Computer Science (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Personalised Learning for Casual Games: The 'Language Trap' Online Language Learning Game
(Academic Publishing, 2010)The features of video games that contribute to effective learning are drawing increasing attention in the world of technology enhanced learning. To date, game based learning has focussed on the learning benefits provided ... -
Using Multimedia to Reveal the Hidden Code of Everyday Behaviour to Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)
(2011)This paper describes a framework which was developed for carers (teachers and parents) to help them create personalised social stories for children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs). It explores the social challenges ... -
Exploiting proximity in event-based Middleware for collaborative mobile applications
(Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2003)Middleware supporting event-based communication is widely recognized as being well suited to mobile applications since it naturally accommodates a dynamically changing population of interacting entities and the dynamic ... -
Managing Fault Tolerance Transparently using CORBA Services
(Springer-Verlag, 1999)Fault tolerance problems arise in large-scale distributed systems because application components may eventually fail due to hardware problems, operator mistakes or design faults. Fault tolerance mechanisms must be employed ... -
Communication Paradigms for Mobile Computing
(ACM, 2002)The widespread deployment and use of wireless data communications causes the need for middleware to interconnect the components that comprise a mobile application. Middleware for mobile computing must deal with the ... -
Implementation of an AmI Communication Service using a Federated Event System Based on Aspects
(IEEE, 2006)Event-based communication can be considered naturally suited to support Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing applications due to its asynchronous nature and due to loose coupling between application components. Event ... -
Modelling Event Systems for AmI Applications using an Aspect Middleware Platform
(2006)The development of a communication service is one of the most difficult and important challenges when developing Ambient Intelligence (AmI) applications. Since AmI applications must be able to react to external ... -
Discovery of Stable Peers in a Self-Organising Peer-to-Peer Gradient Topology
(Springer-Verlag, 2006)Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are characterised by a wide disparity in peer resources and capabilities. In particular, a number of measurements on deployed P2P systems show that peer stability (e.g. uptime) varies by several ... -
High-Bandwidth Mesh-based Overlay Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments
(ACM Press, 2006)In this paper we present MeshCast, a peer-to-peer (p2p) multicast protocol for applications requiring high bandwidth (such as live video streaming) from a server to a large number of receivers. Traditional tree-based ... -
A Service-Oriented Peer-to-Peer Architecture for a Digital Ecosystem
(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)Service-oriented computing is becoming an increasingly popular paradigm for modelling and building distributed systems in heterogeneous, decentralised, and open environments. However, proposed service-oriented architectures ... -
Taxonomy of Distributed Event-Based Programming Systems
(IEEE Computer Society, 2002)This paper presents a survey of existing event systems structured as a taxonomy of distributed event-based programming systems. Our taxonomy identifies a set of fundamental properties of event-based programming systems ... -
Novel Component Middleware for Building Dependable Sentient Computing Applications
(2004)With advances in sensor-based computing and mobile communication, people have started to explore ubiquitous or pervasive computing systems that aim to have computing devices literally available everywhere, making them ... -
A Distributed Framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems
(2005)Integrating individual intelligent transportation systems into comprehensive platforms is a key challenge faced by transport authorities in the provision of optimal service s to users. The use of an ITS architecture ... -
Binding- and Port-Agnostic Service Composition using a P2P SOA
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 2005)The assumption of the availability of port information at design time of service compositions in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) is not valid for an increasing number of hosts on the Internet that do not have a ... -
Using Aggregation for Adaptive Super-Peer Discovery on the Gradient Topology
(Springer-Verlag, 2006)Peer-to-peer environments exhibit a very high diversity in individual peer characteristics ranging by orders of magnitude in terms of uptime, available bandwidth, and storage space. Many systems attempt to exploit this ... -
Towards Improving the Availability of Service Compositions
(IEEE, 2007)The proliferation of open Internet-scale serviceoriented platforms based on standards, such as WSDL, SOAP and BPEL, enables the composition of independent web services into new value-added services. Such service ... -
Primary-Context Model and Ontology: A Combined Approach for Pervasive Transportation Services
(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)Advanced pervasive transportation services aim to improve the safety and efficiency of public and private transportation facilities, while reducing operating costs and improving the travel experience for drivers, passengers ... -
STIS: Smart Travel Planning Across Multiple Modes of Transportation
(IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007)Travellers require information on individual transport systems when planning a journey. Many transportrich urban environments contain numerous underlying transport infrastructures, offering a traveller various ways to ... -
Tree-based Analysis of Mesh Overlays for Peer-to-Peer Streaming
(Springer-Verlag, 2008)Mesh-based P2P streaming approaches have been recently proposed as an interesting alternative to tree-based approaches. However, many properties of mesh overlays remain little understood as they are difficult to study due ... -
Feature Interaction in Pervasive Computing Systems
(2008)Feature interaction describes a situation where the combination of two or more services that individually perform correctly results in unexpected and possibly adverse behaviour. Such feature interaction issues have first ...
