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  • 2021

    Identification of Lifelike Characteristics of Human Crowds Through a Classification Task

    Webster, J. & Amos, M., 19 Jul 2021, ALIFE 2021: The Conference on Artificial Life. Cambridge, US: The MIT Press, 10 p. 54

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  • 2019

    Scaling Techniques for Parallel Ant Colony Optimization on Large Problem Instances

    Peake, J., Amos, M., Yiapanis, P. & Lloyd, H., 13 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '19): July 13–17, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. New York, NY, USA: ACM, p. 47-54 8 p.

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    11 Citations (Scopus)
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  • Solving Nurikabe with Ant Colony Optimization

    Amos, M., Crossley, M. & Lloyd, H., 13 Jul 2019, GECCO 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion: July 13–17, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. New York, NY, USA: ACM, p. 129-130 2 p.

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    4 Citations (Scopus)
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  • Void Reduction in Self-Healing Swarms

    Eliot, N., Kendall, D., Brockway, M., Moon, A. & Amos, M., Jul 2019, ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life. Fellermann, H., Bacardit, J., Goñi-Moreno, Á. & Füchslin, R. M. (eds.). London: The MIT Press, Vol. 31. p. 87-94 8 p.

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  • 2018

    Vectorized candidate selection for parallel ant colony optimization

    Peake, J., Amos, M., Yiapanis, P. & Lloyd, H., 6 Jul 2018, GECCO '18 Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '18), July 15-19 2018, Kyoto, Japan: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion . Aquirre, H. (ed.). ACM, p. 1300-1306 7 p.

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    11 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2017

    Analysis of independent roulette selection in parallel ant colony optimization

    Lloyd, H. & Amos, M., 1 Jul 2017, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '17), July 15-19 2017, Berlin, Germany. ACM, p. 19-26 8 p.

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    17 Citations (Scopus)
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  • 2016

    A highly parallelized and vectorized implementation of Max-Min Ant System on Intel Xeon Phi

    Lloyd, H. & Amos, M., Dec 2016, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). IEEE

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    6 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2015

    DiSCUS: A simulation platform for conjugation computing

    Goni-Moreno, A. & Amos, M., 2015, Unconventional and Natural Computation (UCNC 2015). Springer, p. 181-191 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9252).

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    15 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2014

    Designing with gradients: bio-inspired computation for digital fabrication

    Richards, D. & Amos, M., 2014, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA 14: Design Agency). p. 101-110

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    8 Citations (Scopus)
  • Evolving morphologies with CPPN-NEAT and a dynamic substrate

    Richards, D. & Amos, M., Jul 2014, ALIFE 14: The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. The MIT Press, p. 255-262 8 p.

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    10 Citations (Scopus)
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  • 2013

    Fitness landscape-based characterisation of nature-inspired algorithms

    Crossley, M., Nisbet, A. & Amos, M., Dec 2013, Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms - 11th International Conference, ICANNGA 2013, Proceedings. Springer, p. 110-119 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7824 LNCS).

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    1 Citation (Scopus)
  • Quantifying the Impact of Parameter Tuning on Nature-Inspired Algorithms

    Crossley, M., Nisbet, A. & Amos, M., 2013, Advances in Artificial Life. Lio, P., Miglino, O., Nicosia, G., Nolfi, S. & Pavone, M. (eds.). The MIT Press, p. 925-932 8 p.

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  • 2012

    An evo-devo approach to architectural design

    Richards, D., Dunn, N. & Amos, M., 7 Jul 2012, GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. ACM, p. 569-576 8 p.

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    6 Citations (Scopus)
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  • 2011

    Parallelization strategies for Ant Colony Optimisation on GPUs

    Cecilia, J. M., García, J. M., Ujaldón, M., Nisbet, A. & Amos, M., 1 Sept 2011, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Workshops and PhD Forum, IPDPSW 2011. IEEE, p. 339-346 8 p. 6008849

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    39 Citations (Scopus)
  • SimZombie: A case-study in agent-based simulation construction

    Crossley, M. & Amos, M., 19 Jul 2011, Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - 5th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2011, Proceedings. O'Shea, J., Nguyen, N. T., Crockett, K., Howlett, R. J. & Jain, L. C. (eds.). Springer, p. 514-523 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6682 LNAI).

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    6 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2010

    Engineered Microbial Communication for Population-Level Behaviour

    Moreno, A. G. & Amos, M., 2010, Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. Fellermann, H., Dörr, M., Hanczyc, M., Laursen, L. L., Maurer, S., Merkle, D., Monnard, P.-A., Støy, K. & Rasmussen, S. (eds.). The MIT Press, p. 184-185 2 p.

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  • Genetic algorithms and the art of Zen

    Coldridge, J. & Amos, M., 29 Nov 2010, Proceedings 2010 IEEE 5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2010. IEEE, p. 1417-1423 7 p. 5645284

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    1 Citation (Scopus)
  • Prediction and mitigation of crush conditions in emergency evacuations

    Harding, P. J., Amos, M. & Gwynne, S., 12 Jan 2010, Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008. Klingsch, W. W. F., Rogsch, C., Schadschneider, A. & Schreckenberg, M. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 233-246 14 p.

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  • 2008

    An ant-based algorithm for annular sorting

    Amos, M. & Don, O., 7 Jan 2008, 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007. IEEE, p. 142-148 7 p.

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    5 Citations (Scopus)
  • A novel genetic algorithm for the Layout Optimization Problem

    Xu, Y. C., Xiao, R. B. & Amos, M., 7 Jan 2008, 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007. IEEE, p. 3938-3943 6 p.

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    28 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2007

    Particle swarm algorithm for weighted rectangle placement

    Xu, Y. C., Xiao, R. B. & Amos, M., 5 Nov 2007, Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007. IEEE, p. 728-732 5 p.

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    16 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2002

    Molecular implementation of computational components

    Owenson, G. G., Amos, M., Hodgson, D. A. & Gibbons, A., 6 Aug 2002, Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation-CEC99. IEEE, p. 967-971 5 p.

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    1 Citation (Scopus)
  • 1999

    Boolean Transitive Closure in DNA

    Dunne, P. E., Amos, M. & Gibbons, A., 18 Jan 1999, Computing With Biomolecules: Theory and Experiments. Paun, G. (ed.). Springer

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  • 1998

    DNA Simulation of Boolean Circuits

    Amos, M., Dunne, P. E. & Gibbons, A., 1 Jul 1998, Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference. Koza, J. R., Banzhaf, W., Chellapilla, K., Deb, K., Dorigo, M., Fogel, D. B., Garzon, M. H., Goldberg, D. E., Iba, H. & Riolo, R. (eds.). Morgan Kaufmann, p. 679-683 5 p.

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  • 1997

    Adaptation of evolutionary agents in computational ecologies

    Devine, P., Paton, R. & Amos, M., 1997, Proc. Bio-computing and Emergent Computation. Lundh, O. & N. (eds.). World Scientific, p. 66-75 10 p.

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  • The complexity and viability of DNA computations

    Amos, M., Gibbons, A. & Dunne, P. E., 1997, Biocomputing and Emergent Computation. Lundh, O. & N. (eds.). World Scientific, p. 165-173 9 p.

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  • 1996

    Error-resistant Implementation of DNA Computations

    Amos, M., Gibbons, A. & Hodgson, D., 1996, DNA based computers II. Landweber, L. F. & Baum, E. B. (eds.). American Mathematical Society, p. 151-162 12 p.

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  • Models of DNA computation

    Gibbons, A., Amos, M. & Hodgson, D., 1 Jan 1996, Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1996 - 21st International Symposium, MFCS 1996, Proceedings. Szalas, A. & Penczek, W. (eds.). Springer, p. 18-36 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 1113).

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    2 Citations (Scopus)
  • RNC algorithms for the uniform generation of combinatorial structures

    Zito, M., Pu, I., Amos, M. & Gibbons, A., 28 Jan 1996, Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 1996. ACM, Vol. Part F129447. p. 429-437 9 p.

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    4 Citations (Scopus)