Posted by Mr Nelis Franken on 15 Feb 2009, 10:02 (last modified on 4 Mar 2009, 06:03)

CIRG will present nine papers at the upcoming IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation to be held in Trondheim, Norway, in May 2009. These papers are:

- A Rakitianskaia, AP Engelbrecht, "Training Neural Networks with PSO in Dynamic Environments"
- M Riekert, KM Malan, AP Engelbrecht, "Adaptive Genetic Programming for Dynamic Classification Problems"
- IL Schoeman, AP Engelbrecht, "Scalability of the Vector-based Particle Swarm Optimizer"
- O Olorunda, AP Engelbrecht, "An Analysis of Heterogeneous Cooperative Algorithms"
- MGH Omran, AP Engelbrecht, "Free Search Differential Evolution"
- P Antoniou, A Pitsillides, T Blackwell, AP Engelbrecht, "Employing the Flocking Behavior of Birds for Controlling Congestion in Autonomous Decentralized Networks"
- J Grobler, AP Engelbrecht, "Hybridizing PSO and DE for improved vector evaluated multi-objective optimization"
- K Malan, AP Engelbrecht, "Quantifying Ruggedness of Continuous Landscapes using Entropy"
- N Franken, "Visual Exploration of Algorithm Parameter Space"

Although all of these papers are produced from one research group, the topics of these papers cover a diverse set of topics within the field of Computational Intelligence. Topics covered are
- Neural networks in dynamic environments
- Genetic programming in dynamic environments
- Evolving decision trees in dynamic environments
- Niching methods, i.e. locating multiple solutions to an optimization problem
- Cooperative algorithms
- Differential evolution
- Bird flocking models for congestion control in mobile networks
- Multi-objective optimization
- Theoretical analysis of continuous landscapes
- Visualization methods for parameter sensitivity analysis

These topics are all very current and active research fields withing the Computational Intelligence community.

In addition to these papers, Andries Engelbrecht will also present a tutorial at IEEE CEC, "Particle Swarm Optimization: A Universal Optimizer?"