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An approach to using a laser pointer as a mouse (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aizeboje, J., & Peng, T. (2015, April). An approach to using a laser pointer as a mouse. Presented at 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Modern technologies have evolved to present different ways users can interact with computers. Nowadays, computers and projectors are commonly used in teaching and presentations, in which the mouse and the USB wireless presenter are two of the main pr... Read More about An approach to using a laser pointer as a mouse.

An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Pahl, C. (2015). An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-015-0039-3

Cloud computing offers various computational resources via convenient on-demand service provision. Currently, heterogeneous services and cloud resources are usually utilized and managed through diverse service portals. This significantly limits the e... Read More about An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework.

AGADE Using Personal Preferences and World Knowledge to Model Agent Behaviour (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., & Urquhart, N. (2015, June). AGADE Using Personal Preferences and World Knowledge to Model Agent Behaviour. Presented at International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems PAAMS 2015, Salamanca, Spain

BDI agents provide a common well established approach for building multi-agent simulations. In this paper we demonstrate how semantic technologies can be used to model agent behaviour. Beliefs, desires and intentions are mapped flexibly to correspond... Read More about AGADE Using Personal Preferences and World Knowledge to Model Agent Behaviour.

Semantic description of cloud service agreements (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenwell, R., Liu, X., & Chalmers, K. (2015). Semantic description of cloud service agreements. In Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015 (823-831). https://doi.org/10.1109/sai.2015.7237239

To provide cloud services as a utility there must be a mechanism for comprehensively and precisely specifying cloud service agreements to reduce differences in service perception between customers and suppliers. This paper proposes a description... Read More about Semantic description of cloud service agreements.

A research agenda for metaheuristic standardization. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Sim, K. (2015, June). A research agenda for metaheuristic standardization. Paper presented at 11th Metaheuristics International Conference

We propose that the development of standardized, explicit, machine-readable descriptions of metaheuris- tics will greatly advance scientific progress in the field. In particular, we advocate a purely functional description of metaheuristics — separat... Read More about A research agenda for metaheuristic standardization..

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..

Collaborative Diffusion on the GPU for Path-Finding in Games (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, C., Hart, E., & Chalmers, K. (2015, April). Collaborative Diffusion on the GPU for Path-Finding in Games. Presented at EvoApplications 2015 European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Copenhagen

Exploiting the powerful processing power available on the GPU in many machines, we investigate the performance of parallelised versions of pathfinding algorithms in typical game environments. We describe a parallel implementation of a collaborative d... Read More about Collaborative Diffusion on the GPU for Path-Finding in Games.

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..

A new rich vehicle routing problem model and benchmark resource (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., Hart, E., Urquhart, N. B., & Pigden, T. (2015, September). A new rich vehicle routing problem model and benchmark resource. Presented at International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems, EUROGEN-2015, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

We describe a new rich VRP model that captures many real-world constraints, following a recently proposed taxonomy that addresses both scenario and problem physical characteristics. The model is used to generate 4800 new instances of rich VRPs which... Read More about A new rich vehicle routing problem model and benchmark resource.

Optimising the scheduling and planning of urban milk deliveries. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B. (2015, April). Optimising the scheduling and planning of urban milk deliveries. Presented at European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation EvoApplications 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

This paper investigates the optimisation of the delivery of dairy products to households in three urban areas. The requirement for the optimisation to be part of the existing business process has determined the approach taken. The solution is maintai... Read More about Optimising the scheduling and planning of urban milk deliveries..

Creating optimised employee travel plans. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., & Hart, E. (2015, September). Creating optimised employee travel plans. Paper presented at International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems, EUROGEN-2015

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..

Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Willis, A., Piotrowska, B., Bannach-Brown, A., MacLean, R. D. J., & Kerridge, J. (2014, March). Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool

Many adults and children with dyslexia also have problems with lower-level sensory, attentional, or motor tasks. In particular, there may be problems with auditory processing1, visual motion processing2-3, visual-spatial attention4, and motor control... Read More about Performance on a tablet-based visual-spatial-motor task is compromised in adults and children with dyslexia: implications for the development of a novel screening tool.

Visualization beyond the desktop--the Next Big Thing. (2014)
Journal Article
Roberts, J. C., Ritsos, P. D., Badam, S. K., Brodbeck, D., Kennedy, J., & Elmqvist, N. (2014). Visualization beyond the desktop--the Next Big Thing. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 34(6), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2014.82

Visualization is coming of age. With visual depictions being seamlessly integrated into documents, and data visualization techniques being used to understand increasingly large and complex datasets, the term "visualization"' is becoming used in every... Read More about Visualization beyond the desktop--the Next Big Thing..

A fuzzy logic controller applied to a diversity-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for single-objective optimisation (2014)
Journal Article
Segredo, E., Segura, C., León, C., & Hart, E. (2015). A fuzzy logic controller applied to a diversity-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for single-objective optimisation. Soft Computing, 19(10), 2927-2945. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1454-y

In recent years, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAS) that consider diversity as an objective have been used to tackle single-objective optimisation prob- lems. The ability to deal with premature convergence has been greatly improved with... Read More about A fuzzy logic controller applied to a diversity-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for single-objective optimisation.

Towards using Segmentation-based Techniques to Personalize Mobility Behavior Interventions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Forbes, P. J., Gabrielli, S., Maimone, R., Masthoff, J., Wells, S., & Jylha, A. (2014). Towards using Segmentation-based Techniques to Personalize Mobility Behavior Interventions.

This paper describes our initial work towards a segmentation-based approach to personalized digital behavior change interventions in the domain of sustainable, multi-modal urban transport. Segmentation is a key concept in market research, and within... Read More about Towards using Segmentation-based Techniques to Personalize Mobility Behavior Interventions.

Communicating Process Architectures 2014 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2014). Communicating Process Architectures 2014. In P. H. Welch, F. R. M. Barnes, J. F. Broenink, K. Chalmers, T. Gibson-Robinson, R. Ivimey-Cook, …M. L. Smith (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2014

CPA 2014 is one of an annual series of conferences organised over almost thirty years concerned with the design of parallel systems inspired by the Theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) of C. A. R. Hoare. Particular aims are the promotio... Read More about Communicating Process Architectures 2014.

Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alqadah, M., Stapleton, G., Howse, J., & Chapman, P. (2014, July). Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams

Euler diagrams, used to visualize data and as a basis for visual languages, are an effective representation of information, but they can become cluttered. Previous research established a measure of Euler diagram clutter, empirically shown to correspo... Read More about Evaluating the Impact of Clutter in Euler Diagrams..

Temporal Multivariate Networks. (2014)
Book Chapter
Archambault, D., Abello, J., Kennedy, J., Kobourov, S., Ma, K., Miksch, S., Muelder, C., & Telea, A. C. (2014). Temporal Multivariate Networks. In A. Kerren, H. Purchase, & M. Ward (Eds.), Multivariate Network Visualization (151-175). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06793-3_8

In this chapter, we define, characterize, and summarize the data and visualization techniques relating to temporal multivariate networks. Section 2.1.1 provides definitions and examples that characterize the networks we address in this chapter. We fu... Read More about Temporal Multivariate Networks..

Artificial Immune System driven evolution in Swarm Chemistry. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2014). Artificial Immune System driven evolution in Swarm Chemistry. In Proceedings of IEEE SASO 2014 (40-49). https://doi.org/10.1109/SASO.2014.16

Morphogenetic engineering represents an interesting field in which models, frameworks and algorithms can be tested in order to study how self-* properties and emergent behaviours can arise in potentially complex and distributed systems. In this field... Read More about Artificial Immune System driven evolution in Swarm Chemistry..