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Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications. (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications

We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret messages, or secrets and codebreaking of national importance. With a film, The Imitation Game, reprising the life of Alan Turi... Read More about Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications..

Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes

Robert Hannigan, the new head of British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, has accused technology companies of aiding terrorists and criminals by providing them secure communications through their products and networks. Far from adopting a conciliato... Read More about Better locks to secure our data are the inevitable result of too many prying eyes.

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..

In cybersecurity, the weakest link is … you (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). In cybersecurity, the weakest link is … you

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on a great number of links, hardware, software and something else altogether: you. The greatest threat to information security is actually people. Why strive to defeat encrypted... Read More about In cybersecurity, the weakest link is … you.

Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Trigueiros, P., Helgason, I., Coelho, A., Gallacher, S., Burrows, A., Wunderlich, F., & Penha, R. (2014, October). Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space. Presented at 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14, Helsinki, Finland

Preface to the focus section: Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space Cities are exciting and people continue to be drawn to urban areas because of the choices that cities offer in all areas of economic and social... Read More about Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space.

When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money? (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?

How safe is Microsoft Windows? After all, the list of malware that has caused major headaches worldwide over the last 15 years is long – viruses, worms and Trojans have forced computers to shut down, knocked South Korea offline and even overloaded Go... Read More about When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?.

iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2014). iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too

The computer operating systems and applications we use today have often evolved over many years, decades even, and contain tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code. Flaws in that code – and there will always be some – give rise to security probl... Read More about iWorm hack shows Macs are vulnerable too.

Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses (2014)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2014). Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses. Modernist Cultures, 9(2), 260-281. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2014.0086

Richard Aldington’s city poems in the latter part of his 1915 collection Images are concerned with the masses who inhabit the modern city. Aldington is at pains to stress his distinction from those he perceives as an increasingly homogenized crowd... Read More about Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses.

Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods (2014)
Journal Article
Jarman, D., Theodoraki, E., Hall, H., & Ali-Knight, J. (2014). Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 5(3), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijefm-11-2013-0034

Social network analysis (SNA) is an under-utilised framework for research into festivals and events. This paper reflects upon the history of SNA, and explores its key concepts, in order that they might be applied to festivals and their environments.... Read More about Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods.

What Works to Reduce Crime - A Survey of the Evidence (2014)
Report
Levy, L., Santhkumaran, D., & Whitecross, R. W. (2014). What Works to Reduce Crime - A Survey of the Evidence. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

A systematic review of the available literature based on a logic model approach to crime reduction.

The dark mythos of the sea: William Hope Hodgson’s transformation of maritime legends (2014)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2014). The dark mythos of the sea: William Hope Hodgson’s transformation of maritime legends. In M. Berruti, S. T. Joshi, & S. Gafford (Eds.), William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the Borderland (56-72). Hippocampus Press

No abstract available.

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.

A real-world employee scheduling and routing application. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Sim, K., & Urquhart, N. B. (2014, July). A real-world employee scheduling and routing application. Presented at GECCO 2014

We describe a hyper-heuristic application developed for a client to find quick, acceptable solutions to Workforce Schedul- ing and Routing problems. An interactive fitness function controlled by the user enables five different objectives to be weight... Read More about A real-world employee scheduling and routing application..

An improved immune inspired hyper-heuristic for combinatorial optimisation problems. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2014, July). An improved immune inspired hyper-heuristic for combinatorial optimisation problems

The meta-dynamics of an immune-inspired optimisation sys- tem NELLI are considered. NELLI has previously shown to exhibit good performance when applied to a large set of optimisation problems by sustaining a network of novel heuristics. We address th... Read More about An improved immune inspired hyper-heuristic for combinatorial optimisation problems..

Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2014). Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs. In 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2014.6952857

Intelligent Transportation Systems have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Broadcasting transmission is an essentia... Read More about Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs.

“I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good (2014)
Journal Article
Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., Schafer, B., & Rauhofer, J. (2014). “I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 22(2), 113-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-014-9155-5

The paper introduces an approach to privacy enhancing technologies that sees privacy not merely as an individual right, but as a public good. This understanding of privacy has recently gained ground in the debate on appropriate legal protection for p... Read More about “I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good.

Stand-up comedy for researchers (2014)
Book Chapter
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2014). Stand-up comedy for researchers. In I. Daly, & A. Brophy Haney (Eds.), 53 interesting ways to communicate your research (57-58). The Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd

Effective researchers need both to conduct high-quality research and to communicate it - to subject specialists, researchers in other fields, research participants, business, government, the third sector, or the public, not to mention potential emplo... Read More about Stand-up comedy for researchers.

Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prokofieva, E., Luciani, C., & McGregor, I. (2014, April). Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at 136th International AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

The auralization room was designed as a joint project between School of Engineering and Built Environment and the School of Computing of Edinburgh Napier University. The interior acoustic design specialists conducted the acoustic design of the aurali... Read More about Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University.

Partnership and preparation: a new model of transition from college to university (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., & Fotheringham, J. (2014, April). Partnership and preparation: a new model of transition from college to university. Presented at Attainment for All: Inclusivity, Diversity and Success in LTHE: First Annual Conference on Equality and Diversity in Teaching and Learning in Scottish Higher Education, Glasgow

Widening participation in higher education continues to be a key focus for Scottish government and the 2013 Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act places obligations upon Universities to achieve progress in this regard. The Act also makes provision for Add... Read More about Partnership and preparation: a new model of transition from college to university.

Rich Picture: The Role of the Facilitator (2014)
Journal Article
Berg, T. (2015). Rich Picture: The Role of the Facilitator. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 28(1), 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-014-9318-z

Information Systems for complex situations often fail to adequately deliver quality and suitability. One reason for this failure is an inability to identify comprehensive user requirements. Seldom do all stakeholders, especially those ‘invisible’ or... Read More about Rich Picture: The Role of the Facilitator.