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Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service.

Book Chapter
Turner, P., Milne, G., Turner, S., Kubitscheck, M., & Penman, I. (2004)
Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service. In Mobile and Ubiquitous Information AccessSpringer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24641-1_15
In this paper, we describe a pilot study of the clinical use of a wireless network of personal digital assistants (PDAs). We describe how we are dealing with the concerns of t...

A Software Engineering Framework for Context-Aware Service-Based Processes in Pervasive Environments

Book Chapter
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2014)
A Software Engineering Framework for Context-Aware Service-Based Processes in Pervasive Environments. In Software Design and Development, (71-95). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4301-7.ch005
Context-awareness is considered to be the cornerstone technique for developing pervasive computing applications that are flexible, adaptable, and capable of acting autonomousl...

Biological Networks

Book Chapter
Hart, E. (2011)
Biological Networks. In M. Gargaud, R. Amils, J. Quintanilla, & H. Irvine (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (179-182). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_178

An evolutionary approach to the general timetable problem.

Book Chapter
Paechter, B., Luchian, H., & Cumming, A. (1993)
An evolutionary approach to the general timetable problem. In The Scientific Annals of the "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, special issue for the ROSYCS symposium 1993. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press

Hyper-heuristics.

Book Chapter
Ross, P. (2005)
Hyper-heuristics. In E. Burke, & G. Kendall (Eds.), Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques (529-556). Springer-Verlag
This chapter introduces and overviews an emerging methodology in search and optimisation. One of the key aims of these new approaches, which have been termed hyper-heuristics,...