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Buckling of an elastic half-space with surface imperfections (1999)
Book Chapter
(1999). Buckling of an elastic half-space with surface imperfections. In 1st Canadian Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: CanCNSM, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 16-June 20, 1999 (99 -107)

Over the years, linear analysis of the stability of pre-stressed elastic half-spaces has been carried out for various kinds of materials and various forms of pre-stress; see Biot (1965), Nowinski (1969a, b), Willson (1973a, b), Usmani \& Beatty (1974... Read More about Buckling of an elastic half-space with surface imperfections.

Perpetuating evolutionary emergence (1998)
Book Chapter
Channon. (1998). Perpetuating evolutionary emergence. In From Animals to Animats 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB98), Zurich (534 -539)

Perpetuating evolutionary emergence is the key to artificially evolving increasingly complex systems. In order to generate complex entities with adaptive behaviors beyond our manual design capability, longterm incremental evolution with continuing em... Read More about Perpetuating evolutionary emergence.

Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Pre-stressed Elastic Half-space (1996)
Book Chapter
(1996). Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Pre-stressed Elastic Half-space. In Contemporary research in the mechanics and mathematics of materials (164 -175)

In this paper the nonlinear evolution of near-neutral modes in a pre-stressed elastic half-space governed by an infinite system of evolution equations is discussed. The theory is illustrated for the case in which the pre-stress is a uniaxial compress... Read More about Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Pre-stressed Elastic Half-space.

Spontaneous vs. Posed smiles - can we tell the difference?
Presentation / Conference
Mandal. Spontaneous vs. Posed smiles - can we tell the difference?. Presented at International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing

Smile is an irrefutable expression that shows the physical state of the mind in both true and deceptive ways. Generally, it shows happy state of the mind, however, ‘smiles’ can be deceptive, for example people can give a smile when they feel happy an... Read More about Spontaneous vs. Posed smiles - can we tell the difference?.

Interactive computer graphics in multivariate statistical research
Thesis
Grundy, A. F. Interactive computer graphics in multivariate statistical research. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413622

The value of interactive computing and of interactive computer graphics is discussed with particular reference to the study of statistical data. A system designed for interactive graphics for multivariate statistics is described, including a command... Read More about Interactive computer graphics in multivariate statistical research.

The uses of interactive computer graphics for solving differential equations
Thesis
The uses of interactive computer graphics for solving differential equations. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414409

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the use of interactive computer graphics in a system of programs designed to solve ordinary and partial differential equations.
The first chapter is an overall introduction to the work carried out and is foll... Read More about The uses of interactive computer graphics for solving differential equations.

The emergence and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artificial evolutionary systems
Thesis
The emergence and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artificial evolutionary systems. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410300

The questions to be addressed here are all aimed at beginning to assess the emergence and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artificial evolutionary systems. Like any biological adaptation, the adaptation to process and use social inf... Read More about The emergence and utility of social behaviour and social learning in artificial evolutionary systems.

Run-time diagnostics in programming languages with data-structuring facilities
Thesis
Run-time diagnostics in programming languages with data-structuring facilities. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/416621

Modern high level programming languages have been designed with the intention of providing the means of expressing the solution to a problem in the most natural way possible. This thesis is concerned with the correctness of such solutions.
The relia... Read More about Run-time diagnostics in programming languages with data-structuring facilities.

Reliable file storage in a distributed computing system
Thesis
Reliable file storage in a distributed computing system. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/416853

This thesis considers the problem of how to construct a file-store which is reliable in terms of high accessibility of data and low likelihood of data loss. In particular the problem is discussed in the context of a local area network computer archit... Read More about Reliable file storage in a distributed computing system.

Process survivability in a distributed computer control system
Thesis
Trueman, P. Process survivability in a distributed computer control system. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/415366

Possibly the greatest advantage that a distributed computer control system has over a centralised control system is that the failure of one or more of its constituent computers does not prevent the other computers from operating normally. Unfortunate... Read More about Process survivability in a distributed computer control system.

The usability of knowledge based authentication methods on mobile devices
Thesis
The usability of knowledge based authentication methods on mobile devices. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/403806

Mobile devices are providing ever increasing functionality to users, and the risks associated with applications storing personal details are high. Graphical authentication methods have been shown to provide better security in terms of password space... Read More about The usability of knowledge based authentication methods on mobile devices.

An empirical investigation into the effectiveness of a robot simulator as a tool to support the learning of introductory programming
Thesis
An empirical investigation into the effectiveness of a robot simulator as a tool to support the learning of introductory programming. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/404169

Background: Robots have been used in the past as tools to aid the teaching of programming. There
is limited evidence, however, about the effectiveness of simulated robots for this purpose.

Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of a robot simulato... Read More about An empirical investigation into the effectiveness of a robot simulator as a tool to support the learning of introductory programming.

Objective predictors of subjective aesthetic ratings of web pages
Thesis
Williams, N. K. Objective predictors of subjective aesthetic ratings of web pages. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/407036

This research is concerned with the effect of visual stimulus on decision--making and opinions, what visual aspects of a page affect very early impressions of web sites, and how this relates to computational methods of prediction and evaluation of we... Read More about Objective predictors of subjective aesthetic ratings of web pages.