http://ncra.ucd.ie/news.shtml UCD Natural Computing Research and Applications News en-us Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:41:01 GMT http://ncra.ucd.ie cgi 5 http://ncra.ucd.ie Our latest research "On the Roles of Semantic Locality of Crossover in Genetic Programming" has appeared in the journal Information Science Volume 235 pp.195–213 http://ncra.ucd.ie Amongst the announcements made at the closing EvoStar session today, the NCRA warmly congratulate Miguel Nicolau on his appointment as Chair of EuroGP 2014, James McDermott on appointment to Chair of EvoMUSART 2014, and Alex Agapitos to Chair of EvoFIN 2014 http://ncra.ucd.ie NCRA members present their latest research at the collocated EvoStar conferences in Vienna this week, including three papers at EuroGP. Also, James is Chairing EvoMUSART, and Alex is Chairing EvoFIN http://ncra.ucd.ie Congratulations to Noor Shaker (visiting NCRA researcher from ITU Copenhagen) who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Towards Player-Driven Procedural Content Generation" http://ncra.ucd.ie Congratulations to John Mark who successfully defended his PhD thesis today "Analyzing the Discovery and Use of Modules in Grammatical Evolution" http://ncra.ucd.ie Two articles by NCRA researchers have appeared in the latest issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 14(1): "A comparison of grammatical genetic programming grammars for controlling femtocell network coverage", and "Better GP benchmarks: community survey results and proposals" http://ncra.ucd.ie NCRA research features in the Irish Times today "When software takes its cue from nature" http://ncra.ucd.ie Michael has been invited to become an Associate Editor of Applied Soft Computing http://ncra.ucd.ie Congratulations to Wei who successfully defended his PhD thesis today on "An Empirical Investigation of Price Impact: An Agent-based Modelling Approach" http://ncra.ucd.ie Congratulations to Jonathan who graduated today, officially becoming Dr Byrne for his research on "Approaches to Evolutionary Architectural Design Exploration Using Grammatical Evolution"