Prof. Jonathan Rowe

      Deputy Head of the School of Computer Science

      Head of Academic Programmes

      Professor of Natural Computation

Jonathan E. Rowe School of Computer Science The University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT United Kingdom tel: +44(0) 121 414 2985 email: J.E.Rowe@cs.bham.ac.uk

Research interests

Evolutionary computation, multi-agent systems, artificial life and other complex adaptive systems. Theory of evolutionary computation and genetic algorithms. The extension of this theory to arbitrary domains. Evolution of co-operation and emergent computation in multi-agent models. The use of such systems to model complex organisations and social systems. You can find more information here.

Here is a list of my publications.

My book:  Genetic algorithms: principles and perspectives  (with Colin Reeves).
 

I am on the Steering Committee of the System Science for Health initiative.

Current Teaching

Introduction to Natural Computation

Nature-Inspired Optimisation

Student projects

Here is some information on our MSc. Natural Computation.  
 
 
 

Personal

Here are some family photos.