A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things
Book Chapter
Farhad, A., Woolley, S. I., & Andras, P. (2021)
A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things. In J. Mantas, L. Stoicu-Tivadar, C. Chronaki, A. Hasman, P. Weber, P. Gallos, …O. Sorina Chirila (Eds.), Public Health and Informatics (504-505). Amsterdam: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210216
This paper presents a scoping review of federated learning for the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and demonstrates the limited amount of research work in an area which has ...
A review of privacy-preserving federated learning for the Internet-of-Things
Book Chapter
Briggs, C., Fan, Z., & Andras, P. (2021)
A review of privacy-preserving federated learning for the Internet-of-Things. In M. Habib ur Rehman, & M. Medhat Gaber (Eds.), Federated Learning Systems: Towards Next-Generation AI (21-50). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70604-3_2
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) generates vast quantities of data. Much of this data is attributable to human activities and behavior. Collecting personal data and executing mach...
Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing: A Case Study ‑ Google Chrome on Amazon
Book Chapter
Pakhira, A., & Andras, P. (2014)
Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing: A Case Study ‑ Google Chrome on Amazon. In Cloud Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6539-2.ch055
Testing is a critical phase in the software life-cycle. While small-scale component-wise testing is done routinely as part of development and maintenance of large-scale softwa...
Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon
Book Chapter
Pakhira, A., & Andras, P. (2013)
Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon. In S. Tilley, & T. Parveen (Eds.), Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (252-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch012
Testing is a critical phase in the software life-cycle. While small-scale component-wise testing is done routinely as part of development and maintenance of large-scale softwa...
Complex Biological Memory Conceptualized as an Abstract Communication System – Human Long Term Memories Grow in Complexity during Sleep and Undergo Selection while Awake
Book Chapter
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2007)
Complex Biological Memory Conceptualized as an Abstract Communication System – Human Long Term Memories Grow in Complexity during Sleep and Undergo Selection while Awake. In L. I. Perlovsky, & R. Kozma (Eds.), Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness (325-339). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73267-9_15
Biological memory in humans and other animals with a central nervous system is often extremely complex in its organization and functioning.A description of memory from the per...
Faults, errors and failures in communications: a systems theory perspective on organisational structure
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. (2006)
Faults, errors and failures in communications: a systems theory perspective on organisational structure. In D. Besnard, C. Gacek, & C. B. Jones (Eds.), Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (189-213). London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-111-3_10
Abstract communications systems theory may be a valuable tool for the description, prediction and control of organizations. An organization is conceptualized as an abstract sy...
Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Lazarus, J. (2005)
Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork. In N. Gold (Ed.), Teamwork: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (56-77). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523203_4
Our aims in this chapter are twofold. First, we place teamwork in the context of the evolutionary analysis of cooperation and altruism. This allows us to predict the evolution...
Self-Aware software – will it become a reality?
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2005)
Self-Aware software – will it become a reality?. In O. Babaoglu, M. Jelasity, A. Montresor, C. Fetzer, & S. Leonardi (Eds.), Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: conceptual and Practical Foundations (229-259). Berlin: Springer
The possibility of building self-aware software fascinated computer scientist since the beginning of computer science. Research in AI, and in particular on software agents, ag...
Environmental risk, cooperation, and communication complexity
Book Chapter
Andras, P., Roberts, G., & Lazarus, J. (2003)
Environmental risk, cooperation, and communication complexity. In E. Alonso, D. Kudenko, & D. Kazakov (Eds.), Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning (49-65). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44826-8_4
The evolution of cooperation and communication in communities of individuals is a puzzling problem for a wide range of scientific disciplines, ranging from evolutionary theory...
RBF neural networks with orthogonal basis functions
Book Chapter
Andras, P. (2001)
RBF neural networks with orthogonal basis functions. In R. J. Howlett, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Radial basis function networks 1: Recent developments in theory and applications (67-94). Springer