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Cameras as cultural probes in requirements gathering - Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology (2011)
Journal Article
Caleb-Solly, P., Flind, A., & Vargheese, J. P. (2011). Cameras as cultural probes in requirements gathering - Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology. https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999158

A pre-requisite for a human-centred design approach to technology development is gaining an intimate understanding of not only the people for whom the technology is being designed, but also the contexts within which they will be using it. This paper... Read More about Cameras as cultural probes in requirements gathering - Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology.

Facilitating business process discovery using email analysis (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Mavaddat, M., Beeson, I., Green, S., & Sa, J. (2011, September). Facilitating business process discovery using email analysis. Paper presented at 1st International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology, Rome, Italy

On breathing and geography: Sonifying the Severn as shared generative art practice (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Palmer (nee Reiser), M. (2011, September). On breathing and geography: Sonifying the Severn as shared generative art practice. Paper presented at ISEA2011 Istanbul, The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Istanbul, Turkey

The paper investigates environmental data sonification as a method, and examines the compromises between quantifying and qualifying data in order to aid listeners’ interpretation of sounds. Based on this it discusses different kinds of ‘accuracies’... Read More about On breathing and geography: Sonifying the Severn as shared generative art practice.

Distributed receiver/receiver synchronization in wireless sensor networks: New solution and joint offset/skew estimators for Gaussian delays (2011)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D. (2011). Distributed receiver/receiver synchronization in wireless sensor networks: New solution and joint offset/skew estimators for Gaussian delays. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6843 LNCS, 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23490-3_2

This paper proposes a new synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN). The proposed protocols is based on the receive/reieve approach, which was introduced by the Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS). This approach has been chose... Read More about Distributed receiver/receiver synchronization in wireless sensor networks: New solution and joint offset/skew estimators for Gaussian delays.

Problemáticas en las búsquedas de información por internet con fines académicos / Issues searching Internet information for academic purposes (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Sánchez Moreno, A. D. L. P., & Martinez, G. J. (2011, September). Problemáticas en las búsquedas de información por internet con fines académicos / Issues searching Internet information for academic purposes. Paper presented at I Congreso Internacional De Educación Universitaria Y Prácticas Educativas Innovadoras, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

En el presente artículo se analizan parte de las problemáticas que existen cuando se realizan búsquedas de fuentes de información en internet con fines escolares y académicos; particularmente, nos enfocamos a las dificultades que presentan los estud... Read More about Problemáticas en las búsquedas de información por internet con fines académicos / Issues searching Internet information for academic purposes.

Things to do in the digital afterlife when you're dead (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Buzzo, D. (2011, September). Things to do in the digital afterlife when you're dead. Paper presented at International Symposium on Electronic Art, Istanbul, Turkey

There are currently few procedures or public awareness about what happens to online digital identities after death. This paper discusses what happens with personal electronic information after death and looks to what is argued to be the rapidly appro... Read More about Things to do in the digital afterlife when you're dead.

Fuzzy dynamical genetic programming in XCSF (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Preen, R., & Bull, L. (2011). Fuzzy dynamical genetic programming in XCSF. In N. Krasnogor, & P. L. Lanzi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation (167-168). https://doi.org/10.1145/2001858.2001952

A number of representation schemes have been presented for use within Learning Classifier Systems, ranging from binary encodings to Neural Networks, and more recently Dynamical Genetic Programming (DGP). This paper presents results from an investigat... Read More about Fuzzy dynamical genetic programming in XCSF.

Student engagement with lecture transcripts (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Phelps, P., Lynch, M., & Buzzo, D. (2011, August). Student engagement with lecture transcripts. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences 12th Annual Conference, University of Ulster in Belfast

This paper first presents a summary of work completed during 2009-2010 developing software for semi- automated transcription of lecture audio recordings. Results of previous trials involving student correction of machine generated draft transcripts a... Read More about Student engagement with lecture transcripts.

