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Impact of baggage collection behaviour on aircraft evacuation
Dan Hodgson, Christian Tonge, Martyn Amos
Recent reports of emergency aircraft evacuations have highlighted an increasing tendency amongst evacuees to ignore clear safety warnings and to collect and carry personal items of…
A Turing Test for Crowds
Jamie Webster, Martyn Amos
The realism and believability of crowd simulations underpins computational studies of human collective behaviour, with implications for urban design, policing, security and many ot…
Solving Sudoku with Ant Colony Optimisation
Huw Lloyd, Martyn Amos
In this paper we present a new Ant Colony Optimisation-based algorithm for Sudoku, which out-performs existing methods on large instances. Our method includes a novel anti-stagnati…
Quantifying the Impact of Parameter Tuning on Nature-Inspired Algorithms
Matthew Crossley, Andy Nisbet, Martyn Amos
The problem of parameterization is often central to the effective deployment of nature-inspired algorithms. However, finding the optimal set of parameter values for a combination o…
NanoInfoBio: A case-study in interdisciplinary research
Naomi Jacobs, Martyn Amos
A significant amount of high-impact contemporary scientific research occurs where biology, computer science, engineering and chemistry converge. Although programmes have been put i…
Discrete modelling of bacterial conjugation dynamics
Angel Goni-Moreno, Martyn Amos
In bacterial populations, cells are able to cooperate in order to yield complex collective functionalities. Interest in population-level cellular behaviour is increasing, due to bo…