AESOP : People / Dr David Thornley

On the train to UKPEW

External Associate
Postal Address: Dr David Thornley; 35 St Margarets Road, Edgware, Middlesex, HA8 9UT
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My research interests are essentially in numerical and probabilistic modeling of systems. A PhD investigating the behaviour of DNA sequencing data and the reactions behind it led me from numerical optimizations to process algebras and machine learning. Then a post developing queuing approaches to performance modeling brought me up to scratch on probability manipulation. The people I've worked with have made my continuing development as a researcher thoroughly enjoyable. Peter Harrison made a crucial contribution to my career, offering me a performance analysis position that took me to places I could not have predicted, and which proved to be the foundation of my most rewarding work to date. Duncan Gillies has been a staunch collaborator in the DNA sequencing and information theory work. The members of the Aesop research group have added enormously to the enjoyment of scientific endeavour.

I'll have a go at anything that involves probability and value. Which turns out to be everything.

19 Publications with AESOP

Book Chapter

Automated formulation and solution of Markov modulated queues with geometric processes: David Thornley, Harf Zatschler, Peter G. Harrison, Demetres D. Kouvatsos (Ed.); Traffic and performance engineering for heterogeneous networks; March, 2009

Journal Article

An approximate solution of PEPA models using component substitution: Nigel Thomas, Jeremy T. Bradley, David Thornley; IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques; March, 2003

Conference and Workshop Papers

Machine learned regression for abductive DNA sequencing: David Thornley, Maxim Zverev, Stavros Petridis; The 2007 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications; December, 2007
Novel anisotropic multidimensional convolutional filters for derivative estimation and reconstruction: David Thornley; Proceedings of The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007); November, 2007
Decoding Trace Peak Behaviour - A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach: David Thornley, Stavros Petridis; IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems; July, 2007
Exploring accuracy and correctness in solution to matrix polynomial equations in queues: David Thornley, Harf Zatschler; QEST 2006; September, 2006
Machine Learning in Basecalling - Decoding trace peak behaviour: David Thornley, Stavros Petridis; IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2006; September, 2006
Modelling along the DNA template in the Sanger method: inhibition through competition and form: David Thornley; Process Algebra and Stochastically Timed Activities 2006; June, 2006
Analysis and enhancement of network solutions using geometrically batched traffic: David Thornley, Harf Zatschler; UKPEW'03; July, 2003
An automated formulation of queues with multiple geometric batch processes: David Thornley, Harf Zatschler, Peter G. Harrison; HETNETS'03; July, 2003
A novel approximated joint activity transition structure in a tandem feedback unreliable server queue: David Thornley, Harf Zatschler, Nigel Thomas; UKPEW'03; July, 2003
Synchronized negative customers in an unreliable server queue: David Thornley; HETNETS'03; July, 2003
Approximate solution of a class of queueing networks with breakdowns: Nigel Thomas, David Thornley, Harf Zatschler; European Simulation Multiconference, Nottingham; June, 2003
Geometrically batched networks: Peter G. Harrison, David Thornley, Harf Zatschler; 17th International Symposium On Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2002); October, 2002
Queues with simultaneous loss on breakdown: David Thornley; Eighteenth Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop, University of Glasgow (UKPEW 2002); July, 2002

National Workshop Paper

An approximate solution of PEPA models using component substitution: Nigel Thomas, Jeremy T. Bradley, David Thornley; 28th UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW 2002); July, 2002

PhD Thesis

Analysis of Trace Data from Fluoresence Based Sanger Sequencing: David Thornley; Department of Computing, Imperial College London; September, 1997

Department of Computing Technical Reports

Anisotropic Multidimensional Savitzky Golay kernels for Smoothing, Differentiation and Reconstruction: David Thornley; July, 2006
Trace modelling for abduction basecalling: David Thornley; July, 2006

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