Selected Publications and Workshop Presentations

PhD Thesis

• Developmental Self-Organisation in Artificial Neural Networks
  Rust A G.
  Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, July 1998

Book Chapters

• Towards Computational Neural Systems Through Developmental Evolution
  Rust A G, Adams R, George S and Bolouri H.
  Emergent Neural Computation Architectures based on Neuroscience, Wermter S, Austin J and Willshaw D J (editors), Springer-Verlag, To appear

Papers

• Evolutionary Neural Topiary: Growing and Sculpting Artificial Neurons to Order
  Rust A G, Adams R and Bolouri H.
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (AlifeVII), 2000
• Image Redundancy Reduction for Neural Network Classification using Discrete Cosine Transforms
  Pan Z, Rust A G, and Bolouri H.
  Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2000), 2000
• Developmental Evolution of Dendritic Morphology in a Multi-Compartmental Neuron Model
  Rust A G and Adams R.
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'99), Vol 1, 383-388, IEE, London, 1999
  Poster from the conference.

• Molecular Self-Organisation in a Developmental Model for the Evolution of Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks
  Bolouri H, Adams R, George S and Rust A G.
  Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Information Systems (ICONIP'98), Kitakyushu, Japan, 21-23 October, Vol 2, 797-800, 1998

• Developmental Evolution of an Edge Detecting Retina
  Rust A G, Adams R, George S and Bolouri H.
  In Niklasson L, Boden M and Ziemke T (eds), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'98), Vol 2, pp 561-566, Springer Verlag, 1998
  Letter sized version of ps.

• Molecular Self-Organisation in a Developmental Model for the Evolution of Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks
  Bolouri H, Adams R, George S and Rust A G.
  Presented at The Right Stuff: Appropriate Mathematics for Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
  a Full-Day Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Life and Computation: the Boundaries are Changing (ALIFE'VI), Los Angeles, USA, 26-29 June, 1998
  Workshop papers are collected in University of Hertfordshire Computer Science Technical Report TR315, June 1998

• Activity-Based Pruning in Developmental Artificial Neural Networks
  Rust A G, Adams R, George S and Bolouri H.
  In Husbands P and Harvey I (eds), Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'97), Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 224-233, 1997

• Designing Development Rules for Artificial Evolution
  Rust A G, Adams R, George S and Bolouri H.
  In Smith G D, Steele N C and Albrecht R F (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'97), Vienna, Springer-Verlag, 508-511, 1997

• Applications of AI Techniques to Aid Paths Towards Concurrent Engineering
  Parkinson B, Hinder S, Rohr U, Rust A and Shwartzberg D.
  In Case K and Newman S (eds), Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Manufacturing Research, Taylor and Francis, 472-476, 1994

Workshop Presentations

• Harnessing Developmental Self-Organisation to Design Artificial Neural Systems
  Rust A G, Adams R and Bolouri H.
  Presented at Self-Organising Systems - Future Prospects for Computing, an EPSRC funded, 2 day workshop held at UMIST, Manchester, 28/29 October 1999

• Towards Computational Neural Systems Through Developmental Evolution
  Rust A G, Adams R and Bolouri H.
  Presented at EmerNet: International Workshop on Emergent Neural Computation Architectures Based on Neuroscience, post-conference workshop at ICANN'99, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11 September 1999

Technical Reports

• Artificial Evolution: Modelling the Development of the Retina
  Rust A G, Adams R, George S and Bolouri H.
  Technical Memorandum ERDC/1996/0015 and Computer Science Technical Report TR255, September 1996