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  1. Efficient Online Automated Algorithm Selection in the Face of Data-Drift in Optimisation Problem Instances

    Article • August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  2. Class Incremental Learning for Algorithm Selection

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Sim, Prof Emma Hart

  3. Improving Algorithm-Selectors and Performance-Predictors via Learning Discriminating Training Samples

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  4. Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  5. Understanding Fitness Landscapes in Morpho-Evolution via Local Optima Networks

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart, Sarah Thomson

  6. Ealain: A Camera Simulation Tool to Generate Instances for Multiple Classes of Optimisation Problem

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  7. Improving Efficiency of Evolving Robot Designs via Self-Adaptive Learning Cycles and an Asynchronous Architecture

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  8. Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search

    Article • ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  9. A Feature-Free Approach to Automated Algorithm Selection

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Sim, Prof Emma Hart

  10. Towards optimisers that `Keep Learning'

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  11. Evolving Herding Behaviour Diversity in Robot Swarms

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Geoff Nitschke, Prof Emma Hart

  12. Learning-Based Neural Ant Colony Optimization

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart, Yi liu

  13. Generating diverse and discriminatory knapsack instances by searching for novelty in variable dimensions of feature-space

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  14. The diversity-accuracy duality in ensembles of classifiers

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  15. On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  16. Using novelty search to explicitly create diversity in ensembles of classifiers

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  17. Diversity-driven wide learning for training distributed classification models

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  18. If it evolves it needs to learn

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  19. A deep learning approach to predicting solutions in streaming optimisation domains

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart, MOHAMAD ALISSA

  20. Using MAP-Elites to support policy making around Workforce Scheduling and Routing

    Article • at - Automatisierungstechnik, February 2020, De Gruyter

    Prof Emma Hart

  21. Evolution of a functionally diverse swarm via a novel decentralised quality-diversity algorithm

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  22. A novel similarity-based mutant vector generation strategy for differential evolution

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  23. On Constructing Ensembles for Combinatorial Optimisation

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, January 2017, The MIT Press

    Prof Emma Hart, Kevin Sim

  24. Ensemble Methods for JSSP

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, December 2016, The MIT Press

    Prof Emma Hart, Kevin Sim

  25. Artificial Immunology for Collective Adaptive Systems Design and Implementation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  26. Editorial

    Article • ACM SIGEVOlution, March 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  27. Validating the Grid Diversity Operator: An Infusion Technique for Diversity Maintenance in Population-Based Optimisation Algorithms

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  28. Introduction to the Special Issue on Collective Adaptive Systems

    Article • Scalable Computing Practice and Experience, September 2015, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

    Prof Emma Hart

  29. The Cost of Communication

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  30. Grid Diversity Operator for Some Population-Based Optimization Algorithms

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  31. Multi-Modal Employee Routing with Time Windows in an Urban Environment

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  32. Improving Survivability in Environment-driven Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms through Explicit Relative Fitness and Fitness Proportionate Communication

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  33. A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Sim, Prof Emma Hart

  34. A Lifelong Learning Hyper-heuristic Method for Bin Packing

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, March 2015, The MIT Press

    Prof Emma Hart

  35. Collaborative Diffusion on the GPU for Path-Finding in Games

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  36. A fuzzy logic controller applied to a diversity-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for single-objective optimisation

    Article • Soft Computing, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  37. Artificial Immune System Driven Evolution in Swarm Chemistry

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Emma Hart

  38. 2nd FOCAS Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Emma Hart

  39. Idiotypic Networks for Evolutionary Controllers in Virtual Creatures

    Article • July 2014, The MIT Press

    Prof Emma Hart

  40. Artificial immune systems in the context of autonomic computing

    Article • July 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart, Prof. Giacomo Cabri

  41. A real-world employee scheduling and routing application

    Article • July 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart, Kevin Sim

  42. On the Role of the AIS Practitioner

    Article • September 2013, The MIT Press

    Prof Uwe Aickelin, Prof Emma Hart

  43. Learning to Solve Bin Packing Problems with an Immune Inspired Hyper-heuristic

    Article • September 2013, The MIT Press

    Prof Emma Hart

  44. An immune network approach for self-adaptive ensembles of autonomic components: a case study in swarm robotics

    Article • September 2013, The MIT Press

    Prof Emma Hart

  45. Designing Self-Aware Adaptive Systems: From Autonomic Computing to Cognitive Immune Networks

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Emma Hart

  46. 3rd AWARE Workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Emma Hart

  47. Incorporating emissions models within a multi-objectivevehicle routing problem

    Article • July 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  48. Using graphical information systems to improve vehicle routing problem instances

    Article • July 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Emma Hart

  49. Advances in artificial immune systems

    Article • Evolutionary Intelligence, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  50. On clonal selection

    Article • Theoretical Computer Science, February 2011, Elsevier

    Prof Emma Hart

  51. An Engineering-Informed Modelling Approach to AIS

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  52. Special issue on artificial immune systems

    Article • Swarm Intelligence, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  53. On artificial immune systems and swarm intelligence

    Article • Swarm Intelligence, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  54. Building low CO2 solutions to the vehicle routing problem with Time Windows using an evolutionary algorithm

    Article • July 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Emma Hart

  55. Towards Self-aware PerAda Systems

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  56. Symbiotic Cognitive Networks: A Proposal

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  57. Clonal Selection from First Principles

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  58. Structure versus function: a topological perspective on immune networks

    Article • Natural Computing, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  59. Representation in the (Artificial) Immune System

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  60. Exploiting Collaborations in the Immune System: The Future of Artificial Immune Systems

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  61. Dendritic Cell Trafficking: From Immunology to Engineering

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  62. On AIRS and Clonal Selection for Machine Learning

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  63. A New Paradigm for SpeckNets: Inspiration from Fungal Colonies

    Article • October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Emma Hart

  64. Application areas of AIS: The past, the present and the future

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, January 2008, Elsevier

    Prof Emma Hart

  65. How affinity influences tolerance in an idiotypic network

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, December 2007, Elsevier

    Prof Emma Hart

  66. Topological Constraints in the Evolution of Idiotypic Networks

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  67. An Immune-Inspired Approach to Speckled Computing

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  68. Revisiting the Central and Peripheral Immune System

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  69. Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems

    Article • January 2007, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Prof Emma Hart

  70. Analysis of a Growth Model for Idiotypic Networks

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  71. Tolerance vs Intolerance: How Affinity Defines Topology in an Idiotypic Network

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  72. Evolutionary Scheduling: A Review

    Article • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  73. Application Areas of AIS: The Past, The Present and The Future

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  74. Not All Balls Are Round: An Investigation of Alternative Recognition-Region Shapes

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  75. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  76. Studies on the Implications of Shape-Space Models for Idiotypic Networks

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  77. Genetic Algorithms and Timetabling

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  78. Improving SOSDM: Inspirations from the Danger Theory

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  79. A Role for Immunology in “Next Generation” Robot Controllers

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  80. Requirements for Getting a Robot to Grow up

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  81. Controlling a Simulated Khepera with an XCS Classifier System with Memory

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  82. Clustering Moving Data with a Modified Immune Algorithm

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  83. Boosting the Immune System

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  84. On the Role of the AIS Practitioner

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Prof Emma Hart

  85. Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Solve Problems by Combining Choices of Heuristics

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  86. Evaluation and Extension of the AISEC Email Classification System

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  87. Hyper-Heuristics: An Emerging Direction in Modern Search Technology

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart

  88. Immuno-engineering

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Emma Hart