Position paper: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Arshad, B., Munir, K., McClatchey, R., & Liaquat Kiani, S. (2014, December). Position paper: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analysis. Paper presented at 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2014), Islamabad, Pakistan

Visualisation facilitates the understanding of scientific data both through exploration and explanation of visualised data. Provenance contributes to the understanding of data by containing the contributing factors behind a result. With the significa... Read More about Position paper: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analysis.

Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Pervez, Z., & Ghafoor, A. (2014, December). Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management. Paper presented at International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London

Smart cities accumulate and process large amount of data streams which raise security and privacy concerns at individual and community levels. Sizeable attempts have made to ensure security and privacy of inhabitants’ data. However, security and priv... Read More about Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management.

Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Garzon, A., Palacios, M., Pecci, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, December). Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities. Paper presented at International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London, UK

Data collected through remote sensing (for instance geo-satellite) provides necessary stimulus for developing smart solutions for climate change & public health, energy efficiency and land monitoring in an urban environment. The velocity, variety, vo... Read More about Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities.

Scientific workflow repeatability through cloud-aware provenance (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ahmad, K., McClatchey, R., Munir, K., & Shamdasani, J. (2014, December). Scientific workflow repeatability through cloud-aware provenance. Paper presented at Recomputability 2014 Workshop of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014), London, UK

The transformations, analyses and interpretations of data in scientific workflows are vital for the repeatability and reliability of scientific workflows. This provenance of scientific workflows has been effectively carried out in Grid based scientif... Read More about Scientific workflow repeatability through cloud-aware provenance.

The influence of search components and problem characteristics in early life cycle class modelling (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, J., & Simons, C. (2015). The influence of search components and problem characteristics in early life cycle class modelling. Journal of Systems and Software, 103, 440-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.11.034

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This paper examines the factors affecting the quality of solution found by meta-heuristic search when optimising object-oriented software class models. From the algorithmic perspective, we examine the effect... Read More about The influence of search components and problem characteristics in early life cycle class modelling.

Towards the evolution of vertical-axis wind turbines using supershapes (2014)
Journal Article
Preen, R., & Bull, L. (2014). Towards the evolution of vertical-axis wind turbines using supershapes. Evolutionary Intelligence, 7(3), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-014-0116-4

© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. We have recently presented an initial study of evolutionary algorithms used to design vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) wherein candidate prototypes are evaluated under fan generated wind conditions after... Read More about Towards the evolution of vertical-axis wind turbines using supershapes.

Socialism, capitalism and environmental justice (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, K. (2014, November). Socialism, capitalism and environmental justice. Paper presented at Seventeenth International Conference on Socialism for the Twenty-first Century, School of Political Science from the South and the Higher Institute of International Relations, University of Havana, Cuba

Disussion of different approaches to achieving environmental justice in 6 countries.

A logic for context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Rakib, A., & Haque, H. M. U. (2014). A logic for context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents. In A. Gelbukh, F. C. Espinoza, & S. N. Galicia-Haro (Eds.), Human-Inspired Computing and Its Applications (453-471). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13647-9_41

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. We develop a logical model for resource-bounded contextaware multi-agent systems which handles inconsistent context information using non-monotonic reasoning. We extend the temporal logic CTL* wit... Read More about A logic for context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents.

Method for memory consistency among heterogeneous computer components (2014)
Patent
Hower, H., Hill, M., Wood, D., Gaster, B., Hechtman, B., & Beckmann, B. (2014). Method for memory consistency among heterogeneous computer components. US 20140337587 A1

A method, computer program product, and system is described that determines the correctness of using memory operations in a computing device with heterogeneous computer components. Embodiments include an optimizer based on the characteristics of a Se... Read More about Method for memory consistency among heterogeneous computer components.

Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Arabo, A. (2014, November). Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem. Paper presented at 2014 IEEE/ACS 11th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Doha, Qatar

Cloud services can greatly enhance the capabilities of mobile and smart devices, particularly within the ecosystem of connected home futures. A single device now performs multiple functions: organizing contacts and calendars, playing games, storing s... Read More about Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem.

Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Lawan, A., Rakib, A., Alechina, N., & Karunaratne, A. (2014, November). Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment. Paper presented at 4th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9-11, 2014., Chiang Mai, Thailand

Due to their powerful knowledge representation formalism and associated inference mechanisms, ontology-based approaches have been increasingly adopted to formally represent domain knowledge. We propose the use of ontologies to advance knowledge-shari... Read More about Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment.

Stochastic model of TCP and UDP traffic in IEEE 802.11b/g (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Malik, M. H., Aydin, M., Shah, Z., & Hussain, S. (2014). Stochastic model of TCP and UDP traffic in IEEE 802.11b/g. In 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications. , (2170-2175). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEA.2014.6931531

© 2014 IEEE. IEEE 802.11 networks have been widely explored since last decade and IEEE802.11g was proposed to increase the data rate of wireless networks up to 54Mbps which ensure backward capability with IEEE802.11b. The main goal of increasing the... Read More about Stochastic model of TCP and UDP traffic in IEEE 802.11b/g.

A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities (2014)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Kiani, S. L., & Soomro, K. (2014). A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 3, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-014-0014-4

© 2014 Khan et al.; licensee Springer. Background: In the context of smart cities, public participation and citizen science are key ingredients for informed and intelligent planning decisions and policy-making. However, citizens face a practical chal... Read More about A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities.

Using evolutionary computation to shed light on the effect of scale and complexity on object-orientedsoftware design (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C., & Smith, J. (2014, October). Using evolutionary computation to shed light on the effect of scale and complexity on object-orientedsoftware design. Paper presented at 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, USA

Early lifecycle software design is an intensely human activity in which design scale and complexity can place a high cognitive load on the software designer. Recently, the use of evolutionary search has been suggested to yield insights in the natur... Read More about Using evolutionary computation to shed light on the effect of scale and complexity on object-orientedsoftware design.

Facilitating evolution during design and implementation (2014)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R. (2015). Facilitating evolution during design and implementation. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 29(2), 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-014-0324-1

The volumes and complexity of data that companies need to handle are increasing at an accelerating rate. In order to compete effectively and ensure their commercial sustainability, it is becoming crucial for them to achieve robust traceability in bot... Read More about Facilitating evolution during design and implementation.

The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, J. (2014). The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation. In J. Branke, B. Filipic, J. Smith, & T. Bartz-Beielstein (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIII. , (120-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_12

The “end-game” of evolutionary optimisation is often largely governed by the efficiency and effectiveness of searching regions of space known to contain high quality solutions. In a traditional EA this role is done via mutation, which creates a tensi... Read More about The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation.

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XIII) 13th International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. Proceedings (2014)
Book
Bartz-Beielstein, T., Branke, J., Filipič, B., & Smith, J. (2014). Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XIII) 13th International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. Proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2

Data management challenges in paediatric information systems (2014)
Book Chapter
McClatchey, R. (2014). Data management challenges in paediatric information systems. In B. Bressan (Ed.), From Physics to Daily Life: Applications in Biology, Medicine and Healthcare. CERN: Wiley Publishers

There is a compelling demand for the data integration and exploitation of heterogeneous biomedical information for improved clinical practice, medical research, and personalised healthcare across the EU. The area of paediatric information integration... Read More about Data management challenges in paediatric information systems.

Sarcasm detection on Czech and English Twitter (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ptácek, T., Habernal, I., & Hong, J. (2014, August). Sarcasm detection on Czech and English Twitter. Paper presented at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland

This paper presents a machine learning approach to sarcasm detection on Twitter in two languages – English and Czech. Although there has been some research in sarcasm detection in languages other than English (e.g., Dutch, Italian, and Brazilian Port... Read More about Sarcasm detection on Czech and English Twitter.

CAN (PLAN)+: Extending the operational semantics of the BDI architecture to deal with uncertain information (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bauters, K., Liu, W., Hong, J., Sierra, C., & Godo, L. (2014, July). CAN (PLAN)+: Extending the operational semantics of the BDI architecture to deal with uncertain information. Paper presented at UAI, Quebec, Canada

The BDI architecture, where agents are modelled based on their beliefs, desires and intentions, provides a practical approach to develop large scale systems. However, it is not well suited to model complex Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SC... Read More about CAN (PLAN)+: Extending the operational semantics of the BDI architecture to deal with uncertain information.