Annual Research Institutes Reports

6. Publications

Members of staff in the institute publish widely in many central areas of computer science, particularly in applicable computing.

Books

1. 
   Asimakopoulou, E. and Bessis, N. (eds, 2010). Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks, IGI Publishing, ISBN: 978-1615209873.
   
2. 
   Safdar G A (2010), Energy-Saving MAC protocols for Point-Controlled Wireless Networks: Best-Effort, QoS
   
3. 
   ISBN: 3639229150 , Publisher: VDM Verlag
   
4. 
   Liu, Y., Yue, Y., and Guo, L. (2011), UNIX Operating System: the Development Tutorial via UNIX Kernel Services. Higher Education Press, Beijing.
   
5. 
   Yan S Y (2010), Quantum Attacks on Public-Key Cryptography, Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4419-7721-2
   
6. 
   Zhang J, de la Roche G et al (2010), Femtocells: Technologies and Deployment. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, ISBN 978-0470742983, 328 pages, January 2010.
   

Book Chapters

1. 
   Shukla, M., Conrad, M., Bessis, N., (2011), Towards a Bespoke Framework for Eliciting Consumuer Satisfaction in Second Life, in: Safar, M. and Mahdi, K. (eds) , Social Networking and Community Behaviour Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures, IGI Globa,l to appear 2011/12. 
   
2. 
   Gibson, M., Renaud K., Conrad, M., Maple, C. (2011), Music is the key: Using our superior memory for songs to help users log on, in: Gupta, M., Walp, J., Sharman, R. (eds), Strategic and Practical Approaches for Information Security Governance. Technology and Applied Solutions, IGI Global, to appear 2011.
   
3. 
   Conrad, M., Charles, A., Neale, J. (2011), What is my Avatar? Who is my Avatar? The Avatar as a Device to Achieve a Goal: Perceptions and Implications, in: Peachy, A., Childs, M. (eds), Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds, UK. Springer 2011.
   
4. 
   Conrad, M (2011), Teaching Project Management in Second Life, in: Vincenti, G., Braman, J. (eds), Multi-User Virtual Environments for the Classroom: Practical Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Worlds, IGI Global, 2011.
   
5. 
   Bessis N, Assimakopoulou E, Aydin M E, Xhafa F (2011), Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management”  Studies in Computational Intelligence 352, pp. 503-526.
   
6. 
   Asimakopoulou, E., Bessis, N., Varaganti, R. and Norrington, P. (2010), A Personalised Forest Fire Evacuation Data Grid Push Service – The FFED-GPS Approach in Asimakopoulou, E. and Bessis, N. (eds). Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks, IGI Publishing, ISBN: 978-1615209873.
   
7. 
   Liu E (2010), Chapter1, 3, and 4 in ‘Femtocells: Technologies and Deployment’, published by Wiley in Jan 2010. (ISBN: 9780470742983).
   
8. 
   Guo X, Li D, Pritchett N, Wang Z and Qiu R (2010), Lexical Vagueness Modeling and Minimization with Self-Organizing Feature Maps and Signaling Game. In LNAI
   
9. 
   Huang, Y., Bessis, N., Sotiriadis, S., Brocco, A., Courant, M., Kuonen, P., and Hirsbrunner, B. (2009).
   
10. 
    Towards an Integrated Vision across Inter-Cooperative Grid Virtual Organizations in Lee, Y., Kim, T., Fang, W. and Slezak, D. (eds). Future Generation Information Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, ISBN: 3-642-10508-4, p.p.: 120-129 (Best paper award, invited for publication at the FGCS, Elsevier).
    
11. 
    Kseibat D, Mansour A, Adjei O (2010), Domain-Based Intelligent Tutoring System. In Innovations and Advances in Computer Sciences and Engineering, Tarek Sobh (Ed), pp13-17, ISBN: 978-90-481-3657-5, Springer Netherlands.
    
12. 
    Li Y, Li D, Maple C, and Yue Y (2010), K-order Surrounding Roadmaps for Robot Path Planning. In LNAI
    
13. 
    Liu Y, Guo L, Wang Q, An G, Guo M, and Lian H (2010) , Application to induction motor faults diagnosis of the amplitude recovery method combined with FFT. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Elsevier, 24 (2010) 2961-2971.
    
14. 
    Yue Zhang, Taiwen Tang, Kok-Keong Loo, Ben Allen, Dayou Li , Digital down-conversion and up-conversion: theory and implementation Digital Front-End In Wireless Communications and Broadcasting (Ed. Fa-Long Luo, Pub. Cambridge, 2011)
    

Edited Volumes

Prakash E (Editor) (2011), Proc. of the 4^th Annual International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology (CGAT 2011), Penang, Malaysia, 25-26 April, 2011, ISBN: 978-981-08-8644-8

Journal Papers

1. Sotiriadis, S., Bessis, N., Huang, Y., Sant, P. & Maple, C. Defining Minimum Requirements of Inter-collaborated Nodes by Measuring the Weight of Node Interactions. Special Issue of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, 3(2), pages 19-36, 2011.

2. 
   E Ahmed, N Bessis, P Norrington and Y Yue, Managing inconsistencies in data grid environments: a practical approach, International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, 2(4):51-64, 2010
   
3. 
   E Ahmed, N Bessis, P Norrington and Y Yue, Data integration: The method of data mapping, matching and loading grid staging catalogue, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 2011
   
4. 
   XM Kang, Y Yue, D Li and C Maple, Genetic algorithm based solution to dead-end problems in robot navigation, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2011
   
5. 
   C-J Lin, H Ozaki, H Qiu and Y Yue, A sensor system for measuring gasoline engine speed and its application in flight control of a portable unmanned helicopter, International Journal of Signal and Image Processing Engineering, 3(3):164-168, 2010
   
6. 
   JM Liu, Y Yue, ZR Dong, C Maple and M Keech, A novel hybrid tabu search approach to container loading, Computers and Operations Research, 38(4):797-807, 2010
   
7. 
   Viduto V, Maple C. Huang W (2011), Managing Threats by the Use of Visualisation Techniques.  International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing. Vol. 1, Nos. 2/3. pp. 204-212, 2011.  
   
8. 
   Huang W, Li R, Maple C, Yang H, Foskett D, Cleaver V (2010), A Novel Lifecycle Model for Web-based Application development in Small and Medium Enterprises. International Journal of Automation and Computing. pp389-398, 7(3) August 2010.  
   
9. 
   Alvaro Valcarce and J. Zhang (2011), Empirical indoor-to-outdoor propagation model for residential areas at (0.9 - 3.5) GHz," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (to appear)
   
10. 
    Liu B, Clapworthy G J, Dong F and Prakash E (2011), Accelerating High-quality Out-of-Core GPU Volume Rendering, IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, under review.
    
11. 
    Aydin, M. E., Kwan, R.  Luang, C., and  Zhang, J., (2011), “Heuristic algorithms for multiuser scheduling in long term evolution”, Computers Communication. (Revision is under review)
    
12. 
    Conrad, M., Neale, J., Charles, A., (2010), This is my Body: the Uses and Effects of the Avatar in the Virtual World, International Journal for Infonomics (IJI), Volume 3, Issue 4, ISSN: 17424712 (Online), 2010.
    
13. 
    French T, Bessis N, Fatos X and Maple C (2011), Towards a Corporate Governance Trust Agent Scoring Model for Collaborative VO's', International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Vol. 2, (2), 98-108.
    
14. 
    Brown A, Sant P, French T, and Maple C (2010). 'Modelling Self-led Trust Value Management in Grid and Service Oriented Infrastructures: A Graph Theoretic Social Network Mediated Approach', Track: International Journal of Systems and Service Engineering, Dec. 2010, 1(4), 1-18.
    
15. 
    V Dyo, S. A. Ellwood, D. W. Macdonald, A. Markham, C. Mascolo, B. Pasztor, S. Scellato, N. Trigoni, R. Wohlers, K. Yousef.
    
16. 
    WILDSENSING: Design and Deployment of a Sustainable Sensor Network for Wildlife Monitoring In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). Accepted for publication.
    
17. 
    V Sipal, W Malik, B Allen, D Edwards, Novel Low Complexity Beamforming Algorithm for WiMedia Ultrawideband Systems IEEE Trans. Wireless, June 2011 (under review)
    
18. 
    V Sipal, B Allen, D Edwards, B Honary, Ultrawideband: the superstar of wireless communication? IET Communications, (under review)
    
19. 
    V Sipal, J Gelabert, C Stevens, B Allen, D Edwards, Frequency Selective Fading of Ultrawideband Wireless Channels in Confined Environments IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation, accepted for publication
    
20. 
    V Sipal, B Allen, D Edwards, Empirical Study of Multi-tone Frequency Shift Keying for Ultrawideband Wireless Communications IET Communications, Dec 2010, (under review)
    
21. 
    X Hong, C Wang, J Thompson, B Allen, W Q Malik, X Ge, On Space-Frequency Correlation of UWB MIMO Channels, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 4201-4213, Nov. 2010
    
22. 
    P. Karadimas, J. Zhang, “Temporal Variations and Second Order Statistics of Narrowband FixedWireless Channels in the Presence of Directional Multipath Propagation,” IEEETrans. Wirel. Commun., submitted, Sep. 2011.