Simon Colton's Publications

Co-authors
Alan Bundy
Toby Walsh
Alison Pease
Alan Smaill
Roy McCasland
Geoff Sutcliffe
John Lee
Andreas Meier
Graham Steel
Ian Miguel
Sophie Huczynska
Volker Sorge
Alan Frisch
Andreas Franke
Dan Winterstein
Daniel Kudenko
Eduardo Alonso
Graeme Ritchie
Jürgen Zimmer
Kostas Stathis
Louise Dennis
Luc Moreau
Lyndon Drake
Michael Schroeder
Pablo Gervás
Stephen Cresswell
Stephen Muggleton
Yi Gao
Ramon Otero
Murray Shanahan
Ning Jiang
Pedro Torres
John Charnley
Marc Hull
Daniel Wagner
Robin Baumgarten
Paul Cairns
Derek Magee
Paulo Santos
Paul Crook
Ferdinand Hoermann

Books

S. Colton:
"Automated Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics".
Springer-Verlag, 2002. ISBN 1852336099.

Newspaper/Magazine Articles

S. Colton:
Interactive Photos
Digital Photo User, pages 59-60, February 2002

S. Colton:
Armchair Photography
Digital Photo User, pages 71-72, November 2001

S. Colton: (on behalf of the SSAISB commitee)
Cyborg off his Christmas Tree
Times Higher Education Supplement, page 14, December 22nd, 2000.

S. Colton:
Look at that figure
Times Higher Education Supplement, page 22, January 26th, 2001.

S. Colton:
Putting it all together - the Calculemus Project AISB Quarterly.

Theses and Dissertations

S. Colton: "Automated Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics",
PhD. Thesis, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh 2001.

S. Colton: "Using Computers in Mathematics and Calculating Minimum Distances of Error Correcting Codes",
MSc. Dissertation, Dept. of Pure Mathematics, University of Liverpool, 1996.

Editorials

S. Muggleton, R. Otero and S.Colton
"Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming"
Machine Learning, Vol 70(2-3), pages 119-120, 2008.

S. Colton and P. Gervás:
"Creativity in Arts and Science"
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISBJ), Vol 1(4), pages 349-350, 2003.

E. Alonso, S. Colton, D. Kudenko, L. Moreau, M. Schroeder and K. Stathis:
"Special Issue on Agent Technology"
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISBJ),Vol 1(1), pages 1-4, 2001.

Book Chapters

S. Colton: "Computational Discovery in Pure Mathematics"
In Communicable Scientific Discovery, editted by Saso Dzeroski and Ljupco Todorowski, Springer LNAI 4660, ISBN 978-3-540-73919-7, 2007.

Journal Papers

A. Pease, A. Smaill, S. Colton and J. Lee
"Bridging the gap between argumentation theory and the philosophy of mathematics"
Submitted to the special issue on Mathematics and Argumentation of Foundations of Science, 2007.

V. Sorge, S. Colton, R. McCasland and A. Meier
"Classification Results in Quasigroup and Loop theory via a Combination of Automated Reasoning Tools"
Accepted for Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, forthcoming, 2007.

S. Colton, M. Shanahan and J. Charnley
"Combining Automated Reasoning Systems using Global Workspace Architectures"
Submitted to Artificial Intelligence (special issue in honour of John McCarthy's 80th birthday), 2007.

V. Sorge, A. Meier, R. McCasland and S. Colton
"Automatic Construction and Verification of Isotopy Invariants"
Accepted for the Journal of Automated Reasoning, forthcoming early 2008.

