<Reading - Where to Find It?

Reading Material - Where to Find It

Almost all references are available from the library.
Many papers are also available online. Hyperlinks will be provided where known. Please email any new ones to me.
Do not hog reading material. Please return papers, etc., to their correct location promptly.

Required reading is in red font and starts with a !!

Lecture 1 - reading list

* H.J. Morowitz & C. Lazere, "Computers and Brains", in The Thermodynamics of Pizza (1991).

!! R Brooks, A "Intelligence without Reason" (1991).
[NOTE: A reader's guide is available to help you with Brook's article.]

"Complex Systems", Science (Special Issue) vol. 284 , 2 April 1999, pp. 79-109.
J. Horgan, "From Complexity to Perplexity", Scientific American, June 1995, pp.74-79.
B. Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity, Phoenix (1997).
How amoeboids self-organize into a fruiting body: Multicellular coordination in Dictyostelium discoideum: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/7/3879

Lecture 2 - reading list

Stigmergy, self-organisation, and sorting in collective robotics, Owen Holland and Chris Melhuish, University of West of England, http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/pdf's/journalpaper.pdf
Algorithms for Building Annular Structures with Minimalist Robots Inspired by Brood Sorting in Ant Colonies, Matt Wilson, Chris Melhuish, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Samuel Scholes, University of West of England, http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/pdf's/AutRobots_Wilson_etal_2.pdf
Robotic sorting and collection, C. Ronald Kube, Hong Zhang and Xiaohuan Wang. "Controlling Collective Tasks With An ALN," 1993 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 289-293: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~kube/research.html (videos also available here).
Boids: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
The Swarm-bots project: http://www.swarm-bots.org
Termite nest construction: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/danl/cconstruct.html
Collective and Swarm Intelligence in natural and artificial systems, Andres Perez-Uribe: http://www.geocities.com/fastiland/Teaching/acs/swarm.html
Special issue of Artificial Life on Stigmergy: http://0-www.mitpressjournals.org.wam.leeds.ac.uk/toc/artl/5/2
The use of Flocks to drive a Geographic Analysis Machine, James Macgill, Stan Openshaw: http://www.geocomputation.org/1998/24/gc24_01.htm
Web-based multi-agent spatial analysis tools, James Macgill, Stan Openshaw, and Ian Turton: http://www.geovista.psu.edu/sites/geocomp99/Gc99/069/gc_069.htm

Required reading Neural Networks

!! W. Bechtel and A. Abrahamsen, Connectionism and the Mind, The Jets and Sharks network (page 19-29) (2002).
Available as copy at CSO.

!! A summary of the Hopfield network. Contains a view titbits that were mentioned in the lectures, but are not in the slides.

Recommended reading Neural Networks

R. Beale and T. Jackson, Neural Computation - an introduction (1990).
Available in the library