Publications

Below are a selection of papers that are significant to the aims of the project.
J. Niu, K. Cai, and S. Parsons (2010): "A grey-box approach to automated mechanism design". In Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC XII), Toronto, Canada, 2010. Not yet available.
S. He, and X. Li and X. Yao (2010): "Application of a Lévy Group Search Optimizer to Ultrasonic Detector Based Machine Condition Monitoring". Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Not yet available.
S. He, I. D. Couzin V. Guttal and X. Yao (2010): "Evolution of animal aggregation from first principle—an evolutionary artificial neural networks approach". To be submitted to PNAS. Not yet available
E. Robinson, P. McBurney and X. Yao (2009): "How specialised are specialists? Generalisation properties of entries from the 2008 and 2009 TAC Market Design Competitions". In E. Gerding et al., Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms, to appear. Download
H. Chen and X. Yao (2009): "Regularized Negative Correlation Learning for Neural Network Ensembles". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(12):1962–1979, December 2009. Download
V. Nallur, R. Bahsoon and X. Yao (2009): "Self-optimizing architecture for ensuring quality attributes in the cloud". In Joint Proc. of the 8th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and 3rd European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA/ECSA 2009), Cambridge, UK, 14-17 September 2009, pp.281–284. Download
S. Y. Chong, P. Tiño and X. Yao (2009): "Relationship between generalization and diversity in coevolutionary learning". IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 1(3):214–232, September, 2009 Download
E. Robinson, P. McBurney and X. Yao (2009): "How specialised are specialists? Generalisation properties of entries from the 2008 TAC Market Design Competition". In the IJCAI-09 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA '09). Pasadena, California, 13 July, 2009. Download
P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and X. Yao (2009): "Resource Allocation in Decentralised Computational Systems: An Evolutionary Market-Based Approach". In the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, to appear 2010. Download
E. H. Gerding, P. McBurney and X. Yao (2009): "Market-based control of computational systems: introduction to the special issue". In the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, May, 2009. Download
P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and Xin Yao (2009): "Evolutionary Market Agents and Heterogeneous Service Providers: Achieving Desired Resource Allocations". In the Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2009), Trondheim, Norway, 18–21 May 2009, IEEE Press, pp.907–910. Download
H. Dawid, H. L. Poutré and X. Yao (2008): "Economic Games and Policy Design". In IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 3(4):22–26, November, 2008. Download
S. Y. Chong, P. Tino and X. Yao (2008): "Measuring Generalization Performance in Co-evolutionary Learning". In IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 12(4):479–505, August, 2008. Download
P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and X. Yao (2008): "Evolutionary Market Agents for Resource Allocation in Decentralised Systems". In the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN X), September, 2008, pp.1071–1080. Download
S. Y. Chong and X. Yao (2007): "Multiple Choices and Reputation in Multi-Agent Interactions". In IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(6):689–711, December, 2007. Download
T. Ellis and X. Yao (2007): "Evolving Cooperation in the Non-Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: A Social Network Inspired Approach". In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07), Singapore, 25–28 September 2007, pp.736–743. Download
H. Dong, J. He, H. Huang and W. Hou (2007): "Evolutionary programming using a mixed mutation strategy". Information Sciences. 177(1):312–327, 2007. Download.
J. Tian, R. Foley, X. Yao and H. Tianfield (2006): "An Extended Contract Net Mechanism For Dynamic Supply Chain Formation and its Application in China Petroleum Supply Chain Management". In Multiagent and Grid Systems—An International Journal, 2(2):183–207, 2006. Download
A. Chandra and X. Yao (2006): "Ensemble Learning Using Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms". In Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 5(4):417–445, December, 2006. Download
H. Dong, J. He , H. Huang and W. Hou (2005): "A Mixed Mutation Strategy Evolutionary Programming Combined with Species Conservation Technique". In Proceedings of MICAI 2005 (LNCS 3789), pp.593–602, Springer Verlag, 2005 Download.
J. He and X. Yao (2005): "A game-theoretic approach for designing mixed mutation strategies". In Proceedings of ICNC'05 ( LNCS 3612) , pp.279–288, Springer Verlag, 2005 Download.

Patents arising from the project:
P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and X. Yao (named inventors): "Patent: Load Balancing in a Data Network". European Patent Application No. 08252953.8, filed September 2008. UK Patent Application No. 0905439.6, filed March 2009. US / Canada Patent Application No. PCT/GB2009/002135, filed September 2009. Korea Patent Application No. A31728 KRw, filed September 2009.