All Outputs (19)

Designing a multi-agent approach system for distributed course timetabling (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Obit, J. H., Landa-Silva, D., Ouelhadj, D., Khan Vun, T., & Alfred, R. (2011). Designing a multi-agent approach system for distributed course timetabling.

This paper proposes tackling the difficult course timetabling problem using a multi-agent approach. The proposed design seeks to deal with the problem using a distributed solution environment in which a mediator agent coordinates various timetabling... Read More about Designing a multi-agent approach system for distributed course timetabling.

Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation: A Case Study in a University Organisation (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul Majid, M., Siebers, P., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation: A Case Study in a University Organisation. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2829269

Simulation is a well established what-if scenario analysis tool in Operational Research (OR). While traditionally Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and System Dynamics Simulation (SDS) are the predominant simulation techniques in OR, a new simulation t... Read More about Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation: A Case Study in a University Organisation.

Nature of real-world multi-objective vehicle routing with evolutionary algorithms (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Castro-Gutierrez, J., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno Perez, J. (2011). Nature of real-world multi-objective vehicle routing with evolutionary algorithms.

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows VRPTW) is an important logistics problem which in the realworld appears to be multi-objective. Most research in this area has been carried out using classic datasets designed for the single-objective case... Read More about Nature of real-world multi-objective vehicle routing with evolutionary algorithms.

Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Brailsford, D. F. (2011). Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout.

The Phillimore Marriage Registers for England were published in the period 1896 to 1922 and have defined a standard layout format for the typesetting of marriage data. However, not all English parish churches had their marriage registers analysed and... Read More about Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout.

Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Pinkney, A. J., Bagley, S. R., & Brailsford, D. F. (2011). Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components.

Mobile eBook readers are now commonplace in today’s society, but their document layout algorithms remain basic, largely due to constraints imposed by short battery life. At present, with any eBook file format not based on PDF, the layout of the docum... Read More about Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components.

Hybrid heuristic for multi-carrier transportation plans (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Landa-Silva, D., Wang, Y., Donovan, P., & Kendall, G. (2011). Hybrid heuristic for multi-carrier transportation plans.

This paper describes a hybrid heuristic approach to construct transportation plans for a singlecustomer multi-carrier scenario that arises at 3T Logistics Ltd, a UK company that provides outsourced transportation planning and management services. The... Read More about Hybrid heuristic for multi-carrier transportation plans.

Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for tumour growth and its interactions with effector cells (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Figueredo, G. P., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for tumour growth and its interactions with effector cells.

There is little research concerning comparisons and combination of System Dynamics Simulation (SDS) and Agent Based Simulation (ABS). ABS is a paradigm used in many levels of abstraction, including those levels covered by SDS. We believe that the est... Read More about Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for tumour growth and its interactions with effector cells.

Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Kucukyilmaz, A., Sezgin, T. M., & Basdogan, C. (2011). Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration. In 2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/whc.2011.5945523

Haptics has been used as a natural way for humans to communicate with computers in collaborative virtual environments. Human-computer collaboration is typically achieved by sharing control of the task between a human and a computer operator. An impor... Read More about Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration.

Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Brown, B., Reeves, S., & Sherwood, S. (2011). Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods.

Field trials of experimental systems `in the wild' have developed into a standard method within HCI - testing new systems with groups of users in relatively unconstrained settings outside of the laboratory. In this paper we discuss methodological cha... Read More about Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods.

Designing difficult office space allocation problem instances with mathematical programming (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ulker, O., & Landa-Silva, D. (2011). Designing difficult office space allocation problem instances with mathematical programming.

Office space allocation (OSA) refers to the assignment of room space to a set of entities (people, machines, roles, etc.), with the goal of optimising the space utilisation while satisfying a set of additional constraints. In this paper, a mathematic... Read More about Designing difficult office space allocation problem instances with mathematical programming.

Comparing hybrid constructive heuristics for university course timetabling (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Landa-Silva, D., & Obit, J. H. (2011). Comparing hybrid constructive heuristics for university course timetabling.

This extended abstract outlines four hybrid heuristics to generate initial solutions to the University course timetabling problem. These hybrid approaches combine graph colouring heuristics and local search in different ways. Results of experiments u... Read More about Comparing hybrid constructive heuristics for university course timetabling.

A heuristic algorithm for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Constantino, A. A., Landa-Silva, D., Luiz de Melo, E., & Romao, W. (2011). A heuristic algorithm for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

This paper tackles the nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction which consists of generating an assignment of shifts to nurses over a given time horizon and ensuring that the satisfaction of nurses personal preferences for shift... Read More about A heuristic algorithm for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

Fast and robust appearance-based tracking (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Liwicki, S., Zafeiriou, S., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2011). Fast and robust appearance-based tracking.

We introduce a fast and robust subspace-based approach to appearance-based object tracking. The core of our approach is based on Fast Robust Correlation (FRC), a recently proposed technique for the robust estimation of large translational displacemen... Read More about Fast and robust appearance-based tracking.

Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2011). Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition.

We introduce the notion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of image gradient orientations. As image data is typically noisy, but noise is substantially different from Gaussian, traditional PCA of pixel intensities very often fails to estimate reli... Read More about Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition.

Congestion aware forwarding in delay tolerant and social opportunistic networks (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Radenkovic, M., & Grundy, A. (2011). Congestion aware forwarding in delay tolerant and social opportunistic networks. In 2011 Eighth International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services. https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2011.5720201

We propose an approach for opportunistic forwarding that supports optimization of multipoint high volume data flow transfer while maintaining high buffer availability and low delays. This paper explores a number of social, buffer and delay heuristics... Read More about Congestion aware forwarding in delay tolerant and social opportunistic networks.

Audiovisual classification of vocal outbursts in human conversation using long-short-term memory networks (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Eyben, F., Petridis, S., Schuller, B., Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2011). Audiovisual classification of vocal outbursts in human conversation using long-short-term memory networks.

We investigate classification of non-linguistic vocalisations with a novel audiovisual approach and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks as highly successful dynamic sequence classifiers. As database of evaluation serves this year'... Read More about Audiovisual classification of vocal outbursts in human conversation using long-short-term memory networks.

Robust and efficient parametric face alignment (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2011). Robust and efficient parametric face alignment.

We propose a correlation-based approach to parametric object alignment particularly suitable for face analysis applications which require efficiency and robustness against occlusions and illumination changes. Our algorithm registers two images by ite... Read More about Robust and efficient parametric face alignment.

Sparse representations of image gradient orientations for visual recognition and tracking (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2011). Sparse representations of image gradient orientations for visual recognition and tracking.

Recent results [18] have shown that sparse linear representations of a query object with respect to an overcomplete basis formed by the entire gallery of objects of interest can result in powerful image-based object recognition schemes. In this paper... Read More about Sparse representations of image gradient orientations for visual recognition and tracking.

Subspace analysis of arbitrarily many linear filter responses with an application to face tracking (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Zafeiriou, S., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2011). Subspace analysis of arbitrarily many linear filter responses with an application to face tracking.

Multi-scale/orientation local image analysis methods are valuable tools for obtaining highly distinctive image-based representations. Very often, these features are generated from the responses of a bank of linear filters corresponding to different s... Read More about Subspace analysis of arbitrarily many linear filter responses with an application to face tracking.