16 May 2008 (Fri) • Alexander Brownlee • Approaches to Selection and their...
Selection is one of the defining characteristics of an evolutionary algorithm, yet inherent in the selection process is the loss of some information from a population. Poor solutions may provide...
View Article10 Oct 2008 (Fri) • Malcolm Clark • Analysis and retrieval of structured text...
This research focuses on overlaps of information retrieval (IR), cognitive science and genre, merging and utilizing these for one particular goal: to analyse and retrieve structured text. Structured...
View Article17 Oct 2008 (Fri) • Daniel C Doolan • Mobile Distributed Worlds • 14:00 in A23
The first decade of the 21st century has seen tremendous uptake in the use of mobile phones. Less than a year ago it was announced that 50% of the worlds population had mobile phone subscriptions. It...
View Article24 Oct 2008 (Fri) • Siddartha Shakya • Mobile Distributed Worlds • 14:00 in A23
Several EDAs based on Markov networks have been recently proposed. Key ideas behind these EDAs were to factorise the joint probability distribution of the solution variables in terms of the clique in...
View Article31 Oct 2008 (Fri) • Deepak Khemani • CBR approach to Soil Chromatogram...
Sharing of experience has always contributed to the collective knowledge of societies. Traditionally experience has been shared in the form of fables and stories passed on from person to person. In...
View Article07 Nov 2008 (Fri) • Peter Bruza • Musings About Entanglement in the Human...
Human beings are adept and drawing context-sensitive associations and inferences across a broad range of situations ranging from the mundane to the creative inferences that lead to scientific...
View Article14 Nov 2008 (Fri) • Guofu Xiang • Facial Expression Clone for 3D Facial...
The facial expression clone project involves modelling facial models with expressions for particular individuals. Creating a facial model from scratch is a labour intensive work, which involves several...
View Article21 Nov 2008 (Fri) • Paul Godley • Directed Intervention Crossover Approaches...
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a commonly used search heuristic. They are one of a range of Evolutionary Algorithms, i.e. search techniques which follow evolutionary inspired procedures to evolve...
View Article21 Nov 2008 (Fri) • Microsoft Inspiration Tour • 14:00 - 17:00 A23
This is a great opportunity to learn about some brand new technology which is being used in industry and you are likely to be exposed to when you complete your studies. Its also a chance to learn about...
View Article13 Feb 2009 (Fri) • Rahman Mukras • Representation and Learning Schemes for...
Social software technologies have led to an increase in user content on the Internet. In particular users are now able to post their sentiments on products and services with ease on a regular basis....
View Article20 Feb 2009 (Fri) • Laura Muir • Vision, Video and Veritas: What you see is...
Dr Laura Muir is a Lecturer in the Department of Information Management at Aberdeen Business School and a member of the research team in the Centre for Video Communications (School of Engineering). Her...
View Article27 Feb 2009 (Fri) • David Lee • Hybrid Algorithms for Solving Distributed...
A Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DisCSP) is a constraint satisfaction problem distributed between several agents who cooperate in order to solve the overall problem. Frequently, these...
View Article13 March 2009 (Fri) • Mr Ibrahim Adeyanju • Case Retrieval Reuse Net (CR2N):...
We propose textual reuse as the identification of reusable textual constructs in a retrieved solution text. This is done by annotating a solution text so that reusable sections are identifiable from...
View Article20 March 2009 (Fri) • Dr. Yijun Yu • Make Traceability Invariant for Secure...
Security requirements for a software system often change. However, imprecise traceability links discovered or documented between requirements and implementations can make the security analysis...
View Article01 June 2009 (Mon) • Dr. Robin Burke • Robust Recommender Systems • 14:00 -...
The openness and anonymity of the Internet environment create many hazards for e-commerce. For collaborative recommender systems, it raises the possibility of that attackers will seek to bias the...
View Article17 Jun 2009 (Wed) • Prof Enric Plaza • Deliberative Agreement in Multi-agent...
In many decision-making contexts, choice is taken not by isolated individuals but is rather the result of a process of interaction among many incumbents. "Deliberative Agreement" intends to explore and...
View Article24 Sep 2009 (Thu) • Prof Qingfu Zhang • Combination of Evolutionary...
Many optimization problems in the real world, by nature, have multiple conflicting objectives. Unlike a single optimization problem, a multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) has a set of Pareto...
View Article02 Oct 2009 (Fri) • Dr Tony Allen • Biometric Identity management:...
This talk will discuss the business need for remote speaker verification solutions and will detail the supervised and unsupervised neural network based methods that are being developed at Nottingham...
View Article23 Oct 2009 (Fri) • Dr Eyad Elyan • Modelling and Recognition of Human Faces...
Modelling and recognition of human faces are interrelated disciplines. The challenge in developing a facial model is not only to have a model that looks realistic but one which also can be efficiently...
View Article30 Oct 2009 (Fri) • John McCall • Structure Learning and Optimisation in a...
Linkage learning has been a focus of research interest since the early days of evolutionary computation. There is a strong connection between linkage learning and the concept of structure learning,...
View Article13 Nov 2009 (Fri) • Yunhyong Kim • Genre as context: beyond topical relevance...
Document genre (e.g. scientific article, fiction, advertisement) is closely bound to the physical and conceptual structure of the document as well as the level of depth and reliability of the...
View Article04 Dec 2009 (Fri) • Dmitri Roussinov • Active Approach to Automated Question...
Automated Question Answering (QA) remains both challenging and important task for computational linguists, artificial intelligence and information retrieval researchers. I will present work in progress...
View Article11 Dec 2009 (Fri) • Juan Recio-Garcia • Building Case Based Reasoning systems...
jCOLIBRI framework has been developed by Dr. Recio-Garcia during the last few years and is currently an established tool in the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) community. In this talk he will review the...
View Article21 Jan 2011 (Fri) • Prof Joanna Kolodziej • Genetic search reinforced by the...
As a result of their ability to deliver high quality solutions in reasonable time, Meta-heuristics are usually employed as effective methods to solve the complex multi-objective optimization problems....
View Article11 Feb 2011 (Fri) • Mr Nuka Nwiabu • Situation Awareness in Context-aware...
Humans naturally reuse recalled knowledge to solve problems and this includes understanding the context i.e. the information that identifies or characterizes these problems. For problems in complex and...
View Article25 Feb 2011 (Fri) • Dr John Williamson • Uncertainty, Dynamics and Control in...
Traditional approaches to machine intelligence view systems as "assistants" engaged in a dialog, but many contexts demand intelligence on a continuous fine-grained level. The system becomes an...
View Article04 Mar 2011 (Fri) • Dr Andrew Coles • Temporal Planning: POPping Forwards •...
In many important situations, giving consideration to the time and resource impact of planning decisions made is essential to allow useful plans to be produced. For instance, if the plan is to be...
View Article11 Mar 2011 (Fri) • Prof Aaron Quigley • Information Visualisation and Social...
Information visualisation is a research area that focuses on the use of graphical techniques to present data in an explicit form. Such static (pictures) or dynamic presentations help people formulate...
View Article18 Mar 2011 (Fri) • Dr Rahul Santhanam • The Complexity of the Satisfiability...
The Boolean satisfiability problem, which asks whether a given Boolean formula has a truth assignment of its variables for which the formula evaluates to true, is one of the most fundamental problems...
View Article01 Apr 2011 (Fri) • Dr Alessandro Vinciarelli • Social Signal Processing:...
There is more than words in linguistic communication. Whenever involved in social interactions, people display a wide number of nonverbal behavioural cues (facial expressions, vocalisations, gestures,...
View Article15 Apr 2011 (Fri) • Dr Julian Bass • Institutional Analysis, The Capability...
Institutional theory and the Capabilities Approach have become influential in international development research and practice. Both theories offer analytical tools for interpreting and guiding...
View Article06 May 2011 (Fri) • Dr Mirco Musolesi • Sensing, Understanding and Modelling...
Abstract: Mobile phones are increasingly equipped with sensors, such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, proximity sensors and cameras, that can be used to sense and interpret people behaviour in...
View Article09 May 2011 (Mon) • Dr John Hamer • A Practical Guide to using Peer Review in...
Although peer review is a normal part of both academic and professional practice, undergraduates are rarely given the opportunity to develop this skill. This is puzzling, as the effort required to...
View Article13 May 2011 (Fri) • Dr Simon Rogers • Autonomy handover and rich interaction...
In this talk I will present some of the work being done in the new Inference, Dynamics, and Interaction group, at the University of Glasgow. In particular, we are interested in using probabilistic...
View Article20 May 2011 (Fri) • Dr Charles Sutton • Machine Learning for Computer System...
Probabilistic modelling is central to modern statistical machine learning, because it allows us to connect prior knowledge to data and uncertainty. New applications of probabilistic modelling have the...
View Article24 May 2011 (Tue) • Prof Daniela Zaharie • An overview of the research...
The presentation will cover several of the research topics and corresponding national and international projects ongoing at the Department of Informatics from the West University of Timisoara,...
View Article27 May 2011 (Fri) • Dr Michael Herrmann • Self-Organized Criticality in...
Self-organised criticality is a principle for the generation of complexity in nature. It is characterised by power-law event distributions and has been used to describe phenomena in domains such as...
View Article01 June 2011 (Wed) • Prof Jackie Cassell • The Patient Records Enhancement...
The problem: Electronic patient records contain a mixture of coded information and free text. Information is variably recorded by practitioners as coded or free text, but free text is difficult to...
View Article03 June 2011 (Fri) • Prof David Pym • Systems and Security Modelling: From...
I describe a mathematical systems modelling framework that is motivated by a desire to represent and reason about properties of (large-scale) systems situated in dynamic environments. Motivated by the...
View Article07 July 2011 (Thurs) • Mr Ben Horsburgh • Finding the Hidden Gems:...
In this paper we present a novel hybrid representation for Music Information Retrieval. Our representation is built by incorporating audio content into the tag space in a tag-track matrix, and then...
View Article12 July 2011 (Tue) • Prof Tong Zhang • Spectral Methods for Learning...
This talk presents a methodology for learning graphical models with hidden nodes that I have been studying with collaborators in recent years. The idea is to employ algebraic techniques (in...
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