Inclusive design: Reflections on design practice
Working Paper
Dong, H., Cardoso, C., Cassim, J., Keates, S., & Clarkson, P. J. (2002)
Inclusive design: Reflections on design practice
To investigate the practice of inclusive design in an industrial context and to gain an insight into the industrial perspectives, eight UK design consultancies' participation ...
An evolutionary approach for symmetrical field programmable gate array placement.
Conference Proceeding
Yang, M., Almaini, A. E. A., Wang, L. Y., & Wang, P. (2005)
An evolutionary approach for symmetrical field programmable gate array placement. In Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, 2005 PhD, 169-172. https://doi.org/10.1109/RME.2005.1543030
An evolutionary computation method is used to place a set of different Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) benchmark circuits on traditional symmetrical Field Pro...
Designing for inclusivity: Assessing the accessibility of everyday products
Conference Proceeding
Cardoso, C., Keates, S., & Clarkson, P. J. (2002)
Designing for inclusivity: Assessing the accessibility of everyday products. In S. Keates, P. Langdon, P. J. Clarkson, & P. Robinson (Eds.), Proceedings of CWUAAT '02, 1st Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT '02), 47-51
The older adult population in most developed countries is growing slowly, but continuously (Laslett, 1996). Several functional changes occur with age which may result in a dec...
Using genetic algorithms for the variable ordering of Reed-Muller binary decision diagrams
Journal Article
Almaini, A. E. A., & Zhuang, N. (1995)
Using genetic algorithms for the variable ordering of Reed-Muller binary decision diagrams. Microelectronics Journal, 26(5), 471-480. https://doi.org/10.1016/0026-2692%2895%2998949-R
Results are reported of the use of genetic algorithms for the variable ordering problem in Reed-Muller binary decision diagrams. Tests carried out on benchmark examples and ra...
A novel low power FSM partition approach and its implementation.
Journal Article
Xia, Y., Ye, X., Wang, L. Y., Tao, J., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2005)
A novel low power FSM partition approach and its implementation. NORCHIP Conference, 102-105. https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHP.2005.1596999
A new Finite State Machine (FSM) partioning approach is proposed in this paper. A genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to search the optimal or near optimal solution. A new cost...
Cursor characterisation and haptic interfaces for motion-impaired users
Conference Proceeding
Hwang, F., Langdon, P., Keates, S., Clarkson, P. J., & Robinson, P. (2002)
Cursor characterisation and haptic interfaces for motion-impaired users. In Universal access and assistive technology: Proceedings of the Cambridge workshop on UA and AT '02, 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3719-1_9
For people with functional impairments, independent control of a computer is often an important part of everyday life. However, in order to be of benefit, computer systems mus...
Fast tabular based conversion methods for Canonical OR-Coincidence.
Conference Proceeding
Yang, M., Wang, P., Chen, X., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2005)
Fast tabular based conversion methods for Canonical OR-Coincidence. In EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool, 507-510. https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2005.1629976
Two fast conversion alogorithms based on tabular technique for Canonical OR-Coincidence (COC) expansions are introduced. By using bitwise operations, the Serial Tabular Techni...
Inter-rater reliability in determining the types of vegetation on railway trackbeds
Conference Proceeding
Nyberg, R. G., Yella, S., Gupta, N. K., & Dougherty, M. (2015)
Inter-rater reliability in determining the types of vegetation on railway trackbeds. In J. Wang, W. Cellary, D. Wang, H. Wang, S. Chen, T. Li, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015. , (379-390). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26187-4_36
Vegetation growing on railway trackbeds and embankments can present several potential problems. Consequently, such vegetation is controlled through various maintenance procedu...
Is the Zero-Wait Policy Always Optimum for Information Freshness (Peak Age) or Throughput?
Journal Article
Barakat, B., Keates, S., Wassell, I., & Arshad, K. (2019)
Is the Zero-Wait Policy Always Optimum for Information Freshness (Peak Age) or Throughput?. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(6), 987-990. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2907935
The Zero-Wait (ZW) policy is widely held to achieve maximum information 'freshness', i.e., to achieve minimum Peak Age (PA) and maximum throughput, for real-time Internet-of-T...
Reliability of manual assessments in determining the types of vegetation on railway tracks
Conference Proceeding
Nyberg, R. G., Yella, S., Gupta, N. K., & Dougherty, M. (2015)
Reliability of manual assessments in determining the types of vegetation on railway tracks. In J. Wang, W. Cellary, D. Wang, H. Wang, S. Chen, T. Li, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015. , (391-399). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26187-4_37
Current day vegetation assessments within railway maintenance are (to a large extent) carried out manually. This study has investigated the reliability of such manual assessme...