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In October 2005 I joined the University of Southampton, and helped to found the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) research group within the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). In 2009 I became head of the SENSe group, and also became Director of Southampton's Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS).

In 2010 I became co-director of the University Strategic Research Group in Complexity in Real World Contexts (USRG Complexity), for which I run a Complex Systems Simulation Seminar Series (CS^4). In 2011 I was promoted to Professor of Computer Science and helped found the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group.

Research Interests

My principal research interest is evolutionary simulation modelling: the application of evolutionary modelling techniques developed within artificial intelligence (e.g., genetic algorithms) to problems within evolutionary biology (e.g., the evolution of communication). I am also interested in self-organisation and adaptation in engineered systems, such as computational ecosystems, and the potential for the modelling techniques that I use to be applied to problems from many other disciplines, e.g., linguistics, economics, psychology, geography, anthropology, etc.

Some of my additional research interests include:

• modelling tools related to the evolutionary simulation modelling approach such as evolutionary computation, evolutionary and economic game theory, artificial neural networks, and evolutionary theory
• the interplay between self-organsiation and evolution
• networks science - particularly coevolutionary networks
• philosophical and methodological issues raised by evolutionary simulation modelling - philosophy of science and philosophy of biology
• engineering applications of evolutionary computation such as evolutionary and coevolutionary design paradigms
• areas of evolutionary biology, such as the handicap principle and signalling, sexual selection, and coevolution
• psychological topics, such as the evolution of cognition and decision-making, rationality, and experimental economics
• research areas sometimes termed: the simulation of adaptive behaviour, evolutionary robotics, complex systems theory, individual-based models, synthetic psychology, biology and behavioural ecology

Publications

My publications are available here.

See also

More information is available on my personal website.

Location

Highfield Campus, Building 16, Room 1045

Seth's team members

Sarah Ward Postgraduate Research Student, Geography (FSHS)

Stuart Bartlett Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg Postgraduate Research Student, Management (FBL)

Anastasia Eleftheriou Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Jonathan Gray Postgraduate Research Student, Social Sciences (FSHS)

Thomas Hebbron Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Nicholas Hill Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Lenka Pitonakova Postgraduate Research Student, University of Southampton

Iza Romanowska Postgraduate Research Student, Humanities (FH)

David Arden Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Camillia Zedan Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Miguel Gonzalez Canudas Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Garvin Haslett Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Tom Hebbron Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Leo Jofeh Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Sabin Roman Postgraduate Research Student, University of Southampton

Melissa Saeland Postgraduate Research Student, National Oceanography Centre (FNES)

Susanne Ufermann Fangohr Administrative Staff, Civil Engineering & the Environment (FEE)

Petrina Butler Administrative Staff, Research and Innovation Services

Joint projects with...

Tom Anderson Principal Research Fellow, National Oceanography Centre (FNES)

Jakub Bijak Professor, Social Sciences (FSHS)

Sally Brailsford Professor, Management (FBL)

Richard Crowder Senior Lecturer, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

James Dyke Lecturer, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Jonathan Essex Professor, Chemistry (FNES)

Hans Fangohr Professor, Engineering Sciences (FEE)

Antonella Ianni Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences (FSHS)

Jason Noble Research Fellow, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Fraser Sturt Senior Lecturer, Humanities (FH)

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