Articles

PDF

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

PDF

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...

 

PDF

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,...

 

PDF

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...

 

PDF

A hybrid multi-objective extremal optimisation approach for multi-objective combinatorial optimisation problems (with Pedro Gomez-Meneses and Andrew Lewis), WCCI: 2010 IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence (2010)

Extremal optimisation (EO) is a relatively recent nature-inspired heuristic whose search method is especially suitable...

 

Multiobjective optimization for small meander wire dipole antennas in a fixed area using ant colony system (with Amir Galehdar, David V. Thiel, and Andrew Lewis), International journal of RF and microwave computer-aided engineering (2009)

Fixed area meander line antennas designed on a 5 × 5 rectangular grid were optimized...

 

Extremal optimisation and bin packing (with Tim Hendtlass), Information Technology papers (2008)

Extremal Optimisation (EO) is a fairly new entrant into the realms of stochastic based optimisation...

 

Extremal optimisation with a penalty approach for the multidimensional knapsack problem (with Pedro Gomez-Meneses), Information Technology papers (2008)

The extremal optimisation (EO) meta-heuristic is a recent form of search that is suitable for...

 

Solution bias in ant colony optimisation: Lessons for selecting pheromone models (with James Montgomery and Tim Hendtlass), Information Technology papers (2008)

Ant colony optimisation is a constructive metaheuristic in which solutions are built probabilistically influenced by...

 

Local search for ant colony system to improve the efficiency of small meander line RFID antennas (with Gerhard Weis, Andrew Lewis, Amir Galehdar, and David Thiel), Information Technology papers (2008)

The efficient design of meander line antennas for RFID devices is a significant real-world problem....

 

Solution approaches for the capacitated single allocation hub location problem using ant colony optimisation, Information Technology papers (2008)

Hub and spoke type networks are often designed to solve problems that require the transfer...

 

An Extended Extremal Optimisation Model for Parallel Architectures (with Andrew Lewis), Information Technology papers (2006)

A relatively new meta-heuristic, known as extremal optimisation (EO), is based on the evolutionary science...

 

Dynamic Problems and Nature Inspired Meta-Heuristics (with Tim Hendtlass and Irene Moser), Information Technology papers (2006)

Biological systems are, by their very nature, adaptive. However, the meta-heuristic search algorithms inspired by...

 

PDF

Network Design With A Genetic Algorithm (with Stephen J. Sugden, Graham McMahon, Les Berry, and Bruce Murtagh), Information Technology papers (2006)

In telecommunications network design, nodes need to be linked in an economical way to handle...

 

Search space reduction as a tool for achieving intensification and diversification in ant colony optimisation, Information Technology papers (2006)

The aim of adding explicit intensification / diversification measures to ant colony optimisation is so...

 

PDF

The Probabilistic Heuristic In Local (PHIL) Search Meta-strategy, Information Technology papers (2005)

Local search, in either best or first admissible form, generally suffers from poor solution qualities...

 

PDF

A Simulated Annealing Approach to Communication Network Design (with Stephen J. Sugden and Graham McMahon), Information Technology papers (1999)

This paper explores the use of the meta-heuristic search algorithm Simulated Annealing for solving a...

 

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...

 

PDF

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

Link

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...

 

Link

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)

Extract:

The Street area is the central point of the University’s main teaching building. Until...

 

Link

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)

Extract:

Bond University has recently completed construction of an engaging formal teaching space, known as...