Publications on Optimisation

2012

Vasileios Lampos, Nello Cristianini, Nowcasting Events from the Social Web with Statistical Learning. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 3(4). ISSN 2157-6904. September 2012. PDF, 897 Kbytes. External information
Vasileios Lampos, Detecting Events and Patterns in Large-Scale User Generated Textual Streams with Statistical Learning Methods. PhD thesis. University of Bristol. July 2012. PDF, 4394 Kbytes.

2010

Sebastian Spiegler, Christian Monson, EMMA: A Novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). August 2010. PDF, 198 Kbytes.
Sebastian Spiegler, EMMA: A Novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis - Experimental Results in Detail. CSTR-10-004, University of Bristol. July 2010. PDF, 121 Kbytes.
Vasileios Lampos, Nello Cristianini, Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social Web. 2nd IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP 2010), pp. 411–416. June 2010. No electronic version available. External information

2009

James Marshall, Thomas Hinton, Beyond no free lunch: realistic algorithms for arbitrary problem classes. CSTR-09-003, University of Bristol. July 2009. No electronic version available. External information
Andrew Moss, Dan Page, Program Interpolation. Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM). ISBN 978-1-60558-327-3, pp. 31–40. January 2009. PDF, 211 Kbytes. External information

2008

John Chiverton, Majid Mirmehdi, Xianghua Xie, Variational Maximum A Posteriori Model Similarity and Dissimilarity Matching. International Conference on Pattern Recognition. December 2008. PDF, 1204 Kbytes. External information
Tim Kovacs, Artificial Intelligence through Search: Solving Sudoku Puzzles. CSTR-08-003, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. October 2008. PDF, 212 Kbytes.
Paul Duff, Auto-Calibration for Ultrasonic Positioning Systems. PhD thesis. University of Bristol. July 2008. PDF, 3079 Kbytes.

2007

Janko Calic, David Gibson, Neill Campbell, Efficient Layout of Comic-Like Video Summaries. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 17(7). ISSN 1051-8215, pp. 931–936. July 2007. PDF, 796 Kbytes. External information

2006

Janko Calic, Neill Campbell, Comic-like Layout of Video Summaries. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2006). April 2006. PDF, 304 Kbytes.

2005

Andrew Moss, Henk Muller, Efficient Code Generation for a Domain Specific Language. Generative Programming and Component Engineering. ISBN 3-540-29138-5, pp. 47–62. September 2005. PDF, 136 Kbytes.
Richard Gillibrand, Kurt Debattista, Alan Chalmers, Cost Prediction Maps for Global Illumination. Proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2005. ISBN 3-905673-56-8, pp. 97–104. June 2005. PDF, 8449 Kbytes.
Dongping Song, Jie Zhang, Jonathan Carter, Tony Field, James Marshall, John Polak, Kimberly Schumacher, John Woods, On cost-efficiency of the global container shipping network. Maritime Policy and Management, 32(1). ISSN 0308-8839, pp. 1–16. January 2005. No electronic version available. External information

2004

Zengchang Qin, Tim Kovacs, Evolution of realistic hybrid auctions. Proceedings of the 2004 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-04), pp. 43–50. September 2004. No electronic version available.

2003

Alexandre Temporel, Tim Kovacs, A heuristic hill climbing algorithm for mastermind. Proceedings of the 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-03). ISSN 0862925371, pp. 189–196. September 2003. PDF, 109 Kbytes.
James A. R. Marshall, Tim Kovacs, Anna R. Dornhaus, Nigel R. Franks, Simulating the evolution of ant behaviour in evaluating nest sites. Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), pp. 643–650. August 2003. PDF, 120 Kbytes.
Tim Kovacs, Stuart I. Reynolds, A Proposal for Population-Based Reinforcement Learning. CSTR-03-001, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. January 2003. PDF, 184 Kbytes.

2000

J Bradley, N Davies, A Matrix-based Method for Analysing Stochastic Process Algebras . Proceedings in Informatics -- PAPM'2000, Process Algebra and Performance Modelling. ISSN 1894145070, pp. 579–590. July 2000. PDF, 117 Kbytes.

1999

N Davies, J Holyer, P Thompson, End-to-End Management of Mixed Applications Across Networks. CSTR-99-008, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. May 1999. No electronic version available.
J Bradley, N Davies, An Aggregation Technique for Analysing Some Generally Distributed Stochastic Processes. CSTR-99-003, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. March 1999. PDF, 705 Kbytes.
Laura Lafave, A Constraint-based Partial Evaluator for Functional Logic Programs and its Application. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. February 1999. PDF, 889 Kbytes.

1998

Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, J Juarez-Guerrero, S. Munoz Gutierres, Evolving Body Parameters for a Simple Walking Machine. Workshop of Artificial Intelligence 40th Aniversary Comouter Science in Mexico. ISBN 970-18-2057-6, pp. 281–290. November 1998. No electronic version available.
J. Juarez-Guerrero, S. Munoz-GutiErrez, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, Design of a Walking Machine Structure using Evolutionary Strategies. IEEE Int Symp on Systems mand and Cybernetics. October 1998. No electronic version available. External information
L. Lafave, J. P. Gallagher, Extending the power of automatic constraint-based partial evaluators. ACM Computing Surveys, 30 (3es). ISSN 0360-0300, pp. 1–4. September 1998. No electronic version available. External information
J. P. Gallagher, L. Lafave, The role of trace abstractions in program specialization algorithms. ACM Computing Surveys, 30 (3es). ISSN 0360-0300, pp. 1–4. September 1998. No electronic version available. External information
L. Lafave, J. P. Gallagher, Constraint-based Partial Evaluation of Rewriting-based Functional Logic Programs. Program Synthesis and Transformation. 7th International Workshop, LOPSTR'97, Leuven, Belgium, July 1997, editor N. Fuchs.. ISBN 3-540-65074-1, pp. 168–188. June 1998. No electronic version available.
Fotios Kokkoras, Steve Gregory, D-WMS: Distributed workforce management using CLP. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Practical Application of Constraint Technology. ISSN 0952555409, pp. 129–146. March 1998. No electronic version available.
M. Mirmehdi, P. L. Palmer, J. Kittler, A robust approach for pre-recognition target signal improvement. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications. ISBN 0-88986-246-X, pp. 50–54. February 1998. No electronic version available.

1997

G.Fernandez-Anaya, S.Munoz-GutiErrez, R.A.Sanchez-Guzman, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, Simultaneous stabilization using evolutionary strategies. International Journal of Control, 68(6), pp. 1417–1435. December 1997. No electronic version available.