All Outputs (123)

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). Governance in the OPAALS community. In J. H. Nykänen, J. Salonen, S. Pohjolainen, & K. Silius (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems: OPAALS 2008

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). Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community. In J. H. Nykänen, J. Salonen, S. Pohjolainen, & K. Silius (Eds.), Proceedi

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). A Virtual-Reality-based evaluation environment for wheelchair-mounted manipulators. In Sixth Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference (1-8). https://doi.org/10.2312/LocalCha

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.

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.

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.

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). Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol in highly volatile environments. In 2008 The Second International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies (76-82). h

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). JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots. In P. H. Welch, S. Stepney, F. A. Polack, F. R. Barnes, A. A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, …A. T. Sampson (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures

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). Modelling a Multi-Core Media Processor Using JCSP. In P. H. Welch, S. Stepney, F. A. Polack, F. R. Barnes, A. A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, …A. T. Sampson (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2008 (431-443).

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.

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). Emergent common functional principles in control theory and the vertebrate brain: A case study with autonomous vehicle control. In Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008 (949-958). https://do

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.

A Conflict Tabu Search Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craenen, B. G. W., & Paechter, B. (2008). A Conflict Tabu Search Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems. In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (13-24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78604-7_2

This paper introduces a hybrid Tabu Search - Evolutionary Algorithm for solving the binary constraint satisfaction problem, called CTLEA. A continuation of an earlier introduced algorithm, called the STLEA, the CTLEA replaces the earlier compound lab... Read More about A Conflict Tabu Search Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems.

Boosting the Immune System (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, C., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2008). Boosting the Immune System. In Artificial Immune Systems (316-327). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85072-4_28

Much of contemporary research in Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has partitioned into either algorithmic machine learning and optimisation, or modelling biologically plausible dynamical systems, with little overlap between. Although the balance is la... Read More about Boosting the Immune System.

Rheometrical Studies of Blood Clot Formation by Oscillatory Shear, Thromboelastography, Sonoclot Analysis and Free Oscillation Rheometry (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, P. A., Hawkins, K. M., Lawrence, M. J., Williams, P. R., & Williams, R. L. (2008). Rheometrical Studies of Blood Clot Formation by Oscillatory Shear, Thromboelastography, Sonoclot Analysis and Free Oscillation Rheometry. AIP conference proceedings,

We report studies of the coagulation of samples of whole human blood by oscillatory shear techniques, including Fourier Transform Mechanical Spectroscopy (FTMS). These techniques are used herein to identify the Gel Point of coagulating blood in terms... Read More about Rheometrical Studies of Blood Clot Formation by Oscillatory Shear, Thromboelastography, Sonoclot Analysis and Free Oscillation Rheometry.

Scenarios for Companions. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008). Scenarios for Companions. In Austrian Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Vienna, September 2008 (1-38)

This paper is concerned with understanding the needs ofCompanion owners (the people formerly known as ‘users’) and in how thoserequirements can be represented, with the whole interaction design, with how the Companion will learn, or be instructed, so... Read More about Scenarios for Companions..

A new multicast algorithm for wireless mesh networks. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Liu, X. (2008). A new multicast algorithm for wireless mesh networks. In 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting

Wireless mesh networks, also known as “community wireless networks”, have been attracting much attention due to its promising technology. It is becoming a major avenue for the fourth generation of wireless mobility. This is due to the revaluation of... Read More about A new multicast algorithm for wireless mesh networks..