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Evolutionary computing frameworks for optimisation (2017)
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Simons, C., & Ramirez, A. (2017). Evolutionary computing frameworks for optimisation

Evolutionary algorithms can find optimal solutions to problems. This article gives an overview of some programming frameworks available to solve optimisation problems.

Lightweight cryptography methods (2017)
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Buchanan, W., Li, S., & Asif, R. (2017). Lightweight cryptography methods. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(3-4), 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2017.1384917

While our conventional cryptography methods, such for AES (encryption), SHA-256 (hashing) and RSA/Elliptic Curve (signing), work well on systems which have reasonable processing power and memory capabilities, these do not scale well into a world with... Read More about Lightweight cryptography methods.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
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Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2017). Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

Affect and dialogue in collaborative cross-disciplinary research: Developing interactive public art on Cardiff Bay Barrage (2017)
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Entwistle, A., Burrows, I., Carroll, F., Thomas, N., Ware, M., & Loudon, G. (2020). Affect and dialogue in collaborative cross-disciplinary research: Developing interactive public art on Cardiff Bay Barrage. Open Cultural Studies, 1(1), 576-590. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0055

Where Cartesian philosophy distinguishes the perceiving and perceptual mind from the body, phenomenology constitutes the experiential/experiencing body as the subject, giving rise to the affective potential of art. An immersive world of digital conne... Read More about Affect and dialogue in collaborative cross-disciplinary research: Developing interactive public art on Cardiff Bay Barrage.

A trust-based method for mitigating cache poisoning in Name Data Networking (2017)
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Rezaeifar, Z., Wang, J., & Oh, H. (2018). A trust-based method for mitigating cache poisoning in Name Data Networking. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 104, 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2017.12.013

Mitigating Cache poisoning in Name Data Networking (NDN) can significantly improve the effect of ubiquitous data caching, which is a prominent feature in NDN. However, since verification signatures cannot be practical in the network routers, finding... Read More about A trust-based method for mitigating cache poisoning in Name Data Networking.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
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Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Soomro, K., Marconcini, M., José, R. S., Malcorps, P., …Metz, A. (2017). From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 465-493. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009861

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

Data provenance tracking as the basis for a biomedical virtual research environment (2017)
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McClatchey, R. (2018). Data provenance tracking as the basis for a biomedical virtual research environment. Proceedings of Science, 293,

In complex data analyses it is increasingly important to capture information about the usage of data sets in addition to their preservation over time to ensure reproducibility of results, to verify the work of others and to ensure appropriate conditi... Read More about Data provenance tracking as the basis for a biomedical virtual research environment.

Liquid marble interaction gate for collision-based computing (2017)
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Draper, T., Fullarton, C., Phillips, N., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2017). Liquid marble interaction gate for collision-based computing. Materials Today, 20(10), 561-568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2017.09.004

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Liquid marbles are microliter droplets of liquid, encapsulated by self-organized hydrophobic particles at the liquid/air interface. They offer an efficient approach for manipulating liquid droplets and compartmentalizing reactions... Read More about Liquid marble interaction gate for collision-based computing.

Bee swarm optimization for solving the MAXSAT problem using prior knowledge (2017)
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Djenouri, Y., Habbas, Z., Djenouri, D., & Fournier-Viger, P. (2019). Bee swarm optimization for solving the MAXSAT problem using prior knowledge. Soft Computing, 23(9), 3095-3112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-017-2956-1

This paper explores rule decomposition for solving the MAXSAT problem. Four approaches are proposed to steer a bee swarm optimization metaheuristic. Two decomposition methods are proposed: direct and indirect. The first one applies the Kmeans algorit... Read More about Bee swarm optimization for solving the MAXSAT problem using prior knowledge.

Smart Cross-Border e-Gov Systems: An application to refugee mobility (2017)
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Sideridis, A., Protopappas, L., Tsiafoulis, S., & Pimenidis, E. (2017). Smart Cross-Border e-Gov Systems: An application to refugee mobility. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 9(3/4), 246-266. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEG.2017.10006256

Smart Cross-Border e-Government Systems for citizens and business have been recently proposed to further improve everyday lives, expand business fron-tiers, and facilitate the movement of citizens by reducing the constraints imposed by existing borde... Read More about Smart Cross-Border e-Gov Systems: An application to refugee mobility.

E-voting vs. e-trust: A test bed for e-democracy in a world in crisis? (2017)
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Shat, F., & Pimenidis, E. (2017). E-voting vs. e-trust: A test bed for e-democracy in a world in crisis?. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 9(3/4), 229-245. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEG.2017.10006254

The world is currently experiencing a number of real challenges in the face of persistent economic crisis, local conflicts and huge waves of refugees. All of the above are affecting secure access to, completion of peoples’voting rights and participat... Read More about E-voting vs. e-trust: A test bed for e-democracy in a world in crisis?.

Subjective evaluation of high-fidelity virtual environments for driving simulations (2017)
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Debattista, K., Bashford-Rogers, T., Harvey, C., Waterfield, B., & Chalmers, A. (2018). Subjective evaluation of high-fidelity virtual environments for driving simulations. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 48(1), 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2017.2762632

© 2013 IEEE. Virtual environments (VEs) grant the ability to experience real-world scenarios, such as driving, in a virtual, safe, and reproducible context. However, in order to achieve their full potential, the fidelity of the VE must provide confid... Read More about Subjective evaluation of high-fidelity virtual environments for driving simulations.

Incorporating data quality improvement into supply–use table balancing (2017)
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Serpell, M. (2018). Incorporating data quality improvement into supply–use table balancing. Economic Systems Research, 30(2), 271-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2017.1396962

© 2017 The International Input–Output Association. This paper investigates the benefits of using a boundary tightening algorithm to improve the quality of the data used in supply and use table (SUT) balancing, building on similarities with certain ap... Read More about Incorporating data quality improvement into supply–use table balancing.

Learning a minority language through authentic conversation using an online social learning method (2017)
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Henry, M., Carroll, F., Cunliffe, D., & Kop, R. (2018). Learning a minority language through authentic conversation using an online social learning method. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 31(4), 321-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2017.1395348

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Advances in technology are currently helping to speed up the globalisation of ‘super’ languages. One can argue that at the same time technology might be used to help reverse the decline... Read More about Learning a minority language through authentic conversation using an online social learning method.

The evolution of sex through the Baldwin effect (2017)
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Bull, L. (2017). The evolution of sex through the Baldwin effect. Artificial Life, 23(4), 481-492. https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00242

This paper suggests that the fundamental haploid-diploid cycle of eukaryotic sex exploits a rudimentary form of the Baldwin effect. With this explanation for the basic cycle, the other associated phenomena can be explained as evolution tuning the amo... Read More about The evolution of sex through the Baldwin effect.

Cloud provider capacity augmentation through automated resource bartering (2017)
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Goher, S. Z., Bloodsworth, P., Rasool, R. U., & McClatchey, R. (2018). Cloud provider capacity augmentation through automated resource bartering. Future Generation Computer Systems, 81, 203-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.09.080

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Growing interest in Cloud Computing places a heavy workload on cloud providers which is becoming increasingly difficult for them to manage with their primary data centre infrastructures. Resource scarcity can make providers vulne... Read More about Cloud provider capacity augmentation through automated resource bartering.

Frame rate vs resolution: A subjective evaluation of spatiotemporal perceived quality under varying computational budgets (2017)
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Debattista, K., Bugeja, K., Spina, S., Bashford-Rogers, T., & Hulusic, V. (2018). Frame rate vs resolution: A subjective evaluation of spatiotemporal perceived quality under varying computational budgets. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(1), 363-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13302

© 2017 The Authors and 2017 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Maximizing performance for rendered content requires making compromises on quality parameters depending on the computational resources available. Yet, it is current... Read More about Frame rate vs resolution: A subjective evaluation of spatiotemporal perceived quality under varying computational budgets.

Olfaction and selective rendering (2017)
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Harvey, C., Bashford-Rogers, T., Debattista, K., Doukakis, E., & Chalmers, A. (2018). Olfaction and selective rendering. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(1), 350-362. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13295

© 2017 The Authors & 2017 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Accurate simulation of all the senses in virtual environments is a computationally expensive task. Visual saliency models have... Read More about Olfaction and selective rendering.

Modeling and Reasoning about Preference-Based Context-Aware Agents over Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources (2017)
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Uddin, I., Rakib, A., Haque, H. M. U., & Vinh, P. C. (2018). Modeling and Reasoning about Preference-Based Context-Aware Agents over Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources. Mobile Networks and Applications, 23(1), 13-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-017-0899-5

© 2017, The Author(s). This paper presents a conceptual framework and multi-agent model for context-aware decision support in dynamic smart environments based on heterogeneous knowledge sources. A Protégé plug-in for rules extraction from distributed... Read More about Modeling and Reasoning about Preference-Based Context-Aware Agents over Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources.