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Department of Engineering Mathematics,
University Of Bristol,
Queen's Building, University Walk,
Bristol BS8 1TR, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5648
Fax: +44 (0)117 331 5636
E-mail: Jon.SimsWilliams
at bristol.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/staff/jsw.html
My work is largely educational. I am developing a database of questions that are used to help students to extend their understanding of subjects relevant to leaders of Engineering Design projects: Maths, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Aeronautical Engineering, and Computer Science. Linked to this concept of a database of questions are sets of supporting learning materials. All available on the web. In order to manage all this data I have developed classification schemes. A current project involves the development of a system, TAL, to allow students all over the world to take multiple choice tests over the internet.
McMahon CA, Pitt DJ, Yang Y and Sims Williams JH, An Information Management System for Informal Design Data, AISBQ,83/84 Spring/Summer 1993, pp54-59.
Yang Y, Sims Williams JH, McMahon CA and Pitt DJ, Integration of Knowledge-based Systems and Heterogeneous Databases in Design Information Systems,Int. Conf. Engineering Databases, ASME San Diego 1993.
McMahon CA, Banerjee S, Sims Williams JH "Using Fuzzy Techniques to handle Uncertainty in Design Information Retrieval", Int.Conf. Engineering Design, ICED'93, The Hague 1993.
Brown KN, McMahon CA, Sims Williams JH,A Formal Language for the Design of Manufacturable Objects, IFIP WG5.2 Formal Design methods for CCAD. eds J S Gero and F Sudweeks, Tallin Estonia 1993
McMahon CA, Pitt D, Sims Williams JH, Yang Y, The Automotive Knowledge Support System in Knowledge at Work, Proc. 2nd Annual Conf. of HEFC KBS Initiative, Leeds 1993,IBSN 0 85316 159 3
Lee H,Tannock JDT,Sims Williams JH, Logic-based reasoning about actions and plans in artificial intelligence, Knowledge Engineering Review,8:2,1993,91-120
Sims Williams JH, Mackin N,Stephens CD, Lessons Learnt from the development of an orthodontic Expert System, Neural Networks and Expert Systems in Health Care, Plymouth 1994
McMahon CA, Pitt DJ, Yang Y, Sims Williams JH, Review: An Information Management System for Informal Design Data, Engineering with Computers 11:123-135, 1995
K. N. Brown, C. A. McMahon and J. H. Sims Williams Features, aka the Semantics of a Formal Language of Manufacturing, Research in Engineering Design, Volume 7, Number 3, 1995, pp151-172
K.N.Brown, J.H.Sims Williams and C.A.McMahon (1995),"Conceptual Geometric Reasoning by the Manipulation of Models Based on Prototypes", (AI EDAM) Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Vol. 9, No. 5, pp367-385
Crossland, R., Sims Williams, J. H. and McMahon, C. A., 1995, "An Object-Oriented Design Model, Incorporating Uncertainty for Early Risk Assessment", Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Design, (ICED'95), Praha, Czech Republic, pp.1555-1556
Crossland, R., Sims Williams, J. H., and McMahon, C. A., 1995, "An Object-Oriented Design Model, Incorporating Uncertainty for Early Risk Assessment", Proc Computers in Engineering, ed A A Busnaina, ASME, Boston, pp.93-112 ASME, Boston, pp.93-112
K.N.Brown, C.A.McMahon and J.H.Sims Williams,"Describing process plans as the formal semantics of a language of shape", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering 10 (1996) 153-169.
Stevens CD, Mackin N, Sims-Williams J (1996) The development and validation of an orthodontic expert system. British Journal of Orthodontics 23: 1-9.
Huaming Lee, Jon Scott, Jon Sims Williams, David Cox, "Symbolic Calculus for Volumetric Reasoning about Process Plans" AIEDAM (1996) 10,183-198
Crossland, R. and Sims Williams, J. H., 1996, "An Object-Oriented Risk Model For Early Design", lecture presented to the Bristol branch of the British Computer Society, as part of a series on Software Estimation and Risk
Brittain D, Sims Williams JH, McMahon CA, A Genetic Algorithm Approach To Planning The Telecommunications Access Network,Proc.ICGA '97
Sims Williams JH, Barry MJD, Spencer D (1997) TAL:- The Teach and Learn Mathematics Testing System", Mathematical Education of Engineers, Proc. IMA Conf.
JH Sims Williams, MDJ Barry, Test and Learn – a way forward, Helping Everyone Learn Mathematics Subject Network of the Higher Education Academy, September 2005, http://www.engsc.ac.uk/nef/events/helmconf_programme.asp
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