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Recent Projects

AWARENESS (Co-ordination Action)

For latest news and events, please see the project webpage here Awareness is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting research under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative:Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (Awareness). Awareness provide a supportive environment for research into self-awareness in...

FOCAS

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 others in research fields related to collective adaptive systems.

PhD Project Involvement

Panel Chair

Ella Taylor-Smith (PhD 2011-)

Participation space studies. How do interpretations of online and offline spaces influence (e)participation in community and civic life?. How can people, from diverse backgrounds, increase meaningful participation online? What perspectives influence people's online activities in this context and how is this changing?

Second Supervisor

Kevin Sim (PhD 2010-)

A hyper heuristic approach to optimisation. Hyper-heuristics (HH) have been described as methodologies that aim to offer “good enough -soon enough - cheap enough” solutions to real world problems.

Second Supervisor

Ewan Gunn (PhD 2008-)

Exploiting narrative hierarchies within computer games. One of the challenges of artificial intelligence in computer games is the effective use of learning to either automate the creation of intelligent agents for the release of a game, or to allow agents...

Second Supervisor

Andreas Steyven (PhD 2013-)

Bio-inspired computing for optimisation/self-organising systems.

Second Supervisor

Matthias Talsma (PhD 2010-)

Evaluation framework for the optimisation of cloud-based infrastructures within healthcare environments.

Second Supervisor

Catherine Scott (PhD 2008-)

Optimising CO2 emissions for vehicle routing.

Panel Chair

Alan Melville (MPhil 2007-)

An investigation into visual graph comparison. While much work has been done in the area of visualization for analysis of graphs, relatively little research exists into how best to use visualization for comparing graphs.

Recent Publications

Sim, K., Hart, E., Paechter, B. (2012). A Hyper-Heuristic Classifier for One Dimensional Bin Packing Problems: Improving Classification Accuracy by Attribute Evolution. In: (Ed.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: PPSN XII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7492, () ( ed.). (pp. 348-357). Taormina: . Springer Verlag.

Helgason, I., Bradley, J., Egan, C., Paechter, B., Hart, E. (2011). This Pervasive Day: Creative Interactive Methods for Encouraging Public Engagement with FET Research . In: (Ed.) Fet 11 essence, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). : . Elsevier.

Paechter, B., Pitt, J., Serbedzija, N., Michael, K., Willies, J. (2011). Heaven and Hell: Visions for Pervasive Adaptation. In: Giacobino, E., Pfeifer, R. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Hungary: . Elsevier Science.

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