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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.

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

A smartphone based telemedicine system for recording limited lead body surface potential maps (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Finlay, D., Nugent, C., Breen, C., Bond, R., & Moore, G. (2009). A smartphone based telemedicine system for recording limited lead body surface potential maps. In 2009 36th Annual Computers in Cardiology Conference (CinC) (237-240)

In this paper we describe the development of a limited lead BSPM system which is based around a commercial 12-lead ECG acquisition unit and a smartphone. We repositioned the six precordial leads to allow for better information capture and hence more... Read More about A smartphone based telemedicine system for recording limited lead body surface potential maps.

Modeling living systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2009, September). Modeling living systems. Presented at ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life, Budapest, Hungary

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, September). Networks of artificial social interactions. Presented at ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life, Budapest, Hungary

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.

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, December). Predicting quality of experience in multimedia streaming. Presented at MoMM '09: 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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, October). Optimized online learning for qoe prediction. Presented at 21st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'09), Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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.

An analysis of mobile signalling in converged networks (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oredope, A., Exarchakos, G., Menkovski, V., & Liotta, A. (2009). An analysis of mobile signalling in converged networks. In 2009 IEEE 9th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC) (629-634). https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2009.5431419

Converged networks are viewed as a multi-access platform on which fixed and mobile communications can be easily merged into a unified system thus enabling the deployment of rich and personalized services. In this paper, we provide the outcomes of our... Read More about An analysis of mobile signalling in converged networks.

A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C., Horoshenkov, K., Tait, S., Abd-Alhameed, R., Hu, Y., Elkhazmi, E., & Gardiner, J. (2009, December). A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring. Presented at 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009), Singapore, Singapore

Blockages in sewers are major causes of both sewer flooding and pollution. Water companies which fail to tackle this problem face hefty fines and high operational costs if they unsuccessful to provide a practical solution to prevent flooding. As a re... Read More about A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring.

Precise computation of the induced fields inside biological cell tissue using floquet boundary and subgridding quasi-static FDTD method (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramli, K., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Zhou, D., Elkhazmi, E., & Excell, P. (2009, December). Precise computation of the induced fields inside biological cell tissue using floquet boundary and subgridding quasi-static FDTD method. Presented at 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009), Singapore, Singapore

This paper demonstrates the detailed electromagnetic modelling of biological cell structures by using modified subgridding FDTD techniques. This is done by incorporating a quasi-static FDTD solution, Floquet periodic boundary conditions and modified... Read More about Precise computation of the induced fields inside biological cell tissue using floquet boundary and subgridding quasi-static FDTD method.

Miniature dual-frequency half planar inverted F-L-antenna for WLAN/cellular applications (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., Elkhazmi, E., Abusitta, M., Ramli, K., & Excell, P. (2009, December). Miniature dual-frequency half planar inverted F-L-antenna for WLAN/cellular applications. Presented at 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009), Singapore, Singapore

A reduced size miniature dual-bands planar inverted F-L antenna for WLAN and cellular applications is achieved by applying the magnetic wall concept. The proposed antenna provides a 12% and 9.3% bandwidth at S₁₁ < -10 dB for 2.5 GHz and 5.2 GHz WLAN... Read More about Miniature dual-frequency half planar inverted F-L-antenna for WLAN/cellular applications.

Verification & validation of agent based simulations using the VOMAS (virtual overlay multi-agent system) approach (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Niazi, M. A., Hussain, A., & Kolberg, M. (2009, September). Verification & validation of agent based simulations using the VOMAS (virtual overlay multi-agent system) approach. Presented at Second Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops, Turin, Italy

Agent Based Models are very popular in a number of different areas. For example, they have been used in a range of domains ranging from modeling of tumor growth, immune systems, molecules to models of social networks, crowds and computer and mobile s... Read More about Verification & validation of agent based simulations using the VOMAS (virtual overlay multi-agent system) approach.

Speech recognition system and formant based analysis of spoken Arabic vowels (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alotaibi, Y., & Hussain, A. (2009). Speech recognition system and formant based analysis of spoken Arabic vowels. In Future Generation Information Technology (50-60). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10509-8_7

Arabic is one of the world’s oldest languages and is currently the second most spoken language in terms of number of speakers. However, it has not received much attention from the traditional speech processing research community. This study is specif... Read More about Speech recognition system and formant based analysis of spoken Arabic vowels.

Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abel, A., & Hussain, A. (2008, April). Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox. Presented at COST Action 2102 and euCognition International School, Vietri sul Mare, Italy

This paper presents an overview of the main multi-modal speech enhancement methods reported to date. In particular, a new MATLAB based Toolbox developed by Barbosa et al (2007) for processing audio-visual data is reviewed and its performance potentia... Read More about Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox.