A Simple 3D-Only Evolutionary Bipedal System with Albatross Morphology for Increased Performance (2020)
Journal Article
Channon. (2020). A Simple 3D-Only Evolutionary Bipedal System with Albatross Morphology for Increased Performance. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 125-132. https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308500

Bipedal walking is a difficult behaviour to encode into an evolutionary neural network, particularly in three-dimensional environments. Agents must be constantly maintaining balance alongside their primary objectives. Here we re-implement a simple ev... Read More about A Simple 3D-Only Evolutionary Bipedal System with Albatross Morphology for Increased Performance.

A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation. https://doi.org/10.1145/3426425.3426929

Simulation is a key tool for researching complex system behaviour. Agent-based simulation has been applied across domains, such as biology, health, economics and urban sciences. However, engineering robust, efficient, maintainable, and reliable agent... Read More about A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation.

The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation and Global Social Media. (2020)
Book
(2020). The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation and Global Social Media

Assessing the usability of virtual learning environments in higher education (2020)
Thesis
Abuhlfaia, K. M. O. (2020). Assessing the usability of virtual learning environments in higher education. (Thesis). Keele University

Context: E-learning is an integral part of the modern higher education system, and therefore it is essential that students and staff are able to use systems that support E-learning, such as Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), effectively. Usability... Read More about Assessing the usability of virtual learning environments in higher education.

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 3: Simplified Data Exchange for Bioengineering (2020)
Journal Article
Grünberg, R., Bartley, B., Scott-Brown, J., Vaidyanathan, P., Fontanarrosa, P., Oberortner, E., …Misirli, G. (2020). The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 3: Simplified Data Exchange for Bioengineering. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.01009

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is a community-developed data standard that allows knowledge about biological designs to be captured using a machine-tractable, ontology-backed representation that is built using Semantic Web technologies. W... Read More about The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 3: Simplified Data Exchange for Bioengineering.

When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection. Artificial Life, 719-726. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00254

Generalized behavior is a long standing goal for evolutionary robotics. Behaviors for a given task should be robust to perturbation and capable of operating across a variety of environments. We have previously shown that Lexicase selection evolves hi... Read More about When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection.

A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings (2020)
Journal Article
Ortolani. (2020). A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2793-2807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01375-2

In recent years, the widespread diffusion of pervasive sensing devices and the increasing need for reducing energy consumption have encouraged research in the energy-aware management of smart environments. Following this direction, this paper propose... Read More about A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings.

Control and suppression of elastic waves using periodic metasurfaces and bridges (2020)
Thesis
Wootton, P. T. (2020). Control and suppression of elastic waves using periodic metasurfaces and bridges. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis discusses how wave propagation in continuous linearly elastic media can be controlled or suppressed using periodic structures. This involves controlling 2D waves on a membrane, 3D longitudinal and transverse waves in a linearly elastic bu... Read More about Control and suppression of elastic waves using periodic metasurfaces and bridges.

Evolving developmental, recurrent and convolutional neural networks for deliberate motion planning in sparse reward tasks (2020)
Thesis
Jolley, B. P. (2020). Evolving developmental, recurrent and convolutional neural networks for deliberate motion planning in sparse reward tasks. (Thesis). Keele University

Motion planning algorithms have seen a diverse set of approaches in a variety of disciplines. In the domain of artificial evolutionary systems, motion planning has been included in models to achieve sophisticated deliberate behaviours. These algorith... Read More about Evolving developmental, recurrent and convolutional neural networks for deliberate motion planning in sparse reward tasks.

Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation. Artificial Life, 307 - 313. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00320

In May 2019, a workshop on principled development of future agent-based simulations was held at Keele University. Participants spanned companies and academia, and a range of domains of interest, as well as participant career stages. This report summa... Read More about Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation.

Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction (2020)
Journal Article
Felici, M., Patané, A., Polimeni, A., Clark, J., Balakrishnan, N., Clark, J. N., …Pettinari, G. (2020). Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction. communications materials, 1, Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-0021-6

Coherent x-ray diffractive imaging is a nondestructive technique that extracts three-dimensional electron density and strain maps from materials with nanometer resolution. It has been utilized for materials in a range of applications, and has signifi... Read More about Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction.

A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane (2020)
Journal Article
Wootton, P. T., Prikazchikov, D., & Kaplunov, J. (2020). A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 85(1), 113 - 131. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxz037

We derive a second-order correction to an existing leading-order model for surface waves in linear elasticity. The same hyperbolic–elliptic equation form is obtained with a correction term added to the surface boundary condition. The validity of the... Read More about A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane.

Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space (2020)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, Kaplunov, & Fu. (2020). Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 20190590 - 20190590. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0590

Near-surface resonance phenomena often arise in semi-infinite solids. For instance, when a moving load with a speed v close to the surface wave speed vR is applied to the surface of an elastic half-space, it will give rise to a large-amplitude distur... Read More about Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space.