Colin Johnson

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• workRoom B79 Computer Science
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• Colin.Johnson@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Colin Johnson is an associate professor in the School of Computing here at Nottingham, having started working here in January 2020 following work and study in mathematics and computer science at several universities in England and Scotland. His main research and teaching interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.

Recent Publications

• FABIO PAOLIZZO and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2020. Creative Autonomy in a Simple Interactive Music System Journal of New Music Research.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2020. New Aesthetics for Artificial Intelligence Art. In: BEN FLETCHER-WATSON, ed., 50th Anniversary Symposium Proceedings Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. (In Press.)
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2019. Stepwise Evolutionary Learning using Deep Learned Guidance Functions In: Artificial Intelligence XXXVI: 39th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2019, Cambridge, UK, December 17-19, 2019, Proceedings.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2019. Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Search-based Art. In: JUAN ROMERO, PENOUSAL MACHADO and GARY GREENFIELD, eds., The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts Springer.

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• FABIO PAOLIZZO and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2020. Creative Autonomy in a Simple Interactive Music System Journal of New Music Research.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2020. New Aesthetics for Artificial Intelligence Art. In: BEN FLETCHER-WATSON, ed., 50th Anniversary Symposium Proceedings Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. (In Press.)
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2019. Stepwise Evolutionary Learning using Deep Learned Guidance Functions In: Artificial Intelligence XXXVI: 39th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2019, Cambridge, UK, December 17-19, 2019, Proceedings.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2019. Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Search-based Art. In: JUAN ROMERO, PENOUSAL MACHADO and GARY GREENFIELD, eds., The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts Springer.
• JUAN ROMERO, COLIN G. JOHNSON and MCCORMACK JON, 2019. Editorial: Complex Systems in Aesthetics and Arts Complexity. 2019, 9836102
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, JON MCCORMACK, IRIA SANTOS and JUAN ROMERO, 2019. Understanding Aesthetics and Fitness Measures in Evolutionary Art Systems Complexity. 2019,
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2019. Solving the Rubik?s Cube with Learned Guidance Functions In: 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. 2082-2089
• CAROLINE RIZZI, COLIN G. JOHNSON and PATRICIA VARGAS, 2018. Fear Learning for Flexible Decision Making in RoboCup: A Discussion. In: HIDEHISA AKIYAMA, OLIVER OBST, CLAUDE SAMMUT and FLAVIO TONIDANDEL, eds., RoboCup 2017: Robot World Cup XXI 11175. Springer. 59-70
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, JERRY SWAN and BRADY EDWIN, 2018. Subtype Polymorphism à la carte via Machine Learning on Dependent Types In: 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for Programming Languages.
• ADESOLA ADEGBOYE, MICHAEL KAMPOURIDIS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2018. Regression genetic programming for estimating trend end in foreign exchange market In: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence.
• JERRY SWAN, COLIN G. JOHNSON and EDWIN C. BRADY, 2018. Subtype polymorphism à la carte via machine learning on dependent types In: Companion Proceedings for the ISSTA/ECOOP 2018 Workshops on - ISSTA '18. 14-16
• MICHAEL KAMPOURIDIS, ADESOLA ADEGBOYE and COLIN JOHNSON, 2017. Evolving Directional Changes Trading Strategies with a New Event-based Indicator. In: YUHUI SHI, KAY CHEN TAN, MENGJIE ZHANG, KE TANG, XIAODONG LI, QINGFU ZHANG, YING TAN, MARTIN MIDDENDORF and YAOCHU JIN, eds., Simulated Evolution and Learning 11th International Conference Springer. 727-738
• SEBASTIAN DZIALLAS, SALLY FINCHER, COLIN G. JOHNSON and IAN UTTING, 2017. The Year in Computing Initiative. In: 5th Annual Symposium of the United Kingdom & Ireland Engineering Education Research Network Aston University.
