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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). 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.

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 (229-259). Springer

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?.

Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wennekers, T., Ay, N., & Andras, P. (2005, August). Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems. Presented at 6th Neural Coding Workshop, Marburg, Germany

Brains are information processing systems evolutionary adapted since millions of years. It seems plausible therefore that they follow information theoretic optimization principles. In the early visual system mutual information maximization (Infomax)... Read More about Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems.

Effectiveness of information provision in reducing risks to the environment (2005)
Report
Andras, P., Bush, J., Garratt, J., Hinks, J., Kennedy, A., Piggott, G., Pless-Mulloli, T., Ramskill, K., Theobald, V., & Willis, K. (2005). Effectiveness of information provision in reducing risks to the environment. Defra

As part of a wider effort to develop new approaches to evaluating and quantifying the benefits of chemicals regulation, this project will review the effectiveness of existing information provision tools (such as classification and labelling for hazar... Read More about Effectiveness of information provision in reducing risks to the environment.

The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules (2005)
Journal Article
Andras, P., & Andras, C. (2005). The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2004.11.029

The ‘protein interaction world’ (PIW) hypothesis of the origins of life assumes that life emerged as a self-reproducing and expanding system of protein interactions. In mainstream molecular biology, ‘replication’ refers to the material copying of mol... Read More about The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules.

Environmental risk (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., Lazarus, J., Roberts, G., & Lynden, S. J. (2005, April). Environmental risk. Presented at AISB’05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, Hatfield

Environmental risk is an important factor that influences social evolution in natural and artificial environments. Here we analyse environmental risk and we define objective, subjective and effective environmental risk, which are important aspects of... Read More about Environmental risk.

Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Idowu, O. (2005, December). Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics. Presented at WSOM 2005, Paris

Correct and efficient text classification is a major challenge in today’s world of rapidly increasing amount of accessible electronic text data. Kohonen networks have been applied to document classification with comparable success to other document c... Read More about Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics.

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.

Experimental evaluation of the IP multimedia subsystem (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oredope, A., Liotta, A., Yang, K., & Tyrode-Goilo, D. H. (2005, October). Experimental evaluation of the IP multimedia subsystem. Presented at 5th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2005, Barcelona, Spain

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the latest framework for a seamless conversion of the ordinary Internet with mobile cellular systems. As such it has the backing of all major companies since it aims to offer a unified solution to integrated mobil... Read More about Experimental evaluation of the IP multimedia subsystem.

Composition of context-aware services using policies and models (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, K., Ou, S., Liotta, A., & Henning, I. (2005, November). Composition of context-aware services using policies and models. Presented at GLOBECOM '05. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA

This paper presents a proof-of-the-concept of a novel means to develop in an easy way, to execute in a more pervasive way and to maintain in a more sustainable way context-aware services. The essence of this approach is the integration of the policy-... Read More about Composition of context-aware services using policies and models.

An adaptive clustering approach for the management of dynamic systems (2005)
Journal Article
Ragusa, C., Liotta, A., & Pavlou, G. (2005). An adaptive clustering approach for the management of dynamic systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 23(12), 2223-2235. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2005.857203

Adaptive clustering is one of the fundamental problems behind autonomic systems and, more generally, an open research issue in the area of networking and distributed systems. The problem of giving structure to large-scale, dynamic systems through clu... Read More about An adaptive clustering approach for the management of dynamic systems.

Adaptive content for the mobile user: A policy-based approach (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yew, A., Liotta, A., & Yang, K. (2005, October). Adaptive content for the mobile user: A policy-based approach. Presented at MATA: International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, Montreal, Canada

Service adaptation is fundamental to context-aware service provisioning and to the realization of the Virtual Home Environment concept, which is now an integral part of the 3G service framework. Although the technological means for developing advance... Read More about Adaptive content for the mobile user: A policy-based approach.

A method for automating the extraction of specialized information from the web (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, L., Liotta, A., & Hippisley, A. (2005, December). A method for automating the extraction of specialized information from the web. Presented at International Conference on Computational and Information Science 2005, Xi'an, China

The World Wide Web can be viewed as a gigantic distributed database including millions of interconnected hosts some of which publish information via web servers or peer-to-peer systems. We present here a novel method for the extraction of semanticall... Read More about A method for automating the extraction of specialized information from the web.

Groovy Parallel! A Return to the Spirit of occam? (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J., Barclay, K., & Savage, J. (2005, September). Groovy Parallel! A Return to the Spirit of occam?. Presented at 28th Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2005, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

For some years there has been much activity in developing CSP-like extensions to a number of common programming languages. In particular, a number of groups have looked at extensions to Java. Recent developments in the Java platform have resulted in... Read More about Groovy Parallel! A Return to the Spirit of occam?.

The COST-277 European action: An overview (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Faundez-Zanuy, M., Laine, U., Kubin, G., McLaughlin, S., Kleijn, B., Chollet, G., Petek, B., & Hussain, A. (2005, April). The COST-277 European action: An overview. Presented at NOLISP 2005: International Conference on Nonlinear Analyses and Algorithms for Speech Processing, Barcelona, Spain

This paper summarizes the rationale for proposing the COST-277 “nonlinear speech processing” action, and the work done during these last four years. In addition, future perspectives are described.

Novel sub-band adaptive systems incorporating wiener filtering for binaural speech enhancement (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Squartini, S., & Piazza, F. (2005, April). Novel sub-band adaptive systems incorporating wiener filtering for binaural speech enhancement. Presented at NOLISP 2005: International Conference on Nonlinear Analyses and Algorithms for Speech Processing, Barcelona, Spain

In this paper, new Wiener filtering based binaural sub-band schemes are proposed for adaptive speech-enhancement. The proposed architectures combine a Multi-Microphone Sub-band Adaptive (MMSBA) system with Wiener filtering in order to further reduce... Read More about Novel sub-band adaptive systems incorporating wiener filtering for binaural speech enhancement.

Nonlinear adaptive speech enhancement inspired by early auditory processing (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Durrani, T. S., Alkulaibi, A., & Mtetwa, N. (2004, September). Nonlinear adaptive speech enhancement inspired by early auditory processing. Presented at NN 2004: International School on Neural Networks, Salerno, Italy

This paper presents non-linear adaptive speech enhancement schemes inspired by features of early auditory processing. A generic multi-microphone sub-band adaptive (MMSBA) framework is described which allows for the manipulation of several factors tha... Read More about Nonlinear adaptive speech enhancement inspired by early auditory processing.