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Evolving boolean networks on tunable fitness landscapes (2012)
Journal Article
Bull, L. (2012). Evolving boolean networks on tunable fitness landscapes. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 16(6), 817-828. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2011.2173578

This paper presents an abstract, tunable model by which to explore aspects of artificial genetic regulatory networks and their design by simulated evolution. The random Boolean network formalism is combined with the NK and $NKCS$ models of fitness la... Read More about Evolving boolean networks on tunable fitness landscapes.

Forensic analysis of wireless networking evidence of Android smartphones (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Andriotis, P., Oikonomou, G., & Tryfonas, T. (2012). Forensic analysis of wireless networking evidence of Android smartphones. In 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) (109-114). https://doi.org/10.1109/WIFS.2012.6412634

This paper introduces a method for acquiring forensic-grade evidence from Android smartphones using open source tools. We investigate in particular cases where the suspect has made use of the smartphone's Wi-Fi or Bluetooth interfaces. We discuss the... Read More about Forensic analysis of wireless networking evidence of Android smartphones.

A novel dynamic Q-learning-based scheduler technique for LTE-advanced technologies using neural networks (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Sorin Comsa, I., Zhang, S., Aydin, M., Kuonen, P., & Wagen, J. F. (2012). A novel dynamic Q-learning-based scheduler technique for LTE-advanced technologies using neural networks. In 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (332-335). https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2012.6423642

The tradeoff concept between system capacity and user fairness attracts a big interest in LTE-Advanced resource allocation strategies. By using static threshold values for throughput or fairness, regardless the network conditions, makes the scheduler... Read More about A novel dynamic Q-learning-based scheduler technique for LTE-advanced technologies using neural networks.

A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sector (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Bamiah, M., Brohi, S., Chuprat, S., & Ab Manan, J. L. (2012). A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sector. In Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management (65-68). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488073

Healthcare sector is information critical industry that deals with human lives. Transforming from traditional paper-based to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) was not efficient enough since EHRs require resources, integration, maintenance and high cos... Read More about A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sector.

Towards an efficient and secure educational platform on cloud infrastructure (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Brohi, S., Bamiah, M. A., Chuprat, S., & Ab Manan, J. L. (2012). Towards an efficient and secure educational platform on cloud infrastructure. In Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management, ICCCTAM 2012 (145-150). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488088

Existing educational platforms are highly cost-consuming and inefficient in-terms of scalability, flexibility of infrastructures, availability, recovery, accessibility and security. Cloud computing is considered as a flexible business and technologic... Read More about Towards an efficient and secure educational platform on cloud infrastructure.

Identifying and analyzing security threats to virtualized cloud computing infrastructures (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Brohi, S., Bamiah, M. A., Brohi, M. N., & Kamran, R. (2012). Identifying and analyzing security threats to virtualized cloud computing infrastructures. In 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management (ICCCTAM) (151-155). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488089

A multi-tenant Cloud Computing Infrastructure (CCI) consists of several Virtual Machines (VMs) running on same physical platform by using virtualization techniques. The VMs are monitored and managed by kernel based software i.e. Virtual Machine Monit... Read More about Identifying and analyzing security threats to virtualized cloud computing infrastructures.

Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation (2012)
Journal Article
Parmee, I. C., Simons, C. L., Simons, C., & Parmee, I. (2012). Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, 42(6), 1797-1805. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2225103

Design is fundamental to software development but can be demanding to perform. Thus, to assist the software designer, evolutionary computing is being increasingly applied using machine-based, quantitative fitness functions to evolve software designs.... Read More about Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation.

Cloud implementation security challenges (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Bamiah, M., Brohi, S., Chuprat, S., & Brohi, M. N. (2012). Cloud implementation security challenges. In Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies, Applications and Management, ICCCTAM 2012 (174-178). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCTAM.2012.6488093

Cloud computing offers significant features such as resource pooling, scalability, on-demand self service, availability, and reliability to organizations to improve their quality of services. For example by using cloud computing services in healthcar... Read More about Cloud implementation security challenges.

Automated evolutionary synthesis matching: Advanced evolutionary algorithms for difficult sound matching problems: Advanced evolutionary algorithms for difficult sound matching problems (2012)
Journal Article
Mitchell, T. J. (2012). Automated evolutionary synthesis matching: Advanced evolutionary algorithms for difficult sound matching problems: Advanced evolutionary algorithms for difficult sound matching problems. Soft Computing, 16(12), 2057-2070. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-012-0873-x

This paper discusses the subject of automatic evolutionary sound matching: systems in which evolutionary algorithms are used to automatically derive the parameters of a synthesiser to produce a sound that matches a specified target sound. The paper d... Read More about Automated evolutionary synthesis matching: Advanced evolutionary algorithms for difficult sound matching problems: Advanced evolutionary algorithms for difficult sound matching problems.

A cloud-based architecture for citizen services for smart cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., & Liaquat Kiani, S. (2012, November). A cloud-based architecture for citizen services for smart cities. Paper presented at The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC) 2012, Chicago, USA

Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot (2012)
Journal Article
Prescott, T. J., Pearson, M. J., Evans, M. H., Fox, C. W., Fox, C. W., Evans, M., …Prescott, T. J. (2012). Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(11), 1356-1366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.03.005

The paradigm case for robotic mapping assumes large quantities of sensory information which allow the use of relatively weak priors. In contrast, the present study considers the mapping problem for a mobile robot, CrunchBot, where only sparse, local... Read More about Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot.

A pilot investigation of Information Extraction in the semantic annotation of archaeological reports (2012)
Journal Article
Vlachidis, A., & Tudhope, D. (2012). A pilot investigation of Information Extraction in the semantic annotation of archaeological reports. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 7(3), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2012.050183

The paper discusses a prototype investigation of semantic annotation, a form of metadata assigning conceptual entities to textual instances; in the case of archaeological grey literature. The use of Information Extraction (IE), a Natural Language Pro... Read More about A pilot investigation of Information Extraction in the semantic annotation of archaeological reports.

Translation techniques in cross-language information retrieval (2012)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Truran, M., Brailsford, T., Wade, V., & Ashman, H. (2012). Translation techniques in cross-language information retrieval. ACM Computing Surveys, 45(1), 1-44. https://doi.org/10.1145/2379776.2379777

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is an active sub-domain of information retrieval (IR). Like IR, CLIR is centered on the search for documents and for information contained within those documents. Unlike IR, CLIR must reconcile queries and... Read More about Translation techniques in cross-language information retrieval.

Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL (2012)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Odeh, M., Munir, K., Munir, K., Odeh, M., & McClatchey, R. (2012). Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL. Knowledge-Based Systems, 35, 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2012.04.020

This work investigates the extent to which domain knowledge, expressed in a domain ontology, can assist end-users in formulating relational queries that can be executed over a complex relational database. In this regard, an ontology-driven query form... Read More about Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL.

Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor (2012)
Journal Article
Pipe, T., Roke, C., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A. G., Drury, D., & Chorley, C. (2012). Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(11), 1442-1448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.05.002

The ability to localise harder areas in soft tissues is often desired during robot-assisted surgical operations. A deformation-based tactile feedback system was tested for the detection of objects within soft tissues, after being chosen over common p... Read More about Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor.

A mobile location-based situated learning framework for supporting critical thinking – A requirements analysis study (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Alnuaim, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Perry, C. (2012, October). A mobile location-based situated learning framework for supporting critical thinking – A requirements analysis study. Paper presented at IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2012), Madrid, Spain

This paper presents the requirements work carried out as part of developing an intervention to improve students’ critical thinking skills using location-based mobile learning. The research emerged from seeking to identify ways of getting Interactio... Read More about A mobile location-based situated learning framework for supporting critical thinking – A requirements analysis study.

Location-based mobile learning for higher education students - devloping an application to support critical thinking (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Alnuaim, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Perry, C. (2012, October). Location-based mobile learning for higher education students - devloping an application to support critical thinking. Paper presented at The 11th International Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning 2012, Helsinki, Finland

The increasing adoption of smart phones and tablets has opened up many opportunities for the use of new technologies in ways that can benefit. The challenge is to try and match the technology to educational activities that can be adapted to students’... Read More about Location-based mobile learning for higher education students - devloping an application to support critical thinking.

Evolution of plastic learning in spiking networks via memristive connections (2012)
Journal Article
Howard, G., Howard, D., Gale, E., Bull, L., De Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Evolution of plastic learning in spiking networks via memristive connections. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 16(5), 711-729. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2011.2170199

This paper presents a spiking neuroevolutionary system which implements memristors as plastic connections, i.e., whose weights can vary during a trial. The evolutionary design process exploits parameter self-adaptation and variable topologies, allowi... Read More about Evolution of plastic learning in spiking networks via memristive connections.