• MARGARETA ACKERMAN, ASHOK GOEL, COLIN G. JOHNSON, ANNA JORDANOUS, CARLOS LEON, RAFAEL PEREZ Y PEREZ, HANNU TOIVONEN and DAN VENTURA, 2017. Teaching Computational Creativity. In: ASHOK GOEL, ANNA JORDANOUS and ALISON PEASE, eds., ICCC'17 - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity Georgia Institute of Technology. 9-16
• SEBASTIAN DZIALLAS, SALLY FINCHER, COLIN G. JOHNSON and IAN UTTING, 2017. A First Look at the Year in Computing. In: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education ACM. 275-280
• CAROLINE RIZZI, COLIN G. JOHNSON and PATRICIA A. VARGAS, 2016. Improving the predictive performance of SAFEL: A Situation-Aware FEar Learning model In: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2016. 736-742
• CAROLINE RIZZI RAYMUNDO, COLIN G. JOHNSON, FABIO FABRIS and PATRICIA A. VARGAS, 2016. A Situation-Aware Fear Learning (SAFEL) Model for Robots Neurocomputing. 221, 32-47
• VALERIA SANTOS, FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, COLIN G. JOHNSON, FERNANDO OSORIO and CLAUDIO TOLEDO, 2016. Exploratory Path Planning Using the Max-Min Ant System Algorithm In: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 4229-4235
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2016. Fitness in Evolutionary Art and Music: A Taxonomy and Future Prospects Fitness in evolutionary art and music: a taxonomy and future prospects. 9(1), 4-25
• KEITH GREENHOW and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2015. Regioned Downsample for ANN Image Classification: Alternate Selection Methods In: SAI Intelligent Systems Conference 2015. 793-797
• C. RIZZI RAYMUNDO, C. G. JOHNSON and P. A. VARGAS, 2015. An Architecture for Emotional and Context-Aware Associative Learning for Robot Companions In: 2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 31-36
• KEITH GREENHOW and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2014. Region Based Image Preprocessor for Feed-Forward Perceptron Based Systems. In: ZHIGANG ZENG, YANGMIN LI and IRWIN KING, eds., Advances in Neural Networks ? ISNN 2014 11th International Symposium on Neural Networks Springer. 414-422
• CAN ÖZTÜRKERI and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2014. Self-repair ability of evolved self-assembling systems in cellular automata Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 15(3), 313-341
• CLARIS LEROUX, FERNANDO E.B. OTERO and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2014. A Genetic Programming Problem Definition Language Code Generator for the EpochX Framework In: Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. 1149-1154
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2014. Is it Time for Computational Creativity to Grow Up and Start being Irresponsible?
• CAROLINE RIZZI RAYMUNDO and COLIN GRAEME JOHNSON, 2014. An Artificial Synaptic Plasticity Mechanism for Classical Conditioning with Neural Networks. In: ZHIGANG ZENG, YANGMIN LI and IRWIN KING, eds., Advances in Neural Networks ? ISNN 2014 11th International Symposium on Neural Networks Springer. 213-221
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2013. Artistic and Musical Applications of Internet Search Technologies: Prospects and a Case Study Digital Creativity. 24(4), 342-366
• SON T. NGUYEN and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2013. Protein Secondary Structure Prediction using an Optimised Bayesian Classification Neural Network In: Neural Computing Theory and Applications 2013. 451-457
• LOIC VASEUX, FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, TOM CASTLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2013. Event-based graphical monitoring in the EpochX genetic programming framework In: 15th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2013). 1309-1316
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2013. Automated Problem Decomposition for the Boolean Domain with Genetic Programming In: 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2013). 169-180
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2013. A new sequential covering strategy for inducing classification rules with ant colony algorithms IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 17(1), 64-76
• KERSTIN NEUBARTH, IZARO GOIENETXEA, COLIN G. JOHNSON and DARRYL CONKLIN, 2012. Association Mining of Folk Music Genres and Toponyms In: 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. 7-12
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Connotation in Computational Creativity Cognitive Computation. 4(3), 280-291
• NICHOLAS JACKSON and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Evolution of unknotting strategies for knots and braids In: AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012.
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Inducing decision trees with an ant colony optimization algorithm Applied Soft Computing. 12(11), 3615-3626
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Search-based Evolutionary Operators for Extensionally-defined Search Spaces: Applications to Image Search In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 1641-1647
• TOM CASTLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Evolving Program Trees with Limited Scope Variable Declarations In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, TOM CASTLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. EpochX: Genetic Programming in Java with Statistics and Event Monitoring In: Proceedings of the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Conference Companion (GECCO 2012).
• ALBERTO MORAGLIO, FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, COLIN G. JOHNSON, SIMON THOMPSON and ALEX A. FREITAS, 2012. Evolving Recursive Programs using Non-recursive Scaffolding In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 1596-1603
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. The Creative Computer as Romantic Hero? Computational Creativity Systems and Creative Personæ In: International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012. 57-61
• TOM CASTLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Evolving High-Level Imperative Program Trees with Strongly Formed Genetic Programming In: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2012. 182-196
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Fitness in Evolutionary Art and Music: What Has Been Used and What Could Be Used?. In: Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design First International Conference Springer. 129-140
• ALBERTO MORAGLIO, KRZYSZTOF KRAWIEC and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2012. Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming. In: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII 12th International Conference Springer. 21-31
• PEI HE, COLIN G. JOHNSON and HOUFENG WANG, 2011. Modeling grammatical evolution by automaton Science China Information Sciences. 54(12), 2544-2553
• CAN ÖZTÜRKERI and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2011. Evolution of Self-Assembling Patterns in Cellular Automata using Development Journal of Cellular Automata. 6(4), 257-300
• HE PEI, KANG LISHAN, COLIN G. JOHNSON and YING SHI, 2011. Hoare Logic-based Genetic Programming Science China Information Sciences. 54(3), 623-637
• SAM HOWARD, CARLOS N. SILLA JR and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2011. Automatic Lyrics-based Music Genre Classification in a Multilingual Setting In: Thirteenth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music.
• PATRICK DE VRIES, COLIN G. JOHNSON and IAN C. BLOMFIELD, 2010. Modelling fim expression in Escherichia coli K12 In: First International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics. 14-25
• ALBERTO MORAGLIO, FERNANDO E.B. OTERO and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. The ACO Encoding In: Swarm Intelligence - 7th International Conference (ANTS 2010). 182-196
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. A hierarchical multi-label classification ant colony algorithm for protein function prediction Memetic Computing. 2(3), 165-181
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, COLIN G. JOHNSON, ALEX A. FREITAS and SIMON THOMPSON, 2010. Refactoring in Automatically Generated Programs In: 2nd International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering.
• BENJAMIN MARK PATEMAN and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. Using the Wikipedia Link Structure to Correct the Wikipedia Link Structure In: The People?s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources. 10-18
• PHIL T. CATTANI and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. ME-CGP: Multi Expression Cartesian Genetic Programming. In: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 182-196
• EMMET MCINTYRE, EDITH BLACKBURN, PHILIP J. BROWN, COLIN G. JOHNSON and WILLIAM J. GULLICK, 2010. The complete family of epidermal growth factor receptors and their ligands are co-ordinately expressed in breast cancer Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 122(1), 105-110
• AHMED OKASHA and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. The Effect of Level of Rationality on Macro-Activities of the Lucas-Island Model In: 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 182-196
• TOM CASTLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. Positional Effect of Crossover and Mutation in Grammatical Evolution. In: ANNA I. ESPARCIA-ALCAZAR, ANIKO EKART, SARA SILVA, STEPHEN DIGNUM and SIMA UYAR, eds., Genetic Programming 13th European Conference Springer. 182-196
• ALBERTO MORAGLIO and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2010. Geometric Generalization of the Nelder-Mead Algorithm In: European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. 190-201
• M.H. ROSLI, RACHEL S. EDWARDS, BEN DUTTON, COLIN G. JOHNSON and PHIL T. CATTANI, 2010. Identifying Surface Angled Cracks on Aluminium Bar using EMATs and Automated Computer System AIP Conference Proceedings. 1211, 1593-1600
• LAWRENCE BEADLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Semantic analysis of program initialisation in genetic programming Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 10(3), 307-337
• PHIL T. CATTANI and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Typed Cartesian Genetic Programming for Image Classification In: Proceedings of the 2009 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence. 182-196
• MUSADDAR IQBAL, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. A hybrid rule-induction/likelihood-ratio based approach for predicting protein-protein interactions. In: CHRISTINE L. MUMFORD and LAKHMI C. JAIN, eds., Computational Intelligence: Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence Springer. 623-637
