An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., & Cheng, G. (2015). An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing, 4, 177. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCC.2015.069275

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach on software service evolution in computing clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns. An initial su... Read More about An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds..

Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. V. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2015, January). Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design. Presented at The Third International Conference on Design Creativity (3rd ICDC), Bangalore, India

Although a digital design tool like CAD has a strong influence on creative design, it is merely used in the detail design stage to present the visualized final product in 3D space. Limitations in CAD have led to the great emphasis on employing suppor... Read More about Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design.

Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren. (2015)
Journal Article
O'Keefe, B., & Benyon, D. (2015). Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 6, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2016.02.001

Blended spaces are spaces where a physical space is deliberately integrated in a close-knit way with a digital space. Blended spaces may take the form of a carefully designed meeting room, for example, that integrates collaborative media with the des... Read More about Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren..

A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, J. S., ur Rehman, A., Ahmad, J., & Habib, Z. (2015, December). A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes. Presented at 2015 Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security (CIACS), Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Due to development in Internet and networking technology, multimedia data is broadly transmitted via wired and wireless medium. Thus security is a major concern in modern communication systems. Encryption is one of the pre-eminent ways to guarantee s... Read More about A new chaos-based secure image encryption scheme using multiple substitution boxes.

Future Internet in Surgical Operating Theatre (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, A. E., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., & Thuemmler, C. (2015, April). Future Internet in Surgical Operating Theatre. Presented at 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG), 2015

Developing of Future Internet creates opportunities for new applications to adopt the use of the internet. Many initiatives like FI-WARE and FI-STAR are working on promoting and supporting the use of Future Internet efficiently in different fields. H... Read More about Future Internet in Surgical Operating Theatre.

Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hanson, V. L., Webster, G., & Dennis, M. (2015, September). Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). Presented at INTERACT 2015: Human-Computer Interaction

We are all living longer with average life expectancy increasing across the globe [1]. However, chronic conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancer, coupled with an increasing global obesity problem still cause a growing number of premature... Read More about Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS)..

CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Beel, D. E., Mellish, C., Wallace, C. D., & Pan, J. (2015, March). CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. Presented at 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

The CURIOS project explores how digital archives for rural community heritage groups can be made more sustainable so that volunteer members can maintain a lasting digital presence. It is developing software tools to help remote rural communities to c... Read More about CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data..

Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces. (2015)
Journal Article
O'Neill, S., & Benyon, D. (2015). Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces. Human technology an interdisciplinary journal on humans in ICT environments, 11, 30-56. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201505061739

In this paper, we develop a new way of understanding interactions in blended spaces. We do this by developing ideas about embodied semiotics and then apply these ideas to the analysis of interaction in mixed-reality blended spaces (where the physical... Read More about Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces..

A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2015, July). A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules. Presented at Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO Companion '15

A previously described hyper-heuristic framework named
NELLI is adapted for the classic Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) and used to find ensembles of reusable heuristics that cooperate to cover the heuristic search space. A new heuristic generato... Read More about A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules.

Opportunities and Challenges of Internet-Based Health Interventions in the Future Internet. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lim Jumelle, A. K., & Thuemmler, C. (2015, April). Opportunities and Challenges of Internet-Based Health Interventions in the Future Internet. Presented at 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG), 2015

Internet-based health interventions are behavioral treatments aim at changing behaviors to promote healthy living and prevent diseases and illness. This paper first discusses the benefits and effectiveness of Internet-based health interventions. It c... Read More about Opportunities and Challenges of Internet-Based Health Interventions in the Future Internet..

E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., & Ekonomou, E. (2015, October). E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks. Presented at IEEE 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications

Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy networks (RPL) is the de-facto standard for routing in resource-constrained low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) which represent the building block for the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT). RPL along with... Read More about E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks.

Level Crossing Rate of Ratio of Product of Two k-u Random Variables and Nakagami-m Random Variable (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Krstie, D., Romdhani, I., Yassein, M. M. B., Minić, S., Petković, G., & Milacic, P. (2015, October). Level Crossing Rate of Ratio of Product of Two k-u Random Variables and Nakagami-m Random Variable. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing

In this paper, ratio of product of two k-μ random variables and Nakagami-m random variable is analyzed. Statistical characteristics of ratio of product of two k-μ random variables and Nakagami-m random variable can be applied in performance analysis... Read More about Level Crossing Rate of Ratio of Product of Two k-u Random Variables and Nakagami-m Random Variable.

A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agrawal, A., Yadav, P., Upadhyay, C. K., Corney, J. R., Vasantha, G. A., Jagadeesan, A., & Lynn, A. (2015, July). A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing. Presented at 2015 IEEE Technological Innovation in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR), Chennai, India

Packing problems on its current state are being utilized for wide area of industrial applications. The aim of present research is to create and implement an intelligent system that tackles the problem of 2D packing of objects inside a 2D container, s... Read More about A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing.

Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams. (2015)
Journal Article
Rodgers, P., Stapleton, G., & Chapman, P. (2015). Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 22(6), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/2810012

This paper presents the first design principles that optimize the visualization of sets using linear diagrams.
These principles are justified through empirical studies that evaluate the impact of graphical features on task
performance. Linear diagr... Read More about Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams..

Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammeloot, A. (2015, November). Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies. Presented at 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces

The combination of personal and mobile technologies (Bring Your Own Device) with technology-augmented spaces designed for collaboration offers new design challenges for the HCI community. This paper is a summary of a doctoral work-in-progress aiming... Read More about Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies.

The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction (2015)
Journal Article
Bamoallem, B. S., Wodehouse, A. J., Mair, G. M., & Vasantha, G. A. (2016). The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 55(A), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.016

Communication takes place not only through speech, but also through gestures such as facial expressions, gaze, head movements, hand movements and body posture. Although developing rapidly, current communication platforms do not facilitate the types o... Read More about The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction.

An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., Jamshidi, P., & Pahl, C. (2016). An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 56, 11-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.09.025

Cloud computing enables a revolutionary paradigm of consuming ICT services. However, due to the inadequately described service information, users often feel confused while trying to find the optimal services. Although some approaches are proposed to... Read More about An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation.

A secure image encryption scheme based on chaotic maps and affine transformation (2015)
Journal Article
Ahmad, J., & Hwang, S. O. (2016). A secure image encryption scheme based on chaotic maps and affine transformation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75(21), 13951-13976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2973-y

Due to the interesting nonlinear dynamic properties of chaotic maps, recently chaos-based encryption algorithms have gained much attention in cryptographic communities. However, many encryption schemes do not fulfil the minimum key space requirement,... Read More about A secure image encryption scheme based on chaotic maps and affine transformation.

Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images (2015)
Journal Article
Hunter, D. W., & Hibbard, P. B. (2015). Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images. Journal of Vision, 15(13), 6. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.13.6

An influential theory of the function of early processing in the visual cortex is that it forms an efficient coding of ecologically valid stimuli. In particular, correlations and differences between visual signals from the two eyes are believed to be... Read More about Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images.

5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector (2015)
Report
Thuemmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Paulin, A., Sadique, A., Schneider, A., Fedell, C., Abraham, D., Trossen, D., Strinati, E. C., Cavallo, F., Feussner, H., Hay, I., Bedo, J.-S., Micocci, S., Nunziata, S., Gallelli, T., & Covaci, S. (2015). 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector. Brussels: EU Commission

Gaston Crommenlaan 1 PO box: 101 9050 Gent Belgium www.5g-ppp.eu 5G and e-Health 1 Socioeconomic drivers of e-Health in Horizon 2020 Although socioeconomically the sector addressed by this white paper is the health sector, the detailed analysis will... Read More about 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector.