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Analysing the performance of migrating birds optimisation approaches for large scale continuous problems (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lalla-Ruiz, E., Segredo, E., Voss, S., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2016, September). Analysing the performance of migrating birds optimisation approaches for large scale continuous problems. Presented at 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Sol

We present novel algorithmic schemes for dealing with large scale continuous problems. They are based on the recently proposed population-based meta-heuristics Migrating Birds Optimisation (mbo) and Multi-leader Migrating Birds Optimisation (mmbo), t... Read More about Analysing the performance of migrating birds optimisation approaches for large scale continuous problems.

Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2016, October). Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm. Presented at PPSN 2016 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature

It is well known that in open-ended evolution, the nature of the environment plays in key role in directing evolution. However, in Evolutionary Robotics, it is often unclear exactly how parameterisation of a given environment might influence the emer... Read More about Understanding Environmental Influence in an Open-Ended Evolutionary Algorithm.

Hybridisation of Evolutionary Algorithms through hyper-heuristics for global continuous optimisation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Segredo, E., Lalla-Ruiz, E., Hart, E., Paechter, B., & Voß, S. (2016, May). Hybridisation of Evolutionary Algorithms through hyper-heuristics for global continuous optimisation. Presented at Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference LION 10, Ischi

Choosing the correct algorithm to solve a problem still remains an issue 40 years after the Algorithm Selection Problem was first posed. Here we propose a hyper-heuristic which can apply one of two meta-heuristics at the current stage of the search.... Read More about Hybridisation of Evolutionary Algorithms through hyper-heuristics for global continuous optimisation.

A hyper-heuristic ensemble method for static job-shop scheduling. (2016)
Journal Article
Hart, E., & Sim, K. (2016). A hyper-heuristic ensemble method for static job-shop scheduling. Evolutionary Computation, 24(4), 609-635. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00183

We describe a new hyper-heuristic method NELLI-GP for solving job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) that evolves an ensemble of heuristics. The ensemble adopts a divide-and-conquer approach in which each heuristic solves a unique subset of the instance... Read More about A hyper-heuristic ensemble method for static job-shop scheduling..

Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Lemon, O., & Rieser, V. (2016, August). Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information. Presented at 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Volume 2 (short papers)

Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores or probabilities. We present a comparison of different information presentations for uncertain data and, for the first time, measure their effects on hu... Read More about Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information..

Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hou, T., Chapman, P., & Blake, A. (2016, July). Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation. Presented at 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Comprehension of justifications is known to be difficult for even experienced ontology engineers, and much more so for other stakeholders. In this paper, we present two methods for displaying justifications using concept diagrams: using multiple conc... Read More about Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation.

Hybrid parameter control approach applied to a diversity-based multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for frequency assignment problems (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Segredo, E., Paechter, B., Hart, E., & Gonz´alez-Vila, C. I. (2016). Hybrid parameter control approach applied to a diversity-based multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for frequency assignment problems. In 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (C

In order to address the difficult issue of parameter setting within a diversity-based Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA), we recently proposed a hybrid control scheme based on both Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) and Hyper-heuristics (HHs).... Read More about Hybrid parameter control approach applied to a diversity-based multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for frequency assignment problems.

How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2016). How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2016.7737739

We propose a novel approach for handling first-time users in the context of automatic report generation from timeseries data in the health domain. Handling first-time users is a common problem for Natural Language Generation (NLG) and interactive... Read More about How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users.

An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., Jamshidi, P., & Pahl, C. (2016). An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 56, 11-26. https://doi.or

Cloud computing enables a revolutionary paradigm of consuming ICT services. However, due to the inadequately described service information, users often feel confused while trying to find the optimal services. Although some approaches are proposed to... Read More about An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation.

When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours: Effects of group size on evolution of helping (2016)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., & Lehmann, L. (2017). When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours: Effects of group size on evolution of helping. Biological Reviews, 92(2), 902-920. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12260

Understanding the evolution of sociality in humans and other species requires understanding how selection on social behaviour varies with group size. However, the effects of group size are frequently obscured in the theoretical literature, which ofte... Read More about When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours: Effects of group size on evolution of helping.

How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies (2016)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., van Schaik, C. P., & Lehmann, L. (2016). How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 371(1687), 20150098. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.201

What drove the transition from small-scale human societies centred on kinship and personal exchange, to large-scale societies comprising cooperation and division of labour among untold numbers of unrelated individuals? We propose that the unique huma... Read More about How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies.

Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bach, B., Kerracher, N., Hall, K. W., Carpendale, S., Kennedy, J., & Henry Riche, N. (2016). Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16) (1-13). https://doi

In this paper, we explore graph comics as a medium to communicate changes in dynamic networks. While previous research has focused on visualizing dynamic networks for data exploration, we want to see if we can take advantage of the visual express... Read More about Telling stories about dynamic networks with graph comics..

The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bartie, P., Mackaness, W., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2016). The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes. In 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LR

We present a newly crowd-sourced data set of natural language references to objects anchored in complex urban scenes (In short: The REAL Corpus – Referring Expressions Anchored Language). The REAL corpus contains a collection of images of real-world... Read More about The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes.

Demo paper: AGADE - Scalability of ontology based agent simulations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Urquhart, N. B., & Wells, S. (2016). Demo paper: AGADE - Scalability of ontology based agent simulations. In Advances in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection (256-259). https://doi.org/

Simulations of real world scenarios often require considerably large numbers of agents. With increasing level of detail and resolution in the underlying models machine limitations both in the aspect of memory and computing power are reached. Even... Read More about Demo paper: AGADE - Scalability of ontology based agent simulations.

Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams. (2015)
Journal Article
Rodgers, P., Stapleton, G., & Chapman, P. (2015). Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 22(6), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/2810012

This paper presents the first design principles that optimize the visualization of sets using linear diagrams. These principles are justified through empirical studies that evaluate the impact of graphical features on task performance. Linear diagr... Read More about Visualizing Sets with Linear Diagrams..

Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images (2015)
Journal Article
Hunter, D. W., & Hibbard, P. B. (2015). Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images. Journal of Vision, 15(13), 6. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.13.6

An influential theory of the function of early processing in the visual cortex is that it forms an efficient coding of ecologically valid stimuli. In particular, correlations and differences between visual signals from the two eyes are believed to be... Read More about Distribution of independent components of binocular natural images.

A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2015). A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules. In GECCO Companion '15 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

A previously described hyper-heuristic framework named NELLI is adapted for the classic Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) and used to find ensembles of reusable heuristics that cooperate to cover the heuristic search space. A new heuristic generato... Read More about A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules.

The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2015, July). The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA. Presented at GECCO ’15

We augment the mEDEA algorithm to explicitly account for the costs of communication between robots. Experimental results show that adding a costs for communication exerts environmental pressure to implicitly select for genomes that maintain high... Read More about The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA.

Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., Chalmers, K., & Graham, M. (2016, May). Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data. Presented at EuroVis '15

Recently, much research has focused on developing techniques for the visual representation of temporal graph data. This paper takes a wider look at the visual techniques involved in exploratory analysis of such data, considering the variety of sub ta... Read More about Visual techniques to support exploratory analysis of temporal graph data..

A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation (2015)
Journal Article
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2015). A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 21(10), 1160-1172. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2015.2424889

By extending and instantiating an existing formal task framework, we define a task taxonomy and task design space for temporal graph visualisation. We discuss the process involved in their generation, and describe how the design space can be ‘sliced... Read More about A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation.