1 Journal Articles and Reviewed Commentary

  1. Philipp Rohlfshagen and Joanna J. Bryson, “Flexible Latching: A Biologically-Inspired Mechanism for Improving the Management of Homeostatic Goals”, 2(3):230–241, 2010. Cognitive Computation, 2010.
  2. Joanna J. Bryson “Why Robot Nannies Probably Won’t Do Much Psychological Damage”, invited and reviewed commentary on Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey, “The crying shame of robot nannies: an ethical appraisal”, Interaction Studies, 11(2):196–200, June 2010.
  3. Joanna J. Bryson and Emmanuel A. R. Tanguy “Simplifying the Design of Human-Like Behaviour: Emotions as Durative Dynamic State for Action Selection”, International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 1(1):30–50, January 2010.
  4. Joanna J. Bryson “Building Persons is a Choice”, invited and reviewed commentary on Anne Foerst, “Robots and Theology”, Erwägen Wissen Ethik, November 2009 20(2)195–197.
  5. Joanna J. Bryson “Representations Underlying Social Learning and Cultural Evolution” Interaction Studies, 10(1):77–100, March 2009.
  6. Joanna J. Bryson “Embodiment versus Memetics”, Mind & Society, 7(1):77–94, June 2008.
  7. Joanna J. Bryson, Yasushi Ando and Hagen Lehmann “Agent-based modelling as scientific method: a case study analysing primate social behaviour”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B — Biology, 362(1485):1685–1698, September 2007.
  8. Mark A. Wood and Joanna J. Bryson, “Skill Acquisition Through Program-Level Imitation in a Real-Time Domain”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B—Cybernetics, 37(2):272–285, April 2007.
  9. Joanna J. Bryson and Jonathan C. S. Leong “Primate Errors in Transitive ‘Inference’” Animal Cognition, 10(1):1–15, January 2007.
  10. Emmanuel Tanguy, Philip Willis and Joanna J. Bryson “A Dynamic Emotion Representation Model Within a Facial Animation System”, The International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 3(3):293–300, 2006.
  11. Joanna J. Bryson, “The Attentional Spotlight”, Minds and Machines, 16(1):21–28, September 2006.
  12. Joanna J. Bryson, “Funding: Income is already dependent on outcome”, correspondence about a British funding controversy, Nature, 441:690 8 June, 2006.
  13. Joanna J. Bryson, “Language isn’t Quite That Special”, commentary on Carruthers in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (6): 679–680, 2002.
  14. Joanna J. Bryson, David Martin, Sheila I. McIlraith and Lynn Andrea Stein “Toward Behavioral Intelligence in the Semantic Web” in IEEE Computer 35(11): 48–54, 2002.
  15. Joanna J. Bryson, “Intelligent Control Requires More Structure than the Theory of Event Coding Provides”, commentary on Hommel et al. in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5): 878–879, 2001.
  16. Joanna J. Bryson and Kristinn R. Thórisson, “Dragons, Bats & Evil Knights: A Three-Layer Design Approach to Character-Based Creative Play”, Virtual Reality, 5(2): 57–71, 2000.
  17. Joanna J. Bryson, “Cross-Paradigm Analysis of Autonomous Agent Architecture”, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 12(2):165–190, 2000.
  18. Joanna J. Bryson and Will Lowe, “Cognition without Representational Redescription”, commentary on Ballard et al. in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(4):743–744, 1997.

2 Edited Books, Proceedings and Special Issues

  1. Anil K. Seth, Tony J. Prescott, Joanna J. Bryson (eds.), Modelling Natural Action Selection, Cambridge University Press, expected November 2011.
  2. Tony J. Prescott, Joanna J. Bryson, and Anil K. Seth (eds.), “Introduction. Modelling Natural Action Selection”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 362(1485);1521–1529, Sept 2007.
  3. Ivana Čače and Joanna J. Bryson (eds.), Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems 5(2), “Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development”, October 2007.
  4. Joanna J. Bryson (ed.), “Mechanisms of Action Selection: Introduction to the Special Issue,”, Adaptive Behavior 10(1):5–8, January 2007.
  5. Joanna J. Bryson, Tony J. Prescott and Anil K. Seth (eds.), Modelling Natural Action Selection: Proceedings of an International Workshop, AISB, Sussex UK, 2005.

3 Reviewed Conference Publications and Book Chapters

  1. Anil K. Seth and Joanna J. Bryson, “Natural Action Selection, Modeling”, in Encyclopedia of the Mind, H. Pashler (ed.), Sage, submitted for publication.
  2. Joanna J. Bryson and Philip P. Kime, “Just an Artifact: Why Machines are Perceived as Moral Agents”, The Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1537–1542, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
  3. Joanna J. Bryson “Structuring Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy, Modularity and Learning in Generating Intelligent Behaviour”, in The Complex Mind, David McFarland (ed.), in press.
  4. Gideon M. Gluckmann and Joanna J. Bryson, “An Agent-Based Model of the Effects of a Primate Social Structure on the Speed of Natural Selection”, in Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS), Bill Rand and Forrest Stonedahl (eds.), Dublin 2011.
  5. Joanna J. Bryson “A Role for Consciousness in Action Selection”, in Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium: Machine Consciousness, Ron Chrisley, Rob Clowes and Steve Torrance (eds.), York, April 2011.
  6. John Grey and Joanna J. Bryson “Procedural Quests: A Focus for Agent Interaction in Role-Playing-Games”’, in Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium: AI & Games, Daniela Romano and David Moffat, (eds.), York, April 2011.
  7. Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Joanna Bryson and Michal Bída, “How to compare usability of techniques for the specification of virtual agents behavior? An experimental pilot study with human subjects”, in Proceedings of the AAMAS 2011 Workshop on the uses of Agents for Education, Games and Simulations, Taipei, M. Beer, C. Brom, V-W Soo and F. Dignum (eds.) May 2011.
  8. Joanna J. Bryson “Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness”, in From Brains to Systems: 2010 Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS), 14pp, Madrid, 14–16 July 2010.
  9. Joanna J. Bryson, “Cultural Ratcheting Results Primarily from Semantic Compression”, in Proceedings of the Evolution of Language 2010, A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer and K. Smith (eds.), World Scientific, pp. 50–57, Utrecht, April 2010.
  10. Joanna J. Bryson, “Robots Should Be Slaves”, in Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Yorick Wilks (ed.), pp. 63–74, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2010.
  11. Joanna J. Bryson and Petra Kaczensky, “Exploring Knowledge Dissemination as a Selective Force for Aggregation: Preliminary Results from Modelling Wild Asiatic Asses”, Simon Powers (ed.), Levels of Selection and Individuality in Evolution: Conceptual Issues and the Role of Artificial Life Models, a workshop at The Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL ’09), Budapest, 14 September 2009.
  12. Joanna J. Bryson, “Age-Related Inhibition and Learning Effects: Evidence from Transitive Performance”, in Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009) pp. 3040–3045.
  13. Joanna J. Bryson, “Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness”, The Second AISB Symposium Computing and Philosophy, Mark Bishop (ed), pp. 10–15, Edinburgh UK, April 2009.
  14. Avri Bilovich and Joanna J. Bryson, “Detecting the Evolution of Semantics and Individual Beliefs Through Statistical Analysis of Language Use”, Proceedings of the Fall AAAI Symposium on Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, J. Beal, P. Bello, N. Cassimatis, M. Coen and P. Winston (eds), pp. 21–26, Washington DC, October 2008.
  15. Joanna J. Bryson, “The Role of Modularity in Stablizing Cultural Evolution: Conformity and Innovation in an Agent-Based Model”, Proceedings of the Fall AAAI Symposium on Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts (AACC ’08), A. Davis and J. Ludwig (eds), pp. 8–17, Arlington VA, October 2008.
  16. Philipp Rohlfshagen and Joanna J. Bryson, “Improved Animal-Like Maintenance of Homeostatic Goals via Flexible Latching”, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, A. Samsonovich (ed), pp. 153–160, Arlington VA, October 2008.
  17. Joanna J. Bryson, “The Impact of Durative State on Action Selection”, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior, I. Horswill, E. Hudlicka, C. Lisetti and J. Velasquez (eds), pp. 2–9 March 2008.
  18. Steven Butler and Joanna J. Bryson “Effects of Mass Media and Opinion Exchange on Extremist Group Formation”, in The Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the European Social Simulation Society (ESSA ’07), Toulouse, France, pp. 455–465 2007.
  19. Joanna J. Bryson, “Representational Requirements for Evolving Cultural Evolution”, invited and reviewed target article (and responses) in interdisciplines’ Web conference, Adaptation and Representation 28 May 2007.
  20. Emmanuel Tanguy, Philip Willis and Joanna J. Bryson, “Emotions as Durative Dynamic State for Action Selection”, in The Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, pp. 1537–1542, Morgan Kaufmann 2007.
  21. Mark A. Wood and Joanna J. Bryson, “Representations for Learning Action Selection from Real-Time Observation of Task Experts”, in The Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, pp. 641–646, Morgan Kaufmann 2007.
  22. Cyril Brom, Jakub Gemrot, Michal Bída, Ondrej Burkert, Sam J. Partington and Joanna J. Bryson, “POSH Tools for Game Agent Development by Students and Non-Programmers”, in The Nineth International Computer Games Conference: AI, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 126–133, University of Wolverhampton 2006.
  23. Ivana Čače and Joanna J. Bryson, “Agent Based Modelling of Communication Costs: Why Information can be Free”, in Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication C. Lyon, C. L Nehaniv and A. Cangelosi, eds., pp. 305–322, Springer 2007.
  24. Joanna J. Bryson, Tristan J. Caulfield and Jan Drugowitsch, “Integrating Life-Like Action Selection into Cycle-Based Agent Simulation Environments”, in Proceedings of Agent 2005: Generative Social Processes, Models, and Mechanisms, Michael North, David L. Sallach and Charles Macal eds., pp. 67–81, Argonne National Laboratory 2006.
  25. Samuel J. Partington and Joanna J. Bryson, “The Behavior Oriented Design of an Unreal Tournament Character”, The Fifth International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, T. Panayiotopoulos, J. Gratch, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, P. Olivier and T. Rist, eds., pp. 466–477, Springer, 2005.
  26. Paula M. Ellis and Joanna J. Bryson, “The Significance of Textures for Affective Interfaces”, The Fifth International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, T. Panayiotopoulos, J. Gratch, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, P. Olivier and T. Rist, eds., pp. 394–404, Springer, 2005.
  27. Hagen Lehmann, JingJing Wang and Joanna J. Bryson, “Tolerance and Sexual Attraction in Despotic Societies: A Replication and Analysis of Hemelrijk (2002)”, in Modelling Natural Action Selection: Proceedings of an International Workshop, J. J. Bryson, T. J. Prescott and A. K. Seth, eds., pp. 135–142, AISB, Sussex UK, 2005.
  28. Joanna J. Bryson and Mark A. Wood, “Learning Discretely: Behaviour and Organisation in Social Learning”, in Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Y. Demiris ed., pp. 30–37, AISB, 2005.
  29. Ivana Čače and Joanna J. Bryson, “Why Information can be Free”, in Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC’05), , A. Cangelosi and C. L Nehaniv eds. pp. 17–22, AISB, 2005.
  30. Joanna J. Bryson, “Modularity and Specialized Learning: Reexamining Behavior-Based Artificial Intelligence”, in The Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL’04): Developing Social Brains, J. Triesch and T. Jebara, eds., pp. 309–316, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation, 2004.
  31. Joanna J. Bryson, “Evidence of Modularity from Primate Errors during Task Learning”, in The Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW9), A. Cangelosi, G. Bugmann and R. Borisyuk eds., pp. 301–310, World Scientific, 2005.
  32. Joanna J. Bryson, “Action Selection and Individuation in Agent Based Modelling”, in Proceedings of Agent 2003: Challenges of Social Simulation, David L. Sallach and Charles Macal eds., pp. 317–330, Argonne National Laboratory, 2003.
  33. Joanna J. Bryson, “Modular Representations of Cognitive Phenomena in AI, Psychology and Neuroscience”, in Visions of Mind, Darryl Davis ed., pp. 66–89, Idea Group, London, 2005.
  34. Bruce Edmonds and Joanna J. Bryson, “The Insufficiency of Formal Design Methods — The Necessity of an Experimental Approach for the Understanding and Control of Complex MAS.”, The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), pp. 936–943.
  35. Mark Wood, Jonathan C. S. Leong and Joanna J. Bryson, “ACT-R is almost a Model of Primate Task Learning: Experiments in Modelling Transitive Inference”, in Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2004), pp. 1470–1475.
  36. Emmanuel Tanguy, Philip Willis and Joanna J. Bryson, “A Layered Dynamic Emotion Representation for the Creation of Complex Facial Expressions”, Intelligent Virtual Agents 2003, pp. 101–105. Springer, 2003.
  37. Joanna J. Bryson “The Behavior-Oriented Design of Modular Agent Intelligence”, Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for e-Services, R. Kowalszyk, J. P. Müller, H. Tianfield and R. Unland, eds., pp. 61–76, Springer, 2003.
  38. Joanna J. Bryson, David Martin, Sheila I. McIlraith and Lynn Andrea Stein, “Agent-Based Composite Services in DAML-S: The Behavior-Oriented Design of an Intelligent Semantic Web”, in Web Intelligence, N. Zhong, J. Liu and Y. Yao, eds., pp. 37–58, Springer, 2003.
  39. Joanna J. Bryson, “Where Should Complexity Go? Cooperation in Complex Agents with Minimal Communication”, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, W. Truszkowski, C. Rouff and M. Hinchey, eds., pp. 298–313, Springer, 2003.
  40. Joanna J. Bryson and Jessica C. Flack, “Action Selection for an Artificial-Life Model of Social Behavior in Non-Human Primates”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Self-Organization and Evolution of Social Behaviour, C. Hemelrijk ed., pp. 42–45 , 2002.
  41. Joanna J. Bryson and Marc D. Hauser, “What Monkeys See and Don’t Do: Agent Models of Safe Learning in Primates”, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Safe Learning Agents, M. Barley and H. W. Guesgen, eds., AAAI Press March 2002.
  42. Joanna J. Bryson, “Embodiment vs. Memetics: Does Language Need a Physical Plant?” in Developmental Embodied Cognition (DECO-2001), R. Pfeifer and G. Westermann, eds.; Edinburgh, July 2001.
  43. Joanna J. Bryson and Lynn Andrea Stein, “Modularity and Design in Reactive Intelligence”, in The Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Seattle WA, pp. 1115–1120, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.
  44. Joanna J. Bryson and Lynn Andrea Stein, “Modularity and Specialized Learning: Mapping Between Agent Architectures and Brain Organization”, in The Second International Workshop on Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience, S. Wermter, J. Austin and D. Willshaw, eds.; Springer, Berlin, pp. 98–113, 2001.
  45. Joanna J. Bryson, “Hierarchy and Sequence vs. Full Parallelism in Action Selection”, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 6, Paris, 2000 pp. 147–156 (originally in Intelligent Virtual Agents 2, ed. Daniel Ballin, 1999.)
  46. Joanna J. Bryson and Lynn Andrea Stein, “Modularity and Specialized Learning in the Organization of Behaviour”, in Connectionist Models of Learning, Development and Evolution: The Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW6), eds. Robert French and Jacques Sougné, pp. 53–62, Springer, 2001.
  47. Joanna J. Bryson, Will Lowe and Lynn Andrea Stein, “Hypothesis Testing for Complex Agents”, NIST Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Washington, DC; eds. Alex M. Meystel and Elena R. Messina, pp. 233–240, 2000.
  48. Joanna J. Bryson and Lynn Andrea Stein, “Architectures and Idioms: Making Progress in Agent Design”, The Seventh International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL), Boston, eds. C. Castelfranchi and Y. Lespérance, pp. 73–88, Springer 2000.
  49. Joanna Bryson, “Making Modularity Work: Combining Memory Systems and Intelligent Processes in a Dialog Agent”, AISB’00 Symposium on Designing a Functioning Mind, ed. Aaron Sloman, pp. 21–30; Birmingham UK, 2000.
  50. Joanna Bryson, “A Proposal for the Humanoid Agent-builders League (HAL)”, AISB’00 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and (Quasi-)Human Rights, ed. John Barnden, pp. 1–6; Birmingham UK, 2000. (Abstract also appeared in the AISB Quarterly No. 104, Summer/Autumn 2000, ed. Blay Whitby)
  51. Joanna Bryson, “Creativity by Design: A Behaviour-Based Approach to Creating Creative Play”, AISB’99 Symposium on Creativity in Entertainment and Visual Art, ed. Frank Nack, Edinburgh, 1999.
  52. Joanna Bryson and Phil Kime, “Just Another Artifact: Ethics and the Empirical Experience of AI”, Fifteenth International Congress on Cybernetics, pp. 385–390, Namur, 1998.
  53. Joanna Bryson and Brendan McGonigle, “Agent Architecture as Object Oriented Design”, The Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL97), pp. 15–30, ed. Munindar P. Singh, Springer-Verlag, Providence, 1998.
  54. Joanna Bryson, “The Design of Learning for an Artifact”, The AISB Workshop on Learning in Robots and Animals, ed. Noel Sharkey et. al., Brighton UK, 1996.
  55. Joanna Bryson, “The Reactive Accompanist: Adaptation and Behavior Decomposition in a Music System”, The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents, pp. 365–376, ed. Luc Steels. Springer, Trento, 1995.
  56. Joanna Bryson, Alan Smaill, Geraint Wiggins, “The Reactive Accompanist: Applying Subsumption Architecture To Software Design”, University of Edinburgh Department of Artificial Intelligence Research Paper 606, 1992.

4 Other Reviewed Presentations

  1. “Internet memory and life after death” reviewed talk and abstract in Death & Dying in the Digital Age, Bath, UK 25–26 June 2011.
  2. “The interplay between cognition and secondary replicators: Could memetics explain human uniqueness?”, reviewed talk and abstract in Current challenges and applications of comparative cognition (CompCog II) Prague, 25–27 May 2011.
  3. “The Impact on Organisms of Transmitting Secondary Replicator Systems”, with Sam P. Brown, reviewed abstract and talk, The European Human Behaviour Association Conference, Gießen, Germany 24–26 March 2011.
  4. “The Scientific Application of Agent-Based Modelling; The Impact on Organisms of Transmitting Secondary Replicator Systems”, solicited talks for the workshop Microbial Evolution: Modeling and Experimental Techniques, e-Science Institute, University of Edinburgh, 11–13 January 2011.
  5. “Social Simluation and Explaining Religion”, talk in the The Explaining Religion Project (EXREL): How Do Religions Evolve? symposium of Religion, a Human Phenomena: The XXth Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. Toronto, Canada, 17 August 2010.
  6. “Determinants of the Size of Social Species’ Culture” talk and reviewed abstract, Complexity and Nonlinear Phenomena in Biological Systems, a one-day meeting organised by the Nonlinear and Complex Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (UK), Bath, 20 May 2010.
  7. Marios N. Richards and Joanna J. Bryson, “Comparing individuality to phenotypic plasticity in facilitating evolution”, talk and reviewed abstract, Individual Specialisation: The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour’s Winter Meeting, London, 3–4 November 2009.
  8. Joanna J. Bryson,“Information Dissemination as an Explanation of Troop-Level Aggregation in Fission-Fusion Species with Varied Party Composition”, talk and reviewed abstract Vertebrate Models of Social Evolution, Adelboden, Switzerland; 16–18 August 2009.
  9. Joanna J. Bryson,“Information Dissemination as an Explanation of Troop-Level Aggregation in Fission-Fusion Species with Varied Party Composition”, talk and reviewed abstract The Third Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Zürich, Switzerland; 12–15 August 2009; abstract in Folia Primatologica, 80(2):111.
  10. Hagen Lehmann and Joanna J. Bryson,“A Unified Account of The Primate Tolerance Spectrum”, talk and reviewed abstract The Third Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Zürich, Switzerland 12–15 August 2009; abstract in Folia Primatologica, 80(2):124.
  11. Joanna J. Bryson,“Shared Information as an Explanation of Troop-Level Aggregation in Fission-Fusion Species with Varied Party Composition”, talk and reviewed abstract Multiply Structured Populations in Biology, Bath UK, 1–3 July 2009.
  12. Joanna J. Bryson, “What Limits the Biological Evolution of Cultural Evolution?” reviewed abstract and talk presented to Social Genes, Social Brains and Social Minds, Budapest 13–15 May 2009.
  13. Joanna J. Bryson, “Selection for variation: Evolutionary processes affecting dominance, social structure and female mate choice”, reviewed abstract and poster presented to The European Human Behaviour Association Conference, St. Andrews, UK, 6–8 April 2009, abstract booklet p. 29.
  14. Robert A. Jenks, Julia Lehmann and Joanna J. Bryson, “A model of factors generating fission-fusion social dynamics”, reviewed abstract and poster presented to The European Human Behavoiur Association Conference, St. Andrews, UK, 6–8 April 2009, abstract booklet p. 36.
  15. Marios Richards and Joanna J. Bryson, “Does learning accelerate evolution?”, reviewed abstract and poster presented to The European Human Behaviour Association Conference, St. Andrews, UK 6–8 April 2009, abstract booklet p. 46.
  16. Hagen Lehmann and Joanna J. Bryson, “Evolutionary Determinates of Social Structure in Macaque Troops”, reviewed abstract and talk presented to The International Primatological Society’s XXII Congress, Edinburgh, UK 8 August 2008.
  17. “What Limits the Biological Evolution of Cultural Accumulation?”, reviewed abstract and poster presented to The International Primatological Society’s XXII Congress, Edinburgh, UK 4 August 2008.
  18. “Information can be free: Implications for recent developments in the evolution of altruism”, The Sixth Göttinger Freilandtage: Primate Behavior and Human Universals reviewed abstract and presentation, Göttingen Germany, 11–14 December 2007.
  19. “Hierarchical organization of intelligence: Ethology and AI perspectives”, The NIPS workshop on Hierarchical Organization of Behavior: Computational, Psychological and Neural Perspectives, solicited and reviewed extended abstract and presentation, Vancouver, Canada, 7–8 December 2007.
  20. “Robots Should Be Slaves”, solicited and reviewed extended abstract and presentation for the Oxford e-Horizons forum Artificial Companions in Society: Perspectives on the Present and Future, Oxford University, 26 October 2007.
  21. Panel participant, Humans and Humanoids — Perspectives in Cognition ad Robotics, The Research Institute for Cognition and Robots — CoR-University of Bielefeld, 9 October 2007.
  22. Hagen Lehmann and Joanna J. Bryson, “The Socio-Ecological Model of Female Social Relationships in the Genus Macaca: An Agent Based Approach”, reviewed abstract and talk, presented at the biannual meeting of the European Federation for Primatology, 3 September 2007.
  23. “The Adaptive Advantage of Knowledge Transmission”, reviewed abstract and talk presented to Evolution of Language 5, Rome, Italy, 14 April 2006.
  24. “Embodiment vs. Memetics”, reviewed abstract and talk for Post-Cognitive Psychology, Glasgow, UK, August 2005.
  25. “Learning Action Selection from Observation of Humans in Unreal Tournament” talk at Southwest Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology, University of Western England, Bristol UK, 24 June 2005.
  26. “Representations Underlying Social Learning”, reviewed abstract and poster presented at Animal Social Learning, St. Andrews, UK, 15–18 June 2005.
  27. “Artificial Intelligence Models of Primate Intelligence” talk at Southwest Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology, University of Bristol, UK, 21 June 2004.
  28. “Language Needs 2nd Order Representations and A Rich Memetic Substrate”, reviewed abstract and talk presented to Evolution of Language 5, Leipzig, Germany, 1 April 2004.
  29. “The Relationship Between AI Architectures and Neuroscience”, presentation to Workshop on Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind, De Montfort University, Leicester, 5 January 2004.
  30. “Artificial Emotions”, presented with Dylan Evans to Foresight Cognitive Systems Interaction Conference, Bristol UK, 3 September 2003.
  31. “Modular models of social agents: Modelling the emergence of Macaque social structure”, reviewed abstract and talk Agent-Based Social Simulation Special Interest Group Meeting, Barcelona, Spain 3 February 2003.
  32. “Modelling Tolerance: An agent-based model of conflict resolution”, talk at the workshop on Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI), Vienna, Austria, 26 October 2002.
  33. “Representing Cognitive Phenomena in Biological Systems”, invited talk and paper for the Theoretical Fundamentals of Intelligent Systems Workshop of the Joint Conference on Information Sciences, A. Meystel ed., Washington DC, 11 March 2002.
