Publications & Talks

 

2019

Katevas, Kleomenis; Hänsel, Katrin; Clegg, Richard; Leontiadis, Ilias; Haddadi, Hamed; Tokarchuk, Laurissa; Finding Dory in the Crowd: Detecting Social Interactions using Multi-Modal Mobile Sensing. Accepted for publication in 1st Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (Sensys-ML19).



Warriar, Vivek; Woodward, John Tokarchuk, Laurissa. PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games (COG '19), 20-23 August 2019, London, UK. [PDF]


Warriar, Vivek; Woodward, John Tokarchuk, Laurissa. Modelling Player Preference in AR Games. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games (COG '19), 20-23 August 2019, London, UK. [PDF]


Perez, Nuria; Tokarchuk, Laurissa; Burdet , Etienne ; Farkhatdivov, Ildar. Exploring motor behaviours in bimanual interactive games. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games (COG '19), 20-23 August 2019, London, UK. [PDF]


Talk:  Laurissa Tokarchuk. Sensing....  Everything: A data-driven approach to improving everyday experiences. IBM Women in Computing [PDF]


Ugarte, Carmen, Warriar,  John Tokarchuk, Laurissa. Learning to generate personalised content based on human behaviour. Human-Like Computing Machine Intelligence Workshop (MI21-HLC). [PDF]


Gabana, Daniel; Tokarchuk, Laurissa; Hannon , Emily ; Gunes, Hatice. Affect and Performance-Based Difficulty Adaptation for Working Memory Training in Virtual Reality Gaming. In Review.


2018

Irfan, Muhammad; Tokarchuk, Laurissa; Marcenaro, Lucio; Regazzoni, Carlo; "Anomaly detection in crowds using multi-sensory information”,2018 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS),1-6,2018,IEEE.


Katevas, Kleomenis; Hänsel, Katrin; Clegg, Richard; Leontiadis, Ilias; Haddadi, Hamed; Tokarchuk, Laurissa; Finding Dory in the Crowd: Detecting Social Interactions using Multi-Modal Mobile Sensing; arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00947; 2018.


Pacheco C, Perez-Liebana D, and Tokarchuk L. Studying believability assessment in racing games. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '18), Steve Dahlskog, Sebastian Deterding, José Font, Mitu Khandaker, Carl Magnus Olsson, Sebastian Risi, and Christoph Salge (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235797 [PDF]


Talk:  Tokarchuk L (2018). The Search for Serendipity: novelty and illumination. [PDF]


2017


Tokarchuk L, Wang X, Poslad S (2017) Piecing together the puzzle: Improving event content coverage for real-time sub-event detection using adaptive microblog crawling. PLOS ONE 12(11): e0187401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187401


Gábana D, Tokarchuk L., Hannon E. and Gunes H. Effects of Valence and Arousal on Working Memory Performance in Virtual Reality Gaming. Proc. of International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2017), 23-26 Oct. 2017, San Antonio, Texas, USA. (PDF)


Talk: Tokarchuk L. Walking in Sync and Sensing groups. Talk presented at JAM VII (2017): July 22 - 26, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (PDF)


Katevas K, Tokarchuk L, Haddadi H, Clegg R, Irfan M.  (2017). “Demo: Detecting Group Formations using iBeacon Technology", ACM MobiSys 17 Demos, Niagra Falls, USA. (PDF).



2016


Irfan M., Marcenaro L, Tokarchuk L (2016). “Crowd Analysis using visual and non-visual sensors, a survey”, Symposium on Signal Processing for Understanding Crowd Dynamics, IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), December 2016, Washington DC, USA. (PDF)


Katevas K., Haddadi H., Tokarchuk L and Clegg R (2016). "Detecting Group Formations using iBeacon Technology", 4th International Workshop on Human Activity Sensing Corpus and Application (HASCA2016) in conjunction with UbiComp2016, September 2016, Heidelberg, Germany. (PDF)


Smith D., Tokarchuk L.  and Wiggins G. (2016) . Rapid Phenotypic Landscape Exploration through Hierarchical Spatial Partitioning.  Accepted for publication in the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN). (PDF)


Katevas K., Haddadi H. and Tokarchuk L (2016). SensingKit: Evaluating the Sensor Power Consumption in iOS devices. Accepted for publication in the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'16. (PDF)
Software: http://www.sensingkit.org/


Smith D., Tokarchuk L.  and Wiggins G. (2016) . MADNS: Multiple Assessment Directed Novelty Search.  Accepted for publication in the poster sessions of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO). [PDF]


Smith D., Tokarchuk L.  and Wiggins G. (2016) . Harnessing Phenotypic Diversity towards Multiple Independent Objectives. Accepted for publications in the GECCO workshop “Measuring and Promoting Diversity in Evolutionary Algorithms”. [PDF]


Gábana Arellano D, Tokarchuk L. and Gunes H. (2016).  Measuring Affective, Physiological and Behavioural Differences in Solo, Competitive and Collaborative Games. Accepted for publication in the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN). Utrect, Netherlands. [PDF]



2015

Talk  Laurissa Tokarchuk, “Mobile and social sensing for real-time problems”,  Talk for Centre for Intelligent Sensing Summer School,  Slides. Video.


Katevas K., Haddadi H., Tokarchuk L and Clegg R (2015).  Walking in Sync: Two is Company, Three’s a Crowd. ACM MobiSys 2nd Workshop on Physical Analytics (WPA). Florence, Italy, May 2015 (PDF , SensingKit open source libraries).


Smith D., Tokarchuk L. and Fernando C. (2015) . Evolving diverse strategies through combined phenotypic novelty and objective function search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). vol. 9028, 344-354.

10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3_28 [PDF]


Wang X., Tokarchuk L, Cuadrado F., and Poslad S. (2015). Adaptive identification of hashtags for real-time event data collection. In Recommendation and Search in Social Networks, (pp. 1-22). Springer International Publishing. [accepted version PDF]


2014

Katevas K., Haddadi H. and Tokarchuk L.  (2014). Poster: SensingKit–A Multi-Platform Mobile Sensing Framework for Large-Scale Experiments. ACM MobiCom.  [Paper PDF, Poster PDF]

Software: http://www.sensingkit.org/


Wang X., Tokarchuk L and Poslad S (2014).  Identifying Relevant Event Content for Real-time Sub-Events Detection. Exploiting Hashtags for Adaptive Microblog Crawling. IEEE/ACM. International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. ASONAM. [PDF]


2013

Kejiong Li, John Bigham, Eliane Bodanese and Laurissa Tokarchuk (2013). Outdoor Location Estimation in Changeable Environments. Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE. (PDF).


Maryam Fatemi and Laurissa Tokarchuk (2013). A Community Based Social Recommender System for Individuals & Groups. ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. SocialCom 2013.. Paper Acceptance rate: 9.9%. [PDF]


Matt Jarvis, Toby Harris and Laurissa Tokarchuk (2013). Sensing Festivals as Cities. SenCity Workshop. 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2013. [Jarvisetal-UBICOMP13.pdf].


Xinyue Wang, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Félix Cuadrado, and Stefan Poslad. Exploiting Hashtags for Adaptive Microblog Crawling. IEEE/ACM. International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. ASONAM 2013. Paper Acceptance rate: 28%. [PDF]

Adaptive Crawling Software: https://github.com/0827moon/Adaptive-Crawler


Kejiong Li, John Bigham, Laurissa Tokarchuk and Eliane Bodanese (2013). A Probabilistic Approach to Outdoor Localization Using Clustering and Principal Component Transformations. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference , IWCMC 2013. [PDF].


Andrea Zielinski, Stuart E. Middleton, Laurissa Tokarchuk and Xinyue Wang (2013). Social-media Text Mining and Network Analysis to support Decision Support for Natural Crisis Management. International Conference on Informations Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2013 [PDF].


Andrea Zielinski, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Stuart E. Middleton and Fernando Chaves (2013). A Framework for Achieving Situational Awareness during Crisis based on Twitter Analysis. EGU General Assembly 2013. [PDF]


Kejiong Li, John Bigham, and Laurissa Tokarchuk (2013). Validation of a Probabilistic Approach to Outdoor Localization, Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1,4, 0 doi: 10.1109/WCL.2012.122612.120666 [06401131.pdf]


Kejiong Li, John Bigham, Eliane L. Bodanese and Laurissa Tokarchuk (2013) Location Estimation in Large Indoor Multi-floor Buildings using Hybrid Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference [PDF].


2012

Laurissa Tokarchuk, Matthew Purver and Stuart Battersby (2012). Using Social Data to Understand Live Festival Audiences. In Ends of Audience workshop, London, May 2012. [Talk PDF]


M Fatemi and L Tokarchuk (2012). An Empirical Study on IMDb and its Communities Based on the Network of Co-Reviewers. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility. [PDF]

S Khan, R Mondragon and L Tokarchuk (2012). Lobby Influence: Opportunistic forwarding algorithm based on Human social relationship. International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2012) [PDF]

Khan SKA, Loo J, Azam MA et al. (2012) . Enhanced Lobby Influence: Knowledge based content forwarding algorithm for opportunistic communication networks. 2012 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2012. [PDF]


Khan SKA, Loo J, Azam MA et al. (2012) . Hybrid content forwarding technique for Bluetooth communication environment. 2012 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2012. [PDF]


2011

Muhammad Adeel and Laurissa Tokarchuk. (2011). Analysis of Mobile P2P Malware Detection Framework through Cabir & Commwarrior Families. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk, and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (PASSAT/SocialCom2011). [PDF]

Muhammad Adeel and Laurissa Tokarchuk. (2011). MPeersim: Simulation environment for mobile P2P networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2011) [06064422.pdf]

2010

Muhammad Adeel, Laurissa Tokarchuk and Muhammad Awais Azam. (2010). Classification of Mobile P2P Malware Based on Propagation Behaviour. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM ) [PDF]

Muhammad Awais Azam, Laurissa Tokarchuk and Muhammad Adeel. (2010). Human Behaviour Detection Using GSM Location Patterns and Bluetooth Proximity Data. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM). Best Paper Award [PDF]

2009

Muhammad Awais Azam and Laurissa Tokarchuk. (2009). Behaviour Detection Using Bluetooth Proximity Data. Proceedings of Networking & Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2009). [PDF]

Ruijie Dong, Athen Ma, and Laurissa Tokarchuk. (2009). Digging Friendship: Paper Recommendation in Social Networks. Proceedings of Networking & Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2009). [PDF]

Muhammad Adeel, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Laurie Cuthbert, Caosheng Feng, and  Zhiguang Qin, "Improved Distributed Framework for Worm Detection & Throttling in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks", Journal of Digital Content Technology & Applications, pp. 120-126, vol. 3, no. 2, June, 2009. [JDCTA.pdf]

Chaosheng Feng, Zhiguang Qin, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Laurie Cuthbert. “Propagation Modeling and Analysis of Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks”. Journal of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, pp 262-265, Volume 38, Issue 2, March 2009.

Laurissa Tokarchuk, Karen Shoop and Athen Ma. (2009). Using co-presence communities to enhance social recommendation. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Wireless on Demand Network Systems and Services. [PDF]

Muhammad Adeel, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Laurie Cuthbert, Chaosheng Feng, Zhiguang Qin, “A Distributed Framework for Passive Worm Detection and Throttling in Peer to Peer Networks”, Proceedings of The Fourth International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2009), IEEE International Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC’09). Las Vegas, USA, January 2009. [PDF]

Sardar Kashif Ashraf Khan, Laurissa Tokarchuk, "Interest-based Self Organization in Group-Structured P2P Networks", Proceedings of The Fourth International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2009), IEEE International Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC’09). Las Vegas, USA, January 2009. [PDF]

