Prof Martyn Amos

Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science, Coventry University (1993), including an industrial year of study working on the UK Ministry of Defence Central Headquarters Office Technology System (secure UNIX).

Ph.D. DNA Computation, University of Warwick (1997).

Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, University of Liverpool (1997-1999).

Lecturer, Bioinformatics/Computer Science, University of Liverpool (1999-2002).

Lecturer, Bioinformatics/Computer Science, University of Exeter (2002-2006).

Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor, Computer Science, Manchester Metropolitan University (2006-2018).

Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Campus Address

Ellison Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 18ST

Email Martyn

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Crowd simulation and modelling, safety engineering, nature-inspired computation, synthetic biology, molecular computing, complexity theory.

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Crowd-Sourced Identification of Characteristics of Collective Human Motion, Amos, M., Webster, J. 1 Nov 2022, In: Artificial Life
J-POP: Japanese Puzzles as Optimization Problems, Lloyd, H., Crossley, M., Sinclair, M., Amos, M. Sep 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Games
PACO-VMP: Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for Virtual Machine Placement, Peake, J., Amos, M., Costen, N., Masala, G., Lloyd, H. 1 Apr 2022, In: Future Generation Computer Systems
Identification of Lifelike Characteristics of Human Crowds Through a Classification Task, Webster, J., Amos, M. 19 Jul 2021, ALIFE 2021: The Conference on Artificial Life, Cambridge, US, The MIT Press
Where Drills Differ from Evacuations: A Case Study on Canadian Buildings, Kinateder, M., Ma, C., Gwynne, S., Amos, M., Benichou, N. 1 Mar 2021, In: Safety Science
A Turing test for crowds, Webster, J., Amos, M. 22 Jul 2020, In: Royal Society Open Science
Solving Sudoku with Ant Colony Optimization, Lloyd, H., Amos, M. 1 Sep 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Games
The Future of Evacuation Drills: Assessing and Enhancing Evacuee Performance, Gwynne, S., Amos, M., Kinateder, M., Benichou, N., Boyce, K., van der Wal, N., Ronchi, E. 1 Sep 2020, In: Safety Science
A Glossary for Research on Human Crowd Dynamics, Adrian, J., Amos, M., Bode, N., Baratchi, M., Beermann, M., Boltes, M., Corbetta, A., Dezecache, G., Drury, J., Fu, Z., Geraerts, R., Gwynne, S., Hofinger, G., Hunt, A., Kanters, T., Kneidl, A., Konya, K., Köster, G., Küpper, M., Michalareas, G., Neville, F., Ntontis, E., Reicher, S., Ronchi, E., Schadschneider, A., Seyfried, A., Shipman, A., Sieben, A., Spearpoint, M., Sullivan, G., Templeton, A., Toschi, F., Yücel, Z., Zanlungo, F., Zuriguel, I., Van Der Wal, N., Van Schadewijk, F., Von Krüchten, C., Wijermans, N. 31 Mar 2019, In: Collective Dynamics
Dynamical task switching in cellular computers, Goni-Moreno, A., de la Cruz, F., Rodriguez-Paton, A., Amos, M. 26 Jan 2019, In: Life

PGR Supervision

Jamie Webster Improved Crowd Simulation via a Turing Test for Pedestrian Dynamics Start Date: 01/02/2019 End Date: 18/01/2022

Further Information

Active contributor to Speakers for Schools.

Qualifications

Computer Science PhD September 03 1997
Computer Science BSc (Hons) September 01 1993
Fellow of the British Computer Society FBCS

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