Miguel Nicolau

79 papers A 8B 27C 1Journal 13Unranked 28

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	—	`conf`	Evolving to Extinction: a Case Study in Heuristic Search Dynamics. GECCO Companion James McDermott, Kostadin Dimanov Georgiev, Miguel Nicolau
2025	—	`conf`	On the use of Hinge Loss as a Surrogate Fitness Function with Grammatical Evolution for Parkinson's Disease Classification. GECCO Companion Jiajun Duan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2024	J	`jnl`	Dissimilarity-Preserving Representation Learning for One-Class Time Series Classification. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. Stefano Mauceri, James Sweeney, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2022	—	`conf`	BSGenerator: a Tool to Design Unique Online Examinations using Question Variations. IIAI-AAI Miguel Nicolau
2021	J	`jnl`	Choosing function sets with better generalisation performance for symbolic regression models. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
2021	J	`jnl`	Feature extraction by grammatical evolution for one-class time series classification. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Stefano Mauceri, James Sweeney, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2021	J	`jnl`	Highlights of genetic programming 2020 events. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Miguel Nicolau
2020	J	`jnl`	Special issue on highlights of genetic programming 2019 events. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Ting Hu, Miguel Nicolau, Lukás Sekanina
2019	J	`jnl`	A Survey of Statistical Machine Learning Elements in Genetic Programming. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Alexandros Agapitos, Róisín Loughran, Miguel Nicolau, Simon M. Lucas, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2019	—	`conf`	Genetic Programming Symbolic Regression: What Is the Prior on the Prediction? GPTP Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2019	J	`jnl`	Learning Neural Representations for Network Anomaly Detection. IEEE Trans. Cybern. Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2018	—	`conf`	A black-box discrete optimization benchmarking (BB-DOB) pipeline survey: taxonomy, evaluation, and ranking. GECCO (Companion) Ales Zamuda, Miguel Nicolau, Christine Zarges
2018	—	`ch.`	Evolving Behaviour Tree Structures Using Grammatical Evolution. Handbook of Grammatical Evolution Diego Pérez-Liébana, Miguel Nicolau
2018	—	`conf`	Extending Program Synthesis Grammars for Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming. PPSN (1) Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2018	—	`conf`	On the effect of function set to the generalisation of symbolic regression models. GECCO (Companion) Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
2018	B	`conf`	Towards Understanding and Refining the General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite with Genetic Programming. CEC Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2018	A	`conf`	Towards effective semantic operators for program synthesis in genetic programming. GECCO Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2018	—	`ch.`	Understanding Grammatical Evolution: Grammar Design. Handbook of Grammatical Evolution Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
2017	B	`conf`	A Grammar Design Pattern for Arbitrary Program Synthesis Problems in Genetic Programming. EuroGP Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2017	J	`jnl`	Distilling the salient features of natural systems: Commentary on "On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms" by Whigham, Dick and Maclaurin. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau
2017	J	`jnl`	Evolutionary Behavior Tree Approaches for Navigating Platform Games. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Miguel Nicolau, Diego Perez Liebana, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2017	J	`jnl`	Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Datasets. CoRR Van Loi Cao, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, James McDermott
2017	—	`conf`	Late-acceptance and step-counting hill-climbing GP for anomaly detection. GECCO (Companion) Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2017	—	`conf`	Late-acceptance hill-climbing with a grammatical program representation. GECCO (Companion) James McDermott, Miguel Nicolau
2017	—	`conf`	Semantics-Based Crossover for Program Synthesis in Genetic Programming. Artificial Evolution Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2017	J	`jnl`	Understanding grammatical evolution: initialisation. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Miguel Nicolau
2016	A	`conf`	A Hybrid Autoencoder and Density Estimation Model for Anomaly Detection. PPSN Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2016	—	`conf`	Alternative Fitness Functions in the Development of Models for Prediction of Patient Recruitment in Multicentre Clinical Trials. OR Gilyana Borlikova, Michael Phillips, Louis Smith, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2016	B	`conf`	Grammar Design for Derivation Tree Based Genetic Programming Systems. EuroGP Stefan Forstenlechner, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Michael O'Neill
2016	—	`conf`	Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Data. EvoApplications (1) Van Loi Cao, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2016	A	`conf`	Managing Repetition in Grammar-Based Genetic Programming. GECCO Miguel Nicolau, Michael Fenton
2016	B	`conf`	One-Class Classification for Anomaly Detection with Kernel Density Estimation and Genetic Programming. EuroGP Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
2015	B	`conf`	Deep evolution of image representations for handwritten digit recognition. CEC Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Ahmed Kattan, Anthony Brabazon, Kathleen M. Curran
2015	B	`conf`	Guidelines for defining benchmark problems in Genetic Programming. CEC Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2015	—	`conf`	Introducing Semantic-Clustering Selection in Grammatical Evolution. GECCO (Companion) Stefan Forstenlechner, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Michael O'Neill
2014	B	`conf`	An examination of synchronisation in Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Jonathan Byrne, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon, Michael O'Neill
2014	B	`conf`	Dynamic Index Trading Using a Gene Regulatory Network Model. EvoApplications Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2014	B	`conf`	Experiments in program synthesis with grammatical evolution: A focus on Integer Sorting. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
