Natural Computation Professional Activities

Professional Activities

Journal Editorships

Xin Yao, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
Xin Yao, Associate editor of Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (Springer-Verlag).
Xin Yao, Associate editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (World Scientific).
Xin Yao, Action editor of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier).
John Bullinaria, Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (World Scientific).
John Bullinaria, Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Automation and Computing (Pacilantic International).
Xin Yao, Member of the editorial board of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Kluwer).
Xin Yao, Member of the editorial board of Pattern Analysis and Applications (Springer-Verlag).
Xin Yao, Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Automation and Computing (Pacilantic International).

Conference Chair-ships

John Bullinaria, Jun He, Ata Kaban, Jon Rowe, Peter Tino, and Xin Yao, Co-chairs of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), Birmingham, UK, 18-22 September 2004.
John Bullinaria, Conference Co-chair of the Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW9), Plymouth, UK, 8-10 September 2004.
Jon Rowe, Programme co-chair of the Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms VII (FOGA7), Torremolinos, Spain, 4-6 September 2002.
Xin Yao, Workshop Chair of The 2002 U.K. Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-02), 2-4 September 2002, Birmingham, U.K.
John Bullinaria, Organising Chair and Program Co-chair of The 2002 U.K. Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-02), 2-4 September 2002, Birmingham, U.K.
Xin Yao, Programme chair of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2002) as part of WCCI'2002, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, 12-17 May 2002.
Xin Yao, Special sessions chair of the joint conferences ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 (the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery), 18-22 November 2002, Singapore.
Xin Yao, General co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA'01), 30 October - 1 November 2001, Shonan International Village, Yokusika City, Japan.
Julian Miller, Program co-chair of Fourth European Conference on Genetic Programming, 18-20 April 2001 (Lake Como, Italy)
Xin Yao, General chair of The First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks, The Camberley Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX, USA, May 11-12, 2000.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of The Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI), Paris, France, September 16-20, 2000.
Xin Yao, Special sessions chair of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2000), La Jolla Marriot Hotel, La Jolla, CA, USA, 16-19 July 2000.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL2000), Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan, 25 - 27 Oct. 2000.
Xin Yao, Conference co-chair of The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2000), Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A., February 27-March 3, 2000.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C., USA, 6-9 July 1999.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA'99), New Delhi, India, 23-26 September 1999.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'98), Canberra, Australia, 24-27 November 1998.
Xin Yao, Programme committee vice co-chair of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'98), 5--9 May 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Second Japan-Australia Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Kyoto, Japan, 12-14 November 1998.
Xin Yao, The Australian co-organiser of the Australia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Canberra, Australia, 21-22 November 1997.
Xin Yao, Special sessions chair of the First IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems (IEEE ICIPS'97), 20-24 October 1997, Beijing, China.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'97), 14--17 April 1997, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
John Bullinaria, Co-chair of The Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW4), London, UK, April 9-11, 1997.
Xin Yao, Programme committee chair of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA'97), 10-12 February 1997, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'96), Taejon, Korea, 9--12 November 1996.
Xin Yao, Programme committee chair of the Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'95), Canberra, Australia, 13--17 November 1995.
Xin Yao, The Australian coordinator of the First Korea-Australia Joint Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Taejon, Korea, September 1995.
Xin Yao, Chair of the organising committee of the AI'94 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 21--22 November 1994.
Xin Yao, Chair of the organising committee of the AI'93 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Melbourne, Australia, 16 November 1993.
John Bullinaria, Co-chair of The Second Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW2), Edinburgh, UK, September 10-13, 1993.

Conference Invited Talks

John Bullinaria, Invited speaker at the Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW8), 28-30 August 2003, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
John Bullinaria, Invited speaker at the Natural Computation Applications Forum (NCAF), 22-23 January 2003, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the joint conferences ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 (the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery), 18-22 November 2002, Singapore.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE'2002), June 17-20, 2002 Cairns, Australia.
Xin Yao, Invited ACDM lecturer at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture, Exeter, UK, 16-18 April 2002.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 2001 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS'2001), 28-30 November 2001, Singapore.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 2001 biennial International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES'2001), Dunedin, New Zealand, 22-24 November 2001.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Fifth Australasia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Dunedin, New Zealand, 19-21 November 2001.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES-2001), Tokyo, Japan, 3-5 October 2001.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, 12-14 July 2001, Long Beach, CA, USA.
Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2001), Seoul, South Korea, 27-30 May 2001.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Second International Conference on Applications of Machine Learning to Ecological Modelling, Adelaide, Australia, 27 November - 1 December 2000.
Xin Yao, Invited speaker at the Croucher Advanced Study Institute on Neural and Evolutionary Computations for Spatial Data Analysis in June 12-17, 2000, Hong Kong.
Xin Yao, Invited speaker at the 16th annual British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS), Liverpool, U.K., 10-12 April 2000.
Xin Yao, Invited speaker at the International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Wuhan, P. R. China, 3-9 April 2000.
Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the joint 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'99), the Australian and New Zealand International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing Systems (ANZIIS'99), the 5th New Zealand International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES'99), and the 11th Australian Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN'99), Perth, Australia, 16-20 November 1999.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (CIMCA'99), Vienna, Austria, 17-19 February 1999.
Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 3rd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (WSC3), 21-30 June 1998.
Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the Workshop on the Methodology of Emergent Synthesis (WMES), Kobe, Japan, 26-27 March 1998.
Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the Second Aizu International Symposium on Parallel Algorithm/Architecture Synthesis (pAs-97), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 17-21 March 1997.
John Bullinaria, Invited speaker at the Connectionism for Cognitive Scientists Workshop, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, 25-27 May 1996.

