Natural Computation Research at The University of Birmingham

Natural Computation Research in School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham is carried out by a number of individuals and small groups with interests which cover:

• Neural Computation
• Evolutionary Computation
• Evolvable Hardware
• Quantum Computation
• Artificial Life
• Self-Organising Systems
• Emergent Behaviours
• Machine Perception
• Robotics
• Applications to Real World Problem

Recently,  CERCIA (Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational  Intelligence and Applications) was set up, through a substantial funding from Advantage West Midland (AWM), to exploit various computational intelligence (CI) techniques for industry, business and government organisations by capitalising on the world-class research in CI in the School of Computer Science. CERCIA is affiliated with the School of Computer Science and housed in the state-of-the-art CS building.