Publications

Journal Articles

T.D. Collins. (in press). Applying Software Visualization Technology to Support the Use of Evolutionary Algorithms. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.

T.D. Collins and P. Fung. (2002). A visual programming approach for teaching cognitive modelling. Computers & Education, Vol 39, No. 1, August 2002, (pp. 1-18).

Book Chapters

T.D. Collins. (in press). Visualizing Evolutionary Computation. In A. Ghosh and S. Tsutsui, editors. Advances in Evolutionary Computation. Springer Verlag, UK.

Conference Papers

P. Mulholland and T.D. Collins. (2002) Using Digital Narratives to Support the Collaborative Learning and Exploration of Cultural Heritage. In The Proceedings of the IEEE International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH'02) in conjunction with the 13th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002). Aix-En-Provence, France. September, 2002.
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T.D. Collins and P. Mulholland. (2002) A Cultural Heritage Forum Celebrating Technological Innovation at Station X. In The Proceedings of the IEEE International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH'02) in conjunction with the 13th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002). Aix-En-Provence, France. September, 2002.
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T.D. Collins, P. Mulholland and S.N.K. Watt. (2001) Using Genre to Support Active Participation in Learning Communities, In The Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (Euro-CSCL'2001), Maastricht, Holland.

T.D. Collins, and P. Fung. (1999) Cognitive Modelling for Psychology Students: The Evaluation of a Pragmatic Approach to Computer Programming for Non-Programmers. In The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, (pp. 216-223). Osaka, Japan. November 1999. Also available as CALRG Technical Report Number 183. Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK.

T.D. Collins. (1999). Henson: A visualization framework for genetic algorithm users. In The Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), (pp. 562-569). Washington, DC. IEEE, NJ.

T.D. Collins. (1998). Understanding Evolutionary Computing: A hands on approach. In The Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'98). Part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Anchorage, Alaska. Morgan Kaufmann, CA.
Awarded the ICEC'98 Best Student Paper prize.
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T.D. Collins. (1997). Using Software Visualization technology to help evolutionary algorithm users validate their solutions. In T. Baeck, editor, The Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA'97), (pp. 307-314). Michigan, MI. Morgan Kaufmann, CA.
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R. Dybowski, T.D. Collins and P. Weller. (1996). Visualization of binary string convergence by Sammon mapping. In L.J. Fogel, P.J. Angeline, and T. Baeck, (Eds.), The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP'96), (pp. 377-383). San Diego, CA.: MIT Press.
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T. Routen and T.D. Collins. (1993). Visualization of AI Techniques. In The Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (COMPUGRAPH), (pp. 274-282). Alvor, Portugal: ACM Press. (December 1993).

Workshop Papers

T.D. Collins. (1999). Evaluating Hank, a cognitive modelling language for psychologists. In The Eleventh Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 11). Sheffield, UK.


T.D. Collins. (1997). Using Software Visualization technology to help Genetic Algorithm Designers. In The Ninth Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 9), (pp. 43-51). Sheffield, UK.
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T.D. Collins. (1996). The Visualization of Genetic Algorithms - Design Survey. In The Proceedings of the First Student Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), (pp. 35-52). Matlock, UK.: Group D Publications Limited, Sheffield, UK. (September 1996).

Theses

T.D. Collins (1998). The Application of Software Visualization Technology to Evolutionary Computation: A case study in genetic algorithms. PhD thesis, The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK.
Available online

T.D. Collins. (1993). The Visualization of Genetic Algorithms. Master's thesis, De Montfort University, Department of Computer Science, Leicester, UK.

Technical Reports

Collins, T.D. & Fung, P. (2000). Visual programming for cognitive modelling: A teaching perspective. CALRG Technical Report Number 194. Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK. October 2000.

Collins, T.D. & Fung, P. (2000). Novice cognitive modellers using a visual programming language. CALRG Technical Report Number 193. Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK. October 2000.

Collins, T.D. & Fung, P. (2000). Hank - a visual programming language: Its use as an introduction to cognitive modelling. CITE Technical Report Number 259. Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK. June 2000.

T.D. Collins. (1997). Understanding Evolutionary Computing: A hands on approach. KMi Technical report, KMI-TR-48, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. September 1997.
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T.D. Collins. (1996). The Genotypic-Space Mapping: Population Visualization for Genetic Algorithms. KMi Technical report, KMI-TR-39, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. September 1996.
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T.D. Collins. (1995). The Visualization of Genetic Algorithms - Related Work. KMi Technical report, KMI-TR-19, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.