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Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments. (2006)
Journal Article
Benjamin, K., Armitage, A., & South, R. B. (2006). Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments. Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 39, 764-770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2006.02.008

Rotating chopper wheels are used to modulate optical radiation in many experimental systems, typically for measuring the frequency response of an optical system. The assumption is often made that the chopped radiation varies sinusoidally. In practice... Read More about Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments..

Security in Wireless Networks: The FlexiNET Approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kostopoulos, G., Kavadias, C., Chrysoulas, C., Denazis, S., & Koufopavlou, O. (2006, June). Security in Wireless Networks: The FlexiNET Approach. Presented at CSNDSP 2006, 5th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Patra, Greece

Security is a crucial factor in the provision of the mobile services. The rapid growth of harmful attacks has increased the need for higher security level, especially in the case of wireless networks. In this paper we present a new security approach... Read More about Security in Wireless Networks: The FlexiNET Approach.

Condition monitoring of hydraulic systems using neural network for data analysis (2006)
Thesis
Yu, F. Condition monitoring of hydraulic systems using neural network for data analysis. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2254714

Condition monitoring of engineering processes or equipment has become of paramount importance as there is a growing need for improved performance, reliability, safety and more efficient maintenance. Condition monitoring in railway industry as a whole... Read More about Condition monitoring of hydraulic systems using neural network for data analysis.

Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II (2006)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Grimble, M., & Zayed, A. (2006). Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II. Control and Intelligent Systems, 34(3), 175

The article provides an overview of papers about nonlinear adaptive proportional integral derivative (PID) control, published in the August 2006 issue of "Control and Intelligent Systems." Zayed and colleagues wrote an editorial describing a nonlinea... Read More about Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II.

Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006). Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. In ITS World Congress (1-11)

Automated pedestrian sensing and tracking is receiving increasing attention from researchers in a number of areas. Applications are common in security, in urban planning, and in the retail industry. A common approach is to use CCTV and visible image... Read More about Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction..

NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data (2006)
Journal Article
Abimbola, A., Munoz, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2006). NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data. Computers and Security, 25(6), 445-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2006.04.001

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are systems that protect against violation of data integrity, confidentiality and availability of resources. In the past 20 years, these systems have evolved with the technology and have become more sophisticated. D... Read More about NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data.

Skills and employability (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McQuaid, R. W. (2006). Skills and employability.

PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wie, B., Sharif, M., Almaini, A. E. A., & Binnie, D. (2006, September). PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA. Presented at Proceedings of IEEE 13th International Conference on Systems, Signals & Image Processing, IWSSIP’06,

In this paper the performance of a Cell Averaging Constant False Alarm Rate (CA-CFAR) Pseudo-Noise (PN) code adaptive detector is analysed for a single path communication channel. The detection process uses a digital Matched Filter (MF) and is implem... Read More about PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA..

The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006). The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_19

The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municipality. The case is analysed by means of an analytic construct, the technolo... Read More about The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry..

Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qaiser, N., Iqbal, N., & Hussain, A. (2006, April). Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper considers the stabilization problem of inertia-wheel pendulum (IWP), a widely studied nonlinear mechanical system. The IWP is a classical example of flat under-actuated mechanical systems, for which the design of control laws becomes a cha... Read More about Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique.

Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chetouani, M., Hussain, A., Gas, B., & Zarader, J. (2006, April). Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

In this paper we focus on the design of the feature extractor stage of the speech recognition system which aims to compute optimal vectors for the next phoneme classification stage. We propose a new non-linear feature extraction method based on the l... Read More about Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction.

Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006). Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices. In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEIS.2006.1703188

In this paper a new crossing minimization based method is proposed to solve the well-known matrix bandwidth minimization problem, which is to permute the rows and columns of the matrix so as to bring all the non-zero elements of the matrix to reside... Read More about Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices.

Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naveed, A., Qureshi, I., Hussain, A., & Cheema, T. (2006, April). Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper presents a combined higher order statistics (HOS) and second order statistics (SOS) approach to blind equalization of white as well as colored sources. Remarkable convergence speed has been achieved through an additional term in the cost f... Read More about Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach.

A new radial basis function neural network based multi-variable adaptive pole-zero placement controller (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, R., Hussain, A., & Zayed, A. (2006, September). A new radial basis function neural network based multi-variable adaptive pole-zero placement controller. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan

In this paper a new multi-variable adaptive controller algorithm for non-linear dynamical systems has been derived which employs the radial basis function (RBF) neural network. In the proposed controller, the unknown plant is represented by an equiva... Read More about A new radial basis function neural network based multi-variable adaptive pole-zero placement controller.

Performance evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., Kerridge, J., & Romdhani, I. (2006). Performance evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme. In P. Welch, J. Kerridge, & F. R. M. Barnes (Eds.), Proceedings of Communicating Process Architectures 2006 (31-40)

Java has become a development platform that has migrated from its initial focus for small form devices, to large full scale desktop and server applications and finally back to the small in the form of Java enabled mobile phones. Here we discuss the n... Read More about Performance evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme.

On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Romdhani, I. (2006, September). On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks. Presented at HPCC 2006: High Performance Computing and Communications

Although multicast communication, in interconnection networks has been a major avenue for a lot of research works found in literature, there are several key issues that should still be improved in order to meet the increasing demand for service quali... Read More about On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks.

Crossing the Atlantic: uneasy spaces. (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. (2006). Crossing the Atlantic: uneasy spaces. Exhibited at New York, USA. 12 September 2006 - 1 November 2006. (Unpublished)

Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Munoz, J., Bettahar, H., & Bouabdallah, A. (2006, June). Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications. Presented at 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06)

While the Mobile IP protocol does not exclude the use of multiple Home Agents (HAs), it does not impose any particular model either. Recent solutions propose that a mobile node uses multiple HAs located in different physical links in his home network... Read More about Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications.

Cortical activity pattern computation (2006)
Journal Article
Andras, P., & Wennekers, T. (2007). Cortical activity pattern computation. BioSystems, 87(2-3), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.09.012

Neural computations are modelled in various ways, but still there is no clear understanding of how the brain performs its computational tasks. This paper presents new results about analysis of neural processes in terms of activity pattern computation... Read More about Cortical activity pattern computation.

When institutions collide: the digitization and transformation of public services. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2006, September). When institutions collide: the digitization and transformation of public services. Paper presented at XXth meeting of the Permanent Study Group on E-Government (Information and Communications Technologies in Public Administration), European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference