesian network approach. [Preprint]

McLachlan, Lucas, Dube et al (2020)

McLachlan, S., Lucas, P., Dube, K., Hitman, G., Osman, M., Kyrimi, E., Neil, M., & Fenton, N. (2020). Bluetooth smartphone apps: Are they the most private and effective solution for COVID-19 contact tracing?. [Preprint]

Fenton et al (2020)

Norman Fenton, Scott McLachlan, Peter Lucas, Kudakwashe Dube, Graham Hitman, Magda Osman, Evangelia Kyrimi, Martin Neil (2020); A privacy-preserving Bayesian network model for personalised COVID19 risk assessment and contact tracing. Preprint DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.15.20154286

Kavu et al (2020)

Tatenda D Kavu; Kudakwashe Dube; Peter G Raeth and Gilford T Hapanyengwi (2020). Characterisation of User-Contexts for Context-Aware Recommendation Systems. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), SpringerNature Journal [Preprint]

Kyrimi et al (2020)

Evangelia Kyrimi, Scott McLachlan, Kudakwashe Dube and Norman Fenton. Bayesian Networks in Healthcare: the chasm between research enthusiasm and clinical adoption. [Preprint]

Gallagher, Dube and McLachlan (2018)

Thomas Gallagher, Kudakwashe Dube, Scott Mclachlan: Ethical Issues in Secondary Use of Personal Health Information. IEEE Future Directions: Technology Policy and Ethics, May 2018 [IEEE Internet publication].

Thesis

Dube (2004) PhD Thesis

Dube, K. (2004). A generic approach to supporting the management of computerised clinical guidelines and protocols. Doctoral Thesis. Dublin Institute of Technology (Technological University Dublin), Ireland. DOI: 10.21427/D78313

Supervised Thesis

Kavu (2021) PhD Thesis

Kavu, Tatenda (2021), Adaptive User-Centric Recommendations: A Holistic User Context-Aware Recommendation Algorithm, Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Zimbabwe [ PDF ]

Lean (2014) PhD Thesis

Lean, Stephen R. (2014). A computational approach to primary healthcare information quality indicators. (Doctoral Thesis, Massey University, Turitea Campus) [ PDF ]

Thesis Mentor and Consultant

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