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The School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Professor George M. Coghill

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Professor George M. Coghill
Professor George M. Coghill
Professor George M. Coghill

B.Sc.(Eng.), M.Sc., M.Th., Ph.D., LTCL, FRSA

Emeritus Professor

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Email Address
g.coghill@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department
School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Biography

I am retired, but still continue with some personal research. At the moment that is broadly in the areas of Theology and Science (specifically AI), and Analytic Theology (for which I received an MTh from Edinburgh Theological Seminary/ Glasgow University). I retain an interest in the Philosophy of Information and Model-based Reasoning.

I originally studied Engineering Science, but spent the bulk of my career in AI (the subject for which I obtained a PhD). At various times I have worked for Greater Glasgow Health Board (in Medical Physics), Heriot Watt University (RA), Aberystwyth University (lecturer) and finally Aberdeen University where I was latterly a professor of Computing Science and SICSA Chair in Systems Modelling. At Aberdeen I served in a number of capacities: Head of Computing Science (2010-2014; Director of Research and a Deputy Head of the School of Natural and Computing Sciences (2015 – 2018). I have served on a several committees in the institution including the Academic Standards Committee (Post-graduate), the Quality Assurance Committee, and the Research Policy Committee. I also did a few stints on Senate. 

Externally I did the usual things expected of an academic: reviewing for journals and conferences, external examining (for research degrees and taught programmes) at a number of institutions in the UK and beyond; conference committees, Carnegie trust PhD selection committee, etc.

I am an Honorary Research Fellow at ETS (and on the ETS Senate, and Seminary Board).

I am also a singer and obtained a diploma from Trinity College London (LTCL) in 2014. I give recitals, and am building up my portfolio. You can find my music page on Facebook at:

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

The Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine

External Memberships

Honorary Research Fellow, Edinburgh Theological Seminary

Associate University Lecturer, University of Glasgow

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (FRSA)

Member of the Evangelical Theological Society

Member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society

Member of Sigma Xi

Co-editor (with Dr Ximian Xu), Religions (special issue): No God, No Science? Reassessing the Relationship Between Theology and Modern Science.

Co-editor (with Dr Ximian Xu) of the T & T Clark Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Religion.

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And when I was in gainful employment: 

Chartered Engineer (C.Eng)

Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. (FIET)

 

 

Latest Publications

  • Information, Agency, and the Trinity

    Coghill, G.
    Religions, vol. 17, no. 7, 782
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • On The Modal Indeterminacy Of A Free Choice: Updating Donald M. Mackay’s Argument For Logical Intederminacy

    Coghill, G.
    Etica & Politica Ethics & Politics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Towards a Measure Theory of Semantic Information

    Coghill, G.
    Working Papers: Working Papers
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  • “James Clerk Maxwell: Faith, Church, and Physics” by Bruce Ritchie

    Coghill, G.
    Theology in Scotland, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 106-110
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
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  • Enhanced Affinity Propagation Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Network

    Rajan, D., Jiang, S., Yi, D., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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Research

Research Overview

My main research was in the area of Model-based Systems and Qualitative reasoning (a branch of AI), but is now in the domain of Theology and Science (focussed on issues in Information and AI). 

Current Research Interests: 

Theology and Science/ Philosophical Theology 

Analytic Theology

Philosophy of Information

Informational Philosophy of Science

Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning

I have been fortunate to be involved in interdisciplinary projects with friends and colleagues across a wide spectrum of disciplines (e.g. Biology (Systems and Synthetic), Engineering, Medicine, Music, Sociology).

Publications

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  • Information, Agency, and the Trinity

    Coghill, G.
    Religions, vol. 17, no. 7, 782
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • On The Modal Indeterminacy Of A Free Choice: Updating Donald M. Mackay’s Argument For Logical Intederminacy

    Coghill, G.
    Etica & Politica Ethics & Politics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Towards a Measure Theory of Semantic Information

    Coghill, G.
    Working Papers: Working Papers
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  • “James Clerk Maxwell: Faith, Church, and Physics” by Bruce Ritchie

    Coghill, G.
    Theology in Scotland, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 106-110
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Enhanced Affinity Propagation Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Network

    Rajan, D., Jiang, S., Yi, D., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Donald MacCrimmon MacKay (1922 – 1987): Scientist and Accidental Philosopher: A Critical Appreciation

    Coghill, G.
    Science and Christian Belief, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 83-102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Behind the eye: Donald M. MacKay and the 1986 Gifford Lectures

    Coghill, G.
    Theology in Scotland, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 66-74
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Artificial Intelligence (and Christianity): Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?

    Coghill, G.
    Studies in Christian Ethics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 604-619
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Multi-stage Bias Mitigation for Individual Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions

    Ghadage, A., Yi, D., Coghill, G., Pang, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Are contrastive explanations useful?

    Forrest, J., Sripada, S., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
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  • Monitoring tourists’ specialisation and implementing adaptive governance is necessary to avoid failure of the wildlife tourism commons

    Mancini, F., Leyshon, B., Manson, F., Coghill, G. M., Lusseau, D.
    Tourism Management, vol. 81, 104160
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Inferring structure and parameters of dynamic system models simultaneously using swarm intelligence approaches

    Usman, M., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Memetic Computing, vol. 12, pp. 267-282
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Swarm Inspired Approaches for K-prototypes clustering

    Albalawi, H., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • A Physarum-Inspired Competition Algorithm for Solving Discrete Multi-Objective Optimization Problems

    Awad, A., Usman, M., Lusseau, D., Coghill, G. M., Pang, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Inferring Structure and Parameters of Dynamic Systems using Latin Hypercube Sampling Multi Dimensional Uniformity-Particle Swarm Optimization

    Usman, M., Awad, A., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • A Hexagonal Cell Automaton Model to Imitate Physarum Polycephalum Competitive Behaviour

    Awad, A., Pang, W., Lusseau, D., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Quantifying wildlife watchers’ preferences to investigate the overlap between recreational and conservation value of natural areas

    Mancini, F., Coghill, G. M., Lusseau, D.
    Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 387-397
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Towards making NLG a voice for interpretable Machine Learning

    Forrest, J., Sripada, S., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Physarum Inspired Connectivity and Restoration for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

    Awad, A., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • CLEMI-imputation evaluation

    Chapman, A., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • ε-Distance Weighted Support Vector Regression

    Ou, G., Wang, Y., Huang, L., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Using social media to quantify spatial and temporal dynamics of nature-based recreational activities

    Mancini, F., Coghill, G. M., Lusseau, D.
    PloS ONE, vol. 13, no. 7, e0200565
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Towards a Robust Imputation Evaluation Framework

    Chapman, A., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • A Conceptual Framework of Starlings Swarm Intelligence Intrusion Prevention for Software Defined Networks

    Karatu, M. T., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Non-constructive interval simulation of dynamic systems

    Pang, W., Bruce, A. M., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Physarum Inspired Model for Mobile Sensor Nodes Deployment in the Presence of Obstacles

    Awad, A., Pang, W., Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Using qualitative models to define sustainable management for the commons in data poor conditions

    Mancini, F., Coghill, G. M., Lusseau, D.
    Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 67, pp. 52-60
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Large Margin Distribution Machine Recursive Feature Elimination

    Ou, G., Wang, Y., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • e-Distance Weighted Support Vector Regression

    Wang, Y., Ou, G., Pang, W., Huang, L., Coghill, G. M.
    Working Papers: Working Papers
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  • FdDCA: A Novel Fuzzy Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm

    Mukhtar, N., Coghill, G. M., Pang, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Notes on the Floridian Theory of Strongly Semantic Information

    Coghill, G. M.
    Aberdeen: Department of Computing Science, 51cg. 17 pages
    Books and Reports: Other Reports

  • The social sciences and the web: From ‘Lurking’ to interdisciplinary ‘Big Data’ research

    Bone, J. D., Emele, C. D., Abdul, A. O., Coghill, G. M., Pang, W.
    Methodological Innovations, vol. 9, pp. 1-14
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  • An Integrated Qualitative and Quantitative Biochemical Model Learning Framework Using Evolutionary Strategy and Simulated Annealing

    Wu, Z., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Cognitive Computation, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 637-651
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  • An integrative top-down and bottom-up qualitative model construction framework for exploration of biochemical systems

    Wu, Z., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Soft Computing, vol. 19, pp. 1595-1610
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Applications and design of cooperative multi-agent ARN-based systems

    Gerrard, C. E., McCall, J., Macleod, C., Coghill, G. M.
    Soft Computing, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1581-1594
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • ADOVA: Anomaly Detection in Online and Virtual spAces

    Emele, C. D., Spakov, V., Pang, W., Bone, J. D., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Qualitative, Semi-quantitative, and Quantitative Simulation of the Osmoregulation System in Yeast

    Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    BioSystems, vol. 131, pp. 40-50
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  • QML-AiNet: an immune network approach to learning qualitative differential equation models

    Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Applied Soft Computing, vol. 27, pp. 148-157
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Exploring aspects of cell intelligence with artificial reaction networks

    Gerrard, C. E., McCall, J., Coghill, G. M., Macleod, C.
    Soft Computing, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1899-1912
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  • QML-Morven: A Novel Framework for Learning Qualitative Differential Equation Models using Both Symbolic and Evolutionary Approaches

    Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Journal of Computational Science, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 795–808
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  • An immune network approach to learning qualitative models of biological pathways

    Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Fuzzy qualitative simulation with multivariate constraints

    Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Advances in computational intelligence (UKCI 2012)

    Kononova, A. V., De Wilde, P., Coghill, G. M.
    12th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012), pp. 2181-2183
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
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  • Artificial chemistry approach to exploring search spaces using Artificial Reaction Network agents

    Gerrard, C. E., McCall, J., MacLeod, C., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • On Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning with reference to the Philosophy of Information

    Coghill, G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • An Immune Network Approach to Qualitative System Identification of Biological Pathways

    Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Combining biochemical network motifs within an ARN-agent control system

    Gerrard, C. E., McCall, J., Macleod, C., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Stepwise modelling of biochemical pathways based on qualitative model learning

    Wu, Z., Pang, W., Coghill, G. M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Integrating natural language generation and model-based reasoning for explanation generation

    Matheson, D., Coghill, G. M., Sripada, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Adaptive dynamic control of quadrupedal robotic gaits with artificial reaction networks

    Gerrard, C. E., McCall, J., Coghill, G. M., Macleod, C.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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