The need to support users of the Internet with the selection of information is becoming more important. Learners in complex, self-organising Learning Networks have similar problems and need guidance to find and select most suitable learning activities, in order to attain their lifelong learning goals in the most efficient way. Several research questions regarding efficiency and effectiveness de...

Since wireless sensor networks (WSN) as ad hoc networks do not have infrastructures and their topologies change dynamically, network nodes should be able to take suitable decisions without needing to know the network topology. One of these decisions is selecting the appropriate policy for service distribution of the whole network. The method of service distribution in the network is uniform by ...

In this paper the science underpinning the Beef Profit Partnerships project methodology is explained. The science is organised around headings associated with the six key elements of the project system model which was outlined in Paper 1 and is described in more detail in Paper 4. The headings are: (1) Focus, targets, outcomes and key measures; (2) Partnerships, networks, social infrastructure ...

This paper describes a generic approach to the design of a 3D virtual environment for visual navigation. The basic design principle is that users need to understand how an environment is organised and how they can utilise the knowledge to find their way through the environment. In this paper, we focus on the relationship between implicit semantic structures associated with a collection of domai...

District heating companies are responsible for delivering the heat produced in central heat plants to the consumers through a pipeline system. At the same time they are expected to keep the total heat production cost as low as possible. Therefore, there is a growing need to optimise heat production through better prediction of customers needs. The paper illustrates the way neural networks, name...

This paper investigates how to make decentralised networks, amenable to external control, i.e., how to ensure that they are appropriately organised so that they can be effectively ‘reprogrammed’. In particular, we study networked systems whose interaction dynamics are given by a nearest-neighbour averaging rule, with one leader node providing the control input to the entire system. The main res...

Besides their topological properties, Kohonen maps are often used for vector quantization only. These auto-organised networks are often compared to other standard and/or adaptive vector quantization methods, and, according to the large literature on the subject, show either better or worst properties in terms of quantization, speed of convergence, approximation of probability densities, cluster...

Abstract For regions that are deeply integrated into the global economy, question of how to remain competitive and resilient in times uncertainty is a key concern. While strategic coupling useful concept for understanding local-global economic dynamics, idea region can simultaneously couple multiple production networks organised at different spatial scales regional actors increase their autonom...

The availability of complete, annotated genome sequences for a variety of eukaryotic organisms has paved the way for a paradigm shift in biomedical research from the 'one gene-one hypothesis' approach to more global, systematic strategies that analyse genes or proteins on a genome- and proteome-wide scale. One daunting task in the post-genome era is to determine how the complement of expressed ...