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Efficient two-move blind signatures in the common reference string model (2012)
Journal Article
Ghadafi, E., & Smart, N. P. (2012). Efficient two-move blind signatures in the common reference string model. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7483 LNCS, 274-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33383-5_17

Blind signatures provide a mechanism for achieving privacy and anonymity whereby a user gets the signer to sign a message of his choice without the signer learning the message, or being able to link a signature to the protocol run via which it was ob... Read More about Efficient two-move blind signatures in the common reference string model.

E-commerce transactions in a virtual environment: Virtual transactions (2012)
Journal Article
Scarle, S., Arnab, S., Dunwell, I., Petridis, P., Protopsaltis, A., & de Freitas, S. (2012). E-commerce transactions in a virtual environment: Virtual transactions. Electronic Commerce Research, 12(3), 379-407. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-012-9098-4

E-commerce is a fundamental method of doing business, such that for a firm to say it is trading at all in the modern market-place it must have some element of on-line presence. Coupled with this is the explosion of the "population" of Massively Multi... Read More about E-commerce transactions in a virtual environment: Virtual transactions.

A formal architecture-centric and model driven approach for the engineering of science gateways (2012)
Thesis
Manset, D. A formal architecture-centric and model driven approach for the engineering of science gateways. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/943392

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.

Application of model based systems engineering for an asteroid lander (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ogunshile, E. (2012, October). Application of model based systems engineering for an asteroid lander. Paper presented at 63rd International Astronautical Congress 2012 (IAC 2012), Naples, Italy

Surface exploration of asteroids are scientifically important for understanding of the origin and history of our solar system. Space agencies all over the world have started to launch exploration missions to asteroids. Low cost, small-sized landers... Read More about Application of model based systems engineering for an asteroid lander.

Improving cloud datacentre scalability, agility and performance using OpenFlow (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Baker, C., Anjum, A., Hill, R., Bessis, N., & Liaquat Kiani, S. (2012, September). Improving cloud datacentre scalability, agility and performance using OpenFlow. Paper presented at Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2012 4th International Conference on, Bucharest, Romania

Creating unorganised machines from memristors (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Howard, G. D., Bull, L., Costello, B. D. L., & Adamatzky, A. (2012, September). Creating unorganised machines from memristors. Paper presented at ICNAAM 2012: International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Kos, Greece

Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC (2012)
Journal Article
Adler, V., Wickens, J., Wang, J., Vanlaer, P., Vander Velde, C., Thomas, L., …McClatchey, R. (2012). Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 716(1), 30-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021

Results are presented from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s=7 and 8 TeV in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 fb-1 at 7... Read More about Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC.

FDAP: Fast data aggregation protocol in wireless sensor networks (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Boulkaboul, S., Djenouri, D., & Badache, N. (2012). FDAP: Fast data aggregation protocol in wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32686-8_38

This paper focuses on data aggregation latency in wireless sensors networks. A distributed algorithm to generate a collision-free schedule for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on maximal indepe... Read More about FDAP: Fast data aggregation protocol in wireless sensor networks.

Cluster-based fast broadcast in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Khiati, M., & Djenouri, D. (2012). Cluster-based fast broadcast in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1109/nca.2012.21

This paper proposes a cluster-based broadcast protocol to disseminate delay-sensitive information throughout a wireless sensor network (WSN). The protocol considers the use of duty-cycling at the MAC layer, which is essential to reduce energy dissipa... Read More about Cluster-based fast broadcast in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks.

Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach (2012)
Journal Article
Anjum, A., Hill, R., McClatchey, R., Branson, A., & Bessis, N. (2012). Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach. International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 8(3), 248-265. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049169

Scientific communities are actively developing services to exploit the capabilities of service-oriented distributed systems. This exploitation requires services to be specified and developed for a range of activities such as management and scheduling... Read More about Glueing grids and clouds together: A service-oriented approach.

Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2012, August). Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata. Paper presented at Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, Seoul, Korea

Micro-scale manipulation of objects is a growing requirement in specialised industries, especially those related to assembly of fragile micro-components. Widely implemented techniques in robotics and automation do not always cope with the delicate na... Read More about Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata.

A study of wireless sensor network architectures and projects for traffic light monitoring (2012)
Journal Article
Kafi, M. A., Challal, Y., Djenouri, D., Bouabdallah, A., Khelladi, L., & Badache, N. (2012). A study of wireless sensor network architectures and projects for traffic light monitoring. Procedia Computer Science, 10, 543-552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.069

Vehicular traffic is increasing around the world, especially in urban areas. This increase results in a huge traffic congestion, which has dramatic consequences on economy, human health, and environment. Traditional methods used for traffic managemen... Read More about A study of wireless sensor network architectures and projects for traffic light monitoring.

From inconsistency handling to non-canonical requirements management: A logical perspective (2012)
Journal Article
Mu, K., Hong, J., Jin, Z., & Liu, W. (2013). From inconsistency handling to non-canonical requirements management: A logical perspective. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 54(1), 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2012.07.006

As a class of defects in software requirements specification, inconsistency has been widely studied in both requirements engineering and software engineering. It has been increasingly recognized that maintaining consistency alone often results in som... Read More about From inconsistency handling to non-canonical requirements management: A logical perspective.

Slotted contention-based energy-efficient MAC protocols in delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Doudou, M., Djenouri, D., Badache, N., & Bouabdallah, A. (2012). Slotted contention-based energy-efficient MAC protocols in delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/iscc.2012.6249332

This paper considers slotted duty-cycled medium access control (MAC) protocols, where sensor nodes periodically and synchronously alternate their operations between active and sleep modes to save energy. Communications can occur only when nodes are i... Read More about Slotted contention-based energy-efficient MAC protocols in delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks.

Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Liaquat Kiani, S. (2012, July). Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation. Paper presented at The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), Palermo, Italy

—The ability to seamlessly bridge clouds across organisational and administrative boundaries will play a vital role in establishing the utility of cloud computing for large-scale collaborative processes. Managing human and environmental contexts acr... Read More about Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation.