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Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems (2010)
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Liu, W., & Winfield, A. F. (2010). Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems. International Journal of Robotics Research, 29(14), 1743-1760. https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364910375139

Understanding the effect of individual parameters on the collective performance of swarm robotic systems in order to design and optimize individual robot behaviors is a significant challenge. In this paper we present a macroscopic probabilistic model... Read More about Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems.

Interactive, evolutionary search in upstream Object-oriented class design (2010)
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Parmee, I. C., Simons, C., & Gwynllyw, R. (2010). Interactive, evolutionary search in upstream Object-oriented class design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 36(6), 798-816. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2010.34

Although much evidence exists to suggest that early life cycle software engineering design is a difficult task for software engineers to perform, current computational tool support for software engineers is limited. To address this limitation, intera... Read More about Interactive, evolutionary search in upstream Object-oriented class design.

Steady-state steering of a tilting three-wheeled vehicle (2010)
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Barker, M., Drew, B., Darling, J., Edge, K. A., & Owen, G. W. (2010). Steady-state steering of a tilting three-wheeled vehicle. Vehicle System Dynamics, 48(7), 815-830. https://doi.org/10.1080/00423110903147474

The design of a narrow-track enclosed vehicle for urban transport was the subject of the CLEVER project. Due to its narrow track and requirement for car-like controls, an actively controlled tilting system was integrated into the chassis to allow for... Read More about Steady-state steering of a tilting three-wheeled vehicle.

The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement (2010)
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Hicks, B., & Matthews, J. (2010). The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 23(7), 585-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2010.485754

To become world-class, manufacturing organisations employ an array of tools and methods to realise process improvement. However, many of these fail to meet expectations and/or bring about new less well understood problems. Hence, prior to developing... Read More about The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement.

Generation of spatio-temporal concentration profiles for cell culture systems: A case study in ammonia (2010)
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Yue, X., Drakakisa, E. M., Mantalaris, A., & Cass, A. (2010). Generation of spatio-temporal concentration profiles for cell culture systems: A case study in ammonia. Measurement, 43(9), 1207-1216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2010.05.012

Cellular behavior is influenced by micro-concentration gradients existing in their immediate spatio-environment. A practical real-time measurement system, composed of miniaturized long-lasting sensors placed within a two-dimensional bioreactor and a... Read More about Generation of spatio-temporal concentration profiles for cell culture systems: A case study in ammonia.

Limiting behaviour of particles in Taylor-Couette flow (2010)
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Henderson, K., & Gwynllyw, R. (2010). Limiting behaviour of particles in Taylor-Couette flow. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 67(1), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-009-9321-z

Negatively buoyant inertial particles are tracked in a steady Taylor vortex background flow with gravity acting along the axis of the cylinders. Particles are found to either fall through the apparatus due to gravity or to be within retention zones.... Read More about Limiting behaviour of particles in Taylor-Couette flow.

Ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs (2010)
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Franks, N. R., Richardson, T. O., Keir, S., Inge, S. J., Bartumeus, F., & Sendova-Franks, A. B. (2010). Ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213(10), 1697-1708. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.031880

Tandem runs are a form of recruitment in ants. During a tandem run, a single leader teaches one follower the route to important resources such as sources of food or better nest sites. In the present study, we investigate what tandem leaders and follo... Read More about Ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs.

Effects of flow-rate, inoculum and time on the internal resistance of microbial fuel cells (2010)
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Ieropoulos, I., Winfield, J., & Greenman, J. (2010). Effects of flow-rate, inoculum and time on the internal resistance of microbial fuel cells. Bioresource Technology, 101(10), 3520-3525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.12.108

To process large volumes of wastewater, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) would require anodophilic bacteria preferably operating at high flow-rates. The effect of flow-rate on different microbial consortia was examined during anodic biofilm development, u... Read More about Effects of flow-rate, inoculum and time on the internal resistance of microbial fuel cells.

A computer assisted diagnosis system for malignant melanoma using 3D skin surface texture features and artificial neural network (2010)
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Ding, Y., Smith, L., Smith, M., Sun, J., & Warr, R. (2010). A computer assisted diagnosis system for malignant melanoma using 3D skin surface texture features and artificial neural network. International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 9(4), 370-381. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMIC.2010.033212

It has been observed that disruptions in skin patterns are larger for malignant melanoma than for benign lesions. In contrast to existing work on 2D skin line patterns, this work proposes a computer assisted diagnosis system for malignant melanoma ba... Read More about A computer assisted diagnosis system for malignant melanoma using 3D skin surface texture features and artificial neural network.

On mixed abstraction, languages and simulation approach to refinement with SystemC AMS (2010)
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Zaidi, Y., Grimm, C., & Haase, J. (2010). On mixed abstraction, languages and simulation approach to refinement with SystemC AMS

Executable specifications and simulations are cornerstone to system design flows. Complex mixed signal embedded systems can be specified with SystemC AMS which supports abstraction and extensible models of computation. The language contains semantics... Read More about On mixed abstraction, languages and simulation approach to refinement with SystemC AMS.

Improved energy output levels from small-scale Microbial Fuel Cells (2010)
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Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., & Melhuish, C. (2010). Improved energy output levels from small-scale Microbial Fuel Cells. Bioelectrochemistry, 78(1), 44-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2009.05.009

This study reports on the findings from the investigation into small-scale (6.25mL) MFCs, connected together as a network of multiple units. The MFCs contained unmodified (no catalyst) carbon fibre electrodes and for initial and later experiments, a... Read More about Improved energy output levels from small-scale Microbial Fuel Cells.

Mathematical programming modelling tools for resource-poor countries and organisations (2010)
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Clark, A. (2010). Mathematical programming modelling tools for resource-poor countries and organisations. Or Insight, 23(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1057/ori.2009.9

In recent years, powerful mathematical modelling languages have enabled Operational Research practitioners to rapidly develop prototype tools capable of modelling complex managerial decisions such as staff shift scheduling, or production and supply c... Read More about Mathematical programming modelling tools for resource-poor countries and organisations.

Design principles for safety in human-robot interaction (2010)
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Giuliani, M., Lenz, C., Müller, T., Rickert, M., & Knoll, A. (2010). Design principles for safety in human-robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(3), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-010-0052-0

The interaction of humans and robots has the potential to set new grounds in industrial applications as well as in service robotics because it combines the strengths of humans, such as flexibility and adaptability, and the strengths of robots, such a... Read More about Design principles for safety in human-robot interaction.

Robust speaker recognition using denoised vocal source and vocal tract features (2010)
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Wang, N., Ching, P. C., Zheng, N., & Lee, T. (2011). Robust speaker recognition using denoised vocal source and vocal tract features. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 19(1), 196-205. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2010.2045800

To alleviate the problem of severe degradation of speaker recognition performance under noisy environments because of inadequate and inaccurate speaker-discriminative information, a method of robust feature estimation that can capture both vocal sour... Read More about Robust speaker recognition using denoised vocal source and vocal tract features.

Record dynamics in ants (2010)
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Richardson, T. O., Robinson, E. J., Christensen, K., Jensen, H. J., Franks, N. R., & Sendova-Franks, A. B. (2010). Record dynamics in ants. PLoS ONE, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009621

The success of social animals (including ourselves) can be attributed to efficiencies that arise from a division of labour. Many animal societies have a communal nest which certain individuals must leave to perform external tasks, for example foragin... Read More about Record dynamics in ants.

Constraint-based simulation of carton folding operations (2010)
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Mullineux, G., & Matthews, J. (2010). Constraint-based simulation of carton folding operations. Computer-Aided Design, 42(3), 257-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2009.12.003

Cartons are a common means for packaging a variety of items. These are usually "erected" by dedicated machines which fold the carton into shape from a flat net. When there is a need to use new forms of cartons, dedicated machinery may not be appropri... Read More about Constraint-based simulation of carton folding operations.

A generalized procedure in designing recurrent neural network identification and control of time-varying-delayed nonlinear dynamic systems (2010)
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Wu, X., Zhang, J., & Zhu, Q. (2010). A generalized procedure in designing recurrent neural network identification and control of time-varying-delayed nonlinear dynamic systems. Neurocomputing, 73(7-9), 1376-1383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2009.12.002

In this study, a generalized procedure in identification and control of a class of time-varying-delayed nonlinear dynamic systems is developed. Under the framework, recurrent neural network is developed to accommodate the on-line identification, whic... Read More about A generalized procedure in designing recurrent neural network identification and control of time-varying-delayed nonlinear dynamic systems.

Robust finite-time control approach for robotic manipulators (2010)
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Gao, F., Zhao, D., Li, S., & Zhu, Q. (2010). Robust finite-time control approach for robotic manipulators. IET Control Theory and Applications, 4(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2008.0014

In this study, a new robust finite-time stability control approach for robot systems is developed based on finite-time Lyapunov stability principle and proved with backstepping method. The corresponding stability analysis is presented to lay a founda... Read More about Robust finite-time control approach for robotic manipulators.

A new method describing border irregularity of pigmented lesions (2010)
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Zhou, Y., Smith, M., Smith, L., & Warr, R. (2010). A new method describing border irregularity of pigmented lesions. Skin Research and Technology, 16(1), 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00403.x

Background/purpose: Automatic quantitative characterization of border irregularity generating useful descriptors is a highly important task for computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. This paper proposes a novel approach to describe the border irregula... Read More about A new method describing border irregularity of pigmented lesions.

Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies (2010)
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Planqué, R., Sendova-Franks, A. B., Hayward, R. K., Wulf, B., Klimek, T., James, R., …Franks, N. R. (2010). Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies. Animal Behaviour, 79(2), 473-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.035

Resource distribution is fundamental to social organization, but it poses a dilemma. How to facilitate the spread of useful resources but restrict harmful substances? This dilemma reaches a zenith in famine relief. Survival depends on distributing fo... Read More about Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies.