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Conference Papers

Hardhienata MKD; Ugrinovskii V; Merrick KE, 2014, 'Task allocation under communication constraints using motivated particle swarm optimization', in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014, pp. 3135 - 3142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2014.6900560

Debie E; Shafi K; Merrick K; Lokan CJ, 2014, 'An Online Evolutionary Rule Learning Algorithm with Incremental Attribute Discretization', in 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), IEEE, Beijing, China, pp. 1116 - 1123, presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Beijing, China, 06 July 2014 - 11 July 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2014.6900623

Debie E; Shafi K; Lokan CJ; Merrick K, 2013, 'Investigating Differential Evolution Based Rule Discovery in Learning Classifier Systems', in Brest J; Das S; Neri F; Suganthan PN (eds.), Singapore, pp. 77 - 84, presented at 2013 IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution, Singapore, 16 April 2013 - 19 April 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SDE.2013.6601445

debie E; shafi K; Lokan CJ; merrick K, 2013, 'Reduct Based Ensemble of Learning Classifier System for Real-valued Classification Problems', in Pal NR; Yao X; Suganthan PN (eds.), Proceedings 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning (CIEL 2013), Singapore, pp. 66 - 73, presented at 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning, Singapore, 16 April 2013 - 19 April 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIEL.2013.6613142

Tian B; Merrick K; Yi S; Hu J, 2013, 'A Hierarchical PeA-based Anomaly Detection Model', in Proceedings 2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Communications and Information Security Symposium, IEEE, San Diego, USA, presented at 2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Communications and Information Security Symposium, San Diego, USA, 28 January 2013 - 31 January 2013

Wang B; Merrick K; Abbass HA, 2012, 'Developing Attention Focus Metrics for Autonomous Hypothesis Generation in Data Mining', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, pp. 290 - 299, presented at The Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, 16 December 2012 - 19 December 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34859-4_29

Shafi K; Merrick K; Debie E, 2012, 'Evolution of Intrinsic Motives in Multi-agent Simulations', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, pp. 198 - 207, presented at The Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, 16 December 2012 - 19 December 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34859-4_20

Hardhienata M; Merrick K; Ugrinovskii V, 2012, 'Task allocation in multi-agent systems using models of motivation and leadership', Brisbane, QLD, pp. 86 - 93, presented at 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Brisbane, QLD, 10 June 2012 - 15 June 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2012.6256114

Merrick K; Gu N, 2011, 'Supporting Collective Intelligence for Design in Virtual Worlds: A Case Study of Lego Universe', in CAAD Futures 2011 - Designing Together, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, pp. 637 - 652, presented at Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures, Liege, Belgium, 04 July 2011 - 08 July 2011, http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?cf2011_p016

Merrick K; Shafi K; Isaacs A, 2011, 'Using Approach-Avoidance Motivation to Model Adaptive Social-Forces in Artificial Agents', in Proceedings of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011, Taipei, pp. 83 - 90, presented at AAMAS 2011 Workshop on Adaptive Learning Agents, Taipei, 02 May 2011

Merrick K; Gu N; Niazi M; Shafi K, 2011, 'Motivation, Cyberworlds and Collective Intelligence in Design', in Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research, CAADRIA, Hong Kong, pp. 697 - 706, presented at 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2011, Newcastle, NSW, 27 April 2011 - 29 April 2011, http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?caadria2011_066

Merrick K, 2011, 'A Computational Model of Achievement Motivation for Artificial Agents', in Procededings of the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1067 - 1068, presented at Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2011/

Shafi K; Merrick K, 2011, 'A Curious Agent for Network Anomaly Detection', in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1075 - 1076, presented at Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2011/index.html

Maher ML; Merrick K; Graham B, 2011, 'Reasoning in the Absence of Goals', in Advances in Cognitive Systems - Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, Technical Report, AI Access Foundation, El Segundo, CA, United States, pp. 202 - 209, presented at AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems, USA, http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FSS/FSS11/paper/view/4178/4555

Gu N; Singh V; Merrick K, 2010, 'A FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE GENERATIVE DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING DESIGN AUTOMATION', in CAADRIA2010: New Frontiers, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia,, Association for Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Research in Asia, Chinese University, Hong Kong, pp. 127 - 136, presented at 15th CAADRIA Conference: New Frontiers, Chinese University, Hong Kong, 07 April 2010 - 10 April 2010, http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?caadria2010_012

Merrick K; Scully T, 2009, 'Modelling Affordances for the Control and Evaluation of Intrinsically Motivated Robots', in Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, Sydney, presented at 2009 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2009, Sydney, Australia, 02 December 2009 - 04 December 2009, http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2009/

Merrick K, 2009, 'Evaluating Intrinsically Motivated Robots using Affordances and Point-Cloud Matrices', in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies, 145. Lund: LUCS, Netherlands, presented at 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob09),, Venice, Italy, 12 November 2009 - 14 November 2009, http://www.lucs.lu.se/LUCS/145/

Merrick K; Shafi K, 2009, 'Agent Models for Self-Motivated Home Assistant Bots', in 2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR LIFE SCIENCES (CMLS-09), American Institute of Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria, presented at 2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERNECE ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR LIFE SCIENCES (CMLS-09), Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 July 2009 - 29 July 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3314265

Merrick K, 2008, 'Modelling Behaviour Cycles for Life-Long Learning in Motivated Agents', in LNCS 5361: Simulated Evolution and Learning ? SEAL 2008, Melbourne, Australia, presented at 7th International Conf. on Simulated Evolution & Learning (SEAL 2008), Melbourne, Australia, 07 December 2008 - 10 December 2008

Merrick K; Huntington EH, 2008, 'Attention Focus in Curious, Reconfigurable Robots', in Proc: Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation 2008, Canberra, Australia, presented at 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation - ACRA 2008, Canberra, Australia, 03 December 2008 - 05 December 2008

Merrick K, 2008, 'Designing Toys That Come Alive: Curious Robots for Creative Play', in Proceedings: 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2008), Cernegie Mellon Uni, USA, presented at 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2008), Cernegie Mellon Uni, USA, 25 September 2008 - 27 September 2008

Merrick K; Maher ML; Saunders R, 2008, 'Achieving Adaptable Behaviour in Intelligent Rooms using Curious Supervised Learning Agents', in Proceedings of 13th conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia - CADRIA 2008 Beyond Computer Aided Design, Chiang Mai, Thailand, presented at CAADRIA 2008, Beyond Computer Aided Design, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 30 March 2008

Merrick K, 2008, 'Achieving Creative Behaviour Using Curious Learning Agents', in Culture and Climate: Cracking the Code. The Sixth International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care [obhc2008], Sydney, Australia, pp. 40 - 46, presented at Culture and Climate: Cracking the Code. The 6th International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care [obhc2008], Sydney, Australia, 26 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Merrick K, 2008, 'Designing toys that come alive: Curious robots for creative play', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 149 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89222-9_16

Maher ML; Merrick K; Saunders R, 2007, 'From Passive to Proactive Design Elements: Incorporating Curious Agents into Building Design', in 12th International CAAD Futures Conference, Sydney, Sydney, 11 July 2007 - 13 July 2007

Merrick K; Maher ML, 2007, 'Motivated Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Characters in Open-Ended Simulation Games', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2007, Salzburg, Austria, presented at ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2007), Salzburg, Austria, 13 June 2007 - 15 June 2007

Maher ML; Merrick K; Macindoe O; Saunders R, 2007, 'Learning Models for Curious Places', in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Nanjing, China, presented at CAADRIA 2007: Digitization and Globalization, Nanjing, China, 19 April 2007 - 21 April 2007

Merrick K; Saunders R; Maher ML, 2007, 'Curious Places: Curious, Proactive, Adaptive Built Environments', Newcastle, UK, Newcastle, UK, 03 April 2007

Maher ML; Merrick K; Saunders R, 2007, 'From passive to proactive design elements', in Dong A; VandeMoere A; Gero JS (eds.), COMPUTER-AIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FUTURES (CAAD FUTURES) 2007, SPRINGER, AUSTRALIA, Sydney, pp. 447 - +, presented at 12th Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures Conference, AUSTRALIA, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6528-6_33

Merrick K; Maher ML, 2006, 'Motivated Reinforcement Learning for Non-Player Characters in Persistent Computer Game Worlds', in Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology, Los Angeles, USA, presented at ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Los Angeles, USA, 14 June 2006 - 16 June 2006

Maher ML; Rosenman M; Merrick K; Macindoe O; Marchant D, 2006, 'DesignWorld: An Augmented 3D Virtual World for Multidisciplinary, Collaborative Design', in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Kumamoto, Japan, presented at CAADRIA 2006, Kumamoto, Japan, 31 March 2006 - 02 April 2006

Rosenman M; Merrick K; Maher ML; Marchant D, 2006, 'DesignWorld: A Multidisciplinary, Collaborative Design Environment Using Agent-Based Virtual Worlds', in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Springer, 10-12 July 2006, presented at 2nd International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Maher ML; Merrick K; Macindoe O, 2006, 'Intrinsically Motivated Intelligent Sensed Environments', in proceedings of the 13th Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering on Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture, EG-ICE 2006, Springer, Ascona, Switzerland, presented at 13th Internationl Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Ascona, Switzerland

Maher ML; Merrick K; Macindoe O, 2005, 'Can Designs Themselves Be Creative?', in HI?05: Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, UNSW, Sydney, presented at 6th International Roundtable Conference on Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia, 10 December 2005 - 14 December 2005

Maher ML; Merrick K, 2005, 'Agent Models for Dynamic 3D Virtual Worlds', in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds, IEEE Computer Society Press, Singapore, presented at 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds, Singapore, 23 November 2005 - 25 November 2005

Kasmarik K; Uther WT; Maher ML, 2005, 'Motivated Agents', in IJCAI-05, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, presented at 19th International joint conference on artificial intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July 2005 - 05 August 2005

Rosenman M; Merrick K; Maher ML; Ahmed A; Shen R; Macindoe O; Marchant D; Namprempree K, 2004, 'Multidisciplinary collaboration using agent-based virtual worlds', in Proceedings of Clients Driving Innovation International Conference 2004, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, presented at 2nd International Conference Clients Driving Innovation: Moving Ideas into Practice, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 25 October 2004 - 27 October 2004

Kasmarik K; Thurbon J, 2003, 'An experimental evaluation of a program visualisation tool for use in computer science education', in Australian Computer Science Communications, Australian Computer Society, Sydney, Australia, presented at Information visualisation 2003 : Australian Symposium on Information Visualisation, Adelaide, Australia, -


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