All Outputs (2122)

Dimension-specific search for multimedia retrieval. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HUANG, Z., SHEN, H.T., SONG, D., LI, X. and RUEGER, S. 2009. Dimension-specific search for multimedia retrieval. In Zhou, X., Yokota, H., Deng, K. and Liu, Q. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International conference on database systems for advanced applications (DASFAA 2009), 21-23 April 2009, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture notes in computer science, 5463. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 693-698. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00887-0_60

Observing that current Global Similarity Measures (GSM) which average the effect of few significant differences on all dimensions may cause possible performance limitation, we propose the first Dimension-specific Similarity Measure (DSM) to take loca... Read More about Dimension-specific search for multimedia retrieval..

Structured analysis methodology for reverse engineering of spare parts. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ELDESSOUKY, H., EL-KILANY, K. and RASHED, O. 2009. Structured analysis methodology for reverse engineering of spare parts. Presented at the 9th Production engineering, design, and control conference 2009 (PEDAC'2009), 10-12 February 2009, Alexandria, Egypt.

In today's intensely competitive global market, product enterprises are constantly seeking new ways to shorten products development time and meeting all customer expectations. In general, enterprise developing products had invested in Computer Aided... Read More about Structured analysis methodology for reverse engineering of spare parts..

DynABT: dynamic asynchronous backtracking for dynamic DisCSPs. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OMOMOWO, B., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2008. DynABT: dynamic asynchronous backtracking for dynamic DisCSPs. In Dochev, D., Pistore, M. and Traverso, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International conference on artificial intelligence: methodology, systems and applications (AIMSA 2008), 4-6 September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. Lecture notes in computer science, 5253. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 285-296. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85776-1_24

Constraint Satisfaction has been widely used to model static combinatorial problems. However, many AI problems are dynamic and take place in a distributed environment, i.e. the problems are distributed over a number of agents and change over time. Dy... Read More about DynABT: dynamic asynchronous backtracking for dynamic DisCSPs..

A hybrid approach to distributed constraint satisfaction. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEE, D., ARANA, I., AHRIZ, H. and HUI, K.-Y. 2008. A hybrid approach to distributed constraint satisfaction. In Dochev, D., Pistore, M. and Traverso, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International conference on artificial intelligence: methodology, systems and applications (AIMSA 2008), 4-6 September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. Lecture notes in computer science, 5253. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 375-379. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85776-1_33

We present a hybrid approach to Distributed Constraint Satisfaction which combines incomplete, fast, penalty-based local search with complete, slower systematic search. Thus, we propose the hybrid algorithm PenDHyb where the distributed local search... Read More about A hybrid approach to distributed constraint satisfaction..

Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SONG, D., HUANG, Q., RUGER, S. and BRUZA, P. 2008. Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows. In Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven I. and White, R.W. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 30th European conference on information retrieval (IR) research (ECIR 2008), 30 March - 3 April 2008, Glasgow, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 4956. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 334-345. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_31

This paper presents a novel framework to further advance the recent trend of using query decomposition and high-order term relationships in query language modeling, which takes into account terms implicitly associated with different subsets of query... Read More about Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows..

Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HUANG, Q., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2008. Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion. In Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven I. and White, R.W. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 30th European conference on information retrieval (IR) research (ECIR 2008), 30 March - 3 April 2008, Glasgow, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 4956. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 547-554. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_54

In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. However, very little attention has been paid to an intuitive but criti... Read More about Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion..

Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LIU, H., SONG, D., RUGER, S., HU, R. and UREN, V. 2008. Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In Li, H., Liu, T., Ma, W.-Y., Sakai, T., Wong, K.-F. and Zhou, G. (eds.) Information retrieval technology: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 4th Asia information retrieval symposium (AIRS 2008), 15-18 January 2008, Harbin, China. Lecture notes in computer science, 4993. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 44-50. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68636-1_5

Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in content-based image retrieval, where data objects and queries are represented as vectors in high-dimensional content feature spaces. Given the large number of dissimilarity measures that exist in many... Read More about Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval..

A novel metadata based meta-search engine. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ZHU, J., SONG, D., EISENSTADT, M. and BARLADEANU, C. 2008. A novel metadata based meta-search engine. In Cordeiro, J., Shishkov, B., Ranchordas, A. and Helfert, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on software and data technologies (ICSOFT 2008), 5-8 July 2008, Porto, Portugal. Setúbal: Science and Technology Publications [online], volume 3, pages 312-315. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0001896403120315

We present a novel meta-search engine called DYNIQX for metadata based cross search in order to study the effect of metadata in collection fusion. DYNIQX exploits the availability of metadata in academic search services such as PubMed and Google Scho... Read More about A novel metadata based meta-search engine..

Designing creativity tools to support business innovation. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MALINS, J. and GRANT, E. 2010. Designing creativity tools to support business innovation. In Proceedings of the 1st DESIRE Network conference on creativity and innovation in design (DESIRE'10), 16-17 August 2010, Aarhus, Denmark. Lancaster: DESIRE Network [online], pages 181-188. Available from: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1854995

There are a wide range of approaches and organizations, which have the common aim of supporting SMEŸs to deliver new products and services. This paper examines the various approaches which have been taken and in particular describes the work of The C... Read More about Designing creativity tools to support business innovation..

A grand day out: empathic approaches to design. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MALINS, J. and MCDONAGH, D. 2008. A grand day out: empathic approaches to design. In Clarke, A., Evatt, M., Hogarth, P., Lloveras, J. and Pons, L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International conference on engineering and product design eduction (E&PDE 2008): new perspectives in design education, 4-5 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Glasgow: Design Society [online], volume 1, pages 198-203. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/28067/A+Grand+Day+Out%3A+Empathic+Approaches+to+Design

Design education is facing some interesting and challenging times. Students need to be equipped with all the necessary designing skills, whilst being effective interdisciplinary team players and sensitive design researchers. There has been increasing... Read More about A grand day out: empathic approaches to design..

Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ASIIMWE, S., CRAW, S., WIRATUNGA, N. and TAYLOR, B. 2008. Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way. In Ellis, R., Allen, T. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Applications and innovations in intelligent systems XV: application 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 45-58. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_4

Acquiring case representations from textual sources remains an interesting challenge for CBR research. Approaches based on methods in information retrieval require large amounts of data and typically result in knowledge-poor representations. The cost... Read More about Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way..

Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. 2008. Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study. In Proceedings of the 2008 Requirements engineering education and training conference (REET 2008), 8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 38-44. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/REET.2008.8

End-user development has received a lot of attention in the research community. Despite the importance of requirements engineering in the software development life-cycle, comparatively little exists in the way of prescriptive advice or case studies o... Read More about Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study..

Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S. and ŽIVNÝ, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference, October 2008, Oxford, UK. Oxford: Oxford University Computing Laboratory [online]. Available from: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/1328/RR-08-10.pdf

This conference serves two purposes. First, the event is a useful pedagogical exercise for all participants, from the conference committee and referees, to the presenters and the audience. For some presenters, the conference may be the first time the... Read More about Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference..

Partnering issues: the evaluation of local authority adoption of partnering in Scotland. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BJEIRMI, B., BEGG, P. and SCOTT, J. 2008. Partnering issues: the evaluation of local authority adoption of partnering in Scotland. In Hughes, W. (ed.) Proceedings of the 25th Construction management and economics conference (CME25): past, present and future, 16-18 July 2007, Reading, UK. Reading: University of Reading [online], pages 1203-1213. Available from: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/31329/

This paper focuses on the practical implementation of partnering arrangements within local authorities. The construction industry is the subject of ongoing criticism for poor performance on all types of construction throughout the construction proces... Read More about Partnering issues: the evaluation of local authority adoption of partnering in Scotland..

Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
RODGERS, P.A., ROGERS, J., ANUSAS, M., MILTON, A., PENGELLY, J., WHITTET, C., MARSHALL, J., TITLEY, W., COLVIN, A., SMYTH, M., CHARLES, C. and KASPRZAK, M. 2008. Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together. In Clarke, A., Evatt, M., Hogarth, P., Lloveras, J. and Pons, L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International conference on engineering and product design education (E&DPE 2008), 4-5 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Design Society publications, 46. Glasgow: Design Society [online], pages 377-382. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/28126/Product+Scotland%3A+Bringing+Designers%2C+Anthropologists%2C+Artists+and+Engineers+Together

This paper describes the work of Product Scotland, a collaborative network of product designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers based in Scotland. One of the key aims of the Product Scotland network is to achieve research excellence through k... Read More about Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together..

Puzzles in financial development and economic growth. [Poster] (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GIORGIONI, G. and GHIMIRE, B.R. 2008. Puzzles in financial development and economic growth. [Poster]. Presented at the 4th Economic and Social Data Service international annual conference (ESDS 2008), 1 December 2008, London, UK.

This work tests the robustness of two important puzzles regarding the relationship of financial development and economic growth documented in a number of recent papers. The first puzzle relates to the finding that banks have a positive effect upon ec... Read More about Puzzles in financial development and economic growth. [Poster].

Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SMITH, R. and NEERGAARD, H. 2008. Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses. Journal of Asia entrepreneurship and sustainability [online], 4(2): selected papers from the proceedings of the 2008 Perspectives on entrepreneurship conference: cultures and contexts, June 2008, Aberdeen, UK, pages 61-86. Available from: http://www.asiaentrepreneurshipjournal.com/AJESIV2008aberdeen.pdf

It has been documented by numerous studies that countries differ in their rate of entrepreneurial activity. The reasons why this is so are usually attributed to structural issues. However, we argue that these variations have historical and cultural r... Read More about Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses..

Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CLARK, M., RUTHVEN, I. and O'BRIAN HOLT, P. 2008. Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling. In De Roeck, A., Song, D. and Kruschwitz, U. (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on corpus profiling for information retrieval and natural language profiling, 18 October 2008, London, UK. London: BCS [online]. Available from: https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/26114

This paper reports on our approach to the analysis of genre recognition using eyetracking. We focused on a collection of different types of email which could represent different datasets, such as, mailing lists for calls for papers, newsletters, etc.... Read More about Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling..

A latent variable model for query expansion using the Hidden Markov Model (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HUANG, Q. and SONG, D. 2008. A latent variable model for query expansion using the Hidden Markov model. In Proceedings of the 17th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM'08), 26-30 October 2008, Napa Valley, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 1417-1418. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1458082.1458310

We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed LVM, the combinations of query terms are viewed as the latent variable... Read More about A latent variable model for query expansion using the Hidden Markov Model.

Differential regulation of CYP4Z1 mRNA in human breast cancer cell lines. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WARASIHA, B., KNOTT, R. and MCFADYEN, M. 2008. Differential regulation of CYP4Z1 mRNA in human breast cancer cell lines. Presented at the 2008 National Cancer Research Institute cancer conference (NCRI 2008), 5-8 October 2008, Birmingham, UK.

CYP4Z1 is a novel cytochrome P450 enzyme that is preferentially expressed in normal breast and neoplastic breast tissue. This poster reported on the results of a study in which an in vitro cell model was used to define the mechanisms regulating CYP4Z... Read More about Differential regulation of CYP4Z1 mRNA in human breast cancer cell lines..