Newcastle University

Introduction

Peter Andras obtained his BSc (Computer Science, 1995), MSc (Artificial Intelligence, 1996) and PhD (Neural Networks, 2000) from the Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj/Kolozsvar, Romania).

He was the founding director of the Civitas Foundation for Civil Society (Romania) between 1992-1998. He was the PI for many projects about local government and civil society.

Between 1998-2000 he worked at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maastricht (Netherlands).

He joined Newcastle University in 2000 as a Research Associate in the Department of Psychology. He started as Lecturer in the School of Computing Science in 2002. He was promoted to Reader in 2005.

Qualifications

BSc Computer Science 1995
MSc Artificial Intelligence 1996
PhD Neural Networks 2002

• Lythgow KT, Hudson G, Andras P, Chinnery PF. A critical analysis of the combined usage of protein localization prediction methods: Increasing the number of independent data sets can reduce the accuracy of predicted mitochondrial localization. Mitochondrion 2011, 11(3), 444-449.
• Hammerla N, Ploetz T, Andras P, Olivier P. Assessing Motor Performance with PCA. In: International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using Pervasive Sensing (in conjunction with Pervasive). 2011, San Francisco, California, USA.
• Pakhira A, Andras P. Dynamic network analysis of software systems. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1239.
• Andras P. Modelling living systems. In: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2009, LNCS 5778. 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
• Andras P. Networks of artificial social interactions. In: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2009, LNCS 5778. 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
• Stein W, Städele C, Andras P. Optical imaging of neurons in the crab stomatogastric ganglion with voltage-sensitive dyes. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011, 49, 5.
• Andras P. Research: metrics, quality, and management implications. Research Evaluation 2011, 20(2), 90-106.
• Städele C, Andras P, Stein W. Simultaneous measurement of membrane potential changes in multiple pattern generating neurons using voltage sensitive dye imaging. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2011, 203(1), 78-88.
• Stein W, Städele C, Andras P. Single-sweep voltage sensitive dye imaging of interacting identified neurons. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2011, 194(2), 224-234.
• Luo JW, Mak T, Yu B, Andras P, Yakovlev A. Towards neuro-silicon interface using reconfigurable dynamic clamping. In: Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: IEEE.
• Pakhira A, Andras P. Validation of Network Analysis Methods Applied in the Context of Dynamic Analysis of Software Systems. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1240.
• Pakhira A, Andras P. Can we use network analysis methods to discover functionally important method calls in software systems by considering dynamic analysis data?. In: Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analyss (PCODA). 2010, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Stein W, Andras P. Light-induced effects of a fluorescent voltage-sensitive dye on neuronal activity in the crab stomatogastric ganglion. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2010, 188(2), 290-294.
• Andras P. Uncertainty and communication complexity in iterated cooperation games. In: Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. 2008, Winchester, UK: MIT Press.
• Andras P, Lycett S. An advantage of chaotic neural dynamics. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA: IEEE.
• Andras P, Herald NDJ, Charlton BG. An analysis of the dynamics of British academic science. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1006.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. Complex biological memory conceptualized as an abstract communication system – human long term memories grow in complexity during sleep and undergo selection while awake. In: Perlovsky, L., Kozma, R., ed. Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness. Berlin; New York: Springer, 2007, pp. 325-340.
• Andras P, Wennekers T. Cortical activity pattern computation. BioSystems 2007, 87(2-3), 179-185.
• Andras P, Gwyther R, Madalinski AA, Lynden SJ, Andras A, Young MP. Ecological network analysis: An application to the evaluation of effects of pesticide use in an agricultural environment. Pest Management Science 2007, 63(10), 943-953.
• Parkin SE, Andras P, Morgan G. Evolutionary optimization of parameters for distributed virtual environments. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). 2007, Singapore: IEEE.
• Wennekers T, Ay N, Andras P. High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions. BioSystems 2007, 89(1-3), 190-197.
• Andras P, Herald NDJ, Charlton BG. Science production in top 20 UK universities is catching-up with the US universities. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1053.
• Kaiser M, Martin R, Andras P, Young MP. Simulation of robustness against lesions of cortical networks. European Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 25(10), 3185-3192.
• Andras P, Ha HN. A Scientific Document Management System for Neuroscience. In: Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2006). 2006, Edinburgh: National Institute of Mental Health.
• Andras P. Extraction of an activity pattern language from EEG data. Neurocomputing 2006, 69(10-12), 1313-1316.
• Andras P, Idowu O, Periorellis P. Fault tolerance and network integrity measures: the case of computer-based systems. In: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems (AISB '06). 2006, University of Bristol, UK: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. Globalization in science education: An inevitable and beneficial trend. Medical Hypotheses 2006. Elsevier, 66(5), 869-873.
