Peter Edwards

Publication List Details

Period

1975 - 2009

Number

111

Co-Authors

Parasitism of non-target lepidoptera by mass released Trichogramma brassicae and its implication for the larval parasitoid Lydella thompsoni (2009)

Kuske, Stefan, Babendreier, Dirk, Edwards, Peter, Turlings, Ted C. J., Bigler, Franz

The release of high numbers of the eggparasitoid Trichogramma brassicae Bezd.(Hym. Trichogrammatidae) to control the European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinianubilalis Hb. (Lep.: Crambidae) in maize...

Parasitism of non-target lepidoptera by mass released Trichogramma brassicae and its implication for the larval parasitoid Lydella thompsoni (2009)

Kuske, Stefan, Babendreier, Dirk, Edwards, Peter, Turlings, Ted C. J., Bigler, Franz

The release of high numbers of the eggparasitoid Trichogramma brassicae Bezd.(Hym. Trichogrammatidae) to control the European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinianubilalis Hb. (Lep.: Crambidae) in maize...

Apoptotic cells promote their own clearance and immune tolerance through activation of the nuclear receptor LXR (2009)

Alonso-Gonzalez, Noelia, Bensinger, Steven J., Hong, Cynthia, Beceiro, Susana, Bradley, Michelle N., Zelcer, Noam, ...

14 pages, 7 figures.-- Article in press, to appear in Issue 31 (Aug 21, 2009).-- Supporting information available at: http://www.cell.com/immunity/supplemental/S1074-7613(09)00318-5

Building a Social Semantic Web for eScience (2009)

Peter Edwards, Richard Reid, Alison Chorley, Feikje Hielkema, Rudradeb Mitra, Edoardo Pignotti

In this paper we discuss how Social Semantic Web ideas can be used in an eScience context to deliver tools to researchers in the social sciences. We describe a virtual research environment...

Department of Computing Science, (2008)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

Abstract We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Consider a community of agents where each agent has a limited view of the overall world. When an...

Modelling a receiver’s position to persuasive arguments (2008)

Hien Nguyen, Judith Masthoff, Peter Edwards

Social psychology shows that the effect of a persuasive argument depends on characteristics of the person to be persuaded, including the person’s involvement with the topic and the discrepancy...

Department of Computing Science, (2008)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Previous systems have used methods based on voting strategies or theory refinement to integrate multiple...

Department of Computing Science, (2008)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Previous systems have used methods based on voting strategies or theory refinement to integrate multiple...

An AI Approach to the Interpretation of the NMR Spectra of Proteins (2008)

Peter Edwards, Derek Sleeman, Lu Yun Lian

The use of computers in chemistry and biochemistry has been widespread for many years, with machines performing many complex numerical calculations, e.g. solving quantum mechanical problems. However,...

About the Editor (2008)

Edwards, Peter

About the editor for 'Defence Policy-Making'

In the tradition [sound recording] : writing our official history of the Vietnam war (2008)

Edwards, Peter

Talk recorded at the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, the University of Adelaide, 17 July 2008, at a free public talk hosted by the Friends of the University of Adelaide Library and the History...

In the tradition [sound recording] : writing our official history of the Vietnam war (2008)

Edwards, Peter

Talk recorded at the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, the University of Adelaide, 17 July 2008, at a free public talk hosted by the Friends of the University of Adelaide Library and the History...

1 AUCS/TR9405 Building Agent-Based Systems (2007)

Ciara Byrne, Peter Edwards

One major focus of effort in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) research has been the development of software environments which support the construction of systems involving multiple...

1 Communicating Inductive Inferences In Agent Societies (2007)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards, Kings College

Although our work does not directly address the question of learning through imitation, we believe it is relevant to this workshop as it addresses the question of how agents should exchange inductive...

Aberdeen, (2007)

Peter Edwards, Ab Ue

This report describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented

Aberdeen, (2007)

Peter Edwards, Ab Ue

This report describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented

Ciara Byrne (2007)

Ciara Byrne, Peter Edwards, Scotland Ab Ue

A group of intelligent agents may work together in order to solve a problem or achieve a common goal. If the group fails to achieve a goal, it may be able to adapt its behaviour so that such a goal...

