Genetically Evolving Models in Science

The project aims to create a method for developing scientific theories automatically. This will help address two problems facing scientific development: the ever-growing number of experimental results, and the presence of cognitive limitations and biases.

The project is based at the London School of Economics.

Upcoming events:

There will be a GEMS workshop at AI-2023, Cambridge, England on 12^th December 2023.
Dr. Laura Bartlett will present a poster titled 'Generating candidate cognitive models for the Posner cueing task' at ECVP 2023, Paphos, Cyprus, 27^th-31^st August, 2023.
GEMS talks at Cogsci 2023, Sydney, Australia, 26^th-29^th July, 2023:
- Prof. Fernand Gobet, 'How video games can revitalize Newell’s program of research'
- Dr. Laura Bartlett, 'Genetic programming for developing simple cognitive models'
Dr. Peter Lane will give a talk titled 'Synthesising cognitive models with genetic programming' at the SPECS 2023 research conference, University of Hertfordshire on 13^th June 2023.

Contact

Prof. Fernand Gobet, London School of Economics, is the Principal Investigator for this project.

email: F.Gobet@lse.ac.uk
website: http://chrest.info/fg/home.htm

Project Members

Dr. Laura Bartlett, London School of Economics

email: L.Bartlett@lse.ac.uk
publications: google scholar

Dr. Noman Javed, London School of Economics

email: N.Javed3@lse.ac.uk
website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-6616

Dr. Peter Lane, University of Hertfordshire

email: p.c.lane@herts.ac.uk
website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8554-2217

Dr. Angelo Pirrone, London School of Economics

email: A.Pirrone@lse.ac.uk
publications: google scholar

Mr. Hugo Stevensen, London School of Economics

email: H.Stevensen@lse.ac.uk

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. ERC-ADG-835002).