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An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., & McGregor, I. (2014). An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape. In Proceedings of invisible places:sounding cities 2014 (13-38)

This is an introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape and is part of an even bigger project. It introduces a soundscape diced with traditional sounds which still echo in the present and mutate and conflict with the modern sounds that are becoming p... Read More about An introductory study of the Maltese Soundscape..

A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Keefe, B., Benyon, D., Chandwani, G., & Menon, M. (2014). A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling. . https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.10

This paper explores the role of Blending Theory, as a framework, to aid in design decisions while deploying mobile experiences for heritage storytelling. Blending Theory provides a structured way of thinking about how digital and physical spaces ca... Read More about A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling..

Poxels: polygonal voxel environment rendering (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miller, M., Cumming, A., Chalmers, K., Kenwright, B., & Mitchell, K. (2014, November). Poxels: polygonal voxel environment rendering. Presented at Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '14

We present efficient rendering of opaque, sparse, voxel environments with data amplified in local graphics memory with stream-out from a geomery shader to a cached vertex buffer pool. We show that our Poxel rendering primitive aligns with optimized r... Read More about Poxels: polygonal voxel environment rendering.

Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., & Craighill, S. (2014). Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries. In The European Conference on Education 2014: Official Conference Proceedings (79-90)

This paper explores Whitchurch’s (2008) notion of the ‘third space’ in the context of articulating students from Further Education to Higher Education. This research appropriates the term ‘third space’ and applies it to the emergent territory occupie... Read More about Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries.

Designing Coordinated Multiple Views of Information Space. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., Igoniderigha, N., & Benyon, D. (2014). Designing Coordinated Multiple Views of Information Space. . https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.9

Information visualisation has long been recognized as a powerful aid to understanding: what Stuart Card has called ‘the amplification of cognition’. Research and development in information visualisation has been undertaken from many different perspec... Read More about Designing Coordinated Multiple Views of Information Space..

Process discovery in highly parallel distributed systems. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J. (2014). Process discovery in highly parallel distributed systems.

In distributed data processing systems it may happen that data arrives for processing for which the appropriate algorithm is not available on the specific node of the distributed system. It is however known that the required algorithm is available... Read More about Process discovery in highly parallel distributed systems..

The design space of temporal graph visualisation. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2014, June). The design space of temporal graph visualisation. Presented at 8th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '14)

This paper presents our work in mapping the design space of techniques for temporal graph visualisation. We identify two independent dimensions upon which the techniques can be classified: graph structural encoding and temporal encoding. Based on the... Read More about The design space of temporal graph visualisation..

Cloud Migration Patterns: A Multi-Cloud Service Architecture Perspective. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamshidi, P., Pahl, C., Chinenyeze, S., & Liu, X. (2014). Cloud Migration Patterns: A Multi-Cloud Service Architecture Perspective.

Many organizations migrate their on-premise software systems to the cloud. However, current coarse-grained cloud migration solutions have made a transparent migration of on-premise applications to the cloud a difficult, sometimes trial-and-error base... Read More about Cloud Migration Patterns: A Multi-Cloud Service Architecture Perspective..

On the life-long learning capabilities of a NELLI*: a hyper-heuristic optimisation system. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Sim, K. (2014, September). On the life-long learning capabilities of a NELLI*: a hyper-heuristic optimisation system

Real-world applications of optimisation techniques place more importance on finding approaches that result in acceptable quality solutions in a short time-frame and can provide robust solutions, capable of being modified in response to changes in the... Read More about On the life-long learning capabilities of a NELLI*: a hyper-heuristic optimisation system..

Critical Evaluation on jClouds and Cloudify Abstract APIs against EC2, Azure and HP-Cloud. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, S. T., & Liu, X. (2014). Critical Evaluation on jClouds and Cloudify Abstract APIs against EC2, Azure and HP-Cloud. In 2014 IEEE 38th International Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW), (510-515)

With Cloud Computing there comes new possibilities like programmability of Infrastructure via provider exposed APIs. These APIs can aid the concept of elasticity that is associated with the Cloud however, there is a trend that these APIs are provider... Read More about Critical Evaluation on jClouds and Cloudify Abstract APIs against EC2, Azure and HP-Cloud..