The Utility of Unbiased Learning (2007)

Peter Edwards

: Multi-agent systems that incorporate machine learning algorithms require protocols and techniques that allow agents to communicate, revise, integrate, and employ hypotheses. There are three...

Experience with Learning Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (2007)

Claire Green David, David Bayer, Peter Edwards

This paper presents the issues involved in the application of machine learning techniques to the management of Internet-based information. We describe two applications, one dealing with USENET News...

, Thomas List 1 (2007)

Jrg Kller, Christoph Quix, Mareike Schoop, Matthias Jarke, Peter Edwards, Michel Pons

Information technology (IT) continues to be increasingly important as a critical area of business competency. In the US, estimated expenditures for IT are pegged at about 8 % of revenue. This...

Scotland (2007)

Peter Edwards, Gunnar Aastr, Alun Preece

Abstract. The Semantic Web is a vision of a machine readable Web of resources, interlinked and connected through meta-data with common ontologies. In this paper we explore the impact such a Semantic...

Conjuring Fascinating Stories: the Case of Sir Arthur Tange (2006)

Edwards, Peter

Chapter 13 of 'Australian Political Lives: Chronicling political careers and administrative histories'

Measuring access to primary care appointments: a review of methods (2003)

Jones, Wendy, Elwyn, Glyn, Edwards, Peter, Edwards, Adrian, Emmerson, Melody, Hibbs, Richard

Abstract Background Patient access to primary care appointments is not routinely measured despite the increasing interest in this aspect of practice activity. The generation of standardised data (or...

Losses and Gains. "Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969" by Joan Beaumont et al. [review] (2003)

Edwards, Peter

This book is an important contribution towards understanding the milieu in which Australia's foreign policy was formed, between 1941 and 1969. It does so principally by looking at the interaction of...

Losses and Gains. "Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969" by Joan Beaumont et al. [review] (2003)

Edwards, Peter

This book is an important contribution towards understanding the milieu in which Australia's foreign policy was formed, between 1941 and 1969. It does so principally by looking at the interaction of...

A 'real puzzle': the views of patients with epilepsy about the organisation of care (2003)

Elwyn, Glyn, Todd, Stuart, Hibbs, Richard, Thapar, Ajay, Edwards, Peter, Webb, Amanda, ...

Abstract Background Little is known about how individuals who have a diagnosis of epilepsy have experienced healthcare services or their views about how they should best be organised to meet their...

Losses and Gains. "Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969" by Joan Beaumont et al. [review] (2003)

Edwards, Peter

This book is an important contribution towards understanding the milieu in which Australia's foreign policy was formed, between 1941 and 1969. It does so principally by looking at the interaction of...

Losses and Gains. "Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969" by Joan Beaumont et al. [review] (2003)

Edwards, Peter

This book is an important contribution towards understanding the milieu in which Australia's foreign policy was formed, between 1941 and 1969. It does so principally by looking at the interaction of...

Losses and Gains. "Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969" by Joan Beaumont et al. [review] (2003)

Edwards, Peter

This book is an important contribution towards understanding the milieu in which Australia's foreign policy was formed, between 1941 and 1969. It does so principally by looking at the interaction of...

Case Study 2: Seed Treatment (2001)

Edwards, Peter, Romijn, Kees, Avery, Michael, Barfknecht, Ralf, Clook, Mark, Slob, Wout, ...

General information and use pattern Function: Insecticide seed treatment Mode of action: Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor Type and composition of formulation: Cereal seed treatment with colored...

Dimensionality Reduction through Sub-Space Mapping for Nearest Neighbour Algorithms (2000)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes present in the data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies have demonstrated that this assumption...

Dimensionality Reduction through Sub-Space Mapping for Nearest Neighbour Algorithms (2000)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes present in the data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies have demonstrated that this assumption...

Aquaculture, Poverty Impacts and Livelihoods (2000)

Edwards, Peter

"Aquaculture is often viewed narrowly as intensive culture of salmon and shrimp to provide high value products for luxury markets and is often associated with environmental degradation. The promotion...

Exploiting a Web Cache for User Recommendations (2000)

Peter Edwards, Murray Steele, Simon E. Clare, Darren M. Johns

In this paper we describe work in progress on the development of a central data store with integrated support for recommender agents. The Hitchcock proxy is detailed, and two recommender agent...

Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...

Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...

Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...

Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)

Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards

Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...

Machine Learning: Proceedings of the International Workshop (9th) (ML92) Held in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 1-3 July 1992, (1998)

Sleeman, Derek, Edwards, Peter

Partial contents: On Learning More Concepts; Eliminating Redundancy in Explanation Based Learning; Improving Path Planning with Learning; Learning to Predict in Uncertain Continuous Tasks; A Teaching...

Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have been...

Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have been...

Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have been...

Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)

Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards

. The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have...

Weight Saliency Regularisation in Augmented Networks (1998)

Peter Edwards, Alan F. Murray

. This paper introduces the concept of "optimally distributed computation " in feed-forward neural networks via regularisation of weight saliency. By constraining the relative importance of...

Interface Agents that Learn: An investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1997)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...

Experience with Rule Induction and k-Nearest Neighbour Methods for Interface Agents that Learn (1997)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter, Green, Claire L.

Interface Agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been developed which...

Interface Agents that Learn: An investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1997)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...

Experience with Rule Induction and k-Nearest Neighbour Methods for Interface Agents that Learn (1997)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter, Green, Claire L.

Interface Agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been developed which...

Interface Agents that Learn: An investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1997)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...

Experience with Rule Induction and k-Nearest Neighbour Methods for Interface Agents that Learn (1997)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter, Green, Claire L.

Interface Agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been developed which...

Intelligent agents j learning agents (1997)

Peter Edwards

pealwards csd. abdn. ac. uk I Introduction: Why Agents Must Learn The title of this workshop (Intelligent Agents) will almost certainly mean different things to different people;

Intelligent Agents = Learning Agents (1997)

Peter Edwards

Introduction: Why Agents Must Learn The title of this workshop (Intelligent Agents) will almost certainly mean different things to different people

The Communication of Inductive Inferences (1997)

Winton Davies Peter, Peter Edwards

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Previous systems have used methods based on voting strategies or theory refinement to integrate multiple...

The Communication of Inductive Inferences (1997)

Winton Davies Peter, Peter Edwards

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Previous systems have used methods based on voting strategies or theory refinement to integrate multiple...

The Communication of Inductive Inferences (1997)

Winton Davies And, Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Consider a community of agents where each agent has a limited view of the overall world. When an agent in...

The Communication of Inductive Inferences (1997)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Consider a community of agents where each agent has a limited view of the overall world. When an agent in...

Just how effective is the Mathematics Diagnostic Test and Follow-up Support Combination? (1997)

EDWARDS, PETER

Widening access is just one reason for the recent increase of students entering UK universities with non-standard qualifications. Currently, Higher Education providers face the possibility of having...

Using Machine Learning to Enhance Software Tools for Internet Information Management (1996)

Claire Green Peter, Peter Edwards

This paper discusses the issues involved in the application of machine learning techniques to the management of Internet-based information. We present a general architecture, and describe how this...

Experience with Learning Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (1996)

Peter Edwards, David Bayer, Claire L. Green, Terry R. Payne

To provide assistance with tasks such as retrieving USENET news articles or identifying interesting Web pages, an intelligent agent requires information about a user's interests and needs....

Using Machine Learning to Enhance Software Tools for Internet Information Management (1996)

Claire Green, Peter Edwards

This paper discusses the issues involved in the application of machine learning techniques to the management of Internet-based information. We present a general architecture, and describe how this...

Experience with learning agents which manage Internet-based information (1996)

Peter Edwards, David Bayer, Claire L. Green, Terry R. Payne

To provide assistance with tasks such as retrieving USENET news articles or identifying interesting Web pages, an intelligent agent requires information about a user's interests and needs....

Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...

Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...

Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)

Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter

In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...

Interface Agents that Learn: An Investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1995)

Payne, Terry, Edwards, Peter

In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...

Interface Agents that Learn: An Investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1995)

Payne, Terry, Edwards, Peter

In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...

Distributed Learning: An Agent-Based Approach to Data-Mining (1995)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

This extended abstract summarises our current research which spans the fields of knowledge discovery and software agents. Knowledge discovery (or data-mining) is

Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)

Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards

In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...

Refinement in Agent Groups (1995)

Ciara Byrne And, Ciara Byrne, Peter Edwards, Scotland Ab Ue

. A group of intelligent agents may work together in order to solve a problem or achieve a common goal. If the group fails to achieve a goal, it may be able to adapt its behaviour so that such a goal...

Collaborating to Refine Knowledge (1995)

Ciara Byrne, Scotland Ab Ue, Peter Edwards

A group of intelligent agents may work together in order to solve a problem or achieve a common goal. The group may fail to achieve a goal due to the actions of one or more agents. The agents should...

Distributed Learning: An Agent-Based Approach to Data-Mining (1995)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

this paper only presents preliminary, propositional results which do not reflect the more complex aspects associated with first order learning.

Interface Agents that Learn: An Investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1995)

Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards

In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...

Towards Practical Interface Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (1995)

Claire L Green, David Bayer, Peter Edwards

This paper presents the issues involved in the application of agent technology to the management of Internet-based information. We present a general architecture, and discuss how this has been...

Distributed Learning: An Agent-Based Approach to Data-Mining (1995)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

this paper only presents preliminary, propositional results which do not reflect the more complex aspects associated with first order learning. Software agents (Levy, Sagiv & Srivastava, 1994;...

Experience with Rule Induction and k-Nearest Neighbour Methods for Interface Agents that Learn (1995)

Terry Payne, Peter Edwards, Claire Green

this paper use the same feature extraction mechanism, which extracts words according to word frequency. The underlying assumption here is that words which act as good classifiers for identifying...

Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)

Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards

In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...

Experience with Rule Induction and k-Nearest Neighbour Methods for Interface Agents that Learn (1995)

Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards, Claire L. Green

Abstract—Interface agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been...

Contents (1994)

Peter Edwards, Ab Ue

This report describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented

Aberdeen, (1994)

Peter Edwards, Ab Ue

This report describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented

Agent-K: An Integration of AOP and KQML (1994)

Winton Davies Peter, Peter Edwards

This paper describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented Programming, Shoham (1990), and the Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language, Finin (1993). The initial...

Agent-K: An Integration of AOP and KQML (1994)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

This paper describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented Programming, Shoham (1990), and the Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language, Finin (1993). The initial...

Agent-K: An Integration of AOP and KQML (1994)

Winton Davies, Peter Edwards

This paper describes a synthesis of two well-known agent paradigms: Agent-Oriented Programming, Shoham (1990), and the Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language, Finin (1993). The initial...

Building Agent-Based Systems (1994)

Ciara Byrne, Peter Edwards

One major focus of effort in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) research has been the development of software environments which support the construction of systems involving multiple...

Health museums or theme parks: A new approach to intersectoral collaboration (1986)

SEYMOUR, HOWARD, ASHTON, JOHN, EDWARDS, PETER

This paper is an outline of a proposed initiative on intersectoral collaboration in health promotion—collaboration between health, tourist, cultural and entertainment sectors to provide a powerful...

Job satisfaction of South African quantity surveyors: an empirical study

Paul Bowen, Keith Cattell, Greg Distiller, Peter Edwards

A web-based national questionnaire survey of the opinions of registered South African quantity surveyors was undertaken to establish their levels of job satisfaction. Issues explored included...

Modelling Weight- and Input-Noise in MLP Learning

Peter Edwards, Alan F. Murray

This paper presents a study of weight- and input-noise in feed-forward network training algorithms. In theory for the optimal least-squares case noise can be modelled by a single cost function term....