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Pacman's canon in C#: a quantum interpretation of video game canon. (2017)
Journal Article
HERON, M. 2017. Pacman's canon in C#: a quantum interpretation of video game canon. Computer games journal [online], 6(3), pages 135-151. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-017-0036-5

The topic of what constitutes canon with a video game is an under-explored topic in critical discussion. We rely, as a field, on largely intuitive and insubstantial parameters for the elements that we choose to analyse. This paper outlines the role o... Read More about Pacman's canon in C#: a quantum interpretation of video game canon..

Stokes coordinates. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
SAVOYE, Y. 2017. Stokes coordinates. In Spencer, S.N. (ed.) Proceedings of the 33rd Spring conference on computer graphics (SCCG'17), 15-17 May 2017, Mikulov, Czech Republic. New York: ACM [online], article number 5. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3154353.3154354

Cage-based structures are reduced subspace deformers enabling non-isometric stretching deformations induced by clothing or muscle bulging. In this paper, we reformulate the cage-based rigging as an incompressible Stokes problem in the vorticity space... Read More about Stokes coordinates..

Deep reward shaping from demonstrations. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
HUSSEIN, A., ELYAN, E., GABER, M.M. and JAYNE, C. 2017. Deep reward shaping from demonstrations. In Proceedings of the 2017 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN 2017), 14-19 May 2017, Anchorage, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 7965896, pages 510-517. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7965896

Deep reinforcement learning is rapidly gaining attention due to recent successes in a variety of problems. The combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning allows for a generic learning process that does not consider specific knowledge of... Read More about Deep reward shaping from demonstrations..

An edit distance between graph correspondences. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., SERRATOSA, F. and JIANG, X. 2017. An edit distance between graph correspondences. In Foggia, P., Liu, C.-L. and Vento, M (eds.) 2017. Graph-based representations in pattern recognition: proceedings of the 11th Image analysis in patter recognition technical committee 15th (IAPR-TC-15) international workshop (GbRPR 2017), 16-18 May 2017, Anacapri, Italy. Cham: Springer [online], pages 232-241. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58961-9_21

The Hamming Distance has been largely used to calculate the dissimilarity of a pair of correspondences (also known as labellings or matchings) between two structures (i.e. sets of points, strings or graphs). Although it has the advantage of being sim... Read More about An edit distance between graph correspondences..

Streaming and 3D mapping of AGRI-data on mobile devices. (2017)
Journal Article
STOJANOVIC, V., FALCONER, R.E., ISAACS, J., BLACKWOOD, D., GILMOUR, D., KIEZEBRINK, D. and WILSON, J. 2017. Streaming and 3D mapping of AGRI-data on mobile devices. Computers and electronics in agriculture [online], 138(1), pages 188-199. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.03.019

Farm monitoring and operations generate heterogeneous AGRI-data from a variety of different sources that have the potential to be delivered to users 'on the go' and in the field to inform farm decision making. A software framework capable of interfac... Read More about Streaming and 3D mapping of AGRI-data on mobile devices..

Full-duplex small cells for next generation heterogeneous cellular networks: a case study of outage and rate coverage analysis. (2017)
Journal Article
AL-KADRI, M.O., DENG, Y., AIJAZ, A. and NALLANATHAN, A. 2021. Full-duplex small cells for next generation heterogeneous cellular networks: a case study of outage and rate coverage analysis. IEEE access [online], 5, pages 8025-8038. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2684542

Full-duplex (FD) technology is currently under consideration for adoption in a range of legacy communications standards due to its attractive features. On the other hand, cellular networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous as operators deploy a... Read More about Full-duplex small cells for next generation heterogeneous cellular networks: a case study of outage and rate coverage analysis..

IT governance measurement tools and its application in IT-business alignment. (2017)
Journal Article
NICHO, M. and KHAN, S. 2017. IT governance measurement tools and its application in IT-business alignment. Journal of international technology and information management [online], 26(1), Article 5. Available from: http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/jitim/vol26/iss1/5

The purpose of this exploratory research paper is to evaluate the deployment and assessment methodology of the information technology governance (ITG) measurement tools, with the purpose of gaining deeper insight into the ITG initiation process, the... Read More about IT governance measurement tools and its application in IT-business alignment..

Imitation learning: a survey of learning methods. (2017)
Journal Article
HUSSEIN, A., GABER, M.M., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2017. Imitation learning: a survey of learning methods. ACM computing surveys [online], 50(2), article 21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3054912

Imitation learning techniques aim to mimic human behavior in a given task. An agent (a learning machine) is trained to perform a task from demonstrations by learning a mapping between observations and actions. The idea of teaching by imitation has be... Read More about Imitation learning: a survey of learning methods..

Predicting emotional reaction in social networks. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
CLOS, J., BANDHAKAVI, A., WIRATUNGA, N. and CABANAC, G. 2017. Predicting emotional reaction in social networks. In Jose, J.M., Hauff, C., Altingovde, I.S., Song, D., Albakour, D., Watt, S. and Tait, J. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 39th European conference on information retrieval (ECIR 2017), 8-13 April 2017, Aberdeen, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 10193. Cham: Springer [online], pages 527-533. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_44

Online content has shifted from static and document-oriented to dynamic and discussion-oriented, leading users to spend an increasing amount of time navigating online discussions in order to participate in their social network. Recent work on emotion... Read More about Predicting emotional reaction in social networks..

Multi-source video multicast in internet-connected wireless mesh networks. (2017)
Journal Article
TU, W., SREENAN, C.J., JHA, S. and ZHANG, Q. 2017. Multi-source video multicast in internet-connected wireless mesh networks. IEEE transactions on mobile computing [online], 16(12), pages 3431-3444. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2017.2691706

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) connect to the Internet via access gateways. This paper studies multi-source video multicast in Internet-connected WMNs. The focus is on the design of a shareable integrated multicast that allows the multicasts of video... Read More about Multi-source video multicast in internet-connected wireless mesh networks..

Challenges of open data quality: more than just license, format, and customer support. (2017)
Journal Article
CORSAR, D. and EDWARDS, P. 2017. Challenges of open data quality: more than just license, format, an customer support. Journal of data and information quality [online], 9(1), pages 1-4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3139489

Public sector organisations worldwide are implementing Open Data initiatives, which, it is hoped, will stimulate economic growth, increase transparency and accountability, and improve engagement between data consumers (typically citizens) and data ho... Read More about Challenges of open data quality: more than just license, format, and customer support..

mHealth optimisation for education and physical activity in Type 1 diabetes: MEDPAT1. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
HALL, J., STEPHEN, K., CROALL, A., MACMILLAN, J., MURRAY, L., WIRATUNGA, N., MASSIE, S. and MACRURY, S. 2017. mHealth optimisation for education and physical activity in Type 1 diabetes: MEDPAT1. Presented at the 2017 Diabetes UK professional conference, 8-10 March 2017, Manchester, UK.

Aims: To develop and evaluate usability of prototype personalised prediction algorithms for people with Type 1 diabetes to optimise blood glucose control associated with physical activity using smart phone technology. To explore the potential to buil... Read More about mHealth optimisation for education and physical activity in Type 1 diabetes: MEDPAT1..

A low-complexity and efficient encoder rate control solution for distributed residual video coding. (2017)
Journal Article
HU, C., HU, B., TU, W. and XIONG, Y. 2018. A low-complexity and efficient encoder rate control solution for distributed residual video coding. Multimedia tools and applications [online], 77(5), pages 5713-5735. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4484-5

Existing encoder rate control (ERC) solutions have two technical limitations that prevent them from being widely used in real-world applications. One is that encoder side information (ESI) is required to be generated which increases the complexity at... Read More about A low-complexity and efficient encoder rate control solution for distributed residual video coding..

Towards a threat assessment framework for apps collusion. (2017)
Journal Article
KALUTARAGE, H.K., NGUYEN, H.N. and SHAIKH, S.A. 2017. Towards a threat assessment framework for apps collusion. Telecommunication systems [online], 66(3), pages 417-430. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-017-0296-1

App collusion refers to two or more apps working together to achieve a malicious goal that they otherwise would not be able to achieve individually. The permissions based security model of Android does not address this threat as it is rather limited... Read More about Towards a threat assessment framework for apps collusion..

Linking open data and the crowd for real-time passenger information. (2017)
Journal Article
CORSAR, D., EDWARDS, P., NELSON, J., BAILLIE, C., PAPANGELIS, K. and VELAGA, N. 2017. Linking open data and the crowd for real-time passenger information. Journal of web semantics [online], 43, pages 18-24. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2017.02.002

The availability of real-time passenger information (RTPI) is a key factor in making public transport both accessible and attractive to users. Unfortunately, rural areas often lack the infrastructure necessary to provide such information, and the cos... Read More about Linking open data and the crowd for real-time passenger information..

Lexicon generation for emotion detection from text. (2017)
Journal Article
BANDHAKAVI, A., WIRATUNGA, N., MASSIE, S. and PADMANABHAN, D. 2017. Lexicon generation for emotion detection from text. IEEE intelligent systems [online], 32(1), pages 102-108. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2017.22

General-purpose emotion lexicons (GPELs) that associate words with emotion categories remain a valuable resource for emotion detection. However, the static and formal nature of their vocabularies make them an inadequate resource for detecting emotion... Read More about Lexicon generation for emotion detection from text..

Bayesian network structure learning with integer programming: polytopes, facets and complexity. (2017)
Journal Article
CUSSENS, J., JÄRVISALO, M., KORHONEN, J.H. and BARTLETT, M. 2017. Bayesian network structure learning with integer programming: polytopes, facets and complexity. Journal of artificial intelligence research [online], 58, pages 185-229. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.5203

The challenging task of learning structures of probabilistic graphical models is an important problem within modern AI research. Recent years have witnessed several major algorithmic advances in structure learning for Bayesian networks - arguably the... Read More about Bayesian network structure learning with integer programming: polytopes, facets and complexity..