Select Recent Papers and Reports
by Bruce J. MacLennan
See my Research Page for
additional information on my research programme and for papers
more than ten years old.
- “Swarms of microscopic agents self-assemble into complex
bodies,” LINKs, in press, 2020. http://links-series.com
- “Mapping the Territory of Computation Including Embodied
Computation,” in Andrew Adamatzky (Ed.), Alternative
Computing (tentative title), World Scientific, in press,
2020.
- Bruce J. MacLennan and Allen C. McBride, “Swarm
Intelligence for Morphogenetic Engineering,” in Andrew
Schumann (Ed.), Swarm Intelligence: From Social Bacteria
to Human Beings, Taylor & Francis / CRC, in press,
2020. [ArXiv preprint (pdf): Aug. 13, 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08787]
- “Topographic Representation for Quantum Machine
Learning,” Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Indrajit Pan, Ashish
Mani, Sourav De, Elizabeth Behrman, Susanta Chakraborti
(Eds.), Quantum Machine Learning, Berlin/Boston: De
Gruyter, 2020, ch. 2, pp. 11–37. [ArXiv preprint (pdf): Oct.
13, 2018, revised Jan. 17, 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06992]
- “A Morphogenetic Program for Path Formation by Continuous
Flocking,” International Journal of Unconventional
Computing, 14 (2019), pp. 91–119. [preprint (pdf)]
- Chengrui Li and Bruce J. MacLennan, “Continuous-Time
Systems for Solving 0-1 Integer Linear Programming Feasibility
Problems,” May 12, 2019. http://arXiv.org/abs/1905.04612
- “Philosophia Naturalis Rediviva: Natural
Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century,” in special issue,
“Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies,” Philosophies
2018, 3(4), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies3040038
.
- “Continuum Mechanics for Coordinating Massive Microrobot
Swarms: Self-assembly through Artificial Morphogenesis,” in D.
Zhang & B. Wei (Eds.), Novel Design and Applications
of Robotics Technologies, IGI Global, 2019, ch. 4,
pp. 96–133. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5276-5.ch004.
[preprint (pdf)]
- “Coordinating Swarms of Microscopic Agents to Assemble
Complex Structures,” Ying Tan (Ed.), Swarm
Intelligence, Vol. 1: Principles, Current Algorithms and
Methods (PBCE119), ch. 20, pp. 583–612, IET (The
Institution of Engineering and Technology), 2018. [preprint (pdf)]
- “The Synmac Syntax Macroprocessor: Introduction and
Manual, Version 5” (2018). Faculty Publications and Other
Works — EECS. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_elecpubs/23
- “Could Robots Feel Pain? How Can We Know?” in Steve
Thompson (Ed.), Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in
Contemporary Culture and Society, ch. 7, pp. 151–175,
IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2973-6.ch007.
[preprint (pdf)]
- “Analog Computation,” Encyclopedia of Complexity and
System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al.,
Springer, 2017, 1–32. Revision of earlier article. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_19-6.
- Andrew Adamatzky, Selim Akl, Mark Burgin, Cristian S.
Calude, José Félix Costa, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Yukio-Pegio
Gunji, Zoran Konkoli, Bruce MacLennan, Bruno Marchal, Maurice
Margenstern, Genaro J. Martínez, Richard Mayne, Kenichi
Morita, Andrew Schumann, Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Georgios Ch.
Sirakoulis, Susan Stepney, Karl Svozil, Hector Zenil.
“East-West Paths to Unconventional Computing,” Progress in
Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Dec. 2017, 469–493.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.08.004.
- “Benefits of Embodiment,” Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 40 (2017), e271, published online Nov.
10, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17000206.
- “Field Computation: A Framework for
Quantum-Inspired
Computing,” in Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Ujjwal Maulik, and
Paramartha Dutta (Eds.), Quantum Inspired Computational
Intelligence: Research and Applications, Cambridge, MA:
Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2017, ch. 3, pp. 85–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804409-4.00003-6.
