- 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
- Information sharing impact of stochastic diffusion search on differential evolution algorithm al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; Bishop, Mark (J. M.)
- Resource Allocation and Dispensation Impact of Stochastic Diffusion Search on Differential Evolution Algorithm al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; Bishop, Mark (J. M.)
- 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 Merger of Stochastic Diffusion Search and Particle Swarm Optimisation al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; Bishop, Mark (J. M.)
- 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.)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid and Blackwell, Tim. 2016. Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation. In: , ed. Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition (EvoIASP). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- 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: , ed. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. 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.