Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation. Artificial Life, 307 - 313. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00320

In May 2019, a workshop on principled development of future agent-based simulations was held at Keele University. Participants spanned companies and academia, and a range of domains of interest, as well as participant career stages. This report summa... Read More about Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation.

Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction (2020)
Journal Article
Felici, M., Patané, A., Polimeni, A., Clark, J., Balakrishnan, N., Clark, J. N., …Pettinari, G. (2020). Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction. communications materials, 1, Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-0021-6

Coherent x-ray diffractive imaging is a nondestructive technique that extracts three-dimensional electron density and strain maps from materials with nanometer resolution. It has been utilized for materials in a range of applications, and has signifi... Read More about Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction.

A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane (2020)
Journal Article
Wootton, P. T., Prikazchikov, D., & Kaplunov, J. (2020). A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 85(1), 113 - 131. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxz037

We derive a second-order correction to an existing leading-order model for surface waves in linear elasticity. The same hyperbolic–elliptic equation form is obtained with a correction term added to the surface boundary condition. The validity of the... Read More about A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane.

Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space (2020)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, Kaplunov, & Fu. (2020). Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 20190590 - 20190590. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0590

Near-surface resonance phenomena often arise in semi-infinite solids. For instance, when a moving load with a speed v close to the surface wave speed vR is applied to the surface of an elastic half-space, it will give rise to a large-amplitude distur... Read More about Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space.

The trade-off between usability and security in the context of eGovernment (2019)
Thesis
Alshamsi, A. J. A. A. (2019). The trade-off between usability and security in the context of eGovernment. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/415214

Electronic government (e-government) implements a wide range of online services that are supported by the latest information communication technology (ICT) and accessible by devices that have great mobility in delivering services to citizens. The ong... Read More about The trade-off between usability and security in the context of eGovernment.

Multi-parametric dynamic analysis of lightweight elastic laminates (2019)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, D., Kaplunov, J., & Prikazchikova, L. (2019). Multi-parametric dynamic analysis of lightweight elastic laminates. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/683/1/012014

Multi-parametric asymptotic analysis of dynamic phenomena in lightweight three-layered structures is performed. The presence of high contrast in densities of skin and core layers may lead to the small value of the lowest shear thickness resonance fre... Read More about Multi-parametric dynamic analysis of lightweight elastic laminates.

Anomaly Detection for IoT Time-Series Data: A Survey (2019)
Journal Article
Misirli, & Fan. (2019). Anomaly Detection for IoT Time-Series Data: A Survey. IEEE Internet of Things, https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2019.2958185

Abstract—Anomaly detection is a problem with applications
for a wide variety of domains, it involves the identification of novel or unexpected observations or sequences within the data being captured. The majority of current anomaly detection method... Read More about Anomaly Detection for IoT Time-Series Data: A Survey.

Hierarchical Syntactic Models for Human Activity Recognition through Mobility Traces (2019)
Journal Article
Casella, E., Ortolani, M., Silvestri, S., & Das, S. K. (2020). Hierarchical Syntactic Models for Human Activity Recognition through Mobility Traces. Personal Technologies, 24, 451-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01319-9

Recognizing users’ daily life activities without disrupting their lifestyle is a key functionality to enable a broad variety of advanced services for a Smart City, from energy-efficient management of urban spaces to mobility optimization. In this pap... Read More about Hierarchical Syntactic Models for Human Activity Recognition through Mobility Traces.

Hierarchical Syntactic Models for Human Activity Recognition through Mobility Traces (2019)
Journal Article
Casella, E., Ortolani, M., Silvestri, S., & Das, S. K. (2019). Hierarchical Syntactic Models for Human Activity Recognition through Mobility Traces. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 24, 451-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01319-9

Recognizing users’ daily life activities without disrupting their lifestyle is a key functionality to enable a broad variety of advanced services for a Smart City, from energy-efficient management of urban spaces to mobility optimization. In this pa... Read More about Hierarchical Syntactic Models for Human Activity Recognition through Mobility Traces.

A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Garau, M., Nieves, M., Carta, G., & Brun, M. (2019). A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials. . https://doi.org/10.1109/MetaMaterials.2019.8900841

The design of a structured gyro-elastic system capable of being used as a cloaking device for a discrete medium is discussed. The efficiency of the gyro-elastic cloak, composed of springs connecting periodically placed masses, attached to gyroscopic... Read More about A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials.

Extracting Cancer pagurus stomatogastric ganglion pyloric rhythm frequency via voltage-sensitive dye imaging data using signal processing techniques (2019)
Thesis
dos Santos, F. (2019). Extracting Cancer pagurus stomatogastric ganglion pyloric rhythm frequency via voltage-sensitive dye imaging data using signal processing techniques. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414939

Voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDI) has been widely used in the past few decades in both vertebrates and invertebrates to study, in vitro and in vivo, the nervous systems. Cancer pagurus is a seawater crab whose nervous system has a ganglion, the st... Read More about Extracting Cancer pagurus stomatogastric ganglion pyloric rhythm frequency via voltage-sensitive dye imaging data using signal processing techniques.

Towards visualising change-based models (2019)
Presentation / Conference
(2019, September). Towards visualising change-based models. Presented at ME 2019 : Models and Evolution Workshop, Munich, Germany

This paper extends our previous work on change-based model persistence and demonstrates a tool that can replay the construction change-based model. The tool takes a change-based persistence file as input and plays it in the form of evolving diagrams... Read More about Towards visualising change-based models.

Enhanced Deep Video Summarization Network (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gonuguntla, N., Mandal, B., & Puhan, N. (2019, September). Enhanced Deep Video Summarization Network. Paper presented at 30th British Machine Vision Conference, Cardiff

Video summarization is understanding video which aims to get an abstract view of the original video sequence by the concatenation of keyframes representing the highlights of the video. In this work, we propose an enhanced deep summarization network (... Read More about Enhanced Deep Video Summarization Network.

Improved Lifelog Ego-centric Video Summarization Using Ensemble of Deep Learned Object Features (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mandal, B., & Mainwaring, P. (2019, September). Improved Lifelog Ego-centric Video Summarization Using Ensemble of Deep Learned Object Features. Presented at 30th British Machine Vision Conference, Cardiff

The ImageCLEF 2017 lifelog summarization challenge [10, 12] was established to develop a benchmark for summarizing egocentric lifelogging videos based on our daily activities, such as ‘commute to work’ or ‘cooking at home’. In this paper, we propose... Read More about Improved Lifelog Ego-centric Video Summarization Using Ensemble of Deep Learned Object Features.

Scalability Analysis Comparisons of Cloud-based Software Services (2019)
Journal Article
Al-Said Ahmad, A., & Andras, P. (in press). Scalability Analysis Comparisons of Cloud-based Software Services. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 8, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-019-0134-y

Performance and scalability testing and measurements of cloud-based software services are necessary for future optimizations and growth of cloud computing. Scalability, elasticity, and efficiency are interrelated aspects of cloud-based software servi... Read More about Scalability Analysis Comparisons of Cloud-based Software Services.

Environmental Harshness and Fitness Improving Innovations (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Environmental Harshness and Fitness Improving Innovations. Artificial Life, 300-307. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00179

Fitness improving innovations occur in populations of organisms as genetic changes (mutations) that allow better fit with the environmental niche of the organisms. Similarly, fitness improving innovations may occur in the context of human communities... Read More about Environmental Harshness and Fitness Improving Innovations.

The Limits of Lexicase Selection in an Evolutionary Robotics Task (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The Limits of Lexicase Selection in an Evolutionary Robotics Task. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00220

Agents exhibiting generalized control are capable of solving a theme of related tasks, rather than a specific instance. Here, generalized control pertains to the locomotive capacity of quadrupedal animats, evaluated when climbing over walls of varyin... Read More about The Limits of Lexicase Selection in an Evolutionary Robotics Task.

Towards Efficient Comparison of Change-Based Models (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Towards Efficient Comparison of Change-Based Models. https://doi.org/10.5381/jot.2019.18.2.aN

Comparison of large models can be time-consuming since every element has to be visited, matched, and compared with its respective element in other models. This can result in bottlenecks in collaborative modelling environments, where identifying diffe... Read More about Towards Efficient Comparison of Change-Based Models.

Playing with patterns (2019)
Book Chapter
(2019). Playing with patterns. In From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation (103-122)

Is a tribute to Susan Stepney’s ideas and achievements in the areas of computer science, complex systems, formal programming, unconventional computing, artificial chemistry and cybernetics

Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.3. (2019)
Journal Article
Misirli. (2019). Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.3. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2019-0025

Synthetic biology builds upon the techniques and successes of genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. The field still faces substantial challenges, including long... Read More about Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.3..