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Evolving spiking networks with variable resistive memories (2014)
Journal Article

Neuromorphic computing is a brainlike information processing paradigm that requires adaptive learning mechanisms. A spiking neuro-evolutionary system is used for this purpose; plastic resistive memories are implemented as synapses in spiking neural n... Read More about Evolving spiking networks with variable resistive memories.

Towards a legislation driven framework for access control and privacy protection in public cloud (2014)
Journal Article

Cloud computing is an emerging IT paradigm proving cost reduction and flexibility benefits. However security and privacy are serious issues challenging its adoption and sustainability in both social and commercial areas. Public clouds, in particular,... Read More about Towards a legislation driven framework for access control and privacy protection in public cloud.

Evolving Boolean regulatory networks with epigenetic control (2014)
Journal Article

The significant role of epigenetic mechanisms within natural systems has become increasingly clear. This paper uses a recently presented abstract, tunable Boolean genetic regulatory network model to explore aspects of epigenetics. It is shown how dyn... Read More about Evolving Boolean regulatory networks with epigenetic control.

Blitz resurrection: Re-creating a classic 80’s video game in Processing 2.0 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Blitz video game was released in 1981 by Commodore for the VIC-20 and later the Commodore-64 personal computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_(video_game). We will re-create this classic game in the Processing 2.0 language as a way of teachi... Read More about Blitz resurrection: Re-creating a classic 80’s video game in Processing 2.0.

On breathing and geography: Explorations of data sonifications of timespace processes with illustrating examples from a tidally dynamic landscape (Severn Estuary, UK) (2014)
Journal Article

This paper consists of a discussion of data sonification-a procedure in which information gathered from systems such as bodies or environmental processes is analyzed and reprocessed into audio models, so aspects of the process generating the data (fo... Read More about On breathing and geography: Explorations of data sonifications of timespace processes with illustrating examples from a tidally dynamic landscape (Severn Estuary, UK).

Knowledge fixation and accretion: Longitudinal analysis of a social question-answering site (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate longitudinal features of an established social question-answering (Q&A) site to study how question-answer resources and other community features change ov... Read More about Knowledge fixation and accretion: Longitudinal analysis of a social question-answering site.

Electronic government enactment in a small developing country – the Palestinian authority’s policy and practice (2014)
Journal Article

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Successful implementation and utilization of electronic government in Palestine has been challenging field for the Palestinian authority, businesses and dispersed citizens. Our research provides a... Read More about Electronic government enactment in a small developing country – the Palestinian authority’s policy and practice.

Ensuring cloud security: Current concerns and research challenges (2014)
Journal Article

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Over the past few years Cloud computing has been widely accepted and adopted as an alternative way for businesses to store data, communicate and operate. Consumers and enterprises regard this as a... Read More about Ensuring cloud security: Current concerns and research challenges.

A distributed consensus algorithm for decision making in service-oriented internet of things (2014)
Journal Article

In a service-oriented Internet of things (IoT) deployment, it is difficult to make consensus decisions for services at different IoT edge nodes where available information might be insufficient or overloaded. Existing statistical methods attempt to r... Read More about A distributed consensus algorithm for decision making in service-oriented internet of things.

Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This article uses a recently presented abstract, tunable Boolean regulatory network model to further explore aspects of mobile DNA, such as transposons. The significant role of mobile DNA in the evolution... Read More about Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks.

Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments (2014)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated analysis base to facilitate computational neuroscience experiments, following a user-led approach to provide access to the integrated neuroscience dat... Read More about Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments.

A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: Image-guided cardiac interventions involve the use of fluoroscopic images to guide the insertion and movement of interventional devices. Cardiorespiratory gating can be useful for 3D reconstruction from multiple x-ray views and for reducing... Read More about A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images.

Rapid Physarum Algorithm for shortest path problem (2014)
Journal Article

As shortest path (SP) problem has been one of the most fundamental network optimization problems for a long time, technologies for this problem are still being studied. In this paper, a new method by integrating a path finding mathematical model, ins... Read More about Rapid Physarum Algorithm for shortest path problem.

A Biologically Inspired Optimization Algorithm for Solving Fuzzy Shortest Path Problems with Mixed Fuzzy Arc Lengths (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The shortest path problem is among fundamental problems of network optimization. Majority of the optimization algorithms assume that weights of data graph’s edges are pre-determined real numbers. Howe... Read More about A Biologically Inspired Optimization Algorithm for Solving Fuzzy Shortest Path Problems with Mixed Fuzzy Arc Lengths.

Can e-Government applications contribute to performance improvement in public administration? (2014)
Journal Article

Electronic Government applications have been the focus of hundreds of local and national government administrations all over the world during the past decade. The emphasis of most of these applications lies in their effort to improve the experience o... Read More about Can e-Government applications contribute to performance improvement in public administration?.

The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning (2014)
Journal Article

Personalization in information systems can be considered beneficial but also ethically and socially harmful. Like many other technologies, the uptake of personalization has been rapid, with inadequate consideration given to its effects. Personalizati... Read More about The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning.

QoS-Aware scheduling of services-oriented internet of things (2014)
Journal Article

The Internet of Things (IoT) contains a large number of different devices and heterogeneous networks, which make it difficult to satisfy different quality of service (QoS) requirements and achieve rapid services composition and deployment. In additio... Read More about QoS-Aware scheduling of services-oriented internet of things.

Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications (2014)
Journal Article

Surface flattening in medical imaging has seen widespread use in neurology and more recently in cardiology to describe the left ventricle using the bull's-eye plot. The method is particularly useful to standardize the display of functional informatio... Read More about Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications.

ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

A genetic algorithm for the one-dimensional cutting stock problem with setups (2014)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the one-dimensional cutting stock problem considering two conflicting objective functions: minimization of both the number of objects and the number of different cutting patterns used. A new heuristic method based on the conce... Read More about A genetic algorithm for the one-dimensional cutting stock problem with setups.