Simulating Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems with Athos
Conference Proceeding
Hoffman, B., Guckert, M., Chalmers, K., & Urquhart, N. (2019)
Simulating Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems with Athos. In Proceedings of the 33rd International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2019, (296-302). https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0296
Complex routing problems, such as vehicle routing problems with additional constraints, are both hard to solve and hard to express in a form that is accessible to the human ex...
A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network
Journal Article
Liu, X., Liu, Q., & Sun, M. (2018)
A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network. Computers, Materials & Continua, 57(2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2018.04025+
In a home energy management system (HEMS), appliances are becoming diversified and intelligent, so that certain simple maintenance work can be completed by appliances themselv...
Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study
Conference Proceeding
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2018)
Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study. In J. Johansson, F. Sadlo, & T. Schreck (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2018) - Short Papers, (79-83). https://doi.org/10.2312/eurovisshort.20181082
Task classifications are widely purported to be useful in the design process, with various suggestions having been made for their use at the different stages. However, little ...
IRIDiuM: immersive rendered interactive deep media
Conference Proceeding
Koniaris, B., Israr, A., Mitchell, K., Huerta, I., Kosek, M., Darragh, K., …Moon, B. (2016)
IRIDiuM: immersive rendered interactive deep media. https://doi.org/10.1145/2929490.2929496
Compelling virtual reality experiences require high quality imagery as well as head motion with six degrees of freedom. Most existing systems limit the motion of the viewer (p...
An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment
Journal Article
Jin, D., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019)
An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Journal of Computers, 30(3), 130-142. https://doi.org/10.3966/199115992019063003010
Hadoop is a famous parallel computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data, but there exists such a task in hadoop framework, which is called “Straggling task...
Algorithm selection using deep learning without feature extraction
Conference Proceeding
Alissa, M., Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2019)
Algorithm selection using deep learning without feature extraction. In GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. , (198-206). https://doi.org/10.1145/3321707.3321845
We propose a novel technique for algorithm-selection which adopts a deep-learning approach, specifically a Recurrent-Neural Network with Long-Short-Term-Memory (RNN-LSTM). In ...
Rapid one-shot acquisition of dynamic VR avatars
Conference Proceeding
Malleson, C., Kosek, M., Klaudiny, M., Huerta, I., Bazin, J., Sorkine-Hornung, A., …Mitchell, K. (2017)
Rapid one-shot acquisition of dynamic VR avatars. In IEEE 2017 Virtual Reality (VR). https://doi.org/10.1109/vr.2017.7892240
We present a system for rapid acquisition of bespoke, animatable, full-body avatars including face texture and shape. A blendshape rig with a skeleton is used as a template fo...
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations
Journal Article
Kerracher, N., & Kennedy, J. (2019)
Constructing and Evaluating Visualisation Task Classifications: Process and Considerations. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(3), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13167
Categorising tasks is a common pursuit in the visualisation research community, with a wide variety of taxonomies, typologies, design spaces, and frameworks having been develo...
A universal character model and ontology of defined terms for taxonomic description.
Conference Proceeding
Paterson, T., Kennedy, J., Pullan, M. R., Cannon, A., Armstrong, K. E., Watson, M. F., …Russell, G. (2004)
A universal character model and ontology of defined terms for taxonomic description. In E. Rahm (Ed.), Proceedings of Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), 63-78
Taxonomists classify biological specimens into groups (taxa) on the basis of similarities between their observed features (characters). The description of these characters is ...
Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data.
Conference Proceeding
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., Chalmers, K., & Graham, M. (2015)
Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. In E. Bertini, J. Kennedy, & E. Puppo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '15), Short Papers Track, (103-107). https://doi.org/10.2312/eurovisshort.20151133
Recently, much research has focused on developing techniques for the visual representation of temporal graph data. This paper takes a wider look at the visual techniques invol...