Publications

Machine Learning

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Efficient approximate leave-one-out cross-validation for kernel logistic regression.
Machine Learning, vol, 71, no. 2-3, pp. 243--264, June 2008.

@article{Cawley2008,
   author = "Gavin C Cawley and Nicola L C Talbot",
   title  = "Efficient approximate leave-one-out cross-validation
             for kernel logistic regression",
   journal = "Machine Learning",
   volume  = 71,
   number = "2--3",
   pages  = "243--264",
   month  = JUN,
   year   = 2008
}

Kamel Saadi, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Gavin C. Cawley.
Optimally regularised kernel Fisher discriminant classification.
Neural Networks, 20(7):832-841, September 2007. DOI:10.1016/j.neunet.2007.05.005.

@article{Saadi2007,
   author  = "Kamel Saadi and Nicola L. C. Talbot and Gavin C. Cawley",
   title   = "Optimally regularised kernel {F}isher discriminant classification",
   journal = "Neural Networks",
   doi     = "10.1016/j.neunet.2007.05.005",
   volume  = 20,
   number  = 7,
   pages   = "832--841",
   month   = SEP,
   year    = 2007
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Agnostic learning versus prior knowledge in the design of kernel machines.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2007), pages 1720-1725, Orlando, Florida, USA, August 12-17 2007.

@inproceedings{Cawley2007d,
   author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title     = "Agnostic learning versus prior knowledge in the
                design of kernel machines",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint 
                Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2007)",
   pages     = "1720--1725",
   address   = "Orlando, Florida, USA",
   month     = AUG # "~12--17",
   year      = 2007
}

Gavin C. Cawley, Gareth J. Janacek, and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Generalised kernel machines.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2007), pages 1732-1737, Orlando, Florida, USA, August 12-17 2007.

@inproceedings{Cawley2007c,
   author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Gareth J. Janacek
                and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title     = "Generalised kernel machines",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint 
                Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2007)",
   pages     = "1732--1737",
   address   = "Orlando, Florida, USA",
   month     = AUG # "~12--17",
   year      = 2007
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Preventing over-fitting in model selection via Bayesian regularisation of the hyper-parameters.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 8:841-861, April 2007.

article{Cawley2007b,
author = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
title  = "Preventing over-fitting in model selection via {B}ayesian
          regularisation of the hyper-parameters",
journal = "Journal of Machine Learning Research",
volume  = 8,
pages   = "841--861",
month   = APR,
year    = 2007
}

Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Mark Girolami.
Sparse multinomial logistic regression via Bayesian L1 regularisation.
In B. Schölkopf, J. C. Platt, and T. Hofmann, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, Cambridge, MA, 2007. MIT Press.

@inproceedings{Cawley2007a,
author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot and Mark Girolami",
title     = "Sparse Multinomial Logistic Regression via {B}ayesian
             {L1} Regularisation",
booktitle = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19",
editor    = {B. Sch\"{o}lkopf and J. C. Platt and T. Hofmann},
publisher = "MIT Press",
address   = "Cambridge, MA",
year      = 2007
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Gene selection in cancer classification using sparse logistic regression with Bayesian regularisation.
Bioinformatics, 2006.
See Bayesian Gene Selection for Cancer Classification. DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl386

@article{Cawley2006a,
author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
title     = "Gene selection in cancer classification using sparse
             logistic regression with {B}ayesian regularisation",
journal   = "Bioinformatics",
doi       = "10.1093/bioinformatics/btl386",
year      = 2006
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
A simple trick for constructing Bayesian formulations of sparse kernel learning methods.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2005), pages 1425-1430, Montreal, Canada, July 31-August 4 2005.

@inproceedings{Cawley2005d,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "A simple trick for constructing {B}ayesian
                formulations of sparse kernel learning methods",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint 
                Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2005)",
   pages     = "1425--1430",
   address   = "Montreal, Canada",
   month     = JUL # "~31--" # AUG # "~4",
   year      = 2005
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Sparse Bayesian learning and the relevance multi-layer perceptron network.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2005), pages 1320-1324, Montreal, Canada, July 31-August 4 2005.

@inproceedings{Cawley2005c,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Sparse {B}ayesian learning and the relevance 
                multi-layer perceptron network",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint 
                Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2005)",
   pages     = "1320--1324",
   address   = "Montreal, Canada",
   month     = JUL # "~31--" # AUG # "~4",
   year      = 2005
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Constructing Bayesian formulations of sparse kernel learning methods.
Neural Networks, 18, issues 5-6:674-683, July-August 2005. DOI:10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.002

@article{Cawley2005e,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Constructing {B}ayesian formulations of sparse 
                kernel learning methods",
   journal   = "Neural Networks",
   volume    = "18, issues 5--6",
   pages     = "674--683",
   month     = JUL # "--" # AUG,
   doi       = "10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.002",
   year      = 2005
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
The evidence framework applied to sparse kernel logistic regression.
Neurocomputing, 64:119-135, 2005. DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.021

@article{Cawley2005f,
   author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title     = "The evidence framework applied to sparse kernel
                logistic regression",
   journal   = "Neurocomputing",
   volume    = 64,
   pages     = "119--135",
   doi       = "10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.021",
   year      = 2005
}

K. Saadi, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Gavin C. Cawley.
Optimally regularised kernel Fisher discriminant analysis.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-2004), volume 2, pages 427-430, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 23-26 2004. DOI:10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334245

@inproceedings{Saadi2004a,
   author    = "K. Saadi and Nicola L. C. Talbot and Gavin C. Cawley",
   title     = "Optimally regularised kernel {F}isher discriminant 
                analysis",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on 
                Pattern Recognition (ICPR-2004)",
   volume    = 2,
   pages     = "427--430",
   address   = "Cambridge, United Kingdom",
   month     = Aug # "~23--26",
   year      = 2004,
   doi       = "10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334245"
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Efficient model selection for kernel logistic regression.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-2004), volume 2, pages 439-442, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 23-26 2004. DOI:10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334249

@inproceedings{Cawley2004a,
   author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title     = "Efficient model selection for kernel logistic
                regression",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on 
                Pattern Recognition (ICPR-2004)",
   address   = "Cambridge, United Kingdom",
   volume    = 2,
   pages     = "439--442",
   month     = Aug # "~23--26",
   year      = 2004,
   doi       = "10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334249"
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Sparse Bayesian kernel logistic regression.
In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-2004), pages 133-138, Bruges, Belgium, April 28-30 2004.

@inproceedings{Cawley2004b,
   author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title     = "Sparse {B}ayesian kernel logistic regression",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial 
                Neural Networks (ESANN-2004)",
   pages     = "133--138",
   address   = "Bruges, Belgium",
   month     = Apr # "~28--30",
   year      = 2004
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Fast leave-one-out cross-validation of sparse least-squares support vector machines.
Neural Networks, 17(10):1467-1475, December 2004. DOI:10.1016/j.neunet.2004.07.002, PMID: 15541948

@article{Cawley2004c,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Fast leave-one-out cross-validation of sparse 
                least-squares support vector machines",
   journal   = "Neural Networks",
   volume    = 17,
   number    = 10,
   pages     = "1467--1475",
   month     = DEC,
   year      = 2004,
   doi       = "10.1016/j.neunet.2004.07.002",
   pubmed    = "15541948"
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
The evidence framework applied to sparse kernel logistic regression.
Neurocomputing, 64 (Trends in Neurocomputing: 12th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks 2004):119-135, 2004. DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.021

@article{Cawley2004d,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "The Evidence Framework applied to Sparse Kernel
                Logistic Regression",
   journal   = "Neurocomputing",
   volume    = "64 (Trends in Neurocomputing: 12th European 
                Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks 2004)",
   pages     = "119--135",
   year      = 2004,
   doi       = "10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.021"
}

Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Robert J. Foxall, Stephen R. Dorling, and Danilo P. Mandic.
Heteroscedastic kernel ridge regression.
Neurocomputing, 57:105-124, March 2004. DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2004.01.005

@article{Cawley2004e,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C. and
                Foxall, Robert J. and Dorling, Stephen R. and
                Mandic, Danilo P.",
   title     = "Heteroscedastic kernel ridge regression",
   journal   = "Neurocomputing",
   pages     = "105--124",
   volume    = 57,
   month     = MAR,
   year      = 2004,
   doi       = "10.1016/j.neucom.2004.01.005"
}

Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Robert J. Foxall, Stephen R. Dorling, and Danilo P. Mandic.
Unbiased estimation of conditional variance in heteroscedastic kernel ridge regression.
In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-2003), pages 209-214, Bruges, Belgium, April 23-25 2003.

@inproceedings{Cawley2003b,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C. and
                Foxall, Robert J. and Dorling, Stephen R. and
                Mandic, Danilo P.",
   title     = "Unbiased Estimation of Conditional Variance in
                Heteroscedastic Kernel Ridge Regression",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial 
                Neural Networks (ESANN-2003)",
   pages     = "209--214",
   address   = "Bruges, Belgium",
   month     = APR # "~23--25",
   year      = 2003
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Efficient cross-validation of kernel fisher discriminant classifiers.
In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-2003), pages 241-246, Bruges, Belgium, April 23-25 2003.

@inproceedings{Cawley2003a,
   author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title     = "Efficient cross-validation of kernel Fisher
                discriminant classifiers",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial 
                Neural Networks (ESANN-2003)",
   pages     = "241--246",
   address   = "Bruges, Belgium",
   month     = Apr # "~23-25",
   year      = 2003
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation of kernel Fisher discriminant classifiers.
Pattern Recognition, 36(11):2585-2592, November 2003. DOI:10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00136-5

@article{Cawley2003d,
   author  = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title   = "Efficient leave-one-out cross-validation of
             kernel {F}isher discriminant classifiers",
   journal = "Pattern Recognition",
   volume  = 36,
   number  = 11,
   pages   = "2585--2592",
   month   = Nov,
   year    = 2003,
   doi     = "10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00136-5"
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Reduced rank kernel ridge regression.
Neural Processing Letters, 16(3):293-302, December 2002. DOI:10.1023/A:1021798002258

@article{Cawley2002f,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Reduced rank kernel ridge regression",
   journal   = "Neural Processing Letters",
   volume    = 16,
   number    = 3,
   pages     = "293--302",
   month     = DEC,
   year      = 2002,
   doi       = "10.1023/A:1021798002258"
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
A greedy training algorithm for sparse least-squares support vector machines.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-2002), volume 2415 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 681-686, Madrid, Spain, August 27-30 2002. Springer.

@inproceedings{Cawley2002c,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "A Greedy Training Algorithm for Sparse
                Least-Squares Support Vector Machines",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on 
                Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-2002)",
   publisher = "Springer",
   series    = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)",
   volume    = "2415",
   pages     = "681--686",
   address   = "Madrid, Spain",
   month     = AUG # "~27--30",
   year      = 2002
}

G. C. Cawley and N. L. C. Talbot.
Efficient formation of a basis in a kernel induced feature space.
In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-2002), pages 1-6, Bruges, Belgium, April 24-26 2002.

@inproceedings{Cawley2002a,
   author    = "Cawley, G. C. and Talbot, N. L. C.",
   title     = "Efficient formation of a basis in a kernel
                induced feature space",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial 
                Neural Networks (ESANN-2002)",
   pages     = "1--6",
   address   = "Bruges, Belgium",
   month     = APR # "~24--26",
   year      = 2002
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Improved sparse least-squares support vector machines.
Neurocomputing, 48:1025-1031, October 2002. DOI:10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00606-9

@article{Cawley2002b,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Improved Sparse Least-Squares Support Vector
                Machines",
   journal   = "Neurocomputing",
   volume    = 48,
   pages     = "1025--1031",
   month     = OCT,
   year      = 2002,
   doi       = "10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00606-9"
}

Robert J. Foxall, Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Stephen R. Dorling, and Danilo P. Mandic.
Heteroscedastic regularised kernel regression for prediction of episodes of poor air quality.
In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-2002), pages 19-24, Bruges, Belgium, April 24-26 2002.

@inproceedings{Foxall2002a,
   author    = "Foxall, Robert J. and Cawley, Gavin C. and
                Talbot, Nicola L. C. and Dorling, Stephen R. and 
                Mandic, Danilo P.",
   title     = "Heteroscedastic regularised kernel regression for
                prediction of episodes of poor air quality",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial 
                Neural Networks (ESANN-2002)",
   pages     = "19--24",
   address   = "Bruges, Belgium",
   month     = APR # "~24--26",
   year      = 2002
}

K. Saadi, Gavin C. Cawley, and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Fast exact leave-one-out cross-validation of least-squares support vector machines.
In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-2002), pages 149-154, Bruges, Belgium, April 24-26 2002.

@inproceedings{Saadi2002,
   author    = "Saadi, K. and Cawley, Gavin C. and
                Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Fast exact leave-one-out cross-validation of
                least-squares support vector machines",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial 
                Neural Networks (ESANN-2002)",
   pages     = "149--154",
   address   = "Bruges, Belgium",
   month     = APR # "~24--26",
   year      = 2002
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Manipulation of prior probabilities in support vector classification.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2001), pages 2433-2438, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., July 15-19 2001.

@inproceedings{Cawley2001d,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "Manipulation of prior probabilities in support vector
                classification",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint 
                Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2001)",
   pages     = "2433--2438",
   address   = "Washington, D.C., U.S.A.",
   month     = JUL # "~15--19",
   year      = 2001
}

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Microbial Pathogens: Bayesian Methods

Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Gareth J. Janacek, and Mike W. Peck.
Sparse Bayesian kernel survival analysis for modelling the growth domain of microbial pathogens.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(2):471-481, March 2006. DOI:10.1109/TNN.2005.863452

@article{Cawley2006b,
author    = "Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot and
             Gareth J. Janacek and Mike W. Peck",
title     = "Sparse {B}ayesian kernel survival analysis for
             modelling the growth domain of microbial pathogens",
journal   = "IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks",
volume    = 17,
number    = 2,
pages     = "471--481",
month     = MAR,
doi       = "10.1109/TNN.2005.863452",
year      = 2006
}

Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, G. J. Janacek, and Mike W. Peck.
Bayesian kernel learning methods for parametric accelerated life survival analysis.
In J. Winkler, N. Lawrence, and M. Niranjan, editors, Proceedings of the Machine Learning Workshop, volume 3635 of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, pages 37-55, Berlin, 2005. Springer Verlag.

@inproceedings{Cawley2005b,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C. and 
                Janacek, G. J. and Peck, Mike W.",
   title     = "{B}ayesian kernel learning methods for parametric 
                accelerated life survival analysis",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Machine Learning Workshop",
   editor    = "Winkler, J. and Lawrence, N. and Niranjan, M.",
   series    = "Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence",
   volume    = "3635",
   pages     = "37--55",
   publisher = "Springer Verlag",
   address   = "Berlin",
   year      = 2005
}

Gary C. Barker, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Michael W. Peck.
Risk assessment for Clostridium botulinum: a network approach.
International Journal of Biodeterioration and Biodegredation, 50:167-175, 2002. DOI:10.1016/S0964-8305(02)00083-5

@article{Barker2002,
   author   = "Gary C. Barker and Nicola L. C. Talbot and Michael W. Peck",
   title    = "Risk assessment for \emph{Clostridium botulinum}:
               a network approach",
   journal  = "International Journal of Biodeterioration and 
               Biodegredation",
   volume   = 50,
   pages    = "167--175",
   year     = 2002,
   doi      = "10.1016/S0964-8305(02)00083-5"
}

Mike W. Peck, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Gary C. Barker.
Risk assessment for spore-forming bacteria in food: Bayesian belief representations.
In A. C. J. Tuitelaars, R. A. Samson, F. M. Rombouts, and S. Notermans, editors, Food Microbiology and Food Safety into the next millennium, pages 442-443, The Netherlands, 1999. Foundation Food Micro '99: A.J.Zeist.

@inproceedings{Peck1999,
   author    = "Mike W. Peck and Nicola L. C. Talbot and
                Gary C. Barker",
   title     = "Risk assessment for spore-forming bacteria in
                food: {B}ayesian belief representations",
   booktitle = "Food Microbiology and Food Safety into the next
                millennium",
   pages     = "442--443",
   address   = "The Netherlands",
   year      =  1999,
   publisher = "Foundation Food Micro '99: A.J.Zeist",
   editor    = "A. C. J. Tuitelaars and R. A. Samson and 
                F. M. Rombouts and S. Notermans"
}

Gary C. Barker, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Mike W. Peck.
Microbial risk assessment for sous-vide foods.
Third European Symposium on Sous-Vide, March 1999.

@article{Barker1999a,
   author  = "Gary C. Barker and Nicola L. C. Talbot
              and Mike W. Peck",
   title   = "Microbial risk assessment for sous-vide foods",
   journal = "Third European Symposium on Sous-Vide",
   address = "Leuvan",
   month   = MAR,
   year    = 1999
}

Mike W. Peck, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Gary C. Barker.
Quantitative risk assessment for Clostridium botulinum in minimally processed foods, November 1998.
Oral presentation and abstract at IBRCC (Interagency botulism research co-ordinating committee) meeting.

@misc{Peck1998,
   author  = "Mike W. Peck and Nicola L. C. Talbot and
              Gary C. Barker",
   title   = "Quantitative risk assessment for \emph{Clostridium
              botulinum} in minimally processed foods",
   note    = "Oral presentation and abstract at IBRCC
              (Interagency botulism research co-ordinating
              committee) meeting",
   address = "Fort Washington, Pennsylvannia, USA",
   month   = NOV,
   year    = 1998
}

Gary C. Barker, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Mike W. Peck.
Mathematical aspects of quantitative risk assessment, March 1997.
Invited oral presentation at BBSRC Food Directorate Microbiology Workshop.

@misc{Barker1997a,
   author = "Gary C. Barker and Nicola L. C. Talbot and
             Mike W. Peck",
   title  = "Mathematical aspects of quantitative risk
             assessment",
   note   = "Invited oral presentation at BBSRC Food Directorate
             Microbiology Workshop",
   address = "Birmingham, UK",
   month  = Mar,
   year   = 1997
}

Gary C. Barker, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Mike W. Peck.
Microbial risk assessment: a network approach, January 1997.
Poster presentation and abstract at Department of Health/ACDP Seminar on Microbial Risk Assessment.

@misc{Barker1997b,
   author  = "Gary C. Barker and Nicola L. C. Talbot and
             Mike W. Peck",
   title   = "Microbial risk assessment: a network approach",
   note    = "Poster presentation and abstract at Department of
              Health/ACDP Seminar on Microbial Risk Assessment",
   address = "London, UK",
   month   = Jan,
   year    = 1997
}

Gary C. Barker, Nicola L. C. Talbot, and Mike W. Peck.
Risk assessment for microbial contamination hazards: a network approach, November 1996.
Poster presentation and abstract at MAFF Hygienic Food Processing Workshop for Engineers and Microbiologists.

@misc{Barker1996,
   author = "Gary C. Barker and Nicola L. C. Talbot and
             Mike W. Peck",
   title  = "Risk assessment for microbial contamination hazards:
             a network approach",
   note   = "Poster presentation and abstract at MAFF Hygienic
             Food Processing Workshop for Engineers and
             Microbiologists",
   address = "London, UK",
   month  = NOV,
   year   = 1996
}

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Index Assignment

Nicola L. C. Talbot and Gavin C. Cawley.
A fast index assignment method for robust vector quantisation of image data.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-97), volume 3, pages 674-677, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A., October 26-29 1997.

@inproceedings{Talbot1997,
   author    = "Talbot, Nicola L. C. and Cawley, Gavin C.",
   title     = "A Fast Index Assignment Method for Robust Vector 
                Quantisation of Image Data",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on 
                Image Processing (ICIP-97)",
   volume    = "3",
   pages     = "674--677",
   address   = "Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.",
   isbn      = "0-8186-8183-7",
   month     = OCT # "~26--29",
   year      = 1997
}

Nicola L. C. Talbot and Gavin C. Cawley.
A quadratic index assignment algorithm for vector quantisation over noisy transmission channels.
In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Autumn Conference (Speech and Hearing 96), volume 18, pages 195-199, November 1996.

@inproceedings{Talbot1996,
   author    = "Talbot, Nicola L. C. and Cawley, Gavin C.",
   title     = "A Quadratic Index Assignment Algorithm for Vector
                Quantisation over Noisy Transmission Channels",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Autumn 
                Conference (Speech and Hearing 96)",
   volume    = 18,
   part      = 9,
   pages     = "195--199",
   month     = NOV,
   year      = 1996
}

Gavin C. Cawley and Nicola L. C. Talbot.
A fast index assignment algorithm for vector quantization over noisy transmission channels.
Electronics Letters, 32(15):1343-1344, July 1996.

