A real-world employee scheduling and routing application.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., Sim, K., & Urquhart, N. B. (2014)
A real-world employee scheduling and routing application. In C. Igel (Ed.), GECCO 2014 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, (1239-1242). https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605447
We describe a hyper-heuristic application developed for a client to find quick, acceptable solutions to Workforce Schedul- ing and Routing problems. An interactive fitness fun...
Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic.
Conference Proceeding
Sim, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2013)
Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic. In P. Liò, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi, & M. Pavone (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, 856-863. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch126
Motivated by the natural immune system's ability to defend the body by generating and maintaining a repertoire of antibodies that collectively cover the potential pathogen spa...
On the role of the AIS practitioner.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., Read, M., McEwan, C., Aickelin, U., & Greensmith, J. (2013)
On the role of the AIS practitioner. In P. Liò, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi, & M. Pavone (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, 891-892. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch132
Cognisant of the gulf between engineers and immunologists
that currenty hinders a truly inter-disciplinary approach to
the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), we propose...
An immune network approach for self-adaptive ensembles of autonomic components: a case study in swarm robotics.
Conference Proceeding
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2013)
An immune network approach for self-adaptive ensembles of autonomic components: a case study in swarm robotics. In P. Liò, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi, & M. Pavone (Eds.), Advances in Artifical Life, Proceedings of ECAL 2013, 864-871. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch127
We describe an immune inspired approach to achieve self-expression within an ensemble, i.e. enabling an ensemble of autonomic components to dynamically change their coordinati...
TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs.
Conference Proceeding
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2013)
TARGO: transition and reallocation based green optimization for Cloud VMs. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications 2013, 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.56
Much research has been conducted focusing on improving resource utilization efficiency in data centers in the context of Green Cloud Computing (GCC). While virtualization enab...
Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem.
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Scott, C., & Hart, E. (2013)
Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objective vehicle routing problem. In C. Blum (Ed.), GECCO'13 Companion: Proceeding of the fifteenth annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation (193-194). https://doi.org/10.1145/2464576.2464663
The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) has previously been investigated as a multi-objective problem. In this paper estimated carbon emissions is added as an ob...
Using graphical information systems to improve vehicle routing problem instances.
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Scott, C., & Hart, E. (2013)
Using graphical information systems to improve vehicle routing problem instances. In C. Blum (Ed.), GECCO'13 Companion (1097-1102). https://doi.org/10.1145/2464576.2466802
This paper makes the assertion that vehicle routing rearch has produced increasingly more powerful problem solvers, but has not increased the realism or compexity of typical p...
Generating single and multiple cooperative heuristics for the one dimensional bin packing problem using a single node genetic programming island model.
Conference Proceeding
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2013)
Generating single and multiple cooperative heuristics for the one dimensional bin packing problem using a single node genetic programming island model. In E. Alba (Ed.), Proceedgs of GECCO 2013, (1549-1556). https://doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463555
Novel deterministic heuristics are generated using Single Node Genetic Programming for application to the One Dimensional Bin Packing Problem. First a single deterministic heu...
Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds: Pattern Data Structure
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., & Chalmers, K. (2013)
Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds: Pattern Data Structure. In The 7th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systeme (CISIS 2013) July 3rd - July 5th, 2013, Taichung, Taiwan, 471-474. doi:10.1109/cisis.2013.86
Evolution pattern will be defined as an Xml
Schema document, the generation of pattern aspect is
the process of generating xml instance from its related
Xml Schema definition ...
UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city
Conference Proceeding
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., Brynskov, M., Mitrovic, I., & Zaffiro, G. (2013)
UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city. In Proceeding CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13), (2533-2536). https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468823
Interaction Design, in an urban context, is an increasingly important field of research. City populations are currently in a state of rapid flux. Conurbations are fast becomin...