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Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management (2014)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Bedwell, B., RODDEN, T., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Spence, A. (2014). Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management. Energy Research and Social Science, 2, 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.008

Smart grids are a key feature of future energy scenarios, with the overarching goal of better aligning energy generation and demand. The work presented here considers the role of the user in such systems, and the contexts in which such roles might em... Read More about Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management.

Online learning and fusion of orientation appearance models for robust rigid object tracking (2014)
Journal Article
Marras, I., Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2014). Online learning and fusion of orientation appearance models for robust rigid object tracking. Image and Vision Computing, 32(10), 707-727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2014.04.017

We introduce a robust framework for learning and fusing of orientation appearance models based on both texture and depth information for rigid object tracking. Our framework fuses data obtained from a standard visual camera and dense depth maps obtai... Read More about Online learning and fusion of orientation appearance models for robust rigid object tracking.

Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jennings, N. R., & Rodden, T. (2014). Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

We present a field trial of how instructions from an intelligent planning agent are dealt with by distributed human teams, in a time-critical task setting created through a mixed-reality game. We conduct interaction analysis to examine video recorded... Read More about Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Meier, F., Elsweiler, D., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Webligs and Social media, 346-355

Microblogging services, such as Twitter, offer a variety of interactive features that allow users to engage with contacts in their social network and the content they produce. One such feature is the favourite button on Twitter, an icon in the form o... Read More about More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour.

Using adaptive architecture to support yoga practices: social considerations for design (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jäger, N., Moran, S., & Schnädelbach, H. (in press). Using adaptive architecture to support yoga practices: social considerations for design. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PERCOM WORKSHOPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2014.6815144

The field of Adaptive Architecture aims to design built environments, which truly adapt to their occupants. ExoBuilding is an in-house prototypical example of Adaptive Architecture, which actuates in response to breathing and heart- rate of its occup... Read More about Using adaptive architecture to support yoga practices: social considerations for design.

Verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Doan, T. T., Yuan, Y., Alechina, N., & Logan, B. (2014). Verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs. In AAMAS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (149-156). https://doi.org/10.5555/2615731.2615758

We present a new approach to verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs — multi-agent systems in which the agents are implemented in different (BDI-based) agent programming languages. Our approach is based on meta-APL, a BDI-based agent programming... Read More about Verifying heterogeneous multi-agent programs.

An optimization spiking neural P system for approximately solving combinatorial optimization problems (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, G., Rong, H., Neri, F., & Pérez-Jiménez, M. J. (2014). An optimization spiking neural P system for approximately solving combinatorial optimization problems. International Journal of Neural Systems, 24(5), Article 1440006. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065714400061

Membrane systems (also called P systems) refer to the computing models abstracted from the structure and the functioning of the living cell as well as from the cooperation of cells in tissues, organs, and other populations of cells. Spiking neural P... Read More about An optimization spiking neural P system for approximately solving combinatorial optimization problems.

Measuring the effect of Think Aloud Protocols on workload using fNIRS (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pike, M. F., Maior, H. A., Porcheron, M., Sharples, S. C., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). Measuring the effect of Think Aloud Protocols on workload using fNIRS. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2556974

The Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) is a verbalisation technique widely employed in HCI user studies to give insight into user experience, yet little work has explored the impact that TAPs have on participants during user studies. This paper utilises a br... Read More about Measuring the effect of Think Aloud Protocols on workload using fNIRS.

Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Colley, J., Rodden, T., Ramchurn, S. D., & Jennings, N. R. (2014). Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home. In CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (813–822). https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557167

Future energy systems that rely on renewable energy may bring about a radical shift in how we use energy in our homes. We developed and prototyped a future scenario with highly variable, real-time electricity prices due to a grid that mainly relies o... Read More about Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home.

Human values in curating a human rights media archive (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Durrant, A., Kirk, D., & Reeves, S. (2014). Human values in curating a human rights media archive. In CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557196

Cultural institutions, such as museums, often curate politically and ethically sensitive materials. Increasingly, Internet-enabled, digital technology intersects with these curatorial practices offering new opportunities for public and scholarly enga... Read More about Human values in curating a human rights media archive.

Gifting personal interpretations in galleries (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fosh, L., Benford, S., Reeves, S., & Koleva, B. (2014). Gifting personal interpretations in galleries. In CHI 2014 : conference proceedings: the 32nd annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014

The designers of mobile guides for museums and galleries face three major challenges: fostering rich interpretation, delivering deep personalization, and enabling a coherent social visit. We propose an approach to tackling all three simultaneously by... Read More about Gifting personal interpretations in galleries.

The automatic design of hyper-heuristic framework with gene expression programming for combinatorial optimization problems (2014)
Journal Article
Sabar, N., Ayob, M., Kendall, G., & Qu, R. (2014). The automatic design of hyper-heuristic framework with gene expression programming for combinatorial optimization problems. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2014.2319051

Hyper-heuristic approaches aim to automate heuristic design in order to solve multiple problems instead of designing tailor-made methodologies for individual problems. Hyper-heuristics accomplish this through a high level heuristic (heuristic selecti... Read More about The automatic design of hyper-heuristic framework with gene expression programming for combinatorial optimization problems.

An investigation on test driven discrete event simulation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Asta, S., Özcan, E., & Peer-Olaf, S. (2014). An investigation on test driven discrete event simulation.

This paper deals with the application of modern software development tools on simulation development. Recently, Agile Software Development (ASD) methods enjoy an increasing popularity. eXtreme Programming (XP) techniques, one of the techniques which... Read More about An investigation on test driven discrete event simulation.

Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Moran, S., Pantidi, N., Rodden, T., Chamberlain, A., Griffiths, C., Zilli, D., & Merrett, G. (2014). Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557022

Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-b... Read More about Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment.

A genetic programming hyper-heuristic for the multidimensional knapsack problem (2014)
Journal Article
Drake, J. H., Hyde, M., Khaled, I., & Özcan, E. (2014). A genetic programming hyper-heuristic for the multidimensional knapsack problem. Kybernetes, 43(9/10), https://doi.org/10.1108/K-09-2013-0201

Purpose: Hyper-heuristics are a class of high-level search techniques which operate on a search space of heuristics rather than directly on a search space of solutions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the suitability of using genetic prog... Read More about A genetic programming hyper-heuristic for the multidimensional knapsack problem.

Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus (NPI+): a modern clinical decision making tool in breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Rakha, E., Soria, D., Green, A. R., Lemetre, C., Powe, D. G., Nolan, C. C., …Ellis, I. O. (2014). Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus (NPI+): a modern clinical decision making tool in breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 110(7), https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.120

Current management of breast cancer (BC) relies on risk stratification based on well-defined clinicopathologic factors. Global gene expression profiling studies have demonstrated that BC comprises distinct molecular classes with clinical relevance. I... Read More about Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus (NPI+): a modern clinical decision making tool in breast cancer.

From Interval-Valued Data to General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (2014)
Journal Article
Wagner, C., Miller, S., Garibaldi, J. M., Anderson, D. T., & Havens, T. C. (2015). From Interval-Valued Data to General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 23(2), 248-269. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2014.2310734

In this paper, a new approach is presented to model interval-based data using fuzzy sets (FSs). Specifically, we show how both crisp and uncertain intervals (where there is uncertainty about the endpoints of intervals) collected from individual or mu... Read More about From Interval-Valued Data to General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets.

A development and integration framework for optimisation-based enterprise solutions (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pinheiro, R. L., & Landa-Silva, D. (2014). A development and integration framework for optimisation-based enterprise solutions.

The operations research literature includes some papers describing collaborative work between researchers and industry. However, not much literature exists that outlines methodologies to guide the development of a decision support module and its inte... Read More about A development and integration framework for optimisation-based enterprise solutions.

Constructing constrained-version of magic squares using selection hyper-heuristics (2014)
Journal Article
Kheiri, A., & Özcan, E. (2014). Constructing constrained-version of magic squares using selection hyper-heuristics. Computer Journal, 57(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxt130

A square matrix of distinct numbers in which every row, column and both diagonals have the same total is referred to as a magic square. Constructing a magic square of a given order is considered a difficult computational problem, particularly when ad... Read More about Constructing constrained-version of magic squares using selection hyper-heuristics.