Publications

The list here is rarely up to date ... so see also my DCU researcher profile, publications in the DCU Open Access Repository (DORAS) and my publication listing at ResearcherID.

This list is ordered by publication date, the most recent first. Where the paper format is indicated as being PDF/Postscript, then the hyperlink is generally to a directory listing. This directory will contain a PDF format version and/or compressed postscript version of the paper, and a file named README.TXT which provides an abstract or further description of the directory content.

Linda Carey, Sylvia Huntley-Moore, Anne Jordan, Saranne Magennis, Barry McMullin (Eds.). 2006. AISHE Conference 2006: Online Proceedings. Dublin: AISHE.
James Decraene, George Mitchell, Ciarán Kelly, Barry McMullin. Evolving Artificial Cell Signaling Networks. European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS-06). Oxford, UK, September 25-29th, 2006.
C. Kelly, B. McMullin and D. O'Brien. On Protocell 'Computation'. European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS-06). Oxford, UK, September 25-29th, 2006.
Barry McMullin: Putting the learning back into learning technology. In: Geraldine O'Neill, Sarah Moore and Barry McMullin (Eds): Emerging issues in the practice of University Learning and Teaching. AISHE, Dublin, 2005. ISBN 0-9550134-0-2.
Barry McMullin: 30 Years of Computational Autopoiesis: A Review Artificial Life, 10, Issue 3, Summer 2004. (See also slides and audio from the presentation at the colloquium From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela.)
Carmen Marincu and Barry McMullin: A Comparative Assessment of Web Accessibility and Technical Standards Conformance in Four EU States. First Monday. 9, number 7, July 2004. (Preprint/higher accessibility version)
Barry McMullin and Morag Munro: Moodle at DCU. Paper presented at EdTech 2004.
Users with Disability Need Not Apply? Web Accessibility in Ireland, 2002. First Monday. 7. Number 12, December 2002.
Dominique Großand Barry McMullin: The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries In: Russell K. Standish, Mark A. Bedau, Hussein A. Abbass Eds., Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press. pp. 400-409.
Digital Democracy for All? Web Accessibility in Ireland, 2002. White Paper, eAccessibility Lab, RINCE, Dublin City University. (4 November 2002)
WARP (Web Accessibility Reporting Project). Ireland 2002 Baseline Study. White Paper, eAccessibility Lab, RINCE, Dublin City University. (4 November 2002)
The Internet in Ireland: an Absolute Beginners' Guide. Published by Best Selling Books Ltd., in conjunction with IOL. Third Edition, December 2001.
An Intriguing Journey. Complexity. 6. Number 4, pp. 22-23. 2001. (Invited review of Investigations, Stuart Kauffman, Oxford University Press, 2000.)
Towards the Implementation of Evolving Autopoietic Artificial Agents Dominique Groß and Barry McMullin. In: Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference. J. Kelemen, P. Sosík (Eds.). Springer. Presented at ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2001.
Who Needs Genomes? Barry McMullin, Tim Taylor, Axel von Kamp. Presented at the Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology, Genome Information Systems & Technology March 15-17, 2001, Regal University Center, Durham, N.C., USA.
- Full Paper.
- Presentation Slides. (Various formats.)
John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards... Artificial Life. 6. Issue 4, Fall 2000, pp. 347-361.
John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards... Presented at ALife7, August 1-6 2000, Portland, Oregon.
- Full Paper.
- Presentation Slides.
The Von Neumann Self-reproducing Architecture, Genetic Relativism and Evolvability. Presented at the ALife7 Evolvability Workshop,, August 1-6 2000, Portland, Oregon.
- Full Paper.
- Presentation Slides.
Some Remarks on Autocatalysis and Autopoiesis. Presented at the workshop Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics, May 3-5 1999, University of Ghent, Belgium.
Modelling Autopoiesis: Harder Than It May Seem! Presented at Biology, Cognition, Language & Society: An International Symposium on Autopoiesis. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 1997. An earlier version of this text is also available as Code McMullin: The Case of the Independent Test in the Bulletin of the Santa Fe Institute, Summer 1997.
Rediscovering Computational Autopoiesis Barry McMullin and Francisco Varela. Presented at ECAL-97, Brighton, UK July 1997.
SCL: An Artificial Chemistry in Swarm Working Paper 97-01-002 of the Santa Fe Institute. January 1997. (DCU mirror.)
Computational Autopoiesis: The Original Algorithm Working Paper 97-01-001 of the Santa Fe Institute. January 1997. (DCU mirror.)
Adaptation Considered Harmful: Darwin's Problem Revisited The Critical Rationalist (ISSN: 1393-3809), Vol. 1, No. 4. Invited paper, presented at the Annual Conference on the Philosophy of Sir Karl Popper, 9th March 1996.
Replicators Don't Presented at the 3rd. European Conference on Artificial Life, Granada, Spain, 4-6th June 1995. HTML Format. The camera-ready version is also available in PDF/postscript format.
Openness in Public Life: A Modest Technological Proposal A submission, prepared on behalf of Dublin City University, to the Irish Forum for Peace and Reconciliation. Discusses the general topic of using the Internet to facilitate the Forum's activities. January 1995.
Who Needs Electronic Books? A popular article, directed at parents, teachers, and second-level students, reviewing the potential of multimedia and Internet technology in education. April 1994. Historical interest only! (I entirely omitted to explicitly mention the World Wide Web ... but, in my defence, Mosaic had only been released in September 1993; and the first First International WWW Conference, didn't happen 'till May 1994. I did mention that "... the Internet (sic) now allows authors to publish their works with absolutely minimal set up costs ... given the ease with which the Internet will connect authors and users of published materials, allowing almost instantaneous access and critical feedback, I suspect that the Internet will rapidly become the publishing medium of choice for many many purposes."!)
Computing Machinery and Mentality Invited paper, presented at the Workshop Artificial Life: a Bridge towards a New Artificial Intelligence, San Sebastian, 1993. PDF/Postscript format.
What is a Universal Constructor? Presented at the Second European Conference on Artificial Life, Brussels, 1993. PDF/Postscript format.
Autopoiesis and Perception Proceedings of a workshop held in DCU, August 1992. Edited by Barry McMullin and Noel Murphy. PDF/Postscript format.
Artificial Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach PhD Thesis. PDF/Postscript format.
Essays on Darwinism. 3: Genic and Organismic Selection Technical Report, May 1992. PDF/Postscript format.
Essays on Darwinism. 2: Organismic Darwinism Technical Report, April 1992.
Essays on Darwinism. 1: Ontological Foundations Technical Report, March 1992. PDF/Postscript format.
The Holland Alpha-Universes Revisited Presented at the First European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris 1991. PDF/Postscript format.
Computational Darwinism, or Who Teaches the Teacher? Presented at the conference AI and Cognitive Science '89, Dublin 1989. PDF/Postscript format.
Computational Darwinism: A Research Proposal Technical Report, May 1989. PDF/Postscript format.
Darwinism Applied to Machine Learning Technical Report, September 1988. PDF/Postscript format.