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Investigating Hotel Renovation Practices in Egypt (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hassanien, A. (2004, June). Investigating Hotel Renovation Practices in Egypt. Presented at Tourism: State of the Art II Conference, Glasgow, UK

Hassanien, A. (2004), ‘Investigating Hotel Renovation Practices in Egypt’, Tourism: State of the Art II Conference, Glasgow, UK.

Proceedings of tourism: State of the art II conference, Strathclyde University, The Scottish Hotel School, Glasgow,... Read More about Investigating Hotel Renovation Practices in Egypt.

Towards an Understanding of Visitor Perceptions of ‘Dark’ Attractions: The Case of the Imperial War museum of the North, Manchester (2004)
Journal Article
Wight, C., & Lennon, J. (2004). Towards an Understanding of Visitor Perceptions of ‘Dark’ Attractions: The Case of the Imperial War museum of the North, Manchester. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2(2), 105-122

Governments and authoritative stakeholders are faced with dilemmas regarding the representation of sites associated with death and disaster in the context of tourism visits. Not least of these are the owners and mangers of museums in the U.K which ar... Read More about Towards an Understanding of Visitor Perceptions of ‘Dark’ Attractions: The Case of the Imperial War museum of the North, Manchester.

The relationship between abundance and prevalence of trematode parasites infecting Lymnaea stagnalis L. (2004)
Journal Article
Briers, R. (2004). The relationship between abundance and prevalence of trematode parasites infecting Lymnaea stagnalis L. Journal of Conchology, 38(4), 363-367

The relationship between the prevalence and abundance (infection intensity) of trematode parasites infecting Lymnaea stagnalis L. was investigated based on collections of snails from 12 sites in central UK. Five species of trematode were recorded fro... Read More about The relationship between abundance and prevalence of trematode parasites infecting Lymnaea stagnalis L..

Management from the perspective of systems theory (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2004, July). Management from the perspective of systems theory. Presented at Practising Philosophy of Management, Oxford

Usual management theories focus on phenomenological aspects of organisations and management. Abstract communication systems theory offers a different approach, which can be used to analyze social systems, uncover their internal logic and structure, a... Read More about Management from the perspective of systems theory.

Franchising as a small business growth strategy: A resource-based view of organizational development (2004)
Journal Article
Stanworth, J., Stanworth, C., Watson, A., Purdy, D., & Healeas, S. (2004). Franchising as a small business growth strategy: A resource-based view of organizational development. International Small Business Journal, 22(6), 539-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242604047409

Not only are most franchisees themselves small businesses, but so are many franchisors, particularly in the formative years of their franchise businesses. High turbulence and attrition rates in the formative years of franchise businesses result in an... Read More about Franchising as a small business growth strategy: A resource-based view of organizational development.

Burr Formation in Drilling of Miniature Holes in Brass (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shyha, I. (2004, December). Burr Formation in Drilling of Miniature Holes in Brass. Presented at The 8th International Conference on Production Engineering, Design, and Control (PEDAC 2004), Alexandria, Egypt

User quality of service perception in 3G mobile networks (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papamiltiadis, K., Zisimopoulos, H., Gasparroni, M., & Liotta, A. (2004, March). User quality of service perception in 3G mobile networks. Presented at 2004 IEE Telecommunications Quality of Services: The Business of Success QoS 2004, London, UK

UMTS reflects the latest technical and standardisation efforts to realise and deploy a QoS-enabled mobile network infrastructure that can support QoS-dependent services and applications. The next challenge, therefore, is how to use and configure the... Read More about User quality of service perception in 3G mobile networks.

On management technologies and the potential of web services (2004)
Journal Article
Pavlou, G., Flegkas, P., Gouveris, S., & Liotta, A. (2004). On management technologies and the potential of web services. IEEE Communications Magazine, 42(7), 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2004.1316533

From the early days of management research and standardization in the late 1980's, there has always been a quest for a management technology that would be general enough to be used for network, system, service, and distributed application management;... Read More about On management technologies and the potential of web services.

