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Requirements and software engineering for tree-based visualisation and modelling: A user driven approach (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Hale, P., Solomonides, T., & Beeson, I. (2011, June). Requirements and software engineering for tree-based visualisation and modelling: A user driven approach. Paper presented at Postgraduate Conference for Computing: Applications and Theory (PCCAT 2011), Exeter University, Exeter, UK

This paper is about potential to provide an interactive visual ontology/taxonomy based modelling system. The research is part of efforts to structure, manage, and enable understanding of complex engineering, business and/or scientific information to... Read More about Requirements and software engineering for tree-based visualisation and modelling: A user driven approach.

Evolving spiking networks with variable memristors (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Howard, G. D., Gale, E., Bull, L., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2011, June). Evolving spiking networks with variable memristors. Paper presented at 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Arithmetic dynamical genetic programming in the XCSF learning classifier system (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Preen, R., & Bull, L. (2011, June). Arithmetic dynamical genetic programming in the XCSF learning classifier system. Paper presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2011, New Orleans, US

This paper presents results from an investigation into using a continuous-valued dynamical system representation within the XCSF Learning Classifier System. In particular, dynamical arithmetic genetic networks are used to represent the traditional... Read More about Arithmetic dynamical genetic programming in the XCSF learning classifier system.

CMS workflow execution using intelligent job scheduling and data access strategies (2011)
Journal Article
Metson, S., Hernandez, J. M., Hasham, K., Delgado Peris, A., Anjum, A., Evans, D., …McClatchey, R. (2011). CMS workflow execution using intelligent job scheduling and data access strategies. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 58(3 PART 3), 1221-1232. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2011.2146276

Complex scientific workflows can process large amounts of data using thousands of tasks. The turnaround times of these workflows are often affected by various latencies such as the resource discovery, scheduling and data access latencies for the indi... Read More about CMS workflow execution using intelligent job scheduling and data access strategies.

On electrical correlates of physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see physarum machine in the dark? (2011)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., & Jones, J. (2011). On electrical correlates of physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see physarum machine in the dark?. Biophysical Reviews and Letters, 6(1-2), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793048011001257

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye, which spans sources of nutrients with its protoplasmic network. In a very simple experimental setup we recorded electric potential of the propagating plasmodium. We discover... Read More about On electrical correlates of physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see physarum machine in the dark?.

Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum (2011)
Journal Article
Miranda, E. R., Adamatzky, A., & Jones, J. (2011). Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 8(2), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529%2811%2960016-4

This paper introduces a novel application of bionic engineering: a bionic musical instrument using Physarum polycephalum. Physarum polycephalum is a huge single cell with thousands of nuclei, which behaves like a giant amoeba. During its foraging beh... Read More about Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum.

On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties (2011)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A. (2011). On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties. Nature Precedings, https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2011.5985.1

A plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell with many nuclei. Presented to a configuration of attracting and repelling stimuli a plasmodium optimizes its growth pattern and spans the attractants, while avoiding... Read More about On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties.

SoundGrasp: A gestural interface for the performance of live music (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Mitchell, T. J. (2011, May). SoundGrasp: A gestural interface for the performance of live music. Poster presented at Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 30 May - 1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway

This paper documents the first developmental phase of an interface that enables the performance of live music using gestures and body movements. The work included focuses on the first step of this project: the composition and performance of live musi... Read More about SoundGrasp: A gestural interface for the performance of live music.

Scanning environments with swarms of learning birds: A computational intelligence approach for managing disasters (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Aydin, M. E., Bessis, N., Asimakopoulou, E., Xhafa, F., & Wu, J. (2011). Scanning environments with swarms of learning birds: A computational intelligence approach for managing disasters. In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. , (332-339). https://doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2011.75

Much work is underway within the broad next generation technologies community on issues associated with the development of services to foster collaboration via the integration of distributed and heterogeneous data systems and technologies. In previou... Read More about Scanning environments with swarms of learning birds: A computational intelligence approach for managing disasters.

Automated verification of resource requirements in multi-agent systems using abstraction (2011)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2011). Automated verification of resource requirements in multi-agent systems using abstraction. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6572 LNAI, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20674-0_5

We describe a framework for the automated verification of multi-agent systems which do distributed problem solving, e.g. query answering. Each reasoner uses facts, messages and Horn clause rules to derive new information. We show how to verify correc... Read More about Automated verification of resource requirements in multi-agent systems using abstraction.

Towards evolving spiking networks with memristive synapses (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Howard, G. D., Gale, E., Bull, L., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2011, April). Towards evolving spiking networks with memristive synapses. Paper presented at IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE), 2011, Paris, France

This paper presents a spiking neuro-evolutionary system which implements memristors as neuromodulatory connections, ie whose weights can vary during a trial. The evolutionary design process exploits parameter self-adaptation and a constructionist app... Read More about Towards evolving spiking networks with memristive synapses.

Cellular automaton supercolliders (2011)
Journal Article
Martínez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., Stephens, C. R., & Hoeflich, A. F. (2011). Cellular automaton supercolliders. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 22(4), 419-439. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183111016348

Gliders in one-dimensional cellular automata are compact groups of non-quiescent and non-ether patterns (ether represents a periodic background) translating along automaton lattice. They are cellular automaton analogous of localizations or quasi-loca... Read More about Cellular automaton supercolliders.

A stellar role for knowledge organization systems in digital archaeology (2011)
Journal Article
Tudhope, D., Binding, C., May, K., Jeffrey, S., & Vlachidis, A. (2011). A stellar role for knowledge organization systems in digital archaeology. Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology,

Research data in archaeology is being made more accessible through the semantic efforts of the STAR and STELLAR projects of two United Kingdom universities. The goal of STAR (Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) is to facilitate semant... Read More about A stellar role for knowledge organization systems in digital archaeology.

Applications of Kauffman’s coevolutionary NKCS model to management and organization studies (2011)
Book Chapter
Vidgen, R., & Bull, L. (2011). Applications of Kauffman’s coevolutionary NKCS model to management and organization studies. In P. Allen, S. Maguire, & B. McKelvey (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Complexity and Management (201-219). SAGE Publications Limited

A number of studies have used tuneable, abstract models of organism evolution like Kauffman's (1993) NK model to capture and explore aspects of organizations and their adaptation in the business environment (eg Levinthal, 1997; Rivkin, 2000; Lenox... Read More about Applications of Kauffman’s coevolutionary NKCS model to management and organization studies.

Computational modalities of Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated vesicles (2011)
Journal Article
Holley, J., Adamatzky, A., Bull, L., De Lacy Costello, B., & Jahan, I. (2011). Computational modalities of Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated vesicles. Nano Communication Networks, 2(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nancom.2011.02.002

We present both simulated and partial empirical evidences for the computational utility of many connected vesicle analogues of an encapsulated nonlinear chemical processing medium. By connecting small vesicles containing a solution of sub-excitable B... Read More about Computational modalities of Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated vesicles.

Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care (2011)
Journal Article
Olive, M., Lashwood, A., & Solomonides, T. (2011). Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care. International Journal of Care Pathways, 15(1), 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1258/jicp.2010.010m21

This is one of a series of papers arising in part out of the SHARE (Supporting and structuring Healthgrid Activities and Research in Europe) project; in previous work, we have examined the use of integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form o... Read More about Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care.

A chemical model to enable context awareness (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ikram, A., Baker, N., Knappmeyer, M., & Tönjes, R. (2011). A chemical model to enable context awareness. In 2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security. https://doi.org/10.1109/ntms.2011.5721147

Modeling ad-hoc context-aware services and applications that are delivered to a user as they move through a smart space has always been fraught with difficulty. It requires representation, management and inference of context, dynamic update of both c... Read More about A chemical model to enable context awareness.

Context source: A smartphone application for serving context to a generic context provisioning system (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Knappmeyer, M., Brettschneider, D., & Kiani, S. L. (2011, February). Context source: A smartphone application for serving context to a generic context provisioning system. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Context-Systems Design, Evaluation and Optimisation in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Como, Italy