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Grammatical evolution hyper-heuristic for combinatorial optimization problems (2013)
Journal Article
Sabar, N., Ayob, M., Kendall, G., & Qu, R. (2013). Grammatical evolution hyper-heuristic for combinatorial optimization problems. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 17(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2013.2281527

Designing generic problem solvers that perform well across a diverse set of problems is a challenging task. In this work, we propose a hyper-heuristic framework to automatically generate an effective and generic solution method by utilizing grammatic... Read More about Grammatical evolution hyper-heuristic for combinatorial optimization problems.

A Novel Semisupervised Algorithm for Rare Prescription Side Effect Discovery (2013)
Journal Article
Reps, J. M., Garibaldi, J. M., Aickelin, U., Soria, D., Gibson, J. E., & Hubbard, R. B. (2014). A Novel Semisupervised Algorithm for Rare Prescription Side Effect Discovery. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 18(2), 537-547. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2013.2281505

Drugs are frequently prescribed to patients with the aim of improving each patient's medical state, but an unfortunate consequence of most prescription drugs is the occurrence of undesirable side effects. Side effects that occur in more than one in a... Read More about A Novel Semisupervised Algorithm for Rare Prescription Side Effect Discovery.

A novel approach to independent taxi scheduling problem based on stable matching (2013)
Journal Article
Bai, R., Li, J., Atkin, J. A., & Kendall, G. (2014). A novel approach to independent taxi scheduling problem based on stable matching. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 65(10), https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2013.96

This paper describes a taxi scheduling system, which aims to improve the overall efficiency of the system, both from the perspective of the drivers and the customers. This is of particular relevance to Chinese cities, where hailing a taxi on the stre... Read More about A novel approach to independent taxi scheduling problem based on stable matching.

Extraversion differentiates between model-based and model-free strategies in a reinforcement learning task (2013)
Journal Article
Skatova, A., Chan, P. A., & Daw, N. (2013). Extraversion differentiates between model-based and model-free strategies in a reinforcement learning task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, Article 525. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00525

Prominent computational models describe a neural mechanism for learning from reward prediction errors, and it has been suggested that variations in this mechanism are reflected in personality factors such as trait extraversion. However, although trai... Read More about Extraversion differentiates between model-based and model-free strategies in a reinforcement learning task.

Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Colley, J. A., Bedwell, B., Crabtree, A., & Rodden, T. (2013). Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_6

This paper explores the measurement, apportionment and representation of widespread energy monitoring. We explicate the accountability to users of the data collected by this type of monitoring when it is presented to them as a single daylong picture.... Read More about Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring.

Revisiting a summer vacation: digital restoration and typesetter forensics (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Bagley, S. R., Brailsford, D. F., & Kernighan, B. W. (2013). Revisiting a summer vacation: digital restoration and typesetter forensics.

In 1979 the Computing Science Research Center (‘Center 127’) at Bell Laboratories bought a Linotron 202 typesetter from the Mergenthaler company. This was a ‘third generation’ digital machine that used a CRT to image characters onto photographic pape... Read More about Revisiting a summer vacation: digital restoration and typesetter forensics.

No need to justify your choice: pre-compiling line breaks to improve eBook readability (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Pinkney, A. J., Bagley, S. R., & Brailsford, D. F. (2013). No need to justify your choice: pre-compiling line breaks to improve eBook readability.

Implementations of eBooks have existed in one form or another for at least the past 20 years, but it is only in the past 5 years that dedicated eBook hardware has become a mass-market item. New screen technologies, such as e-paper, provide a readi... Read More about No need to justify your choice: pre-compiling line breaks to improve eBook readability.

Efficient Location Privacy-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Mobile Networks (2013)
Journal Article
Zakhary, S., Radenkovic, M., & Benslimane, A. (2014). Efficient Location Privacy-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Mobile Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 63(2), 893-906. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2013.2279671

This paper proposes a novel fully distributed and collaborative k-anonymity protocol (LPAF) to protect users’ location information and ensure better privacy while forwarding queries/replies to/from untrusted location-based service (LBS) over opportun... Read More about Efficient Location Privacy-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Mobile Networks.

A methodology for automatic classification of breast cancer immunohistochemical data using semi-supervised Fuzzy c-means (2013)
Journal Article
Lai, D. T. C., Garibaldi, J. M., Soria, D., & Roadknight, C. M. (2014). A methodology for automatic classification of breast cancer immunohistochemical data using semi-supervised Fuzzy c-means. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 22(3), 475-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-013-0318-3

Previously, a semi-manual method was used to identify six novel and clinically useful classes in the Nottingham Tenovus Breast Cancer dataset. 663 out of 1,076 patients were classified. The objectives of our work is three folds. Firstly, our primary... Read More about A methodology for automatic classification of breast cancer immunohistochemical data using semi-supervised Fuzzy c-means.

A path-oriented encoding evolutionary algorithm for network coding resource minimization (2013)
Journal Article
Xing, H., Qu, R., Kendall, G., & Bai, R. (2014). A path-oriented encoding evolutionary algorithm for network coding resource minimization. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 65(8), https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2013.79

Network coding is an emerging telecommunication technique, where any intermediate node is allowed to recombine incoming data if necessary. This technique helps to increase the throughput, however, very likely at the cost of huge amount of computation... Read More about A path-oriented encoding evolutionary algorithm for network coding resource minimization.

Online learning and fusion of orientation appearance models for robust rigid object tracking (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Marras, I., Medina, J. A., Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2013). Online learning and fusion of orientation appearance models for robust rigid object tracking. In 2013 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2013.6553798

We present a robust framework for learning and fusing different modalities for rigid object tracking. Our method fuses data obtained from a standard visual camera and dense depth maps obtained by low-cost consumer depths cameras such as the Kinect. T... Read More about Online learning and fusion of orientation appearance models for robust rigid object tracking.

Artificial Immune Systems (2013)
Book Chapter
Aickelin, U., Dasgupta, D., & Gu, F. (2014). Artificial Immune Systems. In E. Burke, & G. Kendall (Eds.), Search methodologies: introductory tutorials in optimization and decision support techniques. 2nd edition (187-211). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6940-7_7

The biological immune system is a robust, complex, adaptive system that defends the body from foreign pathogens. It is able to categorize all cells (or molecules) within the body as self or nonself substances. It does this with the help of a distribu... Read More about Artificial Immune Systems.

Performance-Led Research in the Wild (2013)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Row Farr, J., Greenhalgh, C., Crabtree, A., …Giannachi, G. (2013). Performance-Led Research in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/2491500.2491502

We explore the approach of performance-led research in the wild in which artists drive the creation of novel performances with the support of HCI researchers that are then deployed and studied at public performance in cultural settings such as galler... Read More about Performance-Led Research in the Wild.

A quantifier-based fuzzy classification system for breast cancer patients (2013)
Journal Article
Soria, D., Garibaldi, J. M., Green, A. R., Powe, D. G., Nolan, C. C., Lemetre, C., …Ellis, I. O. (2013). A quantifier-based fuzzy classification system for breast cancer patients. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 58(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2013.04.006

Objectives:Recent studies of breast cancer data have identified seven distinct clinical phenotypes (groups) using immunohistochemical analysis and a range of different clustering techniques. Consensus between unsupervised classification algorithms ha... Read More about A quantifier-based fuzzy classification system for breast cancer patients.

A simulated annealing based genetic local search algorithm for multi-objective multicast routing problems (2013)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Qu, R., & Li, R. (2013). A simulated annealing based genetic local search algorithm for multi-objective multicast routing problems. Annals of Operations Research, 260(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-013-1322-7

This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm to solve multi-objective multicast routing problems in telecommunication networks. The algorithm combines simulated annealing based strategies and a genetic local search, aiming at a more flexib... Read More about A simulated annealing based genetic local search algorithm for multi-objective multicast routing problems.

Using adaptive architecture to probe attitudes towards ubiquitous monitoring (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Moran, S., Jaeger, N., Schnadelbach, H., & Glover, K. (2013). Using adaptive architecture to probe attitudes towards ubiquitous monitoring. https://doi.org/10.1109/istas.2013.6613100

The term Ubiquitous Monitoring aims to capture the unprecedented degree to which data collection will occur in the future through ongoing developments in embedded, wireless and sensory technologies. Intelligent buildings represent the most current in... Read More about Using adaptive architecture to probe attitudes towards ubiquitous monitoring.

Haptic Role Allocation and Intention Negotiation in Human-Robot Collaboration (2013)
Thesis
Kucukyilmaz, A. (2013). Haptic Role Allocation and Intention Negotiation in Human-Robot Collaboration. (Thesis). Retrieved from https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4040519

This dissertation aims to present a perspective to build more natural shared control systems for physical human-robot cooperation. As the tasks become more complex and more dynamic, many shared control schemes fail to meet the expectation of an effor... Read More about Haptic Role Allocation and Intention Negotiation in Human-Robot Collaboration.

A harmony search algorithm for nurse rostering problems (2013)
Journal Article
Hadwan, M., Ayob, M., Kendall, G., & Qu, R. (2013). A harmony search algorithm for nurse rostering problems. Information Sciences, 233, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2012.12.025

Harmony search algorithm (HSA) is a relatively new nature-inspired algorithm. It evolves solutions in the problem search space by mimicking the musical improvisation process in seeking agreeable harmony measured by aesthetic standards. The nurse rost... Read More about A harmony search algorithm for nurse rostering problems.