'Hyperlocal e-democracy'? The experience of Scotland's Community Councils. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruickshank, P., Ryan, B., & Smith, C. F. (2014). 'Hyperlocal e-democracy'? The experience of Scotland's Community Councils. In P. Parycek, & N. Edelmann (Eds.), CeDEM14 Proceedings (73-84)

This paper is motivated by the need to understand the reality of the use of the now well-established opportunities offered by the internet to engage with citizens. Building on previous research this paper derives a framework tailored for evaluation o... Read More about 'Hyperlocal e-democracy'? The experience of Scotland's Community Councils..

OPENsenima - Open Source Energy Interceptors for Mobile Apps (Guest Technical Presentation). (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chinenyeze, S. (2014). OPENsenima - Open Source Energy Interceptors for Mobile Apps (Guest Technical Presentation). In Presentations in 2nd GreenCode Lab Euro Conference

In software engineering interceptors are components (or pattern - a way of design) that changes or augments the usual processing cycle of a system. Interceptors can be used for intelligent decision making which consequently improves the user experien... Read More about OPENsenima - Open Source Energy Interceptors for Mobile Apps (Guest Technical Presentation)..

Visualizing Sets: An Empirical Comparison of Diagram Types. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chapman, P., Stapleton, G., Rodgers, P., Micallef, L., & Blake, A. (2014, July). Visualizing Sets: An Empirical Comparison of Diagram Types. Presented at 8th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams: Diagrams 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

There are a range of diagram types that can be used to visualize sets. However, there is a significant lack of insight into which is the most effective visualization. To address this knowledge gap, this paper empirically evaluates four diagram type... Read More about Visualizing Sets: An Empirical Comparison of Diagram Types..

Idiotypic networks for evolutionary controllers in virtual creatures. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2014, July). Idiotypic networks for evolutionary controllers in virtual creatures

We propose a novel method for evolving adaptive locomotive strategies for virtual limbless creatures that addresses both functional and non-functional requirements, respectively the ability to avoid obstacles and to minimise spent energy. We describe... Read More about Idiotypic networks for evolutionary controllers in virtual creatures..

Artificial Immune System driven evolution in Swarm Chemistry. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2014). Artificial Immune System driven evolution in Swarm Chemistry. In Proceedings of IEEE SASO 2014 (40-49). https://doi.org/10.1109/SASO.2014.16

Morphogenetic engineering represents an interesting field in which models, frameworks and algorithms can be tested in order to study how self-* properties and emergent behaviours can arise in potentially complex and distributed systems. In this field... Read More about Artificial Immune System driven evolution in Swarm Chemistry..

Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alqadah, M., Stapleton, G., Howse, J., & Chapman, P. (2014, July). Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams

Euler diagrams, used to visualize data and as a basis for visual languages, are an effective representation of information, but they can become cluttered. Previous research established a measure of Euler diagram clutter, empirically shown to correspo... Read More about Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams..

Communicating Process Architectures 2014 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2014). Communicating Process Architectures 2014. In P. H. Welch, F. R. M. Barnes, J. F. Broenink, K. Chalmers, T. Gibson-Robinson, R. Ivimey-Cook, …M. L. Smith (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2014

CPA 2014 is one of an annual series of conferences organised over almost thirty years concerned with the design of parallel systems inspired by the Theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) of C. A. R. Hoare. Particular aims are the promotio... Read More about Communicating Process Architectures 2014.

C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN experimental facilities (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toseef, U., Zaalouk, A., Rothe, T., Broadbent, M., & Pentikousis, K. (2014). C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN experimental facilities. In 2014 Third European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (91-96). https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSDN.2014.41

Efficient authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) management mechanisms will be key for the widespread adoption of SDN experimentation facilities beyond the confines of academic labs. In particular, we are interested in a robust AAA infra... Read More about C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN experimental facilities.

From crime to court - an experience report of a digital forensics group project module. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leimich, P., Ferguson, I., & Coull, N. (2014, November). From crime to court - an experience report of a digital forensics group project module. Paper presented at HEA Teaching Computer Forensics Workshop

This paper discusses the large-scale group project undertaken by BSc Hons Digital Forensics students at Abertay University in their penultimate year. The philosophy of the project is to expose students to the full digital crime "life cycle", from c... Read More about From crime to court - an experience report of a digital forensics group project module..