Professor Stuart Allen

(he/him)

Articles

• Wu, X. et al. 2024. Image manipulation quality assessment. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (10.1109/tcsvt.2024.3504854)
• Ironside-Smith, R., Turner, L., Noe, B., Costello, S. and Allen, S. 2024. Motif discovery in hospital ward vital signs observation networks. Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics 13, article number: 55. (10.1007/s13721-024-00490-1)
• Bennett, V., Spasic, I., Filimonov, M., Muralidaran, V., Kemp, A. M., Allen, S. and Watkins, W. J. 2024. Assessing the feasibility of using parents' social media conversations to inform burn first aid interventions: mixed methods study. JMIR Formative Research 8, article number: e48695. (10.2196/48695)
• Alraddadi, E. E., Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2024. A novel framework to classify opinion dynamics of mobile agents under the bounded confidence model. Adaptive Behavior 32(2), pp. 167-187. (10.1177/10597123231195423)
• Friedrichs, B., Turner, L. D. and Allen, S. M. 2022. Utilising the co-occurrence of user interface interactions as a risk indicator for smartphone addiction. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 86, article number: 101677. (10.1016/j.pmcj.2022.101677)
• Alvarez-Jarreta, J. et al. 2021. LipidFinder 2.0: advanced informatics pipeline for lipidomics discovery applications. Bioinformatics 37(10), pp. 1478-1479. (10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa856)
• Meckelmann, S. W. et al. 2020. Metabolic dysregulation of the lysophospholipid/autotaxin axis in the chromosome 9p21 gene SNP rs10757274. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine 13(3), pp. 149-164., article number: e002806. (10.1161/CIRCGEN.119.002806)
• Alraddadi, E., Allen, S., Colombo, G. and Whitaker, R. 2020. The role of homophily in opinion formation among mobile agents. Journal of Information and Telecommunication 4(4), pp. 504-523. (10.1080/24751839.2020.1772614)
• Bedewi, W., Whitaker, R., Colombo, G., Allen, S. and Dunham, Y. 2020. The implications of shared identity on indirect reciprocity. Journal of Information and Telecommunication 4(4), pp. 405-424. (10.1080/24751839.2020.1741858)
• Turner, L., Allen, S. and Whitaker, R. 2019. The influence of concurrent mobile notifications on individual responses. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 132, pp. 70-80. (10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.07.011)
• Noe, B., Turner, L. D., Linden, D. E. J., Allen, S. M., Winkens, B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2019. Identifying indicators of smartphone addiction through user-app interaction. Computers in Human Behavior 99, pp. 56-65. (10.1016/j.chb.2019.04.023)
• Turner, L. D., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M., Linden, D. E. J., Tu, K., Li, J. and Towsley, D. 2019. Evidence to support common application switching behaviour on smartphones. Royal Society Open Science 6(3), article number: 190018. (10.1098/rsos.190018)
• Fahy, E. et al. 2019. LipidFinder on LIPID MAPS: peak filtering, MS searching and statistical analysis for lipidomics. Bioinformatics 35(4), pp. 685-687. (10.1093/bioinformatics/bty679)
• Noe, N., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2018. Personality homophily and geographic distance in Facebook. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 21(6), pp. 361-366. (10.1089/cyber.2017.0615)
• Chun, Y. J., Colombo, G. B., Cotton, S. L., Scanlon, W. G., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2017. Device-to-device communications: a performance analysis in the context of social comparison-based relaying. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 16(12), pp. 7733-7745. (10.1109/TWC.2017.2751470)
• Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2017. Reachable but not receptive: enhancing smartphone interruptibility prediction by modelling the extent of user engagement with notifications. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 40, pp. 480-494. (10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.01.011)
• Noe, B., Turner, L., Linden, D., Allen, S. M., Maio, G. and Whitaker, R. 2017. Timing rather than user traits mediates mood sampling on smartphones. BMC Research Notes 10, article number: 481. (10.1186/s13104-017-2808-1)
• Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2017. There and back again: detecting regularity in human encounter communities. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 16(6), pp. 1744-1757. (10.1109/TMC.2016.2599169)
• O'Connor, A., Brasher, C., Slatter, D., Meckelmann, S., Hawksworth, J., Allen, S. and O'Donnell, V. 2017. LipidFinder: a computational workflow for discovery of lipids identifies eicosanoid-phosphoinositides in platelets. JCI Insight 2(7), pp. e91634. (10.1172/jci.insight.91634)
• Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. M., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2016. Routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless mesh networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(12), pp. 9773-9786. (10.1109/TVT.2016.2518931)
• Whitaker, R. M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Dunbar, R. I. M. 2016. A dominant social comparison heuristic unites alternative mechanisms for the evolution of indirect reciprocity. Scientific Reports 6, article number: 31459. (10.1038/srep31459)
• Webberley, W. M., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2016. Retweeting beyond expectation: Inferring interestingness in Twitter. Computer Communications 73(B), pp. 229-235. (10.1016/j.comcom.2015.07.016)
• Flood, I. D. and Allen, S. M. 2015. Equipment selection heuristics for microwave fixed links. Radio Science 49(8), pp. 630-642. (10.1002/2014RS005484)
• Mordacchini, M. et al. 2015. Crowdsourcing through cognitive opportunistic networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 10(2), article number: 13. (10.1145/2733379)
• Chorley, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2015. Personality and location-based social networks. Computers in Human Behavior 46, pp. 45-56. (10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.038)
• Chorley, M. J., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2015. Human content filtering in Twitter: The influence of metadata. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 74, pp. 32-40. (10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.10.001)
• Flood, I. and Allen, S. M. 2013. The fixed links frequency assignment problem with equipment selection. Wireless Personal Communications 71(1), pp. 181-194. (10.1007/s11277-012-0810-4)
• Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2013. Optimising CDMA cell planning with soft handover. Wireless Personal Communications 68(2), pp. 321-347. (10.1007/s11277-011-0454-9)
• Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2012. Dynamic data resolution to improve the tractability of UMTS network planning. Annals of Operations Research 201(1), pp. 197-227. (10.1007/s10479-012-1176-4)
• Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2012. Decentralised detection of periodic encounter communities in opportunistic networks. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1544-1556. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.07.008)
• Allen, S. M., Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Opportunistic social dissemination of micro-blogs. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1570-1585. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.04.012)
• Allen, S. M., Cooper, I. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Optimising multi-rate link scheduling for wireless mesh networks. Computer Communications 35(16), pp. 2014-2024. (10.1016/j.comcom.2012.06.006)
• Allen, S. M., Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Jaho, E., Karaliopoulos, M., Stavrakakis, I. and Whitaker, R. M. 2011. Exploiting user interest similarity and social links for micro-blog forwarding in mobile opportunistic networks. Pervasive and Mobile Computing n/a (10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.12.003)
• Teterin, V., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2011. Unified WiMAX network design with service optimisation. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 4(3), pp. 220-236. (10.1504/IJAACS.2011.040984)
• Hurley, S., Allen, S. M., Ryan, D. and Taplin, R. K. 2010. Modelling and planning fixed wireless networks. Wireless Networks 16(3), pp. 577-592. (10.1007/s11276-008-0155-9)
• Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2010. Cooperation through self-similar social networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 5(1), article number: 4. (10.1145/1671948.1671952)
• Colombo, G. B. and Allen, S. M. 2010. A comparison of problem decomposition techniques for the FAP. Journal of Heuristics 16(3), pp. 259-288. (10.1007/s10732-009-9116-4)
• Whitaker, R. M., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2009. Modeling Cell Placement and Coverage for Heterogeneous 3G Services. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 44, pp. 241-256. (10.1007/978-0-387-71787-6_16)
• Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Optimized Seed Node Locations for Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 44, pp. 1-19. (10.1007/978-0-387-71787-6_1)
• Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Efficient offline coverage and load evaluation for CDMA network modeling. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 58(7), pp. 3704-3712. (10.1109/TVT.2009.2017900)
• Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2008. Personalised subscription pricing for optimised wireless mesh network deployment. Computer Networks 52(11), pp. 2172-2188. (10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.007)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Ryan, D. M. and Taplin, R. K. 2006. Automated hybrid cost-optimised network design. Telektronikk 2.2006(2), pp. 58-70.
• Allen, S. M. and Taplin, R. K. 2005. Automatic design of fixed wireless access networks. International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation 1(1), pp. 1-7. (10.1504/IJMNDI.2005.007930)
• Montemanni, R., Smith, D. and Allen, S. M. 2004. An improved algorithm to determine lower bounds for the fixed spectrum frequency assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research 156(3), pp. 736-751. (10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00127-9)
• Allen, S. M., Montemanni, R. and Smith, D. 2002. An ANTS Algorithm for the Minimum-Span Frequency-Assignment Problem with Multiple Interference. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 51(5), pp. 949-953. (10.1109/TVT.2002.800634)
• Allen, S. M., Smith, D. H. and Hurley, S. 2002. Generation of lower bounds for minimum span frequency assignment. Discrete applied mathematics 119(1-2), pp. 59-78. (10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00265-7)
• Smith, D. H., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2001. Characteristics of good meta-heuristic algorithms for the frequency assignment problem. Annals of operations research 107(1-4), pp. 285-301. (10.1023/A:1014919603430)

Book sections

• Samko, V., Hurley, S., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2006. Optimized design of dynamic networks with heuristic algorithms. In: Pinter, J. D. ed. Global Optimization: Scientific and Engineering Case Studies.. Nonconvex Optimization and its Applications Vol. 85. Springer US, pp. 45-72., (10.1007/0-387-30927-6_3)

Conferences

• Friedrichs, B., Turner, L. and Allen, S. 2021. Discovering types of smartphone usage sessions from user-app interactions. Presented at: 5th International Workshop on Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems (ARDUOUS 2021), Kassel, Germany, 22-26 March 20212021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops). IEEE pp. 459-464., (10.1109/PERCOMWORKSHOPS51409.2021.9431034)
• Hudson, L., Whitaker, R., Allen, S., Turner, L. and Felmlee, D. 2021. The centrality of edges based on their role in induced triads. Presented at: 2021 IEEE ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 08 - 11 November 2021.
• Bedewi, W., Whitaker, R. M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Dunham, Y. 2019. Modelling stereotyping in cooperation systems. Presented at: ICCCI: International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence 2019, Hendaye, France, 4-6 September 2019 Presented at Nguyen, N. T. et al. eds.Computational Collective Intelligence: 11th International Conference, ICCCI 2019, Hendaye, France, September 4–6, 2019, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 11683. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham: Springer Nature pp. -., (10.1007/978-3-030-28377-3_10)
• Nawaf, L. F., Allen, S. M. and Rana, O. F. 2018. Optimizing infrastructure placement in wireless mesh networks using NSGA-II. Presented at: IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th Intl. Conference on Data Science and Systems, Exeter, UK, 28-30 June 2018.
• Colombo, G., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M., Cotton, S., Young Jin, C. and William, S. 2017. Evolution of cooperation in device-to-device communication. Presented at: COCOA – COmpetitive and COoperative Approaches for 5G networks, Dresden, Germany, 17 May-2017European Wireless 2017; 23th European Wireless Conference. Berlin: VDE
• Nawaf, L., Allen, S. M. and Rana, O. F. 2017. Internet transit access point placement and bandwidth allocation in wireless mesh networks. Presented at: 2017 IEEE 7th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 9 - 11 January 20172017 IEEE 7th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC). IEEE, (10.1109/CCWC.2017.7868436)
• Chun, Y. J., Colombo, G. B., Cotton, S. L., Scanlon, W. G., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2016. Social comparison based relaying in device-to-device networks. Presented at: 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Valencia, Spain, 4th - 7th September 20162016 IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). IEEE, (10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794631)
• Noe, N., Whitaker, R. and Allen, S. 2016. Personality homophily and the local network characteristics of Facebook. Presented at: The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, San Francisco, CA, USA, 18 - 21 August 2016Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). IEEE pp. 386-393., (10.1109/ASONAM.2016.7752263)
• Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2015. Interruptibility prediction for ubiquitous systems: conventions and new directions from a growing field. Presented at: 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Osaka, Japan, 7-11 September 2015Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. New York, USA: ACM, (10.1145/2750858.2807514)
• Whitaker, R. M., Chorley, M. and Allen, S. M. 2015. New frontiers for crowdsourcing: The extended mind. Presented at: 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Hawaii, USA, 5-8 January 2015.
• Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2015. Push or delay? Decomposing Smartphone notification response behaviour. Presented at: Sixth International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, Osaka, Japan, 8 September 2015Human Behavior Understanding. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Berlin: Springer pp. 69-83., (10.1007/978-3-319-24195-1_6)
• Aldahawi, H. and Allen, S. M. 2015. An approach to Tweets categorization by using machine learning classifiers in oil business. Presented at: CICLing 2015: 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Cairo, Egypt, 14-20 April 2015 Presented at Gelbukh, A. ed.Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 16th International Conference, CICLing 2015, Cairo, Egypt, April 14-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 9042. Springer pp. 535-546., (10.1007/978-3-319-18117-2_40)
• Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2014. Multi-rate medium access protocol based on reinforcement learning. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, 5-8 October 2014Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 2875-2880., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974366)
• Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2013. Visiting patterns and personality of foursquare users. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013. , (10.1109/CGC.2013.50)
• Aldahawi, H. and Allen, S. M. 2013. Twitter mining in the oil business: A sentiment analysis approach. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 2013 Third International Conference on. IEEE pp. 581-586., (10.1109/CGC.2013.101)
• Webberley, W., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2013. Inferring the interesting tweets in your network. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 2013 Third International Conference on. IEEE pp. 575-580., (10.1109/CGC.2013.100)
• Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2012. Measuring individual regularity in human visiting patterns. Presented at: 2012 International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 September 2012Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), 2012 International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers pp. 117-122., (10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.93)
• Colombo, G. B., Chorley, M., Williams, M. J., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. You are where you eat: foursquare checkins as indicators of human mobility and behaviour. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), Lugano, Switzerland, 19-23 March 20122012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops). Picastaway, NJ: IEEE pp. 217-222., (10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197483)
• Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Better the tweeter you know: social signals on Twitter. Presented at: Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2012 (SocialCom 2012), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3-5 September 2012 Presented at Nijholt, A., Vinciarelli, A. and Heylen, D. eds.Proceedings of the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing: SocialCom/PASSAT 2012. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 277-282., (10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.27)
• Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2010. Uttering: social micro-blogging without the internet. Presented at: 2nd International MobiSys Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking, Pisa, Italy, 22-23 February 2010 Presented at Palazzo, S., Camp, T. and Conti, M. eds.MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking, Pisa, Italy, 22-23 February, 2010. New York, NY: ACM pp. 58-64., (10.1145/1755743.1755754)
• Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Service coverage bounds through efficient load approximation in UMTS network planning. Presented at: International Conference on Networks and Communications, Chennai, India, 27-29 December 2009First International Conference on Networks and Communications, 2009 (NETCOM '09), Chennai, India, 27-29 Dec. 2009. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 202-207., (10.1109/NetCoM.2009.13)
• Greede, A., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2009. RFP: Repository Based Forwarding Protocol for opportunistic networks. Presented at: Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Cardiff, UK, 16-19 September 2009 Presented at Al-Begain, K. ed.Third International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2009 (NGMAST '09), Cardiff, Wales, 15-18 Sept. 2009. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 329-334., (10.1109/NGMAST.2009.33)
• Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2009. The effect of consumer demand on optimised wireless mesh network deployment. Presented at: 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology, Aalborg, Denmark, 17-20 May 20092009 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology (Wireless Vitae 2009). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE pp. 906-910., (10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172570)
• Hodge, L. E., Ghosh, S. C., Hurley, S., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2009. Flexible grids for wireless network planning. Presented at: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 13-16 July 2009 Presented at Arabnia, H. R. and Clincy, V. A. eds.Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2009), Las Vegas, USA, 13-16 July 2009. CSREA Press pp. 541-545.
• Hodge, L. E., Ghosh, S. C., Hurley, S., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2009. Upper and lower bounds for pilot coverage in UMTS networks. Presented at: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 13-16 July 2009 Presented at Arabnia, H. R. and Clincy, V. A. eds.Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2009), Las Vegas, USA, 13-16 July 2009. CSREA Press pp. 423-429.
