Exploring Users Attitudes towards Social Interaction Assistance on Google Glass (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xu, Q., Mukawa, M., Li, L., Hwee Lim, J., Tan, C., Ching Chia, S., Gan, T., & Mandal, B. (2015, March). Exploring Users Attitudes towards Social Interaction Assistance on Google Glass. Presented at 6th Augmented Human International Conference, Singapore

Wearable vision brings about new opportunities for augmenting humans in social interactions. However, along with it comes privacy concerns and possible information overload. We explore users' needs and attitudes toward augmented interaction in face-t... Read More about Exploring Users Attitudes towards Social Interaction Assistance on Google Glass.

PD disease state assessment in naturalistic environments using deep learning (2015)
Presentation / Conference
(2015, January). PD disease state assessment in naturalistic environments using deep learning. Presented at The Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, USA

A Game Theoretic Optimization Framework for Home Demand Management Incorporating Local Energy Resources (2015)
Journal Article
Fan. (2015). A Game Theoretic Optimization Framework for Home Demand Management Incorporating Local Energy Resources. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 353 - 362. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2390035

Facilitated by advanced ICT infrastructure and optimization techniques, smart grid has the potential to bring significant benefits to the energy consumption management. This paper presents a game theoretic consumption scheduling framework based on th... Read More about A Game Theoretic Optimization Framework for Home Demand Management Incorporating Local Energy Resources.

Where antibiotic resistance mutations meet quorum-sensing (2014)
Journal Article
Channon. (2014). Where antibiotic resistance mutations meet quorum-sensing. Microbial Cell, 250 - 252. https://doi.org/10.15698/mic2014.07.158

We do not need to rehearse the grim story of the global rise of antibiotic resistant microbes. But what if it were possible to control the rate with which antibiotic resistance evolves by de novo mutation? It seems that some bacteria may already do e... Read More about Where antibiotic resistance mutations meet quorum-sensing.

M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Fan. (2014). M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective. IEEE Wireless Communications, 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2014.6757898

An overview of several standardization activities for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is presented, analyzing some of the enabling technologies and applications of M2M in industry sectors such as Smart Grid and e-Health. This summary and over... Read More about M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective.

QoS-Aware Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks (2013)
Journal Article
De Paola, A., Lo Re, G., Milazzo, F., & Ortolani, M. (2013). QoS-Aware Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/165732

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a fundamental building block of many pervasive applications. Nevertheless the use of such technology raises new challenges regarding the development of reliable and fault-tolerant systems. One of the most critical... Read More about QoS-Aware Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Defect detection in reinforced concrete using random neural architectures (2013)
Journal Article
Butcher, J., Day, C., Austin, J., Haycock, P., Verstraeten, D., & Schrauwen, B. (2014). Defect detection in reinforced concrete using random neural architectures. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 29(3), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12039

Detecting defects within reinforced concrete is vital to the safety and durability of our built infrastructure upon which we heavily rely. In this work a non-invasive technique, ElectroMagnetic Anomaly Detection (EMAD), is used which provides informa... Read More about Defect detection in reinforced concrete using random neural architectures.

A systematic review of systematic review process in software engineering (2013)
Journal Article
(2013). A systematic review of systematic review process in software engineering. Information and Software Technology, 2049 -2075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.07.010

Context
Many researchers adopting systematic reviews (SRs) have also published papers discussing problems with the SR methodology and suggestions for improving it. Since guidelines for SRs in software engineering (SE) were last updated in 2007, we b... Read More about A systematic review of systematic review process in software engineering.

Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size in haploid and diploid populations. (2013)
Other
(2013). Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size in haploid and diploid populations

Understanding the effect of population size on the key parameters of evolution is particularly important for populations nearing extinction. There are evolutionary pressures to evolve sequences that are both fit and robust. At high mutation rates, in... Read More about Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size in haploid and diploid populations..

Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1002-1017. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2012.76

Context: Several text books and papers published between 2000 and 2002 have attempted to introduce experimental design and statistical methods to software engineers undertaking empirical studies. Objective: This paper investigates whether there has b... Read More about Trends in the quality of human-centric software engineering experiments – a quasi-experiment.

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.

What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE? (2012)
Book Chapter
(2012). What scope is there for adopting evidence-informed teaching in SE?. In 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012 2-9 June 2012, Zurich, Switzerland ; proceedings (1205-1214). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227022

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.

A biologically inspired model of the head direction system of rats implemented on a robot (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2011, December). A biologically inspired model of the head direction system of rats implemented on a robot. Presented at ERLARS 2011 - 4th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, Berlin

Theory and practice of optimal mutation rate control in hamming spaces of DNA sequences (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Channon. (2011, August). Theory and practice of optimal mutation rate control in hamming spaces of DNA sequences. Presented at European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris

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.