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Human robot interaction in virtual reality (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Gironimo, G., Marzano, A., & Tarallo, A. (2007). Human robot interaction in virtual reality. In Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference (107-112). https://doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2007/107-112

In this paper, we describe a framework which helps designers visualize and verify the results of robotic work cell simulation in a Virtual Environment (VE). The system aims at significantly reducing production costs and error sources during manufactu... Read More about Human robot interaction in virtual reality.

Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, H., Liu, Y., & Yang, T. (2007). Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.1109/icsmc.2007.4413859

In this paper, we use an example - a pendulum-driven cart-pole system studied in Li et al. (2005) to investigate the tracking control of underactuated dynamic systems. In this paper, we propose a six-step motion strategy of the pendulum driven cart-p... Read More about Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system.

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.

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. (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.

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.

Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., & Varker, P. (2007, July). Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties. Presented at 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Beijing, China

In many respects, cognitive difficulties and learning impairments are the poor relation of Universal Access (UA) research. Research into emotional impairments is even less common. A simple review of almost any general UA or Assistive Technology confe... Read More about Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties.

Defining acceptable levels of accessibility (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S. (2006, September). Defining acceptable levels of accessibility. Presented at 9th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, 2006, Königswinter, Germany

This paper examines the issues facing companies when designing products and services for equitable access, particularly in view of the legislated requirements that they have to meet. The concepts of acceptability and accessibility are discussed and a... Read More about Defining acceptable levels of accessibility.

Accessibility research in a vocational context (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adams, R., & Keates, S. (2007, July). Accessibility research in a vocational context. Presented at 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Beijing, China

Current experience shows that vocational context has a vital role to play in research on inclusive information society technology, for at least four reasons. First, the occurrence of disabilities has a major impact on employability and employment. Ho... Read More about Accessibility research in a vocational context.

Understanding Patterns of Interaction Between Designers During Design Process (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., & Chakrabarti, A. (2007). Understanding Patterns of Interaction Between Designers During Design Process. In DS 42: Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (503-504)

Collaborative design is particularly important, in this globalize world, in aiding organizations in satisfying customer requirements through high innovation, reduced cost, high quality and lesser time to develop products. Communication is a major fac... Read More about Understanding Patterns of Interaction Between Designers During Design Process.

Use of radar devices in road traffic surveys (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colonna, P., Guaragnella, C., Ranieri, V., & Fonzone, A. (2007). Use of radar devices in road traffic surveys. In 4th SIIV International Congress "Advances in Transport Infrastructures and stakeholders expectations"

The Department of Roads and Transportation of Polytechnic University of Bari owns CW radar devices for road traffic surveys. The radars can be used to measure traffic volumes and vehicle lengths and speeds. Radar’s manual suggests to refer to measure... Read More about Use of radar devices in road traffic surveys.

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.

Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice? (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M. (2007). Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice?. In K. Michael, & M. G. Michael (Eds.), From Dataveillance to Überveillance and the realpolitik of the transparent society (61-70)

The rapid growth of databases, biometrics, and RFID has led to an environment where identity-related technologies are approaching a critical mass as a potential means of controlling the population. The essential aspects of these diverse technical adv... Read More about Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice?.