


Phone: +64 9 921 9999 Extn 9345
Email: ajit.narayanan@aut.ac.nz
Physical Address:BSc (Hons), University of Aston in Birmingham, 1973.
PhD in Philosophy, University of Exeter, 1976.
a. Journal Articles
RFID enabled smartcards as a context-aware personal health node. D. T. Parry and A. Narayanan. Healthcare Informatics Review online, 14(3), 2010, 10-16.
Measuring perfomance of hospital doctors through colleague and patient feedback. A. Narayanan, M. Greco, H. Powell and T. Bealing. To appear in Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare, 2011.
Principles of humoral mediated clustering. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in the journal Natural Computing (Springer) in 2011.
Outlier detection using humoral mediated clustering. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications.
Humoral artificial immune system for supervised learning. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications.
Gene Expression Rule Discovery with a Multi-objective Neural-Genetic Hybrid. E.C. Keedwell and A. Narayanan. To appear in International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. 2011.
Where did we go wrong? A. Narayanan, to appear in 25th Anniversary edition of Artificial Intelligence & Society. 2011.
Revisable knowledge discovery in databases (RKDD), International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 11 (2), 75-96, 1996.
On using animations in Court. A. Narayanan, G. Penny, S. Hibbin, S. Lochun and W. J. Milne. Information and Communications Technology Law, 8 (2), 1999, pp. 151-163.
Quantum artificial neural network architectures and components. A. Narayanan and T. Menneer, Information Sciences, 128 (3-4), 2000, 231-255.
Creating rules from trained neural networks using genetic algorithms. E. Keedwell, A. Narayanan and D. Savic, International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals, Volume 1, 2001, pp 30-43.
Can animations be safely used in Court? A. Narayanan and S. Hibbin, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Volume 9, Number 4, 2002, pp 271-293.
Mining viral protease data to extract cleavage knowledge. A. Narayanan, X. Wu and Z. R. Yang. Bioinformatics 18 (1): 5-13, 2002.
Iconic SQL: Practical issues in the querying of databases through structured iconic expressions. A. Narayanan and T. Shaman. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 13, 2002, 623-647.
Regular Biosequence Pattern Matching with Cellular Automata. K. Laurio, F. Linåker and A. Narayanan. Information Sciences, 146(1-4), 2002, 89-101.
Machine learning techniques for bioinformatics. A. Narayanan, E. Keedwell and B. Olsson. Applied Bioinformatics, 1(4), 2002, 191-222.
Searching for discriminatory rules in protease proteolytic cleavage activity using genetic programming with a min-max scoring function. Z. R. Yang, R. Thomson, T. C. Hodgman, J. Dry, A. K. Doyle, A. Narayanan and X. Wu. Biosystems 72, 2003, 159-176.
Single-layer neural networks for gene expression analysis. A. Narayanan, E. C. Keedwell, S. S. Tatineni and J. Gamalielsson. Neurocomputing, 61: 217 - 240, 2004.
Discovering gene regulatory networks with a neural-genetic hybrid. E.C. Keedwell and A. Narayanan. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2005, Vol. 2, No. 3: 231-243. 2005.
What distinguishes general practitioners from consultants, according to patients? A. Narayanan and M. Greco, Journal of Healthcare Management and Marketing, 2007, 1(1): 80-87.
Assessing the professional performance of UK doctors: an evaluation of the utility of the General Medical Council patient and colleague questionnaires. J.A. Campbell, M.J.Greco, J. Johnson, S. Richards, A. Dickens and A. Narayanan. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17: 187-193.
Doctors using patient feedback to establish professional learning goals: Results from a communication skill development program. L Baker, M. Greco and A. Narayanan. To appear in Biomedical Knowledge Management Structures and Processes for eHealth Systems, M Cooper (Ed.), IGI Global, 2009.
Resistance gene expression determines the in vitro chemosensitivity of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Sharon Glaysher, Dennis Yiannakis, Francis G Gabriel, Penny Johnson, Marta E Polak, Louise A Knight, Zoe Goldthorpe, Katharine Peregrin, Mya Gyi, Paul Modi, Joe Rahamim, Mark E Smiths, Khalid Amer, Bruce Addis, Matthew Poole, Ajit Narayanan, Tim J Gulliford, Peter E Andreotti and Ian A Cree. BMC Cancer. 2009. 9:300 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/9/300 (IF 3.08)
Validation of a multi-source feedback tool for use in General Practice. Campbell, Narayan, Greco et al. Education for Primary Care, 21(3), 2010, pp165-179
Issues of reliability, generalisability and decidability for unbalance data. Narayanan, Campbell and Greco (2009). To appear in Medical Education (IF 2.6).
Micro-climate variations related to vineyard crop quality. P. Sallis, S. Shanmuganathan and A. Narayanan. (2010) Proceedings of WAC2010 (World Automation Congress) on Soft Computing for Industry ISSCI 2010, Kobe, Japan, September 19-22, 7pp. Also accepted for publication in AutoSoft: The Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, IEEE Press.
The molecular basis of the chemosensitivity of metastatic cutaneous melanoma to chemotherapy. Katharine A Parker, Sharon Glaysher, Marta Polak, Francis G Gabriel, Penny Johnson, Louise A Knight, Matthew Poole, Ajit Narayanan, Jeremy Hurren and Ian A Cree. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2010, doi: 10.1136/jcp.2010.080119, 9pp. (IF 2.324)
Humoral mediated clustering. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in the journal Natural Computing (Springer) in 2011.
Applications in unusual contexts in engineering mathematics: Students’ Attitudes. N Gruenwald, G. Sauerbier, A. Narayanan, S. Klymchuk and T. Zverkova. Mathematics Teaching-Research Journal Online, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 52-67.
b. Book Chapters
What is it like to be a machine?, in S. Torrance (ed.) The Mind and the Machine, Ellis Horwood, 1984, pp. 79-87. Second Anglo-French Philosophy Colloquium, Middlesex Polytechnic, April 1983.
Why AI cannot be wrong, in K. S. Gill (ed.), Artificial Intelligence for Society, Wiley, 1986, pp. 43-53. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on AI for Society, Brighton Polytechnic, 1985.
Memory models of man and machine, in Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Applications, M. Yazdani (ed.), Chapman-Hall, 1986, pp. 226-258.
Artificial Intelligence Terminology: A Reference Guide, C. Beardon (Ed.), Ellis Horwood, 1989. (Several entries.)
Cognitive architecture and connectionism, in R. Forsyth (ed.), Machine Learning: Principles and Techniques, Chapman and Hall, 1989, pp. 219-237.
Object-oriented expert diagnostic systems: design principles, A. Narayanan and Y. Jin, in T. R. Addis and R. M. Muir (eds.), Research and Development in Expert Systems VII, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 306-317.
The Chinese Room Argument: An exercise in computational philosophy of mind, in I. Mahalingam and B. Carr (eds.), Logical Foundations (Festschrift in honour of D. J. O'Connor), Macmillan, 1991, pp. 106-118.
A connectionist model of nonmonotonic reasoning: Handling exceptions in inheritance hierarchies, M. Boden and A. Narayanan, in Connectionism in a Broad Perspective, L. Niklasson and M. Boden (eds.), Ellis Horwood, 1994, pp. 65-78.
On nativist connectionism, in Connectionism in a Broad Perspective, L. Niklasson and M. Boden (eds.), Ellis Horwood, 1994, pp. 99-108.
The intentional stance and the imitation game, in The Legacy of Alan Turing (Volume 1): Machines and Thought, P. Millican and A. Clarke (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1996, pp 63-80. (Refereed paper delivered at the Turing-90 Colloquium to honour the 40th anniversary of the appearance of Turing's paper, Sussex University, April 1990.)
On changing one's mind: A connectionist account, A. Narayanan and M. Boden, Forms of Representation, D. Peterson (Ed.), Intellect, 1996, pp 101-117.
‘Quantum-inspired computing’ and ‘Connectionism’, in Oxford Dictionary of Computing (3rd Edition), I. Pyle (Ed.), Oxford University Press, 1996.
Biomolecular cognitive science, in Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in Cognitive Science and Consciousness, S. O Nuallain, P. Mc Kevitt and E. Mac Aogain (Eds.), John Benjamins Publishing, 1997, pp. 21-36.
On synaptic plasticity: Modelling molecular kinases involved in transmitter release. D. Lundh and A. Narayanan, Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine and Biology, H. Malmgren, M. Borga and L. Niklasson (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2000, pp 277-282.
Artificial neural networks for reducing the dimensionality of gene expression data. A. Narayanan, Alan Cheung, Jonas Gamalielsson, Ed Keedwell and Christophe Vercellone. In Bioinformatics Using Computational Intelligence Paradigms, U. Seiffert, L.C. Jain and P. Schweizer (Eds.), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Vol. 176, Springer Verlag, 2005, 191-216.
c. Refereed Conference Proceedings
Mathematical modelling of infectious disease with biomathematics: Implications for teaching and research. Gruenwald, N., Sauerbier, G., Narayanan, A., Klymchuk, S. and Zverkova, T. In Kaiser, G. (Ed) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (ICTMA-14), Hamburg, Germany, 2011. (In print)
A multi-agent (MA) cellular automata (CA) framework for grapevine growth and crop simulation. Shanmuganathan, S., Narayanan, A., Robinson, N., IEEE Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2011), Singapore, February 26-28, 2011. http://www.icmlc.org/ IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1127J-PRT ISBN: 978-1-4244-9252-7(in press). Also to appear in International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing.
Data mining and χ2 test based hybrid approach to modelling climate effects on grape crop in varieties of Kumeu, New Zealand. Shanmuganathan, S., Sallis, P., Narayanan, A. IEEE Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2011), Singapore, February 26-28, 2011. http://www.icmlc.org/ IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1127J-PRT ISBN: 978-1-4244-9252-7 (in press)
Quantum jumps and polymeric clustering. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC11), Shanghai, China.
Population-based artificial immune system clustering algorithm. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in Pietro Liò, Giuseppe Nicosia, Thomas Stibor (Eds.): Artificial Immune Systems, 10th International Conference, ICARIS 2011, Cambridge, UK, July 18-21, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6825 Springer 2011.
Principles and methods of artificial immune system vaccination of learning systems. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2011. To appear in Pietro Liò, Giuseppe Nicosia, Thomas Stibor (Eds.): Artificial Immune Systems, 10th International Conference, ICARIS 2011, Cambridge, UK, July 18-21, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6825 Springer 2011.
Modelling the seasonal climate variability and its effects on vintage wines from Marlborough, NZ. Shanmuganathan, S., Sallis, P., Narayanan, A. To appear in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'11), Shanghai, July 2011.
A cellular automaton framework for within-field vineyard variance and grape production simulation. S. Shanmuganathan, A. Narayanan and N. Robinson. To appear in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'11), Shanghai, July 2011.
Real Time Replanning based on A* for Collision Avoidance in Multi-Robot Systems. F. Liu and A. Narayanan. To appear in Proceeding of URAI 2011 (8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence), Korea, November 2011. (IEEE Conference Record 18962)
OBOES: An object-oriented expert system for hardware diagnosis, A. Narayanan and P. Barbonis, Colloquium on Intelligent Fault Diagnosis, IEE, Digest 1992/045, London, February 1992.
A three-level finite state model for Arabic morphology, A. Narayanan and L. Hashem, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multilingual Computing, Durham University, 1992, 24pp.
On abstract, finite-state morphology, A. Narayanan and L. Hashem, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-93), 1993, pp. 297-304.
More notes on ‘A clash of intuitions’, R. Al-Asady and A. Narayanan, Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-93), 1993, pp. 682-687.
A representational architecture for nonmonotonic inheritance structures, M. Boden and A. Narayanan, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-93) (Amsterdam), S. Gielen and B. Kappen (eds.), Springer Verlag, 1993, pp. 343-349.
Animating language, A. Narayanan, L. Ford, D. Manuel, D. Tallis, M. Yazdani, Workshop Notes, Integrating Natural Language and Vision, 12th (American) National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, USA, 1994, 8 pp.
Handling exceptions in automatically generated knowledge bases, IEE Knowledge Discovery in Databases Colloquium Digest 1995/021(A), London: IEE Press, 1995, 3pp. (NR)
Visualising quantum computing, A. Narayanan, M. O'Donovan and M. Moore, Proceedings of 14th Annual Eurographics Conference (UK Chapter), Volume 1, H. Jones, R. Raby and D. Vicars (Eds.), 1996, pp. 63-82.
Quantum-inspired neural networks and consciousness, T. Menneer and A. Narayanan, Consciousness Research Abstracts (Tucson II), University of Arizona, 1996. (NR)
Quantum-inspired genetic algorithms, A. Narayanan and M. Moore, Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC96), Nagoya, pp 61-66.
Structured walkthroughs for a virtual university, A. Narayanan, G. Penny and S. Hudson, Proceedings of 15th Annual Eurographics Conference (UK Chapter), 1997, pp. 65-74.
An introductory tutorial on quantum computing. Quantum Computing: Theory, Applications and Implications, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Digest No. 97/145, 3pp, 1997. (NR)
DNA algorithms for computing shortest paths. A. Narayanan and S. Zorbalas. Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM/AAAI Third Annual Conference, J. R. Koza et al. (Eds), 1998, pp. 718-724.
Animating legal testimony. A. Narayanan, G. Penny, S. Lochun and W. J. Milne. Proceedings of the 6th National Conference/2nd European Conference on Law, Computers and AI, 1998.
Quantum computing for beginners. Proceedings of the IEEE/IEE World Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC99), Washington, DC, 1999, pp. 2231-2238.
Quantum artificial neural networks vs classical artificial neural networks: Experiments in simulation. T. Menneer and A. Narayanan, Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Atlantic City, NJ, February 2000, pp. 757-759.
A quantum algorithm for route finding. A. Narayanan and J. Wallace, Cybernetics and Systems 2000: Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2000), R. Trappl (Ed.), Volume 1, Vienna, April 2000, pp 140-143.
Evolving rules from neural networks trained on continuous data. E. C. Keedwell, A. Narayanan and D. Savic, Proceedings of IEEE 2000 World Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2000), Volume 1, 2000, 639-645.
From data mining to rule refining - A new tool for post data mining rule optimisation. E. Keedwell, F. Bessler, A. Narayanan and D. Savic. 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI2000), Vancouver, 2000, pp 82-85.
Quantum sorting and route finding. J. Wallace and A. Narayanan. Fifth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems CASYS 2001, D. M. Dubois (Ed.), Liege, 2001, 2pp.
Cloning consciousness: The future for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science? Towards a Science of Consciousness, Skovde, Sweden, 2001, Abstract 172.
Modelling gene regulatory networks using artificial neural networks. E.C. Keedwell, A. Narayanan and D. Savic, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/INNS/ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'02), 2002, pp183-189.
Recognising Prosite patterns with cellular automata. K. Laurio, F. Linaker and A. Narayanan, Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Caulfield, Chen, Cheng, Duro, Honavar, Kerre, Lu, Romay, Shih, Ventura, Wang, Yang (eds.), 2002, 1174-1179.
All there is to the mind is to have the right genes, or, consciousness as a form of genetic engineering. Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the 13th Irish Conference AICS 2002, M. O'Neill, R. F. E. Sutcliffe, C. Ryan, M. Eaton and N. J. Griffiths (Eds), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 2464), 2002, pp 78-86.