  34. Joanna J. Bryson, Keith Decker, Scott DeLoach, Michael Huhns and Michael Wooldridge, “Agent Development Tools”, chapter and invited panel The Seventh International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL), Boston, eds. C. Castelfranchi and Y. Lespérance, pp. 331–338, Springer 2000.
  35. Joanna Bryson, “Primitive Parallax and Parallax Primitives”, The Third European Conference on Artificial Life, June 1995. Poster and abstract.

5 Invited Talks

  1. Plenary: TBD, IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (ALIHT), Barcelona, 16–17 July 2011.
  2. “Sharing Information: The Adaptive Value of Social Behaviour”, The Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA, Prof. Aude Billard), École Polytechnique Fédéarale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 15 June 2011.
  3. Jason Leake and Joanna J. Bryson “Can you indict a robot”, invited poster presentation for Emerging technologies: are the risks being neglected? London 21 May 2011.
  4. “Why Information Can Be Free: The Evolutionary Origins of Collective Intelligence”, Human Dynamics Laboratory (Alex Pentland), The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 17 May 2011.
  5. “Modelling the evolution of social behaviour: Can sharing valuable information be adaptive?”, Ecology and Evolution Group (Prof. Torben Dabelsteen), Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 13 May 2011.
  6. “The Utility of Human Social Motivations: Biology, Individuality, and Culture”, Department of Computing (Eduardo Alonso), City University London, 28 February 2011.
  7. “Modelling social evolution: The role of space & time in the evolution of co-operation”, Human Evolutionary Ecology Group (Ruth Mace), Department of Anthropology, University College of London, 25 January 2011.
  8. “The Utility of Human Social Motivations: Biology, Individuality, and Culture”, School of Computing and Mathematics (James Borg), Keele University, 17 November 2010.
  9. “The scientific application of agent-based modelling: From biology to anthropology”, The Department of Software and Computer Science Education (Cyril Brom), Charles University, Prague, 19 November 2010.
  10. “The scientific application of agent-based modelling: From biology to anthropology”, invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Society, Culture and Language, Plymouth, 11-13 November 2010.
  11. “The Role of Cognition in Cognitive Systems: From Robots to Primatology”, invited talk for IEEE Robotics and Automation Chapter (UKRI): The first UK Symposium on Cognitive Robotics and Learning, Manchester, 20 October 2010.
  12. Invited participant (expert in ethics and social impact) in the UKs Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Robotics Retreat, New Forest, UK, 29 September – 1 October 2010.
  13. “Who is Responsible? Ethics with Robots”, invited talk in the Social human-robot interaction and ethics symposium of Active Ageing — Smart Solutions: The Ambient Assisted Living Forum 2010, Odense, Denmark, 16 September 2010.
  14. “The Biological Basis of Human Social Motivations: Selective Pressure for Culture and Individuality”, Faculty of Social Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 31 May 2010.
  15. “Must Cognitive Robots Experience the Terrible Twos? Sensory-Motor Learning & Cognition”, invited twenty-minute response to and one-hour discussion of Linda B. Smith’s plenary, “Grounding Learning in Sensory Motor Dynamics”, Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents, EUCogII member’s meeting, Zürich, January 29 2010.
  16. Joanna J. Bryson and Will Lowe, “Agent-Based Modelling for Social Science: Modelling & Cultural Evolution”, invited presentation to The Second EXREL (Explaining Religion) Project Conference, Centre for Anthropology and Mind, Oxford, UK; 17–19 August 2009.
  17. Invited participant in Integrating Cultures: Models, Simulations and Applications, including presentation “A Computation-Enabled Biological Perspective on Cultural Variation”, The Lorentz Center, Leiden, 6–9 April 2009.
  18. Plenary: “Adaptive & Computational Explanations for The Pervasiveness of Social Learning and Altruistic Communication”, at Organisation, Cooperation and Emergence in Social Learning Agents, a workshop at The Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL ’09), Budapest, 15 September 2009.
  19. “Adaptive Trade-Offs Concerning Cognition and Culture”, Oxford University, Department of Experimental Psychology, 16 June; also Oxford University, Centre for Anthropology & Mind, 17 June 2009.
  20. “Understanding Human Social Motivations: Modeling the Evolution of Cognition and Culture”, Central European University, Department of Philosophy, Budapest 2 June 2009.
  21. “Time for AI”, The Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI), Vienna, 14 May 2009.
  22. “Evolving Origins of Behaviour: Imitation, Culture and Cognition”, University of Sussex, Brighton UK, 6 May 2009.
  23. “What limits the biological evolution of cultural evolution?”, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Bern University, 25 February 2009.
  24. Two talks (in a small one-day workshop): “Time for AI” and “Why information can be free: The evolution of altruistic communication and its impact on social learning”, Department of Computer Science, Charles University Prague, 30 January 2009.
  25. “Time for AI: Emotions, Goals, Turn Taking (and more) for Intelligent Actors”, Games AI & Avatars: Industry/Academia Workshop, Bradford UK, 12 January 2009.
  26. “The Role of Cognition in Cognitive Systems”, AI Lab, Department of Informatics, University of Zürich, 9 December 2008.
