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B.Sc.(Eng.), M.Sc., M.Th(R)., Ph.D., LTCL, FRSA
Emeritus Professor
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- g.coghill@abdn.ac.uk
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- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
I am retired (but not old enough to claim my state pension) and was recently awarded an MTh by research from Edinburgh Theological Seminary (ETS)/ University of Glasgow, in Theology and Science/ Analytic Theology, for research on the philosophical and theological ideas of Donald M. MacKay (1922-1987).
My current research is in Theology and Science, and Analytic Theology.
I am an Honorary Research Fellow at ETS (and on the ETS Senate, and Seminary Board).
I am also a singer and obtained a diploma from Trinity College London (LTCL) in 2014. I give recitals, and am building up my portfolio. You can find my music page on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/George-M-Coghill-Baritone-111362928143158
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After completing a degree in Engineering Science at the University of Aberdeen I moved into Clinical Physics, working for Greater Glasgow Health Board. While there I completed an M.Sc. by research in an area of Artificial Intelligence. This led me to pursue an academic career, to which end I undertook a PhD in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Heriot-Watt University on the topic of Qualitative Reasoning. My first academic appointment was in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1997 – 2002), where I extended my research interests to include Scientific Discovery. After that I returned to Aberdeen as a SL in Computing Science. I was promoted to Reader in 2009, and to a Chair in 2011. At Aberdeen I have had a number of roles. I was Head of Computing Science (2010-2014); Director of Research and a Deputy Head of the School of Natural and Computing Sciences (2015 – 2018). I have served on a several committees in the institution including the Academic Standards Committee (Post-graduate), the Quality Assurance Committee, and the Research Policy Committee. I have also done a few stints on Senate.
External Memberships
Honorary Research Fellow, Edinburgh Theological Seminary
Associate University Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Latest Publications
Enhanced Affinity Propagation Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Network
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsDonald MacCrimmon MacKay (1922 – 1987): Scientist and Accidental Philosopher.: A Critical Appreciation.
Science and Christian Belief, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 83-102Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBehind the eye: Donald M. MacKay and the 1986 Gifford Lectures
Theology in Scotland, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 66-74Contributions to Journals: ArticlesArtificial Intelligence (and Christianity): Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?
Studies in Christian Ethics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 604-619Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMulti-stage Bias Mitigation for Individual Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20650-4_4
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Research Overview
My main research was in the area of Model-based Systems and Qualitative reasoning (a branch of AI), but is now in the domain of Theology and Science (focussed on issues in Information and AI).
Current Research Interests:
Theology and Science/ Philosophical Theology
Analytic Theology
Philosophy of Information
Informational Philosophy of Science
Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning
I have been fortunate to be involved in interdisciplinary projects with friends and colleagues across a wide spectrum of disciplines.
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Enhanced Affinity Propagation Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Network
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsDonald MacCrimmon MacKay (1922 – 1987): Scientist and Accidental Philosopher.: A Critical Appreciation.
Science and Christian Belief, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 83-102Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBehind the eye: Donald M. MacKay and the 1986 Gifford Lectures
Theology in Scotland, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 66-74Contributions to Journals: ArticlesArtificial Intelligence (and Christianity): Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?
Studies in Christian Ethics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 604-619Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMulti-stage Bias Mitigation for Individual Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20650-4_4
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22764/1/Ghadage_etal_ANNPR_Multi_Stage_Bias_AAM.pdf
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Are contrastive explanations useful?
Contributions to Conferences: PapersMonitoring tourists’ specialisation and implementing adaptive governance is necessary to avoid failure of the wildlife tourism commons
Tourism Management, vol. 81, 104160Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104160
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Inferring structure and parameters of dynamic system models simultaneously using swarm intelligence approaches
Memetic Computing, vol. 12, pp. 267-282Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSwarm Inspired Approaches for K-prototypes clustering
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29933-0_17
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A Physarum-Inspired Competition Algorithm for Solving Discrete Multi-Objective Optimization Problems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3319619.3322030
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- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/a-physaruminspired-competition-algorithm-for-solving-discrete-multiobjective-optimization-problems(ac24de7e-554b-421f-9fcb-ba33fe02d578).html
- [ONLINE] http://pure-ots.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/a-physaruminspired-competition-algorithm-for-solving-discrete-multiobjective-optimization-problems(ac24de7e-554b-421f-9fcb-ba33fe02d578).html
Inferring Structure and Parameters of Dynamic Systems using Latin Hypercube Sampling Multi Dimensional Uniformity-Particle Swarm Optimization
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3319619.3322010
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- [ONLINE] http://pure-ots.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/researchoutput/inferring-structure-and-parameters-of-dynamic-systems-using-latin-hypercube-sampling-multi-dimensional-uniformityparticle-swarm-optimization(bebdf2ab-f51f-4e02-8cd3-a9ded8fd817c).html
A Hexagonal Cell Automaton Model to Imitate Physarum Polycephalum Competitive Behaviour
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00162
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12807/1/Hexagonal_cell_automation_ALIFE2019_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/a-hexagonal-cell-automaton-model-to-imitate-physarum-polycephalum-competitive-behaviour(c1a2fa7b-43c7-44a2-966c-645beffa5fbd).html
Quantifying wildlife watchers’ preferences to investigate the overlap between recreational and conservation value of natural areas
Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 387-397Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTowards making NLG a voice for interpretable Machine Learning
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsPhysarum Inspired Connectivity and Restoration for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97982-3_27
CLEMI-imputation evaluation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI.2018.8440981
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ε-Distance Weighted Support Vector Regression
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsUsing social media to quantify spatial and temporal dynamics of nature-based recreational activities
PloS ONE, vol. 13, no. 7, e0200565Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTowards a Robust Imputation Evaluation Framework
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsA Conceptual Framework of Starlings Swarm Intelligence Intrusion Prevention for Software Defined Networks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsNon-constructive interval simulation of dynamic systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsPhysarum Inspired Model for Mobile Sensor Nodes Deployment in the Presence of Obstacles
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95450-9_12
Using qualitative models to define sustainable management for the commons in data poor conditions
Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 67, pp. 52-60Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLarge Margin Distribution Machine Recursive Feature Elimination
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedingse-Distance Weighted Support Vector Regression
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06657
FdDCA: A Novel Fuzzy Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2931662
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7342/1/p1007_mukhtar.pdf
Notes on the Floridian Theory of Strongly Semantic Information
Aberdeen: Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen. 17 pagesBooks and Reports: Other Reports- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7763/1/noftsi.pdf
The social sciences and the web: From ‘Lurking’ to interdisciplinary ‘Big Data’ research
Methodological Innovations, vol. 9, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn Integrated Qualitative and Quantitative Biochemical Model Learning Framework Using Evolutionary Strategy and Simulated Annealing
Cognitive Computation, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 637-651Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn integrative top-down and bottom-up qualitative model construction framework for exploration of biochemical systems
Soft Computing, vol. 19, pp. 1595-1610Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1467-6
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4531/1/top_down_bottom_up.pdf
Applications and design of cooperative multi-agent ARN-based systems
Soft Computing, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1581-1594Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1330-9
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ADOVA: Anomaly Detection in Online and Virtual spAces
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsQualitative, Semi-quantitative, and Quantitative Simulation of the Osmoregulation System in Yeast
BioSystems, vol. 131, pp. 40-50Contributions to Journals: ArticlesQML-AiNet: an immune network approach to learning qualitative differential equation models
Applied Soft Computing, vol. 27, pp. 148-157Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2014.11.008
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4091/1/QML.pdf
Exploring aspects of cell intelligence with artificial reaction networks
Soft Computing, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1899-1912Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-013-1174-8
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QML-Morven: A Novel Framework for Learning Qualitative Differential Equation Models using Both Symbolic and Evolutionary Approaches
Journal of Computational Science, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 795–808Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2014.06.002
An immune network approach to learning qualitative models of biological pathways
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2014.6900393
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4144/1/CEC2014_SelfArchive.pdf
Fuzzy qualitative simulation with multivariate constraints
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAdvances in computational intelligence (UKCI 2012)
12th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012), pp. 2181-2183Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-013-1159-7
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Artificial chemistry approach to exploring search spaces using Artificial Reaction Network agents
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2013.6557702
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On Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning with reference to the Philosophy of Information
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAn Immune Network Approach to Qualitative System Identification of Biological Pathways
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsCombining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651281
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Stepwise modelling of biochemical pathways based on qualitative model learning
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2013.6651284
Integrating natural language generation and model-based reasoning for explanation generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2012.6335748
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Adaptive dynamic control of quadrupedal robotic gaits with artificial reaction networks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_34
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Temporal patterns in artificial reaction networks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33269-2_1
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Combinatorial stresses kill pathogenic Candida species
Medical Mycology, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 699-709Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/13693786.2012.672770
Impact of combinatorial stresses upon Candida albicans
Mycoses, vol. 55, no. Suppl. 4, pp. 15Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0507.2012.02204.x
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Non-constructive interval simulation of dynamic systems
Aberdeen: Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen. 44 pagesBooks and Reports: Other Reports