Created Tuesday, 2012-03-20 — 19:22.Last update 2 months ago.
This is a list of academic publications produced as a direct result of my research work. I make no guarantees about the validity of any of the links below. Most are likely to be dangling by now. Though all of the hard copies of my published work were burned at the Edinburgh South Bridge Fire, I still have machine-readable versions…
Created Tuesday, 2012-03-20 — 19:12.Last update 2 months ago.
This is my MSc thesis, for the MSc (by Research) in Artificial Intelligence. The research examined the use of Rough Set Dimensionality Reduction to simplify the exceptionally massive datasets used in Information Filtering. The methodology was experimentally applied to the filtering of Usolicited Commercial Email (spam) with promising results.
==Abstract==
Automated Information Filtering (IF) and Information Retrieval (IR) systems are acquiring increasing
prominence.…
Created Tuesday, 2012-03-20 — 18:46.Last update 2 months ago.
This is my BSc dissertation, completed in the summer of 1997. For no-one in particular's delectation and amusement, I implemented a framework for Intelligent Agents, evolved using Genetic Algorithms, to learn about the user's Usenet reading habits, and suggest new and interesting articles in places the user would never think to look. The idea was for this to eventually become…
