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Last updated: 
11 November 1999 
Tim Taylor 

N.B. Many of the following papers may be viewed online and/or downloaded from here, where you can also find a more up-to-date version of my publication list. (TJT, 28 Jan 01)

Refereed Conference Papers

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).

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 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. 

Theses, Dissertations and Project Reports

TJ Taylor 1999. "From Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life". PhD thesis, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

TJ Taylor 1993 "Learning to Coordinate Behaviours on a Four-Legged Robot", MSc Project Report. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.  

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). 

Departmental Publications

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. "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)

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.