Wadham College, Oxford Meeting : Emergent Behaviour

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Time	Session	Supervisor
09:00	Registration and Coffee
09:50	Introduction	Neil Townsend (University of Oxford)
10:00	Learning to play with multiple agents	Andy Wright (BAE Systems & Bristol University)
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Emergence in social behaviour: blessing or curse?	Edmund Chattoe (University of Oxford)
12:10	The GRID	Jim Fleming (EPSRC)
12:45	Lunch
14:00	Reinforcement Learning – emergence by design?	Andrew Swann (Rolls-Royce, Derby)
14:35	Designing filters with nets plus Visualising the level playing field (How UK universities really differ)	Nigel Allinson (UMIST)
15:15	Tea
15:45	Neural networks and data fusion techniques for the next generation of patient monitors	Lionel Tarassenko (University of Oxford)
16:30	Solution to Puzzle Corner #17
16:45	Wine Reception and Canapés in the Cloister Gardens (weather permitting, otherwise in the Old Library)	Kindly sponsored by Oxford BioSignals
18:00	Meet at the Porter's Lodge for Punting on the Cherwell	Kindly sponsored by Oxford BioSignals
21:00	Informal meal in a local Indian restaurant

Time	Session	Supervisor
09:00	Registration and Coffee
09:45	Fitting densities and hazard functions with neural networks	Charles Johnston (Coventry University)
10:20	Statistical properties of combinatorial landscapes (with applications to local search and genetic algorithms)	Colin Reeves (Coventry University)
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Current developments in biometrics	Julian Ashbourn (British Airways)
12:10	Automating the assessment of health during birth	Shelley Cazares (University of Oxford)
12:45	Lunch
14:00	Emergent management of decentralised business systems	Paul Kearney (BTexact Technologies)
14:40	Bayesian ICA with flexible source densities	Rizwan Choudrey (University of Oxford)
15:15	Tea and close of meeting