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Kent researcher wins best paper at EuroGP conference
Sara and Alberto receiving their best paper award at the conference
Dr. Alberto Moraglio, Centre for Reasoning Research Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, received the best paper award at the European Conference on Genetic Programming in Istanbul this month.
The paper, 'Geometric Differential Evolution on the Space of Genetic Programs' and jointly written with Sara Silva from the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal, was selected from over 40 papers submitted to the conference.
The key idea of the paper is to use geometrical methods to enhance genetic programming. Genetic programming is a machine learning technique which takes inspiration from biological evolution and 'evolves' computer programs that perform required tasks.
Alberto said:
" I am delighted to receive this prestigious award. It was a pleasure to work with Sara who is a great researcher. The work presented at the conference was just an example of the application of a general methodology. With Colin, we are writing a grant proposal to explore this promising avenue of research. "
A further paper by Dr. Moraglio and Dr. Colin Johnson, Head of the School of Computing, was shortlisted for an award at the co-located conference on Evolutionary Computation for Combinatorial Optimization. The paper showed how an almost 50 year old algorithm for numerical optimization, the Nelder-Mead algorithm, could be modified to tackle challenging problems in combinatorial optimization.
The award took place on 9 April 2010 at the Conference on Genetic Programming in Istanbul.
Published 19 April 2010
Contact: M.L.Bowman@kent.ac.uk
Sara and Alberto receiving their best paper award at the conference