An Illumination Algorithm Approach to Solving the Micro-Depot Routing Problem
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., Hoehl, S., & Hart, E. (2019)
An Illumination Algorithm Approach to Solving the Micro-Depot Routing Problem. In GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. , (1347-1355). https://doi.org/10.1145/3321707.3321767
An increasing emphasis on reducing pollution and congestion in city centres combined with an increase in online shopping is changing the ways in which logistics companies addr...
Evolving robust policies for community energy system management
Conference Proceeding
Cardoso, R., Hart, E., & Pitt, J. (2019)
Evolving robust policies for community energy system management. In GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. , (1120-1128). https://doi.org/10.1145/3321707.3321763
Community energy systems (CESs) are shared energy systems in which multiple communities generate and consume energy from renewable resources. At regular time intervals, each p...
Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments
Conference Proceeding
Habibullah, S., Liu, X., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Q. (2019)
Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments. In Computer Science Conference Proceedingshttps://doi.org/10.5121/csit.2019.90713
Evolution has always been a challenge for enterprise computing systems. The microservice based architecture is a new design model which is rapidly becoming one of the most eff...
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations
Journal Article
Kerracher, N., & Kennedy, J. (2019)
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(3), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13167
Categorising tasks is a common pursuit in the visualisation research community, with a wide variety of taxonomies, typologies, design spaces, and frameworks having been develo...
Simulating Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems with Athos
Conference Proceeding
Hoffman, B., Guckert, M., Chalmers, K., & Urquhart, N. (2019)
Simulating Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems with Athos. In Proceedings of the 33rd International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2019, (296-302). https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0296
Complex routing problems, such as vehicle routing problems with additional constraints, are both hard to solve and hard to express in a form that is accessible to the human ex...
Finding Fair Negotiation Algorithms to Reduce Peak Electricity Consumption in Micro Grids
Conference Proceeding
Powers, S. T., Meanwell, O., & Cai, Z. (2019)
Finding Fair Negotiation Algorithms to Reduce Peak Electricity Consumption in Micro Grids. In PAAMS 2019: Advances in Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection, 269-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24209-1_28
Reducing peak electricity consumption is important to maximise use of renewable energy sources, and reduce the total amount of capacity required on a grid. Most approaches use...
An Agent Based Technique for Improving Multi-Stakeholder Optimisation Problems
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., & Powers, S. T. (2019)
An Agent Based Technique for Improving Multi-Stakeholder Optimisation Problems. In PAAMS 2019: Advances in Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection: vol 1 – Main track and Demos proceedings, 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24209-1_32
We present an agent based framework for improving multi-stakeholder optimisation problems, which we define as optimisation problems where the solution is utilised by a number ...
A Self-Organizing Memory Neural Network for Aerosol Concentration Prediction
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zou, Y., & Liu, X. (2019)
A Self-Organizing Memory Neural Network for Aerosol Concentration Prediction. Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 119(3), 617-637. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2019.06272
Haze-fog, which is an atmospheric aerosol caused by natural or man-made factors, seriously affects the physical and mental health of human beings. PM2.5 (a particulate matter ...
Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019)
Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 14(1), 102-111. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2019.099748
With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual...
Enhanced Shadow Retargeting with Light-Source Estimation Using Flat Fresnel Lenses
Journal Article
Casas, L., Fauconneau, M., Kosek, M., Mclister, K., & Mitchell, K. (2019)
Enhanced Shadow Retargeting with Light-Source Estimation Using Flat Fresnel Lenses. Computers, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8020029
Shadow-retargeting maps depict the appearance of real shadows to virtual shadows given corresponding deformation of scene geometry, such that appearance is seamlessly maintain...