Carlos M. Fernandes

 

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[60] Carlos M. Fernandes. Diversity-Enhanced Genetic Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization, Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, December 2009.

 

[59] Carlos M. Fernandes. Algoritmos Genéticos e Acasalamento não-aleatório, Msc. Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 2002 (in Portuguese).

 

[58] Carlos M. Fernandes. Geração Automática de Horários com Algoritmos Genéticos, Engineering Degree Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 1998 (in Portuguese).

 

 

Journals and Book Chapters

[57] A. Férnandez-Ares, A.M. Mora, J.J. Merelo, P. García-Sánchez, C.M. Fernandes, Optimizing Player Behavior in a Real-Time Strategy Game using Evolutionary Algorithms, under revision.

 

[56] C.M. Fernandes, Pherographs and Other Landscapes, to appear.

 

[55] C.M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, A.C.Rosa, A Comparative Study on the Performance of Dissortative Mating and Immigrants’ Strategies for Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization, Information Sciences, Vol. 181(20), pp. 4428-4459, 2011 (5 year IF = 3.1).

 

[54] C.M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, A.C.Rosa, Enhancing the Adaptive Dissortative Mating Genetic Algorithm in Fast Non-stationary Fitness Functions, IJJCI 2010 Revised Selected Papers, Studies in Computational Intelligence series, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

 

[53] A.M. Mora, C.M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, KANTS: A Self-Organized Ant System for Pattern Clustering and Classification, in Ant Colonies: Behavior in Insects and Computer Applications, Nova Publishers, pp. 195-211, 2011

 

[52] Carlos M. Fernandes. Pherographia: Drawing by Ants, Leonardo 43(2), pp. 107-112, April 2010.

[51] Juan L.J. Laredo, Pedro A. Castillo, Antonio M. Mora, Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo. Resilience to Churn of a Peer-to-Peer Evolutionary Algorithm, International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, Vol. 1(4), 2008.

[50] Carlos M. Fernandes. A Camera Obscura for Ants, SIGEVOlution, Vol. 3 (2), pp. 9-16, 2008.

[49] Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa. Genetic Algorithms with Assortative Mating in Static and Dynamic Environments, Advances in Evolutionary Computation, ARC publishers, pp. 181-206, 2008

[48] Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho Rosa. Self-Adjusting the Intensity of Assortative Mating in Genetic Algorithms, Journal of Soft Computing (2010 IF = 1.512), Vol. 12(10), pp. 955-979, 2008.

[47] Carlos M. Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos and Agostinho C. Rosa. Self-Regulated Artificial Ant Colonies on Digital Image Habitats, in International Journal of Lateral Computing, Vol. 2(1), pp. 1-8, 2005.

 

 

Conference Proceedings and Others

2012

[46] C.M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, A.C. Rosa, Controlling the Parameters of the Particle Swarm Optimization with Self-Organized Criticality, to appear in PPSN 2012.

 

[45] C.M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, F. Fernández, A.C. Rosa, Particle Swarm with Self-Organized Criticality, to appear in GECCO’12.

 

[44] J.J. Merelo, A.M. Mora, C. M. Fernandes, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Validating design choices in a pool-based distributed evolutionary algorithms architecture, to appear in GECCO’12.

 

[43] J.J. Merelo, A.M. Mora, C. M. Fernandes, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar,  SofEA, a distributed, asynchronous, pool-based based on couch DB, to appear in GECCO’12.

 

[42] C.M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, F. Fernández, A.C.Rosa, Generating Colored 2-Dimensional Representations of Sleep EEG with the KANTS Clustering Algorithm, to appear in GECCO’12.

 

[41] A. Fernández-Ares, A.M. Mora, P. García-Sánchez, J.J. Merelo, C.M. Fernandes, Optimización Evolutiva de Bots Para el Juego Planet Wars, MAEB 2012.

 

[40] C.M. Fernandes, J.L.J. Laredo, A.C.Rosa, J.J. Merelo Estudio de un Operador de Mutación para Algoritmos Genéticos Basado en la Teoría de la Criticalidad Auto-Organizada, MAEB 2012.

 

 

 

2011

 

[39] L.J. Herrera, A.M. Mora, D. Migotina, A.C.Rosa, C.M. Fernandes, Symbolic Representation of EEG for Sleep Stage Classification, in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), pp. 253 - 258 , 2011

 

[38] C.M. Fernandes, C. Isidoro, F. Barata, J.J. Merelo, A.C. Rosa, From Pherographia to Color Pherographia — Color Sketching with Artificial Ants, Proceedings of the 2011 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1124 – 1131, 2011 .

 

[37] A. Fernández-Ares, A.M. Mora, J.J. Merelo, P. García-Sánchez, C.M. Fernandes, Optimizing Player Behavior in a Real-Time Strategy Game using Evolutionary Algorithms, Proceedings of the 2011 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 2017 - 2024 , 201 .

 

[36] A. Fernández-Ares, A.M. Mora, J.J. Merelo, P. García-Sánchez, C.M. Fernandes, Optimizing strategy parameters in a game bot, Proceedings of IWANN 2011, 2011.

 

[35]C.M. Fernandes, J.L.J. Laredo, Antonio Mora, A.C. Rosa, J.J. Merelo, A Study on the Mutation Rates of a Genetic Algorithm Interacting with a Sandpile, Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Applications of evolutionary computation - Volume Part I (EvoApplications'11), Cecilia Di Chio, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Marc Ebner, and Anikó Ekárt (Eds.), Vol. Part I. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 32-42 .

 

[34]J.L.J. Laredo, J.J. Merelo, C.M. Fernandes, A. Mora, M.G. Arenas, P. Castillo and P. G. Sánchez Analysing the Performance of Different Population Structures for an Agent-based Evolutionary AlgorithmProceedings of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization LION 5, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 582-585, 2011 .

 

[33]C.M. Fernandes, J.L.J. Laredo, Antonio Mora, A.C. Rosa, J.J. Merelo, The Sandpile Mutation Operator for Genetic Algorithms, Proceedings of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization LION 5, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 552-556, 2011.

 

 

2010

 

[32] A.M. Mora, C.M. Fernandes, L.J. Herrera, P.A. Castillo, J.J. Merelo, A.C. Rosa, Sleeping with Ants, SVMs, Multilayer Percepetrons and SOMs, to appear in ISDA’10, 2010.

 

[31] Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, A.C. Rosa, Investigating Replacement Strategies for the Adaptive Dissortative Mating Genetic Algorithm, in Proceedings of the 2^nd Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2010.

 

[30] Carlos M. Fernandes, J.L.J. Laredo, J.J. Merelo and A.C. Rosa, A Self-Organized Criticality Online Adjustment of Genetic Algorithms’ Mutation Rate, Workshop on Self-Tuning, Self-Configuring and Self-Generating Search Heuristics (Self* 2010), 2010 

 

[29] J.J. Merelo, A.M. Mora, J.L.J. Laredo, P.A. Castillo, C.M. Fernandes, Optimizing Evolutionary Algorithms at Program Level, in Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, 2010.

 

[28] A.M. Mora, Carlos M. Fernandes, L.J. Herrera, P.A. Castillo, A.C. Rosa, JJ Merelo, Automatic Sleep Classification Procedure Using Wavelet Based Feature Extraction, in Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, 2010.

 

 

2009

 

[27] Carlos M. Fernandes, C.F. Lima, J.L.J. Gimenez, A.C. Rosa, J.J. Merelo. An Ant-Based Rule for UMDAs Update Strategy, to appear in ECAL 2009.

 

[26] Juan L.J. Laredo, Carlos M. Fernandes, Antonio M. Mora, Pedro A. Castillo, Pablo García-Sanchez, J.J. Merelo. Studying the Cache Size in a Gossip-Based Evolutionary Algorithm, in G.A. Papadopoulos and C. Badica (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 237, pp. 131-140, 2009.

 

[25] Juan L.J. Laredo, Pedro A. Castillo, Antonio M. Mora, Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo. Improving Genetic Algorithms Performance via Deterministic Population Shrinkage, in Proceedings of the 11^th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), ACM Press, pp.819-826, 2009.

 

2008

 

[24] Juan L.J. Laredo, Pedro A. Castillo, Antonio M. Mora, Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo. Addressing Churn in a Peer-to-Peer Evolutionary Algorithm, in Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms, pp. 5-12 , 2008.

[23] Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, Agostinho C. Rosa. Tracking Extrema in Dynamic Fitness Functions with Dissortative Mating Genetic Algorithms, in Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2008), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 59-64,  2008.

[22] J.L.J. Laredo, P.A. Castillo P.A., A.M. Mora, J.J. Merelo, Agostinho C. Rosa, Carlos M. Fernandes. Evolvable Agents in Static and Dynamic Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2008), LNCS 5199, Springer-Verlag, pp. 488-497, 2008.

[21] Carlos M. Fernandes, Antonio M. Mora, J.J. Merelo, Vitorino Ramos, Juan L.J. Laredo, Agostinho C. Rosa. KANTS: Artificial Ant System for Classification, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2008), LNCS 5217, Springer-Verlag, pp. 339-346, 2008.

[20] Antonio M. Mora, Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, Vitorino Ramos, Juan L.J. Laredo, Agostinho C. Rosa. KohonAnts. A Self-Organizing Ant Algorithm for Clustering and Pattern Classification, in S. Bullock et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp.428-435, 2008.

[19] Carlos M. Fernandes, Claudio Lima, Agostinho C. Rosa. UMDAs for Dynamic Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the 10^th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), ACM Press, pp. 399-306, 2008.

[18] Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho Rosa. A Self-Organized Criticality Mutation Operator for Dynamic Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), ACM Press, pp. 937-944, 2008.

[17] Claudio Lima, Carlos M. Fernandes, Fernando Lobo. Investigating Restricted Tournament Replacement in ECGA for Non-Stationary Environments, in Proceedings of the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), ACM Press, pp. 349-446, 2008.

 

2007

 

[16] Vitorino Ramos, Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Ajith Abraham. Computational Chemotaxis in Ants and Bacteria over Dynamic Environments, in Proceedings of the 2007 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 1-4244-1340-0,  pp. 1109-1117, 2007.

 

[15] Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Vitorino Ramos. Binary Ant Algorithm, in Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM Press, pp. 41-48, 2007.

 

[14] Carlos M. Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Rosa. Stigmergic Optimization in Dynamic Binary Landscapes, in Proceedings of 2007 Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM Press, pp. 747-748, 2007.

 

 

2006

 

[13] Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa. Self-Regulated Population Size in Evolutionary Algorithms, in Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2006), Lectures Notes in Computer Science LNCS 4193, Springer-Verlag, pp. 920-929 , 2006.

 

[12] Vitorino Ramos, Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa. On Self-Regulated Swarms, Societal Memory, Speed and Dynamics, in Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Artificial Life, pp.428-435, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006.

 

 

2005

 

[11] Carlos M. Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Rosa. Varying the Population Size of Artificial Foraging Swarms on Time Varying Landscapes, in Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, LNCS 3696, Part I, Springer-Verlag, pp. 311-316 , 2005.

 

 

2002

 

[10] Carlos M. Fernandes, João P. Caldeira, Fernando Melício, Agostinho C. Rosa. Infected Genes Evolutionary Algorithm for School Timetabling, Advances in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Ales Grmela, Nikos E. Mastorakis (Eds.), WSEAS Press, pp. 245- 249,  2002.

 

 

2001

 

[9] Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa. A Study on Non-random Mating and Varying Population Size in Genetic Algorithms using a Royal Road Function, in Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001), IEEE Computer Society, pp 60-66, 2001.

 

[8] Carlos M. Fernandes, Rui Tavares, Cristian Munteanu, Agostinho C. Rosa. Using Assortative Mating in Genetic Algorithms for Vector Quantization Problems, in Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2001), ACM Press, pp. 361-365, 2001.

 

 

2000

 

[7] Carlos M. Fernandes, Rui Tavares, Agostinho Rosa. niGAVaPS - Outbreeding in Genetic Algorithms, in Proceedings of the 2000 Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2000), ACM Press, pp. 477-482, 2000.

 

 

1999

 

[6] Carlos M. Fernandes, Rui Tavares, Agostinho C. Rosa. niGAVaPS – A non-incest extension to the Genetic Algorithm with Varying Population Size, in Proceedings of the Evonet Summer School Symposium, Antwerp, Belgium, 1999.

[5] Carlos M. Fernandes, Fernando Melício, João P. Caldeira, Agostinho C. Rosa. High School Weekly Timetabling by Evolutionary Algorithms, in Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 1999), ACM Press, pp. 344-350, 1999.

 

[4] Carlos M. Fernandes, João P. Caldeira, Fernando Melício, Agostinho C. Rosa. Evolutionary Algorithm for School Timetabling, in Proceedings of 1^st Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 1999), Vol 2, pp. 1777, 1999.

 

 

Technical Reports

[3] Carlos M. Fernandes, J.J. Merelo, Agostinho C. Rosa. Using Dissortative Mating Genetic Algorithms to Track the Extrema of Dynamic Deceptive Functions, arXiv:0904.3063v1, 2009.

[2] Claudio Lima, Carlos M. Fernandes, Fernando Lobo. Investigating Restricted Tournament Replacement in ECGA for Non-Stationary Environments (extended version), IlliGAL Technical Report No. 2008010, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

[1] Vitorino Ramos, Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa. On Ants, Bacterias and Dynamic Environments, arXiv:cs/0512005v1, 2005.