Professor of Information Technology
University of Portsmouth, UK.
Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (FIEE)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
Research Interests : Actively involved in research in Artificial Intelligence since the early 1970s. Leader of the University of Portsmouth's Artificial Intelligence Research Group.
Current research interests include data mining (in particular the automatic derivation of classification rules from examples), case-based reasoning, model-based approaches to diagnostic reasoning and methodologies for knowledge engineering.
Visiting Fellow for the EPSRC-funded project "Critical Systems and Data-Driven Technology", based at the University of Exeter.
Selected Publications : R.Amin, M.A.Bramer and R.Emslie (2003)
Intelligent Data Analysis for Conservation: Experiments with Rhino Horn Fingerprint Identification
In Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems X (eds. A.Macintosh, R.Ellis and F.Coenen), Springer-Verlag, pp. 207-222. ISBN 1-85233-673-0
[To be reprinted in Knowledge Based Systems journal]
M.A.Bramer, A.Preece and F.Coenen (eds.) (2003)
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XIX
Springer-Verlag. ISBN 1-85233-674-9
M.A.Bramer (2002)
Using J-Pruning to Reduce Overfitting of Classification Rules in Noisy Domains
In Database and Expert Systems Applications (eds. A.Hameurlain, R.Cicchetti and R.Traunmüller), Springer-Verlag, pp. 433-442. ISBN 3-540-44126-3
M.A.Bramer (2002)
An Information-Theoretic Approach to the Pre-pruning of Classification Rules
In Intelligent Information Processing (eds. M.Musen, B.Neumann and R.Studer), Kluwer, pp. 201-212. ISBN 1-4020-7171-X
M.A.Bramer (2002)
Pre-pruning Classification Trees to Reduce Overfitting in Noisy Domains
In Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2002 (eds. H.Yin et al.), Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp. 7-12. ISBN 3-540-44025-9
M.A.Bramer (2002)
Using J-Pruning to Reduce Overfitting in Classification Trees
Knowledge Based Systems, Vol. 15, Issues 5-6, pp. 301-308, July 2002. ISSN 0950-7051
(Also included in Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVIII, Springer-Verlag, pp. 25-38, 2001. ISBN 1-85233-535-1)
M.A.Bramer (ed.) (2002)
Special Issue of Knowledge Based Systems Journal
Vol. 15, Issues 5-6. Elsevier
M.A.Bramer, F.Coenen and A.Preece (eds.) (2002)
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVIII.
Springer-Verlag.
M.A.Bramer (ed.) (2001)
Special Issue of Knowledge Based Systems Journal
Vol. 14, Nos.3-4. Elsevier
M.A.Bramer, A.Preece and F.Coenen (eds.) (2001)
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVII
Springer-Verlag.
BRAMER, MAX A. 