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Process discovery in highly parallel distributed systems. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J. (2014, August). Process discovery in highly parallel distributed systems. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2014

In distributed data processing systems it may happen that data arrives for
processing for which the appropriate algorithm is not available on the specific node
of the distributed system. It is however known that the required algorithm is
available... Read More about Process discovery in highly parallel distributed systems..

Benefits management of cloud computing investments (2014)
Journal Article
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2014). Benefits management of cloud computing investments. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 5(7), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050701

This paper examines investments in cloud computing using the Benefits Management approach. The major contribution of the paper is to provide a unique insight into how organizations derive value from cloud computing investments. The motivation for wri... Read More about Benefits management of cloud computing investments.

OPENsenima - Open Source Energy Interceptors for Mobile Apps (Guest Technical Presentation). (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chinenyeze, S. (2014, November). OPENsenima - Open Source Energy Interceptors for Mobile Apps (Guest Technical Presentation). Presented at 2nd GreenCode Lab Euro Conference

In software engineering interceptors are components (or pattern - a way of design) that changes or augments the usual processing cycle of a system. Interceptors can be used for intelligent decision making which consequently improves the user experien... Read More about OPENsenima - Open Source Energy Interceptors for Mobile Apps (Guest Technical Presentation)..

Machine Vision For Condition Monitoring Vegetation On Railway Embankments (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nyberg, R., Gupta, N., Yella, S., & Dougherty, M. (2014, September). Machine Vision For Condition Monitoring Vegetation On Railway Embankments. Presented at 6th IET Conference on Railway Condition Monitoring, RCM

National Railway Administration in Northern Europe do not employ systematic procedures in monitoring the current state of vegetation to form the basis of maintenance decision making. Current day vegetation maintenance is largely based on human visual... Read More about Machine Vision For Condition Monitoring Vegetation On Railway Embankments.

Generating Verbal Descriptions from Medical Sensor Data: A Corpus Study on User Preferences (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., Mcsporran, A., Mcgowan, A., Mort, A., & Dewar, M. (2014, September). Generating Verbal Descriptions from Medical Sensor Data: A Corpus Study on User Preferences. Presented at BCS Health Informatics Scotland, Glasgow

Understanding and interpreting medical sensor data is an essential part of pre-hospital care in medical emergencies, but requires training and previous knowledge. In this paper, we describe ongoing work towards a medical decision support tool, which... Read More about Generating Verbal Descriptions from Medical Sensor Data: A Corpus Study on User Preferences.

Guiding learners to near native fluency in English through an adaptive programme of activities which includes phoneme and prosody analysis. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, A., Attridge, A., & Lapok, P. (2014, September). Guiding learners to near native fluency in English through an adaptive programme of activities which includes phoneme and prosody analysis. Paper presented at Eurocall 2014

This project aims to address pronunciation problems of English language learners. Current pronunciation software tools mainly address phonemic difficulties and give little or no analytic feedback. Achievement of near native fluency however involves t... Read More about Guiding learners to near native fluency in English through an adaptive programme of activities which includes phoneme and prosody analysis..

An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chinenyeze, S., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2014, August). An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers. Presented at 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2014)

Green software is currently gaining interests with the increasing impact of IT in energy consumption. Green-ness in software however, can be achieved at various stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Consequently, several software engi... Read More about An aspect oriented model for software energy efficiency in decentralised servers..

Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., & Lemon, O. (2014, June). Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression. Presented at International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)

We present FeedbackGen, a system that uses a multi-adaptive approach to Natural Language Generation. With the term 'multi-adaptive', we refer to a system that is able to adapt its content to different user groups simultaneously, in our case adapting... Read More about Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression.

OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization (2014)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2014). OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-014-0009-1

Many efforts have been made in optimizing cloud service resource management for efficient service provision and delivery, yet little research addresses how to consume the provisioned service resources efficiently. Meanwhile, typical existing resource... Read More about OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization.

Embedding programming skills to support the student journey in networking, security and digital forensics. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, A., & Macfarlane, R. (2014, April). Embedding programming skills to support the student journey in networking, security and digital forensics. Paper presented at HEA STEM Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2014: Enhancing the STEM Student Journey

The development of programming skills by Networking graduates, and Security and Digital Forensics graduates is highly sought after by employers, both in industry, and in academia for staffing research and knowledge exchange projects. Placements offer... Read More about Embedding programming skills to support the student journey in networking, security and digital forensics..

Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Willis, A., Piotrowska, B., Bannach-Brown, A., MacLean, R. D. J., & Kerridge, J. (2014, March). Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool

Many adults and children with dyslexia also have problems with lower-level sensory, attentional, or motor tasks. In particular, there may be problems with auditory processing1, visual motion processing2-3, visual-spatial attention4, and motor control... Read More about Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool.

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.

Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds (2013)
Journal Article
Wei, H., Wang, Z., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Cheng, G. (2013). Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds. Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 1(1), 6-9. https://doi.org/10.12720/jiii.1.1.6-9

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach to solve Software Service Evolution problems in Computing Clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns... Read More about Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds.

Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., & Kerridge, J. (2013, August). Verifying the CPA Networking Stack using SPIN/Promela. Presented at 35th WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel programming

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..

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..

A model of sustainable ecosystem for software development, software business and music education (2013)
Thesis
Cheng, L. A model of sustainable ecosystem for software development, software business and music education. (Thesis). The Education University of Hong Kong. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2792659

This interdisciplinary study addresses the issue of creating a sustainable ecosystem consisting of the ecologies of software development, software business and music education. These are three key areas contributing to the end users’ applications of... Read More about A model of sustainable ecosystem for software development, software business and music education.

Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nussbaumer, N., & Liu, X. (2013, July). Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach

Cloud computing has gained immense momentum during recent years and has ultimately become a viable solutions not only for larger firms, but also for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For smaller companies to stay competitive, many have there... Read More about Cloud migration for SMEs in a Service Oriented Approach..

Using ICT to Supporting Course Developers, Tutors, and Students of Scottish Gaelic. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, A., Mikuta, P., & Cruickshank, P. (2013, September). Using ICT to Supporting Course Developers, Tutors, and Students of Scottish Gaelic. Poster presented at EUROCALL

This research and development is aimed at learners, tutors and course developers of Scottish Gaelic. The method of teaching Gaelic being used initially with the system is Ùlpan. This method has been used for over 50 years to great effect in Israel, w... Read More about Using ICT to Supporting Course Developers, Tutors, and Students of Scottish Gaelic..