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Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty
2022 - 2023
Local food sectors, e.g. Foodbanks, still rely on paper-based referral systems whilst continuing to see increasing demand. In addition, the model of direct hand-outs of food parcels and electricity vo...
Funder:
Scottish Funding Council
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£570
AI for Plant Image Analysis: where we are and whats next?
2021 - 2023
The workshop has two aims: (i) offering training sessions on how to develop deep networks to people involved in plant biology; (ii) analyse their current provision
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The University of Nottingham
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£5,400
A Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management System for Long Term Care for Elderly People
2021 - 2024
A reinforcement learning method will model the behaviour of community care organisations with sequential decision processes focusing on organising the distribution, procurement and management of daily...
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Royal Society of Edinburgh
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£11,200
Towards Guided Self-Organisation in Artificial Complex Systems: A Swarm Robotics Case Study
2020 - 2024
Swarm robotics refers to the design and coordination of large numbers of simple physical robots. Uses include environmental applications such as pollution monitoring in the oceans using aquatic robots...
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Royal Society
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£11,500
Bus Passenger Analytics
2020 - 2020
Passengers using the Lothian Buses network may use a smart card (Ridacard) to pay for their journey, swiping the card on boarding a vehicle. Smart card journeys account for about 1/3rd of journeys mad...
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Data Lab
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£26,170
Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs
2019 - 2020
Extending a containerised microservices architecture developed in the initial project to support a set of user functions required for the platform's MVP. Additionally, the project will deliver cloud A...
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Scottish Funding Council
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£14,250
Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets
2019 - 2020
Urban air quality affects the lives of millions, according to WHO statistics air quality contributes to 6.7% of all deaths worldwide. Managing air quality in urban areas is now a priority for governme...
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Scottish Funding Council
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£5,000
KTP: Intelligent Agents
2019 - 2022
Improving customer experience through intelligent workflow
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Innovate UK
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£268,152
Ensembles for Optimisation
2015 - 2016
Optimisation – finding cost-effective or high-performing solutions - is a key economic driver for business today. However, academic literature on search-based optimisation techniques reflects an escal...
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Leverhulme Trust
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£34,465
Market Prepare
2014 - 2015
A feasibility study & demo of tendering and rating software for Market Prepare to increase the work capacity and improve their customer’s experience when booking trade work and dealing with trades peo...
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Scottish Funding Council
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Investigating communicating sequential processes for Java to support ubiquitous computing
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Ubiquitous Computing promises to enrich our everyday lives by enabling the environment to be enhanced via compu...
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Prof Jon Kerridge
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Prof. Emma Hart invited to join Scottish Government Steering Group to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for Scotland.
16 September 2019
Prof. Emma Hart has been invited by Minister Kate Forbes to join a Scottish Government Steering Group to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for Scotland.
Researchers from Nature-Inspired Intelligent Systems group win Best Paper Award@GECCO 2019
16 July 2019
PhD student Mohamad Alissa with supervisors Dr Kevin Sim and Prof. Emma Hart won the Best Paper award in the ECOM track at GECCO 2019 in Prague for their paper: Algorithm Selection Using Deep Learnin...
Prof . Emma Hart gives interview "An Insider's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"
17 December 2018
Laura van Beers from ContactEngine, a London based company delivering software that enables its customers to proactively engage customers in AI-driven conversations to fulfil their business objective...
Prof. Emma Hart invited to talk at Scotland IS Software Engineering Leader's Forum to discuss SICSA's work on AI
20 November 2018
Prof. Emma Hart gave an invited talk at the monthly meet-up of the Scotland IS Software Engineering forum on behalf of the SICSA AI theme to describe the work taking place across Scottish Universities...
Prof. Emma Hart interviewed in new video released by Sentient AI to provide unique insights to business leaders on the growing applicability of evolutionary computation
13 August 2018
Sentient Technologies, a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) products based on evolutionary computation, today announced a new video collection that provides unique insights to the burgeonin...
Prof. Emma Hart and Dr Kevin Sim win Bronze Award in International Humies competition for work on predicting wind damage in Forestry
18 July 2018
The Annual Humies prize is awarded at the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionar...
Evolutionary Robotics Research Nominated for Best Paper Award
14 July 2018
Prof. Emma Hart, Dr Andreas Steyven and Prof. Ben Paechter have been nominated for a prestigious best paper award at the GECCO 18, Kyoto, Japan for new work in evolving a diverse team of swarm robot...
Prof. Emma Hart invited as a keynote speaker at IJCCI in Funchal, Madeira, November 2017
1 November 2017
The International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence brings together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the field of Computational Intelligence both from theoretical an...
CAVES researchers have 3 papers accepted at GECCO 2017
14 July 2017
Members of the CAVES research group have 3 papers accepted at the world's leading conference on Evolutionary Computing. GECCO 2017 will be held in Berlin from 15-19th July 2017. Accepted papers are: ...
Prof. Emma Hart gives invited talk at a Symposium on "Hacking the Immune System"
17 February 2017
This one-day symposium organised at the Radboud University Medical Centre brought together international scientists in the field of tumor immunology, computational and artificial immune systems. Pro...
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Pint of Science: Mother Nature Knows Best (Lessons for a Computer Scientist)
Frankenstein Bar, 26 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
15 May 2018
The Cartography of Computational Search Spaces - School of Computing Seminar Series
CORE 44, room C44 Merchiston Campus
21 March 2018
Kenote@IJCCI 2017: Towards Lifelong Learning in Optimisation Algorithms
Funchal, Madeira
2 November 2017
Hyper-Heuristics with Graph-Transformations - School of Computing Seminar Series
Core44, room C44, Merchiston campus
1 March 2017
More success for CAVES members with publications at international conferences and in leading journals
3 May 2016
CAVES Researcher to present seminar at the University of Edinburgh
20/1/2016, Edinburgh
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CAVES Researcher to chair workshop on Intelligent Transport at PPSN 2016
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6 January 2016
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