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Publications in 2012

These are the publications by staff of the Computer Science department in 2012.

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This list was extracted (7/3/13) from the University of Otago staff publications database which is available here.

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Knott, A. (2012). Sensorimotor cognition and natural language syntax Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 416p.
Type of publication: A1 - Authored Book - Research

Mair, J., Huang, Z., & Zhang, H. (2012). Energy-aware scheduling for parallel applications on multicore systems. In N. Kaabouch & W-C Hu (Eds.), Energy-aware systems and networking for sustainable initiatives (pp. 38-58). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1842-8.ch003
Type of publication: C1 - Chapter in Book - Research

Trappett, M., Geva, S., Trotman, A., Scholer, F., & Sanderson, M. (2012). Overview of the INEX 2011 Snippet Retrieval Track. In S. Geva, J. Kamps, & R. Schenkel (Eds.), Focused retrieval of content and structure: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 7424) (pp. 283-294). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35734-3_27
Type of publication: C1 - Chapter in Book - Research

Trotman, A., & Crane, M. (2012). Snip! In S. Geva, J. Kamps, & R. Schenkel (Eds.), Focused retrieval of content and structure: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 7424) (pp. 278-282). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35734-3_26
Type of publication: C1 - Chapter in Book - Research

Albert, M. (2012). Young classes of permutations. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 54(2), 49-58.
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Albert, M. H., & Nowakowski, R. J. (2012). Lattices of games. Order, 29(1), 75-84. doi: 10.1007/s11083-011-9198-0
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Albert, M. H., Atkinson, M. D., & Brignall, R. (2012). The enumeration of three pattern classes using monotone grid classes. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 19(3), P20.
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Atkinson, M. D., Sagan, B. E., & Vatter, V. (2012). Counting (3+1)-avoiding permutations. European Journal of Combinatorics, 33(1), 49-61. doi: 10.1016/j.ejc.2011.06.006
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Benuskova, L., & Jedlicka, P. (2012). Computational modeling of long-term depression of synaptic weights: Insights from STDP, metaplasticity and spontaneous activity. Neural Network World, 22(2), 161-180.
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Caza, G. A., & Knott, A. (2012). Pragmatic bootstrapping: A neural network model of vocabulary acquisition. Language Learning & Development, 8(2), 113-135. doi: 10.1080/15475441.2011.581144
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Covington, M. A., Bagnara, R., O'Keefe, R. A., Wielemaker, J., & Price, S. (2012). Coding guidelines for Prolog. Theory & Practice of Logic Programming, 12(6), 889-927. doi: 10.1017/S1471068411000391
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Han, Y., Jia, J., Jia, X.-F., Qin, W., & Wang, S. (2012). Combination of plasma biomarkers and clinical data for the detection of sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters, 516(2), 232-236. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.094
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Jadhav, S., Zhang, H., & Huang, Z. (2012). Quality of VoIP in WiMAX and UMTS. Journal of Internet Technology, 13(3), 491-499.
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Leung, K.-C., Chen, Y., & Huang, Z. (2012). Restricted admission control in view-oriented transactional memory. Journal of Supercomputing. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11227-011-0733-y
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Li, F., Jia, X.-F., & Jia, J. (2012). The informant questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly individuals in screening mild cognitive impairment with or without functional impairment. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurology, 25(4), 227-232. doi: 10.1177/0891988712464822
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Martin, S. (2012). Lattice enumeration for inverse molecular design using the signature descriptor. Journal of Chemical Information & Modeling, 53, 1787-1797. doi: 10.1021/ci3001748
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

McCane, B. (2012). Shape variation in outline shapes. Systematic Biology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys080
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Takac, M., Benuskova, L., & Knott, A. (2012). Mapping sensorimotor sequences to word sequences: A connectionist model of language acquisition and sentence generation. Cognition, 125(2), 288-308. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.006
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Xing, Y., Qin, W., Li, F., Jia, X.-F., & Jia, J. (2012). Associations between sex hormones and cognitive and neuropsychiatric manifestations in vascular dementia (VaD). Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2012.10.003
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Xing, Y., Wei, C., Chu, C., Zhou, A., Li, F., Wu, L., … Jia, X.-F., Jia, J. (2012). Stage-specific gender differences in cognitive and neuropsychiatric manifestations of vascular dementia. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias, 27(6), 433-438. doi: 10.1177/1533317512454712
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Zou, Z., Soldati, P., Zhang, H., & Johansson, M. (2012). Energy-efficient deadline-constrained maximum reliability forwarding in lossy networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 11(10), 3474-3483. doi: 10.1109/twc.2012.090312.110938
Type of publication: D1 - Journal - Research Article

Alexander, D. R., Mo, M., & Stent, A. F. (2012). Arithmetic Brownian motion and real options. European Journal of Operational Research, 219(1), 114-122. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.12.023
Type of publication: D2 - Journal - Research Other

Bellot, P., Chappell, T., Doucet, A., Geva, S., Kamps, J., Kazai, G., … Trotman, A., Wang, Q. (2012). Report on INEX 2011. ACM SIGIR Forum, 46(1), 33-42.
Type of publication: D2 - Journal - Research Other

Bell, T., Andreae, P., & Robins, A. (2012). Computer Science in NZ high schools: The first year of the new standards. Proceedings of the 43rd Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), (pp. 343-348). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2157136.2157240
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Benuskova, L. (2012). Why is it hard to induce long-term depression? Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252827
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Blanchette, G., O'Keefe, R., & Benuskova, L. (2012). Inference of a phylogenetic tree: Hierarchical clustering versus genetic algorithm. In M. Thielscher & D. Zhang (Eds.), Advances in artificial intelligence: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7691), (pp. 300-312). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35101-3_26
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Botterill, T., Green, R., & Mills, S. (2012). Reconstructing partially visible models using stereo vision, structured light, and the g2o framework. In B. McCane, S. Mills, & J. D. Deng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ), (pp. 370-375). New York: ACM.
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Chen, Q., Chen, Y., Huang, Z., & Guo, M. (2012). WATS: Workload-Aware Task Scheduling in asymmetric multi-core architectures. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), (pp. 249-260). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2012.32
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Chen, Q., Guo, M., & Huang, Z. (2012). CATS: Cache Aware Task-Stealing based on online profiling in multi-socket multi-core architectures. Proceedings of the 26th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), (pp. 163-172). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2304576.2304599
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Crane, M., & Trotman, A. (2012). Effects of spam removal on search engine efficiency and effectiveness. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), (pp. 1-8). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2407085.2407086
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Evans, D., & Eyers, D. (2012). Melding security metadata between software and hardware. In E. Wohlstadter (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Middleware Conference, 13. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2405153.2405166
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Evans, D., Eyers, D. M., & Bacon, J. (2012). A model of Information Flow Control to determine whether malfunctions cause the privacy invasion. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility (MPM), 2. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2181196.2181198
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Eyers, D., Freudenreich, T., Margara, A., Frischbier, S., Pietzuch, P., & Eugster, P. (2012). Living in the present: On-the-fly information processing in scalable web architectures. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms, 6. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2168697.2168703
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Jadhav, S., Zhang, H., & Huang, Z. (2012). MOS-based handover protocol for next generation wireless networks. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), (pp. 479-486). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/AINA.2012.105
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Khan, N., McCane, B., & Mills, S. (2012). Feature set reduction for image matching in large scale environments. In B. McCane, S. Mills, & J. D. Deng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ), (pp. 67-72). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2425836.2425852
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Khan, U. M., McCane, B., & Trotman, A. (2012). A feature compression scheme for large scale image retrieval systems. In B. McCane, S. Mills, & J. D. Deng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ), (pp. 492-496). New York: ACM.
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Knott, A. (2012). Chomskyan minimalism as a vehicle for embodied models of language. Proceedings of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) Conference. Retrieved from http://eslp.cocolab.org/.
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Lee-Hand, J., Neumegen, T., & Knott, A. (2012). Representing reach-to-grasp trajectories using perturbed goal motor states. In P. Anthony, M. Ishizuka, & D. Lukose (Eds.), Trends in artificial intelligence: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 7458), (pp. 250-261). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32695-0_24
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Leung, K., Chen, Y., & Huang, Z. (2012). When and how VOTM can improve performance in contention situations. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), (pp. 1-10). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICPPW.2012.5
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Martin, S., Subramanya, V., & Mills, S. (2012). Using graph layout to generalise focus+context image magnification and distortion. In B. McCane, S. Mills, & J. D. Deng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ), (pp. 97-102). New York: ACM.
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

McCane, B. (2012). The linear space of all images smaller than 32x32. In B. McCane, S. Mills, & J. D. Deng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ), (pp. 156-161). New York: ACM.
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

McCarthy, P. (2012). Path-sharing: A new betweenness measure for community identification in networks. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). doi: 10.1109/CEC.2012.6256135
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

McDonald, J., Knott, A., & Zeng, R. (2012). Free-text input vs menu selection: Exploring the difference with a tutorial dialogue system. In P. Cook & S. Nowson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop, 10, (pp. 97-105).
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Milne, R. M., O'Keefe, R. A., & Trotman, A. (2012). A study in language identification. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), (pp. 88-95). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2407085.2407097
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Nido, G. S., Williams, J. M., & Benuskova, L. (2012). Bistable properties of a memory-related gene regulatory network. Proceedings of the Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), (pp. 1602-1607). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252588
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Ott, C., Hebecker, R., & Wakes, S. (2012). Picture the space: Three concepts for management and presentation of personal digital photographs. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ), (pp. 1-8). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2379256.2379258
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Szymanski, L., & McCane, B. (2012). Deep, super-narrow neural network is a universal classifier. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252513
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Szymanski, L., & McCane, B. (2012). Push-pull separability objective for supervised layer-wise training of neural networks. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252366
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Tang, L.-X., Geva, S., & Trotman, A. (2012). An English-translated parallel corpus for the CJK Wikipedia collections. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), (pp. 104-110). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2407085.2407099
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Tang, L.-X., Trotman, A., Geva, S., & Xu, Y. (2012). Cross-lingual knowledge discovery: Chinese-to-English article linking in Wikipedia. In Y. Hou, J.-Y. Nie, L. Sun, B. Wang, & P. Zhang (Eds.), Information retrieval technology: Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 7675), (pp. 286-295). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35341-3_24
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Trotman, A., Jia, X.-F., & Crane, M. (2012). Towards an efficient and effective search engine. In A. Trotman, C. L. A. Clarke, I. Ounis, J. S. Culpepper, M-A. Cartright, & S. Geva (Eds.), Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval, (pp. 40-47). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Computer Science, University of Otago.
Type of publication: E1 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Eyers, D., Trotman, A., & Sun, Z. (2012). A vision for sustainable cloud computing. Proceedings of the Otago Energy Research Centre (OERC) Symposium, (pp. 11). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/oerc/.
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Frischbier, S., Margara, A., Freudenreich, T., Eugster, P., Eyers, D., & Pietzuch, P. (2012). ASIA: Application-specific integrated aggregation for publish/subscribe middleware. Proceedings of the 13th International Middleware Conference. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2405153.2405159
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Khan, N., & McCane, B. (2012). Smartphone application for indoor scene localization. Proceedings of the 14th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS) International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), (pp. 201-202). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2384916.2384953
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Khan, N., McCane, B., & Mills, S. (2012). Vision based indoor scene localization via smart phone [Demonstration]. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ), (pp. 88). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2379256.2379272
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Khan, N., McCane, B., & Mills, S. (2012). Vision based indoor scene localization via smart phone. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ): @ The Interface Between Disciplines. Retrieved from http://www.chinz2012.otago.ac.nz/programme.html.
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McCarthy, P., Benuskova, L., & Franz, E. (2012). Effect of aging and dementia on functional connectivity: Graph theoretical analysis of fMRI data. In B. Leitch & J. Shemmell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 30, (pp. 38). AWCBR. Retrieved from http://psy.otago.ac.nz/awcbr/Abstracts/Abstracts2012.html.
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ott, C., Hebecker, R., & Wakes, S. (2012). Picture the space: Three concepts for management and presentation of personal digital photographs. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ): @ The Interface Between Disciplines. Retrieved from http://www.chinz2012.otago.ac.nz/programme.html.
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Regenbrecht, H. T., Collins, J. M., & Alshaer, A. (2012). Power wheel chair simulation as an assessment tool [Demonstration]. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ): @ The Interface Between Disciplines. Retrieved from http://www.chinz2012.otago.ac.nz/programme.html.
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Regenbrecht, H. T., Collins, J. M., & Alshaer, A. (2012). Power wheel chair simulation as an assessment tool [Demonstration]. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ), (pp. 90). New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2379256.2379274
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Takáč, M., Benuskova, L., & Knott, A. (2012). Language learning with meanings as stored sensorimotor sequences: A connectionist model. Proceedings of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) Conference. Retrieved from http://eslp.cocolab.org/.
Type of publication: E2 - Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Guo, M., & Huang, Z. (Eds.). (2012). Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores. New York: ACM. 180p.
Type of publication: E3 - Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

McCane, B., Mills, S., & Deng, J. D. (Eds.). (2012). Proceedings of the 27th Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference (IVCNZ). New York: ACM. 547p.
Type of publication: E3 - Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Trotman, A., Clarke, C. L. A., Ounis, I., Culpepper, J. S., Cartright, M.-A., & Geva, S. (Eds.). (2012). Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Computer Science, University of Otago.
Type of publication: E3 - Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Al Hinai, A., & Zhang, H. (2012, April). Mitigating Byzantine attacks in delay tolerant networks. Verbal presentation at the 10th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC), Dunedin, New Zealand.
Type of publication: E5 - Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

De Vries, C., Geva, S., & Trotman, A. (2012, September). Document clustering evaluation: Divergence from a random baseline. Verbal presentation at the Lernen, Wissen, Adaption (LWA) Workshop on Information Retrieval, Dortmund, Germany.
Type of publication: E5 - Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Eyers, D. (2012, March). Multicore CPUs: Power vs. energy considerations in Cloud Computing workloads. Verbal presentation at the Multicore World Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Type of publication: E5 - Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Huang, Z. (2012, March). Aware task scheduling in asymmetric multicore architectures. Verbal presentation at the Multicore World Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Type of publication: E5 - Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Martin, S. (2012, August-September). Lattice enumeration for inverses molecular design using the signature descriptor. Verbal presentation at the Molecular Modelling (MM) Conference: Discovery through Biomolecular Simulation, Queenstown, New Zealand.
Type of publication: E5 - Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs



Professor Michael Albert

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Emeritus Professor Mike Atkinson

Publications and full text links.


Emeritus Professor Geoff Wyvill

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Professor Anthony Robins

Other publications by Associate Professor Anthony Robins


Associate Professor Ali Knott

Publications by Associate Professor Ali Knott, and full text links


Associate Professor Brendan McCane

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Associate Professor Zhiyi Huang

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Associate Professor Andrew Trotman

Other publications, and full text links.


Dr Lubica Benuskova

Publications and full text links.


Dr Willem Labuschagne

Full publications list.


Dr Yawen Chen

Some publications are listed here.


Dr David Eyers

Selected publications are listed here.


Dr Shawn Martin

Publications with abstracts.


Dr Steven Mills

All publications.


Dr Richard O'Keefe

More about Richard O'Keefe.


Dr Haibo Zhang

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