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Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., & Idowu, O. (2005). Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics. In WSOM 2005 (179-186)

Correct and efficient text classification is a major challenge in today’s world of rapidly increasing amount of accessible electronic text data. Kohonen networks have been applied to document classification with comparable success to other document c... Read More about Kohonen networks with graph-based augmented metrics.

Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wennekers, T., Ay, N., & Andras, P. (2005). Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems. In 6th Neural Coding Workshop

Brains are information processing systems evolutionary adapted since millions of years. It seems plausible therefore that they follow information theoretic optimization principles. In the early visual system mutual information maximization (Infomax)... Read More about Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems.

Environmental risk (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andras, P., Lazarus, J., Roberts, G., & Lynden, S. J. (2005). Environmental risk. In Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Socially Inspired Computing (88-94)

Environmental risk is an important factor that influences social evolution in natural and artificial environments. Here we analyse environmental risk and we define objective, subjective and effective environmental risk, which are important aspects of... Read More about Environmental risk.

The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules (2005)
Journal Article
Andras, P., & Andras, C. (2005). The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.20

The ‘protein interaction world’ (PIW) hypothesis of the origins of life assumes that life emerged as a self-reproducing and expanding system of protein interactions. In mainstream molecular biology, ‘replication’ refers to the material copying of mol... Read More about The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules.

Effectiveness of information provision in reducing risks to the environment (2005)
Report
Andras, P., Bush, J., Garratt, J., Hinks, J., Kennedy, A., Piggott, G., …Willis, K. (2005). Effectiveness of information provision in reducing risks to the environment. Defra

As part of a wider effort to develop new approaches to evaluating and quantifying the benefits of chemicals regulation, this project will review the effectiveness of existing information provision tools (such as classification and labelling for hazar... Read More about Effectiveness of information provision in reducing risks to the environment.

Self-Aware software – will it become a reality? (2005)
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2005). Self-Aware software – will it become a reality?. In O. Babaoglu, M. Jelasity, A. Montresor, C. Fetzer, & S. Leonardi (Eds.), Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: conceptual and Practical Foundations

The possibility of building self-aware software fascinated computer scientist since the beginning of computer science. Research in AI, and in particular on software agents, agent system, computational reflection and reflective software delivered inte... Read More about Self-Aware software – will it become a reality?.

Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork (2005)
Book Chapter
Andras, P., & Lazarus, J. (2005). Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork. In N. Gold (Ed.), Teamwork: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (56-77). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523203_4

Our aims in this chapter are twofold. First, we place teamwork in the context of the evolutionary analysis of cooperation and altruism. This allows us to predict the evolutionary scenarios likely to have favoured the evolution of team work, the proba... Read More about Cooperation, risk and the evolution of teamwork.

Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform (2005)
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005). Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1562

University and higher education comprising a multi-disciplinary training in abstract, systematic reasoning has a vital role in modernizing societies. Such an education seems to have broadly favourable results both in terms of the individual and of so... Read More about Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform.

Pattern computation in neural communication systems (2005)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2005). Pattern computation in neural communication systems. Biological Cybernetics, 92, 452-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-005-0572-0

Biological data suggests that activity patterns emerging in small- and large-scale neural systems may play an important role in performing the functions of the neural system, and in particular, neural computations. It is proposed in this paper that n... Read More about Pattern computation in neural communication systems.

Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine (2005)
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005). Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 11(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1

Modernization is the trend for societies to grow functionally more complex, efficient and productive. Modernization usually occurs by increased specialization of function (e.g. division of labour, such as the proliferation of specialists  in  medicin... Read More about Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine.

Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse (2005)
Journal Article
Charlton, B., & Andras, P. (2005). Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 98(1), 53-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hci003

The continual and uninterrupted expansion of medical research funding is generally assumed to be a permanent feature of modern societies, but this expectation may turn out to be mistaken. Sciences tend to go through boom and bust phases. Twentieth ce... Read More about Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse.