Current documents:

• Seminar Schedule 2012/2013
• Seminar Abstracts 2012/2013
• Seminar Feedback Form

• Seminar Schedule 2011/2012
• Seminar Schedule 2010/2011
• Seminar Schedule 2009/2010
• Seminar Schedule 2008/2009

• Seminar Abstracts 2011/2012
• Seminar Abstracts 2010/2011
• Seminar Abstracts 2009/2010
• Seminar Abstracts 2008/2009

Useful Links

Guide to creating academic posters using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 by The University of Stirling
Learning Lab - Writing Skills by RMIT University - Study & Learning Centre
Research Methods for Computer Science by Alexander Ferworn
Basics of research writing and publishing (for Computer Scientists) by Michael Derntl
Excellent guide on giving an academic talk by Jonathan Shewchuk

Past Presentations

2012/2013

• Slides - Min Zhang: ‘A is for Art’ – My Drawings, Your Paintings
• Tao Zhang: Simulating the Effects of the Government’s Green Deal Initiative in the Energy Market
• Mercedes Torres: Habitat Classification using Ground-taken Photographs
• Slides - Bozhi Liu: Colour Constancy
• Slides - Christian Wagner: Fuzzy Sets and Systems in the Wild
• Slides - Robert Miles: Applying Immune Inspired Computing Methods to a problem in Affective Computing: Identifying the Causes of Website User Frustration
• Slides - Qian Zhang: Tree partition voting min-hash for partial duplicate image discovery
• Slides - Simon Miller: Evolving OWA Operators for Cyber Security Decision Making Problems
• Orod Razeghi: Understanding Visual Content with Human in the Loop
• Slides - Julie Greensmith: Effective Academic Posters: A Mini-Workshop
• Slides - Rodrigo Scarpel: Psychological factors on retail credit risk assessment
• Slides - Alexandros Ladas: Potential of Psychological Information to inform Credit Scoring
• Slides - Stephen Matthews: Learning Lost Temporal Fuzzy Association Rules
• Slides - Jethro Shell: Learning From Experience: Fuzzy Transfer Learning
• Slides - Jacob Chapman: Multi-Agent Stochastic Simulation of Occupants Comfort and Behaviour
• Slides - Tuong Vu: Comparing Different Approaches in Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation
• Slides - Polla Fattah: Who am I?
• Slides - Ohud Almutairi: An Introduction
• Slides - Diman Hassan: Data Mining Techniques to Detect ADRs in THIN database
• Slides - Josie McCulloch: Extending Similarity Measures of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets to General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
• Slides - Jon Garibaldi: A Summary of IMA Activity
• Jie Shu: Immunostained Image Analysis
• Slides - Stephanie Lax: Improving Flow Cytometry Data Analysis
• Daphne Lai: Improving breast cancer classification using feature selection and semi-supervised Fuzzy c-means
• Slides - Worksheet - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Multi Criteria Decision Analysis - A Primer
• Slides - Aslam Ahmed: A Study of Variance in System Dynamics and Agent Based Modelling Using the Bass Diffusion Model
• Slides - Shabbar Naqvi: Towards Development of a Fuzzy Inferencing System for the Automation of Breast Cancer Grading with Spectral Data Sets
• Slides - Patrick Muratori: ACOPI: A test bed for affective computing
• Slides - Ian Dent: Exploring variability of regular behaviour within households using meter data
• Slides - Fiona Collard: Presenting Complex Information for Decision Making
• Slides - Kamal Achuthan: The Use of Simulation as a Tool for Developing Resilience of Ports
• Slides - Jenna Reps: A Novel Algorithm to Detect Rare Prescription Side Effects

