Enhancing Cloud Computing Security Through Blockchain-Based Communication for Electronic Health Records
Conference Proceeding
Noyon, M. S. I., Moradpoor, N., Maglaras, L., & Ahmad, J. (in press)
Enhancing Cloud Computing Security Through Blockchain-Based Communication for Electronic Health Records.
PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme
Conference Proceeding
Yaqub, Z., Yigit, Y., Maglaras, L., Tan, Z., & Wooderson, P. (in press)
PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) play a critical role in enhancing road safety and traffic flo...
DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments
Journal Article
Chen, B., Zhang, H., Zhang, F., Jiang, Y., Miao, Z., Yu, H., & Wang, Y. (in press)
DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1109/tase.2024.3379166
Aiming at the area search task of a multi-robot system in an unknown complex obstacle environment, we propose a cooperative area search algorithm based on a dual improved bio-...
A Hierarchical Approach to Evolving Behaviour-Trees for Swarm Control
Conference Proceeding
Montague, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2024)
A Hierarchical Approach to Evolving Behaviour-Trees for Swarm Control. In S. Smith, J. Correia, & C. Cintrano (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 27th European Conference, EvoApplications 2024, Held as Part of EvoStar 2024, Aberystwyth, UK, April 3–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (178-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56852-7_12
Behaviour trees (BTs) are commonly used as controllers in robotic swarms due their modular composition and to the fact that they can be easily interpreted by humans. From an a...
On the Utility of Probing Trajectories for Algorithm-Selection
Conference Proceeding
Renau, Q., & Hart, E. (2024)
On the Utility of Probing Trajectories for Algorithm-Selection. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation. EvoApplications 2024 (98-114). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56852-7_7
Machine-learning approaches to algorithm-selection typically take data describing an instance as input. Input data can take the form of features derived from the instance desc...
Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution
Conference Proceeding
Marrero, A., Segredo, E., León, C., & Hart, E. (in press)
Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’24), July 14–18, 2024, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. https://doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654028
The ability to generate example instances from a domain is important in order to benchmark algorithms and to generate data that covers an instance-space in order to train mach...
Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search
Journal Article
Arza, E., Le Goff, L. K., & Hart, E. (in press)
Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653024
Lengthy evaluation times are common in many optimization problems such as direct policy search tasks, especially when they involve conducting evaluations in the physical world...
Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations
Journal Article
Gerli, P., Mora, L., Zhang, J., & Sancino, A. (2024)
Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 202, Article 123342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123342
During the COVID-19 pandemic, grassroots digital innovations (GDIs) have gained traction as innovation niches, providing an alternative to the prevailing mainstream regime dom...
Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (in press)
Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-01-2024-0007
Design/ Methodology
This paper draws on data from a study funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (2016-2018), entitled ‘Measuring Risk and Efficiency in Polic...
The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies
Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024)
The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]
Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pos...