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Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments. Information and Software Technology, 804 -819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2011.11.008

Context
During systematic literature reviews it is necessary to assess the quality of empirical papers. Current guidelines suggest that two researchers should independently apply a quality checklist and any disagreements must be resolved. However, t... Read More about Three empirical studies on the agreement of reviewers about the quality of software engineering experiments.

Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments (2012)
Journal Article
Channon. (2012). Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments. Artificial Life, 317 -324. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch042

The variability selection hypothesis predicts the adoption of versatile behaviors and survival strategies, in response to increasingly variable environments. In hominin evolution the most apparent adaptation for versatility is the adoption of social... Read More about Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments.

Initiation of aneurysms as a mechanical bifurcation phenomenon (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Initiation of aneurysms as a mechanical bifurcation phenomenon. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 179 - 184 (6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2011.05.001

Recent studies on localized bulging in inflated membrane tubes have shown that the initiation pressure for the onset of localization is determined through a bifurcation condition. This kind of localization has also been shown to be much more sensitiv... Read More about Initiation of aneurysms as a mechanical bifurcation phenomenon.

Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots. IET Software, 502-513. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0125

Teaching programming to novices is a difficult task due to the complex nature of the subject, the negative stereotypes are associated with programming and because introductory programming courses often fail to encourage student understanding.
This s... Read More about Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots.

Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission (2011)
Book Chapter
Channon. (2011). Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission. In ECAL 2011 (101 -108). https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-29714-1

In this work the question of whether the introduction of both transcription errors and cultural transmission, in the form of learning by imitation, can enable the evolution of behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution alone is assessed... Read More about Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission.

Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size (2011)
Book Chapter
Channon. (2011). Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size. In ECAL 2011 (117 -124)

Populations of individuals exist in a wide range of sizes, from billions of microorganisms to fewer than ten individuals in some critically endangered species. In any evolutionary system, there is significant evolutionary pressure to evolve sequences... Read More about Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size.

Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study. Information and Software Technology, 638 -651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2010.12.011

Context
We are strong advocates of evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) in general and systematic literature reviews (SLRs) in particular. We believe it is essential that the SLR methodology is used constructively to support software engineeri... Read More about Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study.

Pruning reservoirs with random static projections (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2010, August). Pruning reservoirs with random static projections. Presented at Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2010 IEEE International Workshop on, Kittila

Characterization and stability of localized bulging/necking in inflated membrane tubes (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Characterization and stability of localized bulging/necking in inflated membrane tubes. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 581 - 602. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxq026

We consider localized bulging/necking in an inflated hyperelastic membrane tube with closed ends. We first show that the initiation pressure for the onset of localized bulging is simply the limiting pressure in uniform inflation when the axial force... Read More about Characterization and stability of localized bulging/necking in inflated membrane tubes.

An Innovative System for Vineyard Management in Sicily (2010)
Journal Article
Ortolani. (2010). An Innovative System for Vineyard Management in Sicily. Journal of Agricultural Engineering, https://doi.org/10.4081/jae.2010.1.13

The aim of this study was to monitor the micro-climate of the grapevine in order to detect the adversities of the spring period (especially April and May), while reducing the operating costs of the vineyard, and increasing the overall quality of grap... Read More about An Innovative System for Vineyard Management in Sicily.

Solitary waves in fluid-filled elastic tubes: existence, persistence, and the role of axial displacement (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Solitary waves in fluid-filled elastic tubes: existence, persistence, and the role of axial displacement. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 257 - 268. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxq004

We reexamine the problem of solitary wave propagation in a fluid-filled elastic membrane tube using a much simplified procedure. It is shown that there may exist four families of solitary waves with speeds close to those given by the linear dispersio... Read More about Solitary waves in fluid-filled elastic tubes: existence, persistence, and the role of axial displacement.

On undecidability bounds for matrix decision problems (2008)
Journal Article
Bell, P. (2008). On undecidability bounds for matrix decision problems. Theoretical Computer Science, 3 - 13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2007.10.025

In this paper we consider several reachability problems such as vector reachability, membership in matrix semigroups and reachability problems in piecewise linear maps. Since all of these questions are undecidable in general, we work on lowering the... Read More about On undecidability bounds for matrix decision problems.

Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis in Full Eigenspace (2008)
Book Chapter
Mandal. (2008). Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis in Full Eigenspace. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2007, June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas Nevada, (235-241)

This work proposes a method which enables us to perform kernel Fisher discriminant analysis in the whole
eigenspace for face recognition. It employs the ratio of eigenvalues to decompose the entire kernel feature space into two subspaces: a reliable... Read More about Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis in Full Eigenspace.

Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in coated or uncoated elastic half-spaces (2007)
Book Chapter
(2007). Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in coated or uncoated elastic half-spaces. In Waves in Nonlinear Pre-Stressed Materials (103-127)

In these lectures, we discuss three closely related topics. We first discuss derivation of the nonlinear evolution equation for surface acoustic waves and show that all known methods of derivation should and do give the same evolution equation. We th... Read More about Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in coated or uncoated elastic half-spaces.

A note on perturbation formulae for the surface-wave speed due to perturbations in material properties (2007)
Journal Article
(2007). A note on perturbation formulae for the surface-wave speed due to perturbations in material properties. Journal of Elasticity, 187 - 192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-007-9130-4

In a recent paper by Tanuma and Man, a two-term asymptotic formula was derived for the speed of surface waves propagating in an anisotropic elastic half-space whose elastic moduli differ only slightly from those for a (base) isotropic elastic materia... Read More about A note on perturbation formulae for the surface-wave speed due to perturbations in material properties.