Publications

Dyson, LE 2007, 'Managing the Environmental Impact of Information Technology' in Quigley, M (ed), Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security, IGI Global, Hershey, USA, pp. 433-439.
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This article explores a much under-researched field of ethics: the impact of information technology (IT) on the environment. Reducing the ecological impact of IT requires a holistic approach including better design of computers, the development of non-polluting manufacturing processes, and effective management strategies. The latter have received much attention in recent years. The three main areas of management focus have been the problems of hardware disposal, the energy consumed by computer technology in operation, and paper usage by printers and photocopiers.

Dyson, LE 2007, 'Wireless Applications in Africa' in Dyson, LE, Hendriks, M & Grant, S (eds), Information Technology and Indigenous People, IGI Global, Hershey, pp. 286-294.
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This chapter examines wireless technologies in Africa, with special reference to indigenous minority populations. In a continent with limited infrastructure, itinerant populations, low literacy levels and little money to spend on technology, wireless is proving an effective solution. Four implementations are examined to demonstrate how new approaches to mobile design are producing culturally and environmentally appropriate technology: the Himba’s satellite-based mobile telephone network, Cyber Sherpherd, Cybertracker and WorldSpace satellite Internet radios.

Dyson, LE & Koruth, S 2007, 'Improving Business Performance through Supply Chain Intelligence: An Australian Perspective' in Murthy, GGK (ed), Value Creation in Organisations: The Tangible and Intangible Drivers, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, pp. 195-209.
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Organizations, around the world are increasingly becoming aware of the fact that competitive success depends on how well a supply chain works in delivering value to customers. Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) is a tool derived from data warehousing technology, which enables the partners of a supply chain to collaborate by providing visibility of information and online analytical capabilities across the chain. Globalization, customer demand, complexity in the business environment, and the availability of new technology are all driving companies to adopt SCI. In this paper, the benefits and challenges of implementing SCI are discussed from an Australian perspective with the example of an Australian manufacturer who has successfully adopted SCI.

Dyson, LE, Hendriks, M & Grant, S 2007, 'Future Directions' in Information Technology and Indigenous People, IGI Global, pp. 314-315.
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This book has demonstrated that the use of information technology within indigenous communities and by indigenous peoples is no longer an issue of debate but a proven fact. It is no longer a dream of the future but is the reality of today.

Grant, S, Hendriks, M & Dyson, LE 2007, 'The Indigenous Pre-IT Program' in Dyson, LE, Hendriks, M & Grant, S (eds), Information Technology and Indigenous People, IGI Global, Hershey, pp. 126-131.
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From January 12-24, 2004 the Faculty of Information Technology, at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), conducted the first Pre-IT program for indigenous students in Australia. The program was run successfully for a second time in July 2005, with a another planned for 2006. The Pre-IT grew out of the Indigenous Participation in Information Technology (IPIT) Project which began at UTS in 2002. The purpose of the IPIT Project is to increase the participation of indigenous Australians in IT studies and careers (Robertson, Dyson, Norman, & Buckley, 2002).

Lu, J, Bai, C & Zhang, G 2007, 'E-Service Cost Benefit Evaluation and Analysis' in Lu, J, Ruan, D & Zhang, G (eds), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Deblick, Germany, pp. 389-409.
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Lu, J, Ruan, D & Zhang, G 2007, 'E-Service Intelligence: An Introduction' in Lu, J, Ruan, D & Zhang, G (eds), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Deblick, Germany, pp. 1-33.
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E-service intelligence is a new research field that deals with fundamental roles, social impacts and practical applications of various intelligent technologies on the Internet based e-service applications that are provided by e-government, e-business, e-commerce, e-market, e-finance, and e-learning systems, to name a few. This chapter offers a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the new field e-service intelligence mainly based on computational intelligence techniques. It covers the state-of-the-art of the research and development in various aspects including both theorems and applications of e-service intelligence. Moreover, it demonstrates how adaptations of existing computational intelligent technologies benefit from the development of e-service applications in online customer decision, personalized services, web mining, online searching/data retrieval, and various web-based support systems. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.

Nataatmadja, I & Dyson, L 2007, 'The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Managing Cultural Diversity in the Modern Workforce' in Law, WK (ed), Information Resources Management, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 283-304.
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This chapter demonstrates how managers can use information and communication technology (ICT) more effectively in culturally diverse workforces. Basing our analysis on the cultural dimensions of Hofstede and Hall, we compare a range of ICTs and provide a chart summarizing their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, a framework for developing ICT is proposed, and an example of its application to a global organization is presented. The study shows that none of the existing ICT tools is perfect in all situations and all cultural contexts. Therefore, managers need to provide a variety of ICTs to their employees, and developers should build flexibility into their ICT designs.

O’Neill, T, Denford, M, Leaney, J & Dunsire, K 2007, 'Managing Enterprise Architecture Change' in Pallab Saha (ed), Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice, IGI Global, USA, pp. 192-205.
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Enterprise architecture (EA) is the recognised place where the engineering practice of systems architecture meets real-world enterprise needs. The enterprise computer-based systems employed by organisations today can be extremely complex. These systems are essential for undertaking business and general operations in the modern environment, and yet the ability of organisations to control their evolution is questionable. The emerging practice of enterprise architecture seeks to control that complexity through the use of a holistic and top-down perspective. However, the methodologies and toolsets already in use are very much bottom-up by nature. An architecture-based approach is herein proposed; one that has at its base a complete and formal architectural description (or model). This allows enterprise architects, strategists, and designers to confidently model, predict, and control the emergent properties of their respective systems from an architectural point of view. The authors conclude that by using an approach founded upon an architectural model to analyse software and enterprise systems, architects can guide the design and evolution of architectures based on quantifiable nonfunctional requirements. Furthermore, hierarchical 3D visualisation provides a meaningful and intuitive means for conceiving and communicating complex architectures.

Sidhu, AS, Kennedy, PJ & Simoff, S 2007, 'Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Data Facilitated by Domain Ontologies' in Zhu, X & Davidson, I (eds), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, IGI Global, Hershey, USA, pp. 189-201.
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In some real-world areas, it is important to enrich the data with external background knowledge so as to provide context and to facilitate pattern recognition. These areas may be described as data rich but knowledge poor. There are two challenges to incorporate this biological knowledge into the data mining cycle: (1) generating the ontologies; and (2) adapting the data mining algorithms to make use of the ontologies. This chapter presents the state-of-the-art in bringing the background ontology knowledge into the pattern recognition task for biomedical data.

Ying, M 2007, 'Quantum logic and automata theory' in Engesser, K, Gabbay, DM & Lehmann, D (eds), Handbook of Quantum Logic and Quantum Structures, Elsevier, London, UK, pp. 619-754.
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It is noted that a theory of computation based on quantum logic is to be established as a logical foundation of quantum computation. Finite automata and pushdown automata are considered the simplest abstract mathematical models of computing machines. Automata theory is an essential part of computation theory. This chapter describes a systematic exposition of automata theory. In context to this theory, quantum logic is treated as an orthomodular lattice-valued logic. The approach employed in developing this theory is essentially the semantical analysis. This chapter introduces notions of orthomodular lattice-valued finite automata and pushdown automata and their various variants. It defines the classes of languages accepted-namely, orthomodular lattice-valued regular languages and context-free languages. This chapter also re-examines various properties of automata in the framework of quantum logic, including the Kleene theorem concerning equivalence between finite automata and regular expressions, equivalence between pushdown automata and context-free grammars, and the pumping lemma both for regular languages and for context-free languages. © 2007 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Ying, M 2007, 'Quantum Logic and Automata Theory' in Handbook of Quantum Logic and Quantum Structures Quantum Structures, pp. 619-754.
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It is noted that a theory of computation based on quantum logic is to be established as a logical foundation of quantum computation. Finite automata and pushdown automata are considered the simplest abstract mathematical models of computing machines. Automata theory is an essential part of computation theory. This chapter describes a systematic exposition of automata theory. In context to this theory, quantum logic is treated as an orthomodular lattice-valued logic. The approach employed in developing this theory is essentially the semantical analysis. This chapter introduces notions of orthomodular lattice-valued finite automata and pushdown automata and their various variants. It defines the classes of languages accepted-namely, orthomodular lattice-valued regular languages and context-free languages. This chapter also re-examines various properties of automata in the framework of quantum logic, including the Kleene theorem concerning equivalence between finite automata and regular expressions, equivalence between pushdown automata and context-free grammars, and the pumping lemma both for regular languages and for context-free languages.

Zhang, G, Lu, J & Dillon, T 2007, 'Fuzzy Linear Bilevel Optimization: Solution Concepts, Approaches and Applications' in Wang, PP, Ruan, D & Kerre, EE (eds), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 351-379.
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Bilevel programming provides a means of supporting two level non-cooperative decision-making. When a decision maker at the upper level (the leader) attempts to optimize an objective, the decision maker at the lower level (the follower) tries to find an optimized strategy according to each of the possible decisions made by the leader. A bilevel decision model is normally based on experts’ understanding of possible choices made by decision makers at both levels. The parameters, either in the objective functions or constraints of the leader or the follower in a bilevel decision model, are therefore hard to characterize by precise values. Hence this study proposes a fuzzy parameter linear bilevel programming model and its solution concept. It then develops three approaches to solve the proposed fuzzy linear bilevel programming problems by applying fuzzy set techniques. Finally, a numerical example and a case study illustrate the applications of the proposed three approaches.

Azadeh, A, Ghaderi, SF, Anvari, M & Saberi, M 2007, 'Performance assessment of electric power generations using an adaptive neural network algorithm', Energy Policy, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 3155-3166.
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Azadeh, A, Ghaderi, SF, Anvari, M, Saberi, M & Izadbakhsh, H 2007, 'An integrated artificial neural network and fuzzy clustering algorithm for performance assessment of decision making units', Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 187, no. 2, pp. 584-599.
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Azadeh, A, Ghaderi, SF, Tarverdian, S & Saberi, M 2007, 'Integration of artificial neural networks and genetic algorithm to predict electrical energy consumption', Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 186, no. 2, pp. 1731-1741.
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Beydoun, G, Kultchitsky, R & Manasseh, G 2007, 'Evolving semantic web with social navigation', EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 265-276.
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Brown Gaddis, EJ, Vladich, H & Voinov, A 2007, 'Participatory modeling and the dilemma of diffuse nitrogen management in a residential watershed', Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 619-629.
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Cao, Y, Ying, M & Chen, G 2007, 'Retraction and generalized extension of computing with words', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1238-1250.
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Fuzzy automata, whose input alphabet is a set of numbers or symbols, are a formal model of computing with values. Motivated by Zadeh's paradigm of computing with words rather than numbers, Ying proposed a kind of fuzzy automata, whose input alphabet cons

Cao, Y, Ying, M & Chen, G 2007, 'State-based control of fuzzy discrete-event systems', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART B-CYBERNETICS, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 410-424.
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To effectively represent possibility arising from states and dynamics of a system, fuzzy discrete-event systems (DESs) as a generalization of conventional DESs have been introduced recently. Supervisory-control theory based on event feedback has been well established for such systems. Noting that the system state description, from the viewpoint of specification, seems more convenient, we investigate the state-based control of fuzzy DESs in this paper. An approach to finding all fuzzy states that are reachable by controlling the system is presented first. After introducing the notion of controllability for fuzzy states, a necessary and sufficient condition for a set of fuzzy states to be controllable is then provided. It was also found that event- and state-based controls are not equivalent, and the relationship between them was further discussed. Finally, we examine the possibility of driving a fuzzy DES under control from a given initial state to a prescribed set of fuzzy states and then keeping it there indefinitely

Carbone, A, de Raadt, M, Kay, J, Lister, R, Litchfield, A, Raban, R, Roe, P, Santamaria, D, Sheard, J, Shepherd, J, Solomon, A & Thomas, R 2007, 'The carrick vision and computing education: Four case studies in multi-institutional collaboration', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, vol. 66, pp. 3-8.
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The Carrick Institute is an initiative of the Australia federal government. It is aimed at generating strategic change in Australian University education, via grants and other awards to approximately $20 million annually. By previous Australian standards, the potential funding for projects is large. However, the Carrick Institute has a well focused vision, and grant applications need to be aligned with that vision. This paper first describes some key aspects of the Carrick vision, before describing four multi-institutional computing education projects that successfully attracted funding from the Carrick Institute in 2006. Three of the projects are funded under Carrick's Priority Program, and are concerned with different aspects of automated assessment: (1) assessing Unix scripting skills, (2) self and peer assessment in groupwork, and (3) the assessment of novice programmers. The fourth project is funded under Carrick's Disciplinary-Based Initiatives Scheme. Commonalities in the structure of these three projects are observed.

Catchpoole, D, DeFazio, A, Devereux, L, Fleming, M, Hof, M, Schmidt, C, Thorne, H & Zeps, N 2007, 'The importance of biorepository networks: The Australasian Biospecimen Network - Oncology', Australian Journal of Medical Science, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 16-20.
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The value of banking human tissue samples for research is recognised as necessary for progress into understanding human disease and has led to the establishment of biorepositories throughout the research community. While single institution tissue banks have been highly beneficial, it has become clear that information and resource sharing between banks has great potential to increase the number and overall value of tissue specimens available to medical researchers. Recognising this potential for enhancing already valuable tissue resources led to the establishment of the Australasian Biospecimen Network (ABN) in late 2001 and the ABN-Oncology consortium in 2004. The ABN seeks to build on existing cooperation and collaboration by establishing an Australia-wide network of tissue biorepositories that collect cancer related tissue using established and accepted guidelines and protocols. The coordinated networking of tissue banks has led to a significant enhancement of biospecimens for research that will eventually increase our understanding of human diseases including cancer.

Catchpoole, D, Lail, A, Guo, D, Chen, Q-R & Khan, J 2007, 'Gene expression profiles that segregate patients with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: An independent validation study identifies that endoglin associates with patient outcome', Leukemia Research, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1741-1747.
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In this report, we determine whether genes identified in a previously reported cDNA microarray investigation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) diagnostic bone marrow have the same distinguishing power in an independently derived cDNA microarray dataset from an equivalent but distinct patient cohort. Genes previously reported as discriminatory, generally were unable to distinguish ALL lymphocyte lineages, the presence of the Tel-AML1 translocation and patient risk stratification. An artificial neural network identified endoglin, which was reported in the initial study as a potential lineage marker, was actually better at identifying ALL patients with poor outcome. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Cetindamar, D 2007, 'Corporate Social Responsibility Practices and Environmentally Responsible Behavior: The Case of The United Nations Global Compact', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 163-176.
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Cetindamar, D 2007, 'Making use of biotechnology applications in Turkish agriculture: Why is it not yet happening?', Int. J. of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, vol. 6, no. 4/5, pp. 576-591.
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One of the primary challenges for developing countries is to create new opportunities for sustainable economic development through the use of new technologies such as biotechnology. In this context, the use of agricultural biotechnology to produce cheap biofuel made from agricultural crops as well as agricultural waste (cellulose) might have a great potential to promote rural development in Turkey. Yet, in order to make it happen it needs a clear commitment of the Turkish government. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Turkish Science and Technology Policy in making better use of biotechnology to address the country's economic, environmental and social challenges. The insufficient use knowledge to promote endogenous economic development is related to inadequate regulation of science and technology in Turkey and the lack of political leadership in the effective implemenation of national initiatives to promote technological innovation.

Cetindamar, D 2007, 'Making use of biotechnology applications in Turkish agriculture: Why is it not yet happening?', International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, vol. 6, no. 4/5, pp. 576-576.
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One of the primary challenges for developing countries is to create new opportunities for sustainable economic development through the use of new technologies such as biotechnology. In this context, the use of agricultural biotechnology to produce cheap biofuel made from agricultural crops as well as agricultural waste (cellulose) might have a great potential to promote rural development in Turkey. Yet, in order to make it happen it needs a clear commitment of the Turkish government. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Turkish Science and Technology Policy in making better use of biotechnology to address the country's economic, environmental and social challenges. The insufficient use knowledge to promote endogenous economic development is related to inadequate regulation of science and technology in Turkey and the lack of political leadership in the effective implemenation of national initiatives to promote technological innovation. Copyright © 2007 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

CHEN, Z, ZHANG, C & DONG, D 2007, 'QUANTUM CONTROL BASED ON QUANTUM INFORMATION', International Journal of Modern Physics B, vol. 21, no. 07, pp. 969-977.
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Quantum control strategy is discussed from the perspective of quantum information. First, the constraints imposed on quantum control by quantum theory are analyzed. Then some quantum control schemes based on quantum information are discussed, such as teleportation-based distant quantum control, quantum feedback control using quantum cloning and state recognition, quantum control based on measurement and Grover iteration. Finally, some applications of quantum control theory in quantum information and quantum computation such as quantum error correction coding, universality analysis of quantum computation, feedback-induced entanglement enhancement, etc., are presented and the potential applications of quantum control are also prospected.

Chin-Teng Lin, I-Fang Chung, Li-Wei Ko, Yu-Chieh Chen, Sheng-Fu Liang & Jeng-Ren Duann 2007, 'EEG-Based Assessment of Driver Cognitive Responses in a Dynamic Virtual-Reality Driving Environment', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1349-1352.
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Cornelis, C, Lu, J, Guo, X & Zhang, G 2007, 'One-and-only item recommendation with fuzzy logic techniques', INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 177, no. 22, pp. 4906-4921.
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Cornelis, C, Lu, J, Guo, X & Zhang, G 2007, 'One-and-only item recommendation with fuzzy logic techniques', Information Sciences, vol. 177, no. 22, pp. 4906-4921.
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Recommender systems anticipate users' needs by suggesting items that are likely to interest them. Most existing systems employ collaborative filtering (CF) techniques, searching for regularities in the way users have rated items. While in general a successful approach, CF cannot cope well with so-called one-and-only items, that is: items of which there is only one single instance (like an event), and which as such cannot be repetitively 'sold'. Typically such items are evaluated only after they have ceased being available, thereby thwarting the classical CF strategy. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for recommending one-and-only items. It uses fuzzy logic, which allows to reflect the graded/uncertain information in the domain, and to extend the CF paradigm, overcoming limitations of existing techniques. A possible application in the context of trade exhibition recommendation for e-government is discussed to illustrate the proposed conceptual framework. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Curry, JM, McGregor, C & Tracy, S 2007, 'A systems development life cycle approach to patient journey modeling projects.', Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 129, no. Pt 2, pp. 905-909.
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Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient's movement through a Health Care Organisation (HCO) by viewing it from a patient centric perspective. A Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides a standard project management framework that can improve the quality of information systems. The concept of following a consistent project management framework to boost quality outcomes can be applied equally to healthcare improvement. This paper describes a SDLC designed specifically for the health care domain and in particular patient journey modeling projects. It goes on to suggest that such a framework can be used to compliment the dominant healthcare improvement method, the Model for Improvement. The key contribution of this paper is the introduction of a project management framework in the form of an SDLC that can be used by non-professional computer developers (ie: health care staff), to improve the consistency and quality of outcomes for patient journey redesign projects. Experiences of applying the SDLC in a midwife-led primary-care maternity services environment are discussed. The project team found the steps logical and easy to follow and produced demonstrable improvement results along with ongoing goal-focused action plans.

Devitt, SJ, Greentree, AD, Ionicioiu, R, O'Brien, JL, Munro, WJ & Hollenberg, LCL 2007, 'The Photonic Module: an on-demand resource for photonic entanglement', Phys. Rev. A., vol. 76, no. 5, p. 052312.
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Photonic entanglement has a wide range of applications in quantum computationand communication. Here we introduce a new device: the 'photonic module', whichallows for the rapid, deterministic preparation of a large class of entangledphoton states. The module is an application independent, 'plug and play'device, with sufficient flexibility to prepare entanglement for all majorquantum computation and communication applications in a completelydeterministic fashion without number-discriminated photon detection. We presenttwo alternative constructions for the module, one using free-space componentsand one in a photonic bandgap structures. The natural operation of the moduleis to generate states within the stabilizer formalism and we present ananalysis on the cavity-QED requirements to experimentally realize this device.

Devitt, SJ, Schirmer, SG, Oi, DKL, Cole, JH & Hollenberg, LCL 2007, 'Subspace Confinement: How good is your qubit?', New J. Phys., vol. 9, p. 384.
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The basic operating element of standard quantum computation is the qubit, anisolated two-level system that can be accurately controlled, initialized andmeasured. However, the majority of proposed physical architectures for quantumcomputation are built from systems that contain much more complicated Hilbertspace structures. Hence, defining a qubit requires the identification of anappropriate controllable two-dimensional sub-system. This prompts the obviousquestion of how well a qubit, thus defined, is confined to this subspace, andwhether we can experimentally quantify the potential leakage into to statesoutside the qubit subspace. In this paper we demonstrate that subspace leakagecan be quantitatively characterized using minimal theoretical assumptions byexamining the Fourier spectrum of the Rabi oscillation experiment.

Dou, Y, Guo, Y, Zhu, JG & Lu, H 2007, 'Effect of Armature Reaction of a Permanent-Magnet Claw Pole SMC Motor', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 2561-2563.
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The finite-element method enables an accurate analysis for the study on effects of armature reaction in electromagnetic devices, particularly those with complex structures and three-dimensional (3-D) magnetic flux paths. This paper investigates the effec

Dovey, K & Fenech, B 2007, 'The Role of Enterprise Logic in the Failure of Organizations to Learn and Transform', Management Learning, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 573-590.
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Profound change in the global business environment is foregrounding the need for new competitive strategies in organizations. The realization that success in the era of knowledge capitalism depends upon the creative productivity of knowledge workers is focusing attention on the forms of intangible capital that underpin creativity, learning and innovation as sources of competitive advantage. In this article we argue that many organizations are failing to execute mission-critical change because their leaders fail to comprehend how such change is inhibited by the `enterprise logic' of the organization. Through the case of an Australian financial services company, we show that embedded within the functional hierarchical structure of most large organizations is the strategic intention of managerial control, and we argue for the envisioning and development of a form of enterprise logic that is predicated on new structural forms that encompass the principles of co-ownership and lateral power relations.

Dovey, K, Strydom, A, Penderis, B & Kemp, P 2007, 'Leading change in the South African district health service', International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 192-205.
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PurposeThe paper sets out to explore the leadership processes and dynamics of change management in a fragmented, and resource‐poor, health service in an impoverished rural region in South Africa.Design/methodology/approachThe paper outlines an action research process aimed at assisting the stakeholders of two rural clinics to integrate psychiatric care into the Primary Health Care service that they offer their respective communities. This involved the transformation of existing practices through a form of praxis that involved learning from action and acting on learning.FindingsThe findings of the paper relate to the role of leadership in the facilitation of transformational learning in team‐based social action. Four areas of leadership responsibility are highlighted: the transformation of inappropriate mental models; the development of strategic resilience; the shifting of thelocusof control of stakeholders to a more internal position; and the creation of a social environment in which intangible capital resources are generated and leveraged in the collective interest.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is subject to the limitations of potential bias and distortion in action research. Although the “objective” evidence of the integration of psychiatric services atPelsrusandKwanomzamoclinics exists, the portrayal of the learning processes through which this was achieved could have been influenced unwittingly by the authors' own knowledge and other interests.PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 98, no. 10, pp. 1-4.
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We show that a unitary operation (quantum circuit) secretly chosen from a finite set of unitary operations can be determined with certainty by sequentially applying only a finite amount of runs of the unknown circuit. No entanglement or joint quantum operations are required in our scheme. We further show that our scheme is optimal in the sense that the number of the runs is minimal when discriminating only two unitary operations. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Duan, R, Feng, Y & Ying, M 2007, 'Entanglement is not necessary for perfect discrimination between unitary operations (vol 98, pg 100503, 2007)', PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 98, no. 12.
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Duan, R, Feng, Y & Ying, M 2007, 'Entanglement is not necessary for perfect discrimination between unitary operations.', Phys Rev Lett, vol. 98, no. 10, p. 100503.
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We show that a unitary operation (quantum circuit) secretly chosen from a finite set of unitary operations can be determined with certainty by sequentially applying only a finite amount of runs of the unknown circuit. No entanglement or joint quantum operations are required in our scheme. We further show that our scheme is optimal in the sense that the number of the runs is minimal when discriminating only two unitary operations.

Duan, R, Feng, Y, Ji, Z & Ying, M 2007, 'Distinguishing arbitrary multipartite basis unambiguously using local operations and classical communication', PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 98, no. 23, pp. 1-4.
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We show that an arbitrary basis of a multipartite quantum state space consisting of K distant parties such that the kth party has local dimension dk always contains at least N=∑k=1K(dk-1)+1 members that are unambiguously distinguishable using local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We further show that this lower bound is optimal by analytically constructing a special product basis having only N members unambiguously distinguishable by LOCC. Interestingly, such a special product basis not only gives a stronger form of the weird phenomenon 'nonlocality without entanglement,' but also implies the existence of a locally distinguishable entangled basis. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Duan, R, Feng, Y, Ji, Z & Ying, M 2007, 'Distinguishing arbitrary multipartite basis unambiguously using local operations and classical communication (vol 98, art no 230602, 2007)', PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 99, no. 1.
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Eastwood, M & Gabrys, B 2007, 'The Dynamics of Negative Correlation Learning', The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 251-263.
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Feng, Y, Duan, R, Ji, Z & Ying, M 2007, 'Probabilistic bisimulations for quantum processes', INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION, vol. 205, no. 11, pp. 1608-1639.
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Modeling and reasoning about concurrent quantum systems is very important for both distributed quantum computing and quantum protocol verification. As a consequence, a general framework formally describing communication and concurrency in complex quantum

Feng, Y, Duan, R, Ji, Z & Ying, M 2007, 'Proof rules for the correctness of quantum programs', THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 386, no. 1-2, pp. 151-166.
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We apply the notion of quantum predicate proposed by D'Hondt and Panangaden to analyze a simple language fragment which may describe the quantum part of a future quantum computer in Knill's architecture. The notion of weakest liberal precondition semanti

Gil Lafuente, AM, Ortigosa, M & Merigó, JM 2007, 'The uncertainty theory assignment in the customer lifetime valuation (CLV) for contractual settings with security intervals', Revista de Metodos Cuantitativos para la Economia y la Empresa, vol. 4, pp. 75-97.
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The Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) concept has been highly purposed in many reseaxches in the marketing area since long time ago. Almost all of them tend to be based on determinist or stochastic assumptions when measuring magnitudes or events which have to do with CLV estimates. Often, the Customer Lifetime Valuation (CLV) involves magnitudes that link to the future by the running environment, its mutability and uncertainty, and this turn out the results to be too accurate. Kaufman and Gil Aluja (1986), who are the two most well known European investigators, have carried out researches into several operative management techniques, stood by the following statement 'Most of our traditional tools for formal modelling, reasoning, and computing are crisp, deterministic and precise in character'. Then traditional modelling with precise data can not necessarily mean to be accurate. In this study the authors will deal with some useful directions for uncertainty data, fuzzy data to stand out more accurate according to the reality. Two different Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) models with a least structured uncertainty theory tool will be introduced as well as security intervals that are connected to uncertain magnitudes in the CLV estimation.

Guo, Y, Zhu, JG, Lin, ZW, Zhong, JJ, Lu, HY & Wang, S 2007, 'Determination of 3D magnetic reluctivity tensor of soft magnetic composite material', Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 312, no. 2, pp. 458-463.
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Soft magnetic composite (SMC) materials are especially suitable for construction of electrical machines with complex structures and three-dimensional (3D) magnetic fluxes. In the design and optimization of such 3D flux machines, the 3D vector magnetic properties of magnetic materials should be properly determined, modeled, and applied for accurate calculation of the magnetic field distribution, parameters, and performance. This paper presents the measurement of 3D vector magnetic properties and determination of 3D reluctivity tensor of SMC. The reluctivity tensor is a key factor for accurate numerical analysis of magnetic field in a 3D flux SMC motor. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Guo, YG, Zhu, JG & Lu, HY 2007, 'Effects of Armature Reaction on the Performance of a Claw Pole Motor With Soft Magnetic Composite Stator by Finite-Element Analysis', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1072-1077.
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We investigated the effects of armature reaction on the performance of a three-phase three-stack claw pole motor with soft magnetic composite stator core by using three-dimensional finite-element analysis (FEA), which is an effective approach to accurate

Henderson-Sellers, B & Qumer, A 2007, 'Using method engineering to make a traditional environment agile', Cutter IT Journal, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 30-37.

Huang, C-H & Lin, C-T 2007, 'Bio-Inspired Computer Fovea Model Based on Hexagonal-Type Cellular Neural Network', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 35-47.
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Huntington, HP, Hamilton, LC, Nicolson, C, Brunner, R, Lynch, A, Ogilvie, AEJ & Voinov, A 2007, 'Toward understanding the human dimensions of the rapidly changing arctic system: insights and approaches from five HARC projects', Regional Environmental Change, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 173-186.
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Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 2007, 'A methodology to quantify failure for risk-based decision support system in digital business ecosystems', DATA & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 597-621.
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In digital business ecosystem architecture it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk according to its demand before interacting with a probable trusted agent. Doing so would assist the trusting agent in its decision process and w

Johnston, A & Marks, B 2007, 'Partial Reflections', Leonardo, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 510-511.
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Kocaballı, AB & Koçyiğit, A 2007, 'Granular best match algorithm for context-aware computing systems', Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 80, no. 12, pp. 2015-2024.
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Lin, C-T, Chuang, S-W, Chen, Y-C, Ko, L-W, Liang, S-F & Jung, T-P 2007, 'EEG effects of motion sickness induced in a dynamic virtual reality environment.', Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, vol. 2007, pp. 3872-3875.
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The Electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics which relate to motion sickness are studied in this paper. Instead of providing visual or motion stimuli to the subjects to induce motion sickness, we employed a dynamic virtual-reality (VR) environment in our research. The environment consisted of a 3D surrounding VR scene and a motion platform providing a realistic situation. This environment provided the advantages of safety, low cost, and the realistic stimuli to induce motion sickness. The Motion Sickness Questionnaire (MSQ) was used to assess the sickness level, and the EEG effects on the subjects with high sickness levels were investigated using the independent component analysis (ICA). The fake-epoch extraction was then applied to the nausea-related independent components. Finally we employed the Event-Related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) technology on the fake-epochs in order to determine the EEG dynamics during motion sickness. The experimental results show that most subjects experienced an 8-10 Hz power increase to their motion sickness-related phenomena in the parietal and motor areas. Moreover, some subjects experienced an EEG power increase of 18-20 Hz in their synchronized responses recorded in the same areas. The motion sickness-related effects and regions can be successfully obtained from our experimental results.

Lin, C-T, Fan, K-W, Pu, H-C, Lu, S-M & Liang, S-F 2007, 'An HVS-Directed Neural-Network-Based Image Resolution Enhancement Scheme for Image Resizing', IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 605-615.
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Lin, C-T, Huang, C-H & Chen, S-A 2007, 'CNN-Based Hybrid-Order Texture Segregation as Early Vision Processing and Its Implementation on CNN-UM', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 2277-2287.
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Lin, K-L, Lin, C-Y, Huang, C-D, Chang, H-M, Yang, C-Y, Lin, C-T, Tang, CY & Hsu, DF 2007, 'Feature Selection and Combination Criteria for Improving Accuracy in Protein Structure Prediction', IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 186-196.
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Lister, R, Sheard, J & Carbone, A 2007, 'Australasian Computing Education Research', Computer Science Education, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 153-154.
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Liu, H, Howlett, RJ & Gabrys, B 2007, 'Special issue: Extended papers selected from KES-2006', International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 199-200.
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Liu, Y, Ying, M & Chen, G 2007, 'On fundamentals of fuzzy logic and soft computing and some applications', FUZZY SETS AND SYSTEMS, vol. 158, no. 9, pp. 927-928.
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Lu, H, Guo, Y, Zhu, J, Zhong, J & Jin, J 2007, 'Soft Magnetic Materials for High Frequency High Power Density Transformers in Power Electronic Systems', Academic Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 11-16.
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Along with the trends of higher and higher frequency operations and smaller and smaller physical volumes of power electronic systems, the transformers and inductors used in the power electronic systems are facing challenge to operate at high frequencies. This paper presents a survey on the soft magnetic materials used in the high frequency high power density (HFHPD) transformers and inductors in the power electronic systems. Various types of magnetic material, such as electrical sheets, soft ferrites and amorphous magnetic alloys, are reviewed. It is revealed that soft ferrites seem the most suitable for the core materials of HFHPD transformers.

Lu, HY, Zhu, JG & Hui, SYR 2007, 'Measurement and Modeling of Thermal Effects on Magnetic Hysteresis of Soft Ferrites', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 3952-3960.
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We present experimental measurement of thermal effects on magnetic hysteresis of soft ferrite cores commonly used in high-frequency inductors and transformers and propose a method to model the thermal effects. We measured the major hysteresis loops of so

Lu, HY, Zhu, JG, Guo, YG & Hui, SYR 2007, 'A Practical Circuit Model of High Frequency Transformers in Power Electronic Systems', Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 211-223.
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Lu, J, Ma, J & Zhang, G 2007, 'Warning message generation by information filtering techniques', International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 435-435.
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This paper proposes a two-stage model for generating warning messages by using information filtering techniques. In this model, information is represented by its attributes and processed through two stages. At the first stage, exceptions are separated from normal information by the cognitive filtering technique. At the second stage, a warning message is generated from critical exceptions by the collaborative filtering approach. An example is discussed to illustrate the proposed model.

