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An overview of artificial immune systems. (2005)
Book Chapter
Timmis, J., Knight, T., de Castro, L., & Hart, E. (2005). An overview of artificial immune systems. In R. Paton, H. Bolouri, W. M. L. Holcombe, J. H. Parish, & R. Tateson (Eds.), Computation in Cells and Tissues: Perspectives and Tools of Thought (51-86).

The immune system is highly distributed, highly adaptive, self-organising in nature, maintains a memory of past encounters and has the ability to continually learn about new encounters. From a computational point of view, the immune system has much t... Read More about An overview of artificial immune systems..

A critical re-appraisal of Activity Theory. (2005)
Book Chapter
Turner, P. (2005). A critical re-appraisal of Activity Theory. In W. Karwowski (Ed.), International Encyclopaedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780849375477.ch133

The Tourist Gaze: contextualised virtual environments. (2005)
Book Chapter
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Carroll, F. (2005). The Tourist Gaze: contextualised virtual environments. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (281-297). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0_19

Distributed Monitoring: Methods, Means and Technologies (2005)
Book Chapter
Liotta, A. (2005). Distributed Monitoring: Methods, Means and Technologies. In Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems: Business and Technology in the New Millennium (965-998). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-7829-3_29

Monitoring has been described by Joyce et al. as “the process of dynamic collection, interpretation and presentation of information concerning objects or software processes under scrutiny”. In his book on network and system management, Sloman has lat... Read More about Distributed Monitoring: Methods, Means and Technologies.

Self-Aware software – will it become a reality? (2005)
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2005). Self-Aware software – will it become a reality?. In O. Babaoglu, M. Jelasity, A. Montresor, C. Fetzer, & S. Leonardi (Eds.), Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: conceptual and Practical Foundations

The possibility of building self-aware software fascinated computer scientist since the beginning of computer science. Research in AI, and in particular on software agents, agent system, computational reflection and reflective software delivered inte... Read More about Self-Aware software – will it become a reality?.

Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork (2005)
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Lazarus, J. (2005). Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork. In N. Gold (Ed.), Teamwork: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (56-77). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523203_4

Our aims in this chapter are twofold. First, we place teamwork in the context of the evolutionary analysis of cooperation and altruism. This allows us to predict the evolutionary scenarios likely to have favoured the evolution of team work, the proba... Read More about Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork.

E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth (2005)
Book Chapter
Macintosh, A., Smith, E., & Whyte, A. (2005). E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth. In M. Cunningham, & P. Cunningham (Eds.), Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies (730-737). IOS Press

This paper presents the results of a completed research study the aim of which was to identify ICT tools suitable for engaging with young people in dialogue on a complex policy issue. The study involved a review of current research and practice, deve... Read More about E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth.

Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform (2005)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2005). Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (249-260). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0_17

A memetic algorithm for the university course timetabling. (2004)
Book Chapter
Rossi-Doria, O., & Paechter, B. (2004). A memetic algorithm for the university course timetabling. In CO2004 Book of Abstracts (56). Lancaster University

Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service. (2004)
Book Chapter
Turner, P., Milne, G., Turner, S., Kubitscheck, M., & Penman, I. (2004). Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service. In Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access. Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007

In this paper, we describe a pilot study of the clinical use of a wireless network of personal digital assistants (PDAs). We describe how we are dealing with the concerns of the clinicians with respect to maintaining the security of patient records a... Read More about Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service..