Genetic algorithms for gene expression analysis. E. C. Keedwell and A. Narayanan. Applications of Evolutionary Computation: Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Bioinformatics, G. Raidl et al., Springer Verlag LNCS 2611, 2003, 76-86.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for Bioinformatics: Tutorial. A. Narayanan, E. Keedwell and B. Olsson. ISMB 2003 Tutorial Notes, Tutorial presented at ISMB03, Brisbane, July 2003.
Analyzing gene expression data for childhood medulloblastoma survival with artificial neural networks. A. Narayanan, E. Nana and E.C. Keedwell, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, San Diego, October 2004, 9-16.
Neural networks and temporal gene expression data. A. Krishna, A. Narayanan and E.C. Keeedwell. Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoBio05), Special Session on Bioinformatics, F. Lothlauf et al. (Eds), Springer Verlag LNCS 3449, 2005, 64-73.
Reverse engineering gene networks with artificial neural networks. A. Krishna, A. Narayanan and E. C. Keedwell. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA05), Special Session on Bioinformatics, B. Ribeiro, R. Albrecht, A. Dobnikar, D. W. Pearson and N.C. Steele (Eds.). 325-328, Springer Computer Science, March 2005.
Statistical data analysis incorporating web text mining to establish correlations between grape wine taster comments and wine ratings. S. Shanmuganathan, P. Sallis and A. Narayanan. To appear in Proceedings of CITA09, 2009.
Unsupervised Artificial Neural Nets for Modelling the Effects of Climate Change on New Zealand Grape Wines. S. Shanmuganathan, P. Sallis and A. Narayanan. Proceedings of !8th World IMACS/MODSIM Congress, 2009: 803-809.
Data mining techniques for modelling seasonal climate effects on grapevine yield and wine quality. S. Shanmuganathan, P. Sallis and A. Narayanan, A. (2010). Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), Liverpool, UK, 28 – 30 July 2010, 6pp.
Data mining techniques for modelling the influence of daily extreme weather conditions on grapevine, wine quality and perennial crop yield. S. Shanmuganathan, P. Sallis and A. Narayanan, A. (2010). Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks (CICSyN), Liverpool, UK, 28 – 30 July 2010, 6pp
Modelling the seasonal climate effects on grapevine yield at different spatial and unconventional temporal scales. S. Shanmuganathan, P. Sallis and A. Narayanan. Proceedings of International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), David A. Swayne, Wanhong Yang, A. A. Voinov, A. Rizzoli, T. Filatova (Eds.), 5-8 July, Ottawa, Canada, 2010, 10pp.
Modelling the effects of daily extreme weather on grapevine and wine quality. S. Shanmuganathan, P. Sallis and A. Narayanan (2010). Proceedings of International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), David A. Swayne, Wanhong Yang, A. A. Voinov, A. Rizzoli, T. Filatova (Eds.), 5-8 July, Ottawa, Canada, 2010, 9pp. Session 28. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/index.php, Session 28.
Humoral mediated clustering. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. Proceedings of the IEEE 5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2010), Liverpool, UK, September, 2010. 10pp.
Feature weighting for efficient clustering. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2010. To appear in Proceedings of ICMIA2010 (IEEE 2nd International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications). Seoul, November 2010.
Gene expression rule discovery with a multi-objective neural-genetic hybrid. E.C. Keedwell and A. Narayanan. 2010. To appear in Proceedings of BIBM (IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine), Hong Kong, December 2010.
Outlier detection using humoral-mediated clustering (HAIS). W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2010. To appear in Proceedings of NaBIC2010 (IEEE World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing). Kitakyushu, December 2010.
Humoral artificial immune system (HAIS) for supervised learning. W. Ahmad and A. Narayanan. 2010. To appear in Proceedings of NaBIC2010 (IEEE World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing). Kitakyushu, December 2010.