i++ Departmental Newsletter

Week commencing Monday, 10th September

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Staff news:

Simon Lucas has accepted an invitation to be Program Co-Chair for Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) 2008. PPSN is one of the most well established and highly regarded conferences in the field of evolutionary and natural computation, and has run biennially since 1990.

EPSRC CASE Studentship Awarded

Matthew Thomas, a PhD student in the department, has been awarded an EPSRC CASE studentship with British Telecom, starting in October. He will be working on “Investigation and Simplification of Interior Gateway Routing Protocols for Next Generation IP Networks” with Gabriele Corliano at BT – his supervisors at Essex are Dr. David Hunter and Dr. Martin Reed. Before coming here to study for a PhD, Matthew worked for seven years as a contractor for Cisco Systems in Brussels and Europe, and had extensive experience with the Internet and routing protocols. At the end of August, Matthew and his two academic supervisors submitted an Internet Draft to the IETF describing OSPF-lite, a branch version of the OSPF routing protocol which will reduce the cost of running a network.

General News

The British Computer Society are celebrating their 50th anniversary, and speculating as to what the next 50 years will bring. Etholle George interviewed Dr.Simon Lucas live on BBC Radio Essex, to get a local expert opinion on this.

Best Paper Award

“Fuzzy Control of Adaptive Timeout for Video Streaming over a Bluetooth Interconnect”By R. Razavi, M. Fleury, and M. Ghanbari. MediaWin Workshop at the 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Portugal, 2007.

Papers Published/Accepted

“Problems in the ontology of computer programs.”
By Amnon H. Eden, Raymond Turner. Published, Applied Ontology Vol. 2, No. 1 (2007), pp. 13–36. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

"Implementing a State-based Application Using Web Objects in XML"
By Carlos R. Jaimez González and Simon M. Lucas. Accepted for publication, The 9th International Symposium on Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications (DOA) Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26 - 28, 2007.

"Fuzzy Logic Congestion Control of Transcoded Video Streaming Without Packet Loss Feedback" By E. Jammeh, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari. Accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

"Delay-based Congestion Avoidance for Video Communication with Fuzzy Logic Control"
By E. Jammeh, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari. Accepted for PacketVideo Workshop, 2007.

"Fuzzy Logic Control of Power-aware Video Streaming Over a Bluetooth Interconnect"
By R. Razavi, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari. Accepted for PacketVideo Workshop 2007.

"Unequal Protection of Encoded Video Streams in Bluetooth EDR"
By R. Razavi, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari. Accepted for PacketVideo Workshop, 2007.

"Buffer Size Resilience for Bluetooth Video Streams from Adaptive ARQ with Active Discard"
By R. Razavi, M. Fleury, and M. Ghanbari. To be published in Electronic Letters.