2011/2012

• Daniele Soria: Detection and Analysis of Adverse Drug Reactions in Children
• Slides - Fiona Collard: Measuring Healthcare Decision Aid Effectiveness
• Slides - Salvador Garcia Bernal: Multiple Exposure Video Merging
• Slides - Yujie Mei: Camera Shutter Speed Based Radiance Map Recovery and Photograph Fusion
• Hao Fu: Semantic Image Understanding: From Pixel to Word
• Slides - Michel Valstar: Next Generation Facial Expression Recognition Systems
• Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Variance in System Dynamics and Agent Based Modelling Using the Sir Model Of Infectious Disease
• Slides - Stephanie Foan: Investigating T Helper Cell Subsets Throughout the Human Lifetime
• Slides - Jie Shu: Colour Detection on Immunostaining Slide
• Shabbar Naqvi: An investigation into the use of advanced computational methods for the automation of breast cancer grading with spectral data sets
• Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Survey Data with Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
• Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Investigation into the Relationship between Type-2 FOU Size and Environmental Uncertainty in Robotic Control
• Slides - Jon Garibaldi: Addressing Uncertainty in Cyber-Security Experts’ Perceptions of Risk
• Christian Wagner: Crowd-Sourcing, Fuzzy Meta-Measures, Integrals and Where to Have Lunch on Campus
• Daphne Lai: Breast Cancer Data Classification using Semi-Supervised Fuzzy c-Means
• Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: A Brief Introduction to the Exciting World of Object Oriented Systems
• HTML - Robert Miles: Applying Artificial Immune System Approaches to New Domains (requires a modern browser, Chrome or Safari recommended)
• Orod Razeghi: Understanding Visual Content with Human in the Loop
• Slides - Salvador Bernal: HDR Video
• Slides - Bozhi Liu: Color Constancy
• Sameh Zakhary: Erasure Coding with Replication to Defend Against Malicious Dropping Attacks in DTNs
• Slides - Julie Greensmith: From Inspiration to Application: A Tutorial On Artificial Immune Systems
• Slides - Yihui Liu: Dimensionality Reduction and Main Component Extraction of Mass Spectrometry Cancer Data
• Slides - Nick McCullen: Investigating Energy Efficiency Interventions Using a Network-Diffusion Model
• Slides - Tao Zhang: Modelling the Effects of User Learning on Smart Metering Technology Adoption
• Slides - Joel Fischer: Living with Energy Monitoring
• Slides - Chris Roadknight: Classifying Tumours from Biological, Chemical and Immunological Attributes
• Slides - Lauri Lättilä: Multi-Method Simulations in Logistics
• Uwe Aickelin: Potential Future IMA Research Projects
• Slides - Ian Dent: Background on the UK electricity market, some issues, and a clustering approach to demand side management interventions
• Jamie Twycross: Modelling ABA perception: From water to networks
• Slides - Linda Fiaschi: Establishing a routinely updated maternal-child linkage system in The Health Improvement Network database
• Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: A Beginner’s Guide to Systems Simulation in Immunology
• Slides - Jenna Reps: Comparison of the Disproportionality methods for Pharmacovigilance in the THIN Database
• Slides - Tao Zhang: A Three-Dimensional Model of Residential Energy Consumer Archetypes for Local Energy Policy Design in the UK
• Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Seminar Series 2011/2012Welcome
• Slides - Hongwei Qin (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): Hardware-In-Loop Simulation System for Crane Operation
• Slides - Mian Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): GIS-Based Grid Electricity Trade System
• Slides - Linxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): Research on Simulation and Virtual Manufacturing at National CIMS-ERC of Tsinghua University

