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Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zünd, F., Ryffel, M., Magnenat, S., Marra, A., Nitti, M., Kapadia, M., Noris, G., Mitchell, K., Gross, M., & Sumner, R. W. (2015, November). Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play. Presented at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications on - SA '15

Augmented Reality (AR) holds unique and promising potential to bridge between real-world activities and digital experiences, allowing users to engage their imagination and boost their creativity. We propose the concept of Augmented Creativity as empl... Read More about Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play.

Introducing ALIAS (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., & LaGreca, R. (2015, October). Introducing ALIAS. Paper presented at 15th International Workshop on Computation Models of Natural Argument

ALIAS is a Python library for constructing, manipulating, storing, visualising, and converting argumentation structues. It is available with full source code under a copyleft license and aims to become a Swiss Army Knife for working with arguments in... Read More about Introducing ALIAS.

Automatically Detecting Fallacies in System Safety Arguments (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., Yuan, T., Manandhar, S., & Kelly, T. (2015, October). Automatically Detecting Fallacies in System Safety Arguments. Paper presented at 15th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument(CMNA15), Bertinoro, Italy

Safety cases play a significant role in the development of safety-critical systems. The key components in a safety case are safety arguments, that are designated to demonstrate that the system is acceptably safe. Inappropriate reasoning with safety a... Read More about Automatically Detecting Fallacies in System Safety Arguments.

An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., Jamshidi, P., & Pahl, C. (2016). An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 56, 11-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.09.025

Cloud computing enables a revolutionary paradigm of consuming ICT services. However, due to the inadequately described service information, users often feel confused while trying to find the optimal services. Although some approaches are proposed to... Read More about An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation.

Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images (2015)
Journal Article
Hunter, D. W., & Hibbard, P. B. (2015). Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images. Journal of Vision, 15(13), 6. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.13.6

An influential theory of the function of early processing in the visual cortex is that it forms an efficient coding of ecologically valid stimuli. In particular, correlations and differences between visual signals from the two eyes are believed to be... Read More about Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images.

From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., Bartie, P., & Mackaness, W. (2015, September). From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes. Presented at 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon

Predicting the success of referring expressions (RE) is vital for real world applications such as navigation systems. Traditionally, research has focused on studying Referring Expression Generation (REG) in virtual, controlled environments. In this p... Read More about From the Virtual to the RealWorld: Referring to Objects in Real-World Spatial Scenes.

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

A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Cercas Curry, A., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2015, September). A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation. Presented at 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015), University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores, such as probabilities. A concrete example of such data is weather data. We will demo a game-based setup for exploring the effectiveness of different ap... Read More about A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation.

A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014 (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., & Mahamood, S. (2015). A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014. . https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-4708

In this paper we present a snapshot of endto-end NLG system evaluations as presented in conference and journal papers1 over the last ten years in order to better understand the nature and type of evaluations that have been undertaken. We find that re... Read More about A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014.

Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cercas Curry, A., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2015, September). Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments. Presented at 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015), University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Referring to landmarks has been identified to lead to improved navigation instructions. However, a previous corpus study suggests that human “wizards” also choose to refer to street names and generate user-centric instructions. In this paper, we cond... Read More about Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments.

Exploratory Navigation for Runners Through Geographic Area Classification with Crowd-Sourced Data (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGookin, D., Gkatzia, D., & Hastie, H. (2015, August). Exploratory Navigation for Runners Through Geographic Area Classification with Crowd-Sourced Data. Presented at 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Copenhagen, Denmark

Navigation when running is exploratory, characterised by both starting and ending in the same location, and iteratively foraging the environment to find areas with the most suitable running conditions. Runners do not wish to be explicitly directed, o... Read More about Exploratory Navigation for Runners Through Geographic Area Classification with Crowd-Sourced Data.

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.

Adaptive rendering with linear predictions (2015)
Journal Article
Moon, B., Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., Yoon, S., & Mitchell, K. (2015). Adaptive rendering with linear predictions. ACM transactions on graphics, 34(4), 121:1-121:11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2766992

We propose a new adaptive rendering algorithm that enhances the
performance of Monte Carlo ray tracing by reducing the noise, i.e.,
variance, while preserving a variety of high-frequency edges in rendered
images through a novel prediction based re... Read More about Adaptive rendering with linear predictions.

The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2015, July). The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA. Presented at GECCO ’15

We augment the mEDEA algorithm to explicitly account for
the costs of communication between robots. Experimental
results show that adding a costs for communication exerts
environmental pressure to implicitly select for genomes that
maintain high... Read More about The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA.

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.

Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S. (2015, June). Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation. Paper presented at 1st European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action (ECA15)

This paper introduces combinatorial dialogue, a formal approach to strategising within argumentative dialogue games where the moves played within a dialogue game are interpreted as moves within an edge-addition and/or edge-removal combinatorial game.... Read More about Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation.

Using Argumentation Within Sustainable Transport Communication (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., & Pangbourne, K. (2015, June). Using Argumentation Within Sustainable Transport Communication. Paper presented at 1st European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action (ECA15)

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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..

Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., Chalmers, K., & Graham, M. (2016, May). Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. Presented at EuroVis '15

Recently, much research has focused on developing techniques for the visual representation of temporal graph data. This paper takes a wider look at the visual techniques involved in exploratory analysis of such data, considering the variety of sub ta... Read More about Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data..

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.