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27-12-2005 - Cercia’s popular Force-Based Clustering and Visualisation software was used in a TV documentary over the Christmas holiday, entitled “The Agatha Christie Code”. It was used to visualise the relationship between a sample of books written by Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a selection of other British literary works. Some more details about the [...]
01-12-2005 - Cercia Fellows Thorsten Schnier and Andy Pryke, together with Arthur Kordon from Dow Chemicals, are organizing a special session for CEC 2006. This session will provide a common forum for both business and academic people to report and discuss successful applications of EC in business, with an emphasis on a diverse range of projects in [...]
18-11-2005 - Dr. Colin Frayn, a Cercia research fellow, was an invited speaker at the workshop on ICT in Finance and Business Services during the AWM ICT Cluster Annual Conference in the National Motorcycle Museum on 18 November 2005, where the latest technologies from Cercia was on display. A number of other Cercia staff also attended [...]
15-11-2005 - Cercia presents the latest developments in Computational Intelligence in this 2-day workshop with top calibre speakers from around the globe, both from industry and academia. More information is available. (PDF Flyer)
14-11-2005 - The second Annual Cercia Scientific Board meeting was held in the School of Computer Science in the afternoon of 14 November 2005. A brief presentation was given by the Cercia Director, Prof. Xin Yao, on Cercia’s achievements. The highlights include 65 publications (more than half in journals) in 2004/05, GBP4M on-going grants, seven invited keynote/plenary [...]
24-10-2005 - Prof. Xin Yao, Cercia Director, was invited to deliver the Sterling Hou Lecture at the University of Missouri — Columbia, USA, and the IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecture at the University of Missouri — Rolla and the University of Missouri — St. Louis, USA.
10-10-2005 - Warmly welcome to Dr Xingqi Wang, a new visitor from China, who is going to stay with us for one year. Dr Xingqi Wang is currently an assistant professor at the College of Computer, Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU), China. His research interest lies in machine learning/data mining and its applications.
01-10-2005 - Cercia started two new projects, funded by Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, on neural networks and evolutionary computation. Two new PhD students, Neale Samways and Ben Jones, are working on these two projects. Both students graduated from our MSc in Natural Computation.
05-09-2005 - Cercia warmly welcomes two new visiting researchers from China: Dr Dan LIN and Dr Zhaoxia WANG, both from Tianjin University. Dr. Lin will be with us for 12 months while Dr Wang will be with us for three months. Their research interests include multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, routing, scheduling, evolutionary computation theory and computer networks.
02-09-2005 - Five Cercia staff, Drs. Hisashi Handa, Jin Li, Andy Pryke, Thorsten Schnier and Xin Yao, attended the IEEE 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’05) in Edinburgh, UK, on 2-5 September 2005. Thorsten and Andy chaired the Special Session on Evolutionary Computation Applications in Business. Hisashi and Jin presented their papers on route optimistion for gritting [...]
01-09-2005 - The position of Centre Manager for Cercia is currently vacant. Details on the vacancy can be found from the University of Birmingham’s Personnel Unit, or a local copy is available.
29-08-2005 - Cercia Director, Prof. Xin Yao, gave an invited keynote speech at the Sixth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT’05), August 30 - September 1, 2005, York, UK, on “Why Use Populations in Evolutionary Computation”. IPCAT’05 is a highly interdisciplnary workshop with roughly 50% participants from biology and computer science/engineering, respectively.
27-08-2005 - Cercia Director, Prof. Xin Yao, gave an invited keynote speech on the first day of the joint 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’05) and 2005 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’05), Changsha, Hunan, China, 27-29 August 2005. His talk is on “How Powerful Is Your Evolutionary Algorithm”.
17-08-2005 - Dr. Colin Frayn from Cercia was invited to give a talk to ~100 international students on nature inspired computation, especially nature inspired communications. The topics varied from social insects to human languages.
10-08-2005 - Cercia Director, Prof. Xin Yao, gave the opening keynote speech at the 2005 International Congress on Computational Intelligence (ICCI’05), Corporaci\’on Universitaria del Sinu at Monter\’ia, Monter\’ia, Colombia, 10-12 August 2005. While in Monter\’ia, he was interviewed by the local newspapers and TV stations. He was especially invited by the Rector of Universidad del Sinu to [...]
01-08-2005 - Cercia warmly welcomes a new research fellow, Dr. Simon Tyrrell, who joined us from the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge. His most recent work is in protein-ligand docking using evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm, etc. He is located in Room 244.
21-07-2005 - Dr. Colin Frayn from Cercia gave a tutorial on “Genetic Programming in Finance” at the 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF’05), July 21 - 26, 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
19-07-2005 - Dr. Colin Frayn from Cercia gave three presentations at recent Foresight meetings organised by Foresight West Midlands and WMITA. The three presentations explained Cercia’s expertise and technology for the following three market sectors: ICT, Health, Leisure and Learning, Food and Drinks sectors ICT, Retail and Professional Services sectors ICT, Manufacturing, Building Technology and Transport sectors
26-05-2005 - The Nature Inspired Design Seminar will take place at the University of Birmingham on 26th and 27th May 2005. The draft agenda for the day is available.
12-05-2005 - Jin Li, Zhu Shi, Xiaoli, Li, Genetic Programming with Wavelet-Based Indicators for Financial Forecasting, 2005 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC’05) August 23-26, 2005, Hefei, China. Jun He, A Game-Theoretic Approach for Designing Mixed Mutation Strategies, the First International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’05), 27 - 29 August 2005, Changsha, China. Xiaoli Li, Xin [...]
06-05-2005 - The School of Computer Science is a dynamic, research-oriented department graded at level 5 in the Research Assessment Exercise. The University is supporting our research by investing in a prestigious Birmingham Research Fellowship. It is a 5-year Fellowship that will be awarded to an outstanding young researcher and it will be automatically converted [...]
01-05-2005 - (1) The 12 month Honda project on “Evolutionary Computation Benchmarking” aims at creating a web-based system that includes a comprehensive set of benchmark problems for different types of real-world problems, from single objective optimisation to multi-objective optimisation, from unconstrained optimisation to constraint handling, from static problems to dynamic ones, etc. The web-based system will also [...]
01-05-2005 - Financial planning and forecasting are essential for any business.Turning “gut feeling” into sound decision-making based on real data, is a huge challenge for both large corporations and SMEs, as well informed decisions mean profits. Severn Trent Water Ltd. has recently turned to the Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence [...]
18-02-2005 - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) has decided to offer up to USD2,000 in total as student travel grants to attend the back-to-back short courses offered by Cercia in 4-8 April 2005. For more information about the courses, please click here
18-02-2005 - Nature Inspired Creative Design is a new research network, part of the AHRB/EPSRC funded “Designing for the 21st Century” program. Cercia is creating a cluster of scientists, artists, designers, and industrialists that focusses on taking ideas, methods, paradigms and algorithms from nature and introducing them into the design process. Nature inspired approaches have the potential [...]
16-02-2005 - Cercia welcomes Professor Jinping LI from Jinan University , China, who is visiting us for six months. Professor Li has a PhD in particle physics and is currectly interested in heuristic optimisation algorithms, including genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and other classical optimisation methods.
14-02-2005 - Cercia is organizing a special session on ‘Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Business’ for the 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and is inviting submissions of papers
12-02-2005 - Dr Thorsten Schnier, a Cercia research fellow and two MSc in Natural Computation students, attended and presented talks at the Creative Evolution Conference and the Workshop in London.
26-01-2005 - Cercia welcomes Dr Maolin Tang from the School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, who will work with us for two months on VLSI placement and routing algorithms suitable for nanoscale chips, especially FPGAs. Dr Tang’s research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Internet-Based Computation, Intelligent Approaches to VLSI Physical [...]
20-01-2005 - Cercia hosted the visit by Professor Hai Zhuge on 20-25 January 2005. Professor Zhuge is a professor and Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China. He leads the China Knowledge Grid Research Group and a major Chinese initiative in knowledge grid. [...]
17-01-2005 - Dr Colin Frayn, a Cercia Research Fellow, has a paper accepted at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, 4-6 April 2005, Essex University, Colchester, Essex, UK.
06-01-2005 - Cercia is looking for a highly motivated PhD student for a joint civil engineering and computer science project on “A Computational Intelligence Based System for Track Maintenance”. This exciting project will be jointly supervised by Dr Michael Burrow (Civil Engineering) and Professor Xin Yao (Computer Science). More details are available online.
