Antonia J. Jones
"I never saw a
wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
Without ever having felt sorry
for itself."
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
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Professor Emerita of Evolutionary and
Neural Computation [Now based in Florida] Photo Circa 1986 courtesy: © Peter
Dawkes, Studio Carr Ltd. Wokingham (Summer 2003) Photo courtesy: © Paul Felton, The
Actual Image Ltd. Redditch. (Summer 2004) Relaxing at the Beachcomber
Restaurant, St. Augustine FL. © AJJ 2004. The Microsoft Motto? "We will
render you every assistance short of actual help". (Reputed to have been said by Robert
Kennedy describing Canada's position during the Cuban Missile crisis.) Mystery
Google Earth Anomaly - What is this? It is 63miles
long and 0.3 miles wide at 46º18'46.22"N, 119º54'30.50"E (or click on
GE file <here>).
Is it an imaging artifact or is it real? [See <here>
thanks to John Busby] This is my home page. On it you will find links to: Lectures in pdf format with Mathematica
files. Pictures (miscellaneous and around
the Research Farm). One at a time
(low bandwidth link) or all at once (high
bandwidth link). Linda's
birthday. My vote
for the best webcam ever (needs Real Player and broadband) with profound thanks to
Pete Le Roux and Cameron Murie.
Documentaries and Interviews
Audio and Video Richard A. Bartle:
Danger Micros can damage your marriage Ph.D.
theses in pdf format - where these are
available - below. Some
unpublished papers in .pdf format. Self-replicating
probes for galactic exploration. Essays
Information Technology and
Government The Perception
of Reality Last chapter of unfinished book.
Dual Heat Source H2 Central Heating
Controller. Installation of an H2 Controller in a Welsh Farmhouse. Brazil for the unwary.
A quick guide to the do's and don'ts for the traveller in UgWord for the unwary. A quick guide to
UgWord for students preparing projects.
WiFi for the unwary. Wireless networks - common problems and some
solutions. Trials and tribulations of
getting a Windows LapTop WiFi connected.
Norton Firewall for the unwary. How to punch an application-specific hole in
Norton firewall.
War, War and
More War. Reflections on Bush's Wars
Windows Computing
for the unwary. Some Tips to make the Windows experience more endurable.
Where Next? Further reflections on the
Bush-Blair wars.
SOFTWARE The Gamma test
!!!
winGammaTM is now
Freeware !!!! Other non-linear modelling tools now available include: ☻ A Command
line Gamma test controlled by a script file. This is useful for running
multiple gamma tests, full embeddings etc. It comes in a compiled DOS form
and is also available in the UNIX source code. ☻The
support MathematicaTM
files for test data generation,
analysis and graphics generation. This collection includes a Windows compiled
version of the Gamma test which can be called from a MathematicaTM
file . ☻R-package with (optional) approximate near neighbour routine for fast Gamma
test.
Available from the R-site.
☻<NEW!>
Windows and Linux compiled (optional)
approximate near neighbour routine for fast Gamma test callable from
MATLABTM
has finally arrived. We are now working on Mac versions. These tools can be downloaded or located from the
Gamma archive . (See also the winGamma site for other background material.) Other
Useful Windows Freeware RSA Cryptography
System (J. R. Rabaiotti 2003 - Updated 2008 - Version
2.2 now available.) Three favourite movies:
Blade Runner (1982),
Heaven's Gate (1980),
The Deer Hunter (1978). Hero:
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809). Graduated from
Her papers cover such
subjects as Number Theory and Diophantine Approximation, Diophantine Equations,
Computer Aided Instruction, Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms, and
applications of Neural Computing and Genetic Algorithms to Control Theory, the
Analysis Control and Synchronization of Chaotic Systems, Signal Processing and
Speech Recognition. She has written several books on Game Theory and Computing, is a
Fellow of the British Computer
Society (FBCS), a Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP), a
Senior Member of IEEE, a
Life Fellow of the Cambridge
Philosophical Society (FCPS), and is on the Editorial Boards of
Neural Computing & Applications and
Computational Management Science. She started her
professional career as a pure mathematician and became progressively interested
in Computing, especially machine learning, neural computing, and massively
parallel genetic algorithms. More recently she has been working on the control
and synchronisation of chaotic dynamical systems with particular reference to
neural chaos. In the early 1980's she published a number of books and articles
on home computing and was Series Editor for Ellis Horwood's series in Home
Computing. She also ran her own software company (Ridge Systems).
At Brunel she managed a
project on Computer Aided Instruction and jointly managed a research initiative
funded by British Telecom Research Laboratories in
applications of neural net models to speech recognition.
She has helped to prepare
AI and Neural Net courses for Control Data Corporation and
Bellcore,
acted as consultant in advanced computing techniques for a number of major
companies, has been an invited visitor to GMD, Cologne,
Germany, New Mexico State University, the Oregon
Graduate Institute, Weizmann Institute, Israel,
Coppe
Sistemas, UF Rio de Janeiro, and has a continuing research
relationship with Laboratório de Inteligência Computacional,
So Carlos-USP, Brazil.
Her main professional
interests are massively parallel models of computation, connectionist
architectures, algorithms for the extraction of noise applied to the prediction
and control of chaotic dynamics, analysis of probabilistic algorithms for hard
combinatoric search, and learning algorithms with particular reference to
speech recognition and signal processing. Recently she has been particularly
interested in very high security cryptography. She also has a mild ongoing
interest in applications of AI to Computer Aided Instruction.
[For early biographical
details see: A. Buckley, Women in Electrical Engineering, Int. J. Elec. Eng.
Educ., Vol. 21, pp 202-203, 1984.]
Non-parametric
estimation of residual moments and covariance. Dafydd Evans and Antonia
J. Jones. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Series A, 464(2099): 2831-2846, 2008.
doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.0195. [Preprint
PDF]
Exact Solutions for Sturm-Liouville problems on trees via
novel substitute systems and the Wittrick-Williams algorithm. Fred W.
Williams, Andrew Watson, W. Paul Howson and Antonia J. Jones. Proc. Roy. Soc.
Lond. Series A, 463(2088): 3195-3224, 2007. doi 10.1098/rspa.2007.1905.
Preprint PDF
(includes electronic Appendix) [429KB]. Anti-keylogging measures for secure Internet
login: an example of the law of unintended consequences. Stuart P. Goring,
Joseph R. Rabaiotti and Antonia J. Jones. Computers & Security, 26:
419-444, 2007. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2007.05.002.
Preprint PDF [217KB] (also see <here>).
New Screening software shows that most recent large 16S rRNA gene clone
libraries contain chimeras. Kevin E. Ashelford, Nadia A. Chuzhanova, John C.
Fry, Antonia J. Jones, and Andrew J. Weightman. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology, 72(9), 5734-5741, 2006.
doi:10.1128/AEM.00556-06. Preprint
PDF [435KB] At Least 1 in 20 16S rRNA Sequence Records Currently Held in Public
Repositories Is Estimated To Contain Substantial Anomalies. Kevin E.
Ashelford, Nadia A. Chuzhanova, John C. Fry, Antonia J. Jones, and Andrew J.
Weightman. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(12), 7724-7736,
December 2005. AEM.71.12.7724-7736.2005.
Preprint PDF[713KB] New Tools in Non-linear Modelling
and Prediction.
Antonia J. Jones. Computational Management Science, 1(2):109-149, 2004. Preprint PDF [1.9 MB] Predicting Housing
Value: Attribute Selection and Dependence Modelling Utilising the Gamma Test. I. D. Wilson, Antonia J. Jones, D.
H. Jenkins, and J. A. Ware. Advances in Econometrics, 19, 243-275,
2004. Elsevier Ltd. ISSN 0731-9053/doi:10,1016/D0731-9053(04)19010-5. Preprint
PDF [418KB] Asymptotic moments of near
neighbour distance distributions. D. Evans, Antonia J. Jones, W. M. Schmidt.
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Series A, 458(2028):2839-2849, 2002. Preprint PDF [248 KB] A proof of the Gamma test.
D. Evans and Antonia J. Jones. Proc. Roy. Soc. Series A, 458(2027),
2759-2799, 2002. Preprint PDF
[643 KB] Neural models
of arbitrary chaotic systems: construction and the role of time delayed
feedback in control and synchronization. Antonia J. Jones, A.P.M Tsui, and Ana G.
Oliveira. With html and pdf electronic
supplement. Complexity International, Volume 09, 2002. ISSN 1320-0682. Paper
ID: tsui01, URL:http://journal-ci.csse.monash.edu.au/ci/vol09/tsui01/ The construction of
smooth models using irregular embeddings determined by a Gamma test analysis. Alban P. Tsui, Antonia J. Jones
and Ana Guedes de Oliveira. Neural Computing & Applications, 10(4),
318-329, April 2002. ISSN 0-941-0643. [Preprint] The control of higher
dimensional chaos: comparative results for the chaotic satellite attitude control
problem, Alban
P. Tsui and Antonia J. Jones. Physica D, 135(1-2):41-62
January 2000. Periodic response to
external simulation of a chaotic neural network with delayed feedback. Alban P. Tsui and Antonia J.
Jones. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 9(4):713-722,
April 1999. Synchronisation of
chaotic maps by feedback control and application to secure communications using
chaotic neural networks. Ana Guedes de Oliveira and Antonia J. Jones. International Journal of
Bifurcation and Chaos, 8(11):2225-2237, November 1998 Feature selection for
genetic sequence classification, Nadia A. Chuzhanova, Antonia J. Jones and S. Margetts. Bioinformatics, 14(2):139-143,
1998. [Preprint] Adaptive Neuro-Genetic
Control of Chaos applied to the Attitude Control Problem, D. C. Dracopoulos and Antonia J.
Jones. Neural Computing & Applications, 6(2):102-115,
1997. ISSN 0-941-0643. [Preprint] Estimating the
Held-Karp Lower Bound for the Geometric Travelling Salesman Problem. Christine L. Valenzuela and Antonia
J. Jones. European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), 102(1):157-175,
1997. ISSN 0377-2217. [Preprint] A note on the Gamma
test, Adalbjörn
Stefánsson, N. Koncar and Antonia J. Jones. Neural Computing & Applications,
5(3):131-133, 1997. ISSN 0-941-0643. [Preprint] Well reservoir model
identification using translation and scale invariant higher order networks, A. Kumoluyi, T. S. Daltaban, N.
Koncar, Antonia J. Jones, and J. S Archer. Neural Computing & Applications,
3(3):128-138, 1995. ISSN 0-941-0643. [Preprint] Neuro-Genetic Adaptive
Attitude Control.
D. C. Dracopoulos and Antonia J. Jones. Neural Computing & Applications, 2(4):183-204,
1994. ISSN 0-941-0643. [Preprint] Evolutionary Divide and
Conquer (I): a novel genetic approach to the TSP. Christine L. Valenzuela and Antonia J. Jones.
Evolutionary Computation, 1(4):313-333, 1994. [Preprint] Neuromodels of analytic
Dynamic Systems.
D. C. Dracopoulos and Antonia J. Jones. Neural Computing & Applications, 1(4):268-279,
1993. ISSN 0-941-0643. Comparing networks with
differing neural-node functions using Transputer based genetic algorithms. D. Macfarlane and Antonia J.
Jones. Neural Computing & Applications, 1(4): 256-267,
1993. ISSN 0-941-0643.[Preprint] Genetic Algorithms and
their Applications to the Design of Neural Networks. Antonia J. Jones. Neural Computing
& Applications, 1(1):32-45, 1993. ISSN 0-941-0643. [Preprint] The Modular
Construction of Dynamic Nets. Antonia J. Jones. Neural Computing & Applications, 1(1):
91-95, 1993. ISSN 0-941-0643. Design Techniques for
Dynamically Evolving N-tuple Nets, M. J. Binstead and Antonia J. Jones. IEE Proceedings-E, 134
Part E No. 6, p265-269, November 1987. Heuristic confidence intervals for the Gamma test. Antonia J. Jones
and Samuel E. Kemp. The 2006 International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ICAI'06): June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA. Volume 2, pp
54-60, CSREA Press. ISBN 1-932415-98-X. [Preprint] An Adaptive Mapping for
Developmental Genetic Programming. Steve Margetts and Antonia J. Jones. Genetic Programming,
Proceedings of EuroGP'2001, Lake Como, Italy, April 18-20, Pages 97-107, Eds.
Julian F. Miller and Marco Tomassini and Pier Luca Lanzi and Conor Ryan and
Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi and William B. Langdon, Series LNCS 2038,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001. ISBN 3-540-41899-7. Non-linear modelling
and chaotic neural networks. Antonia J. Jones, Steve Margetts, Peter Durrant, and Alban P. M. Tsui.
Invited paper in Proceedings IV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes Neurais
(IV Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks) (SBRN2000), I
pp7-14 ISBN 0-7695-0856. Phlegmatic mappings for
function optimisation with genetic algorithms. Steve Margetts and Antonia J. Jones. Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) pp82-89. Edited by
Darrell Whitley, David Goldberg, Erick Cantu-Paz, Lee Spector, Ian Parmee and
Hans-Georg Beyer. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-55860-708-0. Emergent coordination
for distributed information management. Steven J. Lynden, O. F. Rana, Steve Margetts,
and Antonia J. Jones. Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (CEC 2000) pp 946-950. A. Zalzala, et al, (eds.),
Automating performance
analysis of neural algorithms. O. F. Rana, Antonia J. Jones, and P. G. Harrison. Fifteenth
Annual Using a neural network
to calculate the sensitivity vectors in synchronisation of chaotic maps. Ana Guedes de Oliveira, Alban P.
Tsui and Antonia J. Jones. In Proceedings 1997 International Symposium
on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA'97), 1:46-49
Vol I. Honolulu, U.S.A., November 29 - December 2, 1997. Research Society of
Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE. ISBN 0-7803-4247-X. [Preprint]. Parameter choices for
control of a chaotic neural network. Alban P. M. Tsui and Antonia J. Jones. AMSE-ISIS'97.
Synchronisation of chaotic
trajectories using parameter control. Ana Guedes de Oliveira and Antonia J. Jones. Proceedings
of the First International Conference on Control of Oscillations and Chaos
(COC'97). Editors: F.L. Chernousko and A.L. Fradkov, 1:46-49.
Learning a Markov
process with a synchronous Boltzmann machine. Ursula Iturraran and Antonia J. Jones. International
Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Networks 97 (IWANN'97),
Laranzote, Spain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1240,
Springer-Verlag, Eds. J. Mira and R. Moreno-Diaz. pp473-482, June 4, 1997. ISBN
3-540-63047-3 Breeding Permutations
for Minimum Span frequency Assignment. C. L. Valenzuela, S. Hurley and Antonia J.
Jones. International Conference on Artificial neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA97), A lacuna in the theory of asynchronous
Boltzmann machine learning. Antonia J. Jones. III Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes Neurais,
So A Parallel
Implementation of Evolutionary Divide and Conquer for the TSP. Christine L. Valenzuela and
Antonia J. Jones. The First IEE/IEEE International Conference on Genetic
Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA).
Adapative real-time
neural network attitude control of chaotic satellite motion. N. Konar and Antonia J. Jones.
Applications and Science of Artificial Neural Networks, 2492:112-123,
ISBN 0-8194-1845-5, 1995. Presented at Aerospace/Defense Sensing &
Control and Dual-Use Photonics, SPIE (The International Society
for Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Engineering) International
Synposium. Well reservoir model
identification using higher order networks. A. Kumoluyi, T. S. Daltaban, N. Koncar and
Antonia J. Jones. ANNIE'94 Conference, November 13-16. Intelligent
Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol 4, pp
467-475. Ed. by C. H. Dagli, B. R. Fernandez, J. Ghosh and R. T. S. Kumara.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (AMSE) Press, 1994. Neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithms for the Attitude Control Problem. D. C. Dracopoulos and Antonia J.
Jones. Neural Neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithms for the Attitude Control Problem. D. C. Dracopoulos and Antonia J.
Jones. In: From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation, International
Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'95). Zelig: a novel parallel
computing machine using reconfigurable logic. N.J. Howard, A. R. Kolcz, A. M. Tyrrell, N.
M. Allinson and Antonia J. Jones. Presented at: Second Euromicro
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, An Adaptive
Neurocontrol Design applied to the Attitude Control Problem. D. C. Dracopoulos and Antonia J. Jones.
Applications of Artificial Neural Networks V, 2243:380-391,
ISBN 0-8194-1547-1, 1994. Presented at: Applications of Artificial
Neural Networks, SPIE (The International Society for Optical
Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Engineering) International Synposium.
Modeling dynamic
systems. D. C.
Dracopoulos and Antonia J. Jones. Proceedings of the Genetic Algorithms for
Autonomous Robot Programming. Y. Davidor, Antonia J. Jones and T. M. Husband. IMA Conference
Proceedings on "Robotics: Applied Mathematics and Computational
Aspects", 509-527, Ed. Kevin Warwick, OUP, 1993. ISBN 0-19-853649-6. Game Theory: Mathematical models of
conflict.
286pp. Horwood Publishing Ltd., Mastering the Commodore
64, (with G. J.
Carpenter). 384pp. Ellis Horwood Ltd. (1984). Winning Games on the
VIC-20, (with T.
Barrett). 143pp. Ellis Horwood Ltd. (1983). Mastering the VIC-20, (with E. A. Coley and D. G. J.
Cole). 177pp. Ellis Horwood Ltd. (1983). The Gamma Test, Antonia J. Jones, Dafydd Evans,
Steve Margetts, Peter J. Durrant. Chapter 9, in Heuristic and Optimization
for Knowledge Discovery by Ruhul Sarker, Hussein Abbass and Charles Newton,
Idea Group Publishing/IRM Press, Hershey, PA 17033-1117 USA, 2002. An Artificial Neural
Network for Predicting Carbonation Depth in Concrete Structures, Nick R Buenfeld, Nadir M Hassanein
and Antonia J Jones . In: Artificial Neural Networks for Civil Engineers:
Advanced Features and Applications, by Ian Flood, Nabil Kartam, N. Kartam
(Editor), and Neural Nets and Chaos. In: Computer Vision, Image Processing
and Industrial Processing, Unicom, 1992. Applications of N-tuple
Sampling and Genetic Algorithms to Speech Recognition, with A. Badii, M. J. Binstead, T.
J. Stonham and C. L. Valenzuela. In: Neural Computing Architectures: the design
of brain-like machines (Chapter 10 - p172-216). Ed. I. Aleksander, Kogan Page,
ISBN 0-946536-47-3, 1989. Artificial Intelligence in Computer Aided
Instruction Shells, communicated by J. A. Millar. In: Tutoring and Monitoring Facilities
for European Open Learning (Chapter 16). Ed. D. A. Bell & J. Whiting,
Elsevier North-Holland, ISBN 0-444-702717, 1987. Counter Intrusion
Software: Malware Detection using Structural and Behavioural Features and
Machine Learning. Joseph Rabaiotti. School of Computer Science. Cardiff
University 2007. [2.2MB] The Gamma Test: Data derived estimates
of noise for unknown smooth models using near neighbour asymptotics.
D. Evans, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University 2002. [1.5 MB]. Adaptive Genotype to Phenotype Mappings for
Evolutionary Algorithms. S. Margetts. Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University 2001.
[20.5 MB] winGamma™: a non-linear
data analysis and modelling tool with applications to flood prediction.
P. Durrant. Department of Computer Science, Resolution-based
Inference on Artificial Neural Networks. Priscilla Lima. Department of Computing, Imperial College, 2000. Smooth data modelling and stimulus-response
via stabilisation of neural chaos. Alban Pui Man Tsui. Department of Computing,
Imperial College, 1999. [9.1 MB] Synchronization of
chaos and applications to secure communications. Ana Oliveira. Department of Computing, Imperial College, 1999. The synchronous Boltzmann machine for
learning and hard-combinatoric search. Ursula X. Iturraran Viveros. Department of
Computing, Imperial College, 1998. [2.4 MB] From neural learning
algorithms to parallel architectures: a practical design methodology. Omer F. Rana. Department of Computing, Imperial
College, 1998. Evolutionary
Optimisation and Financial Model-Trading. Poomjai Nacaskul. Department of Computing, Imperial College, 1998. Optimisation methodologies
for direct inverse neurocontrol. N. Konar. Department of Computing, Imperial College,
1997.
Evolutionary Divide and
Conquer: A Novel genetic Approach to the TSP. Christine L. Valenzuela. Department of Computing, Imperial College,
1995. Neuromodelling,
Adaptive Neurocontrol and the Attitude Control Problem. D. C. Dracopoulos. Department of Computing,
Imperial College, 1994. Genetic Algorithms for
Order Dependent Processes applied to Robot Path-planning. Y. Davidor. Department of Computing, Imperial
College, 1989. Interval Constructions in the Theory of Numbers.
Andrew D. Pollington. Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway College, London,
1978.
Movie credits
Rocinante
(1986) with John Hurt, Maureen Douglass, Ian Dury, and Jimmy Jewel.
Electronic data processing consultant. NEWSFLASH:
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Degrees in "Underwater Basket Weaving"
now available from Reading University's newly opened 'Department for Interllectutually Incompotant Students' funded by a special initiative
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class will be 'How to hold your breath'. The white heat of British
tertiary education takes a giant leap backwards whilst ministers assert
on national television that "since 110% of all students now pass all
exams this is clear proof that education has vastly improved under New Labour". As Tony Bliar (sic) said enthusiastically with a winning smile
"Education, education, education. Britain now leads the way in Under
Water Basket Weaving and Media Studies."
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Table of Contents
A Schemata theorem for
trees.
The Jet-Set travelling Salesman: (1)
Triangular Tours.
Automated embedding and the creep
phenomenon in chaotic time series.
The evolution of artificial
neurology in ALEPH_world. 
Biobyte (all you really need to know).
Academic Biography
Recent publications
Papers in
refereed journals
Papers in
Conferences
Books.
Chapters
in books.
Ph.D. theses supervised.
Gamma test analysis tools for
non-linear time series. Samuel E.
Kemp. Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Advanced
Technology, University of Glamorgan, Wales UK, 2006 [4 MB].