Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots. IET Software, 502-513. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0125

Teaching programming to novices is a difficult task due to the complex nature of the subject, the negative stereotypes are associated with programming and because introductory programming courses often fail to encourage student understanding.
This s... Read More about Systematic Literature Review: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots.

A biologically inspired model of the head direction system of rats implemented on a robot (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2011, December). A biologically inspired model of the head direction system of rats implemented on a robot. Presented at ERLARS 2011 - 4th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, Berlin

Theory and practice of optimal mutation rate control in hamming spaces of DNA sequences (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Channon. (2011, August). Theory and practice of optimal mutation rate control in hamming spaces of DNA sequences. Presented at European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris

Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size (2011)
Book Chapter
Channon. (2011). Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size. In ECAL 2011 (117 -124)

Populations of individuals exist in a wide range of sizes, from billions of microorganisms to fewer than ten individuals in some critically endangered species. In any evolutionary system, there is significant evolutionary pressure to evolve sequences... Read More about Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size.

Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission (2011)
Book Chapter
Channon. (2011). Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission. In ECAL 2011 (101 -108). https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-29714-1

In this work the question of whether the introduction of both transcription errors and cultural transmission, in the form of learning by imitation, can enable the evolution of behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution alone is assessed... Read More about Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission.

Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study. Information and Software Technology, 638 -651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2010.12.011

Context
We are strong advocates of evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) in general and systematic literature reviews (SLRs) in particular. We believe it is essential that the SLR methodology is used constructively to support software engineeri... Read More about Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study.

Quantifying novelty in the archaeological record (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Quantifying novelty in the archaeological record. https://doi.org/10.4207/PA.2011.ART50

This paper describes two methods for quantification of novelty, which are not well known in archaeology. These extend the methodological toolkit available to researchers into culture and innovation. The methods are:

- Inverse frequency weighting.... Read More about Quantifying novelty in the archaeological record.