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High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions (2006)
Journal Article
Wennekers, T., Ay, N., & Andras, P. (2007). High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions. BioSystems, 89(1-3), 190-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.04.017

It has been argued that information processing in the cortex is optimised with regard to certain information theoretic principles. We have, for instance, recently shown that spike-timing dependent plasticity can improve an information-theoretic measu... Read More about High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions.

Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2006, November). Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments. Presented at World Forum on Acoustic Ecology Conference, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

This paper reports an empirical study to investigate how individuals perceive and classify elements of their workplace auditory environments. The participants were 18 university employees chosen for their varying degrees of room occupancy, from singl... Read More about Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments.

Mining and Sharing Heterogeneous E-Marketing Intelligence - A Universal Metadata-Based Approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Teng, G., Su, H., Liu, X., & Wang, T. (2006, August). Mining and Sharing Heterogeneous E-Marketing Intelligence - A Universal Metadata-Based Approach. Presented at First International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control - Volume I (ICICIC'06)

Despite the emergent business needs and technical efforts by both industrial and research communities, e-business market intelligence (EMI) still faces many obstacles hindering its successful mining, deployment and sharing, including lack of scaleabl... Read More about Mining and Sharing Heterogeneous E-Marketing Intelligence - A Universal Metadata-Based Approach.

A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2006, September). A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms. Presented at International Symposium on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering (PARELEC'06)

Multicast communication?s history has been driven by many schemes; however, a few have shown their efficiency on interconnection networks. Among these schemes, path based multicast has been proven to be more efficient in handling multicast, than thos... Read More about A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms.

A tabu search evolutionary algorithm for solving constraint satisfaction problems. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craenen, B. G. W., & Paechter, B. (2006, September). A tabu search evolutionary algorithm for solving constraint satisfaction problems. Presented at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

The paper introduces a hybrid Tabu Search-Evolutionary Algorithm for solving the constraint satisfaction problem, called STLEA. Extensive experimental fine-tuning of parameters of the algorithm was performed to optimise the performance of the algorit... Read More about A tabu search evolutionary algorithm for solving constraint satisfaction problems..

Security in Wireless Networks: The FlexiNET Approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kostopoulos, G., Kavadias, C., Chrysoulas, C., Denazis, S., & Koufopavlou, O. (2006, June). Security in Wireless Networks: The FlexiNET Approach. Presented at CSNDSP 2006, 5th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Patra, Greece

Security is a crucial factor in the provision of the mobile services. The rapid growth of harmful attacks has increased the need for higher security level, especially in the case of wireless networks. In this paper we present a new security approach... Read More about Security in Wireless Networks: The FlexiNET Approach.

Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II (2006)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Grimble, M., & Zayed, A. (2006). Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II. Control and Intelligent Systems, 34(3), 175

The article provides an overview of papers about nonlinear adaptive proportional integral derivative (PID) control, published in the August 2006 issue of "Control and Intelligent Systems." Zayed and colleagues wrote an editorial describing a nonlinea... Read More about Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II.

Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006, September). Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. Presented at ITS World Congress

Automated pedestrian sensing and tracking is receiving increasing attention from researchers in a number of areas. Applications are common in security, in urban planning, and in the retail industry. A common approach is to use CCTV and visible image... Read More about Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction..

NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data (2006)
Journal Article
Abimbola, A., Munoz, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2006). NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data. Computers and Security, 25(6), 445-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2006.04.001

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are systems that protect against violation of data integrity, confidentiality and availability of resources. In the past 20 years, these systems have evolved with the technology and have become more sophisticated. D... Read More about NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data.

The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006, September). The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. Presented at Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC7), IFIP TC 9, Maribor, Slovenia

The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municipality. The case is analysed by means of an analytic construct, the technolo... Read More about The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry..

Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qaiser, N., Iqbal, N., & Hussain, A. (2006, April). Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper considers the stabilization problem of inertia-wheel pendulum (IWP), a widely studied nonlinear mechanical system. The IWP is a classical example of flat under-actuated mechanical systems, for which the design of control laws becomes a cha... Read More about Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique.

Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chetouani, M., Hussain, A., Gas, B., & Zarader, J.-L. (2006, April). Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

In this paper we focus on the design of the feature extractor stage of the speech recognition system which aims to compute optimal vectors for the next phoneme classification stage. We propose a new non-linear feature extraction method based on the l... Read More about Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction.

Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006, April). Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

In this paper a new crossing minimization based method is proposed to solve the well-known matrix bandwidth minimization problem, which is to permute the rows and columns of the matrix so as to bring all the non-zero elements of the matrix to reside... Read More about Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices.

Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naveed, A., Qureshi, I., Hussain, A., & Cheema, T. (2006, April). Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper presents a combined higher order statistics (HOS) and second order statistics (SOS) approach to blind equalization of white as well as colored sources. Remarkable convergence speed has been achieved through an additional term in the cost f... Read More about Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach.

A new radial basis function neural network based multi-variable adaptive pole-zero placement controller (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, R., Hussain, A., & Zayed, A. (2006, September). A new radial basis function neural network based multi-variable adaptive pole-zero placement controller. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

In this paper a new multi-variable adaptive controller algorithm for non-linear dynamical systems has been derived which employs the radial basis function (RBF) neural network. In the proposed controller, the unknown plant is represented by an equiva... Read More about A new radial basis function neural network based multi-variable adaptive pole-zero placement controller.

Performance evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., Kerridge, J., & Romdhani, I. (2006, September). Performance evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures WoTug 29

Java has become a development platform that has migrated from its initial focus for small form devices, to large full scale desktop and server applications and finally back to the small in the form of Java enabled mobile phones. Here we discuss the n... Read More about Performance evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme.

On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Romdhani, I. (2006, September). On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks. Presented at HPCC 2006: High Performance Computing and Communications, Munich, Germany

Although multicast communication, in interconnection networks has been a major avenue for a lot of research works found in literature, there are several key issues that should still be improved in order to meet the increasing demand for service quali... Read More about On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks.

Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Munoz, J., Bettahar, H., & Bouabdallah, A. (2006, June). Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications. Presented at 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06)

While the Mobile IP protocol does not exclude the use of multiple Home Agents (HAs), it does not impose any particular model either. Recent solutions propose that a mobile node uses multiple HAs located in different physical links in his home network... Read More about Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications.

Cortical activity pattern computation (2006)
Journal Article
Andras, P., & Wennekers, T. (2007). Cortical activity pattern computation. BioSystems, 87(2-3), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.09.012

Neural computations are modelled in various ways, but still there is no clear understanding of how the brain performs its computational tasks. This paper presents new results about analysis of neural processes in terms of activity pattern computation... Read More about Cortical activity pattern computation.