Real-world applications of evolutionary computing
Conference Proceeding
Cagnoni, S., Poli, R., Smith, G. D., Corne, D., Oates, M., Hart, E., …Fogarty, T. C. (2000)
Real-world applications of evolutionary computing. In Proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2000
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six workshops on evolutionary computation held concurrently as EvoWorkshops 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in April 2000.
T...
Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System
Conference Proceeding
McEwan, C., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2006)
Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System. In Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2007, 240-251. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73922-7_21
The idiotypic network has a long and chequered history in both theoretical immunology and Artificial Immune Systems. In terms of the latter, the drive for engineering applicat...
A framework for distributed evolutionary algorithms.
Conference Proceeding
Arenas, M. G., Collet, P., Eiben, A. E., Jeasity, M., Merelo Guervós, J. J., Paechter, B., …Schoenauer, M. (2002)
A framework for distributed evolutionary algorithms. In 7th International Conference, Granada, Spain, September 7-11, 2002, Proceedings, 665-675
This paper describes the recently released DREAM (Distributed Resource Evolutionary Algorithm Machine) framework for the automatic distribution of evolutionary algorithm (EA) ...
Routing using evolutionary agents and proactive transitions.
Book
Urquhart, N. B., Ross, P., Paechter, B., & Chisholm, K. (2002)
Routing using evolutionary agents and proactive transitions. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 696-705. Springer-Verlag
The authors have previously introduced the concept of building a delivery network using an agent-based system. The delivery networks are built in response to a real-world prob...
Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., Steyven, A. S. W., & Paechter, B. (2018)
Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm. In GECCO '18 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, (101-108). https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205481
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...
The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA
Conference Proceeding
Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2015)
The Cost of Communication: Environmental Pressure and Survivability in mEDEA. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO Companion '15, 1239-1240. doi:10.1145/2739482.2768489
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
envi...
Hybridisation of Evolutionary Algorithms through hyper-heuristics for global continuous optimisation
Conference Proceeding
Segredo, E., Lalla-Ruiz, E., Hart, E., Paechter, B., & Voß, S. (2016)
Hybridisation of Evolutionary Algorithms through hyper-heuristics for global continuous optimisation. In P. Festa, M. Sellmann, & J. Vanschoren (Eds.), Learning and Intelligent Optimization: 10th International Conference, LION 10, Ischia, Italy, May 29 -- June 1, 2016 (296-305). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50349-3_25
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 whic...
Two solutions to the general timetable problem using evolutionary algorithms.
Conference Proceeding
Paechter, B., Luchian, H., Cumming, A., & Petriuc, M. (1994)
Two solutions to the general timetable problem using evolutionary algorithms. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress in Computational Intelligence, (300-305). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEC.1994.349935
The general timetable problem, which involves the placing
of events requiring limited resources into timeslots,
has been approached in many different ways. This paper
describe...
Parallel Optimisation of Pump Schedules with a Thread-Safe Variant of EPANET Toolkit
Conference Proceeding
López-Ibáñez, M., Prasad, D. T., & Paechter, B. (2009)
Parallel Optimisation of Pump Schedules with a Thread-Safe Variant of EPANET Toolkit. In Water Distribution Systems Analysis 2008https://doi.org/10.1061/41024%28340%2940
The optimisation of pump operations in water distribution networks is an ongoing research topic motivated by the great energy savings that a careful scheduling of pumps may ac...
On the comparison of initialisation strategies in differential evolution for large scale optimisation
Journal Article
Segredo, E., Paechter, B., Segura, C., & González-Vila, C. I. (2018)
On the comparison of initialisation strategies in differential evolution for large scale optimisation. Optimization Letters, 12(1), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-017-1107-z
Differential Evolution (DE) has shown to be a promising global opimisation solver for continuous problems, even for those with a large dimensionality. Different previous works...