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Proceedings of the 1st IEEE international workshop on evolving security and privacy requirements engineering (ESPRE 2014). (2014)
Conference Proceeding
BECKERS, K., FAILY, S., LEE, S.-W. and MEAD, N. (eds.) 2014. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE international workshop on evolving security and privacy requirements engineering (ESPRE 2014), co-located with the 22nd IEEE international requirements engineering conference (RE 2014), 25 August 2014, Karlskrona, Sweden. Piscataway: IEEE [online]. Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6883269/proceeding

The main focus of ESPRE is to bring together practitioners and researchers interested in security and privacy requirements. ESPRE probes the interfaces between requirements engineering, security and privacy, and takes the first step in evolving secur... Read More about Proceedings of the 1st IEEE international workshop on evolving security and privacy requirements engineering (ESPRE 2014)..

Scrum master activities: process tailoring in large enterprise projects. (2014)
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BASS, J.M. 2014. Scrum master activities: process tailoring in large enterprise projects. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE international conference on global software engineering (ICGSE 2014), 18-21 August 2014, Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 6915249, pages 6-15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2014.24

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the scrum master role is investigated. The scrum master acts as a facilitator for software d... Read More about Scrum master activities: process tailoring in large enterprise projects..

Minimal walsh structure and ordinal linkage of monotonicity-invariant function classes on bit strings. (2014)
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CHRISTIE, L.A., MCCALL, J.A.W. and LONIE, D.P. 2014. Minimal walsh structure and ordinal linkage of monotonicity-invariant function classes on bit strings. In Igel, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2014 Genetic and evolutionary computation conference (GECCO 2014): a recombination of the 23rd International conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2014), and the 19th Annual genetic programming conference (GP-2014), 12-16 July 2014, Vancouver, Canada. New York: ACM [online], pages 333-340. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2576768.2598240

Problem structure, or linkage, refers to the interaction between variables in a black-box fitness function. Discovering structure is a feature of a range of algorithms, including estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) and perturbation methods (... Read More about Minimal walsh structure and ordinal linkage of monotonicity-invariant function classes on bit strings..

Online reviews as first class artifacts in mobile app development. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
IACOB, C., HARRISON, R. and FAILY, S. 2014. Online reviews as first class artifacts in mobile app development. In Memmi, G. and Blanke, U. (eds.) Mobile computing, applications and services: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 5th International conference on mobile computing, applications and services (MobiCase 2013), 7-8 November 2013, Paris, France. Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 130. Cham: Springer [online], pages 47-53. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05452-0_4

This paper introduces a framework for developing mobile apps. The framework relies heavily on app stores and, particularly, on online reviews from app users. The underlying idea is that app stores are proxies for users because they contain direct fee... Read More about Online reviews as first class artifacts in mobile app development..

Real-time topic detection with bursty n-grams: RGU's submission to the 2014 SNOW challenge. (2014)
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MARTIN, C. and GOKER, A. 2014. Real-time topic detection with bursty n-grams: RGU's submission to the 2014 SNOW challenge. In Proceedings of the 2014 Social news on the web data challenge (SNOW-DC 2014), 8th April 2014, Seoul, Korea. New Haven: CEUR workshop proceedings [online], pages 9-16. Available from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1150/martin.pdf

Twitter is becoming an ever more popular platform for discovering and sharing information about current events, both personal and global. The scale and diversity of messages makes the discovery and analysis of breaking news very challenging. Nonethel... Read More about Real-time topic detection with bursty n-grams: RGU's submission to the 2014 SNOW challenge..

Evaluating industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students. (2014)
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ZARB, M., HUGHES, J. and RICHARDS, J. 2014. Evaluating industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students. In Proceedings of the 45th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2014), 5-8 March 2014, Atlanta, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 361-366. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2538862.2538980

A set of industry-inspired pair programming guidelines have been derived from qualitative examinations of expert pairs in order to aid novice programmers with their intra-pair communication. This research describes the evaluation of these guidelines... Read More about Evaluating industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students..

Personal PKI for the smart device era. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LYLE, J., PAVERD, A., KING-LACROIX, J., ATZENI, A., VIRJI, H., FLÉCHAIS, I. and FAILY, S. 2013. Personal PKI for the smart device era. In De Capitani di Vimercati, S. and Mitchell, C. (eds.) Public key infrastructures, services and applications: revised selected papers from the 9th European workshop on public key infrastructures, services and applications (EuroPKI 2012), 13-14 September 2012, Pisa, Italy. Lecture notes in computer science, 7868. Heidelberg: Springer [online], pages 69-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40012-4_5

As people use an increasing number of smart devices for their everyday computing, it is surprising that these powerful, internet-enabled devices are rarely connected together to create personal networks. The webinos project is an attempt to make this... Read More about Personal PKI for the smart device era..

Continuous integration for web-based software infrastructures: lessons learned on the webinos project. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
SU, T., LYLE, J., ATZENI, A., FAILY, S., VIRJI, H., NTANOS, C. and BOTSIKAS, C. 2013. Continuous integration for web-based software infrastructures: lessons learned on the webinos project. In Bertacco, V. and Legay, A. (eds.) Hardware and software: verification and testing: proceedings of the 9th International Haifa verification conference (HVC 2013), 5-7 November 2013, Haifa, Israel. Lecture notes in computer science, 8244. Cham: Springer [online], pages 145-150. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03077-7_10

Testing web-based software infrastructures is challenging. The need to interact with different services running on different devices, with different expectations for security and privacy contributes not only to the complexity of the infrastructure, b... Read More about Continuous integration for web-based software infrastructures: lessons learned on the webinos project..

Anomaly monitoring framework based on intelligent data analysis. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
RATTADILOK, P., PETROVSKI, A. and PETROVSKI, S. 2013. Anomaly monitoring framework based on intelligent data analysis. In Yin, H., Tang, K., Gao, Y., Klawonn, F., Lee, M., Weise, T., Li, B. and Yao, X. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International conference on intelligent data engineering and automated learning (IDEAL 2013), 20-23 October 2013, Hefei, China. Lecture notes in computer science, 8206. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 134-141. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41278-3_17

Real-time data processing has become an increasingly important challenge as the need for faster analysis of big data widely manifests itself. In this research, several Computational Intelligence methods have been applied for identifying possible anom... Read More about Anomaly monitoring framework based on intelligent data analysis..

Contemplations on results from investigating the personal epistemology of computing students. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R., PIRIE, I., LAXER, C., CAJANDER, A. and DANIELS, M. 2013. Contemplations on results from investigating the personal epistemology of computing students. In Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2013): energizing the future, 23-26 October 2013, Oklahoma City, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 6684941, pages 825-831. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2013.6684941

'Personal Epistemology' is the analysis of the ways in which an individual perceives what constitutes knowledge, its boundaries, how it is justified, and how it is related to learning. While investigation of metacognitive strategies used by students... Read More about Contemplations on results from investigating the personal epistemology of computing students..

Partial structure learning by subset Walsh transform. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
CHRISTIE, L.A., LONIE, D.P. and MCCALL, J.A.W. 2013. Partial structure learning by subset Walsh transform. In Jin, Y. and Thomas, S.A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th UK workshop on computational intelligence (UKCI 2013), 9-11 September 2013, Guildford, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6651297, pages 128-135. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651297

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) use structure learning to build a statistical model of good solutions discovered so far, in an effort to discover better solutions. The non-zero coefficients of the Walsh transform produce a hypergraph rep... Read More about Partial structure learning by subset Walsh transform..

Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
GERRARD, C.E., MCCALL, J., MACLEOD, C. and COGHILL, G.M. 2013. Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system. In Jin, Y. and Thomas, S.A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th UK workshop on computational intelligence (UKCI 2013), 9-11 September 2013, Guildford, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6651281, pages 8-15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651281

The Artificial Reaction Network (ARN) is an Artificial Chemistry representation inspired by cell signaling networks. The ARN has previously been applied to the simulation of the chemotaxis pathway of Escherichia coli and to the control of limbed robo... Read More about Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system..

Agile method tailoring in distributed enterprises: product owner teams. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
BASS, J.M. 2013. Agile method tailoring in distributed enterprises: product owner teams. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE international conference on global software engineering (ICGSE 2013), 26-29 August 2013, Bari, Italy. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 6613080, pages 154-163. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2013.27

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the product owner role is discussed. The product owner identifies and prioritizes customer r... Read More about Agile method tailoring in distributed enterprises: product owner teams..

Inferential measurements for situation awareness: enhancing traffic surveillance by machine learning. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
RATTADILOK, P. and PETROVSKI, A. 2013. Inferential measurements for situation awareness: enhancing traffic surveillance by machine learning. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE international conference on computational intelligence and virtual environments for measurement systems and applications (CIVEMSA 2013), 15-17 July 2013, Milan, Italy. New York: IEEE [online], article number 6617402, pages 93-98. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2013.6617402

The paper proposes a generic approach to building inferential measurement systems. The large amount of data needed to be acquired and processed by such systems necessitates the use of machine learning techniques. In this study, an inferential measure... Read More about Inferential measurements for situation awareness: enhancing traffic surveillance by machine learning..

A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm fitness function for case-base maintenance. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LUPIANI, E., CRAW, S., MASSIE, S., JUAREZ, J.M. and PALMA, J.T. 2013. A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm fitness function for case-base maintenance. In Delany, S.J. and Ontañón, S. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 21st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2013), 8-11 July 2013, Saratoga Springs, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 7969. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 218-232. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39056-2_16

Case-Base Maintenance (CBM) has two important goals. On the one hand, it aims to reduce the size of the case-base. On the other hand, it has to improve the accuracy of the CBR system. CBM can be represented as a multi-objective optimization problem t... Read More about A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm fitness function for case-base maintenance..

Security patterns considered harmful? (2013)
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FAILY, S. 2013. Security patterns considered harmful? In Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on cyberpatterns (Cyberpatterns 2013): unifying design patterns with security, attack and forensic patterns, 8-9 July 2013, Abingdon, UK. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, pages 108-109.

While a useful source of repeatable security knowledge, ambiguity about what security patterns are and how they might be applied call into question their reliability as a design tool. To provoke discussion about their usefulness, this paper claims th... Read More about Security patterns considered harmful?.

Proceedings of the Workshop on web applications and secure hardware (WASH 2013). (2013)
Conference Proceeding
LYLE, J., FAILY, S. and WINANDY, M. (eds.) 2013. Proceedings of the Workshop on web applications and secure hardware (WASH 2013), co-located with the 6th International conference on trust and trustworthy computing (TRUST 2013), 20 June 2013, London, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 1011. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online]. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1011/

Web browsers are becoming the platform of choice for applications that need to work across a wide range of different devices, including mobile phones, tablets, PCs, TVs and in-car systems. However, for web applications which require a higher level of... Read More about Proceedings of the Workshop on web applications and secure hardware (WASH 2013)..

User perceptions of relevance and its effect on retrieval in a smart textile archive. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
HORSBURGH, B., CRAW, S., WILLIAMS, D., BURNETT, S., MORRISON, K. and MARTIN, S. 2013. User perceptions of relevance and its effect on retrieval in a smart textile archive. In Delany, S.J. and Ontañón, S. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 21st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2013), 8-11 July 2013, Saratoga Springs, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 7969. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 149-163. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39056-2_11

The digitisation of physical textiles archives is an important process for the Scottish textiles industry. This transformation creates an easy access point to a wide breadth of knowledge, which can be used to understand historical context and inspire... Read More about User perceptions of relevance and its effect on retrieval in a smart textile archive..

Investigation into the personal epistemology of computer science students. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R., PIRIE, I., CAJANDER, A., DANIELS, M. and LAXER, C. 2013. Investigation into the personal epistemology of computer science students. In Proceedings of the 18th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Innovation and technology in computer science education conference (ITiCSE 2013), 1-3 July 2013, Canterbury, UK. New York: ACM [online], pages 231-236. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2462476.2465589

In this paper, we investigate the personal epistemology of computing students, that is, their conceptions of knowledge and learning. We review some models of personal epistemological development and describe one of the questionnaire tools that have b... Read More about Investigation into the personal epistemology of computer science students..

Guidelines for integrating personas into software engineering tools. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. and LYLE, J. 2013. Guidelines for integrating personas into software engineering tools. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on engineering interactive computing systems (EICS 2013), 24-27 June 2013, London, UK. New York: ACM [online], pages 69-74. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2494603.2480318

Personas have attracted the interest of many in the usability and software engineering communities. To date, however, there has been little work illustrating how personas can be integrated into software tools to support these engineering activities.... Read More about Guidelines for integrating personas into software engineering tools..