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Gift giving to children at Christmas and birthdays. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P. 2008. Gift giving to children at Christmas and birthdays. Presented at the 2008 Annual conference of the Academy of Marketing (AM2008): reflective marketing in a material world, 8-10 July 2008, Aberdeen, UK.

This paper explores gift giving of toys to children at Christmas and Birthdays and their perception of the gift giver. Three areas are discussed; gift giving, the methodological approach and the results and conclusions. Gift giving is an historical c... Read More about Gift giving to children at Christmas and birthdays..

And they say don't work with children. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P. 2008. And they say don't work with children. Presented at the 2008 Annual conference of the Academy of Marketing (AM2008): reflective marketing in a material world, 8-10 July 2008, Aberdeen, UK.

This paper explores the role and method a researcher must consider when using children as research objects. Three areas are discussed; the researcher's role, children as research objects, and the results and conclusions. Researchers must consider an... Read More about And they say don't work with children..

Finance and growth: the long-run and short-run puzzle effect. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GHIMIRE, B.R. 2008. Finance and growth: the long-run and short-run puzzle effect. Presented at the 2008 Liverpool John Moores University annual PhD conference, 13 June 2008, Liverpool, UK.

This presentation covers the author's PhD research into financial development and economic growth from the perspective of two specific puzzles. The first puzzle relates to the finding that banks have a positive effect upon economic growth in the long... Read More about Finance and growth: the long-run and short-run puzzle effect..

Molecular aspects of insulin resistance, cell signaling pathways and breast cancer in relation to obesity. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WEICHHAUS, M., BROOM, J., WAHLE, K. and BERMANO, G. 2008. Molecular aspects of insulin resistance, cell signaling pathways and breast cancer in relation to obesity. Presented at 16th European congress on obesity 2008 (ECO 2008), 14-17 May 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.

A growing number of clinical studies validate a relation of insulin resistance and breast cancer in obese patients. We hypothesised that high plasma insulin levels cause aberrant insulin signalling in breast epithelial cells which may be responsible... Read More about Molecular aspects of insulin resistance, cell signaling pathways and breast cancer in relation to obesity..

The asymptotic behavior of a limited dependencies language model. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HOENKAMP, E., BRUZA, P., HUANG, Q. and SONG, D. 2008. The asymptotic behavior of a limited dependencies language model. In Hoenkamp, E., De Cock, M. and Hoste, V. (eds.) Proceedings of 8th Dutch-Belgian information retrieval workshop 2008 (DIR 2008), 14-15 April 2008, Maastricht, Netherlands. Enschede: Neslia Paniculata, pages 59-64.

Intuitively, any ‘bag of words’ approach in IR should benefit from taking term dependencies into account. Unfortunately, for years the results of exploiting such dependencies have been mixed or inconclusive. To improve the situation, this paper shows... Read More about The asymptotic behavior of a limited dependencies language model..

La lumière naturelle et le confort à travers les représentations de l’architecture tertiaire: cas du bâtiment de la Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Sociale à Biskra. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BELAKEHAL, A. TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2008. La lumière naturelle et le confort à travers les représentations de l’architecture tertiaire: cas du bâtiment de la Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Sociale à Biskra. Presented at the 3rd Biskra architecture and sustainability conference (BASC 2008): strategies and perspectives, 8-10 April 2008, Biskra, Algeria.

A rapidly growing field of research, natural lighting in buildings is also a field of multidisciplinary convergence. Among the various issues underlying it, the interest shown in the user is increasingly demanded or even demanded. In line with this t... Read More about La lumière naturelle et le confort à travers les représentations de l’architecture tertiaire: cas du bâtiment de la Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Sociale à Biskra..

Design, implementation and evaluation of broadband law noise amplifier (LNA) for radiometer. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KHAN, U.F., HAMEED, S. and BADII, A. 2008. Design, implementation and evaluation of broadband low noise amplifier (LNA) for radiometer. In Irani, Z., Sahraoui, S., Ghoneim, A., Sharp, J., Ozkan, S., Ali, M. and Alshawi, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2008 European and Mediterranean conference on information systems (EMCIS 2008) [online], 25-26 May 2008, Dubai, UAE. Uxbridge: Brunel University, C36 [Paper not presented]. Available from: http://emcis.eu/Emcis_archive/EMCIS/EMCIS2008/Proceedings/Refereed%20Papers/Contributions/C%2036/Design%20evaluation%20BroadBand%20low%20Noise%20Amplifier-OKOK.pdf

The two major applications of microwave remote sensors are radiometer and radar. Because of its importance and the nature of the application, much research has been made on the various aspects of the radar. This paper will focus on the various aspect... Read More about Design, implementation and evaluation of broadband law noise amplifier (LNA) for radiometer..

A simplified dynamic simulation model (prototype) for a stand-alone Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALI, D.M. 2008. A simplified dynamic simulation model (prototype) for a stand-alone Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack. In Proceedings of 12th international Middle East power system conference 2008 (MEPCON 2008), 12-15 March 2008, Aswan, Egypt. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 480-485. From: https://doi.org/10.1109/MEPCON.2008.4562321

The ever increasing demand for electrical energy and the rise in the electricity prices due to the recent instability of the oil prices in addition to the degrading of the air quality resulting from the emissions of the existing energy conversion dev... Read More about A simplified dynamic simulation model (prototype) for a stand-alone Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack.

Applications of minimal path set and dual fault tree approach for piecewise reliability evaluation of large-scale electrical power systems. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALI, D.M. 2008. Applications of minimal path set and dual fault tree approach for piecewise reliability evaluation of large-scale electrical power systems. In Proceedings of the 12th International Middle East power system conference 2008 (MEPCON 2008), 12-15 March 2008, Aswan, Egypt. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 11-17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MEPCON.2008.4562331

Reliability assessment techniques and programs handling is an important issue for both power systems planning and testing in existing power system configurations. The Assessment techniques are suitable for detecting weak points in the reliability ass... Read More about Applications of minimal path set and dual fault tree approach for piecewise reliability evaluation of large-scale electrical power systems..

The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ZHU, J., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2007. The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track. In Proceedings of the 16th Text retrieval conference (TREC 2007), 5-9 November 2007, Gaithersburg, USA. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) special publications, SP 500-274. Gaithersburg: NIST [online], paper number 49. Available from: https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec16/papers/openu.ent.final.pdf

The Multimedia and Information Systems group at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University participated in the Expert Search and Document Search tasks of the Enterprise Track in TREC 2007. In both the document and expert search tasks, we ha... Read More about The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track..

Knowledge discovery for adaptive negotiation agents in e-marketplaces. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LAU, R.Y.K., LI, Y., SONG, D. and KWOK, R.C.W. 2008. Knowledge discovery for adaptive negotiation agents in e-marketplaces. Decision support systems [online], 45(2): IT and value creation: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 9th Pacific Asia conference on information systems (PACIS 2005), 7-10 July 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, pages 310-323. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2007.12.018

Intelligent software agents are promising in improving the effectiveness of e-marketplaces for e-commerce. Although a large amount of research has been conducted to develop negotiation protocols and mechanisms for e-marketplaces, existing negotiation... Read More about Knowledge discovery for adaptive negotiation agents in e-marketplaces..

Breaking through the aesthetics of public art. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2008. Breaking through the aesthetics of public art. Presented at Sensuous knowledge 5 (SK5): questioning qualities, 2008, Bergen, Norway.

Our research is concerned with the changing nature of public art. We work with the experience of making art, drawing on articulations of process developed by artists themselves as well as theorists and historians. We also create interventions with ot... Read More about Breaking through the aesthetics of public art..

Research: knowledge and method: reflections on Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison and David Haley's practice. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FREMANTLE, C., DOUGLAS, A. and HALEY, D. 2008. Research: knowledge and method: reflections on Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison and David Haley's practice. Presented at a Bright Sparks seminar, 2008, London, UK.

This paper is by way of an initial attempt to articulate a set of thoughts that are still emergent. These thoughts are concerned with artists working in public life. They are concerned with the form of research that artists do. They are concerned wit... Read More about Research: knowledge and method: reflections on Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison and David Haley's practice..

Escaping local optima: constraint weights vs value penalties. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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..

DisBO-wd: a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm for coarse-grained distributed problems. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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..

Learning and optimization of an aspect hidden markov model for query language model generation. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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..

Self service revisited. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ROGERS, J., BIRNIE, S. and PENGELLY, J. 2007. Self service revisited. In Bohemia, E., Hilton, K., McMahon, C. and Clarke, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International conference on engineering and product design education (E&DPE 2007), 13-14 September 2007, Newcastle, UK. Design Society publications, 43. Glasgow: Design Society [online], pages 105-110. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/28380/Self+Service+Revisited

Any conversation about designing for the future of product design will include a discussion on the importance of service design. In undergraduate education, students are becoming increasingly aware of the diminishing prospects for employment making p... Read More about Self service revisited..

The post disciplinary digital practitioner. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MALINS, J., PENGELLY, J. and MARSHALL, J. 2007. The post disciplinary digital practitioner. In Bohemia E., Hilton K., McMahon C. and Clarke A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International conference on engineering and product design education (E&PDE 2007), 13-14 September 2007, Newcastle, UK. Design Society publications, 43. Glasgow: Design Society [online], pages 437-442. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/28433/The+post-disciplinary+digital+practitioner

As new models of digital practice emerge, new pedagogies are being developed which are adopting a transdisciplinary approach to learning. The paper examines the concept of transdisciplinarity drawing on a range of examples from the USA and Europe. Th... Read More about The post disciplinary digital practitioner..

Classifying XML documents by using genre features. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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..