JavaSpace: When agents meet peers (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ballette, M., Liotta, A., & Ragusa, C. (2004, October). JavaSpace: When agents meet peers. Presented at MATA: International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (First International Workshop, MATA 2004), Florianópolis, Brazil

The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) model has been proven to overcome some of the main limitations of the client-server approach, including the presence of single points of failure, the appearance of bottlenecks around the server and inefficient resource utilizat... Read More about JavaSpace: When agents meet peers.

Effective management through prediction-based clustering approach in the next-generation ad hoc networks (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sivavakeesar, S., Pavlou, G., Bohoris, C., & Liotta, A. (2004, June). Effective management through prediction-based clustering approach in the next-generation ad hoc networks. Presented at 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Paris, France

A framework for a proactive network management with the eventual aim to support quality of service (QoS) provisioning in ad hoc networks is proposed in this paper. This process is facilitated through our novel hierarchical clustering approach. This c... Read More about Effective management through prediction-based clustering approach in the next-generation ad hoc networks.

Neural networks for fault-prediction in a telecommunications network (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaudet, M., Iqbal, N., & Hussain, A. (2004, December). Neural networks for fault-prediction in a telecommunications network. Presented at 8th International Multitopic Conference, 2004, Lahore, Pakistan

The main topic of this paper is fault prediction from large alarm records stored in different databases of non-cooperating network management systems. We have chosen the countrywide data network of Pakistan Telecom (PTCL) as a basis for the investiga... Read More about Neural networks for fault-prediction in a telecommunications network.

A new multivariable generalized minimum-variance controller with pole-zero placement (2004)
Journal Article
Zayed, A. S., Hussain, A., & Smith, L. (2004). A new multivariable generalized minimum-variance controller with pole-zero placement. Control and Intelligent Systems, 32(1), 35-44. https://doi.org/10.2316/Journal.201.2004.1.201-1307

This article presents the derivation of a new robust multivariable adaptive controller, which minimizes a cost function, incorporating system input, system output, and set point. It provides an adaptive mechanism that ensures that both the closed-loo... Read More about A new multivariable generalized minimum-variance controller with pole-zero placement.

Designing a more inclusive world (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2004, March). Designing a more inclusive world. Presented at 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and assistive Technology (CWUAAT 04), Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Designing inclusively is no longer an option for companies. It is a business essential. Global populations are getting older, legislation is increasingly prohibitive of unnecessary exclusion and consumer attitudes are beginning to change. Exclusivity... Read More about Designing a more inclusive world.

Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design (2004)
Book
Keates, S. L., & Clarkson, J. (2004). Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0013-3

Inclusive design, universal design and universal access are long standing, familiar terms with clear and laudable goals. However, their teaching and industrial uptake has been very limited. Many products still exclude users unnecessarily for reasons... Read More about Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design.

Preface (to Designing a more inclusive world) (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., & Clarkson, J. (2004, March). Preface (to Designing a more inclusive world). Presented at 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology(CWUAAT 04), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Designing inclusively is no longer an option for companies. It is a business essential. Global populations are getting older, legislation is increasingly prohibitive of unnecessary exclusion and consumer attitudes are beginning to change. Exclusivity... Read More about Preface (to Designing a more inclusive world).

New cognitive capability scales for inclusive product design (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Langdon, P. M., Keates, S., & Clarkson, P. J. (2004, March). New cognitive capability scales for inclusive product design. Presented at 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology(CWUAAT 04), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Existing capability scales, such as that of the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) are based on a practitioner defined concept of intellectual function that is not compatible with current psychology. This chapter addresses the design requirements... Read More about New cognitive capability scales for inclusive product design.

Movement time prediction for tasks assisted by force-feedback (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hwang, F., Keates, S., Langdon, P. M., & Clarkson, P. J. (2004, March). Movement time prediction for tasks assisted by force-feedback. Presented at 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology(CWUAAT 04), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Movement plays an integral role in human-computer interaction. In particular, mouse movements can occupy as much as 65% of the time spent interacting with a graphical user interface (Johnsonet al 1993). However, for users with impaired motion, sympto... Read More about Movement time prediction for tasks assisted by force-feedback.