THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
School of Computer Science

THE COGNITION AND AFFECT PROJECT:
PhD and MPhil Theses

THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE COLLECTION OF PhD/MPhil THESES PRODUCED BY STUDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COGNITION AND AFFECT PROJECT

• 1994
  • Luc Beaudoin (PhD):
    Goal processing in autonomous agents
    Avilable online
• 1995
  • Tim Read (PhD):
    The use of systematic design to analyse Gray's theory of emotion
    Thesis not available online.
    For a sample of his work see Applying Systemic Design to the study of `emotion'
• 1996
  • Edmund Shing (PhD):
    MEDEA: Exploring the design of a situated adaptive agent
    Thesis not available online. For a sample of his work see this conference paper:
    Computational Constraints on Associative Learning

  • Christian Paterson (MPhil):
    The use of ratings for the integration of planning and learning in a broad but shallow agent architecture.
    Online in two parts
• 1997
  • Ian Wright (PhD):
    Emotional Agents
    Thesis online (PDF and Postscript)

    Pop-11 code for the Minder1 program is available here, http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/ipw-newminder1.tar.gz recently modified to work with the latest version of the SimAgent toolkit.
    The program requires the Poplog system, recent versions of which include the toolkit.

    To run the program untar the file, to create a directory newminder1, then read the file GO.p into the poplog editor Ved. Compiler the file with the command

        ENTER l1
    

    Then run the command that is printed out in the editor buffer.

  • Chris Complin (PhD):
    The evolutionary engine and the mind machine: A design-based study of adaptive change
    Thesis online
• 2001
  • Steve Allen (PhD):
    Concern processing in autonomous agents
    Available online
    Software also available. Requires Poplog and The SimAgent toolkit

2003
• Catriona Kennedy (PhD)
  Distributed reflective architectures for anomaly detection and autonomous recovery
  Available online

• 2004
  • Nick Hawes (PhD)
    Anytime Deliberation for Computer Game Agents
    Available online

• 2006
  • Dave Gurnell (PhD)
    A cooperative study of approaches to multi agent planning. PhD thesis, 2006. Available as [PDF].

  • Dean Petters
    Designing Agents to Understand Infants.(PDF)
    (Modelling attachment processes in infants.)
• 2007
  • Manuela Viezzer
    Autonomous concept formation: An architecture-based analysis (PDF)

    Abstract

    Program code is also available. Instructions for running the code are in the thesis.

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• Work in progress
  • Marek Kopicki (From 2004)
    Working on robotics in the context of CoSy.

  • Verónica Esther Arriola Ríos (from 2008)
    Working on robotics in the context of CogX

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2009
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