Life Long Learning Hyper Heuristic Optimisation Oct 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2015
This project aims to improve the current state of the art in developing optimisation tools which are relevant and acceptable to industry.

This will be achieved by addressing industrial current concerns regarding the ability of academic... Read More about Life Long Learning Hyper Heuristic Optimisation.

FOCAS Jan 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2016
FOCAS is a coordination action in the area of collective adaptive systems. It provides increased visibility to the research carried out by projects funded by the FOCAS FET Proactive Initiative and others in research fields related to collective adapt... Read More about FOCAS.

Ensembles for Optimisation Sep 1, 2015 - Aug 31, 2016
Optimisation – finding cost-effective or high-performing solutions - is a key economic driver for business today. However, academic literature on search-based optimisation techniques reflects an escalating arms race to produce highly specialized algo... Read More about Ensembles for Optimisation.

An Investigation of Hyper-Heuristic Methods: A New Generation of Problems-Solvers Nov 1, 2000 - Jul 31, 2004
The project made significant advances in discovering new automated methods for combining heuristics to solve bin-packing problems, outperforming results obtained by any individual heuristic.

Advances were made using learning classifier... Read More about An Investigation of Hyper-Heuristic Methods: A New Generation of Problems-Solvers.

Metaheuristics Sep 1, 2000 - Aug 31, 2004
Metaheuristics are widely used to solve important practical combinatorial optimization problems. But the how and why they work effectively for specific problems and for others not, remains a mystery. The overall goal of the Metaheuristis Network is t... Read More about Metaheuristics.

EvoNet II Aug 1, 2000 - Aug 17, 2012
The EvoNet series of conferences continue to be run annually by Jennifer Willies through the Institute of Informatics & Digital Innovation.

Speckled Computing Oct 1, 2003 - Jul 31, 2008
To establish a research infrastructure for realising minute (around 1 cubic millimetre) semiconductor specks which can sense, compute and communicate wirelessly. Specks, scattered or sprayed on the person or surfaces, will collaborate as programmable... Read More about Speckled Computing.

LETS: Evolving Artificial Traders for Successful Market Trading Jun 1, 2003 - Nov 30, 2004

AWARENESS (Co-ordination Action) Oct 1, 2010 - Sep 30, 2013
For latest news and events, please see the project webpage here

Awareness is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting research under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative:Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (Awareness).  Awareness provide a s... Read More about AWARENESS (Co-ordination Action).

PerAda (PANORAMA) Jan 1, 2008 - May 31, 2011
The project finished on 31/06/11 and was evaluated as "Excellent: the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations"

The reviewers commented: In summary, the project has... Read More about PerAda (PANORAMA).

Tick2Ride Proof of Concept Oct 1, 2007 - Nov 1, 2008
The project looked at using optimisation techniques to plan business travel (i.e. journey sharing) and reduce its environmental impact.

Both soft constraints (personal preferences) and hard constraints were modelled to identify th... Read More about Tick2Ride Proof of Concept.

Scapa Flow Technologies Mar 1, 2005 - Jun 30, 2006
To use evolutionary techniques to develop prototype software that will automatically optimise the performance of Enterprise Java software for large e-commerce systems.

Esave Feasibility Study Jul 1, 2012 - Oct 26, 2012
This project undertook the following tasks:

1) An analysis of the existing work flow within the energy audit process used by esave on behalf of their clients.
2) The specification and design of an Android software tool to be... Read More about Esave Feasibility Study.

Optimum order of deliveries within milk rounds Nov 13, 2013 - Jun 30, 2014
This project is being undertaken in collaboration  with McQueens Dairies. The principle aim is investigate the optimisation of drop-off points within milk rounds. The project will establish a suitable GIS platform and build a demonstrator that will a... Read More about Optimum order of deliveries within milk rounds.

AvantGuarde Jan 28, 2014 - Mar 27, 2014
Workshop style sessions were held with Avant Garde, their work so far was reviewed and issues relating to performance were examined. We were able to make specific  suggestions to address a number of issues as well as provide training pass on speciali... Read More about AvantGuarde.

BeeFound Feb 25, 2014 - May 24, 2014
A demonstrator has been created which showcases a ranking algorithm and availability matching.

Currently discussions are ongoing regarding a follow on project.

Market Prepare May 28, 2014 - Mar 22, 2015
A feasibility study & demo of tendering and rating software for Market Prepare to increase the work capacity and improve their customer’s experience when booking trade work and dealing with trades people.

Caddie Charger May 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2014
Focusing on the IT aspects of sound recognition and analysis. The product will be used to monitor the players  playing golf shots using a mixture of location, wi-fi and sounds technologies. Through use of  sophisticated software programmes, the syste... Read More about Caddie Charger.

An international multi-disciplinary training network on ageism Nov 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2021
The proposed research is a direct response to the European Commission's Active and Healthy Ageing initiative, with an
overarching goal to improve the quality of life of older people. By pursuing 15 different, but highly related research projec... Read More about An international multi-disciplinary training network on ageism.

Autonomous Robot Evolution: Cradle to Grave Aug 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2022
Robotics is changing the landscape of innovation. But traditional design approaches are not suited to novel or unknown habitats and contexts, for instance: robot colonies for ore mining, exploring or developing other planets or asteroids, or robot sw... Read More about Autonomous Robot Evolution: Cradle to Grave.