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Double-clicking poverty: the diffusion of ICT in the hotel sector in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demeke, W. (2012, December). Double-clicking poverty: the diffusion of ICT in the hotel sector in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Paper presented at University of West London, MPhil/PhD Conference Presentation

According to the United Nations Development Program, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a significant impact on the reduction of poverty in developing countries. In addition, a number of studies emphasise the positive developmental im... Read More about Double-clicking poverty: the diffusion of ICT in the hotel sector in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, H., Sun, J., & Liu, X. (2012, December). A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL

With the rapid increase of Web Service applications, the reliability of web service and service composition has drawn particular attention from researchers and industries. Many methods for testing and verifying the reliability have been discussed, ho... Read More about A model checking based approach to automatic test suite generation for testing web services and BPEL..

Software reuse in the emerging cloud computing era. (2012)
Book
Yang, H., & Liu, X. (2012). Software reuse in the emerging cloud computing era. IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0897-9

With the rapid development of computing hardware, high-speed network, web programming, distributed and parallel computing, and other technologies, cloud computing has recently emerged as a commercial reality. Software Reuse in the Emerging Cloud Comp... Read More about Software reuse in the emerging cloud computing era..

Enlightened trial and error (2012)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Flint, T. (2012). Enlightened trial and error. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 13/14, 64-83

Human-computer interaction as a rationalistic, engineering discipline has been taught successfully for more than 25 years. The established narrative is one of designing usable systems for users, some of whom have been described as “naïve”, safely ins... Read More about Enlightened trial and error.

A comparison of techniques for name matching (2012)
Journal Article
Peng, T., Li, L., & Kennedy, J. (2012). A comparison of techniques for name matching. GSTF journal on computing, 2,

Information explosion is a problem for everyone nowadays. It is a great challenge to all kinds of businesses to maintain high quality of data in their information applications, such as data integration, text and web mining, information retrieval, sea... Read More about A comparison of techniques for name matching.

RDF recipes for context-aware interoperability in pervasive systems. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kosek, A., Syed, A., & Kerridge, J. (2010, June). RDF recipes for context-aware interoperability in pervasive systems. Presented at IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2010

Nowadays home automation systems integrate many devices from security system, heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, lighting system or audio-video systems. Every time a new device is installed, problems with connecting it to other devices... Read More about RDF recipes for context-aware interoperability in pervasive systems..

A unified approach for the dynamic evolution of context-aware services. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2012, January). A unified approach for the dynamic evolution of context-aware services. Presented at International Conference on Innovations in Computers, Information and Communication - ICICIC 2012

Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2012, May). Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation. Presented at AVI 2012

We describe a visual data cleansing application for pedigree genotype data, which is used to redeem otherwise unusable pedigree data sets. Biologists and bioinformaticians dynamically and iteratively mask pieces of information from a dirty data set a... Read More about Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation..

Location as interaction: designing blended spaces for digital tourism. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., Mival, O., Ayan, S., O'Keefe, B., & Mokey, S. (2012, September). Location as interaction: designing blended spaces for digital tourism. Presented at Third International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2012):

Pseudorandom number generation in smart cards: an Implementation, performance and randomness analysis. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, May). Pseudorandom number generation in smart cards: an Implementation, performance and randomness analysis

Smart cards rely on pseudorandom number generators to provide uniqueness and freshness in their cryptographic services i.e. encryption and digital signatures. Their implementations are kept proprietary by smart card manufacturers in order to remain c... Read More about Pseudorandom number generation in smart cards: an Implementation, performance and randomness analysis..

Building the bridges -- a proposal for merging different paradigms in mobile NFC ecosystem. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, November). Building the bridges -- a proposal for merging different paradigms in mobile NFC ecosystem

In late 1990s. the multi-application initiative was put forward to have multiple applications on a single smart card. This would have enabled a cardholder to accumulate all of her smart card based applications (e.g. banking, telecom, and transport et... Read More about Building the bridges -- a proposal for merging different paradigms in mobile NFC ecosystem..

Beat Haiku: interactive poetry application. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Helgason, I. (2012, October). Beat Haiku: interactive poetry application. Presented at NordiCHI’12 Making sense through design

This application invites the user to create short Haiku poems by selecting and arranging words that are displayed onscreen. The web-based application is presented on a touchscreen, and displays a constantly refreshing pool of words taken from the lar... Read More about Beat Haiku: interactive poetry application..

Researching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in Addis Ababa (2012)
Journal Article
Demeke, W., & Olden, A. (2012). Researching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in Addis Ababa. Aslib Proceedings, 64(5), 519-528. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211263139

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the difficulties encountered when researching the
adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) by small hotels in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, and to indicate how some of these difficulties... Read More about Researching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in Addis Ababa.

New Velocity-Aware Probabilistic route discovery schemes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Abed, M. (2012, September). New Velocity-Aware Probabilistic route discovery schemes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

In this paper, we investigate efficient strategies for supporting velocity aware probabilistic route discovery in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). MANETs usually use broadcast mechanisms to discover routes between nodes by flooding the network with R... Read More about New Velocity-Aware Probabilistic route discovery schemes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks..

A comparison of Message Passing Interface and Communicating Process Architecture networking communication performance. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2012, August). A comparison of Message Passing Interface and Communicating Process Architecture networking communication performance. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2012, 34th WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel programming

Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a popular approach to enable Single Process, Multiple Data (SPMD) style parallel computing, particularly in cluster computing environments. Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) Networking on the other hand, has... Read More about A comparison of Message Passing Interface and Communicating Process Architecture networking communication performance..

A new efficient distributed route discovery for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2012, April). A new efficient distributed route discovery for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Presented at Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 2012

High performance group communication, such as broadcast, requires matching efficient broadcast algorithms to effective route discovery approach. Broadcast communication in MANETs is essential for a wide range of important applications. Nevertheless,... Read More about A new efficient distributed route discovery for wireless mobile ad hoc networks..

Experimental investigation of link layer adaptation in IEEE 802.11n WLANs (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Adhami, M., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2012, April). Experimental investigation of link layer adaptation in IEEE 802.11n WLANs. Presented at Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2012

Due to its low cost wireless communication methodology and improvements in both its physical (PHY) and MAC (Link) layers, the IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology has been adopted widely. However, fairness of current 802.11n rate adaptation (R... Read More about Experimental investigation of link layer adaptation in IEEE 802.11n WLANs.