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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.

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.

Impact of 5g telematics (2015)
Journal Article
Thuemmler, C., Jell, T., Nunna, S., & Jumelle, A. K. L. (2015). Impact of 5g telematics. Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management,

New technologies such as wearable wireless medical devices are transforming the way healthcare is delivered. As these devices become more powerful and numerous, the daunting challenge is whether the existing communications infrastructure can meet the... Read More about Impact of 5g telematics.

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..

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..

Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Hart, E., & Judson, A. (2015, July). Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment

An urban environment provides a number of challenges and opportunities
for organisations faced with the task of scheduling a mobile
workforce. Given a mixed set of public and private transportation
and a list of scheduling constraints, we seek to... Read More about Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment..

Affect, Availability and Presence. (2015)
Book Chapter
Turner, P. (2015). Affect, Availability and Presence. In M. Lombard, F. Biocca, J. Freeman, W. Ijsselsteijn, & R. J. Schaevitz (Eds.), Immersed in Media (59-71). Springer International. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10190-3_4

This chapter is intended to be both theoretical and a little speculative. It draws upon psychological, neuro-dynamic and philosophical sources to create an account of what happens when we experience presence, that is, when we become aware that we are... Read More about Affect, Availability and Presence..

Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salah, A., & Hart, E. (2015, July). Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms. Presented at GECCO’15 Companion

We present a novel diversity method named Grid Diversity
Operator (GDO) that can be incorporated into multiple
population-based optimization algorithms that guides the
containing algorithm in creating new individuals in sparsely
visited areas of... Read More about Grid diversity operator for some population-based optimization algorithms..

Review of e-Health Frameworks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prajapati, B., Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., Macfarlane, R., & Spyra, G. (2015, October). Review of e-Health Frameworks. Presented at Health Informatics Conference 2015

In order to improve the quality of health care and widen the accessibility, health care providers are consistently looking to inject information and communication technology to the traditional health care system (Mair, et al., 2012). This process can... Read More about Review of e-Health Frameworks..

Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piotrowska, B., Willis, A., MacLean, R., Murray, J., & Kerridge, J. (2015, August). Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia. Presented at European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015

Dyslexia is a common condition characterized by difficulties with reading and writing despite adequate intelligence, education and motivation. Many individuals with dyslexia also have problems integrating visual information over space and time, and /... Read More about Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia.

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..

Genetic Programming (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Machado, P., Heywood, M. I., McDermott, J., Castelli, M., García-Sánchez, P., Burelli, P., Risi, S., & Sim, K. (2015, April). Genetic Programming

The 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) took place during
April 8–10, 2015. Copenhagen, Denmark was the setting, and the Nationalmuseet was
the venue. EuroGP is the only conference exclusively devoted to the evolutionary
gener... Read More about Genetic Programming.

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..

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.

Improving survivability in environment-driven distributed evolutionary algorithms through explicit relative fitness and fitness proportionate communication. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Steyven, A., & Paechter, B. (2015, July). Improving survivability in environment-driven distributed evolutionary algorithms through explicit relative fitness and fitness proportionate communication. Presented at Proceedings of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO '15

Ensuring the integrity of a robot swarm in terms of maintaining
a stable population of functioning robots over long
periods of time is a mandatory prerequisite for building more
complex systems that achieve user-defined tasks. mEDEA
is an environ... Read More about Improving survivability in environment-driven distributed evolutionary algorithms through explicit relative fitness and fitness proportionate communication..

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)..

Demo Paper: AGADE Using Communities of Agents to Provide Realistic Feedback in Business Simulations. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., & Urquhart, N. B. (2015, June). Demo Paper: AGADE Using Communities of Agents to Provide Realistic Feedback in Business Simulations

The need to provide realistic feedback against decisions made
within business games is a requirement if business games are to continue
to remain relevant in training towards increasingly complex business scenarios.
We attempt to address this probl... Read More about Demo Paper: AGADE Using Communities of Agents to Provide Realistic Feedback in Business Simulations..

A semantic framework for unified cloud service search, recommendation, retrieval and management (2015)
Thesis
Fang, D. A semantic framework for unified cloud service search, recommendation, retrieval and management. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9836

Cloud computing (CC) is a revolutionary paradigm of consuming Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services. However, while trying to find the optimal services, many users often feel confused due to the inadequacy of service information des... Read More about A semantic framework for unified cloud service search, recommendation, retrieval and management.

DIY networking as a facilitator for interdisciplinary research on the hybrid city. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andriotis, P., Apostol, I., Gaved, M., Smyth, M., & Unteidig, A. (2015, September). DIY networking as a facilitator for interdisciplinary research on the hybrid city. Presented at Hybrid City 2015: Data to the People

DIY networking is a technology with special characteristics compared to the public Internet, which holds a unique potential for empowering citizens to shape their hybrid urban space toward conviviality and collective awareness. It can also play the r... Read More about DIY networking as a facilitator for interdisciplinary research on the hybrid city..