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Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks (2018)
Journal Article
Mocanu, D. C., Exarchakos, G., & Liotta, A. (2018). Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks. Scientific Reports, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19356-4

Almost all the natural or human made systems can be understood and controlled using complex networks. This is a difficult problem due to the very large number of elements in such networks, on the order of billions and higher, which makes it impossibl... Read More about Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks.

Resilience of Video Streaming Services to Network Impairments (2018)
Journal Article
Torres Vega, M., Perra, C., & Liotta, A. (2018). Resilience of Video Streaming Services to Network Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 64(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1109/tbc.2017.2781125

When dealing with networks, performance management through conventional quality of service (QoS)-based methods becomes difficult and is often ineffective. In fact, quality emerges as an end-to-end factor, for it is particularly sensitive to the end-u... Read More about Resilience of Video Streaming Services to Network Impairments.

CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Chen, X., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018). CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 26(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.088364

Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UANs) have emerged as a promising technology recently which can be applied in many areas such as military and civil, where the communication between devices is crucial and challenging due to the unique characteris... Read More about CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks.

Visualization of Online Datasets (2017)
Journal Article
Peng, T., & Downie, C. (2017). Visualization of Online Datasets. International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing, 6(1), 11-23. https://doi.org/10.2991/ijndc.2018.6.1.2

As computing technology advances, computers are being used to orchestrate and advance wide spectrums of commercial and personal life, information visualization becomes even more significant as we immerse ourselves into the era of big data, leading to... Read More about Visualization of Online Datasets.

A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamnal, G., & Liu, X. (2017). A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (302-308). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006304103020308

In today’s world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home.

Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches (2017)
Book Chapter
Jamnal, G. S., Liu, X., Fan, L., & Ramachandran, M. (2017). Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches. In R. Mihajlovic, M. Ramachandran, R. Behringer, & P. Kocovic (Eds.), Emerging Trends and Applications of the Internet of Things; Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (277-309). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2437-3.ch010

In today's world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches.

Sensing domestic energy use (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davison, B. (2017, November). Sensing domestic energy use. Paper presented at U!REKA 2017: Towards and Education and Research Strategy, Edinburgh

Building accurate models of domestic energy use is difficult because of a lack of reliable representative data. This paper outlines a strategy for recruiting home owners to provide data from actual dwellings. Sensor networks are deployed to provide b... Read More about Sensing domestic energy use.

Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Torres Vega, M., Koonen, A. M. J., Liotta, A., & Famaey, J. (2018). Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7(2), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2017.2771771

In light of the extreme radio congestion, the time has come to consider the upper parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical beam-steered wireless communications offer great potential for future indoor short-range connectivity, due to virtually u... Read More about Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks.

A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2018). A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1093-2

In a non-uniformly distributed network, the dataconcentrating centre equipped with sparse nodes rapidly depletes its battery energy due to the hotspot problem. To solve this problem, a Virtual Uneven Grid-based Routing protocol (VUGR) is proposed in... Read More about A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system.

Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017). Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment. In X. Sun, H. Chao, X. You, & E. Bertino (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2017 (361-372). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68505-2_31

This work proposed an activity recognition model which focus on the power con-suming activity in home environment, to help residents modify their behavior. We set the IoT system with lower number of sensors. The key data for identifying activity come... Read More about Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment.

An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, June). An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

With the development of microelectronic devices and the radio, the application of WSN is more popular and can be applied in the various areas, which has attracted scholars. However, the requirements of performance for WSNs are becoming great in terms... Read More about An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs.

Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piotrowska, B., Murray, J., Willis, A., & Kerridge, J. (2017). Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 640. https://doi.org/10.1167/17.10.640

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder characterised by difficulties with reading, despite adequate intelligence and education. Phonological deficits are often indicated as the primary cause of dyslexia. Because a range of lower-level perceptual, atten... Read More about Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children.

ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ma, F., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Yao, W., Cai, J., & Wang, F. (2017, July). ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds. Presented at 2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

One of the key features of cloud computing is on demand resource provision. Unfortunately, different cloud service providers often have different standards, which makes the job of choosing the suitable resource to be a very difficult one for the comm... Read More about ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds.

Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Singh Jamnal, G., Liu, X., & Fan, L. (2017). Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space. In Proceedings of The 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

In this paper, we proposed a new type of decision making system to achieve the intelligent goal for automated smart environments. The artificial intelligence techniques, used as building blocks to understand inhabitant activity patterns. The collecte... Read More about Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space.

Building a C++CSP Channel Using C++ Atomics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2017, August). Building a C++CSP Channel Using C++ Atomics. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2017, Malta

Mutex-based implementations of synchronous channels are slow. This work investigates atomic operations as a technique to improve communication efficiency between two threads via a busy channel. Such a channel provides faster communication than a mute... Read More about Building a C++CSP Channel Using C++ Atomics.

What are Communicating Process Architectures? Towards a Framework for Evaluating Message-passing Concurrency Languages (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K. (2017, August). What are Communicating Process Architectures? Towards a Framework for Evaluating Message-passing Concurrency Languages. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2017, Malta

What does it mean to be a message-passing concurrent language? This work attempts to build a framework for classifying such languages by judging four in regards to features and performance. Features of process calculi are used to evaluate Go, Rust, E... Read More about What are Communicating Process Architectures? Towards a Framework for Evaluating Message-passing Concurrency Languages.

An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, July). An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Presented at 22017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hadoop is a famous distributed computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data. "Straggling tasks" have a serious impact on Hadoop performance due to imbalance of slow tasks distribution. Speculative execution (SE) presents a way to d... Read More about An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment.

Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Paechter, B. (2017). Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes. In GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (1419-1422). https://doi.org/10.1145/3067695.3082501

This work in progress focuses on the evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes for planar mechanical levers which addresses the first stage of the complex real-world problem of modelling and evolving planar mechanical lever systems. T... Read More about Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes.

A Unifying Software Framework for Vehicle Routing and Logistics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Enenkel, J., Geyer, J., Keiner, J., Nguyen, J., Steuler, J. L., & Urquhart, N. (2017, July). A Unifying Software Framework for Vehicle Routing and Logistics. Paper presented at Annual Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog), Amsterdam

A wide range of open source tools and real world data are available to support those working on vehicle routing and logistics optimisation. Despite such tools being available there is still a requirement for a unifying software API to allow researche... Read More about A Unifying Software Framework for Vehicle Routing and Logistics.

AGADE-TRAFFIC: Multi-Agent Simulations in Geographical Networks (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rotärmel, S., Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., & Urquhart, N. (2017, June). AGADE-TRAFFIC: Multi-Agent Simulations in Geographical Networks. Presented at Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Porto, Portugal

AGADE-TRAFFIC is a tool for simulating traffic flow in networks. Traffic participants are modelled as NetLogo agents and are visualised in a graphical user interface. Geographic information is stored in a graph database and AGADE-TRAFFIC communicates... Read More about AGADE-TRAFFIC: Multi-Agent Simulations in Geographical Networks.