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Jim Smith

 picture of Jim at Iguazu falls.

Who am I?

I'm an Associate Professor in Interactive Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of the West of England,  Bristol, UK,  where I teach and research various aspects of AI. You can find my google scholar profile here.

Resources

Research

Most of my research concerns computer-based systems which are able to learn to do useful things by repeated interactions with their environment. The environment could be the real world (e.g. robotics applications), people (e.g. interactive learning) or a computer model of part of the world we are interested in (e.g. various applications in planning, scheduling, and design optimisation). This learning falls into two broad areas:

For the last few years I've been particularly interested in two aspects of learning systems:

Whilst conducting these more theoretical studies,I have attempted to keep my feet on the ground by applying these technologies to a number of difficult "real world" problems, such as Statistical Disclosure Control, VLSI Design Verification, Adaptive Image Segmentation and Classification,  Computer Vision systems for Production Quality Control, Lot-sizing and scheduling, and bio-informatics problems such as Protein Structure Prediction and Protein Structure Comparison.

Some of my current and recently completed projects include:

Professional Activities

Teaching

Undergraduate and Masters

Current and Past Research Students

Publications

A major part of my job is disseminating research findings. This has lead to more than seventy publications, which between them have been cited over 4000 times. You can find my google scholar page with citation details here. There is a full list of my publications here. Below is a sample.

Stuff I've written that others seem to like ...

It's always hard to judge the value of what you do,  especially as an academic with so much pressure to publish. So the following  books/papers are just selected on the basis that they have been cited at least 50 times, using the citation count from Google Scholar, accessed on 28th March 2012 -  of course these figures are not really fair on the more recent works... You can get full citation details from my publication pages and feel free to email me if you would like copies of any of them.

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