The theoretical emphasis of Empirical Modelling is on the development of a broad, principled foundation for computing. On the left are links to the main pages of this site. Home page refers to this page and there is also a low graphics version of these pages that should be faster to load. The pages in this section offer an introduction to the principles of Empirical Modelling through brief descriptions. The idiot's guide is an informal introduction with illustrative cartoons.
Definitive principles describes a way of representing state using spreadsheet-like techniques.
This is complemented by observation-oriented modelling , a way of representing agent interaction. There is also an introduction to LSD , which is a notation for the initial analysis of a domain. Papers A list of our conference and journal papers is available, as is a list of our departmental research reports . All the recent research reports are downloadable as compressed PostScript. PhD and MSc theses are listed, and a few can be downloaded from here.