Publications

    Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Fault-Tolerant Relay Deployment Based on Length-Constrained Connectivity and Rerouting Centrality in Wireless Sensor Networks" accepted for EWSN 2012: 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, University of Trento, Italy, February 2012.

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Integration of Node Deployment and Path Planning in Restoring Network Connectivity" PlanSIG 2011, The 29th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, University of Huddersfield, December, 2011.

    Tatiana Tabirca, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Snapshot Centrality Indices in Dynamic FIFO Networks" Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms , Volume 10, Number 4, 371-391, 2011

    Tarik Hadzic, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Real-Time Pedestrian Evacuation Planning During Emergency" ICTAI 2011: Proceedings 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2011, Boca Raton, Florida.

    Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Fault-Tolerant Relay Deployment for k Node-Disjoint Paths in Wireless Sensor Networks" Wireless Days 2011: 4th IFIP Wireless Days conference.

    Sean Og Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Evacuation Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Predictive Simulation" AICS 2011: Proceedings 22nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, August 2011.

    Alie El-Din Mady , Gregory Provan , Conor Ryan and Kenneth N. Brown "Stochastic Model-predictive Controller for the Integration of building Use and Temperature Regulation" AAAI 2011: Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, August 2011, pp1371--1376.

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Exploiting Rush Hours for Energy-Efficient Contact Probing in Opportunistic Data Collection" Proceedings 4th Intl Workshop on Sensor Networks, in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2011.

    Xiuchao Wu, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "A Shared Opportunistic Infrastructure for Long-lived Wireless Sensor Networks" MOBISENSE 2011: Proceedings 1st Intl Workshop on Opportunistic Sensing and processing in Mobile Wireless Sonsor and Cellular Networks

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "SNIP: A Sensor Node-Initiated Probing Mechanism for Opportunistic Data Collection in Sparse Wireless Sensor Networks" CPNS 2011: Proceedings 1st Intl Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking Systems

    K. Menzel, E. Freuder, K. Brown, G. Provan, D. Pesch, M. Keane and C. O'Mathuna "A Platform for the Optimization of Building Operation" ECPPM 2010: Proc European Conf on Process and Product Modelling, eds. K. Menzel and R. Scherer, CRC press, pp272--282

    Conor Ryan, Kenneth N. Brown, Alie El-Din Mady, Menouer Boubekeur and Gregory Provan "A constraint-based intelligent controller for lighting systems" ECPPM 2010: Proc European Conf on Process and Product Modelling, eds. K. Menzel and R. Scherer, CRC press, pp311--316

    Aliaa M. Badr and Kenneth N. Brown Building Maintenance Scheduling using Cost-based Reasoning and Constraint programming Techniques" ECPPM 2010: Proc European Conf on Process and Product Modelling, eds. K. Menzel and R. Scherer, CRC press, pp323--330

    Aliaa M. Badr, Arnaud Malapert and Kenneth N. Brown Modelling a Maintenance Scheduling Problem with Alternative Resources" ModRef2010 : Proc 9th International Workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation.

    Lanny Sitanayah, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "ER-MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Emergency Response Wireless Sensor Networks" SENSORCOMM 2010 : Proceedings of the 4th Intl Conf on Sensor Technologies and Applications, pp244--249.

    Alie El-Din Mady , Menouer Boubekeur , Gregory Provan , Conor Ryan and Kenneth N. Brown "Intelligent Hybrid Control Model for Lighting Systems Using Constraint-Based Optimisation" SOCO2010 : Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, 5th International Workshop (SOCO 2010), Advances in Soft Computing, Vol 73/2010, Springer, pp249-259, 2010.

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N Brown and Cormac J Sreenan "Using mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks to improve building emergency response" Proc. of Royal Irish Academy Research Colloquium on Wireless as an Enabling Technology, April 2010, ISBN: 978-1-904890-68-3

    Lanny Sitanayah, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "Emergency response MAC protocol (ER-MAC) for wireless sensor networks" IPSN2010 Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, pp364-365

    Yuanyuan Zeng, Sean Og Murphy, Lanny Sitanayah, Tatiana Maria Tabirca, Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Building Fire Emergency Detection and Response Using Wireless Sensor Networks" Proceedings 9th. IT & T Conference, paper 15, 2009.

    Stynes, D. and Brown, K. N. "Realtime Online Solving of Quantified CSPs" Proceedings CP'09: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Lisbon, September 2009, Springer LNCS 5732/2009, ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-04244-7_60, Pages 771-786.

    Scully, T. and Brown, K. N. Wireless LAN Load-Balancing with Genetic Algorithms Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 22, Issue 7, October 2009, Pages 529-534.

    Tabirca, T. M., Brown, K. N. and Sreenan, C. J. "A Dynamic Model for Fire Emergency Evacuation Based on Wireless Sensor Networks", Proceedings ISPDC'09, the 8th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Lisbon, July 2009, pp29--36.

    Bater, J., Brown, K. N. and Doyle, L. E. "On the Impact of Introducing Advanced Devices into a Cognitive Radio Network" Proceedings IEEE SECON 2009, the Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, Rome, June 2009 (DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168954).

    Terekhov, D., Beck, J. C., and Brown, K. N., "A Constraint Programming Approach for Solving a Queueing Design and Control Problem , Informs Journal on Computing Vol. 21, No. 4, Fall 2009, pp. 549--561

    Wu, C. W., Brown, K. N. and Beck, J. C., "Scheduling with uncertain durations: modelling beta-robust scheduling with constraints" Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp2348--2356, ISSN 0305-0548, DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.08.008, 2009.

    Stynes, D. and Brown, K. N. "Value ordering for Quantified CSPs" Constraints, Vol 14, No. 1, pp16--37, 2009 (DOI 10.1007/s10601-008-9052-1).

    Kovacs, A., Brown, K. N. and Tarim, S. A. "An efficient MIP model for the capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setups " International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 118, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 282-291, ISSN 0925-5273, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.08.033.

    Scully, T. and Brown, K. N. "Wireless LAN Load-Balancing with Genetic Algorithms " Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI, Proc. AI-2008, the 28th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Allen, T. Ellis, R. and Petridis, M. (Eds.), pp3-18, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-84882-214-6.
    Awarded prize for Best Application Paper

    Bridge, D. G., Brown, K. N., O'Sullivan, B. and Sorensen, H. Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 2008.

    Azaron,A., Brown, K. N., Tarim, S. A. and Modarres, M. A multi-objective stochastic programming approach for supply chain design considering risk International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 116, Issue 1, November 2008, Pages 129-138, ISSN 0925-5273, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.08.002.

    Stynes, D. and Brown, K. N. "Realtime Online Solving of Quantified CSPs", QiCP'08, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Quantification in Constraint Programming, Sydney, Australia, 2008.

    Burke, D. A. and Brown, K. N., "Using Relaxations to Improve Search in Distributed Constraint Optimisation" Artificial Intelligence Review, ISSN 0269-2821 (Print) 1573-7462 (Online), Volume 28, Number 1 / June, 2007, pp35--50, DOI 10.1007/s10462-008-9072-7.

    Burke, D. A., Brown, K. N., Tarim, S. and Hnich, B., "Learning market prices in real-time supply chain management", Computers and Operations Research, Volume 35, Issue 11, November, Pages 3465-3478, 2008.

    Stynes, D. and Brown, K. N., "Value Ordering for Quantified CSPs" CP2007 Doctoral Program, pp 157--162, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2007.

    Burke, D. A., Brown, K. N., Dogru, M. and Lowe, B., "Supply-chain coordination through distributed constraint optimisation" 9th Intl Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2007.

    Basharu, M., Brown, K. N. and Hamadi, Y., "Avoiding slow links in distributed constraint satisfaction" 9th Intl Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2007.

    Burke, D. A. and Brown, K. N., "Using Relaxations to Improve Search in Distributed Constraint Optimisation" AICS 2007, Proceedings of the 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, August 2007, pp11--20.

    Bater, J., Tan, H.-P., Brown, K. N. and Doyle, L. E., "Maximising Access to a Spectrum Commons using Interference Temperature Constraints " Proceedings CrownCom, 2nd Intl Conf Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, Florida, 2007.

    Terekhov, D., Beck, J. C., & Brown, K. N., "Solving a Stochastic Queueing Design and Control Problem with Constraint Programming", Proceedings AAAI-07, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

    Bater, J., Tan, H.-P., Brown, K. N. and Doyle, L. E., "Modelling Interference Temperature Constraints for Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks" Proceedings IEEE CogNets-2007, 2007.

    Vidotto, A., Brown, K. N. and Beck, J. C., "Managing Restaurant Tables with Constraints" Knowledge Based Systems Vol. 20, Issue 2 , March 2007, Pages 160-169.

    Basharu, M., Brown, K. N. and Hamadi, Y., "Delegation in Tree-search for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction", Proc. DCR workshop at IJCAI'07, Hyderabad, India, 2007.

    Vidotto, A., Brown, K. N. and Beck, J. C., "Managing Restaurant Tables using Constraints" Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XIV, Proceedings of AI-2006, the 26th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Applications Stream, Springer (1 84628 665 4), pp 3--16, 2006
    Awarded Rob Milne Memorial Prize for best refereed application paper.

    Burke, D. A. and Brown, K. N., "A Comparison of Approaches to Handling Complex Local Problems in DCOP" Proceedings of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction ECAI'06 Workshop, August 2006.

    Brown, K. N. and Miguel, I., "Uncertainty and Change", Chapter 21 of Handbook of Constraint Programming (eds. Rossi, F., van Beek, P. and Walsh, T.), pp731--760, Elsevier, 2006.

    Burke, D. A. and Brown, K. N., "Efficient Handling of Complex Local Problems in Distributed Constraint Optimization", Proceedings ECAI'06, pp701--702, August, 2006.

    Wu, C. W., Brown, K. N. and Beck, J. C., "Scheduling with uncertain durations: generating B-robust schedules using constraint programming", Proceedings of ICAPS 2006 Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, June, 2006.

    Burke, D. A., Brown, K. N., Tarim, S. A., & Hnich, B. "Learning Market Prices for a Real-time Supply Chain Management Trading Agent", TADA/AMEC VIII, Proceedings of joint workshop on Trading Agent Analysis and Design / Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce at AAMAS'06, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

    Burke, D. A. & Brown, K. N. "Applying Interchangeability to Complex Local Problems in Distributed Constraint Reasoning", Proceedings of 7th international workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning, at AAMAS'06, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

    Kollingbaum, M., Norman, T., Mehandjiev, N. & Brown, K., "Engineering Organisation-Oriented Software", WISER 2006, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research, at ICSE, Shanghai, China, May 2006.

    Bater, J., Brown, K. N., Doyle, L., Forde, T. & Mullany, F. "Applying Iterated Local Search to Reduce the Costs of Backhaul in Telecommunications Network Design", IT&T 2005, Proceedings of the Information Technology and Telecommunications conference, Cork, Ireland, 2005, pp89--100.

    Brown, K. N. and Verfaillie, G. (eds.) Changes'05: International Workshop on Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty, CP-2005 workshop, Stiges, Spain, 2005.

    Brown, K. N., Burke, D. A., Hnich, B., Koyuncu, O. and Tarim, A. "The Trading Agent Competition as a test problem for Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty", Changes'05: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty, Sitges, Spain, October 2005, pp9--12.

    Wu, C. W., Brown, K. N. & Beck, J. C. "Scheduling with Uncertain Release Dates", AICS'05, Proceedings of the 16th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, 2005, pp397--408.

    Vidotto, A., Brown, K. N. & Beck, J. C. "Robust constraint solving using multiple heuristics", AICS'05, Proceedings of the 16th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, 2005, pp203--212.

    O'Sullivan, B., Brown, K. N., Ferguson, A., Freuder, E. C. & Schabel, M. "Automated Requirements Elicitation for Supply Chain Management", Proceedings of the Workshop Supply Chain management and ICT, Groningen, Netherlands, 2005.

    Nordlander, T. E., Sleeman, D. H. & Brown, K. N. "Knowledge Base Reuse through Constraint Relaxation", K-CAP05: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Knowledge Capture, Banff, Canada, 2005, pp59--66.

    Brown, K. N., Prosser, P., Beck, C. J. & Wu, C. W. "Exploring the use of constraint programming for enforcing connectivity during graph generation", Proceedings IJCAI Workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005, pp26--31.

    Brown, K. N. (ed.) PlanSIG2004: Proceedings of the 23rd annual workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (ISSN: 1368-5708), University College Cork, Ireland, December, 2004.

    Brown, K. N., Little, J., Creed, P. J. & Freuder, E. C. "Adversarial Constraint Satisfaction by Game-tree Search", Proceedings ECAI 2004, Valencia, Spain, pp151-155, 2004.
    Top 10 paper award

    Vidotto, A., Brown, K. N. and Beck, J. C. "A Controller for Online Uncertain Constraint Handling", Proceedings of Changes'04, pp73-74, 2004.

    Wu, C. W., Beck, J. C. and Brown, K. N. "Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Uncertain Customer Demand", Proceedings of Changes'04, pp75-76, 2004.

    Beck, J. C., Brown, K. N. and Verfaillie, G. (eds.) Changes'04: Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty, Proceedings of the CP-2004 workshop, Toronto, Canada, 2004.

    Brown, K. N. "Max-A-CSP: Maximum Partial Assignments for Over-Constrained Problems", in Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XX (eds Coenen, Preece and Macintosh), Springer-Verlag, pp83--96, 2003.

    Nordlander, T. E., Brown, K. N. & Sleeman, D. H. "Constraint Relaxation Techniques to Aid the Reuse of Knowledge Bases and Problem Solvers", Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XX (eds Coenen, Preece and Macintosh), Springer-Verlag, pp323--335, 2003.

    Brown, K. N. "Soft Consistencies for Weighted CSPs", Proceedings of Soft'03: 5th International Workshop on Soft Constraints, Kinsale, Ireland, September, 2003.

    Beck, J. C., Brown, K. N., and Verfaillie, G. (eds.) Online-2003: Online Constraint Solving - Handling Change and Uncertainty, Proceedings of the CP-2003 workshop, Kinsale, Ireland, 2003.

    Brown, K. N., Lucas, P. & Fowler, D. W. "Decision Network Semantics of Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems", Proceedings ECSQARU 2003 (European Conference on Symbolic and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty), Aalborg, Denmark, July 2003.

    Fowler, D. W. & Brown, K. N. "Branching constraint satisfaction problems and Markov Decision Problems compared", Annals of Operations Research, Volume 118, Issue 1-4, pp85-100, 2003.

    Brown, K. N. "Searching for maximal partial assignments to over-constrained problems", Proceedings of Soft'02: 4th International Workshop on Soft Contraints, pp1--10, Ithaca, New York, September 2002.

    Brown, K. N., Lucas, P. & Fowler, D. W. "Decision Network Semantics of Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems", Technical Report AUCS/TR0204, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, December 2002.

    Fowler, D. W. & Brown, K. N. "Branching constraint satisfaction problems and Markov Decision Problems compared", Proceedings of CP-AI-OR 20001, 3rd International Workshop on Integration of AI and OR techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, pp81--96, Wye College, UK, April 2001.

    Brown, K. N. & Fowler, D. W. "Uncertain Reasoning for Dynamic Constraint Problems", Proceedings of the 20th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, pp265--266, University of Edinburgh, December 2001.

    Brown, K. N. & Fowler, D. W. "Extending Constraint Programming with Uncertain Reasoning for Robust Dynamic Scheduling", in CUW'01: Constraints and Uncertainty (eds. Brown, K. N. & Beck, J. C.), Post-conference workshop at CP'2001: 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, pp 5--6, Cyprus, November 2001.

    Brown, K. N. & Beck, J. C.(eds.) CUW'01: Constraints and Uncertainty, Proceedings of the post-conference workshop at CP'2001 Cyprus, November 2001.

    Fowler, D. W. & Brown, K. N. "Branching constraint satisfaction problems for solutions robust under likely changes", Proceedings of CP'2000 (ed. Dechter,R.), 6th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Singapore, pp500--504, Springer Verlag, 2000.

    Fowler, D. W. & Brown, K. N. "Modelling and Solving problems with probable changes", ECAI 2000 workshop on Modelling and solving problems with constraints, Berlin, August, 2000.

    Fowler, D. W. & Brown, K. N. "Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems for Solutions Robust Under Likely Changes", Technical Report AUCS/TR0002, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, June 2000.

    Fowler, D. W. & Brown, K. N. "Scheduling for an uncertain future with branching constraint satisfaction", in AISB 2000: Time for AI and Society, symposium on AI Planning and Intelligent Agents, pp25-31, University of Birmingham, April 2000.

    Bradwell, R. & Brown, K. N. "Parallel Asynchronous Memetic Algorithms", Evolutionary Computation and Parallel Processing Workshop, at GECCO'99, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 13-17, Orlando, Florida.

    Brown, K. N. "Loading supply vessels by forward checking and unenforced guillotine cuts", Proceedings of the 17th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, University of Huddersfield, September 1998.

    Bradwell, R. & Brown, K. N. "Application of Multi-Agent Cooperative Search To The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem", Proceedings of the 16th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, University College, Durham University, December 1997, pp213-218.

    Brown, K. N. & Cagan, J. "Optimised process planning by generative simulated annealing", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (1997), 11, 219-235.

    Brown, K. N. "Grammatical Design", IEEE Expert, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in Design, March-April 1997, pp27-33.

    Brown, K. N. & Heisserman, J. (eds.) Grammatical Design, proceedings of the pre-conference workshop at AID'96 (4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design), Stanford University, 24-27 June, 1996.

    Brown, K. N., "In Support of Design Grammars: Generating Excitement", in Grammatical Design, K. N. Brown & J. Heisserman (eds.), proceedings of the pre-conference workshop at AID'96 (4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design), Stanford University, 24-27 June, 1996.

    Brown, K. N., "Generation and Search Methods in Design: Discussion", in Advances in Formal Design Methods for CAD, J. S. Gero (ed.), pp97-103, Chapman and Hall, London, 1996.

    Brown, K. N. & Cagan, J. "Modified Shape Annealing for Optimally-Directed Generation: Initial Results", in Advances in Formal Design Methods for CAD, J. S. Gero (ed.), pp59-73, (Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG5.2 Workshop on Formal Design Methods for CAD, Mexico City, Mexico, 13-16 June 1995) Chapman and Hall, London, 1996.

    Brown, K. N., McMahon, C. A. & Sims Williams, J. H. "Describing Process Plans as the Formal Semantics of a Language of Shape", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Volume 10, Number 2, 1996, pp153-169.

    Brown, K. N. & Cagan, J. "Grammatical Design and Bounded Creativity", Technical Report AUCS/TR9602, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, February, 1996.

    Brown, K. N., Sims Williams, J. H. & McMahon, C. A., "Conceptual Geometric Reasoning by the Manipulation of Models Based on Prototypes", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Volume 9, Number 5, 1995, pp367-385.

    Brown, K. N. & Cagan, J., "Process Planning by Formal Languages of Shape and Shape Annealing: A Position Paper", Proceedings of the 14th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (ed. S. Steel), University of Essex, Colchester, 22nd-23rd November, 1995.

    Brown, K. N., McMahon, C. A. & Sims Williams, J. H. "Features, a.k.a. The Semantics of a Formal Language of Manufacturing", Research in Engineering Design, Volume 7, Number 3, 1995, pp151-172.

    McMahon, C. A., Xianyi, M., Brown, K. N., & Sims Williams, J. H. "A Parallel Multi-attribute Transformation Model of Design", Proceedings 7th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, DE-Vol. 83, Boston, MA, September, 1995, pp341-350.

    Brown, K. N., McMahon, C. A. & Sims Williams, J. H. "Constraint Unification Grammars: Specifying Languages of Parametric Designs", in Artificial Intelligence in Design '94, J. S. Gero & F. Sudweeks (eds.), pp 239-256, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1994.
    Best Paper Prize

    Brown, K. N. & McMahon, C. A. "The Development of a Transformation-based Model of Design", AID'94 workshop on The Nature and Role of Theory in AI and Design Research, 1994.

    Brown, K. N. "Shape Grammars and Semantics: Formalising the Link Between Geometry, Features and Design", AID'94 workshop on Reasoning with Shapes in Design, 1994.

    McMahon, C. A., Brown, K. N., Sims Williams, J. H. & Yang, Y., "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design for Durability in Concurrent Engineering", Journal of Systems Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1994, pp13-22.

    Brown, K. N., McMahon, C. A. & Sims Williams, J. H., "A Formal Language For The Design Of Manufacturable Objects", in Formal Design Methods for CAD (IFIP Transactions B-18), J. S. Gero & E. Tyugu (eds.), pp 135-155, North Holland, 1994.

    McMahon, C. A., Sims Williams, J. H. & Brown, K. N., "A Transformation Model for the Integration of Design Computing", International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'93), The Hague, August 1993.

    Brown, K. N., Sims Williams, J. H. & McMahon, C. A., "Grammars of Features in Design", in Artificial Intelligence in Design '92, J. S. Gero (ed.), pp 287-306, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1992.

    Brown, K. N. & Sims Williams, J. H. , "Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Problems in Features Research", Internal Report, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, 1992.

    Brown, K. N. Conceptual Geometric Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, May, 1991.

    Brown, K. N., Sims Williams, J. H., Devlukia, J. & McMahon, C. A., "Reasoning with Geometry: Predicting Stress Concentration Factors", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Volume 5, Number 4, 1990, pp182-188.

    Brown, K. N., Sims Williams, J. H., McMahon, C. A. & Sisson, J. A., "Knowledge based Support Tools For Designers in the Automotive Industry", Proceedings of the Many Faces of Design Conference, London, October, 1990.

    McMahon, C. A., Sims Williams, J. H., Brown, K. N., Sisson, J., Davies, J. & Devlukia, J., "Knowledge-Based Systems for Design for Fatigue", Proceedings Fatigue'90, August, 1990.

    Brown, K. N. Earley Deduction: An Inference Mechanism for Logic Programming, MSc Dissertation, University of Manchester, October, 1987.

    To obtain a copy of any of these papers, or to get more information, e-mail me at the address below

    Ken Brown / 4C / Computer Science / UCC
    k.brown @ cs.ucc.ie