Simon M. Lucas

Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas, Thomas Philip Runarsson, David Robles: Coevolving Game-Playing Agents: Measuring Performance and Intransitivities. IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 17(2): 213-226 (2013)

Cameron Browne, Edward J. Powley, Daniel Whitehouse, Simon M. Lucas, Peter I. Cowling, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Stephen Tavener, Diego Perez, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon Colton: A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intellig. and AI in Games 4(1): 1-43 (2012)

Diego Perez, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas: The physical travelling salesman problem: WCCI 2012 competition. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2012: 1-8

Simon M. Lucas, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Diego Perez: Towards more intelligent adaptive video game agents: a computational intelligence perspective. Conf. Computing Frontiers 2012: 293-298

Daniel Ashlock, Wendy Ashlock, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas, Colin Lee: From competition to cooperation: Co-evolution in a rewards continuum. CIG 2012: 33-40

Mark J. Nelson, Paolo Burelli, Kostas Karpouzis, Simon M. Lucas, Peter I. Cowling: Tutorials. CIG 2012

Thomas Philip Runarsson, Simon M. Lucas: Imitating play from game trajectories: Temporal difference learning versus preference learning. CIG 2012: 79-82

Luis Peña, Sascha Ossowski, José María Peña, Simon M. Lucas: Learning and evolving combat game controllers. CIG 2012: 195-202

Diego Perez, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas: Monte Carlo Tree Search: Long-term versus short-term planning. CIG 2012: 219-226

Samuel A. Roberts, Simon M. Lucas: Evolving spaceship designs for optimal control and the emergence of interesting behaviour. CIG 2012: 342-349

Wichit Sombat, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas: Evaluating the enjoyability of the ghosts in Ms Pac-Man. CIG 2012: 379-387

Diego Perez, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas: Monte-Carlo Tree Search for the Physical Travelling Salesman Problem. EvoApplications 2012: 255-264

Carlos R. Jaimez González, Wulfrano A. Luna-Ramirez, Simon M. Lucas: A web tool for monitoring HTTP asynchronous method invocations. ICITST 2012: 127-132

Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius: Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games (Dagstuhl Seminar 12191). Dagstuhl Reports 2(5): 43-70 (2012)

Spyridon Samothrakis, David Robles, Simon M. Lucas: Fast Approximate Max-n Monte Carlo Tree Search for Ms Pac-Man. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intellig. and AI in Games 3(2): 142-154 (2011)

Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas: Ms Pac-Man versus Ghost Team CEC 2011 competition. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2011: 70-77

Atif M. Alhejali, Simon M. Lucas: Using a training camp with Genetic Programming to evolve Ms Pac-Man agents. CIG 2011: 118-125

David Robles, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas: Learning non-random moves for playing Othello: Improving Monte Carlo Tree Search. CIG 2011: 305-312

Aisha A. Abdullahi, Simon M. Lucas: Temporal difference learning with interpolated n-tuples: Initial results from a simulated car racing environment. CIG 2011: 321-328

Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas: Approximating n-player behavioural strategy nash equilibria using coevolution. GECCO 2011: 1107-1114

Sung-Bae Cho, Simon M. Lucas, Philip Hingston (Eds.): 2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2011, Seoul, South Korea, August 31 - September 3, 2011. IEEE 2011, isbn 978-1-4577-0010-1

Spyridon Samothrakis, David Robles, Simon M. Lucas: A UCT agent for Tron: Initial investigations. CIG 2010: 365-371

Simon M. Lucas: Estimating learning rates in evolution and TDL: Results on a simple grid-world problem. CIG 2010: 372-379

Simon M. Lucas: Grammatical Inference and Games: Extended Abstract. ICGI 2010: 1-4

Simon M. Lucas: Information Theory and Game Strategy Learning. IJCCI (ICFC-ICNC) 2010: 11-11

Simon M. Lucas: Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: A New IEEE Transactions. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intellig. and AI in Games 1(1): 1-3 (2009)

Shirin Ghanbari, John C. Woods, Simon M. Lucas: Semi-automatic BPT for Image Retrieval. CBMI 2009: 33-37

Peter Burrow, Simon M. Lucas: Evolution versus Temporal Difference Learning for learning to play Ms. Pac-Man. CIG 2009: 53-60

Simon M. Lucas: Screen-capture Ms Pac-Man. CIG 2009

Simon M. Lucas: Ms Pac-Man versus ghost-team competition. CIG 2009

Simon M. Lucas: Temporal difference learning with interpolated table value functions. CIG 2009: 32-37

David Robles, Simon M. Lucas: A simple tree search method for playing Ms. Pac-Man. CIG 2009: 249-255

Alejandro Foullon-Perez, Simon M. Lucas: Orientational features with the SNT-grid. IJCNN 2009: 877-881

Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas, Ho Duc Thang, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Tomoharu Nakashima, Chin Hiong Tan, Itamar Elhanany, Shay Berant, Philip Hingston, Robert M. MacCallum, Thomas Haferlach, Aravind Gowrisankar, Peter Burrow: The 2007 IEEE CEC simulated car racing competition. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 9(4): 295-329 (2008)

Shirin Ghanbari, John C. Woods, Hamid R. Rabiee, Simon M. Lucas: Wavelet domain binary partition trees for image segmentation. CBMI 2008: 302-307

Simon M. Lucas: Investigating learning rates for evolution and temporal difference learning. CIG 2008: 1-7

Daniele Loiacono, Julian Togelius, Pier Luca Lanzi, Leonard Kinnaird-Heether, Simon M. Lucas, Matt Simmerson, Diego Perez, Robert G. Reynolds, Yago Sáez: The WCCI 2008 simulated car racing competition. CIG 2008: 119-126

Alexandros Agapitos, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Andreas Konstantinidis: Generating diverse opponents with multiobjective evolution. CIG 2008: 135-142

Alexandros Agapitos, Matthew Dyson, Simon M. Lucas, Francisco Sepulveda: Learning to recognise mental activities: genetic programming of stateful classifiers for brain-computer interfacing. GECCO 2008: 1155-1162

Alexandros Agapitos, Matthew Dyson, Jenya Kovalchuk, Simon M. Lucas: On the genetic programming of time-series predictors for supply chain management. GECCO 2008: 1163-1170

Theodoros Theodoridis, Alexandros Agapitos, Huosheng Hu, Simon M. Lucas: Ubiquitous robotics in physical human action recognition: A comparison between dynamic ANNs and GP. ICRA 2008: 3064-3069

Günter Rudolph, Thomas Jansen, Simon M. Lucas, Carlo Poloni, Nicola Beume (Eds.): Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN X, 10th International Conference Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5199, Springer 2008, isbn 978-3-540-87699-1

Andy C. Downton, Jingyu He, Simon M. Lucas: User-configurable OCR enhancement for online natural history archives. IJDAR 9(2-4): 263-279 (2007)

Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds: Learning Finite-State Transducers: Evolution Versus Heuristic State Merging. IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 11(3): 308-325 (2007)

Alexandros Agapitos, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Multiobjective techniques for the use of state in genetic programming applied to simulated car racing. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 1562-1569

Julian Togelius, Peter Burrow, Simon M. Lucas: Multi-population competitive co-evolution of car racing controllers. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 4043-4050

Man Yat Lo, Simon M. Lucas: N-gram fitness function with a constraint in a musical evolutionary system. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 4246-4251

Simon M. Lucas: A statistically aligned recombination operator for finite state machines. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 4554-4560

Julian Togelius, Renzo De Nardi, Simon M. Lucas: Towards automatic personalised content creation for racing games. CIG 2007: 252-259

Simon M. Lucas, Julian Togelius: Point-to-Point Car Racing: an Initial Study of Evolution Versus Temporal Difference Learning. CIG 2007: 260-267

Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas: Evolving a Statistics Class Using Object Oriented Evolutionary Programming. EuroGP 2007: 291-300

Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas: Evolving Modular Recursive Sorting Algorithms. EuroGP 2007: 301-310

Julian Togelius, Renzo De Nardi, Hugo Gravato Marques, Richard Newcombe, Simon M. Lucas, Owen Holland: Nonlinear dynamics modelling for controller evolution. GECCO 2007: 324-333

Edgar Galván López, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Towards understanding the effects of neutrality on the sudoku problem. GECCO 2007: 1509

Alexandros Agapitos, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Evolving controllers for simulated car racing using object oriented genetic programming. GECCO 2007: 1543-1550

Carlos R. Jaimez González, Simon M. Lucas: Implementing a State-Based Application Using Web Objects in XML. OTM Conferences (1) 2007: 577-594

Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas, Renzo De Nardi: Computational Intelligence in Racing Games. Advanced Intelligent Paradigms in Computer Games 2007: 39-69

Simon M. Lucas, Thomas Philip Runarsson: Temporal Difference Learning Versus Co-Evolution for Acquiring Othello Position Evaluation. CIG 2006: 52-59

Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas: Learning Recursive Functions with Object Oriented Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2006: 166-177

Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Arms Races and Car Races. PPSN 2006: 613-622

Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Evolving controllers for simulated car racing. CoRR abs/cs/0611006 (2006)

Simon M. Lucas, Alex Panaretos, Luis Sosa, Anthony Tang, Shirley Wong, Robert Young, Kazuki Ashida, Hiroki Nagai, Masayuki Okamoto, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Miyao, JunMin Zhu, WuWen Ou, Christian Wolf, Jean-Michel Jolion, Leon Todoran, Marcel Worring, Xiaofan Lin: ICDAR 2003 robust reading competitions: entries, results, and future directions. IJDAR 7(2-3): 105-122 (2005)

Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds: Learning Deterministic Finite Automata with a Smart State Labeling Evolutionary Algorithm. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 27(7): 1063-1074 (2005)

Thomas Philip Runarsson, Simon M. Lucas: Coevolution versus self-play temporal difference learning for acquiring position evaluation in small-board go. IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 9(6): 628-640 (2005)

Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Evolving controllers for simulated car racing. Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005: 1906-1913

Simon M. Lucas: Evolving a Neural Network Location Evaluator to Play Ms. Pac-Man. CIG 2005

Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas: Forcing Neurocontrollers to Exploit Sensory Symmetry Through Hard-wired Modularity in the Game of Cellz. CIG 2005

Simon M. Lucas: Text Locating Competition Results. ICDAR 2005: 80-85

Simon M. Lucas, Kyu Tae Cho: Fast Convolutional OCR with the Scanning N-Tuple Grid. ICDAR 2005: 799-805

Simon M. Lucas: Exploiting Reflection in Object Oriented Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2004: 369-378

Simon M. Lucas, Tzu-Kuo Huang: Sequence Recognition with Scanning N-Tuple Ensembles. ICPR (3) 2004: 410-413

Maarten Keijzer, Una-May O'Reilly, Simon M. Lucas, Ernesto Costa, Terence Soule (Eds.): Genetic Programming, 7th European Conference, EuroGP2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3003, Springer 2004, isbn 3-540-21346-5

Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds: Learning DFA: evolution versus evidence driven state merging. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (1) 2003: 351-358

Simon M. Lucas: Evolving Finite State Transducers: Some Initial Explorations. EuroGP 2003: 130-141

Andy C. Downton, Simon M. Lucas, Gregory Patoulas, G. W. Beccaloni, M. J. Scoble, G. S. Robinson: Computerising Natural History Card Archives. ICDAR 2003: 354-358

Simon M. Lucas, Gregory Patoulas, Andy C. Downton: Fast Lexicon-Based Word Recognition in Noisy Index Card Images. ICDAR 2003: 462-466

Simon M. Lucas, Alex Panaretos, Luis Sosa, Anthony Tang, Shirley Wong, Robert Young: ICDAR 2003 Robust Reading Competitions. ICDAR 2003: 682-687

Simon M. Lucas: Discriminative Training of the Scanning N-Tuple Classifier. IWANN (1) 2003: 222-229

Eiki Ishidera, Simon M. Lucas, Andy C. Downton: Top-Down Likelihood Word Image Generation Model for Holistic Word Recognition. Document Analysis Systems 2002: 82-94

Eiki Ishidera, Simon M. Lucas, Andy C. Downton: Likelihood Word Image Generation Model for Word Recognition. ICPR (3) 2002: 172-175

Simon M. Lucas: Web-Based Evaluation and Deployment of Pattern Recognizers. ICPR (3) 2002: 419-422

Simon M. Lucas: Efficient graph-based dictionary search and its application to text-image searching. Pattern Recognition Letters 22(5): 551-562 (2001)

Simon M. Lucas, A. C. Tams, Sung J. Cho, Andy C. Downton, Sungho Ryu: Robust Word Recognition for Museum Archive Card Indexing. ICDAR 2001: 144-148

Andy C. Downton, A. C. Tams, G. J. Wells, A. C. Holmes, Simon M. Lucas, G. W. Beccaloni, M. J. Scoble, G. S. Robinson: Constructing Web-Based Legacy Index Card Archives - Architectural Design Issues and Initial Data Acquisition. ICDAR 2001: 854-858

Simon M. Lucas, Kostas Sarampalis: Automatic Evaluation of Algorithms over the Internet. ICPR 2000: 2471-2474

Simon M. Lucas: Efficient Best-First Dictionary Search Given Graph-Based Input. ICPR 2000: 4434-4437

Andy C. Downton, Simon M. Lucas, L. Du: Lazy Evaluation for Best-First Contextual Handwriting Recognition. ICDAR 1999: 589-592

Simon M. Lucas: Face recognition with the continuous n-tuple classifier. BMVC 1997

L. Du, Andy C. Downton, Simon M. Lucas, Badr Al-Badr: Generalized Contextual Recognition of Hand-Printed Documents Using Semantic Trees with Lazy Evaluation. ICDAR 1997: 238-242

Simon M. Lucas: Forward-Backward Building Blocks for Evolving Neural Networks with Intrinsic Learning Behaviors. IWANN 1997: 723-732

Simon M. Lucas: Rapid best-first retrieval from massive dictionaries. Pattern Recognition Letters 17(14): 1507-1512 (1996)

Simon M. Lucas: Evolving neural network learning behaviours with set-based chromosomes. ESANN 1996

Simon M. Lucas: Growing adaptive neural networks with graph grammars. ESANN 1995

Simon M. Lucas: Structuring Chromosomes for Context-Free Grammar Evolution. International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1994: 130-135

Simon M. Lucas, Enrique Vidal, A. Amiri, S. Hanlon, Juan-Carlos Amengual: A Comparison of Syntactic and Statistical Techniques for Off-Line OCR. ICGI 1994: 168-179