For Flux Sake: The Confluence of Socially- and Biologically-Inspired Computing for Engineering Change in Open Systems
Conference Proceeding
Pitt, J., & Hart, E. (2017)
For Flux Sake: The Confluence of Socially- and Biologically-Inspired Computing for Engineering Change in Open Systems. In 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W),. https://doi.org/10.1109/fas-w.2017.119
This position paper is concerned with the challenge of engineering multi-scale and long-lasting systems, whose operation is regulated by sets of mutually-agreed, conventional ...
Impact of selection methods on the diversity of many-objective Pareto set approximations
Journal Article
Martí, L., Segredo, E., Sánchez-Pi, N., & Hart, E. (2017)
Impact of selection methods on the diversity of many-objective Pareto set approximations. Procedia Computer Science, 112, (844-853). ISSN 1877-0509
Selection methods are a key component of all multi-objective and, consequently, many-objective optimisation evolutionary algorithms. They must perform two main tasks simultane...
A hybrid method for feature construction and selection to improve wind-damage prediction in the forestry sector
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., Sim, K., Gardiner, B., & Kamimura, K. (2017)
A hybrid method for feature construction and selection to improve wind-damage prediction in the forestry sector. In GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. , (1121-1128). https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071217
Catastrophic damage to forests resulting from major storms has resulted in serious timber and financial losses within the sector across Europe in the recent past. Developing r...
An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics
Conference Proceeding
Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2017)
An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics. In GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. , (155-162). https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071232
A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. How...
Artificial Immunology for Collective Adaptive Systems Design and Implementation
Journal Article
Capodieci, N., Hart, E., & Cabri, G. (2016)
Artificial Immunology for Collective Adaptive Systems Design and Implementation. ACM transactions on autonomous and adaptive systems, 11(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/2897372
Distributed autonomous systems consisting of large numbers of components with no central control point need to be able to dynamically adapt their control mechanisms to deal wi...
A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules
Conference Proceeding
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2015)
A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules. In GECCO Companion '15 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, (1485-1486). https://doi.org/10.1145/2739482.2764697
A previously described hyper-heuristic framework named
NELLI is adapted for the classic Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) and used to find ensembles of reusable heuristics th...
Structure versus function: a topological perspective on immune networks
Journal Article
Hart, E., Bersini, H., & Santos, F. (2009)
Structure versus function: a topological perspective on immune networks. Natural Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-009-9138-8
Many recent advances have been made in understanding the functional implications of the global topological properties of biological networks through the application of complex...
Computing the State of Specknets: an immune-inspired approach.
Conference Proceeding
Davoudani, D., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2009)
Computing the State of Specknets: an immune-inspired approach. In Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2008. SPECTS 2008. International Symposium on, 52-59
Speckled Computing is an emerging technology based on the
deployment of thousands of minute semiconductor grains in
dense, wireless networks known as Specknets. Specknets coll...
Computing the State of Specknets: further analysis of an innate immune-inspired model.
Conference Proceeding
Davoudani, D., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2008)
Computing the State of Specknets: further analysis of an innate immune-inspired model. In P. Bentley, D. Lee, & S. Jung (Eds.), Artificial Immune Systems, 7th International Conference, ICARIS 2008, Phuket, Thailand, August 2008, Proceedings, 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85072-4
Specknets consist of hundreds of miniature devices, which are each capable of processing data and communicating wirelessly across short distances. Such networks, with their gr...
Boosting the Immune System
Conference Proceeding
McEwan, C., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2007)
Boosting the Immune System. In Artificial Immune Systems, 316-327. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85072-4_28
Much of contemporary research in Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has partitioned into either algorithmic machine learning and optimisation, or modelling biologically plausible...