Publications
2020
Venkatasubramanian, S., Bliss, N. Nissenbaum, H., & Moses, M. (2020). Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Artificial Intelligence’sImpact on Society. (CCC white paper). PDF
J. Ericksen, A. Aggarwal, G. M. Fricke and M. E. Moses, "LoCUS: A Multi-Robot Loss-Tolerant Algorithm for Surveying Volcanic Plumes," 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Taichung, 2020, pp. 113-120, doi: 10.1109/IRC.2020.00025. PDF
Lu, Q., G.M. Fricke, T. Tsuno and M.E. Moses (2020). "A Bio-Inspired Transportation Network for Scalable Swarm Foraging," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020, pp. 6120-6126. PDF
Bradley, E., Marathe, M., Moses, M., Gropp, W. D., & Lopresti, D. (2020). Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09300. (CCC white paper). PDF
Lu, Q., Fricke, G. M., Ericksen, J. C., & Moses, M. E. (2020). Swarm Foraging Review: Closing the Gap Between Proof and Practice. Current Robotics Reports, 1-11. PDF
Erickson, J., Aggarwal, A., & Moses, M. E. (2019). On the Minimal Set of Inputs Required for Efficient Neuro-Evolved Foraging. arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11974. PDF
Aggarwal, A., Vining, W. F., Gupta, D., Saia, J., & Moses, M. E. (2019). A most irrational foraging algorithm. arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11973. PDF
Aggarwal, A., Gupta, D., Vining, W. F., Fricke, G. M., & Moses, M. E. (2019, November). Ignorance is not bliss: An analysis of central-place foraging algorithms. In 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 6510-6517). IEEE. PDF
Lu, Q., & Moses, M. E. (2019, August). A Bio-Inspired Transportation Network for Scalable Swarm Foraging. In 2019 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) (pp. 53-55). IEEE. PDF
Aggarwal, A., Fricke, G. M., Gupta, D., & Moses, M. E. (2019, July). On site fidelity and the price of ignorance in swarm robotic central place foraging algorithms. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (pp. 63-65). PDF
Solé, R., Moses, M., & Forrest, S. (2019). Liquid brains, solid brains. PDF
Vining, W. F., Esponda, F., Moses, M. E., & Forrest, S. (2019). How does mobility help distributed systems compute?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1774), 20180375. PDF
Cannon, J. L., Moses, M. E., Byrum, J. R., Mrass, P., Fricke, G. M., & Tasnim, H. (2019). Modeling T Cell Motion in Tissues During Immune Responses. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 322a. PDF
Flanagan, T., Beyeler, W., Levin, D., Finley, P., & Moses, M. (2019). Movement and spatial specificity support scaling in ant colonies and immune systems: application to national biosurveillance. In Evolution, Development and Complexity (pp. 355-366). Springer, Cham. PDF
Moses, M. E., Cannon, J. L., Gordon, D. M., & Forrest, S. (2019). Distributed adaptive search in T cells: Lessons from ants. Frontiers in immunology, 10, 1357. PDF
Lu, Q., Fricke, G.M., & Moses, M.E. (Accepted, 2019). Comparing Physical and Simulated Performance of a Deterministic and a Bio-inspired Stochastic Foraging Strategy for Robot Swarms. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Montreal, Canada. PDF
2018
Renzullo, J., Weimer, W., Moses, M., & Forrest, S. (2018, June). Neutrality and epistasis in program space. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement Workshop. 1-8. ACM. PDF
Flanagan*, T., Beyler, W., Levin, D., Finley, P. & Moses, M.E., Movement and spatial specificity support scaling in ant colonies and immune systems: Application to national biosurveillance. In Press. PDF
Ackerman, S. M., Fricke, G. M., Hecker, J. P., Hamed, K. M., Fowler, S. R., Griego, A. D., Jones, J.C., Nichol, J.J., Leucht, K.W., & Moses, M. E. (2018). The Swarmathon: An autonomous swarm robotics competition. arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08320. PDF
Lu*, Q. , Hecker*, J. P., & Moses, M. E. (2018). Multiple-place swarm foraging with dynamic depots. Autonomous Robots, 1–18. PDF
Tasmin*, H., Fricke*, M. G., Byrum, J., Tafoya*, J., Cannon, J., & Moses, M. E., “Quantitative measurement of Naive T Cell Association with Dendritic Cells, FRC, and Blood Vessels in Lymph Nodes,” Frontiers in Immunology, vol. 9, p. 1571, 2018. PDF
2017
Banerjee*, S., Perelson, A. S., & Moses, M. E. “Modelling the effects of phylogeny and body size on within-host pathogen replication and immune response,” Journal of The Royal Society Interface, vol. 14, no. 136, p. 20170479, 2017. PDF
Ericksen, J., Moses, M., & Forrest, S. (2017, November). Automatically evolving a general controller for robot swarms. In Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on (pp. 1-8). IEEE. PDF
Just, W. A., & Moses, M. E. (2017, November). Flexibility through autonomous decision-making in robot swarms. In Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on (pp. 1-8). IEEE. PDF
Mrass, P., Oruganti, S. R., Fricke, G. M., Tafoya, J., Byrum, J. R., Yang, L., ... & Cannon, J. L. (2017). ROCK regulates the intermittent mode of interstitial T cell migration in inflamed lungs. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1010. PDF
Svihla, V., Moses, M. E., Lim, W., Peele-Eady, T.B., Lee, I.E., Esterly, E.E., & Prescott, P., (June, 2017) “Designing for assets of diverse students enrolled in a freshman-level computer science for all course,” in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, (Columbus, Ohio), ASEE Conferences. Link to online article
2016
Moses, M., Bezerra, G., Edwards, B., Brown, J.H., & Forrest, S., “Energy and time determine scaling in biological and computer designs,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 371, no. 1701, p.2015446, 2016 . PDF
Banerjee*, S, Guedj, J., Ribeiro, R.M., Moses, M., & Perelson, A.S., “Estimating biologically relevant parameters under uncertainty for experimental within-host murine West Nile Virus infection,” Journal of The Royal Society Interface, vol. 13, no. 117, p. 20160130, 2016. PDF
Fricke*, G.M., Hecker*, J.P., Cannon, J.L., & Moses, M., “Immune-inspired search strategies for robot swarms,” Robotica, vol. 34, no. 08, pp. 1791–1810, 2016. PDF
Fricke*, G.M., Hecker*, J. P., Griego*, A.D., Tran*, L.T., & Moses, M., “A distributed deterministic spiral search algorithm for swarms,” in Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp. 4430–4436, IEEE, 2016. PDF
Fricke* G. M., Letendre*, K.A., Moses, M., & Cannon, J.L., “Persistence and adaptation in immunity: T cells balance the extent and thoroughness of search,” PLOS Comput Biol, vol. 12, no. 3, p. e1004818, 2016. PDF
Levin, D., Forrest, S., Banerjee*, S., Clay, C., Cannon, J., Moses, M., & Koster, F., “A spatial model of the efficiency of T cell search in the influenza-infected lung,” Journal of theoretical biology, vol. 398, pp. 52–63, 2016. PDF
Winner*, K.R.K., Steinkamp, M.P., Lee, R.J., Swat, M., Muller, C.Y., Moses, M., Jiang, Y., & Wilson, B.S., “Spatial modeling of drug delivery routes for treatment of disseminated ovarian cancer,” Cancer Research, vol. 76, no. 6, pp. 1320–1334, 2016. PDF
Lu, Q., Hecker, J. P., & Moses, M. E. (2016, October). The MPFA: A multiple-place foraging algorithm for biologically-inspired robot swarms. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp. 3815-3821). IEEE. PDF
2015
Hecker, J. P., Carmichael, J. C., & Moses, M. E. (2015, September). Exploiting clusters for complete resource collection in biologically-inspired robot swarms. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp. 434-440). IEEE. PDF
Levin D, Hecker JP, Moses ME, & Forrest S. (2015) Volatility and spatial distribution of resources determine ant foraging strategies. European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), July 2015. Open Access Article
Fricke, G. M., Black, S. R., Hecker, J. P., Cannon, J. L., & Moses, M. E. (2015, July). Distinguishing adaptive search from random search in robots and t cells. In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 105-112). ACM. PDF
Hecker, J.E. & Moses, M.E. (2015). Beyond pheromones: Evolving robust, adaptable, and scalable ant-inspired robot swarms Swarm Intelligence, 9(1), 43-70. PDF. Link to Article
Letendre, K., Donnadieu, E., Moses, M., & Cannon, J.L. (2015). Bringing Statistics Up to Speed with Data in Analysis of Lymphocyte Motility PloS one 10 (5). PDF Open Access Article
Hecker, J.P., and Moses, M (2014). Real-time evolution of iAnt robot foraging strategies. International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE), July 2014. PDF
2013
Moses, M., Flanagan, T., Letendre, K., & Fricke, M. (2013) Ant Colonies as a Model of Human Computation. In Handbook of Human Computation (pp. 25-37). Springer New York. PDF Link to Book
Moses, M. E. (2013). Information technology: Slouching towards utopia. Nature, 502(7471), 299. PDF
Flanagan TP, Pinter-Wollman NM, Moses ME, Gordon DM. (2013) Fast and flexible: Argentine ants recruit from nearby trails. PloS one 8(8):e70888. PDF Open Access Article
Cannon JL, Asperti-Boursin F, Letendre KA, Brown IK, Korzekwa KE, Blaine KM, Oruganti SR, Sperling AI, and Moses ME. (2013). PKCtheta Regulates T Cell Motility via Ezrin-Radixin-Moesin Localization to the Uropod. PloS one 8(11):e78940. Open Access Article
Steinkamp MP, Winner KK, Davies S, Muller C, Zhang Y, Hoffman RM, Shirinifard A, Moses ME, Jiang Y, and Wilson BS. (2013) Ovarian tumor attachment, invasion, and vascularization reflect unique microenvironments in the peritoneum: insights from xenograft and mathematical models. Frontiers in oncology 3. Open Access Article
Hecker, J. P., & Moses, M. E. (2013, July). An evolutionary approach for robust adaptation of robot behavior to sensor error. In Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation (pp. 1437-1444). ACM. PDF
Letendre, K., & Moses, M. E. (2013, July). Synergy in ant foraging strategies: memory and communication alone and in combination. In Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (pp. 41-48). ACM. PDF
Hecker JP, Stolleis K, Swenson B, Letendre K, Moses ME. (2013). Evolving Error Tolerance in Biologically-Inspired iAnt Robots. In: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL.Vol 12.; 1025-1032. PDF
Fricke, G. M., Asperti-Boursin, F., Hecker, J. P., Cannon, J. L., & Moses, M. E. (2013, September). From Microbiology to Microcontrollers: Robot Search Patterns Inspired by T Cell Movement. In ECAL (pp. 1009-1016). PDF
Holtschulte, N. J., & Moses, M. (2013, July). Benchmarking cellular genetic algorithms on the BBOB noiseless testbed. In Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation (pp. 1201-1208). ACM. PDF
Moses, M. E., Letendre, K., Hecker, J. P., & Flanagan, T. P. (2013). In vivo, in silico, in machina: ants and robots balance memory and communication to collectively exploit information. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (pp. 621-628). Springer, Cham. PDF
2012
Moses, ME and Forrest S. (2012). "Beyond Biology" in Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach. Eds. R.M. Sibly, A. Kodric-Brown, and J.H. Brown. Wiley-Blackwell. (pp. 293-301). Link to Book
Hayward, A., Gillooly J and Moses ME. (2012). "Metabolic Theory of Ecology" in Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology, A. Hastings and L. Gross eds., (pp. 426-433). University of California Press, Berkeley. Link to Book
Holtschulte N, Moses M. (2012). Diversity and Resistance in a Model Network with Adaptive Software. Security Informatics 1(1):1-11. Open Access Article
Zuo W, Moses ME, West GB, Hou C, Brown JH. (2012). A general model for effects of temperature on ectotherm ontogenetic growth and development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279(1734):1840-1846. Open Access Article
Flanagan TP, Letendre K, Burnside WR, Fricke GM, Moses ME. (2012). Quantifying the effect of colony size and food distribution on harvester ant foraging. PloS one 7(7):e39427. Open Access Article
Burnside, W.R., J. H. Brown O. Burger, M. J. Hamilton, M. E. Moses, & L. M.A. Bettencourt. (2012). Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecology. Biological Reviews 87(1): 194-208. PDF
Flynn, M., & Moses, M. (2012, September). Improving peer review with ACORN: ACO algorithm for Reviewer’s Network. In International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (pp. 260-267). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.. LNCS Article
Hecker, J. P., Letendre, K., Stolleis, K., Washington, D., & Moses, M. E. (2012, September). Formica ex machina: ant swarm foraging from physical to virtual and back again. In International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (pp. 252-259). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. PDF
2011
Zuo, W., Moses, M. E., West, G. B., Hou, C., & Brown, J. H. (2011). A general model for effects of temperature on ectotherm ontogenetic growth and development. Proceedings. Biological sciences ( PDF, Press release in Nature Climate Change)
Banerjee, S., Levin, D., Moses, M., Koster, F., & Forrest, S. (2011, July).The value of inflammatory signals in adaptive immune responses. In International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (pp. 1-14). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. PDF
Flanagan, T. P., Letendre, K., Burnside, W., Fricke, G. M., & Moses, M. (2011, April). How ants turn information into food. In 2011 IEEE symposium on artificial life (ALIFE) (pp. 178-185). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954650 PDF
M.E. Moses. & S. Banerjee (2011) “Biologically inspired design principles for Scalable, Robust, Adaptive, Decentralized search and automated response (RADAR).” Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Artificial Life:30-37. doi: 10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954663. PDF
Burnside, W.R., J. H. Brown O. Burger, M. J. Hamilton, M. E. Moses, & L. M.A. Bettencourt. (2011). “Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecology.” Biological Reviews in press. PDF
2010
Banavar, J.R., M.E. Moses, J.H. Brown, J. Damuth, A. Rinaldo, R.M. Sibly and A. Maritan (2010) “A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(36): 15816-158120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009974107. PDF (from online early publication)
Banerjee, S. and M.E. Moses. “Scale Invariance of Immune System Response Rates and Times (2010) “Perspectives on Immune System Architecture." Swarm Intelligence 4: 301–318. DOI 10.1007/s11721-010-0048-2. PDF
Banerjee, S. & M. E. Moses."Modular RADAR: An Immune System Inspired Search and Response Strategy for Distributed Systems", The 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6209/2010: 116-129. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14547-6_102010. PDF
DeLong, J.P., J.G. Okie, M.E. Moses, R.M. Sibly, and J.H. Brown (2010) “Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:12941-12945. PDF
Zarkesh-Ha, P., Bezerra, G. B., Forrest, S., & Moses, M. (2010, June). Hybrid network on chip (HNoC): local buses with a global mesh architecture. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction (pp. 9-14). ACM. DOI:10.1145/1811100.1811104. PDF
Bezerra, G. B., Forrest, S., Moses, M., Davis, A., & Zarkesh-Ha, P. (2010, June). Modeling NoC traffic locality and energy consumption with Rent's communication probability distribution. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE international workshop onSystem-level interconnect prediction (pp. 3-8). ACM. PDF
2009
Moses, M. E. (2009) "Essay Series on Being Human, Engineering: World Wide Ebb" Nature 457:660-661. DOI:10.1038/457660a. PDF
S. Banerjee and M.E. Moses (2009) “A Hybrid Agent-Based and Differential Equation Model of Body Size Eects on Pathogen Replication and Immune System Response." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5666:14-18. PDF
Hamilton, M.J., O. Burger, J.P. deLong, R. S. Walker, M. E. Moses and J.H. Brown (2009) “Population stability, cooperation, and the invasibility of the human species." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(30):12255-12260. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905708106. PDF
Arora, T., and Moses, M.E. (2009) "Ant Colony Optimization for Power Efficient Routing in Manhattan and Non-Manhattan VLSI Architectures" Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium. PDF
2008
Hou, C, W. Zuo, M. E. Moses, J.H. Brown and G. B. West (2008) "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny." Science 332(5902):736-739. DOI:10.1126/science.1162302 PDF
Moses, M.E., S. Forrest, A.L. Davis, M. Loder and J.H. Brown (2008) "Scaling Theory for Information Networks." Journal of the Royal Society's Interface 5(29):1469-1480. DOI 10.1098/rsif.2008.0091 PDF
Moses, M. E., C. Hou, W. H. Woodruff, G. B. West, J. C. Nekola, W. Zuo, and J. H. Brown. 2008. "Revisiting a Model of Ontogenetic Growth: Estimating Model Parameters from Theory and Data." The American Naturalist 171(5):632-645.DOI10.1086/587073 PDF
Samaniego, H. and M.E. Moses (2008) "Cities as Organisms: Allometric Scaling of Urban Road Networks in the USA." Journal of Transport and Land Use 1:1. PDF
2007
Charnov, E. L., Warne, R., & Moses, M. (2007). Lifetime reproductive effort. The American Naturalist, 170(6), E129-E142. PDF
2006
Savage, V. M., White, E. P., Moses, M. E., Ernest, S. M., Enquist, B. J., & Charnov, E. L. (2006). Comment on, "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories". Science, 312(5771), 198-198. PDF
2003
Moses, M. E., & Brown, J. H. (2003). Allometry of human fertility and energy use. Ecology Letters, 6(4), 295-300. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00446.x PDF
Patents