Technical Report Series (ISSN 1179-4259)

2021

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22-01 TBC TBC 6 Apr pdf

2021

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21-01 TBC TBC 10 Dec pdf

2020

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20-01 Erin Greenwood-Thessman, Isaac Gariano, Richard Roberts, Stefan Marr, Michael Homer, James Noble Naïve Transient Cast Insertion Isn’t (That) Bad 10 Dec pdf

2019

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19-01 Mahdi Abdollahi, Xiaoying Sharon Gao, Yi Mei, Shameek Ghosh, Jinyan Li An Ontology-based Two-Stage Approach to Medical Text Classification with Feature Selection by Particle Swarm Optimisation 11 Mar pdf
19-02 ShaolinWang, Yi Mei, John Park, Mengjie Zhang Evolving Ensembles of Routing Policies using Genetic Programming for Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem 27 June pdf

2018

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18-01 Jozef Mocnej, Adrian Pekar, Winston Seah, Iveta Zolotova Network Traffic Characteristics of the IoT Application Use Cases (N.B. Please cite the published version below.) 06 Jan pdf
Published as "Application Domain-Based Overview of IoT Network Traffic Characteristics" in ACM Computing Surveys 53(4), Article 87, 33 pages. July 2021 https://doi.org/10.1145/3399669
18-02 Aaron Craig, Alex Potanin, Lindsay Groves, Jonathan Aldrich Capabilities: Effects for Free 18 May pdf

2017

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17-01 Baptiste Pauget, David Pearce, Alex Potanin Towards Compilation of an Imperative Language for FPGAs 09 Sep pdf
17-02 Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Toby Murray, Mark S. Miller Chainmail: Defensively Consistent Modular Specifications for an Open World 01 Dec pdf

2016

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16-01 David Harrison, Winston Seah, Ramesh Rayudu Rare Event Detection and Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks 12 Jan pdf
16-02 David Harrison, Winston Seah, Hang Yu, Ramesh Rayudu Opportunistic Geographic Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks for Critical Rare Events 15 Mar pdf
16-03 David Harrison, Daniel Burmester, Winston Seah, Ramesh Rayudu Busting Myths of Energy Models for Wireless Sensor Networks 5 May pdf
16-04 Boxiong Tan, Hui Ma, Yi Mei, and Mengjie Zhang Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization for Web Service Location Allocation 7 June pdf
16-05 Craig Watterson, Bernadette Knewstubb, Dale Carnegie and Marc Wilson Who owns the teaching and learning environment? 7 July pdf
16-06 Hang Yu, Bryan Ng, Winston Seah, Ying Qu TTL-based Efficient Forwarding for the Backhaul tier in Nanonetworks 24 July pdf
16-07 Zhaojiang Zhang, Hui Ma Using Graph Databases for Automatic QoS-AwareWeb Service Composition 1 Nov pdf
2015

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15-01 Michael Waterman, James Noble, George Allan How Much Up-Front? A Grounded Theory of Agile Architecture 13 Feb pdf
15-02 Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva, Hui Ma, Mengjie Zhang GraphEvol: A Graph Evolution Technique for Web Service Composition 23 Apr pdf
15-03 Joseph Lee, Jonathan Aldrich, Troy Shaw, Alex Potanin A Theory of Tagged Objects (with Supplementary Material) 28 Apr pdf
15-04 Hai Huang, Hui Ma, Mengjie Zhang Binary PSO for Web Service Location-Allocation 10 Jun pdf
15-05 Boxiong Tan, Hui Ma, Mengjie Zhang Optimization of Location Allocation of Web Services Using A Modi ed Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm 10 Jun pdf
15-06 Rachel Hunt, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang Evolving Dispatching Rules with Greater Understandability for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling 05 Aug pdf
15-07 Najwani Razali Operators and precedence in programming language design 8 Aug pdf
15-08 Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Mark S. Miller, Toby Murray More Reasoning about Risk and Trust in an Open World 10 Oct pdf
2014

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14-01 Juan Rada-Vilelal, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang Population Statistics for Particle Swarm Optimization: Deception, Blindness and Disorientation in Noisy Problems 09 Jan pdf
14-02 Hui Ma, Anqi Wang, Mengjie Zhang A Hybrid Approach using Greedy Search and Genetic Programming for QoS-aware Web Service Composition

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14-03 Yang Yu, Hui Ma, Mengjie Zhang A Genetic Programming Approach to Distributed
QoS-aware Web Service Composition