2010/2011

• Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Real-World Complex Systems - Representing Uncertainty
• Slides - R-Script - Robert Oates: ARMAX for System Identification
• Hao Fu: Semantic Image Segmentation
• Milena Radenkovic: Framework for Utility Driven Congestion Control in Delay Tolerant Opportunistic Networks
• Slides - Demo Software - Yujie Mei: High Dynamic Range Imaging and Display
• Slides - Lei Yu: Modelling Electrical Car Diffusion - An Agent Based Approach
• Slides - Jie Shu: Immunostaining Analysis
• Slides - Uwe Aickelin: IMA - Achievements and Vision
• Slides - Julie Greensmith: Making Affective Effective
• Slides - Noor Azizah KS Mohamadali: Modelling Student’s Perception on Factors Influence Acceptance of Research Related Software using Multi-criteria Decision Analysis Techniques (MCDA) – A case study
• Slides - Nick McCullen (University of Leeds): Modelling the Diffusion of Energy Technology on Social Networks
• Slides - Richard Snape and Mark Rylatt (DeMonfort University): Behaviour and Learning in an Agent Based Model of the Smart Grid
• Slides - Stephanie Foan: Computational Modelling of Immunosenescence
• Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: An Investigation of The Effect of Input Representation in ANFIS Modelling of Breast Cancer Survival
• Slides - References - Zhiming Cai: The Application of System Dynamics in the Modeling of Natural Resources Industries - A Case in a Study of Global Helium Resources
• Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Real-World Complex Systems - Representing Uncertainty
• Slides - Christian Wagner: Ambient Intelligent Environments, Transparency and Fuzzy Logic
• Slides - Jianyong Sun: Robust Bayesian Clustering for Datasets with Repeated Measures
• Slides - Stephanie Foan: Computational Modelling of Immunosenescence
• Slides - Wanlu Wang: A Novel Method for Volume Rendering
• Slides - Daphne Lai: Distance-based Semi-Supervised Fuzzy c-Means Algorithms
• Slides - Jenna Reps: Detecting adverse events in a general practice database
• Slides - Ian Dent: Ian Dent - An Introduction
• Slides - Sameh Zakhary: Reliability of Communication in Challenged Environments
• Hala Helmi: Predicting Based on TSVM (Tranductive Support vector machine)
• Yihui Liu: Finding the Prognosis Biomarkers in Survival Analysis Based on Wavelet Feature Extraction
• Guoping Qiu: Social Image Quality - Image Quality Assessment by the Mass for the Mass
• Slides - Chris Roadknight: Simulating the Port of Dover
• Daniele Soria: Breast Cancer Classification: From Consensus Clustering to Fuzzy Logic
• Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Human Behaviour Modelling Practice: A Comparison of Traditional Discrete Event and Combined Discrete Event and Agent-Based Simulation
• Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Comparing ABS and SDS for Tumour Growth and its Interactions with Effector Cells
• Slides - Nadine Holmes: Travel & Expenses Request and Pre-Approval
• Slides - Tao Zhang: Complexity Science, Agent-Based Simulation & Energy Research
• Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Conceptual Modelling for Simulation - A Tutorial for Beginners
• Slides - Jon Garibaldi: Non-Stationary Fuzzy Reasoning in Clinical Decision Support
• Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Multi-paradigm Simulation of TRAPS
• Slides - Feng Gu: The Extended Dendritic Cell Algorithm for Large Anomaly Detection Datasets
• Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Investigation into a Mechanism for Selection of Fuzzy Logic Type Based on Noise & Uncertainty
• Jan Feyereisl: Learning Using Privileged Information: The Power of X*
• Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Seminar Series 2010/2011 Welcome
• Slides - Chris Musselle: Malware and Artificial Immune Systems

2009/2010

• Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) in Modelling Breast Cancer Survival
• Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Scenario Analysis, Decision Trees and Simulation for Cargo Screening
• Van Hieu (Harry) Nguyen: Cosine Similarity Metric Learning for Face Verification
• Slides - Konstantin Vikhorev (UoN AgentLAB): Real-time Agent Systems
• Slides - Shabbar Naqvi: An Investigation into the use of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for the analysis of Breast Cancer Data Sets
• Milena v Radenkovic: Security in Delay Tolerant Networks
• Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Immune System Aging and Cancer - Defining a Simulation Strategy
• Slides - Tao Zhang: Modelling Office Energy Consumption - An Agent Based Approach
• Slides - Model Applet - Peer-Olaf Siebers: System Dynamics - Yet Another Simulation Modelling Method
• Slides - Proposed Evaluation Model - Noor Aziza KS Mohamadali: Modelling User Acceptance of Software Technology using AHP and Fuzzy AHP
• John Rabone: The Use of Articles - An English Grammar Tutorial
• Hongmei He: Soft Computing Approaches Under the Framework of Hierarchical Decision Making or Classification System
• Slides - R-Script+Recordings Daniele Soria: An Introduction to R: Statistics, Graphics and Data Mining
• Slides - Chris Roadknight: Real World Data, Real World Problems
• Slides - Uwe Aickelin: The Last 10 Years of Artificial Immune System Research
• Slides - Andrew Grundy: Promoting Congestion Control in Opportunistic Networks
• Slides - Jianyong Sun: Robust Mixture Modeling using the Pearson Type VII Distribution
• Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation
• Slides - Julie Greensmith: The Three R's of Research: Reading, (W)Riting and Reviewing
• Jon Garibaldi: Introduction to Data Mining using Weka
• Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Multi-paradigm Simulation of Cellular Pathways
• Slides - Adam McMaster: Adaptive Theme Park Rides: Responding to Thrill
• Slides - Sang Joon Park: Modelling & Simulation in Complexity
• Slides - Hao Fu: Total Image Understanding
• Slides - Galina Sherman: Decision Trees vs. Simulation for Cost Benefit Analysis of Cargo Screening Processes
• Slides - Daniele Soria: Novel Methods to Elucidate Core Classes in Multi-Dimensional Biomedical Data
• Slides - Jan Feyereisl: On the Importance and Incorporation of Additional Knowledge in Cluster Analysis
• Slides - Iain Fraser: Improving Congestion Latency for Online Games
• Slides - Robert Oates: Robotics as Embodied Software
• Guoping Qiu: Modelling User Intentions in Interactive Image Retrieval
• Slides - Feng Gu: Theoretical Aspects of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm
• Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Introduction to Robotic Sailing Systems
• Slides - Julian Zappala: Biologically Inspired Agent-Based Models - Finding Real Answers in Virtual Worlds
• Slides - Yousof Al Hammadi: Behavioural Correlation for Malicious Bot Detection
• Slides - Haichang Gao: A Drawing Reproduction Graphical Password Strategy
• Slides - Tao Zhang: Social Simulations of Technology Adoption and Consumer Behaviour
• Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Research Group Meeting and IMA Seminar Series Introduction

