Specialising in Biologically Inspired Artificial Intelligence Research with applications in the entertainment industries
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
Genetic Algorithms (GA)
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS)
Artificial Life (ALife)
Who’s Who at IntERACT
Professor Colin Fyfe is an active researcher in Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems and Artificial Life having written over 200 refereed papers, several book chapters and three books.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems and an Associate Editor of International Journal of Neural Systems. He currently supervises 6 PhD students and has acted as Director of Studies for 15 PhDs (all successful) since 1998. 9 former PhD students now hold academic posts including one other Professor and one Senior Lecturer. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the International Computer Science Conventions group and a Committee member of EUNITE - the European Network of Excellence on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems.
Prof. Fyfe has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Strathclyde, 1993-94, at the Riken Institute, Tokyo, 1998, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000, Rice University, 2001 and Visiting Professor at the University of Vigo, Spain, the University of Burgos, Spain, the University of Salamanca, Spain and the University of South Australia.
Dr. Daniel Livingstone currently lectures on, and is a year-leader for, the Computer Game Technology BSc degree program at the University of Paisley. His research interests are broad, with an Artificial Life-based PhD on modeling the evolution of language and a number of recent publications on a range of topics relating to computer games (primarily AI related). He currently holds a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the focus of which is on learning and adaptive AI for RTS games. He is a member of the BCS, the AAAI and of IGDA.
Dr. Stephen McGlinchey received the BSc (Hons) degree in Computing Science in 1996 and the PhD degree in 2000, both from the University of Paisley, where he now lectures on the BSc Computer Games Technology course. His research background in in self-organising neural networks, and his current interests are in applying neural methods to computer games; in particular computer opponents. He is also working on intelligent post-processing of motion-capture data using computational intelligence techniques.
Doctoral Studies and Reseach at IntERACT
IntERACT currently has just one
registered PhD student, looking at games applications of learning with
probabilistic generative models, but more studentships should be made available
over the next few months – and one is currently available on ANN and statistical
methods for processing of motion-capture data.
Recent Publications
Biologically Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games, book due in 2005
Dynamic strategy creation and selection using artificial immune systems, Fyfe, C. International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation, March 2004.
What Believability testing can tell us, Livingstone, D. and McGlinchey, S.J., CGAIDE, Reading, Nov. 8th-10th, 2004.
Intelligent Interfaces for Digital Games, Livingstone, D. and Charles, D., presented at Workshop on Challenges in Game AI at The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), San Jose, July 25th-29th, 2004.
Agent wars with artificial immune systems. G. Leen and C. Fyfe. In 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC2004, 2004.
An investigation of alternative planning algorithms: Genetic algorithms, artificial immune systems and ant colony optimisation. G. Leen and C. Fyfe. In Conference on Computer Games: Design, AI and Education, CGAIDE2004, 2004.
Collaborations and Contact Information
Researchers at IntERACT are working with other academics and industry professionals internationally on number of projects, including:
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Artem-Digital on automated motion-capture data processing
Prof. Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Tzai-Der Wang, Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan, on evolutionary approaches in game theory
Dr. Darryl Charles, University of Ulster, on Intelligent Interfaces and Neural Networks in Games
Contact:
Dr. Daniel Livingstone
School of Computing
University of Paisley,
High St.,
Paisley, UK
PA1 2BE
Tel: 0141 848 3893
Fax: 0141 848 3542
Email: daniel.livingstone@paisley.ac.uk
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