Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (64)

Collaboration of heterogenous metaheuristic agents (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M. E. (2010). Collaboration of heterogenous metaheuristic agents. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDIM.2010.5664656

Collaboration of metaheuristic agents remains as a problem, which attracts challenges to overcome in order to manage a better collaboration in problem solving methodologies. Swarm intelligences techniques have been tried as collaborating methods with... Read More about Collaboration of heterogenous metaheuristic agents.

Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Grand, A., Bultitude, K., Wilkinson, C., & Winfield, A. F. (2010, December). Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium. Paper presented at Public Communication of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India

Open Science is an approach to the conduct of science in which the whole of an ongoing scientific investigation – data, ideas, questions, plans, results and more – is made available online. Open Science began as a way to facilitate the workings of mu... Read More about Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium.

A fault tolerant, dynamic and low latency BDII architecture for grids (2010)
Journal Article
Osman, A., Anjum, A., & McClatchey, R. (2010). A fault tolerant, dynamic and low latency BDII architecture for grids

The current BDII model relies on information gathering from agents that run on each core node of a Grid. This information is then published into a Grid wide information resource known as Top BDII. The Top level BDIIs are updated typically in cycles o... Read More about A fault tolerant, dynamic and low latency BDII architecture for grids.

A spiking neural representation for XCSF (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Lanzi, P. L., Howard, G., Howard, D., & Bull, L. (2010). A spiking neural representation for XCSF. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2010.5586035

This paper presents a Learning Classifier System (LCS) where each traditional rule is represented by a spiking neural network, a type of network with dynamic internal state. The evolutionary design process exploits parameter self-adaptation and a con... Read More about A spiking neural representation for XCSF.

Groth-Sahai proofs revisited (2010)
Journal Article
Smart, N. P., Ghadafi, E., & Warinschi, B. (2010). Groth-Sahai proofs revisited. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6056 LNCS, 177-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13013-7_11

Since their introduction in 2008, the non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) and non-interactive witness indistinguishable (NIWI) proofs designed by Groth and Sahai have been used in numerous applications. In this paper, we offer two contributions to... Read More about Groth-Sahai proofs revisited.

Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates (2010)
Journal Article
Bull, L. (2010). Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates. Artificial Life, 16(1), 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl.2009.16.1.16102

Symbiosis is the phenomenon in which organisms of different species live together in close association. Symbiogenesis is the name given to the process by which symbiotic partners combine and unify. This letter reconsiders previous work using the NKCS... Read More about Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates.

Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF (2010)
Journal Article
Howard, G. D., Bull, L., & Lanzi, P. L. (2010). Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6471 LNAI, 87-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17508-4_7

XCSF is a modern form of Learning Classifier System (LCS) that has proven successful in a number of problem domains. In this paper we exploit the modular nature of XCSF to include a number of extensions, namely a neural classifier representation, sel... Read More about Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF.

Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS (2010)
Journal Article
Preen, R. (2010). Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6471 LNAI, 166-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17508-4_11

This paper extends current LCS research into financial time series forecasting by analysing the performance of agents utilising mathematical technical indicators for both environment classification and in selecting actions to be executed. It compares... Read More about Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS.

Swarms of metaheuristic agents: A model for collective intelligence (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M. E., Wu, J., & Zhang, L. (2010). Swarms of metaheuristic agents: A model for collective intelligence. In 2010 International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. , (296-301). https://doi.org/10.1109/3PGCIC.2010.49

Swarm intelligence algorithms are created to build collective intelligence based on inherent properties of populations. However, this sort of problem solving approaches use collective evolution of solutions, which make up the population relied on. Th... Read More about Swarms of metaheuristic agents: A model for collective intelligence.

Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention (2010)
Journal Article
Matthews, P., & Stephens, R. (2010). Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention. Aslib Proceedings, 62(6), 539-553. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011089667

Purpose – This paper seeks to outline a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and to emphasise sociocognitive and emotional factors behind motivation and credibility in communities supported... Read More about Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention.

Requirements for phylogenetic tree visualisation: A user driven approach (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hale, P., Solomonides, T., Beeson, I., Willey, N., Bultitude, K., & Reynolds, D. M. (2010, November). Requirements for phylogenetic tree visualisation: A user driven approach. Poster presented at BBSRC/AHRC Workshop on "The Challenges of Visualising Biological Data", Bristol, UK

BBSRC/AHRC Workshop on "The Challenges of Visualising Biological Data" Date: 16-17 November 2010 Venue: The Thistle Grand Hotel, Bristol BBSRC - http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/events/1011-visualising-biological-data.aspx AHRC -http://www.ahrc.... Read More about Requirements for phylogenetic tree visualisation: A user driven approach.

A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development (2010)
Journal Article
Anderson, J., & Matthews, P. (2010). A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development. Aslib Proceedings, 62(6), 570-584. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011089685

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the success and suitability of a Western-donated school library in furthering the aims of literacy and reader development in Malawi. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, case study approach was taken usi... Read More about A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development.

Traffic-differentiation-based modular QoS localized routing for wireless sensor networks (2010)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2011). Traffic-differentiation-based modular QoS localized routing for wireless sensor networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 10(6), 797-809. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2010.212

A new localized quality of service (QoS) routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed in this paper. The proposed protocol targets WSN's applications having different types of data traffic. It is based on differentiating QoS requir... Read More about Traffic-differentiation-based modular QoS localized routing for wireless sensor networks.

Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Olive, M., Lashwood, A., & Solomonides, T. (2010, October). Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies. Paper presented at 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010), Perth, Australia

Integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form of medical guideline including the explicit recording of any deviation, or ‘variance’, could serve as a rich source of data for research. Not only do they incorporate a wealth of operational knowle... Read More about Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies.

Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C., & Parmee, I. (2010, October). Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design. Paper presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC '10), Istanbul, Turkey

User-centered Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) has been applied to a wide variety of areas, including UML software design. The performance of evolutionary search is important as user interaction fatigue remains an on-going challenge in IEC.... Read More about Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design.

A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks (2010)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D., & Badache, N. (2010). A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks. International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 4(4), 264-274. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijwmc.2010.035886

The resource limitation of nodes forming ad hoc networks along with the multi-hop nature of these networks rise a new problem. To preserve its energy a node may behave selfishly and would not forward packets for others, while using their services and... Read More about A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks.

Power-aware QoS geographical routing for wireless sensor networks - Implementation using Contiki (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2010). Power-aware QoS geographical routing for wireless sensor networks - Implementation using Contiki. In 2010 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems Workshops (DCOSSW). https://doi.org/10.1109/dcossw.2010.5593276

This paper presents the design and implementation of a new geographical quality of service (QoS) routing for wireless sensor networks. The protocol is based on traffic differentiation and provides customized QoS according to the traffic requirement.... Read More about Power-aware QoS geographical routing for wireless sensor networks - Implementation using Contiki.

Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Hameed, K., Williams, R., & Smith, J. (2010). Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework. In 2010 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W). , (38-44). https://doi.org/10.1109/DSNW.2010.5542623

Diversity or redundancy based software fault tolerance does not come for free; rather it introduces additional complexity to the core functionality in the form of redundancy development, management and controlled execution. This results in tangling o... Read More about Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework.

Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms (2010)
Journal Article
Serpell, M., & Smith, J. (2010). Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms. Evolutionary Computation, 18(3), 491-514. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00006

The choice of mutation rate is a vital factor in the success of any genetic algorithm (GA), and for permutation representations this is compounded by the availability of several alternative mutation operators. It is now well understood that there is... Read More about Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms.