Publications

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    Maximilian Thiessen, Luis Quesada and Kenneth N. Brown "Improving a Branch-and-Bound Approach for the Degree-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with LKH", accepted for CPAIOR 2020, 17th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research, Vienna, 2020.

    Saim Ghafoor, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "A cognitive radio-based fully blind multihop rendezvous protocol for unknown environments" Ad Hoc Networks, in press, July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2020.102261

    Sebastian Scheurer, Salvatore Tedesco, Brendan O'Flynn and Kenneth N. Brown "Comparing Person-Specific and -Independent Models on Subject-Dependent and -Independent Human Activity Recognition Performance", Sensors, 20(13), 3647, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20133647

    Mark Antunes, Vincent Armant, Kenneth N. Brown, Daniel Desmond, Guillaume Escamocher, Anne-Marie George, Diarmuid Grimes, Mike O'Keeffe, Yiqing Lin, Barry O'Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk, Luis Quesada, Mohamed Siala, Helmut Simonis and Nic Wilson "Assigning and Scheduling Service Visits in a Mixed Urban/Rural Setting" International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools Vol 29, No. 03n04, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218213020600076

    Salvatore Tedesco, Colum Crowe, Andrew Ryan, Marco Sica, Sebastian Scheurer, Amanda M. Clifford, Kenneth N. Brown and Brendan O'Flynn "Motion Sensors-Based Machine Learning Approach for the Identification of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Gait Patterns in On-the-Field Activities in Rugby Players" Sensors, 20(11), 3029; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113029, 2020.

    Sebastian Scheurer, Salvatore Tedesco, Kenneth N. Brown and Brendan O'Flynn "Using Domain Knowledge for Interpretable and Competitive Multi-Class Human Activity Recognition" Sensors, 20(4), 1208; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20041208, 2020.

    Younes Mechqrane, Mohamed Wahbi, Christian Bessiere and Kenneth N. Brown "Reordering all agents in asynchronous backtracking for distributed constraint satisfaction problems" Artificial Intelligence, 278, pp103-169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2019.103169, 2020.

    Vincent Armant and Kenneth N. Brown "Fast Optimised Ridesharing: Objectives, Reformulations and Driver Flexibility" Expert Systems with Applications, 141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.112914, March 2020.

    Sebastian Scheurer, Salvatore Tedesco, Kenneth N. Brown and Brendan O'Flynn "Subject-Dependent and -Independent Human Activity Recognition with Person-Specific and -Independent Models" iWOAR 2019, 6th international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction, 16-17 September 2019, Rostock, Germany, https://doi.org/10.1145/3361684.3361689.

    Gabriel Gonzalez Castane, Helmut Simonis, Kenneth N. Brown, Yiqing Lin, Cemalettin Ozturk, Michele Garraffa and Mark Antunes "Simulation based optimization tool for field service planning" WinterSim 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, December 2019.

    Gabriel Gonzalez Castane, Helmut Simonis, Kenneth N. Brown, Cemalettin Ozturk, Yiqing Lin and Mark Antunes "Flexible and scalable field service with condition based maintenance models for simulating large scale scenarios" ISC'2019: Proceedings of the 17th Industrial Simulation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2019.

    Cheng Qiao and Kenneth N. Brown "Asynchronous Distributed Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks" ICMLT 2019: Proceedings of 4th Intl Conf on Machine Learning Technologies, Nanchang, China, June 2019.

    Sean Og Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Search and Rescue using Software Defined Radio", VTC2019, 89th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April, 2019.

    Mark Antunes, Vincent Armant, Kenneth N. Brown, Daniel Desmond, Guillaume Escamocher, Anne-Marie George, Diarmuid Grimes, Mike O’Keeffe, Yiqing Lin, Barry O’Sullivan, Cemalettin Ozturk, Luis Quesada, Mohamed Siala, Helmut Simonis and Nic Wilson "Assigning and Scheduling Service Visits in a Mixed Urban/Rural Setting", ICTAI 2018: Proceedings 30th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Volos, Greece, November, 2018.

    Sebastian Scheurer, Salvatore Tedesco, Ňscar Manzano, Kenneth N. Brown and Brendan O'Flynn "Monitoring Emergency First Responders' Activities via Gradient Boosting and Inertial Sensor Data", ECML-PKDD 2018: European Conference on Machine Learning and Practical Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Demo Track, Dublin, Ireland, September 2018.

    Samreen Umer, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Advanced Energy Saving Mechanism for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks", PIMRC'18: 2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Bologna, Italy, September 2018.

    Vincent Armant, Milan De Cauwer, Kenneth N. Brown and Barry O’Sullivan "Semi-online task assignment policies for workload consolidation in cloud computing systems", Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 82, pp89-103, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.12.035) May 2018.

    Ali Azzam Naeem and Kenneth N. Brown "Inferring Destination from Mobility Data", AICS 2017, 25th Irish National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, Ireland, December 2017.

    Daniel A. Desmond and Kenneth N. Brown "Inferring Waypoints in the Absence of Knowledge of Driving Style", AICS 2017, 25th Irish National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, Ireland, December 2017.

    Sebastian Scheurer, Salvatore Tedesco, Kenneth N. Brown and Brendan O'Flynn "Sensor and Feature Selection for an Emergency First Responders Activity Recognition System" IEEE Sensors 2017, Glasgow, Scotland, October 2017.

    Saim Ghafoor, Cormac J. Sreenan, Kenneth N. Brown "Cognitive Radio Policy based Adaptive Blind Rendezvous Protocols for Disaster Response", CROWNCOM 2017 (12th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks), Lisbon, Portugal, September 20th, 2017.

    Muhammad Omer Farooq, Cormac J. Sreenan, Kenneth N. Brown and Thomas Kunz "Design and Analysis of RPL Objective Functions for Multi-Gateway Ad-Hoc Low-Power and Lossy Networks" Ad Hoc Networks, 65, pp78--90, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2017.08.002), 2017.

    Damien Fay, Liam O'Toole and Kenneth N. Brown "Gaussian Process models for ubiquitous user comfort preference sampling; global priors, active sampling and outlier rejection" Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 39, Pages 135-158, August 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.08.012

    Mustafa Al-bado, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "RCBurst: a Mechanism to Mitigate the Impact of Hidden Terminals in Home WLANs" ISCC 2017, 22nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 2017.

    Mohamed Wahbi, Diarmuid Grimes, Deepak Mehta, Kenneth Brown and Barry O'Sullivan "A Distributed Optimization Method for the Geographically Distributed Data Centres Problem" CPAIOR 2017, 14th Intl Conf on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming, Padova, Italy, June 2017.

    Sebastian Scheurer, Salvatore Tedesco, Kenneth N. Brown and Brendan O'Flynn "Human Activity Recognition for Emergency First Responders via Body-Worn Inertial Sensors" BSN'17, 14th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 9-12, 2017.

    Muhammad Omer Farooq, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "Capacity and contention-based joint routing and gateway selection for machine-type communications" Ad Hoc Networks 62, pp35–49, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2017.04.006), 2017.

    Sean Og Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Demo: Cellphone Localisation using an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Software Defined Radio" EWSN 2017, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, Uppsala, Sweden, February 2017.

    J. Arokkiam, X. Wu, K. Brown, C. Sreenan, P. Alvarez, M. Ruffini, N. Marchetti, L. Doyle, and D. Payne, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an XG-PON Module for ns-3 Network Simulator" Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SAGE Publications, online first (DOI: 10.1177/0037549716682093), January 2017.

    Samreen Umer, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan, "Enhanced Energy Saving Mechanism for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks" GWS 2016: Global Wireless Summit, Aarhus, Denmark, Novermber 27, 2016.

    Daniel A. Desmond and Kenneth N. Brown "Inferring waypoints using shortest paths", AICS 2016, 24th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science , Dublin, September 2016.

    David Stynes, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "A Probabilistic Approach to User Mobility Prediction for Wireless Services" IWCMC 2016, 12th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference, Paphos Beach, Cyprus, September, 2016.

    Vincent Armant and Kenneth N. Brown "Reformulation of Drivers’ Fixed Path Constraints in Ridesharing Problems" ModRef2016, 15th Intl Workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation, Toulouse, France, September, 2016.

    Mohamed Wahbi and Kenneth N. Brown "A Distributed Asynchronous Solver for Nash Equilibria in Hypergraphical Games", ECAI 2016, 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, The Hague, Netherlands, August 2016, pp1291--1299.

    Jerome A. Arokkiam, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "Optimised QoS-aware DBA mechanisms in XG-PON for upstream traffic in LTE Backhaul", PMECT-2016, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Networks, Vienna, Austria, August 2016.

    Mustafa Al-Bado, Cigdem Sengul, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "Hidden Terminal Management for Uplink Traffic in Rate-Controlled WiFi Networks" ISCC 2016, 21st IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, Messina, Italy, June 2016.

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "An Online Approach for Wireless Network Repair Problem in Partially-known Environments" Ad Hoc Networks,Vol. 45, 15 July 2016, Pages 47--64, 2016.

    Han Wang, Damien Fay, Kenneth N. Brown and Liam Kilmartin "Modelling revenue generation in a dynamically priced mobile telephony service" Telecommunication Systems, 62, No. 4, pp711--734 (10.1007/s11235-015-0106-6), 2016

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Demo: Deploying a Drone to Restore Connectivity in a WSN", EWSN 2016, Proceedings 13th Intl Conf on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, Graz, Austria, February 2016.

    Muhammad Omer Farooq, Thomas Kunz, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "Evaluation of Available Bandwidth as a Routing Metric for Delay-Sensitive IEEE 802.15.4-based Ad-Hoc Networks", Ad Hoc Networks, 37, pp526-542 (doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2015.10.005), 2016.

    Saim Ghafoor, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Experimental Evaluation of a Software Defined Radio-based Prototype for a Disaster Response Cellular Network", ICT-DM 2015, 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management , Rennes, France, November 2015.
    Awarded the ICT-DM 2015 prize for Best Student Paper, to Saim Ghafoor

    Vincent Armant, Nahid Mahbub and Kenneth N. Brown "Maximising the number of participants in a ride-sharing scheme: MIP versus CP formulations", in ICTAI 2015, Proc 27th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2015, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, 2015.

    Muhammad Omer Farooq, Cormac J. Sreenan, Kenneth N. Brown and Thomas Kunz "RPL-Based Routing Protocols For Multi-Sink Wireless Sensor Networks", in WiMob2015, The 11th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2015.

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Multi-Objective Hierarchical Algorithms In Restoring Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity in Known Environments" Ad Hoc Networks Vol 33, October, pp190--208, 2015. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2015.05.005)

    Vincent Armant, John Horan, Nahid Mahbub and Kenneth N. Brown "Data analytics and optimisation for assessing a ride sharing system", in IDA 2015, 14th Intl Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, St Etienne, October 2015.

    Mohamed Wahbi, Younes Mechqrane, Christian Bessiere and Kenneth N. Brown "A General Framework for Reordering Agents Asynchronously in Distributed CSP", CP 2015, 21st Intl Conf on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cork, September 2015.

    Sean Og Murphy, Oscar Manzano and Kenneth N. Brown "Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-based Energy Saving and Scheduling Recommender System", CP 2015, 21st Intl Conf on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cork, September 2015.

    Cheng Qiao, Mingming Lu, Yong Zhang and Kenneth N. Brown "An Efficient Dispatch and Decision-making Model for Taxi-booking Service", ATC'15: 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, Beijing, August 2015.

    Walid Trabelsi, Kenneth N. Brown and Barry O'Sullivan "Preference Elicitation and Reasoning While Smart Shifting Of Home Appliances", SEB'15: 7th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, Lisbon, July 2015.

    Thuy T. Truong, Rodolfo V. Bisol, James Giller, Hugh Whelan, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Demonstration of Robotic Repair for Wireless Networks", IEEE SECON 2015, 12th IEEE Intl Conf. on Sensing, Communications and Networks, Seattle, Wa., USA, pp184--186, June 2015.
    Awarded the IEEE SECON 2015 Best Demonstration prize

    Jerome A. Arokkiam, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Refining the GIANT dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanism for XG-PON", ICC 2015, IEEE International Conference on Communications, London, UK, June 2015.

    Luis Quesada, Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown, Barry O'Sullivan, and Cormac J. Sreenan "A Constraint Programming Approach to the Additional Relay Placement Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks" Constraints, Vol 20, 4, pp433--451 (DOI: 10.1007/s10601-015-9188-8), 2015.

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Contact Probing Mechanisms for Opportunistic Data Collection in Sparse Wireless Sensor Networks", The Computer Journal, 58 (8), pp1792-1810, 2015. (doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxv005)

    Jerome A. Arokkiam, Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance over 10Gb/s Passive Optical Networks (XG-PON)", IEEE Globecom 2014, pp2269--2274, Austin, Texas, December 2014.
    Awarded the 2014 TAOS (Transmission, Access & Optical Systems Technical Committee) Best Paper Award in Access Networks and Systems

    Vincent Armant and Kenneth N. Brown "Minimizing the Driving Distance in Ride Sharing Systems", ICTAI 2014, Proc 26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2014, Limassol, Cyprus, 2014.

    Saim Ghafoor, Paul D. Sutton, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "Cognitive Radio for Disaster Response Networks: Survey, Potential and Challenges", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol 21, No. 5, pp70--80, 2014. (DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2014.6940435).

    Mohamed Wahbi and Kenneth N. Brown "The impact of wireless communication on distributed constraint satisfaction" CP 2014, 20th Intl Conf on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Lyon, September, B. O'Sullivan (Ed.), LNCS 8656, pp. 738--754, 2014.

    Mohamed Wahbi and Kenneth N. Brown "Global Constraints in Distributed CSP: Concurrent GAC and Explanations in ABT" CP 2014, 20th Intl Conf on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Lyon, September, B. O'Sullivan (Ed.), LNCS 8656, pp. 721--737, 2014.

    Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Planning the Deployment of Multiple Sinks and Relays in Wireless Sensor Networks" Journal of Heuristics, Vol. 21, 2, pp197--232, 2014 (DOI: 10.1007/s10732-014-9256-z).

    Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "A Fault-Tolerant Relay Placement Algorithm for Ensuring k Vertex-Disjoint Paths in Wireless Sensor Networks" Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 23, pp145--162, 2014 (DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2014.07.003).

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Data Pre-Forwarding for Opportunistic Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 11, pp 8:1--8:33, 2014 (DOI: 10.1145/2629369).

    Damien Fay, Andrew Moore, Kenneth N. Brown, Michele Filosi and Giuseppe Jurman "Graph metrics as summary statistics for Approximate Bayesian Computation with application to network model parameter estimation", Journal of Complex Networks, 3 (1): 52-83, 2014.

    Lanny Sitanayah, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown "A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Emergency Response Wireless Sensor Networks" Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 20, pp79--95, 2014 (DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2014.03.008).

    David Stynes, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Using Opportunistic Caching to Improve the Efficiency of Handover in LTE with a PON Access Network Backhaul" Proc. LANMAN'14 (20th IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Networks), Reno, NV, May 2014.

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "Analysis of Smartphone User Mobility Traces for Opportunistic Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks" Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol 9, No. 6, pp881--891, 2013.

    Conor Ryan and Kenneth N. Brown "Predicting Occupant Locations Using Association Rule Mining" AI2013, 33rd SGAI Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, England, December 2013.

    Carlo Manna, Damien Fay, Kenneth N. Brown and Nic Wilson "Learning Occupancy in Single Person Offices with Mixtures of Multi-lag Markov Chains" ICTAI 2013, Proc 25th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2013, Washington DC, pp151--158, 2013.

    Luis Quesada, Kenneth N. Brown, Barry O'Sullivan, Lanny Sitanayah, and Cormac J. Sreenan "A Constraint Programming Approach to the Additional Relay Placement Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks" ICTAI 2013, Proc 25th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2013, Washington DC, 2013.

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Autonomous Discovery and Repair of Damage in Wireless Sensor Networks" LCN 2013, The 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Sydney, Australia, October 21-24, 2013.

    Sean Og Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan "The EvacSim Pedestrian Evacuation Agent Model: Development and Validation" SCSC 2013, 45th Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 7-10, 2013

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Repairing wireless sensor network connectivity with mobility and hop-count constraints" in Ad-hoc, Mobile and Wireless Network, Proc. ADHOC-NOW 2013, 12th Intl Conf, Wroclaw, Poland, July 8-10, 2013, eds. J. Cichon, M. Gebala and M. Klonowski, Springer LNCS 7960, pp75--86, 2013.

    Ena Tobin, Damien Fay and Kenneth N. Brown "Anomaly detection for Building Service Components using performance data" Comadem2013, 26th International Congress of Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Helsinki, Finland, June 2013.

    Carlo Manna, Nic Wilson and Kenneth N. Brown "Personalized Thermal Comfort Forecasting for Smart Buildings via LocallyWeighted Regression with Adaptive Bandwidth" SMARTGREENS 2013, 2nd Intl Conf on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems, Aachen, May 2013.
    Awarded best paper prize

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan, Pedro Alvarez, Marco Ruffini, Nicola Marchetti, David Payne and Linda Doyle "An XG-PON Module for the NS-3 Network Simulator" WNS3 2013, 4th Workshop on ns-3, in conjunction with 6th Intl conf on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2013), March, 2013.

    David Stynes, Kenneth N. Brown and Eric Jul "Cooperative Code-sharing for UMTS Femtocells" CCNC 2013, 10th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, January 2013.

    Damian Fay, Kenneth N. Brown and Liam O'Toole "Lies, Damn lies and Preferences; a Gaussian Process Model for Ubiquitous Thermal Preference Trials" BuildSys 2012, 4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings, Toronto, November 2012.

    Sean Og Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Problem decomposition for evacuation simulation using network flow" DS_RT 2012, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Dublin, October, 2012, pp101--108.

    Kenneth N Brown, Barry O'Sullivan and Cormac J. Sreenan "WAITS2012: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on AI in Telecommunications and Sensor Networks", in conjunction with ECAI 2012, Montpelier, France.

    Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown, and Cormac J. Sreenan "Multiple Sink and Relay Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks" WAITS 2012 (Workshop on AI in Telecommunications and Sensor Networks, at ECAI 2012), Montpelier, France, August 2012.

    Conor Ryan and Kenneth N. Brown "Occupant Location Prediction Using Association Rule Mining" AI@IE (Artificial Intelligence in Intelligent Environments, workshop at ECAI 2012), Montpelier, France, August 2012.

    Carlo Manna, Nic Wilson, and Kenneth N. Brown "Learning Individual Thermal Comfort using Robust Locally Weighted Regression with Adaptive Bandwidth" AI@IE (Artificial Intelligence in Intelligent Environments, workshop at ECAI 2012), Montpelier, France, August 2012.

    Thuy Truong, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac Sreenan "Restoring Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity in Damaged Environments" Procedia Computer Science 10, 1134-1139, 2012(RoboSense, Intl Workshop on Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 2012).

    Carlo Manna, Nic Wilson and Kenneth N. Brown "Using Robust Locally Weighted Regression with Adaptive Bandwidth to Predict Occupant Comfort" CompSust2012, 3rd Intl Conf on Computational Sustainability, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012.

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Analysis of Smart Phone User Mobility Traces for Opportunistic Data Collection" Nokia Mobile Data Challenge Newcastle, U.K., June 2012.

    Xiuchao Wu, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Data Pre-Forwarding for Opportunistic Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks" INSS'12 (9th Intl Conf on Networked Sensing Systems), Antwerp, June, 2012.

    Lanny Sitanayah, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Fault-Tolerant Relay Deployment Based on Length-Constrained Connectivity and Rerouting Centrality in Wireless Sensor Networks" EWSN 2012: 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, University of Trento, Italy, February 2012, LNCS7158, pp115--130.

    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, 2011.

    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, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2011.

    Sean Og Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac J. Sreenan "Predictive Simulation & Evacuation Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks" 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 Sensor 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 using 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.

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