M A BramerMax Bramer is Professor of Information Technology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has been actively involved in research in artificial intelligence since the early 1970s and leads the University of Portsmouth's Artificial Intelligence Researc Group. His current research interests include knowledge discovery and data mining and model-based approaches to diagnostic reasoning. He has recently developed the Inducer system, which combines a number of paradigms for the automatic generation of classification rules from examples. He is Chairman of BCS-SGES and is a member of the lEE's Professional Group on Artificial Intelligence. Read More Read Less