S. Colton and S. Muggleton: "Mathematical Applications of Inductive Logic Programming" Machine Learning, 64:25-64, 2006. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton: "Automated Conjecture Making in Number Theory using HR, Otter and Maple"
Journal of Symbolic Computation, Vol 39(5), 593-615, 2005. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton: "An Application-based Comparison of Automated Theory Formation and Inductive Logic Programming"
Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Vol 4, section B, 97-117,
(special issue: Selected papers from Machine Intelligence 17), 2000. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton, A. Bundy and T. Walsh: "On the Notion of Interestingness in Automated Mathematical Discovery"
International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Vol 53. No. 3, 351-375, 2000. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton: "Refactorable Numbers - A Machine Invention"
Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol 2, 99.1.2, 1999. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton and G. Steel: "Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Creativity"
Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Behaviour Quarterly, Vol. 102, 1999. [ pdf  ]

Conference Papers

S. Colton
"Creativity versus the Perception of Creativity in Computational Systems"
To appear in the proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Systems, 2008.

R. Baumgarten and S. Colton
"Case-based Player Simulation for the Commercial Strategy Game DEFCON"
In the Proceedings of CGames, 2007.

S. Colton and D. Wagner
"Using Formal Concept Analysis in Mathematical Discovery"
Proceedings of the Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management, 2007.

J. Charnley, S. Colton and I. Miguel
"Automatic Generation of Implied Constraints"
Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006. [ pdf  ]

N. Jiang and S. Colton
"Boosting Descriptive ILP for Predictive Learning"
Proceedings of 2006 Conference on Inductive Logic Programming.

V. Sorge, A. Meier, R. McCasland and S. Colton
"The Automatic Construction of Isotopy Invariants"
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, 2006. [ pdf  ]

V. Sorge, A. Meier, R. McCasland and S. Colton
"Integrating AI Systems for Mathematical Discovery"
Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, 2006.

S. Colton, P. Torres, P. Cairns and V. Sorge
"Managing Automatically Formed Mathematical Theories"
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management, 2006. Springer LNAI volume 4108. [ pdf  ]

P. Santos, S. Colton and D. Magee
"Predictive and Descriptive Approaches to Learning Game Rules from Vision Data"
Proceedings of the 10th Ibero-American Artificial Intelligence Conference, 2006. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton, A. Meier, V. Sorge and R. McCasland
"Automatic Generation of Classification Theorems for Finite Algebras"
In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, 2004. [ pdf  ]

A. Pease, S. Colton, A. Smaill, J. Lee
"A Model of Lakatos's Philosophy of Mathematics"
In Proceedings of Computing and Philosophy, 2004. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton and S. Muggleton: "ILP for Mathematical Discovery"
In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
Inductive Logic Programming, 2003. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton and S. Huczynska: "The Homer System"
In Proceedings of CADE-19, 2003. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

S. Colton: "Making Conjectures about Maple Functions"
In proceedings of AISC/Calculemus'02, LNAI 2385, Springer. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

A. Meier, V. Sorge and S. Colton: "Employing Theory Formation to Guide Proof Planning"
In proceedings of AISC/Calculemus'02, LNAI 2385, Springer. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

S. Colton: "The HR Program for Theorem Generation"
Proceedings of CADE'02, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

S. Colton: "Automated Puzzle Generation",
Proceedings of the AISB'02 Symposium on AI and Creativity in the Arts and Science, Imperial College,
London, 2002. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

S. Colton and L. Dennis: "The NumbersWithNames Program",
Proceedings of the Seventh AI and Maths Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2002. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton and G. Sutcliffe: "Automatic Generation of Benchmark Problems for Automated Theorem Proving Systems",
Proceedings of the Seventh AI and Maths Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2002. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton and I. Miguel: "Constraint Generation via Automated Theory Formation"
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cyprus, 2001. [ ps  pdf  html  ]

A. Pease, S. Colton, A. Smaill and J. Lee: "A Multi-agent Approach to Modelling Interaction in Human Mathematical Reasoning"
Proceedings of Intelligent Agent Technology, Maebashi City, Japan, 2001. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton: "Experiments in Meta-theory Formation"
Proceedings of the AISB'01 Symposium on AI and Creativity in Arts and Science, York 2001. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, A. Bundy and T. Walsh: "Automatic Invention of Integer Sequences"
Proceedings of AAAI-2000, Austin Texas, 2000. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, A. Bundy and T. Walsh: "Automatic Identification of Mathematical Concepts"
Proceedings of ICML-2000, Stanford, CA, 2000. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, A. Bundy and T. Walsh: "Agent Based Cooperative Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics"
Proceedings of the AISB'00 Symposium on Creative and Cultural Aspects and Applications
of AI and Cognitive Science, 2000. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

G. Steel, S. Colton, A. Bundy and T.Walsh: "Cross Domain Mathematical Concept Formation"
Proceedings of the AISB'00 Symposium on Creative and Cultural Aspects and Applications
of AI and Cognitive Science, 2000. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton and A. Bundy: "On the Notion of Interestingness in Automated Mathematical Discovery"
Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on AI and Scientific Discovery, Edinburgh, UK, 1999. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, A. Bundy and T. Walsh: "Automatic Concept Formation in Pure Mathematics"
Proceedings of IJCAI-99, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton: "HR - Automatic Concept Formation in Finite Algebras"
Doctoral Consortium Abstracts, Proceedings of AAAI-98, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 1998. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, S. Cresswell and A. Bundy: "The Use of Classification in Automated Mathematical Concept Formation"
Proceedings of Similarity and Categorisation (SimCat97), Edinburgh, UK, 1997. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

Conference Poster Proceedings

N. Jiang and S. Colton
"Boosting Descriptive ILP for Predictive Learning"
In the Poster Proceedings of ILP'06.

P. Torres and S. Colton
"Towards Meta-level Descriptive ILP" In the Poster Proceedings of ILP'06.

V. Sorge, S. Colton, A. Meier and R. McCasland
"A Grid-based Application of Machine Learning to Model Generation"
In the Poster Proceedings of KI'04. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton and A. Pease " Lakatos-style Automated Theorem Modification "
In the Poster Proceedings of ECAI, 2004 [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton: "HR - Automatic Concept Formation in Finite Algebras"
Doctoral Consortium Abstracts, Proceedings of AAAI-98, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 1998. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

Workshop Papers

S. Colton
"Automatic Invention of Fitness Functions, with application to Scene Generation"
Accepted for to the EvoMusArt workshop, forthcoming, 2008.

M. Hull and S. Colton
"Towards a General Framework for Program Generation in Creative Domains" [ pdf  ]
Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, 2007.

J. Charnley and S. Colton
"Prediction using Machine Learned Constraint Satisfaction Programs"
In proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, 2007.

P. Torres and S. Colton
"Proving Producibility of Concepts"
In proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, 2007.

J. Charnley and S. Colton
"Expressing General Problems as CSPs"
In Proceedings of the ECAI'06 workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, 2006. [ pdf  ]

J. Charnley, S. Colton and I. Miguel
"Automated Reformulation of Constraint Satisfaction Problems"
In proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, 2006. [ pdf  ]

P. Torres and S. Colton
"Using Model Generation in Automated Concept Formation"
In proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, 2006. [ pdf  ]

S. Colton, F. Hoermann, A. Pease and G. Sutcliffe
"Machine Learning Case Splits for Theorem Proving"
In proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, 2005 [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton and A. Pease
"The TM System for Repairing Non-Theorems"
Selected papers for the IJCAR'04 disproving workshop, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 125(3). Elsevier, 2005. [ ps  pdf  ]

A. Pease and S. Colton
"Automatic Conjecture Modification"
Proceedings of the automated reasoning workshop, Leeds, 2004. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton, A. Meier, V. Sorge and R. McCasland
"Automatic Generation of Classification Theorems for Finite Algebras"
Proceedings of the automated reasoning workshop, Leeds, 2004. [ ps  pdf  ]

