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Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Davoudani, D. (2009, August). Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering. Presented at 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK

The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has derived inspiration from many different elements of the natural immune system in order to develop engineered systems that operate in environments with constraints similar to those faced by the immune s... Read More about Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering..

Performance analysis and evaluation of P2PTV streaming behavior (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Liotta, A., & Ghanbari, M. (2009, June). Performance analysis and evaluation of P2PTV streaming behavior. Presented at 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia

P2P TV is gradually emerging as a potential alternative to well known client-server applications such as IPTV, VoD and other real-time TV services. Several P2P platforms such as Zattoo, Joost, Sopcast, and PPlive deliver streams using the user termin... Read More about Performance analysis and evaluation of P2PTV streaming behavior.

Improving QoS in P2P video streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Ghanbari, M., & Liotta, A. (2009, July). Improving QoS in P2P video streaming. Presented at 2009 First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, Colmar, France

Nowadays, P2P streaming has facilitated the way that people can receive the video content in. Both types of streaming services (Video-On-Demand and Live) have been delivered to the end-users in a P2P paradigm. Thus, P2P networking has shown an altern... Read More about Improving QoS in P2P video streaming.

Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., & Yassin Al-Dubai, A. (2009, July). Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method. Presented at 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia

IP multicast is an efficient method for distributing multimedia content to a large number of receivers while saving the network bandwidth and reducing processing overhead on the source side. However, current IP multicast deployment figure is still fa... Read More about Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method.

QoE in Pervasive Telecommunication Systems (2009)
Book Chapter
Liotta, A., & Agboma, F. (2009). QoE in Pervasive Telecommunication Systems. In Pervasive Computing: Innovations in Intelligent Multimedia and Applications (365-382). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-599-4_16

The concept of offering pervasive telecommunication services, i.e., services that are available anytime, anywhere and from any terminal, is very appealing. Providing pervasive services to users has been the ultimate goal of telecommunication systems... Read More about QoE in Pervasive Telecommunication Systems.

Overlay management for P2PTV streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Liotta, A., & Ghanbari, M. (2009, June). Overlay management for P2PTV streaming. Presented at 2009 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management-Workshops, New York, NY, USA

Recently, P2P streaming has received much attention as a new technology for delivering multimedia content over the internet to the end-users on the periphery. This technology is inherent to the overlay network which is constructed by the logical conn... Read More about Overlay management for P2PTV streaming.

Parallelization of the nearest-neighbour search and the cross-validation error evaluation for the kernel weighted k-nn algorithm applied to large data dets in matlab (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rubio, G., Guillen, A., Pomares, H., Rojas, I., Paechter, B., Glosekotter, P., & Torres-Ceballos, C. I. (2009, June). Parallelization of the nearest-neighbour search and the cross-validation error evaluation for the kernel weighted k-nn algorithm applied to large data dets in matlab. Presented at 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation

The kernel weighted k-nearest neighbours (KWKNN) algorithm is an efficient kernel regression method that achieves competitive results with lower computational complexity than Least-Squares Support Vector Machines and Gaussian Processes. This paper pr... Read More about Parallelization of the nearest-neighbour search and the cross-validation error evaluation for the kernel weighted k-nn algorithm applied to large data dets in matlab.

Molecular neuroimaging – A proposal for a novel approach to high resolution recording of neural activity in nervous systems (2009)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2009). Molecular neuroimaging – A proposal for a novel approach to high resolution recording of neural activity in nervous systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.056

Neuroimaging is a key methodology for the understanding of how neural systems work and how neurodynamics leads to neurally controlled behavior in animals. Current neuroimaging methods (e.g. fMRI, MEG, voltage-sensitive dye imaging) provide a critical... Read More about Molecular neuroimaging – A proposal for a novel approach to high resolution recording of neural activity in nervous systems.

Resource trade-off in P2P streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Liotta, A., & Ghanbari, M. (2009, May). Resource trade-off in P2P streaming. Presented at 2009 17th International Packet Video Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA

P2P TV has emerged as a powerful alternative solution for multimedia streaming over the traditional client-server paradigm. It has proven to be a valid substitute for online applications which offer video-on-demand and real-time video. This is mainly... Read More about Resource trade-off in P2P streaming.

Measuring pedestrian gait using low resolution infrared people counters (2009)
Thesis
Chamberlain, T. Measuring pedestrian gait using low resolution infrared people counters. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2733

This thesis describes research conducted into the measure- ment of pedestrian movement. It starts with an examination of current pedestrian detection and tracking systems, looking at several different technologies including image-processing systems.... Read More about Measuring pedestrian gait using low resolution infrared people counters.

Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies (2009)
Journal Article
Riley, C. W., Buckner, K., Johnson, G., & Benyon, D. (2009). Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies. AI & society, 24(3), 295-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-009-0218-1

Previous research has identified user concerns about biometric authentication technology, but most of this research has been conducted in European contexts. There is a lack of research that has investigated attitudes towards biometric technology in o... Read More about Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies.

When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2009, June). When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure. Presented at Innovation in e-information

Based on the results of a study conducted jointly by Edinburgh Napier University and TFPL, this paper will discuss the main risks and opportunities of the adoption of social computing tools within organizations for collaborative work purposes as perc... Read More about When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure..

Why are top universities losing their lead? An economics modelling-based approach (2009)
Journal Article
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2009). Why are top universities losing their lead? An economics modelling-based approach. Science and Public Policy, 36(4), 317-330. https://doi.org/10.3152/030234209X436563

Scientific output of lower-ranked institutions is catching up with leading universities. We present a simple, conceptual model of research production describing the dynamic interaction between inputs (research staff and funding) and outputs (publicat... Read More about Why are top universities losing their lead? An economics modelling-based approach.

Mental models, magical thinking and individual differences. (2009)
Journal Article
Turner, P., & Sobolewska, E. (2009). Mental models, magical thinking and individual differences. Human technology an interdisciplinary journal on humans in ICT environments, 5, 90-113

Broadly, there are two mutually exclusive accounts of how people (non-specialist users) reason about and conceptualize interactive technology. The first is based on classical cognitive psychology and is characterized by the term mental model. The sec... Read More about Mental models, magical thinking and individual differences..

Towards a new disciplinary framework for contemporary design practice. (2009)
Journal Article
Dykes, T. H., Rodgers, P. A., Dykes, T., Rodgers, P., & Smyth, M. (2009). Towards a new disciplinary framework for contemporary design practice. CoDesign, 5(2), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710880902910417

This paper argues for a consistent and new design-specific disciplinary framework that will provide a better understanding of emergent design practice. Design today is characterised by a blurring of traditional design domains (Sanders 2006) and desig... Read More about Towards a new disciplinary framework for contemporary design practice..

An assessment of self-managed P2P streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Liotta, A., & Ghanbari, M. (2009, April). An assessment of self-managed P2P streaming. Presented at 2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, Valencia, Spain

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) IPTV applications have increasingly been considered as a potential approach to online broadcasting. These overcome fundamental client-server issues and introduce new, self-management features that help improving performance. Recent... Read More about An assessment of self-managed P2P streaming.