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Hybrid parameter control approach applied to a diversity-based multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for frequency assignment problems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Segredo, E., Paechter, B., Hart, E., & Gonz´alez-Vila, C. I. (2016, July). Hybrid parameter control approach applied to a diversity-based multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for frequency assignment problems. Presented at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

In order to address the difficult issue of parameter setting within a diversity-based Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA), we recently proposed a hybrid control scheme based on both Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) and Hyper-heuristics (HHs).... Read More about Hybrid parameter control approach applied to a diversity-based multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for frequency assignment problems.

How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2016, July). How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users. Presented at FUZZ-IEEE 2016

We propose a novel approach for handling first-time
users in the context of automatic report generation from timeseries
data in the health domain. Handling first-time users is
a common problem for Natural Language Generation (NLG)
and interactive... Read More about How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users.

Great Britain's Olympians with generalised joint hypermobility have a higher prevalence of knee osteoarthritis
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cooper, D. J., Scammell, B. E., Batt, M. E., & Palmer-Green, D. (2016, March). Great Britain's Olympians with generalised joint hypermobility have a higher prevalence of knee osteoarthritis. Presented at OARSI 2016 World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Purpose: Individuals with generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) are reported, in the clinical setting, to be at greater risk of developing musculoskeletal related joint pain, joint dislocations and tendinopathies. It is hypothesized that impaired sta... Read More about Great Britain's Olympians with generalised joint hypermobility have a higher prevalence of knee osteoarthritis.

The prevalence and factors associated with knee pain in Great Britain's Olympians aged 40 years and older.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Palmer-Green, D., Scammell, B., Cooper, D., Cooper, D., Scammell, B. E., Batt, M., & Palmer-Green, D. (2016, March). The prevalence and factors associated with knee pain in Great Britain's Olympians aged 40 years and older. Presented at OARSI 2016 World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Purpose: affecting approximately one in four adults over the age of 40 years in the UK, knee pain is the most common presenting feature of osteoarthritis (OA). Despite the plethora of studies that have investigated the factors associated with the ons... Read More about The prevalence and factors associated with knee pain in Great Britain's Olympians aged 40 years and older..

Anarchism and abolitionism in restorative justice: from promises to subjugated discourses
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maglione, G. (2016, March). Anarchism and abolitionism in restorative justice: from promises to subjugated discourses. Paper presented at European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control British/Irish section Conference, Dundee

Over the past 40 years, restorative justice (RJ) has slowly emerged as one of the most promising novelties within western contemporary penality, a relentlessly growing field of research able to inspire concrete actions within, outside or against many... Read More about Anarchism and abolitionism in restorative justice: from promises to subjugated discourses.

Re-shaping restorative justice: A historical and critical ontology
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maglione, G. (2016, March). Re-shaping restorative justice: A historical and critical ontology. Paper presented at The Howard League for Penal Reform Annual Conference: Justice and Penal Reform: Reshaping the Penal Landscape, Oxford

Maglione, G. (2016, March). Re-shaping restorative justice: A historical and critical ontology. Paper presented at The Howard League for Penal Reform Annual Conference: Justice and Penal Reform: Reshaping the Penal Landscape, Oxford

Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., & Smith, C. (2016, July). Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces. Presented at Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society - SMSociety '16

This paper focuses on the importance of non-public social media spaces in contemporary democratic participation at the grassroots level, based on case studies of citizen-led, community and activist groups. The research pilots the concept of participa... Read More about Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces.

The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A. (2015, December). The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation. Presented at Improving University Teaching

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is being promoted as an activity for teaching-focused academics in the UK. However, support for SoTL is not a priority for most institutions, and formal provision for such support may not extend beyond... Read More about The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation.

Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bach, B., Kerracher, N., Hall, K. W., Carpendale, S., Kennedy, J., & Henry Riche, N. (2016, May). Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics. Presented at CHI 16

In this paper, we explore graph comics as a medium to communicate
changes in dynamic networks. While previous research
has focused on visualizing dynamic networks for data
exploration, we want to see if we can take advantage of the
visual express... Read More about Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics..

The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bartie, P., Mackaness, W., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2016, May). The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes. Presented at 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)

We present a newly crowd-sourced data set of natural language references to objects anchored in complex urban scenes (In short: The REAL Corpus – Referring Expressions Anchored Language). The REAL corpus contains a collection of images of real-world... Read More about The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes.

Demo paper: AGADE - Scalability of ontology based agent simulations
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Urquhart, N. B., & Wells, S. (2016, June). Demo paper: AGADE - Scalability of ontology based agent simulations. Presented at 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Sevilla, Spain

Simulations of real world scenarios often require considerably
large numbers of agents. With increasing level of detail and resolution
in the underlying models machine limitations both in the aspect of
memory and computing power are reached. Even... Read More about Demo paper: AGADE - Scalability of ontology based agent simulations.

Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., Jennings, T., Cochrane, R., Taks, M., & Van de Graaf, P. (2016, April). Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies. Presented at Cumulus - In this Place Conference 2016

‘Work on the move’ is a design, process-driven methodology, which uses multiple locations within an outdoors setting and movement between locations, all of which function as learning places, confined to a specified time period.
Between 2012 and 2015... Read More about Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies..

Power to the Population? the population census under review.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Killick, L., Duff, A., Hall, H., & Deakin, M. (2015, November). Power to the Population? the population census under review. Presented at Asian Conference on Technology, Information and Society (ACTIS), Kobe, Japan

Many regard the population census as the backbone of national statistics. It is also regarded as a national institution; a data source held in high regard by the academic, policymaker, historian and genealogist alike. However, technological advances,... Read More about Power to the Population? the population census under review..

Social networking sites and employment status: an investigation based on Understanding Society data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mowbray, J., Raeside, R., Hall, H., & Robertson, P. (2016, January). Social networking sites and employment status: an investigation based on Understanding Society data. Presented at IDIMC 2016- Exploring our digital shadow: from data to intelligence, Loughborough

An analysis is made of secondary data derived from Understanding Society: The UK household longitudinal study (2012) as related to the use of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst 16-21 year olds. This explores the relationship between employment st... Read More about Social networking sites and employment status: an investigation based on Understanding Society data.

Challenging the Training and Development Rhetoric: The 'new' Labour Process of Middle Managers in the Hong Kong Public Sector
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Neil, J. (2016, July). Challenging the Training and Development Rhetoric: The 'new' Labour Process of Middle Managers in the Hong Kong Public Sector. Paper presented at 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology - The Future We Want: global sociology and the struggles for a better world, Vienna, Austria

The focus of this paper is on middle managers (MM) ability to overcome the public sector challenges associated with work intensification; control and skills adaption via learning and development initiatives. Whilst much has been written about the cha... Read More about Challenging the Training and Development Rhetoric: The 'new' Labour Process of Middle Managers in the Hong Kong Public Sector.

Understanding the compatibility of UK resource for dowel laminated timber construction
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plowas, W., Hairstans, R., Bell, T., & Bros Williamson, J. (2016, June). Understanding the compatibility of UK resource for dowel laminated timber construction. Presented at Integrated Design Conference

Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT also know as Brettstapel) is a technique of constructing large-scale solid timber panels for use as structural or non-structural elements. The technique utilizes smaller sawn timber sections mechanically fixed together wit... Read More about Understanding the compatibility of UK resource for dowel laminated timber construction.

Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016, January). Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments. Presented at IDIMC 2016 - Exploring our digital shadow: from data to intelligence

The main theme of the paper is the development of a framework to investigate how online information is used in the creation, building, and evaluation of personal reputations. (Here the term “personal reputation” refers to the reputation of private in... Read More about Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments..