Tim Taylor's publications
Submitted
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Tim Taylor.
"What Am I For? Self-Purpose and Self-Reproduction in Rossum's Universal Robots".
In Jitka Cejkova (ed.), ROBOT 100, 2020. (submitted)
In Press
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Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin.
"Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve",
Springer, 2020. (expected publication in April/May 2020)
N.B. The first draft
of the book had the working title "The Spectre of Self-Reproducing Machines: An Early History of Evolving Robots"
2019
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Tim Taylor.
"Evolutionary Innovations and Where to Find Them: Routes to Open-Ended Evolution in Natural and Artificial Systems".
Artificial Life vol 25(2), 2019 (pp. 207-224). doi:10.1162/artl_a_00290
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Norman Packard, Mark Bedau, Alastair Channon, Takashi Ikegami, Steen Rasmussen, Kenneth Stanley and Tim Taylor.
"An Overview of Open-Ended Evolution: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution II Special Issue"
Artificial Life vol 25(2), 2019 (pp. 93-103). doi:10.1162/artl_a_00291
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Norman Packard, Mark Bedau, Alastair Channon, Takashi Ikegami, Steen Rasmussen, Kenneth Stanley and Tim Taylor.
"Open-Ended Evolution and Open-Endedness: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution I Special Issue"
Artificial Life vol 25(1), 2019 (pp. 1-3). doi:10.1162/artl_e_00282
2018
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Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin.
"Past Visions of Artificial Futures: One Hundred and Fifty Years under the Spectre of Evolving Machines".
The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, 2018 (pp. 91-98). doi:10.1162/isal_a_00022
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Alan Dorin, Adrian Dyer, Tim Taylor and Zoë Bukovac
"Simulation-Governed Design and Tuning of Greenhouses for Successful Bee Pollination".
The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, 2018 (pp. 171-178). doi:10.1162/isal_a_00038
2016
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Tim Taylor, Joshua E. Auerbach, Josh Bongard, Jeff Clune, Simon Hickinbotham,
Charles Ofria, Mizuki Oka, Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley and Jason Yosinski.
"WebAL Comes of Age: A review of the first 21 years of Artificial Life on the Web".
Artificial Life vol 22(3) pp. 364-407 (2016). doi:10.1162/ARTL_a_00211
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Tim Taylor, Mark Bedau, Alastair Channon,
David Ackley, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Guillaume Beslon, Emily Dolson, Tom Froese,
Simon Hickinbotham, Takashi Ikegami, Barry McMullin, Norman Packard, Steen Rasmussen,
Nathaniel Virgo, Eran Agmon, Edward Clark, Simon McGregor, Charles Ofria, Glen Ropella,
Lee Spector, Kenneth O. Stanley, Adam Stanton, Christopher Timperley, Anya Vostinar and
Michael Wiser.
"Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York".
Artificial Life vol 22(3) pp. 408-423 (2016). doi:10.1162/ARTL_a_00210
2015
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Paul Andrews, Leo Caves, René Doursat, Simon Hickinbotham, Fiona Polack, Susan Stepney, Tim Taylor and Jon Timmis (editors). "Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015". MIT Press. 2015.
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Tim Taylor, Alan Dorin and Kevin Korb. "Omnigram Explorer: A Simple Interactive Tool for the Initial Exploration of Complex Systems". In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, MIT Press, 2015 (pp. 381-388).
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Tim Taylor. "Requirements for Open-Ended Evolution in Natural and Artificial Systems". Presented at the EvoEvo Workshop at the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015 (ECAL 2015). arXiv:1507.07403 [cs.NE]
2014
- Tim Taylor, Josh Auerbach, Josh Bongard, Jeff Clune, Simon Hickinbotham, Greg Hornby (eds.). "WebAL-1: Workshop on Artificial Life and the Web 2014 Proceedings". New York, 31 July 2014. arXiv:1406.2507 [cs.NE]
- Tim Taylor, Alan Dorin and Kevin Korb. "Digital Genesis: Computers, Evolution and Artificial Life". Presented at the 7th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Philosophy of Science Conference: Evolutionary Thinking, University of Sydney, 20-22 March 2014. arXiv:1512.02100 [cs.NE]
- Tim Taylor. "Evolution in Virtual Worlds". Chapter 32 in
M. Grimshaw (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality,
Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 526-548. (ISBN 9780199826162)
2012
2010
- Jean Carletta, Robin Hill, Craig Nicol, Tim Taylor, Jan Peter de
Ruiter and Ellen Gurman Bard. "Eyetracking for two-person tasks
with manipulation of a virtual world". Behavior Research
Methods vol. 42(1) pp. 254-265. (2010)
2009
- Tim Taylor. "A Creative Dance: Symbols, Action and the
Bringing Forth of Meaning", In Computational Creativity: An
Interdisciplinary Approach, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09291, M.
Boden, M. D'Inverno and J. McCormack (eds.), Schloss Dagstuhl -
Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany, 2009. ISSN 1862-4405.
2007
- Tim Taylor, Peter Ottery and John Hallam. "An
approach to time- and space-differentiated pattern formation in
multi-robot systems". In Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
(TAROS 2007), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 3-5 September 2007,
M. Wilson et al (eds), pp 160-167, ISBN 0 903878 26 7.
- Tim Taylor, Peter Ottery and John Hallam. "Pattern
formation for multi-robot applications: Robust, self-repairing systems
inspired by genetic regulatory networks and cellular self-organisation".
2005
2004
- Tim Taylor. "Niche Construction and the
Evolution of Complexity". In Artificial
Life IX (Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the
Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems), J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P.
Husbands, T. Ikegami and R. Watson (eds.), MIT Press, 2004 (pp.
375-380).
- Tim Taylor. "Redrawing the Boundary
between Organism and Environment". In Artificial Life IX (Proceedings of
the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of
Living Systems), J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami and R.
Watson (eds.), MIT Press, 2004 (pp. 268-273).
- Tim Taylor. "A
Genetic Regulatory Network-Inspired Real-Time Controller for a Group of
Underwater Robots". In Intelligent Autonomous
Systems 8 (Proceedings of IAS8),
F. Groen, N. Amato, A. Bonarini, E. Yoshida and B. Kröse
(eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004 (pp. 403-412).
2003
- Tim Taylor. "Evolving Interaction in Artificial
Systems: An historical overview and future directions".
Presented at the Evolvability
and Interaction Symposium, Queen Mary, University of London,
UK, October 2003. Abstract appears in University of Hertfordshire
Computer Science Technical Report No. 393 (edited by P. McOwan, K.
Dautenhahn and C.L. Nehaniv).
- Tim Taylor. "Sensor Evolution in Artificial Systems: Towards
a more appropriate model of the relationship between organism and
environment". Presented at the Evolvability
and Sensor Evolution Symposium, University of Birmingham, UK, April
2003. Abstract appears in University of Hertfordshire Computer Science
Technical Report No. 384 (edited by J. Miller, D. Polani and C.L.
Nehaniv).
2002
- Tim Taylor. "An Alternative Approach to the
Synthesis of Life". Poster presented at the 8th International
Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE 8),
Sydney, Australia, December 2002.
- Tim Taylor. "The
Control of Dynamical Systems by Evolved Constraints: A New Perspective
on Modelling Life". Informatics Research Report
EDI-INF-RR-0148, University of Edinburgh.
- Elizaveta Pachepsky, Tim Taylor and Stephen Jones. "Mutualism
promotes diversity and stability in a simple artificial ecosystem" Artificial
Life vol. 8(1) pp. 5-24. (2002)
- Mark Norman and Tim Taylor. "Application of
Physics Engines in Virtual Worlds". Visualization and Data
Analysis 2002, R. F. Erbacher, P. C. Chen,
M. Groehn, J. C. Roberts and C. M. Wittenbrink (eds.), Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4665, pp. 91-98. (2002). Society of
Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (ISBN 0-8194-4405-7).
2001
- Elizaveta Pachepsky and Tim Taylor. "Diversity
through Interaction". Poster presentation at the
International Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, July
16-19, 2001, University of Hawaii.
