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A framework for camera pose tracking using stochastic data fusion (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moemeni, A., & Tatham, E. (2010, December). A framework for camera pose tracking using stochastic data fusion. Presented at 2010 2nd International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference (ICE-GIC 2010), Hong Kong, China

A novel camera pose tracking system using a stochastic inertial-visual sensor fusion has been proposed. A method based on the Particle Filtering concept has been adapted for inertial and vision data fusion, which benefits from the agility of inertial... Read More about A framework for camera pose tracking using stochastic data fusion.

Compact differential evolution (2010)
Journal Article
Mininno, E., Neri, F., Cupertino, F., & Naso, D. (2011). Compact differential evolution. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 15(1), 32-54. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2010.2058120

This paper proposes the compact differential evolution (cDE) algorithm. cDE, like other compact evolutionary algorithms, does not process a population of solutions but its statistic description which evolves similarly to all the evolutionary algorith... Read More about Compact differential evolution.

Extending pathways and processes using molecular interaction networks to analyse cancer genome data (2010)
Journal Article
Glaab, E., Baudot, A., Krasnogor, N., & Valencia, A. (2010). Extending pathways and processes using molecular interaction networks to analyse cancer genome data. BMC Bioinformatics, 11(597),

BACKGROUND: Cellular processes and pathways, whose deregulation may contribute to the development of cancers, are often represented as cascades of proteins transmitting a signal from the cell surface to the nucleus. However, recent functional genomic... Read More about Extending pathways and processes using molecular interaction networks to analyse cancer genome data.

A new graphical password scheme resistant to shoulder-surfing (2010)
Journal Article
Haichang, G., Zhongjie, R., Xiuling, C., Xiyang, L., & Aickelin, U. A new graphical password scheme resistant to shoulder-surfing. https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2010.34

Shoulder-surfing is a known risk where an attacker can capture a password by direct observation or by recording the authentication session. Due to the visual interface, this problem has become exacerbated in graphical passwords. There have been some... Read More about A new graphical password scheme resistant to shoulder-surfing.

Recommending rides: psychometric profiling in the theme park (2010)
Journal Article
Rennick-Egglestone, S., Whitbrook, A., Greensmith, J., Walker, B., Benford, S., Marshall, J., Kirk, D., Schnädelbach, H., Irune, A., & Rowland, D. (2010). Recommending rides: psychometric profiling in the theme park. https://doi.org/10.1145/1902593.1902600

This paper presents a study intended to inform the design of a recommender system for theme park rides. It examines the efficacy of psychometric testing for profiling theme park visitors, with the aim of establishing a set of measures to be included... Read More about Recommending rides: psychometric profiling in the theme park.

Towards an integrated workforce management system (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Landa-Silva, D., Castillo, A., Bowie, L., & Johnston, H. (2010, August). Towards an integrated workforce management system. Presented at PATAT 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

We describe progress towards a workforce management system in which personnel scheduling is integrated with other important processes such as payroll processing, attendance and absence recording, staffing forecast and planning, etc. Our focus is on c... Read More about Towards an integrated workforce management system.

An elitist GRASP metaheuristic for the multi-objective quadratic assignment problem (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, H., & Landa-Silva, D. (2009, March). An elitist GRASP metaheuristic for the multi-objective quadratic assignment problem. Presented at EMO: International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, Nantes, France

We propose an elitist Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) metaheuristic algorithm, called mGRASP/MH, for approximating the Pareto-optimal front in the multi-objective quadratic assignment problem (mQAP). The proposed algorithm is char... Read More about An elitist GRASP metaheuristic for the multi-objective quadratic assignment problem.

Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castro-Gutierrez, J., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno-Perez, J. A. Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation. Presented at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6239

There is a variety of methods for ranking objectives in multiobjective optimization and some are difficult to define because they require information a priori (e.g. establishing weights in a weighted approach or setting the ordering in a lexicographi... Read More about Improved dynamic lexicographic ordering for multi-objective optimisation.

CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castro-Gutierrez, J., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno-Perez, J. CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework. Presented at VII Congreso Espaol sobre Metaheursticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB 2010)

This work presents CODEA, a COoperative DEcentralized Architecture for Multiobjective Optimization. CODEA is an objectoriented framework that aims at the creation of groups of agents to tackle complex problems by cooperative search. This cooperation... Read More about CODEA : an agent based multi-objective optimization framework.

Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, T., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach. Presented at 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS2010)

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, based on a ca... Read More about Modelling office energy consumption: an agent based approach.

Hormone transport (2010)
Book Chapter
Kerr, I. D., Carrier, D. J., & Twycross, J. (2010). Hormone transport. In The Plant Plasma Membrane (379-397). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13431-9_17

Hormone transport in plants is a fundamental process governing all aspects of plant development. Identification and functional analysis of plasma membrane proteins, which regulate the import and export of plant hormones, is a requirement if we are to... Read More about Hormone transport.

Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ollis, J. A., Brailsford, D. F., & Bagley, S. R. Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state. Presented at ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng '10)

Variable Data Printing (VDP) allows customised versions of material such as advertising flyers to be readily produced. However, VDP is often extremely demanding of computing resources because, even when much of the material stays invariant from one d... Read More about Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state.

Learning pathway-based decision rules to classify microarray cancer samples (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Glaab, E., Garibaldi, J. M., & Krasnogor, N. Learning pathway-based decision rules to classify microarray cancer samples. Presented at 25th German Conference on Bioinformatics 2010

Despite recent advances in DNA chip technology current microarray gene expression studies are still affected by high noise levels, small sample sizes and large numbers of uninformative genes. Combining microarray data with cellular pathway data by us... Read More about Learning pathway-based decision rules to classify microarray cancer samples.

Compiling concurrency correctly: cutting out the middle man (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, L., & Hutton, G. Compiling concurrency correctly: cutting out the middle man. Presented at Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (10th)

The standard approach to proving compiler correctness for concurrent languages requires the use of multiple translations into an intermediate process calculus. We present a simpler approach that avoids the need for such an intermediate language, usin... Read More about Compiling concurrency correctly: cutting out the middle man.

Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling (2010)
Book Chapter
Obit, J. H., & Landa-Silva, D. (2010). Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling. In V. Sgurev, M. Hadjiski, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Intelligent systems: from theory to practice. Springer

The great deluge algorithm explores neighbouring solutions which are accepted if they are better than the best solution so far or if the detriment in quality is no larger than the current water level. In the original great deluge method, the water le... Read More about Computational study of non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling.

Iterated heuristic algorithms for the classroom assignment problem (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Constantino, A. A., Filho, W. M., & Landa-Silva, D. Iterated heuristic algorithms for the classroom assignment problem. Presented at 2010 International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2010)

We tackle the classroom assignment problem in a large University with the objective of minimising the total distance between all classrooms assigned to teaching activities in the same course. Additional requirements that should be satisfied include:... Read More about Iterated heuristic algorithms for the classroom assignment problem.

Towards an integrated workforce management system (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Landa-Silva, D., Castillo, A., Bowie, L., & Johnston, H. Towards an integrated workforce management system. Presented at Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2010)

We describe progress towards a workforce management system in which personnel scheduling is integrated with other important processes such as payroll processing, attendance and absence recording, staffing forecast and planning, etc. Our focus is on c... Read More about Towards an integrated workforce management system.

A 0/1 integer programming model for the office space allocation problem (2010)
Journal Article
Ulker, O., & Landa-Silva, D. (2010). A 0/1 integer programming model for the office space allocation problem. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 36, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2010.05.073

We propose a 0/1 integer programming model to tackle the office space allocation (OSA) problem which refers to assigning room space to a set of entities (people, machines, roles, etc.), with the goal of optimising the space utilisation while satisfyi... Read More about A 0/1 integer programming model for the office space allocation problem.

A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem (2010)
Journal Article
Bai, R., Burke, E. K., Kendall, G., Li, J., & McCollum, B. (2010). A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 14(4), https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2009.2033583

Nurse rostering is an important search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle these constraints within genetic algorithm frameworks. In this paper,... Read More about A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem.