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Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design (2016)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (in press). Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0911-2

This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumpti... Read More about Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design.

Cutting out continuations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hutton, G., & Bahr, P. (2016). Cutting out continuations.

In the field of program transformation, one often transforms programs into continuation-passing style to make their flow of control explicit, and then immediately removes the resulting continuations using defunctionalisation to make the programs firs... Read More about Cutting out continuations.

An adaptive multi-population artificial bee colony algorithm for dynamic optimisation problems (2016)
Journal Article
Nseef, S. K., Abdullah, S., Turky, A., & Kendall, G. (2016). An adaptive multi-population artificial bee colony algorithm for dynamic optimisation problems. Knowledge-Based Systems, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2016.04.005

Recently, interest in solving real-world problems that change over the time, so called dynamic optimisation problems (DOPs), has grown due to their practical applications. A DOP requires an optimisation algorithm that can dynamically adapt to changes... Read More about An adaptive multi-population artificial bee colony algorithm for dynamic optimisation problems.

An improved system for sentence-level novelty detection in textual streams (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fu, X., Ch'ng, E., & Aickelin, U. (in press). An improved system for sentence-level novelty detection in textual streams. . https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2015.0250

Novelty detection in news events has long been a difficult problem. A number of models performed well on specific data streams but certain issues are far from being solved, particularly in large data streams from the WWW where unpredictability of new... Read More about An improved system for sentence-level novelty detection in textual streams.

Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science (2016)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Greiffenhagen, C., Crowcroft, J., McAuley, D., Mortier, R., Radenkovic, M., & Sathiaseelan, A. (in press). Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2016.1152022

Drawing on the experiences of a novel collaborative project between sociologists and computer scientists, this paper identifies a set of challenges for fieldwork that are generated by this wild interdisciplinarity. Public Access Wi-Fi Service was a p... Read More about Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science.

ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices (2016)
Journal Article
Moran, S., Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., & Glover, K. (2016). ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(2), 261-275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0910-3

© 2016, The Author(s). Both breathing and internal self-awareness are an integral part of any yoga practice. We describe and discuss the development of ExoPranayama, an actuated environment that physically manifests users’ breathing in yoga. Through... Read More about ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices.

Stromal fibroblasts support dendritic cells to maintain IL-23/Th17 responses after exposure to ionizing radiation (2016)
Journal Article
Malecka, A., Wang, O., Shah, S., Sutavani, R. V., Spendlove, I., Ramage, J. M., …Jackson, A. M. (2016). Stromal fibroblasts support dendritic cells to maintain IL-23/Th17 responses after exposure to ionizing radiation. Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 100(2), 381-389. https://doi.org/10.1189/jlb.3A1015-474R

Dendritic cell function is modulated by stromal cells, including fibroblasts. Although poorly understood, the signals delivered through this crosstalk substantially alter dendritic cell biology. This is well illustrated with release of TNF-0/IL-113 f... Read More about Stromal fibroblasts support dendritic cells to maintain IL-23/Th17 responses after exposure to ionizing radiation.

A Tabu Search hyper-heuristic strategy for t-way test suite generation (2016)
Journal Article
Zamil, K. Z., Alkazemi, B. Y., & Kendall, G. (2016). A Tabu Search hyper-heuristic strategy for t-way test suite generation. Applied Soft Computing, 44, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2016.03.021

This paper proposes a novel hybrid t-way test generation strategy (where t indicates interaction strength), called High Level Hyper-Heuristic (HHH). HHH adopts Tabu Search as its high level meta-heuristic and leverages on the strength of four low lev... Read More about A Tabu Search hyper-heuristic strategy for t-way test suite generation.

Learning of interval and general type-2 fuzzy logic systems using simulated annealing: theory and practice (2016)
Journal Article
Almaraashia, M., John, R., Hopgood, A., & Ahmadi, S. (2016). Learning of interval and general type-2 fuzzy logic systems using simulated annealing: theory and practice. Information Sciences, 360, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2016.03.047

This paper reports the use of simulated annealing to design more efficient fuzzy logic systems to model problems with associated uncertainties. Simulated annealing is used within this work as a method for learning the best configurations of interval... Read More about Learning of interval and general type-2 fuzzy logic systems using simulated annealing: theory and practice.

Proxemics mobile collocated interactions (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Lucero, A., Quigley, A., Marquardt, N., Clawson, J., & O'Hara, K. (2016). Proxemics mobile collocated interactions. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856471

Recent research on mobile collocated interactions has been looking at situations in which collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their mobile devices. However, existing practices fail to fully account for the culturally-dependent s... Read More about Proxemics mobile collocated interactions.

A patch-based approach to 3D plant shoot phenotyping (2016)
Journal Article
Pound, M. P., French, A. P., Fozard, J. A., Murchie, E. H., & Pridmore, T. P. (2016). A patch-based approach to 3D plant shoot phenotyping. Machine Vision and Applications, 27(5), 767-779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-016-0756-8

The emerging discipline of plant phenomics aims to measure key plant characteristics, or traits, though as yet the set of plant traits that should be measured by automated systems is not well defined. Methods capable of recovering generic representat... Read More about A patch-based approach to 3D plant shoot phenotyping.

A coalgebraic view of bar recursion and bar induction (2016)
Journal Article
Capretta, V., & Uustalu, T. (2016). A coalgebraic view of bar recursion and bar induction. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9634, 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49630-5_6

We reformulate the bar recursion and induction principles in terms of recursive and wellfounded coalgebras. Bar induction was originally proposed by Brouwer as an axiom to recover certain classically valid theorems in a constructive setting... Read More about A coalgebraic view of bar recursion and bar induction.

DPD-DFF: a dual phase distributed scheme with double fingerprint fusion for fast and accurate identification in large databases (2016)
Journal Article
Peralta, D., Triguero, I., García, S., Herrera, F., & Benitez, J. M. (2016). DPD-DFF: a dual phase distributed scheme with double fingerprint fusion for fast and accurate identification in large databases. Information Fusion, 32(Part A), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2016.03.002

Nowadays, many companies and institutions need fast and reliable identification systems that are able to deal with very large databases. Fingerprints are among the most used biometric traits for identification. In the current literature there are fin... Read More about DPD-DFF: a dual phase distributed scheme with double fingerprint fusion for fast and accurate identification in large databases.

Integrating BDI agents with Agent-based simulation platforms (2016)
Journal Article
Singh, D., Padgham, L., & Logan, B. (in press). Integrating BDI agents with Agent-based simulation platforms. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(6), 1050-1071. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-016-9332-x

Agent-Based Models (ABMs) is increasingly being used for exploring and supporting decision making about social science scenarios involving modelling of human agents. However existing agent-based simulation platforms (e.g., SWARM, Repast) provide limi... Read More about Integrating BDI agents with Agent-based simulation platforms.

A Case Study of Controlling Crossover in a Selection Hyper-heuristic Framework Using the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem (2016)
Journal Article
Drake, J. H., Özcan, E., & Burke, E. (2016). A Case Study of Controlling Crossover in a Selection Hyper-heuristic Framework Using the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem. Evolutionary Computation, 24(1), 113-141. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00145

© 2016 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hyper-heuristics are high-level methodologies for solving complex problems that operate on a search space of heuristics. In a selection hyper-heuristic framework, a heuristic is chosen from an exis... Read More about A Case Study of Controlling Crossover in a Selection Hyper-heuristic Framework Using the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem.

Improved Uncertainty Capture for Nonsingleton Fuzzy Systems (2016)
Journal Article
Pourabdollah, A., Wagner, C., Aladi, J. H., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2016). Improved Uncertainty Capture for Nonsingleton Fuzzy Systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 24(6), 1513-1524. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2016.2540065

© 2016 IEEE. In nonsingleton fuzzy logic systems (NSFLSs), input uncertainties are modeled with input fuzzy sets in order to capture input uncertainty (e.g., sensor noise). The performance of NSFLSs in handling such uncertainties depends on both the... Read More about Improved Uncertainty Capture for Nonsingleton Fuzzy Systems.

Simulating user learning in authoritative technology adoption: an agent based model for council-led smart meter deployment planning in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. (2016). Simulating user learning in authoritative technology adoption: an agent based model for council-led smart meter deployment planning in the UK. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.02.009

How do technology users effectively transit from having zero knowledge about a technology to making the best use of it after an authoritative technology adoption? This post-adoption user learning has received little research attention in technology m... Read More about Simulating user learning in authoritative technology adoption: an agent based model for council-led smart meter deployment planning in the UK.

A multi-agent based cooperative approach to scheduling and routing (2016)
Journal Article
Martin, S., Ouelhadj, D., Beullens, P., Ozcan, E., Juan, A. A., & Burke, E. (2016). A multi-agent based cooperative approach to scheduling and routing. European Journal of Operational Research, 254(1), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.02.045

In this study, we propose a general agent-based distributed framework where each agent is implementing a different metaheuristic/local search combination. Moreover, an agent continuously adapts itself during the search process using a direct cooperat... Read More about A multi-agent based cooperative approach to scheduling and routing.

Labelling strategies for hierarchical multi-label classification techniques (2016)
Journal Article
Triguero, I., & Vens, C. (2016). Labelling strategies for hierarchical multi-label classification techniques. Pattern Recognition, 56, 170-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.02.017

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Many hierarchical multi-label classification systems predict a real valued score for every (instance, class) couple, with a higher score reflecting more confidence that the instance belongs to that class. These classifiers leave t... Read More about Labelling strategies for hierarchical multi-label classification techniques.