• Parkin S E, Andras P, Morgan G. Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments. In: Virtual Environments 2006: 12th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. 2006, Lisbon, Portugal: Eurographics Association.
• Charlton B, Andras P. Oxbridge versus the 'Ivy League' : 30 year citation trends. Oxford Magazine 2006, (255), 16-16.
• Charlton B, Andras P. Reply to May and Harvey. Oxford Magazine 2006, (255), 18-18.
• Andras P. The language of cortical dynamics. In: Computational Life Sciences II: Second International Symposium (CompLife 2006).2006,Cambridge, UK:Springer-Verlag
• Andras P, Lazarus J, Roberts G, Lynden SJ. Uncertainty and Cooperation: Analytical Results and a Simulated Agent Society. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2006, 9(1).
• Andras P, Lazarus J. Cooperation, Risk and the Evolution of Teamwork. In: Gold, N., ed. Teamwork: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 56-77.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Faults, errors and failures in communications: A systems theory perspective on organisational structure. In: Besnard, D., Gacek, C., Jones, C.B., ed. Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. London: Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 189-213.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine 2005, 98(1), 53-55.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. Modernizing UK health services: 'Short-sharp-shock' reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2005. , 11(2), 111-119.
• Andras P. Neural activity pattern systems. Neurocomputing 2005, 65-66, 531-536.
• Andras P. Pattern computation in neural communication systems. Biological Cybernetics 2005,92 6 452-460.
• Andras, P and Andras CD. Protein interaction world - an alternative hypothesis about the origins of life.. Medical Hypotheses, 2005, 64, 678-688.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Self-aware software - Will it become a reality?. In:Self-star properties in complex information systems: conceptual and practical foundations. . Berlin: Springer, 2005, pp. 229-259.
• Charlton BG, Andras PE. The need for a new specialist professional research system of "pure" medical science. PLoS Medicine 2005. Public Library of Science, 2(8), e285-e285.
• Andras P, Andras C. The origins of life - The 'protein interaction world' hypothesis: Protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules. Medical Hypotheses 2005. , 64(4), 678-688.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly 2005, 47(1-2), 30-39.
• Andras P. A Model for Emergent Chaotic Order in Small Neural Networks. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 860.
• Sandor Z, Andras P. Alternative sampling methods for estimating multivariate normal probabilities. Journal of Econometrics 2004, 120(2), 207-234.
• Idowu OC, Lynden SJ, Young MP, Andras P. Bacillus Subtilis Protein Interaction Network Analysis. In: IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB). 2004, Stanford, California: IEEE.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding?. British Medical Journal 2004. ,329 7460 294-294.
• Periorellis P, Idowu OC, Lynden SJ, Young MP, Andras P. Dealing with Complex Networks of Process Interactions: A Security Measure. In: 9th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS). 2004, Florence, Italy: IEEE.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. European science must embrace modernization. Nature 2004. ,429 6993 699-699.
• Andras P. Pattern languages: A new paradigm for neurocomputation. Neurocomputing 2004, 58-60, 223-228.
• Andras P. A Model for Emergent Complex Order in Small Neural Networks. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 2003, 2(1), 55-69.
• Andras P. Comparing neurophysiological measurements of simulated and real brains. Neurocomputing 2003, 52-54, 677-682.
• Andras P, Kozma R, Erdi P. Editorial. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 2003. London, UK: Imperial College Press, 2(1), 1-2.
• Andras P, Roberts G, Lazarus J. Environmental risk, cooperation, and communication complexity. In:Alonso E; Kudenko D; Kazakov D, ed. Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems : adaptation and multi-agent learning.Berlin:Springer,2003, pp. 558-560.
• Idowu OC, Lynden SJ, Periorellis P, Young MP, Andras P. Software Suite to Aid Protein Target Identification for Rational Drug Discovery (Extended abstract). In: Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory and Wellcome Trust Conference on Pharmacogenomics. 2003, Hinxton, UK: Wellcome Trust.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. What is Management and What Do Managers Do ? A Systems Theory Account. Philosophy of Management 2003, 3(3), 3-16.
• Charlton BG, Andras P. A System Poisoned by Deceit. Times Higher Education Supplement 2002.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Commentary on Sweeney & Kernick (2002), clinical evaluation: Constructing a new model for post-normal medicine. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 8, 131-138. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2002. , 8(2), 143-144.
• Andras P, Roberts G, Lazarus J. Communication Complexity, Environmental Risk, and Cooperation. In: 2nd Symposium on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). 2002, Bologna, Italy: World Scientific Publishing.
• Andras P. Computation with chaotic patterns. In: Neurocomputing: 10th Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CSN 01). 2002, Monterey, California, USA: Elsevier BV.
• Andras P. Computation with Chaotic Patterns. Neurocomputing (Special Issue on Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 2002) 2002, 44, 263-268.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Democratic deficit and communication hyper-inflation in health care systems. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2002. , 8(3), 291-297.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Hype and Spin in the NHS. The British Journal of General Practice 2002, 52(479), 520-521.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Hype and Spin in the Universities. Oxford Magazine 2002, (202), 5-6.
• Andras P. Kernel-Kohonen Networks. International Journal of Neural Systems 2002, 12(2), 117-136.
• Andras P. Spectrum-based Design of Sinusoidal RBF Neural Networks. In: INNS: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: IEEE Press.
• Andras P. The equivalence of support vector machine and regularization neural networks. Neural Processing Letters 2002, 15(2), 97-104.
• Andras P, Panzeri S, Young MP. Towards Statistically Valid Population Decoding Models. Neurocomputing: Special Issue on Computational Neuroscience, Trends in Research 2002, 44-46(1-2), 269-274.
• Andras P, Charlton BG. Unhealthy Hype. London, UK: spiked, 2002. Available at: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9262/.
• Andras P. Artificial Neural Networks for Approximation and Time Series Prediction. Cluj: Presa Universitara, 2001.
• Andras P. Computation with Chaotic Patterns. In: Computational neuroscience: trends in research, 2002. 2001, San Francisco and Pacific Grove, California, USA: Elsevier Health Sciences.
• Andras P, Postma E, Van Den Herik J. Natural dynamics and neural networks: Searching for efficient preying dynamics in a virtual world. Journal of Intelligent Systems 2001, 11(3), 173-202.
• Andras P. RBF Neural Networks with Orthogonal Basis Functions. In: Howlett, RJ and Jain, LC, ed. Radial Basis Function Networks 1: Recent Developments in Theory and Applications. New York: Physica-Verlag, 2001, pp. 67-94.
• Andras P. The role of brain chaos. In: Wermter, S., Austin, J., Willshaw, D, ed. Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing. Berlin; New York: Springer, 2001, pp.296-310.
• Andras P. The Role of Brain Chaos. In: Wermter, S, Austin, J and Willshaw, D, ed. Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 296-310.
• Andras P. The Sierpinski Brain. In: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2001). 2001, Washington DC, USA: IEEE.
• András P, Panzeri S, Young MP. Towards Statistically Valid Population Decoding Models. In: Computational neuroscience: trends in research, 2002. 2001, San Francisco and Pacific Grove, California, USA: Elsevier Health Sciences.
• Andras P. Approximation of Chaotic Shapes with Tree-Structured Neural Networks. In: INNS - IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN '99). 1999, Washington DC, USA: IEEE Press.
• Andras P. Comment to the discussion by Gusztav Molnar. In: Bakk, M, Szekely, I, and Toro, TT, ed. On Midway: Stills of the Reform of the Transylvanian Hungarian Politics. Pro-Print, Csikszereda, Romania, 1999, pp. 370-375.
• Andras P, Postma E, Van den Herik J. Dealing with Environmental Dynamics. In: 11th Belgium-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference (BNAIC '99). 1999, Maastricht University, Netherlands.
• Andras P. Orthogonal RBF Neural Network Approximation. Neural Processing Letters 1999, 9(2), 141-151.
• Andras P. Selection of RBF Neural Networks with a Combined Evolutionary and Back-propagation Method. Cluj, Romania: Babes-Bolyai University, 1999. Preprint of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
• Opre A, Andras P. Amnesia: Neuropshychological Interpretation and Artificial Neural Network Simulation. Cognition, Brain, Behavior 1998, 2(3-4), 315-335.
• András P, András A. Comparison of Evolutionary Selection Methods for RBF Neural Networks. In: Romanian Symposium on Computer Science (ROSYCS). 1998, Faculty of Computer Science, 'A.I. Cuza' University, Iasi, Romania.
• Opre A, Andras P. Modelling Amesic Syndrome with Artificial Neural Networks. In: International Conference on Automation and Quality Control. 1998, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• Andras P. Neural Network Design Using Spectral Analysis. In: 5th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS). 1998, Kitakyushu, Japan: Ohmsha/IOS Press.
• Andras P. Approximation of Fractals with Neural Networks. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Mathematica 1997, 42(1), 15-23.
• Andras P. Knowledge Representation in Artificial Neural Networks. Annales Universitatis Occidentalis Timisiensis, Philosophia 1997, IX, 173-185.
• Andras P. Neural Networks for Decision Modelling. Brain, Cognition, Behaviour 1997, 1(1), 10-36.
• Andras P. Systematic Development of WWW Pages. In: 1997 Romanian Internet Learning Workshop (RILW '97). 1997, Ilieni, Romania.
• Andras P, Andras A, Szabo Z. A Genetic Solution for the Cutting Stock Problem. In: 1st Online Workshop on Soft Computing (WSC1). 1996, Nagoya, Japan: Nagoya University.
• Andras P. A Tree-Structured Artificial Neural Network Applied for Chaotic Time series Prediction. In: Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA '96). 1996, Sozopol, Bulgaria: IOS Press.
• Andras P. Approximation of Functions with Tree-Structured Neural Networks. In: International Conference on Approximation. 1996, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• Andras P. Increasing the Performance of Artificial Neural Networks Using Fuzzy Data. Cluj, Romania: Babes-Bolyai University, 1996. Preprint of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
• Andras P. Modeling the Development of the Concept System. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Mathematica 1996, 41(1), 107-122.
• Andras P. The Minority Question - A Game Theory and Micro Economic Approach. Web - The Journal of the Max Weber Special Sociology College 1996, (1), 56-74.
• Andras P. Tuning Fuzzy Rule Bases with a Genetic Algorithum. In: 10th Romanian Symposium on Computer Science (ROSYCS). 1996, Iasi, Romania: Faculty of Computer Science, 'A.I. Cuza' University.