Colour coding: Blue = Lecture, Green = Tutorial.
The lecture material for the two modules is the same, however the tutorial work can be different. Students taking 06-12418 will be expected to do much more reading and independent study.
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Session 1
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Session 2
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II.1 (12Jan2009) |
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II.2 (19Jan2009) |
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II.3 (26Jan2009) |
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II.4 (02Feb2009) |
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II.5 (09Feb2009) |
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II.6 (16Feb2009) |
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II.7 (23Feb2009) |
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II.8 (02Mar2009) |
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II.9 (09Mar2009) |
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II.10 (16Mar2009) |
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II.11 (23Mar2009) |
2008/9 Competition Winners: The best entry prize goes to Hector Basevi for Dancing:A Field approach to Boids. Mr Basevi defined a model of particles in Euclidean space, where the rules governing their interactions drew inspiration from the repulsive and attractive forces between sub-atomic particles. Visualisation of the particles showed interesting and unexpected emergent behaviour. The judges were impressed by the way this approach creatively combined insight from different academic fields.
The popular choice prize goes to Johnny Beardsmore for his Koch Curve Generator. Mr Beardsmore implemented a program in MATLAB for generating iterations of the Koch Curve recursively. This project very much achieved what we wanted to encourage with this competition, namely to creatively explore some of the ideas introduced in the course and to learn by implementing them. His lively presentation on fractals was great fun and enjoyed by all. |
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Week (starting) |
Session 1
(Learning Centre UG05) |
Session 2
(Mech Eng G26) |
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05/05/09 |
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The examinations for the two modules
will be different, though sharing some questions. There will be some
more advanced questions on the 06-12418 exam, for which you may have
to answer questions on material which has not been covered directly
on the course (for example you may have to discuss an NI approach
related to, but different from, the examples we have studied on the
course).
Both exams will be closed-book.
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06-14410 Nature Inspired Design (A) |
1.5 hr written closed-book examination (100%) |
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06-12418 Nature Inspired Design |
1.5 hr written closed-book examination (100%) |
Resit (MSc students only - see
regulations) by examination only.
For formal details
about the aims and objectives and assessment you should look at the
official Module Description Page (06-14410
/ 06-12418)
and Syllabus Page (06-14410
/ 06-12418).
The first three books and the papers specified in the lectures are
the main recommended reading for this module (i.e. those highlighted
in green). The remaining
fairly long list of books (along with the optional articles to be
specified as the course progresses) are some suggested reading that
you may want to use either to develop your background knowledge or as
starting points for more in-depth exploration of the topics we cover.
The majority of these books have previews available on Google
Books.
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Title |
Author(s) |
Publisher |
Comments (by Julian Miller) |
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Creative Evolutionary Systems |
Peter J Bentley and David W Corne (ed) |
Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. |
Very useful reading for course. Highly recommended. Useful for lectures 3a&b, 4, 11. |
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Gary William Flake |
MIT Press, 1998 |
Excellent book. Useful for lectures on Artificial life, CellularAutomata, and Emergence (lectures 5a&b, 6a&b, 7). |
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Evolutionary Design by Computers |
Peter J Bentley (ed.) |
Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. |
Good collection of articles on evolutionary design in engineering. Useful for lectures 2, 3a&b, 4, 6a&b, 8a&b. |
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Various articles in journals and conference proceedings |
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A list of papers will be specified as the module progresses. |
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Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica |
Christian Jacob |
Morgan Kaufmann, 2001 |
A beautiful book, lots on
Evolutionary Computation and Lindenmayer Systems and Plant
Ecosystems |
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Evolutionary Algorithms in Molecular Design |
David E. Clark (Editor) |
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2000. |
Good collection of articles on molecular design useful background for lecture 10. |
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Emergence: from chaos to order |
John H. Holland |
Oxford University Press, 1998 |
Interesting background reading for lecture 7. John Holland is the inventor of genetic algorithms. A very innovative mind. |
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Emergence: The connected lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software |
Steven Johnson |
Penguin 2001 |
Interesting background reading for lecture 7. |
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The Origin of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution |
Stuart Kaufmann |
Oxford University Press 1993 |
A classic: evolution, emergence, chaos, development |
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Evolutionary Art and Computers |
Stephen Todd and William Latham |
Academic Press, 1992 |
Background reading for lecture 4. |
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The Blind Watchmaker |
Richard Dawkins |
Penguin 1990. |
A classic, introduces biomorphs. |
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Climbing Mount Improbable |
Richard Dawkins |
Penguin 1997 |
Ditto |
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Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture |
Ian C. Parmee (ed.) |
Springer, 1998 |
Good for nature inspired engineering design |
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Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies in Engineering and Computer Science: Recent Advancements and Industrial Applications |
D. Quagliarella, J. Periaux, C. Poloni and G. Winter (eds.) |
John Wiley, 1997. |
Good for nature inspired engineering design |
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Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing |
P.K. Chawdhry,R. Roy and R.K.Pant (eds.) |
Springer-Verlag, 1998. |
Good for nature inspired and creative engineering design |
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Multiobjective Optimisation using Evolutionary Algorithms |
Kalyanmoy Deb |
John Wiley 2001 |
Excellent book on multi-objective optimisation in Engineering (good for lecture 2) |
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Computing in Nonlinear Media and Automata Collectives |
Andrew Adamatzky |
IOP Publishing 2001. |
Unique source for Excitable Lattice Computation. |
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A New Kind of Science |
Stephen Wolfram |
Wolfram Media, 2002 |
A Massive work, beautifully illustrated. Controversial. Good for lecture 5. |
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Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer |
Springer-Verlag, 1990 |
Definitive work on L-systems modelling |
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells |
Hans Meinhardt |
Springer-Verlag 1995 |
Definitive work on Reaction Diffusion modelling of Sea Shells. Beautifully illustrated. |
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals |
Jaap Kaandorp, and Janet Kubler |
Springer-Verlag 2001 |
As above but on other fractal-like forms. |
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Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals and Plants |
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and James Hanan |
Springer-Verlag 1989 |
Very nice slim volume on L-systems with lovely diagrams and illustrations (useful for lectures 6a&b) |
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Proc. of the First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES'96), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1259 |
T. Higuchi, M. Iwata and W. Liu (eds.) |
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997 |
Good collection of articles on evolvable hardware |
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Proc. of the Second International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES'98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1478 |
Moshe Sipper, Daniel Mange, and Andres Perez-Uribe (Eds.) |
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998 |
Good collection of articles on evolvable hardware |
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Proc. of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES'00), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1801 |
Julian Miller, Adrian Thompson, Peter Thomson and Terence C Fogarty (eds.) |
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 |
Good collection of articles on evolvable hardware |
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Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES'01), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2210 |
Y. Liu, K. Tanaka, M. Iwata, T. Higuchi and M. Yasunaga (eds.) |
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001 |
Good collection of articles on evolvable hardware |
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