Professor Peter Bruza
Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems
Biography
Peter Bruza's research spans the fields of information retrieval, applied logic, and cognitive science. His current research lies within the area of Quantum Cognition, which aims to develop new understandings of human cognition by applying the conceptual framework and mathematical structures used in quantum physics. Applications of this research include how humans make judgements of trust in relation to AI systems, and promotiong effective human-machine shared decision-making (Funded by the US Airforce)Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems
Keywords
cognitive science, information science, decision science
Discipline
Cognitive Science, Information Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
- MSc (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
- BSc (University of Queensland)
Teaching
- IFN521: Foundations of Decision Science
- IFN600: Understanding Research (discontinued)
Experience
The end user benefits of my research stem from the development of an interactive query reformulation mechanism designed to help users clarify their information needs. The associated software was licensed to National Security Agency, the U.S. Patents Office, SAP and a variety of Australian state and federal government departments and promoted the search effectiveness of tens of thousands of users. In 2006, my expertise in interactive query formulation was called on to settle a patent infringement case between IBM and Amazon.
Selected publications
- Busemeyer J, Bruza P, (2012) Quantum models of cognition and decision, Cambridge University Press.
- 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, pp. 668-695.
- Song D, Bruza P, (2003) Towards context sensitive information inference, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54 (4), pp. 321-334.
- 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, 53 (2), pp. 120-133.
- Bruza P, Kitto K, Nelson D, McEvoy C, (2009) Is there something quantum-like about the human mental lexicon?, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 53 (5), pp. 362-377.
- Bruza P, Cole R, Song D, Abdul Bari Z, (2006) Towards Operational Abduction from a Cognitive Perspective, Logic Journal of the IGPL, 14 (2), pp. 161-177.
- 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, pp. 339-362.
- 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], pp. 1792-1797.
- 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], pp. 116-127.
- 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, 5 (9), pp. 482-488.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Peter, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- 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
- Trust, Holistic Processing and Incompatibility in Cognition
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Andrew Gibson - 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)