Andrew Watkins's Web Space

Publications

• Andrew B. Watkins. (2005). Exploiting Immunological Metaphors in the Development of Serial, Parallel, and Distributed Learning Algorithms. PhD dissertation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, March 2005.
• Andrew B. Watkins. (2001). AIRS: A resource limited artificial immune classifier. Master's thesis, Mississippi State University, MS. USA., December 2001.

• Andrew Watkins, Jon Timmis, and Lois Boggess. (2004). "Artificial Immune Recognition System (AIRS): An Immune-Inspired Supervised Learning Algorithm". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 5 (3): 291-317, September 2004. pre-print   link to final published paper

• Andrew Watkins and Jon Timmis. (2004). "Exploiting Parallelism Inherent in AIRS, an Artificial Immune Classifier". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS2004) held in Catania, Italy, 13-16 September, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Number 3239. Edited by G. Nicosia, V. Cutello, P. Bentley, and J. Timmis, pages 427-438. Springer. 2004.
• Andrew Watkins, Xintong Bi and Amit Phadke. (2003). "Parallelizing an Immune-Inspired Algorithm for Efficient Pattern Recognition". In Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks: Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Complex Systems and Artificial Life, Volume 13, edited by C. Dagli, A. Buczak, J. Ghosh, M. Embrechts, and O. Ersoy, pages 225-230. New York: ASME Press. 2003.
• Donald Goodman, Lois Boggess, and Andrew Watkins. (2003). "An Investigation into the Source of Power for AIRS, an Artificial Immune Classification System". In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'03), Portland, Oregon, pages 1678-1683, July 2003.
• Donald Goodman, Lois Boggess, and Andrew Watkins. (2002). "Artificial Immune System Classification of Multiple-Class Problems". In Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks: Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Complex Systems and Artificial Life, Volume 12, edited by C. Dagli, A. Buczak, J. Ghosh, M. Embrechts, O. Ersoy, and S Kercel, pages 179-184. New York: ASME Press. 2002.
• Andrew Watkins and Jon Timmis. (2002). "Artificial Immune Recognition System (AIRS): Revisions and Refinements". In J. Timmis and P.J. Bentley, editors, 1st International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS2002), pages 173-181, University of Kent at Canterbury, September 2002. University of Kent at Canterbury Printing Unit.
• Andrew Watkins and Lois Boggess. (2002) "A New Classifier Based on Resource Limited Artificial Immune Systems". In Proceedings of Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Part of the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Honolulu, HI, USA, May 12-17, 2002, pages 1546-1551. IEEE, May 2002.
• Andrew B. Watkins and Lois C. Boggess. (2002). "A Resource Limited Artificial Immune Classifier".  In Proceedings of Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Part of the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Honolulu, HI, USA, May 12-17, 2002, pages 926-931. IEEE, May 2002.
• Andrew Watkins. (2000). "An immunological approach to intrusion detection".  In Proceedings of the 12th annual Canadian information technology security symposium held in Ottawa, Canada, June, pages 447-454, 2000. (Winner of Pickering Award for best student paper)
• Lee Klimek, Bruce Wooley, Susan M. Bridges, Julia Hodges, Andrew Watkins, and Sara Smolensky. (1999). "A comparison of the performances of a bayesian algorithm and a kohonen map for clustering texture data".  In Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks: Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Complex Systems and Artificial Life, Volume 9, edited by C. Dagli, A. Buczak, J. Ghosh, M. Embrechts, O. Ersoy. New York: ASME Press. 1999.