Stochastic Diffusion Search

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List of Publications

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Book Chapters

• J.M. Bishop, S.J. Nasuto, K. De Meyer, (2002). Dynamic Knowledge Representation in Connectionist Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2415:308-313, Springer. (.pdf - 102kB)
• K. De Meyer, J.M. Bishop, S.J. Nasuto, (2002). Small-World Effects in Lattice Stochastic Diffusion Search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2415:147-152, Springer. (.pdf - 108kB)
• S.J. Nasuto, K. Dautenhahn, J.M. Bishop, (1999). Communication as an Emergent Methaphor for Neuronal Operation. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1562:365-380, Springer. (.doc - 100kB) (.ps - 245kB)
• J.M. Bishop, P. Torr, (1992). The Stochastic Search Network. In R. Linggard, D.J. Myers, C. Nightingale (eds.), Neural Networks for Images, Speech and Natural Language. New York, Chapman & Hall. (.doc - 43kB no formulas or figures) (.ps - 169kB no formulas or figures)

Journal Publications

• D.R. Myatt, J.M. Bishop and S.J. Nasuto, (2004): Minimum Stable Convergence Criteria for Stochastic Diffusion Search To be published in Electronics Letters (.pdf - 153K)
• K. De Meyer, J.M. Bishop, S.J. Nasuto, (2000). Attention through Self-Synchronisation in the Spiking Neuron Stochastic Diffusion Network (abs). Consciousness and Cognition, 9-2 p.S81, Academic Press.
  Handout with Abstract: (.pdf.gz - 174kB) (.ps.gz - 96kB)
• T. Morey, K. De Meyer, S.J. Nasuto, J.M. Bishop, (2000). Implementation of the Spiking Neuron Stochastic Diffusion Network on Parallel Hardware (abs). Consciousness and Cognition, 9-2 p.S97, Academic Press. (Abstract)
• S.J. Nasuto, J.M. Bishop, (1999). Convergence Analysis of Stochastic Diffusion Search. Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications 14:2, pp 89-107. (.doc.zip - 109kB) (.ps.gz - 128kB)
• P.D. Beattie, J.M. Bishop, (1998). Self-Localisation in the 'Senario' Autonomous Wheelchair. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 22, pp 255-267, Kluwer Academic Publishers. (.doc.zip - 105kB) (.ps.gz - 188kB)
• N.I. Katevas, N.M. Sgouros, S.G. Tzafestas, G. Papakonstantinou, P. Beattie, J.M. Bishop, P. Tsanakas, D. Koutsouris, (1997). The Autonomous Mobile Robot SENARIO: A Sensor-Aided Intelligent Navigation System for Powered Wheelchairs IEEE Robotics and Automation 4(4), pp60-70.

Conference Proceedings

• K. De Meyer, J.M. Bishop, S.J. Nasuto (2003). Stochastic Diffusion: Using Recruitment for Search. In Proc. of the 2003 Symposium on Evolvability and Interaction, London, UK. (.pdf - 82kB)
• S. Hurley, R.M. Whitaker, (2002). An agent based approach to site selection for wireless networks. In Proc. of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, Madrid, Spain. ACM Press. ( ACM off-site)
• J.M. Bishop, S.N. Nasuto, (1999). Communicating Neurons - an alternative connectionism. In Proc. WNNW99, York. (.doc.zip - 52kB) (.ps.gz - 95kB)
• S.J. Nasuto, J.M. Bishop, S. Lauria (1998). Time Complexity of Stochastic Diffusion Search. Neural Computation '98, Vienna, Austria. (.doc - 285kB no figures) (.ps - 314kB no figures)
• S.J. Nasuto, J.M. Bishop (1998). Neural Stochastic Diffusion Search Network - a theoretical solution to the binding problem. In Proc. ASSC2, pp19, Bremem. (Abstract)
• P. Beattie, J.M. Bishop (1997). Localisation of the SENARIO wheelchair. Mobile Robotics Technology for Health Care Services, Proceedings of the 1st MobiNet Symposium pp287-293, Athens, Greece.
• J.M. Bishop, R.J. Mitchell, (1993). Optimisation of Tuple size in a Hybrid Stochastic Search. Proc. WNNW93, York. (.ps 153kB)
• H.J.Grech-Cini, G.T.McKee, (1993). Locating the Mouth Region in Images of Human Faces. In P.S.Schenker (Ed.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Sensor Fusion VI 2059, Massachusetts.
• J.M. Bishop, (1990). A Hybrid Network for Feature Extraction. In Proc. INNC'90 pp50, Paris, France. (.pdf 32kB)
• J.M. Bishop, (1989). Stochastic Searching Network. Proc. 1st IEE Conf. ANNs, London. (.pdf 80kB) (.ps 95kB)

PhD Theses

• K. De Meyer, (2003). Foundations of Stochastic Diffusion Search. PhD Thesis, University of Reading, UK. (.pdf 2Mb) (Final version)
• P. Beattie, (2000). The Design and Implementation of a Focused Stochastic Diffusion Network to Solve the Self-Localisation Problem on an Autonomous Wheelchair. PhD Thesis, University of Reading, UK. (.pdf 1.5Mb)
• S.J. Nasuto, (1999). Resource Allocation Analysis of the Stochastic Diffusion Search. PhD Thesis, University of Reading, UK. (.pdf 2Mb)
• H.J. Grech-Cini, (1995). Locating Facial Features. PhD Thesis, University of Reading, UK.
• J.M. Bishop, (1989). Anarchic Techniques for Pattern Classification. PhD Thesis, Chapter 5, University of Reading, UK. (.pdf.zip 1.8Mb) (.pdf 3.5Mb)

MSc Theses

• R.J. Summers, (1998). Stochastic Diffusion Search: A Basis for a Model of Visual Attention? MSc Thesis, Keele University, UK. (.ps.gz 173kB) (.pdf 348kB)

Technical Reports

• D.R. Myatt (2002). Robust Estimation in High Noise and Highly Dimensional Data Sets with Applications to Machine Vision.  Technical Report Nr. DRM/JMB/2002-1, University of Reading, UK. (.pdf 399kb)
• K. De Meyer, (2000). Explorations in Stochastic Diffusion Search: Soft- and Hardware Implementations of Biologically Inspired Spiking Neuron Stochastic Diffusion Networks. Technical Report Nr. KDM/JMB/2000-1, University of Reading, UK. (.pdf.gz 517kB) (.ps.gz 313kB)
• S.J. Nasuto, (1996). Analysis of Stochastic Diffusion Search. Technical Report Nr. SJN/JMB/1996-1, University of Reading, UK.

Workshops and Other Publications

• D.R. Myatt and J.M. Bishop, (2003). Data Driven Stochastic Diffusion Networks for Robust High-Dimensionality Manifold Estimation. In Proc SCARP 2003 pp. 247-252, Reading, UK.
• J.M. Bishop, (2003). Coupled Stochastic Diffusion Process. In Proc SCARP 2003 pp. 185-187, Reading, UK.
• D. Jones. Constrained Stochastic Diffusion Search. In Proc SCARP 2002, Reading, UK. (.ps 347kb)
• D.R. Myatt and J.M. Bishop, (2001). Applying the Principles of Stochastic Diffusion Search to Invariant Object Recognition. In Proc SCARP 2001 pp. VII 35-38, Reading, UK.
• N. Nicolaou and J.M. Bishop, (2001). Speech Recognition Using Stochastic Diffusion Search.  In Proc SCARP 2001 pp. VII 15-20, Reading, UK.

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