Exeter Meeting : Machine Learning for Global Optimisation
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Day 1 : Wednesday 23rd January 2002 : Themed Papers
| Time | Session | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Optional Workshop on Global Optimisation | Richard Everson (Exeter University) |
| 11:00 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 11:30 | Defining the Problem Space through Interactive Evolutionary Computation | Ian Parmee (Advanced Computational Technologies and UWE) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Evolutionary Optimisation and Constraint Handling | Xin Yao (Birmingham University) |
| 14:35 | Title TBC | David Corne (Reading University) |
| 15:15 | Tea | |
| 15:45 | Elite Sets in Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms | Jonathan Fieldsend (Exeter University) |
| 16:20 | Global Optimisation for Water Pipelines | Dragan Savic (Optimal Solutions and Exeter University) |
| 17:00 | Solution to Puzzle Corner #19 | |
| 17:15 | Close of Day One | |
| 18:15 | Dinner on campus Followed by optional Ten Pin Bowling trip. |
Day 1 : Thursday 24th January 2002 : General Papers
| Time | Session | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| 09:15 | Learning to Learn: controlling combinatorial optimisation | James Pettinger (Exeter University) |
| 09:50 | Support Vector Machines in Combinatorial Chemistry | Sean Holden (University College London) |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Protease Cleavability: a case study in bioinformatics | Ajit Narayanan (Exeter University) |
| 11:45 | The Role of Back-Propagating Action Potentials and Short-Term Synaptic Dynamics in Long-Term Plasticity and Learning | Mike Denham (Plymouth University) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | NCAF AGM | NCAF Members only |
| 14:00 | Advances in Hidden Markov Modelling: applications to sensor fusion, bird navigation and brain-computer interfacing | Stephen Roberts (Oxford University) |
| 14:40 | Paper++ | Peter Herdman (ArjoWiggins R&D) |
| 15:15 | Tea and Close of Meeting |