Research Seminars - School of Informatics

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School Research SEMINARS

Date: 22-February-2012 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.27
Speaker: Dr Gerald Schaefer
Title: Interactive exploration of image collections
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Date: 15-February-2012 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.27
Speaker: Dr Tomoharu Nakashima
Title: Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems for Autonomous Intelligent Agents
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Date: 25-January-2012 Time: 11:30 Location: Chesham C4.02
Speaker: Professor Adrian Hopgood, Pro Vice-Chancellor Dean of the Sheffield Business School
Title: Artificial Intelligence Demystified
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Date: 18-January-2012 Time: 14:00 Location: Richmond C7
Speaker: Professor Ashutosh Tiwari
Title: Process Optimisation Using an Evolutionary Multi-objective Framework
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Date: 07-December-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.23
Speaker: Dr Gabriela Ochoa
Title: The First Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge: Results and Analysis
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Date: 23-November-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.23
Speaker: Antesar Shabut
Title: Trust and Reputation Management in Distributed Systems
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Date: 09-November-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.23
Speaker: Madihah Binti MohdSaudi
Title: Starter Kit for Computer Emergency Response Team
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Date: 02-November-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.23
Speaker: Daniel Whitehouse
Title: Determinization and Information Set Monte Carlo Tree Search for the Card Game Dou Di Zhu
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Date: 26-October-2011 Time: 12:30 Location: Richmond C7
Speaker: Dr Ariadne Tampion
Title: Writing your way to recognition
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Date: 19-October-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.23
Speaker: Walid Adly
Title: Mining Association Rules in Distributed Databases
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Date: 12-October-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D0.23
Speaker: Longzhi Yang
Title: Fuzzy Interpolation and Its Adaptation
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Date: 05-October-2011 Time: 14:00 Location: Chesham B1.20
Speaker: Professor Peter Cowling
Title: Graph Search + Machine Learning = Monte Carlo Tree Search
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Date: 14-September-2011 Time: 13:30 Location: Horton D0.01
Speaker: Dr Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon and Yeamduan Narangajavana
Title: The Impact of Social Networks and Web 3.0 in the Management and Marketing of the Companies
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Date: 06-September-2011 Time: 15:30 Location: Horton D0.18
Speaker: Anna Wojak
Title: Double Min-Score (DMS) Algorithm for Automated Model Selection in Predictive Toxicology
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Date: 04-March-2010 Time: 13:00 Location:
Speaker: Reema Khorshed
Title: Cancer cell detection and tracking using Nonlinear image filtering techniques
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Date: 11-March-2009 Time: 13:00 Location: Horton D4.07
Speaker: Dr. Philippa Browning
Title: 'Magnetic reconnection and the active solar corona'
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Date: 28-January-2009 Time: 18:30 Location: New Board Room, Richmond Building (D2)
Speaker: Mrs Mona Alkhattabi, Drs A Cullen and D Neagu
Title: Information Quality in E-learning
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Date: 30-May-2008 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Prof Kiril Alexiev Institute of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Title: Mathematical Methods for Sensor Data Processing
Date: 28-May-2008 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Pravin Mirchandani
Title: Poor(ous) Thinking or Leaky Data? Observations on Plugging security holes.
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Date: 23-April-2008 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Lars Rönnbäck, Industrial IT Group, University of Umea
Title: From Planning to Cultivation: educating for ICT management and design
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Date: 15-December-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Bill Ashraf, Biomedical Sciences
Title: Teaching the Google-Eyed You Tube Generation
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Date: 17-November-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr. C. Lei - University of Lancaster &Yue Feng
Title: Quantum Computing & Stereoscopic imaging techniques for videos
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Date: 08-November-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Ammr Madkour
Title: Intelligent Algorithms for Real-time Optimal
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Date: 30-August-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D1.21
Speaker: Ladan Malazizi & Dr. Gongde Guo
Title: Investigation, Assessment and Identification of Possible Data Quality Criteria in Predictive Toxicology and Combining Multiple Classifiers using Dempster's Rule of Combination for Toxicity Prediction
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Date: 01-August-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: D1.21
Speaker: Khalid Al-Arfaj & Nic Colledge
Title: Seminar by Research Students for Research Students 7 Staff, Modeling of Generator Maintenance Cost in Deregulated Power Systems, The Trade Off between Diversity and Quality for Multi-objective Workfo
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Date: 21-July-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Prof Chong Zhao Han
Title: Target Tracking and Multisensor Fusion of State Estimation
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Date: 07-July-2006 Time: 15:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Nele Gross, School of Applied Sciences, University of Northampton & Ayman Abubaker, Research Student
Title: Application of Subdivision Techniques in CAD
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Date: 20-June-2006 Time: 15:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Peter Excell
Title: Future of Computing
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Date: 19-May-2006 Time: 13:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Ken McGarry, School of Comuting & Technology, University of Sunderland
Title: The Integration of Heterogeneous Protein Information using Bayesian Networks for Hypothesis Exploration
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Date: 28-April-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr. Kashapova, Institute of Space Physic, Irkutsk, Russia
Title: Optical emission and polarisation in solar flares
Date: 24-March-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Yasmin Malik, Consultant, yEvolve (a Mobile CRM Solutions Company)
Title: MOBILE E-COMMERCE: THE INHUMAN FACTOR
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Date: 17-February-2006 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Anastasia Konstadopoulou/Dr Hassan Ugail
Title: Seminar for Technical Presentations
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Date: 02-December-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: TBA
Speaker: Prof Peter Graves-Morris, Drs Anasatasia Konsodoloulou, Dr Hassan Ugail
Title: Software for technical presentations
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Date: 18-November-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Cosmin Danut Bocaniala, University Dunarea de jos, Romania
Title: Mastering Complex Casual Systems
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Date: 04-November-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Prof. Robert Erdeli of Sheffield University
Title: Origin of spicules: is there magnetic coupling between the interior and the atmosphere of the Sun?
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Date: 27-May-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr David Westhead
Title: Predicting parasite pathways and protein interactions
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Date: 20-May-2005 Time: 13:30 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Mike Wright - Lancaster
Title: Sports scheduling - don't just give them what they ask for, give them what they really want
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Date: 13-May-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Prof Jianfeng Feng
Title: High Order Statistics in Neuro-Computation and Bioinformatics
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Date: 18-March-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr. Juan Velasquez
Title: Web mining: extracting knowledge from data originated in the web
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Date: 25-February-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Jian Jun Zhang
Title: COMPUTER ANIMATION - MODELLING, RENDERING, SIMULATION AND DEFORMATION
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Date: 18-February-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Dawn Field
Title: Environmental and Eco-Genomics: Challenges and Opportunities
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Date: 04-February-2005 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Steve Gill & Gareth Loudon
Title: The design and prototyping of information appliance in 24 hours
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Date: 14-January-2005 Time: 13:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Abdennour El-Ralibi
Title: Computer Entertainment: Exploiting the fascination and making games a serious business for Education, Research and Enterprise Activities
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Date: 26-November-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Prof Paul Coulton
Title: Developing Games on Mobile Phones
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Date: 12-November-2004 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Prof Revathy & Dr.S.R.Prabhakaran Nayar
Title: Fractal Techniques and Image processing
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Date: 05-November-2004 Time: 15:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr. Vasile Palade
Title: AI Applications in Bioinformatics
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Date: 04-June-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Prof Ken Brodlie, University of Leeds
Title: Visualization and Computational Steering for e-Science
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Date: 28-May-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Prof Peter Graves-Morris & Yonghong Peng
Title: Analysing Pharaceutical Data - Parameterisation of peaks in chemometric data, Pattern Discovery in NMR Spectroscopy
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Date: 21-May-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton
Speaker: Vince Chook - Cybernetics
Title: ns2 - A free alternative to OPNET
Date: 20-May-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: TBA
Speaker: Dr Mike Wright
Title: TBA
