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A cloudy end to a testing routine. (2010)
Newspaper / Magazine
Thuemmler, C. (2010). A cloudy end to a testing routine

Societal change and novel technologies are driving the evolution of healthcare systems.
Cloud computing has the potential to support current structural changes in healthcare in the UK and elsewhere.

An evaluation of the power consumption and carbon footprint of a cloud infrastructure (2010)
Thesis
Yampolsky, V. An evaluation of the power consumption and carbon footprint of a cloud infrastructure. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3973

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector represent two to three percents of the world energy consumption and about the same percentage of GreenHouse Gas(GHG) emission. Moreover the IT-related costs represent fifty per-cents of the el... Read More about An evaluation of the power consumption and carbon footprint of a cloud infrastructure.

Performance Evaluation of Virtualization with Cloud Computing (2010)
Thesis
Pelletingeas, C. Performance Evaluation of Virtualization with Cloud Computing. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4010

Cloud computing has been the subject of many researches. Researches shows that cloud computing permit to reduce hardware cost, reduce the energy consumption and allow a more efficient use of servers. Nowadays lot of servers are used inefficiently bec... Read More about Performance Evaluation of Virtualization with Cloud Computing.

The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand (2010)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Pitchford, M., Bruce, V., Jackson, S., Hepton, G., Greenall, M., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2011). The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1662

Face construction by selecting individual facial features rarely produces recognisable images. We have been developing a system called EvoFIT that works by the repeated selection and breeding of complete faces. Here, we explored two techniques. The f... Read More about The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand.