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Combinatorialism revisited (2004)
Book Chapter
Armstrong, D. (2004). Combinatorialism revisited. In J.-M. Monnoyer (Ed.), La Structure du Mond: objets, propriétés, états et choses: renouveau de la métaphysique dans l'école australienne. Vrin

The object of this paper is to argue once again for the combinatorial account of possibility defended in earlier work (Armstrong, 1989, 1997). But there I failed fully to realise the dialectical advantages that accrue once one begins by assuming the... Read More about Combinatorialism revisited.

Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion (2004)
Journal Article
Allen, H. A., Ledgeway, T., & Hess, R. F. (2004). Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion. Vision Research, 44(17), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2004.03.025

Second-order (contrast-defined) motion stimuli lead to poor performance on a number of tasks, including discriminating form from motion and visual search. To investigate this deficiency, we tested the ability of human observers to monitor multiple re... Read More about Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion.

Building Better Nurse Scheduling Algorithms (2004)
Journal Article
Aickelin, U., & White, P. (2004). Building Better Nurse Scheduling Algorithms. Annals of Operations Research, 128, https://doi.org/10.1023/B%3AANOR.0000019103.31340.a6

The aim of this research is twofold: Firstly, to model and solve a complex nurse scheduling problem with an integer programming formulation and evolutionary algorithms. Secondly, to detail a novel statistical method of comparing and hence building be... Read More about Building Better Nurse Scheduling Algorithms.

'Bayesian Optimisation for Nurse Scheduling' (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U., & Li, J. (2004). 'Bayesian Optimisation for Nurse Scheduling'.

A Bayesian optimisation algorithm for a nurse scheduling problem is presented, which involves choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each nurse's assignment. When a human scheduler works, he normally builds a schedule systematically foll... Read More about 'Bayesian Optimisation for Nurse Scheduling'.

'Immune System Approaches to Intrusion Detection - A Review' (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U., Greensmith, J., & Twycross, J. (2004). 'Immune System Approaches to Intrusion Detection - A Review'.

Abstract. The use of artificial immune systems in intrusion detection is an appealing concept for two reasons. Firstly, the human immune system provides the human body with a high level of protection from invading pathogens, in a robust, s... Read More about 'Immune System Approaches to Intrusion Detection - A Review'.

An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem (2004)
Journal Article
Aickelin, U., & Dowsland, K. (2004). An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem. Computers and Operations Research, 31(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-0548%2803%2900034-0

This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for similar problems in the past, they always had to overcome the limitations... Read More about An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem.

'On Affinity Measures for Artificial Immune System Movie Recommenders' (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U., & Chen, Q. (2004). 'On Affinity Measures for Artificial Immune System Movie Recommenders'.

Abstract. We combine Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) technology with Collaborative Filtering (CF) and use it to build a movie recommendation system. We already know that Artificial Immune Systems work well as movie recommenders from previous work by... Read More about 'On Affinity Measures for Artificial Immune System Movie Recommenders'.

'Investigating Artificial Immune Systems For Job Shop Rescheduling In Changing Environments' (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U., Burke, E., & Mohamed Din, A. (2004). 'Investigating Artificial Immune Systems For Job Shop Rescheduling In Changing Environments'.

ABSTRACT Artificial immune system can be used to generate schedules in changing environments and it has been proven to be more robust than schedules developed using a genetic algorithm. Good schedules can be produced especially when the number of... Read More about 'Investigating Artificial Immune Systems For Job Shop Rescheduling In Changing Environments'.

'Artificial Immune Systems: A new Decision Making Paradigm for Operational Research' (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aickelin, U. (2004). 'Artificial Immune Systems: A new Decision Making Paradigm for Operational Research'.

Over the last few years, more and more heuristic decision making techniques have been inspired by nature, e.g. evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimisation and simulated annealing. More recently, a novel computational intelligence technique inspi... Read More about 'Artificial Immune Systems: A new Decision Making Paradigm for Operational Research'.

Efficient delivery of Cre-recombinase to neurons in vivo and stable transduction of neurons using adeno-associated and lentiviral vectors (2004)
Journal Article
Ahmed, B., Chakravarthy, S., Eggers, R., Hermens, W., Zhang, J., Niclou, S., …Verhaagen, J. (2004). Efficient delivery of Cre-recombinase to neurons in vivo and stable transduction of neurons using adeno-associated and lentiviral vectors. BMC Neuroscience, 5(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-5-4

BACKGROUND: Inactivating genes in vivo is an important technique for establishing their function in the adult nervous system. Unfortunately, conventional knockout mice may suffer from several limitations including embryonic or perinatal lethality and... Read More about Efficient delivery of Cre-recombinase to neurons in vivo and stable transduction of neurons using adeno-associated and lentiviral vectors.