ACDM 2008 PROGRAMME

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Tuesday, 29th April

09.30: 

Welcome   -    I. C. Parmee
09.40: 

 

 

Plenary Talk: 

Efficient Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Engineering Design Dr. Yaochu Jin

10.40: 

Coffee

11.10: 

Session One                        Chair:  I. Parmee

 

Evaluating Optimization Methodologies for Future Integration in Building Performance Tools

M.T. Emmerich, C. Hopfe, R. Marijt, J. Hensen, C. Struck, P. Stoelinga

11.40

Towards Designing Simple Collision-based Chemical Logic Gates with Adaptive Computing

R. Toth, C. Stone, A. Adamatzky, B. de Lacy Costello, L. Bull

12.10

A Lindenmayer System for Heat Exchanger Network Design with Stream Splitting

E. Fraga

12.45: 

Lunch
14.00:  Session Two                        Chair:

 

Invited Talk:

Some Recent Developments in Water Distribution Systems Rehabilitation

Dr Zoran Kapelan

14.45

Evolutionary Algorithms for the Design of Complex Pipe Networks

T. D. Prasad

15.15
15.45 Coffee
16.00 Session Three                       Chair: 
 

Using Generative Representations with Genetic Algorithms for Topological Search

Y. Zhang, J. Miles, A. Kwan

16.30

Toward Artificial Creativity with Evolution Strategies

L. Bull

17.00

User-centred Evolutionary Search in Conceptual Software Design

C. L. Simons, I. C. Parmee

17.30 Close

 

19.00

onwards

 

Social Evening - venue in Clifton Village

   
  Wednesday, 30th April
09.15

Plenary Talk:

New Types of Interactive Evolutionary Computing Applications and Latest Research on Reducing User Fatigue

Prof Hideyuki Takagi

 

10.15 Coffee
10.45 Session Four                       Chair:   Ian Parmee                      
  Special Session: User-centred Intelligent Systems
 

Invited Talk:

Overview of a Large Scale and Real-world Multi-user IEC Application in e-Learning.
Prof Evelyne Lutton

11.30

User-led Development of an Interactive Evolutionary Design System

I. Graham, K. Case, I. Campbell

Implementing Learning to Encourage Generative Behaviour using a Component Based Representation

A. Machwe, I. C. Parmee

The Role of Engineering Judgment in Computational Optimization

B. M. Bailey

The Integration of User-centered Intelligent Systems in the Generation of Novel and Authentic Character Faces

B K Dean, I C Parmee

 

 

15 minute short oral presentations plus associated discussion

13.00 Lunch
14.15

ACDM Lecture:

Adaptive Computing for Automated Design: Some stories from the trenches

Prof David Cliff

15.15 Coffee
15.40 Session Five - Short Paper Session
 

Self-adaptive Knowledge Representation within Accuracy-based Neural Learning Classifier Systems: Initial Results with XCSF

G. D. Howard, L. Bull

 

Visualisation of advanced search

V. Kurman, K. Penev

 

Combined Interactive and Automated Adaptive Search for Molecular Design

M.T.M Emmerich, J. W. Kruisselbrink, E. van der Horst, A. P. IJzerman, A. Bender, T. Bäck

 

Introduction to Adaptive Species for Finding Multiple Solutions of Complex Optimization Problems
J-P Li and A. Wood

 

Agent-based Searching of Chemical Space for De Novo Molecule Design

A. Sedwell, I. Parmee  

 

 

15 minute short oral presentations with associated discussion

 
17.00 Close
19.30 Conference Banquet
   
  Thursday, 1st May
09.30 Session Six                         Chair:  
 

A Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm for the Design of Pressure Swing Adsorption

G. Fiandaca, E. S. Fraga, S. Brandani

10.00

Reducing User Fatigue Within an Interactive Evolutionary Design System using Clustering and Case-Based Reasoning

A. T. Machwe,  I. C. Parmee

10.30

Designing a Mathematical Model for Micro-biology with a Genetic Algorithm

M. R. N. Shackelford, J. C. N. Shackelford

11.00 Coffee
11.30 Session Seven                    Chair:
 

Facilitating meta-design techniques for multidisciplinary conceptual design

A. Maheri, A.T. Isikveren

12.00

Heat Transfer Coefficient Calibrations by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms

K. Tesch, M. A. Atherton, T.G. Karayiannis, M.W. Collins, P. Edwards

12.30
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session Eight                       Chair:
 

Invited Talk: 

An Overview of Learning Classifier System Research and Current State of the Art in LCS Data Mining

Prof L. Bull

14.45

A Framework for Model Formulation of High Complexity Systems

N. Ergin, C. Dagli

15.15

Graph-based Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm for the Optimal Operation of Hydropower Reservoirs

R. Moeini, M. H. Afshar

 

15.45 Closing Remarks
16.00 Conference Close                                                                 Top