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Complex Biological Memory Conceptualized as an Abstract Communication System – Human Long Term Memories Grow in Complexity during Sleep and Undergo Selection while Awake (2007)
Book Chapter
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2007). Complex Biological Memory Conceptualized as an Abstract Communication System – Human Long Term Memories Grow in Complexity during Sleep and Undergo Selection while Awake. In L. I. Perlovsky, & R. Kozma (Eds.), Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness (325-339). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73267-9_15

Biological memory in humans and other animals with a central nervous system is often extremely complex in its organization and functioning.A description of memory from the perspective of complex systems may therefore be useful to interpret and unders... Read More about Complex Biological Memory Conceptualized as an Abstract Communication System – Human Long Term Memories Grow in Complexity during Sleep and Undergo Selection while Awake.

Bernadette Young on ABC Perth (2007)
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I., & Young, B. (2007). Bernadette Young on ABC Perth. [Radio interview]

Interview about active Noise Cancellation in terms of current and future implementation.

Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chrysoulas, C., & Koufopavlou, O. (2007, March). Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Barcelona, Spain

Today’s Networking Systems tend to increase in both heterogeneity and complexity. So there arises the need for an architecture for network-based services that provides flexibility and efficiency in the definition, deployment and execution of the serv... Read More about Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment.

The operator's response to P2P service demand (2007)
Journal Article
Liotta, A., & Lin, L. (2007). The operator's response to P2P service demand. IEEE Communications Magazine, 45(7), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2007.382664

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are in high demand for all sorts of tasks-video communication, resource sharing, and content retrieval, to mention a few. However, current P2P solutions are intrinsically incompatible with the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS),... Read More about The operator's response to P2P service demand.

Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ou, S., Yang, K., Liotta, A., & Hu, L. (2007, June). Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments. Presented at 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Glasgow, UK

Offloading is an approach to leverage the severity of resource constrained nature of mobile devices (such as PDAs, mobile phones) by migrating part of the computation of applications to some nearby resource-rich surrogates (e.g., desktop PCs, mobilit... Read More about Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments.

Managing the user's quality of experience (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agboma, F., & Liotta, A. (2007, May). Managing the user's quality of experience. Presented at 2nd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management, Munich, Germany

No abstract available.

Managing P2P services via the IMS (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liotta, A., & Lin, L. (2007, May). Managing P2P services via the IMS. Presented at 2007 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Munich, Germany

The key aim of our work was to illustrate the benefits and means to deploy P2P services via the IMS. Having demonstrated the technical viability of P2P-IMS we have also found a way to add a new management dimension to existing P2P systems. P2P-IMS co... Read More about Managing P2P services via the IMS.

Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J. (2007, July). Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems. Presented at 30th Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2007, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

The testing of systems using tools such as JUnit is well known to the sequential programming community. It is perhaps less well known to the parallel computing community because it relies on systems terminating so that system outputs can be compared... Read More about Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems.

Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J., Keller, S., Chamberlain, T., & Sumpter, N. (2005, September). Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time. Presented at Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005, Vienna

The ability to collect pedestrian flow data, without the need for subsequent post-processing and analysis to extract measurements such as density and flow rate is a goal, which up to now, has proved infeasible on a large scale for a number of reasons... Read More about Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time.

Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006, April). Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization. Presented at Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France

Data mining involves useful knowledge discovery using a data matrix consisting of records and attributes or variables. Not all the attributes may be useful in knowledge discovery, as some of them may be redundant, irrelevant, noisy or even opposing.... Read More about Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization.

Nonlinear speech enhancement: An overview (2007)
Book Chapter
Hussain, A., Chetouani, M., Squartini, S., Bastari, A., & Piazza, F. (2007). Nonlinear speech enhancement: An overview. In Progress in Nonlinear Speech Processing (217-248). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71505-4_12

This paper deals with the problem of enhancing the quality of speech signals, which has received growing attention in the last few decades. Many different approaches have been proposed in the literature under various configurations and operating hypo... Read More about Nonlinear speech enhancement: An overview.

