James Borg

Title: Teaching Fellow
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I was employed as a Teaching Fellow at Keele University in 2009 following my successful completion of both a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, and MSc in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Alongside my teaching commitments I am also currently studying for PhD under the supervision of Dr. Alastair Channon  and Dr. Charles Day.

My main research interests fall into three categories:

  • Social and Cultural Evolution
  • Artificial Life
  • Adaptive Behaviour in Agent Based Models

The goal of my PhD research is to produce Artificial Life models of cultural evolution in grounded agent based simulations, resulting in adaptive social and cultural behaviour in artificial agents. I also hope to be in a position to comment on the necessary evolutionary pressures and evolved mechanisms that have led to social and cultural behaviour in the animal kingdom, becoming most apparent and complex in the human case.

My other research interests are evolutionary computation, neural networks, intelligent creative design, nature inspire design and optimization, and intelligence and learning. The interdisciplinary nature of my research has also led me to develop an interest in a number of fields from the social and natural sciences including neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, ethology, psychology, anthropology, and behavioural sciences.

I am currently a member of Keele's Computational Intelligence and Cognitive Science research group, and a student member of ISAL (International Society for Artificial Life).

Selected Publications

  • Borg J and Channon AD. 2012. Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments. MIT Press. doi> full text>
  • Borg JM, Channon A, Day C. 2011. Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission. In T. Lenaerts, M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo & R. Doursat (Eds.). Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 101-108). Heidelberg: MIT Press. doi> full text>

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  • Borg J and Channon AD. 2012. Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis: The Adoption of Social Learning in Increasingly Variable Environments. MIT Press. doi> full text>
  • Borg JM, Channon A, Day C. 2011. Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission. In T. Lenaerts, M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo & R. Doursat (Eds.). Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 101-108). Heidelberg: MIT Press. doi> full text>
  •  CSC-10025 Cybercrime
  •  CSC-10027 Human Computer Interaction
  •  CSC-10028 Introduction to Information Systems