Biography
Personal Website: http://www.scm.keele.ac.uk/staff/f_polack/
Research and scholarship
My recent research is in the development and assurance of simulations of complex (biological) systems, for use alongside laboratory research (YCIL).
- model driven engineering support for simulation
- patterns for simulation development
- arguing fitness for purpose
My earlier research covered formal modelling (e.g. in Z and B):
- capturing the intent of diagrammatic models in formal models
- formal specification of information systems
- patterns and generics in Z
I have supervised successful PhD in many areas, including formal methods, security analysis, artificial immune systems, model driven engineering, CA emergence and course graining, search-based software engineering, hyperheuristic approaches to route planning.
Teaching
I teach:
- CSM-30016: Software engineering and project management
- CSM-20022: Software lifecycles and development
Selected Publications
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On Developing and Validating Dynamic Systems: Simulation Engineering. The Journal of Object Technology, 1-13, vol. 19(3). doi> link> full text>2020.
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Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems. Artificial Life. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press). link> doi> full text>2020.
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Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation. Artificial Life, 307-313, vol. 26(2). doi> link> full text>2020.
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Playing with patterns. In From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation. Springer International Publishing. doi> link> full text>2019.
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Towards Efficient Comparison of Change-Based Models. Journal of Object Technology, vol. 18(2). doi> link> full text>
Full Publications Listshow
Books
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Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language. Springer. doi>2018.
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Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language. Springer International Publishing. doi>2018.
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Communicating Process Architectures 2008 WoTUG-31. IOS Press.2008.
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Stepney S, Polack FAC, Welch P (Eds.). 2008. Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation. Luniver Press. link>
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Security in Pervasive Computing Third International Conference, SPC 2006, York, UK, April 18-21, 2006, Proceedings. Springer Science & Business Media.2006.
Journal Articles
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On Developing and Validating Dynamic Systems: Simulation Engineering. The Journal of Object Technology, 1-13, vol. 19(3). doi> link> full text>2020.
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Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation. Artificial Life, 307-313, vol. 26(2). doi> link> full text>2020.
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Towards Efficient Comparison of Change-Based Models. Journal of Object Technology, vol. 18(2). doi> link> full text>
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Towards Efficient Loading of Change-Based Models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. doi> link> full text>2018.
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Turning Models Inside Out. 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Satellite events. full text>
- 2017.
- 2016.
- 2016.
- 2015.
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Evaluating Student Work in Modelling Courses. EduSymp@MoDELS, 68-76, vol. 1555. link>2015.
- 2014.
- 2014.
- 2014.
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Bad Modelling Teaching Practices. EduSymp@MoDELS, 1-12, vol. 1346. link>2014.
- 2014.
- 2013.
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Emergence of Frontiers in Networked Schelling Segregationist Models. Complex Systems -Champaign-, vol. 22(1). link>2013.
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What do Metamodels Really Look Like?. EESSMOD@MoDELS, 55-60, vol. 1078. link>2013.
- 2012.
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Choosing and adapting design notations in the principled development of complex systems simulations for research. MOTPW@MODELS, 6:1. link>2012.
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Metamodelling for Grammarware Researchers. SLE, 64-82, vol. 7745. link>2012.
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Searching for model migration strategies. ME@MoDELS, 39-44. link>2012.
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Identifying Desirable Game Character Behaviours through the Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Model-Driven Engineering Metamodels. SEARCH BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 112-126, vol. 6956. link>2011.
- 2011.
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A Comparison of Model Migration Tools. MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS, PT I, 61-+, vol. 6394. link>2010.
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Automated Formalisation for Verification of Diagrammatic Models. Electron. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci., 211-226, vol. 263.2010.
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Concordance: A Framework for Managing Model Integrity. MODELLING FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, 245-+, vol. 6138. link>2010.
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Constructing and Navigating Non-invasive Model Decorations. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS, 138-+, vol. 6142. link>2010.
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Evaluating Goal-Oriented Analysis in the Domain of Enterprise Information Systems. ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PT I, 62-70, vol. 109. link>2010.
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Formal Analysis in Model Management: Exploiting the Power of CZT. ASM, 414, vol. 5977. link>2010.
- 2010.
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KAOS-beta: A Goal-oriented Process Model for EIS. MSVVEIS 2010: MODELLING, SIMULATION, VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 40-49. link>2010.
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Model Migration with Epsilon Flock. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS, 184-198, vol. 6142. link>2010.
- 2010.
- 2010.
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Taming EMF and GMF Using Model Transformation. MoDELS (1), 211-225, vol. 6394. link>2010.
- 2009.
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On the Evolution of OCL for Capturing Structural Constraints in Modelling Languages. RIGOROUS METHODS FOR SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS, 204-218, vol. 5115. link>2009.
- 2009.
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Self-organisation for Survival in Complex Computer Architectures. SELF-ORGANIZING ARCHITECTURES, 66-83, vol. 6090. link>2010.
- 2009.
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The Grand Challenge of Scalability for Model Driven Engineering. MODELS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 48-53, vol. 5421. link>2009.
- 2009.
- 2008.
- 2008.
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Complex Systems Models - Engineering Simulations. ALIFE, 482-489. link>2008.
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Constructing Models with the Human-Usable Textual Notation. MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, 249-263, vol. 5301. link>2008.
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Novel features in languages of the epsilon model management platform. MiSE, 69-73. link>2008.
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The Epsilon Generation Language. MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE - FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, 1-16, vol. 5095. link>2008.
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The Epsilon Transformation Language. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS, 46-60, vol. 5063. link>2008.
- 2008.
- 2007.
- 2007.
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Rule migration: Exploring a design framework for emergence. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING, 49-66, vol. 3(1). link>2007.
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Communicating complex systems. ICECCS 2006: 11TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX COMPUTER SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, 107-+. link>2006.
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Engineering emergence. ICECCS 2006: 11TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX COMPUTER SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, 89-+. link>2006.
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Merging models with the Epsilon Merging Language (EML). MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, 215-229, vol. 4199. link>2006.
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The epsilon object language (EOL). MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE - FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, 128-142, vol. 4066. link>2006.
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An agile and extensible code generation framework. EXTREME PROGRAMMING AND AGILE PROCESSES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS, 226-229, vol. 3556. link>2005.
- 2001.
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Specification of integrity-preserving operations in information systems by using a formal UML-based language. Information and Software Technology. doi>2001.
- 2000.
- 1995.
- 1992.
Chapters
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Playing with patterns. In From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation. Springer International Publishing. doi> link> full text>2019.
- 2010.
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On the Evolution of OCL for Capturing Structural Constraints in Modelling Languages. In Rigorous methods fpr software construction and analysis. Springer. link>2009.
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Self-organisation for Survival in Complex Computer Architectures. In Self-Organizing Architectures. Springer. link>2009.
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SAZ: SSADM Version 4 and Z. In Software Specification Methods 2nd Edition. Hermes.2006.
- 2001.
Other
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Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems. Artificial Life. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press). link> doi> full text>2020.
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Incremental Neuroevolution of Reactive and Deliberative 3D Agents. ECAL 2015: THE THIRTEENTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE (pp. 341-348). link> doi> full text>2015.
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Optimal Mutation Rate Control under Selection in Hamming Spaces. ECAL 2015: THE THIRTEENTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE (pp. 640-647). link> doi> full text>2015.
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A Metamodel for the Evolution of Evolution. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 621-628). MIT Press. link>2015.
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A Minimal Model for the Emergence of Cooperation in Randomly Growing Networks. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 114-121). MIT Press. link>2015.
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A New View of Protocell Metabolism. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 146). MIT Press. link>2015.
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A Passive Mechanism for Goal-Directed Navigation using Grid Cells. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 191-198). MIT Press. link>2015.
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A Predator-Prey Scenario in a Virtual Ecosystem. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 463). MIT Press. link>2015.
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A population of information processing objects as a model of evolutionary dynamics. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 225). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Abnormality Detection in Robots Exhibiting Composite Swarm Behaviours. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 406-413). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Achieving Closure in Enzymes in Artificial Chemistries. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 570). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Achieving Compositional Language in a Population of Iterated Learners. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 349-356). MIT Press. link>2015.
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An Agent-Based Model of Avascular Tumor Growth. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 648-655). MIT Press. link>2015.
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An Efficient Ant Colony System for Edge Detection in Image Processing. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 398-405). MIT Press. link>2015.
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An Integrated Neuromechanical Model of Steering in C. elegans. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 199-206). MIT Press. link>2015.
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An Investigation of Square Waves for Evolution in Carbon Nanotubes Material. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 503-510). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Apparent actions and apparent goal-directedness. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 511). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Applying homeostatic neural controller to multi-legged robot and adaptivity to novel disruptions. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 264-270). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Artificial life programming in the robust-first attractor. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 554-561). MIT Press. link>2015.
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At the root of sociality: Working towards emergent, permanent, social affines. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 82-89). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Autonomous lablet locomotion and active docking by sensomotory electroosmotic drive. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 456-462). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Behavioral Diversities of Morphogenetic Collective Systems. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 41). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Cascading Transitions in Coupled Complex Ecosystems. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 612-619). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Chemical Architectures for Self-Replicating Proto-Cells. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 224). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Closed-loop acquisition of behaviour on the Sphero robot. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 472-478). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Coevolution of cooperation and layer selection strategies in multiplex networks. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 249-255). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Conservation of Matter Increases Evolutionary Activity. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 98-105). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Contagion on Networks with Self-Organised Community Structure. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 183-190). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Cooperative Coevolution of Morphologically Heterogeneous Robots. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 312-319). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Cooperative Object Transport Using Evolutionary Swarm Robotics Methods. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 464-471). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Coordination of collective behaviours in spatially separated agents. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 579-586). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Corpus-taught Evolutionary Music Composition. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 587-594). MIT Press. link>2015.
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CriPS: Critical Particle Swarm Optimisation. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 207-214). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Distributed vs. Centralized Particle Swarm Optimization for Learning Flocking Behaviors. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 302-309). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Do Endothelial Cells Dream of Eclectic Shape?. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 13). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Do it yourself (DIY) liquid handling robot for evolutionary search exploration. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 657). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Does self-replication imply evolvability?. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 595-602). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Dynamic Homeostasis in Packet Switching Networks. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 80). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Effects of Social Network Size and Topology on Evolutionary Decision Making. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 603). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Embodied Evolution of Artificial Cells in a Hybrid Wet/Hard-ware Platform. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 215). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Emergence of Competition between Different Dissipative Structures for the Same Free Energy Source. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 415-422). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Emergence of Sense-Making Behavior by the Stimulus Avoidance Principle: Experiments on a Robot Behavior Controlled by Cultured Neuronal Cells. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 373-380). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Emergence-focused design in complex system simulation. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 234-241). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Emergent Robustness in Software Systems through Decentralized Adaptation: an Ecologically-Inspired ALife Approach. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 521-528). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Emotional modulation of peripersonal space impacts the way robots interact. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 431-437). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Environmental bias forces parasitism in Tierra. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 294-301). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Epigenetic inheritance speeds up evolution of artificial organisms. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 439-446). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evaluating the Effect of a Flexible Spine on the Evolution of Quadrupedal Gaits. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 166-173). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolution of Cooperation in Evolutionary Robotics: the Tradeoff between Evolvability and Efficiency. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 495-502). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolutionary Progress in Heterogenous Cellular Automata (HetCA). In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 512-519). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolutionary change precedes extinction in eco-evolutionary dynamics based on a 3D virtual predator-prey system. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 639). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolving Collective Behaviors With Diverse But Predictable Sensor States. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 174). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolving Robot Controllers Using Carbon Nanotubes. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 106-113). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolving an optimal group size in groups of prey under predation. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 620). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Evolving strategies for single-celled organisms in multi-nutrient environments. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 226-233). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Exploring the organisation of complex systems through the dynamical interactions among their relevant subsets. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 286-293). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Following Strategies Reduces Accidents, but Makes Outcomes Worse: Evidence from Simulated Treefrog Mating Scenarios. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 333-340). MIT Press. link>2015.
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From tadpole to frog: artificial metamorphosis as a method of evolving self-reconfiguring robots. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 51-58). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Heredity in Messy Chemistries. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 325-332). MIT Press. link>2015.
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How Intrinsic Motivation can Speed Up Language Emergence. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 571-578). MIT Press. link>2015.
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How Much Should You Select for Evolvability?. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 487-494). MIT Press. link>2015.
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How do the origins of life sciences influence 21st century design thinking?. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 2-11). MIT Press. link>2015.
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How social networks shape collective behaviours. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 81). MIT Press. link>2015.
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How to play the Syntax Game. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 479-486). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Human Swarms, a real-time method for collective intelligence. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 658-659). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Hybrid Forms (2015). In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 12). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Incorporation of Emotions in the Orphibs' Agent Architecture. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 311). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Informational parasites in code evolution. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 629-636). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Investigating a cellular automata model that performs three distance diffusion on a robot path planning. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 271-278). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Investigating the Impact of Communication Quality on Evolving Populations of Artificial Life Agents. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 546-553). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Learning by Stimulation Avoidance as a Primary Principle of Spiking Neural Networks Dynamics. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 175-182). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Majority Gates and Circular Computation in Slime Mould. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 18-24). MIT Press. link>2015.
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MecaCell: an Open-source Efficient Cellular Physics Engine. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 67). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Mimicking the Exploration of 3D Terrains by Physarum with Cellular Automata Models. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 33-40). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Modelling Conflict within the Social Networks of Large Multi-Vendor Software Projects using Communicating Stream X-Machines. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 79). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Modelling the Role of Trail Pheromone in the Collective Construction of Termite Royal Chambers. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 43-50). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Morphogenesis and Replication of Multi-Cellular Organisms with Evolved Variable Length Self-Modifying Genomes. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 42). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Musculo-Skeletal Models as Tools to Quantify Embodiment. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 68). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Non-random random mutations: a signature of evolution of evolution (EVOEVO). In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 1). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Omnigram Explorer: A Simple Interactive Tool for the Initial Exploration of Complex Systems. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 381-388). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Ontogeny and adaptivity in a model protocell. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 216-223). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Partial Redundancy and Morphological Homeostasis: Reliable Development through Overlapping Mechanisms. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 59-66). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Physarum Polycephalum changes polyaniline properties. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 14-17). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Planarity as a driver of Spatial Network structure. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 423-430). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Practical Fault Tolerant 2D Cellular Automata. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 158-165). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Probing models of minimal swimming vehicules in vivo with microalgae phototaxis. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 448-455). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Probing models of minimal swimming vehicules in vivo with microalgae phototaxis. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 447). MIT Press. link>2015.
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2015. Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference Artificial Life, ECAL 2015, York, UK, July 20-24, 2015. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL. MIT Press.
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Programs as Polypeptides. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 150-157). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Quantifying Morphological Computation based on an Information Decomposition of the Sensorimotor Loop. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 70-77). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Quantifying Self-Organizing Behavior of Autonomous Robots. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 78). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Recombination Is Surprisingly Constructive for Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks in the Context of Selection for Developmental Stability. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 530-537). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Ribosome synthesis and construction of a minimal cell using a cell-free expression platform. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 147-148). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Searching for non-regular neighborhood cellular automata rules applied to scheduling task and guided by a forecast dynamical behavior parameter. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 538-545). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Simpson's Paradox, Co-operation and Individuality in Bacterial Biofilms. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 520). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Simulating self-replicating, chemically immersed, microchip swarms. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 438). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Simulating the Influence of Diet on the Intestinal Microbiome Composition. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 638). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Simulation-Based Analysis of in Situ Cellular Motility. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 637). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Slime mould actin sensoriactuation networks: topology, dynamic transformations and models of self-assembly. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 25-32). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Soft-Body Muscles for Evolved Virtual Creatures: The Next Step on a Bio-Mimetic Path to Meaningful Morphological Complexity. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 604-611). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Spatial Computing in Synthetic Bioware: Creating Bacterial Architectures. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 656). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Steering a Complex Adaptive System: A Complexity Science Design Methodology Applied to an Industrial Ecosystem in the Humber Region, UK. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 529). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Task Dynamics & the (Ecological) Information They Create. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 69). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Circular Logic of Gaia: Fragility and Fallacies, Regulation and Proofs. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 90-97). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Digital Aquarist: An Interactive Ecology Simulator. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 389-396). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Evolution of Assortment with Multiple Simultaneous Games. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 279-285). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Hunger Games: Embodied agents evolving foraging strategies on the frugal-greedy spectrum. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 357-364). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Kinetic Basis of Morphogenesis. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 122-129). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Lattice of Chemical Organisations. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 242-248). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Overshoot Curriculum: Artificial Life, Education and the Human Predicament. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 414). MIT Press. link>2015.
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The Universality of Peer-Influence in Social Networks. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 149). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Time Series Evolution for Integrating Developmental Processes. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 320-324). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Toward a behavior-based approach to the origins of life and the genetic system. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 397). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Towards a methodology for describing the relationship between simulation and reality. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 562-569). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Unraveling the genotype-phenotype map of evolving digital organisms. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (p. 310). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Volatility and spatial distribution of resources determine ant foraging strategies. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 256-263). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Wallace: An efficient generic evolutionary framework. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 365-372). MIT Press. link>2015.
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Where Does (Co)evolution Lead to?. In PS. Andrews, LSD. Caves, R. Doursat, SJ. Hickinbotham, FAC. Polack, S. Stepney, T. Taylor & J. Timmis (Eds.). ECAL (pp. 138-145). MIT Press. link>2015.
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