Bruce Edmonds' Home Page

Summary

I have tried to categorise these below.  For a more traditional list see my publications (most of which have on-line versions).

Socially Situated Intelligence

• Papers from the workshop on Socially Situated Intelligence (also includes some relevant links).
• A special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory on "Social Intelligence" published October 1999.
• Paper: Capturing Social Embeddedness: a Constructivist Approach
• Paper: Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents
• Paper: The Contribution of Society to the Construction of Individual Intelligence
• Paper: The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test)
• Paper: Towards Implementing Free Will
• Paper: Developing Agents Who Can Relate To Us - putting agents in our loop 
via situated self-creation
• Co-edited Book: Socially Intelligent Agents - creating relationships with computers and robots. Kluwer, 2002.
• Tutorial at SAB 2002:Socially Intelligent Agents
• Paper: The Social Embedding of Intelligence - Towards producing a machine that could pass the Turing Test
• Paper: Evolutionary Units and Adaptive Intelligence: Why a brain can not be produced by internal evolutionary processes (but could be composed of such)
• Paper: Implementing Free Will
  

Complexity

• Bibliography of Complexity Measures
• Some Complexity Related Links
• My Thesis: Syntactic Measures of Complexity
• Paper: What is Complexity? - the philosophy of complexity per se with application to some examples in evolution.
• Paper: Complexity and Scientific Modelling
• The Archives of PRNCYB-L list
• Paper: Simplicity is Not Truth-Indicative
• Edited Book: Philosophy and Complexity
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Memetics

• An academic e-journal: Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
• Paper: On Modelling in Memetics
• Discussion List (including web archive): memetics@mmu.ac.uk
• A special issue of JoM-EMIT on "Computational Memetics"
• Letter:  Three Challenges for the Survival of Memetics
• Retrospective: The revealed poverty of the gene-meme analogy – why memetics per se has failed to produce substantive results
  

Context

• A special issue of Foundations of Science on "Context in Context".
• Paper: A Simple Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects
• Paper: The Pragmatic Roots of Context
• Paper: What if AllTruth is Context Dependent?
• Paper: Learning Appropriate Contexts
• Paper: Learning and Exploiting Context in Agents
• Paper: Integrating Learning and Inference using Cognitive Context
• Paper: The Practical Modelling of Context-Dependent Causal Processes

Modelling - mostly Methodology and Philosophy

• Paper: Pragmatic Holism
• Paper: Validation and Verification of Computational Models with Multiple Agents
• Paper: Towards a Descriptive Model of Agent Strategy Search
• Paper: The Use of Models - making MABS actually work
• Paper: The Purpose and Place of Formal Systems in the Development of Science
• Paper: Towards an Ideal Social Simulation Language
• Paper: Computational Simulation as Theoretical Experiment
• Paper: Sociology and Simulation: - Statistical and Qualitative Cross-Validation
• Paper: How Formal Logic Can Fail to be Useful for Modelling or Designing MAS
• Paper: Simulation and Complexity - how they can relate
• Paper: Replication, Replication and Replication - Some Hard Lessons from Model Alignment
• Paper: Against: a priori theory  For: descriptively adequate computational modelling
• Workshop: Model-to-Model to explore the relation between Multi-Agent Based Simulation models
• A Special Issue: Model to Model
• A Special Issue: The Use of Logic in Agent-Based Social Simulation
• Paper: Simulation and Complexity - how they can relate
• Paper: From KISS to KIDS – an ‘anti-simplistic’ modelling approach
• Paper: Towards Good Social Science
• Paper: Against the inappropriate use of numerical representation in social simulation
• Paper: Assessing the Safety of (Numerical) Representation in Social Simulation
• Paper: The Nature of Noise
• Paper: Towards Good Social Science
• Paper: When Simple Measures Fail: Characterising Social Networks Using Simulation
• Paper: Open Access for Social Simulation

Social and Cognitive Modelling - mostly Tools, Applications and Techniques

• Paper: Modelling Learning as Modelling
• Paper: Modelling Bounded Rationality using Evolutionary Techniques
• Paper: Modeling R&D Strategy as a Network Search Problem
• Paper: SDML: A Multi-Agent Language for Organizational Modelling
• Paper: Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents
• Paper: The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals
• Paper: Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity
• Paper: Modelling Bounded Rationality In Agent-Based Simulations using the Evolution of Mental Models
• Paper: Capturing Social Embeddedness: a Constructivist Approach
• Paper: Mapping the Envelope of Social Simulation Trajectories
• Paper: Determining the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural Transformation
• Paper: Exploring the Value of Prediction in an Artificial Stock Market
• Paper: Integrating Domain Expertise With Aggregate Data Using Evolutionary Computation
• Report: Climate Change and the Demand for Water, Research Report, Stockholm Environment Institute Oxford Office
• Report: The Design And Use Of Integrated And Agent-Based Models For Freshwater Resource Management
• Paper: When and why does haggling occur? - Some lessons from a qualitative but computational simulation of negotiation
• Paper: How are physical and social spaces related? - cognitive agents as the necessary "glue"
• Edited Book: Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III
• A Special Issue: of SIMULATION on: The Application of Agent-based simulation to Social and organisational domains
• Paper: The Emergence of Symbiotic Groups Resulting From Skill-Differentiation and Tags
• Paper: Artificial Science – a simulation test-bed for studying the social processes of science
• Paper: Facilitating the Comparison of Social Simulations using E-science
• Paper: Towards a Descriptive Simulation of Russian Food Supply Chains
• Paper: To the Outer Limits and Beyond – characterising the envelope of sets of social simulation trajectories
• Paper: A Brief Survey of Some Results on Mechanisms and Emergent Outcomes
• Edited Book: Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries
• Paper: Towards the Emergence of Social Structure

Application of Social Processes to Multi-agent Systems

• Paper: The Power Law and Critical Density in Large Multi Agent Systems
• Paper: Social Embeddedness and Agent Development
• Papers from the AISB'2000 symposium on "Starting from Society" 19-20^th April, Birmingham
• A special issue of JASSS on "Starting from Society" and the special issue of JASSS that came out of this.
• Paper: Evolving Social Rationality using 'Tags'
• Paper: Can Tags Build Working Systems? - From MABS to ESOA
• Paper: The Insufficiency of Formal Design Methods - the necessity of an experimental approach for the understanding and control of complex MAS
• Paper: Using the Experimental Method to Produce Reliable Self-Organised Systems
• Article:  Sociologically Inspired Engineering
• Paper: Fashioning social simulations into engineering tools – the case of cooperation on P2P networks
• Paper (not online):  Georgé, J-P., Edmonds, B. and Glize, P. (2004) Making Self-Organizing Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems Work - Towards The Engineering Of Emergent Multi-Agent Systems.  In Bergenti, F.  Gleizes, M-P. and Zambonelli, F. (eds.) Methodologies And Software Engineering For Agent Systems, New York: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 321-340.
• Abstracts and Papers from the: day on "Engineering with Social Metaphors" from the AISB 2005 Symposium on Socially Inspired Computing
• Paper: Using Localised ‘Gossip’ to Structure Distributed Learning
• New Scientist Article: Online tribes banish selfish downloaders
• Paper: Integrating Learning and Inference using Cognitive Context
• Edited Book of Workshop Papers: Socially Inspired Computing
• Paper: Emergence in and Engineering of Complex MAS
• Paper: Achieving Consensus Among Agents - an opinion-dynamics model
• Paper: System Farming
  

Second Life

• I am currently looking into Second Life as a place for social research.  My inworld avatar is called "wata klata" so if you want to contact me inworld please do so.  You can sign up for Second Life at their website (its free).
• The CPM now has a location in second life, see:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hyperborea/108/166/22/
• A workshop on: Simulation and Second Life (in Second Life)
• Trying to do research on Noirms in SecondLife - NormWatch
  

Teaching (yes I do a little bit)

• MRes, Philosophy of Knowledge, etc
  

For fun

• Philosophical Ramblers Association
• AARDVARK

Poetry (see seperate page)

• Lost in Space - a hypertext poem
• 13 Short Poems of Limitation and Loss
• 14 Poems on Nature and Melancholy
• 12 Haiku
  

Irrelevant Links

• The Virtual Edmonds Project
• Tibet Support Groups
• the Journal of Mundane Behavior
• the Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning
• d^ream7
• nobody here

Contact Information

E-mail: (please use only this email address for contacting me)
Tel: (+44 161) 247 6479

Other academic information

• Director of the Centre for Policy Modelling
• A Senior Research Fellow (equivalent to a Reader)
  
• Scientific Chair of ESSA 2009
  
• A Research Associate of the Macaulay Institute
• On the editorial Boards of: Interaction Studies; Entropy; and the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
• A founding member of the European Social Simulation Association
• The director of studies for the following PhD students: Rodolfo De Sousa, Pablo de Anjos and Annabel Lathan
  
• A Supervisor for the following PhD students: Bogdan Werth and Shah Alam
• Past PhD students include: Luis Izquierdo, Richard Taylor, Olivier Barthelemy and Oswaldo Terán.
  
• The Principal investigator for the MMU part of the EMIL and  NANIA projects (an EPSRC Novel Computation project)
  
• A co-investigator on the CAVES, and NEWATER projects (EU 6FP projects)
• A member/node of the following EU networks of excellence: AgentLink III, ONCE-CS, GIACS and EXYSTENCE
• A member of the European Complex Systems Society