Dr Padraig Corcoran

2026

• Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2026. Balance disclosure in payment channel networks using noiseless privacy. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice 5 (4) 43. (10.1145/3770861)
• Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2026. Path planning at the edge of payment channel networks. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice 5 (4) 39. (10.1145/3761828)
• Hamed, N. et al. 2026. CLEETS-SMART:Sustainable mobility and resilient transport for electric vehicle travel planning under extreme weather events. In: Sharma, A. et al., Clean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions. IGI Global. , pp.315-334. (10.4018/979-8-3373-9908-9.ch019)
• Ma, Y. et al. 2026. MIQANet: A novel dual-branch deep learning framework for MRI image quality assessment. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 36 (6), pp.8449-8460. (10.1109/tcsvt.2026.3656671)
• Karakuş, O. and Corcoran, P. 2026. A multi-modal spatial risk framework for EV charging infrastructure using remote sensing. Presented at: International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2025 Porto, Portugal 15–19 September 2025. Published in: Koprinska, I. , Mendes-Moreira, J. and Branco, P. eds. Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. 249 Cham: Springer. , pp.249-259. (10.1007/978-3-032-19108-3_17)
• Hambly, D. , Lewis, R. and Corcoran, P. 2026. Methods for finding paths of a prescribed length in weighted graphs. Presented at: EvoCOP 2026 Toulouse, France 8-10 April 2026. Published in: Krejca, M. S. and Pillay, N. eds. Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. Vol. 16522.Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.68-84. (10.1007/978-3-032-20537-7_5)

2025

• Corcoran, P. et al. 2025. A spatial analysis of the use of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. Financial Innovation 11 127. (10.1186/s40854-025-00871-z)
• Ma, Y. et al., 2025. Analysing and predicting radiologists’ expertise using eye-tracking data: Insights for diagnostic decision-making. Presented at: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Nantes, France 30 June - 4 July 2025. IEEE. , pp.1-6. (10.1109/icme59968.2025.11209585)
• Maybury, L. , Corcoran, P. and Cipcigan, L. 2025. Fair assignment of urban-rural electric vehicle shared charging using queuing theory. European Transport Studies 2 , pp.100039. (10.1016/j.ets.2025.100039)
• Lou, J. et al., 2025. Chest X-ray visual saliency modeling: eye-tracking dataset and saliency prediction model. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 36 (9), pp.16920-16930. (10.1109/tnnls.2025.3564292)
• Edwards, T. , Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2025. A hybrid approach for geo-referencing tweets: transformer language model regression and gazetteer disambiguation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 14 (9) 321. (10.3390/ijgi14090321)
• Liu, J. et al. 2025. Adaptive spatiotemporal graph transformer network for action quality assessment. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 35 (7), pp.6628-6639. (10.1109/TCSVT.2025.3541456)
• Anggoro, A. et al. 2025. Harmonized system code classification using supervised contrastive learning with sentence BERT and multiple negative ranking loss. Data Technologies and Applications 59 (2), pp.279-301. (10.1108/DTA-01-2024-0052)
• Alves, T. M. et al. 2025. Data sampling strategies for accurate fault analyses: A scale-independent test based on a machine learning approach. Journal of Structural Geology 191 105342. (10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105342)
• Corcoran, P. and Lewis, R. 2025. A user-centric model of connectivity in street networks. Computers and Operations Research 173 106846. (10.1016/j.cor.2024.106846)
• Corcoran, P. and Lewis, R. 2025. An analysis of the correctness and computational complexity of path planning in Payment Channel Networks. The Journal of Financial Technology

