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Ontology-driven requirements engineering with reference to the aerospace industry (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Kossmann, M., Odeh, M., Gillies, A., & Watts, S. (2009). Ontology-driven requirements engineering with reference to the aerospace industry. In P. Pichappan, & E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, 2009. ICADIWT '09. , (95-103). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICADIWT.2009.5273953

This paper provides an overview regarding the application of an ontology-driven requirements engineering methodology, namely OntoREM, in the aerospace industry with the objective to assess the extent to which this approach has the potential to develo... Read More about Ontology-driven requirements engineering with reference to the aerospace industry.

Conversational gestures in human-robot interaction (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C., Fraser, M., & Subramanian, S. (2009). Conversational gestures in human-robot interaction. In 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (1645-1649). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346903

The human sciences have demonstrated that gesture is a critical element of human communication. While existing graphical solutions are appropriate for virtual agents, solving arm trajectories for physically embodied robots requires that we consider t... Read More about Conversational gestures in human-robot interaction.

New QoS and geographical routing in wireless biomedical sensor networks (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2009). New QoS and geographical routing in wireless biomedical sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.broadnets2009.7188

In this paper we deal with biomedical applications of wireless sensor networks, and propose a new quality of service (QoS) routing protocol. The protocol design relies on traffic diversity of these applications and ensures a differentiation routing u... Read More about New QoS and geographical routing in wireless biomedical sensor networks.

Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Pipe, A. G., Fraser, M., Subramanian, S., & Melhuish, C. (2009). Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction. In Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (1029-1034). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326136

In order for anthropomorphic robots to communicate with people in a human-like way they need to produce gestures along with speech. Beat gestures are a key category of gestures, accompanying emphasis and timing of talk. The standard approach for auto... Read More about Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction.

Managing the mappings between domain ontologies and database schemas when formulating relational queries (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Munir, K., Odeh, M., & McClatchey, R. (2009). Managing the mappings between domain ontologies and database schemas when formulating relational queries. . https://doi.org/10.1145/1620432.1620446

In recent years, the tremendous increase in the use of medical knowledge-discovery and decision-support applications has often required clinical researchers to write complex database queries. The users of these data analysis systems are normally unaw... Read More about Managing the mappings between domain ontologies and database schemas when formulating relational queries.

Design of an advanced prototype robot for white asparagus harvesting (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Tourassis, V. D., Georgilas, I. P., & Chatzimichali, A. (2009). Design of an advanced prototype robot for white asparagus harvesting. . https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2009.5229897

Agricultural workplaces are a prototypical example of unstructured and variant environments, offering a novel challenge to robotic research and automation. In this paper, a robot prototype is presented for white asparagus harvesting. White asparagus... Read More about Design of an advanced prototype robot for white asparagus harvesting.

Hilbert huang transform impedance measurement data for cellular toxicity monitoring (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., Zhu, Q., Kiely, J., & Luxton, R. W. (2009). Hilbert huang transform impedance measurement data for cellular toxicity monitoring. In N. NA (Ed.), International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control. , (767-772). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2009.4919375

This paper investigates the Hilbert-Huang transformation (HHT), which is adaptive analysis of nonlinear and non-stationary signals. The aim of this study is to apply HHT to impedance measurement data analysis in order to discriminate different types... Read More about Hilbert huang transform impedance measurement data for cellular toxicity monitoring.

LOCALMOR: Localized multi-objective routing for wireless sensor networks (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2009). LOCALMOR: Localized multi-objective routing for wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/pimrc.2009.5449740

This paper proposes a multi-objective quality of service (QoS) routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN). The protocol takes into account the traffic diversity typical for many applications and provides a differentiation in routing using Qo... Read More about LOCALMOR: Localized multi-objective routing for wireless sensor networks.

Multiuser scheduling in HSDPA with particle swarm optimization (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M. E., Kwan, R., Leung, C., & Zhang, J. (2009). Multiuser scheduling in HSDPA with particle swarm optimization. In M. Giacobini, A. Brabazon, S. Cagnoni, G. A. Di Caro, A. Ekárt, A. Isabel Esparcia-Alcázar, …P. Machado (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computing (71-80). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_8

In this paper, a mathematical model of multiuser scheduling problem in HSDPA is developed to use in optimization process. A more realistic imperfect channel state information (CSI) feedback, which is required for this problem, in the form of a finite... Read More about Multiuser scheduling in HSDPA with particle swarm optimization.

Generating unambiguous URL clusters from web search (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, G., Brailsford, T., Donner, C., Hooijmaijers, D., Truran, M., Goulding, J., & Ashman, H. (2009). Generating unambiguous URL clusters from web search. . https://doi.org/10.1145/1507509.1507514

This paper reports on the generation of unambiguous clusters of from clickthrough data from the MSN search query log (the RFP 2006 dataset). Selections (clickthroughs) by a user from a single query can be assumed to have some semantic relevance, and... Read More about Generating unambiguous URL clusters from web search.

Brief announcement on MOGRIBA: Multi-objective geographical routing for biomedical applications of WSN (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Djenouri, D., & Balasingham, I. (2009). Brief announcement on MOGRIBA: Multi-objective geographical routing for biomedical applications of WSN. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05434-1_16

A new routing protocol for wireless sensor networks is proposed in this paper. The proposed protocol focuses on medical applications, by considering its traffic diversity and providing a differentiation routing using quality of service (QoS) metrics.... Read More about Brief announcement on MOGRIBA: Multi-objective geographical routing for biomedical applications of WSN.

CoP4V: Context-based protocol for vehicle's safety in highways using wireless sensor networks (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Subramanian, S., Djenouri, D., Sindre, G., & Balasingham, I. (2009). CoP4V: Context-based protocol for vehicle's safety in highways using wireless sensor networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/itng.2009.129

Safety is evergreen vital criteria for road traffic. We propose an infrastructureless solution based on contexts to increase safety of vehicle. Contexts characterize and track the moving environment of a vehicle. Here, environment means the vehicle's... Read More about CoP4V: Context-based protocol for vehicle's safety in highways using wireless sensor networks.