- Stephen Monsell, Tim J Taylor and Karen Murphy. "Naming
the color of a word: Is it responses or task sets that compete?" Memory
and Cognition vol. 29(1) pp. 137-151. (2001)
- Tim Taylor. "Christoph Adami, Introduction to
Artificial Life (Book Review)" Artificial
Intelligence vol. 130(1) pp.119-121. (2001)
- Tim Taylor and Colm Massey. "Recent Developments
in the Evolution of Morphologies and Controllers for Physically
Simulated Creatures". Artificial Life
vol. 7(1). pp. 77-87. (2001)
- Barry McMullin, Tim Taylor and Axel von Kamp. "Who
Needs Genomes?". Invited paper presented at the Atlantic
Symposium on Computational Biology, Genome Information Systems
& Technology (CBGI), March 2001, Duke University, USA.
- Tim Taylor. "Creativity in Evolution:
Individuals, Interactions and Environments" Chapter 1 in
Peter J Bentley and David W Corne (eds.) Creative
Evolutionary Systems, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001. (ISBN 1-55860-673-4)
2000
- Tim Taylor. "Artificial Life Techniques for
Generating Controllers for Physically Modelled Characters".
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Games
and Simulation (GAME-ON 2000), Q. Mehdi and N. Gough (eds.), The
Society for Computer Simulation International (ISBN 1-56555-210-5).
- Tim Taylor. "Some Representational and
Ecological Aspects of Evolvability".
Proceedings
of the Evolvability Workshop at the Seventh International
Conference on
Artificial Life (ALIFE VII), Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2000, C.
L. Nehaniv (ed.), pp. 41-44,
1999
- Tim Taylor. "On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability". Proceedings
of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), D. Floreano,
J.-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1999. (© Springer-Verlag)
- Tim Taylor. "Creativity in Evolution: Individuals,
Interactions and Environments". Proceedings of the AISB'99
Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems, P. Bentley and D.
Corne (eds.), The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and
Simulation of Behaviour, 1999. (ISBN 1 902956 03 6)
- T.J. Taylor 1999. "From
Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life". PhD thesis,
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
- View abstract, download thesis, or view HTML version
from here
1998
- Tim Taylor and John Hallam. "Replaying
the Tape: An Investigation into the Role of Contingency in Evolution".
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial
Life (Artificial Life VI),
C. Adami, R. Belew, H. Kitano, and C. Taylor (eds.), MIT Press, MA,
1998.
- Tim Taylor. "Using Bottom-Up Models to Investigate the
Evolution of Life: Steps Towards an Improved Methodology". May
1998. Presented at "The
Right Stuff" Workshop during the Sixth International Conference on
Artificial Life (ALIFE VI).
Also available in University of Hertfordshire Computer Science
Technical Report No.315.
- Tim Taylor. "Nidus Design Document".
Departmental Working Paper No.269. Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, June 1998.
1997
- Tim Taylor and John Hallam. "Studying
Evolution with Self-Replicating Computer Programs". Proceedings
of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL97), Phil Husbands
and Inman Harvey (eds.), MIT Press/Bradford Books, MA, 1997.
- Tim Taylor. "The COSMOS Artificial Life System". Technical
report and guide to COSMOS. Departmental Working Paper No.263.
Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, October
1997. (Version 2.0: May 1999)
1996
- TJ Taylor 1996 "PhD Proposal: A Study of
Evolution in Self-Replicating Parallel Computer Programs"
Departmental Discussion Paper No.169, Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, June 1996.
- TJ Taylor 1996 "The COSMOS Environment and
REPLiCa Programming Language" Departmental Working Paper
No.259, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh,
June 1996.
- TJ Taylor 1996 "On the Incorporation of a
Developmental Process in a System of Self-Replicating Programs"
Departmental Working Paper No.258, Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, January 1996.
1993
- TJ Taylor 1993 "Learning to Coordinate Behaviours
on a Four-Legged Robot", MSc Project Report. Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.
1992
- TJ Taylor 1992 "The Effect of Lexicality and Word
Frequency on Stroop Interference", Project report submitted
for the Part II examination in Experimental Psychology, University of
Cambridge, UK. Results of the work were presented to the Experimental
Psychology Society by my supervisor, Dr Stephen Monsell, at a meeting
in Cambridge in 1992.
- TJ Taylor 1992 "Twin Studies of Homosexuality",
Dissertation submitted for the Part II examination in Experimental
Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK. Abstract published
in the Directory of Lesbian and Gay Studies (London).
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