SURPRISE 96 Journal
Department of Computing,
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College of Science Technology and
Medicine,
180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
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SURPRISE 96 Journal
Department of Computing, |
| Reporters | Zarul Hamzah (zah) and Dharmalingam Girivendhen (dg3) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Ph. de Wilde (p.de-wilde@ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (zah) | Artificially Yours |
| Article 1 (dg3) | Automated Negotiation (1) |
| Article 2 (zah) | Are We Learning Now? |
| Article 2 (dg3) | Automated Negotiation (2) |
| Q&A Test | Intelligent Agents Q&A |
| Report | Automated Negotiation - Final Report |
| Proposal |
If you could choose a telephone company at the start of every call you make,
and if their tariffs varied in time, how would you make your choice? The aim
of this project is to find out what strategies have been studied, for the
users as well as for the companies.
Automated negotiation is a part of distributed artificial intelligence, where processors in a network exchange information and make decisions. Starting points: 1. J. Rosenschein and G. Zlotkin: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation, AI Magazine, Fall 1994, p.29-46. 2. N.K. Khoo and Denise J.J. Chen: Intelligent Agents and Games, SURPRISE 95, May-June 1995. |
| Library Tour | Wednesday 9:45 am |
| Reporters | Aboul Ahmad Kamil (ahak) and Heung Chui (hwc1) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Ph. de Wilde (p.de-wilde@ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (ahak) | Hybrid Control in Manufacturing - The Producer Scheduler Consumer (PSC) Problem |
| Article 1 (hwc1) | Hybrid System Control |
| Article 2 (ahak) | Hybrid Control Conversion |
| Article 2 (hwc1) | More about Hybrid System Control |
| Q&A Test | Hybrid Control Systems Q&A |
| Report | Hybrid Control Systems and Optimal Control |
| Proposal |
Some systems are easy to control if you can combine if-then-else rules with
traditional control based on optimizing a function. Unfortunately these two
approaches, logic and continuous mathematics, are difficult to combine, and
only recently has some progress been made.
In this project you will compile an overview of the attempts that have been made to combine logic and continuous mathematics for control, working backwards in time from the starting point. Starting point: 1. W. Kohn et al.: A Hybrid Systems Approach to Computer-Aided Control Engineering, IEEE Control Systems, April 1995, p.14-25. |
| Library Tour | Wednesday 11 am |
| Reporters | Vasilis Koudounas (vk5) and Omar Iqbal (oi) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Peter Cheung (p.cheung@ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (vk5) | Why Mobile Computing? Where can it be used? |
| Article 1 (oi) | Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD): The answer to all mobile business individuals' problems? |
| Article 2 (vk5) | Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD): What Makes it Reliable? |
| Article 2 (oi) | Warning: Cellular Communuication May Damage Your Health |
| Q&A Test | Q&A on Computers and the Mobile Phone |
| Report | Mobile Computing: Past, Present and Future |
| Proposal | The goal of this survey is to examine the impact of mobile phone technology on the future and usage of computers. |
| Library Tour | Wednesday 9:45 am |
| Reporters | Arran Derbyshire (arad) and Chandrarath Kulanthai (ck4) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Peter Cheung (p.cheung@ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (arad) | Is ATM the future of all global communications? |
| Article 1 (ck4) | MPEG Image Compression and ATM Networks |
| Article 2 (arad) | Why Has Communications Evolved Towards the ATM Concept? |
| Article 2 (ck4) | What Is MPEG Video Compression Standard? |
| Q&A Test | Q&A on MPEG Image Compression and ATM Networks |
| Report | Video Transmission Over Broadband Networks |
| Proposal | The goal of this survey is to examine the issues of transferring video data over ATM networks. |
| Library Tour | Wednesday 11 am |
| Reporters | Shahariz Abdul Aziz (sbaa) and Jeyakody Parthiban (jp6) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Krysia Broda (kb@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (sbaa) | You fuzzyin' with me ? |
| Article 1 (jp6) | The Revolutionary Computer Technology that is Changing our World: Fuzzy Logic |
| Article 2 (sbaa) | Everything You've Always Wanted to know About Designing Fuzzy Logic Machines But Were Afraid to Ask |
| Article 2 (jp6) | Fuzzy Logic and its Uses |
| Q&A Test | Fuzzy Logic and its Uses - Multiple Choice Questions |
| Report | Fuzzy Logic |
| Proposal | To survey fuzzy logic and its uses. |
| Library Tour | Wednesday 11 am |
| Reporters | Christos Stergiou (cs11) and Dimitrios Siganos (ds12) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Krysia Broda (kb@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (cs11) | What is a Neural Network? |
| Article 1 (ds12) | Why Neural Networks? |
| Article 2 (cs11) | Neural Networks, the Human Brain and Learning |
| Article 2 (ds12) | Neural Networks in Medicine |
| Q&A Test | Questions and Answers |
| Report | Neural Networks |
| Proposal | To survey neural networks and their uses, in particular to consider how neural networks can learn fuzzy rules. |
| Library Tour | Thursday 2:15 pm (revised timing) |
| Reporters | Tang Wong (tcw2) and Hiu Wong (hmw) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Sophia Drossopoulou (scd@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (tcw2) | Genetic Algorithms |
| Article 1 (hmw) | Genetic Algorithms |
| Article 2 (tcw2) | Artificial Life |
| Article 2 (hmw) | GAs? Hill-Climbing?! Heuristic! |
| Q&A Test | Questionaires??? Answers !!! |
| Report | Genetic Algorithms |
| Proposal | TBA |
| Library Tour | Friday 9:45 am (revised timing) |
| Reporters | Arosha Bandara (akb1) and Nishant Deshpande (nd4) |
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| Supervisor | Ms. Susan Eisenbach (se@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (akb1) | Moving to Java: A Giant Leap ?? |
| Article 1 (nd4) | Is the Internet Safe? |
| Article 2 (akb1) | Protecting Cyberspace: The Java Dimension |
| Article 2 (nd4) | Computer Diseases Trojan Horses, Viruses & Worms |
| Q&A Test | Internet Programming - How safe is it?: Self-Test Questions |
| Report | Developing Cyberspace |
| Proposal | We are seeing the arrival of a variety of languages (e.g. Java) which enable the programmer to write code that others pull off the Internet and run on their own machines. What can a malicious programmer do on your machine that you might not want? |
| Library Tour | Friday 11 am |
| Reporters | Shanawaz Basith (sab) and Stephen Done (srd2) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Javier Barria (j.barria@ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (sab) | Digital Video: An Introduction |
| Article 1 (srd2) | Compression of Audio and Video Information |
| Article 2 (sab) | MPEG : Standards, Technology and Applications |
| Article 2 (srd2) | MHEG - A Multimedia Presentation Standard |
| Q&A Test | Q&A Test |
| Report | Digital Video, MPEG and Associated Artifacts |
| Proposal |
Audiovisual applications, services, and equipments play an
important role in people's lives as the preferred means of
communication, particularly in more technologically advanced
cultures.
The purpose of this work is to study the approaches followed in the development of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards and review the current MPEG work items. |
| Library Tour | Thursday 2:15 pm |
| Reporters | Andreas Felekis (af5) and Demetris Mili (dm9) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Javier Barria (j.barria@ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (af5) | Network Survivability and Existing Network Architectures |
| Article 1 (dm9) | The Big Challenge: Production Costs vs Survivability in Fiber Networks |
| Article 2 (af5) | Virtual Path Routing for Survivable ATM networks |
| Article 2 (dm9) | Self-Healing Ring Architectures for SONET Network Applications |
| Q&A Test | Q&A Test: SONET/ATM and Network Survivability |
| Report | Emerging Technologies for Fibre Network Survivability |
| Proposal |
Network survivability is an issue of great concern to a
telecommunications industry eager to deploy high-capacity
fibre networks, since loss of services in high-capacity
fibre systems due to disasters and catastrophic failures
could be devastating and result in significant revenue loss.
The aim of this work is to review the advancement in matching these challenges, especially in the future B-ISDN environment. |
| Library Tour | Wednesday 9:45 am |
| Reporters | Anthony Hickson (arh2) and Edwin Chang (ec5) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Naranker Dulay (nd@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (arh2) | Multimedia Database Solutions |
| Article 1 (ec5) | Of Robots, Spiders and Worms-The Search Begins.... |
| Article 2 (arh2) | Mine Your Own Business |
| Article 2 (ec5) | Natural Language Querying...Naturally! |
| Q&A Test | Q&A: Future Search Engines |
| Report | Future Search Engines: Seek and Ye Shall Find! |
| Proposal | The ability to speedily search databases for data has always been an important feature of DBMS. With the advent of very large databases, the WWW and access historical and text information, new approaches to searching for critical information are being researched. The aim of this proposal is to survey these new approaches. |
| Library Tour | Thursday 2:15 pm |
| Reporters | Geoffrey Wong (kcgw) and Kwok Wong (kwc2) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Naranker Dulay (nd@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (kcgw) | The Philosophy of Virtual Reality |
| Article 1 (kwc2) | Flight Simulation: An Application of Virtual Reality |
| Article 2 (kcgw) | Virtual Wars |
| Article 2 (kwc2) | Telepresence in Medicine: An application of Virtual Reality |
| Q&A Test | Q&A on Virtual Reality |
| Report | Virtual Reality in Space Exploration |
| Proposal | The aim of this proposal is to survey current approaches to building Virtual Reality systems. In particular the survey, will look at the potentially good applications of such technology. |
| Library Tour | Thursday 2:15 pm |
| Reporters | Keval Pindoria (khp1) and Gerald Wong Ping Hung (phgw) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Bashar Nuseibeh (ban@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (khp1) | The Television of Tomorrow |
| Article 1 (phgw) | The Interactive Box: Creation and Development |
| Article 2 (khp1) | Interactive Television |
| Article 2 (phgw) | The Interactive Box: Master or Slave |
| Q&A Test | Interactive Television: Q&A Test |
| Report | The Parents, The Kids, and THE INTERACTIVE TV!!!! |
| Proposal |
Televisions are increasingly being used interactively to access remote
services and to provide customised viewer programmes. At the same time,
personal computers can now provide the capabilities of "traditional" TV's.
Where are these technologies heading? What can I expect from my TV in 10-20
years time? What can I expect from my PC? Will there be a difference?!
Starting point: 1. IEEE Spectrum Magazine, April 1996. |
| Library Tour | Friday 9:45 am |
| Reporters | Ali Anvari (aa18) and Kar Li (kwjl1) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Paul Kelly (phjk@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (aa18) | How good is a back up system? |
| Article 1 (kwjl1) | Technology for On-Line Archiving and Retrieval |
| Article 2 (aa18) | Office Defence 101 |
| Article 2 (kwjl1) | Mass Storage System |
| Q&A Test | Q&A Test |
| Report | How to avoid data disaster: the lazy man's guide |
| Proposal |
Wouldn't it be nice to have all your system's backups available
on-line so that you can search and retrieve from any given date?
Disk space is now so cheap (a few pence per megabyte) that it is
rarely worth deleting files - the staff cost of rebuilding or
relocating the information is often larger. But how do you make sure you
have access to vital information if your disk is stolen, the building
catches fire, or an internet worm corrupts your filestore weeks before
any damage is noticed? How long will it take to receover? What if
you want to keep your data but reverse a decision to switch to a new
email system - is some kind of "atomic transaction" needed?
What technologies are available for providing cheap and secure backups for an organisation like DoC? Can backups be accessed on-line at reasonable cost? What would the benefits be? If a centralised backup service is used, what network traffic problems would arise? |
| Library Tour | Friday 9:45 am |
| Reporters | Chin Lee (cwl3) and Guo Long (gsal) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Wayne Luk (wl@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (cwl3) | Synchronous Counters - A Brief Introduction |
| Article 1 (gsal) | Counting in Binary |
| Article 2 (cwl3) | Design of Synchronous Counters |
| Article 2 (gsal) | Fast Counter Techniques |
| Q&A Test | Synchronous Counters: Questions and Answers |
| Report | Synchronous Counters - Final Report |
| Proposal |
This survey should tell the readers everything they want to
know about synchronous counters, such as up/down-counters,
uni/bi-directional counters, binary/BCD/Johnson counters.
Of particular interest are techniques for developing high-speed
counters, such as pipelining and use of prescalers.
The report should include:
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| Library Tour | Friday 9:45 am |
| Reporters | Fadi Fahham (fjf) and Rajkumar Periannan (pr4) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Tony Field (ajf@doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (fjf) | Cellular Communication Networks - GSM |
| Article 1 (pr4) | Existing Technology of Cellular Networks |
| Article 2 (fjf) | Mobile Phones in the UK and Multiple Access Systems |
| Article 2 (pr4) | Mobile Phone Technology at a Microscopic Level |
| Q&A Test | Questions & Answers about Cellular Networks - Mobile Phones |
| Report | Performance Issues of Cellular Communication Networks |
| Proposal | Cellular communication networks form the basis of all mobile telephone networks and will become increasingly used for the transmission of data. How do the existing networks work, what problems do they suffer from and what is the implication of using the same or similar media for data transmission? |
| Library Tour | Friday 11 am (revised timing) |
| Reporters | Robert Beck (rcb1) and Daniel Godfrey (dmg4) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Thomas Clarke (t.clarke@.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (rcb1) | Open Systems and Free Software: The Future of Computing? |
| Article 1 (dmg4) | Linux - The Legacy |
| Article 2 (rcb1) | Hackers Line Up Behind Linux, Will They Give Commercial Operating System Developers A Run For There Money? |
| Article 2 (dmg4) | Software - Then, Now and the Future |
| Q&A Test | Questions and and Answers on Open Systems, Free Software, The GNU Philosophy and The Legacy of LINUX |
| Report | Evading The Software Squeeze |
| Proposal | A new phenomena has emerged in the computer industry - open systems. Hardware standards such as the IBM PC are published, and "clone" manufacturers have led to a fiercely competitive market. A small but significant sector of the software industry believes that the same openness should apply to software. They argue that all software should be distributed with licences that encourage users to develop and enhance source code. In practice this means free software. As a result the GNU software (for example gcc, a state of the art C compiler) is available, free of charge, on almost any hardware platform. Recently a well supported free version of Unix called Linux has been developed which runs on IBM PCs. Linux is in some ways technically superior to competitive PC operating systems, but its future impact on the software industry remains uncertain. In this project you will be asked to review the current technical status of Linux, identify the relationships between it and commercial software application developers, and predict the likely future of free operating systems for the PC. |
| Library Tour | Friday 11 am |
| Reporters | Matthew Kwan (mk8) and Mohamad Nasir (mjbn) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Thomas Clarke (t.clarke@.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (mk8) | An Introduction to an Industry Standard Programming Language - C++ |
| Article 1 (mjbn) | Standards and relation to programming languages |
| Article 2 (mk8) | What makes a Programming Language Popular? |
| Article 2 (mjbn) | A Journey Through Programming Language Generations |
| Q&A Test | Next Industry Standard - Multiple Choice Questions |
| Report | Next Industry Standard - The Final Report |
| Proposal | C++ is a current industry standard programming language. Previous holders of this crown have been: FORTRAN, C, BASIC (on PCs). What features of C++ make it successful? What features would you want to put in a good general purpose programming language? A good start to this investigation would be a comparison of the relative merits of your favourite selection of languages. This project does not require you to learn any new programming languages, but you will need to review the arguments which others have made for and against their favourite languages. |
| Library Tour | Friday 11 am |
| Reporters | Raja Raja Yusof (rjry) and Sahaiza Saat (ss20) |
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| Supervisor | Mr. Frank Kriwaczek (frk@.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (rjry) | Moving Towards Network Computers |
| Article 1 (ss20) | The Network Computer....: A Vision Turned Into Reality? |
| Article 2 (rjry) | Investment on Network Computer, Is it Worthwhile?! |
| Article 2 (ss20) | Network Computer....: The PC Killer ?!! |
| Q&A Test | Q&A Test on Network Computers |
| Report | The Return of Computer Terminals |
| Proposal | This project involves an investigation into the feasability both technically and commercially of Oracle's network computer vision. We shall look behind the hype and try to forecast whether the network computer will really replace the PC on most people desktop. |
| Library Tour | Friday 2:15 pm |
| Reporters | Amere Oakman (ao2) and Constantine Prouskas (cbp) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Patrick Naylor (p.naylor@.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (ao2) | The Future of Medicine? |
| Article 1 (cbp) | Human Atlases |
| Article 2 (ao2) | Volume Graphics: The Road to Interactive Medical Imaging? |
| Article 2 (cbp) | Telemedicine: Today and Tomorrow |
| Q&A Test | Technology and Clinical Applications Q&A |
| Report | Medical Robotics |
| Proposal | The aim of this project is to survey the applications of information systems technology to the medical sector. The survey will concentrate on developments in computer aided surgery and medical imaging, identifying both current areas of research and possible future trends in the field. |
| Library Tour | Friday 2:15 pm |
| Reporters | George Constantinides (gac1) and Uros Rapajic (ur1) |
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| Supervisor | Dr. Patrick Naylor (p.naylor@.ic.ac.uk) |
| Article 1 (gac1) | A Framework For Evaluating Multilingual Systems |
| Article 1 (ur1) | An Introduction to Multi-Lingual Speech Recognition |
| Article 2 (gac1) | A Method For Extracting Feature Vectors From Speech |
| Article 2 (ur1) | Using Phone Recognition and Language Modelling (PRLM) for Automatic Language Identification |
| Q&A Test | The Language Identification Quiz |
| Report | Language Identification in Multilingual Systems |
| Proposal |
Multilingual computer-based systems will play an important role in future
information systems for our multicultural societies.
A key problem is that of Language Identification: being able to automatically recognise a language and adjust the service provided as a result. This also has immediate implications for today's technology, e.g. choosing the correct interpreter in response to an emergency service 999 call. In this project we aim to study three areas of interest: The differing properties of languages, including their acoustic phonetics, prosodics, phonotactics & vocabulary. How these properties help to produce an "acoustic signature" for the language under consideration. Methods that have been applied to the problem. These share much with Speech and Speaker Recognition methods. The methods will be examined & compared for success. Future directions. This subject is very much an ongoing research interest. Until a few years ago there was no public domain library of different spoken language samples. With the development of this library (OGI_TS) much research has been triggered with varying degrees of success. |
| Library Tour | Friday 2:15 pm |
| Role | Name | |
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| SURPRISE Co-ordinator | Naranker DULAY | nd@doc.ic.ac.uk |
| ISE Director | Tony FIELD | ajf@doc.ic.ac.uk |
| Technical Reporting/Speaking | Sinclair GOODLAD | s.goodlad@ic.ac.uk |
| Internet Tools & HTML | Paul DIAS | pbd@doc.ic.ac.uk |
| 2nd Yr Lab Organiser | Ian MOOR | iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk |
| Library Services | Ellen HAIGH (DoC,EEE) | e.haigh@ic.ac.uk |
| Library Services | Penny ROWE (General) | p.rowe@ic.ac.uk |
| Supervisor | ||
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| 1 | kb | Dr. Krysia BRODA (302 WP) |
| 2 | scd | Dr. Sophia DROSSOPOULOU (357 Huxley) |
| 3 | nd | Dr. Naranker DULAY (447 Huxley) |
| 4 | se | Ms. Susan EISENBACH (426 Huxley) |
| 5 | ajf | Dr. Tony FIELD (354 Huxley) |
| 6 | phjk | Dr. Paul KELLY (423 Huxley) |
| 7 | frk | Mr. Frank KRIWACZEK (216 WP) |
| 8 | wl | Dr. Wayne LUK (326 Huxley) |
| 9 | ban | Dr. Bashar NUSEIBEH (428 Huxley) |
Append @doc.ic.ac.uk to email.
| Supervisor | ||
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| 1 | j.barria | Dr. Javier BARRIA (1114 EEE) |
| 2 | p.cheung | Dr. Peter CHEUNG (1014 EEE) |
| 3 | t.clarke | Dr. Thomas CLARKE (1011 EEE) |
| 4 | p.de-wilde | Dr. Phillipe DE WILDE (802 EEE) |
| 5 | p.naylor | Dr. Partick NAYLOR (814 EEE) |
Append @ic.ac.uk to email.
| First Names | LastName | ||
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| 1 | sbaa | Shahariz Bin | Abdul Aziz |
| 2 | ahak | Aboul Hamid | Ahmad Kamil |
| 3 | aa18 | Ali | Anvari |
| 4 | akb1 | Arosha Karunadheera | Bandara |
| 5 | sab | Shanawaz Ahmed | Basith |
| 6 | rcb1 | Robert Charles | Beck |
| 7 | ec5 | Edwin | Chang |
| 8 | hwc1 | Heung Wing | Chui |
| 9 | gac1 | George Anthony | Constantinides |
| 10 | arad | Arran Robert Adrian | Derbyshire |
| 11 | nd4 | Nishant | Deshpande |
| 12 | srd2 | Stephen Richard | Done |
| 13 | fjf | Fadi Joseph | Fahham |
| 14 | af5 | Andreas | Felekis |
| 15 | dg3 | Dharmalingam | Girivendhen |
| 16 | dmg4 | Daniel Mark | Godfrey |
| 17 | zah | Zarul Annuar | Hamzah |
| 18 | arh2 | Anthony Robert | Hickson |
| 19 | oi | Omar | Iqbal |
| 20 | vk5 | Vasilis | Koudounas |
| 21 | ck4 | Chandrarath | Kulanthai |
| 22 | mk8 | Mathew | Kwan |
| 23 | cwl3 | Chin Wei | Lee |
| 24 | kwjl1 | Kar Wing Jaffe | Li |
| 25 | gsal | Guo Shyong Andrew | Long |
| 26 | dm9 | Demetris | Mili |
| 27 | mjbn | Mohamad Johan Bin (Mohd) | Nasir |
| 28 | ao2 | Amere | Oakman |
| 29 | jp6 | Jeyakody | Parthiban |
| 30 | pr4 | Rajkumar | Periannan |
| 31 | khp1 | Keval Harji | Pindoria |
| 32 | cbp | Constantine Basil | Prouskas |
| 33 | rjry | Raja Jamilah | Raja Yusof |
| 34 | ur1 | Uros | Rapajic |
| 35 | ss20 | Sahaiza | Saat |
| 36 | ds12 | Dimitrios | Siganos |
| 37 | cs11 | Christos | Stergiou |
| 38 | hmw | Hiu Man | Wong |
| 39 | kcgw | Ka Ching Geoffrey | Wong |
| 40 | kwc2 | Kwok Cheung | Wong |
| 41 | tcw2 | Tang Chun | Wong |
| 42 | phgw | Gerald Christian | Wong Ping Hung |