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Groth-Sahai proofs revisited (2010)
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Smart, N. P., Ghadafi, E., & Warinschi, B. (2010). Groth-Sahai proofs revisited. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6056 LNCS, 177-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13013-7_11

Since their introduction in 2008, the non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) and non-interactive witness indistinguishable (NIWI) proofs designed by Groth and Sahai have been used in numerous applications. In this paper, we offer two contributions to... Read More about Groth-Sahai proofs revisited.

Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates (2010)
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Bull, L. (2010). Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates. Artificial Life, 16(1), 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl.2009.16.1.16102

Symbiosis is the phenomenon in which organisms of different species live together in close association. Symbiogenesis is the name given to the process by which symbiotic partners combine and unify. This letter reconsiders previous work using the NKCS... Read More about Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates.

Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF (2010)
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Howard, G. D., Bull, L., & Lanzi, P. L. (2010). Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6471 LNAI, 87-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17508-4_7

XCSF is a modern form of Learning Classifier System (LCS) that has proven successful in a number of problem domains. In this paper we exploit the modular nature of XCSF to include a number of extensions, namely a neural classifier representation, sel... Read More about Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF.

Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS (2010)
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Preen, R. (2010). Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6471 LNAI, 166-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17508-4_11

This paper extends current LCS research into financial time series forecasting by analysing the performance of agents utilising mathematical technical indicators for both environment classification and in selecting actions to be executed. It compares... Read More about Identifying trade entry and exit timing using mathematical technical indicators in XCS.

A fault tolerant, dynamic and low latency BDII architecture for grids (2010)
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Osman, A., Anjum, A., & McClatchey, R. (2010). A fault tolerant, dynamic and low latency BDII architecture for grids

The current BDII model relies on information gathering from agents that run on each core node of a Grid. This information is then published into a Grid wide information resource known as Top BDII. The Top level BDIIs are updated typically in cycles o... Read More about A fault tolerant, dynamic and low latency BDII architecture for grids.

Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention (2010)
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Matthews, P., & Stephens, R. (2010). Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention. Aslib Proceedings, 62(6), 539-553. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011089667

Purpose – This paper seeks to outline a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and to emphasise sociocognitive and emotional factors behind motivation and credibility in communities supported... Read More about Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention.

A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development (2010)
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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)
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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.

A gradual solution to detect selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks (2010)
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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.

Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms (2010)
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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)
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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.

Stochastic automated search methods in cellular automata: The discovery of tens of thousands of glider guns (2010)
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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)
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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.

Assessment of the influence of adaptive components in trainable surface inspection systems (2010)
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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.

Impact of object extraction methods on classification performance in surface inspection systems (2010)
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Raiser, S., Lughofer, E., Eitzinger, C., & Smith, J. (2010). Impact of object extraction methods on classification performance in surface inspection systems. Machine Vision and Applications, 21(5), 627-641. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-009-0205-z

In surface inspection applications, the main goal is to detect all areas which might contain defects or unacceptable imperfections, and to classify either every single 'suspicious' region or the investigated part as a whole. After an image is acquire... Read More about Impact of object extraction methods on classification performance in surface inspection systems.

Coordinating metaheuristic agents with swarm intelligence (2010)
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Aydin, M. E. (2012). Coordinating metaheuristic agents with swarm intelligence. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 23(4), 991-999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-010-0435-y

Coordination of multi agent systems remains as a problem since there is no prominent method suggests any universal solution. Metaheuristic agents are specific implementations of multi-agent systems, which imposes working together to solve optimisatio... Read More about Coordinating metaheuristic agents with swarm intelligence.

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.