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14-04 Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva, Hui Ma, Mengjie Zhang A Graph-Based Particle Swarm Optimisation Approach to
QoS-Aware Web Service Composition and Selection

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14-05 Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble Towards Capability Policy Specification and Verification

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14-06 Matthew Hayes, Bryan Ng and Winston Seah

An Architecture for Traffic Classification in Enterprise Networks within the Era of IoT

Software prototype available from: https://github.com/mcprojectvuw/MC

29 Nov Please contact Winston Seah
14-07 David Pearce Practical Verification Condition Generation for a Bytecode Language 12 Dec pdf
2013

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13-01 Muhammad Iqbal, Will Browne, Mengjie Zhang Reusing Building Blocks of Extracted Knowledge to Solve Complex, Large-Scale Boolean Problems - Copyright IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION as in review 22 Feb pdf
13-02 Michael Homer, James Noble, Kim B. Bruce, Andrew P. Black Modules and Dialects as Objects in Grace 26 March pdf
13-03 James Noble, Michael Homer, Kim B. Bruce, Andrew P. Black Designing Grace: Can an Introductory Programming Language Support Teaching Software Engineering? 27 March pdf
13-04 David Pearce and Lindsay Groves Practical Verification Condition Generation for a Realistic Imperative Language 8th May  
13-05 M.Y. Cheng, Y.B. Chen, H.Y. Wei and Winston Seah Event-Driven Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring 30 Jun pdf
13-06 David Pearce and Lindsay Groves Reflections on Verifying Software with Whiley 6th Sept pdf
2012

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12-01 Siva Dorairaj, James Noble, Petra Malik Distribution and Agility: It's All About Trust (Note: this paper has been superseded by subsequent research) 11 Jan pdf
12-02 Siva Dorairaj, James Noble, Petra Malik Understanding Team Dynamics in Distributed Agile Software Development 16 Jan pdf
12-03 Juan Rada-Vilela, Mengjie Zhang, Winston Seah A Performance Study on the Effects of Noise and Evaporation in Particle Swarm Optimization 24 Jan pdf
12-04 Wei-Chuan Lin, Winston Seah and Wei Li Exploiting Radio Irregularity in Wireless Networks for Automated People Counting 4 Feb pdf
12-05 Peter Sam Raj Summer Internship Report: Vibration Energy Harvesting using PEH25W 8 Feb pdf
12-06 Winston Seah and Jonathan P. Olds Wireless Sensor Networks Powered by RF Energy Harvesting: Design and Experimentation 8 Feb pdf
12-07 Siva Dorairaj, James Noble, Petra Malik Understanding Lack of Trust in Distributed Agile Teams: A Grounded Theory Study 8 Feb pdf
12-08 Siva Dorairaj, James Noble, Petra Malik Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development 24 Feb pdf
12-09 David Pearce, Nicholas Cameron, James Noble Whiley: A Language with Flow-Typing and Updateable Value Semantics 12 Mar pdf
12-10 David Pearce A Calculus for Constraint-Based Flow Typing 18 Mar pdf
12-11 Daniel Atkins, Alex Potanin, Lindsay Groves Clocked References in X10 20 Mar pdf
12-12 Julian Mackay, Hannes Mehnert, Alex Potanin, Lindsay Groves, Nicholas Cameron Featherweight Java with Assignment and Immutability in Coq 25 Mar pdf
12-13 Muhammad Adeel Mahmood and Winston Seah Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks: Survey and Challenges Ahead 6 Apr pdf
Superseded by:
Muhammad Adeel Mahmood, Winston Seah and Ian Welch, " Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks: Survey and Challenges Ahead", Computer Networks, Volume 79, 14 March 2015, Pages 166–187. (Please cite this paper instead of the technical report.)
12-14 Jan Larres, Alex Potanin, and Yuichi Hirose A Study of Performance Variations in the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser 17 Apr pdf
12-15 Yek Hong Tham Summer Internship Report: Design and Experimentation of a Wireless Sensor Network Node Powered by Vibration Energy 1 May pdf
12-16 Winston Seah, Y.K. Tan and Alvin T.S. Chan Research in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks and the Challenges Ahead 8 June pdf
12-17 Sally C.W. Lu, Quincy Wu and Winston Seah Quality of Service Provisioning for Smart Meter Networks using Stream Control Transport Protocol 15 June pdf
12-18 Marco Servetto and Alex Potanin Balloon Immutable Java 10 July pdf
12-19 Marco Servetto and Alex Potanin Our Billion Dollar Fix 10 July pdf
12-20 David Pearce Sound and Complete Flow Typing with Unions, Intersections and Negations 13 July pdf
12-21 Dale Carnegie and Craig Watterson 2012 TEC Pff838 Engineering Pathways Project Report 30Jul12 Final 30 July pdf
12-22 Alex Potanin, Monique Damitio, and James Noble Ownership in Collections: The Statistical Analysis 17 Aug pdf
12-23 Nicholas Cameron, Sophia Drossopoulou, and James Noble Ownership Types for Beginners forthcoming forthcoming
12-24 Michael Waterman, James Noble, and George Allan Reconciling Architecture and Agility: What Matters? 1 Nov pdf
12-25 Marco Servetto, Julian Mackay, Alex Potanin and James Noble The Billion Dollar Fix: Safe Modular Circular Initialisation with Placeholders and Placeholder Types 29 Dec pdf
2011

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11-01 Frank Schmager Evaluating the GO Programming Language with Design Patterns (Masters Thesis) 10 Jan pdf
11-02 Winston Seah and Alvin T.S. Chan Challenges in Protocol Design for Wireless Sensor Networks Powered by Ambient Energy Harvesting (obsoleted by 12-16) 12 Jan pdf
11-03 Hwee-Pink Tan, Roee Diamant, Winston Seah and Marc Waldmeyer A Survey of Techniques and Challenges in Underwater Localization 27 Jan pdf
11-04 Wei-Chuan Lin, Wei Li, Winston Seah and Aaron T Gulliver Inferring Human Activity using Overcomplete Dictionary Based Pattern Recognition 8 April pdf
11-05 Wei-Chuan Lin, Winston Seah and Wei Li Exploiting Radio Irregularity in the Internet of Things for Automated People Counting 9 April pdf
11-06 Alex Potanin, Monique Damitio, Shane Markstrum, Christo Fogelberg, Andrew Walbran, James Noble. Are Your Aliases Really Necessary? 29 Sep pdf
11-07 Nicholas Cameron (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement, and Ownership (IWACO) 2011 25 July zip
11-08 Winston Seah, A.C. Valera, P.W.Q. Lee and Y.F. Wong Topology Skewing for Improved Route Selection in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks (Paper has been presented at HICSS-45.) Aug 18  
11-09 Craig Anslow TBC Oct 8 Please contact Craig Anslow
11-10 David Pearce An Algorithmic Framework for Recursive Structural Types Oct 15 pdf
11-11 Jonathan P. Olds and Winston Seah Power considerations for very low duty cycle wireless sensor networks powered by energy harvesting Oct 16 pdf
11-12 Jonathan P. Olds and Winston Seah Design of an active radio frequency powered multi-hop wireless sensor network Nov 16 pdf
2010

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10-01 Kok-Lim Yau, Peter Komisarczuk and Paul Teal Achieving Context Awareness and Intelligence in Cognitive Radio Networks using Reinforcement Learning for Stateful Applications 29 Jan pdf
10-02 S.K. Ng and Winston Seah Game-Theoretic Approach for Improving Cooperation in Wireless Multihop Networks 2 Feb pdf
10-03 Kok-Lim Yau, Peter Komisarczuk and Paul Teal Learning Mechanisms for Achieving Context Awareness and Intelligence in Cognitive Radio Networks 26 Feb pdf
10-04 Kok-Lim Yau, Peter Komisarczuk and Paul Teal Enhancing Network Performance in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks using Single-Agent and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning 26 Feb pdf
10-05 Yoav Zibin Featherweight Ownership and Immutability Generic Java (FOIGJ) 24 Mar pdf (See 10-16 for the latest version)
10-06 Sebastian Link, Ivan Lukovic, and Pavle Mogin Performance Evaluation of Natural and Surrogate Key Database Architectures 31 Mar pdf
10-07 Ammar Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang and Will Browne Particle Swarm Optimisation for Outlier Detection 01 Apr pdf
10-08 Sukanta K. Hazra and Winston Seah Topology Broadcast in Maritime Mesh Networks with Directional Antennas 03 Apr pdf
10-09 Stephen Nelson, David Pearce, James Noble Understanding the Impact of Collection Contracts on Design 20 Apr pdf
10-10 Rashina Hoda, James Noble, Stuart Marshall Balancing Self-Organizing Agile Teams: A Grounded Theory 26 Jun pdf
10-11 Craig Anslow, Stuart Marshall Proceedings of the Workshop on Visual Analytics in Software Engineering - VASE 2009 Jul pdf
10-12 Craig Anslow, Shane Markstrum and Emerson Murphy-Hill Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools - PLATEAU 2009 Jul pdf
10-13 Sergio Hernandez Smoothing algorithms for the Probability Hypothesis Density filter 14 Apr pdf
10-14 Nicholas Cameron, James Noble, Tobias Wrigstad Tribal Ownership 26 Jul pdf
10-15 Yoav Zibin, Alex Potanin, Paley Li, Mahmood Ali, Michael D. Ernst Ownership and Immutability Generic Java (OIGJ) with Owners as Modifiers 1 Jan pdf
10-16 Yoav Zibin Featherweight Ownership and Immutability Generic Java (FOIGJ) 24 Jul pdf
10-17 Keith Cassell, Craig Anslow, Lindsay Groves, Peter Andreae Visualizing Class Refactoring via Clustering 25 Jul pdf
10-18 David Pearce JPure: a Modular Purity System for Java 28 Jul pdf
10-19 David Pearce A Featherweight Calculus for Flow-Sensitive Type Systems in Java 28 Jul pdf
10-20 Hannes Mehnert, Nicholas Cameron, Alex Potanin Relaxing Ownership with Immutability 2 Aug pdf
10-21 Keith Cassell, Peter Andreae, Lindsay Groves, James Noble An Initial Test Suite for Automated Extract Class Refactorings 17 Sep pdf
10-22 Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean, Mengjie Zhang A Memetic Framework for Cooperative Co-evoltuionary Feedforward Neural Networks 12 Oct pdf
10-23 David Pearce and James Noble Flow-Sensitive Types for Whiley 20 Nov pdf
10-24 Paul Radford, Andy Linton and Ian Welch Event log messages as a human interface, or, %u201CDo you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?%u201D 2 Dec pdf
10-25 Carlton Downey and Mengjie Zhang Parallel Linear Genetic Programming 15 Dec pdf
10-26 IgnasKukenys, Will Browne and Mengjie Zhang Transparent, Online Image Pattern Classification Using a Learning Classifier System 16 Dec pdf
2009

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09-01 Alex Potanin, Paley Li, Yoav Zibin, and Michael D. Ernst Featherweight Ownership and Immutability Generic Java (FOIGJ) 15 Jul Superseded by
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09-02 Alex Potanin, James Noble, Dave Clarke, and Robert Biddle Featherweight Generic Ownership (FGO) 30 Mar pdf
09-03 Stephen Nelson, David Pearce, James Noble Changing Hashcodes: Objects, Intialisation, and Collections 8 Apr pdf
09-04 Nicholas Cameron, Sophia Drossopoulou On Subtyping, Wildcards, and Existential Types 30 May pdf
09-05 Nicholas Cameron, James Noble OGJ Gone Wild 30 May pdf
09-06 Nicholas Cameron, Werner Dietl Comparing Universes and Existential Ownership Types 1 Jun pdf
09-07 Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang Sample Issues of Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming 1 Jun pdf
09-08 David Kinzett, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang Numerical Simplification for Bloat Control and Analysis of Building Blocks in Genetic Programming 3 Jun pdf
09-09 Ammar Mohemmed, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang Particle Swarm Optimisation Based AdaBoost for Object Detection 10 Jun pdf
09-10 Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang Tuning Selection Pressure in Tournament Selection 16 Jun pdf
09-11 Radek Hes, Ramon Steenson, Christian Seifert Honey Client Architecture 20 Feb pdf
09-12 Ian Welch, Roy Maxion The Application of HAZOP to Experimental Design Sep Please contact Ian Welch
09-13 Alex Potanin, Paley Li, Yoav Zibin, and Michael D. Ernst Featherweight Ownership and Immutability Generic Java (FOIGJ) 14 Dec Superseded by
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09-14 Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean and Mengjie Zhang Building Subcomponents in the Cooperative Coevolution Framework for Training Recurrent Neural Networks 25 Nov pdf
09-15 Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston Feature Extraction and Detection of Simple Objects Using Particle Swarm Optimisation 10 Dec pd