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Evaluation of the occupied area of children aged between 3 and 5 years old in different kindergarten spaces (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Garcia, A., Waldron, J., Bedoya, C., Cuervo, L., Marin, L., Morales Maya, C., …Sierra, A. F. (2014). Evaluation of the occupied area of children aged between 3 and 5 years old in different kindergarten spaces. In T. Ahram, W. Karwowski, & T. Marek (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2014

This paper contains the second stage of the research "The minimum area required for children aged between 3 and 5 years old in a kindergarten", which was developed between "Buen Comienzo" Programme, Medellin’s Municipality and Architects Julie Waldro... Read More about Evaluation of the occupied area of children aged between 3 and 5 years old in different kindergarten spaces.

Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Insaurralde, C. C., & Vassev, E. (2014). Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2014.6836431

Current space missions are increasingly demanding more autonomy in control architectures for Unmanned Space Vehicles (USVs), so unmanned long-term missions can be afforded. Continuous assurance of effective adaptation to unpredictable internal and ex... Read More about Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft.

Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, T. J., Madgwick, S., Rankine, S., Hilton, G., Freed, A., & Nix, A. (2014). Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (251-256). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1178875

Wireless technology is growing increasingly prevalent in the development of new interfaces for live music performance. However, with a number of different wireless technologies operating in the 2.4 GHz band, there is a high risk of interference and c... Read More about Making the most of Wi-Fi: Optimisations for robust wireless live music performance.

Implementation of high precision synchronization protocols in wireless sensor networks (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Bagaa, M. (2014). Implementation of high precision synchronization protocols in wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/WOCC.2014.6839945

Microsecond-level time synchronization is needed in realtime applications of wireless sensor networks. While several synchronization protocols have been proposed, most performance evaluations have been limited to theoretical analysis and simulation,... Read More about Implementation of high precision synchronization protocols in wireless sensor networks.

MLE for receiver-to-receiver time synchronization in wireless networks with exponential distributed delays (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D. (2014). MLE for receiver-to-receiver time synchronization in wireless networks with exponential distributed delays. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2014.7022985

© 2014 IEEE. Receiver-to-receiver time synchronization in wireless networks is considered, and appropriate maximum-likelihood estimators (MLE) for environments with exponential distrusted reception delays are proposed. In the receiver-to-receiver syn... Read More about MLE for receiver-to-receiver time synchronization in wireless networks with exponential distributed delays.

Application of a conditional approach for multivariate extreme values to flood risk (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Wyncoll, D., Gouldby, B., & Hames, D. (2014). Application of a conditional approach for multivariate extreme values to flood risk. In Proceedings of the 1st International Short Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis and Application to Natural Hazards (EVAN 2013) (87-96)

Flood risk is a function of probability and consequence. Flooding events can arise from different sources, pluvial, fluvial, groundwater and coastal flooding. Sometimes flooding at a specific location arises from a single source in isolation. Often h... Read More about Application of a conditional approach for multivariate extreme values to flood risk.

Cost effective node deployment strategy for energy-balanced and delay-efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Doudou, M., Djenouri, D., Barcelo-Ordinas, J. M., & Badache, N. (2014). Cost effective node deployment strategy for energy-balanced and delay-efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2014.6952904

© 2014 IEEE. The real-world node deployment aspect is investigated, while considering cost minimization for resolving the energy hole around the sink, which represents a serious problem in typical sensor networks with uniform distribution. A novel st... Read More about Cost effective node deployment strategy for energy-balanced and delay-efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks.

Intertwined medium access scheduling of upstream and downstream traffic in wireless sensor networks (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Bagaa, M., Younis, M., Djenouri, D., & Badache, N. (2014). Intertwined medium access scheduling of upstream and downstream traffic in wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2014.6952776

© 2014 IEEE. In wireless sensor networks, the sensor data are often aggregated en-route to the base-station in order to eliminate redundancy and conserve the network resources. The basestation not only acts as a destination for the upstream data traf... Read More about Intertwined medium access scheduling of upstream and downstream traffic in wireless sensor networks.

White space radio: Towards an active database-centred topology (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pappas, O., Barratt, T., Collett, M., Gebremicael, K., & Worgan, P. (2014). White space radio: Towards an active database-centred topology. https://doi.org/10.1109/wf-iot.2014.6803180

The following paper presents and discusses the state of the art in White Space radio topologies. A possible system architecture combining database stations and active sensing is also presented. Some of the main challenges associated with such archite... Read More about White space radio: Towards an active database-centred topology.

Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hoskins, S., & Huson, D. (2014). Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills. In S. Sirisoonthorn, S. Jiemsirilers, S. Nilpairach, T. Wasanapianpong, P. Sujaridworakun, & N. Chuankrerkkul (Eds.), Traditional and Advanced Ceramics. , (335-340). https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.608.335

Under-glaze tissue ceramic transfer printing first developed circa 1850 and involved engraved or etched copper plates, from which tissue was printed with cobalt blue oxides. Under-glaze tissue has a very distinctive, subtle quality – it is an integra... Read More about Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills.

3D printed ceramics for tableware, artists/designers and specialist applications (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Huson, D., & Hoskins, S. (2014). 3D printed ceramics for tableware, artists/designers and specialist applications. In S. Sirisoonthorn, S. Jiemsirilers, S. Nilpairach, T. Wasanapianpong, P. Sujaridworakun, & N. Chuankrerkkul (Eds.), Traditional and Advanced Ceramics. , (351-357). https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.608.351

The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England has over five year’s experience in the 3D printing of ceramic materials. The first project undertaken was to investigate the use of 3D technologies for artists and resulted... Read More about 3D printed ceramics for tableware, artists/designers and specialist applications.

Preface of the 6th IEEE international workshop on management of emerging networks and services (IEEE Globecom MENS 2014) (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Chaparadza, R., Ding, J., & Djenouri, D. (2014). Preface of the 6th IEEE international workshop on management of emerging networks and services (IEEE Globecom MENS 2014). https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2014.7063422

© 2014 IEEE. This short paper serves as the preface of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services (IEEE Globecom MENS 2014). The 6th IEEE MENS 2014 attracted a significant number of papers this year, as in the... Read More about Preface of the 6th IEEE international workshop on management of emerging networks and services (IEEE Globecom MENS 2014).

Heterogeneous-race-free memory models (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hower, D. R., Hechtman, B. A., Beckmann, B. M., Gaster, B. R., Hill, M. D., Reinhardt, S. K., & Wood, D. A. (2014). Heterogeneous-race-free memory models. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems - ASPLOS '14. , (427-440). https://doi.org/10.1145/2541940.2541981

Commodity heterogeneous systems (e.g., integrated CPUs and GPUs), now support a unified, shared memory address space for all components. Because the latency of global communication in a heterogeneous system can be prohibitively high, heterogeneous sy... Read More about Heterogeneous-race-free memory models.

Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Comsa, I. S., Zhang, S., Aydin, M., Chen, J., Kuonen, P., & Wagen, J. F. (2014). Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning. In 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (4387-4393). https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037498

© 2014 IEEE. Maintaining a desired trade-off performance between system throughput maximization and user fairness satisfaction constitutes a problem that is still far from being solved. In LTE systems, different tradeoff levels can be obtained by usi... Read More about Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning.

Edge-based representation and recognition for surgically altered face images (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Chude-Olisah, C. C., Sulong, G. B., Chude-Okonkwo, U. A. K., & Hashim, S. Z. M. (2014). Edge-based representation and recognition for surgically altered face images. In 2013, 7th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS)https://doi.org/10.1109/icspcs.2013.6723974

Basically, plastic surgery procedure introduces skin texture variations between images of the same person (intra-face) thereby making recognition more difficult than in normal scenario. Since the shape of significant face features such as eyes, nose,... Read More about Edge-based representation and recognition for surgically altered face images.

Measurement and time dispersion analysis of UWB channels for Infostation application in an outdoor recreation park (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Chude-Okonkwo, U. A., Ngah, R., Nunoo, S., Zahedi, Y., Olisah, C. C., Al-Saman, A., & Rahman, T. A. (2014). Measurement and time dispersion analysis of UWB channels for Infostation application in an outdoor recreation park. In 2013 7th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS)https://doi.org/10.1109/icspcs.2013.6723911

In this paper the time dispersive analysis of a set of data obtained from the UWB channel measurement of an environment typical of the Infostation scenario in a recreation park is presented. The measurements were carried out in the frequency band of... Read More about Measurement and time dispersion analysis of UWB channels for Infostation application in an outdoor recreation park.

Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Effendy, M., Yao, Y., Yao, J., & Marchant, D. R. (2014). Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0279

This paper describes numerical studies of the film cooling performance of cutback trailing-edge gas turbine blades using the detached eddy simulation (DES) approach, in order to improve results obtained by industry standard steady RANS and unsteady R... Read More about Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation.

Design and optimisation of composite corrugated skin for a span morphing wing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Xia, Y., Ajaj, R. M., & Friswell, M. (2014). Design and optimisation of composite corrugated skin for a span morphing wing. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0762

The concept of span morphing aircraft is attracting a lot of attention due to the demands to enhance flight performance and control authority. Corrugated laminates provide a good solution for the skin of a span morphing wing due to their extremely an... Read More about Design and optimisation of composite corrugated skin for a span morphing wing.