Analysis of the energy conservation aspects of a mobile context broker (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Kiani, S. L., Moltchanov, B., Knappmeyer, M., & Baker, N. (2011, August). Analysis of the energy conservation aspects of a mobile context broker. Paper presented at The 4th conference on Smart Spaces -- ruSMART, August 22--23, St.-Petersburg, Russia

Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the main mean of interaction for inhabitants of ubiquitous computing environments. Pervasiveness of these devices as users’ personal gadgets and their high-tech capabilities allow capturing of broad contextual... Read More about Analysis of the energy conservation aspects of a mobile context broker.

An artificial chemistry based framework for personal and social context aware smart spaces (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ikram, A., Baker, N., Knappmeyer, M., Reetz, E. S., & Tonjesy, R. (2011). An artificial chemistry based framework for personal and social context aware smart spaces. In 2011 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (2009-2014). https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC.2011.5982843

Supporting context-aware services and applications that are delivered to a user as they move through a smart space is a challenge. The complexity of awareness and interaction requires an efficient interaction and adaptation model. Most research proto... Read More about An artificial chemistry based framework for personal and social context aware smart spaces.

Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management (2011)
Journal Article
Bessis, N., Assimakopoulou, E., Aydin, M. E., & Xhafa, F. (2011). Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management. Studies in Computational Intelligence, 352, 503-526. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20344-2_19

Much work is underway within the broad next generation emerging technologies community on issues associated with the development of services to foster synergies and collaboration via the integration of distributed and heterogeneous resources, systems... Read More about Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management.

APMoodle: Adaptive and personalised e-Learning system (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Hammad, R. (2011, July). APMoodle: Adaptive and personalised e-Learning system. Paper presented at IEEE Conference on Communication, Science & Information Engineering CCSIE 2011, London, UK

Due to the diversity of e-learning usage in different disciplines (practical or theoretical, lifelong learning, formal versus informal education, etc) There are different and multipurpose platforms available in the market and in the educational secto... Read More about APMoodle: Adaptive and personalised e-Learning system.

Towards a mapping of modern AIS and LCS (2011)
Journal Article
Bull, L. (2011). Towards a mapping of modern AIS and LCS. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6825 LNCS, 371-382. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22371-6_32

For many years correlations between aspects of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) have been highlighted. However, neither field appears to have benefitted from such work not least since the differences between the t... Read More about Towards a mapping of modern AIS and LCS.

Multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink with simulated annealing (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M. E., Kwan, R., Wu, J., & Zhang, J. (2011). Multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink with simulated annealing. In 2011 IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring). , (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956238

In this paper, the issue of multi-user radio resource scheduling on the downlink of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular communication system is addressed. An optimization model has been proposed in [1], where radio resources for multiple users are j... Read More about Multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink with simulated annealing.

Genetic ensemble (G-Ensemble) for meteorological prediction enhancement (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ihshaish, H., Cortes, A., & Senar, M. (2011, July). Genetic ensemble (G-Ensemble) for meteorological prediction enhancement. Paper presented at The 2011 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The need for reliable predictions in environmental modelling is long known. Particularly, the predicted weather and meteorological information about the future atmospheric state is crucial and necessary for almost all other areas of environmental mod... Read More about Genetic ensemble (G-Ensemble) for meteorological prediction enhancement.

Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata (2011)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., De Lacy Costello, B., Holley, J., Gorecki, J., & Bull, L. (2011). Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 44(7), 480-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2011.01.016

Irregular arrangements of vesicles filled with excitable and precipitating chemical systems are imitated by Voronoi automata - finite-state machines defined on a planar Voronoi diagram. Every Voronoi cell takes four states: resting, excited, refracto... Read More about Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata.

Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors (2011)
Working Paper
Gale, E., Pearson, D., Kitson, S., Adamatzky, A., & de Lacy Costello, B. Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors. Bristol

By a comparison between memristors made with aluminium and gold electrodes, this letter demonstrates that aluminium electrodes are an essential component of the TiO$_2$ sol-gel flexible memristor . Both slow varying `analogue' and sudden switching `d... Read More about Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors.

Context provisioning middleware with probabilistic reasoning support (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Knappmeyer, M., Wittkorn, E., Kiani, S. L., Tönjes, R., & Baker, N. (2011, June). Context provisioning middleware with probabilistic reasoning support. Poster presented at Proceedings of the 20th Future Network and Mobile Summit, Warsaw, Poland