Advances in Computing

Advances in Computing deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. It publishes regular papers and special issues on specific topics of interest to international audiences of educational researchers.

David M W Powers

Editorial Board Member of Advances in Computing

Professor, School of Computer Science, Engineering & Maths Flinders University, Australia

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; Cognitive Linguistics; Computational sychlingustics; Machine Learning of Natural, Language and Ontology; Robotics, Sensor, Speech & Vision Processing; Unsupervised & Semi-Supervised Machine Learning

Education

1989Ph.DElectrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of NSW

Experience

2011-2013Visiting Professor/Fellow, Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, CN (6 months over 3 years)
2008-presentProfessor, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University of South Australia, AU
2001Visiting Research Fellow, CLIF (Computational Linguistics in Flanders)
1997Visiting Professor, ENSSAT Lannion, FR
1994-2008 Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University of South Australia, AU
1993Visiting Professor, ENST-Telecom Paris, FR
1992Senior Research Fellow, ITK-Institute of Language and Knowledge Technology, University of Tilburg, NL
1989-1991Senior Research Fellow in ESPRIT GRANT "COMPULOG"-Computational Logic-at the University of Kaiserslautern, FRG (in association with the DFKI-German AI Institute).
1989Part-time lecturer in PROLOG, Business Computing, City International, Sydney, AU.
1984-1989 Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics, Macquarie Unviersity, Sydney, AU
1983-1984 Half-time tutor in the Dept of Computer Science, University of NSW, Sydney

Academic Achievement

2011 Strathmore Who's Who Professional of the Year in Higher Education –Language Technology
2008 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Flinders University
2008 Executive Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
2008 Best Student Paper Award (Australian Computer Science Conference) for paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Donqiang Yang
2007 Best Student Paper Award (Australian Language Technology Association) for paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Donqiang Yang
2007 Best Paper Nomination (GECCO) with Postdoc Dr Martin Luerssen-although this is the premier conference in Genetic/Evolutionary Computation, attendance (in the UK) was not funded and the paper was withdrawn
2002 Best Paper Nomination and Best Student Paper Award (Australian Computer Science Conference) for paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Trent Lewis
1999 Special Award for the Advancement of the Turing Test/Artificial Intelligence-Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence (Bronze Medal)
1995 Flinders University Equal Opportunity Commendation
1988 Best Paper in AI Conference (Systems and Cybernetics Meeting, Vienna)
1979-83 Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Scholarship (U. NSW)
1973-74 Commonwealth Senior Secondary Scholarship (Fort St, SYDNEY, NSW)
1972-74 2 Prizes in the IBM-UNSW School Mathematics Competition (Junior/Senior Divisions resp.)
1969-71 Inner London Education Authority Music Scholarship (Archbishop Tennison's Grammar School, London, UK)

Membership

2002-ALTA: Australian Language Technology Association (Founding Member)
1997-99 AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
1996-ASSTA: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association
1995-96 NYAS: New York Academy of Sciences
1993-ACL SIGNLL: Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning(Founding President, Steering Committee, Int'l Advisory Board)
1991-International Association for Cognitive Linguistics
1990-92 SPP: Society for Philosophy and Psychology
1989-AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence (Life Member)
1987-98 ALP: Association for Logic Programming
1986-90 AAR: Association for Automated Reasoning
1984-89 Macquarie University Staff Association
1983-84 University of New South Wales Staff Association
1981-92 ALLC: Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
1981-92 ARA: Australian Robot Association (Foundation Member)
1980-ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics
1979-ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (Student 1979-84)
1978-98 ACS: Australian Computer Society (Associate 1978-80)
1977-IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Student 1977-1984, Member 1984-2005, Senior Member 2005-)
1975-92 Australian Mensa

Publications: Journals

[1]  [Powe11a] * David M. W. Powers (2011), Evaluation: From Precision, Recall and FMeasure to ROC, Informedness, Markedness & Correlation, Journal of Machine Learning Technologies, ISSN: 2229-3981 & ISSN: 2229-399X, Volume 2, Issue 1 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27743223/201101-Evaluation_JMLT_Postprint-Colour.pdf or http://db.tt/prjmGyH
[2]  [Yang10a] Dongqiang Yang and Powers, David M.W. (2010), Using Grammatical Relations to Automate Thesaurus Construction, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Volume 42 Issue 2
[3]  [Pfit08b] Darius Pfitzner, Kenneth Treharne & David M. W. Powers (2008), User Keyword Preference: the Nwords and Rwords Experiments, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology 9:149-158 (Special Issue on Intelligent Internet-based Systems: Emerging Technologies and Programming Techniques).DOI 10.1504/IJIPT.2008.020947
[4]  [Pfit08a] Darius M Pfitzner, Richard E Leibbrandt and David MW Powers (2009) Characterization and Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Pairs of Clusterings, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal 19:361-394, DOI 10.1007/s10115-008-0150-6
[5]  [Luer08a] Martin H. Luerssen and David MW Powers (2008). Evolving encapsulated programs as shared grammars. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 9(3): 203-228. DOI 10.1007/s10710-008-9061-2.
[6]  [Fitz07a] * Sean Fitzgibbon, David M. W. Powers, Kenneth Pope, and C. Richard Clark (2007). Removal of EEG noise and artefact using blind source separation. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 24(3):232-243, June 2007
[7]  [Li03a] * Yan Li, David Powers and Kenneth Pope (2003). A new approach to blind signal deconvolution using recurrent neural networks. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems 7#2:62-69.
[8]  [Lewi03a] * Lewis, T. W. and D. M. W. Powers (2003). Audio-Visual Speech Recognition using Red Exclusion and Neural Networks. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology 35#1:41-64 http://www.jrpit.acs.org.au/jrpit/JRPIT35.1.41pdf
[9]  [Powe97e] * David M. W. Powers, "Unsupervised learning of linguistic structure: an empirical evaluation", Int'l Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2#1:91-131
[10]  [Powe91a] * David M. W. Powers, "Goals, Issues and Directions in Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology". SIGART Bulletin 2:1, 101-114, January 1991. An updated version published in [Powe91c] as a technical preface was updated to include the material presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology.
[11]  [Powe84a] David M. W. Powers, "Natural Language the Natural Way, " Computer Compacts, 100-109 (Jul 1984); also available as DCS Report 8404, Dept of Computer Science, University of NSW, Australia; abstract also appears in Journal of Symbolic Logic 51(2): 504-505 (1986).

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  Atyabi, A. & Powers, D.M., 2011. The Use of Area Extended Particle Swarm Optimization (AEPSO) in Swarm Robotics. Eleventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2010).
[2]  Newman, W., Franzel, D., Matsumoto, T., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., & Powers, D.M., 2010. Hybrid World Object Tracking For A Virtual Teaching Agent. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010, 2244-2252.
[3]  Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2010. Development of a Virtual Agent Based Social Tutor for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010, 1555-1563.
[4]  Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2010. Head X: Customizable Audiovisual Synthesis for a Multi-purpose Virtual Head. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 486-495.
[5]  Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2010. Fast Grammar-Based Evolution Using Memoization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6239, 502-511.
[6]  Leibbrandt, R.E. & Powers, D.M., 2010. Frequent Frames as Cues to Part-of-Speech in Dutch: Why Filler Frequency Matters. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2680-2685.
[7]  Ali, H.B., karim, M.R., Ashraf, M., & Powers, D.M., 2010. Modeling and verification of Extensible Authentication Protocol for Transport layer Security in Wireless LAN environment. International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering, 2, 41-45.
[8]  Powers, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., Milne, M.K., Pashalis, J., & Treharne, K., 2010. MANA for the Ageing. Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, ACL 2010, 7-12.
[9]  Boeing, A., Powers, D.M., Morgan, A., Vinsen, K., & Br?unl, T., 2010. MAGICian. Land Warfare Conference 2010, 347-355.
[10]  Yazdani, N., Khazab, F., Fitzgibbon, S.P., Luerssen, M.H., Powers, D.M., & Clark, C.R., 2010. Towards a Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Prototype. Proceedings of the 24th BCS International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
[11]  Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D.M., Onslow, M., Loakes, D.E., Lewis, T.W., Kuratate, T., Kinoshita, Y., et al., 2010. The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC). Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 166-170.
[12]  Milne, M.K., Powers, D.M., & Leibbrandt, R.E., 2009. Development of a software-based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders. Conference proceedings: Australian Conference on Computer Human Interaction (OZCHI 2009), 265-268.
[13]  Burnham, D.K., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C.T., Bird, S., Butcher, A.R., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F.M., et al., 2009. A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet workshop on designing the Australian national corpus: mustering languages, 96-107.
[14]  Treharne, K. & Powers, D.M., 2009. Search Engine Result Visualisation: challenges and opportunities. Proceedings of international symposium on web visualization, 633-638.
[15]  Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2008. A lean online approach to human factors research. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2008), (57).
[16]  Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Pfitzner, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Stevens, K., & Abrahamyan, A., 2008. Language Teaching in a Mixed Reality Games Environment. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, 282.
[17]  Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Lawson, M.J., 2008. PETA: a pedagogical embodied teaching agent. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, 282.
[18]  Powers, D.M., 2008. Minors as miners: Modelling and evaluating ontological and linguistic learning. Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Data Mining Conference, 3-14.
[19]  Powers, D.M., 2008. Evaluation evaluation-a Monte Carlo study. The 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
[20]  Matsumoto, T., Powers, D.M., & Asgari, N., 2008. Webcam Configurations for Ground Texture Visual Servo. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2008, (4670915), 554-559.
[21]  Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Distinctive Feature Fusion for Recognition of Australian English Consonants. Interspeech 2008, 2671-2674.
[22]  Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Matsumoto, T., Treharne, K., Lewis, T.W., Santi, M.L., & Powers, D.M., 2008. An immersive game-like teaching environment with simulated teacher and hybrid world. Animation, multimedia, IPTV and edutainment: proceedings of CGAT '08, 215-222.
[23]  Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Suffix-tree-based approach for Chinese information retrieval. International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), 393-397.
[24]  Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Automatic thesaurus construction. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2008), CRPIT 74, 147-156.
[25]  Ceglar, A.J., Roddick, J.F., & Powers, D.M., 2007. CURIO: A fast outlier and outlier cluster detection algorithm for large datasets. Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (AIDM 2007), 84, 37-45.
[26]  Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2007. Evolvability and redundancy in shared grammar evolution. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, (4424495), 370-377.
[27]  Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2007. Graph design by graph grammar evolution. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 386-393.
[28]  Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2007. An empirical investigation into grammatically constrained contexts in predicting distributional similarity. Proceedings of the Australia Language Technology Workshop 2007 (ALTW07), 5, 117-124.
[29]  Powers, D.M., 2006. Vision in HCI: embodiment, multimodality and information capacity. Proc. HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in Human-Computer Interaction-VisHCI 2006, 56, 89-97.
[30]  Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2006. Distributional similarity in the varied order of syntactic spaces. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 3, 406-409.
[31]  Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2006. Word sense disambiguation using lexical cohesion in the context. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 929-936.
[32]  Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2006. Verb similarity on the taxonomy of WordNet. Proceedings of the Third International WordNet Conference, 121-128.
[33]  Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2005. Graph composition in a graph grammar-based method for automata network evolution. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2, 1653-1660.
[34]  Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2005. Distinctive feature fusion for improved audio-visual phoneme recognition. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, 1(1580196), 62-65.
[35]  Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2005. Measuring semantic similarity in the taxonomy of WordNet. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference, 38, 315-322.
[36]  Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2004. Adaptive compression-based approach for Chinese Pinyin input. Proceedings of the Third SIGHAN Workshop Chinese Language Learning.
[37]  Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2004. Sensor Fusion Weighting Measures in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2004), Dunedin, New Zealand. CRPIT, 26 (1).
[38]  Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2003. Chinese word segments based on contextual entropy. Proceedings of PACLIC 17: 17th Pacific Asian Conference on Language Information and Computation, 152-158.
[39]  Li, Y., Wen, P., & Powers, D.M., 2003. Methods for the blind signal separation problem. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, 2, 1386-1389.
[40]  Matsumoto, T., Powers, D.M., & Jarrad, G., 2003. Application of search algorithms to natural language processing. Proceedings of the Australiasian Language Technology Workshop 2003.
[41]  Pfitzner, D.M., Hobbs, V.M., & Powers, D.M., 2003. A unified taxonomic framework for information visualization. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Symposium on Information Visualization, 24, 57-66.
[42]  Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2002. Experiments on unsupervised Chinese word segmentation and classification. Proceedings of the First Students' Workshop on Computational Linguistics, 83-89.
[43]  Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2002. A Multifaceted Investigation into Speech Reading. Advances in Soft Computing: Hybrid Information Systems.
[44]  Li, Y. & Powers, D.M., 2002. Speech separation based on higher order statistics using recurrent neural networks. Hybrid Information Systems, 45-55.
[45]  Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2002. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Using Red Exclusions and Neural Networks. Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science 2002, 149-156.
[46]  Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2001. Lip Feature Extraction Using Red Exclusion. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology: Visualisation 2000-Selected Papers from the Pan-Sydney Workshop on Visual Information Processing.
[47]  Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2001. Large Scale Experiments on Correction of Confused Words. Proceedings of Australasian Computer Science Conference 2001.
[48]  Li, Y., Powers, D.M., & Wen, P., 2001. Internal Model Control using Recurrent Neutral Networks for Non-Linear Dynamic Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
[49]  Atyabi, A., Anderson, T.A., Treharne, K., & Powers, D.M., 2011. Magician Simulator. Eleventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2010).
[50]  Leibbrandt, R.E. & Powers, D.M., 2010. Paradigmatic learning from child-directed speech. 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
[51]  Powers, D.M., Ali, H., & Leibbrandt, R.E., 2010. Using eigenspaces for facial expression detection: handling person dependent application and minimizing detection error [accepted but withdrawn]. Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
[52]  Powers, D.M., 2010. Evolution of an Intelligent Agent. Fourth International Conference On Genetic and Evolutionary Computing 2010.
[53]  Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Head X and the Thinking Media Framework. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 122-122.
[54]  Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Enabling the Evolution of the Thinking Head. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 126-126.
[55]  Luerssen, M.H., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Pashalis, J., Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., & Powers, D.M., 2009. MANA-An Embodied Calendar for the Aged. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 127-127.
[56]  Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Which one of you said that?. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 121-121.
[57]  Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Working with the Prosthetic Head. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 123-124.
[58]  Abrahamyan, A., Davis, C., Fordyce, A., Gibert, G., Howell, C., Kim, J., Kroos, C., Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., Powers, D.M., et al., 2009. Evaluation methods. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 81-83.
[59]  Leibbrandt, R.E. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Lexical category induction using lexically-specific templates. Supplement to the Proceedings of BUCLD 32.
[60]  Fitzgibbon, S.P., Clark, C.R., & Powers, D.M., 2008. Asynchronous brain computer interface operation. 2008 Defence Human Sciences Symposium.
[61]  Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2008. Adaptive multimodal perception for a virtual museum guide. 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence.
[62]  Powers, D.M., 2007. Cognitive load in text search: the Nwords and Rwords surveys. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.
[63]  Powers, D.M., 2007. The role of 3D in visualization. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.
[64]  Powers, D.M., Fitzgibbon, S.P., & Clark, C.R., 2007. Brain Computer Interface. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet/HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.
[65]  Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Santi, M.L., & Luerssen, M.H., 2007. A multimodal environment for immersive language learning-space, time, viewpoint and physics. Proceedings of Joint HCSNet/HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.
[66]  Santi, M.L., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2007. Desiderata and Trade-offs in HxI for Immersive Language Learning. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.
[67]  Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2003. On the artificial evolution of neural graph grammars. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science, ICCS, 369-374.
[68]  Powers, D.M., 2003. Recall and precision versus the bookmaker. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, 529-534.
[69]  Olsson, R. & Powers, D.M., 2003. Machine learning of human language through automatic programming. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science.
[70]  Powers, D.M. & Pfitzner, D.M., 2003. The magic science of visualization. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science.
[71]  Powers, D.M., 2003. Advanced Course on Validation and Evaluation in NLP and IR. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Summer School.
[72]  Gholam Hosseini, H., Reynolds, K.J., & Powers, D.M., 2001. A Multi-Stage Neural Network Classifier for ECG Events. Proceedings of 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Eng in Medicine and Biology Society.
[73]  Li, Y., Powers, D.M., & Peach, J., 2001. Comparison of blind source separation algorithms. Advances in Neural Networks and Applications.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  [Powe89a] * David M. W. Powers and Christopher Turk, Machine Learning of Natural Language, Research Monograph, Springer-Verlag (NewYork/Berlin), 1989, ISBN 3-540-19557-2/0-387-19557-2
[2]  Technology Association Workshop (ALTA2008), Sydney NSW AU: 8-10 December, CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart, Tas AU, viii+178pp, ISSN 1834-7037, (http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alt 2008/)
[3]  [Powe01c] * David M. W. Powers, Special Issue on the Connectionism versus Symbolism Debate, PSYCOLOQUY 12, 2001. Republished from THINK 2:1.
[4]  [Powe98d] David M. W. Powers (ed.), Proc. Joint Int'l Conf. on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (NeMLaP3/CoNLL98) Sydney, Jan 1998, Somerset NL: ACL/SIGNLL/Flinders Univ., xvi+314 pp, ISBN 0-7258-0634-6. (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll98/proceedings.html)
[5]  [Powe93g] David M. W. Powers, Special Issue on the Connectionism versus Symbolism Debate, THINK 2:1. Republished in PSYCOLOQUY 12, 2001
[6]  [Powe93f] * Pieter Adriaans, David Powers, Lars Asker and Walter Daelemans, Eds, Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning Workshop on Machine Learning and Text Analysis. Vienna, April 1993.
[7]  [Powe92g] David M. W. Powers, Special Issue on Machine Learning, THINK 1:2. (http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/docs/think/2-1/index.stm)
[8]  [Dael92a] * Walter Daelemans and David M. W. Powers, Eds, Background and Experiments in Machine Learning of Natural Language: First SHOE Workshop (282pp), ITK Proceedings 92/1, Tilburg University NL.
[9]  [Powe91n] David M. W. Powers, Larry Reeker and Bernhard Humm, Eds, Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Natural Language Learning held at the Twelth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney, Australia, 24-30th August 1991.
[10]  [Powe91c] * David M. W. Powers and Larry Reeker, eds., Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology, Document D-91-09 (205pp), DFKI, Univ. Kaiserslautern FRG.
[11]  [Miln11b] Marissa Milne, Martin Luerssen, Trent Lewis, Richard Leibbrandt, and David M.W. Powers. (forthcoming 2011). AVAST: Embodied Conversational Agents for Autism and Education in Time Williams (Ed), "Autism/Book 3", Vienna, Austria: InTech. ISBN 978-953-307-494-8
[12]  [Miln11a] Marissa Milne, Martin Luerssen, Trent Lewis, Richard Leibbrandt, and David M.W. Powers. (2011). "Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder" in Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto (Eds.) Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices, Madrid, Spain: IGI Global. ISBN 978-160-960-617-6 and EISBN 978-160-960-618-3
[13]  [Ande11a] Anderson, T. A. F., Chen, Z.-H., Wen, Y.-F., Milne, M., Atyabi, A., Treharne, K., Matsumoto, T., Jia, X.-B., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R., and Powers, D. M. W. (2011) Thinking Head MulSeMedia-A Storytelling Environment for Embodied Language Learning. To appear in Ghinea G., Andres F. Gulliver S. R (Eds.) Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia. IGI Global. ISBN 9781609608217 and EISBN 9781609608231
[14]  [Luer09a] Luerssen, Martin H. & David M.W. Powers (2009). An Empirical Study of Graph Grammar Evolution. In W. P. dos Santos (Ed.): Evolutionary Computation, pp.445-472, Vienna, Austria: InTech, ISBN: 978-953-307-008-7
[15]  [Powe02a] * D.M.W.Powers "Robot babies: what can they teach us about language acquisition?" Invited chapter, J. Leather and J. Van Dam, eds The Ecology of Language Acquisition, Kluwer Academic (pp.160-182
[16]  [Shar01a] * D.K. Sharman and D.M.W. Powers (in Chinese) "Hardware System Simulation" in R. Buyya (ed), High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications, Vol.2, ISBN 7-5053-6785-4, Publishing House of Electronics Industry (PHEL), Beijing, China. Translators: Zhen Weiming, Shi Wei, Wang Dongshen. (pp. 293-308) translation of [Shar99a] in textbook used in Chinese universities).
[17]  [Lewi01a] * Lewis, T. W. and D. M. W. Powers Lip Feature Extraction using Red Exclusion. In P. Eades and J. Jin (eds), CRPIT: Visualisation 2000, vol 2:61-70.(invited republication of [Lewi00a])
[18]  [Li00a] * Li, Y., Powers, D. and Peach, J. (2000). Comparison of Blind Source Separation Algorithms. pp18-23, in N. Mastorakis, Advances in Neural Networks and Applications, World Scientific Engineering Society
[19]  [Shar99a] D.K. Sharman and D.M.W. Powers "Hardware System Simulation" pp395-417 in R.Buyya, High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications, Vol 2, Prentice-Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-013785-5
[20]  [Powe91o] * David Powers and Walter Daelemans, "SHOE: The Extraction of Hierarchical Structure for Machine Learning of Natural Language (Project Summary)" pp.125-160 in [Dael92a].
[21]  [Powe91j] * David M. W. Powers, Parallelized QuickSort and RadixSort with Optimal Speedup, In N. N. Mirenkov, Parallel Computing Technologies, pp.167-176, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
[22]  [Powe91f] * David M. W. Powers, "Parallel and Efficient Implementation of the Compartmentalized Connection Graph Proof Procedure." In B. Fronhoefer & G.Wrightson (eds), Parallelism in Inference Systems, pp210-233, Springer-Verlag, 1991