Computational Intelligence Chapter IEEE New Zealand Central Section, IEEE Region 10 Chapter Officers: * Chair: PersonTitle:MengjieZhang * Vice Chair: Pers...

Past Research Students Research Thesis Students * Person:MengXu: Genetic Programming for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling, PhD Thesis. 1 Nov 2020 Feb 2024...

Past Research Students Research Thesis Students * HoaiBachNguyen: Evolutionary computation for filter feature reduction in classification. PhD Thesis. 1 Apr ...

Past Research Students (and their Theses)Jason Xie. An Analysis of Tournament Selection in GeneticProgramming. PhD Thesis. 2009. PDFVersion Carlton Downey. New O...

Edited Journal Special Issues, Books and Conference Proceedings * Mengjie Zhang, Mario Koeppen, Sergio Damas: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence in Co...

Evolutionary Multi Objective Optimisation Selected Papers on Evolutionary Multi Objective Optimisation Refereed Journal Papers * Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Wil...

Feature Analysis, Selection, and Learning in Image and Pattern Recognition (FASLIP) back to FASLIP Homepage 18 April 2024 Person:YuyeZhang: Multimodal dat...

Feature Analysis, Selection, and Learning in Image and Pattern Recognition (FASLIP) back to FASLIP Homepage Research Team Staff * Pe...

Industry and International Grants * "AI and Machine Learning for Medical Applications". Huayin Medical (Industry) and Academician Workstation. Oct 2020 Sep 202...

Main Internal Research Grants * Interpretable Genetic Programming for Combinatorial Optimisation. University Research Fund. Jan 2021 Dec 2022. Grant: $32,000 ...

Learning Classifier Systems Refereed Journal Articles and Edited Journal Special Issues 1. Person:MuhammadIqbal, Person:WillBrowne, and Person:MengjieZhang. "...

Main Government Grants MBIE Funding * Data Science for Aquaculture (Originally named "A data science driven evolution of aquaculture for building the blue eco...

Particle Swarm Optimisation Refereed Journal Articles and Edited Journal Special Issues 1. Person:JuanRada Vilela, Person:MengjieZhang, and Person:WinstonSeah...

Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group: Publications Our publications are organised by year, or you can see the full list here. 2024 202...

* Zhang, M. (2001) "Pixel Based Neural Networks for Multiclass Object Detection". Wellington: VUW SMCS. * Zhang, M. (2001) "An Overview of Speech Recognition a...

* Molla, M., Andreae, P., Glasner, J., Blattner, F., Shavlik, J. (2002) "Interpreting Microarray Expression Data Using Text Annotating the Genes". In Proceeding...

* Mei, Y., Le Ngoc, T., Lynch, W. E. (2003) "A combined multiple candidate likelihood decoding and error concealment scheme for compressed video transmission ov...

* Zhang, M., Andreae, P., Bhowan, U. (2004) "A two phase genetic programming approach to object detection". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseri...

* Gao, T., Cooper, K., Ma, H., Yen, I. L. (2005) "Toward a UML profile to support component based distributed adaptive systems". In 17th International Conferenc...

* Zhang, M., Gao, X., Lou, W. (2006) "Looseness controlled crossover in GP for object recognition". In 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006 ...

* Crabtree, D., Andreae, P., Gao, X. (2007) "Understanding query aspects with applications to interactive query expansion". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM I...

* Zhou, R., Wei, R., Chen, G., Yang, Z., Shen, H., Zhang, J., Luo, M. (2008) "Ant Colony Inspired Self Healing for Resource Allocation in Service Oriented Envir...

* Song, A., Chen, D., Zhang, M. (2009) "Bloat control in genetic programming by evaluating contribution of nodes". In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and...

* Niu, B., Tan, L., Xue, B., Li, L., Chai, Y. (2010) "Constrained portfolio selection using multiple swarms". In 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intel...

* Chen, G., Baghaei, N., Sarrafzadeh, A., Manford, C., Marshall, S., Court, G. (2011) "Designing games to educate diabetic children". In Proceedings of the 23rd...

* Niu, B., Fan, Y., Xiao, H., Xue, B. (2012) "Bacterial foraging based approaches to portfolio optimization with liquidity risk". Neurocomputing, 98, 90 100. do...

* Mirghasemi, S., Rayudu, R., Zhang, M. (2013) "A new image segmentation algorithm based on modified seeded region growing and particle swarm optimization". In ...

* Bhowan, U., Johnston, M., Zhang, M., Yao, X. (2014) "Reusing Genetic Programming for Ensemble Selection in Classification of Unbalanced Data". IEEE Transactio...

* Wahid, A., Gao, X., Andreae, P. (2015) "Multi objective clustering ensemble for high dimensional data based on Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA II...

* Hartmann, S., Ma, H., Vechsamutvaree, P. (2016) "Providing ontology based privacy aware data access through web services and service composition". Transaction...

* Tran, C. T., Zhang, M., Andreae, P., Xue, B., Bui, L. T. (2017) "An ensemble of rule based classifiers for incomplete data". In Proceedings 2017 21st Asia P...

* Tran, C. T., Zhang, M., Andreae, P., Xue, B., Bui, L. T. (2018) "Improving performance of classification on incomplete data using feature selection and cluste...

* Wang, S., Mei, Y., Park, J., Zhang, M. (2019) "Evolving Ensembles of Routing Policies using Genetic Programming for Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem"...

* Bi, Y., Xue, B., Zhang, M. (2020) "Learning and Sharing: A Multitask Genetic Programming Approach to Image Feature Learning". __. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.0944...

* Moghaddam, S. A. V., Al Sahaf, H., Xue, B., Hollitt, C., Zhang, M. (2021) "An automatic feature construction method for salient object detection: A genetic pr...

* Mei, Y. (2022) "Invited Speaker of “Explainable Genetic Programming and its Applications in Combinatorial Optimisation"". IEEE Guangzhou Chapter Emerging Techno...

* Londt, T., Gao, X., Andreae, P., Mei, Y. (2023) "XC NAS: A New Cellular Encoding Approach for Neural Architecture Search of Multi path Convolutional Neural Ne...

* Zhang, H., Chen, Q., Xue, B., Banzhaf, W., Zhang, M. (2024) "A geometric semantic macro crossover operator for evolutionary feature construction in regression...

* Zhang, H., Chen, Q., Xue, B., Banzhaf, W., Zhang, M. (2024) "A geometric semantic macro crossover operator for evolutionary feature construction in regression...

* Zhang, M., Ciesielski, V. (1999) "Using back propagation algorithm and genetic algorithm to train and refine neural networks for object detection". In Unknown...

Research Areas Major Research Areas The Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group is active in many areas in evolutionary computation, machine...

Research Grants Main Government Grants MBIE Funding * Data Science for Aquaculture (Originally named "A data science driven evolution of aquaculture for buil...

Research Scholarships PhD Scholarships Good students (GPA of A or above) with publications can apply for the following scholarships: * Wellington Doctoral S...

Research Team Working with Us If you are interested in our research areas and open research projects, please contact any of the staff whose interests match your o...

Edited Journal Special Issues, Books and Conference Proceedings * Mengjie Zhang, Gustavo Olague, Monica Mordonini, Luca Mussi. Special Issue on Evolutionary I...

16 July 2020 Person:QiChen: MIC for feature selection in Symbolic Regression 2 July 2020 Finn Schofield: GP for feature construction in clustering ...

Recent and Upcoming Talks. * 28/06/2024 Person: * 21/06/2024 Person: * 14/06/2024 Person: * 07/06/2024 Person: * 31/05/2024 Person: * 24/05/2024...

Evolutionary Computation Research Group Meetings * The weekly meeting for staff and research project students is on Wednesday 11:00 1:00, CO255. * The sta...