2024

• Ma, Y. et al. 2024. RAD-IQMRI: A benchmark for MRI image quality assessment. Neurocomputing 602 128292. (10.1016/j.neucom.2024.128292)
• Corcoran, P. and Lewis, R. 2024. Path planning in payment channel networks with multi-party channels. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice 4 (4) 30. (10.1145/3702248)
• Lou, J. et al. 2024. TranSalNet+: Distortion-aware saliency prediction. Neurocomputing 600 128155. (10.1016/j.neucom.2024.128155)
• Lewis, R. and Corcoran, P. 2024. Fast algorithms for computing fixed-length round trips in real-world street networks. SN Computer Science 5 (7) 868. (10.1007/s42979-024-03223-3)
• Lou, J. et al. 2024. A benchmark of variance of opinion scores in image quality assessment. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abu Dhabi 27-30 October 2024. Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing. IEEE. , pp.1232-1238. (10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10647649)
• Hambly, D. , Lewis, R. and Corcoran, P. 2024. Determining fixed-length paths in directed and undirected edge-weighted graphs. Presented at: Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA) 2024 Vienna, Austria 24-26 July 2024. Published in: Liberti, L. ed. 22nd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2024).. Vol. 301.Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) , pp.15.1-15.11. (10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2024.15)
• Maybury, L. and Corcoran, P. 2024. Mathematical modelling to optimise an urban electric vehicle charging system. Presented at: Cardiff University Engineering Research Conference 2023 Cardiff, UK 12-14 July 2023. Published in: Spezi, E. and Bray, M. eds. Proceedings of the Cardiff University Engineering Research Conference 2023. Cardiff: Cardiff University Press. , pp.173-175. (10.18573/conf1.am)
• Lin, B. et al. 2024. The application of deep generative models in urban form generation based on topology: a review. Architectural Science Review 67 (3), pp.189-204. (10.1080/00038628.2023.2209550)
• Dijkstra, L. et al. 2024. Digraphs and k-domination models for facility location problems in road networks: Greedy heuristics. Presented at: International Network Optimization Conference 2024 Dublin, Ireland 11-13 March 2024. Proceedings of the 11th International Network Optimization Conference (INOC). OpenProceedings. , pp.22-27. (10.48786/inoc.2024.05)
• Chopard, D. , Corcoran, P. and Spasić, I. 2024. Word sense disambiguation of acronyms in clinical narratives. Frontiers in Digital Health 6 1282043. (10.3389/fdgth.2024.1282043)
• Corcoran, P. and Lewis, R. 2024. Optimisation of livestock routing on farms. Computers & Industrial Engineering 188 109882. (10.1016/j.cie.2024.109882)

2023

• Lewis, R. , Corcoran, P. and Gagarin, A. 2023. Methods for determining cycles of a specific length in undirected graphs with edge weights. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 46 29. (10.1007/s10878-023-01091-w)
• Corcoran, P. and Lewis, R. 2023. A navigability entropy model for street networks. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 50 (8), pp.2171-2186. (10.1177/23998083231170191)
• Alymani, A. , Jabi, W. and Corcoran, P. 2023. Modelling the relationships between ground and buildings using 3D architectural topological models utilising graph machine learning. Presented at: 6th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (6FMA) 24-28 May 2022. Published in: Mona, P. L. et al., Formal Methods in Architecture. FMA 2022. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Singapore: Springer. , pp.287-305. (10.1007/978-981-99-2217-8_16)
• Ma, Y. et al. 2023. Impact of radiologist experience on medical image quality perception. Presented at: 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) Ghent, Belgium 20-22 June 2023. Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience. IEEE. , pp.177-182. (10.1109/QoMEX58391.2023.10178430)
• Miok, K. , Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2023. The value of numbers in clinical text classification. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 5 (3), pp.746-762. (10.3390/make5030040)
• Zunic, J. and Corcoran, P. 2023. Fitting cylinders computation with an application to measuring 3D shapes. Computational and Applied Mathematics 42 (10.1007/s40314-023-02348-0)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. 2023. Topological data analysis for geographical information science using persistent homology. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 37 (3), pp.712-745. (10.1080/13658816.2022.2155654)
• Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2023. Self-supervised representation learning for geographical data - a systematic literature review. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12 (2) 64. (10.3390/ijgi12020064)
• Anggoro, A. W. et al. 2023. Using DistilBERT to assign HS codes to international trading transactions. Presented at: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Pisa, Italy 4 - 6 April 2023.

2022

• Corcoran, P. , Reinecke, P. and Innes, M. 2022. Social network interventions in the space of topological relationships between communities. Social Network Analysis and Mining 12 153. (10.1007/s13278-022-00976-8)
• Alymani, A. , Jabi, W. and Corcoran, P. 2022. Graph machine learning classification using architectural 3D topological models. Simulation (10.1177/00375497221105894)
• Lewis, R. and Corcoran, P. 2022. Finding fixed-length circuits and cycles in undirected edge-weighted graphs: an application with street networks. Journal of Heuristics 28 , pp.259-285. (10.1007/s10732-022-09493-5)
• Maybury, L. , Corcoran, P. and Cipcigan, L. 2022. Mathematical modelling of electric vehicle adoption: A systematic literature review. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 107 103278. (10.1016/j.trd.2022.103278)
• Zunic, A. , Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2022. The case of aspect in sentiment analysis: seeking attention or co-dependency?. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 4 (2), pp.474-487. (10.3390/make4020021)
• Alymani, A. et al. 2022. Classifying building and ground relationships using unsupervised graph-level representation learning. Presented at: Design Computing and Cognition’22 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 4-6 July 2022. Published in: Gero, J. S. ed. Design Computing and Cognition’22. Springer: Springer Nature. , pp.305-320. (10.1007/978-3-031-20418-0_19)
• Edwards, T. , Jones, C. B. and Corcoran, P. 2022. Identifying wildlife observations on twitter. Ecological Informatics 67 101500. (10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101500)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. 2022. A persistent homology model of street network connectivity. Transactions in GIS 21 (1), pp.155-181. (10.1111/tgis.12844)

