A critical analysis of e-government evaluation models at national and local municipal levels
Journal Article
Zahran, D. I., Al-Nuaim, H. A., Rutter, M. J., & Benyon, D. (2015)
A critical analysis of e-government evaluation models at national and local municipal levels. Electronic Journal of e-Government, 13, 28-42
The importance of e-government models lies in their offering a basis to measure and guide e-government. There is still no agreement on how to assess a government online. Most ...
Representation in the (Artificial) Immune System
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Hart, E. (2009)
Representation in the (Artificial) Immune System. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 8, 125-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10852-009-9104-6
Much of contemporary research in Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has partitioned into either algorithmic machine learning and optimisation, or, modelling biologically plausibl...
Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., & Davoudani, D. (2009)
Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering. In Artificial Immune Systems. , (11-13). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_4
The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has derived inspiration from many different elements of the natural immune system in order to develop engineered systems that oper...
Design principles for collaborative device ecologies
Conference Proceeding
Ammeloot, A., Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2015)
Design principles for collaborative device ecologies. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference, 255-256. https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783598
This paper describes the ongoing investigation of interaction design issues related to collaborative activities in device ecologies, mixing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and sm...
Feature selection Inspired classifier ensemble reduction.
Journal Article
Diao, R., Chao, F., Peng, T., Snooke, N., & Shen, Q. (2014)
Feature selection Inspired classifier ensemble reduction. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 44, 1259-1268. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2013.2281820
Classifier ensembles constitute one of the main research directions in machine learning and data mining. The use of multiple classifiers generally allows better predictive per...
Activity theory: another perspective on task analysis.
Book Chapter
Turner, P., & McEwan, T. (2003)
Activity theory: another perspective on task analysis. In D. Diaper, & N. Stanton (Eds.), The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction (423-444). CRC Press
In this chapter, we introduce activity theory, describing its origins and its principal researchers and thinkers. We stress its descriptive power and its usefulness in definin...
On AIRS and clonal selection for machine learning
Conference Proceeding
McEwan, C., & Hart, E. (2009)
On AIRS and clonal selection for machine learning. In Artificial Immune Systems. , (67-79). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_11
Many recent advances have been made in understanding the functional implications of the global topological properties of biological networks through the application of complex...
Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal.
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., Chalmers, K., & Liu, X. (2012)
Evolution feature oriented model driven product line engineering approach for synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds: A04BPEL3.0 proposal
Model Driven based approach for Service Evolution in Clouds will mainly focus on the reusable evolution patterns' advantage to solve evolution problems. During the process, ev...
A web of contradictions.
Journal Article
Turner, S. & Turner, P. (2001)
A web of contradictions. Interacting with Computers. 14, 1-14. doi:10.1016/S0953-5438(01)00039-X. ISSN 0953-5438
We describe our use of contradictions, a concept central to a popular formulation of activity theory, to derive requirements of a new technical system to support an administra...
Using Low-Latency Net-Based Solutions to Extend the Audio and Video Capabilities of a Studio Complex.
Conference Proceeding
Ferguson, P. (2013)
Using Low-Latency Net-Based Solutions to Extend the Audio and Video Capabilities of a Studio Complex
Two low-latency IP-based systems, RedNet and LOLA, were selected by Edinburgh Napier University to link a new music building with existing broadcast and drama facilities and t...