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TQEM in the UK construction industry: Some key findings from a survey (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khaddour, L., & Darkwa, J. (2008). TQEM in the UK construction industry: Some key findings from a survey. In Proceedings 24th Annual ARCOM Conference (239–246)

As building projects get larger and more complex, clients are also increasingly demanding higher standards for their delivery. Total Quality Environmental Management (TQEM) has been recognized as a successful management philosophy in the manufacturin... Read More about TQEM in the UK construction industry: Some key findings from a survey.

Governance in the OPAALS community (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bräuer, M., Crone, A., Dürrenberg, C., & Zeller, F. (2008, October). Governance in the OPAALS community. Presented at OPAALS 2008, Tampere, Finland

This paper provides a theoretical overview of the field of governance with a special focus on the analytic perspectives concerning virtual research networks. We discuss network governance as translation of the classical socio-economic governance cont... Read More about Governance in the OPAALS community.

Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bräuer, M., Crone, A., Dürrenberg, C., Lapteva, O., & Zeller, F. (2008, October). Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community. Presented at OPAALS 2008, Tampere, Finland

In research communities, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) is part of daily routines, especially in multi-institutional research projects. Appropriate media choice is an important dimension of effective communication and succe... Read More about Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community.

A Virtual-Reality-based evaluation environment for wheelchair-mounted manipulators (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Santis, A., Di Gironimo, G., Marzano, A., Siciliano, B., & Tarallo, A. (2008, December). A Virtual-Reality-based evaluation environment for wheelchair-mounted manipulators. Presented at Sixth Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference

The design of solutions for robotic extenders of wheelchairs must take into account both objective and subjective metrics for everyday activities in human environments. Virtual Reality (VR) constitutes a useful tool to effectively test design ideas a... Read More about A Virtual-Reality-based evaluation environment for wheelchair-mounted manipulators.

Adaptive CFAR PN Code Acquisition for DSSS Systems (2008)
Thesis
Wei, B. (2008). Adaptive CFAR PN Code Acquisition for DSSS Systems. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The communication between transmitter and receiver in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) systems starts with synchronisation, which can be carried out in two steps: acquisition and tracking. Acquisition is the coarse searching of the delay of PN... Read More about Adaptive CFAR PN Code Acquisition for DSSS Systems.

Simple Closed-Form Channel Capacity Formulas for the SIMO Nakagami Channel (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vagenas, E. D., Karadimas, P., & Kotsopoulos, S. A. (2008). Simple Closed-Form Channel Capacity Formulas for the SIMO Nakagami Channel. In 2008 IEEE Globecom Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1109/glocomw.2008.ecp.97

This paper presents simple closed-form expressions for the ergodic channel capacity of SIMO (single-input and multiple output) wireless systems operating in a Nakagami fading channel. As the performance of SIMO channel is closely related to the diver... Read More about Simple Closed-Form Channel Capacity Formulas for the SIMO Nakagami Channel.

The Potential of Complexity Theory in Understanding Urban Regeneration Processes (2008)
Book Chapter
Moobela, C., & Price, I. (2008). The Potential of Complexity Theory in Understanding Urban Regeneration Processes. In L. F. Dennard, K. Richardson, & G. Morçöl (Eds.), Complexity and Policy Analysis: Tools and Concepts for Designing Robust Policies in a Complex World. ISCE Publishing

Uncertainty and communication complexity in iterated cooperation games (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2008). Uncertainty and communication complexity in iterated cooperation games. In Artificial Life XI 2008 (9-16)

Iterated cooperation games (e.g. Prisoner’s Dilemma) are used to analyze the emergence and evolution of cooperation among selfish individuals. Uncertainty of outcomes of games is an important factor that influences the level of cooperation. Communica... Read More about Uncertainty and communication complexity in iterated cooperation games.

Preference for plants in an office environment (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitt, M., & Smith, A. (2008). Preference for plants in an office environment. In Healthy and Creative Facilities: CIB W070 Conference in Facilities Management (629-637)

Plants in the workplace are known to bring a number of benefits including psychological as well as aesthetic and air quality benefits. Therefore, plants can have an impact on overall organisational performance. However, findings of previous studies h... Read More about Preference for plants in an office environment.

Towards a service-enabled distributed router architecture (2008)
Journal Article
Chrysoulas, C., Haleplidis, E., Kostopoulos, G., Haas, R., Denazis, S., & Koufopavlou, O. (2008). Towards a service-enabled distributed router architecture. IET Circuits, Devices and Systems, 2(1), 60-68. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cds%3A20070041

Modelling is an essential tool in the development and assessment of new concepts. The authors propose an architecture for the next-generation gigabit distributed active router that was designed and implemented in the IST project, FlexiNET. In the Fle... Read More about Towards a service-enabled distributed router architecture.

