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Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Legg, P. (2015, October). Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity. Paper presented at IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, Chicago, Illinois, USA

One of the greatest challenges for managing organisational cyber security is the threat that comes from those who operate within the organisation. With entitled access and knowledge of organisational processes, insiders who choose to attack have the... Read More about Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity.

From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fotaris, P., Mastoras, T., Leinfellner, R., & Yasmine, R. (2015, October). From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification. Paper presented at 9th European Conference on Games Based Learning ECGBL 2015, Steinkjer, Norway

Unlike conventional taught learning, video games are very successful at keeping players constantly motivated and engaged on a set of tasks for many hours without apparent loss of focus. Additionally, when playing, gamers solve complex problems withou... Read More about From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification.

Visualising software as a particle system (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scarle, S., & Walkinshaw, N. (2015, September). Visualising software as a particle system. Presented at VISSOFT 2015, Bremen, Germany

Current metrics-based approaches to visualise unfamiliar software systems face two key limitations: (1) They are limited in terms of the number of dimensions that can be projected, and (2) they use fixed layout algorithms where the resulting position... Read More about Visualising software as a particle system.

Simple synchronisation for open sound control (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Madgwick, S. O. H., Mitchell, T. J., Barreto, C., & Freed, A. (2015, September). Simple synchronisation for open sound control. Paper presented at 41st International Computer Music Conference 2015, Texas, USA

Clock synchronisation is a mature and important aspect of distributed computing systems. Despite the importance of accurate timing in music, there are relatively few widely applicable synchronisation solutions available to computer music practitioner... Read More about Simple synchronisation for open sound control.

Quasi-Hamming distances: An overarching concept for measuring glyph similarity (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Legg, P. A., Maguire, E., Walton, S., & Chen, M. (2015, September). Quasi-Hamming distances: An overarching concept for measuring glyph similarity. Paper presented at EGUK Computer Graphics and Visual Computing 2015, UCL, London, UK

In many applications of spatial or temporal visualization, glyphs provide an effective means for encoding mul- tivariate data objects. However, because glyphs are typically small, they are vulnerable to various perceptual errors. In data communicatio... Read More about Quasi-Hamming distances: An overarching concept for measuring glyph similarity.

A mobile homeostat with three degrees of freedom (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Battle, S. (2015, September). A mobile homeostat with three degrees of freedom. Paper presented at IMA Conference on Mathematics of Robotics, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK

In the foundational cybernetics text, Design for a Brain, W. Ross Ashby introduces an adaptive system called the homeostat, and speculates about the possibility of creating a mobile homeostat “with its critical states set so that it seeks situations... Read More about A mobile homeostat with three degrees of freedom.

Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., & Adamatzky, A. (2015, September). Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots. Presented at ESCOM IPN seminar, Mexico City, Mexico

Se discutirá el problema del fenómeno "comportamiento colectivo no trivial", frecuentemente referido como auto-organización, en sistemas complejos analizado a través de mini-robots. Durante la conferencia se presentarán algunos prototipos desarrollad... Read More about Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots.

Further towards sonifications of elemental ecological systems/relationships: Salt marsh ecology experiments in temporal immersion and exchange (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Palmer (nee Reiser), M., & Jones, O. (2015, September). Further towards sonifications of elemental ecological systems/relationships: Salt marsh ecology experiments in temporal immersion and exchange. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter, UK

In this paper we seek to further develop the concept/methodology of data sonification (see Palmer and Jones 2014) as an experimental aesthetic, geo-poetic, and techno-scientific creative procedure for making explicit the generative processuality of e... Read More about Further towards sonifications of elemental ecological systems/relationships: Salt marsh ecology experiments in temporal immersion and exchange.

Computing with virtual cellular automata collider (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & McIntosh, H. V. (2015, July). Computing with virtual cellular automata collider. Paper presented at Science and Information Conference 2015, London, United Kingdom

We present computer models of nano-scale computing circuits based on propagation of localised excitations or defects in complexes of polymer chain rings. A cyclotron automata are sets of rings of one-dimensional array of finite states (cellular autom... Read More about Computing with virtual cellular automata collider.

Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Soomro, K., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2015, July). Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems. Paper presented at IEEE Science and Information Conference 2015, London, UK

Recommender systems are used to enable decision support. Using them to assist users when designing scientific workflows introduces a number of challenges. These include selecting appropriate components and specifying correct parameter values. Pattern... Read More about Incorporating semantics in pattern-based scientific workflow recommender systems.

Designing traceability into big data systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McClatchey, R., Branson, A., Shamdasani, J., & Kovacs, Z. (2015, July). Designing traceability into big data systems. Paper presented at 5th Annual International Conference on ICT: Big Data, Cloud and Security, Singapore

Providing an appropriate level of accessibility and traceability to data or process elements (‘Items’) in large volumes of data, often Cloud-resident, is an essential requirement in the Big Data era. Enterprise-wide data systems need to be designed f... Read More about Designing traceability into big data systems.

Metaheuristic design pattern: Preference (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Aljawawdeh, H., Simons, C., & Odeh, M. (2015, July). Metaheuristic design pattern: Preference. Paper presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2015 (GECCO 2015), Madrid, Spain

In interactive metaheuristic search, the human helps to steer the trajectory of the search by providing qualitative evaluation to assist in the selection of solution individuals. It can be challenging to design mechanisms to exploit human qualitative... Read More about Metaheuristic design pattern: Preference.

Designing for the impossible: Creating a mobile application to track time travel (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Buzzo, D., & Jonas, D. (2015, July). Designing for the impossible: Creating a mobile application to track time travel. Paper presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015), London, England

In this paper we discuss the development of TimeTravel, a mobile application for tracking personal time dilation. Time dilation is the relativistic warping effect on time that velocity and gravity produces. Predicted by Einstein's Special theory of... Read More about Designing for the impossible: Creating a mobile application to track time travel.

Traceability and provenance in big data medical systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., Munir, K., & Kovács, Z. (2015, June). Traceability and provenance in big data medical systems. Paper presented at IEEE Conference on Computer Based Medical Systems, Sao Carlos, Brazil

Providing an appropriate level of accessibility to and tracking of data or process elements in large volumes of medical data, is an essential requirement in the Big Data era. Researchers require systems that provide traceability of information throug... Read More about Traceability and provenance in big data medical systems.

Droid geometry (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Battle, S. (2015, June). Droid geometry. Presented at DigiMakers, At-Bristol, UK

An introduction to the geometry and inverse kinematics of robot arms. Suitable for beginners (as are most things worth learning), covering basic Python and trigonometry.

How to develop and maintain an on-line community of co-learners: A social media classroom (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Buzzo, D., & Phelps, P. (2015, June). How to develop and maintain an on-line community of co-learners: A social media classroom. Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal

The modular nature of courses and the fragmenting pressures of Higher Education schedules can make it difficult to create and/or maintain any semblance of a community of practice (i.e. one in which the discussion of learning and around learning is op... Read More about How to develop and maintain an on-line community of co-learners: A social media classroom.

Sphere: A novel platform for increasing safety & security on unmanned systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Pigatto, D., Smith, J., & Branco, K. (2015, June). Sphere: A novel platform for increasing safety & security on unmanned systems. Paper presented at 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Denver, Colorado, USA

The Healthy, Mobility and Security-based Data Communication Architecture, also known as HAMSTER, is provided with a special platform for safety & security: Sphere. It concentrates all the safety & security aspects of the main ar- chitecture and all d... Read More about Sphere: A novel platform for increasing safety & security on unmanned systems.

The cognitive dimensions of music notations (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Nash, C. (2015, May). The cognitive dimensions of music notations. Paper presented at International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 2015, Paris-Sorbonne / IRCAM, Paris, France

This paper presents and adapts the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework (Green and Petre, 1996) for use in designing and analysing notations (and user interfaces) in both digital and traditional music practice and study. Originally developed t... Read More about The cognitive dimensions of music notations.

Governing narrative events with institutional norms (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, M., Padget, J., & Battle, S. (2015, May). Governing narrative events with institutional norms. Paper presented at 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’15), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

A narrative world can be viewed as a form of society in which characters follow a set of social norms whose collective function is to guide the characters through (the creation of) a story arc and reach some conclusion. By modelling the rules of a na... Read More about Governing narrative events with institutional norms.