Oil well placement optimization using niche particle swarm optimization.
Conference Proceeding
Cheng, G., An, Y., Wang, Z., & Zhu, K. (2012)
Oil well placement optimization using niche particle swarm optimization. In Proceedings of CIS'2012 (International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security), 61-64. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIS.2012.22
A challenging problem in oil field development project is the optimization of multi-wells placement because of the increasing in optimization variable quantities and searching...
The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks.
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A. (2008)
The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE international parallel & distributed processing symposium, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536490
Multicast communication has been a major avenue for many studies in interconnection networks. However, such a communication pattern has been studied under either limited opera...
The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, January)
The future of computer science education and observations from on-line learning. Paper presented at Higher Computing Science National Qualifications Support, Edinburgh
This session will look at the opportunities at the present time and in the future for Computing, and provide key pointer to the skills that are required to undertake a career ...
A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem
Conference Proceeding
Lalla-Ruiz, E., Segredo, E., & Voß, S. (2018)
A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem. In Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION12). , (31-35). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05348-2_3
The Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP) is a well-known optimization problem aimed to maximize a quadratic objective function subject to linear capacity constraints. It has sever...
Scenarios for Companions.
Book Chapter
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2013)
Scenarios for Companions. In Your Virtual Butler: the making of, 79-96. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37346-6_8
This paper is concerned with understanding the needs of Companion owners (the people formerly known as ‘users’). The problem with developing technologies such as companions is...
Monitoring information security risks within health care
Journal Article
van Deursen, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Duff, A. (2013)
Monitoring information security risks within health care. Computers and Security, 37, 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2013.04.005
This paper presents an overview of possible risks to the security of health care data. These
risks were detected with a novel approach to information security. It is based on ...
Representing temporal relationships between events and their effects.
Conference Proceeding
Ma, J., Knight, B., & Peng, T. (1996)
Representing temporal relationships between events and their effects. In Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 148-152. doi:10.1109/TIME.1997.600796
Temporal relationships between events and their effects
are complex. As the ejjects of a given event, a
proposition may change its truth value immediately after
the occurrence...
Ontology Based Business Simulations
Journal Article
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2016)
Ontology Based Business Simulations. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.3266
Within business games there is a need to provide realistic feedback for decisions made, if such business games are to continue to remain relevant in increasingly complex busin...
Blind image deconvolution using space-variant neural network approach
Journal Article
Cheema, T., Qureshi, I., & Hussain, A. (2005)
Blind image deconvolution using space-variant neural network approach. Electronics Letters, 41(6), 308-309
A novel space-variant neural network based on an autoregressive moving average process is proposed for blind image deconvolution. An extended cost function motivated by human ...
Engineering Sustainable and Adaptive Systems in Dynamic and Unpredictable Environments
Conference Proceeding
Cardoso, R. P., Rossetti, R. J. F., Hart, E., Kurka, D. B., & Pitt, J. (2018)
Engineering Sustainable and Adaptive Systems in Dynamic and Unpredictable Environments. In T. Margaria, & B. Steffen (Eds.), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Distributed Systems, 221-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03424-5_15
Electronic institutions are socially-inspired multi-agent systems, typically operating under a set of policies, which are required to determine system operation and to deal wi...