Prof. Emma Hart
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Professor of Emergent Computing School of Computing Email: e.hart AT napier.ac.uk |
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I am the Director of the Centre of Emergent Computing at Napier University.
My official School Home Page is here. Links to current teaching and student projects can be found on this page. |
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NEWS! ***The Centre for Emergent Computing has a PhD studentship available to start on 01/03/10, applications to be made by 18/01/10. Please see here for more details *** |
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ICARIS 2010 and
PerAda announce a Workshop on Novel
Applications of Bio-Inspired Computing to Pervasive Adaptation. See here for CFP and details. |
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I am chairing the 9th
International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2010, which will be held in Edinburgh
from 26-29th July. CFP now
available from the website. Update: Keynote speakers now announced! |
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Research
Interests
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My interests are in Artificial Immune Systems, particularly in the area of modelling of immunological networks. I am interested in the way in which the topology of a biological network ultimately influences the functionality of that network. I am also interested in applying immunological inspiration to building self-maintaining, adaptive, autonomous systems which have to continuously operate inside some kind of viability zone; In the past, much of my research was focussed on Evolutionary Algorithms, particularly in the areas of scheduling and optimisation. I still maintain some interests in this area. |
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Publications
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A reasonably up to date list of publications and downloads can be found here or via the CEC database. Please email if you would like a copy of something not downloadable. |
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Recent
Publications:
A position statement on Future Collective Adaptation: Look-* awareness and the resulting homunculus in fractal systems Emma Hart and Ben Paechter
New Book Chapter: Exploiting Collaborations in the Immune System: The
Future of Artificial Immune Systems , Emma Hart, Chris McEwan and
Despina Davoudani. In Computational Intelligence, Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence,
Mumford, Christine L.; Jain, Lakhmi C. (Eds.) Springer 2009, online version
available here Structure vs Function: A topological perspective on
immune networks. Hart,E.,
Bersini,H. and Santos,F. Natural Computing, June 2009. Representation in the (Artificial) Immune System: McEwan,C and Hart,E. In Journal
of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Volume 8(2), June 2009
Immuno-engineering, Timmis, Hart, Stepney, Neal &
Robins. In Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing,
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing How
Affinity Influences Tolerance in an Idiotypic Network Hart,E. and
Bersini,H. and Santos,F, Journal of Theoretical Biology |
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Projects
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Current Students
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PhD students:
Recent/present
MSc students:
Luis Urrea: (current) Agent Based Models for modelling social insect Jenny Gilford: Optimising an
agent to play Pacman, using Artificial Immune Systems and Genetic Algorithms Nrupal Prattipati: Improvement and Evaluation of an immune-based email classification system (2007) Oladipo Lawal: Investigation of novel mutation
mechanisms for immune-inspired optimisation algorithms (2007) Adil Ibrahim: Assessing the performance of a modified negative selection algorithm against traditional data-mining techniques on a cancer database. (2005) |
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Journals
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I am guest editing a
Special Issue of Swarm Intelligence on Interdisciplinary Aspects of Artificial Immune Systems,
with Jon Timmis and Paul Andrews Associate Editor of the International Journal of Metaheuristics I am a regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing; Natural Computation; Evolutionary Computation; Systems, Man and Cybernetics; |
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Programme Committees
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I am currently active on the Programme Committees of the following conferences:
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