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Natural-Language Processing, Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Chile

Biography

Dr. John Atkinson-Abutridy has been a university professor, researcher and consultant over the last 25 years, with a PhD in AI from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Dr. Atkinson-Abutridy has been a consultant for several private companies and public organizations on AI-related topics.

Dr. Atkinson-Abutridy has also led national and international research and technology projects on several topics related to AI, in areas such as NLP, Text Analytics, Machine Learning, and Explainable AI. In addition, Dr. Atkinson-Abutridy has mentored undergraduate/graduate students, and IT professionals. Furthermore, Dr. Atkinson-Abutridy has also led academic departments, scientific research groups, and graduate programs.

Activities

Employment (1)

Universidad Adolfo Ibañez: Santiago, Metropolitana, CL

2016-11-01 to present | Professor (Faculty of Engineering and Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

1999-10-01 to 2003-03-01 | PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Informatics)
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Professional activities (4)

Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, US

Senior Member
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MIT: Cambridge, Boston, US

2015 to present | Visiting Researcher (CSAIL)
Invited position
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IBM Research: Yorktown Heights, NY, US

2007 to present | Visiting Researcher
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INRIA: Nancy, FR

1998 to present | Researcher (Loria)
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Funding (5)

AN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION APPROACH TO NATURAL-LANGUAGE CHUNKING FOR BIOLOGICAL TEXT MINING APPLICATIONS

2013-03-15 to 2016-03-15 | Grant
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Santiago, CL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1130035
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ITEXT ROUTING: RECONOCIMIENTO INTELIGENTE DE LAS INTENCIONES DEL USUARIOS PARA ENRUTAMIENTO DE LLAMDAS EN CALL CENTERS UTILIZANDO TÉCNICAS DE ANÁLISIS SEMÁNTICO DE LENGUAJE NATURAL Y MÉTODOS DE APRENDIZAJE AUTOMÁTICO

2013-01-27 to 2015-06-26 | Grant
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Santiago, CL)
GRANT_NUMBER: CA12I10081
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MODELO B-LEARNING BASADO EN EL ENFOQUE POR TAREAS Y APRENDIZAJE COOPERATIVO PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DEL ESPAÑOL COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA

2008-03-15 to 2011-03-15 | Grant
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Santiago, CL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1080165
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AN INTERACTIVE NATURAL-LANGUAGE DIALOGUE MODEL FOR INTELLIGENT FILTERING BASED ON PATTERNS DISCOVERED FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS.

2007-03-15 to 2010-03-15 | Grant
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Santiago, CL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1070714
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UN MODELO EVOLUCIONARIO DE DESCUBRIMIENTO DE CONOCIMIENTO EXPLICATIVO DESDE TEXTOS CON BASE SEMANTICA CON IMPLICACIONES PARA EL ANALISIS DE INTELIGENCIA

2004-03-15 to 2007-03-15 | Grant
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Santiago, CL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1040469
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Works (50 of 81)

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Evolutionary Discovery of Natural-Language Coreference Chains for Social Media Analysis

ResearchSquare
2021 | Other
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2-s2.0-85132720982

Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Escudero, A.
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Efficient astronomy scheduling using artificial immune systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85099302581

Part of ISSN: 1996756X 0277786X
Contributors: Solar, M.; Atkinson, J.
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Looking deeper - exploring hidden patterns in reactor data of N-removal systems through clustering analysis

Water Science and Technology
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85087839141

Part of ISSN: 19969732 02731223
Contributors: Alejo, L.; Atkinson, J.; Lackner, S.
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Correction to: Effluent composition prediction of a two-stage anaerobic digestion process: machine learning and stoichiometry techniques (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, (2018), 25, (21149–21163), 10.1007/s11356-018-2224-7)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85059593159

Part of ISSN: 16147499 09441344
Contributors: Alejo, L.; Atkinson, J.; Arriagada, C.; Guzmán-Fierro, V.; Roeckel, M.
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Dual-view learning for detecting web query intents

Computer
2019 | Other
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2-s2.0-85070294092

Part of ISSN: 15580814 00189162
Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Coherence-Based Automatic Essay Assessment

IEEE Intelligent Systems
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85055676094

Part of ISSN: 19411294 15411672
Contributors: Palma, D.; Atkinson, J.
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Effluent composition prediction of a two-stage anaerobic digestion process: machine learning and stoichiometry techniques

Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85047132419

Part of ISSN: 16147499 09441344
Contributors: Alejo, L.; Atkinson, J.; Guzmán-Fierro, V.; Roeckel, M.
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Person re-identification using masked keypoints

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2018 | Book
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2-s2.0-85049037436

Part of ISSN: 16113349 03029743
Contributors: Reyes, D.; Atkinson, J.
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Redundancy-based trust in question-answering systems

Computer
2017 | Other
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2-s2.0-85009433868

Part of ISSN: 00189162
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Maurelia, A.
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Ensembling Classifiers for Detecting User Intentions behind Web Queries

IEEE Internet Computing
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84963799501

Part of ISSN: 10897801
Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Improving BCI-based emotion recognition by combining EEG feature selection and kernel classifiers

Expert Systems with Applications
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84949024191

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Campos, D.
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Question-driven topic-based extraction of Protein-Protein Interaction Methods from biomedical literature

Information Sciences
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84969903061

Part of ISSN: 00200255
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Montecinos, G.; Curtis, D.
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Improving opinion retrieval in social media by combining features-based coreferencing and memory-based learning

Information Sciences
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84924859220

Part of ISSN: 00200255
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Salas, G.; Figueroa, A.
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A context description language for medical information systems

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
2014 | Book
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2-s2.0-84958541559

Part of ISSN: 18761119 18761100
Contributors: Englmeier, K.; Atkinson, J.; Mothe, J.; Murtagh, F.; Pereira, J.
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Web metadata extraction and semantic indexing for learning objects extraction

Applied Intelligence
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84906784321

Part of ISSN: 0924669X
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Gonzalez, A.; Munoz, M.; Astudillo, H.
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A semantically-based lattice approach for assessing patterns in text mining tasks

Computacion y Sistemas
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84892415454

Part of ISSN: 14055546
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Figueroa, A.; Pérez, C.
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Evolutionary optimization for ranking how-to questions based on user-generated contents

Expert Systems with Applications
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84880584113

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Figueroa, A.; Andrade, C.
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Rhetorics-based multi-document summarization

Expert Systems with Applications
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84876063562

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Munoz, R.
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Using social network analysis and agent-based modelling to explore information flow using common operational pictures for maritime search and rescue operations

Ergonomics
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84879259231

Part of ISSN: 00140139 13665847
Contributors: Baber, C.; Stanton, N.A.; Atkinson, J.; Mcmaster, R.; Houghton, R.J.
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Web metadata extraction and semantic indexing for learning objects extraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84881384492

Part of ISSN: 03029743 16113349
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Gonzalez, A.; Munoz, M.; Astudillo, H.
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A multi-strategy approach to biological named entity recognition

Expert Systems with Applications
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84865040493

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Bull, V.
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Contextual language models for ranking answers to natural language definition questions

Computational Intelligence
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84868088027

Part of ISSN: 08247935 14678640
Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Evolutionary shallow natural language parsing

Computational Intelligence
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84861064860

Part of ISSN: 08247935 14678640
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Matamala, J.
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Intelligent Web-based natural language dialogue planning for Web information filtering

Studies in Computational Intelligence
2012 | Book
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2-s2.0-84867737941

Part of ISSN: 1860949X
Contributors: Hromic, H.; Atkinson, J.
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Stochastic web-based natural language dialog planning for web information filtering

Expert Systems with Applications
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84859213713

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Hromic, H.; Atkinson, J.
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Adaptive feedback selection for intelligent tutoring systems

Expert Systems with Applications
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79151484385

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Gutierrez, F.; Atkinson, J.
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Evolutionary constrained self-localization for autonomous agents

Applied Soft Computing Journal
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79954584491

Part of ISSN: 15684946
Contributors: Gutiérrez, F.; Atkinson, J.
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Geo-referencing with semi-automatic gazetteer expansion using lexico-syntactical patterns and co-reference analysis

International Journal of Geographical Information Science
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79951755341

Part of ISSN: 13658816 13623087
Contributors: Godoy, J.; Atkinson, J.; Rodriguez, A.
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Maximum entropy context models for ranking biographical answers to open-domain definition questions

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2011 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-80055055237

Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Answering definition questions: Dealing with data sparseness in lexicalised dependency trees-based language models

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
2010 | Book
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2-s2.0-77952781169

Part of ISSN: 18651348
Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Chunking natural language texts using evolutionary methods

Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVII
2010 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84882274324

Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Matamala, J.
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Intelligent answering location questions from the web using molecular alignment

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77954349290

Part of ISSN: 09259902 15737675
Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Some light-traffic and heavy-traffic results for the GI/G/n/0 queue using the GM Heuristic

Cybernetics and Systems Analysis
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77956148974

Part of ISSN: 10600396 15738337
Contributors: Atkinson, J.B.; Kovalenko, I.N.
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Artificial intelligence and intelligent systems research in Chile

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2009 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-71049125291

Part of ISSN: 03029743 16113349
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Solar, M.
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Autonomous robotics self-localization using genetic algorithms

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI
2009 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-77949509633

Part of ISSN: 10823409
Contributors: Gutierrez, F.; Atkinson, J.
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Designing a feedback component of an intelligent tutoring system for foreign language

Knowledge-Based Systems
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-69949099088

Part of ISSN: 09507051
Contributors: Ferreira, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Discovering implicit intention-level knowledge from natural-language texts

Knowledge-Based Systems
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-69949100706

Part of ISSN: 09507051
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Ferreira, A.; Aravena, E.
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Evolutionary shallow parsing

ISDA 2009 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications
2009 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-77949516166

Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Matamala, J.
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On-the-fly generation of multi-robot team formation strategies based on game conditions

Expert Systems with Applications
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-58349121004

Part of ISSN: 09574174
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Rojas, D.
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Reducing information overloading on the World Wide Web by using human-computer dialogue interactions,Disminución de la sobrecarga de información en la World Wide Web a partir de interacciones dialógicas hombre-computador

Revista Signos
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-62849115046

Part of ISSN: 00350451 07180934
Contributors: Ferreira, A.; Atkinson, J.
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Searching for definitional answers on the web using surface patterns

Computer
2009 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-67649363665

Part of ISSN: 00189162
Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Neumann, G.; Atkinson, J.
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Two new heuristics for the GI/G/n/0 queueing loss system with examples based on the two-phase Coxian distribution

Journal of the Operational Research Society
2009 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-67449151744

Part of ISSN: 14769360 01605682
Contributors: Atkinson, J.B.
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Using dependency paths for answering definition questions on the web

WEBIST 2009 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
2009 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-67650539578

Contributors: Figueroa, A.; Atkinson, J.
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A hypercube queueing loss model with customer-dependent service rates

European Journal of Operational Research
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-43049123487

Part of ISSN: 03772217
Contributors: Atkinson, J.B.; Kovalenko, I.N.; Kuznetsov, N.; Mykhalevych, K.V.
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Crossed-line segmentation for low-level vision

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2008 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-50249143002

Part of ISSN: 03029743 16113349
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Castro, C.
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Designing road networks for transport planning using evolutionary computation

Applied Artificial Intelligence
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-54049122305

Part of ISSN: 08839514 10876545
Contributors: Pinninghoff, M.; Contreras, R.; Atkinson, J.
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Discovering novel causal patterns from biomedical natural-language texts using Bayesian nets

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-56549086478

Part of ISSN: 10897771
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Rivas, A.
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Generating dynamic formation strategies based on human experience and game conditions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2008 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-50249152460

Part of ISSN: 03029743 16113349
Contributors: Atkinson, J.; Rojas, D.
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Using genetic algorithms to model road networks

Computer
2008 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-64049086227

Part of ISSN: 00189162
Contributors: Pinninghoff, M.; Contreras, R.; Atkinson, J.
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Evolving explanatory novel patterns for semantically-based text mining

Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
2007 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-79957663649

Contributors: Atkinson, J.
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