Associate Professor Marcus Randall obtained his doctorate from Griffith University in applied mathematics and has worked at Bond University since 1998. He is a computer scientist with research interests in mathematics and introductory information technology. Associate Professor Randall has teaching experience in combinatorial optimisation, heuristics, search algorithms and high performance computing. He has also published a number of papers for books, journals and conferences dealing with combinatorial optimisation, meta-heuristic search techniques and parallel processing/programming. Download an extensive listing of Marcus Randall's publications.
Articles
Feature selection for classification using an ant colony system (with Nadia Abd-Alsabour), e-Science 2010: Sixth IEEE international conference on e-Science (2010)
Many applications such as pattern recognition require selecting a subset of the input features in...
Modifications and additions to ant colony optimisation to solve the set partitioning problem (with Andrew Lewis), e-Science 2010: Sixth IEEE international conference on e-Science workshops (2010)
Ant colony optimisation has traditionally been used to solve problems that have few/light constraints or...
Pheromone pre-seeding for the construction of RFID antenna structures using ACO (with Gerhard Weis, Andrew Lewis, and David Thiel), e-Science 2010: Sixth IEEE international conference on e-Science (2010)
Ant colony optimisation is often used to construct solutions to problems for which it has...
Implementing and evaluating a "Next Generation Learning Space": A pilot study (with Gail Wilson), 27th annual ascilite conference. ascilite 2010 Sydney: Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future (2010)
A dramatic, pedagogical shift has occurred in recent years in educational environments in higher education,...
Intensification strategies for extremal optimisation (with Andrew Lewis), 8th International conference on simulated evolution and learning (SEAL-2010) (2010)
It is only relatively recently that extremal optimisation (EO) has been applied to combinatorial optimisation...
Books
Biologically-inspired optimisation methods, Biologically-inspired optimisation methods (2009)
Humanity has often turned to Nature for inspiration to help it solve its problems. The...
Book Chapters
Dynamic problems and nature inspired meta-heuristics (with Tim Hendtlass and Irene Moser), Biologically-inspired optimisation methods: Parallel algorithms, systems and applications (2009)
Biological systems have often been used as the inspiration for search techniques to solve continuous...
Extremal optimisation for assignment type problems (with Tim Hendtlass and Andrew Lewis), Biologically-inspired optimisation methods: Parallel algorithms, systems and applications (2009)
Extremal optimisation is an emerging nature inspired meta-heuristic search technique that allows a poorly performing...
Using ant colony optimisation to construct meander-line RFID antennas (with Andrew Lewis, Amir Galehdar, David Thiel, and Gerhard Weis), Biologically-inspired optimisation methods: Parallel algorithms, systems and applications (2009)
A method increasingly used to uniquely identify objects (be they pieces of luggage, transported goods...
Candidate set strategies for ant colony optimisation (with James Montgomery), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Ant Algorithms (2002)
Ant Colony Optimisation based solvers systematically scan the set of possible solution elements before choosing...
Conference Papers
A hybrid extremal optimisation approach for the bin packing problem (with Pedro Gomez-Meneses), 4th Australian conference on artificial life (ACAL09) (2009)
Extremal optimisation (EO) is a simple and effective technique that is influenced by nature and...
Making it my street: The Bond University "street" area (with Gail Wilson), Next Generation Learning Spaces 2008 Colloquium: Learning spaces in higher education: Positive outcomes by design (2009)
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The Street area is the central point of the University’s main teaching building. Until...
The pod room: A group learning space (with Gail Wilson), Learning spaces in higher education: Positive outcomes by design - Proceedings of the Next Generation Learning Spaces 2008 Colloquium (2009)
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Bond University has recently completed construction of an engaging formal teaching space, known as...