Publications

Here's a list of my publications. You can download many of them in postscript or PDF format:
Papers presented at peer-reviewed Conferences:
  1. E. S. Peer, A. P. Engelbrecht, F. van den Bergh. CIRG@UP Optibench: A Statistically Sound Framework for Benchmarking Optimisation Algorithms. In the Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 2386-2392, (Canberra, Australia), 2003.
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  2. R. Brits, A. P. Engelbrecht and F. van den Bergh. Scalability of Niche PSO. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, pages 228-234, (Indianapolis, USA), 2003.
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  3. E. S. Peer, F. van den Bergh and A. P. Engelbrecht. Using Neighborhoods with Guaranteed Convergence PSO. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, pages 235-242, (Indianapolis, USA), 2003.
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  4. R. Brits, A. P. Engelbrecht and F. van den Bergh. A Niching Particle Swarm Optimizer. In the Proceedings of the Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, (Singapore), November, 2002.
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  5. R. Brits, A. P. Engelbrecht and F. van den Bergh. Solving Systems of Unconstrained Equations using Particle Swarm Optimization. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, (Hammamet, Tunisia), October 2002.
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  6. F. van den Bergh and A. P. Engelbrecht. A New Locally Convergent Particle Swarm Optimiser. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, (Hammamet, Tunisia), October 2002.
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  7. F. van den Bergh and A.P Engelbrecht, "Training Product Unit Networks using Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimisers", in Proceedings of IJCNN 2001, (Washington DC, USA), Jul 2001.
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  8. F. van den Bergh and A.P Engelbrecht, "Effects of Swarm Size on Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimisers", in Proceedings of GECCO 2001, (San Francisco, USA), Jul 2001.
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  9. F. van den Bergh and A.P. Engelbrecht, "Cooperative Learning in Neural Networks using Particle Swarm Optimizers", presented at SAICSIT'2000.
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  10. F. van den Bergh,"Particle Swarm Weight Initialization in Multi-layer Perceptron Artificial Neural Networks", In Development and Practice of Artificial Intelligence Techniques, pages 41-45, (Durban, South Africa), Sept. 1999.
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  11. F. van den Bergh, J. Roos, and J. Botha, "Improving ABR Flow Control", Proceedings of SATNAC98, University of Cape Town, South Africa, pages 18-25, 1998.
  12. F. van den Bergh, J. Roos, and J. Botha, "Enhancing ABR Flow Control through an Improved Communications Infrastructure", Proceedings of ICCCN'98, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, pages 746-750, 1998.
Papers published in peer-reviewed Journals:
  1. R. Brits, A. P. Engelbrecht and F. van den Bergh. Locating Multiple Optima using Particle Swarm Optimization. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 189(2): 1859-1883, June 2007.
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  2. F. van den Bergh and A. P. Engelbrecht. A study of particle swarm optimization particle trajectories. Information Sciences, 176(8): 937-971, April 2006.
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  3. F. van den Bergh and A. P. Engelbrecht. A cooperative approach to particle swarm optimisation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, (3): 225-239, June 2004.
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  4. F. van den Bergh and A.P. Engelbrecht, "Cooperative Learning in Neural Networks using Particle Swarm Optimizers", South African Computer Journal, (26):84-90, 2000.
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  5. F. van den Bergh and V. Lalioti, "Software Chroma Keying in an Immersive Virtual Environment", South African Computer Journal, (24):155-162, Nov. 1999.
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M.Sc thesis:
F. van den Bergh, A Device-free Locator using Computer Vision Techniques. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 1999.
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Ph.D thesis:
F. van den Bergh, An Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimizers. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 2002.
Download phd_thesis.ps.gz (approx. 1.5 MB).

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