Research History
Zuhair Bandar has supervised Ph.D.s to completion, been invited to chair streams and organize themes in international conferences. He is often asked to act as a peer reviewer for journals and international conferences. His current interests include Artificial Neural Networks and its application to real world domains, fuzzy decision trees and Conversational Agents. Selected Refereed Publications Dancy, D., Bandar, Z., McLean, D. Logistic Model Tree Extraction From Artificial Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics. Vol. 37, Number 4, pp 794-802, August 2007. (ISSN: 1083-4419). Owda, M. Crockett, K., Bandar, Z, Conversation-Based Natural Language Interface to Relational Database. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2007, USA, pp 363-367, ISBN 0-7695-3028-1/07 , DOI 10.1109/WI-IATW.2007.60 Owda, M. Crockett, K., Bandar, Z. Guided Conversational Agents and Knowledge Trees for Natural Language Interfaces to Relational Databases. Annual Research Student Conference MMU Proceedings, (ISBN 978-1-905476-23-7), September 2007. Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., and Mclean, D. On the Optimization of T-norm parameters within Fuzzy Decision Trees. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (FUZZ-IEEE 2007), July 2007, pp 1-6, ISSN: 1098-7584, (ISBN 1-4244-1210-2) Crockett, K. Bandar, Z, O’Shea, J. Al-Attar, S. On The Application of Fuzzy Regression Trees in Modeling the Efficiency of a Power Station. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (FUZZ-IEEE 2007), July 2007, pp 1-6, ISSN: 1098-7584, ISBN (1-4244-1210-2) Pudner, K. Crockett, K. Bandar, Z. An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language, World Congress on Engineering, International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, London, July 2007, pp 305-310, ISBN (978-988-98671-5-7) K. Crockett, Z. Bandar, J O’Shea, J. Fowdar, A Fuzzy Numeric Inference Strategy for Classification and Regression Problems. Submitted to KES Journal Innovation in Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Engineering Systems, IOS Press, 25th May 2006. Crockett, K. Bandar, Z. Mclean, D. O’shea, J. On Constructing a Fuzzy Inference Algorithm using Crisp Decision Trees. International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems. Vol 157, Issue 21, pp 2809-2832, Elsevier Science, 2006. ISSN 0165-0114 Crockett, K. Bandar, Z, O’Shea, J. On Producing Balanced Fuzzy Decision Tree Classifiers, IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence, IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Vancouver, Canada, pp 8415 – 8421, 2006. Li, Y. McLean, D. Bandar, Z. O’Shea, J. Crockett, K. Sentence Similarity Based on Semantic Nets and Corpus Statistics. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1138-1150, 2006. (ISSN: 1041-4347). D.C. Wedge, D.M. Ingram, C.G. Mingham, D.A. McLean and Z.A. Bandar. On Global-Local Artificial Neural Networks for Function Approximation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. July 2006, Vol. 17, number 4, pp 942-952. (ISSN: 1045-9227) Rothwell, J. Bandar, Z. O’Shea, J. McLean, D. Silent Talker: An Adaptive Psychological Profiling System Using Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2006 (In press). Rothwell, J. Bandar, Z. O’Shea, J. McLean, D. Charting the behavioural state of a person using a Backpropagation Neural Network. Journal of Neural Computing and Applications. DOI 10.1007/s00521-006-0055-9. 2006 (In Press). Li, Y. Bandar, Z. McLean, D. An approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity Between Words Using Multiple Information Sources. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. July/August 2003, Volume 15, Number 4, ISSN 1041-4347, pp:871-881. Lynch, S. Bandar, Z. Bistable neuromodules. Nonlinear Analysis Theory, Methods & Applications. (2005), 63(5-7), ISSN 0362-546X, pp:669-677. D.C. Wedge, D.M. Ingram, C.G. Mingham, D.A. McLean and Z.A. Bandar. On Neural Network Architectures and Overtopping Predictions. Journal of Maritime Engineering, September 2005, ISNN 1741 7597, pp:123-133. Crockett, K, Bandar, Z, O’Shea, J. Fowdar, J. Genetic tuning of fuzzy inference within fuzzy classifier systems. International Journal of Expert Systems, Blackwell Publishing, May 2006, Volume 23, 2, pp 63-82. McLean, D., Bandar, Z., and O'Shea, J. An Empirical Comparison of Back Propagation and the RDSE Algorithm. Neural Networks, volume 11, issue 9, 1998, p. 1685-1694. ISSN 0893-6080 D. Wedge, D. Ingram, D. McLean, C. Mingham, Z. Bandar, A Global-Local Artificial Neural Network with Application to Wave Overtopping Prediction. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2005. ISBN 3-540-28755-8 Crockett, K , Bandar, Z, O’Shea, J. Fowdar, J. On the Use of Fuzzy Trees for Solving Classification Problems with Numeric Outcomes. 2005 IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp – 436-441, May 2005 Nevada, USA. ISBN 0-7803-9159-4, IEEE Catalog Number 05CH37680C. K. A. Crockett, Z. A. Bandar. A Framework for Optimising Fuzzy Inference in Classifier Systems. 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent systems & Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, pp 105 – 110, ISBN 0-7803-8644-2. K. Crockett , Z. Bandar, D. Mclean. Strategies for Fuzzy Inference within Classifier Systems, THE 17th International FLAIRS Conference, Miami, 2004, pp 387-392, AAAI Press, ISBN 1-57735-201-7 J. Fowdar, Z. Bandar, K. Crockett. Inducing Fuzzy Decision Trees in Non-Deterministic Domains using CHAID. THE 17th International FLAIRS Conference, Miami, 2004, pp838-843, AAAI Press, ISBN 1-57735-201-7 K. Crockett, Z. Bandar, D. Mclean. Combining Multiple Decision Trees Using Fuzzy Neural Inference. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - FUZZ-IEEE 2002, Honolulu, May 2002 ISBN 0-7803-7280-8. Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., O’Shea, J. Fuzzy-Neural Inference in Decision Trees, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp 481-486. ISBN 3-540-44025-9 Li Y, Bandar Z, McLean, D. Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Lexical Knowledge and Neural Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp 481-486. ISBN 3-540-44025-9 Dancey, D, Mclean, D, Bandar, Z. " Decision Tree Extraction From Trained Neural Networks", THE 17th International FLAIRS Conference, Miami, 2004, pp515-519, AAAI Press, ISBN 1-57735-201-7 Li. Y, Bandar, Z. Mclean, D. O'shea, J. " A method for measuring sentence similarity and it's application to conversational agents ", THE 17th International FLAIRS Conference, Miami, 2004, pp 820,-825, AAAI Press, ISBN 1-57735-201-7 Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., and Mclean, D. Growing a Fuzzy Decision Forrest. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - FUZZ-IEEE 2001, Melbourne Australia. December 2001 ISBN 0-7803-7294-X (Softbound) 0-7803-7294-8 (Microfiche Edition). Crockett, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. Soft Decision Trees: A New Approach Using Non-linear Fuzzification. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - FUZZ-IEEE 2000. May 2000 ISBN 0-7803-5877-5 (Soft bound) 0-7803-6324-8 (CD-ROM). Crocket, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. A Fuzzy Algorithm for the Efficient Utilization of Information in Decision Trees. In: FLAIRS-2000: proceedings of the 13th Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence International Conference, AAAI Press, May, 2000, p. 97-101. ISBN 0-1-57735-113-4 Crocket, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. Soft Decision Trees: A New Approach Using Non-linear Fuzzification. In: FUZZ-IEEE 2000: proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, May 2000, p. 209-215. IEEE Cat. No. 00CH37063. ISBN 0-7803-5877-5 Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., and McLean, D. An Optimised Decision Tree Induction Algorithm For Real World Data Domains. In: ICONIP’99 – IEEE: proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, November 1999, p. 441-446. IEEE Cat. No. 99EX378. ISBN 0-7803-5871-6 Bandar, Z., Al-Attar, H., and McLean, D. Genetic Algorithm Based Multiple Decision Tree Induction. In: ICONIP’99 – IEEE: proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, November 1999, p. 429-434. IEEE Cat. No. 99EX378. ISBN 0-7803-5871-6 McLean, D., Bandar, Z., and O'Shea, J. Decision boundary modelling- a constructive algorithm for high precision real world data models. In: IJCNN'99: proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, July 1999. IEEE Catalogue Number: 99CH36339C. ISBN: 0-7803-5532-6 Marshall, P., and Bandar, Z. Working Towards Connectionist Modelling of Term Formation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1625, Springer-Verlag, May 1999, p. 522-529. ISBN 3-540-66050-x McLean, D., Bandar, Z., and O'Shea, J. Improving Generalisation Using Modular Neural Networks. In: ICANGA99, proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, April 1999, p. 35-39. ISBN 3-211-83364-1 Bandar, Z., Al-Attar, H., and Crocket, K. Genetic Algorithms For Decision Tree Induction. In: ICANGA99: proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, April 1999, p.187-190. ISBN 3-211-83364-1 Crocket, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. Optimizing Decision Classifications using Genetic Algorithms. In: ICANGA99: proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, April 1999, p.191-195. ISBN 3-211-83364-1 McLean, D., and Bandar, Z. Comparative Testing of Hyperplanar Classifiers on Continuous Data Domains. In: ICANGA99: proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, April 1999, p.16-22. ISBN 3-211-83364-1 Chung, J., and Bandar, Z. Learning to Predict with a Probabilistic Representation. In: IDEAL’98: proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Data Engineering and Learning, Springer-Verlag, October 1998, p. 235-242. ISBN 981-4021-23-7 Chung, J., and Bandar, Z. Prediction with Probabilistic Framework. In: ISCIS’98 : proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, IOS Press, October 1998, p.128-134. ISBN 90-5199-405-2 Crocket, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. A Fuzzy Inference Framework For Induced Decision Trees. In: ECAI 98: proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, John Wiley & Sons, August 1998, p. 425-429. ISBN 0-471-98431-0 McLean, D., Bandar, Z., and O'Shea, J. A Constructive Decision Boundary Modelling Algorithm. In: ASC'98: proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ACTA Press, May 1998 p. 1-14. ISBN 0-88986-256-7 Chung, J., and Bandar, Z. Universal Hierarchical Encoding Algorithm For Data Compression. In: ASC'98: proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ACTA Press, May 1998, p. 447-450. ISBN 0-88986-256-7 Crocket, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. A Genetically Optimised Fuzzy Inference Algorithm. In: ASC'98: proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ACTA Press, May 1998, p. 485-488. ISBN 0-88986-256-7 Schmidt, A., and Bandar, Z. Modularity - A Concept for Neural Network Architectures. In: CSA'98: proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Computer Systems and applications, ACTA Press, March 1998, p. 26-29. ISBN 0-88986-264-8. Marshal, P., Bandar, Z., and Ananiadou, S. A Connectionist Approach To Term Recognition. In: EXPERSYS-98: proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Applications, IITT International, November 1998, p. 11-15. ISBN 2-907669-36-2 Crocket, K., Bandar, Z., and Al-Attar, A. Fuzzy Rule Induction From Data Sets. In: FLAIRS-97: proceedings of the 10th Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence International Conference, May 1997, p.332-336. ISBN 0-9620-1739-6 McLean, D., Bandar, Z., and O'Shea, J. The evolution of a Feed Forward Neural Network Trained under Back-Propagation. In: ICANGA97: proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, April 1997, p. 518-522. ISBN 3-211-83087-1 Schmidt, A., and Bandar, Z. A Modular Neural Network Architecture with Additional Generalization Abilities for Large Input Vectors. In: ICANGA97: proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, April 1997, p. 40-43. ISBN 3-211-83087-1 McLean, D., Bandar, Z., and O'Shea, J. Improved Interpolation and Extrapolation from Continuous Training Examples Using a New Neural Model with an Adaptive Steepness. In: proceedings of the second Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, IEEE, November 1994, p. 125-129. IEEE Cat. No. 94TH8019. ISBN 0-7803-2404-8 Aleksander, I., and Bandar, Z. Adaptively designed test logic for digital circuits. Electronics Letters, 4 August 1977, Volume 13, Issue 16, p. 466-467 Farrell, P. G., and Bandar, Z. Multilevel single-error-correcting codes Electronics Letters, 8 August 1974, Volume 10, Issue 16, p. 347-348 Other Publications International Patent Application. No PCT/GB02/01806 - Methods and Apparatus for Analysing the Behaviour of a subject. (2003) O'Shea, J., Bandar, Z., and Cooper, S. Development of a software tool and function library to assist in the teaching of Logical Neural Networks. In: ALT-C: proceedings of Association for Learning Technology Conference 1994.
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