Dr Neil Urquhart's News (4)

Neil Urquhart elected to SPECIES board.
Jul 24, 2017

Summary	Dr Neil Urquhart has been elected to the management board of SPECIES (Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computing In Europe and its Surroundings). As well as promoting Evolutionary Computation, the Society is responsible for organising the Evo* conference each year.
People	Neil Urquhart
URL	http://species-society.org/

Neil Urquhart awarded Best Contribution to Information Society research theme.
Jul 24, 2017

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Neil Urquhart was awarded the Best Contribution to Information Society research theme award at the University Research Conference. Dr Urquhart has applied Artificial Intelligence methods based on evolution to solving travel and logistics problems. The problems investigated include the delivery of food in rural and urban areas and the scheduling of care workers in cites. The methods used to solve the problems allow the user to manage objectives such as environmental impact, public transport use and financial costs.

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Neil Urquhart

CAVES researchers have 3 papers accepted at GECCO 2017
Jul 15, 2017

Summary	Members of the CAVES research group have 3 papers accepted at the world's leading conference on Evolutionary Computing. GECCO 2017 will be held in Berlin from 15-19th July 2017. Accepted papers are: Real World Applications Track: Evolving Solution Choice and Decision Support for a Real-World Optimisation Problem. Neil Urquhart and Achille Fonzone A Hybrid Method for Feature Construction and Selection to Improve Wind-Damage Prediction in the Forestry Sector. Emma Hart, Kevin Sim, Barry Gardiner, Kana Kamimura Complex Systems TracK An Investigation of Environmental Influence on the Benefits of Adaptation Mechanisms in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics. Andreas Steyven, Emma Hart, Ben Paechter
People	Neil Urquhart Emma Hart Kevin Sim Andreas Steyven Ben Paechter
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas	Optimisation and learning
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems
URL	http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/index.html/Accepted+Papers

CAVES Researchers awarded funding from The Data Lab
Jan 6, 2016

Summary	CAVES Researchers awarded funding from The Data Lab.
People	Neil Urquhart Alistair Lawson
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas	Software systems
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems