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On plant roots logical gates (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Theoretical constructs of logical gates implemented with plant roots are morphological computing asynchronous devices. Values of Boolean variables are represented by plant roots. A presence of a plant root at a given site symboli... Read More about On plant roots logical gates.

ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The widespread applications of e-learning or technology-enhanced learning in academic institutions have led to a huge escalation in the development of e-learning evaluation models. Such models are focused on the assessment of e-learning systems at th... Read More about ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model.

Particle sorting by Paramecium cilia arrays (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Motile cilia are cell-surface organelles whose purposes, in ciliated protists and certain ciliated metazoan epithelia, include generating fluid flow, sensing and substance uptake. Certain properties of cilia arrays, such as beati... Read More about Particle sorting by Paramecium cilia arrays.

The local implementation of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals by an international charity project in Africa (2017)
Journal Article

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) framework was signed by virtually every nation on earth in 2015 and addresses topics ranging from environmental protection; via equal opportunities, education and the eradication of diseases;... Read More about The local implementation of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals by an international charity project in Africa.

Managing different sources of uncertainty in a BDI framework in a principled way with tractable fragments (2017)
Journal Article

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture is a practical approach for modelling large-scale intelligent systems. In the BDI setting, a complex system is represented as a network of interacting agents – or components – each one modelled based on... Read More about Managing different sources of uncertainty in a BDI framework in a principled way with tractable fragments.

Structural machines and slime mould computation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. It comprises an amorphous... Read More about Structural machines and slime mould computation.

Efficient round-optimal blind signatures in the standard model (2017)
Book Chapter

Blind signatures are at the core of e-cash systems and has numerous other applications. In this work we construct efficient blind and partially blind signature schemes over bilinear groups in the standard model. Our schemes yield short signatures co... Read More about Efficient round-optimal blind signatures in the standard model.

Tweet for behavior change: Using social media for the dissemination of public health messages (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Social media public health campaigns have the advantage of tailored messaging at low cost and large reach, but little is known about what would determine their feasibility as tools for inducing attitude and behavior change.
Objective: Th... Read More about Tweet for behavior change: Using social media for the dissemination of public health messages.

Tiny Sonata (2017)
Other

This work is part of my Tiny series: little musical portraits of my two-year-old son, Sebastian. All the works in the growing series use the same material, but it is reworked in an idiomatic way for different combinations of instruments.

The titl... Read More about Tiny Sonata.

Tiny Octet (2017)
Other

This work is part of my Tiny series: little musical portraits of my two-year-old son, Sebastian. All the works in the growing series use the same material, but it is reworked in an idiomatic way for different combinations of instruments.

The titl... Read More about Tiny Octet.

System and method for synchronous task dispatch in a portable device (2017)
Patent

A portable computing device synchronously offloads tasks from a first processing resource to an alternative processing resource. Offload requests are centralized and communicated to a dispatch controller. The request defines the alternative processin... Read More about System and method for synchronous task dispatch in a portable device.

Representation of shape mediated by environmental stimuli in Physarum polycephalum and a multi-agent model (2017)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is known to construct protoplasmic transport networks which approximate proximity graphs by foraging for nutrients during its plasmodial life cycle stage. In these networks, nodes are r... Read More about Representation of shape mediated by environmental stimuli in Physarum polycephalum and a multi-agent model.

CyberMix: A roadmap of SDN-based intelligent cybersecurity immune system (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cybersecurity is a prerequisite to ongoing developments concerning the interaction of a myriad of networked components ranging from PCs and portable devices through to households white goods. The resulting ecosystem in many ways resembles the human i... Read More about CyberMix: A roadmap of SDN-based intelligent cybersecurity immune system.

Glyph visualization: A fail-safe design scheme based on quasi-hamming distances (2017)
Journal Article

© 1981-2012 IEEE. In many spatial and temporal visualization applications, glyphs provide an effective means for encoding multivariate data. However, because glyphs are typically small, they are vulnerable to various perceptual errors. This article i... Read More about Glyph visualization: A fail-safe design scheme based on quasi-hamming distances.

Fredkin and Toffoli Gates Implemented in Oregonator Model of Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 World Scientific Publishing Company. A thin-layer Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) medium is a powerful computing device capable for implementing logical circuits, memory, image processors, robot controllers, and neuromorphic architectures. We design... Read More about Fredkin and Toffoli Gates Implemented in Oregonator Model of Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium.

O-7 Robotic technology and palliative care education: the development of a ‘nao robot’ computer program (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background Robots are increasingly being used to support management in certain areas of healthcare education. However, the potential application of robotics in palliative care education or simulation has not been explored.

Aim This collaborative p... Read More about O-7 Robotic technology and palliative care education: the development of a ‘nao robot’ computer program.

A method for privacy-preserving collaborative filtering recommendations (2017)
Journal Article

With the continuous growth of the Internet and the progress of electronic commerce the issues of product recommendation and privacy protection are becoming increasingly important. Recommender Systems aim to solve the information overload problem by p... Read More about A method for privacy-preserving collaborative filtering recommendations.

MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The rise in popularity of the Android platform has resulted in an explosion of malware threats targeting it. As both Android malware and the operating system itself constantly evolve, it is very challenging to design robust malware mitigation techniq... Read More about MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models.

Towards a generalised e-learning business process model (2017)
Journal Article

Modelling learning scenarios is central for e-learning domain. This has been manifested in the proliferation of the different Educational Modelling Languages, as well as in developed e-learning models. However, the existing modelled scenarios are def... Read More about Towards a generalised e-learning business process model.

Energy-Aware Constrained Relay Node Deployment for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 IEEE. This paper considers the problem of communication coverage for sustainable data forwarding in wireless sensor networks, where an energy-aware deployment model of relay nodes (RNs) is proposed. The model used in this paper considers const... Read More about Energy-Aware Constrained Relay Node Deployment for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks.