Just a brief announcement of the publication of the following book. /Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications/ Norman MacLeod (Editor) Systematics Association Special Volume
The book can be ordered from a number of on-line outlets, but Dennis tells me if you order from the following site: ... http://www.morphometrics.org/library.html ... some of the purchase price will flow back to morphmet to help support the list. Moreover, since the book is part of the Systematics Association’s Special Volume series, another chunk of the purchase price goes to support that organization. A Table of Contents follows. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who would be interested. Regards. Norm MacLeod ---------- /Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications/ Norman MacLeod (Editor) Systematics Association Special Volume Forward - Richard A. Reyment Chapters 1. Preface - Norman MacLeod 2. Digital Innovation and Taxonomy’s Finest Hour - Quentin D. Wheeler 3. Natural Object Categorization: Man versus Machine - Phillip Culverhouse 4. Neural Networks in Brief - Robert Lang 5. Morphometrics and Computer Homology: An Old Theme Revisited - Fred L. Bookstein 6. The Automated Identification of Taxa: Concepts and Applications - David Chesmore 7. DAISY: A Practical Computer Based Tool for Semi-Automated Species Identification - Mark A. O'Neill 8. Automated Extraction and Analysis of Morphologic Features for Species Identification - Volker Steinhage, Stefan Schröder, Karl-Heinz Lampe, and Armin B. Cremers 9. Introducing SPIDA-web: Wavelets, Neural Networks and Internet Accessibility in an Image-Based Automated Identification System - Kimberly. N. Russell, Martin T. Do, Jeremy C. Huff and Norman I. Platnick 10. Automated Tools for the Identification of Taxa from Morphological Data: Face Recognition in Wasps - Norman MacLeod, Mark O’Neill, and Stig Walsh 11. Pattern Recognition for Ecological Science and Environmental Monitoring: An Initial Report - Eric N. Mortensen, Enrique L. Delgado, Hongli Deng, David Lytle, Andrew Moldenke, Robert Paasch, Linda Shapiro, Pengcheng Wu, Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich 12. Plant Identification from Characters and Measurements Using Artificial Neural Networks - Jonathan Y. Clark 13. Spot the Penguin – Can Reliable Taxonomic Identifications Be Made Using Isolated Foot Bones? - Stig A. Walsh, Norman MacLeod and Mark O’Neill 14. A New Semi-Automatic Morphometric Protocol For Conodonts and a Preliminary Taxonomic Application - David Jones and Mark Purnell 15. Decision Trees: A Machine-Learning Method for Characterizing Morphological - Patterns Resulting from Ecological Adaptation - Manuel Mendoza 16. Data Integration and Multi-factorial Analyses: The Yeasts and the BioloMICS Software as a Case Study - Robert Vincent 17. Automatic Measurement of Honeybee Wings - Adam Tofilski 18. Good Performers Know Their Audience! Identification and Characterisation of Pitch Contours in Infant- and Foreigner-Directed Speech - Monja A. Knoll, Stig A. Walsh, Norman MacLeod, Mark O’Neill and Maria Uther ___________________________________________________________________ Prof. Norman MacLeod Keeper of Palaeontology The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD (0)207 942-5204 (Office) (0)207 942-5546 (Fax) http://www.nhm.ac.uk//research-curation/staff-directory/ palaeontology/cv-5463.html (Web Page) ___________________________________________________________________ -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
