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Towards a Physarum learning chip (2016)
Journal Article

Networks of protoplasmic tubes of organism Physarum polycehpalum are macro-scale structures which optimally span multiple food sources to avoid repellents yet maximize coverage of attractants. When data are presented by configurations of attractants... Read More about Towards a Physarum learning chip.

On cellular darwinism: Mitochondria (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The significant role of mitochondria within cells is becoming increasingly clear. This letter uses the NKCS model of coupled fitness landscapes to explore aspects of organelle-nucleus coevolution. The phe... Read More about On cellular darwinism: Mitochondria.

Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. France has developed a high quality motorway system that has been rapidly rationalised and matured in the late 20th century yet has been founded on ancient, Roman infrastructures. The development of the motorway system is thus a... Read More about Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks.

Allocating memory and using the allocated memory in a workgroup in a dispatched data parallel kernel (2016)
Patent

In a computing system, memory may be managed by using a distributed array, which is a global set of local memory regions. A segment in the distributed array is allocated and is bound to a physical memory region. The segment is used by a workgroup in... Read More about Allocating memory and using the allocated memory in a workgroup in a dispatched data parallel kernel.

Design and development of experimental hardware in loop model for the study of vibration induced in tall structure with active control (2016)
Journal Article

Background/Objectives: This paper focuses on the active control of vibration in tall structure prone to high winds and earthquakes using the active mass dampers. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The prototype model was fabricated to measure the response... Read More about Design and development of experimental hardware in loop model for the study of vibration induced in tall structure with active control.

Short accountable ring signatures based on DDH (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ring signatures and group signatures are prominent cryptographic primitives offering a combination of privacy and authentication. They enable individual users to anonymously sign messages on behalf of a group of users. In ring signatures, the group,... Read More about Short accountable ring signatures based on DDH.

Detection of malware and kernel-level rootkits in cloud computing environments (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cyberattacks targeted at virtualization infrastructure underlying cloud computing services has become increasingly sophisticated. This paper presents a novel malware and rookit detection system which protects the guests against different attacks. It... Read More about Detection of malware and kernel-level rootkits in cloud computing environments.

Block transformation of hybrid cellular automata (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Wilmington Scientific Publisher. All rights reserved. By introducing a sequence-block transformation and vector-block transformation, we explore the dynamical properties of hybrid cellular automation (HCA) and hybrid cellular automation with... Read More about Block transformation of hybrid cellular automata.

Social media and E-voting – A secure and trusted political forum for palestine (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016. Electronic Government applications are nowadays a common tool for governments across the globe. The success rate in gaining the trust of citizens/users and the rates of participation in democratic processe... Read More about Social media and E-voting – A secure and trusted political forum for palestine.

Living wires — Effects of size and coating of gold nanoparticles in altering the electrical properties of Physarum polycephalum and lettuce seedlings (2016)
Journal Article

The manipulation of biological substrates is becoming more popular route toward generating novel computing devices.
Physarum polycephalum is used as a model organism in biocomputingbecause it can create "wires" for use in hybrid circuits; programmab... Read More about Living wires — Effects of size and coating of gold nanoparticles in altering the electrical properties of Physarum polycephalum and lettuce seedlings.

Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class (2016)
Journal Article

Conventional taught learning practices often experience difficulties in keeping students motivated and engaged. Video games, however, are very successful at sustaining high levels of motivation and engagement through a set of tasks for hours without... Read More about Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class.

JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey (2016)
Book Chapter

A student’s view of higher education is often talked about as ‘transformative’ and as a ‘journey’ or ‘pathway’. The student experience of university is time-bound, covering a clearly specified duration. From a
learner’s perspective the Higher Educat... Read More about JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey.

What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now? (2016)
Book Chapter

How long is a moment ? How does a moment feel ? What is the past, what is the future ?
The Moments project investigates the perceptual length of ’a moment’ of attention and of the historical tension between the argument for and against time in the... Read More about What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now?.

GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor (2016)
Journal Article

This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their u... Read More about GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor.

Impact of user data privacy management controls on mobile device investigations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016. There are many different types of mobile device users, but most of them do not seek to expand the functionality of their smartphones and prefer to interact with them using predefined us... Read More about Impact of user data privacy management controls on mobile device investigations.

Optimizing short message text sentiment analysis for mobile device forensics (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016. Mobile devices are now the dominant medium for communications. Humans express various emotions when communicating with others and these communications can be analyzed to deduce their em... Read More about Optimizing short message text sentiment analysis for mobile device forensics.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this investment, a suitable pricing strategy is requi... Read More about Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users.

Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. AgentSpeak is a logic-based programming language, based on the Belief- Desire-Intention paradigm, suitable for building complex agent-based systems. To limit the computational complexity, agents i... Read More about Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework.

Short structure-preserving signatures (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. We construct a new structure-preserving signature scheme in the efficient Type-III asymmetric bilinear group setting with signatures shorter than all existing schemes. Our signatures consist of 3... Read More about Short structure-preserving signatures.

The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data (2016)
Journal Article

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The lack of formal technical knowledge has been identified as one of the constraints to research and development on a group of crops collectively referred to as underutilized crops. Some informati... Read More about The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data.