All Outputs (18)

Office occupants' appreciation of window size under a clear sunny sky: towards an efficient building regulation. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BENNADJI, A., BELAKEHAL, A. and TABET AOUL, K. 2005. Office occupants' appreciation of window size under a clear sunny sky: towards an efficient building regulation. In Imbabi, M.S. and Mitchell, C.P. (eds.) Renewable energy, technology, innovation and the environment: proceedings of the 2005 Regional meeting of the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2005): innovation in Europe, 22-27 May 2005, Aberdeen, UK. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

This paper presents the results of a Post Occupancy Evaluation research undertaken in an office building in the city of Biskra situated in the northern region of the Algerian Sahara desert. The research investigates in-situ a common rule of thumb in... Read More about Office occupants' appreciation of window size under a clear sunny sky: towards an efficient building regulation..

Document re-ranking by generality in bio-medical information retrieval. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
YAN, X., LI, X. and SONG, D. 2005. Document re-ranking by generality in bio-medical information retrieval. In Ngu, A.H.H., Kitsuregawa, M., Neuhold, E.J., Chung, J.-Y. and Sheng, Q.Z. (eds.) Web information systems engineering: proceedings of the 6th International conference on web information systems engineering (WISE 2005), 20-22 November 2005, New York, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 3806. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 376-389. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/11581062_28

Document ranking is an important process in information retrieval (IR). It presents retrieved documents in an order of their estimated degrees of relevance to query. Traditional document ranking methods are mostly based on the similarity computations... Read More about Document re-ranking by generality in bio-medical information retrieval..

Artificial biochemical networks. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CAPANNI, N., MACLEOD, C., MAXWELL, G. and CLAYTON, W. 2005. Artificial biochemical networks. In Mohammadlan, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2005 International conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation, and the 2005 International conference on intelligent agents, web technologies and internet commerce (CIMCA-IAWTIC'05), 28-30 November 2005, Vienna, Austria. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], volume 2, article number 1631452, pages 98-102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMCA.2005.1631452

Connectionist approaches to Artificial Intelligence are almost always based on Artificial Neural Networks. However, there is another route towards Parallel Distributed Processing, taking as its inspiration the intelligence displayed by single celled... Read More about Artificial biochemical networks..

Distributed guided local search for solving binary DisCSPs. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BASHARU, M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2005. Distributed guided local search for solving binary DisCSPs. In Russell, I. and Markov, Z. (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2005), 16-18 May 2005, Clearwater, USA. Palo Alto: AAAI Press [online], pages 660-665. Available from: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/FLAIRS/2005/Flairs05-108.pdf

We introduce the Distributed Guided Local Search (Dist- GLS) algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Our algorithm is based on the centralised Guided Local Search algorithm, which is extended with additional heuristics in... Read More about Distributed guided local search for solving binary DisCSPs..

Solving DisCSPs with penalty-driven search. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BASHARU,M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2005. Solving DisCSPs with penalty-driven search. In Proceedings of the 20th American Association for Artificial Intelligence national conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI-05), co-located with the 17th Annual conference on innovative applications of artificial intelligence (IAAI-05), 9-13 July 2005, Pittsburgh, USA. Palo Alto: AAAI Press, pages 47-52.

We introduce the Distributed, Penalty-driven Local search algorithm (DisPeL) for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. DisPeL is a novel distributed iterative improvement algorithm which escapes local optima by the use of both tempora... Read More about Solving DisCSPs with penalty-driven search..

An online collaborative tool for sustainable design. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BENNADJI, A., AHRIZ, H. and BELAKEHAL, A. 2005. An online collaborative tool for sustainable design. In Imbabi, M.S. and Mitchell, C.P. (eds.) Renewable energy, technology, innovation and the environment: proceedings of the 2005 Regional meeting of the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2005): innovation in Europe, 22-27 May 2005, Aberdeen, UK. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

One of the most important aspects a design team needs to consider fairly early on is that of energy saving, cost, thermal comfort and the effect on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions. This paper presents an online collaborative tool that allow... Read More about An online collaborative tool for sustainable design..

Evolutionary algorithms for real-time artificial neural network training. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JAGADEESAN, A., MAXWELL, G. and MACLEOD, C. 2005. Evolutionary algorithms for real-time artificial neural network training. In Duch, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oja, E. and Zadrozy, S (eds.) Artificial neural networks: formal models and their applications, part 2; proceedings of the 15th International on artificial neural networks (ICAAN 2005), 11-15 September 2005, Warsaw, Poland. Lecture notes in computer science, 3697. Berlin: Springer, pages 73-78. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11550907_12

This paper reports on experiments investigating the use of Evolutionary Algorithms to train Artificial Neural Networks in real time. A simulated legged mobile robot was used as a test bed in the experiments. Since the algorithm is designed to be used... Read More about Evolutionary algorithms for real-time artificial neural network training..

Training neural networks using Taguchi methods: overcoming interaction problems. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
VISWANATHAN, A., MACLEOD, C., MAXWELL, G. and KALIDINDI, S. 2005. Training neural networks using Taguchi methods: overcoming interaction problems. In Duch, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oja, E. and Zadrozy, S (eds.) Artificial neural networks: formal models and their applications, part 2; proceedings of the 15th International on artificial neural networks (ICAAN 2005), 11-15 September 2005, Warsaw, Poland. Lecture notes in computer science, 3697. Berlin: Springer, pages 103-108. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11550907_17

Taguchi Methods (and other orthogonal arrays) may be used to train small Artificial Neural Networks very quickly in a variety of tasks. These include, importantly, Control Systems. Previous experimental work has shown that they could be successfully... Read More about Training neural networks using Taguchi methods: overcoming interaction problems..

An ecology of practice in the everyday: leaving the (social) ground of (artistic) intervention more fertile. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2005. An ecology of practice in the everyday: leaving the (social) ground of (artistic) intervention more fertile. Presented at Sensuous knowledge 2 (SK2): aesthetic practice and aesthetic insight, November 2005, Bergen, Norway.

This paper reviews the projects that fed into the On the Edge research programme between 2001-2004. Jane Jacobs’ The Nature of Economies (2000) offers an account of economies, based on the way energy operates and is transformed in ecosystems. The aut... Read More about An ecology of practice in the everyday: leaving the (social) ground of (artistic) intervention more fertile..

Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BAI, J., SONG, D., BRUZA, P., NIE, J.-Y. and CAO, G. 2005. Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 14th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM'05), 31 October - 5 November 2005, Bremen, Germany. New York: ACM [online], pages 688-695. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1099554.1099725

Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries and document collections. In traditional unigram based models, terms (... Read More about Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval..

Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PETROVSKI, A., BROWNLEE, A. and MCCALL, J. 2005. Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2005), 2-5 September 2005, Edinburgh, UK. New York: IEEE [online], volume 1, article number 1554759, pages 758-764. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2005.1554759

This paper presents a practical methodology of improving the efficiency of Genetic Algorithms through tuning the factors significantly affecting GA performance. This methodology is based on the methods of statistical inference and has been successful... Read More about Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors..

Incorporating a metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SHAKYA, S.K., MCCALL, J.A.W. and BROWN, D.F. 2005. Incorporating a metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2005), 2-5 September 2005, Edinburgh, UK. New York: IEEE [online], volume 3, article number 1555017, pages 2576-2583. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2005.1555017

Markov Random Field (MRF) modelling techniques have been recently proposed as a novel approach to probabilistic modelling for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs)[34, 4]. An EDA using this technique, presented in [34], was called Distribution... Read More about Incorporating a metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm..

Escaping local optima with penalties in distributed iterative improvement search. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BASHARU, M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2005. Escaping local optima with penalties in distributed iterative improvement search. Presented at the 6th International workshop on distributed constraint reasoning (DCR 2005), part of the 19th International joint conference on artificial intelligence (IJCAI-05), 30 July - 5 August 2005, Edinburgh, UK.

The advantages offered by iterative improvement search make it a popular technique for solving problems in centralised settings. However, the key challenge with this approach is finding effective strategies for dealing with local optima. Such strateg... Read More about Escaping local optima with penalties in distributed iterative improvement search..

Policy conformance in the corporate blog space. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MCARTHUR, R., BRUZA, P.D. and SONG, D. 2005. Policy conformance in the corporate blog space. In Kagal, L., Finin, T. and Hendler, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the Policy management for the web workshop, part of the 14th International world wide web conference (WWW2005), 10-14 May 2005, Chiba, Japan. Baltimore: University of Maryland [online], pages 21-28. Available from: https://www.csee.umbc.edu/conference/pm4w/papers/mcarthur13.pdf

This paper describes part of a solution to the interpretation of human-readable policy documents into semi-automatic conformance checking. Using a socio-cognitively motivated representation of shared knowledge, and applying appropriate inference mech... Read More about Policy conformance in the corporate blog space..

Freedom and constraint in the creative process in digital fine art. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HAWORTH, J., GOLLIFER, S., FAURE-WALKER, J., COLDWELL, P., KEMP, T. and PENGELLY, J. 2005. Freedom and constraint in the creative process in digital fine art. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on creativity and cognition (C&C '05), 12-15 April 2005, London, UK. New York: ACM [online], pages 310-317. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1056224.1056285

The workshop will explore in depth the nature of freedom and constraint in the creative process in digital fine art from the perspective of embodied mind. The problem is crucial to our understanding of the creative process in fine art. The aims and o... Read More about Freedom and constraint in the creative process in digital fine art..

A review of web information seeking research: considerations of method and foci of interest. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2005. A review of web information seeking research: considerations of method and foci of interest. Information research [online], 10(2): proceedings of the 5th Information seeking in context conference 2004, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 September 2004. Available from: http://www.informationr.net/ir/10-2/paper215.html

Introduction. This review shows that Web information seeking research suffers from inconsistencies in method and a lack of homogeneity in research foci. Background. Qualitative and quantitative methods are needed to produce a comprehensive view of in... Read More about A review of web information seeking research: considerations of method and foci of interest..

Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MUIR, L.J., RICHARDSON, I.E.G. and HAMILTON, K. 2005. Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality. In Proceedings of the 2005 Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) international conference on visual information engineering (VIE 2005), 4-6 April 2005, Glasgow, UK.

Video communication systems currently provide poor quality and performance for deaf people using sign language, particularly at low bit rates. Our previous work, involving eye movement tracking experiments and analysis of visual attention mechanisms... Read More about Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality..

High dimensional indexing for protein structure matching using bowties. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HUANG, Z.H., ZHOU, X. and SONG, D. 2005. High dimensional indexing for protein structure matching using bowties. In Chen, Y.-P.P. and Wong, L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific bioinformatics conference (APBC'05), 17-21 January 2005, Singapore. Advances in bioinformatics and computational biology, 1. London: Imperial College Press [online], pages 21-30. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/9781860947322_0003

For determining functionality dependencies between two proteins, both represented as 3D structures, it is an essential condition that they have a matching structure. As 3D structures for proteins are large, complex and constantly evolving, it is very... Read More about High dimensional indexing for protein structure matching using bowties..