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A New Paradigm for Heuristic Decision Making, Invited Keynote Talk
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U. A New Paradigm for Heuristic Decision Making, Invited Keynote Talk. Presented at Annual Operational Research Conference 46

Over the last few years, more and more heuristic decision making techniques have been inspired by nature, e.g. evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimisation and simulated annealing. More recently, a novel computational intelligence technique inspi... Read More about A New Paradigm for Heuristic Decision Making, Invited Keynote Talk.

On The Effects of Idiotypic Interactions for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems
Journal Article
Cayzer, S., & Aickelin, U. On The Effects of Idiotypic Interactions for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems

It has previously been shown that a recommender based on immune system idiotypic principles can outperform one based on correlation alone. This paper reports the results of work in progress, where we undertake some investigations into the nature of t... Read More about On The Effects of Idiotypic Interactions for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems.

A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to Solve a Logt-Sizing and Scheduling Problem
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Staggemeier, A., Clark, A., Aickelin, U., & Smith, J. A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to Solve a Logt-Sizing and Scheduling Problem. Presented at 16th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2002)

Abstract: This paper reports a lot-sizing and scheduling problem, which minimizes inventory and backlog costs on m parallel machines with sequence-dependent set-up times over t periods. Problem solutions are represented as product subsets ordered and... Read More about A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to Solve a Logt-Sizing and Scheduling Problem.

A New Genetic Algorithm for Set Covering Problems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U. A New Genetic Algorithm for Set Covering Problems. Presented at Annual Operational Research Conference 42 (OR 42)

An indirect genetic algorithm for the non-unicost set covering problem is presented. The algorithm is a two-stage meta-heuristic, which in the past was successfully applied to similar multiple-choice optimisation problems. The two stages of the algor... Read More about A New Genetic Algorithm for Set Covering Problems.

Nurse Rostering with Genetic Algorithms
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U. Nurse Rostering with Genetic Algorithms. Presented at Young Operational Research Conference 12 (YOR 12)

In recent years genetic algorithms have emerged as a useful tool for the heuristic solution of complex discrete optimisation problems. In particular there has been considerable interest in their use in tackling problems arising in the areas of schedu... Read More about Nurse Rostering with Genetic Algorithms.

Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Wagner, C., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering. Presented at Digital Engagement 11

Changes in the UK electricity market mean that domestic
users will be required to modify their usage behaviour in
accordance with energy eciency targets. Clustering allows
usage data, collected at the household level, to be clustered
into groups... Read More about Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering.

Modelling reactive and proactive behaviour in simulation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Majid, M. A., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. Modelling reactive and proactive behaviour in simulation. Presented at Operational Research Society 5th Simulation Workshop (SW10)

This research investigated the simulation model behaviour of a traditional and combined discrete event as well as agent based simulation models when modelling human reactive and proactive behaviour in human centric complex systems. A
departmental st... Read More about Modelling reactive and proactive behaviour in simulation.

Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coughlan, T., Brown, M., Lawson, G., McAuley, D., Baurley, S., Tsai, A., Koppe, T., Elliott, M., Green, S., & Martin, J. L. Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home. Presented at ACM UbiComp '14

Participation in forms of drama and narrative can provoke empathy and creativity in user-centred design processes. In this paper, we expand upon existing methods to explore the potential for responsive scripted experiences that are delivered through... Read More about Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home.

Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data. Presented at UKCI 2011, the 11th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence

Abstract—The UK electricity industry will shortly have
available a massively increased amount of data from domestic
households and this paper is a step towards deriving useful
information from non intrusive household level monitoring of
electrici... Read More about Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data.

The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap
Book
Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Battisti, G., Helen, C., Clegg, C., Fu, X., Hoyos, R. D., Iona, A., Petrescu, A., & Peixoto, A. The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap. Advanced Institute of Management Research

There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers s... Read More about The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap.

Approaches to movement therapy and their relevance to the design of interactive systems to support rehabilitation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rennick-Egglestone, S. Approaches to movement therapy and their relevance to the design of interactive systems to support rehabilitation. Presented at ITAG 2012

Stroke is a major cause of physical disability for those that survive it. Traditionally, treatment of disability involves interaction with professional trained in the movement therapies. However, there is a growing body of research into interactive s... Read More about Approaches to movement therapy and their relevance to the design of interactive systems to support rehabilitation.

Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Chamberlain, A. Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise. Presented at 17th ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'14)

This paper reports on a field study of small market in Wales undertaken as part of broader research project aimed at developing IT solutions to support rural enterprise. The project is predicated on the assumption that the primary challenge facing ru... Read More about Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise.

Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A. Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy. Presented at IEEE 2nd Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and Cloud-Supported Internet of Things

This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to the design of digital technologies that exploit or ‘trade in’ personal data. From this perspective, proposed data protection regulations in Europe and the... Read More about Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy.

Improving security requirements adequacy: an interval type 2 fuzzy logic security assessment system
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hibshi, H., Breaux, T. D., & Wagner, C. Improving security requirements adequacy: an interval type 2 fuzzy logic security assessment system. Presented at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016)

Organizations rely on security experts to improve the security of their systems. These professionals use background knowledge and experience to align known threats and vulnerabilities before selecting mitigation options. The substantial depth of expe... Read More about Improving security requirements adequacy: an interval type 2 fuzzy logic security assessment system.

Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valchovska, S., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Rodden, T. Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy. Presented at DE 2013: Open Digital

This paper outlines recent developments in the Scaling the Rural Enterprise (SRE) research project – an interdisciplinary project that combines the expertise of social scientists, computer scientists and software developers, in order to inform the de... Read More about Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy.

Exploration of the ordering for a sequential airport ground movement algorithm
Book
Ravizza, S., & Atkin, J. A. Exploration of the ordering for a sequential airport ground movement algorithm. School of Computer Science

Guiding aircraft around the airport's surface while ensuring conflict-free routings is an important problem at airports. Sequential routing and scheduling algorithms can be advantageous for providing fast online solutions for decision support systems... Read More about Exploration of the ordering for a sequential airport ground movement algorithm.