@article{Cawley1996b,
   author    = "Cawley, Gavin C. and Talbot, Nicola L. C.",
   title     = "A Fast Index Assignment Algorithm for Vector Quantization over
              Noisy Transmission Channels",
   journal   = "Electronics Letters",
   volume    = 32,
   number    = 15,
   pages     = "1343--1344",
   issn      = "0013-5914",
   month     = JUL,
   year      = 1996
}

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Circuit Design Methods

Nicola L. C. Talbot and Rob E. Massara.
A quadratic assignment algorithm that takes module size into account.
IEE Electronic Letters, 1997.

@article{Talbot1997b,
   author  = "Nicola L. C. Talbot and Rob E. Massara",
   title   = "A quadratic assignment algorithm that takes module
              size into account",
   journal ="IEE Electronic Letters",
   year    = 1997
}

Nicola L. C. Talbot.
An application-oriented comparison of optimisation and neural-based design techniques.
PhD thesis, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, March 1996.

@phdthesis{Talbot1996b,
   author = "Nicola L. C. Talbot",
   title  = "An application-oriented comparison of optimisation
             and neural-based design techniques",
   school =  "Department of Electronic Systems Engineering,
              University of Essex",
   month  = MAR,
   year   = 1996
}

Nicola L. C. Talbot and Rob E. Massara.
An application-oriented comparison of optimisation and neural-based design techniques.
In 36th Mid-West Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993.

@inproceedings{Talbot1993,
   author    = "Nicola L. C. Talbot and Rob E. Massara",
   title     = "An application-oriented comparison of
                optimisation and neural-based design techniques",
   booktitle = "36th Mid-West Symposium on Circuits and Systems",
   year      = 1993
}

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TeX/LaTeX

Writing a LaTeX Class File to Produce a Form
In the LaTeX Community's Know How section. 2009.
Glossaries, Nomenclature, Lists of Symbols and Acronyms
In the LaTeX Community's Know How section. 2009.

Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Teaching LaTeX for a staff development course.
The PracTeX Journal, (4) 2007. Available on-line.

@article{Talbot:PJ:2007-4,
author = "Nicola Talbot",
title = "Teaching LaTeX for a staff development course",
journal = "The Prac\TeX\ Journal",
year = "2007",
number = "4",
url = "http://tug.org/pracjourn/2007-4/talbot"
}

Peter Flom, Hans Hagen, Joe Hogg, Nicola Talbot, Philip Taylor, Christina Thiele, and David Walden.
What is TEX?
The PracTEX Journal, (3), 2005. Available on-line.

@article{Flom:PJ:2005-3-whatis,
author = "Peter Flom and Hans Hagen and Joe Hogg and Nicola Talbot and Philip Taylor and Christina Thiele and David Walden",
title = "What is \TeX?",
journal = "The Prac\TeX\ Journal",
year = "2005",
number = "3",
url = "http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-3/walden-whatis"
}

Nicola L. C. Talbot
Writing a Thesis in LaTeX: hints, tips and advice
Living and Working with LaTeX Workshop. UK-TUG. 20 October 2006. PDF
Nicola L. C. Talbot.
LaTeX for Complete Novices.
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. Version 1.3, 15 Jan 2008. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/>
Nicola L. C. Talbot.
Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. Version 1.2, 6 November 2007. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/thesis/>
Nicola L. C. Talbot
LaTeX for Administrative Work.
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. 11 Sept 2004. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/admin/>
Nicola L. C. Talbot
Creating a PDF Document using PDFLaTeX.
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. 17 July 2004. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/pdfdoc/>
Nicola L. C. Talbot
Converting LaTeX .sty Style Files to LaTeX2HTML .perl Style Files.
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. 9 June 2004. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/l2h/>
Nicola L. C. Talbot
Creating Technical Posters with LaTeX
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. 23 January 2007. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/posters/>
Nicola L. C. Talbot
Creating a LaTeX Minimal Example.
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. 14 November 2008. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/minexample/>

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On-Line Non-Fiction

Nicola Cawley
Understanding the Special Educational Needs Process: Advice for Parents and Guardians.
20 January 2009. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/senadvice/>

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On-Line Fiction

Sam Stories: a collection of stories for children with behavioural problems.
Nicola L. C. Talbot
The Foolish Hedgehog. 13th October 2007. <http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/kids/hedgehog.html>

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