Tribute to Chris:
D. L. Dowe (2008),
"Foreword
re C. S. Wallace",
Computer Journal,
Vol. 51, No. 5
(Sept. 2008)
[Christopher
Stewart Wallace (1933-2004) memorial special issue],
pp523-560.
Publications by C. S. Wallace
Chris
Wallace
publications, 1990- , and his (posthumously published)
Book: Wallace, C.S. (2005) [posthumous],
Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message
Length, Springer (Series: Information Science and Statistics), 2005, XVI,
432 pp., 22 illus., Hardcover, ISBN: 0-387-23795-X.
(Link to
table of
contents,
chapter headings and
more.)
Chris
Wallace pre-1968 publications.
some other Chris Wallace
publications, 1956-
and
(with apologies)
some other papers, too.
another list of some Chris
Wallace publications, compiled by Lloyd Allison.
C.S. Wallace MML Publications
Wallace and Boulton (1968),
"An information
measure for classification",
Computer Journal,
Vol. 11,
No. 2,
August
1968,
pp185-194
(and also
here
[Wallace and Boulton (1968)],
and
abstract).
[p185,
p186,
p187,
p188,
p189,
p190,
p191,
p192,
p193,
p194]
This seminal paper sees the beginning of
Minimum Message Length
(MML),
its application to
mixture modelling and clustering
via the Snob program,
and an application to clustering of seal skulls.
Chris
Wallace MML publications, 1968-1991.
Chris
Wallace MML publications, 1990- , including his (posthumously published)
Book: Wallace, C.S. (2005),
Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message
Length, Springer (Series: Information Science and Statistics), 2005, XVI,
432 pp., 22 illus., Hardcover, ISBN: 0-387-23795-X.
(Link(s) to
table of
contents,
chapter headings
(was here) and
more;
and also links to
amazon
offer listing.)
BibTeX references
to most of Chris Wallace's MML publications.
Wallace
and
Dowe
(1999a),
"Minimum
Message Length and Kolmogorov complexity",
Comp.
J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999),
pp270-283
[* this article is the Computer Journal's
most downloaded
``full text as .pdf''
- see, e.g.,
Editorial,
vol. 48, no. 4 (2005), p381
(http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/4/381) *],
by
C.
Wallace
and
D. Dowe.
Wallace
and
Dowe
(1999b),
"Refinements of MDL and MML Coding",
Comp.
J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999),
pp330-337,
by
C.
Wallace
and
D. Dowe.
Wallace
and
Dowe
(1999c),
"Rejoinder",
Comp.
J., Vol 42, No. 4 (1999),
pp345-347,
by
C.
Wallace
and
D. Dowe.
C.S. Wallace MML Applications
Chris
Wallace MML applications, 1968-1996
(and
his
MML publications, 1968-1991).
Chris
Wallace MML applications, 1990-
(and
his
MML publications, 1990- ).
C.S. Wallace non-MML Publications
Chris Wallace non-MML publications, 1990- .
Chris Wallace pseudo-Random Number Generation papers, 1976-1996.
Chris
Wallace non-MML publications, 1968-1991.
Chris
Wallace pre-1968 publications
(before
Wallace and Boulton (1968),
the seminal MML paper).
Other academic interests
Chris Wallace.
Other links
D. L. Dowe,
"Foreword
re C. S. Wallace",
Computer Journal,
Vol. 51, No. 5
(Sept. 2008), pp523-560.
Minimum Message Length
(MML)
Occam's razor
(Ockham's razor)
Snob
(program for MML
clustering and mixture modelling).
[The papers above from 1968 onwards are requestable in printed hard copy from
either [probably reliable, depending upon volume of requests] writing a letter
to my ``snail mail'' postal address
{see my home page, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld}
or [perhaps less reliable] e-mail to enquiries At cs.monash.edu.au .]
