All Outputs (147)

On the role of the AIS practitioner. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Read, M., McEwan, C., Aickelin, U., & Greensmith, J. (2013, September). On the role of the AIS practitioner

Cognisant of the gulf between engineers and immunologists
that currenty hinders a truly inter-disciplinary approach to
the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), we propose
a redefinition of the term AIS practitioner, as an individual
who iden... Read More about On the role of the AIS practitioner..

Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2013, September). Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic

Motivated by the natural immune system's ability to defend the body by generating and maintaining a repertoire of antibodies that collectively cover the potential pathogen space, we describe an artificial system that discovers and maintains a reperto... Read More about Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic..

Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Scott, C., & Hart, E. (2013, July). Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem. Presented at 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) has previously been investigated as a multi-objective problem. In this paper estimated carbon emissions is added as an objective alongside the number of vehicles required and distance travelled. W... Read More about Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem..

Generating single and multiple cooperative heuristics for the one dimensional bin packing problem using a single node genetic programming island model. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2013, July). Generating single and multiple cooperative heuristics for the one dimensional bin packing problem using a single node genetic programming island model. Presented at 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

Novel deterministic heuristics are generated using Single Node Genetic Programming for application to the One Dimensional Bin Packing Problem. First a single deterministic heuristic was evolved that minimised the total number of bins used when applie... Read More about Generating single and multiple cooperative heuristics for the one dimensional bin packing problem using a single node genetic programming island model..

Using graphical information systems to improve vehicle routing problem instances. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Scott, C., & Hart, E. (2013, July). Using graphical information systems to improve vehicle routing problem instances. Presented at 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation

This paper makes the assertion that vehicle routing rearch has produced increasingly more powerful problem solvers, but has not increased the realism or compexity of typical problem instances. This paper argues that the time has come of use realistic... Read More about Using graphical information systems to improve vehicle routing problem instances..

A Hyper-Heuristic classifier for one dimensional bin packing problems: Improving classification accuracy by attribute evolution. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2012, September). A Hyper-Heuristic classifier for one dimensional bin packing problems: Improving classification accuracy by attribute evolution. Presented at International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature

A hyper-heuristic for the one dimensional bin packing problem is presented that uses an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to evolve a set of attributes that characterise a problem instance. The EA evolves divisions of variable quantity and dimension that r... Read More about A Hyper-Heuristic classifier for one dimensional bin packing problems: Improving classification accuracy by attribute evolution..

This pervasive day: creative Interactive methods for encouraging public engagement with FET research (2011)
Journal Article
Helgason, I., Bradley, J., Egan, C., Paechter, B., & Hart, E. (2011). This pervasive day: creative Interactive methods for encouraging public engagement with FET research. Procedia Computer Science, 7, 207-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.028

This paper describes a case study of a programme of interactive public engagement activities presented by the PerAda Co-ordination Action project (FET Proactive Initiative on Pervasive Adaptation) [1] in 2011. The intention behind these events was to... Read More about This pervasive day: creative Interactive methods for encouraging public engagement with FET research.

Biological Networks (2011)
Book Chapter
Hart, E. (2011). Biological Networks. In M. Gargaud, R. Amils, J. Quintanilla, & H. Irvine (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (179-182). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_178

An engineering-Informed modelling approach to AIS. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Davoudani, D. (2011). An engineering-Informed modelling approach to AIS. In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2010) (240-253). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22371-6_22

A recent shift in thinking in Artificial Immune Systems (AIS)
advocates developing a greater understanding of the underlying biological
systems that serve as inspiration for engineering such systems by
developing abstract computational models of t... Read More about An engineering-Informed modelling approach to AIS..

Artificial Immune Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 11172) (2011)
Report
Hart, E., Jansen, T., & Timmis, J. (2011). Artificial Immune Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 11172)

This report documents the program and the outcomes of the Dagstuhl Seminar 11172 ``Artificial Immune Systems''. The purpose of the seminar was to bring together researchers from the areas of immune-inspired computing, theoretical computer science, ra... Read More about Artificial Immune Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 11172).

Advances in artificial immune systems (2011)
Journal Article
Hart, E., McEwan, C., Timmis, J., & Hone, A. (2011). Advances in artificial immune systems. Evolutionary Intelligence, 4, 67-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-011-0058-z

The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) derives inspiration from processes and mechanisms apparent in the biological immune system. After early applications of this paradigm to problems in anomaly detection and classification, the field rapidly... Read More about Advances in artificial immune systems.

On Clonal Selection. (2011)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Hart, E. (2011). On Clonal Selection. Theoretical Computer Science, 412, 502-516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2010.11.017

Clonal selection has been a dominant theme in many immune-inspired algorithms applied to machine learning and optimisation. We examine existing clonal selections algorithms for learning from a theoertical and empirical perspective and assert that the... Read More about On Clonal Selection..

Artificial Immune Systems: 9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010, Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010, Proceedings (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2010, July). Artificial Immune Systems: 9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010, Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010, Proceedings. Presented at 9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010, Edinburgh, UK

Artificial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and computation. The original research impetus in AIS had a clear focus on applying immunological principles to computational proble... Read More about Artificial Immune Systems: 9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010, Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010, Proceedings.

Towards self-aware PerAda systems. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2010, July). Towards self-aware PerAda systems

Pervasive Adaptation (PerAda) refers to massive-scale pervasive information and communication systems which are capable of autonomously adapting to highly dynamic and open technological and user contexts. PerAda systems are thus a special case of col... Read More about Towards self-aware PerAda systems..

Clonal selection from first principles. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, C., & Hart, E. (2010, July). Clonal selection from first principles

Clonal selection is the keystone of mainstream immunology
and computational systems based on immunological principles. For the
latter, clonal selection is often interpreted as an asexual variant of natural
selection, and thus, tend to be variation... Read More about Clonal selection from first principles..

Symbiotic cognitive networks: a proposal. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasheed, T., Hart, E., Falconer, R., & Bown, J. (2010, July). Symbiotic cognitive networks: a proposal. Presented at 9th International Conference Artificial Immune Systems ICARIS 2010

We describe the concept of a cognitive network and propose that ecosystems of co-existing networks which are globally energy efficient while providing the expected quality of service can be realised by exploiting two mechanisms which occur in biologi... Read More about Symbiotic cognitive networks: a proposal..

Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, C., Urquhart, N. B., & Hart, E. (2010). Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing (141-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12242-2_15

This paper investigates the influence of gradient and payload correction factors used within a CO2 emission model on the solutions to shortest path and travelling salesman problems when applied to freight delivery.
Problem instances based on real li... Read More about Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing.

Using an evolutionary algorithm to discover low CO2 tours within a Travelling Salesman Problem (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Scott, C., & Hart, E. (2010, April). Using an evolutionary algorithm to discover low CO2 tours within a Travelling Salesman Problem. Presented at Applications of evolutionary computation : EvoApplications 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

This paper examines the issues surrounding the effects of using vehicle emissions as the fitness criteria when solving routing problems using evolutionary techniques. The case-study examined is that of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) based upon... Read More about Using an evolutionary algorithm to discover low CO2 tours within a Travelling Salesman Problem.

Building low CO2 solutions to the vehicle routing problem with time windows using an evolutionary algorithm. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. B., Hart, E., & Scott, C. (2010). Building low CO2 solutions to the vehicle routing problem with time windows using an evolutionary algorithm. In IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2010.5586088

An evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithm (MOA) is used to investigate the trade-off between CO2 savings, distance and number of vehicles used in a typical vehicle routing problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). A problem set is derived containing three... Read More about Building low CO2 solutions to the vehicle routing problem with time windows using an evolutionary algorithm..

On artificial immune systems and swarm intelligence (2010)
Journal Article
Timmis, J., Andrews, P., & Hart, E. (2010). On artificial immune systems and swarm intelligence. Swarm Intelligence, 4(4), 247-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-010-0045-5

This position paper explores the nature and role of two bio-inspired paradigms, namely Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and Swarm Intelligence (SI). We argue that there are many aspects of AIS that have direct parallels with SI and examine the role of... Read More about On artificial immune systems and swarm intelligence.