An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones.
Presentation / Conference
Hardy, J., & Armitage, A. (2005, May)
An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones. Paper presented at Natural Computing Applications Forum
Kidney stones can be treated by a number of methods, some more invasive than others. Increasingly, Shock Wave Lithotripsy (a non-invasive technique) is used in preference to s...
Towards self-aware PerAda systems.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2010)
Towards self-aware PerAda systems. In E. Hart, C. McEwan, J. Timmis, & A. Hone (Eds.), Artificial Immune Systems: 9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010 Proceedings, 314-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14547-6_28
Pervasive Adaptation (PerAda) refers to massive-scale pervasive information and communication systems which are capable of autonomously adapting to highly dynamic and open tec...
Exploiting the analogy between immunology and sparse distributed memory.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., & Ross, P. (2001)
Exploiting the analogy between immunology and sparse distributed memory. In J. Timmis, & P. J. Bentley (Eds.), ICARIS 2002 : 1st International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 59-67
The relationship between immunological memory and a class of associative memories known as sparse distributed memories (SDM) is well known. This paper proposes a new model for...
Solving a real world routing problem using multiple evolutionary algorithms.
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Ross, P., Paechter, B., & Chisholm, K. (2002)
Solving a real world routing problem using multiple evolutionary algorithms. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN VII. , (871-880). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45712-7_84
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...
An application of formal concept analysis to semantic neural decoding.
Journal Article
Endres, D., Foldiak, P., & Priss, U. (2009)
An application of formal concept analysis to semantic neural decoding. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 57, 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10472-010-9196-8
This paper proposes a novel application of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to neural decoding: the semantic relationships between the neural representations of large sets of sti...
Exploiting Collaborations in the Immune System: The Future of Artificial Immune Systems
Book Chapter
Hart, E., McEwan, C., & Davoudani, D. (2009)
Exploiting Collaborations in the Immune System: The Future of Artificial Immune Systems. In C. Mumford, & L. Jain (Eds.), Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Computational Intelligence, 527-558. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01799-5_16
Despite a steady increase in the application of algorithms inspired by the natural immune system to a variety of domains over the previous decade, we argue that the field of A...
A systematic investigation of GA performance on jobshop scheduling problems.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., & Ross, P. (2003)
A systematic investigation of GA performance on jobshop scheduling problems. In Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computing. , (280-289). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45561-2_27
Although there has been a wealth of work reported in the literature on the application of genetic algorithms (GAs) to jobshop scheduling problems, much of it contains some gro...
An immune system approach to scheduling in changing environments.
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., & Ross, P. (1998)
An immune system approach to scheduling in changing environments. In W. Banzhaf, J. M. Daida, A. E. Eiben, M. H. Garzon, V. Honavar, M. Jakiela, & R. E. Smith (Eds.), GECCO-99 : proceedings of the genetic and evolutionary computation conference. Volume 2, 1559-1566
This paper describes the application of an artificial immune system, (AIS), model to a scheduling application, in which sudden changes in the scheduling environment require th...
Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment.
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., Hart, E., & Judson, A. (2015)
Multi-Modal employee routing with time windows in an urban environment. In Proceedings of the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Conference (1503-1504). https://doi.org/10.1145/2739482.2764649
An urban environment provides a number of challenges and opportunities
for organisations faced with the task of scheduling a mobile
workforce. Given a mixed set of public and ...
An overview of artificial immune systems.
Book
Timmis, J., Knight, T., de Castro, L., & Hart, E. (2004)
An overview of artificial immune systems. In R. Paton, H. Bolouri, W. M. L. Holcombe, J. H. Parish, & R. Tateson (Eds.), Computation in Cells and Tissues: Perspectives and Tools of Thought, 51-86. Springer-Verlag
The immune system is highly distributed, highly adaptive, self-organising in nature, maintains a memory of past encounters and has the ability to continually learn about new e...