Dr David McLean 's homepage
General Information
Position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:
PhD Neural Networks,
BSc Computing
Affiliations / Membership
Research Interests:
- Generalisation in Neural Networks for Continuous Data Domains, see the RDSE Algorithm
- Conversational Agents and Intelligent Psychological Profiling
Units taught:
Data Structures,
Knowledge Based Systems and A.I.,
Neural Networks (ODL),
Programming
Other responsibilities
Project Supervision of final year Degree, MSc and Phd students.
Additional Information 
Regularly participate in most
Outdoor Sports (click for photos):
Hanggliding
(and powered),
Paragliding
rock and
ice climbing (Idwel
Feb 04),
Ice_climbing
slide show 06
Mountaineering,
Via Feratta
Ski Mountaineering,
mountain biking,
caving (very occasionally)etc.
Over the last few years, friends and I have
climbed the
Links
See Skywings online
magazine 
Ice Climbing
Where to Fly
Selected Papers and Publications
Improved Interpolation and Extrapolation from Continuous Training Examples Using a New Neuronal Model, Neural Networks, vol. 11, Iss. 9, pp1685-1694, 1998, ISSN 0893-6080.
An Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity Using Multiple Information Sources, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 15, No. 4, pp871-882, 2003, ISSN 1041-4347.
Sentence Similarity Based on Semantic Nets
and Corpus Statistics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
vol. 18, No. 8, pp1138-1150, August 2006, ISSN 1041-4347.
On Global-Local Artificial Neural Networks for Function Approximation, Transactions on Neural Networks, July 2006, Vol.17, No.4, pp942-952, ISSN 1045-9227.
On Constructing a Fuzzy Inference Framework using Crisp Decision Trees, Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol.157, issue 21, ISSN 0165-0114, pp2809-2832, November 2006.
Silent Talker: An Adaptive Psychological Profiling System Using Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. September 2004.
On Neural Network Architectures and
Overtopping Predictions. Journal of Maritime
Engineering, vol. 158, September 2005, pp123-133, ISSN 1741-7597.
Logistic Model Tree Extraction from Artificial Neural
Networks, IEEE Transaction on Systems Man and Cybernetics (part B), accepted for
publication November 2006.
Decision Boundary Modelling - a Constructive Algorithm for High
Precision Real World Data Models’, IJCNN '99, MIT Press, 1999.
'Genetic Algorithm Based Multiple Tree Induction', ICONIP'99, IEEE, pp??, 1999.
Combining Multiple Decision Trees using Fuzzy-Neural
Inference, The 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, The 11th
IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems ,
Fuzzy-Neural Inference in Decision Trees, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp 481-486. ISBN 3-540-44025-9.
Strategies for Fuzzy Inference within
Classifier Systems, THE 17th International FLAIRS Conference,
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.
Tree Extraction From Trained Neural Networks, THE 17th International FLAIRS
Conference,
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.
Growing a Fuzzy
Patent
Bandar Z., McLean
D., O'Shea J., Rothwell J., Analysis of the Behaviour
of a subject, International Publication number WO 02/087443 A1, 7th Nov. 2002.
See Intelligent Systems Group for further research information
Contacting Me
Tel:(+44) (0) 161 247 1536
Fax(+44) (0) 161 247 1483
Email: D.McLean@mmu.ac.uk
Office / Post: 137