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Computational Intelligence Group
News and Seminars
Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 26 Mar | 14:00 | SW101 |
Nick French Matt Medland Joe Frostick |
Final Year Students' Projects: 1) Can Electroencephalography techniques detect when someone is lying? 2) Improving the cAnt-MinerPB classification algorithm 3) Squiggler: CAPTCHA Development using Co-Evolutionary Techniques |
| Mon 12 Mar | 14:00 | SW101 |
Franck Vidal (Bangor) |
Simulation in (industrial|diagnostic|interventional) radiology and medical physics abstract) |
| Mon 20 Feb | 14:00 | SW101 | Alex Freitas | Hierarchical classification methods and applications in protein function prediction (abstract) |
| Mon 6 Feb | 14:00 | SW101 | Daniel Chivers | Data visualisation using metro-map style schematics (abstract) |
| Mon 30 Jan | 14:00 | SW101 | Dominique Chu | Modelling translation (abstract) |
| Mon 23 Jan | 14:00 | SW101 | Dominique Chu | Computational properties of biological cells (abstract) |
| Mon 16 Jan | 14:00 | SW101 |
Gem Stapleton (Brighton) |
Concept Diagrams for Ontology Modelling: Design, Formalization and Reasoning (abstract) |
Autumn 2011
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 12 Dec | 14:00 | SW101 | Luana Micallef | Drawing Area-Proportional Venn-3 Diagrams Using Ellipses (abstract) |
| Mon 5 Dec | 14:00 | SW101 | Marco Filetti | RSVP and Non-Parametric Methods in Identity Deception (abstract) |
| Mon 28 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 | Fred Barnes | Simulating Complex Systems with occam-pi (abstract) |
| Mon 21 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 |
Mudassar Iqbal (University of Nottingham) |
An integrative Baysian Analysis of Trancription Regulation in S. coelicolor (abstract) |
| Mon 14 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 | Peter Rodgers | Research Grant Discussion (abstract) |
| Mon 7 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 |
Pierlugi Frisco (Heriot Watt) |
Network models are algorithms able to generate networks with specific properties (abstract) |
| Mon 30 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 |
Nick Monk (Sheffield) |
Making a difference: Modelling cell fate decision strategies (abstract) |
| Mon 24 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Ben Pateman | Human Computation: Games with a Purpose (abstract) |
| Mon 17 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Fernando Otero |
A New Sequential Covering Strategy for Inducing Classification Rules with Ant Colony Algorithms (abstract) |
| Mon 10 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Peter Rodgers | Aesthetics of Metro Map Layout (abstract) |
| Mon 3 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Andrew Ross | Applications of Metalearning (abstract) |
| Mon 26 Sep | 14:00 | SW101 | Peter Rodgers | Internal Group Meeting |
Previous seminars
Summer 2011
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 16 May | 14:00 | SW101 |
Anna Jordanous (Sussex) |
Evaluating computational
creativity: a standardised methodology and its application to case studies in jazz improvisation (abstract) |
| Mon 23 May | 14:00 | SW101 |
Richard Goldstein (NIMR-MRC) |
The evolution and evolutionary consequences of protein marginal stability: lessons from simple models (abstract) |
| Mon 30 May | - | - | - | no seminar (public holiday) |
| Mon 6 Jun | 14:00 | SW101 |
Tom Lenaerts (ULB Brussels) |
Computation in biological systems - an information theoretical perspective on allostery in protein domains (abstract) |
| Mon 13 Jun | 14:00 | SW101 |
Artur d'Avila Garcez (City University London) |
Neural-symbolic systems for cognitive reasoning (abstract) |
Spring 2011
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 17 Jan | 14:00 | SW101 | Alex Freitas | Data mining applied to the biology of ageing (abstract) |
| Mon 24 Jan | 14:00 | SW101 |
Martin Noellenburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
Drawing and labelling metro maps using mixed-integer programming (abstract) |
| Mon 31 Jan | 14:00 | SW101 | Peter Rodgers | Area-proportional Euler-3 diagrams (abstract) |
| Mon 7 Feb | 14:00 | SW101 |
Simon Buckingham Shum (Open University) |
Visual analytics for contested collective intelligence (abstract) |
| Mon 14 Feb | 14:00 | SW101 | Alberto Moraglio |
Geometric generalisation of surrogate model-based optimisation to combinatorial spaces (abstract) |
| Mon 21 Feb | 14:00 | SW101 |
Ed Keedwell (Exeter) |
Ant colony optimisation to identify genetic variation in type 2 diabetes (abstract) |
| Mon 28 Feb | No seminar this week | |||
| Mon 7 Mar | 14:00 | SW101 | CO620 project presentations | |
| Dale Mooney | Co-evolutionary CAPTCHA construction (abstract) | |||
| Rolf Pearse-Danker | Visual short-term memory (abstract) | |||
| Mon 14 Mar | 14:00 | CGU2 | CO620 project presentations | |
| Chris Paterson | Simulation of cell division (abstract) | |||
| Sam Howard | Lyrics-based automatic music genre classification (abstract) | |||
| Mon 21 Mar | 14:00 | SW101 | Seminar postponed due to illness | |
| Mon 28 Mar | 14:00 | SW101 | Dan Chivers |
Gesture-based input for drawing schematics on a mobile device (abstract) |
| Mon 4 Apr | 14:00 | SW101 | CO620 project presentation | |
| Keith Greenhow | Evolutionary instantiated neural networks (abstract) | |||
| Mon 11 Apr | 14:00 | SW101 | CO620 project presentation | |
| Daniel Bower | Text-based CAPTCHA creation with user data (abstract) | |||
Autumn 2010
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 27 Sep | 14:00 | SW101 | - | CompInt group meeting |
| Mon 4 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Peter Rodgers | Automatic layout of schematic diagrams (abstract) |
| Mon 11 Oct | Colin's seminar postponed to 25 October | |||
| Mon 18 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Patrick de Vries | Modelling fim expression in Escherichia coli K12 (abstract) |
| Mon 25 Oct | 14:00 | SW101 | Colin Johnson |
Shoddy ontologies, semantic scaffolding and metacrap: using information retrieval to realise the semantic web (abstract) |
| Mon 1 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 | Nicolae-Radu Zabet |
Towards modular, scalable and optimal design of transcriptional logic gates (abstract) |
| Mon 8 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 |
Kai Xu (Middlesex) |
Connecting the dots: understanding complex relations with graph and visualisation (abstract) |
| Mon 15 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 | Luana Micallef | UK Visual Analytics Summer School (abstract) |
| Mon 22 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 | Peter Rodgers | EPSRC bid discussion |
| Mon 29 Nov | 14:00 | SW101 | Tom Castle | Evolving semantically valid Java programs (abstract) |
| Mon 6 Dec | 14:00 | SW101 | Marco Filetti | The P-300 in lie detection (abstract) |
| Mon 13 Dec | 14:00 | SW101 | David White | Using genetic programming to understand and improve software (abstract) |
Summer 2010
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 17 May | 14:00 | S110B |
Helen Purchase (Glasgow) |
Empirical studies of Graph Drawings (abstract) |
| Fri 18 Jun | 12:50-17.30 | KLT1 | Various |
Centre for BioMedical Informatics - 5th Annual Symposium The Computational Brain: Interactions between Computer Sciences and Brain Sciences (programme) |
| Thu 8 Jul | 14:00 | S110B |
Ana Delgado (Bergen) |
Centre for Reasoning seminar Reflexive Systems Biology (abstract) |
Spring 2010
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Mon 4 Jan | 14:00 | S110B | Jean Louchet | Evolutionary vision tools |
| Mon 18 Jan | 14:00 | S110B | Patrick de Vries | Modelling of fim expression in Escherichia coli |
| Mon 25 Jan | 13:00 | MarLT2 | Shaadi Shidfar | CBMI seminar:
Separatrices and slope districts: moving away from pixels to provide a universal framework for low level image representation |
| Mon 1 Feb | 14:00 | S110B | Ahmed Okasha |
The effect of level of rationality on macro-activities of the
Lucas-Island model (abstract) |
| Mon 8 Feb | 14:00 | S110B | Phil Cattani Colin Johnson |
Typed Cartesian genetic programming for image classification (abstract) |
| Mon 15 Feb | 14:00 | S110B |
Per Kristian Lehre (Birmingham) |
Runtime analysis of search heuristics on software testing problems (abstract) |
| Wed 17 Feb | 15:30 | CGU2 |
Yossi Borenstein (Hertfordshire) |
Centre for Reasoning seminar An information perspective on evolutionary computation (abstract) |
| Mon 22 Feb | 14:00 | S110B | Ben Pateman |
Dealing with polysemous noise in Wikipedia-based text classification (abstract) |
| Mon 1 Mar | 14:00 | S110B | Michael Buckingham | Reinforcement learning and the Iowa Gambling Task (abstract) |
| Mon 8 Mar | 14:00 | S110B |
Julian Miller (York) |
Self-modifying Cartesian genetic programming (abstract) |
| Mon 15 Mar | 14:00 | S110B |
Shengxiang Yang (Leicester) |
Evolutionary optimisation in dynamic environments (abstract) |
| Mon 22 Mar | 14:00 | S110B | Andrew Ross | Support vector machines for data mining (abstract) |
| Mon 29 Mar | - | - | - | no seminar |
| Mon 5 Apr | - | - | - | no seminar (bank holiday) |
Autumn 2009
| Date | Time | Venue | Presenter(s) | Title |
| Thu 1 Oct | 14:00 | S110B | Housekeeping meeting | |
| Thu 8 Oct | 14:00 | S110B | Carlos Silla | Novel Top-Down Approaches for Hierarchical Classification and Their Application to Automatic Music Genre Classification |
| Thu 8 Oct | 14:20 | S110B | Leishi Zhang | Euler Diagrams for Visual Analytics |
| Thu 8 Oct | 14:40 | S110B | Sabrina Paneëls | Understanding Data Through Haptic Interaction |
| Thu 15 Oct | 14:00 | S110B | Research Review meeting | |
| Thu 22 Oct | 14:00 | S110B | Alberto Moraglio | Geometric Unification of Evolutionary Algorithms |
| Thu 29 Oct | 14:00 | S110B | David Corfield | Coalgebra - A New Mathematics |
| Thu 5 Nov | 14:00 | S110B | Colin Johnson | Theoretically-Grounded Genetic Programming |
| Mon 16 Nov | 14:00 | S110B | Luana Micallef | Force-Directed Layout for Euler Diagrams |
| Mon 23 Nov | 14:00 | S110B | Peter Rodgers | Grant Application talk |
| Mon 30 Nov | 14:00 | S110B | Colin Johnson | Grant Review talk |
| Mon 7 Dec | 14:00 | S110B | Kristina Dietz | |
| Mon 14 Dec | 14:00 | S110B | Fernando Otero |
For further information about seminars please contact the research group
seminar organiser.