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Restoration of arbitrarily warped historical document images using flow lines (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Rahnemoonfar, M., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2011). Restoration of arbitrarily warped historical document images using flow lines. In 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.184

Historical documents frequently suffer from arbitrary geometric distortions (warping and folds) due to storage conditions, use and to, some extent, the printing process of the time. In addition, page curl can be prominent due to the scanning tech... Read More about Restoration of arbitrarily warped historical document images using flow lines.

The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2010). The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework. In 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2010.72

There is a plethora of established and proposed document representation formats but none that can adequately support individual stages within an entire sequence of document image analysis methods (from document image enhancement to layout analysis to... Read More about The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework.

Word-Based adaptive OCR for historical books (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Kluzner, V., Tzadok, A., Shimony, Y., Walach, E., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2009). Word-Based adaptive OCR for historical books. In 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2009.133

The aim of this work is to propose a new approach to the recognition of historical texts by providing an adaptive mechanism that automatically tunes itself to a specific book. The system is based on clustering together all the similar words in a book... Read More about Word-Based adaptive OCR for historical books.

Inferring the function of genes from synthetic lethal mutations (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Ray, O., & Bryant, C. (2008). Inferring the function of genes from synthetic lethal mutations. In F. Xhafa, & L. Barolli (Eds.), Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (667-671). https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2008.124

Techniques for detecting synthetic lethal mutations in double gene deletion experiments are emerging as powerful tool for analysing genes in parallel or overlapping pathways with a shared function. This paper introduces a logic-based approach that us... Read More about Inferring the function of genes from synthetic lethal mutations.

A developmental model of basic ICT skills for pre-service trainee teachers (2007)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2007). A developmental model of basic ICT skills for pre-service trainee teachers. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ictd.2007.4937404

Resource limitations present several challenges to diffusion of ICT skills in developing (non-OECD) countries. Trainee teachers join colleges of teacher education with little or no prior exposure to technologies such as mobile phones or computers. Di... Read More about A developmental model of basic ICT skills for pre-service trainee teachers.

A comparison of software development process experiences (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Gittins, R., Bass, J., & Hope, S. (2004). A comparison of software development process experiences. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24853-8_30

Commercial pressures to produce faster and more dependable software prompt management initiatives to improve software practices. Technical solutions such as CASE tools, 4GLs, Interactive Development Environments and more recent modeling notations and... Read More about A comparison of software development process experiences.

Towards a control software design environment using a meta-modelling technique (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Ramos-Hernandez, D., Zubizarreta, I., Fleming, P., Bennett, S., & Bass, J. (2002). Towards a control software design environment using a meta-modelling technique. . https://doi.org/10.3182/20020721-6-ES-1901.00948

The novelty of this paper is mainly the integration of multi-disciplinary software tools into a control software design environment, namely the Integrated Design Notation (IDN). The IDN supports the design, development and implementation of decentral... Read More about Towards a control software design environment using a meta-modelling technique.

Voting algorithms in multiple error scenarios for real-time control applications (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Latif-Shabgahi, G., Bennett, S., & Bass, J. (2002). Voting algorithms in multiple error scenarios for real-time control applications. . https://doi.org/10.3182/20020721-6-ES-1901.00971

Voting algorithms are used to arbitrate between the variant results in fault tolerant systems. Traditional voters produce incorrect outputs in multiple error conditions. This paper introduces a class of voters, called predictor voters, which can reso... Read More about Voting algorithms in multiple error scenarios for real-time control applications.

History-based weighted average voter: A novel software voting algorithm for fault-tolerant computer systems (2001)
Conference Proceeding
Latif-Shabgahi, G., Bass, J., & Bennett, S. (2001). History-based weighted average voter: A novel software voting algorithm for fault-tolerant computer systems. . https://doi.org/10.1109/EMPDP.2001.905068

Voting algorithms have been widely used in the realisation of fault-tolerant systems. We propose a new software voting algorithm which uses the history record of redundant modules to compute the final output. Two versions for the novel algorithm are... Read More about History-based weighted average voter: A novel software voting algorithm for fault-tolerant computer systems.

