Miscellany

A Rough Set Approach to Text Classification

This is my MSc thesis, for the MSc (by Research) in Artificial Intelligence. The research examined the use of Rough Set Dimensionality Reduction to simplify the exceptionally massive datasets used in Information Filtering. The methodology was experimentally applied to the filtering of Usolicited Commercial Email (spam) with promising results.

A Genetic Algorithm Based Information Filter for Usenet

This is my BSc dissertation, completed in the summer of 1997. For no-one in particular's delectation and amusement, I implemented a framework for Intelligent Agents, evolved using Genetic Algorithms, to learn about the user's Usenet reading habits, and suggest new and interesting articles in places the user would never think to look. The idea was for this to eventually become either a full-blown AI newsreader (decentralised), or an NNTP proxy with agent extensions (centralised).