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Design mining interacting wind turbines (2016)
Journal Article
Preen, R. J., Preen, R., & Bull, L. (2016). Design mining interacting wind turbines. Evolutionary Computation, 24(1), 89-111. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00144

© 2016 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An initial study has recently been presented of surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms used to design vertical-axis wind turbines wherein candidate prototypes are evaluated under fan-generated... Read More about Design mining interacting wind turbines.

Towards a Physarum learning chip (2016)
Journal Article
Whiting, J. G. H., Jones, J., Bull, L., Levin, M., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). Towards a Physarum learning chip. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 19948. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19948

Networks of protoplasmic tubes of organism Physarum polycehpalum are macro-scale structures which optimally span multiple food sources to avoid repellents yet maximize coverage of attractants. When data are presented by configurations of attractants... Read More about Towards a Physarum learning chip.

Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks (2016)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., Allard, O., Jones, J., & Armstrong, R. (2017). Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 44(2), 364-383. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265813515626924

© The Author(s) 2016. France has developed a high quality motorway system that has been rapidly rationalised and matured in the late 20th century yet has been founded on ancient, Roman infrastructures. The development of the motorway system is thus a... Read More about Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks.

Allocating memory and using the allocated memory in a workgroup in a dispatched data parallel kernel (2016)
Patent
Gaster, B., & Howes, L. (2016). Allocating memory and using the allocated memory in a workgroup in a dispatched data parallel kernel. US 9244828 B2

In a computing system, memory may be managed by using a distributed array, which is a global set of local memory regions. A segment in the distributed array is allocated and is bound to a physical memory region. The segment is used by a workgroup in... Read More about Allocating memory and using the allocated memory in a workgroup in a dispatched data parallel kernel.

Design and development of experimental hardware in loop model for the study of vibration induced in tall structure with active control (2016)
Journal Article
Bashir, N., Jamil, M., Waris, A., Khan, M. N., Malik, M. H., & Butt, S. I. (2016). Design and development of experimental hardware in loop model for the study of vibration induced in tall structure with active control. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i21/97829

Background/Objectives: This paper focuses on the active control of vibration in tall structure prone to high winds and earthquakes using the active mass dampers. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The prototype model was fabricated to measure the response... Read More about Design and development of experimental hardware in loop model for the study of vibration induced in tall structure with active control.

Short accountable ring signatures based on DDH (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bootle, J., Cerulli, A., Chaidos, P., Ghadafi, E., Groth, J., & Petit, C. (2016). Short accountable ring signatures based on DDH. In Computer Security -- ESORICS 2015 (243-265). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_13

Ring signatures and group signatures are prominent cryptographic primitives offering a combination of privacy and authentication. They enable individual users to anonymously sign messages on behalf of a group of users. In ring signatures, the group,... Read More about Short accountable ring signatures based on DDH.

Detection of malware and kernel-level rootkits in cloud computing environments (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Win, T. Y., Tianfield, H., & Mair, Q. (in press). Detection of malware and kernel-level rootkits in cloud computing environments. In 2015 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (295-300). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCloud.2015.54

Cyberattacks targeted at virtualization infrastructure underlying cloud computing services has become increasingly sophisticated. This paper presents a novel malware and rookit detection system which protects the guests against different attacks. It... Read More about Detection of malware and kernel-level rootkits in cloud computing environments.

Block transformation of hybrid cellular automata (2016)
Journal Article
Martínez, G. J., Chen, B., Chen, F. Y., Guan, J. B., & Martinez, G. (2016). Block transformation of hybrid cellular automata. https://doi.org/10.11948/2016077

© 2016, Wilmington Scientific Publisher. All rights reserved. By introducing a sequence-block transformation and vector-block transformation, we explore the dynamical properties of hybrid cellular automation (HCA) and hybrid cellular automation with... Read More about Block transformation of hybrid cellular automata.

Counting Stars (2016)
Other
Lane, L. (2016). Counting Stars

'Counting Stars' features the lyrical higher register of the trombone, whilst the piano’s wide range and shifting harmonies revolve around the soloist’s melody. The title reflects the evolving nature of the countryside where I live, in which a consta... Read More about Counting Stars.

Living wires — Effects of size and coating of gold nanoparticles in altering the electrical properties of Physarum polycephalum and lettuce seedlings (2016)
Journal Article
Gizzie, N., Mayne, R., Yitzchaik, S., Ikbal, M., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). Living wires — Effects of size and coating of gold nanoparticles in altering the electrical properties of Physarum polycephalum and lettuce seedlings. Nano LIFE, 6(1), 1650001. https://doi.org/10.1142/S179398441650001X

The manipulation of biological substrates is becoming more popular route toward generating novel computing devices. Physarum polycephalum is used as a model organism in biocomputingbecause it can create "wires" for use in hybrid circuits; programmab... Read More about Living wires — Effects of size and coating of gold nanoparticles in altering the electrical properties of Physarum polycephalum and lettuce seedlings.

Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class (2016)
Journal Article
Fotaris, P., Mastoras, T., Leinfellner, R., & Rosunally, Y. (2016). Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class. Electronic Journal of eLearning, 14(2), 94-110

Conventional taught learning practices often experience difficulties in keeping students motivated and engaged. Video games, however, are very successful at sustaining high levels of motivation and engagement through a set of tasks for hours without... Read More about Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class.

JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey (2016)
Book Chapter
Buzzo, D., & Phelps, P. (2016). JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey. In J. Bowen, G. Diprose, & N. Lambert (Eds.), EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. London, UK: British Computer Society

A student’s view of higher education is often talked about as ‘transformative’ and as a ‘journey’ or ‘pathway’. The student experience of university is time-bound, covering a clearly specified duration. From a learner’s perspective the Higher Educat... Read More about JourneyMap: Visualising the time-bound student journey.

What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now? (2016)
Book Chapter
Buzzo, D. (2016). What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now?. In K. Zreik, P. Chatel-Innocenti, & E. Reyes-Garcia (Eds.), Archiving and Questioning Immateriality: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Art Congress (438-443). Paris, France: Europia Productions

How long is a moment ? How does a moment feel ? What is the past, what is the future ? The Moments project investigates the perceptual length of ’a moment’ of attention and of the historical tension between the argument for and against time in the... Read More about What do we know of time when all we can know for real is now?.

GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, D., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2016). GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor

This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their u... Read More about GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor.

Impact of user data privacy management controls on mobile device investigations (2016)
Journal Article
Andriotis, P., & Tryfonas, T. (2016). Impact of user data privacy management controls on mobile device investigations. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 484, 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46279-0_5

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016. There are many different types of mobile device users, but most of them do not seek to expand the functionality of their smartphones and prefer to interact with them using predefined us... Read More about Impact of user data privacy management controls on mobile device investigations.

Optimizing short message text sentiment analysis for mobile device forensics (2016)
Journal Article
Aboluwarin, O., Andriotis, P., Takasu, A., & Tryfonas, T. (2016). Optimizing short message text sentiment analysis for mobile device forensics. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 484, 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46279-0_4

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016. Mobile devices are now the dominant medium for communications. Humans express various emotions when communicating with others and these communications can be analyzed to deduce their em... Read More about Optimizing short message text sentiment analysis for mobile device forensics.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
Journal Article
Javed, B., Bloodsworth, P., Rasool, R. U., Munir, K., & Rana, O. (2016). Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users. Future Generation Computer Systems, 54, 52-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.06.004

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this investment, a suitable pricing strategy is requi... Read More about Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users.

Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework (2016)
Journal Article
Godo, L., Bauters, K., McAreavey, K., Hong, J., Chen, Y., Liu, W., …Sierra, C. (2016). Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26860-6_2

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. AgentSpeak is a logic-based programming language, based on the Belief- Desire-Intention paradigm, suitable for building complex agent-based systems. To limit the computational complexity, agents i... Read More about Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework.

The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data (2016)
Journal Article
Lawan, A., Rakib, A., Alechina, N., & Karunaratne, A. (2016). The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 613, 384-399. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34099-9_30

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The lack of formal technical knowledge has been identified as one of the constraints to research and development on a group of crops collectively referred to as underutilized crops. Some informati... Read More about The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data.