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EvoNet II
2000 - 2012
The EvoNet series of conferences continue to be run annually by Jennifer Willies through the Institute of Informatics & Digital Innovation.
Funder:
European Commission
| Value:
£467,000
Metaheuristics
2000 - 2004
Metaheuristics are widely used to solve important practical combinatorial optimization problems. But the how and why they work effectively for specific problems and for others not, remains a mystery. ...
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European Commission
| Value:
£170,000
FOCAS
2013 - 2016
FOCAS is a coordination action in the area of collective adaptive systems. It provides increased visibility to the research carried out by projects funded by the FOCAS FET Proactive Initiative and oth...
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European Commission
| Value:
£639,999
New Ties
2004 - 2007
The project is concerned with emergence and complexity in socially-inspired artificial systems. We will study large systems consisting of an environment and an inhabitant population. The main goal of ...
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European Commission
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£199,471
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A closer look at adaptation mechanisms in simulated environment-driven evolutionary swarm robotics
2013 - 2018
Swarm robotics is a special case within the general field of robotics. The distributed nature makes it...
Dr Andreas Steyven
| Director of Studies:
Prof Emma Hart
| Second Supervisor:
Prof Ben Paechter
Novel hyperheuristics applied to the domain of bin packing
2010 - 2014
Hyper-heuristics (HH) have been described as methodologies that aim to offer “good enough -soon enough - cheap enough” solutions to real world...
Dr Kevin Sim
| Director of Studies:
Prof Emma Hart
| Second Supervisor:
Prof Ben Paechter
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