Ken Brown

Publication List Details

Period

1972 - 2009

Number

40

Co-Authors

Building fire emergency detection and response using wireless sensor networks (2009)

Zeng, Yuanyuan, Murphy, Sean Og, Sitanayah, Lanny, Tabirca, Tatiana, Truong, Thuy, Brown, Ken, ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a low cost solution with respect to maintenance and installation and in particular, building refurbishment and retrofitting are easily accomplished via...

THE PRODUCT OF SIMPLICES OF A BUILDING (2008)

Ken Brown

A valuable reference for these notes is the paper by Dress and Scharlau [1], already cited in the exercises on products and convexity. Recall that the simplices of a Coxeter complex form a semigroup....

INTRODUCTION TO KAC–MOODY GROUPS AND TWIN BUILDINGS (2008)

Ken Brown

Abstract. Kac–Moody groups are infinite-dimensional generalizations of reductive linear algebraic groups. Twin buildings are generalizations of spherical

ROOT GROUPS (2008)

Ken Brown

Abstract. In Chevalley’s construction of groups corresponding to the complex semisimple Lie algebras, the root groups play a fundamental role. These are 1-parameter unipotent subgroups Uα...

Pesticide Hazard and Exposure Reduction (PHAER) Zones (2008)

Boise, Phil, Brown, Ken

As California's population continues to grow, high demand for fresh water and pesticide use will only accelerate the water shortage problem. UC Santa Barbara will be presenting their methodology of...

Identifying Inconsistent CSPs by Relaxation (2008)

Tomas Nordl, Ken Brown, Derek Sleeman

aims to unify problem solving, knowledge acquisition and knowledge-base refinement in a single computational framework. Given a set of Knowledge Bases (KBs) and Problem Solvers (PSs), the...

Constraint Relaxation Techniques to Aid the Reuse of Knowledge Bases and Problem Solvers (2008)

Tomas Nordl, Ken Brown, Derek Sleeman

Abstract: Effective re-use of knowledge bases requires the identification of plausible combinations of both problem solvers and knowledge bases, which can be an expensive task. Can we identify...

Identifying inconsistent CSPs by Relaxation (2008)

Tomas Nordl, Ken Brown, Derek Sleeman

Abstract. How do we identify inconsistent CSPs quickly? This paper presents relaxation as one possible method; showing how we can generate relaxed CSPs which are easier to prove inconsistent. We...

Parallel Asynchronous Memetic Algorithms (2007)

Richard Bradwell, Ken Brown

This paper discusses our recent research combining a GA (Goldberg 1989) with Tabu search (Glover 1993) in an asynchronous manner, which also extends the idea of Memetic Algorithms (Moscato 1989). Our...

Decision Network Semantics of Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (2007)

Ken Brown, Peter Lucas, David Fowler

Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (BCSPs) have been introduced to model dynamic resource allocation subject to constraints and uncertainty. We give BCSPs a formal probability semantics by...

THE EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR A CLASS OF INDEFINITE WEIGHT SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS (2007)

Bongsoo Ko, Ken Brown

In this paper we discuss the existence of positive classical solutions of the boundary value problems:

Decision Network Semantics of Branching (2007)

K. Brown, P. Lucas, D. Fowler, Ken Brown, Peter Lucas, David Fowler

Branching Constraint Satisfaction Problems (BCSPs) have been introduced to model dynamic resource allocation subject to constraints and uncertainty. We give BCSPs a formal probability semantics by...

Mid-IR interferometric nulling for TPF (2006)

Wallace, Kent James, Babtiwale, Vivek, Bartos, Randy, Brown, Ken, Gappinger, Robert, Loya, Frank, ...

By the middle of 2006, the Interferometry Technology development program for NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Mission has the goal of demonstrating deep and stable interferometric nulling of...

Progress in broadband infrared nulling technology for TPF (2006)

Wallace, J. Kent, Brown, Ken, Bartos, Randall, Gappinger, Robert, Loya, Frank, Macdonald, Dan, ...

TPF-I has set for itself a host of challenging technical milestones along its path to demonstrating the feasibility of infrared nulling for planet detection Progress in each of these areas of...

Soft consistencies for weighted csps (2003)

Ken Brown

Abstract. A number of local consistency properties have recently been defined for weighted CSPs. We split the consistency definitions into a component arising from the constraint tuples, and a...

Targeted epidermal expression of mutant Connexin 26(D66H) mimics true Vohwinkel syndrome and provides a model for the pathogenesis of dominant connexin disorders (2003)

Bakirtzis, George, Choudhry, Rukhsana, Aasen, Trond, Shore, Leonard, Brown, Ken, Bryson, Sheila, ...

To investigate the role of connexins in dominantly inherited skin disease, transgenic mice were produced which expressed mutant connexin 26 [gjb2/connexin 26(D66H)], from a keratin 10 promoter,...

Application Of Multi-Agent Cooperative Search To The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (1997)

Richard Bradwell, Ken Brown

For a given problem domain there usually exists a number of different applicable heuristic problem solving approaches which differ in the amount of domain knowledge used, run time, time complexity...

Education, culture and critical thinking. (1996)

Brown, Ken.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Aberdeen, 1996.

Transgenic Animals in Toxicology (1994)

GOLDSWORTHY, THOMAS L., REICO, LESLIE, BROWN, KEN, DONEHOWER, LAWRENCE A., MIRSALIS, JON C., TENNANT, RAYMOND W., ...

Recent advances have been made in the characterization of a number of transgenic animal models. These animal models have provided a powerful toxicological tool for studying in vivo chemical effects...

Inappropriate reattendances in out-patient departments (1992)

Armstrong, David, Brown, Ken, Tatford, Patrick, Armstrong, Pauline

In an attempt to identify the number and characteristics of inappropriate reattendances at out-patient clinicś, clinic doctors and patients in two specialties throughout a health district were...

Analysis of heart block and dysrhythmias by His bundle electrograms (1972)

SMITHEN, CHARLES S., BROWN, KEN, FLUCK, DAVID, SOWTON, EDGAR

AUTHORS' SYNOPSISFive representative cases are presented where His bundle electrograms were of value in enabling dysrhythmias to be analysed more precisely than by a surface electrocardiogram alone....

Increased skin tumorigenesis in mice lacking pi class glutathione S-transferases

Henderson, Colin J., Smith, Austin G., Ure, Jan, Brown, Ken, Bacon, E. Jane, Wolf, C. Roland

The activity of chemical carcinogens is a complex balance between metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 monooxygenases and detoxification by enzymes such as glutathione S-transferase (GST)....

Physical Aspects of Fruit Growth: STRESS DISTRIBUTION AROUND LENTICELS

Brown, Ken, Considine, John

The skin around a lenticel on a soft fruit has been modelled as a thin elastic plate with a rigid circular inclusion and applied tensile loads at the edges. A solution for the stress distribution in...

Physical Aspects of Fruit Growth 1: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTION OF SURFACE GROWTH FORCES IN FRUIT IN RELATION TO CRACKING AND SPLITTING

Considine, John, Brown, Ken

The theory of shells has been applied to some aspects of the physics of fruit growth. Four form and structural attributes are identified which may intensify mechanical stress in the skin of a growing...

Increased skin tumorigenesis in mice lacking pi class glutathione S-transferases

Henderson, Colin J., Smith, Austin G., Ure, Jan, Brown, Ken, Bacon, E. Jane, Wolf, C. Roland

The activity of chemical carcinogens is a complex balance between metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 monooxygenases and detoxification by enzymes such as glutathione S-transferase (GST)....

Physical Aspects of Fruit Growth: STRESS DISTRIBUTION AROUND LENTICELS

Brown, Ken, Considine, John

The skin around a lenticel on a soft fruit has been modelled as a thin elastic plate with a rigid circular inclusion and applied tensile loads at the edges. A solution for the stress distribution in...

Physical Aspects of Fruit Growth 1: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTION OF SURFACE GROWTH FORCES IN FRUIT IN RELATION TO CRACKING AND SPLITTING

Considine, John, Brown, Ken

The theory of shells has been applied to some aspects of the physics of fruit growth. Four form and structural attributes are identified which may intensify mechanical stress in the skin of a growing...