All Outputs (17)

DisBO-wd: a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm for coarse-grained distributed problems. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
BASHARU, M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2008. DisBO-wd: a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm for coarse-grained distributed problems. In Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Research and development in intelligent systems XXIV: technical proceedings of the 27th Annual international conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) (AI-2007): innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, 10-12 December 2007, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 23-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-094-0_3

We present a distributed iterative improvement algorithm for solving coarse-grained distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DisCSPs). Our algorithm is inspired by the Distributed Breakout for coarse-grained DisCSPs where we introduce a constrai... Read More about DisBO-wd: a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm for coarse-grained distributed problems..

Solving coarse-grained DisCSPs with Multi-DisPeL and DisBO-wd. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
BASHARU, M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, A. 2007. Solving coarse-grained DisCSPs with Multi-DisPeL and DisBO-wd. In Lin, T.Y., Bradshaw, J.M., Klusch, M., Zhang, C., Broder, A. and Ho, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on intelligent agent technology (IAT 2007), 2-5 November 2007, Silicon Valley, USA. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 4407307, pages 335-341. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2007.68

We present Multi-DisPel, a penalty-based local search distributed algorithm which is able to solve coarse-grained Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DisCSPs) efficiently. Multi-DisPeL uses penalties on values in order to escape local optim... Read More about Solving coarse-grained DisCSPs with Multi-DisPeL and DisBO-wd..

Automated software quality visualisation using fuzzy logic techniques. (2007)
Journal Article
SENIOR, J., ALLISON, I. and TEPPER, J.A. 2007. Automated software quality visualisation using fuzzy logic techniques. Communications of the IIMA [online], 7(1), article number 3. Available from: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/ciima/vol7/iss1/3/

In the past decade there has been a concerted effort by the software industry to improve the quality of its products. This has led to the inception of various techniques with which to control and measure the process involved in software development.... Read More about Automated software quality visualisation using fuzzy logic techniques..

Relation discovery from web data for competency management. (2007)
Journal Article
ZHU, J., GONCALVES, A.L., UREN, V.S., MOTTA, E., PACHECO, R., EISENSTADT, M. and SONG, D. 2007. Relation discovery from web data for competency management. Web intelligence and agent systems [online], 5(4), pages 405-417. Available from: https://content.iospress.com/articles/web-intelligence-and-agent-systems-an-international-journal/wia00124

In current organizations, valuable enterprise knowledge is often buried under rapidly expanding huge amount of unstructured information in the form of web pages, blogs, and other forms of human text communications. We present a novel unsupervised mac... Read More about Relation discovery from web data for competency management..

Learning and optimization of an aspect hidden markov model for query language model generation. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
HUANG, Q., SONG, D., RUGER, S. and BRUZA, P. 2007. Learning and optimization of an aspect hidden markov model for query language model generation. In Dominich, S. and Kiss, F. (eds.) Studies in theory of information retrieval: proceedings of the 1st Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) international conference on the theory of information retrieval (ICTIR'07), 18-20 October 2007, Budapest, Hungary. Budapest: Foundation for Information Society (INFOTA), pages 157-164.

The Relevance Model (RM) incorporates pseudo relevance feedback to derive query language model and has shown a good performance. Generally, it is based on uni-gram models of individual feedback documents from which query terms are sampled independent... Read More about Learning and optimization of an aspect hidden markov model for query language model generation..

Research and development of enhanced, integrated and accessible flow metering software for industry. (2007)
Thesis
OOD, D.C. 2007. Research and development of enhanced, integrated and accessible flow metering software for industry. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This project was an investigation to find improvements required in the delivery of software for the flow metering industry. The project has resulted in the repackaging of existing software using appropriate technologies. This included developing soft... Read More about Research and development of enhanced, integrated and accessible flow metering software for industry..

Escaping local optima: constraint weights vs value penalties. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
BASHARU, M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2008. Escaping local optima: constraint weights vs. value penalties. In Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Research and development in intelligent systems XXIV: technical proceedings of the 27th Annual international conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) (AI-2007): innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, 10-12 December 2007, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 51-64. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-094-0_5

Constraint Satisfaction Problems can be solved using either iterative improvement or constructive search approaches. Iterative improvement techniques converge quicker than the constructive search techniques on large problems, but they have a propensi... Read More about Escaping local optima: constraint weights vs value penalties..

An intelligent information agent for document title classification and filtering in document-intensive domains. (2007)
Journal Article
SONG, D., LAU, R.Y.K., BRUZA, P.D., WONG, K.-F. and CHEN, D.-Y. 2007. An intelligent information agent for document title classification and filtering in document-intensive domains. Decision support systems [online], 44(1), pages 251-265. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2007.04.001

Effective decision making is based on accurate and timely information. However, human decision makers are often overwhelmed by the huge amount of electronic data these days. The main contribution of this paper is the development of effective informat... Read More about An intelligent information agent for document title classification and filtering in document-intensive domains..

Social search with missing data: which ranking algorithm? (2007)
Journal Article
ZHU, J., EISENSTADT, M., GONÇALVES, A., DENHAM, C., UREN, V. and SONG, D. 2007. Social search with missing data: which ranking algorithm? Journal of digital information management [online], 5(5): web information retrieval, pages 249-261. Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20071130001931/http://www.dirf.org/jdim/v5i5.asp

Online social networking tools are extremely popular, but can miss potential discoveries latent in the social 'fabric'. Matchmaking services which can do naive profile matching with old database technology are too brittle in the absence of key data,... Read More about Social search with missing data: which ranking algorithm?.

Classifying XML documents by using genre features. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
CLARK, M. and WATT, S. 2007. Classifying XML documents by using genre features. In Tjoa, A.M. and Wagner, R.R. (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International workshop on database and expert systems applications (DEXA 2007), 3-7 September 2007, Regensburg, Germany. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 4312894, pages 242-248. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2007.120

The categorization of documents is traditionally topic-based. This paper presents a complementary analysis of research and experiments on genre to show that encouraging results can be obtained by using genre structure (form) features. We conducted an... Read More about Classifying XML documents by using genre features..

Structured text retrieval by means of affordances and genre. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
CLARK, M. 2007. Structured text retrieval by means of affordances and genre. In MacFarlane, A., Azzopardi, L. and Ounis, I. (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) symposium on future directions in information access (FDIA 2007), 28-29 August 2007, Glasgow, UK. London: BCS [online]. Available from: https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/13788

This paper offers a proposal for some preliminary research on the retrieval of structured text, such as extensible mark-up language (XML). We believe that capturing the way in which a reader perceives the meaning of documents, especially genres of te... Read More about Structured text retrieval by means of affordances and genre..

Introspective knowledge acquisition for case retrieval networks in textual case base reasoning. (2007)
Thesis
CHAKRABORTI, S. 2007. Introspective knowledge acquisition for case retrieval networks in textual case base reasoning. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Textual Case Based Reasoning (TCBR) aims at effective reuse of information contained in unstructured documents. The key advantage of TCBR over traditional Information Retrieval systems is its ability to incorporate domain-specific knowledge to facili... Read More about Introspective knowledge acquisition for case retrieval networks in textual case base reasoning..

Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension. (2007)
Thesis
SUN, Y. 2007. Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Stories, themes, concepts and references are organized structurally and purposefully in most books. A person reading a book needs to understand themes and concepts within the context. Schanks Dynamic Memory theory suggested that building on existing... Read More about Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension..

Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search. (2007)
Presentation / Conference
HUANG, Z., SHEN, H., ZHOU, X., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2007. Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual international Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) conference on research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR'07), 23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands. New York: ACM [online], pages 849-850. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1277741.1277940

Dimensionality reduction plays an important role in efficient similarity search, which is often based on k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries over a high-dimensional feature space. In this paper, we introduce a novel type of k-NN query, namely condition... Read More about Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search..

Software process improvement as emergent change: a structurational analysis. (2007)
Journal Article
ALLISON, I. and MERALI, Y. 2007. Software process improvement as emergent change: a structurational analysis. Information and software technology [online], 49(6), pages 668-681. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.003

This paper presents a framework that draws on structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged software organisation. Adding to the growing body of qualitative research, t... Read More about Software process improvement as emergent change: a structurational analysis..

Living with flight dynamics: proposals and possible pitfalls for harmonising flight dynamics systems with EGOS. (2007)
Presentation / Conference
FAILY, S. 2007. Living with flight dynamics: proposals and possible pitfalls for harmonising flight dynamics systems with EGOS. Presented at the 2nd European ground system architecture workshop (ESAW 2007), 12-13 June 2007, Darmstadt, Germany.

This presentation advocates for harmonisation of flight dynamics systems, while addressing the possible challenges that might be encountered. Specifically, the presentation makes four proposals for harmonisation: telemetry monitoring software; low le... Read More about Living with flight dynamics: proposals and possible pitfalls for harmonising flight dynamics systems with EGOS..

Concept induction via fuzzy C-means clustering in a high dimensional semantic space. (2007)
Book Chapter
SONG, D., CAO, G., BRUZA, P.D. and LAU, R.Y.K. 2007. Concept induction via fuzzy C-means clustering in a high dimensional semantic space. In Valente de Oliveira, J. and Pedrycz, W. (eds.) Advances in fuzzy clustering and its applications. Chichester: Wiley [online], chapter 19, pages 393-403. Available from: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Advances+in+Fuzzy+Clustering+and+its+Applications-p-9780470061183

Lexical semantic space models have recently been investigated to automatically derive the meaning (semantics) of information based on natural language usage. In a semantic space, a term can be considered as a concept represented geometrically as a ve... Read More about Concept induction via fuzzy C-means clustering in a high dimensional semantic space..