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Do web pages have personalities? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Wilson, L. (2009, September). Do web pages have personalities?

We are fundamentally social animals: we are geared to understanding each other; to gauging each other's moods and states of mind; and we are very adept at judging each others personalities. This ability to judge personality can also be generalized to... Read More about Do web pages have personalities?.

Open source software adoption in non-profit organisations – socio-technical perspectives (2009)
Thesis
Zhang, G. Open source software adoption in non-profit organisations – socio-technical perspectives. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3811

Open source software has grown from a small sub-community of developers and users with their own ideologies to a significant element in the IT strategies of major vendors.
Open source communities and practices have been researched extensively and th... Read More about Open source software adoption in non-profit organisations – socio-technical perspectives.

Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing (2009)
Thesis
Chalmers, K. Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3507

Ubiquitous Computing promises to enrich our everyday lives by enabling the environment to be enhanced via computational elements. These elements are designed to augment and support our lives, thus allowing us to perform our tasks and goals. The main... Read More about Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing.

An investigation into distributed channel mobility support for Communicating Process Architectures. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., & Kerridge, J. (2009, November). An investigation into distributed channel mobility support for Communicating Process Architectures. Presented at 32nd Communicating Process Architecture conference (CPA)

Localised mobile channel support is now a feature of Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) based frameworks, from JCSP and C++CSP to occam-pi. Distributed mobile channel support has also been attempted in JCSP Networking and occam-pi via the pony... Read More about An investigation into distributed channel mobility support for Communicating Process Architectures..

Form (2009)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, J., & Cannon, A. (2009). Form. In L. Liu, & M. T. Ă–zsu (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer-Verlag

Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Jassani, B. A., Urquhart, N. B., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2009, November). Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm. Presented at 3rd IEEE international conference on Signal Circuits and Systems

A New and efficient Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach is presented to minimise the number of terms of Mixed Polarity Reed Muller (MPRM) single and multi output incompletely specified Boolean functions. The algorithm determines the allocation of d... Read More about Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm..

Refactoring data transforms in MaTSE for flexibility. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craig, P., & Kennedy, J. (2009, October). Refactoring data transforms in MaTSE for flexibility

In early prototypes of the Microarray Time-series Explorer
(MaTSE) data transforms were tightly coupled with visualisation components. While this allowed us to achieve our initial objective of developing the application to the level where we were ab... Read More about Refactoring data transforms in MaTSE for flexibility..

Re-architecting Visualizations to Java Swing. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2009, October). Re-architecting Visualizations to Java Swing. Paper presented at REVISE: Refactoring Visualization from Experience, VizWeek Workshop

Development of 3d lattice models for predicting nonlinear timber joint behaviour (2009)
Thesis
Reichert, T. Development of 3d lattice models for predicting nonlinear timber joint behaviour. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2827

This work presents the development of a three-dimensional lattice material model for wood and its application to timber joints including the potential strengthening benefit of second order effects. A lattice of discrete elements was used to capture t... Read More about Development of 3d lattice models for predicting nonlinear timber joint behaviour.

Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., & Yassin Al-Dubai, A. (2009, July). Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method. Presented at 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia

IP multicast is an efficient method for distributing multimedia content to a large number of receivers while saving the network bandwidth and reducing processing overhead on the source side. However, current IP multicast deployment figure is still fa... Read More about Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method.

Measuring pedestrian gait using low resolution infrared people counters (2009)
Thesis
Chamberlain, T. Measuring pedestrian gait using low resolution infrared people counters. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2733

This thesis describes research conducted into the measure- ment of pedestrian movement. It starts with an examination of current pedestrian detection and tracking systems, looking at several different technologies including image-processing systems.... Read More about Measuring pedestrian gait using low resolution infrared people counters.

The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification (2008)
Journal Article
Field, D., Garrity, G., Gray, T., Morrison, N., Selengut, J., Sterk, P., Tatusova, T., Thomson, N., Allen, M. J., Angiuoli, S. V., Ashburner, M., Axelrod, N., Baldauf, S., Ballard, S., Boore, J., Cochrane, G., Cole, J., Dawyndt, P., De Vos, P., dePamphilis, C., …Wipat, A. (2008). The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification. Nature Biotechnology, 26, 541-547. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1360

With the quantity of genomic data increasing at an exponential rate, it is imperative that these data be captured electronically, in a standard format. Standardization activities must proceed within the auspices of open-access and international worki... Read More about The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification.

Ant Colony Optimization for Optimal Control of Pumps in Water Distribution Networks (2008)
Journal Article
López-Ibáñez, M., Prasad, T. D., & Paechter, B. (2008). Ant Colony Optimization for Optimal Control of Pumps in Water Distribution Networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 134, 337-346. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9496%282008%29134%3A4%28337%29

Reducing energy consumption of water distribution networks has never had more significance than today. The greatest energy savings can be obtained by careful scheduling of operation of pumps. Schedules can be defined either implicitly, in terms of ot... Read More about Ant Colony Optimization for Optimal Control of Pumps in Water Distribution Networks.

A Sustainable Service-Oriented B2C Framework for Small Businesses (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Ye, H. (2008, December). A Sustainable Service-Oriented B2C Framework for Small Businesses. Presented at 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, Jhongli, Taiwan

Electronic commerce is fast expanding all over the world. Currently most B2C (business to customer) electronic commerce focuses on retailing and other online services, such as online banking. Compared with large-scale enterprises and organizations, s... Read More about A Sustainable Service-Oriented B2C Framework for Small Businesses.

Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation (2008)
Journal Article
Feng, Y., Liu, X., Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2008). Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation. IET Software, 2(2), 149. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen%3A20070049

As a solution to eliminating component mismatches, a generative aspect- oriented approach to component adaptation is presented. The approach enjoys high level of automation and capability of deep level adaptation, which is achieved in an aspect-orien... Read More about Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation.

JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J., Panayotopoulos, A., & Lismore, P. (2008, September). JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots. Presented at 31st Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2008, University of York, UK

JCSPre is a highly reduced version of the JCSP (Communicating Sequential Processes for Java) parallel programming environment. JCSPre has been implemented on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick using the LeJOS Java runtime environment. The LeJOS environment... Read More about JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots.

Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodgers, P., Rogers, J., Anusas, M., Milton, A., Pengelly, J., Whittet, C., Marshall, J., Titley, W., Colvin, A., Smyth, M., Charles, C., & Kasprzak, M. (2008, August). Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together

This paper describes the work of Product Scotland, a collaborative network of product designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers based in Scotland. One of the key aims of the Product Scotland network is to achieve research excellence through k... Read More about Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together..

Optimization of MPRM functions using tabular techniques and genetic algorithms. (2008)
Journal Article
Al-Jassani, B. A., Urquhart, N. B., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2008). Optimization of MPRM functions using tabular techniques and genetic algorithms. The Mediterranean journal of electronics and communications, 4, 115-125

This paper presents new techniques and algorithms to compute and optimize Mixed Polarity Reed Muller logic functions (MPRM) using Tabular techniques and Genetic Algorithms (GA). The first algorithm is used for bidirectional conversion between Fixed P... Read More about Optimization of MPRM functions using tabular techniques and genetic algorithms..

High performance computing and parallel multiphysics (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soufian, M., & Chakkera, V. (2008, December). High performance computing and parallel multiphysics. Presented at International Conference on Multiphysics 2008

High performance computing and parallel multiphysics