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A Bird-of-a-feather
Workshop at GECCO 99 (1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) Tue 13 July 1999 Orlando, Florida, USA |
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Mark C. Sinclair University of Essex, UK |
David Corne University of Reading, UK |
George D. Smith University of East Anglia, UK |
| Mark C. Sinclair received the BA and MA in Electrical Sciences from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1985 and 1989, and the MSc in Telecommunication and Information Systems (with Distinction) from the University of Essex in 1990. After six years in the design and development of System X at Plessey and GPT, he joined the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering of the University of Essex as a lecturer in 1991. His research interests include telecommunications network design, evolutionary algorithms, object technology and software agents. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an individual member of EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing. He is co-author of Principles of Performance Engineering for Telecommunication and Information Systems (IEE, 1997), and has authored and co-authored more than 40 technical papers, many of which are in the field of evolutionary telecommunications. |
| David Corne, following a first degree in Mathematics, gained a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh in 1989 and since then has researched various areas of artificial intelligence, specialising in evolutionary computation. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Reading. His work in EC has yielded systems for educational and employee timetabling in use worldwide, staff scheduling systems in use by major manufacturers, and optimal radiotherapy treatment of cancers currently in test at two UK hospitals. Several current projects are in the telecommunications domain; these have so far yielded new and improved methods for basic network topology design, and for offline call routing. Ongoing work includes the former, as well as work in adaptive distributed databases, intelligent search engines, and network traffic categorisation. He is co-chair of ECTelNet, the working group of EvoNet specialising in telecommunications applications, a main editor of the Journal of Scheduling, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. He is also co-editor of a forthcoming book on EC applications in telecommunications. |
| George D. Smith gained a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Herriot-Watt University in 1974, then pursued a research career in theoretical mechanics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UEA), completing an MSc in 1975 and a PhD in 1977. He then spent a year at University College Dublin, as a research associate working on a project concerning the magnetohydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystals. From 1978 to 1984, he was a Senior Research Associate at UEA working on a series of projects modelling large ice sheets and their interaction with the climate. As a result of the strong computing element of these projects, he became increasingly interested in the science of computing, eventually accepting a lectureship in Computing at UEA, where he is now a Senior Lecturer in Computing. His research areas include EC, heuristic search techniques in optimisation, data mining and telecommunications networks design. He is a member of a large research group at UEA working in optimisation (currently 25 strong), and has managed a number of industrially funded projects on the use of heuristics on real-world problems. These include work with Nortel plc on the use of heuristics in network design, frequency assignment and channel allocation problems, as well as data mining in cellular network fraud detection and network performance applications. He is co-chair of ECTelNet, the working group of EvoNet specialising in telecommunications applications. He has authored more than 40 papers, many of which are on the use of heuristic techniques, including EC, within the telecommunications domain. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on EC applications in telecommunications. |
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