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Response to Call for Evidence – Joint Select Committee on Human Rights: The Government’s response to COVID-19: human rights implications (2020)
Other
McAuley, D., Koene, A., & Chen, J. (2020). Response to Call for Evidence – Joint Select Committee on Human Rights: The Government’s response to COVID-19: human rights implications

This submission addresses the three questions formulated in the Joint Select Committee’s call with a particular focus on both the digital rights implications of the Government’s measures against COVID-19 and the wider human rights implications of the... Read More about Response to Call for Evidence – Joint Select Committee on Human Rights: The Government’s response to COVID-19: human rights implications.

From sharing to gifting: A web app for deepening engagement (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adams, M., Spence, J., Clark, S., Farr, J. R., Benford, S., & Tandavanitj, N. (2020, July). From sharing to gifting: A web app for deepening engagement. Presented at EVA London 2020, London, UK

Visitors currently use social media to share their experiences in museums, but these interactions are often short, quick and superficial. Is it possible to transform the impulse to share into an act of generosity, deepening engagement with museum col... Read More about From sharing to gifting: A web app for deepening engagement.

Necrotic Control of the Aesthetics of Evolved Art (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ashlock, D., & Greensmith, J. (2020, July). Necrotic Control of the Aesthetics of Evolved Art. Presented at 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Glasgow, United Kingdom

This study uses necrosis, a technique from the domain of artificial immune systems, to control the evolution of apoptotic cellular automata. These automata generate complex images that require a very small amount of initial data. The genes that yield... Read More about Necrotic Control of the Aesthetics of Evolved Art.

BDI Agent Architectures: A Survey (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
de Silva, L., Meneguzzi, F., & Logan, B. (2020, July). BDI Agent Architectures: A Survey. Presented at Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Seventeenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}, Yokohama, Japan

What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kirschthaler, P., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2020, July). What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience. Presented at CUI '20: 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Bilbao Spain

Discoverability, the ability for users to find and execute features through a user interface, is a recurrent problem with Voice User Interface (VUI) design that makes it difficult for users to understand what commands are supported by a newly encount... Read More about What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience.

Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. (2020, July). Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health. Presented at Thematic Area, HCI 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark

User-centred evaluation of brain-training and coaching applications is discussed, with a focus on dementia. A brief outline of outcomes measures used for cognitive training is presented. The design of a set of four patient and public involvement work... Read More about Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health.

VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spence, J., Darzentas, D. P., Huang, Y., Cameron, H. R., Beestin, E., & Benford, S. (2020, July). VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

We explore how a combination of manipulations and transitions can extend Substitutional Reality to create a highly personal Virtual Reality experience. Our design aimed to meet two challenges faced by museums: the limitations of object handling and t... Read More about VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects.

Exact and hyper‐heuristic solutions for the distribution‐installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge (2020)
Journal Article
Kheiri, A., Ahmed, L., Boyacı, B., Gromicho, J., Mumford, C., Özcan, E., & Dirikoç, A. S. (2020). Exact and hyper‐heuristic solutions for the distribution‐installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge. Networks, 76(2), 294-319. https://doi.org/10.1002/net.21962

This work tackles a rich vehicle routing problem (VRP) problem integrating a capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows (CVRPTW), and a service technician routing and scheduling problem (STRSP) for delivering various equipment based on cus... Read More about Exact and hyper‐heuristic solutions for the distribution‐installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge.

Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot (2020)
Journal Article
Baskin, T. I., Preston, S., Zelinsky, E., Yang, X., Elmali, M., Bellos, D., Wells, D. M., & Bennett, M. J. (2020). Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot. iScience, 23(7), Article 101309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101309

In the root, meristem and elongation zone lengths remain stable, despite growth and division of cells. To gain insight into zone stability, we imaged individual Arabidopsis thaliana roots through a horizontal microscope, and used image analysis to ob... Read More about Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot.

Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
He, Y., Aliyu, A., Evans, M., & Luo, C. Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review

Background:

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been an unprecedented challenge to the global health care system. It has further challenged the resilience of the healthcare information system (HIS), which has affected the ability to achieve the glo... Read More about Health Care Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions Under the Climate of COVID-19: Scoping Review.

Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing (2020)
Journal Article
Thaler, J., & Siebers, P.-O. (2020). Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 34(2), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-020-09473-8

The importance of Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) as scientific method to generate data for scientific models in general and for informed policy decisions in particular has been widely recognised. However, the important technique of code testing of impl... Read More about Specification testing of agent-based simulation using property-based testing.

Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pekaslan, D., Chen, C., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2020, June). Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?. Presented at 18th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU2020, Lisbon, Portugal (held online)

Fuzzy Logic Systems can provide a good level of interpretability and may provide a key building block as part of a growing interest in explainable AI. In practice, the level of interpretability of a given fuzzy logic system is dependent on how well i... Read More about Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?.

Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration (2020)
Journal Article
Vallieres, C., Hook, A. L., He, Y., Crucitti, V. C., Figueredo, G., Davies, C. R., Burroughs, L., Winkler, D. A., Wildman, R. D., Irvine, D. J., Alexander, M. R., & Avery, S. V. (2020). Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration. Science Advances, 6(23), Article eaba6574. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba6574

© 2020 The Authors. Fungi have major, negative socioeconomic impacts, but control with bioactive agents is increasingly restricted, while resistance is growing. Here, we describe an alternative fungal control strategy via materials operating passivel... Read More about Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration.

Low-cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping (2020)
Journal Article
Bagley, S. A., Atkinson, J. A., Hunt, H., Wilson, M. H., Pridmore, T. P., & Wells, D. M. (2020). Low-cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping. Sensors, 20(11), Article 3319. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113319

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. High-throughput plant phenotyping in controlled environments (growth chambers and glasshouses) is often delivered via large, expensive installations, leading to limited access and the increase... Read More about Low-cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping.

Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum (2020)
Journal Article
Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Brundell, P., & Collishaw, M. (2020). Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(2), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369394

We examine the experience of Thresholds, a virtual reality (VR) recreation of the world's first photographic exhibition, which has toured to multiple museums. Following the method of performance-led research in the wild, we provide an account of the... Read More about Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum.

Fuzzy Superpixels based Semi-supervised Similarity-constrained CNN for PolSAR Image Classification (2020)
Journal Article
Guo, Y., Sun, Z., Qu, R., Jiao, L., Liu, F., & Zhang, X. (2020). Fuzzy Superpixels based Semi-supervised Similarity-constrained CNN for PolSAR Image Classification. Remote Sensing, 12(10), Article 1694. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101694

Recently, deep learning has been highly successful in image classification. Labeling the PolSAR data, however, is time-consuming and laborious and in response semi-supervised deep learning has been increasingly investigated in PolSAR image classifica... Read More about Fuzzy Superpixels based Semi-supervised Similarity-constrained CNN for PolSAR Image Classification.

Coherence via Well-Foundedness: Taming Set-Quotients in Homotopy Type Theory (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kraus, N., & Von Raumer, J. (2020, June). Coherence via Well-Foundedness: Taming Set-Quotients in Homotopy Type Theory. Presented at ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Saarbrücken Germany (held online)

Suppose we are given a graph and want to show a property for all its cycles (closed chains). Induction on the length of cycles does not work since sub-chains of a cycle are not necessarily closed. This paper derives a principle reminiscent of inducti... Read More about Coherence via Well-Foundedness: Taming Set-Quotients in Homotopy Type Theory.

A Multiobjective Computation Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing (2020)
Journal Article
Song, F., Xing, H., Luo, S., Zhan, D., Dai, P., & Qu, R. (2020). A Multiobjective Computation Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7(9), 8780 -8799. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.2996762

In mobile edge computing (MEC), smart mobile devices (SMDs) with limited computation resources and battery lifetime can offload their computing-intensive tasks to MEC servers, thus to enhance the computing capability and reduce the energy consumption... Read More about A Multiobjective Computation Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing.

Agent programming in the cognitive era (2020)
Journal Article
Bordini, R. H., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Hindriks, K., Logan, B., & Ricci, A. (2020). Agent programming in the cognitive era. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 34(2), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-020-09453-y

It is claimed that, in the nascent ‘Cognitive Era’, intelligent systems will be trained using machine learning techniques rather than programmed by software developers. A contrary point of view argues that machine learning has limitations, and, taken... Read More about Agent programming in the cognitive era.

Multi-behaviors coordination controller design with enzymatic numerical P systems for robots (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Zhang, G., Gou, X., Paul, P., Neri, F., Rong, H., Yang, Q., & Zhang, H. (2021). Multi-behaviors coordination controller design with enzymatic numerical P systems for robots. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 28(2), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.3233/ica-200627

Membrane computing models are parallel and distributed natural computing models. These models are often referred to as P systems. This paper proposes a novel multi-behaviors coordination controller model using enzymatic numerical P systems for autono... Read More about Multi-behaviors coordination controller design with enzymatic numerical P systems for robots.