G. Sutcliffe, Y. Gao and S. Colton
"A Grand Challenge of Theorem Discovery"
In Proceedings of the CADE-19 workshop on Grand Challenges and Novel Applications of Automated Reasoning, 2003. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton and A. Pease:
"Lakatos-style Methods in Automated Reasoning"
In Proceedings of the IJCAI'03 Workshop on Agents and Reasoning, Acapulco, 2003. [ ps  pdf  html  ]

S. Colton:
"Creative Logic Programming"
In Proceedings of the IJCAI'03 Workshop on Creative Systems, 2003. [ ps  pdf  html  ]

A. Bundy, S. Colton, S. Huczynska and R. McCasland:
"New Directions in Automated Conjecture Making"
Proceedings of the automated reasoning workshop, Liverpool, 2003. [ html  ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton: "Automated Theory Formation Applied to Mutagenesis Data".
In Proceedings of the First Anglo-Cuban Symposium on Bioinformatics, 2002. [ ps  pdf  ]

A. Pease, S. Colton, A. Smaill and J. Lee:
"Semantic Negotiation: Modelling Ambiguity in Dialogue"
Proceedings of Edilog 2002, the 6th Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Edinburgh, UK, 2002. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton, R. McCasland, A. Bundy and T. Walsh:
"Automated Theory Formation for Tutoring Tasks in Pure Mathematics"
Proceedings of the CADE'02 workshop on the Role of Automated Deduction in Mathematics, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

A. Pease, S. Colton, A. Smaill and J. Lee: "Lakatos and Machine Creativity"
Proceedings of the ECAI'02 workshop on creative systems, Lyon, France, 2002. [ ps  pdf  ]

J. Zimmer, S. Colton, A. Franke and G. Sutcliffe:
"Integrating HR and tptp2x into MathWeb to Compare Automated Theorem Provers"
Proceedings of the CADE'02 workshop on Problems and Problem Sets, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

A. Pease, S. Colton, A. Smaill and J. Lee: "Lakatos-style Reasoning"
Proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, Imperial College, London, 2002. [ ps  pdf  ]

A. Bundy, S. Colton, R. McCasland and T. Walsh: "Semi-Automated Discovery in Zariski Spaces (A Proposal)"
Proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, Imperial College, London, 2002. [ ps  pdf  dvi  ]

S. Colton, A. Pease and G. Ritchie: "The Effect of Input Knowledge on Creativity"
Proceedings of the ICCBR'01 Workshop on Creative Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2001. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

A. Pease, D. Winterstein and S. Colton: "Evaluating Machine Creativity"
Proceedings of the ICCBR'01 Workshop on Creative Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2001. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton: "Mathematics - A New Domain for Datamining?"
Proceedings of the IJCAI-01 Workshop on
Knowledge Discovery from Distributed, Dynamic, Heterogenous, Autonomous Sources, Seattle, US, 2001. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton: "Automated Theorem Generation: A Future Direction for Theorem Provers"
Proceedings of the IJCAR-01 Workshop on Future Directions in Automated Reasoning, Siena, Italy, 2001. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, L. Drake, A. Frisch, I. Miguel and T. Walsh:
"Automatic Generation of Implied Constraints: Initial Progress"
Proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, York, UK, 2001. [ ps  pdf  ]

S. Colton: "Theory Formation Applied to Learning, Discovery and Problem Solving "
Proceedings of Machine Intelligence 17, Bury St. Edmunds, 2000. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton: "Automated `Plugging and Chugging'"
Proceedings of Calculemus-2000, St. Andrews, 2000. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton: "Assessing Exploratory Theory Formation Programs"
AAAI-2000 Workshop on New Research Directions for Machine Learning. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

S. Colton, A. Bundy and T. Walsh: "Automated Discovery in Pure Mathematics"
Proceedings of the Automated Reasoning Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 1999. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]

A. Bundy, S. Colton and T. Walsh: "HR - A System for Machine Discovery in Finite Algebras"
Proceedings of the Machine Discovery Workshop, ECAI-98, Brighton, England, 1998. [ ps  pdf  dvi  html  ]


© Simon Colton 2008