All Outputs (91)

Verifying resource requirements for ontology-driven rule-based agents (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rakib, A., Faruqui, R. U., & MacCaull, W. (2012). Verifying resource requirements for ontology-driven rule-based agents. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7153 LNCS, 312-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28472-4_18

Recent efforts towards the Semantic Web have resulted in powerful languages such as Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) based on OWL-DL and RuleML. Rule languages and inference engines incorporate reasoning capabilities to Semantic Web application syst... Read More about Verifying resource requirements for ontology-driven rule-based agents.

Multi-site left ventricular pacing as a potential treatment for patients with postero-lateral scar: Insights from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and invasive haemodynamic assessment (2012)
Journal Article
Ginks, M. R., Duckett, S. G., Kapetanakis, S., Bostock, J., Hamid, S., Shetty, A., …Rinaldi, C. A. (2012). Multi-site left ventricular pacing as a potential treatment for patients with postero-lateral scar: Insights from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and invasive haemodynamic assessment. EP-Europace, 14(3), 373-379. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eur336

Aims Multi-site left ventricular (LV) pacing may be superior to single-site stimulation in correcting dyssynchrony and avoiding areas of myocardial scar. We sought to characterize myocardial scar using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). We aim... Read More about Multi-site left ventricular pacing as a potential treatment for patients with postero-lateral scar: Insights from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and invasive haemodynamic assessment.

Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum (2012)
Journal Article
Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 7(1), 016009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/016009

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum exhibits complex morphological adaptation and amoeboid movement as it forages for food and may be seen as a minimal example of complex robotic behaviour. Swarm computation has previously been... Read More about Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum.

Using genetical and cultural search to design unorganised machines (2012)
Journal Article
Bull, L. (2012). Using genetical and cultural search to design unorganised machines. Evolutionary Intelligence, 5(1), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-011-0061-4

In 1948 Turing presented a general representation scheme by which to achieve artificial intelligence-his unorganised machines. Significantly, these were a form of discrete dynamical system and yet dynamical representations remain almost unexplored wi... Read More about Using genetical and cultural search to design unorganised machines.

On the digital afterlife: Being human in the digital age (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buzzo, D. (2012, March). On the digital afterlife: Being human in the digital age. Presented at Being Human in the Information Age, Warwick University, UK

The hypothesis of the University of Warwick’s Being Human Research Network notes that, “Human life is increasingly driven and mediated by technology and technological change with profound implications for human identity and behaviour.” Indeed, the wa... Read More about On the digital afterlife: Being human in the digital age.

Using virtual machine monitors to overcome the challenges of monitoring and managing virtualized cloud infrastructures (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bamiah, M. A., Brohi, S., & Chuprat, S. (2012). Using virtual machine monitors to overcome the challenges of monitoring and managing virtualized cloud infrastructures. In Y. Li, & Z. Zeng (Eds.), Proceedings Volume 8349, Fourth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2011): Machine Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920880

Virtualization is one of the hottest research topics nowadays. Several academic researchers and developers from IT industry are designing approaches for solving security and manageability issues of Virtual Machines (VMs) residing on virtualized cloud... Read More about Using virtual machine monitors to overcome the challenges of monitoring and managing virtualized cloud infrastructures.

The acute hemodynamic response to LV pacing within individual branches of the coronary sinus using a quadripolar lead (2012)
Journal Article
Liang, Y., Shetty, A. K., Duckett, S. G., Ma, Y., Kapetanakis, S., Ginks, M., …Rinaldi, C. A. (2012). The acute hemodynamic response to LV pacing within individual branches of the coronary sinus using a quadripolar lead. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 35(2), 196-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03268.x

Background: It is not clear whether there is a large difference in acute hemodynamic response (AHR) to left ventricle (LV) pacing in different regions of the same coronary sinus (CS) vein. Using the four electrodes available on a Quartet LV lead, we... Read More about The acute hemodynamic response to LV pacing within individual branches of the coronary sinus using a quadripolar lead.

Performance evaluation of a context provisioning middleware (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reetz, E., Knappmeyer, M., Liaquat Kiani, S., Baker, N., & Tönjes, R. (2012, January). Performance evaluation of a context provisioning middleware. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Hawaii, USA

The evaluation of context middleware systems is a challenging endeavour. Testbed investigations suffer from an unrealistic environment in terms of number of users, high implementation effort for changes and questionable portability of results. Simula... Read More about Performance evaluation of a context provisioning middleware.

R^{4}Syn: Relative referenceless receiver/receiver time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (2012)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D. (2012). R^{4}Syn: Relative referenceless receiver/receiver time synchronization in wireless sensor networks. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 19(4), 175-178. https://doi.org/10.1109/lsp.2012.2185491

A new time synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed. It uses the receiver-to-receiver principle introduced by the Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS), which reduces the time-critical path compared to the sender-to... Read More about R^{4}Syn: Relative referenceless receiver/receiver time synchronization in wireless sensor networks.

Evaluating and enriching online knowledge exchange: A socio-epistemological perspective (2012)
Book Chapter
Matthews, P., & Simon, J. (2012). Evaluating and enriching online knowledge exchange: A socio-epistemological perspective. In A. Lazakidou (Ed.), Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration (35-59). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3634-8_3

We apply approaches from social epistemology and social psychology to the study of knowledge in online communities. We first provide a descriptive analysis of knowledge behaviours informed by social psychology and in particular Arie Kruglanski’s lay... Read More about Evaluating and enriching online knowledge exchange: A socio-epistemological perspective.

