Publications

For articles from my science journalism see here.

Journal articles

Emma Byrne and Christian Huyck (2010) "Processing with Cell Assemblies" Neurocomputing, In Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.09.024.

Andrew Sparkes, Ross D. King, Wayne Aubrey, Michael Benway, Emma Byrne, Amanda Clare, Maria Liakata, Magdalena Markham, Kenneth E. Whelan, Michael Young, Jem Rowland (2010) "An Integrated Laboratory Robotic System for Autonomous Discovery of Gene Function" Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation, 15(1), pp 33-40 DOI 10.1016/j.jala.2009.10.001

Ross D. King, Jem Rowland, Stephen G. Oliver, Michael Young, Wayne Aubrey, Emma Byrne, Maria Liakata, Magdalena Markham, Pinar Pir, Larisa N. Soldatova, Andrew Sparkes, Kenneth E. Whelan, Amanda Clare  (2009),  "The automation of science," Science, 324(5923), pp. 85 - 89 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165620

Trisha Greenhalgh, Katja Stramer, Tanja Bratan, Emma Byrne,  Yara Mohammad, and Jill Russell (2008), "Introduction of shared electronic records: multi-site case study using diffusion of innovation theory", BMJ 2008;337:a1786; doi:10.1136/bmj.a1786

J Russell, T Greenhalgh, E Byrne, J McDonnell (2008), "Recognising rhetoric in healthcare policy analysis", J Health Serv Res Policy 13(1): 40-46; doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2007.006029

E Byrne (2006) "A Logical Framework for Identifying and Explaining Unexpected News", Computing and Informatics, 25(2-3):127-152

E Byrne and A Hunter (2005) "Evaluating violations of expectations to find exceptional information", Data and Knowledge Engineering, 54(2):97-120.

E Byrne and A Hunter (2004) "Man bites dog: Looking for interesting inconsistencies in structured news reports", Data and Knowledge Engineering, 48(3):265-285.


Book Chapters

D Corney, E Byrne, B Buxton and D Jones (2008) "A Logical Framework for Template Creation and Information Extraction" in Lin, Xie, Wasilewska and Liau (Eds.) Data Mining: Foundations and Practice, Vol 118 of Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer), pp 79--108.


Conference Proceedings

Byrne E. (2007) "Optimising the flow of experiments to a Robot Scientist with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007

Corney, D. P. A., Byrne, E.L., Buxton, B. F. and Jones, D. T. (2005) "A Logical Framework for Template Creation and Information Extraction", Foundations of Semantic Oriented Data and Web Mining workshop, part of ICDM2005 (the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining)


Workshop Papers

Huyck C. and Byrne E. (2009) "Questions Arising from a Proto-Neural Cognitive Architecture" Biologically Inspired Cognitive ArchitecturesPart of AAAI FAll Symposium, November 2009.

Byrne E., Diaper D, Huyck C, (2009) "Collaborating with Neural Network-based Artificial Intelligence Agents", Human Interaction with Intelligent & Networked Systems - IUI Conference Workshop. 8-11 February, Florida, USA.

Russell, J., Greenhalgh, T., Byrne, E., McDonnell, J. (2007) "Rhetoric and Argumentation: Evidence Based Policy-Making", Enquiry, Evidence and Facts, The British Academy

Byrne E. (2005) "Because Men Don't Bite Dogs: A Logical Framework for Identifying and Explaining Unexpected News", International Symposium on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2005), Part of AAAI FAll Symposium, November 2005. An extended version of this paper also appears in Vol 25, Issue 2 of Computing and Informatics.


Reports 

Greenhalgh T, Stramer K, Bratan T, Byrne E, Russell J, Mohammad Y, Wood G, Hinder S. (2008) Summary Care Record Early Adopter programme: An independent evaluation by University College London.   Commissioned by NHS Connecting for Health.

Byrne E, Kalra D, Stramer K, Greenhalgh T (2008) Data Quality Evaluation for the Summary Care Record: An independent evaluation by University College London.  Commissioned by NHS Connecting for Health.

PhD thesis available on request

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