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Modeling living systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P. (2009). Modeling living systems. In Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (208-215). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-

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). Networks of artificial social interactions. In Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (383-390). https://d

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.

Listening, Corporeality, Place and Presence (2009)
Book Chapter
Turner, S., McGregor, I., & Turner, P. (2009). Listening, Corporeality, Place and Presence. In P. Turner, S. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (113-127). London: IGI Global. htt

This chapter considers the role of sound, and more specifically, listening, in creating a sense of presence (of "being there") in "places" recreated by virtual reality technologies. We first briefly review the treatment of sound in place and presence... Read More about Listening, Corporeality, Place and Presence.

A Token-Managed Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect (2009)
Journal Article
Yang, S., Furber, S. B., Shi, Y., & Plana, L. A. (2009). A Token-Managed Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect. Fundamenta Informaticae, 95(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.3233/fi-2009-142

A Token-ManagedAdmission Control (TMAC) mechanism is introduced in order to provide efficient Quality-of-Service (QoS) support for different types of application on a best-effort Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous (GALS) interconnect fabric. T... Read More about A Token-Managed Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect.

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). Predicting quality of experience in multimedia streaming. In MoMM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (52-59). https://doi.or

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). Optimized online learning for qoe prediction. In Proceedings of the 21st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'09, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 29-30, 2009) (169-176)

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.

Let's Meander Through a Measured Space (2009)
Book Chapter
Kerridge, J. (2009). Let's Meander Through a Measured Space. In Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (17-25). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-020-2.ch002

This chapter concerns the question of how people navigate through a space in which other people are also present. Issues addressed include how the space itself affects the way people navigate, how this is changed by the presence of others in the spac... Read More about Let's Meander Through a Measured Space.

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). Verification & validation of agent based simulations using the VOMAS (virtual overlay multi-agent system) approach. In MALLOW'009: Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops: Proc

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. (2009). Multi-modal speech processing methods: an overview and future research directions using a MATLAB based audio-visual toolbox. In Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues (121-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-

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.

Maximising audiovisual correlation with automatic lip tracking and vowel based segmentation (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abel, A., Hussain, A., Nguyen, Q., Ringeval, F., Chetouani, M., & Milgram, M. (2009). Maximising audiovisual correlation with automatic lip tracking and vowel based segmentation. In Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication (65-72). https://do

In recent years, the established link between the various human communication production domains has become more widely utilised in the field of speech processing. In this work, a state of the art Semi Adaptive Appearance Model (SAAM) approach develo... Read More about Maximising audiovisual correlation with automatic lip tracking and vowel based segmentation.

Controlled and automatic processing in animals and machines with application to autonomous vehicle control (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gurney, K., Hussain, A., Chambers, J., & Abdullah, R. (2009). Controlled and automatic processing in animals and machines with application to autonomous vehicle control. In Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009 (198-207). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-

There are two modes of control recognised in the cognitive psychological literature. Controlled processing is slow, requires serial attention to sub-tasks, and requires effortful memory retrieval and decision making. In contrast automatic control is... Read More about Controlled and automatic processing in animals and machines with application to autonomous vehicle control.

Common sense computing: From the society of mind to digital intuition and beyond (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Havasi, C., & Eckl, C. (2009). Common sense computing: From the society of mind to digital intuition and beyond. In Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication (252-259). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04391-8_33

What is Common Sense Computing? And why is it so important for the technological evolution of humankind? This paper presents an overview of past, present and future efforts of the AI community to give computers the capacity for Common Sense reasoning... Read More about Common sense computing: From the society of mind to digital intuition and beyond.

An investigation into audiovisual speech correlation in reverberant noisy environments (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cifani, S., Abel, A., Hussain, A., Squartini, S., & Piazza, F. (2009). An investigation into audiovisual speech correlation in reverberant noisy environments. In Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions: COST Action 2102 Inte

As evidence of a link between the various human communication production domains has become more prominent in the last decade, the field of multimodal speech processing has undergone significant expansion. Many different specialised processing method... Read More about An investigation into audiovisual speech correlation in reverberant noisy environments.

A novel implicit adaptive pole-placement PID controller (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zayed, A., El-Fandi, M., Hussain, A., & El-Fllah, A. (2009). A novel implicit adaptive pole-placement PID controller.

In this paper, a new computationally efficient multivariable self-tuning controller with a proportional plus integral plus derivative (PID) is derived. The algorithm features a combination of the self-tuning property, in which the controller paramete... Read More about A novel implicit adaptive pole-placement PID controller.