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A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development (2010)
Journal Article
Anderson, J., & Matthews, P. (2010). A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development. Aslib Proceedings, 62(6), 570-584. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011089685

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the success and suitability of a Western-donated school library in furthering the aims of literacy and reader development in Malawi. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, case study approach was taken usi... Read More about A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development.

Traffic-differentiation-based modular QoS localized routing for wireless sensor networks (2010)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2011). Traffic-differentiation-based modular QoS localized routing for wireless sensor networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 10(6), 797-809. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2010.212

A new localized quality of service (QoS) routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed in this paper. The proposed protocol targets WSN's applications having different types of data traffic. It is based on differentiating QoS requir... Read More about Traffic-differentiation-based modular QoS localized routing for wireless sensor networks.

Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Olive, M., Lashwood, A., & Solomonides, T. (2010, October). Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies. Paper presented at 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010), Perth, Australia

Integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form of medical guideline including the explicit recording of any deviation, or ‘variance’, could serve as a rich source of data for research. Not only do they incorporate a wealth of operational knowle... Read More about Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies.

Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Simons, C., & Parmee, I. (2010, October). Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design. Paper presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC '10), Istanbul, Turkey

User-centered Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) has been applied to a wide variety of areas, including UML software design. The performance of evolutionary search is important as user interaction fatigue remains an on-going challenge in IEC.... Read More about Dynamic parameter control of interactive local search in UML software design.

A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks (2010)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D., & Badache, N. (2010). A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks. International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 4(4), 264-274. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijwmc.2010.035886

The resource limitation of nodes forming ad hoc networks along with the multi-hop nature of these networks rise a new problem. To preserve its energy a node may behave selfishly and would not forward packets for others, while using their services and... Read More about A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks.

Power-aware QoS geographical routing for wireless sensor networks - Implementation using Contiki (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2010). Power-aware QoS geographical routing for wireless sensor networks - Implementation using Contiki. In 2010 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems Workshops (DCOSSW). https://doi.org/10.1109/dcossw.2010.5593276

This paper presents the design and implementation of a new geographical quality of service (QoS) routing for wireless sensor networks. The protocol is based on traffic differentiation and provides customized QoS according to the traffic requirement.... Read More about Power-aware QoS geographical routing for wireless sensor networks - Implementation using Contiki.

Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Hameed, K., Williams, R., & Smith, J. (2010). Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework. In 2010 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W) (38-44). https://doi.org/10.1109/DSNW.2010.5542623

Diversity or redundancy based software fault tolerance does not come for free; rather it introduces additional complexity to the core functionality in the form of redundancy development, management and controlled execution. This results in tangling o... Read More about Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework.

Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms (2010)
Journal Article
Serpell, M., & Smith, J. (2010). Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms. Evolutionary Computation, 18(3), 491-514. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00006

The choice of mutation rate is a vital factor in the success of any genetic algorithm (GA), and for permutation representations this is compounded by the availability of several alternative mutation operators. It is now well understood that there is... Read More about Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms.

Privacy compliance and enforcement on European healthgrids: An approach through ontology (2010)
Journal Article
Rahmouni, H. B., Solomonides, T., Mont, M. C., & Simon Shiu, S. (2010). Privacy compliance and enforcement on European healthgrids: An approach through ontology. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 368(1926), 4057-4072. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0169

The sharing of medical data between different healthcare organizations in Europe must comply with the legislation of the Member State where the data were originally collected. These legal requirements may differ from one state to another. Privacy req... Read More about Privacy compliance and enforcement on European healthgrids: An approach through ontology.

Care pathway records and ontologies for medical research and healthcare (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Olive, M., & Solomonides, T. (2010, September). Care pathway records and ontologies for medical research and healthcare. Presented at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2010, Cardiff, Wales

This is one of a series of papers arising in part out of the SHARE (Supporting and structuring Healthgrid Activities and Research in Europe) project; in previous work, we have examined the use of integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form o... Read More about Care pathway records and ontologies for medical research and healthcare.

KOS-based tools for archaeological dataset interoperability (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Binding, C., May, K., Tudhope, D., & Vlachidis, A. (2010, September). KOS-based tools for archaeological dataset interoperability. Presented at 9th European NKOS Workshop at the 14th ECDL Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

KOS-based tools for archaeological dataset interoperability

On open science and public engagement with engineering (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Grand, A., Wilkinson, C., Bultitude, K., & Winfield, A. F. (2010, September). On open science and public engagement with engineering. Paper presented at European Association for Studies in Science and Technology, Trento, Italy

Open Science is an emerging approach to the conduct of science, technology and engineering projects, in which information about the whole of an ongoing investigation is made available on and through the Internet. Adopting an Open Science approach mea... Read More about On open science and public engagement with engineering.

Stochastic automated search methods in cellular automata: The discovery of tens of thousands of glider guns (2010)
Journal Article
Sapin, E., Adamatzky, A., Collet, P., & Bull, L. (2010). Stochastic automated search methods in cellular automata: The discovery of tens of thousands of glider guns. Natural Computing, 9(3), 513-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-009-9109-0

This paper deals with the spontaneous emergence of glider guns in cellular automata. An evolutionary search for glider guns with different parameters is described and other search techniques are also presented to provide a benchmark. We demonstrate t... Read More about Stochastic automated search methods in cellular automata: The discovery of tens of thousands of glider guns.

Excavating grey literature: A case study on the rich indexing of archaeological documents via natural language-processing techniques and knowledge-based resources (2010)
Journal Article
Vlachidis, A., Binding, C., Tudhope, D., & May, K. (2010). Excavating grey literature: A case study on the rich indexing of archaeological documents via natural language-processing techniques and knowledge-based resources. Aslib Proceedings, 62(4), 466-475. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011074708

Purpose: This paper sets out to discuss the use of information extraction (IE), a natural language-processing (NLP) technique to assist "rich" semantic indexing of diverse archaeological text resources. The focus of the research is to direct a semant... Read More about Excavating grey literature: A case study on the rich indexing of archaeological documents via natural language-processing techniques and knowledge-based resources.

Deep learning via student engagement with semi-automated lecture transcripts (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Lynch, M., & Phelps, P. (2010, August). Deep learning via student engagement with semi-automated lecture transcripts. Paper presented at HEA-ICS Conference, Durham

We describe the process and interim results of our HEA-ICS Development Fund project. The project is funded until the end of July 2010, so we will present to the HEA-ICS Conference at Durham final evaluations of the project, drawing on student feedbac... Read More about Deep learning via student engagement with semi-automated lecture transcripts.

Teaching problem solving and AI with PacMan (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, J., & Cayzer, S. (2010, August). Teaching problem solving and AI with PacMan. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Computing, Higher Education Academy Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre (HEA-ICS), Durham University, UK

Assessment of the influence of adaptive components in trainable surface inspection systems (2010)
Journal Article
Van Brussel, H., Eitzinger, C., Heidl, W., Lughofer, E., Raiser, S., Smith, J., …Sannen, D. (2010). Assessment of the influence of adaptive components in trainable surface inspection systems. Machine Vision and Applications, 21(5), 613-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-009-0211-1

In this paper, we present a framework for the classification of images in surface inspection tasks and address several key aspects of the processing chain from the original image to the final classification result. A major contribution of this paper... Read More about Assessment of the influence of adaptive components in trainable surface inspection systems.