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Designing a multi-agent approach system for distributed course timetabling (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Obit, J. H., Landa-Silva, D., Ouelhadj, D., Khan Vun, T., & Alfred, R. (2011). Designing a multi-agent approach system for distributed course timetabling.

This paper proposes tackling the difficult course timetabling problem using a multi-agent approach. The proposed design seeks to deal with the problem using a distributed solution environment in which a mediator agent coordinates various timetabling... Read More about Designing a multi-agent approach system for distributed course timetabling.

Towards the development of a simulator for investigating the impact of people management practices on retail performance (2011)
Journal Article
Siebers, P., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. (2011). Towards the development of a simulator for investigating the impact of people management practices on retail performance. Journal of Simulation, 5(4), 242-265. https://doi.org/10.1057/jos.2010.20

Often models for understanding the impact of management practices on retail performance are developed under the assumption of stability, equilibrium and linearity, whereas retail operations are considered in reality to be dynamic, non-linear and comp... Read More about Towards the development of a simulator for investigating the impact of people management practices on retail performance.

Tabu assisted guided local search approaches for freight service network design (2011)
Journal Article
Bai, R., Kendall, G., Qu, R., & Atkin, J. A. (2012). Tabu assisted guided local search approaches for freight service network design. Information Sciences, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2011.11.028

The service network design problem (SNDP) is a core problem in freight transportation. It involves the determination of the most cost-effective transportation network and the character- istics of the corresponding services, subject to various constra... Read More about Tabu assisted guided local search approaches for freight service network design.

Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation: A Case Study in a University Organisation (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Abdul Majid, M., Siebers, P., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation: A Case Study in a University Organisation. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2829269

Simulation is a well established what-if scenario analysis tool in Operational Research (OR). While traditionally Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and System Dynamics Simulation (SDS) are the predominant simulation techniques in OR, a new simulation t... Read More about Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation: A Case Study in a University Organisation.

A Lambda Term Representation Inspired by Linear Ordered Logic (2011)
Journal Article
Abel, A., & Kraus, N. (2011). A Lambda Term Representation Inspired by Linear Ordered Logic. Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 71, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.71.1

We introduce a new nameless representation of lambda terms inspired by ordered logic. At a lambda abstraction, number and relative position of all occurrences of the bound variable are stored, and application carries the additional information where... Read More about A Lambda Term Representation Inspired by Linear Ordered Logic.

MysiRNA-designer: a workflow for efficient siRNA design (2011)
Journal Article
Mysara, M., Garibaldi, J. M., & ElHefnawi, M. (2011). MysiRNA-designer: a workflow for efficient siRNA design. PLoS ONE, 6(10), Article e25642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025642

The design of small interfering RNA (siRNA) is a multi factorial problem that has gained the attention of many researchers in the area of therapeutic and functional genomics. MysiRNA score was previously introduced that improves the correlation of si... Read More about MysiRNA-designer: a workflow for efficient siRNA design.

Nature of real-world multi-objective vehicle routing with evolutionary algorithms (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Castro-Gutierrez, J., Landa-Silva, D., & Moreno Perez, J. (2011). Nature of real-world multi-objective vehicle routing with evolutionary algorithms.

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows VRPTW) is an important logistics problem which in the realworld appears to be multi-objective. Most research in this area has been carried out using classic datasets designed for the single-objective case... Read More about Nature of real-world multi-objective vehicle routing with evolutionary algorithms.

Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Pinkney, A. J., Bagley, S. R., & Brailsford, D. F. (2011). Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components.

Mobile eBook readers are now commonplace in today’s society, but their document layout algorithms remain basic, largely due to constraints imposed by short battery life. At present, with any eBook file format not based on PDF, the layout of the docum... Read More about Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components.

Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Brailsford, D. F. (2011). Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout.

The Phillimore Marriage Registers for England were published in the period 1896 to 1922 and have defined a standard layout format for the typesetting of marriage data. However, not all English parish churches had their marriage registers analysed and... Read More about Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout.

Quiet in class: classification, noise and the dendritic cell algorithm (2011)
Journal Article
Gu, F., Feyereisl, J., Oates, R., Reps, J., Greensmith, J., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Quiet in class: classification, noise and the dendritic cell algorithm. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6825, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22371-6_17

Theoretical analyses of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) have yielded several criticisms about its underlying structure and operation. As a result, several alterations and fixes have been suggested in the literature to correct for these findings. A... Read More about Quiet in class: classification, noise and the dendritic cell algorithm.

Evolutionary squeaky wheel optimization: a new framework for analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Li, J., Parkes, A. J., & Burke, E. K. (in press). Evolutionary squeaky wheel optimization: a new framework for analysis. Evolutionary Computation, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00033

Squeaky wheel optimization (SWO) is a relatively new metaheuristic that has been shown to be effective for many real-world problems. At each iteration SWO does a complete construction of a solution starting from the empty assignment. Although the con... Read More about Evolutionary squeaky wheel optimization: a new framework for analysis.

A "non-parametric" version of the naive Bayes classifier (2011)
Journal Article
Soria, D., Garibaldi, J. M., Ambrogi, F., Biganzoli, E. M., & Ellis, I. O. (2011). A "non-parametric" version of the naive Bayes classifier. Knowledge-Based Systems, 24(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2011.02.014

Many algorithms have been proposed for the machine learning task of classication. One of the simplest methods, the naive Bayes classifyer, has often been found to give good performance despite the fact that its underlying assumptions (of independence... Read More about A "non-parametric" version of the naive Bayes classifier.

Validation of a microsimulation of the port of Dover (2011)
Journal Article
Roadknight, C., Aickelin, U., & Sherman, G. (in press). Validation of a microsimulation of the port of Dover. Journal of Computational Science, 3(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2011.07.005

Modelling and simulating the traffic of heavily used but secure environments such as seaports and airports is of increasing importance. Errors made when simulating these environments can have long standing economic, social and environmental implicati... Read More about Validation of a microsimulation of the port of Dover.

Modelling electricity consumption in office buildings: an agent based approach (2011)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Siebers, P., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Modelling electricity consumption in office buildings: an agent based approach. Energy and Buildings, 43(10), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.07.007

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, to simulate t... Read More about Modelling electricity consumption in office buildings: an agent based approach.

Personalizing the theme park: psychometric profiling and physiological monitoring (2011)
Book Chapter
Rennick-Egglestone, S., Whitbrook, A., Leygue, C., Greensmith, J., Walker, B., Benford, S., …Rowland, D. (2011). Personalizing the theme park: psychometric profiling and physiological monitoring. In J. A. Konstan, R. Conejo, J. L. Marzo, & N. Oliver (Eds.), User modeling, adaption, and personalization: 19th international conference, UMAP 2011, Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011: proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22362-4_24

Theme parks are important and complex forms of entertainment, with a broad user-base, and with a substantial economic impact. In this paper, we present a case study of an existing theme park, and use this to motivate two research challenges in relati... Read More about Personalizing the theme park: psychometric profiling and physiological monitoring.

Hybrid heuristic for multi-carrier transportation plans (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Landa-Silva, D., Wang, Y., Donovan, P., & Kendall, G. (2011). Hybrid heuristic for multi-carrier transportation plans.

This paper describes a hybrid heuristic approach to construct transportation plans for a singlecustomer multi-carrier scenario that arises at 3T Logistics Ltd, a UK company that provides outsourced transportation planning and management services. The... Read More about Hybrid heuristic for multi-carrier transportation plans.

Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for tumour growth and its interactions with effector cells (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Figueredo, G. P., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for tumour growth and its interactions with effector cells.

There is little research concerning comparisons and combination of System Dynamics Simulation (SDS) and Agent Based Simulation (ABS). ABS is a paradigm used in many levels of abstraction, including those levels covered by SDS. We believe that the est... Read More about Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for tumour growth and its interactions with effector cells.

Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Kucukyilmaz, A., Sezgin, T. M., & Basdogan, C. (2011). Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration. In 2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/whc.2011.5945523

Haptics has been used as a natural way for humans to communicate with computers in collaborative virtual environments. Human-computer collaboration is typically achieved by sharing control of the task between a human and a computer operator. An impor... Read More about Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration.

Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation (2011)
Book Chapter
Balaam, M., Rennick Egglestone, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Hughes, A., Wilkinson, A., …Burridge, J. (2011). Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation. In D. Tan, B. Begole, & W. Kellog (Eds.), CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397

How to motivate and support behaviour change through design is becoming of increasing interest to the CHI community. In this paper, we present our experiences of building systems that motivate people to engage in upper limb rehabilitation exercise af... Read More about Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation.