Personal details
- Name
- Professor Peter Bruza
- Position(s)
- Professor
Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems - Discipline *
- Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Philosophy
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 9325
- p.bruza@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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PhD (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen), MSc (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen), BSc (University of Queensland)
- Keywords
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cognitive science, applied logic
* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Biography
Research areas
Cognitve science: The use of quantum theory to model huma cognition, e.g., conceptual processing, human memory, human judgement and decision making. Emodied and enactive approaches to cognition.
Applied logic: abductive reasoning, human reasoning, practical logics of cognitive sytems
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Teaching
Foundations of Decision Science
Research in IT Pracitice
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Publications
- Busemeyer J, Bruza P, (2012) Quantum models of cognition and decision
- Bai J, Song D, Bruza P, Nie J, Cao G, (2005) Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval, Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management p668-695
- Song D, Bruza P, (2003) Towards context sensitive information inference, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology p321-334
- Dennis S, Bruza P, McArthur R, (2002) Web Searching: A Process Orientated Experimental Study of Three Interactive Search Paradigms, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology p120-133
- Bruza P, Kitto K, Nelson D, McEvoy C, (2009) Is there something quantum-like about the human mental lexicon?, Journal of Mathematical Psychology p362-377
- Bruza P, Cole R, Song D, Abdul Bari Z, (2006) Towards Operational Abduction from a Cognitive Perspective, Logic Journal of the IGPL p161-177
- Bruza P, Cole R, (2005) Quantum logic of semantic space: An exploratory investigation of context effects in practical reasoning, We Will Show Them! Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay p339-362
- Kitto K, Bruza P, (2012) Tests and models of non-compositional concepts, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [CogSci 2012] p1792-1797
- Hoenkamp E, Bruza P, Song D, Huang Q, (2009) An effective approach to verbose queries using a limited dependencies language model, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, Proceedings [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 5766] p116-127
- Koopman B, Bruza P, Sitbon L, Lawley M, (2012) Towards semantic search and inference in electronic medical records: An approach using concept-based information retrieval, The Australasian Medical Journal p482-488
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Enabling Connected Learning Via Open Source Analytics in the Wild: Learning Analytics Beyond the Learning Management System
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- ID14-3821
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Connected Learning;Semantic Technologies;xAPI;Social Learning Analytics;Mathematical Modelling
- Title
- Generalised Quantum Models of Complexity with Application to Cognitive Systems
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP1094974
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Complex Systems;Contextuality;Systems Modelling;Nonseparable Systems
- Title
- The Quantum Mechanics of Semantic Space
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0773341
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- information retrieval;applied logic
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The synesthetic experience of information: a multi-dimensional approach to information experience
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Greg Thompson - A Software Toolkit For Developing Probabilistic Models Of Quantum Cognition
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Guido Zuccon - Informative argument for reports: Theory and computational framework
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Colin Fidge
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- A Tensor Encoding Model of Word Meaning: Theory and Application to Information Retrieval (2013)
- Semantic Service Discovery in the Service Ecosystem (2012)
- Adaptive Dual Control of Topic-Based Information Retrieval (2010)
- Search Engine Content Analysis (2008)
- Computing with Meaning by Operationalising Socio-cognitive Semantics (2007)