Lu, J, Ruan, D, Wu, F & Zhang, G 2007, 'An alpha-fuzzy goal approximate algorithm for solving fuzzy multiple objective linear programming problems', SOFT COMPUTING, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 259-267.
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Multiple conflicting objectives in many decision making problems can be well described by multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) models. This paper deals with the vague and imprecise information in a multiple objective problem by fuzzy numbers to represent parameters of an MOLP model. This so-called fuzzy MOLP (or FMOLP) model will reflect some uncertainty in the problem solution process since most decision makers often have imprecise goals for their decision objectives. This study proposes an approximate algorithm based on a fuzzy goal optimization under the satisfactory degree α to handle both fuzzy and imprecise issues. The concept of a general fuzzy number is used in the proposed algorithm for an FMOLP problem with fuzzy parameters. As a result, this algorithm will allow decision makers to provide fuzzy goals in any form of membership functions. © Springer-Verlag 2006.

Lu, J, Ruan, D, Zhang, G & Zimmermann, H-J 2007, 'Editorial: A special issue on e-service intelligence', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 397-400.
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Lu, J, Shi, C, Zhang, G & Dillon, T 2007, 'Model and extended Kuhn-Tucker approach for bilevel multi-follower decision making in a referential-uncooperative situation', JOURNAL OF GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 597-608.
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When multiple followers are involved in a bilevel decision problem, the leader's decision will be affected, not only by the reactions of these followers, but also by the relationships among these followers. One of the popular situations within this bilev

Lu, J, Shi, C, Zhang, G & Ruan, D 2007, 'An extended branch and bound algorithm for bilevel multi-follower decision making in a referential-uncooperative situation', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 371-388.
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Within the framework of any bilevel decision problem, a leader's decision at the upper level is influenced by the reaction of their follower at the lower level. When multiple followers are involved in a bilevel decision problem, the leader's decision will not only be affected by the reactions of those followers, but also by the relationships among those followers. One of the popular situations within this framework is where these followers are uncooperatively making decisions while having cross reference of decision information, called a referential-uncooperative situation in this paper. The well-known branch and bound algorithm has been successfully applied to a one-leader-and-one-follower linear bilevel decision problem. This paper extends this algorithm to deal with the abovementioned linear bilevel multi-follower decision problem by means of a linear referential-uncooperative bilevel multi-follower decision model. It then proposes an extended branch and bound algorithm to solve this problem with a set of illustrative examples in a referential-uncooperative situation. © World Scientific Publishing Company.

Lu, J, Wu, F & Zhang, G 2007, 'On a generalized fuzzy goal optimization for solving fuzzy multi-objective linear programming problems', JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 83-97.
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Many organizational decision problems can be formulated by multi-objective linear programming (MOLP) models. Referring to the imprecision inherent in human judgments, uncertainty may be incorporated in the parameters of an MOLP model when it is established, which is called a Fuzzy MOLP (FMOLP) problem. What is an optimal solution for an FMOLP problem is the first issue to deal with in this study. The second issue is how to effectively derive an optimal solution for an FMOLP problem since uncertainty is also reflected in a solution process of an FMOLP problem. By introducing three types of comparison of fuzzy numbers and an adjustable satisfactory degree alpha in this study, a new solution concept of FMOLP is given. For handling the second issue, this study develops an interactive fuzzy goal optimization method which provides an interactive fashion with decision makers during their solution process and allows decision makers to give their fuzzy goals in any forms of membership functions. An illustrative example gives the details of the solution concept and the proposed method.

Lu, J, Zhang, G, Ruan, D & Wu, F 2007, 'Multi-Objective Group Decision Making'.
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Ma, J, Ruan, D, Xu, Y & Zhang, G 2007, 'A fuzzy-set approach to treat determinacy and consistency of linguistic terms in multi-criteria decision making', International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 165-181.
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A fuzzy-set-based approach is presented to describe linguistic information in multi-criteria decision making. After having introduced concepts of determinacy and consistency of linguistic terms, the understandable degree and consistence degree of linguistic terms are illustrated by these two concepts. A case study is demonstrated for the proposed decision-making model with an analytical conclusion of both advantages and disadvantages. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Ma, J, Ruan, D, Xu, Y & Zhang, G 2007, 'Erratum to “A fuzzy-set approach to treat determinacy and consistency of linguistic terms in multi-criteria decision making” [Int. J. Approx. Reason. 44 (2007) 165–181]', International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 254-254.
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McBride, T, Henderson‐Sellers, B & Zowghi, D 2007, 'Software development as a design or a production project', Journal of Enterprise Information Management, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 70-82.
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PurposeThe paper seeks to investigate whether project managers regard software development projects as design problems or production problems.Design/methodology/approachProject management literature was examined to determine what evidence there should be to indicate whether a software development project was regarded as a problem to be solved or a product to be produced. Data were then collected through structured interview of project managers currently engaged in managing software development projects. The data were analysed to determine how project managers regarded their projects and whether this matched a theoretical expectation.FindingsThe empirical data indicated that most project managers regard their projects as production problems, where it is assumed that the underlying problem is largely understood, the project encapsulated in a planned schedule of activities and there will be an emphasis on monitoring the project against the planned progress.Research limitations/implicationsOwing to the small sample size of fewer than 30 project managers, external validity is weak. More research is needed to confirm these results over a larger sample and to probe more subtle orientation to production or design projects.Practical implicationsThe research developed a simple test to indicate the degree of novelty of the application to be developed. The test indicates whether the application is novel and should be treated as a design problem, or well known and therefore should be treated as a production problem.

McGregor, C 2007, 'A Framework for the Design of Web Service Based Clinical Management Systems to Support Inter and Intra Organizational Patient Journeys', International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 21-35.
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The clinical management of premature and ill term babies is challenged by the necessity of several inter and intra organizational patient journeys. Premature and ill-term babies born in regional Australia and Canada must be moved to another hospital with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) facilities. NICU babies requiring surgery must be moved to a Level IV NICU for surgery. Current clinical management supports the transfer of limited patient data via paper or telephone exchange. In this article a framework for the design of Web-service-based clinical management systems to support inter and intra organizational patient journeys is presented. A series of Web services are described and integrated and coordinated through BPEL processes enabling greater support for inter- and intra-organizational transfer of patient data. This framework is demonstrated through a NICU case study. A key benefit of this framework is that it enables the establishment of “on demand” patient journeys eliminating the need to establish permanent point-to-point connections.

McGregor, C, Kneale, B & Tracy, M 2007, 'On-demand Virtual Neonatal Intensive Care units supporting rural, remote and urban healthcare with Bush Babies Broadband', Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1309-1323.
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Merigó Lindahl, JM & Gil Lafuente., AM 2007, 'UNIFICATION POINT IN METHODS FOR THE SELECTION OF FINANCIAL PRODUCTS', FUZZY ECONOMIC REVIEW, vol. 12, no. 01, pp. 35-50.
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In this paper, we analyse in detail the selection of financial products. We apply the index of maximum and minimum level for the selection of financial products and we analyse what we have called the unification point between the Hamming distance and the adequacy coefficient. First, we study this situation for the case of maximum levels in the characteristics of the ideal financial product. Then, we generalize it for all the possible situations where it can be found. Finally, we study the unification point in the index of maximum and minimum level. The result found shows a transformation of this index into the Hamming distance.

Pietroni, N, Otaduy, MA, Bickel, B, Ganovelli, F & Gross, MH 2007, 'Texturing Internal Surfaces from a Few Cross Sections.', Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 637-644.
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We introduce a new appearance-modeling paradigm for synthesizing the internal structure of a 3D model from photographs of a few cross-sections of a real object. When the internal surfaces of the 3D model are revealed as it is cut, carved, or simply clipped, we synthesize their texture from the input photographs. Our texture synthesis algorithm is best classified as a morphing technique, which efficiently outputs the texture attributes of each surface point on demand. For determining source points and their weights in the morphing algorithm, we propose an interpolation domain based on BSP trees that naturally resembles planar splitting of real objects. In the context of the interpolation domain, we define efficient warping and morphing operations that allow for real-time synthesis of textures. Overall, our modeling paradigm, together with its realization through our texture morphing algorithm, allow users to author 3D models that reveal highly realistic internal surfaces in a variety of artistic flavors. © 2007 The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Riedel, S & Gabrys, B 2007, 'Combination of Multi Level Forecasts', The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 265-280.
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Sadraei, E, Aurum, A, Beydoun, G & Paech, B 2007, 'A field study of the requirements engineering practice in Australian software industry', REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 145-162.
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Sheng-Che Hsu, Sheng-Fu Liang, Kang-Wei Fan & Chin-Teng Lin 2007, 'A Robust In-Car Digital Image Stabilization Technique', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C (Applications and Reviews), vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 234-247.
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Shi, Z 2007, 'A Time Self-Decay Trust Management Algorithm for P2P Computing Security', Journal of Computer Research and Development, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 1-1.
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Stacey, M & McGregor, C 2007, 'Temporal abstraction in intelligent clinical data analysis: A survey', Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-24.
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Tieben, R, van Boerdonk, K, Klooster, S & van den Hoven, E 2007, 'Meeting by moving, mediated through music', IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 62-63.
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Each year, the Dutch Lowlands Festival creates a unique, relaxed atmosphere where 55,000 visitors come to appreciate live music, movies, stand-up comedy, and street performances. Building on this experimental environment, we designed a flexible, opaque screen that facilitates meeting between strangers, who can create music together through bodily contact (see figure 4). Dynamic variation of bodily contact through the screen determines the music's composition and helps people feel connected. During the iterative design research process, we applied Choreography of Interaction, a movement-based design approach. Our first working prototype incorporated 18 randomly divided unnoticeable sensors, which were directly coupled to music samples. User evaluation showed that people searched the screen for the music instead of focusing on each other through the screen. We determined that the variables of musical composition needed to reflect the dynamic variation of bodily contact more coherently. We created a prototype that incorporates 120 sensors and that we can program differently to translate bodily contact into musical composition. This lets us create and evaluate interaction variants that presumably will lead to different gradations of experiences. We are now preparing a test to find the appropriate coupling between dynamic variation of bodily contact and musical composition that establishes a meeting experience through the screen. For more information, contact Sietske Klooster at s.klooster@tue.nl or Elise van den Hoven at e.v.d.hoven@tue.nl.

Voinov, A & Farley, J 2007, 'Reconciling sustainability, systems theory and discounting', ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 104-113.
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Voinov, A, Costanza, R, Fitz, C & Maxwell, T 2007, 'Patuxent landscape model: 1. Hydrological model development', Water Resources, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 163-170.
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Voinov, A, Costanza, R, Fitz, C & Maxwell, T 2007, 'Patuxent landscape model: 2. Model development — nutrients, plants, and detritus', Water Resources, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 268-276.
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Voinov, A, Costanza, R, Maxwell, T & Vladich, H 2007, 'Patuxent Landscape Model. III. Model calibration', Water Resources, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 372-384.
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Voinov, A, Costanza, R, Maxwell, T & Vladich, H 2007, 'Patuxent Landscape Model: 4. Model application', Water Resources, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 501-510.
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Voinov, A, Jakeman, T & Rizzoli, A 2007, 'In Memoriam: Yuri Svirezhev', Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 1811-1811.
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Wang, C, Lu, J & Zhang, G 2007, 'Mining key information of web pages: A method and its application', EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 425-433.
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Web content mining aims to discover useful information and generate desired knowledge from a large amount of web pages. Key information, such as distinctive menu items, navigation indicators, which is embedded in web pages, can help classify the main con

Wang, G & Ying, M 2007, 'Multipartite unlockable bound entanglement in the stabilizer formalism', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 1-8.
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We find an interesting relationship between multipartite bound entangled states and the stabilizer formalism. We prove that, if a set of commuting operators from the generalized Pauli group on n qudits satisfy certain constraints, then the maximally mixed state over the subspace stabilized by them is an unlockable bound entangled state. Moreover, the properties of this state, such as symmetry under permutations of parties, undistillability, and unlockability, can be easily explained from the stabilizer formalism without tedious calculation. In particular, the four-qubit Smolin state [Smolin, Phys. Rev. A 63, 032306 (2001)] and its recent generalization to even numbers of qubits can be viewed as special examples of our results. Finally, we extend our results to arbitrary multipartite systems in which the dimensions of all parties may be different. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Wei, Z & Ying, M 2007, 'Quantum adiabatic computation and adiabatic conditions', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 1-4.
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Recently, quantum adiabatic computation has attracted more and more attention in the literature. It is a novel quantum computation model based on adiabatic approximation, and the analysis of a quantum adiabatic algorithm depends highly on the adiabatic c

White, AG, Gilchrist, A, Pryde, GJ, O'Brien, JL, Bremner, MJ & Langford, NK 2007, 'Measuring two-qubit gates', JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 172-183.
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Whiteford, CC, Bilke, S, Greer, BT, Chen, Q, Braunschweig, TA, Cenacchi, N, Wei, JS, Smith, MA, Houghton, P, Morton, C, Reynolds, CP, Lock, R, Gorlick, R, Khanna, C, Thiele, CJ, Takikita, M, Catchpoole, D, Hewitt, SM & Khan, J 2007, 'Credentialing Preclinical Pediatric Xenograft Models Using Gene Expression and Tissue Microarray Analysis', Cancer Research, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 32-40.
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AbstractHuman tumor xenografts have been used extensively for rapid screening of the efficacy of anticancer drugs for the past 35 years. The selection of appropriate xenograft models for drug testing has been largely empirical and has not incorporated a similarity to the tumor type of origin at the molecular level. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the transcriptome of a large set of pediatric xenografts, which are currently used for preclinical drug testing. Suitable models representing the tumor type of origin were identified. It was found that the characteristic expression patterns of the primary tumors were maintained in the corresponding xenografts for the majority of samples. Because a prerequisite for developing rationally designed drugs is that the target is expressed at the protein level, we developed tissue arrays from these xenografts and corroborated that high mRNA levels yielded high protein levels for two tested genes. The web database and availability of tissue arrays will allow for the rapid confirmation of the expression of potential targets at both the mRNA and the protein level for molecularly targeted agents. The database will facilitate the identification of tumor markers predictive of response to tested agents as well as the discovery of new molecular targets. [Cancer Res 2007;67(1):32–40]

Ying, M 2007, 'Topology, randomness and noise in process calculus', Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 127-131.
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Formal models of communicating and concurrent systems are one of the most important topics in formal methods, and process calculus is one of the most successful formal models of communicating and concurrent systems. In the previous works, the author systematically studied topology in process calculus, probabilistic process calculus and pi-calculus with noisy channels in order to describe approximate behaviors of communicating and concurrent systems as well as randomness and noise in them. This article is a brief survey of these works.

Ying, M, Chen, J, Feng, Y & Duan, R 2007, 'Commutativity of quantum weakest preconditions', INFORMATION PROCESSING LETTERS, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 152-158.
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The notion of quantum weakest precondition was introduced by D'Hondt and P. Panangaden [E. D'Hondt, P. Panangaden, Quantum weakest preconditions, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 16 (2006) 429-451], and they presented a representation of weake

You Guang Guo, Jian Xun Jin, Jian Guo Zhu & Hai Yan Lu 2007, 'Design and Analysis of a Prototype Linear Motor Driving System for HTS Maglev Transportation', IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 2087-2090.
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High temperature superconductors (HTSs) can produce a strong magnetic levitation force with self-stabilizing feature and hence have attracted much attention for applications in maglev transportation systems. For the linear motion of transportation, a lin

Zhang, C, Wang, G & Ying, M 2007, 'Discrimination between pure states and mixed states', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 1-6.
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In this paper, we discuss the problem of determining whether a quantum system is in a pure state, or in a mixed state. We apply two strategies to settle this problem: the unambiguous discrimination and the maximum confidence discrimination. We prove that the optimal versions of both strategies are equivalent. Furthermore, the scheme also provides a method to estimate the purity of quantum states, and the Schmidt number of composed systems. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Zhang, G & Lu, J 2007, 'Model and approach of fuzzy bilevel decision making for logistics planning problem', Journal of Enterprise Information Management, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 178-197.
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PurposeThis study aims to develop a decision making model and approach for logistics planning problem which naturally involves two or more decision units at a hierarchical structure. Such a decision problem in practice often involves uncertain and imprecise factors with the parameters of a bilevel decision model, either in the objective functions or constraints.Design/methodology/approachThis paper proposes a fuzzy bilevel decision making model for a general logistics planning problem and develops a fuzzy number based Kth‐best approach to find an optimal solution for the proposed fuzzy bilevel decision problem.FindingsThe proposed approach illustrates an optimal solution in logistics management, which meets maximally/minimally the objectives of both supplier and distributor (or other parts of the logistics chain). The proposed fuzzy bilevel decision approach can have a wide range of logistics management applications.Research limitations/implicationsThe decision model, approach and system will be further tested for some more complicated real cases in the future.Originality/valueThe proposed fuzzy bilevel decision model and approach are new, which offer theoretical and practice help to logistics management.

