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An innovative design tool for optimisation of timber structures. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menendez, J. (2013). An innovative design tool for optimisation of timber structures. In Young Researchers' Conference (81)

The purpose of this research project is to provide structural engineers with a user-friendly tool for the design of timber structures. This application also facilitates real-time structural optimisation by updating the latest research findings on inn... Read More about An innovative design tool for optimisation of timber structures..

Young people’s perceptions of computing careers. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., & McConnell, A. (2013). Young people’s perceptions of computing careers. In Frontiers in Education Conference, 2013 IEEE (1597-1603). https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2013.6685108

Recruitment into computing-related undergraduate degree courses is challenging in several countries. This is despite employers reporting skills shortages, and the sector generally offering better salaries than for graduates of more popular courses. T... Read More about Young people’s perceptions of computing careers..

Commercial Competency and computing students: using the Skills Framework for the Information Age in higher education. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T. (2013). Commercial Competency and computing students: using the Skills Framework for the Information Age in higher education. In Frontiers in Education Conference, 2013 IEEE (286-292). https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2013.6684833

Commercial acumen has emerged recently as a third aspect of employability which employers expect from computing graduates, in addition to technical capability and "soft skills" (or similar terms like transferable skills). Our experience has been that... Read More about Commercial Competency and computing students: using the Skills Framework for the Information Age in higher education..

Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., Schafer, B., & Rauhofer, J. (2013). Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs?. In INFORMATIK 2013

Technologies, der seine rechtstheoretische Motivation aus einem Verständnis der Privatsphäre als kollektivem Gut gewinnt. In diesem Modell willigen alle Mitglieder einer Gruppe in eine theoretisches Risiko ein, um gegenseitig ihre Anonymität und dami... Read More about Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs?.

Evaluation of following headway behaviour in mixed traffic condition in north east part of India. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar, R., & Parida, P. (2013, September). Evaluation of following headway behaviour in mixed traffic condition in north east part of India. Presented at 11th WASD Annual Conference

Purpose: Both a lack of understanding of the issues for following headway behaviour of the driver and a lack of sufficient data in different traffic condition have been major reasons to attempt this research study. This paper attempts to address hypo... Read More about Evaluation of following headway behaviour in mixed traffic condition in north east part of India..

Visual cleaning of genotype data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kennedy, J., Graham, M., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2013). Visual cleaning of genotype data. In Proceedings of BioVis 2013 (105-112). https://doi.org/10.1109/BioVis.2013.6664353

While some data cleaning tasks can be performed automatically, many more require expert human guidance to steer the cleaning process, especially if erroneous or unclean data is a product of relationships between entities. An example is pedigree genot... Read More about Visual cleaning of genotype data..

Grading UK grown larch for durability. IRG/WP 13-10808 (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, D., Davies, I., Sharphouse, P., & Suttie, E. (2013, June). Grading UK grown larch for durability. IRG/WP 13-10808. Presented at International Research Group on Wood Protection, Stockholm

This paper reports on a joint study by BRE, the Forest Products Research Institute and TRADA Technology into the feasibility of grading UK grown larch to maximise its natural durability. The research was undertaken to assist sawmills and timber speci... Read More about Grading UK grown larch for durability. IRG/WP 13-10808.

Feasibility and economic study of solar photovoltaic system for domestic properties in Scotland. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Irshad, W., Girard, A., & Muneer, T. (2013). Feasibility and economic study of solar photovoltaic system for domestic properties in Scotland.

Solar photovoltaic technology is continuously growing. It is providing benefits to, not only environment friendly people as a clean source of energy but it also became economically, a profitable source of energy. It is happening because of decreasing... Read More about Feasibility and economic study of solar photovoltaic system for domestic properties in Scotland..

From urban space to future place. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Helgason, I., Jensen, L., Rosenbak, S., Skrinjar, L., Smyth, M., Streinzer, A., …Wouters, N. (2013). From urban space to future place.

