Ben Paechter
Ben Paechter

Prof Ben Paechter FBCS CITP

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Biography

Prof. Ben Paechter is Director of Research in the School of Computing. He was Coordinator of the EvoNet, PerAda, and AWARE Coordination Actions within Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) and Deputy Coordinator of the FOCAS Coordination Action. He was a Principal Investigator of the “Speckled Computing” consortium of Scottish universities developing “spray on” computers for wireless sensor networks. He coordinated the FET DREAM project looking at peer-to-peer distribution evolution. He was the scientific officer in charge of the Metaheuristics Network examining the use of metaheuristics for combinatorial optimisation and the FET NEWTIES project which created an artificial society and examined the relationships between individual, social, and evolutionary learning. Prof Paechter is an Associate Editor of “Evolutionary Computation” (MIT Press). He was Joint General Chair of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) 2016.

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Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press)

 

Media Activity

  • Timetabling software developed within the Centre for Emergent Computing highlighted in new TEDx talk on Evolutionary Computing and Design
  • PerAda team run successful public engagement event at the Science Museum, London
  • IIDI's AWARE project host successful talk at Edinburgh International Science Festival
  • FoCAS Book: Adaptive Collective Systems - Herding Black Sheep

 

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Solving a real world routing problem using evolutionary agents.

Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Ross, P., Paechter, B. & Chisholm, K. (2002)
Solving a real world routing problem using evolutionary agents. ISBN 3540441395
This paper investigates the solving of a real world routing problem using evolutionary algorithms embedded within a Multi-agent system (MAS). An architecture for the MAS is pr...

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) ...

A Scalable and Robust Framework for Distributed Applications

Conference Proceeding
Jelasity, M., Preuss, M., & Paechter, B. (2002)
A Scalable and Robust Framework for Distributed Applications. In Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC'02. , (1540-1545). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2002.1004471
This paper describes a novel tool for running distributed experiments on the Internet. The possible applications include simple load balancing, parallel evolutionary computati...

A General Model for the Answer-Perturbation Techniques

Conference Proceeding
Stamate, D., Luchian, H., & Paechter, B. (2002)
A General Model for the Answer-Perturbation Techniques. In Seventh International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. , (90-96). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSDM.1994.336958
Answer-perturbation techniques for the protection of statistical databases have been previously introduced (Luchian and Stamate, 1992); they are flexible (perturbation kept un...

A distributed resource evolutionary algorithm machine.

Conference Proceeding
Paechter, B., Baeck, T., Schoenauer, M., Eiben, A. E., Merelo Guervós, J. J., Sebag, M., & Fogarty, T. C. (2002)
A distributed resource evolutionary algorithm machine. In Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2000, 951-958. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2000.870746
This paper describes a project funded by the European Commission’ which seeks to provide the technology and software infrastructure necessary to support the next generation of...

Improving street based routing using building block mutations.

Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Ross, P., Paechter, B., & Chisholm, K. (2002)
Improving street based routing using building block mutations. In J. Gottlieb, E. Hart, & S. Cagnoni (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2002: EvoCOP, EvoIASP, EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN Kinsale, Ireland, April 3–4, 2002 Proceedings. , (189-202). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46004-7_33
Street based routing (SBR) is a real-world inspired routing problem that builds routes within an urban area for mail deliveries. The authors have previously attempted to solve...

A local search for the timetabling problem.

Conference Proceeding
Rossi-Doria, O., Blum, C., Knowles, J., Sampels, M., Socha, K., & Paechter, B. (2001)
A local search for the timetabling problem. In E. Burke, & P. Causmaecker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), 124-127
This work is part of the Metaheuristic Network, a European Commission project that seeks to empirically compare the performance of various metaheuristics on different combinat...

A GA evolving instructions for a timetable builder.

Conference Proceeding
Blum, C., Correia, S., Dorigo, M., Paechter, B., Rossi-Doria, O., & Snoek, M. (2001)
A GA evolving instructions for a timetable builder. In E. Burke, & P. Causmaecker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), 120-123
In this work we present a Genetic Algorithm for tackling timetabling problems. Our approach uses an indirect solution representation, which denotes a number of instructions fo...

Street-based routing using an evolutionary algorithm

Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Paechter, B., & Chisholm, K. (2001)
Street-based routing using an evolutionary algorithm. In E. J. W. Boers, J. Gottlieb, P. L. Lanzi, R. E. Smith, S. Cagnoni, E. Hart, …H. Tijink (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2001: EvoCOP, EvoFlight, EvoIASP, EvoLearn, and EvoSTIM, Proceedings. , (495-504). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45365-2_51
Much research has been carried out into solving routing problems using both Evolutionary Techniques and other methods. In this paper the authors investigate the usage of an Ev...

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...

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