Publications

2015

Bose, S.K., Lawrence, C.P., Liu, Z., Makarenko, K.S., Van Damme, R.M.J., Broersma, H.J. and Van der Wiel, W.G., Evolution of a designless nanoparticle network into reconfigurable Boolean logicNature Nanotech. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.2072015.

M. Mohid and J. F. Miller. Evolving solution to computational problems using carbon nanotubes. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, in press, Old City Publishing.

M. Mohid and J. F. Miller. Evolution-In-Materio: Solving Computational Problems Using Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites. Soft Computing, in press, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

J. F. Miller, and H. Broersma. Computational Matter: Evolving Computational Solutions in Materials. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation GECCO 2015, Late breaking paper, pages 769-770, ACM 2015.

M. Mohid and J. F. Miller. Evolving Robot Controllers Using Carbon Nanotubes. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, pages 106-113, ISBN 9780262330275, MIT Press 2015.

M. Mohid and J. F. Miller. Solving Even Parity Problems Using Carbon Nanotubes. In: 15th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), pages , ISBN 978-1-4799-5538-1 IEEE conference proceedings 2015

D. Laketic, G. Tufte, S. Nichele and O. R. Strømmen Lykkebø. Bringing Colours to the Black Box - A Novel Approach to Explaining Materials for Evolution-in-Materio. In: FUTURE COMPUTING 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications. : ThinkMind 2015 ISBN 978-1-61208-389-6, pages 7-11, 2015.

O. R. Strømmen Lykkebø, S. Nichele and G. Tufte. An Investigation of Square Waves for Evolution in Carbon Nanotubes Material. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015. MIT Press 2015 ISBN 9780262330275, pages 503-510, 2015.

S. Nichele, D. Laketic, O. R. Strømmen Lykkebø and G. Tufte.
Is There Chaos in Blobs of Carbon Nanotubes Used to Perform Computation?. In: FUTURE COMPUTING 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications. : ThinkMind, ISBN 978-1-61208-389-6, pages 12-17, 2015.

S. Nichele, O. R. Lykkebø and G. Tufte.
Investigation of Underlying Physical Properties Exploited by Evolution in Nanotubes
Materials. In: 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, International
Conference on Evolvable Systems 2015, Cape Town (South Africa), in press, IEEE Press 2015.

D. Laketic and G. Tufte. An Explanation of Computation - Collective Electrodynamics in Blobs of Carbon Nanotubes. In: 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, in press, ACM 2015.

M K Massey, D Volpati, F Qaiser, A Kotsialos, C Pearson, D A Zeze and M C Petty, Alignment of liquid crystal/carbon nanotube dispersions for application in unconventional computing, Proceedings of the International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2014 (ICNAAM 2014), AIP Conf. Proc. 1648, 280009 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4912538.

D Volpati, M K Massey, D W Johnson, A Kotsialos, F Qaiser, C Pearson, K S Coleman, G Tiburzi, D A Zeze and M C Petty, Exploring the alignment of carbon nanotubes dispersed in a liquid crystal matrix using coplanar electrodes, J. Appl. Phys., 117, 125303 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4916080.

M K Massey, A Kotsialos, F Qaiser, D A Zeze, C Pearson, D Volpati, L Bowen and M C Petty, Computing with carbon nanotubes: optimization of threshold logic gates using disordered nanotube/polymer composites, J. App. Phys., 117 (2015) 134903; doi: 10.1063/1.4915343.

 

2014

A. Kotsialos, M. K. Massey, F. Qaiser, D. A. Zeze, C. Pearson and M. C. Petty. Logic Gate and Circuit Training on Randomly Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, Volume 10.(5-6), pages 473-497, Old City Publishing 2014.

P. Bonsma, M. Kaminski and M. Wrochna. Reconfiguring Independent Sets in Claw-Free Graphs. In Algorithm Theory SWAT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8503, pages 86-97, Springer International Publishing 2014.

P. Bonsma. Independent Set Reconfiguration in Cographs. In Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8747, pages 105-116, Springer International Publishing 2014.

M. Mohid, J. F. Miller, S. L. Harding, G. Tufte, O. R. Lykkebø, M. K. Massey and M. C. Petty. Solving Bin Packing Problems Using Materials. In: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. ICES 2014, IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings, pages 38-45, IEEE conference proceedings 2014.

K. D. Clegg, J. F. Miller, M. K. Massey and P. C. Petty. Practical issues for configuring carbon nanotube composite materials for computation. In: IEEE SSCI 2014, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. ICES 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings. IEEE conference proceedings 2014 ISBN 978-1-4799-4480-4.

K. D. Clegg, J. F. Miller, M. K. Massey and P. C. Petty. Travelling salesman problem solved ‘in materio’by evolved carbon nanotube device. In: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature–PPSN XIII, pages 692-701, Springer International Publishing 2014.

M. Mohid, J. F. Miller, S. L. Harding, G. Tufte, O. R. Lykkebø, M. K. Massey and M. C. Petty. Evolution-in-materio: A frequency classifier using materials. In: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. ICES 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings. IEEE conference proceedings 2014 ISBN 978-1-4799-4480-4.

Kotsialos, A, Massey, M.K., Quaiser, F., Zeze, D.A., Pearson, C., and Petty, M.C., "Logic gate and circuit training on randomly dispersed carbon nanotubes", International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 10 (2014) 473-497.

Lykkebø, Odd Rune Strømmen; Tufte, Gunnar. "Comparison and Evaluation of Signal Representations for a Carbon Nanotube Computational Device". In: IEEE SSCI 2014, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. ICES 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems Proceedings. IEEE conference proceedings 2014 ISBN 978-1-4799-4480-4.

Mohid, Maktuba; Miller, Julian F.; Harding, Simon; Tufte, Gunnar; Lykkebø, Odd Rune Strømmen; Massey, Mark K.; Petty, Michael C. "Evolution-In-Materio: Solving Machine Learning Classification Problems Using Materials". Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2014 ;Volume 8672. p. 721-730

Mohid, Maktuba; Miller, Julian; Harding, Simon; Tufte, Gunnar; Lykkebø, Odd Rune Strømmen; Massey, Mark K.; Petty, Michael C. "Evolution-in-materio: Solving function optimization problems using materials". In: 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI). IEEE conference proceedings 2014 ISBN 978-1-4799-5538-1. p. 1-8

Koutnik, J., Greff, K., Gomez, F., Schmidhuber, J.: "A clockwork RNN", Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Beijing, 2014, Accepted

Lykkebø, O.R., Tufte, G., Harding, S.L., Miller, J.F.: "Mecobo: A hardware and software platform for in materio evolution". Proceedings of the Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, LNCS, pages 267-279. Springer-Verlag, 2014.

Miller, J.F., Harding, S.L., Tufte, G.: "Evolution-in-materio: evolving computation in materials". Evolutionary Intelligence 7, p. 49–67, 2014

2012

 H. Broersma, F. Gomez, J. F. Miller, M. Petty and G Tufte. Nascence Project: Nanoscale Engineering for Novel Computation Using Evolution. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, Volume 8.(4), pages 313-317, Old City Publishing 2012.

Conferences Presentations

2015

“Natural Computing in NanoMaterio: Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Boolean Logic”, C.P. Lawrence – The Physics@FOM15, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, January 22, 2015 (Oral)

“Exploiting Order and Disorder in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Electronics”, W.G. van der Wiel –Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, January 12, 2015 (Invited colloquium)

“Evolving solutions to computational problems using materials”, J. F. Miller, University of Newcastle, January 13, 2015 (Invited talk)

“Exploiting Order and Disorder in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Electronics”, W.G. van der Wiel – Quantum NanoScience Seminar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, February 18, 2015 (Invited colloquium)

“Functional nanomaterials”, D. A. Zeze, 5th Chemical Nanoscience Symposium Newcastle CNSN-5, 26 March 2015, Newcastle, UK (Invited)

“Exploiting Order and Disorder in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Electronics”, W.G. van der Wiel – Quantum International Workshop on Organic and Graphene Electronics and Spintronics (ELECspin 2015), Barcelona, Spain, March 12-13, 2015 (Invited)

“Using carbon nanotube composites as computational materials”, D. A. Zeze – 6th International Conference on Nanomaterials, July 2015, Aveiro, Portugal (Invited)

“Talk about PPSN NASCENCE papers”, J. F. Miller, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2015): Hot-off-the-press talk, Madrid, July 2015 (Oral)

“Evolving Computational Solutions in Matter”, J. F. Miller, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2015): Evolution of Physical Systems Workshop, York, UK, July 2015 (Oral)

"An Investigation of Square Waves for Evolution in Carbon Nanotubes Material", O. R. Strømmen Lykkebø, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2015), York, UK, July 2015 (Oral)

“Evolution-in-materio: Giving evolution the freedom to exploit the unknown”, J. F. Miller, TRUCE Summer school 2015, Malaga, Spain, August 31 – Sept 4, 2015 (Tutorial)

“IQ of a Physical System”, C.P. Lawrence – Special Session on Physics and Computation, UCNC 2015, September 3, 2015, Auckland, New Zealand (Oral)

“Computing with disordered materials: Evolving circuits from carbon nanotubes”, M. K. Massey – Physical Sciences Symposia, September 2015, Boston USA (Invited)

“Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Boolean Logic”, W.G. van der Wiel – Abdullah Gül University, Kayseri, Turkey, October 7, 2015 (Invited seminar)

“Natural Computing in Nanomaterio”, C.P. Lawrence – MESA+ meeting, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 28, 2015 (Oral)

“Integration of nanostructured materials in device fabrication”, D. A. Zeze, Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), July 14, 2015, St Petersburg, Russia (Invited seminar)

“Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Boolean Logic”, W.G. van der Wiel – Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics (FQMT‘15), Prague, Czech Republic, July 28, 2015 (Invited)

“Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Boolean Logic”, W.G. van der Wiel – European Conference on Molecular Electronics – ECME 2015, Strasbourg, France, September 5, 2015 (Invited)

“Capability of carbon nanotube polymer composites in computation”, D. A. Zeze, BIT's 5th Annual World Congress of Nano-Science and Technologies 2015- NANO S&T, 23-27 September 2015, Xian, China (Invited Plenary)

“Natural Computing in Nanomaterio”, C.P. Lawrence – Neurotechnology meeting, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 9, 2015 (Oral)

“Evolution-in-materio: evolving computation using physical processes”, J. F. Miller. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, November 18, 2015 (invited)

2014

“Carbon Nanotubes/Liquid Crystals Dispersions for Unconventional Computing”, D. Volpati, M. K. Massey, D. A. Zeze, C. Pearson, F. Qaiser, A. Kotsialos, O. N. Oliveira Jr. and M. C. Petty – EMRS May 2014, Lille (Oral)

“Optimisation of Threshold Logic Gates from Disordered Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites”, M. K. Massey, A. Kotsialos, F. Qaiser, D. A. Zeze, C. Pearson, D. Volpati and M. C. Petty – EMRS May 2014, Lille (Oral)

“Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Boolean Logic”, W.G. van der Wiel – The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Materials Science (IWAMSN 2014), Ha Long, Vietnam, November 5, 2014 (Invited talk)

“Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Boolean Logic”, W.G. van der Wiel – The 8th Energy, Materials and Nanotechnology (EMN) Meeting, Orlando FL, November 24, 2014 (Invited talk)

“Cartesian Genetic Programming”, J. F. Miller – 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014), 13-17 September 2014, Ljubjana, Slovenia (Tutorial)

“Travelling Salesman Problem solved ‘in materio’ by evolved carbon nanotube device”, K.D. Clegg, J.F. Miller, K. Massey, M.C. Petty – 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014), 13-17 September 2014, Ljubjana, Slovenia (Poster)

“Evolution-in-materio: Solving Machine Learning Classification problems using materials ”, M. Mohid, J.F. Miller, S.L. Harding, G. Tufte, O.R. Lykkebø, K. Massey, M.C. Petty – 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014), 13-17 September 2014, Ljubjana, Slovenia (Poster-nominated best paper)

“Evolutionary manipulation of nanoscale devices for computation”, G. Tufte, K.D. Clegg, J.F. Miller, O.R. Lykkebø, K. Massey, M. Mohid, M.C. Petty – Evolution of Physical Systems Workshop, ALIFE 14: The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Accepted abstract)

“The NASCENCE project: how to evolve nanomaterials into information processing units”, H.J. Broersma – TRUCE Workshop on Unconventional Computation in Europe, UCNC 2014, July 14-18 2014, London, Ontario (Oral)

“Mecobo: A hardware and software platform for in materio evolution”, Odd Rune Lykkebø, Simon Harding, Gunnar Tufte and Julian Miller – UCNC 2014, July 14-18 2014, London, Ontario (Oral)

“A clockwork RNN”, Koutnik, J., Greff, K., Gomez, F., Schmidhuber – International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014), Beijing, China (Oral)

“Reconfiguring Independent Sets in Claw-Free Graphs”, Paul Bonsma, Marcin Kaminski and Marcin Wrochna – SWAT 2014: 14th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, July 2-4 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark (Oral)

“Independent Set Reconfiguration in Cographs”, Paul Bonsma – WG 2014: 40th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, June 25-27 2014, Orléans, France (Oral)

“Liquid crystal-based composites for unconventional computing: Studies Involving Carbon Nanotubes”, D. Volpati, M. K. Massey, D. A. Zeze, C. Pearson, F. Qaiser, A. Kotsialos, O. N. Oliveira Jr. and M. C. Petty – Liquids July 2014, Lisbon (Oral)

“Integration of Carbon Nanotubes”, D.A. Zeze, R. Stone, M.K. Massey, D. Volpati, F. Qaiser, A. Kostialos, O. Kolosov, P. Tovee, M.C. Petty – International Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop August 2014, St Petersburg (Invited)

“Alignment of Liquid Crystal / Carbon Nanotube Dispersions for Application in Unconventional Computing”, M. K. Massey, D. Volpati, F. Qaiser, A. Kotsialos, C. Pearson, D. A. Zeze and M. C. Petty – ICNAAM September 2014, Rhodes (Oral)

"Steering Electrons through NanoParticle Networks", C.P. Lawrence, S.K. Bose, W.G. van der Wiel, R.M.J. van Damme and H.J. Broersma – Summer School "Physics of single nano-objects", Ameland, The Netherlands, 1-6 June 2014 (Poster)

"Programmable NanoParticle Networks", C.P. Lawrence, S.K. Bose, Z. Liu, K.S. Makarenko, R.M.J. van Damme, W.G. van der Wiel and H.J. Broersma – MESA+-day, The Netherlands, 22 September 2014 (Poster)

“Evolution-In-Materio“, S. L. Harding – TRUCE Summer School on Unconventional Computation, Málaga, Spain, 1-12 September 2014 (Oral)

“Programmable Nanoparticle Networks“, C. P. Lawrence – TRUCE Summer School on Unconventional Computation, Málaga, Spain, 1-12 September 2014 (Oral)

2013

"Darwin on a chip", S.K. Bose, C.P. Lawrence, M.M.R. Danish, Z. Liu, K.S. Anokhina, G. Abliz, R.M.J. van Damme, W.G. van der Wiel and H.J. Broersma – MESA+-day, The Netherlands, 16 September 2013 (Poster)

“Evolution of logic from disordered nanosystems”, M. K. Massey, NATO ASI, Cork, Ireland July 2013 (Poster)

“Using disordered nanotube materials for simple computational tasks”, F. Qaiser, Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting on Heterotic Computing: exploiting hybrid computational devices, Newport Pagnell, UK. 7 –8 November 2013 (Poster)

“Evolution in materio: evolving computation in materials”, J. F. Miller, International meeting on Heterotic Computing at Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, UK. 7 –8 November 2013 (Invited talk)