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Using Semantic Technology to Model Persona for Adaptable Agents (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Powers, S., & Urquhart, N. (2021, June). Using Semantic Technology to Model Persona for Adaptable Agents. Presented at ECMS 2021

In state of the art research a growing interest in the application of agent models for the simulation of road traffic can be observed. Software agents are particularly suitable for the representation of travellers and their goal-oriented behaviour. A... Read More about Using Semantic Technology to Model Persona for Adaptable Agents.

Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zhang, J., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., Khosravi, M., & Bilal, M. (2022). Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks. Physical Communication, 51, Article 101584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2021.101584

The intensification of the greenhouse effect is driving the implementation of energy saving and emission reduction policies, which lead to a wide variety of energy saving solutions benefiting from the advancement of emerging technologies such as Wire... Read More about Improving wireless indoor non-intrusive load disaggregation using attention-based deep learning networks.

An Edge-Assisted Cloud Framework Using a Residual Concatenate FCN Approach to Beam Correction in the Internet of Weather Radars (2021)
Journal Article
Wu, H., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., & Yang, Z. (2022). An Edge-Assisted Cloud Framework Using a Residual Concatenate FCN Approach to Beam Correction in the Internet of Weather Radars. World Wide Web, 25, 1923-1949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-021-00988-y

Internet of Things (IoT) has been rapidly developed in recent years, being well applied in the fields of Environmental Surveillance, Smart Grid, Intelligent Transportation, and so on. As one of the typical earth-based meteorological observation metho... Read More about An Edge-Assisted Cloud Framework Using a Residual Concatenate FCN Approach to Beam Correction in the Internet of Weather Radars.

Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kukla, R., Mandrychenko, O., Hart, D., & Kennedy, J. (2021, October). Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study. Presented at 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), New Orleans, USA

This paper describes the process of developing data visualisations to enhance a commercial software platform for combating insider threat, whose existing UI, while perfectly functional, was limited in its ability to allow analysts to easily spot the... Read More about Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study.

Systems and Methods for Illuminating Physical Space with Shadows of Virtual Objects (2021)
Patent
Velinov, Z. V., Mitchell, K. J., & Hager, IV, J. G. (2021). Systems and Methods for Illuminating Physical Space with Shadows of Virtual Objects

A system can be used in conjunction with a display configured to display an augmented reality (AR) environment including a virtual object placed in a real environment, the virtual object having a virtual location in the AR environment. The system inc... Read More about Systems and Methods for Illuminating Physical Space with Shadows of Virtual Objects.

Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M. (2021, October). Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study. Presented at 18th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, New Orleans, USA [Online]

This paper describes the process of developing data visualisations to enhance a commercial software platform for combating insider threat, whose existing UI, while perfectly functional, was limited in its ability to allow analysts to easily spot the... Read More about Developing Visualisations to Enhance an Insider Threat Product: A Case Study.

Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps (2021)
Book Chapter
Jaachimma Chinenyeze, S., & Liu, X. (2021). Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps. In C. Calero, M. Á. Moraga, & M. Piattini (Eds.), Software Sustainability (183-214). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69970-3_8

With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices, and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimization techniques have been proposed by the green computing research community. Prominent techniques and unique methods... Read More about Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps.

Modelling Individual Preferences to Study and Predict Effects of Traffic Policies (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Powers, S., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2021, October). Modelling Individual Preferences to Study and Predict Effects of Traffic Policies. Presented at PAAMS: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain

Traffic can be viewed as a complex adaptive system in which systemic patterns arise as emergent phenomena. Global behaviour is a result of behavioural patterns of a large set of individual travellers. However, available traffic simulation models lack... Read More about Modelling Individual Preferences to Study and Predict Effects of Traffic Policies.

