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A first step towards learning which uORFs regulate gene expression (2007)
Book Chapter
Selp, S., Bryant, C., Kemp, G., & Cvijovic, M. (2007). A first step towards learning which uORFs regulate gene expression. In R. Hofestadt, & T. Topel (Eds.), Annual collection of articles of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics(JIB) (137-150). Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag

Inclusion-based fuzzy clustering (2007)
Book Chapter
Nefti-Meziani, S., & Oussalah, M. (2007). Inclusion-based fuzzy clustering. In J. Oliveira, & W. Pedrycz (Eds.), Advances in fuzzy clustering and its applications (869 - 874). John Wiley & Sons

Particle swarm and Bayesian networks applied to attribute selection for protein functional classification (2007)
Book Chapter
Correa, E., Freitas, A., & Johnson, C. (2007). Particle swarm and Bayesian networks applied to attribute selection for protein functional classification. In Proceedings of the 2007 GECCO conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation - GECCO '07 (2651). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/1274000.1274081

The Discrete Particle Swarm (DPSO) algorithm is an optimizationmethod that belongs to the fertile paradigm of Swarm Intelligence. The DPSO was designed for the task of attribute selection and it deals with discrete variables in a straightforward mann... Read More about Particle swarm and Bayesian networks applied to attribute selection for protein functional classification.

Integrating Bayesian networks and Simpson's paradox in data mining (2007)
Book Chapter
Freitas, A., McGarry, K., & Correa, E. (2007). Integrating Bayesian networks and Simpson's paradox in data mining. In F. Russo, & J. Williamson (Eds.), Causality and Probability in the Sciences (43-62). United Kingdom: College Publications

This paper proposes to integrate two very different kinds of methods for data mining, namely the construction of Bayesian networks from data and the detection of occurrences of Simpson’s paradox. The former aims at discovering potentially causal know... Read More about Integrating Bayesian networks and Simpson's paradox in data mining.

Passive tuned loudspeakers as absorbers for room acoustics (2007)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, R., & Cox, T. (2007). Passive tuned loudspeakers as absorbers for room acoustics. In A. Calvo-Manzano, A. Pérez-López, & S. Santiago (Eds.), 19th International Congress on Acoustics : acoustics for the 21st century : Madrid, Spain, 2-7 September 2007. Madrid, Spain: Spanish Acoustical Society

This paper presents a novel approach to improving the performance, tunability and efficiency of low frequency membrane absorbers. It is shown that a passive loudspeaker within a cabinet can be used as an efficient and adaptable membrane absorber, wit... Read More about Passive tuned loudspeakers as absorbers for room acoustics.

An ILP refinement operator for biological grammar learning (2007)
Book Chapter
Fredouille, D., Bryant, C., Jayawickreme, C., Jupe, S., & Topp, S. (2007). An ILP refinement operator for biological grammar learning. In S. Muggleton, R. Otero, & A. Tamaddoni-Nezhad (Eds.), Inductive logic programming (214-228). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73847-3_24

We are interested in using Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to infer grammars representing sets of biological sequences. We call these biological grammars. ILP systems are well suited to this task in the sense that biological grammars have been repr... Read More about An ILP refinement operator for biological grammar learning.

Pertinent background knowledge for learning protein grammars (2006)
Book Chapter
Bryant, C., Fredouille, D., Wilson, A., Jayawickreme, C., Jupe, S., & Topp, S. (2006). Pertinent background knowledge for learning protein grammars. In J. Fürnkranz, T. Scheffer, & M. Spiliopoulou (Eds.), Machine learning: ECML 2006 (54-65). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/11871842_10

We are interested in using Inductive Logic Programming(ILP) to infer grammars representing sets of protein sequences. ILP takes as input both examples and background knowledge predicates. This work is a first step in optimising the choice of backgrou... Read More about Pertinent background knowledge for learning protein grammars.

A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set (2006)
Book Chapter
Correa, E., Freitas, A., & Johnson, C. (2006). A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set. In Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation - GECCO '06 (35). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/1143997.1144003

Many data mining applications involve the task of building a model for predictive classification. The goal of such a model is to classify examples (records or data instances) into classes or categories of the same type. The use of variables (attribut... Read More about A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set.

Why anthropomorphic user interface feedback can be effective and preferred by users (2006)
Book Chapter
Murano, P. (2006). Why anthropomorphic user interface feedback can be effective and preferred by users. In C. Chen, J. Filipe, I. Seruca, & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Enterprise information systems VII (241-248). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5347-4_27

This paper addresses and resolves an interesting question concerning the reason for anthropomorphic user interface feedback being more effective (in two of three contexts) and preferred by users compared to an equivalent non-anthropomorphic feedback.... Read More about Why anthropomorphic user interface feedback can be effective and preferred by users.

Speeding up parsing of biological context-free grammars (2005)
Book Chapter
Fredouille, D., & Bryant, C. (2005). Speeding up parsing of biological context-free grammars. In A. Apostolico, M. Crochemore, & K. Park (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial pattern matching (241-256). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/11496656_21

Grammars have been shown to be a very useful way to model biological sequences families. As both the quantity of biological sequences and the complexity of the biological grammars increase, generic and efficient methods for parsing are needed. We con... Read More about Speeding up parsing of biological context-free grammars.

Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation (2005)
Book Chapter
Karatzas, D., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2005). Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation. In G. Malcolm (Ed.), Multidisciplinary approaches to visual representations and interpretations (181-196). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1571-0831%2804%2980041-8

This chapter examines the uses of text and its representation on Web documents in terms of the challenges in its interpretation. Particular attention is paid to the significant problem of non-uniform representation of text. This non-uniformity is mai... Read More about Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation.

A study of the effectiveness of detailed balance in avoiding convergence in PBIL (2004)
Book Chapter
Correa, E., & Shapiro, J. (2004). A study of the effectiveness of detailed balance in avoiding convergence in PBIL. In A. Lotfi, & J. Garibaldi (Eds.), Applications and Science in Soft Computing (255-260). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45240-9

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) are a class of evolutionary algorithms that use statistical information to guide the exploration of the search space. A prominent problem in EDAs is the loss of variability as the search progresses. This o... Read More about A study of the effectiveness of detailed balance in avoiding convergence in PBIL.

A robust braille recognition system (2004)
Book Chapter
Antonacopoulos, A., & Bridson, D. (2004). A robust braille recognition system. In A. Dengel, & S. Marinai (Eds.), Document analysis systems VI (533-545). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b100557

Braille is the most effective means of written communication between visually-impaired and sighted people. This paper describes a new system that recognizes Braille characters in scanned Braille document pages. Unlike most other approaches, an ine... Read More about A robust braille recognition system.

Strain mapping (2003)
Book Chapter
Webster, P. (2003). Strain mapping. In M. Fitzpatrick, & A. Lodini (Eds.), Analysis of residual stress by diffraction using neutron and synchrotron radiation (209-218). CRC Press

Neutron strain scanning techniques have been developing since the early 1980s [1-3] and synchrotron X-ray techniques rapidly since the 1990s [4, 5]. The first neutron measurements used single detector instruments at medium flux reactor sources, 'gaug... Read More about Strain mapping.

An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce (2002)
Book Chapter
Kasiran, M., & Meziane, F. (2002). An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce. In H. Yin, N. Allinson, R. Freeman, J. Keane, & S. Hubbard (Eds.), Intelligent data engineering and automated learning (243-248). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45675-9

eCommerce is a faceless business arrangement where the process of creating trust towards merchants, hereby referred to as merchant trust, is still a big challenge. Merchant trust framework can be created by using factors such as existence, affiliatio... Read More about An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce.

A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents (2002)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Rezgui, Y. (2002). A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents. In B. Andersson, M. Bergholtz, & P. Johannesson (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems (85-96). Bonne, Germany: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36271-1

The advent of the WWW and distributed information systems have made it possible to share documents between different users and organisations. However, this has created many problems related to the security, accessibility, right and most importantly t... Read More about A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents.

A genetic algorithm for the P-median problem (2001)
Book Chapter
Correa, E., Steiner, M., Freitas, A., & Carnieri, C. (2001). A genetic algorithm for the P-median problem. In L. Spector (Ed.), GECCO-2001: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. San Francisco, CA, USA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Facility-location problems have several applications in telecommunications, industrial transportation and distribution, etc. One of the most well-known facility-location problems is the p-median problem. This work addresses an application of the capa... Read More about A genetic algorithm for the P-median problem.

Theory completion using inverse entailment (2000)
Book Chapter
Muggleton, S., & Bryant, C. (2000). Theory completion using inverse entailment. In J. Cussens, & A. Frisch (Eds.), Inductive Logic Programming (130-146). London, UK: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44960-4_8

The main real-world applications of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to date involve the "Observation Predicate Learning" (OPL) assumption, in which both the examples and hypotheses define the same predicate. However, in both scientific discovery... Read More about Theory completion using inverse entailment.