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Business process discovery through conversation log analysis in pluralist and coercive problem contexts (2013)
Thesis
Mavaddat, M. Business process discovery through conversation log analysis in pluralist and coercive problem contexts. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/926331

Business process discovery is one of the most fundamental steps of business process management (BPM) lifecycles. Incorrect, misleading or biased results of this stage can cause the whole BPM project to fail or the information systems that are created... Read More about Business process discovery through conversation log analysis in pluralist and coercive problem contexts.

Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., David, L., & Wolfgang, L. (2013). Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project

Gathering and managing requirements from stakeholders is an essential task for the successful development of IT tools for any application domain. However, specifying stakeholders’ requirements for a collaborative research and development project in t... Read More about Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project.

Towards slime mould chemical sensor: Mapping chemical inputs onto electrical potential dynamics of Physarum Polycephalum (2013)
Journal Article
Whiting, J. G. H., de Lacy Costello, B. P. J., & Adamatzky, A. (2014). Towards slime mould chemical sensor: Mapping chemical inputs onto electrical potential dynamics of Physarum Polycephalum. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 191, 844-853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2013.10.064

Plasmodium of slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single celled organism visible unaided by the eye. This slime mould is capable of optimising the shape of its protoplasmic networks in spatial configurations of attractants and repellents. Su... Read More about Towards slime mould chemical sensor: Mapping chemical inputs onto electrical potential dynamics of Physarum Polycephalum.

On the relevance of using interference and service differentiation routing in the internet-of-things (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Bagula, A. B., Djenouri, D., & Karbab, E. (2013). On the relevance of using interference and service differentiation routing in the internet-of-things. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40316-3_3

Next generation sensor networks are predicted to be deployed in the Internet-of-the-Things (IoT) with a high level of heterogeneity. They will be using sensor motes which are equipped with different sensing and communication devices and tasked to del... Read More about On the relevance of using interference and service differentiation routing in the internet-of-things.

Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2014). Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob. Natural Computing, 13(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-013-9401-x

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is a well known and challenging combinatorial optimisation problem. Its computational intractability has attracted a number of heuristic approaches to generate satisfactory, if not optimal, candidate solutions. S... Read More about Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob.

Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & McClatchey, R. (2013, October). Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP. Paper presented at 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP13)., Amsterdam, Netherlands

Traceability is an important feature of workflow based systems, and is a key source of provenance data. This paper presents CRISTAL, a mature software platform developed and used at CERN for experiment construction at the LHC. It is entirely workflow... Read More about Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP.

Waste to real energy: The first MFC powered mobile phone (2013)
Journal Article
Ieropoulos, I. A., Ieropoulos, I., Ledezma, P., Stinchcombe, A., Papaharalabos, G., Melhuish, C., & Greenman, J. (2013). Waste to real energy: The first MFC powered mobile phone. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(37), 15312-15316. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cp52889h

This communication reports for the first time the charging of a commercially available mobile phone, using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) fed with real neat urine. The membrane-less MFCs were made out of ceramic material and employed plain carbon based... Read More about Waste to real energy: The first MFC powered mobile phone.

Approaching the internet of things (IoT): A modelling, analysis and abstraction framework (2013)
Journal Article
Ikram, A., Anjum, A., Hill, R., Antonopoulos, N., Liu, L., & Sotiriadis, S. (2015). Approaching the internet of things (IoT): A modelling, analysis and abstraction framework. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(8), 1966-1984. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3131

The evolution of communication protocols, sensory hardware, mobile and pervasive devices, alongside social and cyber-physical networks, has made the Internet of things (IoT) an interesting concept with inherent complexities as it is realised. Such co... Read More about Approaching the internet of things (IoT): A modelling, analysis and abstraction framework.

Improving accuracy and efficiency of mutual information for multi-modal retinal image registration using adaptive probability density estimation (2013)
Journal Article
Morgan, J. E., Marshall, D., Rosin, P. L., Legg, P. A., Legg, P., & Rosin, P. (2013). Improving accuracy and efficiency of mutual information for multi-modal retinal image registration using adaptive probability density estimation. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 37(7-8), 597-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2013.08.004

Mutual information (MI) is a popular similarity measure for performing image registration between different modalities. MI makes a statistical comparison between two images by computing the entropy from the probability distribution of the data. There... Read More about Improving accuracy and efficiency of mutual information for multi-modal retinal image registration using adaptive probability density estimation.

Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & McClatchey, R. (2013, October). Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP. Paper presented at 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP13), Amsterdam, Netherlands

This paper discusses the CRISTAL object lifecycle management system and its use in provenance data management and the traceability of system events. This software was initially used to capture the construction and calibration of the CMS ECAL detector... Read More about Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP.

Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., & Caceres, S. (2013). Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project. Evaluation and Program Planning, 40, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2013.04.004

In common with all projects, evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, evaluating large-scale collaborative p... Read More about Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project.

Formalizing group blind signatures and practical constructions without random oracles (2013)
Journal Article
Ghadafi, E. (2013). Formalizing group blind signatures and practical constructions without random oracles. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7959 LNCS, 330-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39059-3_23

Group blind signatures combine anonymity properties of both group signatures and blind signatures and offer privacy for both the message to be signed and the signer. The primitive has been introduced with only informal definitions for its required se... Read More about Formalizing group blind signatures and practical constructions without random oracles.

BOD-LEACH: Broadcasting over duty-cycled radio using LEACH clustering for delay/power efficient dissimilation in wireless sensor networks (2013)
Journal Article
Khiati, M., & Djenouri PhD, D. (2015). BOD-LEACH: Broadcasting over duty-cycled radio using LEACH clustering for delay/power efficient dissimilation in wireless sensor networks. International Journal of Communication Systems, 28(2), 296-308. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.2669

Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Broadcasting delay-sensitive information over a duty-cycled wireless sensor network is considered, and a cluster-based protocol is proposed. The proposed protocol, namely Broadcast over Duty-Cycle and LEACH... Read More about BOD-LEACH: Broadcasting over duty-cycled radio using LEACH clustering for delay/power efficient dissimilation in wireless sensor networks.

Towards the evolution of novel vertical-axis wind turbines (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Preen, R., & Bull, L. (2013, September). Towards the evolution of novel vertical-axis wind turbines. Paper presented at 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI 2013, Guildford, UK

Renewable and sustainable energy is one of the most important challenges currently facing mankind. Wind has made an increasing contribution to the world's energy supply mix, but still remains a long way from reaching its full potential. In this paper... Read More about Towards the evolution of novel vertical-axis wind turbines.

Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., Barr, D., Dudek, P., & Melhuish, C. (2013, September). Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays. Paper presented at VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2013), Canterbury, UK

Paramecium is covered by cilia. It uses the cilia to swim and transport food particles to its mouth. The cilia are synchronised into a collective action by propagating membrane potential and mechan- ical properties of their underlying membrane and th... Read More about Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays.

Using human energy fields to sculpt real-time molecular dynamics (2013)
Book Chapter
Glowacki, D., Tew, P., Hyde, J., Kriefman, L., Mitchell, T., Price, J., & McIntosh-Smith, S. (2013). Using human energy fields to sculpt real-time molecular dynamics. In L. Fruk, & P. Weibel (Eds.), Molecular Aesthetics. UK: MIT Press

Chemistry has historically placed a great deal of emphasis on “structure function” relationships, where a molecule’s function and associated properties are understood with reference to how its atoms are arranged. However, the way we imagine molecules... Read More about Using human energy fields to sculpt real-time molecular dynamics.

Photosynthetic cathodes for microbial fuel cells (2013)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2013). Photosynthetic cathodes for microbial fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(26), 11559-11564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.02.111

One of the major limiting factors in the practical implementation of Microbial Fuel Cells is finding efficient and sustainable catalysts for the cathode half reaction, in an attempt to avoid expensive and/or toxic catalysts. The use of phototrophic o... Read More about Photosynthetic cathodes for microbial fuel cells.

UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Georgilas, I., Gale, E., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2013, August). UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing. Paper presented at TAROS 2013, The 14th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s can control their altitude and orientation using the horizon as a reference. Typically this task is performed via edge-detection vision processing techniques implemented in a computer or digital electronics. We demonst... Read More about UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing.

The shape of time: Reconsidering time in the context of pervasive media (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Reconsidering time in the context of pervasive media. Paper presented at Fascinate Conference 2013, Falmouth, UK

Within contemporary research discussion in interaction design, HCI and pervasive media the word time is commonly used to represent a wide variety of meanings, concepts and dimensions. Often this is without differentiation between contradictory interp... Read More about The shape of time: Reconsidering time in the context of pervasive media.