Exponential stabilization of the inertia wheel pendulum using dynamic surface control (2007)
Journal Article
Qaiser, N., Iqbal, N., Hussain, A., & Qaiser, N. (2007). Exponential stabilization of the inertia wheel pendulum using dynamic surface control. Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, 16(1), 81-92. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126607003514

This paper considers the stabilization problem of Inertia Wheel Pendulum, a widely studied benchmark nonlinear system. It is a classical example of a flat underactuated mechanical system, for which the design of control law becomes a challenging task... Read More about Exponential stabilization of the inertia wheel pendulum using dynamic surface control.

A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Cifani, S., Squartini, S., Piazza, F., & Durrani, T. (2007, March). A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system. Presented at COST Action 2102 International Workshop, Vietri sul Mare, Italy

The ubiquitous noise reduction / speech enhancement problem has gained an increasing interest in recent years. This is due both to progress made by microphone-array systems and to the successful introduction of perceptual models. In the last decade,... Read More about A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system.

Maximising value from communities (2007)
Report
Ward, S., & Hall, H. (2007). Maximising value from communities. United Kingdom: TFPL

Unpublished report of the TFPL Maximising Value from Communities (MVC) Learning Consortium.

Empirical Validation of a Gossiping Communication Mechanism for Parallel EAs (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Laredo, J. L. J., Castillo, P. A., Paechter, B., Mora, A. M., Alfaro-Cid, E., Esparcia-Alcazar, A. I., & Merelo, J. J. (2007, December). Empirical Validation of a Gossiping Communication Mechanism for Parallel EAs. Presented at EvoWorkshops: Workshops on Applications of Evolutionary Computation

The development of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems is still a challenge due to the huge number of factors involved. Validation of these systems must be defined in terms of describing the adequacy of the P2P model to the actual environment. This paper focu... Read More about Empirical Validation of a Gossiping Communication Mechanism for Parallel EAs.

Boosting the Performance of a Multiobjective Algorithm to Design RBFNNs Through Parallelization (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guillen, A., Rojas, I., Gonzalez, J., Pomares, H., Herrera, L. J., & Paechter, B. (2007, April). Boosting the Performance of a Multiobjective Algorithm to Design RBFNNs Through Parallelization. Presented at ICANNGA: International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, Warsaw, Poland

Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNNs) have been widely used to solve classification and regression tasks providing satisfactory results. The main issue when working with RBFNNs is how to design them because this task requires the optimizatio... Read More about Boosting the Performance of a Multiobjective Algorithm to Design RBFNNs Through Parallelization.

Information Architecture and Navigation Design for Web Sites (2007)
Book Chapter
Benyon, D. (2007). Information Architecture and Navigation Design for Web Sites. In P. Zaphiris, & S. Kurniawan (Eds.), Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation (165-184). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-246-6.ch008

Information architecture concerns how to structure the content of an information space. Information architects design information spaces. Staying with the notion of information space leads us to the realisation that people need to be able to both con... Read More about Information Architecture and Navigation Design for Web Sites.

Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2006, September). Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. Presented at HCI Conference 2006

This short paper presents an experimental approach to the difficulty of evaluating interactive systems as artefacts for everyday life. The problem arises from the event-like nature of the user-centred evaluation session, as distinct from ‘being’ or t... Read More about Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday..

Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, S., & Liu, X. (2007, July). Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old

This discussion concerns ?metrics?. More specifically, we discuss quantitative metrics for evaluating Internet applications: what should we quantify, monitor and analyse in order to characterise, evaluate and develop Internet applications based on re... Read More about Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old..

RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M., Kukla, R., Benjamins, M., & Grashoff, P. (2007, October). RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project. Presented at European transport conference 2007

The paper places data and document access, use and exploration systems in the context of the Data Observatories movement, as well as the document repository systems now becoming mandated for universities. It will show how taking these developments in... Read More about RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project..