• Hodge, L. E., Ghosh, S. C., Hurley, S., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2008. Coverage and service bounds for UMTS. Presented at: International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems, Yilan, Taiwan, 10-12 September 2008 Presented at Lin, Y., Chao, H. and Chong, P. H. J. eds.Mobility '08: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems, Yilan, Taiwan, 10-12 September, 2008. New York, NY: ACM, (10.1145/1506270.1506333)
• Colombo, G. B., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2008. Cooperation in social networks of trust. Presented at: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008 Presented at Di Marzo Serugendo, G. and Gleizes, M. eds.SASOW 2008 proceedings: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, Venice, Italy, 20-24 Oct. 2008. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 78-83., (10.1109/SASOW.2008.39)
• Greede, A., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2008. A simple human mobility model for opportunistic networks. Presented at: 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium : The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool John Moores University, 23-24 June 2008Proceedings of the 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, UK, 23-24 June 2008. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool John Moores University
• Allen, S. M. et al. 2008. Social networking for pervasive adaptation. Presented at: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008 Presented at Di Marzo Serugendo, G. and Gleizes, M. -. P. eds.Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW 2008), Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008. Los Alamitos, CA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers pp. 49-54., (10.1109/SASOW.2008.34)
• Teterin, V., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2008. A staged optimization framework for cost optimized WiMax network design. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2008), Athens, Greece, 27 July-1 August 2008 Presented at Reznik, L. ed.Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, Athens, Greece, July 27- August 1 2008. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society pp. 185-190., (10.1109/ICWMC.2008.46)
• Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2007. Seed node deployment for wireless mesh networks with uncertain subscription. Presented at: 6th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 2007, Pomona, CA, USA, 26-28 April 2007WTS 2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 2007. Picataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 1-7., (10.1109/WTS.2007.4563324)
• Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2007. Seed node deployment for wireless mesh networks with uncertain subscription. pp. 1-7., (10.1109/WTS.2007.4563324)
• Whitaker, R. M., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2007. Sensitivity of service coverage evaluation for WCDMA systems. Presented at: 6th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2007), Pomona, CA, April 26-28, 2007WTS 2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 2007. Piscataway: IEEE pp. 1-10., (10.1109/WTS.2007.4563325)
• Taplin, R. K., Ryan, D. M., Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Thomas, N. J. 2007. Algorithms for the automatic design of WiMAX networks. Presented at: The 2007 International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007), Cardiff, UK, 12-14 September 2007NGMAST '07 The 2007 International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2007. Los Alamitos: IEEE pp. 322-327., (10.1109/NGMAST.2007.4343440)
• Colombo, G. B. and Allen, S. M. 2007. Problem decomposition for minimum interference frequency assignment. Presented at: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007, Singapore, 25-28 September 2007CEC 2007, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 3492-3499., (10.1109/CEC.2007.4424925)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Subodh, V. and Whitaker, R. M. 2005. Assessing coverage in wireless mesh networks. Presented at: MeshNets 2005, Budapest, Hungary, 10 July 2005.
• Wade, A. A., Hurley, S., Allen, S. M., Taplin, R. K. and Craig, K. H. 2004. Optimisation of BFWA Networks using Emergent Intelligence. Presented at: The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT 2004), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 22 – 24 November 2004 Presented at Hamza, M. ed.Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT 2004) (Proceedings). Acta Press
• Ryan, D., Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K. and Wade, A. A. 2004. The effect of base station mast height on broadband fixed wireless network design and proftability. Presented at: Nordic Radio Symposium 2004 / Finnish Wireless Communications Workshop 2004, Oulu, Finland, 16 – 18 August 2004.
• Oliver, K. E., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2004. Utilising network dimensioning to improve automated cell planning. Presented at: Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th., Los Angeles, CA, USA, 26-29 September 2004VTC 2004 Fall: Proceedings, Vol. 5. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 3419-3423.
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K. and Whitaker, R. M. 2004. Automated cell planning to improve network rollout. Presented at: Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004, VTC2004-Fall, 2004 IEEE 60th., Los Angeles, CA, USA, 26-29 September 2004VTC 2004 Fall: Proceedings, Vol. 5. Piscataway, N.J: IEEE pp. 3438-3442.
• Allen, S. M., Belloul, B., Hurley, S., Saunders, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2004. Smart cell planning and optimisation for UMTS. Presented at: 3G Mobile Communication Technologies, 2004. 3G 2004. Fifth IEE International Conference, London, UK, 18-20 October 2004Fifth IEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G 2004) : the premier technical conference for 3G and beyond, Vol. 2004. IEE conference publication Vol. 503. London: IEEE pp. 34-38., (10.1049/cp:20040630)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Samko, V. and Whitaker, R. M. 2004. The design and simulation of reliable wireless networks in dynamic environments. Presented at: Networks, 2004. (ICON 2004) 12th IEEE International Conference on, Singapore, Malaysia, 16-19 November 2004 Presented at Pung, H. ed.2004 12th IEEE International Conference on Networks : (ICON 2004) : unity in diversity : proceedings. Piscataway, N.J: IEEE pp. 92-96., (10.1109/ICON.2004.1409096)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Automated optimisation for spectrum management. Presented at: Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum, London, UK, 24-25 October 2002IEE Two Day Conference. Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum. IEE Digest Vol. 112. IEE pp. 20., (10.1049/ic:20020248)
• Allen, S. M., Hodge, L. E., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Estimating the site requirements for 3G multimedia services. Presented at: 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 27-30 October 2002The 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002., Vol. 3. New York, NY: IEEE pp. 1202-1206., (10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088369)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K., Wade, A. A. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Maximising spectrum efficiency for BFWA through automatic cell planning. Presented at: Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum, London, UK, 24-25 October 2002IEE Two Day Conference. Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum. IEE Digest Vol. 112. IEE pp. 10., (10.1049/ic:20020238)
• Allen, S. M., Evans, D., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Communications network design with mobility characteristics. Presented at: IEEE 55th Vehicular Technology Conference 2002: VTC Spring 2002, Birmingham, AL, USA, 6-9 May 2002Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. VTC Spring 2002. IEEE 55th, Vol. 3. New York, NY: IEEE pp. 1420-1423., (10.1109/VTC.2002.1002850)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Automated decision technology for network design in cellular communication systems. Presented at: 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 7-10 January 2002Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2002. IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/HICSS.2002.994002)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2001. Spectrally efficient cell planning in mobile wireless networks. Presented at: 53rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2001), Spring 2001Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd, Vol. 2. IEEE pp. 931-935., (10.1109/VETECS.2001.944515)
• Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K. and Whitaker, R. M. 2001. Automatic cell planning of broadband fixed wireless networks. Presented at: 53rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2001), Spring 2001Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd, Vol. 4. New York, NY: IEEE pp. 2808-2812., (10.1109/VETECS.2001.944113)

• Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2013. Optimising CDMA cell planning with soft handover. Wireless Personal Communications 68(2), pp. 321-347. (10.1007/s11277-011-0454-9)
• Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2012. Decentralised detection of periodic encounter communities in opportunistic networks. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1544-1556. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.07.008)
• Allen, S. M., Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Opportunistic social dissemination of micro-blogs. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1570-1585. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.04.012)
• Allen, S. M., Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Jaho, E., Karaliopoulos, M., Stavrakakis, I. and Whitaker, R. M. 2011. Exploiting user interest similarity and social links for micro-blog forwarding in mobile opportunistic networks. Pervasive and Mobile Computing n/a (10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.12.003)
• Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2010. Cooperation through self-similar social networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 5(1), article number: 4. (10.1145/1671948.1671952)
• Colombo, G. B. and Allen, S. M. 2010. A comparison of problem decomposition techniques for the FAP. Journal of Heuristics 16(3), pp. 259-288. (10.1007/s10732-009-9116-4)
• Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Efficient offline coverage and load evaluation for CDMA network modeling. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 58(7), pp. 3704-3712. (10.1109/TVT.2009.2017900)
• Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2008. Personalised subscription pricing for optimised wireless mesh network deployment. Computer Networks 52(11), pp. 2172-2188. (10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.007)
• Montemanni, R., Smith, D. and Allen, S. M. 2004. An improved algorithm to determine lower bounds for the fixed spectrum frequency assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research 156(3), pp. 736-751. (10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00127-9)
• Allen, S. M., Montemanni, R. and Smith, D. 2002. An ANTS Algorithm for the Minimum-Span Frequency-Assignment Problem with Multiple Interference. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 51(5), pp. 949-953. (10.1109/TVT.2002.800634)
• Allen, S. M., Smith, D. H. and Hurley, S. 2002. Generation of lower bounds for minimum span frequency assignment. Discrete applied mathematics 119(1-2), pp. 59-78. (10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00265-7)