2014	B	`ed.`	Genetic Programming - 17th European Conference, EuroGP 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers EuroGP Miguel Nicolau, Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood, Mauro Castelli, Pablo García-Sánchez, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Víctor Manuel Rivas Santos, Kevin Sim
2014	C	`conf`	Size Does Not Matter: Evolving Parameters for a Cayley Graph Visualiser Using 64 Bits. EvoMUSART Miguel Nicolau, Dan Costelloe
2014	B	`conf`	Wave height quantification using land based seismic data with grammatical evolution. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Sarah Donne, Miguel Nicolau, Christopher J. Bean, Michael O'Neill
2012	—	`conf`	Applying Genetic Regulatory Networks to Index Trading. PPSN (2) Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2012	A	`conf`	Comparing methods for module identification in grammatical evolution. GECCO John Mark Swafford, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2012	—	`conf`	Differential Gene Expression with Tree-Adjunct Grammars. PPSN (1) Eoin Murphy, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2012	B	`conf`	Evolving Interpolating Models of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange Using Grammatical Evolution. EuroGP Miguel Nicolau, Matthew Saunders, Michael O'Neill, Bruce Osborne, Anthony Brabazon
2012	—	`conf`	Evolving Personalized Content for Super Mario Bros Using Grammatical Evolution. AIIDE Noor Shaker, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2012	—	`conf`	Evolving levels for Super Mario Bros using grammatical evolution. CIG Noor Shaker, Miguel Nicolau, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius, Michael O'Neill
2012	B	`conf`	Grammar Bias and Initialisation in Grammar Based Genetic Programming. EuroGP Eoin Murphy, Erik Hemberg, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2012	B	`conf`	Termination in Grammatical Evolution: grammar design, wrapping, and tails. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2012	—	`conf`	Towards adaptive mutation in grammatical evolution. GECCO (Companion) David Fagan, Erik Hemberg, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Seán McGarraghy
2011	A	`conf`	A non-destructive grammar modification approach to modularity in grammatical evolution. GECCO John Mark Swafford, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon
2011	—	`conf`	Dynamic ant: introducing a new benchmark for genetic programming in dynamic environments. GECCO (Companion) David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2011	—	`conf`	Dynamic environments can speed up evolution with genetic programming. GECCO (Companion) Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon
2011	—	`conf`	Evolving Behaviour Trees for the Mario AI Competition Using Grammatical Evolution. EvoApplications (1) Diego Perez Liebana, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2011	B	`conf`	Exploring Grammatical Modification with Modules in Grammatical Evolution. EuroGP John Mark Swafford, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon
2011	B	`ed.`	Genetic Programming - 14th European Conference, EuroGP 2011, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011. Proceedings EuroGP Sara Silva, James A. Foster, Miguel Nicolau, Penousal Machado, Mario Giacobini
2011	B	`conf`	Investigation of the Performance of Different Mapping Orders for GE on the Max Problem. EuroGP David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon, Seán McGarraghy
2011	—	`conf`	Reactiveness and navigation in computer games: Different needs, different approaches. CIG Diego Perez Liebana, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2011	—	`conf`	Using Grammatical Evolution to Parameterise Interactive 3D Image Generation. EvoApplications (2) Miguel Nicolau, Dan Costelloe
2010	J	`jnl`	Evolving Genes to Balance a Pole CoRR Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer, Wolfgang Banzhaf
2010	B	`conf`	Evolving Genes to Balance a Pole. EuroGP Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer, Wolfgang Banzhaf
2010	B	`conf`	Investigating mapping order in piGE. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Edgar Galván López, Anthony Brabazon, Seán McGarraghy
2009	—	`conf`	Application of a simple binary genetic algorithm to a noiseless testbed benchmark. GECCO (Companion) Miguel Nicolau
2009	A	`conf`	Evolving specific network statistical properties using a gene regulatory network model. GECCO Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
2009	J	`jnl`	On the evolution of scale-free topologies with a gene regulatory network model. Biosyst. Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
2009	—	`conf`	Validation of a Morphogenesis Model of Drosophila Early Development by a Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm. EvoBIO Rui Dilão, Daniele Muraro, Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
2008	B	`conf`	Evolving scale-free topologies using a Gene Regulatory Network model. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
2006	B	`conf`	Genetic Operators and Sequencing in the GAuGE System. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
2006	B	`conf`	Introducing Grammar Based Extensions for Grammatical Evolution. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Miguel Nicolau, Ian Dempsey
2006	B	`conf`	Solving Sudoku with the GAuGE System. EuroGP Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
2005	B	`conf`	Zero Is ot a Four Letter Word: Studies in the Evolution of Language. EuroGP Christopher R. Stephens, Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
2004	—	`conf`	Crossover, Population Dynamics, and Convergence in the GAuGE System. GECCO (1) Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
2004	B	`conf`	Efficient Crossover in the GAuGE System. EuroGP Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
2004	—	`conf`	pi-Grammatical Evolution. GECCO (2) Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon, Miguel Nicolau, Seán McGarraghy, Peter B. Keenan
2003	—	`conf`	Functional Dependency and Degeneracy: Detailed Analysis of the GAuGE System. Artificial Evolution Miguel Nicolau, Anne Auger, Conor Ryan
2003	B	`conf`	How Functional Dependency Adapts to Salience Hierarchy in the GAuGE System. EuroGP Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
2003	A	`conf`	On the Avoidance of Fruitless Wraps in Grammatical Evolution. GECCO Conor Ryan, Maarten Keijzer, Miguel Nicolau
2002	B	`conf`	Genetic Algorithms Using Grammatical Evolution. EuroGP Conor Ryan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
2002	A	`conf`	LINKGAUGE: Tackling Hard Deceptive Problems With A New Linkage Learning Genetic Algorithm. GECCO Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan