Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment
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Liu, Q., Cai, W., Jin, D., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016)
Estimation Accuracy on Execution Time of Run-Time Tasks in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment. Sensors, 16(9), 1386. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16091386
Distributed Computing has achieved tremendous development since cloud computing was proposed in 2006, and played a vital role promoting rapid growth of data collecting and ana...
CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks
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Liu, Q., Chen, X., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018)
CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 26(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.088364
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UANs) have emerged as a promising technology recently which can be applied in many areas such as military and civil, where the communicati...
Parallel processing techniques in EMP propagation using 3D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.
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Buchanan, W. J., & Gupta, N. K. (1993)
Parallel processing techniques in EMP propagation using 3D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Advances in engineering software, 18(3), 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/0965-9978%2893%2990062-X
The authors have applied the 3D FDTD technique to simulate the propagation of electrical signals on a microstrip antenna using a four-transputer array connected to a 386-based...
The Materiality of Wearable Computers – Craft and Authentic User Experience
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Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2004)
The Materiality of Wearable Computers – Craft and Authentic User Experience. Design Journal, 7(2), 32-41. https://doi.org/10.2752/146069204789354381
This paper presents work undertaken as part of an ongoing research programme into wearable computers and the processes for designing personal digital artifacts that exhibit au...
Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces.
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O'Neill, S., & Benyon, D. (2015)
Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces. Human technology an interdisciplinary journal on humans in ICT environments, 11, 30-56. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201505061739
In this paper, we develop a new way of understanding interactions in blended spaces. We do this by developing ideas about embodied semiotics and then apply these ideas to the ...
BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications
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Chinenyeze, S. J., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017)
BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(2), e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848
With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimisation techniques have been proposed by the gr...
Analyzing Objective and Subjective Data in Social Sciences: Implications for Smart Cities
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Erhan, L., Ndubuaku, M., Ferrara, E., Richardson, M., Sheffield, D., Ferguson, F. J., …Liotta, A. (2019)
Analyzing Objective and Subjective Data in Social Sciences: Implications for Smart Cities. IEEE Access, 7, 19890-19906. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2897217
The ease of deployment of digital technologies and the Internet of Things gives us the opportunity to carry out large-scale social studies and to collect vast amounts of data ...
OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization
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Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2014)
OCSO: Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient service resource utilization. Journal of cloud computing advances, systems and applications, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-014-0009-1
Many efforts have been made in optimizing cloud service resource management for efficient service provision and delivery, yet little research addresses how to consume the prov...
Triangulation in practice.
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Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2009)
Triangulation in practice. Virtual Reality, 13, 171-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-009-0117-2
Triangulation is the means by which an alternate perspective is used to validate, challenge or extend existing findings. It is frequently used when the field of study is diffi...
Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare.
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Bell, L., Buchanan, W. J., Cameron, J., & Lo, O. (2018)
Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare. Blockchain in Healthcare Today,
There are several areas of healthcare and well-being that could be enhanced using blockchain technologies. These include device tracking, clinical trials, pharmaceutical traci...