Module Coordinator: Dr. Michael O'Neill
Description:
In addition to teaching the essentials of Natural Computing, the module
provides experience in the planning, executing, writing up, and critical
evaluation of research.
This is a 100% continuous assessment module.
Each student proposes and undertakes an individual project, and writes up
their work in the form of a 10-page conference-style paper.
Each student is randomly assigned papers from other students and must
peer review and write an evaluation of each assigned paper and then
rank the papers. Students performance is assessed based on their project proposal,
active participation in weekly discussion groups, their submitted paper, the quality of the
reviews they write for their assigned papers, and the final camera ready paper submission
with replies to reviewers feedback.
Presented here are the final mini-project papers submitted in 2006.
- Phelan, Eamon. The Application of Genetic Programming to General Purpose GPU Computation.
- Fan, Kai. Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithms for Calibration of the VG Option Pricing Model.
- Dobnik, Christian. Importance of selecting adequate grammars for specific problems with grammatical evolution.
- Herrmann, Dominik. Inactive subpopulations improve adaptability and diversity.
- Honing, Nicolas. Geographical Neighbourhood in Particle Swarm Optimization.
- Mullaney, David. Using Ant to Solve Sudoku Problems.
- Nolan, Michael Andrew. Mutation: Does it play a significant role in Genetic Programming?.
- Murphy, Conor. Effects of Swarm Size on Attractive-Repulsive Particle Swarm Optimisation.
- Hansen-Schwartz, Martin. Evolving Racing Car Drivers using Grammatical Evolution.
- Mullet, Ciaran. A comparison of a Hand-Coded Strategy versus an Evolved Strategy for Keepaway Soccer.
- Rodgers, Mark. Random Numbers and their Effect on Particle Swarm Optimization.
- Sarhan, Omar. The impact of Inertia, Particle Increment and Global Increment on Swarms in Dynamic Environments.
- Bradley, Robert. Exploring Grammatical Evolution.
- Ayoola, Olapeju Latifat. Particle Swarm Optimization and Crossover.
- Tierney, Patrick. Population Influences using Genetic Programming.