PETER FINE

DPhil Student, University of Sussex

Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, BN1 9QH, Brighton, UK   Click here for a map.   p.a.fine (at) sussex.ac.uk

 I am a DPhil (PHd) student (since Jan '06), working under Ezequiel Di Paolo, in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR). I will be studying spatial factors in neural network development, as part of the Spatially Embedded Complex Systems Engineering (SECSE) project.

Many types of network exist within a physical space, but this is often neglected by researchers. By including spatial factors in our simulations, a network's topology and dynamics are restricted in ways which may be of importance to their evolvability and behaviour. My research aims to understand some of these effects, with particular regard to neural networks.

PUBLICATIONS

Fine

Buckley, C. L., Fine, P.A., Bullock, S. and Di Paolo, E. A., (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.

Fine, P. A., Di Paolo, E., and Izquierdo, E., (2007). Adapting to your body. To appear in the Ninth Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life. Springer-Verlag.

Fine, P. A., and Di Paolo, E. A., Philippides, A. O., (2006). Spatially Constrained Networks and the Evolution of Modular Control Systems. From Animats to Animals 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06) 25 - 29 September 2006, CNR, Roma, Italy. Published by Springer.

MISC.

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