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Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Anjum, A., & Kiani, S. L. (2013, December). Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities. Paper presented at 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dresden, Germany

ICT is becoming increasingly pervasive to urban environments and providing the necessary basis for sustainability and resilience of the smart future cities. Often ICT tools for a smart city deal with different application domains e.g. land use, trans... Read More about Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.

Parallel software package for the construction and analysis of complex networks (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ihshaish, H., & Dijkzeul, J. (2013, November). Parallel software package for the construction and analysis of complex networks. Poster presented at LINC Mid-Term Review, Potsdam, Germany

In climate research, big and complex networks could be generated by the big climate data produced by high resolution climate models, and also observations. To analyze such complex networks, there are two main computational challenges concerning both... Read More about Parallel software package for the construction and analysis of complex networks.

ITU-R and WINNER II path loss modeling of femtocells (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Kpojime, H. O., Safdar, G. A., & Aydin, M. E. (2013, November). ITU-R and WINNER II path loss modeling of femtocells. Presented at HET-NETs 2013, The 7th International Working Conference, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, UK

As cellular network users continue to grow; there is a need for in-creased user capacity, higher throughput and improved system performance. An important issue affecting cellular networks is to make services available to re-gions of bad or no recepti... Read More about ITU-R and WINNER II path loss modeling of femtocells.

Nano-assembly with cells from particle interaction based on collisions of mobile localizations in cellular automata (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., & Adamatzky, A. (2013, November). Nano-assembly with cells from particle interaction based on collisions of mobile localizations in cellular automata. Poster presented at 5° Encuentro de la Red de Nanociencia y Micro-Nanotecnologías, Mexico city, Mexico

An automatic process is proposed by construct nano-assambly devices, derived from a set of synchorinsed collisions between multiple particles, such an automation is based on programming regular expressions and finite state machines.

A description driven approach for flexible metadata tracking (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Branson, A., Shamdasani, J., & McClatchey, R. (2013, November). A description driven approach for flexible metadata tracking. Paper presented at 7th ESA International Conference on Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data (PV 2013), Frascati, Italy

Evolving user requirements presents a considerable software engineering challenge, all the more so in an environment where data will be stored for a very long time, and must remain usable as the system specification evolves around it. Capturing the d... Read More about A description driven approach for flexible metadata tracking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

x-OSC: A versatile wireless I/O device for creative/music applications (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Madgwick, S., & Mitchell, T. J. (2013, July). x-OSC: A versatile wireless I/O device for creative/music applications. Paper presented at SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

This paper introduces x-OSC: a WiFi-based I/O board intended to provide developers of digital musical instruments with a versatile tool for interfacing software to the physical world via OSC messages. x-OSC features 32 I/O channels supporting multipl... Read More about x-OSC: A versatile wireless I/O device for creative/music applications.

Classical Art Semantics Information Extraction: CASIE pilot project (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Vlachidis, A., & Tudhope, D. (2013, July). Classical Art Semantics Information Extraction: CASIE pilot project. Paper presented at Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, London, UK

The paper discusses the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in the context of semantic annotation of classical art text via rule-based Information Extraction (IE) techniques combined with ontological and domain vocabulary inpu... Read More about Classical Art Semantics Information Extraction: CASIE pilot project.

Initial application of ant colony optimisation to statistical disclosure control (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Serpell, M., & Smith, J. (2013, July). Initial application of ant colony optimisation to statistical disclosure control. Paper presented at Fifteenth annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Amsterdam

In this paper Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) is applied in the field of Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) for the first time. It has been applied to a permutation problem found in Cell Suppression. ACO has successfully improved the suppression patt... Read More about Initial application of ant colony optimisation to statistical disclosure control.

Information extraction techniques for the purposes of semantic indexing of archaeological resources (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Vlachidis, A., Tudhope, D., & Binding, C. (2013, July). Information extraction techniques for the purposes of semantic indexing of archaeological resources. Paper presented at Digital Heritage 2013: Interfaces with the Past, York, UK

The paper describes the use of Information Extraction (IE), a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique to assist ‘rich’ semantic indexing of diverse archaeological text resources. Such unpublished online documents are often referred to as ‘Grey Li... Read More about Information extraction techniques for the purposes of semantic indexing of archaeological resources.

A comparison of two memetic algorithms for software class modelling (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, J., & Simons, C. (2013, July). A comparison of two memetic algorithms for software class modelling. Paper presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2013 (GECCO 2013), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Recent research has demonstrated that the problem of class modelling within early cycle object orientated software engineering can be successfully tackled by posing it as a search problem to be tackled with meta-heuristics. This “Search Based Softwa... Read More about A comparison of two memetic algorithms for software class modelling.

Lost time never (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Buzzo, D. (2013, June). Lost time never. Paper presented at Inputs-Outputs | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Human-Computer Interaction, Brighton, UK

As Nam June Paik intuits in his 1976 article “input‐time and output‐time” [11] our experience and expression of time and events are not connected to each other in a linear fashion (fig. 1). As a result the incidents that create what we decide to expr... Read More about Lost time never.

AlphaSphere (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Place, A., Lacey, L., & Mitchell, T. (2013, May). AlphaSphere. Poster presented at 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Daejeon + Seoul, Korea Republic

The AlphaSphere is an electronic musical instrument featuring a series of tactile, pressure sensitive touch pads arranged in a spherical form. It is designed to offer a new playing style, while allowing for the expressive real-time modulation of soun... Read More about AlphaSphere.

Whither (away) software engineers in SBSE? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C. (2013, May). Whither (away) software engineers in SBSE?. Paper presented at First International Workshop on Combining Modelling with Search-Based Software Engineering, San Francisco, USA

This challenges and open problems paper discusses the role of software engineers when combining modeling with Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE). With SBSE techniques increasingly providing insights into difficult software modeling problems, th... Read More about Whither (away) software engineers in SBSE?.