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Friday, 1 January 2016

Some recent publications - Computing - University of Northampton

A selection of publications from 2015

Ajah, S., Al-Sherbaz, A., Turner, S. J. and Picton, P. (2015) Machine–to–machine communications energy efficiencies: the implications of different M2M communications specifications. International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC).8(1), pp. 15-26. 1741-1084.
Ajit, S. (2015) Student perceptions of different assessment modes in computer programming courses. Other presented to:Assessment in HE Conference, Birmingham, UK, 24-25 June 2015.
Ajit, S., Holmes, C., Johnson, J., Kolovos, D. S. and Paige, R. F. (2015) Model-based tool support for Tactical Data Links: an experience report from the defence domain. Software & Systems Modeling. 1619-1366. (In Press)
Ajit, S., Olajubu, O., Thomson, S. and Edwards, M. (2015) Model transformation of high-level requirements in a domain specific language into a formal specification language. Paper presented to: 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVOCS 2015), Edinburgh, 01-04 September 2015.
Al-Khalil, A. B., Turner, S. J. and Al-Sherbaz, A. (2015) A predefined channel coefficients library for vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In: Rak, J., Mas Machuca, C., Oki, E., Papadimitriou, D., Vinel, A. and Walkowiak, K. (eds.) Proceedings of 2015 7th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM). Munich, Germany: IEEE. 9781467380508. pp. 335-340.
Al-Khalil, A. B., Turner, S. J. and Al-Sherbaz, A. (2015) Utilising SCM – MIMO channel model based on V-BLAST channel coding in V2V communication. In: Kassab, M., Berbineau, M., Vinel, A., Jonsson, M., Garcia, F. and Soler, J. (eds.) Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 8th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2015, Sousse, Tunisia, May 6-8, 2015. Proceedings. Sousse, Tunisia: Springer International Publishing. 9783319177649. pp. 3-11.
Al-Sadi, A., Al-Sherbaz, A., Xue, J. and Turner, S. J. (2015) The management of the future internet. Workshop presented to: 8th Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) Postgraduate Research Conference 2015: Innovation, Manchester Metropolitan University, 05 November 2015.
Baalsrud-Hauge, J. M., Stanescu, I. A., Arnab, S., Ger, P. M., Lim, T., Serrano-Laguna, A., Lameras, P., Hendrix, M., Kiili, K.,Ninaus, M., de Freitas, S., Mazzetti, A., Dahlbom, A. and Degano, C. (2015) Learning through analytics architecture to scaffold learning experience through technology-based methods. International Journal of Serious Games. 2(1), pp. 29-44. 2384-8766.
Dravid, R., Bates, J. and Sinclair, J. M. (2015) Capturing student voice: developing a peer-to-peer forum for student engagement on transnational programmes. Paper presented to: 5th Quacquarelli Symonds Middle East and North Africa Professional Leaders in Education (QS-MAPLE) Conference and Exhibition, Doha, Qatar, 05-07 May 2015.
Olajubu, O., Ajit, S., Johnson, M., Turner, S. J., Thomson, S. and Edwards, M. (2015) Automated test case generation from domain specific models of high-level requirements. In: Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM. 9781450337380. pp. 505-508.
Sadkhan, S., Al-Sherbaz, A. and Mohammed, R. (2015) Chaos based cryptography for voice encryption in wireless communication. In: International Conference on Electrical, Communication, Computer, Power, and Control Engineering (ICECCPCE). Iraq: IEEE. pp. 191-197.
Sidoumou, M. R., Turner, S. J., Picton, P., Bechkoum, K. and Benatchba, K. (2015) Multitasking in Emotion Modelling Attention Control. In: Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). Xi'an, china: IEEE. 978-1-4799-9953-8/15.
Turner, S. J. (2015) Enhancing computing student employability skills through partnership working in STEM outreach. Paper presented to: 11th China - Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education (CEISEE 2015), Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (WHZ), Germany, 29-30 April 2015.

If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Learning Smart - a community-driven, best learning resource sharing website.

Dr James Xue from Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, University of Northampton and Ahmed Salim (an MSc Computing student) have developed a community-driven, best learning resource sharing website.

Originally developed as his Ahmed's dissertation under James supervision, it is now live at www.learningsmart.co.uk

The following are some of the main features:

Top-five resource list for each subject area is updated at real-time (nearly) automatically based on real users’ reviews (one user can only review a resource once, this stops fake reviews)
Learning resources are classified based on levels of difficulty (e.g., beginner, intermediate, advanced) so that learners won’t waste time searching for the right resources or reading inappropriate resources.
Any contribution (upload and review of resources, interaction with other learners) will be rewarded some points, top contributors are displayed on the home page. As a result, more good resources are expected.
Users can create learning groups and other learners at similar levels can join the groups.
Messaging service allows learners to discuss issues on a one-to-one basis.
Seamless Facebook integration to reach wider audience. e.g.,Facebook login, cross comments on both sites.
Personalised reading lists allow learners to create their own learning portfolio.

James Xue "... this site will benefit our students and other learners in general in many aspects. e.g., it’s a good addition to our “Module Reading List” as they are created and reviewed by the community (instead of the lecturers). It encourages collaborative learning..."

Go have a go yourself go to http://www.learningsmart.co.uk/

If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Dr James Xue: distributed and cloud computing

Research Interests

Enterprise system performance modelling and evaluation, resource management
Distributed computing, cluster/grid computing, cloud computing
Object databases, distributed databases, mobile databases, ORM technologies, etc

Recent Publications

J.W.J.Xue and A. Yahya. (2012) “Critical Analysis of ECM Applications in the Clouds: a case study”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol.4 No. 3, June 2012. ISBN:0795-4660.

M. Al-Ghamdi, A.P. Chester, L. He, S.A. Jarvis, J.W.J. Xue. (2011) “Dynamic Active Window Management: A Method for Improving Revenue Generation in Dynamic Enterprise Systems”. 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communication (SCALCOM’11). Aug. 31st– Sep. 2nd, 2011. Pafos, Cybrus.

Al-Sherbaz A, Minai A, Xue J, Dravid R (2011) "An Embedded Pedagogic Model for Computer Forensics within an
Undergraduate Programme" 7th Annual Teaching Computer Forensics Workshop, University of Sunderland 10th November 2011

J. W. J. Xue and Stephen A. Jarvis "QoS-aware Service Selection" to the book " Agent-based Service-Oriented Computing". In series Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84996-040-3

J. W. J. Xue, A. P. Chester, L. He and S. A. Jarvis. Model-driven Server Allocation in Distributed Enterprise Systems. Communications of SIWN. Vol. 6, pp. 42-50. 2009.

James W.J. Xue, Adam P. Chester, Ligang He and Stephen A. Jarvis, "Model-driven Server Allocation in Distributed Enterprise Systems", The 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS 2009). Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March 2009

M.Al- Ghamdi, A.P. Chester, J.W.J. Xue and S.A. Jarvis. (2009) “The Effect of Server Reallocation Time in Dynamic Resource Allocation”. UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW’09).July 6th, 2009. Leeds, UK.

Adam P. Chester, James W.J. Xue, and Stephen A. Jarvis, "A System for Dynamic Server Allocation in Application Server Clusters", IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA'08). Sydney, Australia. 10th-12th Dec, 2008.

A. P. Chester, J. W. J. Xue, L. He and S. A. Jarvis. A System for Dynamic Server Allocation in Application Server Clusters. The 24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop. Imperial College London. 03-04 July 2008.

J.W.J. Xue, A.P. Chester, L. He and S.A. Jarvis. (2008) “Dynamic Resource Allocation in Enterprise Systems”. 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’08). December, 8th-10th. Melbourne, Australia.

Contact: James.xue@northampton.ac.uk
Profile: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/people/james.xue

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Monday, 28 January 2013

Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Recent MSc Computing (Internet Technology and Security) dissertation work within the School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, UK by Hang Xu.

Abstract

Cloud Computing (the Cloud) is getting hot in recent years as well as the Cloud Computing Infrastructures which can be used to the deployment of the Cloud infrastructure for enterprises, communities, or individuals. OpenStack is one of the major cloud computing infrastructure and services providers which have been developed by NASA and Rackspace. Another term, Energy-Efficiency is being considered as a more and more important cloud due to the effect that the IT technologies have made to the environment. Servers, cooling systems and so on are generating a great number of CO₂emissions to the global. Therefore, the research and technology on approaches about reducing the CO₂ emissions is getting more and more important to the entire IT industry. In this paper, the relationship between the Cloud and Energy-Efficiency will be discussed along with the achievement that has been made to reduce CO₂ emissions in recent years. Then, models for deploying OpenStack will be created and the OpenStack cloud computing platform will be implemented to the models. In the end, the author is going to discuss the achievement of this paper.

Supervisor: Dr James Xue

Computing Courses

BSc and HND Computing Provision (click on the links below for more details of the courses)

The University of Northampton's, Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies offers five courses within the MSc Computing postgraduate provision (shown below) all available either part-time or full-time.

The contents are the opinion of the author(s) and not necessarily the view of the University of Northampton.

Friday, 21 December 2012

update: Selection of 2012 Computing publications

A selection of 2012 publications involving staff from the Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, University of Northampton

Journals

Turner, S (2012) Case Studies in Web Sustainability Ariadne No 70 ISSN: 1361-3200
Maunder, R., Turner, S., Sneddon, S. and Crouch, A. (2012) Editorial. Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education. 4(1), pp. 1-2. 2041-3122.
ihsan lami, Ali Al-Sherbaz (2013) W2BC: A Proposal for a Converged Baseband Implementation of WiMax and WiFi Transceivers International Journal of Information and Network Security (IJINS) Vol.2, No.1, February 2013, pp. 426 - 437 ISSN: 2089-329
Kariyawasam K., A., Turner S., Hill G. (2012) "Is it Visual? The importance of a Problem Solving Module within a Computing course", Computer Education, Volume 10, Issue 166, May 2012, pp. 5-7, ISSN: 1672-5913.
Hill G., Turner S. (2012) "Referencing within Code in Software Engineering Education!", Computer Education, Volume 10, Issue 166, May 2012, pp. 1-4, ISSN: 1672-5913.
J.W.J.Xue and A. Yahya. (2012) “Critical Analysis of ECM Applications in the Clouds: a case study”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol.4 No. 3, June 2012. ISBN:0795-4660.

Conference

Padillia I, Zhang Y (2012)Developing a haptic interface to manipulate and section high polygon models from x-ray data, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS201)
Dravid R and Al-Sherbaz, A (2012) Optimization of Routing Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) to Achieve Higher Quality of Service for Real-Time Applications 3rd Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Bangalore, India, December 12-14 2012
Turner, S. and Al-Sherbaz, A. (2012) What's the problem with problem-solving? Seminar Presentation presented to: Insights into the future of learning and teaching at Northampton, University of Northampton, 3rd December 2012
Bouyerbou, H. Oukid, S. Benblidiya N. and Bechkoum, K. (2012). “Hybrid Image Representation Methods for Automatic Image Annotation: A Survey”. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, ICSCS 2012, 18-21 September 2012, Wroclaw, Poland.
Al-Sherbaz Ali, Dravid Rashmi, Svennevik Espen and Picton Phil (2012)" iSurvival: A Collaborative Mobile Network System for Disaster Management" PRO-VE’12 -13th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises : Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services, University of Bournemouth, 1-3 October 2012
Al-Sherbaz A, Dravid R (2012) "Ultilising Mobile Mesh Networks for Disaster Management" M4D2012, 27-29 February 2012, New Delhi, India

Saturday, 8 September 2012

Critical Analysis of ECM Applications in the Clouds

Recent paper by Dr James Xue in International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol 4, No 3, June 2012

paper can be found at: http://airccse.org/journal/jcsit/0612csit09.pdf

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ECM APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUDS: A CASE STUDY

James Xue (Department of Computing, University of Northampton, UK james.xue@northampton.ac.uk)

Amjad Yahya (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Saudi Arabia amjadyahya@yahoo.com)

ABSTRACT
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become one of the most important strategies in enterprise to manage enterprise contents over their lifecycle. ECM solutions are commonly used in many areas such as document management, web content management, record management, digital asset management, etc. Key features of ECM solutions are capturing, indexing, preserving and retrieving of digital information. In our work, an Electronic Dissertation and Thesis (EDT) application has been chosen as a typical ECM application for the case study and has been developed using state-of-the-art technologies. This paper considers the key characteristics of EDT applications and critically analyses various cloud options for deployment of such an application to maximise availability, scalability and data consistency. This paper also addresses the limitation of some existing cloud services that are related to query documents, and provided a workaround solution for abstract queries and parallel execution of complex queries.

Friday, 25 November 2011

Embedding Computer Forensics within an Undergraduate Programme

An paper on teaching computer forensics was recent published at 7th Annual Teaching Computer Forensics Workshop University of Sunderland on the 10^th Nov 2011.

An Embedded Pedagogic Model for Computer Forensics within an
Undergraduate Programme
Authors: Ali Al-Sherbaz , Amir Minai, James Xue, Rashmi Dravid , The University of Northampton

Abstract
The discipline of computer forensics which has a strong mutli-disciplinary background derives from the computing subjects in networking, programming, security and mathematics. Increasing awareness of cybersecurity and emphasising the need for a common vision among students addresses the challenges. The proposed pedagogic model is to embed the computer forensics materials within the undergraduate modules to extend students’ knowledge and skills in a practical context. However, it is also recognised that the depth of knowledge required learning such topics as cyber security should be offered from the underlying principles to their abstraction.

Cyber crimes are on the rise however, Cyber security professionals are in a depressingly low numbers. The lack of focus on this area has certainly resulted in a limited number of experts. Today, there is a demanding need to create new cyber security jobs, which should hopefully bring leverage to the uncontrollable rise of cyber crimes. It is, therefore, necessary to develop the analytical skills which create challenges in building a constructive approach to learning. Also, reflecting the technological fluctuations, it is seen as essential for students to be continuously updated.

The proposed model focuses on the delivery and assessment of certain computing modules, with an evaluation of its efficiency on the use of time and effort in order to satisfy the minimum requirements of the curriculum. The study has also discovered that some of the modules already cover part of computer forensics implicitly. Therefore, highlighting these topics to the students and making them more visible as computer forensics is one of the main objectives. Another objective is to enhance the existing computing modules by dedicating certain amount of lecture time on computer forensic related concepts. The model can then be adopted by Universities when considering developing new modules.

Over the last few years there have been large increases in cyber-crimes which have threatened individuals and organisations. To reduce the threat it is imperative that the computing courses within universities increase the level of student awareness by providing them with professional education in computer forensics and cyber-security without the need to create a separate specialised pathway.