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The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Sapeluk, A. (2013, July). The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering. Presented at 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Technology is advancing at a fast pace while the shape and nature of computers continues to evolve, with tablets and smartphones illustrating the move away from the traditional notion of a laptop or desktop computer. Similarly, networking and sensing... Read More about The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering.

eHealth and the internet of things (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ball, L., Szymkowiak, A., Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Brownsell, S. (2013, February). eHealth and the internet of things. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain

To respond to an ageing population, eHealth strategies offer significant opportunities in achieving a balanced and sustainable healthcare infrastructure. Advances in technology both at the sensor and device levels and in respect of information techno... Read More about eHealth and the internet of things.

Computing the incomputable with human processing units (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corney, J., Vasantha, G. A., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Acur, N., Smith, M., & Agarwal, A. (2013, March). Computing the incomputable with human processing units. Presented at International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia IITM 2013, Allahabad, India

Initially commercial crowdsourcing services (such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) were focused largely on providing micro-labor services for tasks such as image labeling and text processing. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that these servic... Read More about Computing the incomputable with human processing units.

Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Chalmers, K., & Liu, X. (2013, June). Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal. Presented at International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013). University of Toronto, Canada

Model Driven based approach for Service Evolution in Clouds will mainly focus on the reusable evolution patterns' advantage to solve evolution problems. During the process, evolution pattern will be driven by MDA models to pattern aspects. Weaving th... Read More about Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal..

A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation. (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., & Lawson, A. A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation

This paper outlines a novel information sharing method using Binary Decision Diagrams (BBDs). It is inspired by the work of Al-Shaer and Hamed, who applied BDDs into the modelling of network firewalls. This is applied into an information sharing poli... Read More about A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation..

Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model. (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., & Lawson, A. Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model

This paper defines a structured methodology which is based on the foundational work of Al-Shaer et al. in [1] and that of Hamed and Al-Shaer in [2]. It defines a methodology for the declaration of policy field elements, through to the syntax, ontolog... Read More about Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model..

Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Scott, C., & Hart, E. (2013, July). Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem. Presented at 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) has previously been investigated as a multi-objective problem. In this paper estimated carbon emissions is added as an objective alongside the number of vehicles required and distance travelled. W... Read More about Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem..

A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A. (2013, July). A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis. Presented at international Conference on auditory Display

This paper presents Morpheme, a multidimensional interface that allows real-time control of concatenative synthesis through the act of sketching on a digital canvas. Morpheme extracts textural, spatial and volumetric features from a sketch developed... Read More about A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis..

Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, A., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2013, July). Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. Presented at 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation

Monitoring log files for network intrusions is unwieldy. To build a mental model of the log, an analyst is required to recognise continuous timelines and attack patterns from a dataset that is essentially limited to an ordered list of events. Informa... Read More about Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data..

Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2013, September). Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic

Motivated by the natural immune system's ability to defend the body by generating and maintaining a repertoire of antibodies that collectively cover the potential pathogen space, we describe an artificial system that discovers and maintains a reperto... Read More about Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic..

A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System. (2013)
Journal Article
Reilly, C., & Chalmers, K. (2013). A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System. The Computer Games Journal, 2, 125

The games industry is a broad, multi-discipline industry, which continues to grow in terms of revenue and cultural significance. Despite the accolades of this “recession-proof” industry, video game projects often fail either to deliver on time and on... Read More about A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System..

An investigation into PL/SQL Injection. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paterson, R., & Leimich, P. (2013, June). An investigation into PL/SQL Injection. Presented at CyberForensics 2013: 3rd International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics

SQL injection is a common attack method used to leverage infor-mation out of a database or to compromise a company’s network. This paper investigates four injection attacks that can be conducted against the PL/SQL engine of Oracle databases, comparin... Read More about An investigation into PL/SQL Injection..

MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Li, C. (2013). MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection. International journal of computers & technology, 5, 144-157

Driven by the continuous expansions of software applications and the increases in component varieties and sizes, the so-called component mismatch problem has become a more severe hurdle for component selection and integration. Although many component... Read More about MVICS: a repository and search tool towards holistic semantic-based precise component selection..

Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., Schafer, B., & Rauhofer, J. (2013, September). Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs?. Presented at INFORMATIK 2013

Technologies, der seine rechtstheoretische Motivation aus einem Verständnis der Privatsphäre als kollektivem Gut gewinnt. In diesem Modell willigen alle Mitglieder einer Gruppe in eine theoretisches Risiko ein, um gegenseitig ihre Anonymität und dami... Read More about Schutz der Anonymität als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe – eine neue Generation von PETs?.

Visual cleaning of genotype data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kennedy, J., Graham, M., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2013, October). Visual cleaning of genotype data. Presented at BioVis 2013

While some data cleaning tasks can be performed automatically, many more require expert human guidance to steer the cleaning process, especially if erroneous or unclean data is a product of relationships between entities. An example is pedigree genot... Read More about Visual cleaning of genotype data..

On the role of the AIS practitioner. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Read, M., McEwan, C., Aickelin, U., & Greensmith, J. (2013, September). On the role of the AIS practitioner

Cognisant of the gulf between engineers and immunologists
that currenty hinders a truly inter-disciplinary approach to
the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), we propose
a redefinition of the term AIS practitioner, as an individual
who iden... Read More about On the role of the AIS practitioner..

Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2013, December). Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing. Presented at 2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

Pricing Intelligence as a service (PINaaS) can be seen as the brokerage of user requirements to pricing of available resources in a cloud computing environment. Users of both public and private clouds have to consider the price of services they consu... Read More about Pricing Intelligence as a Service for Cloud Computing.

Between Bodies and Machines. (2013)
Book Chapter
Forrest, E. (2013). Between Bodies and Machines. In D. Rubinstein, J. Golding, & A. Fisher (Eds.), On the Verge of Photograhy: Imaging Beyond Representation (105-122). ARTicle Press

TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2013, August). TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs

Much research has been conducted focusing on improving resource utilization efficiency in data centers in the context of Green Cloud Computing (GCC). While virtualization enables better resource provision and utilization for various computational res... Read More about TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs..