Tim Taylor's publications
2007
- Jean Carletta, Craig Nicol, Tim Taylor, Robin Hill,
Jan Peter de Ruiter and Ellen Gurman Bard. "Eyetracking for
two-person tasks with manipulation of a
virtual world". Submitted.
- Tim Taylor, Peter Ottery and John Hallam. "An approach to time- and
space-differentiated pattern
formation in multi-robot systems".
In Proceedings of Towards
Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2007), University
of Wales, Aberystwyth, 3-5 September 2007, M. Wilson et al (eds), ISBN 0 903878 26 7.
- Tim Taylor, Peter Ottery and John Hallam. "Pattern formation for multi-robot
applications: Robust, self-repairing systems inspired by genetic
regulatory networks and cellular self-organisation".
2005
2004
- Tim Taylor. "Niche
Construction and the Evolution of Complexity". In Artificial Life IX
(Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation
and Synthesis of Living Systems), J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T.
Ikegami and R. Watson (eds.), MIT Press, 2004 (pp. 375-380).
- Tim Taylor. "Redrawing
the Boundary between Organism and Environment". In Artificial Life IX
(Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation
and Synthesis of Living Systems), J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T.
Ikegami and R. Watson (eds.), MIT Press, 2004 (pp. 268-273).
- Tim Taylor. "A
Genetic Regulatory Network-Inspired Real-Time Controller for a Group of
Underwater Robots". In Intelligent Autonomous
Systems 8 (Proceedings of IAS8),
F. Groen, N. Amato, A. Bonarini, E. Yoshida and B. Kröse
(eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004 (pp. 403-412).
2003
- Tim Taylor. "Evolving Interaction in Artificial
Systems: An historical overview and future directions".
Presented at the Evolvability
and Interaction Symposium, Queen Mary, University of London,
UK, October 2003. Abstract appears in University of Hertfordshire
Computer Science Technical Report No. 393 (edited by P. McOwan, K.
Dautenhahn and C.L. Nehaniv).
- Tim Taylor. "Sensor Evolution in Artificial
Systems: Towards a more appropriate model of the relationship between
organism and environment". Presented at the Evolvability
and Sensor Evolution Symposium, University of Birmingham, UK,
April 2003. Abstract appears in University of Hertfordshire Computer
Science Technical Report No. 384 (edited by J. Miller, D. Polani and
C.L. Nehaniv).
2002
- Tim Taylor. "An Alternative Approach to the
Synthesis of Life". Poster presented at the 8th International
Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE 8),
Sydney, Australia, December 2002.
- Tim Taylor. "The
Control of Dynamical Systems by Evolved Constraints: A New Perspective
on Modelling Life". Informatics Research Report
EDI-INF-RR-0148, University of Edinburgh.
- Elizaveta Pachepsky, Tim Taylor and Stephen Jones. "Mutualism
promotes diversity and stability in a simple artificial ecosystem"
Artificial Life vol. 8(1) pp. 5-24. (2002)
- Mark Norman and Tim Taylor. "Application of
Physics Engines in Virtual Worlds". Visualization and Data
Analysis 2002 (Proceedings of SPIE #4665), R. F. Erbacher, P. C. Chen,
M. Groehn, J. C. Roberts and C. M. Wittenbrink (eds.), Society of
Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (ISBN 0-8194-4405-7) .
2001
- Elizaveta Pachepsky and Tim Taylor. "Diversity
through Interaction". Poster presentation at the
International Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, July
16-19, 2001, University of Hawaii.
- Stephen Monsell, Tim J Taylor and Karen Murphy. "Naming
the color of a word: Is it responses or task sets that compete?"
Memory and Cognition vol. 29(1). pp. 137-151.
