Natural Computation: Grants

The following table lists current and previous grants:

Investigators Project Funding Body Duration Amount
Xin Yao Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems European Commission FP7-ICT-2009-5 (Project Reference 257906) 01/9/2010-31/8/2014 EURO 681,385
Xin Yao Cooperatively Coevolving Particle Swarms for Large Scale Optimisation EPSRC (EP/G002339/1) 21/7/2008-20/7/2009 GBP 28,341
Xin Yao Multi-disciplinary Optimisation and Data Mining at Birmingham EPSRC (EP/F033087/1) 1/4/2008-31/3/2011 GBP 360,909
Xin Yao Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications EPSRC (EP/E058884/1), BT and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH 1/10/2007-30/9/2010 GBP 263,969 from EPSRC, GBP 60K from BT and EURO 64K from Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
Xin Yao EPSRC BT Industrial CASE Studentship: "Autonomic solutions for virtualised ICT." EPSRC 1/9/2006-31/8/2009 GBP 61K
Xin Yao SEBASE: Software Engineering By Automated SEarch EPSRC (EP/D052785/1) 3/1/2006 - 2/1/2011 GBP 764K
Xin Yao An artificial environment with human interaction for the evolution of brain-like processing patterns Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH 1/11/2005 - 31/10/2006 EURO 40K
Xin Yao The co-evolution of functional information and information control on the DNA Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH 1/10/2005 - 30/9/2008 EURO 124K
Hussain Abbass (ADFA, UNSW - Australia) and Xin Yao Ensembles of Collaborative Neural Networks Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage --- International 1/4/2005 - 31/3/2006 AUD 14K
Xin Yao, Jon Rowe and Jun He Computational Complexity Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms EPSRC (EP/C520696/1) 1/5/2005 - 30/4/2008 GBP 291K
Xin Yao Evolutionary Computation Benchmarking Honda Research Institute (Europe) GmbH 1/3/2005 - 28/2/2006 EURO 20K
Thorsten Schnier, Xin Yao, Bob Hendley and Russell Beale Nature Inspired Creative Design --- A Design for the 21st Century Research Cluster EPSRC (EP/C514297/1) 1/1/2005 - 31/12/2005 GBP 50K
Xin Yao Market Based Control of Complex Computational Systems EPSRC (GR/T10671/01) 1/10/2004 - 30/9/2009 GBP 281K
Jon Rowe Evolving Cell Signalling Networks in Silico
Jon Rowe Digital Business Ecosystems
Xin Yao (as a co-investigator) Designer Algorithms for Astronomical Data Mining PPARC (PP/C503138/1) 1/10/2004 - 30/9/2007 GBP 152K
Xin Yao China-UK Science Network The Royal Society 25/10/2004 - 29/10/2004 GBP 6,200
Xin Yao Thales Research and Technology Industrial CASE Studentship EPSRC 1/2004 - 12/2006
Xin Yao Prisoner's Dilemma Competition: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary EPSRC (GR/S63472/01)
Xin Yao The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA) Advantage West Midlands (AWM) 1/1/2003 - 31/3/2007 GBP 2.6m
Friedrich Recknagel, Xin Yao and Peter Whigham Adaptive Agents Simulation of Freshwater Ecosystems Australian Research Council (DP0345279) 1/1/2003 - 31/12/2005 AUD 167,213
Bob Hendley and Xin Yao High Performance Computing Facility and Business Incubation Centre AWM 15/3/2003 - 31/3/2006 GBP 250K
Xin Yao Automatic Problem Decomposition Using Co-evolution and Ensembles Honda Research Institute (Europe) GmbH 21/11/2002 - 20/11/2005
Xin Yao, Riccardo Poli and Julian Miller EPSRC MTP on Natural Computation EPSRC (GR/N29969/01) 2001 - 2006 GBP 534,923
Jon Rowe, Xin Yao and Riccardo Poli Theory of Evolutionary Computation, Visiting Fellowship Funding Body 2001 - 2002 GBP 39,149
Xin Yao, Hans-Michael Voigt and Kalyanmoy Deb (IIT-K, India) Natural Computation Techniques for Intelligent Manufacturing European Commission (ASI/B7-301/97/0126-08) 1/7/2001 - 30/6/2002 EURO 197,285
Xin Yao Average Computation Time of Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems EPSRC (GR/R52541/01) 1/9/2001 - 28/2/2003 GBP 62,432
Xin Yao Automatic Problem Decomposition Using Co-evolution and Ensembles Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH 1/10/2001 - 31/3/2002
Xin Yao Evolvable Hardware and Automatic Discovery of Unconventional Designs Marconi Plc. 2000 - 2003 GBP 225,576
Jon Rowe Complexity in Social Systems (COSI) EU Project 2000 - 2003 EURO 160,000
Xin Yao EPSRC/BT CASE Studentship, Combinations Between Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks EPSRC/BT 1999 - 2002 Fully-funded EPSRC Studentship plus GBP 18,600 from BT