Process control systems integration using object oriented technology (2001)
Conference Proceeding
Ramos-Hernandez, D., Fleming, P., Bennett, S., Hope, S., Bass, J., & Baxter, M. (2001). Process control systems integration using object oriented technology. . https://doi.org/10.1109/TOOLS.2001.911763

The development of a control software design environment, namely the Integrated Design Notation (IDN), is presented. IDN supports the design, development and implementation of decentralised distributed control systems. A cable extrusion process is ta... Read More about Process control systems integration using object oriented technology.

Integrated information management and exchange for water treatment projects (2000)
Conference Proceeding
Sun, M., Aouad, G., Bakis, N., Birchall, S., & Swan, W. (2000). Integrated information management and exchange for water treatment projects. . https://doi.org/10.1061/40513%28279%2917

Integration is the key to the performance improvement for the fragmented construction industry. Research in recent years has resulted in some rapid maturing integration technologies, such as data modelling, integrated project database, data managemen... Read More about Integrated information management and exchange for water treatment projects.

Learning Chomsky-like grammars for biological sequence families (2000)
Conference Proceeding
Muggleton, S., Bryant, C., & Srinivasan, A. (2000). Learning Chomsky-like grammars for biological sequence families. In P. Langley (Ed.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Machine Learning (631-638)

This paper presents a new method of measuring performance when positives are rare and investigates whether Chomsky-like grammar representations are useful for learning accurate comprehensible predictors of members of biological sequence families. The... Read More about Learning Chomsky-like grammars for biological sequence families.

Measuring performance when positives are rare: relative advantage versus predictive accuracy - a biological case-study (2000)
Conference Proceeding
Muggleton, S., Bryant, C., & Srinivasan, A. (2000). Measuring performance when positives are rare: relative advantage versus predictive accuracy - a biological case-study. In R. de Mántaras, & E. Plaza (Eds.), Machine learning: ECML 2000: 11th European conference on machine learning, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, May 31-June 2 2000 (300-312)

This paper presents a new method of measuring performance when positives are rare and investigates whether Chomsky-like grammar representations are useful for learning accurate comprehensible predictors of members of biological sequence families. The... Read More about Measuring performance when positives are rare: relative advantage versus predictive accuracy - a biological case-study.

An open environment for the specification, design and code generation of control algorithms (1998)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. (1998). An open environment for the specification, design and code generation of control algorithms. . https://doi.org/10.1049/ic%3A19980416

Proposals for an open, yet integrated, design environment to ease the design of complex process control systems are presented. A hierarchical approach to the allocation of computing resources is typically used in process control systems. The lower en... Read More about An open environment for the specification, design and code generation of control algorithms.

Simulation of a component-oriented voter library for dependable control applications (1998)
Conference Proceeding
Latif-Shabgahi, G., Bass, J., & Bennett, S. (1998). Simulation of a component-oriented voter library for dependable control applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/EURMIC.1998.711829

Control systems are required to meet increasingly stringent reliability and safety constraints. In many industrial applications, arbitration between redundant subsystems using voting algorithms is popular. Many voting strategies implemented in hardwa... Read More about Simulation of a component-oriented voter library for dependable control applications.

A proposed design environment for dependable embedded systems (1997)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J. (1997). A proposed design environment for dependable embedded systems. . https://doi.org/10.1049/ic%3A19971139

Proposals for an integrated design environment to ease the design of complex embedded systems are presented. Embedded systems are computer-based systems which must respond to external stimuli within time scales determined by the external environment.... Read More about A proposed design environment for dependable embedded systems.

Experimental comparison of voting algorithms in cases of disagreement (1997)
Conference Proceeding
Bass, J., Latif-Shabgahi, G., & Bennett, S. (1997). Experimental comparison of voting algorithms in cases of disagreement. . https://doi.org/10.1109/EURMIC.1997.617368

Voting algorithms are used to mask erroneous results from redundant subsystems (variants) in fault tolerant systems. While voting algorithms are well known and widely used, the authors are not aware of any detailed investigation of voter behaviour in... Read More about Experimental comparison of voting algorithms in cases of disagreement.

Testing fault-tolerant systems using a unified error model (1997)
Conference Proceeding
Tyrrell, A., & Bass, J. (1997). Testing fault-tolerant systems using a unified error model. . https://doi.org/10.1109/EMSCNT.1997.658455

This paper presents a method of designing test data based around a unified error model. The model allows error 'surfaces' to be defined for a given application, and used to define a test region(s) that give a measure of test coverage. The paper appli... Read More about Testing fault-tolerant systems using a unified error model.