2021

• Chopard, D. et al., 2021. Text mining of adverse events in clinical trials: Deep learning approach. JMIR Medical Informatics 9 (12) e28632. (10.2196/28632)
• Corcoran, P. and Gagarin, A. 2021. Heuristics for k-domination models of facility location problems in street networks. Computers and Operations Research 133 105368. (10.1016/j.cor.2021.105368)
• Zunic, A. , Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2021. Aspect-based sentiment analysis with graph convolution over syntactic dependencies. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 119 102138. (10.1016/j.artmed.2021.102138)
• Edwards, T. et al. 2021. Passive citizen science: The role of social media in wildlife observations. PLoS ONE 16 (8) e0255416. (10.1371/journal.pone.0255416)
• Corcoran, P. et al. 2021. Creating Welsh language word embeddings. Applied Sciences 11 (15) 6896. (10.3390/app11156896)
• Espinosa-Anke, L. et al. 2021. English–Welsh cross-lingual embeddings. Applied Sciences 11 (14) 6541. (10.3390/app11146541)
• Zverovich, V. , Corcoran, P. and Gagarin, A. 2021. Graph models for optimization problems in road networks. In: Zverovich, V. ed. Modern Applications of Graph Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.275-336.
• Palmer, G. et al. 2021. A closer look at Welsh word embeddings. In: Prys, D. ed. Language and Technology in Wales: Volume 1. Bangor: Bangor University. , pp.21-29.

2020

• Corcoran, P. and Deng, B. 2020. Regularization of persistent homology gradient computation. Presented at: Topological Data Analysis and Beyond Workshop Virtual 11 December 2020.
• Redfern, J. et al. 2020. Association of violence with urban points of interest. PLoS ONE 15 (9) e0239840. (10.1371/journal.pone.0239840)
• Corcoran, P. , Mooney, P. and Gagarin, A. 2020. A distributed location obfuscation method for online route planning. Computers and Security 95 101850. (10.1016/j.cose.2020.101850)
• Corcoran, P. 2020. An end-to-end graph convolutional kernel support vector machine. Applied Network Science 5 39. (10.1007/s41109-020-00282-2)
• Zunic, A. , Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2020. Sentiment analysis in health and wellbeing: A systematic review. JMIR Medical Informatics 8 (1) e16023. (10.2196/16023)
• Alymani, A. , Jabi, W. and Corcoran, P. 2020. Machine learning methods for clustering architectural precedents - classifying the relationship between building and ground. Presented at: 38th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe(eCAADe 2020) Virtual 16-18 September 2020. Published in: Werner, L. and Koering, D. eds. Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference. Vol. 1.TU Berlin. , pp.643-652.
• Zunic, A. , Corcoran, P. and Spasic, I. 2020. Improving the performance of sentiment analysis in health and wellbeing using domain knowledge. Presented at: the Third UK Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC) London, UK 22-24 April 2020.

2019

• Spasic, I. et al. 2019. Cohort selection for clinical trials from longitudinal patient records: text mining approach. JMIR Medical Informatics 7 (4) e15980. (10.2196/15980)
• Corcoran, P. 2019. Topological generalization of continuous valued raster data. Presented at: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Chicago, Illinois, USA 5-8 November 2019. Published in: Banaei-Kashani, F. et al., Proceedings of ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Chicago: ACM. , pp.428-431. (10.1145/3347146.3359071)
• Corcoran, P. , Zunic, J. and Rosin, P. 2019. A multi-scale topological shape model for single and multiple component shapes. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 64 102617. (10.1016/j.jvcir.2019.102617)
• Corcoran, P. 2019. Topology based object tracking. Mathematical and Computational Applications 24 (3) 84. (10.3390/mca24030084)

