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  1. Untangling the Tapestry: k-Bounded Problems and Local Optima Networks

    Article • August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  2. Algorithm Explainability for Malware Evolution with Search Trajectory Networks

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

    Sarah Thomson, Kehinde Babaagba, Ritwik Murali

  3. Subfunction Structure Matters: A New Perspective on Local Optima Networks

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

    Sarah Thomson

  4. Into the Black Box: Mining Variable Importance with XAI

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  5. Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for Any Algorithm

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson, Dr. Niki van Stein

  6. XAI for Algorithm Configuration and Selection

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  7. Factors Impacting Landscape Ruggedness in Control Problems: A Case Study

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson, Dr. Penousal Machado

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

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

    Prof Emma Hart, Sarah Thomson

  9. Temporal True and Surrogate Fitness Landscape Analysis for Expensive Bi-Objective Optimisation

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

    Sarah Thomson

  10. A Bi-Level Approach to Vehicle Fleet Reduction: Successful Case Study in Community Healthcare

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

    Sarah Thomson, Rachael Oladapo

  11. Explaining evolutionary feature selection via local optima networks

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

    Sarah Thomson

  12. Exploring the use of fitness landscape analysis for understanding malware evolution

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

    Sarah Thomson, Kehinde Babaagba, Ritwik Murali

  13. The Easiest Hard Problem: Now Even Easier

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

    Sarah Thomson

  14. Addressing the traveling salesperson problem with frequency fitness assignment and hybrid algorithms

    Article • Soft Computing, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  15. A Deep Dive Into Effects of Structural Bias on CMA-ES Performance Along Affine Trajectories

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson, Dr. Niki van Stein

  16. Entropy, Search Trajectories, and Explainability for Frequency Fitness Assignment

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  17. From Fitness Landscapes to Explainable AI and Back

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

    Sarah Thomson

  18. Unexplained Fluctuations in Particle Swarm Optimisation Performance with Increasing Problem Dimensionality

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

    Kevin Graham, Sarah Thomson

  19. Randomness in Local Optima Network Sampling

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

    Sarah Thomson

  20. Channel Configuration for Neural Architecture: Insights from the Search Space

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

    Krzysztof Michalak, Sarah Thomson

  21. Frequency Fitness Assignment on JSSP: A Critical Review

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  22. On funnel depths and acceptance criteria in stochastic local search

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

    Sarah Thomson

  23. The fractal geometry of fitness landscapes at the local optima level

    Article • Natural Computing, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  24. Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, February 2020, The MIT Press

    Sarah Thomson

  25. The Local Optima Level in Chemotherapy Schedule Optimisation

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  26. Clarifying the Difference in Local Optima Network Sampling Algorithms

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sarah Thomson

  27. Multifractality and dimensional determinism in local optima networks

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

    Sarah Thomson

  28. Erratum to: On the Fractal Nature of Local Optima Networks

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nadarajen Veerapen, Sarah Thomson, Paul McMenemy

  29. On the Fractal Nature of Local Optima Networks

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nadarajen Veerapen, Sarah Thomson, Paul McMenemy

  30. The effect of landscape funnels in QAPLIB instances

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nadarajen Veerapen, Sarah Thomson

  31. Comparing communities of optima with funnels in combinatorial fitness landscapes

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sarah Thomson