Date: 14-May-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Prof Simon Jones
Title: Professor Simon Jones, the Managing Director of Media Lab
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Date: 07-May-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Dr. Marjan Vracko
Title: Self Organizing Maps (SOM) and Counter Propagation Neural Networks in Molecular structure-property modeling (QSAR)
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Date: 30-April-2004 Time: 00:00 Location: D2.06 Horton
Speaker: Ross Velentzas - Motorola
Title: Ross Velentzas - Motorola
Date: 23-April-2004 Time: 00:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Simon Ritter - Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems
Title: New and Cool in JAVA
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Date: 19-March-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton
Speaker: Dr James Stewart
Title: Dr James Stewart
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Date: 12-March-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Ian Curran & Mike Wild
Title: Mr Ian Curran & Mr Mike Wild - 02 The expected growth in non-human communication
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Date: 05-March-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre, Richmond Bldg
Speaker: Prof Ray Steele
Title: Electronic Fusion - future of ad hoc networks, WFi, monitring the environment
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Date: 27-February-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Jules Pagna Disso
Title: Internet Security
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Date: 20-February-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Mark Goodall
Title: Trashing the net: subcultural practice online
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Date: 13-February-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton
Speaker: Yasmin Malik
Title: MOBILE E-COMMERCE: THE INHUMAN FACTOR
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Date: 06-February-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Hassan Ugail
Title: Efficient Parameterisation of Shape for Modelling and Animation
Date: 30-January-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Helmut Simonis
Title: Traffic Analysis in IP Networks Using Constraint Techniques
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Date: 16-January-2004 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Gavin King - Microsoft
Title: An Introduction to Building Connected Applications
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Date: 12-December-2003 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Bldg
Speaker: Dr Christine Finn
Title: Quick change over time: Silicon Valley's histories and the computer
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Date: 05-December-2003 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Rajkumar Roy
Title: Quantitative and Qualitative Design Evaluations within the Multi-objective optimisation environment
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Date: 07-November-2003 Time: 14:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Prof Tomai
Title: Behavioural Analysis of Component Architectures
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Date: 21-October-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06 horton Building
Speaker: Mr Kim Chong, Silvertech Ltd, UK
Title: Manufacturing in the 21st Century
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Date: 13-June-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Prof Jianmin Jiang
Title: Evaluating Framework 6 Proposals
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Date: 09-April-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Cathy Gregory
Title: Careers Seminar
Date: 26-March-2003 Time: 13:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building from 13.00 to 15.00
Speaker: Dr Daniel Neagu, Dr. Mark Cronin, Dr. Tatiana Netzeva and Prof. T.W. Schultz
Title: Intelligent modelling for general evaluation of toxicities (pdf files in 'Additional Information' below)
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Date: 12-March-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: Baharum Baharudin & Puteri Rahman (EIMC)
Title:
Date: 05-March-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D0.19 Horton Building
Speaker: Abdullah Alkahtani - Computing
Title: The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Applied to Best Effort QoS Routing with Multiple Metrics: a Comparative Evaluation
Date: 26-February-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06 Horton
Speaker: Khalid Al-Begain, John Mellor
Title: Research Methodologies - Literatre Review - a Personalised View
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Date: 19-February-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D0.19 Horton Building
Speaker: Sheng Zhang
Title: Phase space of Bloch
Date: 05-February-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06 Horton Building
Speaker: None
Title: Research Students' Forum
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Date: 29-January-2003 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: Dr Ali Benkhalil and Dr Sergei Zharkov
Title: Solar Disk fitting, Standardization and normalization using image processing techniques
Date: 11-December-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: D1.21 Horton Building
Speaker: Dr Hongnian Yu
Title: Representation - from continuous systems to discrete event systems
Date: 04-December-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Kenji Taguchi
Title: Formal Development Method for Mobile Agent Systems
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Date: 27-November-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Hassan Ugail
Title: Efficient Parameterisation of Shape for Design, Analysis and Optimisation
Presentation in PDF format
Date: 20-November-2002 Time: 09:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Workshop
Title: School of Informatics Workshop - all day
Date: 13-November-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Keshav Dehal
Title: Scheduling: from theory to practice
Date: 06-November-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Yonghong Peng
Title: Meta-Learning and Active Learning: toward Collaborative Learning in Distributed Systems.
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Date: 30-October-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Panel
Title: Feedback on EPSRC meeting/research funding
Date: 23-October-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Richmond Small Hall
Speaker: University Seminar
Title: Strategies for Research Funding (Staff only)
Date: 16-October-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: D2.06
Speaker: General Discussion
Title: General discussion with research students
Date: 09-October-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Dr Uwe Aickelin
Title: Artificial Immune Systems
Date: 02-October-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Professor Peter Cowling
Title: Ubiquitous optimisation: Making optimisation easier to use
Date: 25-September-2002 Time: 12:00 Location: Horton D2.06
Speaker: Rona Wilson & Khalid Al-Begain
Title: Induction course for demonstrators