Using AGADE Traffic to Analyse Purpose-driven Travel Behaviour (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Powers, S. T., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2021, October). Using AGADE Traffic to Analyse Purpose-driven Travel Behaviour. Presented at PAAMS: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain

AGADE Traffic is an agent-based traffic simulator that can be used to analyse purpose-driven travel behaviour of individuals that leads to the emergence of systemic patterns in mobility. The simulator uses semantic technology to model knowledge of in... Read More about Using AGADE Traffic to Analyse Purpose-driven Travel Behaviour.

Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Snaith, M., & Wells, S. (2021, September). Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games. Presented at CMNA’21: Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Online

In this paper we sketch a new approach to the development of dialogue games that builds upon the knowledge gained from several decades of dialogue game research across a variety of communities and which leverages the capabilities of the Dialogue Game... Read More about Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games.

Introducing real-time lighting effects to illuminate real-world physical objects in see-through augmented reality displays (2021)
Patent
Yueng, J. A., Mitchell, K. J., Panec, T. M., Baumbach, E. H., & Drake, C. D. (2021). Introducing real-time lighting effects to illuminate real-world physical objects in see-through augmented reality displays

Embodiments provide for the rendering of illumination effects on real-world objects in augmented reality systems. An example method generally includes overlaying a shader on the augmented reality display. The shader generally corresponds to a three-d... Read More about Introducing real-time lighting effects to illuminate real-world physical objects in see-through augmented reality displays.

Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration (2021)
Journal Article
Khartabil, D., Collins, C., Wells, S., Bach, B., & Kennedy, J. (2021). Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(6), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14389

This paper reports the design and comparison of three visualizations to represent the structure and content within arguments. Arguments are artefacts of reasoning widely used across domains such as education, policy making, and science. An argument i... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration.

On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Goff, L. K. L., & Hart, E. (2021, July). On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme. Presented at GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lille, France

We investigate a hierarchical scheme for the joint optimisation of robot bodies and controllers in a complex morphological space. An evolutionary algorithm optimises body-plans while a separate learning algorithm is applied to each body generated to... Read More about On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme.

Parallel Programming Made Simple: Using Groovy Parallel Patterns (2021)
Book
Kerridge, J. (2021). Parallel Programming Made Simple: Using Groovy Parallel Patterns. Bookboon.com

The use of the Groovy Parallel Patterns Library is described, using many diverse examples, showing how a parallel application can be easily created from existing sequential codes.

Augmenting a physical object with virtual components (2021)
Patent
Drake, C., Mitchell, K., Rodgers, R., Hager, J., MacIntosh, K., & Pan, Y. (2021). Augmenting a physical object with virtual components. US11024098

Systems and methods are presented for immersive and simultaneous animation in a mixed reality environment. Techniques disclosed represent a physical object, present at a scene, in a 3D space of a virtual environment associated with the scene. A virtu... Read More about Augmenting a physical object with virtual components.

Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL + (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mitchell, K., Koniaris, B., Tamariz, M., Kennedy, J., Cheema, N., Mekler, E., Van Der Linden, P., Herrmann, E., Hämäläinen, P., McGregor, I., Slusallek, P., & Mac Williams, C. (2021, March). Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL +. Presented at 2021 IEEE VR 6th Annual Workshop on K-12+ Embodied Learning through Virtual and Augmented Reality (KELVAR), Lisbon, Portugal

This is a position paper concerning the embodied dance learning objectives of the CAROUSEL + 1 project, which aims to impact how online immersive technologies influence multiuser interaction and communication with a focus on dancing and learning danc... Read More about Embodied online dance learning objectives of CAROUSEL +.

A Conceptual Framework for Establishing Trust in Real World Intelligent Systems (2021)
Journal Article
Guckert, M., Gumpfer, N., Hannig, J., Keller, T., & Urquhart, N. (2021). A Conceptual Framework for Establishing Trust in Real World Intelligent Systems. Cognitive Systems Research, 68, 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.04.001

Intelligent information systems that contain emergent elements often encounter trust problems because results do not get sufficiently explained and the procedure itself can not be fully retraced. This is caused by a control flow depending either on s... Read More about A Conceptual Framework for Establishing Trust in Real World Intelligent Systems.