Collaborative Working Environments. Using document management for projects and programmes (2008)
Report
Haynes, D. (2008). Collaborative Working Environments. Using document management for projects and programmes. Intellect

This paper aims to help public and private sector organisations running projects and programmes that face the challenges of forming teams across disciplines, on different sites, or working across time zones.

QoE-aware QoS management (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agboma, F., & Liotta, A. (2008). QoE-aware QoS management. In MoMM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (111-116). https://doi.org/10.1145/1497185.1497210

The streaming of multimedia contents (e.g., Mobile TV) is a bandwidth intensive service. The network operator's aim is to provide an acceptable user experience at minimal network resource usage. It is important from the network operator's perspective... Read More about QoE-aware QoS management.

QoE analysis of a peer-to-peer television system (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agboma, F., Smy, M., & Liotta, A. (2008). QoE analysis of a peer-to-peer television system. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 (114-119)

Peer-to-peer (P2P) TV technology is seen as an emerging alternative to the current systems of providing TV channels and video services over the Internet. However, little information is available on users' Quality of Experience (QoE) on P2P systems. W... Read More about QoE analysis of a peer-to-peer television system.

Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol in highly volatile environments (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oredope, A., Liotta, A., Roper, I., & Morphett, J. (2008, September). Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol in highly volatile environments. Presented at 2008 The Second International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies, Cardiff, Wales

The session initiation protocol (SIP) is an IETF standardised protocol for multimedia signalling and communication over the internet. SIP has been used in many deployments in client-server architecture. However, this configuration potentially possess... Read More about Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol in highly volatile environments.

Mesh based P2P streaming over MANETs (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qadri, N. N., Alhaisoni, M., & Liotta, A. (2008). Mesh based P2P streaming over MANETs. In MoMM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (29-34). https://doi.org/10.1145/1497185.1497196

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have been the subject of intensive studies in recent years. These two areas have, however, developed independently from each other so there is not sufficient data to verify whether the P2... Read More about Mesh based P2P streaming over MANETs.

A comparative analysis of routing protocols for MANETs (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qadri, N. N., & Liotta, A. (2008). A comparative analysis of routing protocols for MANETs. In Proceedings of IADIS Wireless Applications and Computing, July 22-24, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands (149-154)

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) introduce a new communication paradigm, which does not require a fixed infrastructure - they rely on wireless terminals for routing and transport services. Typical research issues of MANETs include adaptability to netw... Read More about A comparative analysis of routing protocols for MANETs.

JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J., Panayotopoulos, A., & Lismore, P. (2008, September). JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots. Presented at 31st Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2008, University of York, UK

JCSPre is a highly reduced version of the JCSP (Communicating Sequential Processes for Java) parallel programming environment. JCSPre has been implemented on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick using the LeJOS Java runtime environment. The LeJOS environment... Read More about JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots.

Modelling a Multi-Core Media Processor Using JCSP (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kosek, A., Kerridge, J., & Syed, A. (2008, September). Modelling a Multi-Core Media Processor Using JCSP. Presented at 31st Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2008, University of York, UK

Manufacturers are creating multi-core processors to solve specialized problems. This kind of processor can process tasks faster by running them in parallel. This paper explores the usability of the Communicating Sequential Processes model to create a... Read More about Modelling a Multi-Core Media Processor Using JCSP.

Microscopic Biological Cell Level Model Using Modified Finite-difference Time-domain at Mobile Radio Frequencies (2008)
Journal Article
See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Excell, P., & Zhou, D. (2008). Microscopic Biological Cell Level Model Using Modified Finite-difference Time-domain at Mobile Radio Frequencies. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 4(1), 6-10

The paper demonstrates the modelling of the interaction mechanism between the biological tissues and electromagnetic field at mobile communication frequency ranges. The implementing of modified FDTD numerical method using frequency scaled FDTD with F... Read More about Microscopic Biological Cell Level Model Using Modified Finite-difference Time-domain at Mobile Radio Frequencies.

Emergent common functional principles in control theory and the vertebrate brain: A case study with autonomous vehicle control (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A., Gurney, K., Abdullah, R., & Chambers, J. (2008, September). Emergent common functional principles in control theory and the vertebrate brain: A case study with autonomous vehicle control. Presented at ICANN: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Prague, Czech Republic

This paper describes emergent neurobiological characteristics of an intelligent multiple-controller that has been developed for controlling the throttle, brake and steering subsystems of a validated vehicle model. Simulation results demonstrate the e... Read More about Emergent common functional principles in control theory and the vertebrate brain: A case study with autonomous vehicle control.