Privacy in transformational government (t-government): an investigation of citizens' privacy preferences and perceptions

No Abstract

Enabling sustainable user interaction with domestic heating controls

Copyright @ 2011 University of BathThe way we live greatly effects the carbon emissions of our homes; heating accounts for nearly 60% of domestic energy consumption in the UK. This consumption is directly influenced by occupants through the use of their control systems. Using realworld data from buildings and observational data from users this research proposes guidelines for the design of more inclusive domestic heating controls. Two usercentred studies have been completed to date; one using controls under lab conditions and the other in a low-carbon housing development. In both studies controls were found to exclude users due to the cognitive demands placed on them, therefore creating an unnecessary barrier to reducing heat energy consumption in the home. The design principles proposed aim to help designers consider user needs when designing the interfaces of heating controls and energy management systems. By designing more inclusive and usable controls considerable energy savings could be made in the domestic context.This work is funded by the EPSRC and Buro Happold

Unidimensional model of the ad-atom diffusion on a substrate submitted to a standing acoustic wave II. Solutions of the ad-atom motion equation

The ad-atom dynamic equation, a Langevin type equation is analyzed and solved using some non-linear analytical and numerical tools. We noticeably show that the effect of the surface acoustic wave is to induce an effective potential that governs the diffusion of the ad-atom: the minima of this effective potential correspond to the preferential sites in which the ad-atom spends more time. The strength of this effective potential is compared to the destructuring role of the thermal diffusion and to the crystalline potential induced by the substrate

On Frobenius structures in symmetric cones

We prove that in any strictly convex symmetric cone $\Omega$ there exists a non empty locus where the WDVV equation is satisfied (i.e. there exists a hyperplane being a Frobenius manifold). This result holds over any real division algebra (with a restriction to the rank 3 case if we consider the field $\mathbb{O}$) but also on their linear combinations. This theorem holds as well in the case of pseudo-Riemannian geometry, in particular for a Lorentz symmetric cone of Anti-de-Sitter type. Our statement can be considered as a generalisation of a result by Ferapontov--Kruglikov--Novikov and Mokhov. Our construction is achieved by merging two different approaches: an algebraic/geometric one and the analytic approach given by Calabi in his investigations on the Monge--Amp\`ere equation for the case of affine hyperspheres

Reconcile Societal Values and Economic Value in the Age of Virtuality: Identifying and Evaluating Emerging Assets

International audienc

Building a Sustainable Financial System: Assets and Value Creation, the Unbearable Split?

International audienc