About
I am a PhD student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), working within the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) through a JAE doctoral grant awarded by the CSIC. I am under supervision of Prof. Dr. Ramon López de Mántaras.
I have recently worked with Prof. Kevin Ashley's group at the Learning Research & Development Center (LRDC) of the University of Pittsburgh, on a research visit.
Research Interests
My interests have been mostly centered on artificial life, evolutionary algorithms, nonlinear dynamics/chaos theory, self-organization, computational biology/physics, and in general, complex systems.
I am deeply interested in how and under what conditions the self-sustaining and evolving collections of matter that we call "living" arise from "non-living" molecules (or, whether it is even meaningful to make this distinction) and the mechanisms through which intelligence and consciousness emerge in nature.
I believe that the carbon-based platform that happened to develop on our planet is not a precondition for intelligence, nor for life. In contrast to the technological applications of artificial intelligence (AI), I focus on the fact that—after centuries of debate on the philosophy of mind—research in AI can hopefully help us make tangible progress with answering some fundamental questions about the nature of intelligence and consciousness. This is where I get most of my motivation from, for doing research in this field.
I have recently completed the Complex Adaptive Systems master's programme at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, where my thesis work involved mesoscopic molecular modeling within the context of EU Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution (PACE) project, aiming to create the first generation of self-assembling, programmable, artificial protocells.
My study at the IIIA concerns analogical and commonsense reasoning, with mediation as an experimentation domain. I am currently working on a mediator implementation based on the Structure Mapping Theory from psychology and the MIT ConceptNet commonsense knowledge base. This research forms a part of Spanish Consolider Project on Agreement Technologies (AT) and the larger AT Action of European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Publications
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, "Cross-domain Case Based Reasoning for Mediation" (In preparation)
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, "Evolutionary Generative Adaptation for Case Based Reasoning" (In preparation)
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, S. Ontañón, "Automated Generation of Cross-Domain Analogies via Evolutionary Computation," in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity, Dublin, Ireland, May 30–June 1, 2012. Dublin: University College Dublin, 2012, pp. 25–32. [arXiv:1204.2335] [pdf]
(Won the Best Student Paper Award presented by the Cognitive Science Society and the Association for Computational Creativity)
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, "Evolution of Ideas: A Novel Memetic Algorithm Based on Semantic Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2012, IEEE World Congress On Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10–15 2012. IEEE Press, 2012, pp. 2653–2660. [arXiv:1201.2706]
A. G. Baydin, "Evolution of Central Pattern Generators for the Control of a Five-link Bipedal Walking Mechanism," Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 45–53, 2012. [arXiv:0801.0830] [doi:10.2478/s13230-012-0019-y]
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, S. Simoff, C. Sierra, "CBR with Commonsense Reasoning and Structure Mapping: An Application to Mediation," in Ram, A., Wiratunga, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Greenwich, London, September 12–15, 2011. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6880, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 378–392. [arXiv:1108.0039] [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23291-6_28]
A. G. Baydin, "Dissipative Particle Dynamics and Coarse-Graining: Review of Existing Techniques, Trials with Evolutionary Computation," Master's thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, 2008. [pdf]
M. Tendürüs, A. G. Baydin, M. A. Eleveld, A. J. Gilbert, "City versus wetland: Predicting urban growth in the Vecht area with a simple cellular automaton model," 2007.
Posters
A. G. Baydin, R. Lopez de Mantaras, S. Simoff, C. Sierra, "CBR with Commonsense Reasoning and Structure Mapping: An Application to Mediation." Poster presentation at the 19th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2011), Greenwich, London, September 12-15, 2011. [pdf]
A. G. Baydin, "Microfluidic technology and its use in the PACE project." Poster presentation at Chalmers MC2 for FKA196: Fundamentals of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, October 19, 2007. [pdf]
Presentations
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, "Evolution of Ideas: A Novel Memetic Algorithm Based on Semantic Networks." Presented at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, June 14, 2012. [pdf]
A. G. Baydin, R. López de Mántaras, S. Ontañón, "Automated Generation of Cross-Domain Analogies via Evolutionary Computation." Presented at the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity, Dublin, Ireland, May 30, 2012. [pdf]
A. G. Baydin, "Commonsense Case-Based Reasoning via Structure Mapping: An Application to Mediation." Presented at the 19th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2011) Doctoral Consortium, Greenwich, London, September 12, 2011. [pdf] (Research summary [pdf])