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DYNIQX: a novel meta-search engine for the web. (2009)
Journal Article
ZHU, J., SONG, D., EISENSTADT, M., BARLADEANU, C. and RUGER, S. 2009. DYNIQX: a novel meta-search engine for the web. International journal of information studies, 1(1), pages 2-27.

The effect of metadata in collection fusion has not been sufficiently studied. In response to this, we present a novel meta-search engine called Dyniqx for metadata based search. Dyniqx integrates search results from search services of documents, ima... Read More about DYNIQX: a novel meta-search engine for the web..

Empathetic consultancy: a reflective approach to ICTD. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
BASS, J.M. 2009. Empathetic consultancy: a reflective approach to ICTD. In Byrne, E., Nicholson, B. and Salem, F. (eds.) Assessing the contribution of ICT to development goals: proceedings of the 10th International conference on social implications of computers in developing countries (ICT4D 2009), 26-28 May 2009, Dubai, UAE. Dubai: International Federation for Information Processing, pages 315-324.

Empathetic Consulting articulates positive characteristics of long-term ICT capacity building engagements using external advisors. Consultants need to demonstrate commitment to capacity building rather than service delivery, flexibility in adaptation... Read More about Empathetic consultancy: a reflective approach to ICTD..

The evolution of genre in Wikipedia. (2009)
Journal Article
CLARK, M., RUTHVEN, I. and HOLT, P.O'B. 2009. The evolution of genre in Wikipedia. Journal for language technology and computational linguistics [online], 24(1), pages 1-22. Available from: https://jlcl.org/content/2-allissues/16-Heft1-2009/01Malcolm_Clark_and_Ian_Ruthven_and_Patrik_OBrian_Holt.pdf

This paper presents an overview of the ways in which genres, or structural forms, develop in a community of practice, in this case, Wikipedia. Firstly, we collected data by performing a small search task in the Wikipedia search engine (powered by Luc... Read More about The evolution of genre in Wikipedia..

A hybrid approach to solving coarse-grained DisCSPs. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
LEE, D., ARANA, I., AHRIZ, H. and HUI, K.-Y. 2009. A hybrid approach to solving coarse-grained DisCSPs. In Proceedings of the 8th International conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems (AAMAS 2009), 10-15 May 2009, Budapest, Hungary. Richland, South Carolina: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) [online], pages 1235-1236. Available from: http://www.aamas-conference.org/Proceedings/aamas09/pdf/02_Extended_Abstract/C_SP_0555.pdf

A coarse-grained Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DisCSP) consists of several loosely connected constraint satisfaction subproblems, each assigned to an individual agent. We present Multi-Hyb, a two-phase concurrent hybrid approach for so... Read More about A hybrid approach to solving coarse-grained DisCSPs..

Multi-Hyb: a hybrid algorithm for solving DisCSPs with complex local problems. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
LEE, D., ARANA, I., AHRIZ, H. and HUI, K.-Y. 2009. Multi-Hyb: a hybrid algorithm for solving DisCSPs with complex local problems. In Baeza-Yates, R., Lang, J., Mitra, S., Parsons, S. and Pasi, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on intelligent agent technology (IAT 2009), co-located with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on web intelligence (WI 2009), and the joint conference workshops (WI-IAT Workshops 2009), 15-18 September 2009, Milan, Italy. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], volume 2, article number 5284811, pages 379-382. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.181

A coarse-grained Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DisCSP) is a constraint problem where several agents, each responsible for solving one part (a complex local problem), cooperate to determine an overall solution. Thus, agents solve the ov... Read More about Multi-Hyb: a hybrid algorithm for solving DisCSPs with complex local problems..

Interactive surface design and manipulation using PDE-method through Autodesk Maya plug-in. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
ELYAN, E. and UGAIL, H. 2009. Interactive surface design and manipulation using PDE-method through Autodesk Maya plug-in. In Ugail, H., Qahwaji, R.S.R, Earnshaw, R.A. and Willis, P.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 International conference on Cyberworlds (CYBERWORLDS 2009), 7-11 September 2009, Bradford, UK. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 5279653, pages 119-125. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2009.49

This paper aims to propose a method for geometric design, modelling and shape manipulation using minimum input design parameters. Here, we address the method for the construction of 3D geometry based on the use of Elliptic Partial Differential Equati... Read More about Interactive surface design and manipulation using PDE-method through Autodesk Maya plug-in..

Automatic 3D face recognition using Fourier descriptors. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
ELYAN, E. and UGAIL, H. 2009. Automatic 3D face recognition using Fourier descriptors. In Ugail, H., Qahwaji, R.S.R, Earnshaw, R.A. and Willis, P.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 International conference on Cyberworlds (CYBERWORLDS 2009), 7-11 September 2009, Bradford, UK. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], article number 5279600, pages 246-252. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2009.48

3D face recognition is attracting more attention due to the recent development in 3D facial data acquisition techniques. It is strongly believed that 3D Face recognition systems could overcome the inherent problems of 2D face recognition such as faci... Read More about Automatic 3D face recognition using Fourier descriptors..

Context-sensitive requirements and risk analysis. (2009)
Presentation / Conference
FAILY, S. 2009. Context-sensitive requirements and risk analysis. Presented at the Doctoral symposium of the 17th IEEE international requirements engineering conference (RE2009), 1 September 2009, Atlanta, USA.

When a system's context of use changes, the security impact may be felt in other contexts. Risks mitigated for one operational context may continue to pose a danger in others due to contextual differences in assets, threats and vulnerabilities. The r... Read More about Context-sensitive requirements and risk analysis..

Context-sensitive requirements and risk management with IRIS. (2009)
Presentation / Conference
FAILY, S. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2009. Context-sensitive requirements and risk management with IRIS. Presented at the 17th IEEE international requirements engineering conference (RE2009), 31 August - 4 September 2009, Atlanta, USA.

Many systems are not designed for their contexts of operation. Subtle changes to context may lead to an increase in severity and likelihood of vulnerabilities and threats. The IRIS framework integrates the notion of context into requirements and risk... Read More about Context-sensitive requirements and risk management with IRIS..

Multivariate Markov networks for fitness modelling in an estimation of distribution algorithm. (2009)
Thesis
BROWNLEE, A.E.I. 2009. Multivariate Markov networks for fitness modelling in an estimation of distribution algorithm. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

A well-known paradigm for optimisation is the evolutionary algorithm (EA). An EA maintains a population of possible solutions to a problem which converges on a global optimum using biologically-inspired selection and reproduction operators. These alg... Read More about Multivariate Markov networks for fitness modelling in an estimation of distribution algorithm..

Characterizing pure high-order entanglements in lexical semantic spaces via information geometry. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
HOU, Y. and SONG, D. 2009. Characterizing pure high-order entanglements in lexical semantic spaces via information geometry. In Bruza, P., Sofge, D., Lawless, W., Van Rijsbergen, K. and Klusch, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International symposium on quantum interaction (QI 2009), 25-27 March 2009, Saarbrücken, Germany. Lecture notes in computer science, 5494. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 237-250. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_20

An emerging topic in Quantuam Interaction is the use of lexical semantic spaces, as Hilbert spaces, to capture the meaning of words. There has been some initial evidence that the phenomenon of quantum entanglement exists in a semantic space and can p... Read More about Characterizing pure high-order entanglements in lexical semantic spaces via information geometry..

A knowledge acquisition tool to assist case authoring from texts. (2009)
Thesis
ASIIMWE, S.M. 2009. A knowledge acquisition tool to assist case authoring from texts. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is a technique in Artificial Intelligence where a new problem is solved by making use of the solution to a similar past problem situation. People naturally solve problems in this way, without even thinking about it. For exa... Read More about A knowledge acquisition tool to assist case authoring from texts..

Dimension-specific search for multimedia retrieval. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
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..

Integrating multiple windows and document features for expert finding. (2009)
Journal Article
ZHU, J., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2009. Integrating multiple windows and document features for expert finding. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology [online], 60(4), pages 694-715. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21012

Expert finding is a key task in enterprise search and has recently attracted lots of attention from both research and industry communities. Given a search topic, a prominent existing approach is to apply some information retrieval (IR) system to retr... Read More about Integrating multiple windows and document features for expert finding..

Representation and learning schemes for sentiment analysis. (2009)
Thesis
MUKRAS, R. 2009. Representation and learning schemes for sentiment analysis. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis identifies four novel techniques of improving the performance of sentiment analysis of text systems. Thes include feature extraction and selection, enrichment of the document representation and exploitation of the ordinal structure of rat... Read More about Representation and learning schemes for sentiment analysis..