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Social epistemology and online knowledge exchange (2015)
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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.

NeuroProv - A visualisation system to enhance the utility of provenance Data for neuroimaging analysis (2015)
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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.

An exploration of expressive feedback as a method for improving the human-computer relationship (2015)
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A growing community of designers have begun to focus on the emotional aspects of system design as they seek to improve the user experience (UX), by developing applications that elicit positive responses from users that motivate them to learn, play or... Read More about An exploration of expressive feedback as a method for improving the human-computer relationship.

Designing and evaluating a contextual mobile learning application to support situated learning (2015)
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This research emerged from seeking to identify ways of getting Human-Computer Interaction Design students into real world environments, similar to those in which they will eventually be designing, thus maximising their ability to identify opportuniti... Read More about Designing and evaluating a contextual mobile learning application to support situated learning.

Business process discovery through conversation log analysis in pluralist and coercive problem contexts (2013)
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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.

A formal architecture-centric and model driven approach for the engineering of science gateways (2012)
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From n-Tier client/server applications, to more complex academic Grids, or even the most recent and promising industrial Clouds, the last decade has witnessed significant developments in distributed computing. In spite of this conceptual heterogeneit... Read More about A formal architecture-centric and model driven approach for the engineering of science gateways.

Semantic indexing via knowledge organization systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to archaeological grey literature (2012)
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The volume of archaeological reports being produced since the introduction of PG161 has significantly increased, as a result of the increased volume of archaeological investigations conducted by academic and commercial archaeology. It is highly desir... Read More about Semantic indexing via knowledge organization systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to archaeological grey literature.

Verifying requirements for resource-bounded agents (2011)
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This thesis presents frameworks for the modelling and verification of resource-bounded reasoning agents. The resources considered include the time, memory, and communication bandwidth required by agents to achieve a goal. The scalability and expressi... Read More about Verifying requirements for resource-bounded agents.

Listening to the mind at play-sonified biofeedback as generative art practice and theory (2011)
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Explorative play affects the root of our being, as it is generative. Often experienced as a thrill, explorative play gradually lures its players beyond their mental or physical limits. While doing so, it affects players well before they can perform i... Read More about Listening to the mind at play-sonified biofeedback as generative art practice and theory.

A machine with class: A framework for object generation, integration and language authentication (FROGILA) (2011)
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The object technology model is constantly evolving to address the software crisis problem. This novel idea which informed and currently guides the design style of most modern scalable software systems has caused a strong belief that the object-orient... Read More about A machine with class: A framework for object generation, integration and language authentication (FROGILA).

An exploration of evolutionary computation applied to frequency modulation audio synthesis parameter optimisation (2010)
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With the ever-increasing complexity of sound synthesisers, there is a growing demand for automated parameter estimation and sound space navigation techniques. This thesis explores the potential for evolutionary computation to automatically map known... Read More about An exploration of evolutionary computation applied to frequency modulation audio synthesis parameter optimisation.

Self adaptation in evolutionary algorithms (1998)
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Evolutionary Algorithms are search algorithms based on the Darwinian metaphor of “Natural Selection”. Typically these algorithms maintain a population of individual solutions, each of which has a fitness attached to it, which in some way reflects the... Read More about Self adaptation in evolutionary algorithms.

An interactive evolutionary approach for configuring machine vision systems
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Artificial symbiology: Evolution in cooperative multi-agent environments
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Interactive evolutionary computing in early lifecycle software engineering design
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Design is fundamental to software development. Indeed, early lifecycle software engineering design is crucial and has significant impact of subsequent development activities. Inferior designs can result in deleterious down-stream consequences. Theref... Read More about Interactive evolutionary computing in early lifecycle software engineering design.

Dynamical genetic programming in learning classifier systems
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