How the UrbanIxD summer school applied critical design & design fiction to future urban technologies. Produced in collaboration with the Book Sprints for ICT Research FP7 project. http://issuu.com/urbanixd/docs/from_urban_space_to_future_place

On the role of the AIS practitioner. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Read, M., McEwan, C., Aickelin, U., & Greensmith, J. (2013, September). On the role of the AIS practitioner

Cognisant of the gulf between engineers and immunologists that currenty hinders a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), we propose a redefinition of the term AIS practitioner, as an individual who iden... Read More about On the role of the AIS practitioner..

Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2013, December). Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing. Presented at 2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

Pricing Intelligence as a service (PINaaS) can be seen as the brokerage of user requirements to pricing of available resources in a cloud computing environment. Users of both public and private clouds have to consider the price of services they consu... Read More about Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing.

TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2013, August). TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs

Much research has been conducted focusing on improving resource utilization efficiency in data centers in the context of Green Cloud Computing (GCC). While virtualization enables better resource provision and utilization for various computational res... Read More about TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs..

IS Degrees: Sociotechnical or Technosocial? - A Reflective Analysis. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coady, J., Berg, T., & Pooley, R. (2012, August). IS Degrees: Sociotechnical or Technosocial? - A Reflective Analysis. Presented at ISD Conference

This paper describes a reflective and empirical investigation by staff involved in delivery of the Heriot-Watt University Information Systems undergraduate degree. It looks particularly at the practical relevance of the IS 2010 model curriculum, aski... Read More about IS Degrees: Sociotechnical or Technosocial? - A Reflective Analysis..

Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., & Kerridge, J. (2013). Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela. In P. H. Welch, F. R. M. Barnes, J. F. Broenink, K. Chalmers, J. B. Pedersen, & A. T. Sampson (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2013 (39-56)

This paper presents a verification of the CPA Networking Stack, using the SPIN Model Checker. Our work shows that the system developed for general networking within CPA applications works under the conditions defined for it. The model itself focuses... Read More about Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela..

An immune network approach for self-adaptive ensembles of autonomic components: a case study in swarm robotics. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2013, September). An immune network approach for self-adaptive ensembles of autonomic components: a case study in swarm robotics

We describe an immune inspired approach to achieve self-expression within an ensemble, i.e. enabling an ensemble of autonomic components to dynamically change their coordination pattern during the runtime execution of a given task. Building on previo... Read More about An immune network approach for self-adaptive ensembles of autonomic components: a case study in swarm robotics..

Designing self-aware adaptive systems: from autonomic computing to cognitive immune networks. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2013). Designing self-aware adaptive systems: from autonomic computing to cognitive immune networks. In Proceedings of SASO Workshops 2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.17

An autonomic system is composed of ensembles of heterogeneous autonomic components in which large sets of components are dynamically added and removed. Nodes within such an ensemble should cooperate to achieve system or human goals, and systems are e... Read More about Designing self-aware adaptive systems: from autonomic computing to cognitive immune networks..

Can pay, should pay? Exploring paid and unpaid work opportunities from employer and student perspectives. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caddell, M., McIlwhan, R., Irving, C., Smith, C. F., & Smith, S. (2013). Can pay, should pay? Exploring paid and unpaid work opportunities from employer and student perspectives.

Within current university-focused discussions around how to enhance and support student employability, considerable emphasis has been placed on gaining work experience, either through volunteering or via work placements and internships. There is grow... Read More about Can pay, should pay? Exploring paid and unpaid work opportunities from employer and student perspectives..

Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., Burns, N., Lo, O., Lawson, A., Varga, J., & Anderson, C. (2013, April). Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. Presented at CSP 2013: Cyber Security and Privacy

We live in a world where trust relationships are becoming ever more important. This paper outlines how an architecture which abstracts these relationships between domains, organisations and units, into a formal definition, and then implement these as... Read More about Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture..

Experimental evaluation of disk sector hash comparison for forensic triage using a Bloom filter. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Macfarlane, R., & Clayton, J. (2013, June). Experimental evaluation of disk sector hash comparison for forensic triage using a Bloom filter. Presented at Cyberforensics 2013, Cardiff, UK

There is a problem in the world of digital forensics. The demands on digital forensic investigators and resources will continue to increase as the use of computers and other electronic devices increases, and as the storage capacity of these devices i... Read More about Experimental evaluation of disk sector hash comparison for forensic triage using a Bloom filter..