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Bell, Simon; Cornford, Dan and Bastin, Lucy (2015). How good are citizen weather stations? Addressing a biased opinion. Weather, 70 (3), pp. 75-84.

Vrettas, Michail D.; Opper, Manfred and Cornford, Dan (2015). Variational mean-field algorithm for efficient inference in large systems of stochastic differential equations. Physical Review E, 91 (1),

Bell, Simon; Cornford, Dan and Bastin, Lucy (2013). The state of automated amateur weather observations. Weather, 68 (2), pp. 36-41.

Yang, Kevin; Blower, Jon; Bastin, Lucy; Lush, Victoria; Zabala, Alaitz; Masó, Joan; Cornford, Dan; Díaz, Paula and Lumsden, Jo (2012). An integrated view of data quality in earth observation. Philosophical Transactions A, 371 (1983),

Jones, Richard; Cornford, Dan and Bastin, Lucy (2012). UncertWeb processing service:making models easer to access on the web. Transactions in GIS, 16 (6), pp. 921-939.

Wilkinson, Richard D.; Vrettas, Michail; Cornford, Dan and Oakley, Jeremy E. (2011). Quantifying simulator discrepancy in discrete-time dynamical simulators. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 16 (4), pp. 554-570.

Williams, Matthew; Cornford, Dan; Bastin, Lucy; Jones, Richard and Parker, Stephen (2011). Automatic processing, quality assurance and serving of real-time weather data. Computers and Geosciences, 37 (3), pp. 353-362.

Pebesma, Edzer; Cornford, Dan; Dubois, Gregoire; Heuvelink, Gerard B.M.; Hristopoulos, Dionisis; Pilz, Jürgen; Stöhlker, Ulrich; Gary, Morin and Skøien, Jon O. (2011). INTAMAP: the design and implementation of an interoperable automated interpolation web service. Computers and Geosciences, 37 (3), pp. 343-352.

Dubois, Grégoire; Cornford, Dan; Hristopulos, Dionisis; Pebesma, Edzer and Pilz, Jürgen (2011). Introduction to this special issue on geoinformatics for environmental surveillance. Computers and Geosciences, 37 (3), pp. 277-279.

Barillec, Remi; Ingram, Ben; Cornford, Dan and Csató, Lehel (2011). Projected sequential Gaussian processes:a C++ tool for interpolation of large datasets with heterogeneous noise. Computers and Geosciences, 37 (3), pp. 295-309.

Vrettas, Michail D.; Cornford, Dan; Opper, Manfred and Shen, Yuan (2010). A new variational radial basis function approximation for inference in multivariate diffusions. Neurocomputing, 73 (7-9), pp. 1186-1198.

Barillec, Remi and Cornford, Dan (2009). Data assimilation for precipitation nowcasting using Bayesian inference. Advances in Water Resources, 32 (7), pp. 1050-1065.

Schroeder, Martin; Cornford, Dan; Farrimond, Paul and Cornford, Chris (2008). Addressing missing data in geochemistry: a non-linear approach. Organic Geochemistry, 39 (8), pp. 1162-1169.

Ingram, Benjamin R.; Cornford, Dan and Evans, David J. (2008). Fast algorithms for automatic mapping with space-limited covariance functions. Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment, 22 (5), pp. 661-670.

D'Alimonte, Davide and Cornford, Dan (2008). Outlier detection with partial information:Application to emergency mapping. Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment, 22 (5), pp. 613-620.

Cornford, Dan (2004). A Bayesian state space modelling approach to probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasting. Journal of Hydrology, 288 (1-2), pp. 92-104.

Bullen, Robert; Cornford, Dan and Nabney, Ian T. (2003). Outlier detection in scatterometer data:Neural network approaches. Neural Networks, 16 (3-4), pp. 419-426.

Evans, David J.; Cornford, Dan and Nabney, Ian T. (2000). Structured neural network modelling of multi-valued functions for wind retrieval from scatterometer measurements. Neurocomputing, 30 (1-4), pp. 23-30.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Bishop, Christopher M. (1999). Neural network-based wind vector retrieval from satellite scatterometer data. Neural Computing and Applications, 8 (3), pp. 206-217.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Williams, Christopher K. I. (1999). Adding constrained discontinuities to Gaussian process models of wind fields. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 11 , pp. 861-867.

Cornford, Dan; Csató, Lehel; Evans, David and Opper, Manfred Bayesian analysis of the scatterometer wind retrieval inverse problem:Some new approaches. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: series B, 66 (3), pp. 609-626.

Nabney, Ian T.; Cornford, Dan and Williams, Christopher K. I. Bayesian inference for wind field retrieval. Neurocomputing, 30 (1-4), pp. 3-11.

Boukouvalas, Alexis; Sykes, Pete; Cornford, Dan and Maruri-Aguilar, Hugo Bayesian precalibration of a large stochastic microsimulation model. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 15 (3), pp. 1337-1347.

Vrettas, Michail; Cornford, Dan and Opper, Manfred Estimating parameters in stochastic systems:a variational Bayesian approach. Physica D, 240 (23), 1877–1900.

Archambeau, Cédric; Cornford, Dan; Opper, Manfred and Shawe-Taylor, John Gaussian process approximations of stochastic differential equations. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 1 , pp. 1-16.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Ramage, Guillaume Improved neural network scatterometer forward models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 (C10), pp. 22331-22338.

Bastin, Lucy; Cornford, Dan; Jones, Richard; Heuvelink, Gerard B.M.; Pebesma, Edzer; Stasch, Christoph; Nativi, Stefano; Mazzetti, Paolo and Williams, Matthew Managing uncertainty in integrated environmental modelling:the UncertWeb framework. Environmental Modelling and Software, 39 (Januar), pp. 116-134.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Williams, Christopher K. I. Modelling frontal discontinuities in wind fields. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 14 (1-2), pp. 43-58.

Cornford, Dan; Wright, W.A.; Ramage, Guillaume and Nabney, Ian T. Neural network modelling with input uncertainty:theory and application. Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology, 26 (1-2), pp. 169-188.

Cornford, Dan; Csató, Lehel and Opper, Manfred Sequential, Bayesian geostatistics:a principled method for large data sets. Geographical Analysis, 37 (2), pp. 183-199.

Shen, Yuan; Cornford, Dan; Opper, Manfred and Archambeau, Cédric Variational Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian smoothing of non-linear diffusions. Computational Statistics, 27 (1), pp. 149-176.

Shen, Yuan; Archambeau, Cédric; Cornford, Dan; Opper, Manfred; Shawe-Taylor, John and Barillec, Remi A comparison of variational and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for inference in partially observed stochastic dynamic systems. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 61 (1), pp. 51-59.

Cornford, Dan; Ramage, Guillaume and Nabney, Ian T. A scatterometer neural network sensor model with input noise. Neurocomputing, 30 (1), pp. 13-21.

Book Section

Gupta, Tushar; Jones, Richard; Bastin, Lucy and Cornford, Dan (2012). Integrating OpenMI and Uncertweb:managing uncertainty in OpenMI models. IN: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) 2012 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty, sixth biennial meeting, Leipzig, German. Seppelt, Ralf; Voinov, Alexey A.; Lange, Susanne and Bankamp, Dagmar (eds) Manno (CH): International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.

Ingram, Benjamin R.; Cornford, Dan and Csató, Lehel (2010). Robust automatic mapping algorithms in a network monitoring scenario. IN: geoENV VII – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: proceedings of the seventh European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Springer.

Williams, Matthew; Cornford, Dan; Bastin, Lucy and Ingram, Ben (2008). Describing and communicating uncertainty within the semantic web. IN: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web. Bobillo, Fernando; da Costa, Paulo C.G. and et al, (eds) CEUR Workshop Proceedings . CEUR-WS.org.

Williams, Matthew; Cornford, Dan; Bastin, Lucy and Ingram, Benjamin R. (2008). UncertML: an XML schema for exchanging uncertainty. IN: Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 16th Annual Conference GISRUK 2008. Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ingram, Benjamin R. and Cornford, Dan (2008). Parallel geostatistics for sparse and dense datasets. IN: geoENV VII – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Springer.

Jones, Anthony and Cornford, Dan (2006). Advanced data driven visualisation for geo-spatial data. IN: Computational science – ICCS 2006. Alexandrov, Vassil N.; Dick van Albada, Geert and et al, (eds) Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Berlin (DE): Springer.

Csató, Lehel; Cornford, Dan and Opper, Manfred (2001). Online approximations for wind-field models. IN: Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2130 . Springer.

Jones, A.; Mantle, C. and Cornford, Dan Data driven graphical applications:a fluid approach. IN: UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2007: Eurographics UK Chapter proceedings. Eurographics Association.

Cornford, Dan; Schroeder, Martin and Nabney, Ian T. Data visualisation and exploration with prior knowledge. IN: Engineering applications of neural networks. Communications in computer and information science, 43 CCI . Beriln (DE): Springer.

Jones, Anthony and Cornford, Dan Defining the Fluid framework. IN: IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2007. IRI 2007. UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Matthew; Cornford, Dan; Bastin, Lucy and Ingram, Benjamin R. Exchanging uncertainty: interoperable geostatistics? IN: geoENV VII – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Springer.

Jones, Richard; Bastin, Lucy; Cornford, Dan and Williams, Matthew Handling and communicating uncertainty in chained geospatial web services. IN: Accuracy 2010. Tate, Nicholas J. and Fisher, Peter F. (eds) UNSPECIFIED.

Reeves, Trevor; Cornford, Dan; Konecny, Michal and Ellis, Jeremy Modeling geometric rules in object based models:an XML / GML approach. IN: Progress in Spatial Data Handling: 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. Springer.

Archambeau, Cédric; Opper, Manfred; Shen, Yuan; Cornford, Dan and Shawe-Taylor, John Variational inference for diffusion processes. IN: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2007. Platt, J.C.; Koller, D.; Singer, Y. and Roweis, S. (eds) Advances In Neural Information Processing Systems . Cambridge, MA (US): MIT.

Shen, Yuan; Cornford, Dan and Opper, Manfred A basis function approach to Bayesian inference in diffusion processes. IN: IEEE/SP 15th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2009. SSP '09. IEEE.

Pebesma, Edzer J.; Dubois, Gregoire and Cornford, Dan The challenge of real-time automatic mapping for environmental monitoring network management. IN: geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Springer.

Jones, Anthony and Cornford, Dan A flexible, extensible object oriented real-time near photorealistic visualization system:the system framework design. IN: Progress in Spatial Data Handling: 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. Springer.

Pebesma, Edzer; Cornford, Dan; Nativi, Stefano and Stasch, Christoph The uncertainty enabled model web (UncertWeb). IN: Envip'2010 : Environmental Information Systems and Services - Infrastructures and Platforms. Berre, Arne J.; Roman, Dumitru and Maué, Patrick (eds) CEUR workshop proceedings . CEUR-WS.org.

Vrettas, Michail D.; Cornford, Dan and Shen, Yuan A variational radial basis function approximation for diffusion processes. IN: ESANN 2009 proceedings, 17th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning. UNSPECIFIED.

Monograph

Boukouvalas, Alexis; Cornford, Dan and Stehlik, Milan (2009). Approximately optimal experimental design for heteroscedastic Gaussian process models. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham. (Unpublished)

Schroeder, Martin; Nabney, Ian T. and Cornford, Dan (2008). Block GTM: Incorporating prior knowledge of covariance structure in data visualisation. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Evans, David J. (1999). Bayesian retrieval of scatterometer wind fields. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham. (Unpublished)

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T.; Williams, Christopher K. I.; Kearns, Michael S.; Solla, Sara A. and Cohn, David A. (1998). Adding constrained discontinuities to Gaussian process models of wind fields. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Evans, David J.; Cornford, Dan and Nabney, Ian T. (1998). Structured neural network modelling of multi-valued functions for wind retrieval from scatterometer measurements. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan; Ramage, Guillaume and Nabney, Ian T. (1998). A scatterometer neural network sensor model with input noise. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan (1998). Flexible Gaussian process wind field models. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan (1998). Non-zero mean Gaussian process prior wind field models. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan (1997). Splines and vector splines. Technical Report. Aston University, Aston Triangle, BIRMINGHAM, UK.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Williams, Christopher K. I. Bayesian inference for wind field retrieval. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Schroeder, Martin and Cornford, Dan Data visualisation with missing data: A non-linear approach. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Vrettas, Michail D.; Shen, Yuan and Cornford, Dan Derivations of variational gaussian process approximation framework. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Boukouvalas, Alexis; Maniyar, Dharmesh M. and Cornford, Dan Dimensionality reduction in complex models. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Barillec, Remi; Boukouvalas, Alexis and Cornford, Dan Emulation of dynamic computer models with multivariate output. Technical Report. Aston University. (Unpublished)

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Ramage, Guillaume Improved multi-beam neural network scatterometer forward models. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Cornford, Dan and Nabney, Ian T. NEUROSAT: an overview. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan; Nabney, Ian T. and Bishop, Christopher M. Neural network-based wind vector retrieval from satellite scatterometer data. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan Random field models and priors on wind. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingha.

Cornford, Dan Surface wind fields (on Earth). Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham, UK. (Unpublished)

Conference or Workshop Item

de Jesus, Jorge; Barillec, Remi; Dubois, Gregoire and Cornford, Dan (2009). A web processing service for validating interpolation. IN: StatGIS 2009. 2009-06-16 - 2009-06-18.

Pebesma, Edzer; Dubois, Gregoire and Cornford, Dan (2009). Automated mapping of environmental variables from a SEIS or SISE perspective. IN: Towards Environment (Challenges of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe). 2009-03-25 - 2009-03-27.

Pebesma, Edzer; Cornford, Dan; Dubois, Gregoire; Heuvelink, Gerard; Hristopoulos, Dionisis; Juergen, Pilz; Ulrich, Stoehlker and Jon, Skoien (2009). INTAMAP: an interoperable automated interpolation web service. IN: StatGIS 2009. 2009-06-16 - 2009-06-18.

Ingram, Benjamin R.; Cornford, Dan and Csató, Lehel (2008). A projected process kriging algorithm for sensor networks with heterogeneous error characteristics. IN: 8th International Geostatistics Congress. 2008-12-01 - 2008-12-05. (Unpublished)

Jones, Anthony and Cornford, Dan (2006). Advanced data driven visualisation for geo-spatial data. IN: International Conference on Computer Systems. Reading (UK), 2007-05-28 - 2007-05-31. (Unpublished)

Williams, Matthew; Cornford, Dan; Bastin, Lucy; Jones, Richard and Parker, Stephen Automatic processing, quality assurance and serving of real-time weather data over lightweight protocols. IN: StatGIS 2009. 2009-06-16 - 2009-06-18.

Boukouvalas, Alexios; Barillec, Remi and Cornford, Dan Gaussian process quantile regression using expectation propagation. IN: 29th International Conference on Machine Learning. 2012-06-26 - 2012-07-01.

Boukouvalas, Alexis; Cornford, Dan and Singer, Alexander Managing uncertainty in complex stochastic models: design and emulation of a Rabies model. IN: 6th St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation. 2009-06-28 - 2009-07-04.

Ingham, Ben; Cornford, Dan and Barillec, Remi Projected sequential Gaussian processes: flexible interpolation for large data sets. IN: StatGIS 2009. 2009-06-16 - 2009-06-18.

Williams, Matthew; Cornford, Dan; Ingram, Benjamin R.; Bastin, Lucy; Beaumont, Tony; Pebesma, Edzer and Dubois, Gregoire Supporting interoperable interpolation: the INTAMAP approach. IN: International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems. 2007-05-22 - 2007-05-25. (Unpublished)

Bastin, Lucy; Williams, Matthew; Gosling, John Paul; Truong, Phuong; Cornford, Dan; Heuvelink, Gerard and Achard, Frederic Web based expert elicitation of uncertainties in environmental model inputs. IN: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011. 2011-04-03 - 2011-04-08.