Frederick Neumann (1907-1994), multi-faceted musician and scholar

David Guthrie Catcheside - 31 May 1907--1 June 1994.

Multi-faceted Visualisation of Worklists

Although business process management has been a major area of ICT research, no coherent approach has been developed to address the problem of business process visualisation to aid workers in the process of task prioritisation. In this paper we describe the development of a new, coherent approach to worklist visualisation, via analysis and development of a resource-centric view of the worklist i...

Multi - Faceted Clustering : Spectral and Probabilistic Approaches

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Real-time Musical Interaction between Musician and Multi-agent System

The application of emergent behavior of multi-agent system to musical creation, such as controlling parameters of sound synthesizer and composition, has attracted interest recently. Although human control or programmed operation works properly, it is very complicated and seems overly monotonic. One of the features of a multi-agent system, self-organization, is suitable for controlling parameter...

Depression and dementia: the multi-faceted relationship.

The relationship between depression and dementia has been noted since antiquity and still eludes our precise understanding. Rosen (1961) notes that in the ninth century A.D. Rhazes, the Persian physician, mentions melancholy as an inevitable condition in the lives of old and decrepit persons. Later, both Robert Burton (Anatomy of Melancholy) and William Shakespeare, among others, commented on t...