2018

• Hannah, C. , Spasic, I. and Corcoran, P. 2018. A computational model of pedestrian road safety: the long way round is the safe way home. Accident Analysis & Prevention 121 , pp.347-357. (10.1016/j.aap.2018.06.004)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. 2018. Robust tracking of objects with dynamic topology. Presented at: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Seattle, Washington, USA 6-9 November 2018. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. ACM. , pp.428-431. (10.1145/3274895.3274922)
• Gagarin, A. and Corcoran, P. 2018. Multiple domination models for placement of electric vehicle charging stations in road networks. Computers and Operations Research 96 , pp.69-79. (10.1016/j.cor.2018.03.014)
• Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. 2018. Digital earth. In: Warf, B. ed. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. Translated from the original by B. Warf SAGE Publications. , pp.233-234. (10.4135/9781473960367.n72)
• Hannah, C. , Spasic, I. and Corcoran, P. 2018. Modelling pedestrian safety with respect to road traffic crashes by estimating the safety of paths. Presented at: GIScience Research UK Conference Leicester, England 18-20 April 2018.
• Spasic, I. et al. 2018. Head to head: Semantic similarity of multi-word terms. IEEE Access 6 , pp.20545-20557. (10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2826224)
• Jones, P. et al. 2018. Distinguishing between knee rehabilitation exercises using inertial measurement units [Abstract]. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 26 (S1), pp.S380-S381. 705. (10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.745)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2018. Stability and statistical inferences in the space of topological spatial relationships. IEEE Access 6 , pp.18907-18919. (10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2817493)

2017

• Redfern, J. et al. 2017. An open-data, agent-based model of alcohol related crime. Presented at: 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) Lecce 29 August - 1 September 2017. Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017 14th IEEE International Conference. IEEE Xplore(10.1109/AVSS.2017.8078513)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2017. Modelling topological features of swarm behaviour in space and time with persistence landscapes. IEEE Access 5 , pp.18534-18544. (10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2749319)
• Gagarin, A. and Corcoran, P. 2017. k-Domination models for placement of electric vehicle charging stations in road networks. Presented at: 8th International Conference on Computational Logistics Southampton, United Kingdom 18-20 October 2017.
• Jilani, M. , Corcoran, P. and Bertolotto, M. 2017. Geographic Information Systems: crowd-sourced spatial data. In: Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Wiley. , pp.1-10. (10.1002/047134608X.W8347)

2016

• Corcoran, P. 2016. Topological path planning in GPS trajectory data. Sensors 16 (12) 2203. (10.3390/s16122203)
• Jilani, M. , Corcoran, P. and Bertolotto, M. 2016. Machine learning for crowdsourced spatial data. Presented at: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery Riva del Garda, Italy 19-23 September 2016. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2016.. Vol. 9853.Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham: Springer. , pp.294-297.
• Corcoran, P. , Mooney, P. and Huang, G. 2016. Unsupervised trajectory compression. Presented at: The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Stockholm, Sweden 16-21 May 2016. The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE(10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487479)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2016. Spatio-temporal modeling of the topology of swarm behavior with persistence landscapes. Presented at: ACM - SIGSPATIAL 2016 Burlingame, CA, USA 31 October - 3 November 2016. GIS '16 Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. New York, NY.: ACM(10.1145/2996913.2996949)

2015

• Corcoran, P. , Mooney, P. and Bertolotto, M. 2015. Linear street extraction using a Conditional Random Field model. Spatial Statistics 14 (Part C), pp.532-545. (10.1016/j.spasta.2015.10.003)
• Corcoran, P. et al. 2015. Inferring semantics from geometry - the case of street networks. Presented at: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Seattle, Washington, USA 3-6 November 2015.
• Corcoran, P. et al. 2015. Appearance-based SLAM in a network space. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Seattle, WA, USA 26-30 May 2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE. , pp.5791-5798. (10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140010)

2014

• Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. 2014. Analysis of interaction and co-editing patterns amongst OpenStreetMap contributors. Transactions in GIS 18 (5), pp.633-659. (10.1111/tgis.12051)
• Corcoran, P. , Peter, M. and Bertolotto, M. 2014. Interactive cartographic route descriptions. Geoinformatica -Dordrecht- 18 (1), pp.1-26. (10.1007/s10707-013-0175-1)
• Jilani, M. , Corcoran, P. and Bertolotto, M. 2014. Automated highway tag assessment of OpenStreetMap road networks. Presented at: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Dallas, Texas, USA 4-7 November 2014. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. , pp.449-452.
• Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. 2014. Has OpenStreetMap a role in digital earth applications?. International Journal of Digital Earth 7 (7), pp.534-553. (10.1080/17538947.2013.781688)