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A Game Theoretical Method for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Dissemination Prevention (2015)
Journal Article
Spyridopoulos, T., Maraslis, K., Mylonas, A., Tryfonas, T., & Oikonomou, G. (2015). A Game Theoretical Method for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Dissemination Prevention. Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 24(4-6), 164-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/19393555.2015.1092186

Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Literature in malware proliferation focuses on modeling and analyzing its spread dynamics. Epidemiology models, which are inspired by the characteristics of biological disease spread in human populations, ha... Read More about A Game Theoretical Method for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Dissemination Prevention.

On chirality of slime mould (2015)
Journal Article
Levin, M., Erokhin, V., Dimonte, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). On chirality of slime mould. BioSystems, 140, 23-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.12.008

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Left-right patterning and lateralised behaviour is an ubiquitous aspect of plants and animals. The mechanisms linking cellular chirality to the large-scale asymmetry of multicellular structures are incompletely understood... Read More about On chirality of slime mould.

Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode (2015)
Journal Article
Luxton, R., Ahmad, M., Kiely, J., Luxton, R. W., Jabeen, M., & Khalid, M. (2016). Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 7, 141-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2015.12.005

© 2015. Facile aqueous growth technique was adopted to grow diameter controlled 150 nm ZnO nanowires on an ITO (indium tin oxide) coated PET (poly ethylene terephthalate) substrate. Prior to nanowire growth, a pure wurtazite structured ZnO seed layer... Read More about Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode.

Sensor capability and atmospheric correction in ocean colour remote sensing (2015)
Journal Article
Emberton, S., Chittka, L., Cavallaro, A., & Wang, M. (2016). Sensor capability and atmospheric correction in ocean colour remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8010001

© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Accurate correction of the corrupting effects of the atmosphere and the water's surface are essential in order to obtain the optical, biological and biogeochemical properties of the water from... Read More about Sensor capability and atmospheric correction in ocean colour remote sensing.

Social epistemology and online knowledge exchange (2015)
Thesis
Matthews, P. Social epistemology and online knowledge exchange. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/802272

This document summarises the submitted research which has investigated online knowledge exchange and related it to the philosophical field of social epistemology. The broad aims have been: firstly to investigate what social epistemology theory can of... Read More about Social epistemology and online knowledge exchange.

Laudato Si' (2015)
Other
Davies, M. (2015). Laudato Si'. [Score]

The need for being mindful of the implications of our actions on our home is something that is being urged with sincerity and care from many corners. The title of my piece is taken from Pope Francis’ recent Encyclical on the matter; it is a title and... Read More about Laudato Si'.

Modeling and verifying context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Rakib, A., & Haque, H. M. U. (2015). Modeling and verifying context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents. In 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE) (61-69). https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMCOD.2015.7340471

© 2015 IEEE. This paper complements our previous work on formal modeling of resource-bounded context-aware systems, which handle inconsistent context information using defeasible reasoning, by focusing on automated analysis and verification. A case s... Read More about Modeling and verifying context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents.

MyGeo-Explorer: A semantic search tool for querying geospatial information (2015)
Journal Article
Panchanathan, S., Lawan, A., & Rakib, A. (2015). MyGeo-Explorer: A semantic search tool for querying geospatial information

We propose a semantic search approach for geospatial information systems to resolve the issue of semantic heterogeneity in metadata catalogues. Using the Malaysian geospatial data infrastructure service portal, MyGDI Explorer, as a comparative case s... Read More about MyGeo-Explorer: A semantic search tool for querying geospatial information.

Self-sustainable electricity production from algae grown in a microbial fuel cell system (2015)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Self-sustainable electricity production from algae grown in a microbial fuel cell system. Biomass and Bioenergy, 82, 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.05.017

© 2015 The Authors. This paper describes the potential for algal biomass production in conjunction with wastewater treatment and power generation within a fully biotic Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC). The anaerobic biofilm in the anodic half-cell is genera... Read More about Self-sustainable electricity production from algae grown in a microbial fuel cell system.

NeuroProv - A visualisation system to enhance the utility of provenance Data for neuroimaging analysis (2015)
Thesis
Arshad, B. NeuroProv - A visualisation system to enhance the utility of provenance Data for neuroimaging analysis. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/804381

E-Science platforms such as myGRID and NeuGRID for Users are growing at an amazing rate. One of the key barriers to their widespread use in practice is the lack of provenance data to support the reasoning and verification of experimental or analysis... Read More about NeuroProv - A visualisation system to enhance the utility of provenance Data for neuroimaging analysis.

Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Legg, P. (2015, October). Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity. Paper presented at IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, Chicago, Illinois, USA

One of the greatest challenges for managing organisational cyber security is the threat that comes from those who operate within the organisation. With entitled access and knowledge of organisational processes, insiders who choose to attack have the... Read More about Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity.

Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Perez Hernandez, M., & Reiff-Marganiec, S. (2015). Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet. In 2015 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (301-308). https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2015.89

Development of IoT applications relies heavily on middleware architectures. Multiple solutions have been proposed using service and agent paradigms, which consequently impose a specific application development model. We observe a trend towards a data... Read More about Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet.

Par@Graph-a parallel toolbox for the construction and analysis of large complex climate networks (2015)
Journal Article
Ihshaish, H., Tantet, A., Dijkzeul, J. C. M., & Dijkstra, H. A. (2015). Par@Graph-a parallel toolbox for the construction and analysis of large complex climate networks. Geoscientific Model Development, 8(10), 3321-3331. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3321-2015

© 2015 Author(s). In this paper, we present Par@Graph, a software toolbox to reconstruct and analyze complex climate networks having a large number of nodes (up to at least 106) and edges (up to at least 1012). The key innovation is an efficient set... Read More about Par@Graph-a parallel toolbox for the construction and analysis of large complex climate networks.

From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fotaris, P., Mastoras, T., Leinfellner, R., & Yasmine, R. (2015, October). From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification. Paper presented at 9th European Conference on Games Based Learning ECGBL 2015, Steinkjer, Norway

Unlike conventional taught learning, video games are very successful at keeping players constantly motivated and engaged on a set of tasks for many hours without apparent loss of focus. Additionally, when playing, gamers solve complex problems withou... Read More about From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification.

Evolving unipolar memristor spiking neural networks (2015)
Journal Article
Howard, G. D., Bull, L., & De Lacy Costello, B. (2015). Evolving unipolar memristor spiking neural networks. Connection Science, 27(4), 397-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2015.1080225

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Neuromorphic computing – brain-like computing in hardware – typically requires myriad complimentary metal oxide semiconductor spiking neurons interconnected by a dense mesh of nanoscale plastic synapses. Memristors are freq... Read More about Evolving unipolar memristor spiking neural networks.

On the computing potential of intracellular vesicles (2015)
Journal Article
Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). On the computing potential of intracellular vesicles. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0139617. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139617

© 2015 Mayne, Adamatzky. Collision-based computing (CBC) is a form of unconventional computing in which travelling localisations represent data and conditional routing of signals determines the output state; collisions between localisations represent... Read More about On the computing potential of intracellular vesicles.

Visualising software as a particle system (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scarle, S., & Walkinshaw, N. (2015, September). Visualising software as a particle system. Presented at VISSOFT 2015, Bremen, Germany

Current metrics-based approaches to visualise unfamiliar software systems face two key limitations: (1) They are limited in terms of the number of dimensions that can be projected, and (2) they use fixed layout algorithms where the resulting position... Read More about Visualising software as a particle system.

A brief history of learning classifier systems: from CS-1 to XCS and its variants (2015)
Journal Article
Bull, L. (2015). A brief history of learning classifier systems: from CS-1 to XCS and its variants. Evolutionary Intelligence, 8(2-3), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-015-0125-y

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The direction set by Wilson’s XCS is that modern Learning Classifier Systems can be characterized by their use of rule accuracy as the utility metric for the search algorithm(s) discovering useful rules. Suc... Read More about A brief history of learning classifier systems: from CS-1 to XCS and its variants.

Simple synchronisation for open sound control (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Madgwick, S. O. H., Mitchell, T. J., Barreto, C., & Freed, A. (2015, September). Simple synchronisation for open sound control. Paper presented at 41st International Computer Music Conference 2015, Texas, USA

Clock synchronisation is a mature and important aspect of distributed computing systems. Despite the importance of accurate timing in music, there are relatively few widely applicable synchronisation solutions available to computer music practitioner... Read More about Simple synchronisation for open sound control.

Quasi-Hamming distances: An overarching concept for measuring glyph similarity (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Legg, P. A., Maguire, E., Walton, S., & Chen, M. (2015, September). Quasi-Hamming distances: An overarching concept for measuring glyph similarity. Paper presented at EGUK Computer Graphics and Visual Computing 2015, UCL, London, UK

In many applications of spatial or temporal visualization, glyphs provide an effective means for encoding mul- tivariate data objects. However, because glyphs are typically small, they are vulnerable to various perceptual errors. In data communicatio... Read More about Quasi-Hamming distances: An overarching concept for measuring glyph similarity.