Related Publications and Links

• EPSRC  Research Cluster Call for Proposals
  
  "Complexity is the single biggest challenge we face in taking technology forward. In 1998 EPSRC launched a call for networks to encourage more long term, high risk research in new and emerging computing themes. The aims were to establish the necessary multidisciplinary communities in new and speculative areas of computing methods and systems, and to stimulate research...... the EPSRC now wishes to stimulate world-leading research activity addressing complex systems via novel computation within the UK and invites proposals for the establishment of Research Clusters to develop proposals to bid against a specific call."



•  EU NEST site
  
  "NEST is a new activity within the 6th Framework Programme, supporting unconventional and visionary research with the potential to open new fields for European science and technology. It will also support research on new potential problems uncovered by science and help to consolidate European efforts in emerging fields of research."



• Research proposal 1 produced by the cluster: "Ecosystem Inspired Approaches to Adaptive Divide-and-Conquer". No link yet.



• Research Proposal 2 produced by the cluster: "Market Based Control of Complex Computational Systems". No link yet.



• Research Paper (Draft): J. He, X. Yao and J. Li, A Comparative Study of Three Evolutionary Algorithms Incorporating Different Amount of Domain Knowledge for Node Covering Problems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C, 2004, (accepted).



• The 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII) Birmingham, UK, on 18-22 September 2004.
  
  PPSN has been one of the most respected high-quality international conferences in Natural Computation since 1990. Members of the clusters play an important role in orginasing the conference: Prof. Xin Yao (University of Birmingham) is the general chair of the conference, Prof. Edmund Burke (University of Nottingham) one of Programme Co-Chairs.