Jaf, Sardar and Barakat, Basel. 2025. Empirical evaluation of public hatespeech datasets. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 6(11), pp. 3056-3069. ISSN 2691-4581
Barakat, Basel and Jaf, Sardar. 2025. Beyond Traditional Classifiers: Evaluating Large Language Models for Robust Hate Speech Detection. Computation, 13(8), 196. ISSN 2079-3197
Kahwash, F.; Barakat, Basel and Maheri, A.. 2023. Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems. Energy Conversion and Management, 293, 117460. ISSN 0196-8904
Taha, Ahmad; Barakat, Basel; Taha, Mohammad M. A.; Shawky, Mahmoud A.; Lai, Chun Sing; Hussain, Sajjad; Abideen, Muhammad Zainul and Abbasi, Qammer H.. 2023. A Comparative Study of Single and Multi-Stage Forecasting Algorithms for the Prediction of Electricity Consumption Using a UK-National Health Service (NHS) Hospital Dataset. Future Internet, 15(4), 134. ISSN 1999-5903
Bendiek, Paula; Taha, Ahmad; Abbasi, Qammer H. and Barakat, Basel. 2021. Solar Irradiance Forecasting Using a Data-Driven Algorithm and Contextual Optimisation. Applied Sciences, 12(1), 134. ISSN 2076-3417
Kahwash, Fadi; Barakat, Basel; Taha, Ahmad; Abbasi, Qammer H. and Imran, Muhammad Ali. 2021. Optimising Electrical Power Supply Sustainability Using a Grid-Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy System—An NHS Hospital Case Study. Energies, 14(21), 7084. ISSN 1996-1073
Barakat, Basel; Taha, Ahmad; Samson, Ryan; Steponenaite, Aiste; Ansari, Shuja; Langdon, Patrick M.; Wassell, Ian J.; Abbasi, Qammer H.; Imran, Muhammad Ali and Keates, Simeon. 2021. 6G Opportunities Arising from Internet of Things Use Cases: A Review Paper. Future Internet, 13(6), 159. ISSN 1999-5903
Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian J. and Arshad, Kamran. 2021. Modelling IoT devices communication employing representative operation modes to reveal traffic generation characteristics. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 36(2), pp. 117-129. ISSN 1744-5760
Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian and Arshad, Kamran. 2019. Is the Zero-Wait Policy Always Optimum for Information Freshness (Peak Age) or Throughput? IEEE Communications Letters, 23(6), pp. 987-990. ISSN 1089-7798
Book Section
Kinkiri, Saritha; Barakat, Basel and Keates, Simeon. 2020. Phonemes: An Explanatory Study Applied to Identify a Speaker. In: Arup Bhattacharjee; Samir Kr. Borgohain; Badal Soni; Gyanendra Verma and Xiao-Zhi Gao, eds. Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences. Singapore: Springer, pp. 58-68. ISBN 9789811563171
Conference or Workshop Item
Ajayi, Bamidele; Barakat, Basel; McGarry, Ken and Abukeshek, Mays. 2024. 'Exploring the Application of Transfer Learning in Malware Detection by Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models on Binary Classification to New Datasets on Multi-class Classification'. In: 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Sviderski, Marek; Barakat, Basel and Allen, Becky. 2024. 'Acoustic Emotion Analysis for Novel Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 -30 August 2024.
Sviderski, Marek; Barakat, Basel; Allen, Becky and MacFarlane, Kate. 2024. 'Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Features for Alzheimer's Disease Detection'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Wells, Alec; Dajnowski, Norbert; Usman, Aminu Bello; Murray, John and Barakat, Basel. 2024. 'Privacy-Enhanced One-to-Many Biometric System Using Smart Contracts: A New Framework'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Abukeshek, Mays; Barakat, Basel and Ajayi, Bamidele. 2024. 'Elevating Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems—A Container-Based Approach Enhanced by Machine Learning'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Hassan, Mohamed; Barakat, Basel; Ibrahim, Mona Mohamed; Kamel, Ahmed M. and Abukeshek, Mays. 2024. 'Assessment of Inertial Measurement Units for Estimating Kinematic Data in Gait Analysis'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Barakat, Basel and Huang, Qiang. 2024. 'Enhancing Transfer Learning Reliability via Block-wise Fine-tuning'. In: 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). Jacksonville, FL, United States 15 - 17 December 2023.
Steponenaite, Aiste and Barakat, Basel. 2023. 'Plagiarism in AI empowered world'. In: 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2023). Copenhagen, Denmark 23 - 28 July 2023.
Barakat, Basel; Hall, Lynne and Keates, Simeon. 2022. 'Integrating Machine Learning with Augmented Reality for Accessible Assistive Technologies'. In: 16th International Conference, UAHCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022. Virtual Event 26 June - 1 July 2022.
Taha, Ahmad; Taha, Mohammad M.A.; Barakat, Basel; Taylor, William; Abbasi, Qammer H. and Ali Imran, Muhammad. 2021. 'AI-Based Fall Detection Using Contactless Sensing'. In: 2021 IEEE Sensors. Sydney, Australia 31 October - 3 November 2021.
Barakat, Basel; Steponenaite, Aiste; Lall, Gurprit S.; Arshad, Kamran; Wassell, Ian J. and Keates, Simeon. 2020. 'Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired: Optimizing Frame Rate (Freshness) to Improve the Performance of Real-Time Objects Detection Application'. In: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2020). Copenhagen, Denmark 19 - 24 July 2020.
Barakat, Basel; Yassine, Hachem; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian and Arshad, Kamran. 2019. 'How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks?'. In: European Wireless 2019; 25th European Wireless Conference. Aarhus, Denmark 2 - 4 May 2029.
Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian and Arshad, Kamran. 2019. 'Adaptive Status Arrivals Policy (ASAP) Delivering Fresh Information (Minimise Peak Age) in Real World Scenarios'. In: 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2019). Orlando, FL, United States 26 - 31 July 2019.
Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Arshad, Kamran and Wassell, Ian J. 2019. 'Deriving machine to machine (M2M) traffic model from communication model'. In: 2018 Fifth International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology (ISIICT). Amman, Jordan 31 October - 1 November 2018.
Aramide, Samuel O.; Barakat, Basel; Wang, Yi; Keates, Simeon and Arshad, Kamran. 2017. 'Generalized proportional fair (GPF) scheduler for LTE-A'. In: 2017 9th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CEEC). Colchester, United Kingdom 27 - 29 September 2017.
Sharsheer, Mohammad; Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2016. 'Coverage and capacity Self-Optimisation in LTE-Advanced using Active Antenna Systems'. In: 2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. Doha, Qatar 3 - 6 April 2026.
Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2015. 'Energy efficient scheduling in LTE-advanced for Machine Type Communication'. In: 2015 International Conference and Workshop on Computing and Communication (IEMCON). Vancouver, BC, Canada 15 - 17 October 2015.
Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2015. 'An adaptive hybrid scheduling algorithm for LTE-Advanced'. In: 2015 22nd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT). Sydney, Australia 27 - 29 April 2015.
Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2015. 'Energy efficient carrier aggregation for LTE-Advanced'. In: 2015 IEEE 8th GCC Conference & Exhibition. Muscat, Oman 1 - 4 February 2015.
Other
Barakat, Basel and Huang, Qiang. 2023. Improving Reliability of Fine-tuning with Block-wise Optimisation. arXiv, New York.