Here is my list of publications. Most are available in both PostScript format and Portable Document Format (PDF).

"A Gradient Descent Algorithm for Minimizing Amino Acid Coupling Reactions when Synthesizing Cyclic-Peptide Libraries'' by Paul Darwen, Tran T. Tran, Gregory T. Bourne, Jonathon L. Nielson and Mark L. Smythe, Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening 9(7):559-563, August 2006. [abstract]

``Co-Evolution in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma with Intermediate Levels of Cooperation: Application to Missile Defense'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 2(1): 87-107, March 2002. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF]

``Does extra genetic diversity maintain escalation in a co-evolutionary arms race'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems 4(3): 191-200, 2000. [abstract] [PostScript]

``Speciation as automatic categorical modularization'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1(2): 100-108, 1997. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF]

``Viability of populations in a landscape'' by Paul Darwen and David Green, Ecological Modelling 85(2):165-171, March 1996. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF]

``An experimental study of N-person iterated prisoner's dilemma games'' by Xin Yao and Paul Darwen, Informatica 18: 435-450, 1994. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF]

``A Convenient Method for the Synthesis of Cyclic Peptide Libraries'' by G. T. Bourne, J. L. Nielson, J. F. Coughlan, P. J. Darwen, M. R. Campitelli, D. A. Horton, A. Rhumann, S. G. Love, T. T. Tran and M. L. Smythe. Pages 151-165, Peptide Synthesis and Applications, Humana Press, 2005. [Buy this book]

``Genetic algorithms and evolutionary games'' by Xin Yao and Paul Darwen. Pages 313-333, Commerce, Complexity and Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2000. [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``An Evolutionary Approach to the N-Player Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game'' by Xin Yao and Paul Darwen. Pages 331-357, Evolutionary Computation: Theory and Applications, World Scientific Publishing, 1997. [Buy this book]

``How to make best use of evolutionary learning'' by Xin Yao, Yong Liu, and Paul Darwen. Pages 229-242, Complex Systems - From Local Interactions to Global Phenomena, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1996. [HTML] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``An experimental study of N-person iterated prisoner's dilemma games'' by Xin Yao and Paul Darwen. Pages 90-108, Progress in Evolutionary Computation, volume 956 in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1995. [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``On evolving robust strategies for iterated prisoner's dilemma'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao. Pages 276-292, Progress in Evolutionary Computation, volume 956 in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1995. [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Evolving a Schedule with Batching, Precedence Constraints, and Sequence-Dependent Setup Times: Crossover Needs Building Blocks '' by Paul J. Darwen. The Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, pages 525-535. Cairns, Australia, 17-20 June 2002. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Search Landscape of a Realistic Single-Machine Scheduling Task: Peaks with Big Differences'' by Paul J. Darwen. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2002), pages 1191-1196. Honolulu, Hawaii, 12-17 May 2002. [abstract] [PDF] [Buy this book]

``Looking for the Big Valley in the Fitness Landscape of Single Machine Scheduling with Batching, Precedence Constraints, and Sequence-Dependent Setup Times'' by Paul J. Darwen. 5th Australasia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems Dunedin, New Zealand, 19-21 November 2001. [abstract] [PostScript]

``Why Co-Evolution beats Temporal Difference learning at Backgammon for a linear architecture, but not a non-linear architecture'' by Paul J. Darwen. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2001), pages 1003-1010. Seoul, Korea, 27-30 May 2001. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Why More Choices Causes Less Cooperation in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma'' by Paul J. Darwen and Xin Yao. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2001), pages 987-994. Seoul, Korea, 27-30 May 2001. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Genetic Algorithms and Risk Assessment to Maximize NPV With Robust Open-Pit Scheduling'' by Paul J. Darwen. Fourth Biennial Conference on Strategic Mine Planning, pages 29-34. Perth, Western Australia, 26-28 March 2001. [abstract]

``Black Magic: Interdependence Prevents Principled Parameter Setting, Self-Adapting Costs Too Much Computation'' by Paul J. Darwen. Complex Systems 2000, pages 227-237. Dunedin, New Zealand, 19-22 November 2000. [abstract] [PostScript]

``Computationally Intensive and Noisy Tasks: Co-Evolutionary Learning and Temporal Difference Learning on Backgammon'' by Paul J. Darwen. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2000), pages 872-879. San Diego, California, 16-19 July 2000. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Unobtrusive Workstation Farming Without Inconveniencing Owners: Learning Backgammon with a Genetic Algorithm'' by Paul J. Darwen. IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing, pages 303-311. Melbourne, Australia, 2 December 1999. IEEE Computer Society Press. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF] [Buy this book]

``Initial Population Diversity as a Wild Goose Chase: Phenotypic Effects Sometimes Dominate'' by Paul J. Darwen and Xin Yao. Australia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Canberra, Australia, 23-25 November 1999. [abstract] [PostScript]

``How important is your reputation in a multi-agent environment'' by Xin Yao and Paul J. Darwen. IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Tokyo, Japan, 12-15 October 1999. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy it on CD-ROM]

``Co-Evolutionary learning on noisy tasks'' by Paul Darwen and Jordan Pollack, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-99), pages 1724-1731, Washington DC, 6-9 July 1999. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF] [Buy this book]

``Every niching method has its niche: Fitness Sharing and Implicit Sharing compared'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao. Fourth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN-4) , pages 398-407. Berlin, Germany, September 1996. This was an oral presentation, not a poster presentation. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Exploiting population information in evolutionary learning'' by Xin Yao, Yong Liu, and Paul Darwen. Pages 41-57, Proceedings of the 1996 Japan-China Joint International Workshops on Information Systems, M. Gen and W. Xu (editors), Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab., Ashikaga Institute of Technology, Japan, 4-5 October 1996. Invited paper. [PostScript]

``Automatic modularization by speciation'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao. 1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, pages 88-93. Nagoya, Japan. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``Genetic algorithms and evolutionary games'' by Xin Yao and Paul Darwen. Seminar on Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution. 12-13 February 1996 at the University of New South Wales, Kensington campus, Sydney, Australia.

``A dilemma for fitness sharing with a scaling function'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao. 1995 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, pages 166-171. Perth, Australia. [abstract] [PostScript] [Buy this book]

``An experimental study of N-person iterated prisoner's dilemma games'' by Xin Yao and Paul Darwen. Evolutionary Computation workshop, 1994 Australian Joint Conference on AI. Armidale, Australia. [abstract] [PostScript]

``On evolving robust strategies for iterated prisoner's dilemma'' by Paul Darwen and Xin Yao. Evolutionary Computation workshop, 1993 Australian Joint Conference on AI. Melbourne, Australia. [abstract] [PostScript]

Ph.D. thesis: ``Co-evolutionary Learning by Automatic Modularisation with Speciation'' by Paul J. Darwen. University of New South Wales, 1996. [abstract] [PostScript] [PDF]

Undergraduate honours thesis: "Metapopulation Persistance in Cellular Automata Population Models" by Paul J. Darwen, Australian National University, 1992. [PostScript] [PDF]

Most Recent Update: Saturday 17 February 2007.

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