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An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce (2002)
Book Chapter
Kasiran, M., & Meziane, F. (2002). An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce. In H. Yin, N. Allinson, R. Freeman, J. Keane, & S. Hubbard (Eds.), Intelligent data engineering and automated learning (243-248). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45675-9

eCommerce is a faceless business arrangement where the process of creating trust towards merchants, hereby referred to as merchant trust, is still a big challenge. Merchant trust framework can be created by using factors such as existence, affiliatio... Read More about An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce.

A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents (2002)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Rezgui, Y. (2002). A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents. In B. Andersson, M. Bergholtz, & P. Johannesson (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems (85-96). Bonne, Germany: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36271-1

The advent of the WWW and distributed information systems have made it possible to share documents between different users and organisations. However, this has created many problems related to the security, accessibility, right and most importantly t... Read More about A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents.

A genetic algorithm for the P-median problem (2001)
Book Chapter
Correa, E., Steiner, M., Freitas, A., & Carnieri, C. (2001). A genetic algorithm for the P-median problem. In L. Spector (Ed.), GECCO-2001: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. San Francisco, CA, USA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Facility-location problems have several applications in telecommunications, industrial transportation and distribution, etc. One of the most well-known facility-location problems is the p-median problem. This work addresses an application of the capa... Read More about A genetic algorithm for the P-median problem.

Reconnecting networks and buildings: The development process and the reshaping of water, energy and transport demands (2001)
Book Chapter
Marvin, S., & Guy, S. (2001). Reconnecting networks and buildings: The development process and the reshaping of water, energy and transport demands. In C. Miller (Ed.), Planning and environmental protection (197-214). Oxford: Hart Publishing

This collection of essays examines the roles which land use planning can play in the protection of the environment. The subjects covered range from traditional concerns like pollution,nuisance and contaminated land to biodiversity and the pursuit of... Read More about Reconnecting networks and buildings: The development process and the reshaping of water, energy and transport demands.

Bricks vs. clicks : planning for the digital economy (2001)
Book Chapter
Marvin, S., Gillespie, A., & Green, N. (2001). Bricks vs. clicks : planning for the digital economy. In J. Wilsdon (Ed.), Digital futures: living in a dot-com world. London: Routledge

Two of the most powerful drivers of change in contemporary society are the explosion of digital technologies and the environmental pressures requiring a shift towards sustainable development. Both demand that we rethink the nature of goods and servic... Read More about Bricks vs. clicks : planning for the digital economy.

Transforming urban infrastructure provision: the emerging logic of demand side management (2001)
Book Chapter
Guy, S., & Marvin, S. (2001). Transforming urban infrastructure provision: the emerging logic of demand side management. In K. Willis, R. Turner, & I. Bateman (Eds.), Urban planning and management. Cheltenham, Gloucester: Edward Elgar

Urban Planning and Management presents a collection of key articles on different aspects of sustainability in urban planning and management whilst simultaneously illustrating the conflicting arguments about whether and how sustainability should be ac... Read More about Transforming urban infrastructure provision: the emerging logic of demand side management.

Models and pathways: the diversity of sustainable urban futures (2000)
Book Chapter
Guy, S., & Marvin, S. (2000). Models and pathways: the diversity of sustainable urban futures. In K. Williams, E. Burton, & M. Jenks (Eds.), Achieving sustainable urban form. London: Routledge

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro... Read More about Models and pathways: the diversity of sustainable urban futures.

Social work, professionalism and the rationality of organisational change (2000)
Book Chapter
May, T., & Buck, M. (2000). Social work, professionalism and the rationality of organisational change. In N. Malin (Ed.), Professionalism, boundaries and the workplace. London: Routledge

Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace is a practical text that examines a range of sensitive issues concerned with managing and maintaining professional boundaries between worker and client. It uses experiences from probation, social work, th... Read More about Social work, professionalism and the rationality of organisational change.

Telecommunications and sustainable cities (2000)
Book Chapter
Gillespie, A., & Marvin, S. (2000). Telecommunications and sustainable cities. In R. Symmonds, & G. Hack (Eds.), Global city regions. London: Wiley-Blackwell

Urban planning and the technological future of cities (2000)
Book Chapter
Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2000). Urban planning and the technological future of cities. In J. Wheeler, B. Warf, & Y. Aoyama (Eds.), Cities in the information age: the fracturing of geographies. London: Routledge

With penetrating insight into urban cyberspace and the challenges and implications for urban planning in the age of telecommunications, Cities in the Telecommunications Age brings together the latest research on how changes and innovations in the eco... Read More about Urban planning and the technological future of cities.

Theory completion using inverse entailment (2000)
Book Chapter
Muggleton, S., & Bryant, C. (2000). Theory completion using inverse entailment. In J. Cussens, & A. Frisch (Eds.), Inductive Logic Programming (130-146). London, UK: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44960-4_8

The main real-world applications of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to date involve the "Observation Predicate Learning" (OPL) assumption, in which both the examples and hypotheses define the same predicate. However, in both scientific discovery... Read More about Theory completion using inverse entailment.

Combining active learning with inductive logic programming to close the loop in machine learning (1999)
Book Chapter
programming to close the loop in machine learning. In S. Colton (Ed.), Proceedings of AISB'99 Symposium on AI and Scientific Creativity (59-64). The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)

Machine Learning (ML) systems that produce human-comprehensible hypotheses from data are typically open loop, with no direct link between the ML system and the collection of data. This paper describes the alternative, it Closed Loop Machine Learning.... Read More about Combining active learning with inductive logic programming to close the loop in machine learning.