(2001)
- Tim Taylor. "Christoph Adami, Introduction to
Artificial Life (Book Review)" Artificial
Intelligence vol. 130(1). pp.119-121. (2001)
- Tim Taylor and Colm Massey. "Recent Developments
in the Evolution of Morphologies and Controllers for Physically
Simulated Creatures". Artificial Life
vol. 7(1). pp. 77-87. (2001)
- Barry McMullin, Tim Taylor and Axel von Kamp. "Who
Needs Genomes?". Invited paper presented at the Atlantic
Symposium on Computational Biology, Genome Information Systems
& Technology (CBGI), March 2001, Duke University, USA.
- Tim Taylor. "Creativity in Evolution:
Individuals, Interactions and Environments" Chapter 1 in
Peter J Bentley and David W Corne (eds.) Creative
Evolutionary Systems, Morgan Kaufman (ISBN 1-55860-673-4).
2000
- Tim Taylor. "Artificial Life Techniques for
Generating Controllers for Physically Modelled Characters".
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Games
and Simulation (GAME-ON 2000), Q. Mehdi and N. Gough (eds.), The
Society for Computer Simulation International (ISBN 1-56555-210-5).
- Tim Taylor. "Some Representational and
Ecological Aspects of Evolvability". Presented at the
Evolvability Workshop during the Seventh International Conference on
Artificial Life (ALIFE VII), Reed College, Portland, Oregon 2000.
1999
- Tim Taylor. "On Self-Reproduction and
Evolvability". Proceedings of the Fifth European
Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99),
D. Floreano, J.-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1999.
(© Springer-Verlag)
- Tim Taylor. "Creativity in Evolution:
Individuals, Interactions and Environments". Proceedings
of the AISB'99
Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems, P.
Bentley and D. Corne (eds.), The Society for the Study of Artificial
Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 1999 (ISBN 1 902956 03 6).
- T.J. Taylor 1999. "From
Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life". PhD thesis,
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
- View abstract, download thesis, or view HTML version
from here
1998
- Tim Taylor and
John Hallam. "Replaying the Tape: An Investigation into the
Role of Contingency in Evolution". Proceedings of
the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Artificial Life VI),
C. Adami, R. Belew, H. Kitano, and C. Taylor (eds.), MIT Press, MA,
1998.
- Tim Taylor. "Using Bottom-Up Models to
Investigate the Evolution of Life: Steps Towards an Improved
Methodology". May 1998. Presented at "The
Right Stuff" Workshop during the Sixth International
Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE
VI). Also available in University of Hertfordshire
Computer Science Technical Report No.315.
- Tim Taylor. "Nidus
Design Document". Departmental Working Paper No.269.
Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, June
1998.
1997
- Tim Taylor and
John Hallam. "Studying Evolution with Self-Replicating
Computer Programs". Proceedings of the Fourth
European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL97),
Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (eds.), MIT Press/Bradford Books, MA,
1997.
- Tim Taylor. "The COSMOS Artificial Life System".
Technical report and guide to COSMOS.
Departmental Working Paper No.263. Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, October 1997. (Version 2.0: May
1999)
1996
- TJ Taylor 1996 "PhD Proposal: A Study of
Evolution in Self-Replicating Parallel Computer Programs"
Departmental Discussion Paper No.169, Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, June 1996.
- TJ Taylor 1996 "The COSMOS Environment and
REPLiCa Programming Language" Departmental Working Paper
No.259, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh,
June 1996.
- TJ Taylor 1996 "On the Incorporation of a
Developmental Process in a System of Self-Replicating Programs"
Departmental Working Paper No.258, Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, January 1996.
1993
- TJ Taylor 1993 "Learning to Coordinate Behaviours
on a Four-Legged Robot", MSc Project Report. Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.
1992
- TJ Taylor 1992 "The Effect of Lexicality and Word
Frequency on Stroop Interference", Project report submitted
for the Part II examination in Experimental Psychology, University of
Cambridge, UK. Results of the work were presented to the Experimental
Psychology Society by my supervisor, Dr Stephen Monsell, at a meeting
in Cambridge in 1992.
- TJ Taylor 1992 "Twin Studies of Homosexuality",
Dissertation submitted for the Part II examination in Experimental
Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK. Abstract published
in the Directory of Lesbian and Gay Studies (London).
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