Prof Seth Bullock: Publications

Article

Bullock, S., Ladley, D. and Kerby, M. (2012) Wasps, termites and waspmites: Distinguishing competence from performance in collective construction. Artificial Life . (In Press)

Barnett, L., Buckley, C. L. and Bullock, S. (2011) Neural complexity: A graph theoretic interpretation. Physical Review E, 83 (4). 041906.

Bullock, S. (2011) An evolutionary advantage for extravagant honesty. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 292 . 30-38, doi:10.1016/ j.jtbi.2011.09.024.

Bryden, J., Funk, S., Geard, N., Bullock, S. and Jansen, V. (2010) Stability in flux: Community structure in dynamic networks. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (10.109).

Buckley, C. L. and Bullock, S. (2010) Spatially embedded dynamics and complexity. Complexity . (In Press)

Bullock, S., Barnett, L. and Di Paolo, E. A. (2010) Spatial embedding and the structure of complex networks. Complexity . (In Press)

Bullock, S. and Geard, N. (2010) Spatial embedding as an enabling constraint: Introduction to a special issue of Complexity on the topic of “Spatial Organisation”. Complexity . (In Press)

Geard, N., Bullock, S., Lohaus, R., Azevedo, R. B. R. and Wiles, J. (2010) Developmental motifs reveal complex structure in cell lineages. Complexity . (In Press)

Geard, N. and Bullock, S. (2010) Competition and the dynamics of group affiliation. Advances in Complex Systems, 13 (4). pp. 501-517.

Barnett, L., Buckley, C. L. and Bullock, S. (2009) Neural complexity and structural connectivity. Physical Review E, 79 (051914).

Bullock, S. (2009) In defence of the abstracted animat. Adaptive Behavior, 17 (4). pp. 303-305.

Bullock, S. and Buckley, C. L. (2009) Embracing the tyranny of distance: Space as an enabling constraint. Technoetic Arts, 7 (2). pp. 141-152.

Buckley, C. L. and Bullock, S. (2008) Sensitivity and stability: A signal propagation sweet spot in a sheet of recurrent centre crossing neurons. Biosystems, 94 (1-2). pp. 2-9.

Bullock, S. (2008) Do roboticists dream of intelligent sheep? A book review of David McFarland's "Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds". Times Higher Education Supplement .

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2008) The Strategic Exploitation of Limited Information and Opportunity in Networked Markets. Computational Economics, 32 (3). pp. 295-315.

Barnett, L., Di Paolo, E. and Bullock, S. (2007) Spatially embedded random networks. Physical Review E, 76 (5).

Clark, B. and Bullock, S. (2007) Shedding light on plant competition: Modelling the influence of plant morphology on light capture (and vice versa). Journal of Theoretical Biology, 244 (2). pp. 208-217.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2007) Integrating Segregated Markets. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 3 (1).

Bullock, S. and Bedau, M. (2006) Exploring adaptation with evolutionary activity plots. Artificial Life, 12 (2). pp. 193-197.

Bullock, S., Smith, T. and Bird, J. (2006) Picture this: The state of the art in visualization for complex adaptive systems. Artificial Life, 12 (2). pp. 189-192.

Quayle, A. and Bullock, S. (2006) Modelling the evolution of genetic regulatory networks. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 238 (4). pp. 737-753.

Cole, J., College, M., Megaw, T., Powis, M., Bullock, S. and Keen, J. (2005) The implementation of electronic services: planned or organic growth? Informatics in Primary Care, 13 (3). pp. 187-194.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2005) The role of logistic constraints on termite construction of chambers and tunnels. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 234 . pp. 551-564.

Bullock, S. (2004) Commentary: Making room for representation. Adaptive Behavior, 11 (4). pp. 279-280.

Cartlidge, J. and Bullock, S. (2004) Combating coevolutionary disengagement by reducing parasite virulence. Evolutionary Computation, 12 (2). pp. 193-222.

Cartlidge, J. and Bullock, S. (2004) Unpicking tartan CIAO plots: Understanding non-periodic coevolutionary cycling. Adaptive Behavior, 12 (2). pp. 69-92.

Wheeler, M., Bullock, S., Di Paolo, E., Noble, J., Bedau, M., Husbands, P., Kirby, S. and Seth, A. (2002) The view from elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife modelling. Artificial Life, 8 (1). pp. 87-100.

Bullock, S. and Noble, J. (2000) Commentary: Evolutionary simulation modelling clarifies interactions between parallel adaptive processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (1). pp. 150-151.

Di Paolo, E. A., Bullock, S. and Noble, J. (2000) Artificial life: Discipline or method? Report on a debate held at ECAL99. Artificial Life, 6 (2). pp. 145-148.

Bullock, S. (1999) The child in time: A book review of Denise Cummins and Colin Allen's "The Evolution of Mind". Trends in Cognitive Science, 3 (9). p. 361.

Bullock, S. (1999) Jumping to bold conclusions: A book review of Amotz and Avishag Zahavi's "The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle". Adaptive Behavior, 7 (1). pp. 129-134.

Bullock, S. and Todd, P. M. (1999) Made to measure: Ecological rationality in structured environments. Minds and Machines, 9 (4). pp. 497-541.

Davis, J. N., Todd, P. M. and Bullock, S. (1999) Environmental quality predicts parental provisioning decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 266 . pp. 1791-1797.

Bullock, S. (1998) Commentary. The emptiness of the self-contained coder. Connexions, 3 . pp. 7-9.

Bullock, S. and Cliff, D. (1997) The role of 'hidden preferences' in the artificial co-evolution of symmetrical signals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 264 . pp. 505-511.

Cliff, D. and Bullock, S. (1993) Adding "foveal vision" to Wilson's animat. Adaptive Behavior, 2 (1). pp. 49-72.

Conference or Workshop Item

Bartlett, S. and Bullock, S. (2011) Coming Phase to Phase with Surfactants. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 8-12/8/11, Paris, France. pp. 70-77.

Zedan, C., Bullock, S. and Ianni, A. (2011) Spatial Mobility in the Formation of Agent-Based Economic Networks. In: 17th Annual Conference on Computers in Economics and Finance, San Francisco.

Zu Erbach-Schoenberg, E., McCabe, C. and Bullock, S. (2011) On the interaction of adaptive timescales on networks. In: ECAL 2011, 8-12 August 2011, Paris.

Bartlett, S., Attard, G. and Bullock, S. (2010) Challenging the robustness of simulated protocells (Abstract). In: Artificial Life XII: Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 19-23 August, 2010, Odense, Denmark. (In Press)

Bullock, S. and Kerby, M. (2010) Multi-modal swarm construction (Abstract). In: Artificial Life XII: Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 19-23 August, 2010, Odense, Denmark. (In Press)

Geard, N., Bryden, J., Funk, S., Jansen, V. and Bullock, S. (2010) Stability in flux: group dynamics in evolving networks (Abstract). In: Artificial Life XII: 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 19-23 August, 2010, Odense, Denmark.

Geard, N. and Bullock, S. (2009) Homophily and competition: a model of group affiliation. In: The Sixth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, 14-18 September, 2009, Guildford, UK.

Jacyno, M., Bullock, S., Luck, M. and Payne, T. R. (2009) Emergent Service Provisioning and Demand Estimation through Self-Organizing Agent Communities. In: The Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (In Press)

Buckley, C. L. and Bullock, S. (2008) Sensitivity and stability: A signal propagation sweet spot in a sheet of recurrent centre crossing neurons. In: the Seventh International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, 29th - 31st August 2007, Jesus College, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Bullock, S. and Silverman, E. (2008) Levins and the legitimacy of artificial worlds. In: Third Workshop on Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, October 2-3, Lisbon, Portugal. (Unpublished)

Geard, N. L. and Bullock, S. (2008) Social movement recruitment and networks: a computational model (Abstract). In: The Fifth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, 1-5 September, 2008, Brescia, Italy.

Jacyno, M., Bullock, S., Payne, T. and Luck, M. (2008) Global Order From a Minimal Local Resource Allocation Strategy. In: Communications of SIWN, 2008, Glasgow, UK.

Jacyno, M., Bullock, S., Payne, T. R., Geard, N. and Luck, M. (2008) Autonomic resource management through self-organising agent communities. In: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, October 20-24, 2008, Venice, Italy.

Geard, N. L. and Bullock, S. (2007) Milieu and function: toward a multilayer framework for understanding social networks. In: the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life; Workshop: The Emergence of Social Behaviour, Lisbon, Portugal.

Jacyno, M., Bullock, S., Luck, M. and Payne, T. (2007) Understanding decentralised control of resource allocation in a minimal multi-agent system. In: the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, 2007, Hawaii, USA.

Bullock, S. (2006) The fallacy of general purpose bio-inspired computing. In: Tenth International Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 540-545.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2006) The effects of market structure on a heterogeneous evolving population of traders. In: Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN’06); Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents And Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), May 8-12, 2006, Future University, Hakodate, JAPAN.

Buckley, C., Bullock, S. and Cohen, N. (2005) Timescale and stability in adaptive behaviour. In: the Eighth European Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 292-301.

Buckley, C., Bullock, S. and Cohen, N. (2004) Toward a dynamical systems analysis of neuromodulation. In: the Eighth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. pp. 334-343.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2004) Logistic constraints on 3D termite construction. In: the Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony. pp. 178-189.

Silverman, E. and Bullock, S. (2004) Empiricism in artificial life. In: the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 534-539.

Cartlidge, J. and Bullock, S. (2003) Caring versus sharing: How to maintain engagement and diversity in coevolving populations. In: the Seventh European Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 299-308.

Bullock, S. (2002) Will selection for mutational robustness significantly retard evolutionary innovation on neutral networks? In: the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 192-201.

Bullock, S., Cartlidge, J. and Thompson, M. (2002) Prospects for computational steering of evolutionary computation. In: the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life; Workshop: Beyond Fitness - Visualizing Evolution. pp. 131-137.

Cartlidge, J. and Bullock, S. (2002) Learning lessons from the common cold: How reducing parasite virulence improves coevolutionary optimization. In: the Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp. 1420-1425.

Clark, B. and Bullock, S. (2002) Disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology. In: the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. pp. 355-356.

Harris, D. and Bullock, S. (2002) Enhancing game theory with coevolutionary simulation models of honest signalling. In: the Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp. 1594-1599.

Smith, T., Bullock, S. and Bird, J. (2002) Workshop overview. In: the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life; Workshop - Beyond Fitness: Visualising Evolution. pp. 99-102.

Bullock, S. (2001) Smooth operator? Understanding and visualising mutation bias. In: the Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 602-612.

Bullock, S. (2000) Something to talk about: Conflict and coincidence of interest in the evolution of shared meaning. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Evolution of Language, April 3rd-6th , 2000, Paris. (Unpublished)

Bullock, S. (2000) What can we learn from the first evolutionary simulation model? In: the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 477-486.

Bullock, S. (1999) Are artificial mutation biases unnatural? In: Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 64-73.

Bullock, S., Davis, J. N. and Todd, P. (1999) Simplicity rules the roost: Exploring birdbrain parental investment heuristics. In: Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 13-17.

Bullock, S. (1998) A continuous evolutionary simulation model of the attainability of honest signalling equilibria. In: the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 339-348.

Bullock, S. (1997) An exploration of signalling behaviour by both analytic and simulation means for both discrete and continuous models. In: the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life. pp. 454-463.

Bullock, S. (1995) Dynamic fitness landscapes. In: the Seventh White House Papers.

Cliff, D. and Bullock, S. (1993) Adding 'foveal vision' to Wilson's animat. In: the Second European Conference on Artificial Life (Preprint). pp. 205-214.

Book

Bullock, S., Noble, J., Watson, R. and Bedau, M. (2008) Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2

Book Section

Bullock, S. (2010) Living Technology. In: Living Technology: 5 Questions, pp. 45-54, Automatic Press/VIP.

Watson, R., Mills, R., Buckley, C. L., Penn, A., Davies, A., Noble, J. and Bullock, S. (2010) Adaptation without natural selection. In: Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, pp. 80-81, MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-29075-3

Bullock, S. (2009) Can the map be the territory? Visualization and realisation in artificial life. (Abstract). In: Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life, ?-?, Springer, Berlin.

Hebbron, T., Noble, J. and Bullock, S. (2009) All in the same boat: A “situated” model of emergent immune response. In: Advances in Artificial Life: Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL '09), Springer. (In Press)

Buckley, C. L., Fine, P., Bullock, S. and Di Paolo, E. (2008) Monostable controllers for adaptive behavior. In: From Animals to Animats 10: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 103-112, Springer.

Bullock, S. (2008) Charles Babbage and the emergence of automated reason. In: The Mechanical Mind in History, pp. 19-39, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Geard, N. L. and Bullock, S. (2008) Group formation and social evolution: a computational model. In: Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 197-203, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2

Hebbron, T., Bullock, S. and Cliff, D. (2008) NKalpha: Non-uniform epistatic interactions in an extended NK model. In: Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 234-241, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Jacyno, M. and Bullock, S. (2008) Energy, Entropy and Work in Computational Ecosystems: A Thermodynamic Account. In: Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 274-281, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2008) The effects of local information and trading opportunities in a network constrained economy (abstract). In: Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, p. 781, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Buckley, C. L. and Bullock, S. (2007) Spatial Embedding and Complexity: The Small-World is Not Enough. In: Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 986-995, Springer, Berlin.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2007) The effects of market structure on a heterogeneous evolving population of traders. In: Emergent Intelligence of Networked Agents, pp. 83-97, Springer, Berlin.

Bullock, S. (2006) Cross-fertilisation at the computing/biology interface: The invention of an algorithmic biology. In: Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed The Way We Think, pp. 116-124, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Ladley, D. and Bullock, S. (2005) Who to listen to: Exploiting information quality in a ZIP-agent Market. In: Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms, pp. 200-211, Springer, Berlin.

Noble, J., Di Paolo, E. A. and Bullock, S. (2001) Adaptive factors in the evolution of signalling systems. In: Simulating the Evolution of Language, pp. 53-78, Springer, Heidelberg.

Di Paolo, E. A., Noble, J. and Bullock, S. (2000) Simulation models as opaque thought experiments. In: Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 497-506, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Goodie, A. S., Ortmann, A., Davis, J., Bullock, S. and Werner, G. M. (1999) Demons versus heuristics in artificial intelligence, behavioral ecology, and economics. In: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, pp. 327-355, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Technical Report

Bullock, S. (2011) Prospects for large-scale financial systems simulation. Technical Report DR 14, The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets - Foresight Driver Review, Government Office for Science.

Bullock, S. and Cliff, D. (2004) Complexity and emergent behaviour in ICT systems. Technical Report HP-2004-187, Semantic & Adaptive Systems, Hewlett-Packard Labs. (Unpublished)

Bullock, S. and Cliff, D. (1996) Modelling biases and biasing models: The role of 'hidden preferences' in the artificial co-evolution of symmetrical signals. Technical Report (Cognitive Science Research Paper) 414, School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, UK.

Bullock, S. (1995) Co-evolutionary design: Implications for evolutionary robotics. Technical Report (Cognitive Science Research Paper) 384, School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex. (Unpublished)

Cliff, D. and Bullock, S. (1992) Adding 'foveal vision' to Wilson's animat. Technical Report (Cognitive Science Research Paper) 263, School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, UK. (Unpublished)

Thesis

Bullock, S. (1997) Evolutionary Simulation Models: On Their Character, and Application to Problems Concerning the Evolution of Natural Signalling Systems. PhD thesis, University of Sussex, UK.