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Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chrysoulas, C., & Koufopavlou, O. (2007). Dynamic deployment of semantic-based services in a highly distributed environment. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST (416-419). h

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.

Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ou, S., Yang, K., Liotta, A., & Hu, L. (2007). Performance analysis of offloading systems in mobile wireless environments. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (1821-1826). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2007.304

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 P2P services via the IMS (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liotta, A., & Lin, L. (2007). Managing P2P services via the IMS. In 2007 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (586-600). https://doi.org/10.1109/INM.2007.374822

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). Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems. In A. A. McEwan, S. Schneider, W. Ifill, & P. Welch (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2007 (149-162)

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. (2007). Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time. In N. Waldau-Drexler, P. Gattermann, H. Knoflacher, & M. Schreckenberg (Eds.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005 (27-39). https://do

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. (2007). Using biclustering for automatic attribute selection to enhance global visualization. In Pixelization Paradigm Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (3

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.

A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Cifani, S., Squartini, S., Piazza, F., & Durrani, T. (2007). A novel psychoacoustically motivated multichannel speech enhancement system. In Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours COST Action 2102 International Workshop, Vietri sul Ma

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.

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). Empirical Validation of a Gossiping Communication Mechanism for Parallel EAs. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWor

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). Boosting the Performance of a Multiobjective Algorithm to Design RBFNNs Through Parallelization. In Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, 8th International Con

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.

Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2007). Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. In N. Bryan-Kinns, A. Blanford, P. Curzon, & L. Nigay (Eds.), People and computers XX Engage : proceedings of HCI 20

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). Quality metrics for internet applications: developing new from old. . https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2007.176

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). RKB: A Knowledge base to support research documentation, data, GIS, spatial data and communications for a major rail freight project. In Proceedings of the 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..

Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, C., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2007, August). Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System. Presented at ICARIS 2007: International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Santos, Brazil

The idiotypic network has a long and chequered history in both theoretical immunology and Artificial Immune Systems. In terms of the latter, the drive for engineering applications has led to a diluted interpretation of the immunological models. Resea... Read More about Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System.

Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kettley, S., Smyth, M., Arvind, D. K., Greig, F., McGregor, I., & Paechter, B. (2007, December). Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation. Presented at Create 07

ensemble - an interactive collection of networked jewellery with gesturally determined, real time sonic output

Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, T., Lawson, S., Benyon, D., & Armitage, A. (2007). Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions. In Digital Human Modeling (120-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73321-8_14

The research presented here makes a contribution to the understanding of the recognition of biological motion by comparing human recognition of a set of everyday gestures and motions with machine interpretation of the same dataset. Our reasoning is t... Read More about Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions.

Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Davoudani, D., & McEwan, C. (2007). Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems. In Autonomics '07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems

Autonomic computing systems of the future will be required to exhibit a number of properties which cannot be engineered using current technologies and algorithms. The most direct inspiration for building such systems is nature, where for example the... Read More about Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems..