Prof. Chris Cannings

University of Sheffield, UK

Email: C.Cannings@sheffield.ac.uk

Qualifications

1968  Ph.D., University of London, UK

1965  M.Sc., University of London, UK

1964  B.Sc., University of London, UK

Publications (Selected)

1. Broom,M., Cannings,C. and Vickers,G.T. (2000), Evolution in Knockout Conflicts. The Fixed Strategy Case. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 62, 451-466.
2. Broom,M., Cannings,C. and Vickers,G.T. (2000), Evolution in Knockout Conflicts. The Variable Strategy Case. Selection, 1, 5-21.
3. Broom,M., C.Cannings, and G.T.Vickers.(2000). A sequential-arrivals model of territory acquisition.II J.theoret.Biol.,207, 389-403.
4. Read RC, Pullin J, Borrow R, Kaczmarski EB, di Giovine F, Dower SK, Cannings C, Wilson AG.(2001) A functional polymorphism of Toll-like Receptor-4 is not associated with likelihood or severity of meningococcal disease. J.Infec.Dis. 184,640-642.
5. Low,AS.,Azmy,I.,Sharaf,N.,Cannings,C.and Wilson,AG. (2002). Association between two tumour necrosis factor intronic polymorphisms and HLA alleles. European Journal of Immunology,29,31-34.
6. Cannings C and Penman C.(2002) Random Graphs. In. Stochastic processes:modelling and simulation. Handbook of Statistics. 21, 51-91, Ed. C R Rao and D N Shanbhag, Elsevier.
7. Broom,M.,and Cannings,C. (2002) Modelling Dominance Hierarchy formation as a Multi-Player Game.J.theoret.Biol.,219,397-413.
8. Cannings C and Sheehan NA (2002) On a misconception about irreducibility of the single-site Gibbs sampler in a pedigree application. Genetics,162,993-996.
9. Low AS,Gonzales-Gay MA, Amos RS, Bax DE, Cannings C, HajeerA, Till SH, Winfield J, Ollier WE, Wilson AG (2002) TNF+489 polymorphism does not contribute to susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 20,829-832
10. Dimitropoulou P and Cannings C (2003). RECSIM and INDSTATS: Probabilities of Identity in General Genealogies. Bioinformatics, 19, 790-791.
11. Haccou P, Glaizot O and Cannings C. (2003) Patch leaving strategies and superparasitism: an asymmetric war of attrition. J.theoret biol. 225,77-89.
12. Thomas AW and Cannings C (2003) Enumeration and simulation of marriage node graphs on zero loop pedigrees. IMA journal Maths in Biology and Medicine. IMA Mathematical Medicine & Biology, 20,261-275.
13. Thomas A, Cannings RC, Monk NAM and Cannings C (2003) On structure of protein-protein interaction networks. Biochem Soc Tr31 1491-1496.
14. Cannings C (2003) The identity by descent process along the chrsome. Human Hered., 56, 126-130
15. Teare MD, Cox A, Shorto J, Anderson C, Bishop DT, Canning (2004) Heterozygote excess is repeatedly observed in females atBRCA2 locus N372H. J Med Gen, 41,523-528.
16. Iles MM and Cannings C (2004) Sequential genotyping in TDT fliesTDT. IMA Mathematical Medicine & Biology,21,115-127.
17. Thomas AW and Cannings C (2004) Simulating realistic zero loopdogrees using a bipartite Pr¨ufer code and graphical modelling. Mamatical Medicine & Biology, 21,335-345.
18. Elizabeth J Minton, David Smillie, Paula Smith, Suzanne ShiMichael W McKendrick, Dermot C Gleeson, James C E UnderwChristopher Cannings, Anthony G Wilson and the Trent HepatitStudy Group (2005) Clearance of Hepatitis C virus is not assocwith SNPs in the IL-1, -6 or -10 genes. Human Immunology, 66, 132.
19. Walters k and Cannings C. (2005) The probability density of the IBD length over a single autosome in unilineal relationships. The pop biol., 68,55-63.
20. Cannings C (2006)Modelling protein-protein interaction networks yeast-2-hybrid screens with random graphs. In Statistics in Genoand Proteomics Ed. Urfer A, Turkman MA. Centro InternacionaMatematica, Coimbra.
21. Cannings C (2006) Probabilities in genetics. Revstat., In Press.
22. Vikrant Deshmukh, Chris Cannings, and Alun Thomas (2006) Estimating the parameters of a model for protein-protein interaction graphs. Math Med Biol 23: 279-295.
23. Cannings C and Thomas AW (2007). Inference, Simulation and Enumeration of Genealogies. In Handbook of Statistical Genetics, 3rd Edition, pp 781-805. Ed. Balding D, Bishop MJ and Cannings C Wileys, Chichester,UK.
24. Mitavskiy, B. Cannings, C. (2007) An Improvement of the “QuotientConstruction” Method and Further Asymptotic Results on the Stationary Distribution of the Markov Chains Modeling Evolutionary Algorithms. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation pages: 2606-2613.
25. Rowe, J., Mitavskiy, B., Cannings, C. (2008) Propagation Time in Stochastic Communication Networks. Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies pages 426-431 (see also arXiv:math/0608561 ).
26. Mitavskiy, B., Rowe, J., Cannings, C. (2008) Preliminary Theoretical Analysis of a Local Search Algorithm to Optimize Network Communication Subject to Preserving the Total Number of Links. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing, 1484-1491.
27. Boris Mitavskiy and Chris Cannings (2008) Evaluating Stationary Distribution of the Binary GA Markov Chain in Special Cases. Proceedingsof the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar in “Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms”
28. Mitavskiy, B., Cannings, C. (2009) Estimating the ratios of the stationary distribution values for Markov chains modeling evolutionary algorithms. Evolutionary Computation,17,343-377.
29. Mitavskiy, B., Rowe, J., Cannings, C. (2009) Theoretical analysisof local search strategies to optimize communication subject to preserving the total number of links. Int.J.Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics,2,243-284.
30. Cannings C. (2009) The majority game on regular and random nerworks. International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, 2009. GameNets pp.i=xvi.
31. Chrysafis O, Cannings C. (2009) Weighted self-similar networks underpreferential attachment. Physica A, 388, 2965-2974
32. Southwell R., Cannings C. (2009) Games on graphs that grow deterministically, International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, 2009. GameNets pp.347-356.