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, MARC SEGOND, ALEX A. FREITAS, COLIN G. JOHNSON, DENIS ROBILLIARD and CYRIL FONLUPT, 2009. An empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of different types of predictor attributes in protein function prediction.. In: AJITH ABRAHAM, ABOUL-ELLA HASSANIEN and VACLAV SNASEL, eds., Studies in Computational Intelligence Founda. Springer. 339-357
• LAWRENCE BEADLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Semantically Driven Mutation in Genetic Programming. In: 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation IEEE. 1336-1342
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Genetic Programming Crossover: Does It Cross Over? In: European Conference on Genetic Programming. 97-108
• AHMED OKASHA and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Agent-Based Computational Economics: Studying the Effect of Different Levels of Rationality on Inflation and Unemployment. In: 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering IEEE. 20-28
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Handling continuous attributes in ant colony classification algorithms In: 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining. 225-231
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. A hierarchical classification ant colony algorithm for predicting gene ontology terms. In: C. PIZZUTI, M.D. RITCHIE and M. GIACOBINI, eds., Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics 7th European Conference Lectur. Springer. 68-79
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2009. Teaching Natural Computation IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 4(1), 24-30
• IQBAL M, FREITAS AA, JOHNSON CG and VERGASSOLA M, 2008. Message-Passing Algorithms For The Prediction Of Protein Domain Interactions From Protein-Protein Interaction Data. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 24(18), 2064-70
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. Student-Generated Podcasts for Learning and Assessment In: 8th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research. 84-87
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, EMMET MCINTYRE and WILLIAM J. GULLICK, 2008. Computational and Mathematical Modelling of the EGF Receptor System. In: J.D. HAYLEY and WILLIAM J. GULLICK, eds., EGFR Signaling Networks in Cancer Therapy Humana Press. 209-220
• SUSAN STEPNEY, SAMSON ABRAMSKY, ANDREW ADAMATZKY, COLIN G. JOHNSON and JON TIMMIS, 2008. Grand Challenge 7: Journeys in Non-Classical Computation In: Visions of Computer Science 2008. 407-421
• FERNANDO E.B. OTERO, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. cAnt-Miner: an ant colony classification algorithm to cope with continuous attributes. In: MARCO DORIGO, ed., Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence 6th International Conference Springer. 48-59
• ELON S. CORREA, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. A New Discrete Particle Swarm Algorithm Applied to Attribute Selection in a Bioinformatics Data Set. In: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation ACM. 35-42
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. Multi-Level Neutrality in Optimization. In: 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation IEEE. 2604-2609
• ELON S. CORREA, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. Particle swarm for attribute selection in Bayesian classification: an application to protein function prediction Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. 2008, 12 pages
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. A Design Framework for Metaheuristics Artificial Intelligence Review. 29(2), 163-178
• LAWRENCE BEADLE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. Semantically Driven Crossover in Genetic Programming. In: 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation IEEE. 111-116
• MUSADDAR IQBAL, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2008. Protein interaction inference using particle swarm optimization algorithm. In: ELENA MARCHIORI and JASON H. MOORE, eds., Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics 6th European Conference Springer. 61-70
• MUSADDAR IQBAL, ALEX A. FREITAS, COLIN G. JOHNSON and MASSIMO VERGASSOLA, 2008. Message-passing algorithms for the prediction of protein domain interactions from protein?protein interaction data Bioinformatics. 24(18), 2064-2070
• URSULA FULLER, COLIN G. JOHNSON, TUUKKA AHONIEMI, DIANA CUKIERMAN, ISIDORO HERNÁN-LOSADA, JANA JACKOVA, ESSI LAHTINEN, TRACY L. LEWIS, DONNA MCGEE THOMPSON, CHARLES RIESDEL and ERROL THOMPSON, 2007. Developing a Computer Science-specific Learning Taxonomy ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 39(4), 152-170
• ELON S. CORREA, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2007. Particle swarm and bayesian networks applied to attribute selection for protein functional classification. In: TINA YU, ed., GECCO '07 Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation ACM. 2651-2658
• ALEX GOUNAROPOULOS and COLIN GRAEME JOHNSON, 2007. A Neural Network Approach for Synthesising Timbres from Adjectives In: 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2007. A Genetic Algorithm for Coverage Problems. In: D. THIERENS, ed., GECCO '07 Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation ACM. 1521-1521
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2007. Genetic Programming with Fitness based on Model Checking. In: MARC EBNER, M. O'NEILL, ANIKO EKART, L. VANNESCHI and ANNA I. ESPARCIA-ALCAZAR, eds., Genetic Programming 10th European Conference Springer. 114-124
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and URSULA FULLER, 2007. Is Bloom's Taxonomy Appropriate for Computer Science? In: Sixth Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research. 120-123
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2007. The Non-Classical Mind: Cognitive Science and Non-Classical Computing. In: ALFONS SCHUSTER, ed., Intelligent Computing Everywhere Springer. 45-59
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2006. A Design Framework for Metaheuristics: Problem Types and Avoiding Bottlenecking In: The 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2006. Abstract Interpretation of Student Programs as a Strategy for Courseware Development In: Methods, Materials and Tools for Programming Education. 14-20
• ALEX GOUNAROPOULOS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2006. Synthesising Timbres and Timbre-Changes from Adjectives/Adverbs. In: FRANZ ROTHLAUF, JURGEN BRANKE, STEFANO CAGNONI, ERNESTO COSTA, CARLOS COTTA, ROLF DRECHSLER, EVELYNE LUTTON, PENOUSAL MACHADO, JASON H. MOORE and JUAN ROMERO, eds., Applications of Evolutionary Computing EvoWorkshops 2006 Springer. 664-675
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and ALEX GOUNAROPOULOS, 2006. Timbre Interfaces using Adjectives and Adverbs. In: NORBERT SCHNELL, ed., Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression IRCAM. 101-102
• SUSAN STEPNEY, SAMUEL L. BRAUNSTEIN, JOHN A. CLARK, ANDY M. TYRRELL, ANDREW ADAMATZKY, ROBERT E. SMITH, TOM ADDIS, COLIN G. JOHNSON, JON TIMMIS, PETER H. WELCH, ROBIN MILNER and DEREK PARTRIDGE, 2006. Journeys in Non-Classical Computation II: Initial Journeys and Waypoints International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. 21(2), 97-125
• XIULI AN, XINHUA GUO, XIHUI ZHANG, ANTHONY J. BAINES, GARGI DEBNATH, DAMALI MOYO, MARCELA SALOMAO, NISHANT BHASIN, COLIN G. JOHNSON, DENNIS DISCHER, WALTER B. GRATZER and NARLA MOHANDAS, 2006. Conformational stabilities of the structural repeats of erythroid spectrin and their functional implications Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(15), 10527-10532
• CRAIG BISHOP and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. Roles of Variables and Program Analysis In: Proceedings of the 5th Finnish/Baltic Conference on Computer Science Education.
• MUSADDAR IQBAL, ALEX A. FREITAS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. Varying the Topology and Probability of Re-Initialization in Particle Swarm Optimization In: Evolution Artificielle 2005.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. Search and Notions of Creativity In: Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. What can Post-Classical Computation do for Post-Cognitivist Psychology? In: Post-Cognitivist Psychology Conference 2005.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. Non-classical computation the computationalist stance towards the natural and cognitive sciences In: The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation.
• SUSAN STEPNEY, SAMUEL L. BRAUNSTEIN, JOHN A. CLARK, ANDY M. TYRRELL, ANDREW ADAMATZKY, ROBERT E. SMITH, TOM ADDIS, COLIN G. JOHNSON, JON TIMMIS, PETER H. WELCH, ROBIN MILNER and DEREK PARTRIDGE, 2005. Journeys in Non-Classical Computation I: A Grand Challenge for computing research International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. 20(1), 5-19
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. Varieties of Openness in Evolutionary Computation In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Creative Evolutionary Computation.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2005. Does a functioning mind need a functioning body?. In: DARRYL N. DAVIS, ed., Visions of Mind Idea Group Publishing. 307-321
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2004. Using tabu search and genetic algorithms in mathematics research In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing. 243-248
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, JACKI P. GOLDMAN and WILLIAM J. GULLICK, 2004. Simulating complex intracellular processes using object-oriented computational modelling Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 86(3), 379-406
• JENNIFER GREEN, JACQUELINE L. WHALLEY and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2004. Automatic Programming with Ant Colony Optimization In: Proceedings of the 2004 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence. 70-77
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2004. Post-industrial-revolution HCI In: Coping with Complexity: Sharing New Approaches for the Design of Human-Computer Systems in Complex Settings. 7-8
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2004. Do somatic markers need to be somatic? Analogies from evolution and from hardware interlocks In: Proceedings of the AISB 2004 Convention. 33-35
• JACKI P. GOLDMAN, WILLIAM J. GULLICK and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2004. Individual-based simulation of the clustering behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors Scientific Programming. 12(1), 25-43
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2004. What kinds of natural processes can be regarded as computations?. In: R. PATON, ed., Computation in Cells and Tissues: Perspectives and Tools of Thought Springer.
• SUSAN STEPNEY, JOHN A. CLARK, COLIN G. JOHNSON, DEREK PARTRIDGE and ROBERT E. SMITH, 2003. Artificial Immune Systems and the Grand Challenge for Non-Classical Computation In: 2nd International Conference on Artificial Immune Sysyems. 204-216
• M. ALSTON, C.G. JOHNSON and G. ROBINSON, 2003. Colour merging for the visualization of biomolecular sequence data. In: EBAD BANISSI, KATY BORNER, CHAOMEI CHEN, GORDON CLAPWORTHY, CARSTEN MAPLE, AMY LOBBEN, CHRISTOPHER J. MOORE, JONATHAN C. ROBERTS, ANNA URSYN and JIAN ZHANG, eds., Proceedings on Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003 IEEE. 169-175
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2003. A Design Framework for Evolutionary Algorithms
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2003. Artificial Immune Systems Programming for Symbolic Regression. In: CONOR RYAN, TERENCE SOULE, MAARTEN KEIJZER, EDWARD TSANG and RICCARDO POLI, eds., Genetic Programming 6th European Conference Springer. 345-353
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2003. Towards a prehistory of evolutionary and adaptive computation in music. In: GUNTHER R. RAIDL, DAVID W. CORNE, ELENA MARCHIORI, JENS GOTTLIEB, STEFANO CAGNONI, JUAN J. ROMERO CARDALDA, COLIN G. JOHNSON, EMMA HART, MARTIN MIDDENDORF, AGNES GUILLOT and JEAN-ARCADY MEYER, eds., Applications of Evolutionary Computing Springer. 502-509
• JONATHAN MOSS and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2003. An ant colony algorithm for multiple sequence alignment in bioinformatics. In: DAVID W. PEARSON, NIGEL C. STEELE and RUDOLF F. ALBRECHT, eds., Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms: Proceedings of the International Conference Springer. 182-186
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2003. Exploring sound-space with interactive genetic algorithms Leonardo. 36(1), 51-54
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2002. Genetic Programming with Guaranteed Constraints In: Recent Advances in Soft Computing.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2002. What can automatic programming learn from theoretical computer science?. In: XIN YAO, ed., Proceedings of the 2002 U.K. Workshop on Computational Intelligence: UKCI-02 University of Birmingham Press.
• JACQUELINE L. WHALLEY, MICK F. TUITE and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2002. A virtual lab for exploring the [PSI]+ yeast prion In: International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medi- cine and Biological Sciences, METMBS'02. 583-589
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and JUAN J. ROMERO CARDALDA, 2002. Evolutionary Computing in Visual Art and Music Leonardo. 35(2), 175-184
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2002. Deriving genetic programming fitness properties by static analysis. In: EVELYNE LUTTON, JAMES A. FOSTER, JULIAN MILLER, CONOR RYAN and ANDREA TETTAMANZI, eds., Genetic Programming: 5th European Conference Springer. 299-308
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and JACQUELINE L. WHALLEY, 2002. Detecting collisions in sets of moving particles: a survey and some experiments
• JACKI P. GOLDMAN, WILLIAM J. GULLICK, DENNIS BRAY and COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2002. Individual-based simulation of the clustering behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors. In: GARY LAMONT, ed., Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing ACM. 127-131
• JANET CARTER, JILL TARDIVEL, SALLY FINCHER, URSULA FULLER, COLIN G. JOHNSON, JANET LININGTON and IAN UTTING, 2001. Portrait of 2000/01 Part I Assessments, Part 1: Statistical Analysis
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2001. Finding Diverse Examples with Genetic Algorithms. In: ROBERT JOHN and RALPH BIRKENHEAD, eds., Developments in Soft Computing Physica. 92-99
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and STEVEN J. BRODIE, 2001. Phase transitions in multi-robot interactions In: Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots - Proceedings of the 3rd British Conference on Autonomous Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 2001. Understanding complex systems through examples: A framework for qualitative example finding Systems Research and Information Systems. 10(3-4), 239-267
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and GARETH J.F. JONES, 1999. Effective affective communication in virtual environments In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents. 135-138
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and DUNCAN MARSH, 1999. Modelling robot manipulators with multivariate B-splines Robotica. 17(3), 239-247
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 1999. Exploring the sound-space of synthesis algorithms using interactive genetic algorithms. In: A. PATRIZIO, G.A. WIGGINS and HELEN PAIN, eds., Proceedings of the AISB '99 Symposium on Musical Creativity Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. 20-27
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and DUNCAN MARSH, 1998. A CAD Representation of Robot Manipulator Workspace In: 29th International Symposium on Robotics.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and DUNCAN MARSH, 1998. A robot programming environment based on free-form CAD modelling. In: Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE. 194-199
• COLIN G. JOHNSON, 1998. Between-host evolution of mutation-rate and within-host evolution of virulence In: German Workshop on Artificial Life.
• COLIN G. JOHNSON and DUNCAN MARSH, 1996. Modelling Robot Manipulators in a CAD Environment Using B-Splines. In: NIKOLAOS G. BOURBAKIS, ed., Proceedings IEEE International Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems IEEE. 194-201