Zhang, G, Lu, J & Dillon, T 2007, 'Decentralized multi-objective bilevel decision making with fuzzy demands', KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 495-507.
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Decisions in a decentralized organization often involve two levels. The leader at the upper level attempts to optimize his/her objective but is affected by the follower; the follower at the lower level tries to find an optimized strategy according to each of possible decisions made by the leader. When model a real-world bilevel decision problem, it also may involve fuzzy demands which appear either in the parameters of objective functions or constraints of the leader or the follower or both. Furthermore, the leader and the follower may have multiple conflict objectives that should be optimized simultaneously in achieving a solution. This study addresses both fuzzy demands and multi-objective issues and propose a fuzzy multi-objective bilevel programming model. It then develops an approximation branch-and-bound algorithm to solve multi-objective bilevel decision problems with fuzzy demands. Finally, two case-based examples further illustrate the proposed model and algorithm. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Zowghi, D 2007, 'Ten years of Australian workshop on requirements engineering', Requirements Engineering, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 125-125.
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Araujo, J, Zowghi, D & Moreira, A 1970, 'An evolutionary model of requirements correctness with early aspects', 9th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, IWPSE 2007, Held in Conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE Joint Meeting, International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, ACM, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 67-70.
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The achievement of building evolvable systems depends on how efficiently the changeable requirements are elicited and structured by software engineers. In current requirements approaches changing requirements are not dealt with satisfactorily. Partially, this is due to the crosscutting nature of some of these requirements. Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering tackles the problem of crosscutting requirements, and its concepts can be used to address this problem. This work describes how early aspects, i.e. aspects identified at early stages of software development, could be integrated to an evolutionary requirements model. © 2007 ACM ISBN.

Araujo, J, Zowghi, D & Moreira, A 1970, 'An evolutionary model of requirements correctness with early aspects', Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting, ESEC/FSE07: Joint 11th European Software Engineering Conference 2007, ACM, pp. 67-70.
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The achievement of building evolvable systems depends on how efficiently the changeable requirements are elicited and structured by software engineers. In current requirements approaches changing requirements are not dealt with satisfactorily. Partially, this is due to the crosscutting nature of some of these requirements. Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering tackles the problem of crosscutting requirements, and its concepts can be used to address this problem. This work describes how early aspects, i.e. aspects identified at early stages of software development, could be integrated to an evolutionary requirements model. Copyright 2007 ACM.

Bakker, S, Vorstenbosch, D, van den Hoven, E, Hollemans, G & Bergman, T 1970, 'Tangible interaction in tabletop games', Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology, ACE2007: International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACM, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 163-170.
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In this paper, a study is described which investigates differences in game experience between the use of iconic and symbolic tangibles in digital tabletop interaction. To enable this study, a new game together with two sets of play pieces (iconic and symbolic) was developed and used in an experiment with 30 participants. In this experiment, the understanding of the game, the understanding of the play pieces and the fun experience were tested. Both the group who played with iconic play pieces and the group who played with symbolic play pieces were proven to have a comparable fun experience and understanding of the game. However, the understanding of the play pieces was higher in the iconic group and a large majority of both groups preferred to play with iconic play pieces rather then symbolic play pieces.

Bakker, S, Vorstenbosch, D, van den Hoven, E, Hollemans, G & Bergman, T 1970, 'Weathergods', Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction, TEI07: Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007, ACM, Baton Rouge, USA, pp. 151-152.
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In this paper we describe the game 'Weathergods', which is implemented on the Entertaible tabletop gaming platform [1]. The game uses either iconic or symbolic [2] tangible objects for interaction and marries both the advantages of traditional board games and computer games.

Beilharz, K & Ferguson, S 1970, 'Gestural hyper instrument collaboration with generative computation for real time creativity', Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition - C&C '07, the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference, ACM Press, Washington DC, USA, pp. 213-213.
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This paper describes the performance, mapping, transformation and representation phases of a model for gesturetriggered musical creativity. These phases are articulated in an example creative environment, Hyper-Shuku (BorderCrossing), an audio-visually augmented shakuhachi performance to demonstrate the adaptive, empathetic response of the generative systems. The shakuhachi is a Japanese traditional end-blown bamboo Zen flute. Its 5 holes and simple construction require subtle and complex gestural movements to produce its diverse range of pitches, vibrato and pitch inflections, making it an ideal candidate for gesture capture. The environment uses computer vision, gesture sensors and computer listening to process and generate electronic music and visualization in real time response to the live performer. The integration oflooming auditory motion and Neural Oscillator Network (NOSC) generative modules are implemented in this example.

Bekker, M, van den Hoven, E, Peters, P & Hemmink, BK 1970, 'Stimulating children's physical play through interactive games', Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children, IDC07: International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, ACM, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 163-164.
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Children are really intrigued by television and computers. However, the interaction with these products hardly requires any form of body movement. This paper presents two case studies of product designs that provide more opportunities for children to enjoy physical play activities.

Berglund, A & Lister, RF 1970, 'How do students understand computer network protocols?', 20th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Nelson, New Zealand, pp. 15-20.
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When computing education research is performed in a rigorous and theoretically sound way, it can inform and improve teaching. Having conducted a phenomenographic study of studentsâ understandings of computer network protocols, we present our findings and explain how they can inform the teaching of these protocols. We go on to explore what our results can tell us about the discipline of computer science as a whole.

Beydoun, G, Low, G, Mouratidis, H & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Modelling MAS-Specific Security Features.', EMMSAD, CEUR-WS.org, pp. 173-182.
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In this paper, we pursue a modelling approach to address security requirements for multi-agent systems (MAS). This will allow developers to account for both the system and agent-specific security requirements of a MAS during the requirements phase and throughout the whole Software Development Lifecycle of the system. We focus on autonomy, mobility and cooperation of individual agents and how these create additional security vulnerabilities to the system. In proposing a set of generic modelling primitives for these engendered requirements in the analysis of the MAS, we extend our recently proposed MAS metamodel.

Beydoun, G, Low, GC, Mouratidis, H & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Modelling MAS-specific security features', CAiSE'07 Proceedings of Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, Vol 1, International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 183-192.

Bouchachia, A, Gabrys, B & Sahel, Z 1970, 'Overview of Some Incremental Learning Algorithms', 2007 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, 2007 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, IEEE, London, ENGLAND, pp. 1-6.
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Boyd, S, Zowghi, D & Gervasi, V 1970, 'Optimal-constraint lexicons for requirements specifications', REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING: FOUNDATION FOR SOFTWARE QUALITY, International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Springer-Verlag, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 203-217.
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Constrained Natural Languages (CNLs) are becoming an increasingly popular way of writing technical documents such as requirements specifications. This is because CNLs aim to reduce the ambiguity inherent within natural languages, whilst maintaining their readability and expressiveness. The design of existing CNLs appears to be unfocused towards achieving specific quality outcomes, in that the majority of lexical selections have been based upon lexicographer preferences rather than an optimum trade-off between quality factors such as ambiguity, readability, expressiveness, and lexical magnitude. In this paper we introduce the concept of ’replaceability’ as a way of identifying the lexical redundancy inherent within a sample of requirements. Our novel and practical approach uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to enable us to make dynamic trade-offs between quality factors to optimise the resultant CNL. We also challenge the concept of a CNL being a one-dimensional static language, and demonstrate that our optimal-constraint process results in a CNL that can adapt to a changing domain while maintaining its expressiveness.

Bucknell, AJ, Lowe, DB & Zowghi, D 1970, 'Aligning Web Systems and Organisational Models', AWSOR’07: International Workshop on Aligning Web Systems and Organisational Requirements, Workshops of Conf on Web Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Como, Italy, pp. 132-146.

Cetindamar, D 1970, 'Benchmarking the Turkish Business Incubators: Supporting Innovation through Innovative Infrastructures', PICMET '07 - 2007 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology, PICMET '07 - 2007 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology, IEEE, Portland, OR, pp. 1328-1335.
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Chang, E & Hussain, FK 1970, 'Editors' Page', 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, IEEE, pp. 1-1.
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Chang, E, Dillon, TS & Hussain, F 1970, 'Trust ontologies for e-service environments', International Journal of Intelligent Systems, International FLINS Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Hindawi Limited, Blankenberge, BELGIUM, pp. 519-545.
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In this article, we introduce trust ontologies. An ontology represents a set of concepts that are commonly shared and agreed to by all parties in a particular domain. Here, we introduce generic and specific trust ontologies. These ontologies include the

Chang, E, Hussain, FK, Boley, H & IEEE 1970, 'Dynamic self-organized digital ecosystem architecture', 2007 INAUGURAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 606-606.
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Chen, C-H, Lin, C-J & Lin, C-T 1970, 'A Recurrent Functional-Link-Based Neural Fuzzy System and Its Applications', 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, IEEE, Honolulu, HI, pp. 415-420.
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Chen, C-H, Lin, C-T & Lin, C-J 1970, 'A Functional-Link-Based Fuzzy Neural Network for Temperature Control', 2007 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, IEEE, Honolulu, HI, pp. 53-58.
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Chen, D, Zhang, G & Wu, J 1970, 'QCTL: A logic for reasoning about inconsistent concurrent systems', TASE 2007: FIRST JOINT IEEE/IFIP SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS, 1st IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Softwave Engineering, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, PEOPLES R CHINA, Shanghai, pp. 241-+.

Chen, Q, Li, Z & Yu, S 1970, 'A Cross-Authentication Model for Heterogeneous Domains in Active Networks', 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007), 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007), IEEE, pp. 140-143.
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Active network has been applied widely recently. The current status is that there is coexistence of multi-PKI in heterogeneous domains. We have noticed there are little work has been done in cross-certification for heterogeneous domains. In this paper, we propose a cross-authentication model for the raised issue. Our system implements mutual entity authentication among heterogeneous domains based on Cert-PKI and ID-PKI. The theoretical analysis and the preliminary experiments demonstrate that the proposed system possesses the properties of high security and stability. © 2007 IEEE.

Chen, Q, Li, Z & Yu, S 1970, 'A Cross-Authentication Model for Heterogeneous Domains in Active Networks', 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007), 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing Workshops (NPC 2007), IEEE, Dalian, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 140-143.
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Christen, P, Gao, J, Kennedy, PJ, Li, J, Li, W, Kolyshkina, I, Ong, K & Williams, G 1970, 'Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics 2007: Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007) and the 2nd International Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining (AIDM 2007)', Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics 2007: Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007) and the 2nd International Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining (AIDM 2007), Australian Data Mining Conference, Australian Computer Society, Gold Coast, Australia.

Colquitt, D & Leaney, J 1970, 'Expanding the View on Complexity within the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method', 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07), 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07), IEEE, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, pp. 45-54.
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Curry, JM, McGregor, C & Tracy, S 1970, 'A systems development life cycle approach to patient journey modeling projects', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, IOS PRESS, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, pp. 905-909.
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Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient's movement through a Health Care Organisation (HCO) by viewing it from a patient centric perspective. A Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides a standard project management framework that can improve the quality of information systems. The concept of following a consistent project management framework to boost quality outcomes can be applied equally to healthcare improvement. This paper describes a SDLC designed specifically for the health care domain and in particular patient journey modeling projects. It goes on to suggest that such a framework can be used to compliment the dominant healthcare improvement method, the Model for Improvement. The key contribution of this paper is the introduction of a project management framework in the form of an SDLC that can be used by non-professional computer developers (ie: health care staff), to improve the consistency and quality of outcomes for patient journey redesign projects. Experiences of applying the SDLC in a midwife-led primary-care maternity services environment are discussed. The project team found the steps logical and easy to follow and produced demonstrable improvement results along with ongoing goal-focused action plans. © 2007 The authors. All rights reserved.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'An Integrative view of the concept of Digital Ecosystem', International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS '07), 2007 International Conference on Networking and Services, IEEE, pp. 42-42.
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In the literature we fid two broad definitions of the concept of Digital Ecosystem, hence leading to confusion and ambiguity with regards to its semantic interpretation. In this paper we make use of ontology, which is a well-known tool for knowledge sharing, in order to present an integrative view of the concept of Digital Ecosystem. We implement the ontology by using Protégé-owl. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Application of Protege and SPARQL in the field of project knowledge management', 2007 Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007), 2007 2nd International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, IEEE, pp. 74-74.
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Protégé is a set of open-source ontology design software developed in Stanford Medical Informatics. SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language) is recommended by W3C, to represent the RDF (Resource Description Framework) graph - a set of triples that consist of a subject, a predicate and an object as the basic expression of data stored in OWL-based knowledge base. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based project knowledge management methodology, by means of Protégé and SPARQL, to solve the issues in project management activities. By introducing a set of new ontology notations, we present the conceptual model of our ontology to realize the function of knowledge management in project organizations. Following that, we realize the prototype in Protégé and validate it by means of SPARQL. Finally we make comments on our project and plan our future work. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Exploring the Conceptual Model of Digital Ecosystem', 2007 Second International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT'07), Second International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, ICDT 2007, IEEE, pp. 18-18.
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Digital Ecosystem, as a neoteric terminology, has emerged along with the appearance of Business Ecosystem which is a form of naturally existing business network of small and medium enterprises. However, few researches have been found in the field of defining digital ecosystem. In this paper, by means of ontology technology as our research methodology, we propose to develop a conceptual model for digital ecosystem. By introducing an innovative ontological notation system, we create the hierarchical framework of digital ecosystem form up to down, based on the related theories form Digital Ecosystem and Business Intelligence Institute. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Multi-site Project Organisation Knowledge Sharing Ontology', 2007 Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC'07), 2007 Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC'07), IEEE, pp. 18-18.
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The implementation of ontology starts to step into the field of project organizations. With the appearance of project outsourcing, the location of project workplace becomes increasingly multiple, which challenges the administration of senior management to projects. In this paper, we analyze the daily knowledge sharing activities, including the organizational structure, the procedure of project planning and the scenarios of project distribution, by a case study in City of Melville Council -a typical multi-site project organization, to discover the issues in these activities. By means of extending the theory of CCCI Metrics into the field of project management, we design the multi-site project track and trace ontology, in order to promote the knowledge sharing activities between senior management and project groups. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Ontology for Automated Multi-site Project Management', 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, IEEE, pp. 352-356.
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One characteristic of multi-site project organizations is that people in the organizations are geographically dispersed and from different cultural background, which challenges the senior management to successfully complete the task of project management. Here we introduce the theory of CCCI Metrics in order to solve the issue. By means of ontology technology, we propose an ontology-based system which is to help the senior management to realize the function of automated project management in multi-site project organization. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Ontology-Based Digital Ecosystem Conceptual Representation', Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07), Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07), IEEE, pp. 42-42.
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Along with the evolution of Digital Ecosystem, in regards to its definition, two different theories have emerged, respectively from Soluta.net and from Digital Ecosystem and Business Intelligence Institute. This is paper explains the differences between the two theories and more importantly proposes a ontology-based conceptual representation for the concept of Digital Ecosystem with the purpose of helping researchers in the field to better understand the notion of Digital Ecosystem. In addition, we will introduce a simple ontology notation system, as the basis of our ontology model. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Ontology-based Solutions for Knowledge Sharing Issues in Project Organisations', 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, IEEE, pp. 346-351.
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Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Current research focused on the use of formal ontologies for specifying content-specific agreement for a variety of knowledge sharing activities. In this paper, we choose project organisation as our research domain, due to its geographical issues and cultural issues which may affect knowledge sharing activities occurring in dispersed project groups and group members. Provided by a simple notation system, we propose the project organisation knowledge sharing ontology and validate the conceptual model by realizing in Protégé -OWL and SPARQL Query Language. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Project Track and Trace Methodology in the Environment of Digital Ecosystem', 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, IEEE, pp. 357-360.
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Digital Ecosystems (DE) is an open-source network environment for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). By means of DE, project organisations are able to realize the distribution of organisational structure, to reduce internal cost and to achieve the biggest benefit. However, some issues exist in the process of project track and trace processes. In this paper, we analyze the daily project track and trace activities, including the organisational structure, the procedure of project planning and the scenarios of project distribution, by a case study in City of Melville Council - a typical project organisation, to discover the issues in these activities. To solve the issues, we extend the theory of CCCI Metrics to the field of project management. By means of the extended theory, a Project Track and Trace Card is designed to assist the senior management to timely administrate the project completion status in organisations, and then to promote the knowledge sharing in project organisations. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Project Track and Trace Ontology', Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'07), Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'07), IEEE, pp. 52-52.
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It is well-known that ontology is utilized as an effective methodology to share domain-specific knowledge in multidisciplinary fields. In the field of project management, due to the characteristic of project organizations in which project members are geographically dispersed and from different cultural background, senior management would feel difficulty when they attempt to know about the detailed project completion status from dispersed project groups. Thus, the objective of this paper is to propose an automated project track and trace methodology through the use of ontology technology, to challenge the knowledge sharing issues in project organizations. By means of extending CCCI Metrics into the field of project management and introducing a new ontological notation system, we deliver the project track and trace ontology. © 2007 IEEE.

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & IEEE 1970, 'Digital ecosystem ontology', 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-8, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, IEEE, Vigo, SPAIN, pp. 2944-2947.
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Digital Ecosystems is a neoteric terminology and there are two major definitions about it respectively from Soluta.Net and from Digital Ecosystem and Business Intelligence Institute. In this paper, to solve the ambiguous problem in Digital Ecosystem's de

Dong, H, Hussain, FK & IEEE 1970, 'Digital ecosystem ontology', ETFA 2007: 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND FACTORY AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-3, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE, Patras, GREECE, pp. 814-817.
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Digital Ecosystems is a neoteric terminology and there are two major definitions about it square respectively from Soluta.Net and from Digital Ecosystem and Business Intelligence Institute. In this paper, to solve the ambiguous problem in Digital Ecosyst

Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Compare and contrast of contemporary technical knowledge sharing technologies', Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, IEEE, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 255-258.
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Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Many methodologies have been proposed, which aims to exploit the embodied knowledge in practice and transform them to a normal form so that other staffs and organizations can ut

Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Contemporary cultural researches on knowledge sharing', Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, IEEE, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 140-142.
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Knowledge sharing, as an essential component in the field of knowledge management research, attracts increasing researchers into this discipline. Current researches on KS can be categorized as two independent views - exploring from technical perspective

Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Ontology-based solutions for knowledge sharing issues in project organisations', 2007 INAUGURAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 154-159.
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Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Current research focused on the use of formal ontologies for specifying content-specific agreement for a variety of knowledge sharing activities. In this paper, we choose projec

Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Project track and trace methodology in the environment of digital ecosystem', 2007 INAUGURAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 145-148.
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Digital Ecosystems (DE) is an open-source network environment for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). By means of DE, project organisations are able to realize the distribution of organisational structure, to reduce internal cost and to achieve the bigg

Doug, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Ontology for automated multi-site project management', 2007 INAUGURAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 149-153.
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One characteristic of multi-site project organizations is that people in the organizations are geographically dispersed and from different cultural background, which challenges the senior management to successfully complete the task of project management

Doyle, B & Lister, R 1970, 'Why teach unix?', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, Australian Computer Society, Ballarat, Australia, pp. 19-25.
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This paper examines computing academics' conceptions of the Unix operating system, and the purpose of teaching Unix. Interview transcripts from nine academics were analysed phenomenographically. A small number of qualitatively different conceptions of Unix were identified, within two broad categories. The first broad category manifested a technical approach to Unix. Within this broad category, the conceptions of Unix were, from the least to most sophisticated ! (1) Unix as a set of unrelated commands; (2) Unix as a command line interface superior to GUIs; and (3) Unix as a problem solving tool. The second broad category was a non technical conception of Unix, in which Unix was seen as a resource that is cheap, secure and robust. With regard to teaching Unix, two broad categories of reasons were identified ! practical and pedagogical. These results for teachers are broadly consistent with an earlier phenomenographic study of student conceptions of Unix. © 2007, Australian Computer Society, Inc.

Dyson, LE, Nataatmadja, I & Sixsmith, AJ 1970, 'Improving Participation of International Students in the Classroom: Perceptions, Barriers and Strategies', UTS Teaching and Learning Forum, Sydney.
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Dyson, LE, Underwood, J & Campbell, BR 1970, 'IT Ethics: A Learner Focussed Approach', UTS Teaching and Learning Forum, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Fan, S-C, Wen, M-H, Hsu, C-T, Hung, C-H, Hsu, S-H, Chuang, M-C, Zao, JK & Lin, C-T 1970, 'Health pal: A PDA phone that will take care of vour health', 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS, VOLS 1-8, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE, Montreal, COOK ISLANDS, pp. 3668-3673.

Gao, Y, Lu, J, Zhang, G, Gao, S & PRess, A 1970, 'A bilevel model for railway train set organizing optimization', PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (ISKE 2007), International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Atlantis Press, Chengdu, China, pp. 777-782.
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Train Set Organization (TSO) is to arrange the train set in railway freight transportation. Bilevel programming techniques were proposed to solve the Stackelberg game in which play is sequential and cooperation is not permitted. In this paper, an op- timizing model for TSO is developed by the bilevel techniques. First, we analyzed the multiple level nature of management on TSO and simplified it into two levels. Then, a bilevel model for TSO was develop. Finally, this model was further illustrated by applying it on a railway station.

Gill, AQ & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Six aspects of an agile software development methodology', Online Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) 2007, European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, Polytechnic university of Valencia, Valencia, spain, pp. 1-11.
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A shared vision of an agile methodology can play a vital role in adaptive agile software development environments as the absence of a shared or common vision is one of the main factors of software project failures. This paper presents six aspects of an agile software development methodology: agility, abstraction, process, people, product and tools. This set of aspects is an attempt to provide a guiding vision or mental-model for an agile methodology. The purpose of this paper is to explicitly describe in detail these aspects that are part of our agile software solution framework (ASSF). These six aspects can be combined to generate various situation-specific configurations of agile methodologies by using a method engineering approach.

Gill, AQ, Henderson-Sellers, B & McBride, TM 1970, 'Agile adoption and improvement model', Online Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) 2007, European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, pp. 1-9.
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Agile software development methods focus on the rapid and iterative delivery of a software product in small increments. Over the last decade, the software industry has shown a substantial interest in agile practices but there is no standard guiding vision model or framework to adopt and then use to assess or improve the agile method in a software development organization; indeed, the absence of a guiding vision model could result in the failure of the agile implementation. The purpose of this paper is to present an Agile Adoption and Improvement Model (AAIM) for the adoption, assessment and improvement of an agile software development process. We have analysed the results of several agile software process assessments, industrial case studies on the adoption of an agile approach and feedback from both researchers and the software industry for the construction of the AAIM. The AAIM can be used as a gradual road map for the adoption of an agile approach so that the required agile level can be achieved and improved over a period of time. The AAIM has been organized in three agile blocks, six agile stages (AS) and an embedded agility measurement model (to quantitatively measure the degree of agility). In AAIM, each stage specifies goals that must be achieved to attain a particular business value through the use of an agile software development approach.

Guo, Y, Chen, J, Zhu, J, Lu, H, Lu, H & Jin, J 1970, 'Development of a PM linear motor for driving HTS maglev vehicle', Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems Icems 2007, International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, IEEE, Seoul, pp. 824-827.
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The phenomenon that a permanent magnet (PM) over a high temperature superconductor (HTS) bulk can produce strong levitation force with self-stabilizing feature has attracted strong interest of application in maglev transportation systems, in which a linear motion drive is an obvious advantage. This paper presents the development of a PM linear synchronous motor drive for a small-scale prototype vehicle which is levitated by PM-HTS bulks. Magnetic field finite element analyses are conducted to compute accurately the key motor parameters such as winding flux, back electromotive force (emf), inductance and cogging force. The steady state characteristic of the motor is predicted by using the classic phasor voltage equation, which can provide a reasonable result if the fundamental components of the applied voltage, back emf and current are dominant. A Matlab/Simulink-based model, capable of considering the dependence of key parameters on the mover position, is built to predict effectively the motor's dynamic performance under a brushless DC (BLDC) control scheme. The simulated results show that the developed linear motor can drive the HTS maglev vehicle prototype at the desired speed.

Guo, Y, Chen, J, Zhu, J, Lu, H, Lu, H & Jin, J 1970, 'Development of a PM Linear Motor for Driving HTS Maglev Vehicle', 2007 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), 2007 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, IEEE, pp. 824-827.
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Guo, Y, Zhu, J, Liu, D, Lu, H & Wang, S 1970, 'Application of Multi-level Multi-domain Modeling in the Design and Analysis of a PM Transverse Flux Motor with SMC Core', 2007 7th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 2007 7th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, IEEE, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 27-31.
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This paper presents the design and analysis of a permanent magnet (PM) transverse flux motor with soft magnetic composite (SMC) core by applying multi-level multi-domain modeling. The design is conducted in two levels. The upper level is composed of a group of equations which describe the electrical and mechanical characteristics of the motor. The lower level consists of two domains: electromagnetic analysis and thermal calculation. The initial design, including structure, materials and major dimensions, is determined according to existing experience and empirical formulae. Then, optimization is carried out at the system level (the upper level) for the best motor performance by optimizing the structural dimensions. To successfully deal with such a multi-level multi-domain optimization problem, an effective modeling with both high computational accuracy and speed is required. For accurately computing the key motor parameters, such as back electromotive force, winding inductance and core loss, magnetic field finite element analysis is performed. The core loss in each element is stored for effective thermal calculation, and the winding inductance and back EMF are stored as a look-up table for effective analysis of the motor's dynamic performance. The presented approach is effective with good accuracy and reasonable computational speed. © 2007 IEEE.

Guo, Y, Zhu, J, Lu, H, Wang, S & Jin, J 1970, 'Performance analysis of an SMC transverse flux motor with modified double-sided stator and PM flux concentrating rotor', Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems Icems 2007, International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, IEEE, Seoul, Korea, pp. 1553-1556.
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This paper presents the design and performance analysis of a three-phase three-stack transverse flux motor with a modified double-sided stator and a permanent magnet (PM) flux concentrating rotor. Both stator and rotor cores employ SOMALOY™500, a new soft magnetic composite (SMC) material specially developed for electrical machine application. By taking advantage of the unique properties of SMC, such as the magnetic isotropy, the motor is designed with three-dimensional (3D) magnetic flux path. To accurately compute the motor parameters and performance, improved formulations are applied in combination with 3D magnetic field finite element analysis. The designed motor shows superior characteristics to laminated machines.

Guo, Y, Zhu, J, Lu, H, Wang, S & Jin, J 1970, 'Performance analysis of an SMC transverse flux motor with modified double-sided stator and PM flux concentrating rotor', 2007 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), 2007 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, IEEE, pp. 1553-1556.
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Henderson-Sellers, B, Serour, MK, Gonzalez-Perez, C & Qumer, A 1970, 'Improving agile software development by the application of method engineering practices', PROCEEDINGS OF THE IASTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, ACTA Press, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 55-60.
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Despite the vast attention and wide acceptance of the newly engineered agile methods for software development, those methods are seldom linked to the goals of software process improvement (SPI), an approach that aims to provide support for significant improvement of both the quality of those methods as well as the resultant software products. In this paper, we propose an extension to agile methods by adding extra characteristics in order for agile methods to better support SPI. We explain how agile methods can gain those extra attributes through the application of a method engineering approach along with our new tool (4-DAT) that assists method engineers and managers in selecting the most appropriate method fragments for their needed agile methods. Finally, we summarize a number of industrial case studies carried out over several years in order to test and improve the efficiency of our theory of adding SPI to an agile methodological approach.

Hussain, FK, Chang, E & Hussain, OK 1970, 'State of the art review of the existing bayesian-network based approaches to trust and reputation computation', Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), IEEE, pp. 26-26.
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In this paper we present a state of the art review of the bayesian-network based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the bayesian network based approaches for trust and reputation computation into four different classes. Each of the four different classes is discussed in this paper. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, FK, Chang, E & Hussain, OK 1970, 'State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust and reputation computation', Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), IEEE, pp. 43-43.
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Hussain, FK, Chang, E & Hussain, OK 1970, 'State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust computation', 2007 Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007), 2007 Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007), IEEE, pp. 75-75.
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In this paper we present a state of the art review of PageRank™ based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the approaches that make use of PageRank™ method for trust and reputation computation, into six different classes. Each of the six classes is discussed in this paper. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, FK, Chang, E & Hussain, OK 1970, 'State of the art review of the existing soft computing based approaches to trust and reputation computation', Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), IEEE, pp. 42-42.
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Hussain, FK, Hussain, OK & Chang, E 1970, 'An overview of the interpretations of trust and reputation', 2007 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (EFTA 2007), 2007 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (EFTA 2007), IEEE, pp. 826-830.
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In this paper we present an overview of the definitions of the terms of trust and reputation from the literature. Trust and reputation have been defined in different ways by the various researchers. As a result of these various definitions of trust and reputation there is a lot of confusion regarding what these terms actually mean. Additionally in the literature there is no work towards collecting all the definitions of trust and reputation. In this paper we discuss and present an overview of the terms of trust and reputation from the literature. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, FK, Hussain, OK & Chang, E 1970, 'Illustrative Example of Determining Quality of Product (QoP) Using Trustworthiness Measurement Methodology', International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM'07), International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM'07), IEEE, pp. 269-274.
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In this paper we make use of a case study, involving the use of a product by a given user, to determine the quality of product (QoP). The trustworthiness measurement methodology is made use of to carry out the QoP assessment. The steps involved are discussed and illustrated by the trustworthiness measurement methodology software that we have engineered. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, FK, Hussain, OK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'An Overview of the interpretations of trust and reputation', ETFA 2007: 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND FACTORY AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-3, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE, Patras, GREECE, pp. 826-830.
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In this paper we present an overview of the definitions of the terms of trust and reputation from the literature. Trust and reputation have been defined in different ways by the various researchers. As a result of these various definitions of trust and r

Hussain, FK, Hussain, OK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Illustrative example of determining Quality of Service (QoS) using trustworthiness measurement methodology', Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, IEEE, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 530-535.
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In this paper we make use of a case study comprising of an interaction between a service provider and a service requestor to determine the quality of service (QoS) provided by the service provider. The trustworthiness measurement methodology is made use

Hussain, FK, Hussain, OK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Trustworthiness measurement methodology (TMM) for assessment purposes', Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, IEEE, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 369-374.
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Quality assessment process is a very complex process. At the same time quality assessment is very vital and crucial for many business processes. In this paper we propose and explain trustworthiness measurement methodology, which is a generic method which

Hussain, FK, Hussain, OK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Trustworthiness measurement methodology (TMM) for assessment purposes', ICCC 2007: 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CYBERNETICS, PROCEEDINGS, IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics, IEEE, Gammarth, TUNISIA, pp. 107-112.
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Quality assessment process is a very complex process. At the same time quality assessment is very vital and crucial for many business processes. In this paper we propose and explain trustworthiness measurement methodology, which is a generic method which

Hussain, O, Chang, E, Hussain, F & Dillon, T 1970, 'Quantifying the level of failure in a digital business ecosystem interactions', 2007 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (EFTA 2007), 2007 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (EFTA 2007), IEEE, Patras, GREECE, pp. 818-825.
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To ascertain the possible level of risk in a digital business ecosystem interaction, the initiating agent has to determine beforehand the probability of failure, the possible consequences of failure, and the loss of investment probability to its resource

Hussain, O, Chang, E, Hussain, F & Dillon, T 1970, 'Towards Quantifying the Possible Risk in e-commerce Interactions for RDSS', IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07), IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07), IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 89-96.
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By analyzing the possible level of Risk beforehand the initiating agent can make an informed decision of its future course of interaction with an agent. The possible risk in the context of an e-commerce interaction is a multidimensional construct which i

Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 1970, 'Ascertaining Risk in Financial Terms in Digital Business Ecosystem Environments', 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, IEEE, pp. 296-301.
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In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course of interaction with it. A possible outcome of Risk is the loss to trusting agent's resources involved in the interaction. In a financial interaction, the possible loss that may be incurred is usually the monetary loss in the resources of the trusting agent that are involved in the interaction. In this paper, we propose a methodology by which the trusting agent can determine beforehand the possible Risk in financial terms or the possible loss to its resources as a result of interacting with a probable trusted agent. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 1970, 'Determining the loss of investment probability for risk based decision support system', 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Proceedings, IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science in Conjunction with 1st IEEE/ACIS International Workshop on, IEEE Computer Soc, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, pp. 1129-1134.
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In an e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to be apprehensive about the outcome of the interaction and fear for the safety of its resources involved in it. The initiating agent can alleviate this to a certain extent by determini

Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 1970, 'Quantifying Failure for Risk Based Decision Making in Digital Business Ecosystem Interactions', Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'07), Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'07), IEEE, pp. 49-49.
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Due to technological advancement of the internet, conducting e-commerce transactions have become a part of our daily lives. In a financial interaction to be carried over the digital business ecosystem domain, it is rational for an agent instigating the interaction to analyse beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the instigating agent an idea of direction in which its interaction might head and also help it to make an informed decision of its future course of action with that particular agent. For risk analysis, the instigating agent has to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure in interacting with an agent. In this paper, we propose such a methodology by which the instigating agent quantifies the probability of failure beforehand in interacting with an agent according to the demand of its future interaction with it. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 1970, 'Quantifying the Possible Financial Consequences of Failure for making a Risk Based Decision', Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2007), IEEE, pp. 40-40.
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In a financial e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to analyze beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the initiating agent an idea of direction in which its interaction might head and also help it to make an informed decision of its future course of action with that particular agent. For risk analysis in the context of e-commerce interactions, the initiating agent has to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure in interacting with an agent. In this paper, we propose a methodology by which the initiating agent can determine beforehand the possible consequences of failure in its resources, according to the demand of its future interaction with an agent. © 2007 IEEE.

Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK, Dillon, TS & IEEE 1970, 'Ascertaining risk in financial terms in digital business ecosystem environments', 2007 INAUGURAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 594-599.
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In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course of interaction with it. A possible outcome of Risk is t

Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK, Dillon, TS & IEEE 1970, 'Quantifying the loss in resource benefit for risk based decision in digital business ecosystem', 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-8, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, IEEE, Vigo, SPAIN, pp. 2917-2922.
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In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent by analyzing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent can make a better decision of its future course of interaction with it. Another factor that would help th

Jian-Zhou Wang, Liang Wu & Hai-Yan Lu 1970, 'Special periods peak load analysis and superior forecasting method based on LS-SVM', 2007 International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition, 2007 International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beijing, China, pp. 249-253.
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People often try to smooth or eliminate load outliers all together in traditional power load forecasting. This, however, could result in the loss of important hidden information. In other words, the power load outliers themselves may be particular important. Hence there is a beforehand estimate to change and characteristic of power load, especially in power load outliers or peak load, is a precondition of power system carry through economy dispatch, reduce production cost and prevent widespread blackout or collapse on electric system. In this paper propose a novel method for special periods power peak load detection, mining and forecasting. It incorporates the characteristic of high level load and maximum peak load analysis with optimum forecasting algorithm based on support vector machine. The validity of the method is proved by real data calculation. © 2007 IEEE.

Johnston, A, Marks, B & Candy, L 1970, 'Sound controlled musical instruments based on physical models', International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2007, International Computer Music Conference, International Computer Music Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 232-239.
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This paper describes three simple virtual musical instruments that use physical models to map between live sound and computer generated audio and video. The intention is that this approach will provide musicians with an intuitively understandable environment that facilitates musical expression and exploration. Musicians live sound exerts 'forces' on simple mass-spring physical models which move around in response and produce sound. Preliminary findings from a study of musicians' experiences using the software indicate that musicians find the software easy to understand and interact with and are drawn to software with more complex interaction-even though this complexity can reduce the feeling of direct control.

Johnston, AJ & Marks, B 1970, 'Partial reflections', Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition - C&C '07, the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference, ACM Press, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 257-257.
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In this paper we describe two interactive virtual musical instruments that are controlled by sound. These instruments are based on virtual physical models that can be pushed and prodded by making sounds into a microphone. These models provide a mapping between acoustic sounds and computer generated sounds and visuals.

Kang, DJ & Dyson, LE 1970, 'Internet politics in south korea: The case of rohsamo and ohmynews', ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Univeristy of Southern Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, pp. 1027-1034.
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This paper examines the impact of the Internet on politics in South Korea. Many have noted the Internet's political potential due to its versatile nature as a communication medium. However, recent studies are beginning to show the influence of the Internet to be more moderate than expected initially. South Korea represents a very interesting case because of its extremely high Internet penetration rate and its youthful democracy. Two specific cases - a political fan-club called 'Rohsamo' and the Internet news medium 'Ohmynews' - have attracted particular attention mainly because of their perceived pivotal role in the 2002 presidential election. In this paper the part played by Rohsamo and Ohmynews in Korean politics is examined. While the research does not support claims which place the Internet as a revolutionary political force, it shows that the Internet has the potential to be a major player in South Korean politics. © 2007 Daniel Jisuk Kang and Laurel Evelyn Dyson.

Kubiak, B, Pietroni, N, Ganovelli, F & Fratarcangeli, M 1970, 'A robust method for real-time thread simulation.', VRST, ACM, ACM, pp. 85-88.

Leaney, J, Rozenblit, JW & Jianfeng, P 1970, 'Foreword', 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07), 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07), IEEE, pp. xi-xi.
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Lebbe, MA, Agbinya, JI, Chaczko, Z & Chiang, F 1970, 'Self-organized classification of dangers for secure Wireless Mesh Networks', 2007 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, 2007 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2007), IEEE, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 322-327.
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This paper introduces danger theory in artificial immune system as a method of responding to danger in wireless mesh networks. It identifies the challenges in deploying Wireless Mesh networks (WMNs) and focus on secure routing as one of the key challenges in deploying WMNs. In order to implement a secure routing system, various Artificial Immune System (AIS) models were analysed. These models have been used in Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and computer security in the literature. In this paper, the authors propose to use Danger models to secure routing in WMNs. The first step in secure routing process is to identify and classify the network dangers and take necessary actions to overcome those dangers. For the classification task, we apply Self-organizing Maps (SOMs) as the classifier to classify the danger levels in WMNs. These identified danger conditions are further deployed as the warning signals for the design of secure routing protocol. The experimental results validate the proposal of applying the Danger Theory (DT) into security area and good performance is also reported by the use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier.

Li, J & Hao, P 1970, 'Hierarchical structuring of data on manifolds', 2007 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOLS 1-8, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 94-+.

Li, K, Zhou, W, Yu, S & Dai, B 1970, 'A Parallel Downloading Algorithm for Redundant Networks', 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2007), 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2007), IEEE, Aizu Wakamatsu, JAPAN, pp. 177-182.
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Li, K, Zhou, W, Yu, S & Li, P 1970, 'Novel Data Management Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Networks', KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering Management, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, pp. 538-543.
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Li, K, Zhou, W, Yu, S & Zhang, Y 1970, 'A Resource-Search and Routing Algorithm within PCDN Autonomy Area', Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2007), Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2007), IEEE, pp. 509-514.
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This paper studied a new type of network model; it is formed by the dynamic autonomy area, the structured source servers and the proxy servers. The new network model satisfies the dynamics within the autonomy area, where each node undertakes different tasks according to their different abilities, to ensure that each node has the load ability fit its own; it does not need to exchange information via the central servers, so it can carry out the efficient data transmission and routing search. According to the highly dynamics of the autonomy area, we established dynamic tree structure-proliferation system routing and resource-search algorithms and simulated these algorithms. Test results show the performance of the proposed network model and the algorithms are very stable. © 2007 IEEE.

Li, K, Zhou, W, Yu, S & Zhang, Y 1970, 'A Resource-Search and Routing Algorithm within PCDN Autonomy Area', Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2007), Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2007), IEEE, pp. 509-514.
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Li, K, Zhou, W, Yu, S & Zhang, Y 1970, 'A resource-search and routing algorithm within PCDN autonomy area', EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES, PROCEEDINGS, 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA, pp. 509-+.
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Li, K, Zhou, WL, Yu, S & Dai, B 1970, 'A parallel downloading algorithm for redundant networks', CIT 2007 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, pp. 177-182.
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In this paper, we study the downloading mechanism of BitTorrent (or BT), a P2P based popular and convenient parallel downloading software tool, point out some of its limitations, and propose an algorithm to improve its performance. In particular, we address the limitations of BT by using neighbours in P2P networks to resolve the redundant copies problem and to optimise the downloading speed. Our preliminary experiments show that the proposed enhancement algorithm works well. © 2007 IEEE.

Lin, C-T, Chuang, S-W, Chen, Y-C, Ko, L-W, Liang, S-F & Jung, T-P 1970, 'EEG Effects of Motion Sickness Induced in a Dynamic Virtual Reality Environment', 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, pp. 3872-3875.
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The Electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics which relate to motion sickness are studied in this paper. Instead of providing visual or motion stimuli to the subjects to induce motion sickness, we employed a dynamic virtual-reality (VR) environment in our research. The environment consisted of a 3D surrounding VR scene and a motion platform providing a realistic situation. This environment provided the advantages of safety, low cost, and the realistic stimuli to induce motion sickness. The Motion Sickness Questionnaire (MSQ) was used to assess the sickness level, and the EEG effects on the subjects with high sickness levels were investigated using the independent component analysis (ICA). The fake-epoch extraction was then applied to the nausea-related independent components. Finally we employed the Event-Related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) technology on the fake-epochs in order to determine the EEG dynamics during motion sickness. The experimental results show that most subjects experienced an 8-10 Hz power increase to their motion sickness-related phenomena in the parietal and motor areas. Moreover, some subjects experienced an EEG power increase of 18-20 Hz in their synchronized responses recorded in the same areas. The motion sickness-related effects and regions can be successfully obtained from our experimental results. ©2007 IEEE.

Lin, C-T, Hsieh, H-Y, Liang, S-F, Chen, Y-C & Ko, L-W 1970, 'Development of a Wireless Embedded Brain - Computer Interface and Its Application on Drowsiness Detection and Warning', ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS, PROCEEDINGS, 7th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics held at the HCI International 2007, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 561-567.
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Lin, C-T, Ko, L-W, Lin, K-L, Liang, S-F, Kuo, B-C, Chung, I-F & Van, L-D 1970, 'Classification of Driver's Cognitive Responses Using Nonparametric Single-trial EEG Analysis', 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), IEEE, New Orleans, LA, pp. 2019-2023.
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Lin, C-T, Ko, L-W, Lin, Y-H, Jung, T-P, Liang, S-F & Hsiao, L-S 1970, 'EEG Activities of Dynamic Stimulation in VR Driving Motion Simulator', ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS, PROCEEDINGS, 7th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics held at the HCI International 2007, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 551-560.
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Lister, R, Berglund, A, Box, I, Cope, C, Pears, A, Avram, C, Bower, M, Carbone, A, Davey, B, de Raadt, M, Doyle, B, Fitzgerald, S, Mannila, L, Kutay, C, Peltomäki, M, Sheard, J, Simon, Sutton, K, Traynor, D, Tutty, J & Venables, A 1970, 'Differing ways that computing academics understand teaching', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, Australian Computer Society, Ballarat, Australia, pp. 97-106.
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This paper presents first results from a wide-ranging phenomenographic study of computing academics' understanding of teaching. These first results focus upon four areas: the role of lab practical sessions, the experience of teaching success, conceptions of motivating and engaging students, and the granularity of the teacher's focus. The findings are comparable with prior work on the understandings of academics in other disciplines. This study was started as part of a workshop on phenomenography. Most participants at the workshop received their first training in phenomenography. This paper summarises the structure of the workshop. © 2007, Australian Computer Society, Inc.

Lister, RF 1970, 'The Neglected Middle Novice Programmer: Reading and Writing without Abstracting', 20th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Nelson, New Zealand, pp. 133-140.
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Many teachers of novice programmers have lamented that students either seem to have a natural gift for programming, or have no gift for it at all. In this paper, we discuss a third group of students, the middle novice programmer. At the completion of their first semester of programming, these students can manifest a strong concrete grasp of the semantics of basic programming language constructs, by hand executing code, but they cannot reason about code at a higher goal/plan level. The research evidence presented in this paper for the existence of these middle novice programmers is from the analysis of twelve multiple choice questions, which students attempted as part of an end-of-first-semester exam.

Litchfield, A, Dyson, LE, Lawrence, E & Zmijewska, A 1970, 'Directions for m-learning research to enhance active learning', ASCILITE 2007 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Centre for Educational Development, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, pp. 587-596.
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This paper aims to inform readers of suggested directions for researching how mobile technology can enhance active student learning. These directions are informed by an online survey of our students in early 2007 and a contemporary literature search. We present the findings of our search of global best-practice in m-learning, gaps in the current literature are identified and five directions are suggested for 2007 m-learning research and development. We start discussing how to investigate these suggested directions. Our five suggested action research directions are all significant issues in m-learning and all need to be better investigated. If we are interested in enhancing student learning, a priority is to design mlearning and teaching strategies that involve active experiential learning. These strategies need to effectively support our learners' development of attitudes, understandings and skills in identified graduate attributes, curriculum objectives and stated learning outcomes. The development of wide support for an online body of knowledge of m-learning and teaching principles, strategies and effective, practical case-studies across all disciplines - an m-portal - is needed and can support and inform emerging national and international approaches to using mobile technologies to enhance learning. Guided by our findings and suggested research suggestions the authors hope to discuss, extend and develop collaborative partnerships for future action research, development and sponsorship at our ascilite 2007 conference workshop. © 2007 Andrew Litchfield, Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Elaine Lawrence and Agnieszka Zmijewska.

Ma, J, Lu, J & Zhang, G 1970, 'A Rule-Map based Technique for Information Inconsistency Verification', 2007 Information, Decision and Control, 2007 Information, Decision and Control, IEEE, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 296-301.
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This paper focuses on the problem of verifying information inconsistencies in acquired information. A rule-map based technique for data inconsistency is presented, where rule-map is used to describe hierarchical structure of rules and estimate judgment standard for consistency dynamically. Moreover, a state-based knowledge representation technique for logical inconsistency is investigated, in which knowledge is illustrated as states set of related objects and logical inconsistency is determined by the relationships between those state-sets. To illustrate the presented techniques, two examples are given. © 2007 IEEE.

Ma, J, Lu, J, Zhang, G & IEEE 1970, 'A two-level information filtering model in generating warning information', 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision Making, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, IEEE, Hawaii, USA, pp. 354-359.
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Information filtering is an important component in warning systems. This paper proposes a two-level information filtering model for generating warning information. In this model, information is represented by n-tuple, whose elements are values of information features. The features of information are divided into critical and uncritical features. Within this model, the collected information is filtered in two stages by users at different levels. At the first stage, exceptions are separated from normal information. And at the second stage, critical exceptions are separated from uncritical information. To illustration the proposed model, an example is discussed. ©2007 IEEE.

Macaš, M, Gabrys, B, Ruta, D & Lhotská, L 1970, 'Particle Swarm Optimisation of Multiple Classifier Systems', COMPUTATIONAL AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE, 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, San Sebastian, SPAIN, pp. 333-340.
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Madhisetty, S 1970, 'Utility Computing and Its Applications', Managing Worldwide Operations & Communications with Information Technology, 2007 Information Resources Management Association, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1037-1038.

Maxwell, C, O'Neill, T & Leaney, J 1970, 'Formal Architecture Transformation Using Heuristics', 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07), 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07), IEEE, Tucson, Arizona, pp. 15-24.
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Heuristics have long been a popular and effective mechanism for capturing the knowledge of experts. In recent times, however, the more common use of heuristics has been as a means for communicating ideas at an abstract level, with little consideration to their potential as a structured approach to design improvement. With this paper we present the issues surrounding, and a structured method for, formally capturing architectural change embodied within heuristics. We demonstrate how through the application of graph theory, category theory and predicate calculus we can capture change within a heuristic and then use it to achieve formal heuristic-based transformation of a real-world system. By capturing heuristics in the structured and formal manner discussed in this paper we present ourselves with the opportunity to create a practical and reliable heuristic-based architecture transformation system. This is done within the wider context of achieving a process for optimising the non-functional qualities of a system architecture through design transformation.

McGregor, C & Frize, M 1970, 'Women in Biomedical Engineering and Health Informatics', 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Lyon, FRANCE, pp. 238-238.
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McGregor, C & Kneale, B 1970, 'Simulated neonatal intensive care units to support neonatologist international mobility', Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Telehealth, pp. 124-129.
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Intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide offer support for patients in need of critical care. They boast a range of state-of-the-art medical monitoring devices to monitor a patient's physiological parameters such as blood oxygen, blood pressure, and heart rate. Other devices such as ventilators offer mechanical life support. While much of the existing research enabling ICT support for ICUs has focussed on the delivery of alerts, these approaches do not support mobility well. The Bush Babies on Broadband project aims to support NICU patient and care provider mobility. A key benefit of the Bush Babies on Broadband framework is that it is available to link regional hospitals with the supporting NICU Neonatologist 'on demand' eliminating the need to establish permanent point to point connections. The focus of this paper is on the reapplication of the Bush Babies on Broadband architecture to support mobility of the care provider. The ability of a Neonatologist to access multi-media information for babies contained within their neonatal intensive care unit, while located overseas is tested and results are presented.

McGregor, C & Stacey, M 1970, 'High frequency distributed data stream event correlation to improve neonatal clinical management', Proceedings of the 2007 inaugural international conference on Distributed event-based systems, DEBS07: Distributed Event-based Systems Conference, ACM, pp. 146-151.
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Approximately eighteen percent (18%) of babies born in New South Wales (NSW), Australia require special care or neonatal intensive care admission. Premature babies can be up to 17 weeks early and may only weigh 450gms; they can spend 3 or 4 months in intensive care and have dozens of specific diseases before discharge, many of these may have long term implications for the future health of the individual. In addition, fifteen percent of neonatal intensive care admissions are transferred after delivery from smaller regional or remote hospitals without intensive care facilities to larger Tertiary Referral or Children's Hospitals with Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Similar conditions apply within Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and elsewhere where small non-tertiary units are spread throughout the country. This paper presents case study based applied research in progress supporting the development of a distributed event stream processing framework to enable high frequency distributed data stream event correlation to improve neonatal clinical management. This research extends the traditional notion of event-based approaches by extending the notion of an event to incorporate a composite event that exists over a period of time, as is required within the domain of health and medicine. This is achieved through a multi-agent event calculus based approach that supports temporal abstraction. A key contribution of this research is the ability to support automated medical condition onset detection. © 2007 ACM.

Merigó, JM & Gil-Lafuente, AM 1970, 'The induced generalized OWA operator', New Dimensions in Fuzzy Logic and Related Technologies - Proceedings of the 5th EUSFLAT 2005 Conference, 5th Conference of the European-Society-for-Fuzzy-Logic-and-Technology, UNIV OSTRAVA, Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC, pp. 463-470.
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We study different types of aggregation operators. We focus on the generalized OWA (GOWA) operator developed by Yager which represents a generalization to a wide range of aggregation operators. We distinguish between aggregations with a descending or with an ascending order. We introduce the induced generalized OWA (IGOWA) operator which represents an extension to the GOWA operator. It generalizes a wider range of aggregation operators as the GOWA operator is a particular case of this type of generalization. We study its main properties and some particular cases obtained with it. Finally, we develop a further generalization to the IGOWA operator by using quasi-arithmetic means.

Milne, D 1970, 'Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia Link structure', Proceedings of NZCSRSC 2007, the 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference.
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This paper describes a new technique for obtaining measures of semantic relatedness. Like other recent approaches, it uses Wikipedia to provide a vast amount of structured world knowledge about the terms of interest. Our system, the Wikipedia Link Vector Model or WLVM, is unique in that it does so using only the hyperlink structure of Wikipedia rather than its full textual content. To evaluate the algorithm we use a large, widely used test set of manually defined measures of semantic relatedness as our bench-mark. This allows direct comparison of our system with other similar techniques.

Milne, DN 1970, 'Exploiting web 2.0 forallknowledge-based information retrieval', Proceedings of the ACM first Ph.D. workshop in CIKM, CIKM07: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM, pp. 69-76.
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This paper describes ongoing research into obtaining and using knowledge bases to assist information retrieval. These structures are prohibitively expensive to obtain manually, yet automatic approaches have been researched for decades with limited success. This research investigates a potential shortcut: a way to provide knowledge bases automatically, without expecting computers to replace expert human indexers. Instead we aim to replace the professionals with thousands or even millions of amateurs: with the growing community of contributors who form the core of Web 2.0. Specifically we focus on Wikipedia, which represents a rich tapestry of topics and semantics and a huge investment of human effort and judgment. We show how this can be directly exploited to provide manually-defined yet inexpensive knowledge-bases that are specifically tailored to expose the topics, terminology and semantics of individual document collections. We are also concerned with how best to make these structures available to users, and aim to produce a complete knowledge-based retrieval system-both the knowledge base and the tools to apply it-that can be evaluated by how well it assists real users in performing realistic and practical information retrieval tasks. To this end we have developed Koru, a new search engine that offers concrete evidence of the effectiveness of our Web 2.0 based techniques for assisting information retrieval. © 2007 ACM.

Milne, DN, Witten, IH & Nichols, DM 1970, 'A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia', Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, CIKM07: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM, pp. 445-454.
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This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of both queries and documents. This allows it to (a) expand queries automatically and (b) help guide the user as they evolve their queries interactively. Its understanding is mined from the vast investment of manual effort and judgment that is Wikipedia. We show how this open, constantly evolving encyclopedia can yield inexpensive knowledge structures that are specifically tailored to expose the topics, terminology and semantics of individual document collections. We conducted a detailed user study with 12 participants and 10 topics from the 2005 TREC HARD track, and found that Koru and its underlying knowledge base offers significant advantages over traditional keyword search. It was capable of lending assistance to almost every query issued to it; making their entry more efficient, improving the relevance of the documents they return, and narrowing the gap between expert and novice seekers. Copyright 2007 ACM.

Nataatmadja, I, Sixsmith, AJ & Dyson, LE 1970, 'Improving Class Participation by Asian Students', Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology, International Conference on Information Resources Management, IGI Publishing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 74-77.

Niazi, M, Wilson, D & Zowghi, D 1970, 'Organisational readiness and software process improvement', Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, Proceedings, Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Springer-Verlag, Riga, Latvia, pp. 96-107.
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This paper reports on the implementation of the SPI readiness model in three large-scale case studies. We have found that organisations with higher CMMA leavelas are more ready for SPI initiaitves than organisations with higher CMMI levels are more ready for SPO initiatives that organisations with low CMMI levels.

Niu, L, Lu, J, Chew, E & Zhang, G 1970, 'An Exploratory Cognitive Business Intelligence System', IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), IEEE, pp. 812-815.
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An exploratory study of web-based cognitive business intelligence systems (CBIS) is presented in this paper. The underpinning concepts and theories are situation awareness, mental model, and naturalistic decision making (NDM). The CBIS is an extension of the traditional business intelligence system with cognitive orientation. It focuses on developing, enriching, and utilizing the executive's situation awareness, mental models, and other past experience during human-computer interaction, which drives the decision process to approach a naturalistic decision. © 2007 IEEE.

Niu, L, Lu, J, Chew, E, Zhang, G & Young, T 1970, 'An exploratory cognitive business intelligence system', PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE/WIC/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INTELLIGENCE, IEEE/WIC/ACM international Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, Silicon Valley, CA, pp. 812-815.
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An exploratory study of web-based cognitive business intelligence systems (CBIS) is presented in this paper. The underpinning concepts and theories are situation awareness, mental model, and naturalistic decision making (NDM). The CBIS is an extension of the traditional business intelligence system with cognitive orientation. It focuses on developing, enriching, and utilizing the executive's situation awareness, mental models, and other past experience during human-computer interaction, which drives the decision process to approach a naturalistic decision.

Pal, U, Sharma, N, Wakabayashi, T & Kimura, F 1970, 'Handwritten Numeral Recognition of Six Popular Indian Scripts', Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007) Vol 2, Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007) Vol 2, IEEE, pp. 749-753.
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India is a multi-lingual multi-script country but there is not much work towards handwritten character recognition of Indian languages. In this paper we propose a modified quadratic classifier based scheme towards the recognition of off-line handwritten numerals of six popular Indian scripts. Here we consider Devnagari, Bangla, Telugu, Oriya, Kannada and Tamil scripts for our experiment. The features used in the classifier are obtained from the directional information of the numerals. For feature computation, the bounding box of a numeral is segmented into blocks and the directional features are computed in each of the blocks. These blocks are then down sampled by a Gaussian filter and the features obtained from the down sampled blocks are fed to a modified quadratic classifier for recognition. Here we have used two sets of feature. We have used 64 dimensional features for high-speed recognition and 400 dimensional features for high-accuracy recognition in our proposed system. A five-fold cross validation technique has been used for result computation and we obtained 99.56%, 98.99%, 99.37%, 98.40%, 98.71% and 98.51% accuracy from Devnagari, Bangla, Telugu, Oriya, Kannada, and Tamil scripts, respectively.

Pal, U, Sharma, N, Wakabayashi, T & Kimura, F 1970, 'Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition of Devnagari Script', Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), IEEE, pp. 496-500.
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In this paper we present a system towards the recognition of off-line handwritten characters of Devnagari, the most popular script in India. The features used for recognition purpose are mainly based on directional information obtained from the arc tangent of the gradient. To get the feature, at first, a 2 x 2 mean filtering is applied 4 times on the gray level image and a non-linear size normalization is done on the image. The normalized image is then segmented to 49 x 49 blocks and a Roberts filter is applied to obtain gradient image. Next, the arc tangent of the gradient (direction of gradient) is initially quantized into 32 directions and the strength of the gradient is accumulated with each of the quantized direction. Finally, the blocks and the directions are down sampled using Gaussian filter to get 392 dimensional feature vector. A modified quadratic classifier is applied on these features for recognition. We used 36172 handwritten data for testing our system and obtained 94.24% accuracy using 5-fold cross-validation scheme. © 2007 IEEE.

Parakhine, A, O'Neill, T & Leaney, J 1970, 'Application of Bayesian networks to architectural optimisation', ECBS 2007: 14TH ANNUAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS ON THE ENGINEERING OF COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems, IEEE, Tucson, Arizona, pp. 37-44.
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The field of optimisation covers a great multitude of principles, methods and frameworks aimed at maximisation of an objective under constraints. However, the classical optimisation can not be easily applied in the context of computer-based systems architecture as there is not enough knowledge concerning the dependencies between non-functional qualities of the system. Out approach is based on the simulation optimisation methodology where the system simulation is first created to assess the current state of the design with respect to the objectives. The results of the simulation are used to construct a Bayesian belief network which effectively becomes a base for an objective function and serves as the main source of the decision support pertaining to the guidance of the optimisation process. The potential effects of each proposed change or combination of changes is then examined by updating and re-evaluating the system simulation

Pattinson, HM & Sood, SC 1970, 'Marketers Inventing the Future: Scenario Planning for Marketing Action', Foresight 2007 Conference Papers, Foresight 2007, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, pp. 1-14.

Pileggi, SF, Palau, CE & Esteve, M 1970, 'An Adaptive and Flexible Fault Tolerance Mechanism Designed on Multi-behavior Agents for Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network', 2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2007), 2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2007), IEEE, pp. 283-288.
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In the last few years, WSN has been object of an intense research activity that has determined an important improvement by technologic and computation point of view both. The notable level got and the increasing request of applications designed over Sensor Networks make WSN commercial diffusion next to be a fact. One of key issues for commercial diffusion of WSN is related to the robustness of architectures. An adaptive and flexible fault tolerant mechanism for WSN is proposed in the paper. Considering the tradeoffs between robustness and energy efficiency as central issue, a programming model based on multi-behavior agents that can guarantee an efficient, dynamic and extendible implementation is proposed too. © 2007 IEEE.

Pileggi, SF, Palau, CE & Esteve, M 1970, 'Analysis techniques and models for resource optimization in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network environment', WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTOR NETWORKS, 1st International Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN'07), Springer US, Albacete, SPAIN, pp. 23-34.
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Pileggi, SF, Palau, CE & Esteve, M 1970, 'Integrating wireless sensor network with grid computing and RFID technology for products monitoring into airports', Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks Csn 2007, 6th IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, ACTA PRESS ANAHEIM, Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN, pp. 177-181.
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Proposed work is focused on the design of a large scale application for products monitoring into airports. To guarantee an advanced and high performance solution, the architecture designed integrates Grid Computing, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The integrated platform is service oriented and tries to propose an architectural model that addresses the typical requirements of a modern Virtual Organization but providing, at the same time, the components based on resource limited technologies (WSN and RFID) with ad-hoc mechanisms for efficient energy management.

Qumer, A 1970, 'Defining an Integrated Agile Governance for Large Agile Software Development Environments.', XP, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Springer, Como, Italy, pp. 157-160.
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This paper highlights the important aspect of IT governance, with the objective of defining an unaddressed aspect of agile governance, by the application of an iterative, inductive, instantaneous analysis and emergent interpretation of appropriate data-grounded conceptual categories of IT governance. An effective agile governance approach will facilitate the achievement of desired discipline, rationale, business value, improved performance, monitoring, as well as control of large agile software development environments by aligning business goals and agile software development goals. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.

Qumer, A & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'An agile toolkit to support agent-oriented and service-oriented computing mechanisms', Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, Proceedings, Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Springer, Riga, Latvia, pp. 222-236.
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The complex nature of the software development paradigm and the rapid acceptance of emerging abstraction mechanisms, such as agent-oriented and service-oriented computing, highlight the increasing need for re-evaluation of existing software development approaches that focus on agile software development methodologies (primarily originating in object-oriented technology); since existing object-oriented, structure-oriented and component-oriented approaches embodied in an agile approach cannot be applied immediately to agent and service-oriented computing. Therefore, we present here, an agile toolkit (Java-based) to facilitate the construction of multi-abstraction or mabstraction situation-specific agile processes for software development projects. This paper only presents the newly emergent abstraction concepts of agent and service, and does not discuss the well-established object-oriented mechanism used in current agile approaches. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.

Qumer, A & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'ASOP: An Agile Service-Oriented Process', NEW TRENDS IN SOFTWARE METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES, International Conference on Software Methods and Tools, IOS Press, Rome, Italy, pp. 83-92.
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The increasing prevalence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has introduced another layer of abstraction (service-oriented) on top of already well-known object-oriented and component-oriented layers of abstractions. However, it has been found that the current traditional phase-based approach towards the development of SOA-based applications, contrarily, lacks agility, which mitigates against the needed ability to quickly respond to changes in business processes. Therefore, here, we suggest an agile approach to implement a flexible SOA. This paper, based on our industrial experience and case studies, presents the agile service-oriented process (ASOP) that had been constructed by using the agile software solution framework (ASSF), agile toolkit (ATK), situational method engineering (SME) and agile adoption and improvement model (AAIM) for the development of one of our industry (case study) service-oriented e-health project.

Qumer, A & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'ASOP: An Agile Service-Oriented Process', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 83-92.
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The increasing prevalence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has introduced another layer of abstraction (service-oriented) on top of already well-known object-oriented and component-oriented layers of abstractions. However, it has been found that the current traditional phase-based approach towards the development of SOA-based applications, contrarily, lacks agility, which mitigates against the needed ability to quickly respond to changes in business processes. Therefore, here, we suggest an agile approach to implement a flexible SOA. This paper, based on our industrial experience and case studies, presents the agile service-oriented process (ASOP) that had been constructed by using the agile software solution framework (ASSF), agile toolkit (ATK), situational method engineering (SME) and agile adoption and improvement model (AAIM) for the development of one of our industry (case study) service-oriented e-health project.

Qumer, A & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Construction of an agile software product-enhancement process by using an agile software solution framework (ASSF) and situational method engineering', COMPSAC 2007: THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE, VOL I, PROCEEDINGS, International Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society, Beijing, China, pp. 539-542.
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Introducing a change in any software development organization is challenging; as this paper demonstrates by means of a case study for the adoption of agile practices in a large software development organization. The case study research findings indicate that a situational method engineering approach together with an agile software solution framework (ASSF) can be used to create a feasible and usable hybrid software development method by combining agile practices and formal practices for a particular situation in large software development organizations. ©2007 IEEE.

Raban, R, Dyson, LE & Lawrence, EM 1970, 'mInteract: Talk with Your Class', UTS Teaching and Learning Forum, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Poster presentation, with abstract published on conference website

Riedel, S & Gabrys, B 1970, 'Dynamic Pooling for the Combination of Forecasts generated using Multi Level Learning', 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, Orlando, FL, pp. 454-459.
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Ruan, D, Lu, J, Laes, E, Zhang, G, Wu, F & Hardeman, F 1970, 'Fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support in long-term options of Belgian energy policy', NAFIPS 2007 - 2007 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference, IEEE, San Diego, CA, pp. 496-501.
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Decision making requires multiple perspectives of different people as one single decision maker may have not enough knowledge to well solve a problem alone. This is particularly true when the decision environment becomes more complex. More organizational decisions are made now in groups than ever before. Group decision making is thus a process of arriving at a judgment or a solution for a decision problem based on the input and feedback of multiple individuals. At the same time in practice, multi-criteria problems at tactical and strategic levels often involve fuzziness in their criteria and decision makers' judgments. Relevant alternatives are evaluated according to a number of criteria. Fuzzy logic based multi-criteria group decision support is justified to analysis long-term options for Belgian energy policy in this paper. ©2007 IEEE.

Ruta, D & Gabrys, B 1970, 'Neural Network Ensembles for Time Series Prediction', 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, Orlando, FL, pp. 1204-1209.
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Ruta, D, Gabrys, B, Maroulis, G & Simos, TE 1970, 'Reducing Spatial Data Complexity for Classification Models', AIP Conference Proceedings, Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, AIP, Corfu, GREECE, pp. 603-613.
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Sahel, Z, Bouchachia, A, Gabrys, B & Rogers, P 1970, 'Adaptive Mechanisms for Classification Problems with Drifting Data', KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS: KES 2007 - WIRN 2007, PT II, PROCEEDINGS, 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Informational and Engineering Systems/17th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vietri sul Mare, ITALY, pp. 419-426.
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Shih-Chen Fan, Ming-Hui Wen, Chun-Tang Hsu, Chung-Hao Hung, Shang-Hwa Hsu, Ming-Chuen Chuang, Zao, JK & Chin-Teng Lin 1970, 'Health pal: a PDA phone that will take care of your health', 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE, pp. 3703-3708.
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The Kannon Project at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan has designed a smart PDA Phone, christened Health Pal, to help elders to manage their healthcare needs such as planning their own physician visits, medication schedules, exercise routines as well as monitoring their blood pressures, pulse rates and oxygen levels. The paper reports the design concepts of the device as well as the activity oriented approach the team undertook during the design process. A comparison of this device against several similar prototypes was also included to highlight its unique features. ©2007 IEEE.

Sidhu, AS, Hussain, FK, Dillon, TS, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Trust based decision making approach for protein ontology', ETFA 2007: 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND FACTORY AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-3, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE, Patras, GREECE, pp. 810-813.
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Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology instantiations signify information about proteins that

Stacey, M, McGregor, C & Tracy, M 1970, 'An architecture for multi-dimensional temporal abstraction and its application to support neonatal intensive care', 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Lyon, FRANCE, pp. 3752-3756.
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Tran, N, Beydoun, G & Low, G 1970, 'Design of a peer-to-peer information sharing MAS using MOBMAS (Ontology-Centric agent oriented methodology)', ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT, VOL 2, 15th International Conference on Information Systems Development, SPRINGER, Budapest, HUNGARY, pp. 63-76.
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Ullmer, B, Schmidt, A, Hornecker, E, Hummels, C, Jacob, RJ & van den Hoven, E 1970, 'Proceedings of the First International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'07)', TEI'07, TEI'07, ACM, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
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It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the First International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. This new conference addresses interaction, design, tools, use, and art, especially encouraging interdisciplinary research spanning these themes.For its inaugural year, TEI'07 is held in concert with the 14th Annual Mardi Gras conference at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Major sponsorship is provided by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology (CCT). The conference is in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, with its proceedings to be archived in ACM's Digital Library.The Mardi Gras festival finds its roots some 5,000 years ago as a celebration of spring. In North America, the festival dates to French explorers' arrival at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1699. Just south of New Orleans, where the river meets the sea, they named their landfall Point d'Mardi Gras, on occasion of the day.In this spirit of new life, discovery, cultural diversity, and celebration, each spring the Mardi Gras conference embraces a different theme of regional interest and relevance. This year, we have embraced tangible and embedded interaction, with aspirations of giving birth to a recurring annual gathering and celebration of research in this field.

van den Hoven, E & Mazalek, A 1970, 'Tangible Play: Research and Design for Tangible and Tabletop Games', 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES, IUI'07, ACM, Honolulu, HI, USA, pp. 6-6.
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This workshop addresses questions related to the areas of tangible interaction, game design and emerging technologies for tangible and tabletop games. We bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields related to these topics, such as HCI, computer science, interaction design and game design. We seek collaborative ways to move forward the field of tangible and tabletop games.

van den Hoven, E, Frens, J, Aliakseyeu, D, Martens, J-B, Overbeeke, K & Peters, P 1970, 'Design research & tangible interaction', Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction, TEI07: Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007, ACM, Baton Rouge, USA, pp. 109-115.
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The research on Tangible Interaction (TI) has been inspired by many different disciplines, including psychology, sociology, engineering and human-computer interaction (HCI). Now that the field is getting more mature, in the sense that basic technologies and interaction paradigms have been explored, we observe a growing potential for a more design-oriented research approach. We suggest that there are several arguments for this proposed broadening of the TI-perspective: 1) the need for designing products within contexts-of-use that are much more challenging and diverse than the task-oriented desktop (or tabletop) systems that mostly inspire us today, 2) the interest to also design TI starting from existing physical activities instead of only as add-ons to digital applications, 3) the need for iterative design and evaluation of prototypes in order to develop applications that are grounded within daily practice over prolonged periods of time, and 4) the need to extend ease of use to more hedonic aspects of interaction such as fun and engagement

VAN, L-D, LIN, C-T & YU, Y-C 1970, 'VLSI Architecture for the Low-Computation Cycle and Power-Efficient Recursive DFT/IDFT Design', IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, 5th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE), Athens, GREECE, pp. 1644-1652.
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Voinov, A, Cox, WE & Cardwell, HE 1970, 'Pilot Collaborative Modeling Study for Regulatory Issues on the James River', World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007, American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 1-5.
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Whereas other shared vision planning studies have typically addressed planning issues for reservoir re-operation issues (e.g. Lake Ontario Study, Mississippi Headwaters Reservoir Operations Plan Evaluation Study, ACT-ACF, etc.), there is also a need for the Corps to work with stakeholders to develop a "shared vision" for water management as it performs it's regulatory role under section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Likewise the state of Virginia recognizes the critical role of public involvement in state and local water planning. Therefore, the USEPA, the State of Virginia, and the Corps' Norfolk District regulators are helping guide a pilot Shared Vision Planning in the James River study to identify and describe the water resources management challenges facing growing municipalities in the James basin and to identify strategies for addressing these challenges in support the Corps 404 regulatory role and the State water planning process. A "Pilot" SVP study is proposed to initiate a collaborative process and evaluate the potential for a "full blown" SVP effort. The pilot effort will likely take 3-5 months and will involve several workshops (one or two large workshops plus various meetings of working groups), some model development, limited data gathering and some initial decision-making trials. © 2007 ASCE.

Wang, C, Lu, J & Zhang, G 1970, 'A constrained clustering approach to duplicate detection among relational data', ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, PROCEEDINGS, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Nanjing, China, pp. 308-319.
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This paper proposes an approach to detect duplicates among relational data. Traditional methods for record linkage or duplicate detection work on a set of records which have no explicit relations with each other. These records can be formatted into a single database table for processing. However, there are situations that records from different sources can not be flattened into one table and records within one source have certain (semantic) relations between them. The duplicate detection issue of these relational data records/instances can be dealt with by formatting them into several tables and applying traditional methods to each table. However, as the relations among the original data records are ignored, this approach generates poor or inconsistent results. This paper analyzes the characteristics of relational data and proposes a particular clustering approach to perform duplicate detection. This approach incorporates constraint rules derived from the characteristics of relational data and therefore yields better and more consistent results, which are revealed by our experiments.

Wang, C, Lu, J & Zhang, G 1970, 'Generation and matching of ontology data for the semantic web in a peer-to-peer framework', Advances in Data and Web Management, Proceedings, International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, Springer, Huangshan, China, pp. 136-143.
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The abundance of ontology data is very crucial to the emerging semantic web. This paper proposes a framework that supports the generation of ontology data in a ptop environment. It not only enables users to convert existing structured data to ontology data aligned with given ontology schemas, but also allows them to publish new ontology data with ease. Besides ontology data generation, the common issue of data overlapping over the peers is addressed by the process of ontology data matching in the framework. This process helps turn the implicitly related data among the peers caused by overlapping into explicitly interlinked ontology data, which increases the overall quality of the ontology data. To improve matching accuracy, we explore ontology related features in the matching process. Experiments show that adding these features achieves better overall performance than using traditional features only.

Wang, C, Lu, J, Zhang, G & Zeng, X 1970, 'Creating and managing ontology data on the web: A semantic wiki approach', WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING - WISE 2007, PROCEEDINGS, International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Springer, Nancy, France, pp. 513-522.
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The creation of ontology data on web sites and proper management of them would help the growth of the semantic web. This paper proposes a semantic wiki approach to tackle this issue. Desirable functions that a semantic wiki approach should implement to offer a better solution to this issue are discussed. Along with that, some key problems such as usability, data reliability and data quality are identified and analyzed. Based on that, a system framework is presented to show how such functions are designed. These functions are further explained along with the description of our implemented prototype system. By addressing the identified key problems, our semantic wiki approach is expected to be able to create and manage web ontology data more effectively.

Wu, F, Lu, J, Zhang, G & Da Ruan 1970, 'The Development of A Fuzzy Multi-Objective Group Decision Support System', 2007 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, 2007 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, IEEE, Imperial College, London, UK, pp. 1-6.
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This paper deals with multi-objective decision-making problem with fuzzy parameters under a group environment, called fuzzy multi-objective group decision-making (FMOGDM). It first presents an FMOGDM method, which integrates fuzzy multi-objective linear programming (FMOLP) with fuzzy group decision making techniques. Based on the method, a fuzzy multiple objective group decision support system (FMOGDSS) is developed. Finally, it gives a case-based example to demonstrate how an FMOLP problem is solved in a group supported by the FMOGDSS. © 2007 IEEE.

Xia, L, Lang, J & Ying, M 1970, 'Sequential voting rules and multiple elections paradoxes.', TARK, pp. 279-288.
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Multiple election paradoxes arise when voting separately on each issue from a set of related issues results in an obviously undesirable outcome. Several authors have argued that a sufficient condition for avoiding multiple election paradoxes is the assumption that voters have separable preferences. We show that this extremely demanding restriction can be relaxed into the much more reasonable one: there exists a linear order x1 > ... > x p on the set of issues such that for each voter, every issue x i is preferentially independent of xi+1, ..., x p given x1, ..., xi-1. This leads us to define a family of sequential voting rules, defined as the sequential composition of local voting rules. These rules relate to the setting of conditional preference networks (CP-nets) recently developed in the Artificial Intelligence literature. We study in detail how these sequential rules inherit, or do not inherit, the properties of their local components. We focus on the case of multiple referenda, corresponding to multiple elections with binary issues.

Xia, L, Lang, J & Ying, M 1970, 'Strongly Decomposable Voting Rules on Multiattribute Domains.', AAAI, AAAI Press, pp. 776-781.
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Sequential composition of voting rules, by making use of structural properties of the voters' preferences, provide computationally economical ways for making a common decision over a Cartesian product of finite local domains. A sequential composition is usually defined on a set of legal profiles following a fixed order. In this paper, we generalize this by order-independent sequential composition and strong decomposable, which are independent of the chosen order. We study to which extent some usual properties of voting rules transfer from the local rules to their order-independent sequential composition. Then, to capture the idea that a voting rule is neutral or decomposable on a slightly smaller domain, we define nearly neutral, nearly decomposable rules for both sequential composition and order-independent sequential composition, which leads us to defining and studying decomposable permutations. We prove that any sequential composition of neutral local rules and any order-independent sequential composition of neutral local rules satisfying a necessary condition are nearly neutral. Copyright © 2007, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

Yu, S & Li, Z 1970, 'Massive Data Delivery in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks with Network Coding', 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), IEEE, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, pp. 592-597.
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Yusop, N, Mehboob, Z & Zowghi, D 1970, 'The Role of Conducting Stakeholder Meeting in Requirements Engineering Techniques', Second International Workshop on the Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET) in conjuction with RE07, International Workshop on the Requirements Engineering Education and Training, IEEE Computer Society, Dehli, India, pp. 48-55.

Zhang, G, Lu, J & Dillon, T 1970, 'Models and Algorithm for Fuzzy Multi-objective Multi-follower Linear Bilevel Programming', 2007 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, 2007 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference, IEEE, Imperial College, London, UK, pp. 1-6.
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Basic bilevel programming deals with hierarchical optimization problems in which the leader at the upper level attempts to optimize his/her objective, subject to a set of constraints and his/her follower's solution, and the follower at the lower level tries to find an optimized strategy according to each of possible decisions made by the leader. Three issues may be involved in a basic bilevel decision problem. One is that bilevel decision making model may involve uncertain parameters which appear either in the objective functions or constraints of the leader or the follower or both. Second, the leader and the follower may have multiple conflict objectives that should be optimized simultaneously. Third, there may have multiple followers in a real decision situation. Following our previous work, this study proposes a set of fuzzy multi-objective multi-follower linear bilevel programming models to describe the three issues. It also develops an approximation Branch-and-bound algorithm to solve such kinds of problems. © 2007 IEEE.

Zhang, G, Lu, J, Zeng, X & PRess, A 1970, 'Models and algorithms for fuzzy multi-objective multi-follower linear bilevel programming in a partial cooperative situation', PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (ISKE 2007), International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Atlantis Press, Chengdu, China, pp. 382-389.
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Basic bilevel programming deals with hierarchical optimization problems in which the leader at the upper level attempts to optimize his/her objective, subject to a set of constraints and his/her followers solution, and the follower at the lower level tries to find an optimized strategy according to each of possible decisions made by the leader. Three issues may be involved in a basic bilevel decision problem. One is that bilevel decision making model may involve uncertain parameters which appear either in the objective functions or constraints of the leader or the follower or both. Second, the leader and the follower may have multiple conflict objectives that should be optimized simultaneously. Third, there may have multiple followers and partial shared their decision variables among followers in a real decision situation. Following our previous work, this study proposes a set of fuzzy multi-objective multi-follower linear bilevel programming models to describe the three issues. It also develops an approximation branch-and-bound algorithm to solve such kinds of problems

Zhang, G, Zhang, G, Ma, J & Zhou, C 1970, 'Three Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms With New Mutation Operators', Proceedings on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2007), International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering 2007, Atlantis Press, Chengdu, China, pp. 531-534.
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Local search is mainly implemented by the reproduction and crossover operation, global search is assured by the mutation operation in conventional genetic algorithm. In order to enhance the global search ability, three new mutation operators are proposed based on the idea that big change into small and small change into big for gene bit selected at random. The experimental verification shows that the proposed new genetic algorithms with new mutation operators are effective in seeking for the global optimal solutions.

Zhang, Y & Xu, G 1970, 'On Web Communities Mining and Analysis', Third International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007), Third International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007), IEEE, Shan Xi, China, pp. 20-25.
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Due to the lack of a uniform schema for web documents and the sheer amount and dynamics of web data, both the effectiveness and the efficiency of information management and retrieval of web data is often unsatisfactory when using conventional data management and searching techniques. To address this issue, we have adopted web mining and web community analysis approaches. Based on the analysis of web document contents, hyperlinks analysis, user access logs and semantic analysis, we have developed various approaches or algorithms to construct and analyze web communities, and to make recommendations. This paper will introduce and discuss various approaches on web community mining and recommendation. © 2007 IEEE.

Cignoni, P, Pietroni, N, Malomo, L & Scopigno, R 2007, 'Research and Innovation', pp. 44-44.

Dyson, LE, Hendriks, M & Grant, S 2007, 'Information Technology and Indigenous People', IGI Global, pp. 1-346.
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Indigenous people around the world are becoming more interested in information technology because they see it as a way to preserve their traditional cultures for future generations as well as a way to provide their communities with economic and social renewal. However, the cost of the new technologies, geographic isolation, and a lack of computer literacy have made it difficult for indigenous people to adopt IT. Information Technology and Indigenous People provides theoretical and empirical information related to the planning and execution of IT projects aimed at serving indigenous people. It explores many cultural concerns with IT implementation, including language issues and questions of cultural appropriateness, and brings together cutting-edge research from both indigenous and non-indigenous scholars. © 2007 by Idea Group Inc. All rights reserved.

Stephens, AM, Evans, ZWE, Devitt, SJ & Hollenberg, LCL 2007, 'Asymmetric quantum error correction via code conversion'.

Wei, Z & Ying, M 2007, 'Linearity and Quantum Adiabatic Theorem'.
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We show that in a quantum adiabatic evolution, even though the adiabaticapproximation is valid, the total phase of the final state indicated by theadiabatic theorem may evidently differ from the actual total phase. Thisinvalidates the application of the linearity and the adiabatic approximationsimultaneously. Besides, based on this observation we point out the mistake inthe traditional proof for the adiabatic theorem. This mistake is the root ofthe troubles that the adiabatic theorem has met. We also show that a similarmistake remains in some recent modifications of the traditional adiabatictheorem attempting to eliminate the troubles.