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Towards causal ordering based on dimensional analysis. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shen, Q., & Peng, T. (1998). Towards causal ordering based on dimensional analysis. In Proc. of The ECAI-98 Workshop on Model-based systems and qualitative reasoning (27-33)

Some observations about GA-based exam timetabling. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ross, P., Hart, E., & Corne, D. (1998). Some observations about GA-based exam timetabling. In E. Burke, & M. Carter (Eds.), Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling II (115-129)

Although many people have tried using genetic algorithms (GAs) for exam timetabling, far fewer have done systematic investigations to try to determine whether a GA is a good choice of method or not. We have extensively studied GAs that use one partic... Read More about Some observations about GA-based exam timetabling..

An adaptive mutation scheme for a penalty-based graph-colouring GA. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ross, P., & Hart, E. (1998). An adaptive mutation scheme for a penalty-based graph-colouring GA. In A. E. Eiben, T. Back, M. Schoenauer, & H. Schwefel (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature V (795-802). https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056921

The folklore of evolutionary algorithms still seems to contain some gross over-generalistions, such as that direct encodings are inferior to indirect ones, that penalty-function methods are often poor, and that observed performance on a few instances... Read More about An adaptive mutation scheme for a penalty-based graph-colouring GA..

Timetabling the classes of an entire university with an evolutionary algorithm. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paechter, B., Rankin, B., Cumming, A., & Fogarty, T. C. (1998, September). Timetabling the classes of an entire university with an evolutionary algorithm. Presented at 5th International Conference Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN V, Amsterdam

This paper describes extensions to an evolutionary algorithm that timetables classes for an entire University. A new method of dealing with multi-objectives is described along with a user interface designed for it. New results are given concerning re... Read More about Timetabling the classes of an entire university with an evolutionary algorithm..

Improving a lecture timetabling system for university wide use (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paechter, B., Rankin, B., & Cumming, A. (1998). Improving a lecture timetabling system for university wide use. In Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling II (156-165). https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055887

During the academic year 1996/97 the authors were commissioned by their institution to produce an automated timetabling system for use by all departments within the Faculty of Science. The system had to cater for the varying requirements of all the d... Read More about Improving a lecture timetabling system for university wide use.

A software tool for evaluating navigation (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McCall, R., & Benyon, D. (1998). A software tool for evaluating navigation. In J. May, J. Siddiqui, & J. Wilkinson (Eds.), HCI’98 Conference Companion (72-73)

Traditional methods of evaluating the usability of software systems largely ignore the problem of navigation within computer based environments. In contrast the 'Navigation of Information Space' paradigm (Benyon and Höök, 1997) places the navigabilit... Read More about A software tool for evaluating navigation.

Evaluating navigation in virtual environments. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McCall, R., & Benyon, D. (1998). Evaluating navigation in virtual environments. In 1st International Usability Evaluation for Virtual Environments Workshop - UEVE'98

Improving maintenance through development experiences. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., Yang, H., & Zedan, H. (1998). Improving maintenance through development experiences. In WESS '98 - Workshop on Empirical Studies in Software Maintenance (1-5)

An empirical comparison is made between present approaches/tools of software maintenance and development. The conclusion is that development technology is more mature in many aspects, such as automation, formalism, confidence, understanding of origin... Read More about Improving maintenance through development experiences..

A comparison of dominance mechanisms and simple mutation on non-stationary problems. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lewis, J., Hart, E., & Ritchie, G. (1998). A comparison of dominance mechanisms and simple mutation on non-stationary problems. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature-PPSN V (139-148). https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056857

It is sometimes claimed that genetic algorithms using diploid representations will be more suitable for problems in which the environment changes from time to time, as the additional information stored in the double chromosome will ensure diversity,... Read More about A comparison of dominance mechanisms and simple mutation on non-stationary problems..