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XML document design via GN-DTD (2010)
Journal Article
Zainol, Z., & Wang, B. (2010). XML document design via GN-DTD. European Journal of Scientific Research, 44(2), 314-336

Designing a well-structured XML document is important for the sake of readability and maintainability. More importantly, this will avoid data redundancies and update anomalies when maintaining a large quantity of XML based documents. In this paper, w... Read More about XML document design via GN-DTD.

Capture and reuse of composable failure patterns (2010)
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Wolforth, I., Walker, M., Papadopoulos, Y., & Grunske, L. (2010). Capture and reuse of composable failure patterns. International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems, 1(1/2/3), 128-147. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCCBS.2010.031710

Emerging safety analysis techniques use composition of failure models or fault simulation in formal models of a system to determine relationships between the causes and effects of failure. Most recent work has focused on developing system modelling a... Read More about Capture and reuse of composable failure patterns.

Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS (2010)
Journal Article
Nggada, S. H., Parker, D. J., & Papadopoulos, Y. I. (2010). Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 43(17), 204-209. https://doi.org/10.3182/20100908-3-pt-3007.00039

The occurrence of failure in a safety critical engineering system can be reduced through the use of preventive maintenance (PM). Each time a component of the system is maintained its effective age is reduced; the extent of this age reduction depends... Read More about Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS.

Data mining applied to cardiovascular data (2010)
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Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2010). Data mining applied to cardiovascular data. Journal of information technologies, 3(2), 14 - 21

Medical decision support is one area of increasing research interest. Ongoing collaborations between cardiovascular clinicians and computer scientists are looking at the application of data mining techniques to the area of individual patient diagnosi... Read More about Data mining applied to cardiovascular data.

Sustainable information technology awareness (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Sustainable information technology awareness. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 9(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2010.09020004

Information Technology (IT) is a key feature of the modern world and a core skill in education. However, the growing use of technology is at an increasing environmental cost. Estimates for a typical Western economy – such as the United Kingdom – are... Read More about Sustainable information technology awareness.

Education for sustainable development in computer science (2010)
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Gordon, N. (2010). Education for sustainable development in computer science. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 9(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2010.09020003

In this paper we will consider some of the aspects related to the teaching of sustainable development within the Higher Education computing curriculum - including students' views on the relevance of this to their education, grounded on the outcome fr... Read More about Education for sustainable development in computer science.

Is green IT an antidote to e-waste problems? (2010)
Journal Article
Nganji, J., & Brayshaw, M. (2010). Is green IT an antidote to e-waste problems?. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 9(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2010.09020006

Man’s negative impact on the environment due to various activities has raised serious concerns with numerous campaigns rising to protect the environment. Computer waste also contributes to damaging not only the environment, but has serious consequenc... Read More about Is green IT an antidote to e-waste problems?.

An affordable surround-screen virtual reality display (2010)
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Cruz-Neira, C., Reiners, D., & Springer, J. (2010). An affordable surround-screen virtual reality display. Journal of the Society for Information Display, 18(10), 836-843. https://doi.org/10.1889/JSID18.10.836

Building a projection-based virtual reality display is a time, cost, and resource intensive enterprise andmany details contribute to the final display quality. This is especially true for surround-screen displays wheremost of them are one-of-a-kind s... Read More about An affordable surround-screen virtual reality display.

Hardware realization and PID control of multi-degree of freedom articulated robotic arm (2010)
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Ali Ajwad, S., Iqbal, U., & Iqbal, J. (2010). Hardware realization and PID control of multi-degree of freedom articulated robotic arm. Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 29(4),

A robotic manipulator is the most important component in an industrial environment for autonomous execution of tasks. Given the repoted fact that a PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) will continue to be the main workhorse in the automation sector... Read More about Hardware realization and PID control of multi-degree of freedom articulated robotic arm.

A plant documentation information system design (2010)
Journal Article
Wang, B., & Feicheng, M. (2010). A plant documentation information system design. International journal of computer science & information technology, 2(5), 134-148. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijcsit.2010.2510

Traditional systems do not have the descriptive ability to represent the complex, multi-faceted nature of complex documentation structures such as engineering systems descriptions. This has led to significant information management difficulties in ma... Read More about A plant documentation information system design.

Skeleton cuts-An efficient segmentation method for volume rendering (2010)
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Xiang, D., Tian, J., Yang, F., Yang, Q., Zhang, X., Li, Q., & Liu, X. (2011). Skeleton cuts-An efficient segmentation method for volume rendering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(9), 1295-1306. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2010.239

Volume rendering has long been used as a key technique for volume data visualization, which works by using a transfer function to map color and opacity to each voxel. Many volume rendering approaches proposed so far for voxels classification have bee... Read More about Skeleton cuts-An efficient segmentation method for volume rendering.

Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS (2010)
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Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Parker, D., Rüde, E., Hamann, R., Uhlig, A., …Lien, R. (2011). Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS. Engineering Failure Analysis, 18(2), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2010.09.025

The scale and complexity of computer-based safety critical systems, like those used in the transport and manufacturing industries, pose significant challenges for failure analysis. Over the last decade, research has focused on automating this task. I... Read More about Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS.

Hypercubic storage layout and transforms in arbitrary dimensions using GPUs and CUDA (2010)
Journal Article
Hawick, K. A., & Playne, D. P. (2011). Hypercubic storage layout and transforms in arbitrary dimensions using GPUs and CUDA. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 23(10), 1027-1050. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1628

Many simulations in the physical sciences are expressed in terms of rectilinear arrays of variables. It is attractive to develop such simulations for use in 1-, 2-, 3- or arbitrary physical dimensions and also in a manner that supports exploitation o... Read More about Hypercubic storage layout and transforms in arbitrary dimensions using GPUs and CUDA.

Parallel graph component labelling with GPUs and CUDA (2010)
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Hawick, K. A., Leist, A., & Playne, D. P. (2010). Parallel graph component labelling with GPUs and CUDA. Parallel Computing, 36(12), 655-678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2010.07.002

Graph component labelling, which is a subset of the general graph colouring problem, is a computationally expensive operation that is of importance in many applications and simulations. A number of data-parallel algorithmic variations to the componen... Read More about Parallel graph component labelling with GPUs and CUDA.

Regular lattice and small-world spin model simulations using CUDA and GPUs (2010)
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Hawick, K. A., Leist, A., & Playne, D. P. (2011). Regular lattice and small-world spin model simulations using CUDA and GPUs. International Journal of Parallel Programming, 39(2), 183-201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-010-0143-4

Data-parallel accelerator devices such as Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are providing dramatic performance improvements over evenmulti-coreCPUs for lattice-oriented applications in computational physics. Models such as the Ising and Potts models... Read More about Regular lattice and small-world spin model simulations using CUDA and GPUs.

Cognitive architectures for affect and motivation (2010)
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Davis, D. N. (2010). Cognitive architectures for affect and motivation. Cognitive Computation, 2(3), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-010-9053-4

General frameworks of mind map across tasks and domains. By what means can a general architecture know when it has adapted to a specific task, a particular environment or a specific state of a previously known environment? Our current work on this th... Read More about Cognitive architectures for affect and motivation.

Robo-CAMAL: A BDI Motivational Robot (2010)
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Davis, D., & Gwatkin, J. (2010). Robo-CAMAL: A BDI Motivational Robot. Paladyn, 1(2), 116-129. https://doi.org/10.2478/s13230-010-0010-4

Motivation is a central concept in the development of autonomous agents and robots. This paper describes an architecture that uses a psychological BDI model of reasoning, combined with a distributed multi-level model of motivation. The robot controll... Read More about Robo-CAMAL: A BDI Motivational Robot.

Generalizable safety annotations for specification of failure patterns (2010)
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Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Grunske, L., & Wolforth, I. (2010). Generalizable safety annotations for specification of failure patterns. Software: Practice and Experience, 40(5), 453-483. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.966

Components in programmable systems often exhibit patterns of failure that are independent of function or system context. In this paper, we show that it is possible to capture, and reuse where appropriate, such patterns for the purposes of system safe... Read More about Generalizable safety annotations for specification of failure patterns.

Reliable decentralized supervisory control of fuzzy discrete event systems (2010)
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Wang, F., Feng, Z., & Jiang, P. (2010). Reliable decentralized supervisory control of fuzzy discrete event systems. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 161(12), 1657-1668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2010.02.002

Decentralized supervisory control has been introduced to deal with a class of fuzzy discrete event systems (DES) in which state transitions are uncertain. In this paper, we develop the work on fuzzy DES to consider the reliable decentralized supervis... Read More about Reliable decentralized supervisory control of fuzzy discrete event systems.

 A "Society of Mind" cognitive architecture based on the principles of artificial economics (2010)
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Davis, D. N., & Venkatamuni, V. M. (2010).  A "Society of Mind" cognitive architecture based on the principles of artificial economics. International journal of artificial life research, 1(1), 51-71. https://doi.org/10.4018/jalr.2010102104

This research investigates the concept of mind as a control system using the "Society of Agents" metaphor, whereby the whole is described as the collective behavior of simple and intelligent agents. This powerful concept for mind research benefits fr... Read More about  A "Society of Mind" cognitive architecture based on the principles of artificial economics.