[preprint (pdf)]
- “Physical and Formal Aspects of Computation: Exploiting
Physics for Computation and Exploiting Computation for
Physical Purposes,” in Andy Adamatzky (Ed.), Advances in
Unconventional Computing, Vol. 1: Theory, Springer,
2017, ch. 5, pp. 117–140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33924-5_5.
[preprint (pdf)]
- “Neural Networks, Learning Algorithms, and Intelligence,”
in Gordon Burghardt, Irene Pepperberg, Chuck Snowdon, &
Tom Zentall (Eds.), APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology,
Vol. I, pp. 579–597, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000011-028.
- “Engineering Inspiration: Enhancing Scientific Creativity
through Image Flows,” in Andrew M. Connor and Stefan Marks
(Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary
Applications, Hershey: IGI Global, 2016, ch. 13, pp.
309–333. DOI:
10.4018/978-1-5225-0016-2.ch013. [preprint (pdf)]
- Mahoor, Z., MacLennan, B., and MacBride, A. “Neurally
plausible motor babbling in robot reaching,” in 6th
International Conference on Development and Learning and on
Epigenetic Robotics, September 19–22, 2016,
Cergy-Pontoise / Paris.
- Brasford, David, Smith, Jared M., Connor, R. Joseph,
MacLennan, Bruce J., Holleman, Jeremy. “The Impact of Analog
Computational Error on an Analog Boolean Satisfiability
Solver,” IEEE
International Symposium for Circuits and Systems 2016,
Montreal, Canada, May 22–25, 2016.
- “Ancient Intuition — Modern Science,” in Andrea Blackie
& John H. Spencer (Eds.), The Beacon of Mind: Reason
and Intuition in the Ancient and Modern World, Param
Media, 2015, pp. 219–235.
- “Living Science: Science as an Activity of Living
Beings,” Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology,
Special issue on Life Sciences, Mathematics, and
Phenomenological Philosophy, 119, 3, (2015), 410–419,
published online Aug. 11, 2015. DOI:
10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.08.009. [preprint (pdf)]
- “The Morphogenetic Path to Programmable Matter,” Proceedings
of the IEEE, 103, 7 (July 2015), 1226–1232. DOI:
10.1109/JPROC.2015.2425394 [preprint (pdf)]
- “Coordinating Massive Robot Swarms,” International
Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies, 2,
2 (July-December 2014), 1–19. Appeared in print in July 2015.
DOI:
10.4018/IJRAT.2014070101 [preprint (pdf)]
- “Cognitive Modeling: Connectionist Approaches,” in James
D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences,
2nd edition, Vol 4. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp. 84–89.
New edition of previous article.
- “Ethical Treatment of Robots and the Hard Problem of
Robot Emotions,” International Journal of Synthetic
Emotions, 5 (2014), 1, pp. 10–18. Special issue,
“Introduction to Turing, Part I.” DOI:
10.4018/ijse.2014010102
- “The Promise of Analog Computation,” International
Journal of General Systems, 43 (2014), 7, pp.
682–696, DOI:
10.1080/03081079.2014.920997
- “Field Computation in Natural and Artificial
Intelligence,” Encyclopedia of Complexity and System
Science, 2nd Ed., ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al.,
Springer, 2015. Revision of earlier article.
- “Cognition in Hilbert Space,” Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 36 (2013), 3, pp. 296–7. DOI:
10.1017/S0140525X1200283X
- “Embodied Computation: Applying the Physics of
Computation to Artificial Morphogenesis,” Parallel
Processing Letters, 22, 3 (2012), p. 1240013. DOI:
10.1142/S0129626412400130
- Stepney, S., Diaconescu, A., Doursat, R., Giavitto,
J.-L., Kowaliw, T., Leyser, O., MacLennan, B., Michel, O.,
Miller, J. F., Nikolic, I., Spicher, A., Teuscher, C., Tufte,
G., Vico, F. J. & Yamamoto, L. (2012). “Gardening
Cyber-Physical Systems.” In Unconventional Computation and
Natural Computation 2012, Orleans, France, September
2012. LNCS 7445, pp. 237–238. Springer, 2012.
- “Homunculus’ Quest for a Body,” Goethe’s Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces,
edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University
Press, 2012.
- “Molecular Coordination of Hierarchical Self-Assembly,”
invited for Nano
Communication Networks Journal, available
online 7 February 2012. DOI:
10.1016/j.nancom.2012.01.004. See also “Molecular
Coordination of Hierarchical Self-Assembly,” Technical Report
UT-CS-10-662, Nov. 15, 2010 [pdf].
- “Embodied Computation:
Applying the Physics of Computation to Artificial
Morphogenesis,” Proceedings
of the Satellite Workshops of UC 2011, TUCS Lecture
Notes No. 14, June 2011, pp. 9–20.
- “Artificial Morphogenesis as an Example of Embodied
Computation,” International
Journal of Unconventional Computing 7, 1–2 (2011), pp. 3–23. [corrected proof]
- “Introduction: Computation and Nanotechnology,” Theoretical
and Technological Advancements in Nanotechnology and
Molecular Computation: Interdisciplinary Gains,
Hershey, NJ: IGI Global, 2011.
- “Protophenomena and their Physical Correlates,” invited
for Journal of Cosmology,
14 (April–May, 2011), pp. 4516–4525. Special issue on
consciousness edited by Sir Roger Penrose, FRS, University of
Oxford, and Stuart Hameroff, M.D.
<http://journalofcosmology.com/Consciousness119.html>.
Reprinted in Consciousness
and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain &
Mind, ed. Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff,
Cosmology Science Publishers, 2011.
- “A Formal Model of Universal Algorithmic Assembly and
Molecular Computation,” Int’l.
Journ. Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation 2, 3 (July–Sept. 2010),
pp. 55–67. [proof copy]
- “Morphogenesis as a Model for Nano Communication,”
invited for Nano
Communication Networks Journal 1, 3 (2010), 199–208.
[pdf] doi:10.1016/j.nancom.2010.09.007
- “Bodies — Both Informed and Transformed: Embodied
Computation and Information Processing,” Information and Computation:
Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of
Foundations of Information and Computation, ed. by
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific
Series in Information Studies, Vol. 2, Singapore: World
Scientific Publishing, 2011, pp. 225–253. Invited. [pdf].
- “The U-machine: A Model of Generalized Computation,” International Journal of
Unconventional Computing 6, 3–4 (2010), pp. 265–283.
[pdf]
- “Models and Mechanisms for Artificial Morphogenesis,” Natural Computing,
Springer series, Proceedings in Information and Communications
Technology (PICT) 2, ed. by F. Peper, H. Umeo, N. Matsui, and
T. Isokawa, Tokyo: Springer, 2010, pp. 23–33. Invited.
Preprint [pdf].
- “Models and Mechanisms for Artificial Morphogenesis,” Fourth International Workshop on
Natural Computing (IWNC 2009), Himeji Japan, September
23–25, 2009. Slides [pdf]
for invited presentation.
- “Configuration and Reconfiguration of Complex Systems by
Artificial Morphogenesis,” Reconfigurable Systems Workshop 2009: Discovery
Challenge Thrust, Santa Fe NM, July 20–22, 2009.
Sponsored for AFOSR. Slides for invited presentation [pdf].
- “A Model of Embodied Computation for Artificial
Morphogenesis,” slides [pdf]
for Keynote Address, IEEE Alife 2009, Mar. 30 – Apr. 2, 2009,
Nashville, TN. A video of this presentation is available
(scroll down).
- “A Model of Embodied Computation Oriented Toward
Artificial Morphogenesis,” slides [pdf]
for invited talk, The Science and Philosophy of Unconventional
Computing (SPUC09), Mar. 23–25, 2009, Cambridge
University, Cambridge, UK. They are mostly the same as slides
26–60 of the Alife 2009 Keynote.
- “Super-Turing or Non-Turing? Extending the Concept of
Computation,” The International Journal of Unconventional
Computing 5,
3–4 (2009), Special Issue on Future Trends in
Hypercomputation, pp. 369–87. Unedited draft [pdf].
- “Editorial Preface: Computation and Nanotechnology,” International Journal of
Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation 1, 1 (Jan. 2009). An
unedited draft of some material for this preface is in
“Computation and Nanotechnology: Toward the Fabrication of
Complex Hierarchical Structures,” UT EECS Dept. TR
UT-CS-08-629, Aug. 22, 2008 [pdf].
- “Challenges of Embodied Artificial Intelligence and
Robotics,” invited for The
ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation (International
Test and Evaluation Association), 29-4 (Dec. 2008 / Jan. 2009). See also
“Test and Evaluation Challenges of Embodied Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics,” UT EECS Dept. TR UT-CS-08-628,
Aug. 22, 2008 [pdf].
- “A Protophenomenological Analysis of Synthetic Emotion in
Robots,” UT EECS Dept. TR UT-CS-08-623, Aug. 6, 2008 [pdf]. Unedited draft of
“Robot React, but Can They Feel?” (Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and
Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing
and Artificial Intelligence, edited by Jordi
Vallverdú and David Casacuberta, Hershey, NJ: IGI Global,
2009, pp. 133–53).
- “Aspects of Embodied Computation: Toward a Reunification
of the Physical and the Formal,” UT EECS Dept. TR
UT-CS-08-610, March 6, 2008; revised Aug. 6, 2008 [pdf]. See also slides [pdf] from a related
presentation “Embodiment and Non-Turing Models of Computation”
at The
2008 North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy:
The Limits of Computation (The International Association for Computing
and Philosophy, Bloomington, IN, July 10–12,
2008).
- “Embodied Computing,” invitation-only NSF
Workshop on Molecular Communication and Biological
Communications Technology, Arlington, VA, Feb. 20–1,
2008. Slides for presentation [pdf]
- “Aesthetics in Software Engineering,” Encyclopedia of
Information Science and Technology, 2nd Ed., ed.
by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, IGI Global, 2008, Vol. I.
- “Field Computation in Natural and Artificial
Intelligence,” Encyclopedia of Complexity and System
Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, 2009,
part 6, entry 199, pp. 3334–3360.
10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_199. <http://www.springer.com/physics/complexity/book/978-0-387-75888-6>
An
unedited draft is available as “A Review of Field
Computation,” UT EECS Dept. TR UT-CS-07-606, Oct. 31,
2007. [pdf]
- “Analog Computation,” invited by Section Editor for
Unconventional Computing, Encyclopedia of Complexity and
System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al.,
Springer, 2009, part 1, entry 19, pp. 271–294. DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_19. <http://www.springer.com/physics/complexity/book/978-0-387-75888-6>
An unedited draft is available as “A Review of Analog
Computing,” UT EECS Dept. TR-CS-07-601, Sept. 13, 2007. [pdf]
- “Evolutionary Psychology, Complex Systems, and Social
Theory,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol.
XC, No. 3–4 (Fall/Winter 2007), pp. 169–89. Extended,
unedited draft [pdf].
- “Consciousness: Natural and Artificial,” Synthesis Philosophica 22, 2 (2008), pp. 401–33.
Invited for special issue on consciousness. [pdf]
- “Protophenomena: The Elements of Consciousness and their
Relation to the Brain,” invited for Irreducibly Conscious:
Selected Papers on Consciousness, ed. by Alexander
Batthyány, Avshalom Elitzur & Dimitri Constant, Heidelberg
& New York: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, ch. X (pp.
189–214). [pdf]
- “Self-Organization for Nano-Computation and
Nano-Assembly,” Workshop on Emergent Behavior (WEB 07),
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, March 6–7,
2007. Slides for presentation [pdf]
- “Highly Programmable Matter & Generalized
Computation: Research in Reconfigurable Analog & Digital
Computation in Bulk Materials,” 1st AFRL Reconfigurable
Systems Workshop, Air Force Research Laboratory,
Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 14–15, 2007. Slides for
presentation [pdf]
Bruce
MacLennan / MacLennan@utk.edu
Last updated: 2020-12-09.