School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Emeritus Professor Thomas Downs

Emeritus Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Publications

Book (1)
Journal Articles (6)
Conference Papers (17)

Book

Downs, Thomas and Schulz, Mark F. (1988). Logic design with Pascal: computer-aided design techniques. New York , NY United States: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.

Journal Articles

Kurnianto, K. and Downs, T. (2005). Sensor validation in nuclear power plant using the method of boosting. International Journal of Performability Engineering, 1 (2), 157-165.
Hryshko, A. and Downs, T. (2004). System for foreign exchange trading using genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning. International Journal of Systems Science, 35 (13-14), 763-775. doi: 10.1080/00207720412331303697
Sansom, Damien C., Downs, Tom and Saha, Tapan K. (2003). Evaluation of support vector machine based forecasting tool in electricity price forecasting for Australian national electricity market participants. Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Australia, 22 (3), 227-234.
Gallagher, M. R. and Downs, T. (2003). Visualization of learning in multilayer perceptron networks using principal component analysis. IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics Part B-cybernetics, 33 (1), 28-34. doi: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.808183
Gallagher, Marcus, Downs, Tom and Wood, Ian (2002). Empirical evidence for ultrametric structure in multi-layer perceptron error surfaces. Neural Processing Letters, 16 (2), 177-186. doi: 10.1023/A:1019956303894
Downs, T., Gates, K. E. and Masters, A. L. (2001). Exact simplification of support vector solutions. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2, 45-49.

Conference Papers

Hryshko, Andrei and Downs, Tom (2005). A machine learning approach to intraday trading on foreign exchange markets. 6th Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2005, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 6-8 July 2005. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/11508069_76
Downs, T. and Wang, J. (2004). Improving support vector solutions by selecting a sequence of training subsets. The Fifth International Intelligent Data and Automated Learning Conference (IDEAL), Exeter, 25-27 August, 2004. Berlin: Springer.
Rohde, D. J., Drinkwater, M. J., Gallagher, M. R., Downs, T. and Doyle, M. T. (2004). Machine learning for matching astronomy catalogues. The Fifth International Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning Conference (IDEAL 2004), Exeter, U.K., 25-27 August 2004. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Hryshko, A. and Downs, T. (2004). A system for electricity trading using genetic algorithm and reinforcement learning. The Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference 2004, Brisbane, 26-29 September, 2004. Brisbane: AUPEC.
Hu, W., Downs, T., Wyeth, G.F., Milford, M. J. and Prasser, D. P. (2004). A modified particle filter for simultaneous robot localization and landmark tracking in an indoor environment. The 2004 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2004), Canberra, 6-8 December, 2004. Canberra: Australian Robotics and Automation Association.
Wang, J. and Downs, T. (2004). Improving support vector machine performance on a problem in object recognition. The Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Complex Systems, Cairns, 6-10 December, 2004. Rockhampton: Central Queensland University.
Saha, Tapan K., Lim, Valerie S. C. and Downs, Tom (2004). Loss Allocation based on Network Reduction in Deregulated Electricity Market. Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 26-29 September, 2004. Brisbane: AUPEC.
Downs, T. and Tang, A. L. T. (2004). Boosting the tree augmented naive bayes classifier. The Fifth International Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning Conference (IDEAL), Exeter, U.K., 25-27 August 2004. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Gates, K. E., Masters, A. L. and Downs, T. (2003). Eliminating redundant training data in support vector classification. PRIP2003, Minsk, Belarus, 21-23 May 2003. Szczecin: Technical University of Szczecin.
Lim, Valerie, Saha, Tapan K. and Downs, Thomas (2003). Preliminary Findings On Usage Allocation And Loss Allocation Of Electricity In A Deregulated Market. Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 28 September - 1 October, 2003. New Zealand: AUPEC.
Sansom, D. C., Downs, T. and Saha, T. K. (2003). Support Vector Machine Based Electricity Price Forecasting For Electricity Markets utilising Projected Assessment of System Adequacy Data. The Sixth International Power Engineering Conference, Singapore, 27-29 November, 2003. Singapore: IPEC.
Wang, J. X. and Downs, T. (2003). Tuning pattern classifier parameters using a genetic algorithm with an application in mobile robotics. The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC '03), Canberra, Australia, 8-12 December 2003. Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A.: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299628
Hryshko, A. and Downs, T. (2003). An implementation of genetic algorithms as a basis for a trading system on the foreign exchange market. 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC '03), Canberra, Australia, 8-12 December 2003. Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A.: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299877
Sansom, D. C., Downs, T. and Saha, T. K. (2002). Evaluation Of Support Vector Machine Based Forecasting Tool In Electricity Price Forecasting For Australian National Electricity Market Participants. Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2002. Melbourne: Australasian Committee for Power Engineering.
Atukorale, D. and Downs, T. (2001). Using labeled and unlabeled data for training. Sixth International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, Minsk, Belarus, 18-20 May, 2001. Szczecin, Poland: Informa.
Atukorale, D., Suganthan, P. P. and Downs, T. (2000). On the performance of the HONG network for pattern classification. ijcnn 2000, Como, Italy, 24-27 July 2000. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ijcnn.2000.857910
Gallagher, M., Frean, M. and Downs, T. (1999). Real-valued evolutionary optimization using a flexible probability density estimator. GECCO-99, Orlando, Florida, 13-17 July, 1999. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.