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A novel similarity-based mutant vector generation strategy for differential evolution (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Segredo, E., Lalla-Ruiz, E., & Hart, E. (2018, July). A novel similarity-based mutant vector generation strategy for differential evolution. Presented at The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2018 (GECCO 2018), Kyoto, Japan

The mutant vector generation strategy is an essential component of Differential Evolution (DE), introduced to promote diversity, resulting in exploration of novel areas of the search space. However, it is also responsible for promoting intensificatio... Read More about A novel similarity-based mutant vector generation strategy for differential evolution.

Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Steyven, A. S. W., & Paechter, B. (2018, July). Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm. Presented at GECCO 2018, Kyoto, Japan

The presence of functionality diversity within a group has been demonstrated to lead to greater robustness, higher performance and increased problem-solving ability in a broad range of studies that includes insect groups, human groups and swarm robot... Read More about Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm.

Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., & Cruickshank, P. (2018, July). Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces. Presented at 12th IEEE Interna@onal Workshop on QUALITY ORIENTED REUSE OF SOFTWARE" (QUORS 2018)/ 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Tokyo, Japan

Smart Spaces currently benefits from Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures in order to realise its objectives. In many cases, it demonstrates this through certain automated applications that relies on sensor streams that comes with some uncertaint... Read More about Towards Modelling and Reasoning about Uncertain Data of Sensor Measurements for Decision Support in Smart Spaces..

Towards reducing complexity of multi-agent simulations by applying model-driven techniques (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoffman, B., Chalmers, K., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2018, June). Towards reducing complexity of multi-agent simulations by applying model-driven techniques. Presented at International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems PAAMS 2018, Toledo, Spain

Creating multi-agent simulations is a challenging task often requiring programming skills at the professional software developer level. Model driven methods of software development are an appropriate tool for reducing the complexity of the developmen... Read More about Towards reducing complexity of multi-agent simulations by applying model-driven techniques.

Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J. B., & Chalmers, K. (2018, June). Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study. Presented at Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis)

Task classifications are widely purported to be useful in the design process, with various suggestions having been made for their use at the different stages. However, little has been written regarding the actual use of task classifications in these... Read More about Using a task classification in the visualisation design process for task understanding and abstraction: an empirical study.

A Domain-Specific Language For Routing Problems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoffmann, B., Guckert, M., Farrenkopf, T., Chalmers, K., & Urquhart, N. (2018, May). A Domain-Specific Language For Routing Problems. Presented at 32nd Conference on Modelling and Simulation

Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) are commonly used as benchmark optimisation problems and they also have many applications in industry. Using agent-based approaches to solve VRPs allows the analysis of dynamic VRP instances that incorporate congestion... Read More about A Domain-Specific Language For Routing Problems.

Visualizing ALC Using Concept Diagrams (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stapleton, G., Delaney, A., Compton, M., & Chapman, P. (2017, August). Visualizing ALC Using Concept Diagrams. Presented at Graph-based Knowledge and Reasoning, Melbourne

This paper addresses the problem of how to visualize axioms from ALC using concept diagrams. We establish that 66.4% of OWL axioms defined for ontologies in the Manchester corpus are formulated over ALC, demonstrating the significance of considering... Read More about Visualizing ALC Using Concept Diagrams.

Automatic Generation of Constructive Heuristics for Multiple Types of Combinatorial Optimisation Problems with Grammatical Evolution and Geometric Graphs (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stone, C., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2018, April). Automatic Generation of Constructive Heuristics for Multiple Types of Combinatorial Optimisation Problems with Grammatical Evolution and Geometric Graphs. Presented at 21st International Conference, EvoApplications 2018, Parma, Italy

In many industrial problem domains, when faced with a combinatorial optimisation problem, a “good enough, quick enough” solution to a problem is often required. Simple heuristics often suffice in this case. However, for many domains, a simple heurist... Read More about Automatic Generation of Constructive Heuristics for Multiple Types of Combinatorial Optimisation Problems with Grammatical Evolution and Geometric Graphs.

Evaluating the Performance of an Evolutionary Tool for Exploring Solution Fronts (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. (2018, April). Evaluating the Performance of an Evolutionary Tool for Exploring Solution Fronts. Presented at EvoApplications 2018

EvoFilter is an evolutionary algorithm based tool for searching through large non-dominated fronts in order to find a subset of solutions that are of interest to the user. EvoFilter is designed to take the output of existing Multi Objective Evolutio... Read More about Evaluating the Performance of an Evolutionary Tool for Exploring Solution Fronts.

A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamnal, G., & Liu, X. (2017, April). A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, Porto, Portugal

In today’s world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home.

What can we learn from simulating commuters? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. (2017, November). What can we learn from simulating commuters?. Presented at U!REKA

Commuting affects just about every member of the workforce in the UK, those who do not commute are affected by the congestion and pollution generated by such activities. There is increasing pressure on organisations to adopt practices and measures th... Read More about What can we learn from simulating commuters?.

Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., Mayes, K., Habachi, O., Sauveron, D., Steyven, A., & Chaumette, S. (2017, September). Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones. Presented at 2017 IEEE/AIAA 36th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

Interconnected everyday objects, either via public or private networks, are gradually becoming reality in modern life -- often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) or Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). One stand-out example are those systems based... Read More about Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones.

Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, June). Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

This work proposed an activity recognition model which focus on the power con-suming activity in home environment, to help residents modify their behavior. We set the IoT system with lower number of sensors. The key data for identifying activity come... Read More about Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment.

An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, June). An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

With the development of microelectronic devices and the radio, the application of WSN is more popular and can be applied in the various areas, which has attracted scholars. However, the requirements of performance for WSNs are becoming great in terms... Read More about An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs.

For Flux Sake: The Confluence of Socially- and Biologically-Inspired Computing for Engineering Change in Open Systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitt, J., & Hart, E. (2017, September). For Flux Sake: The Confluence of Socially- and Biologically-Inspired Computing for Engineering Change in Open Systems. Presented at 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)

This position paper is concerned with the challenge of engineering multi-scale and long-lasting systems, whose operation is regulated by sets of mutually-agreed, conventional rules. The core of the problem is that there are multiple, inter-dependent... Read More about For Flux Sake: The Confluence of Socially- and Biologically-Inspired Computing for Engineering Change in Open Systems.

Impact of selection methods on the diversity of many-objective Pareto set approximations (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martí, L., Segredo, E., Sánchez-Pi, N., & Hart, E. (2017, September). Impact of selection methods on the diversity of many-objective Pareto set approximations. Presented at 21st International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Marseille, France

Selection methods are a key component of all multi-objective and, consequently, many-objective optimisation evolutionary algorithms. They must perform two main tasks simultaneously. First of all, they must select individuals that are as close as poss... Read More about Impact of selection methods on the diversity of many-objective Pareto set approximations.

Emergence of hierarchy from the evolution of individual influence in an agent-based model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Perret, C., Powers, S. T., & Hart, E. (2017, September). Emergence of hierarchy from the evolution of individual influence in an agent-based model. Presented at 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2017)

The sudden transition from egalitarian groups to hierarchical societies that occurred with the origin of agriculture is one of the most striking features of the evolution of human societies. Hierarchy is reflected by the evolution of an asymmetrical... Read More about Emergence of hierarchy from the evolution of individual influence in an agent-based model.

ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ma, F., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Yao, W., Cai, J., & Wang, F. (2017, July). ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds. Presented at 2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

One of the key features of cloud computing is on demand resource provision. Unfortunately, different cloud service providers often have different standards, which makes the job of choosing the suitable resource to be a very difficult one for the comm... Read More about ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds.

Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Singh Jamnal, G., Liu, X., & Fan, L. (2017, July). Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space. Presented at The 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

In this paper, we proposed a new type of decision making system to achieve the intelligent goal for automated smart environments. The artificial intelligence techniques, used as building blocks to understand inhabitant activity patterns. The collecte... Read More about Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space.

Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piotrowska, B., Murray, J., Willis, A., & Kerridge, J. Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder characterised by difficulties with reading, despite adequate intelligence and education. Phonological deficits are often indicated as the primary cause of dyslexia. Because a range of lower-level perceptual, atten... Read More about Investigation of visual aspects of developmental dyslexia in children.