Seth Bullock
- Position
- Professor
- Institution
- Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)
- Webpage
- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/sgb
- Contact
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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
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) |
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) |
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) |
Research Groups
Head of Science and Engineering of Natural Systems group
Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)
Institute for Complex Systems Simulations (ICSS)
University of Southampton
Projects
Adding social ties to the Schelling model
With Sally Brailsford (Investigator), Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg
An Investigation into the Cascade Effect of Mergers on the Global Financial Markets
With Antonella Ianni (Investigator), Camillia Zedan
Bayesian Agents as Models for the Disclosure Behaviour of Pregnant Drinkers
With Jakub Bijak (Investigator), Jonathan Gray
Care Life Cycle
With Sally Brailsford, Jason Noble, Jakub Bijak (Investigators), Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg, Jason Hilton, Jonathan Gray
Complex Systems Simulations Centre for Doctoral Training
With Jonathan Essex, Hans Fangohr (Investigators)
Fracturing of small social networks
With Sally Brailsford (Investigator), Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg
Lagrangian modelling of ecosystem dynamics at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study station
With Tom Anderson (Investigator), Melissa Saeland
Simulating Human Expansion in the Early Pleistocene
With Fraser Sturt (Investigator), Iza Romanowska
Spatial Mobility in the Formation of Agent-Based Economic Networks
With Antonella Ianni (Investigator), Camillia Zedan
The Maximum Entropy Production Principle and Natural Convection
With James Dyke (Investigator), Stuart Bartlett
Understanding the Role of Recruitment in Robot Foraging
With Richard Crowder (Investigator), Lenka Pitonakova