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Research Areas Academic Staff Research Students Publications Professional Activities External Funding AINC Seminars Industrial Collaboration MSc in Natural Computation CERCIA Contacts		Professional Activities Journal Editorships Xin Yao, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Xin Yao, Associate editor of Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (Springer-Verlag). Xin Yao, Associate editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (World Scientific). Xin Yao, Action editor of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier). John Bullinaria, Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (World Scientific). John Bullinaria, Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Automation and Computing (Pacilantic International). Xin Yao, Member of the editorial board of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Kluwer). Xin Yao, Member of the editorial board of Pattern Analysis and Applications (Springer-Verlag). Xin Yao, Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Automation and Computing (Pacilantic International). Conference Chair-ships John Bullinaria, Jun He, Ata Kaban, Jon Rowe, Peter Tino, and Xin Yao, Co-chairs of Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), Birmingham, UK, 18-22 September 2004. John Bullinaria, Conference Co-chair of the Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW9), Plymouth, UK, 8-10 September 2004. Jon Rowe, Programme co-chair of the Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms VII (FOGA7), Torremolinos, Spain, 4-6 September 2002. Xin Yao, Workshop Chair of The 2002 U.K. Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-02), 2-4 September 2002, Birmingham, U.K. John Bullinaria, Organising Chair and Program Co-chair of The 2002 U.K. Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-02), 2-4 September 2002, Birmingham, U.K. Xin Yao, Programme chair of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2002) as part of WCCI'2002, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, 12-17 May 2002. Xin Yao, Special sessions chair of the joint conferences ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 (the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery), 18-22 November 2002, Singapore. Xin Yao, General co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA'01), 30 October - 1 November 2001, Shonan International Village, Yokusika City, Japan. Julian Miller, Program co-chair of Fourth European Conference on Genetic Programming, 18-20 April 2001 (Lake Como, Italy) Xin Yao, General chair of The First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks, The Camberley Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX, USA, May 11-12, 2000. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of The Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI), Paris, France, September 16-20, 2000. Xin Yao, Special sessions chair of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2000), La Jolla Marriot Hotel, La Jolla, CA, USA, 16-19 July 2000. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL2000), Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan, 25 - 27 Oct. 2000. Xin Yao, Conference co-chair of The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2000), Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A., February 27-March 3, 2000. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C., USA, 6-9 July 1999. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA'99), New Delhi, India, 23-26 September 1999. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'98), Canberra, Australia, 24-27 November 1998. Xin Yao, Programme committee vice co-chair of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'98), 5--9 May 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the Second Japan-Australia Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Kyoto, Japan, 12-14 November 1998. Xin Yao, The Australian co-organiser of the Australia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Canberra, Australia, 21-22 November 1997. Xin Yao, Special sessions chair of the First IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems (IEEE ICIPS'97), 20-24 October 1997, Beijing, China. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'97), 14--17 April 1997, Indianapolis, IN, USA. John Bullinaria, Co-chair of The Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW4), London, UK, April 9-11, 1997. Xin Yao, Programme committee chair of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA'97), 10-12 February 1997, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Xin Yao, Programme committee co-chair of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'96), Taejon, Korea, 9--12 November 1996. Xin Yao, Programme committee chair of the Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'95), Canberra, Australia, 13--17 November 1995. Xin Yao, The Australian coordinator of the First Korea-Australia Joint Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Taejon, Korea, September 1995. Xin Yao, Chair of the organising committee of the AI'94 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 21--22 November 1994. Xin Yao, Chair of the organising committee of the AI'93 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Melbourne, Australia, 16 November 1993. John Bullinaria, Co-chair of The Second Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW2), Edinburgh, UK, September 10-13, 1993. Conference Invited Talks John Bullinaria, Invited speaker at the Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW8), 28-30 August 2003, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. John Bullinaria, Invited speaker at the Natural Computation Applications Forum (NCAF), 22-23 January 2003, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the joint conferences ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 (the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery), 18-22 November 2002, Singapore. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE'2002), June 17-20, 2002 Cairns, Australia. Xin Yao, Invited ACDM lecturer at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture, Exeter, UK, 16-18 April 2002. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 2001 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS'2001), 28-30 November 2001, Singapore. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 2001 biennial International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES'2001), Dunedin, New Zealand, 22-24 November 2001. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Fifth Australasia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Dunedin, New Zealand, 19-21 November 2001. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES-2001), Tokyo, Japan, 3-5 October 2001. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, 12-14 July 2001, Long Beach, CA, USA. Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2001), Seoul, South Korea, 27-30 May 2001. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the Second International Conference on Applications of Machine Learning to Ecological Modelling, Adelaide, Australia, 27 November - 1 December 2000. Xin Yao, Invited speaker at the Croucher Advanced Study Institute on Neural and Evolutionary Computations for Spatial Data Analysis in June 12-17, 2000, Hong Kong. Xin Yao, Invited speaker at the 16th annual British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS), Liverpool, U.K., 10-12 April 2000. Xin Yao, Invited speaker at the International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Wuhan, P. R. China, 3-9 April 2000. Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the joint 6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'99), the Australian and New Zealand International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing Systems (ANZIIS'99), the 5th New Zealand International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES'99), and the 11th Australian Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN'99), Perth, Australia, 16-20 November 1999. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (CIMCA'99), Vienna, Austria, 17-19 February 1999. Xin Yao, Invited keynote speaker at the 3rd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (WSC3), 21-30 June 1998. Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the Workshop on the Methodology of Emergent Synthesis (WMES), Kobe, Japan, 26-27 March 1998. Xin Yao, Invited plenary speaker at the Second Aizu International Symposium on Parallel Algorithm/Architecture Synthesis (pAs-97), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 17-21 March 1997. John Bullinaria, Invited speaker at the Connectionism for Cognitive Scientists Workshop, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, 25-27 May 1996.
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