Shengxiang Yang's Research Page
Since 1st July, 2010, I have moved to the Department of Information
Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK. My new
Research Page can be found
here.
- Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
- Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE)
- Statistics-based Adaptive Genetic Algorithms
- Genetic Algorithms for Scheduling
- Memetic Computing
- Swarm Intelligence (Particle Swarm optimization and Ant Colony Optimization)
- Estimation of Distributions Algorithms
- Meta-heuristics and Hyper-heuristics
- Artificial Neural Networks for Scheduling
- Combinatorial and Dynamic Optimization Problems
- Network Flow Problems and Algorithms
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EPSRC (EP/E060722/1,
GBP307,469, PI), "Evolutionary
Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications",
01/01/2008 to 31/12/2010. This is part of a linked project with the
University of Birmingham, where GBP263,969 was awarded under Grant
EP/E058884/1.
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research Grants under Grant G-YH60 (HKD120,000,
Co-I), "Improved Evolutionary Algorithms with Primal-Dual Population for Dynamic
Variation in Production Systems", 07/2009 - 02/2010. Dr W. H. Ip at Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,
is the PI of the project.
- The Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry (Northeastern
University), Ministry of Education, China (CNY50,000, PI), for an Open Research Project,
January 2007 to December 2008.
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKD13,000, PI), for a research visit to Department
of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,
in September, 2007.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering
International Travel Grants Scheme (GBP800, PI), for attending the 2nd
International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications
(ISICA 2007), Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 and the 2007 IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07) in Singapore, 25-28
September, 2007.
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The Royal Society Conference
Grants Scheme (GBP700, PI), for attending Evo*2007 in Valencia, Spain, 11-13
April, 2007.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering
International Travel Grants Scheme (GBP1,200, PI), for attending the 2006 World
Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'06) in Vancouver, Canada, 16-21
July, 2006 and the 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2006) in Seattle, USA, 8-12 July, 2006.
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The Royal Society Conference
Grants Scheme (GBP716, PI), for attending the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference (GECCO-2005) in Washington DC, USA, 25-29 June, 2005.
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EPSRC Overseas Travel Grants (GR/S79718/01,
GBP6,700, PI), "Adaptive and Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Production Scheduling
Problems in Manufacturing", for a research visit to the
Graduate School of Information, Production
and Systems, Waseda University, Japan from 01/11/2003 to 31/01/2004.
Additionally, Waseda University, Japan contributed JPY140,000 toward the visit.
- University of Leicester Research Fund 2001 (GBP3,200, PI), 01/01/2001 to 31/12/2001.
- My work during the Postdoc period from October 1999 to October 2000 was
supported by EPSRC Grant GR/L81468:
"Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Algorithms for Network Flow Problems".
- Associate editor, Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
(JAEA), Hindawi Publishing
Corporation, New York, NY 10022, USA. ISSN: 1687-6229, e-ISSN: 1687-6237,
DOI:10.1155/JAEA.
- Member of editorial board, International Journal of Computational Science
(IJCS), Global Information Publisher (GIP),
Hong Kong. ISSN 1992-6669 (Print), ISSN 1992-6677 (Online).
- Member of editorial board, International Journal of Engineering Business
Management
(IJEBM),
IN-TECH Education and Publishing, Austria.
- Area editor, Journal of Information and Computing Science
(JIC),
World Academic Press, World Academic Union, UK. ISSN: 1746-7659,
Quarterly.
- Neri, F. and Yang, S. (guest-editors),
Thematic Issue on Memetic Computing in the
Presence of Uncertainties for the journal of
Memetic
Computing, Springer, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2010.
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Yang, S., Ong, Y.-S., and Jin, Y. (guest editors), Evolutionary
Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Special Issue of
Genetic
Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 293-404,
December 2006, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 1389-2576 (Print), 1573-7632
(Online).
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Yang, S., Ong, Y.-S., and Jin, Y. (Eds.),
Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, in the series
Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 51, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg,
ISSN: 1860-949X (Print) 1860-9503 (Online), ISBN: 978-3-540-49772-1, March 2007
(DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-49774-5).
- Giacobini, M.; Brabazon, A.; Cagnoni, S.; Di Caro, G.A.; Ekart, A.;
Esparcia-Alcazar, A.I.; Farooq, M.; Fink, A.; Machado, P.; McCormack, J.;
O'Neill, M.; Neri, F.; Preuss, M.; Rothlauf, F.; Tarantino, E.;
Yang, S. (Eds.), EvoWorkshops 2009: Applications of Evolutionary
Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5484, Springer, April 2009.
- Giacobini, M.; Brabazon, A.; Cagnoni, S.; Di Caro, G.A.; Drechsler, R.;
Ekart, A.; Esparcia-Alcazar, A.I.; Farooq, M.; Fink, A.; McCormack, J.; O'Neill,
M.; Romero, J.; Rothlauf, F.; Squillero, G.; Uyar, S.; Yang, S. (Eds.),
EvoWorkshops 2008: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, vol. 4974, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-78760-0, May 2008
(DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-78760-0).
- Giacobini, M.; Brabazon, A.; Cagoni, S.; Di Caro, G.A.; Drechsler, R.; Farooq,
M.; Fink, A.; Lutton, E.; Machado, P.; Minner, S.; O'Neill, M.; Romero, J.;
Rothlauf, F.; Squillero, G.; Takagi, H.; Uyar, A.S.; Yang, S. (Eds.),
EvoWorkshops 2007: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, vol. 4448, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-71804-8, June 2007
(DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-71805-5).
- F. Rothlauf et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2005 Workshops on
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM Press, New York, USA, 2005.
- Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems,
at the 2008 International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational
Sciences (ACCS 2008), Hong Kong,
China, August 1-3, 2008.
- Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic Environments: Taking
the Challenges, at the 2nd Int. Symp. on Intelligence Computation and
Applications (ISICA 2007),
Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007.
- Seminar talk, School of Computing,
University of Kent, UK, 15th March, 2010.
- Seminar talk, School of Information Management and Engineering,
Shanghai University of Finance and
Economics, Shanghai, China, 13 August, 2009.
- Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering,
Northeastern University, China,
16 July, 2009.
- Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering,
Northeastern University, China,
30 December, 2008.
- Seminar talk, Immigrants Schemes for Evolutionary Algorithms in Dynamic
Environments, Centre for
Computational Intelligence, School of Computing, De Montfort University,
UK, 22nd November, 2007.
- Seminar talk, Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic Environments,
Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 5th October,
2007.
- Seminar talk, Memory Enhanced Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for
Dynamic Optimisation Problems, School
of Computing, Robert Gordon University, UK, 15th September, 2006.
- Seminar talk, Evolutionary Optimisation in Dynamic Environments — Some
Recent Results, Department of Computer
Science, University of Essex, UK, 18th November, 2005.
- Seminar talk, Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems,
Graduate School of
Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Japan,
9th January, 2004.
- Seminar talk, Introducing Dualism into Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic
Optimization Problems, School of
Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham,
UK, 29th September, 2003.
- Seminar talk, SAGA -- Statistics-based Adaptive Genetic Algorithms,
Centre for Mathematical Modelling,
University of Leicester, UK, 29th November, 2002.
- Dr Hui Cheng (supervisor), Post-doctoral Research Associate, started January 2008.
- Michalis Mavrovouniotis (supervisor), PhD candidate, started September 2009.
- Kyriacos Souroullas (supervisor), PhD candidate, started October 2008.
- Changhe Li (supervisor), PhD candidate, started January 2008.
- Imtiaz Ali Korejo (supervisor), PhD candidate, started November 2007.
- Shakeel Arshad (supervisor), PhD candidate, started September 2007.
- Sadaf Naseem Jat (supervisor), PhD candidate, started July 2007.
- Hongfeng Wang (co-supervisor with Prof Dingwei Wang at Northeastern
University, China), PhD candidate, graduated in March 2007.
- Lili Liu (co-supervisor with Prof Dingwei Wang at Northeastern
University, China), PhD candidate, started July 2007.
- Yang Yan (co-supervisor with Prof Dingwei Wang at Northeastern
University, China), PhD candidate, started July 2007.
- Yan Cui (co-supervisor with Prof Min Huang at Northeastern
University, China), PhD candidate, started September 2008.
- Co-Chair/Co-Organizer:
- IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain
Environments (CIDUE
2011), part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
(IEEE SSCI 2011), Halle aux Farines,
Paris, France, 11-15 April, 2011.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain
Environments (ECiDUE10)
for IEEE WCCI 2010, Barcelona, Spain,
18-23 July, 2010.
- The Second International Conference on Information and Computing Science
(ICIC2009), Manchester, UK,
May 21-22 2009.
- The 2009
Competition on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
for CEC-2009, Trondheim, Norway,
18-21 May, 2009.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
(ECiDUE09)
for CEC-2009, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May,
2009.
- The 6th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments
(EvoSTOC
2009), incooperating Evo*
2009, Tübingen, Germany, 15-17 April, 2009. See the
Call for Papers for more information.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Computation
in Uncertain Environments for WCCI-2008,
Hong Kong, 1-6 June, 2008.
- The 5th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic
Environments (EvoSTOC2008),
incooperating Evo* 2008,
Napoli, Italy, 26-28 March, 2008.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and
Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE07)
for CEC-2007,
Singapore, 25-28 September, 2007.
- The 4th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic
Environments (EvoSTOC2007),
incooperating Evo* 2007,
Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April, 2007.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and
Uncertain Environments
(ECiDUE06)
for CEC-2006, Vancouver, BC,
Canada, 16-21 July, 2006. See the Call
for Papers for more information.
- The 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial
Applications (WSC10),
Cranfield University, UK, September 19th - October 7th, 2005.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and
Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE05)
for CEC-2005,
Edinburgh, UK, 2-5 September, 2005.
See the Call for Papers for more
information.
- The 4th Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization
Problems (EvoDOP-2005), held as a part of
the GECCO-2005,
Washington DC, USA, 25-29 June 2005.
- Special Session on Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
(EODE04), CEC-2004,
Portland, Oregon, USA, 19-23 June 2004. See the
Call for Papers for more information.
- Programme Committee or International Programme Committee Member:
- IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution
(IEEE SDE 2011),
part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
(IEEE SSCI 2011), Halle aux
Farines, Paris, France, 11-15 April, 2011.
- The 2010 International Conference on Evolutionary Computation
(ICEC 2010), Valencia,
Spain, 24-26 October, 2010.
- The 2010 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
(IEEE SMC 2010), Istanbul,
Turkey, 10-13 October, 2010.
- The 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona,
Spain, 18-23 July, 2010.
- The International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern
Recognition (SoCPaR
2010), Cergy Pontoise (France), 7-10 December, 2010.
- The 10th UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence
(UKCI 2010),
University of Essex, UK, 8-10 September, 2010.
- The 2010 International Workshop on Intelligent Sensor and Wireless
Networks
(IntelNet
2010), Bradford, UK, 29 June - 01 July, 2010.
- The 7th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic
Environments
(EvoSTOC 2010),
incooperating Evo*
2010, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April, 2010.
- The World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing
(NaBIC 2009),
Coimbatore, India, 9-11 December, 2009.
- The International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition
(SoCPaR 2009),
Melacca, Malaysia, 4-7 December, 2009.
- The 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2009),
Montréal, Canada, 8-12 July, 2009.
- The 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC-2009), Trondheim, Norway,
18-21 May, 2009.
- The Second International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational
Sciences (ACCS2009),
Sanya, China, 24-26 April, 2009.
- The 2009 IEEE International Workshop on HPC and Grid Applications
(IWHGA2009),
Sanya, China, 24-26 April, 2009.
- The 3rd Int. Symp. on Intelligence Computation and Applications
(ISICA 2008), Wuhan, China,
December 19-21, 2008.
- The 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution
and Learning (SEAL'08),
Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December, 2008.
- The 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2008),
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 12-16 July, 2008.
- The 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC-2008), Hong Kong,
1-6 June, 2008.
- The 8th International Conference on Artificial Evolution
(EA'07), Tours,
France, 29-31 October, 2007.
- The 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC-2007), Singapore,
25-28 September, 2007.
- The 2nd Int. Symp. on Intelligence Computation and Applications
(ISICA 2007), Wuhan,
China, 21-23 September, 2007.
- The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation
(ICNC'07) and
the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge
Discovery (FSKD'07),
jointly held in Haikou, China, 24-27 August, 2007.
- The 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2007),
London, UK, 7-11 July, 2007.
- The 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution
and Learning (SEAL06), University of Science and Technology of
China (USTC), Hefei, China, 15-18 October, 2006.
- The Joint 3rd Int. Conf. on Soft Computing and Intelligent
Systems and 7th Int. Symp. on Advanced Intelligent Systems
(SCIS&ISIS 2006),
Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September, 2006.
- The 9th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problems Solving from Nature
(PPSN IX),
Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September, 2006.
- The 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC-2006),
Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16-21 July, 2006.
- The 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2006),
Seattle, USA, 8-12 July, 2006.
- The 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in
Stochastic and Dynamic Environments
(EvoSTOC2006),
Budapest, Hungary, 10-12 April, 2006
- The 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC-2005),
Edinburgh, UK, 2-5 September, 2005.
- The 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution
(EA'05),
University of Lille, France, 26-28 October, 2005.
- The 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in
Stochastic and Dynamic Environments
(EvoSTOC2005),
Lausanne, Switzerland, 31 March - 1 April, 2005
- The 8th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problems Solving from Nature
(PPSN VIII),
Birmingham, UK, 18-22 September, 2004.
- The 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC-2004),
Portland, Oregen, USA, 19-23 June, 2004.
- The 24th SGAI Int. Conf. on Innovative Techniques and
Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(AI-2004)),
Cambridge, UK, 13-15 December, 2004.
- Organizing Committee Member, The 2003 Asia Pacific Symposium
on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems: Technology and Applications
(IES2003),
Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan, 21-22 November, 2003.
- Outbound Reearch Visits:
- From July to August 2009, I visited Dr W. H. Ip at the
Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
- From Dec. 2008 to Jan. 2009, I visited Prof. Tianyou Chai and Prof
Dingwei Wang at the Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process
Industry (Northeastern University), Ministry of Education, China.
- From Sept. 2007 to Oct. 2007, I visited Dr W. H. Ip at the
Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
- From July 2007 to Sept. 2007, I visited Prof. Tianyou Chai and Prof
Dingwei Wang at the Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process
Industry (Northeastern University), Ministry of Education, China.
- From Nov. 2003 to Jan. 2004, I visited Prof. Mitsuo Gen at the
Soft Computing
Lab, Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems,
Waseda University, Japan.
- From July 2003 to Sept. 2003, I visited Prof. Xin Yao at the
Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence
and Applications (CERCIA),
University of Birmingham, UK.
- Inbound Reearch Visits:
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hendrik
Richter, from HTWK Leipzig,
Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik,
Institut Mess- Steuerungs- und Regelungstechnik, Leipzig, Germany,
visited me for research cooperation from 1 to 24 August, 2008.
- Reviewer for Research Proposals:
- Reviewer for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC), UK.
- External reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO).
- Reviewer for Journals:
- Reviewer for many conferences and workshops.
- Member of IEEE and IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society
(IEEE CIS).
- Member of the Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic
and Uncertain Environments
(ECiDUE),
Technical Committee on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS).
- Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation (SIGEVO), whose
predecessor organization is the International Society for Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC).
- Member of the IASTED Technical
Committee on Soft Computing (since 2003).
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