  27. “Why information can be free: The evolution of altruistic communication and its impact on social learning”, Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Utrecht, 18 November 2008.
  28. “Why information can be free: The evolution of altruistic communication and its impact on social learning”, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Wilhelminenberg Seminar, 12 November 2008.
  29. “The Role of Cognition in Cognitive Systems” Modelling Cognitive Behaviour, Avon Gorge Hotel, Bristol UK, 10 October 2008.
  30. “The Role of Cognition in Cognitive Systems” School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, 9 October 2008.
  31. Joanna J. Bryson, “Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness”, invited statement discussing Daniel C. Dennett, The Second Vienna Conference on Consciousness (2008): The Brain and its Self, Vienna, Austria, 26 September 2008.
  32. “What limits the biological evolution of cultural evolution? Modularity in evolution and learning”, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, 13 June 2008.
  33. “What limits the biological evolution of cultural evolution? Modularity in evolution and learning”, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, 11 June 2008.
  34. “What limits the biological evolution of cultural evolution? Modularity in evolution and learning”, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, 10 June 2008.
  35. “What limits the biological evolution of cultural evolution? Modularity in evolution and learning”, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, 5 June 2008.
  36. “State Requirements for Action Selection”, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, 3 April 2008.
  37. “Conflict and Collaboration: Modeling Primate Social Behavior”, Centre for Complexity Science, Imperial College London, 15 January 2008.
  38. “A Primer on AI for Domestic Robots: Does Thinking Help?” Centre for Non-Linear Mechanics, University of Bath, 20 November 2007
  39. “Cognition (and Robots)”, Humans and Humanoids — Perspectives in Cognition ad Robotics, The Research Institute for Cognition and Robots — CoR-Lab, University of Bielefeld, 9 October 2007.
  40. “Action Selection for Human-Like Intelligence”, Lionhead Studios, Guildford, UK 2 July 2007.
  41. Plenary: “AI Architectures (or State Requirements for Human-like Action Selection)” Network Meeting on Cognitive Architectures, The European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Munich Airport, 29 June 2007.
  42. “Why Information Can Be Free”, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 10 April 2007.
  43. “Action Selection for Human-Like Intelligence”, Center for Technology & Social Behavior, Northwestern University, 4 April 2007.
  44. “Semantics from Memetics” , Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems, University of Kent, 14 March 2007.
  45. “Evolving Cultural Evolution”, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, 12 March 2007.
  46. “Embodiment vs. Memetics”, Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Utrecht, 26 September 2006.
  47. “Agency and Spaces: A Proposal for Behavior-Oriented Design of Intelligent Environments”, invited presentation for HCI and Cognitive Modelling in Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery Barcelona, Spain 20 April 2006. Also participated in the same group’s meeting in Berlin, 23 September 2006.
  48. “Action Selection as Intelligent Systems Integration”, Google, Mountain View, CA, 15 August 2006.
  49. “Intelligence by Design”, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria, 4 July 2006.
  50. “Intelligence by Design”, Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle, 7 June 2006.
  51. “Conflicts & Collaboration: Modelling of the Evolution of Primate Social Behaviour”, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, 12 May 2006.
  52. “Intelligence by Design”, Centre for Interactive Intelligent Systems, University of Plymouth, UK, 28 April 2006.
  53. “Intelligence by Design”, Department of Software and Computer Science, Univerzita Karlov (Charles University), Prague, 14 January 2006.
  54. “Intelligence by Design”, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 18 November 2005.
  55. “Conflicts & Collaboration: Agent-Based Modelling of Primate Social Behaviour”, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 15 November 2005.
  56. “Conflict and Collaboration: Modeling Primate Social Behavior”, Northwestern Institute of Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University, 18 October 2005.
  57. “Modularity, specialization, and an innate bias for reason”, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, 17 October 2005.
  58. “Building and Organising Heterogenous Modular Intelligent Systems: Intelligence by Design”, Bath Institute of Complex Systems, 9 May 2005.
  59. “Emotions as Durative State for Action Selection”, invited panel presentation at AISB: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action, Hatfield, UK, April 2005.
  60. “Complex or Complicated? Agent-Based Models of Primate Societies”, Middlesex University (London), 9 February 2005.
  61. “Humanoid Faces for Assistive Ambient Intelligent Technology”, Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, Royal United Hospital, UK, 7 February 2005.
  62. “Humanoid Faces for Assistive Ambient Intelligent Technology”, The Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, UK, 18 November 2004.
  63. “Humanoid Faces for Assistive Ambient Intelligent Technology”, Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle, UK, 22 September 2004.
  64. Invited lecture series: “Reactive and Behavior-Based AI”, “Consciousness is Easy but Learning is Hard”, “Intelligence by Design”, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea, 16–18 August 2004.
  65. “Intelligence by Design”, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 18 August 2004.
  66. “Reactive and Behavior-Based AI” and “Intelligence by Design”, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences, Hanyang University, South Korea, 19 August 2004.
  67. “Intelligence by Design”, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertsfordshire, 20 April, 2004.
  68. “Modularity, specialization, and an innate bias for reason”, Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, 26 January 2004.
  69. “Conflict Resolution in Monkeys, Agents and Modules”, Institute of Informatics, Humboldt University, 16 December 2003.
  70. “Intelligence by Design”, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, 23 June 2003.
  71. “Conflict Resolution in Monkeys, Agents and Modules” Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, 15 May 2003.
  72. “Modularity, specialization, and an innate bias for reason”, Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Bath 30 April 2003.
  73. “Modularity, specialization, and an innate bias for reason”, Division of Informatics Programme of Reasoning Seminar, University of Edinburgh 2 August 2002.
  74. “Modularity in Artificial and Natural Intelligence”, Computer Science Department at the University of Vermont, 26 February 2002
  75. “Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineering Complex Adaptive Agents”, BBN, Cambridge MA, 16 October, 2001
  76. “Simple Heuristics in Complex Agents”, Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Group, The Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin, 28 August 2001.
  77. “Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineering Complex Adaptive Agents”, Cambridge Basic Research (Nissan), 23 April, 2001
  78. “Making Modularity Work: Progress in Complete Agent Architectures”, Oberlin College, Department of Computer Science, 3 November, 2000
  79. “Intelligence by Design: Specialized Learning and Behavior-Based AI” Machine Learning Research Group, The University of Bristol; 30 May, 1999
  80. “What’s Wrong with Behavior-Based AI (and How to Fix It)” University of Aarhus (Denmark), Department of Computer Science; 26 May, 1998
  81. “Dynamic Cognitive Architectures and Artificial Intelligence”, Glasgow Caledonian University, Department of Psychology; 18 October, 1996
  82. “What’s Wrong with Behavior-Based AI (and How to Fix It)” University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Department of Computer Science; 25 July, 1996
  83. “What’s Wrong with Behavior-Based AI (and How to Fix It)” Free University of Brussels, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; 20 June, 1996
  84. “What’s Wrong with Behavior-Based AI (and How to Fix It)” University of Zurich, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; 18 June, 1996
  85. “The Human-Computer Interface — Applications in AI”, Living Neurons on Silicon Group, University of Edinburgh 15 May, 1996
  86. “When Robots Hum Along: Music meets Behavior-Based AI” AI and Music Group, University of Edinburgh; 8 May, 1996
  87. “Complex Behavior in Reactive, Behavior-Based Systems” Robot and Vision Group, University of Edinburgh; June, 1995
  88. “The Humanoid Project (or What’s Happening at MIT)”, Computer Science Department, Trinity College, Dublin; 25 March 1994

6 Education, Public Engagement and Popular Science

  1. “Do We Need Emotional Robots?”, General University Lecture Programme, University of Bath, 2 March 2011.
  2. “Cognitive and Behavioural Robotics”, The Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science — Summer Robotics Course, Technical University of Vienna, 4 August 2009.
  3. Joanna J. Bryson, “Adaptive Trade-Offs Concerning Cognition and Culture”, talk presented at Hot Topics in Cognitive Science, Grünau, Austria, 12–13 June 2009.
  4. “Agent Based Modelling for Science: The Evolution of Cultural Evolution”, Lecture for PhD students in The European Science Foundation Network for the Evolution of Social Cognition (CompCog), Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, 23 September 2008.
  5. “Consciousness is Easy but Learning is Hard: The Computational Complexity of Cognition”, guest talk for the Hot Topics in Cognitive Science student symposium, The Konrad Lorenz Research Station, Grünau, 20 June 2008.
  6. “Can we build artificial intelligence — and should we?”, public talk and discussion at the Bath Science Café, The Raven (public house), Bath, UK. 14 January 2008.
  7. Quoted several times in Michael Balter, “Why We’re Different: Probing the Gap Between Apes and Humans”, Science, 319(5862):404–405, 25 January, 2008.
  8. Cyril Brom and Joanna J. Bryson, “Action Selection for Intelligent Systems”, white paper for The European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, 7 August 2006. This was originally developed as the Wikipedia articles “Action selection” and “Reactive planning”.
  9. “Robot Emotions”, invited presentation and panel participation for The Cambridge Robot Project, Cambridge, UK. 25 May 2006.
  10. As a promotion for the Cambridge Robot Project, interviewed on the BBC’s Digital Planet about the future of AI, broadcast 22 May 2006.
  11. “Developing Modular Intelligent Systems”, four-hour tutorial with laboratories, European Agent-based Systems Summer School (EASSS), Utrecht, July 2005.
  12. Joanna J. Bryson, “Consciousness is Easy but Learning is Hard”, invited article, The Philosophers’ Magazine, (28):70–72, Autumn 2004.
  13. Joanna J. Bryson, Emmanuel Tanguy and Phil J. Willis, “The Role of Emotions in Modular Intelligent Control”, in The AISB Quarterly, Summer 2004.
  14. “Why Make Monkeys?”, talk for Cybersalon, the Museum of Science, London. 27 May 2004.
  15. “Intelligence by Design” talk for the It’s In Your Head UK National artists’ initiative, Generator Studios, Dundee, Scotland. 11 August, 1999.

7 Funding