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A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives (2016)
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Major natural or man-made disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the 9/11 terror attacks pose significant challenges for emergency responders. First, they have to develop an understanding of the unfolding event either using their own resources or thr... Read More about A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives.

Inhabiting adaptive architecture (2016)
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Adaptive Architecture concerns buildings that are specifically designed to adapt to their inhabitants and to their environments. Work in this space has a very long history, with a number of adaptive buildings emerging during the modernist period, suc... Read More about Inhabiting adaptive architecture.

Dynamic programming with approximation function for nurse scheduling (2016)
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Although dynamic programming could ideally solve any combinatorial optimization problem, the curse of dimensionality of the search space seriously limits its application to large optimization problems. For example, only few papers in the literature h... Read More about Dynamic programming with approximation function for nurse scheduling.

A scheme for determining vehicle routes based on Arc-based service network design (2016)
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In freight transportation, less-than-truckload carriers often need to assign each vehicle a cyclic route so that drivers can come back home after a certain period of time. However, the Node-Arc model for service network design addresses decisions on... Read More about A scheme for determining vehicle routes based on Arc-based service network design.

Fast and exact Newton and bidirectional fitting of Active Appearance Models (2016)
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Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are generative models of shape and appearance that have proven very attractive for their ability to handle wide changes in illumination, pose and occlusion when trained in the wild, while not requiring large training d... Read More about Fast and exact Newton and bidirectional fitting of Active Appearance Models.

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and hyper-heuristics for wind farm layout optimisation (2016)
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Wind farm layout optimisation is a challenging real-world problem which requires the discovery of trade-off solutions considering a variety of conflicting criteria, such as minimisation of the land area usage and maximisation of energy production. Ho... Read More about Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and hyper-heuristics for wind farm layout optimisation.

Funky grooves: declarative programming of full-fledged musical applications (2016)
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There are many systems and languages for music that essentially are declarative, often following the synchronous dataflow paradigm. As these tools, however, are mainly aimed at artists, their application focus tends to be narrow and their usefulness... Read More about Funky grooves: declarative programming of full-fledged musical applications.

Reasoning about the executability of goal-plan trees (2016)
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User supplied domain control knowledge in the form of hierarchically structured agent plans is at the heart of a number of approaches to reasoning about action. This knowledge encodes the “standard operating procedures” of an agent for responding to... Read More about Reasoning about the executability of goal-plan trees.

Kundalini yoga as mutual recovery: a feasibility study including children in care and their carers (2016)
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This is a mixed-methods feasibility study to test whether incorporating a 20-week Kundalini yoga program into a children’s home community improves wellbeing outcomes. Feasibility was assessed through recruitment and retention rates as well as partici... Read More about Kundalini yoga as mutual recovery: a feasibility study including children in care and their carers.

Greedy feature construction (2016)
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We present an effective method for supervised feature construction. The main goal of the approach is to construct a feature representation for which a set of linear hypotheses is of sufficient capacity -- large enough to contain a satisfactory soluti... Read More about Greedy feature construction.

Video gaming as practical accomplishment: ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and play (2016)
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Accounts of video game play developed from an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EMCA) perspective remain relatively scarce. This paper collects together an emerging, if scattered, body of research which focusses on the material, practica... Read More about Video gaming as practical accomplishment: ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and play.

An application programming interface with increased performance for optimisation problems data (2016)
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An optimisation problem can have many forms and variants. It may consider different objectives, constraints, and variables. For that reason, providing a general application programming interface (API) to handle the problem data efficiently in all sce... Read More about An application programming interface with increased performance for optimisation problems data.

Valorising the IoT Databox: creating value for everyone (2016)
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The Internet of Things is expected to generate large amounts of heterogeneous data from diverse sources including physical sensors, user devices and social media platforms. Over the last few years, significant attention has been focused on personal d... Read More about Valorising the IoT Databox: creating value for everyone.

Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future (2016)
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This Special Issue focuses on the emerging use of wearable technologies for mobile collocated interactions. Rather than merely listing off the articles that follow, we wish to introduce this Special Issue by discussing the past, present, and future o... Read More about Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future.

Palimpsest: improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature (2016)
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Text mining and information visualization techniques applied to large-scale historical and literary document collections have enabled new types of humanities research. The assumption behind such efforts is often that trends will emerge from the analy... Read More about Palimpsest: improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature.

Evaluating a natural horsemanship program in relation to the ISES first principles of horse training (2016)
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This is the journal version of the abstract previously published in the proceedings of The 12th International Society for Equitation Science Conference (ISES2016)as: Steve North, Ann Hemingway, Andrew N. McLean, Harriet Laurie, and Caroline Ellis-Hi... Read More about Evaluating a natural horsemanship program in relation to the ISES first principles of horse training.

Frequency domain subpixel registration using HOG phase correlation (2016)
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We present a novel frequency-domain image registration technique, which employs histograms of oriented gradients providing subpixel estimates. Our method involves image filtering using dense Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG), which provides an ad... Read More about Frequency domain subpixel registration using HOG phase correlation.

Towards a more realistic, cost effective and greener ground movement through active routing: a multi-objective shortest path approach (2016)
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Based on the multi-objective optimal speed profile generation framework for unimpeded taxiing aircraft presented in the precursor paper, this paper deals with how to seamlessly integrate such optimal speed profiles into a holistic decision making fra... Read More about Towards a more realistic, cost effective and greener ground movement through active routing: a multi-objective shortest path approach.

Ethics of healthcare robotics: Towards responsible research and innovation (2016)
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Decomposition techniques with mixed integer programming and heuristics for home healthcare planning (2016)
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We tackle home healthcare planning scenarios in the UK using decomposition methods that incorporate mixed integer programming solvers and heuristics. Home healthcare planning is a difficult problem that integrates aspects from scheduling and routing.... Read More about Decomposition techniques with mixed integer programming and heuristics for home healthcare planning.