- Correlation Between Human Aesthetic Judgement and Spatial Complexity Measure Javaheri Javid, Mohammed Ali; Blackwell, Tim ; Zimmer, Robert ; and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid . 2016. Correlation Between Human Aesthetic Judgement and Spatial Complexity Measure. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9596, pp. 79-91. ISSN 0302-9743
- Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation Blackwell, Tim ; and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid . 2016. Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9597, pp. 754-769. ISSN 0302-9743
- Analysis of information gain and Kolmogorov complexity for structural evaluation of cellular automata configurations Javaheri Javid, Mohammad Ali ; Blackwell, Tim ; Zimmer, Robert ; and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid . 2016. Analysis of information gain and Kolmogorov complexity for structural evaluation of cellular automata configurations. Connection Science, 28(2), pp. 155-170. ISSN 0954-0091
- Cognitive Bare Bones Particle Swarm Optimisation with Jumps al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2016. Cognitive Bare Bones Particle Swarm Optimisation with Jumps. International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR), 7(1), pp. 1-31.
- Cognitive Bare Bones Particle Swarm Optimisation with Jumps Blackwell, Tim ; and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid . 2016. Cognitive Bare Bones Particle Swarm Optimisation with Jumps. International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research, 7(1), pp. 1-31. ISSN 1947-9263
- Spatial Complexity Measure for Characterising Cellular Automata Generated 2D Patterns Javaheri Javid, Mohammad Ali ; Blackwell, Tim ; Zimmer, Robert ; and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid . 2015. Spatial Complexity Measure for Characterising Cellular Automata Generated 2D Patterns. Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. Proceedings, pp. 210-212.
- Information gain measure for structural discrimination of cellular automata configurations Blackwell, Tim . 2015. Information gain measure for structural discrimination of cellular automata configurations. Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC), 2015 7th, pp. 47-52.
- Comparing Perceptual and Computational Complexity for Short Rhythmic Patterns Blackwell, Tim ; and Müllensiefen, Daniel . 2014. Comparing Perceptual and Computational Complexity for Short Rhythmic Patterns. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 126, pp. 111-112. ISSN 1877-0428
- Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Bird Flocking Behaviour Antoniou, Pavlos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Blackwell, Tim ; Engelbrecht, Andries; and Michael, Loizos. 2013. Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Bird Flocking Behaviour. Computer Networks, 57(5), pp. 1167-1191. ISSN 1389-1286
- Resource Allocation and Dispensation Impact of Stochastic Diffusion Search on Differential Evolution Algorithm al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; Bishop, Mark (J. M.) ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2012. Resource Allocation and Dispensation Impact of Stochastic Diffusion Search on Differential Evolution Algorithm. Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimisation, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 387, pp. 21-40. ISSN 1860-949X
- Information sharing impact of stochastic diffusion search on differential evolution algorithm al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; Bishop, Mark (J. M.) ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2012. Information sharing impact of stochastic diffusion search on differential evolution algorithm. Memetic Computing, 4(4), pp. 327-338. ISSN 1865-9284
- A Study of Collapse in Bare Bones Particle Swarm Optimization Blackwell, Tim . 2011. A Study of Collapse in Bare Bones Particle Swarm Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 16(3), pp. 354-372. ISSN 1089-778X
- An Investigation Into the use of Swarm Intelligence for an Evolutionary Algorithm Optimisation; The Optimisation Performance of Differential Evolution Algorithm Coupled with Stochastic Diffusion Search al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; Bishop, Mark (J. M.) ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2011. An Investigation Into the use of Swarm Intelligence for an Evolutionary Algorithm Optimisation; The Optimisation Performance of Differential Evolution Algorithm Coupled with Stochastic Diffusion Search. International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Application (ECTA 2011)(3), pp. 1-6.
- An Investigation into the Merger of Stochastic Diffusion Search and Particle Swarm Optimisation al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; Bishop, Mark (J. M.) ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2011. An Investigation into the Merger of Stochastic Diffusion Search and Particle Swarm Optimisation. GECCO-2011: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pp. 37-44.
- A Simplified Recombinant PSO Bratton, Daniel ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2008. A Simplified Recombinant PSO. Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, 2008, pp. 1-10. ISSN 1687-6229
- Examination of Particle Tails Blackwell, Tim ; and Bratton, Daniel . 2008. Examination of Particle Tails. Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, 2008, pp. 1-10. ISSN 1687-6229
- Particle Swarm Optimization Blackwell, Tim ; Kennedy, J.; and Poli, R.. 2007. Particle Swarm Optimization. Swarm Intelligence, 1(1), pp. 33-57. ISSN 19353812
- Collaboration: a personal report Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2006. Collaboration: a personal report. CoDesign International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 2(4), pp. 259-263. ISSN 1571-0882
- Particle swarms and population diversity Blackwell, Tim . 2005. Particle swarms and population diversity. Soft Computing, 9(11), pp. 793-802. ISSN 14327643
- Tech-tiles Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2005. Tech-tiles. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 468-477. ISSN 0302-9743
- Multi-Swarms, Exclusion and Anti-Convergence in Dynamic Environments Blackwell, Tim ; and Branke, Juergen. 2004. Multi-Swarms, Exclusion and Anti-Convergence in Dynamic Environments. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 10(4), pp. 459-472. ISSN 1089778X
- Self-Organised Music Blackwell, Tim ; and Young, Michael W. . 2004. Self-Organised Music. Organised sound, 9(2), pp. 123-136. ISSN 1355-7718
Dr Tim Blackwell
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I am interesting in all things swarming and musical.
Academic qualifications
- BSc Physics 1980
- DPhil Theoretical Physics 1984
- MSc Computer Science 2001
Featured publications
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- On the Optimization of Systems Using AI Metaheuristics and Evolutionary Algorithms Tkach, Itshak; and Blackwell, Tim . 2023. On the Optimization of Systems Using AI Metaheuristics and Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Chin-Yin Huang and Sang Won Yoon, eds. Systems Collaboration and Integeration. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 253-271. ISBN 9783031443725
- Correlation Between Human Aesthetic Judgement and Spatial Complexity Measure Javaheri Javid, Mohammad Ali ; Blackwell, Tim ; al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; and Zimmer, Robert . 2016. Correlation Between Human Aesthetic Judgement and Spatial Complexity Measure. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2016. Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition (EvoIASP). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Article
- Impact of communication topology in particle swarm optimization Blackwell, Tim ; and Kennedy, James. 2019. Impact of communication topology in particle swarm optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 23(4), pp. 689-702. ISSN 1089-778X
- Information-Theoretic Measures Predict the Human Judgment of Rhythm Complexity de Fleurian, Remi ; Blackwell, Tim ; Ben-Tal, Oded; and Müllensiefen, Daniel . 2017. Information-Theoretic Measures Predict the Human Judgment of Rhythm Complexity. Cognitive Science, 41(3), pp. 800-813. ISSN 0364-0213
- Reduced projection angles for binary tomography with particle aggregation al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2016. Reduced projection angles for binary tomography with particle aggregation. Evolutionary Intelligence, 9(3), pp. 67-79. ISSN 1864-5909
Conference or Workshop Item
- An investigation into computational methods for classifying fishing vessels to identify illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity Grey, Benedict ; Ouarbya, Lahcen ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2024. 'An investigation into computational methods for classifying fishing vessels to identify illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity'. In: 2023 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications (ICCIA). Haikou, China 23-25 June 2023.
- Tomographic Reconstruction with Search Space Expansion al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; and Blackwell, Tim . 2023. 'Tomographic Reconstruction with Search Space Expansion'. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’23). Lisbon, Portugal 15 - 19 July 2023.
- The Barrier Tree Benchmark: Many Basins and Double Funnels Blackwell, Tim . 2023. 'The Barrier Tree Benchmark: Many Basins and Double Funnels'. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’23). Lisbon, Portugal 15 - 19 July 2023.
Project
- A sound you can touch Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2006. A sound you can touch.
Show/Exhibition
- Uneasy Spaces Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2006. Uneasy Spaces. In: "Uneasy Spaces", University of Plymouth, 80 Washington Square, New York, United States, September 12 –November 1.
- Process Revealed Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2006. Process Revealed. In: "Process Revealed: An exhibition of generative and digital works", Artpool artspace and research centre, Budapest, Hungary.
Other
- Swarm Techtiles: swarming with micro-texture Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2006. Swarm Techtiles: swarming with micro-texture.
- Woven Sound Jefferies, Janis K. ; and Blackwell, Tim . 2005. Woven Sound.