Core membership of the Group consists of the following Department staff:

• Larry Bull, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Chris Simons and Jim Smith

The Group is currently undertaking the following externally funded research projects:

• Mathematical Modelling of Statistical Disclosure Control (EPSRC, 2007-2010: Serpell)
Creation of new models for protecting confidentiality in data and meta-heuristics for their solution, in collaboration with the Office of National Statistics
• HEAT@UWE: Bridging the gaps in Health, Environment And Technology (HEAT) research (EPSRC: 2009-2012)
Initiative to form new multi-disciplined research themes across UWE, led by Katie Williams.
• Learning and Computation in Disordered Networks of Memristors: Theory and Experiments (EPSRC, 2010-2013: Vacant1, Vacant2)
Creation and use through evolutionary design of memristors, in collaboration with the Unconventional Computing Group.

Details of recent externally funded research projects can be found here.

Some recent publications:

• Alonso-Sanz, R. & Bull, L. (2010) One-dimensional Coupled Cellular Automata with Memory: Initial Investigations. Cellular Automata (in press)
• Alonso-Sanz, R. & Bull, L. (2010) A very effective density classifier two-dimensional cellular automaton with memory Journal of Physics A (in press)
• Alonso-Sanz, R. & Bull, L. (2010) Elementary Cellular Automata with Minimal Memory and Random Number Generation. Complex Systems (in press)
• Bull, L. (2010) Artificial Symbiogenesis and Differing Reproduction Rates. Artificial Life (in press).
• De Lacy Costello, B., Toth, R., Stone, C., Adamatzky, A. & Bull, L. (2010) Implementation of Glider Guns in the Light-Sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium. Physical Review E (in press).
• Eitzinger, C. , Heidl, W., Lughofer, E. Raiser, S. Smith, J. E., Tahir, M. A., Sannen, D. & Van Brussel, H. (2010) Assessment of the Influence of Adaptive Components in Trainable Surface Inspection Systems. Machine Vision and Applications (in press)
• Raiser, S., Lughofer, E., Eitzinger, C. & Smith, J.E. (2010) Impact of Object Extraction Methods on Classification Performance in Surface Inspection Systems. Machine Vision and Applications (in press)
• Sapin, E., Collet, P., Adamatzky, A. & Bull, L. (2010) Stochastic Automated Search Methods in Cellular Automata: The Discovery of Tens of Thousands of Glider Guns. Natural Computing (in press).
• Serpell, M. & Smith, J.E. (2010) Self-Adaption of Mutation Operator and Probability for Permutation Representations in Genetic Algorithms. Evolutionary Computation (in press).
• Simons, C.L., Parmee, I.C., & Gwynllyw, R. (2010) Interactive, Evolutionary Search in Upstream Object-oriented Class Design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (in press)
• Smith, J.E., Tahir, M.A., Caleb-Solly, P., Lughofer, E., Eitzinger, C., Sannen D., and Nuttin, M.(2010) Human-Machine Interaction Issues in Quality Control Based on On-Line Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, Part A (in press).
• Stone, C. & Bull, L. (2010) Solving the Density Classification Task with Cellular Automaton 184 and Memory. Complex Systems (in press).
• Tahir, M. & Smith, J.E. (2010) Creating Diverse Nearest Neighbour Ensembles using Simultaneous Metaheuristic Feature Selection. Pattern Recognition Letters (in press).
• Toth, R., De Lacy Costello, B., Stone, C., Adamatzky, A. & Bull, L. (2010) Spiral Formation and Degeneration in Heterogeneous Excitable Media. Physical Review E (in press).