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Prof Simon Dobson

Prof Simon Dobson

Prof Simon Dobson

Head of School

Professor - School of Computer Science

Full research profile

Email: simon.dobson@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office: JC1.17

Phone: +44 (0)1334 461626

Web: https://sd.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

Recent Publications

Fang, L, Liu, X, Su, X, Ye, J , Dobson, S, Hui, P & Tarkoma, S 2021, Bayesian inference federated learning for heart rate prediction. in J Ye, MJ O'Grady, G Civitarese & K Yordanova (eds), Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: 9th EAI International Conference, MobiHealth 2020, Virtual Event, November 19, 2020, Proceedings. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 362 LNICST, Springer, Cham, pp. 116-130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70569-5_8
Mann, P, Smith, VA , Mitchell, JBO & Dobson, S 2021, 'Cooperative coinfection dynamics on clustered networks', Physical Review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, vol. 103, no. 4, 042307. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.042307
Mann, PS, Smith, VA , Mitchell, JBO , Jefferson, CA & Dobson, SA 2021, 'Exact formula for bond percolation on cliques', Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 104, no. 2, 024304 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.024304
Mann, PS, Smith, VA , Mitchell, JBO & Dobson, SA 2021, 'Percolation in random graphs with higher-order clustering', Physical Review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, vol. 103, no. 1, 012313 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.012313
Mann, PS, Smith, VA , Mitchell, JBO & Dobson, SA 2021, 'Random graphs with arbitrary clustering and their applications', Physical Review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, vol. 103, no. 1, 012309 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.012309
Mann, PS, Smith, VA , Mitchell, JBO & Dobson, SA 2021, 'Symbiotic and antagonistic disease dynamics on clustered networks using bond percolation', Physical Review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, vol. 104, no. 2, 024303 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.024303
Mann, PS, Smith, VA , Mitchell, JBO & Dobson, SA 2021, 'Two-pathogen model with competition on clustered networks', Physical Review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, vol. 103, no. 6, 062308. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.062308
Fang, L , Ye, J & Dobson, SA 2020, 'Discovery and recognition of emerging human activities using a hierarchical mixture of directional statistical models', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1304 - 1316. https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2019.2905207
Dobson, SA 2020, Epidemic modelling - Some notes, maths, and code. Independent Publishing Network. <https://simondobson.org/introduction-to-epidemics/>
Pitcher, MJ, Dobson, SA , Kelsey, T , Chaplain, MAJ , Sloan, DJ , Gillespie, SH & Bowness, R 2020, 'How mechanistic in silico modelling can improve our understanding of TB disease and treatment', International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1145-1150. https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.20.0107