2008/2009

• Slides - Daniele Soria: Application of Affinity Propagation on Breast Cancer Data Sets
• Slides - Jamie Twycross: Executable Modelling for Plant Systems Biology
• Slides - Extras - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Simulation with AnyLogic
• Slides - Navapat Khantonthong: Introduction to Neural Networks
• Slides - Xiao Ying Wang (Sally): Methods of Interpretation of a Non-stationary Fuzzy System for the Treatment of Breast Cancer
• Slides - Francisco Bonachela Capdevila: Application of Clustering Techniques in Gene Prioritization Using Endeavour
• Slides - Cesar Caballero: Single-trial BOLD fMRI
• Slides - Shabbar Naqvi: An investigation into the use of Fourier Transform Infrared Micro-Spectroscopy for the automation of Breast Cancer Grading
• Slides - Duc Thang Ho: A Fuzzy Approach for the 2007 CIG Simulated Car Racing Competition
• Slides - Naisan Benatar: Introduction to Thermal Management
• Slides - Noor Azizah KS Mohamadali: Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics and a Proposed Integrated Model of User Acceptance of Technology
• Slides - Andrew Grundy: Routing in Networks of Varying Connectivity
• Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Immunosenescence and its Aplications to Artificial Immune Systems
• Slides - Julie Greensmith: Are We Having Fun Yet?
• Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: Modelling Survival Prediction in Medical Data
• Slides - Robert Oates: An Introduction to Cybernetics
• Slides - Jianyong Sun: A Gentle Introduction to Latent Variable Model and Variational EM Algorithm
• Slides - Jan Feyereisl: Cluster Interpretation of the Self-Organising Map (Part 2/2)
• Slides - Linda Fiaschi: Standards for SNPs Analysis with Decision Trees Tools
• Milena Radenkovic: Experiences with Supporting Mass Socio Technical Sensor Networks
• Slides - Pooja Jain: Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Protein Structure Classification
• Slides - Jan Feyereisl: Cluster Interpretation of the Self-Organising Map (Part 1/2)
• William Armitage: Clusters and Conferencing
• Slides - Jon Garibaldi: An Overview of Fuzzy Systems
• Slides - Qi Chen: Dempster-Shafer for Classification and Anomaly Detection
• Will Lowe: Statistics for Computer Scientists (Short Course)
• Slides - R-Script+Data - Jon Garibaldi: Introduction to Statistics
• Slides - Video - Amanda Whitbrook: An Idiotypic Immune Network as a Short-Term Learning Architecture for Mobile Robots
• Slides - Feng Gu: The Evolution of the DCA
• Slides - Yousof Al-Hammadi: Detecting Botnet/Bot based on Correlating Activities
• Slides - Extras - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Everything you always wanted to know about Discrete Event Simulation - but were afraid to ask ;o)
• Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Human Behaviour Modelling for Discrete Event and Agent Based Simulation
• Slides - Adrian Adewunmi: Investigating the combined application of Common Random Numbers and Antithetic Variates
• Slides - Julie Greensmith and Uwe Aickelin: How to Survive Inter-disciplinary Collaborations
• Slides - Extras - Gianni Tedesco: Real-Time Alert Correlation with TypeGraphs
• Slides - Robert Oates: An Introduction to Control Theory
• Slides - Phil Birkin: Comparison of Tuned Membership Functions of Type-1 andType-2 for a Seven Term Fuzzy Logic Controller