Towards improving numerical weather predictions by evolutionary computing techniques (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Senar, M. A., Cortés, A., & Ihshaish, H. (2012). Towards improving numerical weather predictions by evolutionary computing techniques. Procedia Computer Science, 9, 1056-1063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.114

Weather forecasting is complex and not always accurate, moreover, it is generally defined by its very nature as a process that has to deal with uncertainties. In a previous work, a new weather prediction scheme was presented, which uses evolutionary... Read More about Towards improving numerical weather predictions by evolutionary computing techniques.

A simple computational cell: Coupling boolean gene and protein networks (2012)
Journal Article
Bull, L. (2012). A simple computational cell: Coupling boolean gene and protein networks. Artificial Life, 18(2), 223-236

This article presents an abstract, tunable model containing two of the principal information-processing features of cells and explores its use with simulated evolution. The random Boolean model of genetic regulatory networks is extended to include a... Read More about A simple computational cell: Coupling boolean gene and protein networks.

Registration of 3D trans-esophageal echocardiography to X-ray fluoroscopy using image-based probe tracking (2012)
Journal Article
Aldo Rinaldi, C., Gao, G., Penney, G., Ma, Y., Gogin, N., Cathier, P., …Rhode, K. (2012). Registration of 3D trans-esophageal echocardiography to X-ray fluoroscopy using image-based probe tracking. Medical Image Analysis, 16(1), 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2011.05.003

Two-dimensional (2D) X-ray imaging is the dominant imaging modality for cardiac interventions. However, the use of X-ray fluoroscopy alone is inadequate for the guidance of procedures that require soft-tissue information, for example, the treatment o... Read More about Registration of 3D trans-esophageal echocardiography to X-ray fluoroscopy using image-based probe tracking.

Clinical evaluation of respiratory motion compensation for anatomical roadmap guided cardiac electrophysiology procedures (2012)
Journal Article
Rinaldi, C. A., Ma, Y., King, A. P., Gogin, N., Gijsbers, G., Rinaldi, C. C., …Rhode, K. S. (2012). Clinical evaluation of respiratory motion compensation for anatomical roadmap guided cardiac electrophysiology procedures. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 59(1), 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2011.2168393

X-ray fluoroscopically guided cardiac electrophysiological procedures are routinely carried out for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. X-ray images have poor soft tissue contrast and, for this reason, overlay of static 3-D roadmaps deriv... Read More about Clinical evaluation of respiratory motion compensation for anatomical roadmap guided cardiac electrophysiology procedures.

Towards physarum engines (2012)
Journal Article
Tsuda, S., Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Towards physarum engines. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 9(3), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.3233/ABB-2012-0059

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a suitable candidate organism for soft-matter robotics because it exhibits controllable transport, movement and guidance behaviour. Physarum may be considered as a smart computing and actuating material since... Read More about Towards physarum engines.

User-driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programmin (2012)
Journal Article
Solomonides, A. E., Hale, P., Solomonides, T., & Beeson, I. (2012). User-driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programmin. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 23(6), 354-379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2012.08.002

This research enables computer literate engineers to model problems in software by minimising code they need to write. Software development is difficult for many engineers as they may have no time, experience, or access to software development tools... Read More about User-driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programmin.

A genetic algorithm approach for multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aydin, M. E., Kwan, R., Ding, W., & Wu, J. (2012). A genetic algorithm approach for multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2198, 1252-1257

The problem of multi-user radio resource scheduling on the downlink of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular communication system is addressed in this paper. The optimization model used imposed that the radio resources for multiple users are jointly a... Read More about A genetic algorithm approach for multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink.

Collective intelligence for monitoring innovation and change in manufacturing industry (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ayhan, M. B., Aydin, M. E., & Oztemel, E. (2012). Collective intelligence for monitoring innovation and change in manufacturing industry. In Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2012. , (1395-1400)

© 2012 Newswood Limited. All rights reserved. Change monitoring and management become an unavoidable necessity for companies in order to stay competitive in global market.This requires thorough handling models for change management to attain a system... Read More about Collective intelligence for monitoring innovation and change in manufacturing industry.

Context caches in the Clouds (2012)
Journal Article
Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Antonopoulos, N., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2012). Context caches in the Clouds. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 1(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-113X-1-7

In context-aware systems, the contextual information about human and computing situations has a strong temporal aspect i. e. it remains valid for a period of time. This temporal property can be exploited in caching mechanisms that aim to exploit such... Read More about Context caches in the Clouds.

MatchPad: Interactive glyph-based visualization for real-time sports performance analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, P. A., Chung, D. H., Parry, M. L., Jones, M. W., Long, R., Griffiths, I. W., & Chen, M. (2012). MatchPad: Interactive glyph-based visualization for real-time sports performance analysis. Computer Graphics Forum, 31(3 PART 4), 1255-1264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03118.x

Today real-time sports performance analysis is a crucial aspect of matches in many major sports. For example, in soccer and rugby, team analysts may annotate videos during the matches by tagging specific actions and events, which typically result in... Read More about MatchPad: Interactive glyph-based visualization for real-time sports performance analysis.