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TQEM in the UK construction industry: Some key findings from a survey (2008)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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 (22-27)

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)
Conference Proceeding
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.), Proceedings of the 2nd International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems: OPAALS 2008

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.

3D stereoscopic design of submersive rescue vehicle and rescue mission simulation (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Ramsay, J., Sharples, B., Naef, M., & Sherwood Jones, B. (2008). 3D stereoscopic design of submersive rescue vehicle and rescue mission simulation. In International Conference of Warship 2008: Naval Submarines 9 (13-20)

The three-dimensional representation of complex mechanical structures has recently received substantial research attention as it assists significantly during the design review process. Being the epitome of engineering products, submarine designs have... Read More about 3D stereoscopic design of submersive rescue vehicle and rescue mission simulation.

Augmented reality anatomy training for inguinal canal region (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Ward, B. M., Sakellariou, S., Parkin, I., Rowley, D., & Anderson, P. (2008). Augmented reality anatomy training for inguinal canal region. In Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts and Humanities

The proliferation of three-dimensional and augmented reality representations offers significant advantages for the accumulation of spatial knowledge regarding human complex structures. Interestingly the interpretation of complex applied medical scien... Read More about Augmented reality anatomy training for inguinal canal region.

An enquiry into VR interface design for medical training: VR augmented anatomy tutorials for breast cancer (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Ward, B. M., Naef, M., Rowley, D., Brady, L., & Anderson, P. (2008). An enquiry into VR interface design for medical training: VR augmented anatomy tutorials for breast cancer. In Proceedings SPIE 6804 (1-9). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.767758

This paper presents an initial study exploring and evaluating a novel, accessible and user-centred interface developed for a VR Medical training environment. In particular, the proposed system facilitates a detailed 3D information exchange, with the... Read More about An enquiry into VR interface design for medical training: VR augmented anatomy tutorials for breast cancer.

On the impact of user’s computer knowledge on driving simulation test results - HUD simulation case study (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Naef, M., Arafat, S., & Vlachos, G. (2008). On the impact of user’s computer knowledge on driving simulation test results - HUD simulation case study. In Proceedings of the 27th European Annual Conference on Human Decision-Making and Manual Control

Contemporary studies have focused on the development of rear collision avoidance or warning systems, in order to assist drivers during demanding driving situations and weather conditions. However, vehicle’s controllability through human decision-maki... Read More about On the impact of user’s computer knowledge on driving simulation test results - HUD simulation case study.

Investigation of users' age and driving performance with the use of prototype automotive HUD system (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Charissis, V., Naef, M., Papanastasiou, S., & Vlachos, G. (2008). Investigation of users' age and driving performance with the use of prototype automotive HUD system. In Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting (3795-3804)

A plethora of rear collision avoidance or warning systems have recently been developed in order to assist drivers in demanding driving situations and weather conditions. However vehicle’s controllability through human decision-making is often sacrifi... Read More about Investigation of users' age and driving performance with the use of prototype automotive HUD system.

A Virtual-Reality-based evaluation environment for wheelchair-mounted manipulators (2008)
Conference Proceeding
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/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/035-042

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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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). https://doi.org/10.1109/NGMAST.2008.69

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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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 2008 (255-270). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-907-3-255

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)
Conference Proceeding
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). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-907-3-431

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.