Elenenore De Vial, Wang Lei, Yapeng Wang, Athen Ma, Laurissa Tokarchuk, “Blue Danger: Live action gaming over Bluetooth”, Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment, IEEE International Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC’09). Las Vegas, USA, January 2009. [PDF]


2008

Bo Zhan, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Chaosheng Feng, Zhiguang Qin , “Defense against Passive Worms in P2P Networks”, Proceedings of Networking & Electronic Commerce Research Conference  (NAEC 2008), 2008.[PDF]

Chaosheng Feng, Zhiguang Qin, Laurence Cuthbert, Laurissa Tokarchuk, “Propagation Models of Active Worms in P2P Networks”, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS), 2008. [PDF]

Chaosheng Feng, Zhiguang Qin, Laurence Cuthbert, Laurissa Tokarchuk, “Propagation Models of Passive Worms in P2P Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (ICCIS), 2008. [PDF]

Chaosheng Feng, Zhiguang Qin, Laurence Cuthbert, Laurissa Tokarchuk, "Propagation Modeling and Analysis of Viruses in P2P Networks", In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, pages 3635-3640, Kunming, China, July 2008. [04621036.pdf]

2006

L Tokarchuk , J Bigham, and L Cuthbert. Fuzzy and tile coding function approximation in agent coevolution. Proceedings of the 24th IASTED international conference on Artificial intelligence and applications, Innsbruck , Austria , Pages: 353 – 358, February 2006. [PDF]

2005

L Tokarchuk , J Bigham, and L Cuthbert, Fuzzy Sarsa: An approach to linear function approximation in reinforcement learning, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cairo , Egypt , Pages 88-93, December 2005. [PDF]

L. Tokarchuk, Fuzzy and Tile Coding Approximation Techniques for Coevolution in Reinforcement Learning, Phd Thesis, University of London, December 2005 [PDF].

K. Ngo-Pham, J. Bigham, J. Rodaway, and L. Tokarchuk, A System to Mark Programs Automatically. Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC2005), Melbourne , Australia , September, Page(s):317 – 322, 2005. [PDF]

Older

L Tokarchuk, J Bigham, and L Cuthbert., Fuzzy Sarsa: An approach to fuzzifying Sarsa Learning, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation, Gold Coast , Australia, 2004. [PDF]

T. Terje, M. Annoni, L Tokarchuk, C. Adams and, A Nordbotten, E. Scarrone, J. Bigham, K Craig, S Bizzari and M. Dinis, Future Broadband Radio Access Systems for Integrated Services with Flexible Resource Management . IEEE Communications Magazine. August Edition 2001, Page 56-63. [PDF]

L G Cuthbert, D  Ryan, L Tokarchuk, and J Bigham, E. Bodanese, "Using intelligent agents to manage resource in 3G Networks", Journal of IBTE, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-6, Oct.-Dec., 2001

D. Ryan, J. Bigham, L.Cuthbert, L.Tokarchuk, Intelligent Agents for Resource Management in Third Generation Networks, Twenty-first SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence (ES2001), Cambridge , UK, 2001.

L. Cuthbert, D. Ryan, L. Tokarchuk, J. Bigham and E Bodanese, Using intelligent agents to manage resources in 3G Networks, Wireless and Optical Communications 2001 (WOC2001), Banff , Canada , May 2001, pp 77-78.

S. Robles, J. Borrell, J. Bigham, L. Tokarchuk , L. Cuthbert, Design of a Trust Model for a Secure Multi-Agent Marketplace, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 2001, pg 77-78.

Laurie Cuthbert , Yue Chen , Laurissa Tokarchuk and John Bigham . (2001). Selection Mechanisms for Resource Provision in an Agent-based System for 3G Networks . 9 th International Conference on Telecommunications.

J. Bigham, L. Tokarchuk , D.J. Ryan, L.G. Cuthbert, J. Lisalina, Manuel Dinis and S Robles , (2001). Agent-based resource management for 3G networks , Second International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technology , pp 236-240 , March. [PDF]

Joint Editorship of SHUFFLE deliverables: Specification of the Business Model, Final Report on Resource Control & Agent Architecture