Publications List - Dr Emma Hart

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Phd Thesis

"Immunology as a Metaphor for Computational Information Processing: Fact of Fiction" can be downloaded in pdf format or ps format

Journal Papers

·         Hart,E. and Bersini,H. and Santos,F. How Topology Defines Tolerance. Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2007.

·         Hart,E. and Timmis, J. Applications of Artificial Immune Systems :The Past, the Present and the Future.  Journal of Soft Computing, vol 8(1) 191-201, 2008

·         Hart,E. and Ross, P. The Impact of the Shape of Antibody Recognition Regions on the Emergence of Idiotypic Networks. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2005 , volume 1, issue 3

·         Hart,E. and Ross,P. and Corne,D , Evolutionary Scheduling: A Review.. in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol 6,  number 2, pages 3191-220, June 2005, Springer (formerly  Kluwer Academic Publishers.)

·         Hart,E. and Ross,P. Exploiting the Analogy between the Immune System and Sparse Distributed Memory , in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol 4, pages 333-358,2003.  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

·         E. Hart, P. Ross , A New Tool for Genetic Algorithm Visualisation , E. Hart, P. Ross. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing, 5(4), 2001, pages 335-348

·         E. Hart, P.Ross and J.Nelson . Scheduling Chicken Catching - An Investigation into the Success of a GA on a Real World Scheduling Problem, , (Annals of Operations Research 92,1999, pages 363-380.

·         E.Hart, J.Nelson and P.Ross , Solving a Real-World Problem using a Heuristically Driven Evolving Schedule Builder,  Evolutionary Computing, vol. 6, no.1 , 1998, pages 61-81, ISSN 1063-6560

Edited Books/Journals

  • Special Issue of Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms,Volume 3, no. 4, December 2004,editors Gottlieb,J.  and Hart,E. and Middendorf,M. and Raidl,G. and Reeves,C. Springer-Science.

·         Artificial Immune Systems, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference, ICARIS 2003, Timmis,J. and Bentley,P. and Hart.E. Springer, LNCS 2787

·         Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2003, Springer LNCS 2611, eds.  including Hart,E.

·         Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2002, Springer LNCS 2279.  Cagnoni,S ,Gottlieb,J., Hart,E.,Middendorf,M., Raidl,G.

·         Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2001, Springer LNCS 2037.  eds. including Hart,E.

 

Refereed Book Chapters

Timmis, J., Knight, T., de Castro, L.N. and Hart, E. An Overview of Artificial Immune Systems , in 'Computation in Cells and Tissues: Perspectives and Tools of Thought'. Edited by Ray Paton et al. Springer, 2005.

Burke,E.,Kendall,G.,Newall,J.,Hart,E.,Ross,P.,Schulenburg,S. Hyper-heuristics: an Emerging Direction in Modern Search Technology, in Glover and Kochenberger (eds) Handbook of Metaheuristics, Kluwer International Publishing, 2003

P.Ross, E.Hart and D.Corne, Genetic Algorithms and Timetabling. - in A.Ghosh and K.Tsutsui (eds), Advances in Evolutionary Computing, Springer-Verlag,2003

P. Ross and E.Hart, Combining Choices of Heuristics -, in Evolutionary Optimzation, Eds. R. Sarker and M. Mohammadian and X.Yao, Kluwer International Publishing, 2002

E. Hart and P.Ross, The Evolution and Analysis of a Potential Antibody Library for Job-Shop Scheduling, , In New Ideas in Optimisation, McGraw-Hill, 1999. ISBN 0077095065.

 

Refereed Conference Papers

·         Hart,E., Davoudani,C., McEwan,C. A Role for Immunolgy in Building Autonomous Systems,  First International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems, Rome, 2007. To appear in ACM Digital Library

·         Hart,E., Santos,F., Bersini,H. Topological Constraints in the Evolution of Idiotypic Networks, in Proceedings of ICARIS 2007, Springer

·         McEwan,C., Hart,E. Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System. in Proceedings of ICARIS 2007, Springer

·         Davoudani,D., Hart,E., Paechter,B. An Immune-Inspired Approach to Speckled Computing in Proceedings of ICARIS 2007, Springer

·         Hart,E., Bersini,H. and Santos,F. Tolerance vs Intolerance: How Affinity Defines Topology in an Idiotypic Network .  in Proceedings of ICARIS 2006, Springer

·         Hart,E. Analysis of a Growth Model for Idiotypic Networks. in Proceedings of ICARIS 2006, Springer

·         Hart,E. Not all Balls are Round: An Investigation of Alternative Recognition-Region Shapes.  in Proceedings of ICARIS 2005, Springer

·         Hart,E. and Timmis,J. Applications of AIS: The Past, the Present and the Future.  To appear in Proceedings of ICARIS 2005, Springer

·         Hart,E, and Ross,P. Studies on the Implications of Shape-Space Models for Idiotypic Networks. Proceedings of ICARIS 2004, pages 413-426, Springer.

·         Ross,P. and Marin-Blazquez,J. and Hart,E.  Hyper-Heuristics Applied to Class and Exam Timetabling Problems. In Proceedings of CEC 2004, IEEE Press, pages 1691-1698.

·         Ross,P. and Marin-Blazquez,J. and  Schulenburg,S. and Hart,E. Learning a Procedure that can Solve Hard Bin-packing Problems: A New GA-Based Approach to Hyper-Heuristics. In Proceedings of GECCO 2003 

·         Hart,E. and Webb,A. and Ross,P. and Lawson,A.  A Role for Immunology in Next-Generation Robot Controllers. Proceedings of ICARIS 2003, Springer.

·         Hart,E. and Ross,P. Improving SOSDM: Inspirations from the Danger Theory. Proceedings of ICARIS 2003. Springer.

·         Peter Ross, Emma Hart, Alistair Lawson, Andrew Webb, Erich Prem, Patrick Poelz, Giovanni Morgavi. Requirements for Getting a Robot to Grow Up.  Advances in Artifical Life (Proceedings of ECAL 2003),  Springer, 2003.

·         Webb,A., Hart,E.,, Ross,P,, Lawson,A. Controlling a Simulated Khepera with an XCS Classifier System with Memory.  Advances in Artificial Life, 2003, (proceedings of ECAL 2003)  p 885-892

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, Exploiting the Analogy between Immunology and Sparse Distributed Memory, 1st International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, University of Canterbury, J.Timmis and P. Bentley (Eds), 59-67, University of Canterbury, 1-902671-32-5, 2002

·         Peter Ross,Sonia Schulenburg,Javier Marin-Blazquez, Emma Hart. Hyper Heuristics: learning to combine simple heuristics in bin-packing problems. In proceedings of GECCO 2002. (Best Paper award).

·         Schulenburg,S. and Ross,P. and Marin-Blazquez and Emma Hart. A Hyper-Heuristic Aproach to Single and Multi-Step Environments in Bin-Packing Problems.  5th International Workshop  on Learning Classifier Systems, IWLCS, 2002.

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, Clustering Moving Data with a Modified Immune Algorithm, EvoWorkshops 2001, Como, Italy, 18/04/2001-20/04/2001, pp 394-404, ISBN 3-540-41920-9, 2001

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, A Systematic Investigation of GA Performance on Jobshop Scheduling Problems, EvoNET Workshop, Edinburgh, ISBN 3-540-67353-9, 2000, S. Cagnoni, R. Poli, Y. Li, G. Smith, D. Corne, M. Oates, Emma Hart, P.L. Lanzi, E.J.W. Boers, Ben Paechter, Terry Fogarty, Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshops 2000, Edinburgh, GB, 17/04/2000-18/04/2000, Springer-Verlag, 2000,

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, Enhancing the performance of a GA through visualisation, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2000, Las Vegas, USA, 10/07/2000-12/07/2000, Morgan Kaufman, ISBN 1-55860-708-0, 2000,

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, An Immune System Approach to Scheduling in Changing Environments, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA, 13/07/1999-17/07/1999, W.Banzhaf, J.Daida, A.E.Eiben, M.H.Garzon, V.Honavar, M.Jakiela and R.E.Smith (eds), pp.1559-1565, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999,

·         Peter Ross, Emma Hart, D. Corne, Some observations about GA-based exam timetabling, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling II, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1408, E.Burke and M.Carter (eds), pp. 115-129, 1998,

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, J. Nelson, Producing robust schedules via an artificial immune system, International Conference on Evolutionary Computing, ICEC '98, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 04/05/1998-09/05/1998, pp 464-469, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7803-4871-0, 1998,

·         Jonathan, Emma Hart, Graham Ritchie, A Comparison of Dominance Mechanisms and Simple Mutation on Non-stationary Problems, ISSN 0302-9743, 1998,

·         Emma Hart, Peter Ross, A heuristic combination method for solving jop-shop scheduling problems, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature V, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1498, A.E.Eiben, T.Back, M.Schoenauer, H-P.Schwefel (eds), ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 845-854, 1998,

·         Peter Ross, Emma Hart, An adaptive mutation scheme for a penalty-based graph-colouring GA, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature V, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1498, A.E.Eiben, T.Back, M.Schoenauer, H-P.Schwefel (eds), ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 795-802, 1998,

·         Useful Diversity via Multiploidy - E.Collingwood, D. Corne and P.Ross, in Proceedings of International Conference on Evolutionary Computing, 1996.

·         Investigating Multiploidy's Niche - D.Corne, E.Collingwood and P.Ross, in Evolutionary Computing, AISB Workshop, 1996, pages189-198, ISBN 3-540-61749-3)

·         Predicting the Success of a GA - P.Ross, E.Collingwood and D.Corne, East-West Joint Conference on Evolutionary Computing, 1996.

Other Publications

An Investigation into the use of Novel Gases for Submarine Escape Procedures - Chemistry Part II thesis, Oxford University, 1990.

A Multiple Chromosome Evolutionary Algorithm for Bus Driver Scheduling and Other Problems (MSc Thesis).

Evolutionary Scheduling - the State-of-the-Art. E.Hart and D.Corne. Report prepared for EvoNet Management Committee for Scheduling and Timetabling Working Group.