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Emotions and messages in simple robot gestures (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Chignell, M., Mizobuchi, S., & Yasumura, M. (2009, July). Emotions and messages in simple robot gestures. Presented at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, San Diego, USA

Understanding how people interpret robot gestures will aid design of effective social robots. We examine the generation and interpretation of gestures in a simple social robot capable of head and arm movement using two studies. In the first study, fo... Read More about Emotions and messages in simple robot gestures.

User Preference Web Search -- Experiments with a System Connecting Web and User (2009)
Journal Article
Gurský, P., Horvath, T., Jirásek, J., Krajči, S., Novotny, R., Pribolová, J., Vaneková, V., & Vojtáš, P. (2009). User Preference Web Search -- Experiments with a System Connecting Web and User. Computing and Informatics, 28(4), 1001-1033

We present models, methods, implementations and experiments with a system enabling personalized web search for many users with different preferences. The system consists of a web information extraction part, a text search engine, a middleware support... Read More about User Preference Web Search -- Experiments with a System Connecting Web and User.

A Model of User Preference Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems (2009)
Journal Article
Horvath, T. (2009). A Model of User Preference Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems. Computing and Informatics, 28(4), 1001-1029

This paper focuses to a formal model of user preference learning for content-based recommender systems. First, some fundamental and special requirements to user preference learning are identified and proposed. Three learning tasks are introduced as... Read More about A Model of User Preference Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems.

Case studies on the implementation of TQEM in UK building contractors (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khaddour, L., Ramsay-Dawber, P., & Morledge, R. (2009). Case studies on the implementation of TQEM in UK building contractors. In Proceedings 25th Annual ARCOM Conference (1051–1058)

To reduce the substantial contribution of the built environment, contractors have to comply with the increasing number of environmental regulations. Recent interest in the subject has resulted in global research initiatives that aspire to provide an... Read More about Case studies on the implementation of TQEM in UK building contractors.

TQEM towards Sustainability in the UK Construction Industry (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khaddour, L., Ramsay-Dawber, P., & Morledge, R. (2009, December). TQEM towards Sustainability in the UK Construction Industry. Paper presented at Association of Post Graduate Research Conference, Manchester, UK

Sustainable Community Assets: Business planning for the (re)development of community buildings (2009)
Report
Moobela, C., & Rampton, L. (2009). Sustainable Community Assets: Business planning for the (re)development of community buildings. Portsmouth: South East Coastal Communities Project

This publication is the result of the ideas, experience and knowledge of a range of people. It is informed by a workshop held at the University of Portsmouth in spring 2009 and the results of the Rapid Parish Development Programme run by the local An... Read More about Sustainable Community Assets: Business planning for the (re)development of community buildings.

Stochastic Modeling of Narrowband Fading Channels with Three Dimensional Diffuse Scattering (2009)
Book Chapter
Karadimas, P. (2009). Stochastic Modeling of Narrowband Fading Channels with Three Dimensional Diffuse Scattering. In S. Kotsopoulos, & K. Ioannou (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Heterogeneous Next Generation Networking: Innovations and Platforms (361-381

This chapter studies a composite stochastic model, in which the diffuse component arises from three dimensional (3-D) multipath scattering. That case occurs especially in dense scattering environments, in which the tall obstacles cause arrival of mul... Read More about Stochastic Modeling of Narrowband Fading Channels with Three Dimensional Diffuse Scattering.

Modeling living systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2009). Modeling living systems. In Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (208-215). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-

A fundamental issue of evolution of life is the emergence and maintenance of self-referential autocatalytic systems (e.g. living cells). In this paper the problem is analyzed from a computational perspective. It is proposed that such systems have to... Read More about Modeling living systems.

Networks of artificial social interactions (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2009). Networks of artificial social interactions. In Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (383-390). https://d

Evolution of cooperation is a fundamental question of socio-biology. Intrinsic factors like kinship play an important role in cooperation among selfish individuals. External factors like uncertainty and the structure of the social interaction network... Read More about Networks of artificial social interactions.

Listening, Corporeality, Place and Presence (2009)
Book Chapter
Turner, S., McGregor, I., & Turner, P. (2009). Listening, Corporeality, Place and Presence. In P. Turner, S. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (113-127). London: IGI Global. htt

This chapter considers the role of sound, and more specifically, listening, in creating a sense of presence (of "being there") in "places" recreated by virtual reality technologies. We first briefly review the treatment of sound in place and presence... Read More about Listening, Corporeality, Place and Presence.

A Token-Managed Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect (2009)
Journal Article
Yang, S., Furber, S. B., Shi, Y., & Plana, L. A. (2009). A Token-Managed Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect. Fundamenta Informaticae, 95(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.3233/fi-2009-142

A Token-ManagedAdmission Control (TMAC) mechanism is introduced in order to provide efficient Quality-of-Service (QoS) support for different types of application on a best-effort Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous (GALS) interconnect fabric. T... Read More about A Token-Managed Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect.

Small hole drilling of carbon fibre composites using diamond coated drills (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shyha, I. (2009). Small hole drilling of carbon fibre composites using diamond coated drills. In G. E. O'Donnell, & K. Kelly (Eds.), Efficient & Low Carbon Manufacturing: proceedings of the 26th International Manufacturing Conference (IMC26) (87-94)

A Web-Services Based Architecture for Dynamic-Service Deployment (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chrysoulas, C., Haleplidis, E., Haas, R., Denazis, S., & Koufopavlou, O. (2009). A Web-Services Based Architecture for Dynamic-Service Deployment. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00972-3_19

Due to the increase in both heterogeneity and complexity in today’s networking systems, there arises a demand for an architecture for network-based services, that gives flexibility and efficiency in the definition, deployment and execution of the ser... Read More about A Web-Services Based Architecture for Dynamic-Service Deployment.

Streaming layered video over P2P networks (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Ghanbari, M., & Liotta, A. (2009). Streaming layered video over P2P networks. In MoMM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (76-81). https://doi.org/10.1145/1821748.1821769

Peer-to-Peer streaming has been increasingly deployed recently. This comes out from its ability to convey the stream over the IP network to a large number of end-users (or peers). However, due to the heterogeneous nature among the peers, some of them... Read More about Streaming layered video over P2P networks.

Predicting quality of experience in multimedia streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menkovski, V., Oredope, A., Liotta, A., & Sánchez, A. C. (2009). Predicting quality of experience in multimedia streaming. In MoMM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (52-59). https://doi.or

Measuring and predicting the user's Quality of Experience (QoE) of a multimedia stream is the first step towards improving and optimizing the provision of mobile streaming services. This enables us to better understand how Quality of Service (QoS) pa... Read More about Predicting quality of experience in multimedia streaming.

Optimized online learning for qoe prediction (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menkovski, V., Oredope, A., Liotta, A., & Sánchez, A. C. (2009). Optimized online learning for qoe prediction. In Proceedings of the 21st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'09, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 29-30, 2009) (169-176)

Quality of Experience (QoE) consists of a set of indicators that show the perceived satisfaction of using a multimedia (or other kind of) service by the end user. Being so the QoE presents a subjective metric and the only relevant mechanisms for meas... Read More about Optimized online learning for qoe prediction.

Load balancing efficiency in P2P media streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M. M., Ghanbari, M., & Liotta, A. (2009). Load balancing efficiency in P2P media streaming. In Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications: (IMSA 2009) Human-centered Multimedia Computing (168-173)

Recently, P2PTV has started up-and-coming as a prospective alternate to the well known client-server applications such as IPTV, Video on demand and real-time TV services; Because it overcomes fundamental client-server issues and introduces some new f... Read More about Load balancing efficiency in P2P media streaming.