Neil Ireson

School of Computer Science

Research Associate

Member of the Pervasive Computing research group

n.ireson@sheffield.ac.uk

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Neil Ireson
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

My research interests can broadly be defined as knowledge acquisition from data. This has primarily focused on the use of Machine Learning, initially applied in the field of Natural Language Processing, developing techniques for Text Classification and Information Extraction from large-scale text repositories and Collective Intelligence from social media messages.

More recent work has focused on the understanding of individual and population movements. Modelling  air-travel data, to identify mobility patterns indicative of criminal activity, such as drug and human trafficking; and using mobile device sensor data to understand how contextual factors (e.g., weather, journey purpose) influence mobility, for health and well-being.

Research interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Collective Intelligence, Mobility Analysis, Health & Well-being.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Marcian簷 V, Cereatti A, Bertuletti S, Bonci T, Alcock L, Gazit E, Ireson N, Bevilacqua A, Mazz C, Ciravegna F , Del Din S et al (2025) . IEEE Sensors Journal, 25(1), 1507-1515.
  • Ardle RM, Wales JL, Hamilton CA, Ryan LJ, McCarthy L, Din SD, Bayat S, Tangen GG, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V , Farina N et al (2024) Feasibility and acceptability of a continuous remote activity monitoring protocol in older adult dyads: A mixed methods pilot study. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(Suppl 10).
  • Ardle RM, Wales JL, Hamilton CA, Ryan LJ, McCarthy L, Din SD, Bayat S, Tangen GG, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V , Farina N et al (2024) Feasibility and acceptability of a continuous remote activity monitoring protocol in older adult dyads: A mixed methods pilot study. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(Suppl 7).
  • Kirk C, K羹derle A, Mic籀-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Soltani A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L , Aminian K et al (2024) . Scientific Reports, 14(1).
  • Ardle RM, Ryan LJ, McCarthy L, Wilson C, Hamilton CA, Tangen GG, Farina N, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V, Hicks B & Bayat S (2023) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S23).
  • Ardle RM, Ryan LJ, McCarthy L, Wilson C, Hamilton CA, Tangen GG, Farina N, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V, Hicks B & Bayat S (2023) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S11).
  • Packer E, Debelle H, Bailey HGB, Ciravegna F, Ireson N, Evers J, Niessen M, Shi JQ, Yarnall AJ, Rochester L , Alcock L et al (2023) . BMJ Open, 13.
  • Debelle H, Packer E, Beales E, Bailey HGB, Mc Ardle R, Brown P, Hunter H, Ciravegna F, Ireson N, Evers J , Niessen M et al (2023) . Frontiers in Neurology, 14.
  • Marcian簷 V, Bertuletti S, Bonci T, Mazz C, Ireson N, Ciravegna F, Del Din S, Gazit E & Cereatti A (2022) . Gait & Posture, 97, 5-5.
  • Bevilacqua A, Alcock L, Caulfield B, Gazit E, Hansen C, Ireson N & Ifrim G (2022) Automated Mobility Context Detection with Inertial Signals.. CoRR, abs/2205.08409.
  • Mazz C, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Bonci T, Brown P, Brozgol M, Buckley E, Carsin A-E , Caruso M et al (2021) . BMJ Open, 11(12).
  • Mazumdar S, Wrigley SN, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2018) . International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 13, 101-108.
  • Mazumdar S, lanfranchi V, Ireson N, Wrigley S, Bagnasco C, wehn U, McDonagh R, Ferri M, McCarthy S, Huwald H & Ciravegna F (2016) Citizens observatories for effective Earth observations: the WeSenseIt Approach. Environmental Scientist, 25(2), 56-61.
  • Mazumdar S, Ciravegna F, Ireson N, Read J, Simpson E & Cudd P (2016) . International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 8(2), 50-69.
  • Lavelli A, Califf M, Ciravegna F, Freitag D, Giuliano C, Kushmerick N, Romano L & Ireson N (2008) . LANG RESOUR EVAL, 42(4), 361-393.
  • Cao YJ, Ireson N, Bull L & Miles R (2001) An Evolutionary Intelligent Agents Approach to Traffic Signal Control. International Journal of Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering Systems, 5, 279-289.
  • Cao YJ, Ireson N, Bull L & Miles R (1999) Design of a traffic junction controller using classifier system and fuzzy logic. LECT NOTES COMPUT SC, 1625, 342-353.
  • Fogarty TC & Ireson NS (1993) Evolving Bayesian classifiers for credit controla comparison with other machine-learning methods. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 5, 63-75.
  • Fogarty TC & IRESON NS (1993) Evolving Bayesian classifiers for credit controla comparison with other machine-learning methods. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 5, 63-75.
  • Fogarty TC, Ireson NS & Battle SA (1992) Developing rule-based systems for credit-card applications from data with the genetic algorithm. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 4, 53-59.
  • Kirk C, K羹derle A, Mic籀-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Soltani A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L , Aminian K et al () . Scientific Reports, 14(1).

Book chapters

  • Ireson NS & Fogarty TC (1995) Evolving decision support models for credit control In Biethahn J & Nissen V (Ed.), Evolutionary Algorithms in Management Applications (pp. 264-276).
  • Fogarty TC, Ireson NS & Bull L (1994) Genetic-based Machine Learning-Applications in Industry and Commerce, Applications of Modern Heuristic Techniques, page (pp. 91-110).

Conference proceedings

  • Wales JL, Hamilton CA, McCarthy L, Bayat S, Tangen GG, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V, Farina N, Hicks B & Ardle RM (2024) . Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, Vol. 20(S7). Philadelphia, USA, 28 July 2024 - 28 July 2024.
  • Ciravegna F, Gao J, Ireson N, Copeland R, Walsh J & Lanfranchi V (2019) . Proceedings of 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp 11-20). Trento, Italy, 20 May 2019 - 20 May 2019.
  • Ciravegna F, Gao J, Ingram C, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V & Simanjuntak H (2018) Mapping mobility to support crisis management. ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings (pp 305-316). Rochester NY, USA, 20 May 2018 - 20 May 2018.
  • Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2017) Football Whispers: Transfer rumour detection. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1963. Vienna, Austria, 21 October 2017 - 21 October 2017.
  • Bai L, Ireson N, Mazumdar S & Ciravegna F (2017) . UbiComp '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp 432-440). Maui, Hawaii, 11 September 2017 - 11 September 2017.
  • Mazumdar S, Ciravegna F, Ireson N, Read J, Simpson E & Cudd P (2017) . Harnessing the Power of Technology to Improve Lives, Vol. 242 (pp 102-110). Sheffield, UK, 11 September 2017 - 11 September 2017.
  • Ciravegna F, Mazumdar S, Ireson N & Cudd P (2016) Seeing through the Eyes of the Citizens during Emergencies. The 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23 May 2016 - 23 May 2016.
  • Mazumdar S, Wrigley SN, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2015) Geo-fence driven crowd-sourcing for Emergencies. Iscram 2015 Conference Proceedings 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Vol. 2015-January
  • Osborne M, Moran S, McCreadie R, Von Lunen A, Sykora M, Cano E, Ireson N, Macdonald C, Ounis I, He Y , Jackson T et al (2014) . Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (pp 37-42), June 2014 - June 2014.
  • Lanfranchi V, Wrigley SN, Ireson N, Wehn U & Ciravegna F (2014) Citizens' observatories for situation awareness in flooding. ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp 145-154). Pennsylvania, USA
  • Mazumdar S, Lanfranchi V, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2014) Visual analysis of real-time social media for emergency response. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1329 (pp 67-78)
  • Tucker S, Lanfranchi V, Ireson N, Sosa A, Burel G & Ciravegna F (2012) Straight to the Information I Need: Assessing Collational Interfaces for Emergency Response. 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2012)
  • Gentile AL, Basave AEC, Dadzie A-S, Lanfranchi V & Ireson N (2011) Does Size Matter? When Small is Good Enough. Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011) (pp 45-56)
  • Ireson N & Burel G (2010) Knowledge Sharing in E-Collaboration.. EGOV, Vol. 6228 (pp 351-362)
  • Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2010) Toponym Resolution in Social Media.. ISWC (1), Vol. 6496 (pp 370-385)
  • Ireson N (2009) . 2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (pp 49-54), 1 June 2009 - 3 June 2009.
  • Scherp A, Schwagereit F, Ireson N, Lanfranchi V, Papadopoulos S, Kritikos A, Kompatsiaris Y & Smrz P (2009) Leveraging Web 2.0 Communities in Professional Organisations. W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking. Barcelona
  • Clough PD, Ireson N & Marlow J (2009) Extending Domain-Specific Resources to Enable Semantic Access to Cultural Heritage Data.. J. Digit. Inf., Vol. 10
  • Ireson N (2009) Local Community Situational Awareness During An Emergency. 2009 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (pp 164-169)
  • Lanfranchi V & Ireson N (2009) User requirements for a collective intelligence emergency response system.. BCS HCI (pp 198-203)
  • Scherp A, Schwagereit F & Ireson N (2009) Web 2.0 and Traditional Knowledge Management Processes.. Wissensmanagement, Vol. P-145 (pp 222-231)
  • Clough P, Marlow J & Ireson N (2008) Enabling Semantic Access to Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of Tate Online.. Information Access to Cultural Heritage. ECDL 2008 Workshop. Aarhus Denmark
  • Marlow J, Clough P, Ireson N, Cigarr n Recuero J, Artiles J & Debole F (2008) The MultiMatch Project: Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage on the Web. Museums on the Web Conference (MW2008). Toronto
  • Ireson N & Oomen J (2007) Capturing e-Culture: Metadata in MultiMatch. DELOS-MultiMatch workshop, Tirrenia, Italy
  • Iria J, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2006) An Experimental Study on Boundary Classification Algorithms for Information Extraction using SVM. Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM
  • Ireson N, Ciravegna F, Califf ME, Freitag D, Kushmerick N & Lavelli A (2005) Evaluating machine learning for information extraction.. ICML, Vol. 119 (pp 345-352)
  • Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2005) Pascal Challenge The Evaluation of Machine Learning for Information Extraction. Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar Machine Learning for the Semantic Web(http://www. smi. ucd. ie/Dagstuhl-MLSW/proceedings/)
  • Hepple M, Ireson N, Allegrini P, Marchi S, Montemagni S, Maria J & Hidalgo G (2004) NLP-enhanced Content Filtering within the POESIA Project. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004)
  • Cao YJ, Ireson N, Bull L & Miles R (2000) Distributed learning control of traffic signals. REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 1803 (pp 117-126)
  • Ireson N, Cao YJ, Bull L & Miles R (2000) A communication architecture for multi-agent learning systems. REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 1803 (pp 255-266)
  • Gammack JG, Fogarty TC, Battle SA, Ireson NS & Cui J (1992) . AI Soc., Vol. 6 (pp 345-366)
  • Fogarty TC, Ireson N & Battle S (1992) Combining attributes and categorising attribute values for a Bayesian classifier for credit control. IMA International Conference on Control: Modelling, Computation, Information
  • Papadopoulos S, Scherp A, Ireson N, Tsampoulatidis I & Kompatsiaris Y () Using Event Representation and Semantic Enrichment for Managing and Reviewing Emergency Incident Logs. EiMM 2010: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on 壅翌腦瞳 in multimedia. New York, NY, USA

Posters

  • Mazumdar S, Ireson N & Ciravegna F (2016) Decision Graphs: Managing Decisions for Emergencies..

Preprints

  • Marcian簷 V, Bertuletti S, Caruso M, Bonci T, Alcock L, Gazit E, Ireson N, Bevilacqua A, Mazz C, Ciravegna F , Din SD et al (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC.
  • Bevilacqua A, Alcock L, Caulfield B, Gazit E, Hansen C, Ireson N & Ifrim G (2022) , arXiv.
Research group

Pervasive Computing 

Grants

Investigating the social and environmental contexts of habitual walking ACTIVities in older adult DYADs: A feasibility study (The ActivDyad study)

Transforming Parkinson's disease clinical management with integrated digital health technologies

TENACITy - Travel Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism

Mobilise-D - Connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement