Building a new nation: risk, goverance and trust.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2013, January)
Building a new nation: risk, goverance and trust. Presented at Cyber Security 2013, Edinburgh
This presentation outlines some of the opportunities and threats that Scotland faces within an Information Age.
Ontology-Driven Automated Generation of Data Entry Interfaces to Databases
Conference Proceeding
Cannon, A., Kennedy, J. B., Paterson, T., & Watson, M. F. (2004)
Ontology-Driven Automated Generation of Data Entry Interfaces to Databases. In H. Williams, & L. Mackinnon (Eds.), Key Technologies for Data Management; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 150-164. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-27811-5_15
This paper discusses an ontology based approach for the automatic generation of data entry interfaces to databases. An existing domain ontology is mapped to a system domain mo...
Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses
Conference Proceeding
Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., & Kellil, M. (2009)
Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses. In International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, 2009. ICPPW '09. , (228-235). https://doi.org/10.1109/icppw.2009.81
IP multicast is an efficient and scalable network layer delivering method for multimedia content to a large number of receivers across the Internet. It saves the network bandw...
Visual Exploration of Alternative Taxonomies through Concepts
Journal Article
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2007)
Visual Exploration of Alternative Taxonomies through Concepts. Ecological Informatics, 2, 248-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.07.004
A graphical user interface is presented that allows users of taxonomic data to explore concept relationships between conflicting but related taxonomic classifications.
Ecolog...
Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS).
Conference Proceeding
Hanson, V. L., Webster, G., & Dennis, M. (2015)
Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2015, 677-678. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_98
We are all living longer with average life expectancy increasing across the globe [1]. However, chronic conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancer, coupled with an i...
Soundscape mapping: comparing listening experiences
Thesis
McGregor, I. Soundscape mapping: comparing listening experiences. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4284
The perceived auditory environment is an increasingly important part of people’s everyday interactive experiences. While sound design is an established discipline in media suc...
DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Chinenyeze, S. J., & Al-Dubai, A. (2016)
DEEPC: Dynamic Energy Profiling of Components. In 2016 IEEE 40th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.90
Many software projects are built using reusable components (i.e. reusable objects - as per component and connectors in software architectures). During component selection in C...
Ethnography, theory and systems design: from intuition to insight
Journal Article
MACAULAY, C., BENYON, D., & CRERAR, A. (2000)
Ethnography, theory and systems design: from intuition to insight. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(1), 35-60. https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.2000.0376
The idea for this paper came from a debate at the 1998 ISCRAT conference in Denmark on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). A leading activist in the movement to bring ...
Analysis of electromagnetic wave propogation using 3D finite-difference time-domain methods with parallel processing.
Thesis
Buchanan, W. J. Analysis of electromagnetic wave propogation using 3D finite-difference time-domain methods with parallel processing. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4022
The 3D Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method simulates structures in the time-domain using a direct form of Maxwell’s curl equations. This method has the advantage over ...
Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications
Journal Article
Yassin, A., Nasser, Y., Awad, M., Al-Dubai, A., Liu, R., Yuen, C., …Aboutanios, E. (2017)
Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 19(2), 1327-1346. https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.2016.2632427
Nowadays, the availability of the location information becomes a key factor in today’s communications systems for allowing location based services. In outdoor scenarios, the M...